ok im sure your sick of me not posting much, and even if i do videos, but anyway here's another video. Please enjoy and be sure to smile.
Monday, November 26, 2007
Thursday, September 06, 2007
Faviourite Christian Band
This song is pretty special to me because it's the first really cool christian song I heard which led me to getting all sorts of cool songs. :)
Saturday, August 25, 2007
Friday, August 03, 2007
Wednesday, July 11, 2007
Tuesday, July 03, 2007
Sunday, July 01, 2007
Friday, May 18, 2007
Wednesday, May 16, 2007
Saturday, May 05, 2007
AUSSIE CLASSIC TV ADS!
First up we have a song that I have been desperately trying to find to put on my Mp3 player then after it is a toyato ad about the classic 'Jezelunko' mark (if you haven't seen the Jezelunko mark then scroll down to my easter highlights post and watch it there):
and 1 more classic ad:
and 1 more classic ad:
Friday, April 20, 2007
Quote of the Day
"You mustn’t always believe what I say. Questions tempt you to tell lies, particularly when there is no answer." -Pablo Picasso
Sunday, April 15, 2007
Saturday, April 14, 2007
Tuesday, April 10, 2007
Stuff (Nathan's News)
It was Easter! And God put a display of his power (okay so not a cross in the sky, but something as cool and that IS a photo of it in a way took me like an hour to do that just kneeling with my camera pointed at the sky). I'll leave you to wonder at it for a little bit.And on another happy note, Brisbane Lions (the team I barrack for) is doing exceptionally well with a percentage around 180%! (even if it's only up to round 3)
And at some website (warholizer) I made this picture (it's me in the suit from a previous video I did):
Which I think is really cool.
Especially when you make 6 of them (every one of them is unique) and use this to do this:
 | Cool Slideshows |
which I think is really cool.
And, to yet another happy note, I was awarded the Thinking Blog Award by Julie. Apparently my Easter story (that had nothing to do with Easter per se was impressive and thought provoking which is nice to know.
I don't have time to add my 5 people as I'll be at Nick's for the next 2 days and I've got to go NOW!
Saturday, April 07, 2007
Personality Test Results
Mum took this test and so I did it too. I don't think I am quite easily distracted as the ENFP description I looked up suggests (this one) (refer to Countered for proof) and I don't have or want a tatoo (though I do want a 50's hat or a bearded dragon or something of such to be my personal 'brand'), but other than that I completely like it. Although it's holidays at the moment I'm just relaxing and going with the flow, but when I'm 'switched on' that's what I like to be :) (except there is a part of me that is still afraid of heights and gets nervous but I'm learning to kill it.)
Free Jung Personality Test (similar to Myers-Briggs/MBTI)
Free Jung Word Test (similar to Myers-Briggs)
personality tests by similarminds.com
ENFP - "Journalist". Uncanny sense of the motivations of others. Life is an exciting drama. 8.1% of total population. |
And then I did the word test and came up with a different result. By the way, if you want to do the test too, click on the Free Jung Personality Test and then go to Personality Test link. I think that like a lot of personality tests it just shows a different side of me.
ENTP - "Inventor". Enthusiastic interest in everything and always sensitive to possibilities. Non-conformist and innovative. 3.2% of the total population. |
personality tests by similarminds.com
Easter
TODAYS JOKE:
Q. What do you get when you pour boiling water down a rabbit hole?
A. Hot cross bunnies!
That joke used to crack me up and i thought it was appropiate because it's easter time and I have just eaten 3 hot cross buns. :D (they were really nice). Speaking of easter, I was listening to a CD called Coming Up To Breathe from MercyMe (highly recomended christian CD) and they have an 'easter egg' at the end of theirs. Now for those of you who don't know what that sort of an easter egg is, it is something completely random put in a random place to see what random people could find it. Or something like that. But this one was a short song (modelled after a 40's song or something) that you can only hear if you leave the last song of the CD playing for about 6 minutes (which I did), but it's sort of obvious when you put it on your MP3 player and nothing plays for a while. Anyway, theirs a cool song on the end of Coming Up To Breathe and It's growing through my head. Buy the CD.
Now, I have finally added another chapter to my Countered story (Hip Hip Hooray). Very exciting even for me that the story is once again in the realms of the living (in a manner of speaking) and firmly look forward to adding it. Probably by the time you are reading this (whoever you may be) will now be able to go to a link on the sidebar thingy and read Countered in order from Prelude to Chapter 3 (instead of having to go down to read the Prelude then up then down etc). Then once your uptodate you can start reading every chapter when it comes out. :) Have fun.
Now, me and Dad looked for more 'footy highlights' on YouTube so I decided to add the most famous of all marks without question and it is classed as the 'mark of the century' by Jezelunko or some cool name that I can't spell.
Finally, I decided to add to this post a story I made a couple of weeks ago:
Suppose a man was born into terrible pain in a tribe where terrific pain was more common than people with hair on their heads. Now this man was named Jack, and like the rest of his isolated tribe he did not question pain, but instead focussed on relieving the pain he had, which was no small feat to do even at any degree. Now suppose this man named Jack somehow caught a glimpse of something in the horizon, and followed it until he left the tribe long behind and finally to his great wonder came upon a village. Wandering into this village, a man found him quickly. And oh what a man! Jack had never seen a man such as him. Jack stared at this man, for he was the biggest (in width) he had ever seen. And the man, who’s name was Chris, stared at Jack, for a thinner man he had never seen! Indeed, it seemed a miracle Jack was alive in such a poor condition (indeed, that very point would be debated for centuries). Chris took pity on the man, as all men with a heart would, and took him to a back room of his bakery. Now Jack said he would find him food to eat, however all the food he needed for the day was delivered, so he had nought but food his 3 year old rejected, mashed carrots. He laid Jack down to rest (who still had no idea why he was in pain) and hand fed him some. Jack was new to eating so he found eating hard to accomplish (even the reason to eat hard to understand) so then he realised it was instinct so he gulped it down greedily. This of course caused him great pain, as he was not used to something so good and he ate something his body was not yet prepared to take. Chris still wanted to help him. He explained that Jack must eat in very small portions at first and eat very slowly so his body could adjust. And so Jack did. He devoured every piece of mushed carrot, each one sweet as can be. Each mouthful he considered a delicacy. To tell you the truth, nobody has enjoyed food as much as Jack had. He experimented with different ways of chewing and he was the happiest person in the world. Now supposing this bakery was of the modern kind, the one that did not simply have bread but had many sweet snacks to almost hearts content. Indeed, the bakery that Chris owned was the best in the land, producing sweet snacks that were rivalled by none. Now supposing there was a window from Jack’s room into the general Bakery, and he saw the unrivalled snacks and wondered at the amazing food. He saw that the food in the Bakery and the food he ate were worlds apart and later asked the Chris if he could have some. “It is true,” he said, “that the food you ate is like dust compared to the food in my bakery, however believe me, if you ate my food that is so rich you would be sick and you would probably die. Now be patient and I will give you variety in food so that you will not grieve, but anything even remotely sweet will overwhelm you.” Now Jack’s tribe did not care about death anymore then pain, but Jack now loved life and understood that death was in fact to be avoided and that life is better than death, as is pain-free is better than pain. Now the menu Chris offered Jack was what would be considered horrible by today’s standards, Cauliflower without cheese sauce and things of like, but do you think Jack cared? Of course not! But on the contrary, Jack relished the food all the more, knowing full well that it will bring things better to come and imagining the greatness of things to come. Then finally, after a year or so of a simple and bland diet, Chris announced that Jack was ready to eat the store’s contents for free to he’s hearts content! “You did well, Jack. Sticking to the diet means you have grown immune to been sick to sweet things such as chocolate, a gift that is greater than anyone outside my village. My friend, you are not the first one to come to me in your state and I have wished to accept them all however, many people were grieved and depressed at not been able to eat my food early, or they thought that my words did not matter so they thought they would sneak out greedily. But I tell you now, not one of them survived.”
Now, if one can relish carrots and cauliflower without cheese sauce for knowledge of mere chocolate to come, how much more should we enjoy the limited pleasures of this world in knowledge that so much more waits! How much more should we take the pains of this world, knowing full well that a place without pain shall be our home! Obsess after the chocolate, and the chocolate Jack got. Obsess after Christ, and Christ we will all get.
Have a great easter!
Q. What do you get when you pour boiling water down a rabbit hole?
A. Hot cross bunnies!
That joke used to crack me up and i thought it was appropiate because it's easter time and I have just eaten 3 hot cross buns. :D (they were really nice). Speaking of easter, I was listening to a CD called Coming Up To Breathe from MercyMe (highly recomended christian CD) and they have an 'easter egg' at the end of theirs. Now for those of you who don't know what that sort of an easter egg is, it is something completely random put in a random place to see what random people could find it. Or something like that. But this one was a short song (modelled after a 40's song or something) that you can only hear if you leave the last song of the CD playing for about 6 minutes (which I did), but it's sort of obvious when you put it on your MP3 player and nothing plays for a while. Anyway, theirs a cool song on the end of Coming Up To Breathe and It's growing through my head. Buy the CD.
Now, I have finally added another chapter to my Countered story (Hip Hip Hooray). Very exciting even for me that the story is once again in the realms of the living (in a manner of speaking) and firmly look forward to adding it. Probably by the time you are reading this (whoever you may be) will now be able to go to a link on the sidebar thingy and read Countered in order from Prelude to Chapter 3 (instead of having to go down to read the Prelude then up then down etc). Then once your uptodate you can start reading every chapter when it comes out. :) Have fun.
Now, me and Dad looked for more 'footy highlights' on YouTube so I decided to add the most famous of all marks without question and it is classed as the 'mark of the century' by Jezelunko or some cool name that I can't spell.
Finally, I decided to add to this post a story I made a couple of weeks ago:
Suppose a man was born into terrible pain in a tribe where terrific pain was more common than people with hair on their heads. Now this man was named Jack, and like the rest of his isolated tribe he did not question pain, but instead focussed on relieving the pain he had, which was no small feat to do even at any degree. Now suppose this man named Jack somehow caught a glimpse of something in the horizon, and followed it until he left the tribe long behind and finally to his great wonder came upon a village. Wandering into this village, a man found him quickly. And oh what a man! Jack had never seen a man such as him. Jack stared at this man, for he was the biggest (in width) he had ever seen. And the man, who’s name was Chris, stared at Jack, for a thinner man he had never seen! Indeed, it seemed a miracle Jack was alive in such a poor condition (indeed, that very point would be debated for centuries). Chris took pity on the man, as all men with a heart would, and took him to a back room of his bakery. Now Jack said he would find him food to eat, however all the food he needed for the day was delivered, so he had nought but food his 3 year old rejected, mashed carrots. He laid Jack down to rest (who still had no idea why he was in pain) and hand fed him some. Jack was new to eating so he found eating hard to accomplish (even the reason to eat hard to understand) so then he realised it was instinct so he gulped it down greedily. This of course caused him great pain, as he was not used to something so good and he ate something his body was not yet prepared to take. Chris still wanted to help him. He explained that Jack must eat in very small portions at first and eat very slowly so his body could adjust. And so Jack did. He devoured every piece of mushed carrot, each one sweet as can be. Each mouthful he considered a delicacy. To tell you the truth, nobody has enjoyed food as much as Jack had. He experimented with different ways of chewing and he was the happiest person in the world. Now supposing this bakery was of the modern kind, the one that did not simply have bread but had many sweet snacks to almost hearts content. Indeed, the bakery that Chris owned was the best in the land, producing sweet snacks that were rivalled by none. Now supposing there was a window from Jack’s room into the general Bakery, and he saw the unrivalled snacks and wondered at the amazing food. He saw that the food in the Bakery and the food he ate were worlds apart and later asked the Chris if he could have some. “It is true,” he said, “that the food you ate is like dust compared to the food in my bakery, however believe me, if you ate my food that is so rich you would be sick and you would probably die. Now be patient and I will give you variety in food so that you will not grieve, but anything even remotely sweet will overwhelm you.” Now Jack’s tribe did not care about death anymore then pain, but Jack now loved life and understood that death was in fact to be avoided and that life is better than death, as is pain-free is better than pain. Now the menu Chris offered Jack was what would be considered horrible by today’s standards, Cauliflower without cheese sauce and things of like, but do you think Jack cared? Of course not! But on the contrary, Jack relished the food all the more, knowing full well that it will bring things better to come and imagining the greatness of things to come. Then finally, after a year or so of a simple and bland diet, Chris announced that Jack was ready to eat the store’s contents for free to he’s hearts content! “You did well, Jack. Sticking to the diet means you have grown immune to been sick to sweet things such as chocolate, a gift that is greater than anyone outside my village. My friend, you are not the first one to come to me in your state and I have wished to accept them all however, many people were grieved and depressed at not been able to eat my food early, or they thought that my words did not matter so they thought they would sneak out greedily. But I tell you now, not one of them survived.”
Now, if one can relish carrots and cauliflower without cheese sauce for knowledge of mere chocolate to come, how much more should we enjoy the limited pleasures of this world in knowledge that so much more waits! How much more should we take the pains of this world, knowing full well that a place without pain shall be our home! Obsess after the chocolate, and the chocolate Jack got. Obsess after Christ, and Christ we will all get.
Have a great easter!
Sunday, March 11, 2007
Monday, February 26, 2007
Wednesday, February 14, 2007
An Author's Ponderings
Once upon a time there was a person who was called by the media the 'goanna.' Who was obvisouly a person of utmost importance (which everybody knew who it was) in the News Industary, and they listed all the offences the 'goanna' had done. My dad, on a honeymoon or an anniversary or a general holiday or something with Mum, had the pleasure of meeting a former associate of the 'goanna' and the associate was so fascinating Dad just had to listen to every word he said; which was a mistake. But not because the goanna's hitmen found out about it or anything (I don't think it was completely negative anyway) but because they were in a pool- without Dad's shirt on. So anyway they were in there for a couple of hours and Dad tried to go to sleep- but he couldn't! His back was badly burnt described it as literally every single time he made a move, it felt like someone stabbed him in the back as hard as he could. So anyway years later, like two weeks ago, I was at the beach for a youthgroup get-back-together and I didn't have a shirt on, so I got sunburnt and it hurt. Not quite up to Dad's level, but it still hurt.
Anyway I thought I would tell you that as it was something I was intending to post for a while. But, more to the point of the title, I thought I would tell you about the WIP- my book. Apparently, I had been reading to many Ted Dekker (a fantastic and highly recommended christian author) because books that didn't have a christian plot or subplot, seemed a little bit directionless. Thus, my book had to be christian or risk- well, it just had to be christian or else I wouldn't/couldn't write it. So idea (again) began to pop up in my mind of a story. Not a particully detailed idea, but more one of those ones that you can feel at the back of your mind and you have to wait for the royal flourish for it to enter into the realms of plauible ideas.
That sort of came when I was watching an adversiment for a TV show closer to home. Pretty standard show, but one that had an interesting concept for an episode- the crime scene is in the courthouse. Alas, the add was more exciting than the show, but it got my brain ticking. Of course! That's how you pull of crime in the real world (this is my imagination and observations speaking, not experience of course), those elaborate plans that you read in books and movies are pretty unrealistic to pull off in real life (with exceptions with some naturally ie: prison break); things have got to be blunt. Thus a worldwide organisation started to form in my head.
Then in my research about assasinations I came across two things:
1/ How Harvey Oswald claimed to be so strongly a 'patsy'.
2/ The assasination of a United States of America president that I had never heard of living Down Under by 1 Charles J. Guiteau. He led a life that seemed to be directly controlled by his circumstances (I am defintely not excusing him though of course) such as joining a organisation called the Oneida Soceity which believed in free love, 'christians' who believed that Christ had already come back, therefore absolute perfection was abtainable.
Thus I became compelled by the same question that drove one of the 'forefathers' of the organisation in my story: Dr. Charles K. Phillips: can you control a man by controlling his culture? In The Matrix Has You, they spoke about a philospher named Jean Baudrillard famously (or so they claim) claimed: "The Gulf War did not happen!" This was not some dramatic conspiracy theory, however this was a dramatic way (such as Jean likes it) of stating pretty much how much we could be controlled by the media.
Thus, the organisation in my book really did carry out this, creating lots (don't ask me fo a more specific number just yet) of 'patsys' that are 'controlled' by their circumstances. This was carried out to perfection in the shooting of John F. Kennedy by the patsy Harvey Oswald. They have a choice of course (which is explored in the book later) but some people have been manipulated, at the very least in this book. So, that's why I'm reseaching a little bit about Charles J. Chuiteau in Secret Service documents etc. Wait for my next chapter.
I think I've said all there is to say about this for now, so goodbye for now and have a merry merry life.
Anyway I thought I would tell you that as it was something I was intending to post for a while. But, more to the point of the title, I thought I would tell you about the WIP- my book. Apparently, I had been reading to many Ted Dekker (a fantastic and highly recommended christian author) because books that didn't have a christian plot or subplot, seemed a little bit directionless. Thus, my book had to be christian or risk- well, it just had to be christian or else I wouldn't/couldn't write it. So idea (again) began to pop up in my mind of a story. Not a particully detailed idea, but more one of those ones that you can feel at the back of your mind and you have to wait for the royal flourish for it to enter into the realms of plauible ideas.
That sort of came when I was watching an adversiment for a TV show closer to home. Pretty standard show, but one that had an interesting concept for an episode- the crime scene is in the courthouse. Alas, the add was more exciting than the show, but it got my brain ticking. Of course! That's how you pull of crime in the real world (this is my imagination and observations speaking, not experience of course), those elaborate plans that you read in books and movies are pretty unrealistic to pull off in real life (with exceptions with some naturally ie: prison break); things have got to be blunt. Thus a worldwide organisation started to form in my head.
Then in my research about assasinations I came across two things:
1/ How Harvey Oswald claimed to be so strongly a 'patsy'.
2/ The assasination of a United States of America president that I had never heard of living Down Under by 1 Charles J. Guiteau. He led a life that seemed to be directly controlled by his circumstances (I am defintely not excusing him though of course) such as joining a organisation called the Oneida Soceity which believed in free love, 'christians' who believed that Christ had already come back, therefore absolute perfection was abtainable.
Thus I became compelled by the same question that drove one of the 'forefathers' of the organisation in my story: Dr. Charles K. Phillips: can you control a man by controlling his culture? In The Matrix Has You, they spoke about a philospher named Jean Baudrillard famously (or so they claim) claimed: "The Gulf War did not happen!" This was not some dramatic conspiracy theory, however this was a dramatic way (such as Jean likes it) of stating pretty much how much we could be controlled by the media.
Thus, the organisation in my book really did carry out this, creating lots (don't ask me fo a more specific number just yet) of 'patsys' that are 'controlled' by their circumstances. This was carried out to perfection in the shooting of John F. Kennedy by the patsy Harvey Oswald. They have a choice of course (which is explored in the book later) but some people have been manipulated, at the very least in this book. So, that's why I'm reseaching a little bit about Charles J. Chuiteau in Secret Service documents etc. Wait for my next chapter.
I think I've said all there is to say about this for now, so goodbye for now and have a merry merry life.
Wednesday, January 31, 2007
Off To School Tommorow
Tommorow's school so I'm resting. Again. Actually I was suprised at how busy the holidays there has literally been no day since about late December that has been uneventful. Which is kinda neat (but probably why my blogging has suffered). I'm glad to say that I am fully refreshed and rejuvenated for the next (horrors) school year which is lucky because as all students know, the school year comes around unstoppinly and inescapingly. (Here the monster comes, ready or not). That's one of the advantages of living in Australia, the holidays are designed intelligently. The holidays that are just about to end are designed to be just long enough to get refreshed but not long enough to forget everything and become extremely bored. It's the same as the christmas holidays so the year and the school year is pretty much the same, then the school year is broken up into four terms, each one seperated by a 2 week break.
I went to a friends place yesterday and brought home a few Cd's so I could add to my Mp3 players aging amount of songs. Unfortunatly I fogot to bring my headphones home so right now I'm listening to them all on the computer. Had to buy new schools so I told the person which one's I want so Mum can buy them later when she gets back from work. Then I checked to see if the Blue's Brothers (that movie as well as The Godfather has kept on popping up in my life over the holidays so I figure I really should see it) so I will probably borrow that and watch it tonight.
A week or so ago I had went to St. Vinnies in search of a Bowler Hat (one of those old, gentleman hat otherwise known as a Mafia hat) they had one, but it was sold on that day. Talk about unlucky. So today I decided to give them my phone number so that if they ever get one again (unlikely as they say it is) they can ring me up and I'll be right down there. I wonder how much they cost? I don't know how reliable their system is for that sort of thing, but hopefully a couple of years down the track I'll get that blissfull call and get a Bowler Hat. I'll defintely post about it here when or if it happens.
Anyway I just remembered that I had to watch the premiere of 24 which I video while I was watching another show. And I would just like to say that from now on most of my efforts in this place will be focused on my novel (which i got a name for now :D) so check on here every now and again but check on my story the most. Any suggestions for the story are welcomed.
And on another note, check out this site: http://www.planetfusion.co.uk/~pignut/cheese.html
I went to a friends place yesterday and brought home a few Cd's so I could add to my Mp3 players aging amount of songs. Unfortunatly I fogot to bring my headphones home so right now I'm listening to them all on the computer. Had to buy new schools so I told the person which one's I want so Mum can buy them later when she gets back from work. Then I checked to see if the Blue's Brothers (that movie as well as The Godfather has kept on popping up in my life over the holidays so I figure I really should see it) so I will probably borrow that and watch it tonight.
A week or so ago I had went to St. Vinnies in search of a Bowler Hat (one of those old, gentleman hat otherwise known as a Mafia hat) they had one, but it was sold on that day. Talk about unlucky. So today I decided to give them my phone number so that if they ever get one again (unlikely as they say it is) they can ring me up and I'll be right down there. I wonder how much they cost? I don't know how reliable their system is for that sort of thing, but hopefully a couple of years down the track I'll get that blissfull call and get a Bowler Hat. I'll defintely post about it here when or if it happens.
Anyway I just remembered that I had to watch the premiere of 24 which I video while I was watching another show. And I would just like to say that from now on most of my efforts in this place will be focused on my novel (which i got a name for now :D) so check on here every now and again but check on my story the most. Any suggestions for the story are welcomed.
And on another note, check out this site: http://www.planetfusion.co.uk/~pignut/cheese.html
Thursday, January 25, 2007
A New Blog/Story For Me!
Sorry I haven't been posting much lately. Well, anyway, I'm making a new story called... well actually I don't really have a name for it yet- suggestion would be welcome. It's at http://historywriters.blogspot.com/ please, please comment. Anway, hopefully this will be the first novel I've ever completed. So goodbye for now, relax and enjoy this serial.
Tuesday, January 09, 2007
Sunday, January 07, 2007
Chain Reactions Galore
This is called... actually I forgotten what it's called but anyway I some of this is kinda neat and better than all the adds in Wonthaggi that try to copy that sort of thing.
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