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Top 5 things about Adelaide

28 Oct 2009

Here are my top 5 things about Adelaide for me:1. Celebrating cousin’s garden wedding in Adelaide Hills with the rest of the family2. Chilling out at a Ford Ranger cup game at Adelaide Oval3. Reflecting and pondering on Henley Beach jetty4. Nicer and calmer drivers on the roads compared to Perth5. Their beaches are on [...]

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Top 5 things about Kuala Lumpur

In: Leisure| Travel| relationships

26 Oct 2009

Had a recent trip to Kuala Lumpur and Adelaide on a recent holiday. Here are my top 5 things/memories about Malaysia (for me):
1. Seeing and hanging out with relatives I hadn’t seen for nearly a decade. And meeting some new family too…2. Meeting Peter Ong for the first time. This man journeyed with Dad faithfully [...]

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Embrace ambiguity

In: CTBlog Entries| Leisure

22 Jul 2009

There are many things in this world that confuse me. I was thinking one night when I was driving home about the personality tests. In each one I’ve done, I’ve always scored ‘Melan-phlegmatic’.
But I always felt a little funny about those who got an even mixture of all four – phlegmatic, sanguine, melancholy and [...]

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How to really know what your goals are

In: Family| Leisure| Work

21 Jul 2009

Received this email from Scott Pape today, the Barefoot Investor. He suggests something so simple – I’m going to give it a go to give my mid year a re-start.
The other day I was chatting to my new neighbor who’d just moved in. Struggling with all the ’stuff’ he had accumulated and now had to [...]

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Tags: future, goals

Model Citizen (for Youth leaders)

In: Family| Leisure| Ministry

7 Mar 2009

I will begin a new series of blog posts labeled ‘model citizen’. I will try to embark on unraveling some thoughts about how I think life should be. It’s going to be entertaining for some, and perhaps a bit insightful as well. Hopefully you’ll get some gold out of it. If not, enjoy my ramblings…

As [...]

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Coldplay – Live in Perth 2009

In: Leisure| Music

28 Feb 2009

My goodness – what a night! I had the privilege of being at the Burswood Dome on Saturday night. It’s actually the first big-name concert I’ve been to.
This was a recording from the night.

Fix You was glorious (and so was everything else), however the highlight songs for me were ‘Lovers in Japan’ and ‘Life in [...]

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Gong Xi Fa Choi Solar ‘Straya Day!

In: Leisure

24 Jan 2009

It’s hard to do work on a Friday when you know there’s a long weekend coming. The Australia Day long weekend is one of the many times I look forward to in any given year. For those of us who work, it’s a reminder of the holidays we had 3 weeks ago.
The funny thing about [...]

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What memories are made of

In: Leisure| Ministry| Travel

19 Jan 2009

Over the past weekend, the core leadership team at STADIUM had a retreat up 3 hours north of Perth, at Jurien Bay. I am a fan of such peaceful and lovely coastal towns – good fishing, good natured people, good moods all round.
For us, January is important for us to set goals for the [...]

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Tags: jurien bay, stadium key team retreat, travel up north, weekend

Holidays are fast approaching

In: Leisure

9 Dec 2008

In previous posts, I mentioned that I was going to create the Kallaroo alphabet. I now have 2 more things to add to the list.
1. Go fishing!Fishing for herring at Hillarys or Ocean Reef has got to be the thingI’m looking forward to doing the most. There are very few things that can beat the [...]