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Youngest kid of six with an inferiority and black sheep complex, but determined that God saves not just his soul to heaven but the remainder of his manic-depressive life, so others won't say he became a Christian and remained a jerk.


MAIN THEMES

On identity
i won't be transparent before i'm opaque. and you'll get to know me starting from the small things: who my favourite bands are. what kind of movies i like. who are my heroes.

On Christianity
I’m convinced that when confronted with sincere, real love, the Jesus factor will become obvious. But let’s not plant the cross before we carry it. I’m not trying to con you.

On dreams
Some dreams are meant to be achieved. I know that. But maybe other dreams are meant to drive us, privately. Never known to anyone but ourselves.


OTHER THEMES

On melancholy
It is a sadness that, when choosing between crying and sighing, will choose sighing. I'd almost say that melancholy is being sad about sadness itself.

On memory and nostalgia
It saddens me when life moves forward and people decide that certain things are worth forgetting.

On language
I've learnt that the word irregardless is filed as a non-standard word in the English language. That's a lexicographer's way of saying it's not a real word.

On politics
Crowds are fickle things. So when we stand in the thousands and cry against the present government, do we know who we're actually crying for?

On society
People always want the best for themselves. But I want to sometimes take second or third or fourth best, just so that the loser down the road doesn't always have to come in last. It must feel like shit to always come in last.

On growing old
Leasehold property make me feel sad. It doesn't matter how old the family photos are that you put on your wall. It's your family but it's not really your wall.

On philosophy
I ask you, if God loves everyone, and if God is also incapable of loving evil, how can there be such a thing as an evil man?

On a daily basis
One line quips, like this.


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Tuesday, April 28, 2009
TO QUOTE: ON RELEVANT NONCONFORMITY

"What if we could say to our kids, 'You are different; you are Christian.' We are a contrast society, not just a hip counterculture. What marks us as different must be more than something external or superficial; it must be a peculiar way of living ... Our hope is that the posmodern, post-Christian world is once again ready for a people who are peculiar, people who spend their energy creating a culture of contrast rather than a culture of relevancy. If we are to be relevant to the world we live in, we must be relevant nonconformists." 

- Shane Claiborne, Jesus for President

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Thursday, April 23, 2009



Kenny dalglish said today

"if i can be of help to the club i love in any capacity then i'm more than happy to play any part that i can."

set. the number 7 is vacant. training starts tomorrow morning.

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Monday, April 20, 2009
TO QUOTE: ON THE BOMB

"If it's not love, then it's the bomb that will bring us together."

- The Smiths, Ask

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Friday, April 17, 2009
TO QUOTE: ON FRIDAY

"I don't care if Monday's blue / Tuesday's grey and Wednesday too / Thursday, I don't care about you / It's Friday, I'm in love"

- The Cure, Friday I'm In Love

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Wednesday, April 15, 2009
THE POLICE WANT TO KNOCK ON YOUR DOOR

The first place to find pirated DVDs is Speedy.

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Tuesday, April 14, 2009
TO QUOTE: ON THEREFORE

"Another important connective is therefore. Whenever you see a therefore, go back and see what it's there for." 

- Bible teacher Howard Hendrickson gets witty about Biblical grammar

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Wednesday, April 08, 2009
"MY ATTEMPT AT WRITING A SHORT STORY"

Wilson woke up one morning and realized that all his friends were into writing short stories. The straw that broke his lumpy back was an email from the sixth friend – this was Gerald, though his name is unimportant as he will not be mentioned for a second time – sending him a manuscript and asking him for feedback. 

He thought to himself - and did so while sitting in what should be a poignant thinking posture except that on him it just looked comical – and thought about the words “He thought to himself”. 

“Oh my sunshine,” his brain exclaimed. “There’s a redundancy in the line ‘He thought to himself’. Clearly you can’t think to anyone else.” Wilson smiled.

Feeling awfully clever, he turned on his computer and started writing a short story. He even had the audacity to call it “My attempt at writing a short story”. 

And so Wilson wrote all morning, skipped lunch and wrote all afternoon and was about to consider pulling off a grand cracking romantic tortured writer’s move  by skipping dinner as well when the smell of fried chicken made him consider otherwise.

I’ll just have some chicken and continue after dinner. 

He didn’t save.

Halfway through his fifth piece of chicken, a thunderstorm struck. The trees outside his house – in fact, outside his room – were creaking in the wind. Rain at eight thirty was followed by hail at nine. Lightning bolts crashed through the roofs of two houses on his street, setting fire to the houses and lawns and their trees too. Their trees fell. One landed on their dog’s kennel, but the dog was not inside. Another fell on a stranger’s car, which already had a ticket anyway, which can be a good or bad thing, depending on how one sees these things. 

One of the lightning-struck houses was inhabited by Indonesian factory workers. They were the object of hate and disgust by their racist middle-classed neighbours, and those neighbours watched on as three men from that house ran out with fire on their heads. Another one lay in the living room, apparently dead. 

While all these things happened, Wilson continued to eat fried chicken at his dining table. Five pieces soon became nine pieces. He was about to begin eating his tenth when the front door fell in and a truck drove into the living room. Not being the kind of truck that stopped at the sight of a television set and a four-seater sofa, the mighty behemoth razed through the entire ground floor of Wilson’s house. The living room, the store room, the common bathroom and the maid’s room were all ploughed through.

This time, Wilson would not be oblivious. 

“A truck!”, he exclaimed. 

And then, without much logic, Wilson was reminded of his unfinished – and unsaved –short story sitting on his computer upstairs. 

“I shall go and finish it”, he thought, evidently now to himself, to himself. 

And so he did. He lumbered up the stairs, got back into his room and plonked himself back onto his computer table where he would spend the next two hours finishing his short story. And all the while, carnage ensued outside his house.  Fire trucks had arrived and three doors up the road, two elderly women had died of supposed natural causes. The hailstorm had receded but it had already left two firemen injured and the entire road’s cars smashed in. 

Wilson wrote his last line. 

He liked his last line a lot. He kept reading it. And reading it. And reading it. What an awesome line. 

Then he saved the file. And he attached it to an email.

And bypassing all his six fellow-competing friends, Wilson sent in his short story for competition without so much as a second draft. 

He lost. 

And his ego, like his town, had to be rebuilt from scratch again.

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