The Misadventures of Dan
Peer into the mind of Dan as he tries to build an MP3 Player for his PDA and searches for the next thing in his life be it an electrical engineering job or graduate school.
Saturday, March 15, 2003
.:2:23:17 PM:.
A Hangout
Yet another plug, my friend Di just introduced me to this new site: its like a hang out place for Edmonton Church goers... it sort of has a an Asian focus as in so far the people signed on are from various asian churches in Edmonton but in no way does that mean its exclusive. :)
Something really cool happened yesterday at fellowship. We were at Second Cup having a "discussion-with-the-use-of-bibles" (note it wasn't quite a discussion about the use of bibles, but it involved the use of bibles and yet I don't think was a bible study get it? got it? good :), a pretty large gathering-there were eleven of us. Anyways in the middle, this guy comes up to us and asks us if were having a bible study. We were like "yeah, we are" and then he told us that he and a couple of others were also having a bible study. They were from some Punjabi church. I thought that was really cool, I mean its not a totally foreign concept but at the same time its not exactly normal. Anyways afterwards we traded contacts and maybe we'll hook up.
Thursday, March 13, 2003
.:3:09:31 PM:.
It exists!?!
I did some googling and found this site: Tastyfresh which led me to Danfarmer.ca. Mind you I don't think this doesn't necessarily means that all the music on there is good because its Christian. Music should be good because of what it is: music, and not because of the attachment it has or the name it goes under. Its always good to keep an open ear and an open mind to try different tunes and here's a station to do just that Elektrik Cirkus.
Wednesday, March 12, 2003
.:1:44:20 PM:.
Seeing the finish line
Lots of things happened over the weekend, well at least in terms of it being shallow things. I finished the 3D presentation for my friend, Kristi. I think I've decided that I'm going to start posting just the first names of people because its just less confusing.
Update: Since the creation of the presentation, there's been a series of ups and downs. Ups because its finished and Kristi's group seemed pretty happy about it. I mean we demo'ed it in a Chem E computer lab because obviously you want to keep this as a secret until the day of the presentation. So its all pretty hush-hush, and then guess what happens? It gets revealed! I was totally speechless when Kristi told me that one of her group members showed it to everyone in the Mec E lab. I mean what was the point of going to a separate computer lab if it was only going to be shown away to everyone? Admittedly my mind began racing, I mean what can I do? How can I change the presentation? I could build up a new one but that would take inordinate amounts of time and to get it done a few days before would mean I'd have to drop everything. While I guess I was trying to help Kristi out, all she really wanted was to vent, she told me that I had done everything, yet I still feel somewhat responsible. Maybe I should have warned them what was obvious point. On the plus side though, I definitely want to see what the other groups have in plan, now that they've seen it. I'm slightly afraid to see it because there's the possibility that it'll be great-and yet I want to know just what I can do to make the next one even better. So I'll see... I know I'm slightly curious.
Monday, March 10, 2003
.:1:03:17 AM:.
Where
A lot of times, I wonder... if I were really that strong of a Christian, all my friends would be Christian. I mean, obviously it would be cool that I could share with them and it would be better still if they were Christian. I take a different approach, yeah it could be chickening out but I see so many... persistent... Christians and often they push the non-Christian people away. I don't think I want that. I would like for God to use me in the way He thinks is best and not in my own way.
Dealing with this whole job-hunt situation, I think is a definite test in faith. Sometimes I feel like I'm afraid that maybe, just maybe God won't be there. It scares me to think that after four years of engineering that I went the wrong way. People must go through this and I'm glad to have God and a growing group of strong friends (Christian and non-Christian). There's definitely power in prayer and knowing people are praying for you. The first time one of my new friends said that to me I was taken aback. There is this person, who knows me just a little bit and was praying for me. Sometimes I think its just the knowing alone that gives you an added boost.
So perhaps there needs to be this system, like a "peer-to-peer" network for praying... a Prayster if you will. Where fellow Christians can help each other by downloading the prayer request into one another and putting it into their system. The more trading that goes back and forth, the stronger the system. Hmm... I should go get a patent :P
