1 week to go

can u believe it? only one week to go before my exams, and then after 1 week, i've finished my first year of uni!!! it all went by so fast... hahaha...
lets see...
met lotsa cool ppl this year... know lotsa new ppl.... been a good year
have discovered how lazy i am in these pre exams weeks :) sigh... but its only first year
just went shopping at Garbos cos theres a sale on now.... dint get anything though i saw a shirt i liked, but $30's too much to pay for a T-shirt i reckoned cos i was in Malaysia 3 months ago .... and stuff's cheap there to say the least
then went to a mates place... had nice long chat just the 3 of us... ahh the pleasures of conversation, saw some N1 documentary (i think that's what u would call it) hahaha laughed alot... did weights (thin old me...:)) but yeahh was a good night except for study purposes, but life is for living :)
so anyways... today was my last day of uni before exams... and swot vac.... sigh... memories ;)
youth service tomorrow, so hafta get guitar to uni on bus... will go earlier to study MA, ahh the joys of Flexible Budget Accounting... then again, mebbe i get some hippy points for bringing a guitar into Reid library... am on my way in that regard :)

the long march

hmmm its been a warm week to say the least
went jogging with Jason yesterday...
cool, after a 2 month break i went for 3.5km in 25mins... slow i know but im working back into shape...
then 500m from my place Jason just starts bolting like the lightning and im like "what the?" just happened that patrick drove past us at the same time...
anyways, today i woke up... went to uni... skipped MA to play ball...
wasnt a good decision as i now owe two drinks to EuHin and someone else... nuts... i regret suggesting shooting for 3 points....
i managed to sink 2 shots out of like 20 hahaha... had 5 airballs... and that was after a disastrous 2 on 2 game...
my defence really sucks ehh... mebbe cos i dont know the rules :)
anyways, after my last class at 11, went to Reid to study with Fahad...
the guy's fasting (Ramadan u see) but he dint complain, and he's a big bloke as well. must be starving.
well anyway
cell this saturday is the final cell....
have to do worship... should be interesting...mebbe i'll muck about abit more...
the irony is that ive been playing so much guitar this few weeks that my studies have suffered, and i barely touched it when i had more free time. but yeah life is fun if taken as a series of impulses...
on a positive note: finished my EBS assignment!!! woohoo!!!
might consider waking up to see the european cup tomorrow morning, maybe...(and i find it so hard to wake up for lectures) oh what the heck sleep is for the week, that was the theme from law camp i think (remember ut vaguely, *no more goon!!!, crazy bus ride, slept 1 hour on floor, sickeningly bad beep test*)
im serious, it was an interesting camp... strongly recommended :)

Saturdays are great!!!

had cell today... was pretty good...
was doin worship today.... hahaha... was like really impromptu. Jason called me at 2:45, and he's like "i'll pick u up at 3:15 nic", and im like ok...
then i realise that i have to do worship... but lucky that some songs stood out for me when i was playing last night (Thanx H/S!!!) anyways i did "There is none like you", "I worship you" and "Magnificent"... first two songs went good... the last song unfortunately, noone knew it, so im like "nuts", but overall i felt happy about today... i worshipped God. then Jason blew us away with some inspired cell material. he played segments from the last Planetshakers conference (i was there btw) and yeah... Ps Reggie Dabbs...HE DA MAN!!! like seriously, he spoke of how much God loves us... can you imagine... he took all the sins of the world, (everything evil you can imagine, and stuff you cant), and he drank THAT cup... all for us....i mean... that is unworldly love... beyond any comprehension... no wonder the Bible says "the steadfast love of the lord never ceases", and "his mercy endures forever" but yeah... it was just a reminder... also, when ST said that sometimes (especially for Christians who have been Christians for a while) we take God's love for granted but yeah... we have to remind ourselves on the enormity of what he has done for us.
the second segment on the DVD was also awesome... God is always waiting for us... even when we screw up... and i screw up heaps as a Christian... he is always waiting for us to dance with him... and he always will be... another perspective i got from this is the POV of the father watching a child go wayward... not being a parent (surprise surprise) it is hard to imagine the pain... but it must be unbearable, yet God goes through all that everytime we sin... and yet he still waits for us...
today's cell was one of the best we had all year... too bad it's one of the last for a while... sigh

then Jason and I went for dinner with my parents and assorted Aunts and Uncles from church
was interesting... hahaha hilarious as me and Jase sat with some High School cell people, delise (did i spell it rite?), and let me say that if one is bored at a dinner, the digital camera is a very useful source of amusement. hahaha... i got some incriminating pics of michelle and dez inhaling an unidentified white substance.... hmmmm.... and i couldnt stop laughing all nite... those are some funny people.... the dinner was good as well btw....anyway i thoroughly enjoyed myself today...
one of the better days from this week,... cept for the fact that i did little study....

youth service

went to ps Matt Garner's Church's youth service last night. was a pretty rockin service. apparently they have about 400 youth!!! yeah it was a good service... interestin thing is that they had lightbulbs hanging down all over the stage, and like, u could walk into them if u werent watching. yeah... the guest speaker was great as well, Andy from NZ... quite a passionate preacher...he spoke about how Christians are not of this world, that we dont have the rights of citizenship of this world.... then he digressed into talking about how the disciples of Jesus each in their own way gave their lives for Jesus... was a really poignant reminder of how much they loved Jesus.... to give their lives for him. then he went into how we should be prepared to die for Christ, talking about his experiences in Vietnam, a country where Christians are persecuted... it was really uplifting, as he spoke of a man imprisoned in a 1m by 1m cage for 6 months who after his release begged to be put back in again as there, all he could do was pray, and be close with God. to me the sermon was a reminder not to be caught up in the world but to remember that we have a calling as Christians to claim this world for christ. yeah it was a really touching service.
on the way back, Andy presented his theory that 40km/h over the speed limit isnt speeding through taking us on a 140km/h drive on some suburban street not dissimilar to South St...
and ended up taking us south instead of to the uni.... was hilarious man...
here are the transcripts:
setting: we have just passed the convention centre on freeway south (andy was supposed to take us back to UWA...
we were talking about NS in Singapore
Andy: the reason i didnt defer NS was because we had to pay a $70k bond....
Nic: Why didnt you go to uni?
Andy: AS I WAS SAYING, the reason was because of this bond u see...
Nic: (getting agitated): No, i mean why arent we going to uni now?
Andy:.... (at this point we are just before Mill Pt Rd)
so we had to turn back...
was absolutely hilarious.
cheers....

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