Do not ask for easy lives

“Do not ask for easy lives, pray to be stronger. Do not pray for tasks equal to our powers, pray for powers equal to your tasks. Then the doing of your work shall be no miracle, but you shall be the miracle. Every day you shall wonder at yourself, at the richness of life which has come to you by the grace of God.”

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Me is criminal?

A common misconception among citizens is that personal use quantities of chewing gum are allowed into Singapore. However, according to the set of Regulations, “importing” means to “bring or cause to be brought into Singapore by land, water or air from any place which is outside Singapore …” any goods, even if they are not for purposes of trade. The set of Regulations also does not make any provisions for personal use quantities to be brought into Singapore. Therefore, bringing chewing gum into Singapore, even small quantities for whatever purpose, is technically prohibited.


Whoopsie!!

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Nosebleeds

An indication I’m

  • Working too much
  • Pushing too hard
  • Not resting enough

I’ve had 2 today. I should listen to this old cranky body of mine before its too late….

P.S. Realized I made an appointment tomorrow when I was kind of supposed to go to St Andrew’s School Nativity play. Whoops. Too many things, life’s a blur….

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I want to…

  • explore
  • find quietness
  • deal with loose ends
  • make a difference
  • be noticed but not recognized
  • learn
  • change
  • learn to fail
  • be disciplined
  • have time for myself
  • teach
  • help
  • laugh
  • cry
  • smile
  • pray more
  • draw closer to Him
  • know what I need to know
  • see people happy
  • be afraid
  • be assured
  • find my place
  • program

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Do I really know who I am?

Have you ever stopped and thought how you react to possible situations in your life?
You think of the type of person you want to be and “do the right thing”.
Have you ever found yourself actually living out that situation and doing the exact thing that you thought you would never do because you never wanted to become the bad / stupid / insensitive / idiotic one?
Well I did. Tonight especially. And I’m sorry to you. There have been other days too arising from basically thinking too much or having insecurities. You’d think that at an age of 24 going 25 (soon) you think some things would be more or less settled. But no. In times like these you think to yourself perhaps it would have been better off if I hadn’t experienced this but on the other hand without this experience you would not know how to guide / help those facing the same problem. Then also how can you think about helping others when you can barely even help yourself.

I have the same question resounding in my head.
“Do you do what you say you believe?”
Because what we say and what we do can be totally mutually exclusive. Something to chew on in my coming December, my month of rest. For remember God ordained rest thus it is our right and, sometimes for people like me, responsibility to rest.

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XKCD week

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From the Inspired by XKCD: MBR Love Note to Wired’s Real Geek Heart Beats in Xkcd’s Stick Figures to this weeks 5 part series of the 1337 mom (Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4, Part 5)
Gosh how I love this comic series
**Note to self: finish going through the backlog of unread strips =D**

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iriver X20

iriver x20

  • 2.2″ TFT LCD
  • 2GB/4GB/8GB
  • Audio: MP3, WMA, OGG(!!!!!!) support
  • Video: MPEG4/WMV
  • Photo album: JPG
  • Music : Plays up to 22 hours/Video : Plays up to 6 hours
  • Direct encoding & Line in
  • Built-in (micro) SD-Card slot
  • FM radio and recording
  • Voice Recording
  • Built-in speakers
  • Drag and drop file transfers: i.e. Linux support!

Considering I want something to record audio for church and that I want to migrate away from my Tungsten E2 ,thats used mainly for audio playing in the car, this little guy has grabbed a heck of alot of my attention (since last night). It’s manual can be downloaded from the iriver website which is a nice touch on iriver’s part and my only complaint is the battery life as stated on the iriver ‘Overview’ page and the ‘Spec’ page:
Overview page:

Music : Plays up to 22 hours/Video : Plays up to 6 hours

Spec page:

Continuous Playback Time(Audio) – Approx. 9 hours(mp3, 128kbps, MP3, EQ Normal)

Thank goodness the manual confirms the values on the Overview page.
QQeStore is selling it for $258! Sweet. Linux supporting, OGG playing, video enabled, direct line-in recording, non-Apple player.
Ok time to calm down and rationalize my thoughts….

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