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The great people i call my friends.

I have never seen children be so amazed at "Where's Wally?"An angry Tim. Here's a man that doesn't like church food!

Annie in our presentation today...She was chewing on a big piece of bagel. Chow down woman!
Steve before our presentation.
Steve: I just wrekon the figures are wrong. We just can't work it.
I hope we did alright in the presentation. We got a few headnods from the tutor so it looks okay!

FULL Night

A late night run after coming home from not watching a movie did me well.
Sorry but to watch "perfect catch' with a bunch of desperate girls is a recipe for trouble. Kevin Cho. Respect dude. He went in to tame the beasts that were to watch the movie. I haven't heard any reports from the movie session but we'll see what happens!

I ran for about 30minutes and i pushed myself the last 200metres. I felt soo buggered but so refreshed. The moment that water touches your lips after a run is gold. So refreshing and invigourating. Its actually quite indescribable. I kinda packed it because as I was running, i saw a whopping big possum rustle under the tress i was running under. Scary stuff!

Eddie, ur challenge of the West Ryde-Eastwood is next on my list!

Memorable phrases

Yesterday I've heard some memorable phrases which provided hope, encouragement and lots of laughs.

1) 'Because you say so, I will'. This was the premise of Biggie E's sermon yesterday. Provocative, profound but indeed practical. I wish living as a Christian could be that easy sometimes. Is God calling me to China? Yes...for a holiday he is!

2) We were driving home from Jama practice when Daniel blurts out, "I can't wait until Junior Junior finishes." Everyone started laughing and then Daniel quickly corrected himself.

3) While at Jama practice, Hermann wanted to share some scripture. As he was sharing it, the word 'whom' came out. Most normal people would pronouce it 'hooom' but then Hermann pronouced it as a funny 'huom'. It would have been okay it he said it once but the word popped out like 4 times. On the first go, people just looked at him funny and then agan the second time, I could see Fats starting to crack a cheese, Haewon mouthing the word to herself and Daniel grinning a mad cheese. I was too scared to laugh first so I was looking at the green carpet of Young Nak Church. On the next 'huom' Fats could not hold it any longer, he started laughing. This opened to floodgates of laughter of other people. It was hilarious to see everyone hold it in and then just laugh it hard! Hermann looks at us and pulls out a classic line. "Word of God guys!"

4) Another line from the Hermz. As we had finished sharing prayer topics, Hermann says, "Guys we aren't going to do the song, Enough."
*everyone nods*
Haewon pulls out the line "Have you had enough of enough?" She starts laughing like a hyena at her own jokes.
*Steve gets up to leave*
Everyone says "bye" to Steve.
Hermann grabs everyones attention again and says "Guys, we are going to scrap Enough. Is that cool?"
Daniel and Bomz start cheesing it hard. No one says anything. Hermann is about to talk again and then Daniel says "Why don't u say that we're not going to do Enough again?"
hahaha.. ROFL!

I guess most of these are "you had to be there" jokes but nonetheless it brought laughter to my day!

Wonderwall.

Currently listening to
Wonderwall by Oasis

Today is gonna be the day
That they're gonna throw it back to you
By now you should've somehow
Realized what you gotta do
I don't believe that anybody
Feels the way I do about you now

Backbeat the word was on the street
That the fire in your heart is out
I'm sure you've heard it all before
But you never really had a doubt
I don't believe that anybody feels
The way I do about you now

And all the roads we have to walk along are winding
And all the lights that lead us there are blinding
There are many things that I would
Like to say to you
I don't know how

Because maybe
You're gonna be the one who saves me?
And after all
You're my wonderwall

Today was gonna be the day
But they'll never throw it back to you
By now you should've somehow
Realized what you're not to do
I don't believe that anybody
Feels the way I do
About you now

And all the roads that lead to you were winding
And all the lights that light the way are blinding
There are many things that I would like to say to you
I don't know how

I said maybe
You're gonna be the one who saves me?
And after all
You're my wonderwall

I said maybe
You're gonna be the one who saves me?
And after an
You're my wonderwall

Said maybe
You're gonna be the one that saves me
You're gonna be the one that saves me
You're gonna be the one that saves me

I was just reminiscing high school days when I listened to this song. These guys used to be the bomb until the brothers started fighting. We used to sit in our year 12 common room and listen to all this rock music and think about what we would be doing in 5 years time. That time is next year and it seems that i'm not close to what i thought i would do.
This is my list that I wrote....i found it looking for my high school clothes for the trivia night.

1) Graduate
2) Work in a hotel..not in a restaurant. Be a macdaddy!
3) Find a nice lady (this statement is paraphrased)
4) Go skydiving.
5) Go back to Mr Fielding and show him my graduation certificate. (he thought i was scum of the earth and wouldn't graduate from any course)
6) Find out who really killed JFK
7) Meet Elle Mcpherson and Chaerim. <-----a Korean actress I thought was really pretty.
8) Visit Dubai's 6 star hotel and sleep in one of the rooms.
9) Write a song and release it under a fake name and get famous for being undercover.
10) Buy my dad a BMW.

Its weird how i haven't achieved many of this wish list. I am not sure what I as thinking as i wrote this but I was a deragned kid. I think it was for an English class though.

EVERYONE pull out your wish lists! There was a couple more that I won't write to save myself from any public ridicule.

New Name

This is the new name of our workplace. I guess its pretty cool logo with all the braille and stuff.
I was pretty happy to be apart of a landmark event at work.
Champagne at 10am ain't the best thing. I'm not sure how people do champagne breakfasts because it was pretty tough on the body and mind. I had work to do but i was a little dazed.
It was funny to see all these old people dressed up in green and purple walk around the office. Luckily for our clients, we are a blindness organisation so they didn't have to SEE the antics that were going on.

Lets hope our organisation continues to grow and prosper. I'll leave with a statistic that boozled me. 97% of printed material is unavailable to blind people.

Btw...Real Madrid had a bad loss. Beckham needs a haircut.
Liverpool had a great win. Although we underperform in domestic league, we always kick butt in Champions League. Go 'Pool!!!!'

"You will never walk alone!"

I LOVE SUNDAYS!

Currently listening
Higher-Creed




All Sundays are unique are so different each week. With new t-shirts for newcomers (? ASK ME OUT) and new faces each week, its great to see each week be so different.
I just feel bad because i'm not able to catch up with people each week. It feels different now that our church is getting bigger. Sometimes I wish it was better when we were small and everyone knew each other. I guess its signs of the growing pains in our ministry. God has definitely been gracious to our ministry. I thank him so much for it.

As I woke up today after a frustrating night of cricket viewing, I looked outside my bedroom window to see the blue sky with just enough clouds to make it picturesque and to see my mother outside putting the laundry up, I sat up and had a mad cheese to myself. I think that although Australia is such a lazy country, we have trouble relaxing. It sounds ironic but it feels difficult relaxing after living such a tumultuous couple of weeks. Even to venture out to the city and relax has become something of a chore. Eddie was talking yesterday about how sometimes we just wish we could freeze time and anticipate that it would last for ages.
I had one of those moments this morning. I felt like that until all the thoughts of school, finding a grad job, unforeseeable circumstances in life and REALITY all flooded my brain. I'm not very profound so don't think that I'm depressed or anything like that. It just seems that its my current state.
I think Christopher Isherwood understands me when he says,

"I am a camera with its shutter open, quite passive, recording, not thinking."

God, I wish I could pray for more but I don't want to. I have too much right now. No more please!

Quotable Quotes.

This is what my boss said after I told him that I could do something more efficiently.

"If you think your boss is stupid, just remember if they were smarter, you would not have a job!"

Words are not enough to fathom a reaction to such a quote.

Also a quote I got from my trusty desk calender. It is my source of humility.

"You can get almost everything accomplished if you don't mind who gets the credit."
-Ned Hay

Why thank you? It reminds me of the verse from Psalms.

Psalm 115:1 NIV Not to us, O LORD, not to us but to your name be the glory, because of your love and faithfulness.

Truly, once again I'm humbled.

Below is a cool photo I received from my co-worker.
This is how you tell if you're driving too fast.

Monday Splurge.

Currently listening
Inside wants out- John Mayer




I spent the day today with Eddie, Eddie, ButterRhee and Hermz. What glorious weather we had today. I love walking in the sun and then finding the shade of buildings. The weather was perfect with just enough warmth from the sun but also a slight cool breeze. Couldn't ask for better weather.

After taking gluttony to another level at Star City Buffet, we went to watch the Imax Film, Fighter Pilots. We high expectations running on this movie after finding out it was only for 50minutes. That worked out to be $7.80 for 30minutes. At Civic Video on a Monday, you can get any video/dvd for $1.95 during their 4-6pm Happy hour. All I can say about the movie is that its not worth it. It fails to meet any expectations that I had for it. Just that it looks really peaceful flying a plane at that speed.

We ended playing some basketball at a nearby park in West Ryde. Before i forget, i saw petrol for 139.9 today. That is totally nuts. It was felt recent that I thought 99.9 was pushing it. Now, its unbelievable. Back to the basketball, Eddie Bang has a scary post-up move. Watch out all your ballers because E Diddy's in the house. 2 eprops to you my friend. ButterRhee has some smooth moves as well. Hermz is a bit of a shifty with all his hand fakes. Good times.

I am stinking tired now. What a productive? day today!
Good rest to you all!

Ur a christian?

Another eventful Sunday finishes.

I just came back from the goodness of a McDonalds meal. Jama Juniour practice was another awesome worship service. I learnt how to play some new riffs thanks to Bumshakes. I'm going to play some Creed baby!!

Anyways as I'm sitting here typing this blog in my brother's room, I can hear him mutter some talk. He's always sleep talking. I'm having people call me 'babo' through the internet as well. Great!
Serves me right for being on internet so late.

To cut a long story short, some uni people that I was in the same tutorial with, were shocked that I was a Christian. That was really hurtful and it really SHOCKED me as well. I wondered if my actions at uni displayed otherwise. I had to repent. I'm regretful that this had to be, but in my final year, I guess its never too late to start. I decided that in my actions, I'm going to show people Jesus.

Romans 1:16 I am not ashamed of the gospel, because it is the power of God for the salvation of everyone who believes: first for the Jew, then for the Gentile.

The aftermath of sickness

Being sick is annoying.

I've only been sick 2 days and it sucks. There were so many things that I wanted to do but somehow I feel this is God telling me to wind down and 'chill.'

I've slept for too many hours in one day. I'm amazed at people who can read while they are sick. I can't even watch tv properly while I'm sick. All I did for the past 2 days was drink Coke (i might add that it has aided me in my recovery....dun ask me how...there is no medical explanation) and try to figure out a catchy war cry for our caregroup. Failure or success will be known tomorrow.

To all the hurting people out there, I realise there are too many cooking shows out there in tv land, reading is hard, everything tastes bland EXCEPT COKE but at least u get to sleep in!
Hopefully no one gets sick for our Mini-Olympics tomorrow. I just hope that our performance tomorrow are as good as our shirts!
Epping A.R.M.Y to win!