I got my piece of paper...

Hurrah!

Thanks to all those who came and had pictures taken with me!

So much walking

I did alot of walking on the weekend.

On Saturday, Sam, Ka-shu and I went bushwalking on one of the many Ku-ring-gai Chase national park walking tracks. We went for the 'Murrua Track', a 3.5km walk starting from North Turramurra. Why? Because you can see the whole track on one page in the UBD :D It was a good walk, not totally flat and not fully steep either. At the 'end' (We had no idea since the UBD is a bit misleading on the whole track. In fact I just looked at the Sydway map and it shows everything, including the sidetracks we came across. So yeh, UBD sucks), you get a view of Foleys Bay jetty + some bridge. The only downside of the afternoon was getting totally drenched walking back. It started pouring when we were about 1km from our cars.

Sunday was of course the much hyped Habour Bridge 75th anniversary walk. I joined Eddy, his brother Ricky, Gordon, Vincy, Jo and two of her friends for the 5-5:30pm walking slot. But if memory serves me correct, it took us ages to do the walk, mainly waiting for Vincy to catch up :P Saw a couple of familiar faces during the walk - Charissa M from church and Sam from WSCCC. Couldn't really pinpoint any highlight to be honest. Maybe I was tired, maybe I can't appreciate bridges, or maybe the thought a Christian brother brought up after basketball on Thursday stuck in my head: Are we making an idol out of the bridge? Don't get me wrong, I think it was a good idea to open the bridge up for the walk. But when you see people stopping every 5m to take snaps of nearly everything they see or paying $10 for a piece of plastic (an inflatable harbour bridge) and put it on their head, one might ask: Why are people lauding some 75 year old steel infrastructure? The Bible puts it quite clearly that God, the creator of all things should be the one that is worthy of receiving glory, honour and praise (Revelations 4:11), not the created.

So weird...

Been doing a bit of research this week on Scientology for our youth bible study group's 'other religions' topical and what did I see when I got on the bus the other day? An ad for...



Co-incidence or what???

New thing to add to my morning routine

Allopurinol. 100mg. Everyday.

Mission Reunion

@ Dee Why beach yesterday.

Spending time relaxing in the water after a long week (left the office at 8pm twice) was good. Makes me wanna live around the beachy suburbs so I can go for a dip after work but I'm sure yesterday was just a spur-of-a-moment thing. I can't afford to live around the northern beaches...

It was also good to catch up with the non-EFC people (Those in Sydney anyway) who went on mission - Toby & MG, Adam and Carly. But where was Dan?? He called me the night before and said he was gonna go but then dogged us!! But he had another beach gathering which he was particular keen to go (to follow up a new guy from his church) so it's understandable.

So now for mission 2008. First meeting is next month and I don't know whether I'm going yet. Thought about it recently and couldn't think of reasons NOT to go but is something to think more and pray about over the coming weeks. It was definitely a privilege to be part of TSM'07 - serving God and taking the Gospel message out to the people of Tarcutta. I also find that be it mission or kylc or whatever, apart from meeting new people you actually get to know particular people within your congregation a bit better (The 'Chef' in this case).

Site visit to...Kiama?

One of the perks of my job is going on site visits. Good in that I get to drive around alot and not stuck in the office (but rather in traffic). Today I spent half the day out on site (Five Dock and Arncliffe). Bad in that because I spend a fair bit of time out, there is the chance of having to stay back late to process the site visits or do other stuff, like today when I left the office at 8pm.

Next Monday I got a site visit at Kiama, just south of Wollongong. Anyone want to come along for a road trip?