Happy New Year?

well... to anyone who still checks this
It has officially been a long time posting on this blog.
I can say I'm doing well, my life hasn't been great, but it hasn't been bad either. I've started my second semester of my second year at Dordt so I'm almost half way done with school. I'm still in a band, I'm still working, so I'm still busy.
We'll see if I keep posting to this regularly or if I shut it down.

later all,
kyle

MakeDamnSure

A new music video for the week - the other one quit working apparently *shrugs* I really like this song a lot though. This band is called Taking Back Sunday and the song is entitled makedamnsure. This is a little bit what our band And Yet sounds like... kinda sorta. I have problems describing our music because it's different and we have a variety of different songs styles too. Anyways - I hope you enjoy!

Kyle


*edit* if you have problems watching it or viewing my blog - i found that Internet Explorer works better for some reason - although generally i like to use Firefox as a browser.

L*I*F*E

AND YET
Our band is doing really well. These are some photos from the concert a few weeks back. We plan on performing more this coming school year than we did last year, but it is hard to find a time (and place) to practice. We're all friends from school, but we all go to different universities in the area now. When I got back from Singapore some of the older songs sounded really solid! the guys had been practicing. They also had come up with a few new ones and then just last week we wrote another new song that is going to be a lot of fun when we get it polished up.


School is going well. I'm mostly keeping up with homework - sorta. I've had my first round of tests in every class I think so I must be at least 4 weeks into school... it seems so weird that I was in Singapore not so long ago, and I still really really want to come back. The past couple weeks I've been pretty silent - msn and blog wise - and all of my friends in Singapore have just finished (or are starting) some pretty serious tests, so they have been absent for a while to. I miss talking to them all - but it must be a good sign that they are all studying hard! :)

Work is going well. I'm scheduled two nights a week and then a day on the weekend generally and I can almost always pick up extra hours during the week for someone who needs someone to work for them. Work plus school plus band plus homework keeps me quite busy though.

My friends are doing great. We hang out on the weekends, I have some classes with a couple of the guys. This coming weekend I think we're going to go shopping :P just for the heck of it. We play computer - Guildwars is definitely the game we've most recently become addicted to. We've watched a few movies... nothing recently. Oh! the other day I ordered My Sassy Girl off of Amazon and it just came in today. If you all haven't seen that movie I recommend it - I thought it was pretty funny. I saw it for the first time in Singapore - I believe it's in Korean with English subtitles so it's easy enough to follow.

This is my update - that I failed to do for the past while. I will try to get better at it again. To all my friends Singapore and here at home and from CTI:
*hugs* and *love*

Kyle

yay!

To all my friends in Singapore - Happy Exams Are Over Day!!! :P I'm sorry I've been a bit distant lately. I'm definitely in the full swing of school and hanging out with friends and band practice and work... I have a busy life! How are you all doing!? I hope that I haven't forgotten all your names now that it's been about two weeks that I've heard from any of you... :( I miss you all! I promise I will be more diligent with posting on my blog - it has been a while - but this entry is going to be short because I need to go to bed :D

*hugs* to all!

Kyle

High School Musical

So I have finally seen it! While in Singapore we learned the dance at the very end of the movie which was an astounding hit with a lot of the youth. The High School Musical is huge in Singapore - almost everyone has seen it or at least heard of it and they love it. I watched it last night (when I should have been doing homework, but I didn't want to do homework) and I think it's very well done. I like it for the music, and for the voices, and the story line was alright - I can see why it attracts so many. The kids in the movie make me feel inferior though :P They can sing amazingly, way better than I can - and they can dance, which I've never been able to do. I definitely admire their talents. But I'm not saying I'd trade my voice - everyone sounds different, and my tone is good for the music that me and my friends write and that we like to listen too.

Now when I come back to Singapore I want to watch the musical with my friends :D

Kyle

You don't need luck

To all my friends in Singapore that have to take prelims tomorrow - Good luck! but I know you don't need it. If no one ever says it to you, I want to be sure that you know, I know you are all very smart and that you will do well in your endeavors. I'm keeping you all in my prayers today. I pray that you will be calm and free from stress and that what you have been studying is fresh and vibrant on your mind when the time comes for you to apply it. Adults always say that you need to work towards your future and that you need to have a plan right now and work your hardest to achieve - I say take each day as it comes, work hard but enjoy it, and have fun with life - life is fun, and please never stop smiling. You are all beautiful. I miss you all and I'm sorry that I've been absent for a while. I promise I will try to jump on msn this week to talk to you to find out how you are doing and how tests are going. This is my shout out to all of you- Do Well, remember to Have Fun, and Keep Rocking Life!

A *hug* for each one of you
Kyle

Home in Sioux Center

Sorry if my last post was a little philosophical - I didn't mean for it to get so wordy. Anyways, this is my house! :D I promised that i would get up some photos of where I live. I'm still working on getting some pics of my family, but this is what I've got for now.

This is the front of my house

This is the side of my home - our house is on a corner of two streets

This is my car - 1997 Pontiac Sunfire

* Knowing * Purpose *

Purpose. This is a very personal word. A complicated word with lots of implications. I want to address the issue that precedes purpose. People have purposes or seek to realize purposes; inanimate objects, things, do not have purposes of their own. An inanimate object, say a machine, may embody purpose, but it is the purpose of the designer, not it's own. If I would come across a piece of machinery and had no idea of its purpose, I can take it apart to figure out just how it works, but that still does not explain what it is for. Someone who knows the machine or the designer of the machine will have to tell me what it was created and designed to do. And when he is telling me what it is for, how will I know that he isn't lying to me or playing a trick on me? If I am going to use the machine for it's intended purpose I will have to trust the designer. Only if I know the purpose for which something was designed will I know if it is good or bad - and it still requires an act of trust or faith. A parachute is another good example; the mass of silk might be good as a parachute but you have to trust the jump instructors when they describe it's purpose and that it will work - and this act of faith is essentially in the face of a life or death situation.
So I want to apply this to human life and human purpose. If I do not know the purpose for which human life was designed, I have no basis for saying that any kind of human life-style or belief is good or bad.

If we consider what is involved in learning to actually know anything, we will see that knowing has to begin with an act of faith. We have to trust the evidence of our eyes and ears, or, if we are learning a language, or learning a science or history or any other branch of knowledge, we have to begin by trusting those who undertake to teach us. There is no other possible way to begin. Knowing anything implies that you believe something - you have faith. The questions we should consider then, are, what do you believe? Who do you trust? And I think the most important one, What do you put your faith in?

Kyle