National Anthem

Well.. I could not watch the Superbowl last night because I do not have a cable and no one invited us to come to watch either. :) However, I heard about big moments and stuff afterwards. One of things was the national anthem was sung with wrong lyric. I thought that I misunderstood and went to website to find out what is going on. Interestingly it was true, so I watched through youtube. What a shame! I am not an American but I love the national anthem. It is already beautifully written and inspiring without decorated notes or messing up the lyrics. Most of all, it is shame the singer was chosen to sing the anthem. Also, it is very interesting that only American national anthem has been sung in various versions. I never heard any other countries anthems were sung with any decorated versions. Especially, the song should be sung with great respect as I could tell. I know, I might be an old school person still but why I felt so shame to watch that happened last night. And it made me kind of upset to think about people's thought about "music" and "art". I know.. I might be go too far to take. However, I think that it should be sung at least with respect again for sure. Music can be represented the level of common people's thoughts at that era. It was shame to see and hear what happened last night. There should be no excuse about forgetting lyric of national anthem in front of that crowd. I wish that people who choose those singers or artists think deeply with respect next time. I wish... people respect music and even a simple song.

Vacation

Have you gone to vacation lately? I haven't.

I think that one of reasons that I have been having my body symptoms is from lack of rest. When I was in college, I used to go at least twice a year to the ocean area. My loving dad bought a time share for me to use it. He knew how much I loved ocean and taking a trip there for several days. I do remember that I sometimes went by myself, just sitting at the beach, hearing waves and watching people. The trip usually gave me pretty good refreshment and energy somehow.

I love nature: ocean, trees, mountains, water falls, beautiful valleys, sky, and so on. I have thought about when I had a vacation or restful trip in any nature. Well... when we lived near ocean, we often visited beaches to have some fun time with my girls. However, I hardly remember when we went to somewhere else then. We went to Disney World several times but it was not exactly a vacation: it was more labor!

I wish that we can go to some quite place surrounded by good nature like Banff Lake Louise. I don't know why I love the place. I never been there but only have seen pictures. It looks really refreshing and cool. Somehow, it gives "heavenly" feeling too with harmony of water and mountains. So, I downloaded a beautiful wall photo of Lake Louise in my computer at work, imagining that I am right at the scene at least.

I was wondering how Jesus took his vacation in his time. I don't think that he took any vacation. He did not have time for that. He just kept healing, teaching, and helping the needy. I was wondering if he lives in the world now how he does things.

I noticed myself that I feel guilty sometimes enjoying restful time or thinking about some restful time myself. I think it is very important that I need to take one seriously to move on to jump further. I should enjoy and use the time fully and freely without guilty feeling. I pray that God gives me a chance to visit Banff and Lake Louise with my family, just sitting near the lake doing nothing but enjoying the view and hearing the nature. I could smell the lake and mountain truly.