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Name: Vinsant
Birthday: 11/1/1985
Gender: Male
Interests: God. Music, Composition, Sports, Photography, Culinary Arts
Expertise: Jack of all Trades. Expert at none.
Occupation: Student
Industry: Media
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Member Since:
10/20/2004
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| An OCF Photo OutingFor a first try, it certainly wasn't bad. I have my own ideas about how else it could've gone, but no one else seemed to complain and/or offer up alternatives, so I guess we can call it a relative success.
So the key is to schedule early, that's probably the only thing I didn't get done early enough.
For those of you playing at home, here are the 7 things we were meant to go out and shoot.
1) Out of place
2) Complete
3) When Happiness is not enough
4) Love
5) This is Me!lbourne
6) Hidden
7) Worthy of Facebook
results? Go ask the people who came along for the ride. Look out for an early warning for the next one, possibly in the next couple of days.
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- S, 我的爱不够勇敢? 您建议什么？
- Freefalling in your atmosphere.
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| NostalgiaSpent my thought process on an rtb question, so here's what I've got left, a bout of nostalgic rooting.
 The 1500m is not my event, I'm horrid at planning for the long term so I either undershoot what I'm supposed to be maintaining, or I burn it out early on and lose out. The 1500m is, however, my Brother's event. He's the one that used to be the star hope of Sarawak for the 1500m, and is a good indicator of how he handles his life - remarkably well. My 'star' event is over, and Michael Phelps has proven that I could never have come close to whatever Olympic standards may come. His time is 16 seconds faster than mine - I'm still at the other end of the pool, barely after my final turn. This is if I remember my time right. It's been a long while. So Go Grant Hackett! I won't be there to watch it (I'll be in church), but I'll be rooting. --- - Just realised my memory is worse than I think. the 100m record for men is 47s. Here I thought that averaging 20s per 50m was done at the upper echelon of MSSM standards, probably was thinking of 25m pools. In which case. 48s for 100m is awesome for a primary school swimmer, it means you've nearly beaten the world record, or in a woman's case, you've shattered it by 4 seconds. For a primary school swimmer swimming 50m, that's... uh... not too shabby I guess. - Following the trend, I remember that I once was selected to swim the 400m freestyle. I blew all my energy on the first lap, thinking I could hold it and pace the rest. I did 1.06 for the first 100, and dropped down to 1.22 for the second, and ended up coming in 4th out of 8. - Trivia, did you know that the crawl (what most people mistakenly call freestyle) is not an official swimming event? Contrary to popular belief, the freestyle event is meant for you to swim Anything you so desire. You could doggy paddle it if you so chose, but most people do the crawl because it's the Fastest stroke known to man. - Want to support an Australian athelete? head down to the Crown promenade and look for a white dome. It's another Telstra Dome, or rather, the Telstra Stratosphere, where they will try and convince you Telstra is the way to go, and help you support the Aussies in Beijing. You'll even get a free complementary photo. - | | |
| Incomplete turnabout.When an evil
spirit comes out of a man, it goes through arid places seeking rest and
does not find it. Then it says, 'I will return to the house I left.' When it arrives, it finds the house swept clean and put in order. Then
it goes and takes seven other spirits more wicked than itself, and they
go in and live there. And the final condition of that man is worse than
the first." - Luke 11 : 24-26
Recently I've started trying to wake up early (with the lure of epics and interesting fellowship), and before I head off to battle (spiritually and uhm, wowically), I would supposedly spend half an hour with God. It started out great, for a couple of days, but after that, having come home late saturday morning, and spending lots of time sunday morning doing other stuff, the routine fell to pieces.
A couple of days ago when I failed to wake up again, I was reminded of this verse. Jesus told it with a number of other short comebacks after people accused him of being of the devil, and casting demons out as the devil. The gist behind it is that our efforts will never be enough. We can work hard at pushing the devil out of our door, or in other sense, we can try and right our own wrongs, push out our evil habits and put our souls back in order, but it only invites more trouble. Alot of us know that when we try to right our own wrongs, more than half the time they come back to haunt us, physically, metaphorically, spiritually or otherwise.
So we need God.
The bible is wrought with instances where people have tried to right their own wrongs, cover their guild, work their salvation, and our very lives are absolutely full of people who think that keeping quiet about their wrongs, or donating large sums of money, or doing charity work, will get them right with God. From many of those instances, if not most, if not all, these people have come back with nothing.
David sent off Bathsheba's husband to a war he wouldn't survive; Job's three friends, the rather 'extra' friend, and Job himself covered themselves in wise words, willing God Himself to answer; Samson took matters into his own hands, tried to right his wrongs, disobeyed God; the man people that Paul wrote to, the Corinthians, the Hebrews, the jews in Rome, all sought out different manners of righting their own wrongs.
Only God's salvation was perfect, and complete. Time and time again, God has shown that if you want a full stop at the end of the sentence, God must be the beginning and the end of it, the S and the period at the end.
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- Interesting observation - Facebook will give everyone an alert that "x and y are now officially in a relationship", does this mean it's not official till Facebook knows? The tangled web we weave.
- The DA 16-50 f2.8 is an amazing lens. I may look into it one day, unless a better deal comes along, or a career deal.
- Chuck Norris doesn't blend.
- Sarah Mclachlan's Angel, a perfect melancholy's solace.
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| SsDd - Deathhalf-baked idea. Will conceptualize more before I finish it
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- RIP Bernie.
- Why Must Love Dogs? Because I like to yearn, like to imagine that there's hope.
- Currently watching the smallest combination package with all the goodness of manual control.
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| Why so silent, V?First of all, I'm not sure how this new xanga 'views' thing works, because I've only had one view for the last post, so I've had no incentive to write. I know it's how many people click to 'comment', but still, the last one had 11. So 10 people other than myself clicked on it, and went 'uh, damnit, don't know what to say lah'.
Second, I'm reading through the book of Hebrews in preparation to rock boats in my new bible study group. It's not that I don't like Jon Lai, quite the contrary, I've just been in his group far too many times. First chapter already has me confused - surprised? Read it carefully.
Third, it was AV weekend.
 Shineh In the other hand is a book, a 'held in off-hand' weapon. With the way it looks, I wouldn't be surprised if you could bash someone with it. Bible bashing ftw. Fo'shizzle. Also got a new pair of shiny bracers.
Tomorrow I may start raiding, at 7am.
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- It's Spring! I hatessss it.
- Got a new pair of kicks - Nike SB's. It was under the term basketball, and being a shoe n00b I picked them up thinking they were (oddly) shaped and fitted for basketball. Turns out Nike SB stands for SkateBoarding, but I don't care, they iz comfortable.
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