Moving houses

Thanks to oliver, cheryl and joshua's car we moved some of my stuff to my new house on the same street. I'm still quite worried it won't be ready on time, they still have not fixed the aircon and the lights i requested for. I don't want to stay there without the aircon. And i still need to transfer my internet to the new place, the folks at tmnet are not here yet. Just hope they can do everything on time.

There are a few things i'll miss in my present house. The most of course are my housemates. Allan and Amy hehe all A one. I'll miss allan's singing. He usually has a new favourite song every two weeks or so and will play it until he gets bored of it or finds a new favourite song whichever comes first. I'm going to miss the sound of dota from his room "triple kill" haha and his company ma.

And amy even though she's not usually at home, going to miss her cooking :p and her taking care of the bills so we don't have to :p i've not seen a more devout follower of friends, not sure if i'll miss that or not but yeah my two housemates are the best.

I'm also going to miss my iban neighbors and their regular family gatherings complete with loud music and terrible karaoke performances. Will also miss the neighbour across the street who's always cleaning his house and car in his boxers. I really think he should consider getting a wife la.

I will also miss the birds. Yeah the birds in front of my house. They always gather in the morning. I'm not sure if they're having breakfast together on the tree in front but they never have a quiet breakfast. And at night they all come back for dinner on the same tree almost as if catching up on each other's day again they don't do it quietly but its nice to hear them at least at these times. Will definitely miss them.

But i tell you what i most certainly won't miss. The walk home. Sometimes just looking at the way i need to walk makes my heart sink. I just thank God my new house is closer :)

I just want to thank God for everyone who helped out, justin for lending me his truck, amy for driving the tempermental thing, kenin for helping me move some stuff... thanks guys :)

~shalom~

a million parachutes

My first contact with sixpence none the richer was back in Naija (Nigeria). There was this American tv station, tbn that showed christian music videos on sundays and thats where i first heard breathe your name and it instantly became one of my favourite songs and still is.

I like the way leigh nash, the lead singer sings. Her voice gives the band their unique distinction. I could listen to sixpence all day long and not get tired of them. You know some songs or albums when you listen to it too long you get tired of them? It doesn't happen with this band well at least not for me.

Whats with the name?
Well they get their name from C.S. Lewis' book Mere Christianity:

Every faculty you have, your power of thinking or of moving your limbs from moment to moment, is given to you by God. If you devoted every moment of your whole life exclusively to His service you could not give Him anything that was not in a sense His own already. So that when we talk of a man doing anything for God or giving anything to God, I will tell you what it is really like. It is like a small child going to his father and saying, 'Daddy, give me sixpence to buy you a birthday present.' Of course, the father does, and he is pleased with the child's present. It is all very nice and proper, but only an idiot would think that the father is sixpence to the good on the transaction. When a man has made these two discoveries, God can really get to work. It is after this that real life begins. (source)

My love for the band will not be complete without having at least one of their albums, their best of to be precise and leigh nash's solo album blue on blue.

I discovered a song i've not listened to before a few minutes ago on youtube and instantly liked it. While its not yet one of my favourite songs I really do like it. So here's a million parachutes



Like a million parachutes
The snow's coming down
I'll lock up the front door
And turn down the lights
I see them descend
Like a million parachutes
Small men on a mission

I miss the warmth
And I miss the sun
I miss the ocean
I miss everyone
And I miss the bridges
That span across the bay
Tonight, it seems like ages ago

Like a million parachutes
the snow still falls
The dogs are asleep now
There's no one to call
I'll put on some records
And wait for the light
Under those million parachutes
Now a blanket is white.

~shalom~

blogging is dead

I heard blogging is dead. Well i don't know about that but this blog has certainly stagnated. 

Well exams are over, its done, onward. Now i face an uncertain break. I'm not sure what to do with all the time. I certainly don't want to spend my days in front of the computer unless i have to. I'm not sure if i'll be going to Kuching again this break although i would love to just that I need to settle things at my new house. I have a feeling i've said this before...

Yep blogging is dead, i don't know what to say... see you in Facebook?

No la. I feel a winds of change coming. The next sem is going to be interesting in many levels. There will be changes and i just hope we respond to them in the right way. 

I believe next year is another opportunity to do things right, to grow in new areas as well as in other areas where there should be growth especially personally and spiritually. I want next year to be a year of purpose of course without work its just going to be desires.

I miss my family a lot. Love them so much :)

~shalom~

change

Its inevitable, the words of agent smith in the matrix movie. He was talking about purpose but he was also talking about change. 

A few sundays ago there was a guest speaking talking about the same thing. 

I just had a thought that i put down and right after that i heard the song from the movie wall*e talking about change and at that point i couldn't ignore it anymore.

Its all around us, in live, in people in places and landscape in our selves, the way we think, the way we react. Hopefully we have changed, and hopefully the change is for the better.

People come and go thats a reality of live. Once upon a time i was not in malaysia and contrary to what most people think i am not from kuching although i consider it my second home of sorts because of the people i know there and the warm fellowship i enjoy there. So its no wonder why every chance i get i want to go back but one day there may be no going back. I may not be here, i may be far far away maybe back to my home. And even though its where i'm from its a big change because i've lived most of my adult life outside the country of my birth and have become accustom to the things here, and the way of life here that i have lost touch of what it means to be nigerian in some sense. Thats a change.

We make friends and the beginning are always tricky and awkward but through time and chance and whatever effort we put in, it happens and in a few years you become close and then the time comes for parting and what has awkward becomes a difficult ordeal. But people will come and people will go, thats the reality of life. So its not so much the friends you lose to time and proximity but more towards the challenge of facing the possible tricky and awkward again. 

I didn't want to bring this up but what would this blog be if it didn't reach the personal level? In the course of our lives we meet people who at first are strangers but something happens and we begin to spend time with them and they grow on us and then we take a chance on love as they say and see how the relationship leads and find out its wonderful for the most part. Its great that you have that special someone but then it comes to an end. How do you deal with that? Do you throw you gloves down and say thats it, i'm done. No more? How do you deal with that. I know a few people who are in this situation, and just thinking, back i feel sad at all the promising relationships that come to an end for some and a pause for others but how do you deal with this kind of change?

Curtin has this slogan, "look ever forward" and i have mentioned that it is very biblical. I'm not sure if who ever came up with the slogan had Paul in mind but Paul said something similar in philippians. Pressing on to what is ahead, forgetting what is behind... sounds like a good plan. What i believe is that no matter how good something is, there's always something better. This is not to say you take what you have for granted thinking there's always something better but to be the best steward of what you have and if for some reason things don't go as you wish, cry if you have to, mourn if you have to. But make a decision to move on, to enjoy your life, to be the best man or woman you can be, the do those things you never had the chance to do. But in all things glorifying God because He is good, pure good.

I think change in a way is a test from God to see how we react to new thing, maybe its a way for him to get us moving, not getting too comfortable in one spot, lifting us up into higher places of faith and dependance. The israelites where in the desert being fed with manna and the day came when God stopped providing manna and let them work for their food. Elijah was with Elisha and the day came when Elijah had to go away and Elisha had to stay and be the prophet. There was a day when Mary was just a good godly woman but the day came when she would become pregnant before she was married. I think i've made my point but just in case, change is inevitable. Its not always a bad thing, its not always comfortable but it brings us to a better place if we have the right attitude and continue to trust God. 

~shalom~

the 44th

~shalom~

the hills are alive

One of my favourite movies of all time is the sound of music. Its one of those timeless classics that reminds you how old you must be to remember them.

I just love classic movies, i never tire of them and this one tells a tale of love but not in the modern way we have become so accustom to but the old traditional way where you don't need to sleep with the girl you fancy to know that it is love.

Anyway, i like this particular song because of what it brings to mind when i listen to it; nostalgia, good thoughts, the great outdoors rapidly disappearing. Some day we may be like those bloated folks on board the axiom floating out in space, sucking on our cups, never wondering about anything while robots attend to our every needs even those trivial ones. {if you're scratching your head wondering what i'm talking about, you should watch wall*e, wonderful movie}




The hills are alive with the sound of music
With songs they have sung for a thousand years
The hills fill my heart with the sound of music
My heart wants to sing every song it hears

My heart wants to beat like the wings of the birds
that rise from the lake to the trees
My heart wants to sigh like a chime that flies
from a church on a breeze
To laugh like a brook when it trips and falls over
stones on its way
To sing through the night like a lark who is learning to pray

I go to the hills when my heart is lonely
I know I will hear what I've heard before
My heart will be blessed with the sound of music
And I'll sing once more.

Why can't modern songs make you feel like appreciating God's creation?
~shalom~