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in keeping with the ever-changing, fast-paced, technological advancements that are taking place in our increasingly globalized and borderless world,
(that was a personal challenge to see how many cliches i could squeeze into one sentence)
i have made the move to Tumblr which is integrated with Twitter and much more fun to use.

See you there.

grey matter

Facebook gives me life envy -

which is
BAD, very very Bad.
(Envy being one of the many sins that paul lists in Galatians)

I must throw off my slavery and crucify my fleshly desires!

And the only reason why I'm blogging so frequently is because
Biological Psychology is killing my brain cells.

There is simply no way I'm going to be able to memorise all the names of the cortices, the mesolimbic pathways, the moamines, the drugs they interact with and the consequent effects on schizophrenia, depression, on top of the gazillion other scientific names that I studied a few days ago.

There is some truth in a sticker I used to have in my old bedroom:

The more I have to remember,
The more I forget.
And the more I forget,
The less I remember.

So why bother??

i would like a piece of...

...this!

it's an ipod hoodie - how cute is that?


also, recently discovered another singer who's got
my toes-a-tappin' and my fingers-a-snappin'!

lisa hannigan is her name.
she was cited as a fav of jason mraz and also sang with damien rice on the song 'o'.

definitely worth a listen.

what is brumby doing?

i just read this in The Age:

"VICTORIA should consider cancelling mass gatherings including AFL games to stem its swine flu outbreak, the World Health Organisation says. But Premier John Brumby says there is no need for such measures.

WHO western Pacific region spokesman Peter Cordingley said although it was not the agency's job to tell state and national governments what to do, Victoria should consider shutting down big events to prevent transmission of the H1N1 virus, which is now predicted to infect one in three people."

"Mr Brumby said the shift had not changed Victoria's response to the virus, which remained mild in most affected people.

"You wouldn't be going around closing down every school and every sporting venue and every weekend sporting event and every picture theatre. It would be completely out of proportion to the risk posed by what is a relatively mild seasonal flu," he said.

Federal Health Minister Nicola Roxon said there was no reason to change Australia's response and that public health experts had not advised the Government to close down mass gatherings."

the government's lackadaisical attitude puzzles me.

the more time i've spent here, the more i realise that Australians do live in a bubble.

in fact, Gordan Ramsay's remarks are more worthy of breaking news here in Melbourne than the swine flu pandemic.

seriously.

tweet tweet

the latest issue of TIME has inspired me to get Twitter.

go get Twitter and join in!

no annoying facebook applications, no need to upload lots of pictures/videos/info about yourself.

no event invitations from people who are not even in the same country as you are.

just 140 characters of your thoughts, whenever you want.

Twit away!

twinkle

i'm sitting in the library and i feel like doing anything but work -
so i'm blogging.

first off, i have to say that genius on itunes is simply - genius.
i don't know why i resisted upgrading my itunes earlier.
this has to be the best invention by far after the macbook and of course, the ipod.
mm.. priscilla ahn, rachael yamagata, ingrid michaelson, feist, stars, jem, marie digby, jason mraz, the weepies, frou frou, the bird and the bee and jon mclaughlin are beginning to form a very decent playlist :)

after being virtually absent for some time,
it's hard to find a place to begin describing the past few months that have gone past.

all i can say is,
i'm very thankful for the job, house, friends and church that God has provided
and the many opportunities He's provided for service thus far.

perhaps one of the highlights in the past month has been a night under the starry sky on a weekend away in Flinders.

it's probably the first time i can remember seeing so many stars in the clear, cloudless sky.
the surroundings were completely quiet,
and we just lay in wide-eyed wonder and awe of God's greatness and glory.
it was a truly magical experience :)


i remember reading 'The Case for Faith' and there was a story of a man who kept asking for proof of God's existence and he was told, 'God has provided all the proof we need,
His signature is written all over the sun, the moon, the stars and all His creation!'
it's so true, when you see the beauty of nature,
there's no denying the existence of an Almighty Creator.

I was also reminded of the promise that God made to Abraham all those years ago that his descendants would be as many as the stars in the sky and I felt so incredibly blessed to be counted as part of God's family.

Praise God :)

God of wonders beyond our galaxy,
You are Holy, Holy
The heavens declare your majesty
You are Holy, Holy.

pearl and the puppets