Thoughts, Thinkings, and Ideas!
Monday, March 29, 2004
Our English Pastor is leaving and of course when he leaves he takes Myles with him and since they were counsellors for our university fellowship we held a surprise party for them. Quite interesting as it was a bible study as of the Monday and then bam. Surprise farewell dinner. Which despite it's last minuteness went extremely well. Just goes to show the improvational skills of our fellowship. It was a good night of sharing. And there was some good unity there. Despite the fact that Pastor Can has resigned doesn't mean that they can't go to our church as normal members which they probably would want to do until they decide where exactly God wants them to go. So let's not pretend that they are dying or anything. Fun night on Friday.
Saturday morning I drove up to loo. Saturday pretty much was literally driving around with Jlau getting stuff ready for grad dinner. Which ranged from buying food to finding a place to actually have it. Also clocked a huge amount of hours on the presentations, some which were extremely spontaneous. Having a car up there is so very different. We actually wanted to break into Sham's place and film us jumping on his bed, but when we called him he was sleeping in it so we decided it would be too difficult to get away with that. That guy sleeping at 4pm in the afternoon. So we did some other errr sketchy things for the movies which you saw.
Woke up on Sunday to go to, for the first time, CFC. Very cool there, I can see the appeal for most of the people. Really early though. Had to get up before 8 to get to church but we're done by 10:30 so bonus. More slide show work. Nehow we finished the slide show stuff at 5pm, that Jlau wouldn't let me slack on that I tried to take a nap once and he pushed me back up in front of the computer. My computer died a few times along the way that day because of the huge overload on my clipboard, but chugged through eventually. We went to dinner at 5:45. Dinner was good, except that our table was all by itself while everyone else was next to each other. Oh well, we had the cool table.
Got to KWCAC and by some miracle and happen stance we got the sanctuary instead of the basement. So no more having to use the TV but now had the projector, plus sound system including microphones and piano. THANK YOU PASTOR TIM! This made the slide show better than I could have imagined as you could hear everything so well and everyone could see the words clearly and everything which were major concerns. Also the piano let people do some phenomonal things during general sharing. It was a good night. Still can't believe the fortunes. From not having a place on Saturday to the perfect place on Sunday. It wasn't just straight from one to the other either, but series of lucky breaks along the way. Super prayer power dudes!
Nehow got home in record time after the dinner. Probably the best weekend this term. Absolutely packed. GG guys.
Thursday, March 25, 2004
This week sure has been hectic. I've been really busy with doing all this extra stuff that I have to do, hahah I'm telling you it's not a good thing that when your at work your busy doing your own work, and are annoyed that you have real work that keeps taking your time away.
At any rate, I look forward to going up to Waterloo this weekend. That should be fun, with the grad dinner for LCCF. It'll be odd having to say good bye to them... even though I don't see them anymore anyways. It's very odd that way. Let's just hope it's not boring. We dont' have the resources of UWCCF to make Small ville episodes of the grads or anything. We are so very lame.
At any rate, 3 months and I have yet to be fired. But we'll see how that goes...
Good luck on all your exams and don't forget that if you make studying into a game it'll be so much more fun. How you ask? Well see how many chapters you can read in an hour and then try to beat that of course! Or make bets with your friends on who can do better on the exam? Best person buys the worst coffee? Or trivial pursuit the questions. Perhaps you can even try making songs...
Hey these are just suggestions.
Monday, March 22, 2004
Okay this is mix of a blog about 30 million dollars and the downgrade of television. I was listening to the radio today and the lady said that a reality show would be what if you had 1 million dollars and you had to spend it on something good. Like basically not yourself. What would you spend it on? OF course the person who spent the money the best would win. Now the people who called in all had their own answers. Starting a camp for handicaps, big brother programs, stocking food banks and homeless stores, opening cancer society in her area, helping senior health care, or money to research for cures of diseases.
Of course a guy called in who went to a missions trip to Zimbabwe and he was like I'd donate there. 60 bucks can feed 500 children for a month. Now that money goes a long way there. Dang, so that could definetly make the money go farther, help more people.
However, you also have to keep in mind. Buy a man a fish he feeds for a day, Teach a man to fish and he'll feed himself for a lifetime. Also you can save their body with money but what about their soul? Those things in mind.... I have no idea how I would spend a million dollars for good the best way possible. What is the best way?
What would you do?
Thursday, March 18, 2004
So my coop coordinator came in today to you know talk about how the job was. For some reason I felt pretty relaxed today so it went pretty well. I guess you can't really fail those though. Nehow, she says with my personality and my experiences I should be getting a good job next coop term. (I'm telling you they always say that, false hopes 8D) Which of course she asked what did I want to try to get? Hahah you know I realized I never even thought about that. All this time I've usually just shot gunned all the jobs and counted my blessings when I got one. But now I have to sort of figure out which field I want?
To be honest, hahah my attitude has been I'll shot gun all the jobs and God will just sort of make things happen and where I end up is where he wants me. I just hope that runs true. Nehow I have no ambition. I'm really enjoying how things are now so I don't see a point in wishing I was a CEO or an accountant or whatever. What's so wrong about being a half jawed slacking student? Hehe.
Nehow work got a bit better now that I got a headset. Listening to a christian music station right now. Good music. Too bad I can't hear my coworkers talking to me anymore. Oh well...
Man Nicole Nordeman is so good. Still my favourite artist.
Tuesday, March 16, 2004
So yesterday night I was chatting normally on my ICQ and MSN when some LCCF people wanted to start a chat. We started pulling people in a MSN chat to see if we wanted to do anything for the grads. We of course thought up some ideas, like maybe just getting together for dinner or potluck or something, maybe nothing.... You know as a time of fellowship before we all part ways. Of course the funny thing happened when one of the people in the room accidently invited everyone on their list to join the chat room. Hahah. Everyone including the grads. So of course this lead to funny happen stance as these people and strangers had access to all our conversations. Nehow I suppose no harm done since if we planned to have a dinner we would have told them anyways so they would actually come! haha. Guess now the pressure is on to actually hold the get together though.
So if you guys are wondering what happened last night when you got into a chat full of like 30 people that's what happened. Nehow so everyone in LCCF keep ur weekend open on the 28th as we'll be trying to get together for an end of the year dinner. It was so funny. Hahah I couldn't stop laughing, it's like "umm who are all these people?" Nehow I really hope we do this dinner thing, I'll even drive up to Waterloo that weekend for it.
On a side note, this would never have happened on ICQ.
Monday, March 15, 2004
Not bad, not bad at all. On Friday I chilled with some LCCF people at Jlau's house. He gave us a tour, which wasn't very long seeing how we were restricted to one floor. He has a very wooden house we observed. At any rate it was fun, and we watched Sister Act 2 and Bend it like Beckham. I realized how similar the Indian culture is to the Chinese culture in terms of the up tightness and family values.
On Saturday I drove all the way to Shammers place which is so dang far. Nehow we played cards for 6 hours straight... now thinking about it that's kinda absurd. We then went to a restaurant and ate dinner after. So cool. Shammer has 2 cats and lives in a condo. One of his cat's names is Goku. Goku kept making me sneeze.
Sunday was a typical day. I'm working on a side project and it's going alright I guess. I wish I had more tech skills so I could do some crazy stuff with it, but I'll have to make due. I had to turn on my old computer so I could use some of my graphic editing programs. I remember back in the day when I did all that website graphics stuff. Boy how times have changed. I realized lately I have absolutely no skills in anything. haha.
So all in all weekend was pretty good. Not many more until I'm back in school?
Friday, March 12, 2004
So yesterday I went to gym night at my church. I played some ping pong (which is mostly made up of err older generation people) and I played some basket ball. That game is highly unfair to those of a less vertical limit. The only thing that makes it fair is that you can do some illegal things in pick up basketball. No key violations and you can push people out of the way for rebounds. At any rate I had to take all the stuff out of my pockets to play. That lead to me putting it in my jacket pocket. However, at the end of the night, none of the stuff was in my jacket pockets. We're talking about, my cell phone, wallet, security cards, and keys. Anyhow, after some extensive searching, I realized perhaps I had put my stuff in someone elses jacket? However, this seemed highly unlikely because surely I could tell which jacket was mine. That's when it occured to me only by some sort of voodoo could someone manipulate someone else to reverse mug someone. As in have them inadvertantly give them their stuff. It also was suspicious that a certain person in question disappeared when it was brought up, like at first needed a ride home but then after I mentioned my stuff was missing got a ride from someone else and fled.
Another thing to note, is that somehow my phone got turned off so even though I called and called it would not connect. However, luckily I was able to confront this voodoo master, and instead of admitting his powers conceded that my stuff was indeed his posession. I picked it up promptly, and now am quite wary in what other voodoo abilities he might try to impose. All in all it's quite clever controlling someone to steal their own stuff. Very interesting indeed. That's right, that's what happened!
Wednesday, March 10, 2004
Does anyone wonder what the future holds. The people who are graduating have to face the reality that their set future of coming back to school are no longer there. They have to move on? Maybe think about settling down? Find jobs, moving out, perhaps children. All the stuff that comes with being a full grown adult and no longer in studentism. I don't mean right away but it's all out there now. When ur in school you don't have to think at all about that stuff really.
At any rate, I'm sure when you get to that point you look at all the positives and it's all settled in. I'm sure university seemed real scary when we were starting highschool, but once we hit OAC university was the next logical step in the process. Nehow once in a while I think about my future? What will I do? How can I be successful? I'm pretty much the bottom of the barral right now in comparison to my cousins and what not. Can you really compete against high end accountants, top of the class engineers, and a whole slew of specialized dentists and surgeons? Honestly, it's quite an unfair bar. Lucky for me I don't judge success by such worldly standards anyways. Still it wouldn't hurt to have lots of money? I mean... so I could spend it more on other people of course... like you? err hmm.
Nehow, I refuse to think too far in the future. As I have plenty to cope with this month alone already. I'll let future worry about the future for now. I haven't been completely messed up yet with this mindset.
Monday, March 08, 2004
So what's up with Monday? You wake up and realize I have 5 days of work I have to go to. One less week before I have to go back to school. Another 5 days before I can potentially sleep in again. And another week of fun stuff I'm missing out in waterloo. Well that's what I think when I wake up.
Then when I get a bit more awake I think... another week of making money, I have another week to be more productive than last week, What should I plan to do with my nights and who can I meet up with during the week? I have a week less to waste.
What do your Monday's feel like? Do you initally feel good and then it gets better? Or starts bad and gets good? Or is bad and stays bad? Well, in truth it's all in the mind right? I suppose one is most happy when he doesn't know the wall is coming, and so it's better to not think about the incoming collisions. Or does that means your walking about blind? Hmm my analogies seem to be lacking lately. At any rate, hope you all have a good week and just remember that it'll be full of opportunities.
Oh something that made me laugh this morning. You love Mario the game? Watch this, the mario video game movie. It's hilarious and dramatic.
Part One:
http://www.deviantart.com/view/5142652/
Part Two:
http://www.deviantart.com/view/5143991/
Friday, March 05, 2004
Softball:
Well now that for some reason half this term is over it's time to start considering the future projects. I think the main thing on my mind right now is softball.
Now I've played for 7 or 8 years now and never made playoffs. I've been assistant coach, head governer, and head coach. Head umped countless of games and literally devoted a huge chunk of my summers towards it. However, I'm at a crossroads now that I'm not back during the summer and I think my junior team career has come to an end. It's selfish to take a senior spot on my team as an actual senior level player should be using it. I'm like a handicap I think. At any rate, I'm weighing my offers and options. I'm still waiting on a trade which I hope will go through but the team seems to be going through some management issues and my contact seems not know what's going on either. I would like to remind that contact that if it falls through I'm going to be left in limbo because I have already rejected other so called opportunities. (err hmm you know who are you are!) Well, that's where that situation stands.
As a side note, I currently have no access to ICQ at work. However, I seem to use e-mail quite efficiently as an instant messenger since I have outlook and new mail pops up when I get it. So feel free to talk to me at work... (I'm bored sometimes). If you want my e-mail just ask me for it, since it's probably not wise to actually post it here.
LCCF Grad dinner:
There is currently no grad dinner planned. So all you grads out there should know there is nothing planned. Now all you non-grads please contact the obvious people to discuss something of a totally unrelated project as it will need your support.
Learning another language:
I call this program dead. Let's face it English is my dominant language and even that is sketchy with all the slang I pick up. dawg.
Playing guitar:
This is a dream which with lots of practice and time and opportunity I don't know if I could manage pulling it off. Because one, the strings just hurt when you press on them. And two, I have no rhythm abilities, have you ever seen me clap to a song after 2 lines I'm already off of everyone else.
Others:
And the the other small things, gotta write a letter, gotta do 4 assignments for school, figure out housing, and maybe clean my work area err here and at home.
Those are all the current projects that I'm going to talk about right now. Just to give you an idea of what's going on.
Wednesday, March 03, 2004
Don't you ever think to yourself. If I had a huge sum of money like 30 million dollars what would I spend it on? How would I change my lifestyle? Would you change your lifestyle? Now, I'm sure the very sensible thing to do would be to stick that in some sort of GIC or investment bond or what not and get a fair 8% return if your smart. Afterall that's an annual income of 2.4 million a year for the rest of your life. However, with that mind set you'd just invest that 2.4 million to get back a bigger return and where would it end.
Perhaps you would do the honourable thing maybe 10% to church (15% heck you can afford it or who knows more? ) and a percentage to family, some to friends, splurge some on yourself, charity and save the rest to live like a king for the rest of your life.
Perhaps you would quit your job and quit school and just do that dream thing you wanted, game tester perhaps?
Perhaps you would buy that one great thing that you always wanted... a golf course, a hotel, a university building, maybe some cars (or one really reallly nice one).
Or maybe (yeah right) you'd be one of those people that decide that you'd give it all away. You don't need money, you're satisfied with what you have now and your fine. Afterall, you've never gone hungry, you've always had clothes to wear, you have a place to live, you have people that care about you.
Is the dream of 30 million dollars of a better life, or of futility. I suppose Adam and Eve had everything and in the end they wanted more and look what happened to them?
Hmmm, still wondering what I'd do if I ever had 30 million dollars. What would you do?
Monday, March 01, 2004
I had a dream on Saturday which I can actually still remember which is no small feat. Nehow I recall there was this huge banquet, it was buffet style but tables and tables as far as my eye could see of colourful platters. All the food was really how you put it pleasing to the eye. There were tons of people around trying to get the food they wanted. The colours were bright think bright orange and green and I took a plate and took the food I wanted. I recall shrimp lots of differnet kinds and the jumbo ones some cold and some cooked and they were ones you could just pull out of the shell with all the meat intact. Food was so good that I wanted to eat it right there but I couldn't pull the meat out of the shell and hold the plate at the same time so I just took as much as I could and put it on the plate. Eventually I found my plate was full so I started filling another plate and filled that one as well. However, at the very end, out of irony, just when I would finally taste some of the food and I reached for something to eat I dropped the plate and all the food landed on the ground. Pretty much all the desire to eat that food later as in an investment of not eating it before was all wasted. I therefore went to get more food, but since I had taken all my favourite food before and all the people I found that all the food I wanted was all gone and only the less desireable foods were left. That's when I woke up.
I wonder if subconciously I didn't want to dissapoint the desire of the food with the actual taste so I dropped the plate in my dream. You know how if something looks so good the taste could only be a let down? Hence leave the dream without being truly disappointed. All in all that was definetly a good dream, afterall having the food so close without actually eating I think was still a net gain on my part as opposed to other dreams which were far more disturbing.
By the way if you wanted to know what these so called seats I keep asking people to go to for Leafs and Raptors are like Holly took some pics from when we went. On a side note I purposely look stupid in the pics it's not just that I'm bad at photos....
The word box seat just seems more impressive than it actually is so don't expect too much.
Pics from Raptors game
