Month: February 2011

  • Yesterday Listed

    • Walked around Milton with my cdman, I had Teflon Don, The Blueprint, and a bit of TP2.com
    • Was really tired after that I went for a sleep
    • Decided to go to Acton with parents, because I wanted to see the place
    • Walked around, again, in Acton, and took a couple of pictures
    • Drove right away to Square One, had Greek food at the food court
    • At Square One, I wanted some loafers, so now, am really trying to get them
    • Loafers are good with dressed pants - that's the motivation
  • The Ensuing Day

    This day was more or less basic, it just got better in the evening.  I was Acton where it was my first to be there for a while.  We're on route 25, and I noticed how nice the houses built in the country side, am like, "If I had all the money, I'd live here!"  I like isolation, 'cuz I noticed whenever am at north, my mind is so relieved that all mental strain go away.

    But since I had to wait long for my parents' denture work, I decided I would walk around their mini downtown, I wanted coffee as I usually do, and found a Variety store which would provide it, a Chinese woman served me, and I got a good cup for a very reasonable price (dollar twenty five cents).  The town was basic that it had taekwondo class, which a lot of small towns have, but after a few blocks, the town was over.  I went around their residential area, and it's really an old city, because the houses were really small.  The whole time am walking, I have my walkman with me, and I have Rick Ross mixtape (good beats, I guess.)

    I've been walking all day, so when I got to the clinic, I was tired.  I went to livingtruth.ca with my XPERIA, and I was able to learn things through the sermon.  And what I learned was, Knowing God through Experience.

    It's different to know God in theory and through experience.  There were a lot of Bible characters who had to learn God through experience, from Abraham to Gideon (Joshua and such).  Charles Price even mentioned that preachings can be boring if God is unknown through experience.  Because knowing God is not done in classroom, it's in our actual lives.

  • It's Blogging Time - Valentino Me! :)

    So there's a lot to learn in life.  Right now, am affected with things that writing is hard to translate.  LOL.  I basically played SC2 over two to three games, and it was that, it's a colony trying to make armies, lol.  I won all games, and the game will be in itself.  What's happening now is that, people win so much that they're fighting for personal stats.

    I remember Michael Jordan used to do this, he used to check the stat papers to see if he has a triple double.  I think people always want to compete, always be number one, lol.  It's at this stage that I don't know people's hearts, maybe they're still unhappy even with all the goals accomplished.  Maybe having more goals keeps the motivation in life (going).

    But if it's teamed, a win is a win, and while at it, you're just basically trying to survive, and help teamates who are getting bombed.

    I have to be creative, because this evening will be boring (again).  I think what's essential here in North America is that, books can be a resource for (basically) survival.  LOL.  I think it can be so boring at times that we lose meaning in life.

    Like right now, even with all the thoughts, I don't have anything to write.

    Last night was just eating where the food kept coming over buffet.  Thai Fusion was the restaurant, and I was expecting noodles, and the pad thai, and call it an evening.  But the platter came off as curry chicken, crab balls, crab legs, curry beef, kalbi, and I was just picking food that I became full, and I started feeling sleepy, and I went out for another drive, and had a large coffee.

    Life is really simple here in North America that music dominates our lives.  Like this morning, I basically spent a lot of time listening to music @ youtube.  In the car, I have Weezy, and it's this constant feed of music.  I got so good with music that I harmonize along the melody I hear.  I like it 'cuz my mind can be amazed with what I come up with.  Weezy always has good beats, and I try to go along with it with drum patterns.

    But that's life, after that, it's really just blogging, reading, and a bit of tv.

  • The Extraction of the Weekend

    Again, I don't remember Friday night, yeah, I can't remember Friday night.  Oh yeah, I was at Premier Fitness swimming Friday night.  PF's changerooms has a mini tv room and the Raptors happened to be playing.  So what happened was, I took my time to watch some Raptors.  Am mentioning this story, because I do come across people every time am on this seat, :)  I hear all kinds of comments, the last that happened was with the Leafs on their four game winning streak in the beginning of the season.  But people are like, "Raptors lost."  That kind of stuff.  But am on my seat, and these two men where like, "I have faith, am trying to be spiritual."  I don't know what religion they were on, but it's my first time to hear from a secular realm people talking faith and spirituality.  I eavesdropped, but the conversation died really fast.  I looked, and they were on the smartphone going through the apps.  But this evening was great that I was able to do some nice swimming, I decided for this swim, because I was stressed out with my SC2 play.  I think exercise is really great for stress relief, like after this, if I have to burn this, exercise will take care of the negative feelings.

    I think it's the pursuit of good life, nobody wants bad life, but sometimes there will be bad times, but with myself, I keep pursuing the good life.  After this, I planned dancing in the basement with my cds.

    I think we're never happy that we're always pursuing the good life.

  • The Weakend. :)

    Wow, still tired over it, :)  Friday was forgotten, I can't remember what I did.  But Saturday was great with all the singing.  I know it's Valentine's and that I have to talk about love.  Well, I get periodic devotions from Colin Smith (www.unlockingthebible.com), and the topic I read this morning was "True Love".

    I don't even know if people care with love, I dunno.  But with Ruth, she's going with a woman was bitter, sad, and disappointed, but she went along with her serving her and stuff.

    I'll basically post the sermon here, :)

    When You're Faced With Overwhelming Obstacles
    By Colin Smith  
     

    "Where you go I will go, and where you stay I will stay... Where you die I will die, and there I will be buried.  May the Lord deal with me, (be it ever so severely), if anything but death separates you and me." Ruth 1:16-17

     

    What you have here is a young lady making a costly commitment of love and loyalty to a rather difficult, bitter older woman.  At the same time she is making a costly commitment to the God of Israel, who has allowed great pain and disappointment in her life.  Love proves itself when it is faced with overwhelming obstacles.

     

    Real love proves itself

    I sometimes reflect on this when a young couple tell me how much they are in love.  I remember one couple in particular a number of years ago.  They wanted me to do their wedding and they were anxious to let me know that they really were a perfect match.

     

    "We really love each other.  We have an amazing relationship," they said.  After listening to their praise for each other, I decided to ask a few questions.  "Have you ever had an argument or disagreement?" I asked with a smile.  They looked shocked.  "No, never!" they said.  "Have either of you ever been disappointed with each other?"  Their faces were a register of astonished surprise. "Tell me about some problems you've had to face together."  By now they were seriously wondering if they were talking to the right pastor.

     

    "We told you that we love each other," they said.  "But how do you know that you love each other, if that love has never been tested, never been disappointed, and never learned how to forgive?"  Real love proves itself in the face of overwhelming obstacles.  That's true of love within families.  It's also true of our love for God.

     

    Ruth gives us a marvelous model of what true love is all about. She looks Naomi in the eye.  She knows this lady is rather bitter, that life with her will not be easy, but she makes a commitment to care for her anyway.  She says, "You can count on me.  I am not a fair-weather friend.  I am committed to you.  I love you."  Then she looks up into the face of God, and she is saying the same thing... 

     

    The highest worship anyone can offer

    "...your God [will be] my God." Ruth 1:16  

     

    "There are some things that God has allowed to happen in my life that I do not understand.  I do not know why my husband died, and why I never had children.  But You will be my God.  My love for You will not depend on answering every question or meeting every one of my hopes and dreams.  I am not a fair-weather disciple.  I am committed to You.  I love You."  This is just about the highest worship anyone can offer.

     

    You don't know what it means to love another person until you have been disappointed or it begins to cost you.  You don't know what it means to love God until you have experienced pain, and you love Him still.

     

    That is exactly how God loves us.  "God demonstrates his own love for us in this: While we were still sinners, Christ died for us" (Romans 5:8).  That is the love that God pours into our hearts by the Holy Spirit, so that we may be able to love in an unlovely world.

     

    That's this week's LifeKEY! 

        

     

     Signature
     
    Colin S. Smith  

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    Excerpted from...
    Series: Unlocking the Bible
    Message: Redeemer
    Date:  May 14, 2000

     


  • It's That Blog Thing - Had a Good Evening

    Got killed in Starcraft, but right after, I swam it off.

    I felt stressed out that I had to go for an exercise.  Stress can be annoying, because even with all the regimen, something is always lacking.  I felt this at showers, am like, "How come I still don't feel all right?"  Then I started pulling my hair, and I realized that all the stress was in my head.

    Swimming was good though, I thought about going back again feeling the good hormones oozing out of my body.  I really have to make it a priority to always go swimming.  I guess, because it's a total body workout.  Something with my whole body that's like a massage.

    I think I play too much video games, I realized this when I was reading the Sims manual, it's not hurtful, because these games do make sense.  For me, these are simulation, but how much is too much?  I played SC2 with a missing teamate, and I still tried to win, like how far is competition gonna go?  I lost the game, and I was frustrated - without a teamate.

    Day was fun, it's just it's almost midnight, and this day's almost done.  I'd like to continue and keep having fun.  I think am gonna go back to battle.net, :)

  • Wow. Blum!

    So it's wisdom time.  Wow.  What is really wisdom, and where do we find it?  Am just coming off from a long sleep, and I was watching Casino Royale before that, it's basically a man shooting people.  I dealt with the movie, because of Nassau, Bahamas, I wanted to see the place.

    I think what ends up happening, for me at least, is that, I become sad.  Regardless what I do, from walking, I mean, "fun" stuff, there's always sadness.

    But it's really okay, am gonna continue finding wisdom.  It can't be foolish all the way, there are parts in my life which are fun.

    But just the seams in life where it's dead.  I think Switch Foot said it best where, "We were meant to live for so much more, have we lost ourselves?"

    'Cuz really, people are just walking around and dealing with business.

    When television is viewed, is that wisdom?  Is it fun, is it funny?

  • Blogging, Man

    Let's talk marketing.  Now, I can't come off as an expert here, because there are lots of fields in marketing.  At the same time, this language may be unknown to you.

    Am tempted to read - hefty - books on marketing.  I actually have a book on selling (Selling for Dummies.)  And am a bird in the world, right?  I don't know if being textual is harmful, or it's action all the way.

    When The Apprentice first came out, I basically watched every show.  Why?  Because I wanted to learn how business worked at a very raw level.  And Mr. Trump really criticized someone if he was being too textual.  I remember that statement all throughout the years, because it is tempting to deal with things on a X and O basis, meaning, it's hard to live and die by the textbook.  'Cuz what ended up happening was, a contestant had superior degrees at superior universities, but he didn't last long at the top place.  'Cuz what ended up happening with the finalist, and ultimately the winner, was dealt with the project on a street level.  He did deal with the laptop a bit, probably organizing his MS Project, but when it got to the grind, my goodness, he knew everything of how the set ups and systems were gonna work.  And I really give it to him, because he knew success in his mind, he was smiling whenever he was on camera.

    The final project was for him to run a golf tournament...

    Business is dangerous that's why I try to learn and open about it.  It's dangerous, because so much could be invested by it, especially financially, and it still might bomb.  There's this sushi place here in Milton, and all the credentials are there, but two stores down, there was another sushi place which opened, and it happened to be Buffet, and everyone went there.

    I believe when a business is struggling, marketing has to be engaged in.  The way I see marketing is getting clients' attention.  If eyes can just look (or glance) at the company, and the products, that's already great right there.  But for hard marketing, it's been taught to me that it's ninety percent communication, ten percent brains.  It's hard.

    I think what's happening now is that things are shifting online.  So the web is another study.  I still like my sari-sari out going with the food, and I firmly believe it will always sell, because I've been with women who really likes to go pick up items at stores.  (Sari-sari is like a fast food restaurant - 'cept foods are exotic.)

    With Facebook, the communication is in the comments (with people) and wherever text can be produced.  I think what's also dominant is the picture taking, because it is true, pictures are worth a thousand words, and people get awed with spectacular photos, and Mark Zuckerberg himself placed a Like on products.

    Facebook will remain great if the business of it is well, so far, good business, nothing can really harm them, and I can't under estimate, because they're just codes away from making systems on their site.

    That's really how powerful technology is...

  • Xangons, Am So Not Gone

    Kidding again, you know.

    Wow, the turn of events at SC2, sorry, this is basically my life right now.

    It took me forever with battlecruisers, because with SC1, it took forever to make them.  They made them a little speedy in SC2, so now, talk about mass production.

    As long as they're around, it's basically a win.  I don't really know how to tell my game right now.  I think battle.net is so intense that you gotta be communicating with your teamates, you have to see the dynamics, meaning where your opponents are at.  It's a hard game.

    Am blessed 'cuz there's millions of people who go online, and am always gonna get a nice competition.  Am not gonna go around online, and ask people to play with me, lol.  But wow, these craft games.

    I still deal with Cityville, and one thing I learned on that is, there's "energy".  It's reasonable that for every work, energy is decreased.

    But with SC2, at least I have a life now.  I kept being problematic with the lack of it.

    The fierceness, last game I played, it was really toe to toe, and I understand that opponents are great with their stuff too, but am like to everyone, "Bloody hell!"  That's probably the second time where it was gutsy.

    So bedtime now.  Tomorrow, morrow.  Tomorrow will be fine, am being a child before God that am just gonna trust and depend on Him.  I did that today, and it turned out the greatest.

  • Too Much Blogging and Am Getting Fat!

    Oh yeahhhhhhhhhh. (c) Randy Macho Man Savage.  My mom has kept commenting that I've gotten fat, I usually avoid or neglect these type of comments, but I don't entirely believe in looks.  The reason why I'm putting up my weight problems is that, I just wanna be active.  Fat comments can be disappointing, because I did walk outside for one hour over a very cold weather.

    It's not about losing weight, like soon, am gonna get an aerobics 'game' for PS3, because we have Move, and I happen to like aerobics.  Last week, I was with people who were into PX90, and am gettting into it too.  Thing is, I just need a good workout.  I try to get into boxing sometimes, but am never gonna fight anyone, I love Pacman's body, I saw his last fight, and dude's overall strength was inspirational.

    My struggle with my weight is that, I live a balanced life, I just don't focus with working out-working out, but does it in brains, godliness, and diet.

    But wow, I had a good day, am just disappointed right now, because am walking around the mall, and am like, Wow, Dry.  Am not criticizing the mall, if I had all the money in the world, I would buy so many stuff.

    For your workout, what do you do?  What do you do from gaining a lot of weight, to at least burn calories.  I curse, 'cuz I just wanna be in that running mode, hacking, and perspiring, you know, feel accomplished.