Thoughts, Thinkings, and Ideas!
Sunday, May 30, 2004
So I went to the leadership retreat this morning. It was very fun, reminds of camp. It was cleverly planned with some very interesting games and a good group of people. The games made you think outside the box. The bad news I found out was that the division my team is in is pretty crappy. All my friend's teams are in the other division including the Ambassadors (ump them twice)! I can't even play my awaited game against my home church! At any rate I wanted to play agaist a lot of my friend's teams... like 3 or 4 and for some reason they are all in the other division! Honestly, that ruined my whole day.
However, I suppose this is all part of God's plan. So I'll see where this goes. I'm finding it really hard to get any quality time with friend's so far. I suppose it's because I'm in another city, but it really sucks. On the other hand, lots of opportunities.
Tuesday, May 25, 2004
CC (campus challenge) was good. Didn't know as many people as last year but I think that was good. I met a lot of new people and did I lot of reflecting with God as I had planned. Here's a thought, if God asked you to give up your first born would you?
If you have a list of 165 people from campus challenge how many do you think you'd know? If you were able to name more than 45 people I think you can classify yourself as one of two things. An extreme extravert or very involved in serving. If you could name more than 60 I think you'd definetly have to be both. When I say know, I mean you can put a face to their name and they can put a name to you face. I did ask a number of people and got some numbers, but I'm not going to say what they were. However, knowing fellow brother and sisters is important since the body of Christ should know about the other parts. Just don't spread yourself too thin. Hence Campus Challenge was a good place to meet others and build more of that network.
Sunday, May 16, 2004
What's a life goal? I suppose it's supposed to be something that you want to accomplish before you die. I've heard some interesting goals such as establishing charities, having families, being a lawyer, and blah blah blah. Afterall, aren't goals good? They set up things for you to strive for and things you should work hard towards!
Alright so here's my take. I don't like goals. I don't like these things we set up to strive. My dislike is simply that I see goals as constraints. They hold you back. If you look forward you don't see things on the sides. Hence, I refuse to set myself any longterm goals. I'll see what happens and go with the flow. Sure it might seem foolish, but life has so many variables and I know so little about it. How am i supposed to control what happens in my future? Even thinking I can is what's really foolish. That's how i'm thinking atleast.
Monday, May 10, 2004
So I was updating my resume the other day. Thanks for all the people online who I were stealing ideas from. I wanted to revamp it to a description type other than a point form type. Afterall, you can emphasize whatever you want a lot easier with descriptions than point forms. At any rate, I got lazy and kept with point form.
However, I always feel awkward working on resumes or even reading other people's resumes. Yes, when I look at other people's resumes I'm in awe at all the stuff they've done. The awards, the volunteers, don't these people sound amazing. Personally I feel dirty making myself sound so cool. I'm not. I really suck. But can't get a job with a resume saying I suck now can I?
At any rate. What I do know, is that although resume's appear to represent a person. And how good they are. I don't think it does. Afterall the experience itself does not shape the person. It's how they dealt and brought out of it that means anything. Hence, resumes are misleading and shaft a lot of really cool people. How can you represent anyone's life on 2 sheets of paper?
Thursday, May 06, 2004
Past memories recall the summer being a time of freedom. Where you would go to summer camp. Art camp, computer camp, sports camp, sleep over camp, Christian camp, VBS, public school camp and the list goes on and on. Those were fun times! Play all day, not a worry in the world.
Present memories remind me of the stresses of finding jobs, and presently being at SCHOOL. So life is about adapting and growing up. In the future summer will be nullified completely with work. Hence I spend my days pondering on what I can do to slow down this loss of summer vacation. Ironically the leafs got eliminated as soon as I came up to Waterloo. An obvious solution is softball, that should be fun if school doesn't get in the way. Go Lions? I think I have to get used to that.
At any rate, enjoy your summer guys because time snatches it away.
Monday, May 03, 2004
On a side note, I'm up in loo right now. If you wanna visit give me a call and you can chill at my place.
Nehow, I was having a discussion with some peops after the concert/conference on Saturday. It was sort of spurred from walking into congee wong and how many people we knew.
You know those people who know tons and tons and tons of people. Like everyone you know they seem to know, and when you go somewhere they know so many people? I thought that would be cool. Afterall, isn't it? Well, Clint pointed out that sure you know tons of people but how many of them can you really share to? How many are actual good friends? I guess the point is that quantity is nice because you feel like good, but if you have 3 or 4 real real good friends that's even better. (It's still nice that while walking through Laurier on your way you bump into 2 or 3 people that you can just knod your head of hi and move on though, feels cool) So if your somewhere and it seems everyone knows everyone. Don't feel like you have to be friends to all of them. Even picking one good potential you click with and build some quality may be better than having friendly conversations with every single person there.
