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I had a bit of a winge on 43things yesterday about the fact I just dont seem to be getting my exercise/sleep right.  And lo and behold, someone sent me a very useful link!

Personal Development for Smart People

The articles that I’ve been reading are “How to get up right away when your alarm goes off” and “How to become an early riser“.  I’ll tell you now, the stuff on this site is GOLD!

Due to my work situation I unfortunately cant really apply much of what I’ve read, but there are a few things I think I’ll give a go.  I really cant wait til Im in Japan and can actually have a somewhat normal schedule in which I *can* work on this sort of stuff.

And as a final little note, I did go to the gym today, and Im very happy about that fact.  I also plan on going everyday this week, since at this point in time there is nothing to prevent me.  gambatte!

I’ve been scanning my print club photos.  You can see what I’ve dont at my flickr site.  Only about half way there.

Found a very amusing term in my Flight Safty Australia magazine.  Post-alcohol impairment (PAI).  Another term for a hang over.  heheh

I’ve been journal-ing..  omg.  me.  journal.  haha

Okay, I probably should explain.  I am not very good at keeping diaries/journals/blogs etc.  I usually write a few days and then leave it sitting for a while.  a long while.  I have to admit, I’ve had my good times and bad times with this particular blog.  But never do I manage to last very long with a written journal.  guess I just dont make the time.

But Im going off on a bit of a tangent.  back to topic.  I’ve been journal-ing.  and I have to admit Im really liking it.  I decided that I would journal my final 3 months here in Aus, because its a really busy time, and knowing me I would forget things and what not.  So I decided that if I journal-ed I could probably keep track of things a little better and also have a record of the journey that Im taking. 

I think Im really enjoying it because I’ve taken a very different approach to what I have done previously.  Ive always written diaries with the mind set that it is a record of my emotions and the events that happen in my life.  This time around Im really just writing anything.  So far I’ve written an explanation for having a journal, done a few lists of things I have to do before I go, things I want to do in japan, what Im looking for out of life there, and then a few entries about just whats going through my head.  Oh, and Im decorating it with cut outs, pictures, and stickers.  And I think that it is going to be a really interesting record when its finished.  And probably something that I wouldnt be too adverse to letting other people read.  not that Im going to invite it or anything.

downside for you, I probably wont be writing in here all that often for a while, since it will probably be all written down in the journal

Im really looking forward to the release of ‘an inconvenient truth’ here in Aus.  Its a documentary about Al Gore, based on his global warming presentations, so it promises to be very very intresting. 

the website for the movie is http://www.climatecrisis.org

its released in Australia on september 14th.

Well, I’ve been trying to sell a few items on eBay, and much to my surprise, two items that I thought I wouldnt be able to get rid of were already bidded on in the first day of listing –

http://search.ebay.com.au/_W0QQfgtpZ1QQfrppZ25QQsassZguardianQ5fforever

And not only that, the Digivice is going currently for $20.50 USD!  wow, never ever expected that!

Was reading last night and came accross this quote and I thought it was rather sweet – “To the world you maybe just one person, but to one person you maybe the world”

Werewolves of London

~Warren Zevon

I saw a werewolf with a Chinese menu in his hand

Walking through the streets of Soho in the rain

He was looking for a place called Lee Ho Fook’s

Going to get himself a big dish of beef chow mein

Ah-oo, Werewolves of London

If you hear him howling around your kitchen door

Better not let him in

Little old lady got mutilated late last night

Werewolves of London again

Ah-oo, Werewolves of London

He’s the hairy-handed gent who ran amuck in Kent

Lately he’s been overheard in Mayfair

Better stay away from him

He’ll rip your lungs out, Jim

I’d like to meet his tailor

Ah-oo, Werewolves of London

Well, I saw Lon Chaney walking with the Queen

Doing the Werewolves of London

I saw Lon Chaney, Jr. walking with the Queen

Doing the Werewolves of London

I saw a werewolf drinking a pina colada at Trader Vic’s

And his hair was perfect

Ah-oo, Werewolves of London

Im looking to sell my old notebook.  Its about 2 years old, battery life isnt what it used to be, but its still a good machine.  details below –

only really putting this up here for my friends to see, so if i dont know you, dont bother trying to contact me to buy.  Im looking to sell for about $1250neg. AUD.  you know my email addy.

maybe I should note that im not saying Psalm 51 is a reflection on the state of the world or anything.  I just feel like sharing some verses from the bible that I have found particularly touching at one time or another.

For the director of music. A psalm of David. When the prophet Nathan came to him after David had committed adultery with Bathsheba.

   ^{[a] 1} Have mercy on me, O God,
       according to your unfailing love;
       according to your great compassion
       blot out my transgressions.

    ² Wash away all my iniquity
       and cleanse me from my sin.

    ³ For I know my transgressions,
       and my sin is always before me.

    ⁴ Against you, you only, have I sinned
       and done what is evil in your sight;
       so you are right in your verdict
       and justified when you judge.

    ⁵ Surely I was sinful at birth,
       sinful from the time my mother conceived me.

    ⁶ Yet you desired faithfulness even in the womb;
       you taught me wisdom in that secret place.

    ⁷ Cleanse me with hyssop, and I will be clean;
       wash me, and I will be whiter than snow.

    ⁸ Let me hear joy and gladness;
       let the bones you have crushed rejoice.

    ⁹ Hide your face from my sins
       and blot out all my iniquity.

    ¹⁰ Create in me a pure heart, O God,
       and renew a steadfast spirit within me.

    ¹¹ Do not cast me from your presence
       or take your Holy Spirit from me.

    ¹² Restore to me the joy of your salvation
       and grant me a willing spirit, to sustain me.

    ¹³ Then I will teach transgressors your ways,
       and sinners will turn back to you.

    ¹⁴ Deliver me from bloodguilt, O God,
       you who are God my Savior,
       and my tongue will sing of your righteousness.

    ¹⁵ Open my lips, Lord,
       and my mouth will declare your praise.

    ¹⁶ You do not delight in sacrifice, or I would bring it;
       you do not take pleasure in burnt offerings.

    ¹⁷ My sacrifice, O God, is ^[b] a broken spirit;
       a broken and contrite heart
       you, God, will not despise.

    ¹⁸ May it please you to prosper Zion,
       to build up the walls of Jerusalem.

    ¹⁹ Then you will delight in the sacrifices of the righteous,
       in burnt offerings offered whole;
       then bulls will be offered on your altar.

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I just finished watching Fahrenheit 9/11, and all I can say is that I am DISGUSTED by the american government. 

And now I want to find ways in which I can support anit-war campaigns and help people in Australia living in poverty.

And when I am next time living overseas, there is no way I will take the option not to vote.  I will have my say.

A Time for Everything

    ¹ There is a time for everything,
       and a season for every activity under the heavens:

    ² a time to be born and a time to die,
       a time to plant and a time to uproot,

    ³ a time to kill and a time to heal,
       a time to tear down and a time to build,

    ⁴ a time to weep and a time to laugh,
       a time to mourn and a time to dance,

    ⁵ a time to scatter stones and a time to gather them,
       a time to embrace and a time to refrain,

    ⁶ a time to search and a time to give up,
       a time to keep and a time to throw away,

    ⁷ a time to tear and a time to mend,
       a time to be silent and a time to speak,

    ⁸ a time to love and a time to hate,
       a time for war and a time for peace.

    ⁹ What do workers gain from their toil? ¹⁰ I have seen the burden God has laid on the human race. ¹¹ He has made everything beautiful in its time. He has also set eternity in the human heart; yet no one can fathom what God has done from beginning to end. ¹² I know that there is nothing better for people than to be happy and to do good while they live. ¹³ That each of them may eat and drink, and find satisfaction in all their toil—��this is the gift of God. ¹⁴ I know that everything God does will endure forever; nothing can be added to it and nothing taken from it. God does it so that people will fear him.

    ¹⁵ Whatever is has already been,
       and what will be has been before;
       and God will call the past to account. ^[a]

    ¹⁶ And I saw something else under the sun:
       In the place of judgment—wickedness was there,
       in the place of justice—wickedness was there.

    ¹⁷ I said to myself,
       “God will bring into judgment
       both the righteous and the wicked,
       for there will be a time for every activity,
       a time to judge every deed.”

    ¹⁸ I also said to myself, “As for human beings, God tests them so that they may see that they are like the animals. ¹⁹ Surely the fate of human beings is like that of the animals; the same fate awaits them both: As one dies, so dies the other. All have the same breath ^[b]; humans have no advantage over animals. Everything is meaningless. ²⁰ All go to the same place; all come from dust, and to dust all return. ²¹ Who knows if the human spirit rises upward and if the spirit of the animal goes down into the earth?”

    ²² So I saw that there is nothing better for people than to enjoy their work, because that is their lot. For who can bring them to see what will happen after them?

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