St Pauls new look website

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Dunedin toga parade

Rich or poor, you have 24 hours to a day. These students spent 1 day in their week long orientation creating mayhem for others. Whilst others worry about their jobs... the economy.. yet some will just be grateful for being alive, for being here.

Just some random thoughts.. really.

Great things

It is whilst I'm tidying up my room, going thru things I've kept over the years, for it to be a letter, card from colleague or friends, to stuff I've bought or made, that I have this eureka moment - the recipe for doing something great and wonderful often is:

1 cup of passion +
2 cup of inner drive (whether influenced by others or not) +
2 tsp of luck

Serendipity

Reading the news, online or offline, has always been a "personal time" activity for me. It's a time I get to just read what's happening outside the sphere of life that's around me.

So I learnt that..

The Chinese Premier got the shoe treatment now made famous thanks to the former US president.

The Kiwi, now worth about half a US dollar, from a high of 80 cents to the dollar a few months ago.

Dean of a medical school in HK reckons young doctor are too narrow in their knowledge base, let 20-30% of the medical school curriculum be on humanities..in the name of hoping young doctors will be more "human"....

The oldest university in Portugal is not quite as old as Cambridge.. Cambridge is 800 years old?!

Anyway..God knows (yes, God only knows because I can't remember now) how out of all the links to various collages on the Cambridge website I bumped into the The Faraday Institute for Science and Religion and started reading their interview with France Collins MD.

One of the best read I have had for a long time.

Panasonic DMC-TS1

Once in a while you come across a camera that really surprises you. The all-weather Olympus range is up for some serious competition here. Watch this space. I can't wait to see the review on this!

Year of the Ox

It's not until I tried to search some UK websites using google UK I get to see this cute logo. Happy lunar New Year!!

The Americans have shown the world that in the face of adversary they opted for hope but not fear. This will be a year full of brave encounters and pleasant surprises.

Kermadec

You can't find Kermadec in Metro's Auckland Top 50 resturant guide. A bit odd really. This place has consistently produced some of the finest food the viaduct has seen since 1994.

Service was prompt and friendly - except when I asked for the check - how can the waiter put the bill on the table, when I was away in the bathroom?!.... That really was a bit beyond me.

Anyway, I think I just had one of those irritable days. "Woke up on the wrong side of the bed" - as one of my colleagues put it.

Gratitude

Something lead me to Glynn Cardy's blog this last day of 2008. The message can't be made simpler

Gratitude is a discipline. Irrespective of whether we in good health or not, been successful or lucky or not, or are rich or poor or somewhere between, gratitude is something we can choose to nurture within. We can then choose to share our sense of gratitude by giving to others.

Shaved Ice

Shaved ice is one of my summer favourites. There's a few Korean places that do them quite well, Taiwaness place in Newmarket.. but none of them are quite like the Japanese one by Karin in Parnell... it is huge!

x'mas 2008

Wine Santa!



Christmas in 2008 rocks!



hmmmmm. first time i've put flowers into a vase...