Road trip on foot

The holidays are coming to an end, its going to be a very busy time for me once I get back to school. Especially after this holiday, I seem to have to much fun, OCF retreat at mount warning, yes we climbed a mountain to watch the sun rise.
Touring around with my mom and sis who came to visit......well just a lot happened.... Mt Coo Ta...food....ermmm more food..."Shan Tong Chicken..."

Hmmm....however I had to go through this holiday with a bit of trouble....I don't know why but I was frustrated over something I don't know...maybe it had something to do with direction, maybe it had something to do with purpose, maybe it had something to do with will...I just don't know....

Today was no different.. I woke up and yah...my mom and sis left last night to I woke up to a rather un-usual but normal feeling. Than I just remembered I need to buy some Christian stationery....and this was how today became the most interesting day of my holiday...a day I spent alone (maybe not alone considering God being there all the time) but I did have a choice... So lets check out this chapter....a 4 hour road trip on foot...


This is the back of the train station, one of the lesser travelled streets in ipswich. Road trip starts here.


This is how west ipswich looks like, rather boring I guess...


This is the ending corner of west ipswich, it dosen't really seem interesting here, so I decided to turn back and head for "Brassall"


Wow, a bus stop...yah the only bus stop in west ipswich...


"Burnett Street" this is towards the end of west ipswich, they were having some sand bike competition there yah it was happening behind me.


"Ipswich Grammer School" located just on the outskirts of Brassall...


Good old "Brassall" you can even find a crain there...


Ever wondered what that doggy sign was right between the railway at the back of woolworths...well...sorry I didn't take a good enough picture to be able to read it....


This is the poluted side of the river, they happen to be building some "high class apartments" beside it.


"Mount Crosby", you mean there is actually a mountain somewhere in ipswich???


This is the first sign you'll see right after you cross "that" bridge in ipswich...does it look familar Judy?


I can't cross this field due to the fence, but that chapel sure looks nice from here...


Hei a wedding.....Eunice!!! look their not only having weddings in the city...they are weddings here in ipswich as well.....ARH!!!!!!!!! The wedding band is following me...!!!! get away from me you married couples...I'm happy being single(for now)...arh!!!!!


Just a random street, but yah this makes the other side of "North Ipswich" or rather I was walking around "Browns Park"


"Fitzgibbon Street" I just thought the name sounded rather weird, but yah I stop by at petrol station nearby.


My first rest point...needed a drink.


"Browns Park" the other park that can be found in ipswich other than "Queens park".


This marks the end of the normal roads and well...going any further will be the road to "Toowoomba" lets just say if I had carried on walking, the next landmark would be that "big red elephant."


"Smith Street" or rather "Telegraph Street" the first street from the express way.


If any OCFer's remember this spot, this is the spot which Jon stopped , to wait for the last car (Judy) just after we exit the express way from Toowoomba. And yah, it is a pet shop. I came down the car to tell Eunice we were waiting for Judy, and soon after Louis came along and parked in front of us, not too long after that Judy finally appeared and we just droved off....(arh ha...beat that for memory)


This was my lunch...Hei I got to stop once in a while...I'm not superman you know...


Wow..a canon not something you get to see everyday, but yah we have some memorial thingy for soilders in ipswich...


"Flint Street" this is where the ipswich people will have to take our driving test.


This is the view from the top of the bridge.


The "David Trumpy Bridge" you know that long long thing to the other side of ipswich


Ever Wondered what the name of the river in ipswich was..well this is it...

I walk in one direction
I headed back in the opposite direction
I could see myself
An image, an im-perfect image, an im-perfect self
I couldn't see You, were You there?
Were You with me?
Was I with You?
But I know...You were there and You are here...
The reason I only saw 1, was because
It was too hard to walk...
I couldn't do it alone, and yet...
I only saw one
Because You carried me through
You were there all along....

Back into the fray

Some week ends I had.....

It was interesting though, this post is about the weekend and I'm only writing about at the end of the week strange....

First on the list saturday "Toowomba flower festivel", I can sense some guys going "wah lau Flowers leys....Daniel you ok or not?" Hei guys chill man, I'm cool with it...I wasen't really there for the flowers...I was there for the chicks...(*bish* ouch..kidding...) I went to it as it was a chance to get away from the busy uni life for a week and its also a sorta "road trip". So it was interesting, not much happening things going on, except for the fact Mel rolled me down a hill and we were stopping and playing at every children's playground we saw...it was fun though, lots of fun, the burgers, the rain the ice cream and the "atahs" food (yah man so what if the other table has fire, we've got picking duck). hahahahaha =P
The flowers were nice, although just looking at flowers is not really my cup of tea, but even though there were so many people running and screaming around, somehow I felt at peace when walking around alone among the flowers. Its finally out, I went because I needed a time of reflection.

Sunday, karaok at sunny bank..out of all the people there (15 I think), only 5 were really singing, the rest was just playing a fool (as usual) and 1 person was sleeping....that make 5 singers, 9 monkeys and 1 sleepy...hehe...sorry just a random thought...yah it was another fun night singing jumping, running away from the air-con, confusing people....the only thing I can think of is that I really need to learn more chinese songs...

Hmmm, back on working week now...this was a very busy week, both my major assignments has stuff to be done and seriously, can we all please pray for more programmers in this word, not just programmers, but good programmers. I'm coding C# till I look retarded, a designer that can code...armed with the technical skills of coding and the concepts of design....
Sometimes you so lost in work that you can actually wake up not know what you're suppose to do...the saddest would be to not even know when you're sleeping or actually are awake....but I've not reached that stage yet. So since when is overseas uni slack?....anyone who say overseas uni is slack deserves to be shot....

Ok back to work...and this is for Josh and Jem, please pray for me as well, I'll be treaching in OCF on friday, teaching as in stand in front and teach....the topic is IBS, so yah, this is my first time doing it and I really have no idea what to expect...so lets just see how it goes...

P.S. Jeremy its not my fault if the Newcastle keeper trips over himself and can't stop a half field lob.....
"YOU'LL NEVER WALK ALONE"

OCF UQ website Developer blog 1

From now on any blogs with this title will be the development blog for the OCF UQ website...

I've decided to have a paper trail on this website for just some reason,
1. Inventor Rights (copyrights belongs to and only to OCF UQ)
2. A public design documentation
3. Future referencse (so that OCFers in the future will know what thoughts and elements have went into this site and will know how to edit it)
4. Bench mark setting

Ok enough of that now what have my thoughs been in the OCF website so far, when I initially saw the site, I was saying "For the love of God...please take this site down..." it no secret that I felt it wasen't good (this is just me bare with it, seriously if you've been trained as a web designer for 5 years, you'll know what I mean).
However on further there is actually some meaning in the website, so what if the design is not as good as I though, people don't go to websites for "that experiancial feeling", they go to websites for information, and it does serve its purpose by giving just enough information although some are out dated.
So enters the in-famous battle of Designer V.S. Christian, just to let you guys know this happens everytime I do a christain based design or something (videos, games, website...etc) however the outcome will usually be something as beautiful the chrous of "Canon in D".

So lets see on initial looks, website has to be nice, it has to be easily updated, it should be user friendly (considering the number of IT idiots we have in OCF *looks for cover to hide*). I'll just cut to the chase, all in all after listing out the things I want to do for the website (a Flash GUI above a Shockwave architecture) it started to look more like an online multimedia presentation. HOLD IT !!! did the designer just win this battle? lets get back to basics "Who am I doing this for in the first place?" Things usually go wrong when the focus is lost, so who or what is the focus here?

Now let me openly say this, the website is NOT ....and BY NO MEANS! meant for OCF UQ, that website IS for God. I'm not just creating a website here, I'm creating something that should display the essens of God's work in OCF UQ. No doubt it shows information about OCF, but all the more it should show God as a focal point and base unit in OCF. The reaction toward the website should not be "wow OCF UQ has a great website." but "I can see God's presence in these people." The take home message should not be a nice website, but a realisation of God.

Of course this lead to a major change an deletion of graphics. Which has to done, it good that this is noticed now....
Now do any of you see what I mean by hearing "Canon in D" ?

End of milestone 1, Things to be done: Verses to be checked up on meaning and surpose. Graphics to be changed. Template will be kept, but overall theme will be updated

Ok it's been 1 month

Yap....1 full month of not posting.... now I fianlly got my butt of and found sometime to actually post something here....

First of all, I'm not bitching, but don't any of you really think the layout of my blog sucks??? After re-thinking through the site layout, and considering certain factor I failed to consider before, I think it really does suck..... wow...and to call myself a web designer.... damn academia....

Alright now for the juicy stuff...I've decided to turn gay.....BULLSHIT!!! I am....that was just kidding...I just mucking around a little...
Seriously if anybody think I'm going to post anything about my already complicated and patatic love live, forget about it....it sucks just thinking about it....

Ok the past month was very busy...as some of you know, I've managed to pick up my 20th programming language and I stuck the jackpot this time, having already known C++ and Java, there is only one other programming language I can progress to and thats C#. I'm using C# combined with a bit of scripting for my games programming now, its pretty tough, but yah I'm managing well, hopefully....

Next big highlight...OCF... I've been to a lot of OCF activities lately, don't know why, but yah more than the usual, I seem to be not allowing the fact that I live in Ipswich stop me from traveling to the city ever so often. Ok so what has OCF been doing lately...Mei (our ex-president) has just left for home (home here means Singapore, not heaven), and yah we've had a change of leadership....Go Eunice!!! Just like finally getting down to writing this blog, I've finally gotten down to designing the OCF UQ website, I won't say its bad, just very out dated...and just to give a hit, its not going to be a standard HTML website, think director/flash, with a back end programming that is easy to update. I've been teaching in OCF as well or rather as usual, (here is a side track, my gift is NOT teaching, yet I'm able to teach well enough...why?) I've benn offered the chance to do the website for OCF Australia as well...now that is really overwhelming, I'll need sometime to think about that, but yah knowning me I'll most proberly end up doing it anyway.

OCF has orgainsed several outings lately...Mei's farewell party...which I must highlight was fun, also because of the fact my team (Eunice and Ken) won in carnium (some aussie IQ game, hei we're smart ok!). We had the "River Fire" 30 minutes of non-stop fire works in sync with music which was down at the Brisbane river....step aside NDP, Aaron and Michelle's 6th annversary of being together...yes 6th, they've been together for 6 years...no their not married yet, but 6 years...thats a lot man. The longest relationship I've had was 6 months I think...I've also stepped up and volunteered myself to either lead song or be a musician for OCF, yes guys (for those of you back home), my guitar is finally coming to Australia. The only sad thing is...its not the S&P one, there is enough trouble bringing a wooden artical into Australia and I'm not risking $700 on that.

My studies have been going rather well as of late, my "High distingtion drought" is finally over, and I've got a gut feeling I might have gotten 3 out of 3 high distingtions for the first assignment of all 3 modules....when I take a step back and think, could thing be God way of saying..."Don't worry, just pressing on and serve..I'll take care of the rest"...