Inspiration

You know, I'm beginning to understand why people have blogs... it's because the inspiration just hits you, at completely random times, and you want to just share what divine, or otherwise, revelation that you have received from on high... or from the depths of your twisted imagination, either one...

For me? Well, it's pretty lame... and rather obvious... but the bug has bitten and now I must write.

After being in Australia for a couple days (well almost a week actually) I've reached a point where I'm able to compare, what I like about HK vs what I appreciate about Melbourne.

Of course this is liable to be quite long, and so, because I have to sleep fairly soon... well we'll see.

Hong Kong. To sum up in a single paragraph, HK is a place, where people from all around the world leave their safe and secure western homes and come to experience a life that is full of adventure, pace as well as trial. It's a bustling metropolis that is the gateway to Asia, a focal point of trade and commerce, and a melting pot of Christians from around the world. With each new person in this remarkably transient city comes a new thought, new idea, and as such Hong Kong is constantly changing, always evolving and never dull. I think that's what draws me there. It's a city of adventure, at least for the time being, one which I have yet to master, conquer or even begun to see. A place of opportunity, a chance to make an impact, essentially a clean slate for someone as ambitious as I.

On the flip side you have Melbourne. A safe haven, a shelter for the weary, a port of peace; well for me anyway. My friends are here, my family, my house, my car, my relationships and ultimately my happiness. Melbourne is a city with nice weather, nice shops, nice people who speak my language, nice food and amazing air, not to mention drinkable water. It's a place where you live contented lives in a blissful security, removed from the cares and troubles of the world.

Now the comparison between the two comes down to a choice. Would I choose a life of adventure, change, impact, fulfillment, joy, trials, pain, sickness and loneliness over one of contentment, happiness, health, wealth and safety? Should I?

What would you do? Heck, what would Jesus do? ;)

In all honesty, I know what direction I want to go... but I just don't know if I could last.

Oh and this isn't at all a bad reflection on the people I've met in HK... who are very cool, fun, godly and kind. Obviously it's hard to replace 7 years of my life in Melbourne in 6 months, so this is just my current situation.

Arrival

Soo...

I'm coming back to Australia tomorrow... hopefully most of you guys have figured that out by now. If you haven't arranged a catch up with me, well I never really had much time, and so hopefully we'll be able to catch up at Encounter or at church. I WILL be free through the days (some of them) so let me know if you wanna chill out (or play SSBB) hehe.

I'll have a new number when I get back, and so I'll hopefully e-mail it people and it'll pass around, I'll need people to SMS me with their name, so I can add it to my sim. My home number for Australia is on my Facebook if you want to look it up.

Anyway, I'll cya all soon... I'm actually really excited =) Though it doesn't always come across in my writing.

Limits

You know, everyone has their limits. A point at which something becomes more then you can bear... or less then some imaginary marker. Some can be stated, like the grade on a child's report card. Some be determined, like the point before which it rains, or before a typhoon becomes T8. Some... are felt in the heart... and it can cause the destruction of very worlds.

You know, I always enjoyed Final Fantasy 7, but I found it rather funny that after they got hit a certain numbers of times, they would "Limit Break" which was usually a massively powerful attack that normally multiplied their standard attack by a certain amount the higher the level they got. Cloud's limit break was Omnislash...



Looks better here though.



It's different in the real world though, cause with people hit that limit... they don't use their powers for good, in the aid of a global fight save humanity. Usually they crumple in despair, retreat into their shell, or get angry and hurt people.

I wonder what will happen when I reach my limit. It's been a long time since I have... but I think there is still so much further for me to grow and thus a lot of molding yet to come. =) Maybe I'm looking forward to it =D If anything it means that I'll be even COOLER than I am now! Woot!

By fire and water, through blood and new life, for the glory of the Father... Amen.

Visions of the future

In today's world, a global community, our Earth is one completely interwoven network of humanity, where any country or even continent is as easily accessible (give or take a few thousand dollars) as any city that would previously have been the extent of a person's private travels. Our generation, one that constantly lives in a world filled with communication, linked across the planet by so many means: phones, faxes, e-mails, Facebook, blogs, forums, the internet itself. News that is discovered in Sydney (Australia) can be read in New York at the same time as in Melbourne, or anywhere else for that matter.

In this culture, this never before seen lifestyle, the way that we interact has changed, the way that information passes is totally different and humanity has irrevocably become a species that moves at an increasingly rapid pace. Youth and young adults, instead of spending time outside, at the local playground or cafe, now sit for hours before their computers, indeed chatting with the same number of people yet in a series of private one on one conversations with people from all over the globe. In this time, one's friends are no longer limited to the same suburb, school or even city... but one's private circle can extend to the far reaches of humanity, allowing links between all people, regardless of social, ethnic or even language barriers.

One has to wonder if this is indeed healthy.

Will there come a time where people will be able to work from home, have weekly supplies delivered to their front door, and indeed forgo the need for human interaction? In a coming age, where books will be replaced by micro diskettes; where movie goers will be able to sit amongst the action instead of merely watching it; where war will be waged by giant robots controlled by men in suits, miles away, will human interaction reach a point where we will not need to simply hang out? Will the laughter of children playing together at a playground fade? Will the sight of awkward couples seeing each other home on a tram disappear? Will the roving groups of young adults, fresh from their churches, become a sight forgotten?

I certainly hope not... and yet... I wonder. It's a lot harder to meet people these days... and even as the sheer number people entering this world increase, humans are becoming more and more lonely... stolid faces amidst a gray crowd of strangers.

A weapon? Or a result?

13, an auspicious number

Yes I am counting down the days until I get back... oh and yes I am still alive.

I caught up with a friend of mine from Australia last night, N's sister :P Was very cool to see yet another Aussie face... someone else with whom I can just be myself I guess. I think that's why I'm looking forward to going home so much... the chance to just be myself. Of course I wonder if who I am has changed in any substantial way... perhaps someone will tell me... it's a mystery.

It's getting sticky here though... it's totally gross.

I'm out of things to say

Wow... haven't updated for a while... not sure why that is either. Haven't written anything, blogged anything, thought up anything, written any songs... *sigh... I don't know what's going on. Maybe I'm playing too much Attack... or my imagination has taken a short vacation.

Anyway, for those of you who don't know, I'm definitely come back on the 24th of April... I think I've posted that up before, but I'm not sure. I'll be getting an Australian Pre-Paid Sim (Optus of course =P ) and will let you all know my number asap. Then I'll store everyone's number on that card and will have two separate lists of numbers for the two locations.

Apart from that, I'm doing well, loving life... and yeah.. I'll cya all soon.