Camy Tang's Blog, page 136
April 9, 2012
Harry Potter on ebook!!!!
Can you tell I'm excited??!!!!!!! It's very interesting--you click to buy it on BN.com, which takes you to Pottermore.com where you register and then buy it via credit card, and then on Pottermore.com you click to download the ebook and authorize it to send the ebook to your BN.com account. It's fantastic! I hope this also prevents people from illegally distributing these ebooks. That's the only thing I hate about ebooks--it's so easy for people to rob the authors and post free downloads of books.
April 8, 2012
Happy Easter!
I'm leading worship this morning for our Easter service and here's one of the songs I'll be playing! I love the chorus because it speaks to us as the church to rise up from slumber and apathy to new life in Christ. I am praying for true revival in the church!
Christ is Risen
Let no one caught in sin remain
Inside the lie of inward shame
But fix our eyes upon the cross
And run to Him
Who showed great love
And bled for us
Freely You've bled for us
Christ is risen from the dead
Trampling over death by death
Come awake, come awake
Come and rise up from the grave
Christ is risen from the dead
We are one with Him again
Come awake, come awake
Come and rise up from the grave
Beneath the weight of all our sin
You bowed to none but heaven's will
No scheme of hell, no scoffer's crown
No burden great can hold You down
In strength You reign
Forever let Your church proclaim
Christ is risen from the dead
Trampling over death by death
Come awake, come awake
Come and rise up from the grave
Christ is risen from the dead
We are one with Him again
Come awake, come awake
Come and rise up from the grave
O death, where is your sting?
O hell, where is your victory?
O church, come stand in the light
The glory of God has defeated the night
Sing out
O death, where is your sting
O hell, where is your victory
O church, come stand in the light
Our God is not dead
He's alive! He's alive!
Christ is risen from the dead
Trampling over death by death
Come awake, come awake
Come and rise up from the grave
Christ is risen from the dead
We are one with Him again
Come awake, come awake
Come and rise up from the grave
By Matt Maher, Mia Fieldes Copyright © 2009 Thankyou Music / Spiritandsong.com Publishing /Mia Fieldes/Hillsong Publishing
Christ is Risen
Let no one caught in sin remain
Inside the lie of inward shame
But fix our eyes upon the cross
And run to Him
Who showed great love
And bled for us
Freely You've bled for us
Christ is risen from the dead
Trampling over death by death
Come awake, come awake
Come and rise up from the grave
Christ is risen from the dead
We are one with Him again
Come awake, come awake
Come and rise up from the grave
Beneath the weight of all our sin
You bowed to none but heaven's will
No scheme of hell, no scoffer's crown
No burden great can hold You down
In strength You reign
Forever let Your church proclaim
Christ is risen from the dead
Trampling over death by death
Come awake, come awake
Come and rise up from the grave
Christ is risen from the dead
We are one with Him again
Come awake, come awake
Come and rise up from the grave
O death, where is your sting?
O hell, where is your victory?
O church, come stand in the light
The glory of God has defeated the night
Sing out
O death, where is your sting
O hell, where is your victory
O church, come stand in the light
Our God is not dead
He's alive! He's alive!
Christ is risen from the dead
Trampling over death by death
Come awake, come awake
Come and rise up from the grave
Christ is risen from the dead
We are one with Him again
Come awake, come awake
Come and rise up from the grave
By Matt Maher, Mia Fieldes Copyright © 2009 Thankyou Music / Spiritandsong.com Publishing /Mia Fieldes/Hillsong Publishing
April 7, 2012
Goodbye,Thomas Kincade
How sad! He died yesterday. I didn't realize he lived in the Bay Area. Not that I would have visited his house or anything. :) Any of you have favorite paintings of his?
April 6, 2012
May you be filled with Jesus this Good Friday.
"The centre of salvation is the Cross of Jesus, and the reason it is so easy to obtain salvation is because it cost God so much." --Oswald Chambers
I don't want to see Whitney's autopsy report
Whitney Houston was A.MA.ZING. But having her autopsy report available for anyone to see seems kind of an invasion of privacy. I feel a bit nasty just thinking about it. Poor Whitney.
Gardeners: Any advice for the Infamous Black Thumb?
I have confessed my black thumb before and made some of you cringe at my sloppy gardening, but this article I saw on Yahoo made me wonder if I should exert myself and get a couple of these plants in our home, since they help detoxify the air. The peace lily is pretty but I wonder how hard it is to care for. Will it go the way of my cyclamen? Any of you gardeners have advice for me?
Nothing quite like ice cream with friends
Are we adorable? This is me, Mary DeMuth, and my editor at Zondervan, Becky! We're having scrumptious ice cream at Marian's in Santa Cruz! I had the lavender ice cream and it was TO . DIE . FOR .
Ebooks and Google Play
I read this article about how Google is no longer offering to sell ebooks via independent online ebook stores, but only through Google Play.Okay, I feel rather dumb, but I had to look up what Google Play was. I had actually looked at it briefly when it first came out, but haven't even thought about it since. (Maybe not a good sign?)
It looks like an online iTunes/iBooks. However, I think you download ebooks as .epub format, which can be read on your Nook. You have to use Adobe Digital Editions on your computer, which is a free program and what you have to use to borrow most library ebooks, too. It's also what I use when I buy ebooks from ebooks.Harlequin.com. Not my favorite interface, but it works.
Have any of use bought books from Google Play? What do you think of this?
I'm not sure how this will do. It seems like we have too many places to be able to buy ebooks. Kindle owners can only buy from Amazon. Nook owners have more options, but they tend to buy from BN.com because it's super easy to do right on your Nook.
And I don't know if anyone else has noticed this, but if I have ebooks from too many different places, or only playable on other ereader programs, I get confused OR I forget I own the book, and then I buy it again on my Nook without realizing it until it's too late.
April 5, 2012
Salmonella and sushi?! Oh no!
Looks like some sushi in restaurants in Virginia had an outbreak of salmonella from their spicy tuna rolls. That makes me sad! I love sushi! I don't want to have to worry about salmonella!
Actually, in Hawaii, my parents always taught me to go to a really reputable sushi restaurant rather than the smaller ones that cater to the younger crowd. There are no sake-bombs at the bar, but you'll be less likely to be put in the hospital from bad fish.
We go to Kabuki, a Japanese restaurant in Pearl City (on the island of O'ahu) where my parents know the sushi chefs. They were trained in Japan for many years (as opposed to some sushi chefs now who are trained only a few months or even a few weeks). They personally pick the fish and it's always fresh enough to almost jump off your plate.
Because of Kabuki, I'm a bit spoiled when it comes to sushi, I admit. :)
Anyway, don't let the salmonella scare you off sushi. Just make sure if you do go, go to a really reputable restaurant. And it usually has a lot of Asian men speaking Japanese at the sushi counter. :)
Actually, in Hawaii, my parents always taught me to go to a really reputable sushi restaurant rather than the smaller ones that cater to the younger crowd. There are no sake-bombs at the bar, but you'll be less likely to be put in the hospital from bad fish.
We go to Kabuki, a Japanese restaurant in Pearl City (on the island of O'ahu) where my parents know the sushi chefs. They were trained in Japan for many years (as opposed to some sushi chefs now who are trained only a few months or even a few weeks). They personally pick the fish and it's always fresh enough to almost jump off your plate.
Because of Kabuki, I'm a bit spoiled when it comes to sushi, I admit. :)
Anyway, don't let the salmonella scare you off sushi. Just make sure if you do go, go to a really reputable restaurant. And it usually has a lot of Asian men speaking Japanese at the sushi counter. :)
