okies... here's a rundown of what i did this week... was a most troubling/interesting/disturbing/joyful week
Sunday:
was on the worship team... played ok i think... was the only acoustic guitarist today so it was interesting having to provide most of the rhythm (did i spell it right?) hahaha... which isnt good because my rhythm's pretty shoddy for someone who's been playing for 4 years...
but it did teach me alot about listening to other team members, blending in, and that yes... LESS IS MORE
it was actually quite fun and challenging... because normally i'm in a support role so i'm usually less heard... so this time if i made a mistake... i screw everyone up hahaha THE POWER vested in me...
then... as i noted in my last post i got the tutoring job....
Monday:
Did nothing today... was too darn hot to go out man... i woke up at like 11... and i thought: "well screw this man... i'll stay at home in the aircon rather than get baked outside"
Tuesday:
Also another stay at home day cos hahaha my lovely parents... taking advantage of this lull in my outside obligations (exams just finished u see) gave me a wonderful, concise 5 point list of what to do in my spare time... i've turned into a pretty decent homemaker hahaha (dont let anyone know this ;-))
on another note... someone flooded my blog with an interesting series of comments hahaha... well lets just say none were particularly helpful to my state of mind at the time and thus were deleted...
Wednesday:
Saw Collateral with Fahad and DW...
actually i liked it alot... the plot is simple enough... and the movie can basically be summarised watching the trailers... but i did enjoy the charming Mr Cruise cast as a very convincing contract killer... would watch it only for enjoyment value... because well the film entertains, but doesnt say anything about anything really...
still i rate it 4 out of 5 . worth the $11 i forked out (movies are so darn pricy here man!!!)
Thursday:
went out with Jason, Kenny, Calv, and Andrew... A and K have a place next to the uni. is actually pretty funky... would love to live so close to the uni... so anyways we went to lambretta's, had some pretty good bruschetta, talked... laughed... they're pretty cool guys... hope calv has a good trip back to KL and Kenny has a good stay in HK (still havent been there).
Friday:
ok today was packed... First Tan invited me for lunch at her place in Subi... so once again, DW gives me a ride at the busport... we get there... start cooking (well ok... i'm a hopeless food cooker thingy guy... i was relegated to chopping vege's) so anyway's there's 9 of us there... and well her kitchen was gettin pretty crowded ehh... we started at 11 and only finished cooking at about 2 hahaha... but then again... was worth it... Belle made an AWESOMELY GOOD pumpkin pie.... creamy, smooth, soft...ahh like the stuff u dream of man :-P... and everyone was like "eat up nic", and i'm like... "man i'm stuffed" (it wasnt funny man... i had to eat like 3 plates of rice...i'm not that visibly thin am i?:-) unless it's one of those 'signs' we were discussing at camp hahaha) it was totally fun...Tan said next time we'll just get pizza hahaha... (less trouble)
the thing was rite... i had told Tim that i would be in Garbo's by 2:50(to catch a movie with him after his TEE)... now it doesnt take a brain surgeon to know that well one can't get to Garbo's in less than an hour from Subi using public transport... so we changed locales to Carousel... thanks to a good suggestion by C's boyfriend... so anyways Timo calls me back and says... the next showing of Bridget Jones 2 is at 3:30... so anyways... meanwhile i've just finished desert .... and then i realise it's 2:45... and i'm still in friggin Subi (bad time management skills + very good food and company = Nick is very late).... so i make a quick, charming exit (as is my habit ;-)... stagger the 1.5 km to the Subi train station... (was really full so it wasn't easy... hahaha) i get there, find out i have not enough change... hafta buy water at the Woolworth's .... dash back just to see the train leave.... urghhh
so anyways i end up in wellington Train station at about3:20.... so i'm like "am gonna be seriously late here..."
okies... here's the next problem... i have never taken a train before... so i'm like "which stop is the Carousel one?"... and being too darn embarassed to ask... i have to resort to the method of looking out of the window to look for a large shopping centre (i'm sorry i though Carousel was near the train station... unfortunately it isnt hahaha) so several stops pass by and still no Carousel... and i'm thinking "hmmmm let's see... i'll get off here"
so it is by complete luck that i get off at Cannington THANK GOD ;-) (i rarely go to Carousel u see and thus a minor detail like its location isnt worth remembering) hahaha so i have to get on a bus... it gets me there... then i like full ran from the food court to the cinema... accidentally running into an old lady (Sorry... it was 3:45 i was seriously late....!!!! sorry AUntie... honest!!!) okies... get there... and we decide to watch the 4:45 NOOO!!!! i ran here man!!!! hahaha... life is fun isnt it?
the movie is funny... absolutely funny... though it loses momentum towards the end... hahaha i haven't laughed so hard in a while :-)
well anyways... me and tim ended up going to the PCLC youth service that night... which was excellent as usual... God was there!!!... and well... it was amazing, refreshing and revealing after all i had gone through in the week...saw Jason and Gen there as well... who are trying to get me to go to the PCLC formal dinner... well i'll see who else goes... but im at 50-50 now
Saturday:
what did i do today? well i resolved a potential issue i think...i'm still not sure if i did it the right way, but i did what i felt was right at the time... and i'll leave it at that... i mean... it's hard to act sometimes when u feel you're going against what your heart wants but you have to do the right thing... and feelings change as everyone knows...
what else? helped my parents in the garden.... yeahh mum decided it was spring cleaning day so i had to vacuum curtains etc... was sneezing all day
Sunday:
Service today was ok i got there 30 mins late which wasnt good but stuff happens
went for lunch with mes parents and an assortment of aunties from church (was just too tired owing to only getting 6 hrs sleep the night before... horrible sleepless nights seem to afflict me before Sundays)
so we were eating dimsum... and this auntie (im sure she meant well) shows me a picture of her daughter, and goes "X is quite pretty rite?" and i'm like (inwardly panicking)... "urrr yeahh... you've got a pretty daughter" ...
look ... how does one answer such a question? (the young lass is pretty yes but that's not the point;-)
i mean... it just puts one on the spot if a mother asks someone such a question... i try to be diplomatic and all but hehehe well... could lead to misunderstanDings... or i guess i could take it as an indirect compliment (or mebbe i'm just looking too deeply into this:-), but sorry i'm tired ehh).
anyways... now i'm gonna try to choose what units to do this year... urrghh so hard... CHOICES!!!)
cheers!!!
Sunday, November 21, 2004
Tuesday, November 16, 2004
ahh free time
kkk so it's day 4 into my holidays... am getting abit bored
oh well... at least now i've got a job... thanks to DW, who generously passed on a tutoring job to me...
i have to tutor some kid in Primary School level English and Maths
actually some of their maths problems are a bit weird... hahaha was very "pai se" when the boy got the correct answer after i screwed up... oops!!! however, if the question was on hypothesis testing, linear regression, chi-squared tests... then i'm your man!!!! not this logical addition/subtraction stuff :P
so anyway... the kid needs help with his creative writing and comprehension... i can handle that... should be ok... cept the parents want the kid to get like an ATP scholarship to a "good" school, so i was like "err... crud... no guarantees ok??"... my feeling of pressure was compounded by the fact that the lad's chinese mum had like the newspaper article of last year's TEE results (u know the one that compares results between schools, colleges, co-eds whatever) and she was like "what do you think of Rossmoyne SHS/Aquinas/Wesley/All Saints/Willeton SHS", to which i tried frantically to remember what was in that article and make relevant comments.... then she went "what do you think of Penrhos?" and i was like:
(thinking) i can give 2 answers here:
Option 1 (safe option):
"well it's actually a girl's school so well i dont think little Ron here would fit in" (said as earnestly as possible)
Option 2 (funny option that results in me not getting job):
(said in utmost frankness, and seriousness) "lets see, Penrhos... i would love to have gone there, all those chicks... its a pretty good flower/bee ratio (ask ppl who were at Family camp for the meaning behind this metaphor) but i probably wouldnt have got much study done there ;-), and frankly, Ron... well... (burst out laughing manically and slamming table with hand)... i dont fancy his chances there for a while "
obviously i took option 1 and got the job... and Ron's a pretty nice boy btw... very cute, bubbly, cheeky, sincere... as only year 6's can be...
also... being ridiculously free lately... had so much time to myself... which is good because i highly value personal time... just to think and read... and reflect on the year just passed
Thus, i have been able to get the dust off my guitar and get back to some serious playing... the last few nights... thus disturbing the peace in my neighbourhood, which isnt good as there's a guy studying for TEE on my right and a Curtin gal studying for exams on my left... (of my house obviously... not me personally :P). (the gal's pretty hot though :P... )but anyways let us not digress from my point which is that there is something about playing guitar at 12:30 at night which is just entrancing, mainly because it's so quiet (everyone's asleep)... hahaha... and also because then i dont get given crap by my dad about my singing...and i feel less inhibited generally when noone's listening/scrutinising
i also find that i'm more creative at night, and thus have been working on some songwriting... this is the last 2 night's work (reworked an old idea slightly... giving it a more interesting beat)
Always
V1
Though i saw noone by my side
You were always there for me
Through the tears clouding up my eyes
You were all that i could see
V2
Though the road is long at night
I know that you took each step before me
Even though my load's not light
You lift me up when i am down
Pre-chorus
And i just want to say
That i'll never let you go
And i just want to live for you,
to be with you, forever
Chorus
My life is in you, My strength is in you
In you my heart will be always
My hope is in you, My freedom's in you
In you my trust will be always
kkk.... anyways... hahaha its in G if anyone wants to try it out :-)
on that note... i'll sign off for now
oh well... at least now i've got a job... thanks to DW, who generously passed on a tutoring job to me...
i have to tutor some kid in Primary School level English and Maths
actually some of their maths problems are a bit weird... hahaha was very "pai se" when the boy got the correct answer after i screwed up... oops!!! however, if the question was on hypothesis testing, linear regression, chi-squared tests... then i'm your man!!!! not this logical addition/subtraction stuff :P
so anyway... the kid needs help with his creative writing and comprehension... i can handle that... should be ok... cept the parents want the kid to get like an ATP scholarship to a "good" school, so i was like "err... crud... no guarantees ok??"... my feeling of pressure was compounded by the fact that the lad's chinese mum had like the newspaper article of last year's TEE results (u know the one that compares results between schools, colleges, co-eds whatever) and she was like "what do you think of Rossmoyne SHS/Aquinas/Wesley/All Saints/Willeton SHS", to which i tried frantically to remember what was in that article and make relevant comments.... then she went "what do you think of Penrhos?" and i was like:
(thinking) i can give 2 answers here:
Option 1 (safe option):
"well it's actually a girl's school so well i dont think little Ron here would fit in" (said as earnestly as possible)
Option 2 (funny option that results in me not getting job):
(said in utmost frankness, and seriousness) "lets see, Penrhos... i would love to have gone there, all those chicks... its a pretty good flower/bee ratio (ask ppl who were at Family camp for the meaning behind this metaphor) but i probably wouldnt have got much study done there ;-), and frankly, Ron... well... (burst out laughing manically and slamming table with hand)... i dont fancy his chances there for a while "
obviously i took option 1 and got the job... and Ron's a pretty nice boy btw... very cute, bubbly, cheeky, sincere... as only year 6's can be...
also... being ridiculously free lately... had so much time to myself... which is good because i highly value personal time... just to think and read... and reflect on the year just passed
Thus, i have been able to get the dust off my guitar and get back to some serious playing... the last few nights... thus disturbing the peace in my neighbourhood, which isnt good as there's a guy studying for TEE on my right and a Curtin gal studying for exams on my left... (of my house obviously... not me personally :P). (the gal's pretty hot though :P... )but anyways let us not digress from my point which is that there is something about playing guitar at 12:30 at night which is just entrancing, mainly because it's so quiet (everyone's asleep)... hahaha... and also because then i dont get given crap by my dad about my singing...and i feel less inhibited generally when noone's listening/scrutinising
i also find that i'm more creative at night, and thus have been working on some songwriting... this is the last 2 night's work (reworked an old idea slightly... giving it a more interesting beat)
Always
V1
Though i saw noone by my side
You were always there for me
Through the tears clouding up my eyes
You were all that i could see
V2
Though the road is long at night
I know that you took each step before me
Even though my load's not light
You lift me up when i am down
Pre-chorus
And i just want to say
That i'll never let you go
And i just want to live for you,
to be with you, forever
Chorus
My life is in you, My strength is in you
In you my heart will be always
My hope is in you, My freedom's in you
In you my trust will be always
kkk.... anyways... hahaha its in G if anyone wants to try it out :-)
on that note... i'll sign off for now
Friday, November 12, 2004
its all over
kkk just finished my last exam today... no more management and organisations ever....
was such a long exam man... 6 short answers and 2 essays in 3 hours....
after 2 hours and 40 minutes, i couldnt take it anymore and i just walked out... to freedom hahaha....(i did finish the exam ok)
the contract exam was absolutely horrible... wrote the most confusing, illogical, self-contradictory piece of prose tangentially related to contract law... and hahaha i really hope i pass cos it was bad....
i spent way too long on the first question, and so had only 40 mins to do the second question, which was bad since it had like 3 equally long parts to it.
the only good thing is that everyone else i talked to found it hard and thus, mebbe i might pass after scaling ;-)anyways, its all over for the year... can u believe that a year has gone by so quickly?
me and my frens worked out that we only go to uni 26 weeks a year!!! how good is that? that is about 300 bus rides to and from uni, 50 missed buses and about 70 missed lectures/tutes/workshops :P
hahaha i got out fine... now i hafta decide what units to do next year...
am seriously torn between doing commerce or econs (i'm enrolled in commerce) but yeahh... might pick the "safer" choice and do like accounting and finance.... though i do like econs but oh well time to decide
also... was at the PCLC youth service today... awesome service as usual...
sermon was stating basically that "we all have a great destiny given to us by God (Jer 29:11), however, whether we fulfill it or not is dependent on whether we are willing to step outside the square... and be upfront about our faith". An interesting note the speaker noted was that he was unable to move towards his destiny of becoming a pastor until he dared to be upfront, and tell people he was willing to do it....
this leaves me with the following questions:
1. What is my destiny in Christ? hmmm am still working it out... and i'm not sure whether it is in law or not... though i certainly hope so (one does not commit to 5 year courses for nothing ;-))
2. WOuld i have the guts to fulfill my destiny, should i know what it was? would i take the plunge? hahaha i guess i'll only discover this when i get there... like most things in life...
on another note, i've decided to take a few weeks break from the worship team due to a perforated eardrum, only discovered today... hmm the doctor was abit surprised... so was i "i thought it was earwax!!!"
so anyway was talking to Jason and he said these things get better... which is good cos my parents were like "you should take care of your health" and like "what if u became a deaf lawyer" (how does one respond to these questions btw, i mean why state the obvious??) , and i was abit worried too... seeing as my medical knowledge is derived mainly from CSI, Law and Order, and 24, and 2 years of Human Bio in school :p... but then, looking on the bright side, i can still hear perfectly well in my right ear... and pretty well in my left... it did start throbbing a little at PCLC when the music was abit loud though... hmmm
yeah so i've taken a break from the sunday ritual of standing next to the loud drums and trying to play 6 strings coherently so i blend with the team, while wondering whether i'm plugged in or not, or off tune etc etc ;) i guess it wouldnt help my ear if i exposed it to loud music....
... nuts... i really enjoy worshiping on Sunday... no, honestly... its a buzz when ure playing (not that i dont enjoy just standing with the congregation) cos its like... we can lay all our cares at the door and just worship God for what He is to us. i look forward to it during the week when i'm tired and weary... cos on SUnday... i celebrate knowin my Maker who sets me free.... also... i enjoy the guitar... hahaha thats a secondary reason...
okies... done with my ranting... just letting off steam after my exams
Nic
was such a long exam man... 6 short answers and 2 essays in 3 hours....
after 2 hours and 40 minutes, i couldnt take it anymore and i just walked out... to freedom hahaha....(i did finish the exam ok)
the contract exam was absolutely horrible... wrote the most confusing, illogical, self-contradictory piece of prose tangentially related to contract law... and hahaha i really hope i pass cos it was bad....
i spent way too long on the first question, and so had only 40 mins to do the second question, which was bad since it had like 3 equally long parts to it.
the only good thing is that everyone else i talked to found it hard and thus, mebbe i might pass after scaling ;-)anyways, its all over for the year... can u believe that a year has gone by so quickly?
me and my frens worked out that we only go to uni 26 weeks a year!!! how good is that? that is about 300 bus rides to and from uni, 50 missed buses and about 70 missed lectures/tutes/workshops :P
hahaha i got out fine... now i hafta decide what units to do next year...
am seriously torn between doing commerce or econs (i'm enrolled in commerce) but yeahh... might pick the "safer" choice and do like accounting and finance.... though i do like econs but oh well time to decide
also... was at the PCLC youth service today... awesome service as usual...
sermon was stating basically that "we all have a great destiny given to us by God (Jer 29:11), however, whether we fulfill it or not is dependent on whether we are willing to step outside the square... and be upfront about our faith". An interesting note the speaker noted was that he was unable to move towards his destiny of becoming a pastor until he dared to be upfront, and tell people he was willing to do it....
this leaves me with the following questions:
1. What is my destiny in Christ? hmmm am still working it out... and i'm not sure whether it is in law or not... though i certainly hope so (one does not commit to 5 year courses for nothing ;-))
2. WOuld i have the guts to fulfill my destiny, should i know what it was? would i take the plunge? hahaha i guess i'll only discover this when i get there... like most things in life...
on another note, i've decided to take a few weeks break from the worship team due to a perforated eardrum, only discovered today... hmm the doctor was abit surprised... so was i "i thought it was earwax!!!"
so anyway was talking to Jason and he said these things get better... which is good cos my parents were like "you should take care of your health" and like "what if u became a deaf lawyer" (how does one respond to these questions btw, i mean why state the obvious??) , and i was abit worried too... seeing as my medical knowledge is derived mainly from CSI, Law and Order, and 24, and 2 years of Human Bio in school :p... but then, looking on the bright side, i can still hear perfectly well in my right ear... and pretty well in my left... it did start throbbing a little at PCLC when the music was abit loud though... hmmm
yeah so i've taken a break from the sunday ritual of standing next to the loud drums and trying to play 6 strings coherently so i blend with the team, while wondering whether i'm plugged in or not, or off tune etc etc ;) i guess it wouldnt help my ear if i exposed it to loud music....
... nuts... i really enjoy worshiping on Sunday... no, honestly... its a buzz when ure playing (not that i dont enjoy just standing with the congregation) cos its like... we can lay all our cares at the door and just worship God for what He is to us. i look forward to it during the week when i'm tired and weary... cos on SUnday... i celebrate knowin my Maker who sets me free.... also... i enjoy the guitar... hahaha thats a secondary reason...
okies... done with my ranting... just letting off steam after my exams
Nic
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