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Sky Angel Cowboy
Wednesday, January 21st, 2009A friend emailed this clip to me the other day….. brought tears to my eyes.
“They call him the ‘Sky Angel Cowboy’. Thirteen-year-old Logan Henderson lives on a ranch located in the middle of Nebraska.
Isolated from much of the world - he often listens to KSBJ Christian radio out of Houston, Texas, which he picks up [...]
Black and white in a grey world!!!
Friday, November 21st, 2008As my lovely wife points out (see Peta’s muse), the events surrounding the US presidential elections have been nothing short of a saga in itself. Seldom have I seen people globally have such strong and potentially volatile views on a particular event as this. I have a few questions though….
If Obama were white, would he [...]
Thinking or Feeling
Wednesday, July 16th, 2008In my work as an IT professional, I am often confronted with issues which seem to elicit contrasting views depending on ones’ temperament. Sometimes a solution to a problem may very well depend on your perception - whether you are a “thinker” or a “feeler”. I often find myself moving between these two realms. I [...]
Catholic Education Office
Saturday, May 10th, 2008For those who haven’t yet heard, I now work at the Catholic Education office in Leederville - Perth Western Australia. Here’s a brief tour (Courtesy of Bradley Ford) of the beautiful and heritage listed building and its surrounds.
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THE PARADOX OF OUR AGE
Wednesday, April 16th, 2008This…. attributed to George Carlin….
We have taller buildings, but shorter tempers;
wider freeways, but narrower viewpoints;
we spend more, but have less;
we buy more, but enjoy it less.
Have you ever wondered….
Wednesday, April 9th, 2008Why doesn’t Tarzan have a beard when he lives in the jungle without a razor?
Why do we press harder on a remote control when we know the batteries are flat?
Why do banks charge a fee on ‘insufficient funds’ when they know there is not enough?
Decisions decisions decisions…..
Wednesday, March 12th, 2008What do you do when you need to make an important decision which will impact not just yourself, but your family and your life’s calling. …In addition to praying that is….
I recently found myself in this kind of major “cross-roads” wondering which way to go. Of course there are many who [...]
I think I’d rather die ….
Sunday, March 2nd, 20088. If your hand or your foot causes you to sin, cut it off and throw it away. It is better for you to enter life maimed or crippled than to have two hands or two feet and be thrown into eternal fire.
9. And if your eye causes you to sin, gouge it out and [...]
Year in review - 2007
Wednesday, January 16th, 2008My first post for the year…..
I have been looking for a way to effectively summarise the year gone by, and came across this site according to Reuters which I think has some great photos. Another good site would be this ABC news site which made some interesting claims. However, I have not been successful yet [...]
$100 laptop?
Thursday, December 27th, 2007Most of us are familiar with this popular Chinese proverb; “Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime”.
I wonder if the OLPC (One Laptop per Child) project, founded by Nicholas Negroponte and team qualifies as a temporary sustenance or [...]
Sir Arthur
Saturday, December 15th, 2007Back in 1979 I was a year twelve student at Trinity College in Kandy Sri Lanka, which incidentally boasts of being the only school to own an international cricket stadium and have produced one of the greatest cricketers this generation has known - Kumar Sangakkara. That same year was when I was voted in as [...]
Christmas is here (again)!!!
Tuesday, December 11th, 2007Arrghh… guess what!!!…. Before we realised, Christmas is upon us again. Some of us are still reeling from the last one or several. It is a time for reckoning and a time for celebrating. But whatever it means to you, I know that life would be that much poorer without it.
I have [...]
Bend it like Murali
Monday, December 3rd, 2007“It is for his dignity as much as his wizardry that we should salute the Tamil’s historic feat”
Michael Marqusee
Monday December 3, 2007
The Guardian
By the time you read this, Muttiah Muralitharan is likely to have become the highest Test wicket taker in cricket’s long history. It’s an extraordinary, heartwarming achievement that will be celebrated at length [...]
Leadership, servanthood and pragmatism
Wednesday, November 14th, 2007Often we equate the title “leader” with “boss” or the “head”. I have witnessed instances where…
The leader knows how to get things done, yet in the process doesn’t know how to treat their people
The leader doesn’t know how to get things done, yet things come together amidst chaos.
But now I’m learning about the leader as [...]
Psalm 23
Friday, September 7th, 2007Click here to listen to My favourite Psalm in Hebrew. (speakers/headphones needed). I somehow think that it sounds more majestic and reassuring in it’s more “original” format. On hearing, there appears to be more than just words and the depth of meaning.
א מִזְמוֹר לְדָוִד: יְהוָה רֹעִי, לֹא [...]
Averages
Friday, September 7th, 2007After reading the following from this site, I decided I do NOT want to be “average”. Here are some excerpts.
-95% of divorces are caused by a “lack of communication”-The average working person spends less than 2 minutes per day in meaningful communication with their spouse or “significant other”.
-The average working person spends less [...]
Where do I belong?
Friday, September 7th, 2007We all know that one of our most basic needs is the sense of belonging. Our sense of belonging is mainly derived from our families. However, mostly in today’s western culture, the family can seem more of a fiction than a fact.
Another important source of a sense of belonging would be the [...]
IT dept. song
Sunday, August 26th, 2007Sometimes working in the “tech arena” can become quite mundane. Therefore, in order to spice-up a department update at one of our weekly staff meetings, in a bout of inspiration I not only succumbed to penning, but also singing these words. (to the tune of “Raindrops on roses and whiskers on kittens…..”)
“Ben [...]
Democracy
Monday, August 13th, 2007I remember this fake obituary which appeared in the government-controlled Ceylon Daily News (Sri Lanka) in April 1974 when the then SLFP government banned political rallies by the opposition, sealed the Davasa Group of Newspapers and imposed other emergency measures.
The obituary read something like this :
“O’CRACY - The death occurred under tragic circumstances of D.E.M.O’CRACY, [...]
Back again…
Sunday, July 29th, 2007It has been a while since I have posted on this blog. Here’s to being more diligent…