Toni has a Ref Door Project up on Wifely Steps, so I decided to shoot our refrigerator in its current state, which is a state of adoration for Twilight actor Robert Pattinson. Since my wife and my mother are in total flux over the lanky actor who played Cedric Diggory in the Harry Potter films, I see no reason why the rest of the world shouldn’t take note.

My only two items on this entire door are my green and yellow Volkswagen Beetles. Also posted is a Valentine’s card Nathan made for us, as well as Dora the Explorer printout from Nick Jr., and there’s our Christmas card from 2007 at the bottom of the door. Obviously, I didn’t clean or arrange the door, which, I think, adds to its charm. Not everyone is Martha Stewart.

Ref door photo after the jump. Enjoy the laugh.

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The Passion World Tour is coming to Manila! We cannot miss this!!

Chris Tomlin, Louie Giglio, Kristian Stanfill, and the rest of the Passion band are coming to lead university-aged young people throughout the Philippines and Southeast Asia in a time of worship. This is going to be OFF THE HOOK. Young people in this country are going to be used by God to do great things, and events like these only serve to fuel the flame and fan the fire, and by jove, I am going to be there, even if I have to drag the entire Victory Fort worship team with me! (Joey Bonifacio is gonna have to be give me his express permission, but I’ma make it happen!)

I’m calling on all other Filipino-Christian bloggers. Let’s make this an EB! LOL Seriously, come join us at the concert! Passion Manila will be held on August 1, 2008 at the Philsports Arena (formerly ULTRA) from 7.30 pm to 11.30 pm. Tickets are available at selected House of Praise outlets and at the Becca Music Inc. office. ( Please call BMI at 6380663 / 6379317 / 6379187 or send an email to mail@beccamusic.com.) I’ll buy for you if you want, hahaha.

Update 1 (July 3) - Gates will open at 6PM. Louie Giglio’s talk starts at 7:30PM, and worship proper starts at around 8:30-9:00PM. The concert’s slated to end at 11:30 to 12:00 Midnight. Busog sa worship! Hahaha! Tickets sell for PHP150 each, and bulk orders of 50 or more tickets, while not entitled to any discounts, can be delivered to your doorstep (within Metro Manila).

You have got to listen to Plumb’s In My Arms! Lifted off the new Plumb album Blink, In My Arms is an absolutely spectacular piano-driven track that will minister to any Christian who’s ever experienced parenthood. The melody is memorable, the lyrics poignantly sweet, and the production topnotch. I like this song, Tiffany! Way to go!

Making In My Arms even more tempting is the spectacular Bimbo Jones remix now available on Plumb’s MySpace page. I’ve also included the In My Arms’s lyrics in this post.

Listen to In My Arms mp3 by Plumb

Listen to the In My Arms Remix mp3 by Plumb

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Jennifer Hudson’s Spotlight may be crawling - yeah, crawling, c’mon, J Records, put some muscle into it! - up the Billboard charts, but the Spotlight video from Jennifer Hudson is fierce. I LOVE IT. The song is growing on me - sometimes you force yourself to like a song, haha - and Miz Hudson is lookin’ fine!

Jennifer Hudson’s Spotlight video is off tha hook!

Here’s a Spotlight video interview from ET.

Here’s one of many Jennifer Hudson Spotlight remixes now cropping up on YouTube.

Here is Jennifer Hudson’s Spotlight Billboard chart performance so far:
Billboard Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs - 38 with a bullet
Billboard Hot Adult R&B Airplay - 16 with a bullet (Airpower)

Thank you, Vera.

The rules of this award are: SHARE THE LOVE!!! Share this award with all those blogs out there that you love. All the people who make you smile. All those that make you laugh. All those that make your day. All those that leave uplifting comments on your blog. **All I ask, is that you include a link to this post with the award and ask your recipient to do the same**

Please read Crystal’s post and learn about the origin of this award. Organ donation in the Philippines is severely underutilized; we should do something about that.

I share this award love with my LHC friends Toni, Jan and Anj, and Rowie.

I love my job, I really do. There is nowhere else I’d rather be. Because of this job, however, my online efforts have been haphazard at best.

It brings me to a turning point in my road: is maintaining this blog still worth it? I can keep one blog going - say, the one on the Multiply website, and, of course, Life With Gina - and then just let this one fade into obscurity, but I feel bad about all the effort I’ve put into making GannsDeen.com a PR4 website (not to mention it’s the highest-ranking Filipino-Christian blog on the Internet).

Its purpose in the past few months has been largely vague, focusing on several topics, including Christian music and politics, as well as some personal notes (which I’d previously reserved for the Multiply page). *sigh* With my job now, I don’t know how often I can update and all that. I need to focus on what is important, and right now, I’d rather do God’s work by building relationships here and regularly maintaining a maximum of three personal website presences (my Hyundai Getz and Multiply websites seem like the most viable).

I can still keep my hosting because it’s a great thing to have storage and all that, and I can just redirect www.gannsdeen.com to the Multiply website.

Pero sayang. PR4! What a waste! Ngr.

I’ve been online for more than a decade now, but I’m at a crossroads where I have to ask myself whether this is all still worth it. Until I get to that point, I hope y’all can bear with me. I’ll ask God this morning to help me sort through it all.

Meanwhile, God superbless you!