Archive for March, 2005

Reflective Essay

1:30 - finished - Writers Craft Reflective Essay
an extension beautified from my rant comparrison about how courses are like relationships lol
wells good nite!

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(1711 words)

enjoy
As I finally sit down after a long day, I find the house darkened as my family has gone to bed and I am the only one awake. The house is silent, except for my inconsistent typing, and the soft tunes singing from my speakers. It

times the limit.

wednesday a day before the last day of March break, and man why is my schedule so stacked for tonight?
I don’t even have that much work to do… argh
5:04 right now, and i gotta write.. well at least start writing a reflective essay with a point to it and i gotta leaev at 6:00-6:15 to start bussing down to Church for drama practice *aiy* pretty tight on schedule time really gotta get this write up done and memorize lines.. so hopefully tonight i’ll have some way of doing this, putting it all together.

update on camera -
new shipping addresses fixed,
Camera should be shipping friday? and hopefully i’ll get it on the sunday i come back from March break place
wells i really gotta go work

*full off ramen >.<*

In Christ Alone
Brian Littrel
In Christ alone will I glory
Though I could pride myself in battles won
For I

In Christ Alone
Brian Littrel
In Christ alone will I glory
Though I could pride myself in battles won
For I

a studious relationship

*muses* well 3:52 right now.. its like a mere 11 hours since my last blog
kind of running on reserved energy right now and i could just lie down and fall sleep like a baby haha!

today in English class while we were talking about Brave New World again, and i was off adrift in imagination while the teacher rambled on about the same point i had written already.. and i thought.. haha school is like a social circle. let me illustrate:

Writers Craft - EWC4U - the lover
She’s like the one which I spend the most time with, the one most closest to my heart, where i can just give an outpour of my heart, my tears, and everything, and she listens quietly patiently. After i’m done my lil ramble i read and she speaks back to me, reflecting empathetically my feelings and tearing at my cries. Likewise i do that to her and stay up late (yes to the latest ours of the night) to listen and work things out w/ her

English - ENG4U - the crush
Here’s a fine young lady, whom you can say i like, she likes me as well, but thats where it ends, I don’t really find much interest, not really much of a foothold to move on.. say a mutual ‘flirty’ relationship with no real depth.

Organizational Studies - BOH4M - best friend
Here’s that best friend, who i always work hard with, the one i can talk and share about my own personal feelings and thoughts, the one who is understanding, loyal, and well rarely every upsets me.

Computer Science - ICS4M - distant close friend
now the fellow whom, i guess i neglect the much, the one time good friend, we don’t talk that much anymore but we chat, occaisionally, always reliable for old times sake but really not someone i’d readily spill my heart to for current issues, but i can if i want, good times :)

Calculas - MCB4U - that newer friend
Calc, ah the friend whom i haven’t fully gotten to know, but i’m constantly working hard on settling the differences, smoothening out the different arguments we have. Although she’s a bit of a stranger, i find her to be intriuging, different new, a challenge to understand, despite that, i want to get to know her — so in midst of the frustrations i keep enduring

Data Management - MDM4U - The remote acquaitence
This guy is the acquaitence I sometimes get assigned to work with, I don’t really like him but I can work fairly well at times. Even so, my relationship him isn’t the best cause well simply that he’s always pulling really stupid tircks and annoyances, so the friendship is kind of richity not really consistant at all.. but adds variety

Physics - SPH4U - long lost friend
Ah my good friend whom i neglected because of all teh other ‘relationships’ i’ve had, me and him have lots of good memories, but because of several disputes, we dont’ really talk taht much, we’re still good friends every now and the nwe go ou for a drink, but circumstances have it taht i can’t visit him as often as i’d like, but still will always be a chum

haha right now you’re probably sticking out your tongue in disgust w/ my nerdienss and i guess you very well have more than the valid reasons to, but see school is like one big world of relationships haha

and yes this is one great big simile… i don’t think i used like / as but watever metaphor simile you get the picture haha
NERD lol

well last night at 2-3ish, i decided to listen to some really weird song
Summer Nights - Grease
Summer lovin’ had me a blast - summer lovin’, happened so fast
I met a girl crazy for me - I met a boy, cute as can be
Summer days driftin’ away, to uh-oh those summer nights
Tell me more, tell me more, did you get very far?
Tell me more, tell me more, like, does he have a car?
She stood by me, she got a cramp - he went by me, got my suit damp
I saved her life, she nearly drowned - he showed up, splashing around
Summer sun, something’s begun, but uh-oh those summer nights
Tell me more, tell me more, was it love at first sight?
Tell me more, tell me more, did she put up a fight?
Took her bowlin’ in the Arcade - we went strollin’, drank lemonade
We made out under the dock - we stayed up until ten o’clock
Summer thing don’t mean a thing, but uh-oh those summer nights
Tell me more, tell me more, that you don’t got her preg
Tell me more, tell me more, cause he sounds like a drag
He got friendly, holdin’ my hand - well she got friendly, down in the sand
He was sweet, just turned eightteen - well she was good, you know what I mean
Summer heat, boy and girl meet, but uh-oh those summer nights
Tell me more, tell me more, how much dough did he spend?
Tell me more, tell me more, could she get me a friend?
It turned colder, that’s where it ends - so I told her we’d still be friends
Then we made our true love vow - wonder what she’s doin’ now
Summer dreams ripped at the seams, but oh, those summer nights
Tell me more, tell me more.

haha don’t ask — but its so funny and superficial
and brought back memories of CCSA govening 2 years ago cause we had to reword the song to have CCSA related lyrics ah the weird randomness… bla
ks - i’m gonna go sleep some then tonight Calculas - we dance!

2:42 – AM

yum — well another writers’ craft pulling a late night writing my short story thing
and something tells me its gonna somehow be NOT due.. and i’ll just be killing myself yet again.
oh wells - you can read it if you wish its on my ‘extended tab’ so just click more.

comments:
influences
- testimoney w/ a twist
- in class discussion of worst thing to do w/ prom
- open window & night sky in front of me
- consuming fire (while writing the last bit)
- extreme exhaustion

so bla - rather philosophical & semi deep piece see if you can catch the imagery / sublime meaning pretty which is kind of obvious metaphors similes galore?

enjoy and good morning :)
+its hasn’t been formally edited.. so pardon the grammer which may be there

“existance”
The bottle was sliding from my fingers as I stared out into the deep and dark night sky. I paid no attention till it hit the concrete floor and bounced off into the jagged rocks beneath me. With a sigh, I turned back to my melancholic state of demur, and continued to ponder my reason for existence.
It had been in grade two when I first met with my emotional bitterness and sadness. I had been a bright young eight year old kid then, having nothing to worry about except the little knots I

ho – hum—stress is ON

6:50 PM right now, the nice darling blue night sunday is outside *smiles* just hate those ugly mercury lamps which glow orangey pink — totally distorts everything.. uglyness. wells for those of you who actually read my blog / read my entry yesterday — I hope you enjoy my lil fictious lil exerpt from Writers Craft which Swirlee helped inspire me to put up :p and yes once again it fictitious but if you think it has happened… i guess it wouldn’t hurt to check your exhaust pipe before starting your car each morning.

But yah — i’ve got 3-6 hours and counting from this point to do quite a bit of homework
Group –
Organizational Studies Presentation on Group Structures (Extension from Matrix Structure) - 50% - due tuesday
Data Management Review Sheet + Contest Question - 5% - due tomorrow

Individual –
Writer’s Craft story thing - 20% - due tomorrow?
English Reading Brave New World - 100% - due tomorrow
Calculas Study - 40% - due tuesday
Compsci - study - (-3%) - due wednesday

and after taht long list of stuff to do.. i gotta kill off everything thats due tomorrow, writers / data
suckiness is - writers block as usual… whence i lack the inspiration to write something inspiring… and when i can’t do that i really don’t want to write anything, data i gotta review the last chapter cause i really don’t remember wahts going on…
and i’m totally tired and exhausted right now…

haha got home at 4 after drama practice and i just slept till 6:30, and i thought it was morning :) (+yah!! spring is coming still semi-daylight at 6)… utterly exhausted, but God will power me through — gotta have some quiet focussed time and get to working…

*gotta stay awake*

O.o

yikes read this…

A rural community journal reported on an incident which occurred last winter after the migration of Bank Voles (a small mouse like mammal measuring about 80 mm long) from the south. It involves a man who had dutifully taken the trash out to the garage the night before the designated pickup date. Unaware of the struggling bank vole inside which had been caught on a mousetrap that morning, the man left the bag outside, beside his car. The next morning the man started up the car and left it to warm up, while he ate breakfast with his wife inside. Moments later a loud explosion shook the house and sent debris flying everywhere. The detached garage lay in pieces still aflame, while the car was left charred black.

Local firefighters arrived quickly after the incident and put out any flames that were still lit in the freezing weather. After a deep and thorough investigation the fire chief reported that the explosion was most likely caused by the rodent they had found thawed and stuck in the exhaust pipe of the car.

The fire chief reported

contemplations..

*cheers* another God given day to learn, to work, and to explroe
today I went to York University, for their open house, which was alright, educational, but nothing really new that i didn’t already know from reading brochures, sites, and asking questions (special thanks to Yam), today’s thing was mostly for my parents i guess, since they hadn’t really been to York before… so i figured it’d be good to see what kind of school i’d be going to.

Out of everything I guess a few new questions that were raised were..
1. Cognitive Science,
this is my first choice, and on my OUAC it is teh program taht i’ve actually already accepted, however today i foudn out mroe about it.. and it seems to be really intensive, philosophy based - so lots of reading, lots of writing, which isn’t bad i guess, and probably compared to all the other things i’d be interseted in (Professional Writing / Business) it’d be about right there in that type of course. Questions that were provoked today was… where do i want to go after Cognitive Science, like assuming i don’t change my mind which has about a 50% probability i won’t.. if i stay and actually do well in Cognitive where do i go next? its a philosophy course w/ extra training… compsci, linguistics, psychology, anthropology, bio, like where to ? MBA? MDiv (doubt it), MA ? i really don’t know..

2. Residence
I also went to two of the residences at York, the Pond one, which is the new concrete / glass thing… that was pretty nice, quiet, peaceful clean, less of a ‘party res’ nice and modest :) coicidnetally 75% of res population are girls… (no thats not why i want to go there), but its just civilized (pretty close to Sheridan res) :p, compared to.. Vanier Res, which is I guess a lot more homey, the lobby, looks literally like a room from some Highschool, smells like it, colours like it (brown, and ugly — as compared to Pond - light green / white), went to some of the rooms, co-ed washrooms whcih my mom had a big problem with (and i have my own internal objectsions).. people were friendly, doors were like all open so you could go in and out do whatever, wasn’t too too noisy which is good, tho y’know res’s at night… probably a different story, so yah… i dunno My uncle said that he’d pay for my res fees — if i want, and my parents and half a dozen ppl say its good to meet ppl first year… i’m thinking its the price of another year at university? (how typical), and all that other moral stuff i’d have to deal with..

so many questions flickering through my head…
and just in Quiet time… i just wanted to surrender everything to God. A thought which came up during the last week… like does God even wants me to go to University? its not like i asked him… before i applied… i just asked for direction on which ones..?
man — inspiration from YWAM / speakers … to surrender all and live radically dependent on Jesus.. so wow..

I dunno what to think..

Romans 12:1-3 (AMP)
I APPEAL to you therefore, brethren, and beg of you in view of [all] the mercies of God, to make a decisive dedication of your bodies [presenting all your members and faculties] as a living sacrifice, holy (devoted, consecrated) and well pleasing to God, which is your reasonable (rational, intelligent) service and spiritual worship.

memories from this past week — to live a holy, pleasign life for my God.

Do not be conformed to this world (this age), [fashioned after and adapted to its external, superficial customs], but be transformed (changed) by the [entire] renewal of your mind [by its new ideals and its new attitude], so that you may prove [for yourselves] what is the good and acceptable and perfect will of God, even the thing which is good and acceptable and perfect [in His sight for you].

My overwhelming greed and lust for knowledge… ?

For by the grace (unmerited favor of God) given to me I warn everyone among you not to estimate and think of himself more highly than he ought [not to have an exaggerated opinion of his own importance], but to rate his ability with sober judgment, each according to the degree of faith apportioned by God to him.

humility, humblenses — refocus -
Herman called to ask me on my decision for this coming Aletehian year… and i declined it .. cause lately i feel i really need to focus more on my relationship with God, i do too much — ‘too much martha, not enough mary’, so gonna take a break and serve in less commital / spotlight areas

so i dunno in light of all of that –
God.. what do you want me to do?
where do you want me to go?
I want to surrender everything and fully submit to your will
lead me father.. i want to do something great for you.

so… yeah… *quietness*

Spiritual Emphasis Week – Day 4—fini

the last day *sighs* — but wow… again God’s spirit moving through the school, so awesome! Today Jesse spoke, about how we gotta fully trust in God, and now be living sacrifices, to stay even when the alter gets hot, and life gets dreary, hopeless, just dragging us down… *smiles* simple points of faith, but just so emphasised with the Spirit of God it was *like* the blatant truth that we had all somehow missed for so long… Altar call — the were these two big wooden crosses, and the there were nails which represented our lives… and we got to nail them to the cross, as a symbolic proclamation that our lives were now nailed onto the cross with Jesus so that we — as Christians have died with Christ, and have a new life in Him — died to the old self and have the new one as reality.

*smiles* after that worship, and prayer and just — God’s presence..

my words really can’t express the whole thing…
but yah — Praise God!

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on other lesser important news…
since Un. William lives at a Hotel right now (not permanent residence), i can’t get my camera for another long while cause its not a permanent address and they (the company) refuse to ship to a hotel bla…
oh wells — materialistic infaturation just exploded in dissapointment

but… God is good so doesn’t matter — i’ll wait :)

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