Nonsense Thoughts

Sticky Crawly Season

2011-11-30T21:20:00.006+08:00

Check it out, cool stick insect (Phasmatodea) I found on a guar poly line elbow in the Secondary Cleaners Recleaners Circuit. Bug season is coming out!I keep finding mini red/brown ants in my room who somehow find their way to crumbs I might leave behind. This time all food is locked out or in the fridge even if it may not require refrigeration. When I got back from R&R I found them inside my

I Fell Into Marriage

2011-11-27T15:52:00.003+08:00

A few weeks ago I had a conversation that went along the lines of, (starting halfway in).Person: Don’t ever get marriedMe pulls a facial expression which triggers questionsPerson: Oh, you’re marriedMe: NoPerson: Engaged?Me: NoPerson: Boyfriend?Me: NoPerson: I cannot believe that you do not have a partner/bf/(whatever term they used) with the way you look (can’t recall exact works but it was

Optimising Crap

2011-11-09T23:11:00.005+08:00

This post has been expanded from recent conversations with those who have demobilised site in the last few days.Pretty things grow from crap. You know the "Ugly Duckling" story, the fruit tree doesn't taste as sweet without manure situation.It is easier to remember the bad, frustrating times. It is in our nature to amplify and headline the bad than the good. We are natural at complaining and

Big Fish

2011-10-18T19:53:00.006+08:00

To lighten the load, I am resorting to blogging on trivial matters of life, however still important stuff when it comes to physical daily survival. Food. We are very fortunate in comparison to the rest of the world, and get it in abundance here onsite.Biggest fish served ever for the upfront orders for dinner since I have been onsite. The photo taken does not serve the actual size of it well

Rubbish Habits

2011-10-14T21:46:00.005+08:00

You can tell a lot about a person's habits from looking at their rubbish bin.Observations about the user of the following bin (guess who).Has access to disposable cupsEats honeycomb icecreamFlosses (but irregularly)Female Image taken on 14 October 2011 21:00

Months Later

2011-09-30T14:00:00.003+08:00

Need creativity. Craziness. It has been too long without colour.It has been 9 months site based for work now. There is now a guitar, digital piano in the donga I stay in at the village. I do not practice as much as I like to. I was routinely running / exercising for months till roughly 3 months back now. Lacking motivation after a long days work even though I know the extra is beneficial. It

Mount Keith

2011-01-30T18:21:00.003+08:00

Day 4: I am currently site based for work now. I'm in the mid west of Western Australia, the desert. It has been a long awaiting for under 6 months now and it has been good. Different, because you are not exposed to what your routine is like back home. For me that is in the Perth metro / suburban.The accommodation village about 15 mins south of the mine and Nickel plant facility has had power

Music - the technical side is worth it!

2011-01-03T22:11:00.005+08:00

I've develop a love for music progressively last year.Since I started work I've really appreciated my hands and fingers. We do so much with them with emails, writing, drawing, hold, eat etc.At the beginning of last year I had the urge to know how to play on the piano George Winston's arrangement of Pachebel's infamous Canon in D. So I started playing the piano after 10 years!I still have not

His plan

2010-11-29T22:56:00.006+08:00

I love the fact that my brother is engaged. There are a lot of things to hold my breath about because the current future (this lifetime) is so uncertain, but God works according to his timing and plan. So I can trust that!I may not seem excited on the outside but inside there is a smile in his direction. I recalled last time that he was working on site years ago in Karratha and a similar

Zero Care Factor

2010-11-21T22:10:00.003+08:00

I think if there was an occupation which the main task consisted of being lazy, I'd be the king of it.Or queen.Either way I think inbuilt in part of people is the tendency to not care when things matter. I find that with myself lately that a lot of things I have put a lot of time in there is an expire date on how much I care about it. It seems with the stuff that takes up regular time, 4 years

Pro Macbook 13"

2010-11-09T22:17:00.004+08:00

The Macbook Pro (MBP)I purchased a reburfished MBP 13" from the online apple site. Saved about $200.Their shipping is impressive, as they use express TNT and it pretty much arrived the day after they processed my order.

Silence

2010-09-29T23:16:00.003+08:00

Hi GodYou have heard less from me lately. =SDespite that I know you see me and hear me and know me.I thought to quickly say hello to acknowledge I have not forgotten you despite silence from my end.Hope to spend time soon to share feelings of life's drudgery. Help me to listen fully to you then too and our conversation may be two way.Catch you soonJ

Grace Trumps (conflict & resolution)

2010-06-06T16:45:00.011+08:00

Life is complicated.From my previous post I have had a little bit more time to absorb the complications of life. The bible is relatively black and white about some things. Some things are grey or never mentioned, so you have to look at the black and white to discern the grey and not mentioned areas.There are also things that we desire to see as green, red, blue or another colour instead of the

Divorce

2010-05-24T21:57:00.004+08:00

.There's so much to say on this topic, but it's ridiculously sobering/frustrating/heavy/whywhywhywhy!?When I look first at how God views and feels about marriage, and then divorce, I totally understand the gravity and sacredness of marriage! I also get how God sees non-married people too, and understand that those in that circumstance has to take their current status seriously too.However on the

Soon to be official Graduate Engineer

2010-05-06T00:39:00.006+08:00

Yikes, it has been 2.5months since I blogged last.In summary regarding work I have been employed as a tech clerk at Lycopodium Minerals for 2 months now. Although I am not employed as a graduate engineer: It is such a privilege and honour to be working I still struggle to wake up however I look forward to head into work I have been given tasks related to engineering Having an income enables me to

Empty Love. The Conflict.

2010-02-17T19:53:00.010+08:00

I recently had the topic of love and the conflict of it brought up within the span of a few days.Prior to Valentines DayI had spent a week preparing a talk and presented it at youth group on 1 John 4:7-21. The main point is that God is love. The passage backs up this big idea is that; 1) love is his nature, 2) he demonstrates his love through his Son Jesus, 3) and we love because he first loved

Broken Cigarette and a Sniper

2010-02-09T13:36:00.005+08:00

Woke up from a dream today. I don't normally dream much nowadays. I was being chased. The dream was located in the present time because the sniper was shooting from a very long distance away and the gun technology was recent.In the dream I was located in a place mixed between NTE 2010 AFES accommodation, and dorms that had similar windows to the Serpentine Baptist Campsite. However once you

Not all advice is advice..

2010-02-02T01:33:00.004+08:00

Have you read this before? Are you finding that the advice Candice is giving is a bit one sided and suited for particular type of girls? I read this a while back but something triggered me to ask another opinion...I find it hard to nod to 100% to what she's advising. There are agreeable stuff, then she taints that good stuff with stuff like part of an answer to Q3, "It's his job to lead and if

Living for the King

2010-01-15T15:41:00.003+08:00

This Life I Live© Michael Morrow 2009This life I live is not my ownFor my Redeemer paid the priceHe took it to be his aloneTo be his treasure and his prizeThe things of earth I leave behindTo live in worship of my KingHis is the right to rule my lifeMine is the joy to live for himI died to sin upon the crossI'm bound to Jesus in his deathThe old is gone and now I mustRely on him for every

Numbers

2010-01-14T02:12:00.003+08:00

It is a great time to be reading Numbers. Probably for the first time I am enjoying reading God's law. It becomes interesting when you pull things apart, draw diagrams, see how it all fits and how detailed things were accounted for.Mind exploding stuff.The picture coming out so far is God is not chaotic and he is very holy. VERY HOLY.The massive contrast is that we are very unholy and

The Little Mermaid

2010-01-03T01:33:00.003+08:00

Imagine getting married at 16. Arial, a princess mermaid becomes human and marries a human prince at 16.Today in Australia you'd be in year 11, or year 10 (eastern states), probably just getting your Ls trying to learn to drive. I wonder at what age it was then that you could drive a horse and cart on public roads...Married at 16...

Breaking up

2009-11-22T04:22:00.005+08:00

When a friend breaks up with her long term older (very much older) boyfriend and a bunch of you take her out the same night to talk and take her mind off things....it's a long time coming but you hope this time she will stick to it.It's troubling how people are stuck in their relationships. There are good times but the inevitable will happen...they won't be together forever but they still stay

Marriage (trust)

2009-11-11T04:33:00.002+08:00

"I don't know.I love him Aaron.I just..I know I can't control him. It's the hardest part about all of this.""Trust always is with an alcoholic. But if you can't trust Mark, who can you trust?"-Flashforward. Season 1, episode 5 "Gimme some truth"Trust within a marriage...who can you trust? Without Jesus at the center I wonder how married couples do it. Christian couples don't even do it right...

The excitement about something

2009-11-02T01:50:00.005+08:00

I'm 34 hours away from finishing my last exam ever (of undergrad studies anyway, and I don't plan to do anymore uni related studies).Hopefully no more than a few days away from finishing the last assessment of uni...practicum report (DON'T LEAVE IT THIS LATE, else you'll have to sit the next round of graduation like me).And if all goes well with passing, I am done.HOMESTRETCH..!Taking a few steps

Graphing Physical Intimacy

2009-10-19T03:12:00.011+08:00

hahaha I find this image funny because with thesis due date looming in one week and the number of figures and graphs I still need to complete...is nothing compared to the simplicity of this graph regarding physical intimacy. It speaks so much.Taken from "Sex and the supremacy of Christ" ed. John Piper and Justin Taylor3 of the articles I posted before this one is in this book. Lawrence writes

The game and playing it biblically

2009-10-11T01:53:00.010+08:00

Wow wow wow wow wow.This really challenges so many norms that the game is currently being played in Christian circles. Even within CU, if we assume that CUers generally go through sound biblical teaching. Application of what we learn is another ball game but if we stick to the generalisation and assumption that being taught with sound teaching would imply correct application is happening.Reading

Association

2009-10-10T19:33:00.006+08:00

Had a few more thoughts coming through related to the previous post.It was not so much that I am associated with second best, more so that I am the second best that is associated with so and so. If you have ever heard the secular term "pissing in your own pool" then perhaps you may connect with what I am trying to say.As for the gossip floating through other people's minds, it is not so much

Pride

2009-10-09T03:09:00.004+08:00

Take it away. A way to fall beneath the reality of where you stand is when you become proud.I think I have a pride that is not good. A bias, a judgment against Christians who have been tainted (there's a better word for this but can't put a finger on it right now). Funnily it's not like I'm any different.Second best.It does not matter when I think about how I understand God's grace. If grace has

Mutual Encouragement

2009-09-27T18:24:00.007+08:00

At Albany airport about to board the plane to Perth on 25/9/09, 16:00 after 5 nights and 5 days working with Kim Brooksbank (supervisor) on my final year project. Thanks Kim!Whilst in Albany I learned a couple of things so that I understood more about myself.If I were to have very minimum contact with Christians, I would find it quite difficult to be on fire for God I think...Also working in a

6 year old correspondences

2009-09-18T01:15:00.008+08:00

Procrastinating, yep that's right another assignment due in 15 hours.Okay so now what, 6 year old correspondences is the topic. Part of my procrastination is to check my email a thousand times. I'm flicking through some preeeety old emails, that is from my email prior to the current one I use now because I know nothing new is going to come through my current email at this time of the night/

5 degrees 2:51am

2009-09-04T02:51:00.003+08:00

Five degrees at 2:51 in the morning and I'm attempting to finishing off an assignment that's only worth 10% and a hydrodynamic model which I probably only understand about 30% of it....And obviously getting distracted youtubing or reading people's blogs. At least I'm not mentally giving up yet... =\I was reading Kat's blog about her fears and anticipation of her future and her worth. Her open

My Heart

2009-08-13T12:05:00.003+08:00

Change my heart oh LORD.Help me to "act in a manner worth of the gospel of Christ" (Phil 1:27a NIV) and that my "love may abound more and more in knowledge and discernment so that I will be able to approve what is excellent and so be pure and blameless for the day of Christ, filled with the fruit of righteousness that comes through Jesus Christ, to the glory and praise of you!" (Phil 1:9-11, ESV)

You are my Jonathan

2009-08-04T19:29:00.010+08:00

True friends are so valuable as you are able to confide in them the troubles you have. Especially when you are not able to articulate yourself yet able to be understood. And even after the conversation and the troubles are still there, just having talked and praying with them is such a blessing.God's really blessed me with different kind of friends that I can talk to about different things. As

Futurama Couch Potato

2009-07-12T03:59:00.000+08:00

A few things I have learnt about myself the past couple of weeks. I have the ability to sit infront of the TV and just enjoy munching on food and watching episode after episode of Futurama.It's great because they are only 20mins each and therefore a just right amount of time to amuse the mind. It's not too long that you need to set aside long periods of time to watch it, and not to short that a

Less human power and wisdom

2009-07-07T01:11:00.005+08:00

'Little Women' by Louisa M. Alcott.One of the chapters that hit me "what a good book this is" was during chapter 8. I think it will be the one highlight of the book and remember which chapter it came from. It is about 15 year old Jo's anger and stubbornness towards forgiving her sister who had wronged her early in the chapter. Only does she realise later how her impatience leading to spite

Resolution

2009-06-24T03:38:00.002+08:00

Personal resolution from emotional ups and downs usually come about when there is a realisation of the situation. Realisation that you have been focusing on the wrong solution, or been asking the wrong questions in search of a solution. Most of the time that realisation is the what stands between the person and God, and the person's attitude towards the outcome God provides.If we're always

Exams again and the power of words

2009-06-16T23:27:00.005+08:00

Time period: 2009 sem 1 exams, week 2I've been following Kat's (Fyffe) blog for the past couple of days and it's incredible to read what goes on in her mind. It feels like as if I've been interacting with her when I haven't physically seen her (or interacted with her properly) probably since summer really, but did once at Broadway at uni when she was hanging with Josh a few weeks back. It feels

Exams. Done a lot of other things.

2008-11-13T00:55:00.007+08:00

Exams. Procrastination. Videos. Youtube. Google. In the midst of exams I've been utterly unproductive when it comes to study. However with other things I've done a lot of. Done a lot meaning being distracted by doing a lot of other things to avoid study. As for googling I don't know why but recently googled inters camp and found that overseas Christian camps are running labled as Inters Camp.

Internet Purchases

2008-10-15T00:14:00.006+08:00

Internet shopping frenzy has been occuring lately. I've been checking Zazz nearly everyday and last week I purchased a flying alarm clock and it's come through today. I hope it really helps me get out of bed in the morning as I am notoriously terrible in the mornings. I also did an impulse purchase for an Aladdin Soundtrack CD off ebay for Nathan's birthday which I was not present at his party

Giant Pencils Discovered at Albany Field Trip

2008-09-30T01:31:00.013+08:00

Oceanography Group Amongst Giant PencilsStrong WindsSuitable conditions for a wind farmI returned from a week long field trip in Albany a week ago. Learnt, field techniques in particular to do with physical oceanography, deploying drifters, collecting water samples and analysing samples, CTD drops, using the ADCP (acoustic dopler current profiler) wave height to measure tides etc. Oyster Harbour

Jesse - a review

2007-08-19T16:02:00.000+08:00

"Jesse" by Corin GillsI read this online story in one sitting. Therefore I didn't get to bed till close to 7 in the morning!I enjoyed reading it because there is a Christian element behind it (very God honouring!) and I was able to relate to it because most of the story was set around a summer bible camp. Having been a major Serps INTERS (and Seniors when it was still running back in our day)

Has Bono Got It Right?

2007-08-15T22:43:00.000+08:00

I've heard about Harrison Olang being one of those really awesome speakers that captivates the audience and he's also funny too! I'm looking forward to this event this Tuesday night at Rivo church. If you're in Perth you're interested to hear him speak about Freedom for Africa..the World you're more than welcome to come.

Getting The Work Boots Dirty

2007-08-12T01:41:00.000+08:00

Alot has happened in the past month and a half since I last posted.Quick updates about work:1. My first site visit ever occurred end(ish) of June. The road trip involved Michael Smith and Yi, (both have left SGA since then). I didn't have the right PPE (Personal Protection Equipment) at the time but we were driving along public roads so no one 'important' was in sight to tell us off.Image 1.1:

A Glimpse of Heaven

2007-06-25T23:54:00.000+08:00

I recently borrowed a DVD full of Christian songs off my brother to add to the small collection I have. I scanned through them quite quickly to place some on my ipod. Today on the way to work I listened to some of the songs during the bus trip and for a moment I saw a glimpse of what heaven would be like.Heaven's air will be filled with songs and choruses and choirs praising God. It'd be like

A Call From Sydney

2007-06-22T23:50:00.000+08:00

I got a missed call today when I came back from and outside (in Cambridge foodcourt) lunch break with Jim, Raymond, Dian and Seoul (?spelling). It was a Sydney number, returned the call saying "Hi I received a miss call from this number. My name is Jun Jet". The response from the receiving end "Who do you think it is". The volume was relatively low on my mobile and after cranking it up I realise

GHD "Wild Wild West" Ball

2007-06-21T22:05:00.000+08:00

The Yellow TableLeft-Right: Top row; Laurence (?spelling, Rick's friend), ---- (Rick? Dian?'s friend), Sundar (GHD, SGA Geotechinal), me.Front row; Dian (GHD, SGA Geotechnical), Rick (Main Roads, Accounts), Jim (GHD, SGA Geotechnical), Raymond (GHD, SGA Drainage), Molly (Raymond's wife).The quarter of a million dollar ball (as to what I heard) or $300/head, was held nearly 2 weeks ago, 9 June

Weekend Oddities

2007-06-17T16:33:00.000+08:00

This weekend has been full of small incidents.I'll mention the oddities.I was woken up on Saturday night (technically Sunday morning) at 3.30am by a phone call. It's Jiz asking for a ride from Fremantle because of the long taxi line. Unfortunately for me at that time I was actually asleep. I went to pick him and his friend up anyway. It was a bit of a chuckle because the whole way home they would

Tribute to those studying for current exams

2007-06-13T23:35:00.000+08:00

I realise that I take forever to post something new (and thinking I've recently post) because usually the post sits as a draft for weeks and I keep editing the same thing.Moving onto a topic of a worthy website for good images is http://creative.gettyimages.com. I was looking for images related to the keyword "textbook" and check out what I stumbled across.Doesn't this just remind you of an

The Simple Things

2007-05-24T17:53:00.000+08:00

Someone dinging the bus to stop when it is approaching the main city busport. (Cheers to the ignorant bus passengers)Two nights after a girls night out, you cacked yourself so hard when they told you of hilarious but probably embarrassing (if sober) things you did and you don't know whether to feel; guilty because you had a bit too much (1 Corinthians 3:17b) or to conclude it as one of those

2 years 8 months

2007-05-14T21:44:00.000+08:00

Perth Hyatt Regency, Lower Lobby, Joes Oriental DinerI thought I'd finally add some pictures to my postings. I don't usually (at all) have a digital camera with me (as I don't own one) however I managed to find the only picture I own of me in my uniform when I use to work at the Hyatt in Joes, Lower Lobby. Someone must have used my camera phone the one time I had my mobile in the restaurant after

Testing http://junjet.nomadlife.org

2007-05-09T23:52:00.000+08:00

Will my original template load?

Stepping Outside My Comfort Square

2007-05-08T00:12:00.000+08:00

Three were baptised on Sunday night at Rivo. It was nice as I hadn't seen a baptism in awhile now.Revin was one of the three boys that I knew. Another guy for some reason reminded me of Stuart Goh. But he wasn't Chinese. Perhaps it was the way he spoke.Michael Lloyd made a significant point at the end of his testimony. He described himself as a shy person and hence would have been a main reason

3 Days Dead

2007-05-07T00:56:00.000+08:00

Quite a while ago my mum mentioned to me that one day as she was leaving for work in the morning she saw a girl (in her twenty's) sitting on the curb across the street from us and was crying. An elderly (parents age) woman was comforting her and one of the neighbours (Carolyn) went over to see if they needed help and also because she was a nurse.Today my parents went to a Pizza Fairwell party

Beginning of a new lifestyle

2007-05-05T17:33:00.000+08:00

Full time work began on 30 April. Employed by GHD (ghd.com.au) as an Undergraduate Engineer. I am not located at their Perth office but in the Southern Gateway Alliance (consist of GHD, Leighton Contractors, WA Limestone and Main Roads WA) project office in Osborne Park. WA's single largest road project, the New Perth to Bunbury Highway (NPBH) is under the design