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Eric's rambles =)

Monday, April 16, 2007

Wireless mic?

Does anyone know of any wireless mic systems that can be bought but not too expensive? I'm looking for one for my church =o

Thursday, April 12, 2007

Awesome night at LG

We had lifegroups tonight and it was awesome. God always opens doors when you least expect them to be opened. He even opens doors that you never thought there was a door.

Tonight really touched me. I don't think i'll talk too much about specifics but i think God's really trying to reach out to me and give me a good shake. There's just so many things that are happening around me and there's so much potential and growth that it amazes me. I'm going to read the 4 gospels over and over again starting today. In fact, this post will stop now coz i wanna go start reading =)

Tomorrow i'll be practising some pool and Friday i'll be going to Soul Survivor!~ It's this Christian event that's quite laid back apparently and it's meant to be very motivating and good fun =) So that'll be my day and night :) Okies, c u around =p

Sunday, April 08, 2007

Jesus Anointed by a Sinful Woman?

Ok, so today's thoughts are on this passage in the bible from Mark 14:1-10.

What happens is a woman who's lived a sinful life comes to Jesus and brings a really expensive bottle of perfume that's worth a year's wages and she anoints Jesus with this perfume, and what happens straight away is the disciples' reactions. They get quite frustrated with the woman because they said she was wasting the perfume and that it could be used for the poor.

Hmmmmmmmmmmm, what do you guys think?

I was actually quite disturbed and baffled about this passage. I mean, if i was in the disciples' position..... and someone took a $50,000 perfume and poured it onto Jesus' feet, i would question if it was 'worth' doing that. But are we really looking at it in the right angle? Are we merely looking at things in a materialistic and commodity based view?

I was enlightened to a different view by my assisting pastor today Esther, and my pastor's wife Catherine about the extravagence of worship. It's so easy to go day by day and live our lives with what we have and not recognise what's more important. This woman had Jesus in her heart all along and while Jesus knew that He was going to be betrayed, while He was in torment and filled with burdens, the woman did an act of grace and sacrificed all that she had to comfort Jesus and did what she could for Him. Sure, the perfum could be sold and be used, but money can always be found later, and i think that's why Jesus said that the poor will always be there but He won't.

So my lesson for today is that sometimes, we should really let everything go and give God everything that we have..... EVERYTHING. No holding back. If you're in a conservative church and God motivates you to raise ur hand in worship, just do it. If people don't like you singing out loud, but God motivates you to shout out praise during worship, just do it.

I also learnt something whilst listening to someone pray today. It's quite interesting. This particular person prayed with things like "God help us to ..... help us to .... help us to ...." etc, and i was feeling a little awkward. I felt that this way of prayer is very selfish, so i'm gonna try saying things like "God, may I learn to alablbalbla, may I continue to ballabla, may I give you blablaba" but yer, that's just me =p

OK, have a good Easter everyone =)

Thursday, April 05, 2007

Hmmmm

Ok, firstly, blogger is pretty crappy with uploading photos now. If Picasa could work with more than 4 photos, blogger would actually be fairly decent. Hmmmm, anyhow, i've uploaded these manually.

Ok, so here are the results of my new DigitalNow DNTV Live! USB Hybrid. I bought it for $109 which includes their DNTV Live software and also Cinema 4. It also includes shipping. DNTV is for digital TV whereas Cinema 4 is for analogue. So what are the results?

Well, it's abit mixed actually. I would have expected more, but it's not too bad. On some channels i swear i see the picture being over digitised, if that's a word. Frames are missing or things don't seem as smooth as analogue tv, but some channels are fine. Anyhow, i had trouble picking up channels when i searched Victoria, but i managed to pick up all channels if i searched the entire Australia.

Here's photos of the picture quality and the device itself. I'm not using the small antenna btw, i'm using the house antenna on the roof!



















Monday, April 02, 2007

Being a bum

OKKkkk, so apart from being called a bum, a slacker, a fatty hehehe i've been feeling on the ball. Well, i do have a lot of things to catch up on, and i did seem to recall that i posted that i'd have a before and after photo, but i must admit that my camera had no battery so that's bad luck.

What did i do today? bummed at uni. Well, i met up with this girl who lost her ID. I gave it to her, she was quite appreciative and i felt that it was good, despite not being able to sorta talk any longer than the necessary, i guess that was my small part in sharing the love to the world today =)

Another thing was, i finally was able to sorta meet this person who i've seen many times after many years in engineering. She's a friend of Dwang's and yeah dwang and i went to the library and she was there and finally got introduced and turns out she's not as old as we are hahahah

After doing a bit of study and meeting up with this person who handles the finance for the endeavour, i msg'd Mish and met up with her and had a coffee and caught up. At the same time i bumped into Cindy and she was on her way to class and that was cool coz i hadn't seen her for a while too, so kinda hitting 2 birds with 1 stone, but i think i should catch up with Cindy when she's free, but it seems like no one's really as free as me so i'd have to see when they're free hehehe

Well, i got to talk about alot of stuff with Mish and i was sharing about our church's goal, in sharing the love, building up relationships with people not just within our church, but outside of church and that this year would probably be the perfect yr for me to do that because i'm quite free hehe.

And now, i'm sitting in the library coz i'm trying to call and get in contact with dwang but he ain't picking up his phone, maybe i'll just leave myself.... hmmmmm, well, anyhow, mum's having tai chi tonight, so i'm gonna make my own dinner.

But what have i achieved last night, after staying up for so long (till like 4:30am),

1. Chucked out 3.5 bags full of crap, this exlcudes all the clothes i wanna donate)
2. Cleaned my room half half
3. Finished watching koukou kyoushi (High school teacher) jap drama, and it wasn't that great
4. Couldn't find a proper program for diary with daily reminders etc, so i've decided to goto officeworks after i write this to get a paper one, YES, A PAPER ONE lolz

So all good. Ooooo reminds me i need to remind my group about this week's cell grp through email =p gtg =p

Sunday, April 01, 2007

Blogging again

Ok, i'm gonna be blogging again, everyday, almost, trying to, why? I'm gonna be sharing my thoughts as i try and grow not only spiritually more mature but as a person.

Why have i come to this? Hmmmm, I think God's trying to prepare me for something bigger in my life, either a crisis, or a plan which i'm not too sure of, i'm thinking it's missions....

anywayz, first thing is first, i need to clean my room......... i'll post a before and after shot, it's 11:03pm, since i don't have to set my body clock right for another 9 months muahuahuauh, i will be sleeping late most nights =)