Saturday 22 November 2008

Insomnia

So it is true, the common side effect of insomnia and drowsiness / yawning is well, happening to me!?!

I decided to watch movies on SABC3 and the ones i saw were Fallen II and Final Destination.

Fallen II was as much as fiction as science fiction - though it would be cool to be a Nephilim!

Final Destination was tunips!
Was about Alex who cheats death and saves another 7, but there's a pattern that eventually kills 5 of the 6 survivors. Although it is not that funny in the sense of death, but the whole concept and the way this death makes things happen is really funny. Kinda like the water that seeps back into the toilet to make it look like a suicide, and then the most dumbest - don't touch the murder weapon scene, Alex touches the knife...

The final scene before the credits come up is a priceless one. Alex saves himself, Ali saves Alex, Carter saves Alex and THEN.....
Carter asks who's next...a billboard falls in his direction and just before impact, it cuts to the credits!
Funny: Alex Chance Browning .... get it?

And now another film has caught my eye, something about some strange virus that destroys a person within hours.

ok, so it has been almost an hour and i'm still here..

Gmail is turnips! it has themes!!
they are really turnip.
AHH, brilliant!! The Terminal theme. so old school.
its 3h38am and i just remembered what Bruce asked me to do before 17h00... lemme do it now...

and then firefox crashed - if i were on facebook, this message would have erased itself. never to get into the gist of going into the history books..

so its 04h19 and that movie, i could have guessed the outcome, but hey, i didnt spoil the point in watching it. Gmail gone green, kinda reminds me of those good old terminals that had green instead of white and black screens - those were good times.

i worked on a supa fast machine, a 286, or maybe pre-286. i dont know how to tell..
all it needed was the default values loaded into the cmos - the cmos battery pack was replaced, so it cleared the cmos!

4h41am
i've done everything i can think of. havent even thought of the things i'd normally have thought of in this situation.

I'm hungry
SMiLE

Tuesday 4 November 2008

Public speaking.....

On Monday I was asked if I would be able or rather willing to help out with chapel on Tuesday morning. I was told that if I decide to help, I must come to a planning evening at Mugg & Bean, Woodlands @ 18h30.

I thought long and hard about it and decided to help.

I got to the meeting 30 minutes late, but I told Jean that I would be late.

I ordered my usual large strawberry milkshake and then we got down to business.

I didn’t know how to give input, so I just sat there. But then Jean said something about idols and a thought stirred up inside my head.

‘What if, when you are speaking about idols, someone takes out their cell phone and plays with it?’

I started something. Mel piped up about a testimony and Jean asked if any of us, Jean, Anthony, Mel and myself, had a testimony to share.

I immediately thought about IRC. My face, without authorization, gave a smile and, on direct orders not to, my head nodded.

‘Oh crap! What have you go yourself into now?’

When I got home, I had supper and sat down to start writing my testimony. After 2 – 3 hours and lots of scrap paper, I had a 3½ page testimony.

On Tuesday morning I had no nervous feelings. I got to church and timed myself reading the text – it rook me around 6 minutes.

When we arrived, I learnt where we would be giving the chapel period.

And then I realized how many people would come!

Nerves started flowing, but I kept breathing.

I was introduced and I got up to get the mike from Mel.

I read the first line on my script and um, stopped for 15 seconds. . .

I couldn’t believe I was standing in front of around 200 school children and giving a speech!
I don’t do such things. Period. I’m the supa-quiet ignite guy.

I gave a testimony on idols. My idols were IRC, MXIT and facebook. I tried to be as blunt as possible.

When the wind blew my notes, I cracked a joke about it. I’m thankful for my Mom sending me to Toastmasters for a year or two!

I was told that I was brilliant. I got cheered on by the students. I was simply shocked that I managed to keep myself sane in front of many school children.

Now, before I take all the glory, God was the biggest player in all this. Without God, I would have been quite useless.

I had fun today. I spoke to lots of people.

One last thing. I said I was almost a week without facebook. That word slipped out. What I meant to say was my home pc. I’ll try not to go onto facebook as much as I used to with a personal computer in my room. Once a week tho!?

Blessed be the name of the Lord!!!!!