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Friday, 22 July 2016
Once Again ...
Once again it has been left unattended for a fortnight. I guess it would of happened especially because my semester started. Not to say I've put a lot of time into it but just that I procrastinate about study and it trumps this so this gets put further on the backburner.
So I'm posting now, means I've done some study. Cut my full load to just one subject to see if I can survive anymore studying in my life or if it's just futile. Online study just makes it harder. Bit weirded out posting to faceless people in the forums ... people I've never seen. Least the teacher's face is posted on the video. Will update more as I go.
Well I had intended on posting about camp in the traditional long post but don't think that's going to happen. Didn't really take any photos with it so would of looked kind of boring anyways. Least I'll share what I most enjoyed out of it. Glad to say it was the talks. The speaker had 4 talks which were 'The Bible is Personal', 'The Bible is Powerful', 'The Bible is Trustworthy', and 'The Bible is all we have and all we need'. What got me was that this wasn't anything new. Probably something we'd learnt many many a times. Yet these things are often forgotten. It was a great reminder and built our confidence once again in the Word that is the root of our core belief. Something that we've had from the start of this journey. So yeah that was great. Also he called me pikachu while I was on PA which confused everyone until they turned around to see me in my pikachu beanie. As usual wore all my weird stuff. Actually wore a jacket this year to try to be normal. Which is weird because usually I don't. I'm weird. Also shout out to the games, some interesting ideas used, not too complicated, and well implemented which is all I ask for :P.
I'll leave it at that in this post. Once again I will just put down some possible posts I'll be doing when I get time. Work again is meant to come up ... keep adding to the list of what I'm going to post. Probably cut it down like this camp one but I do have lots of photos if I can find them. Also Pokemon Go stuff ... yes they'll be a post about that but hopefully its surprising and encouraging ... well that's how I visualise it as being. See how I go ... again.
So I'm posting now, means I've done some study. Cut my full load to just one subject to see if I can survive anymore studying in my life or if it's just futile. Online study just makes it harder. Bit weirded out posting to faceless people in the forums ... people I've never seen. Least the teacher's face is posted on the video. Will update more as I go.
Well I had intended on posting about camp in the traditional long post but don't think that's going to happen. Didn't really take any photos with it so would of looked kind of boring anyways. Least I'll share what I most enjoyed out of it. Glad to say it was the talks. The speaker had 4 talks which were 'The Bible is Personal', 'The Bible is Powerful', 'The Bible is Trustworthy', and 'The Bible is all we have and all we need'. What got me was that this wasn't anything new. Probably something we'd learnt many many a times. Yet these things are often forgotten. It was a great reminder and built our confidence once again in the Word that is the root of our core belief. Something that we've had from the start of this journey. So yeah that was great. Also he called me pikachu while I was on PA which confused everyone until they turned around to see me in my pikachu beanie. As usual wore all my weird stuff. Actually wore a jacket this year to try to be normal. Which is weird because usually I don't. I'm weird. Also shout out to the games, some interesting ideas used, not too complicated, and well implemented which is all I ask for :P.
I'll leave it at that in this post. Once again I will just put down some possible posts I'll be doing when I get time. Work again is meant to come up ... keep adding to the list of what I'm going to post. Probably cut it down like this camp one but I do have lots of photos if I can find them. Also Pokemon Go stuff ... yes they'll be a post about that but hopefully its surprising and encouraging ... well that's how I visualise it as being. See how I go ... again.
Wednesday, 6 April 2016
Move it move it
So I'm not usually that active as shown by some days when my MiFit says I've only done 400 steps that day (think it might not be working ...). However looking at my last week I was surprised how much I had done.
Starting on Thursday night it was badminton. So taken up badminton since the end of last year with some BWMC people. Been pretty regular playing every week when possible. Had some good matches. That was from 9:30 till 11.
Friday night impromptu bike ride, again with BWMC peeps. Started riding around 9ish and finished round 11:15. Rode pretty hard with some big hills. Hills mean one way easy, the other way not so easy ... Was able to pace myself however some hills I didn't manage to gear properly so had to walk them. Still hard. Hadn't eaten so was hangry ... probably made me ride harder.
Sunday we mucked around with a ball with the SCGH but did put in some goalkeeping practice. I did actually have the opportunity to play with the BWMC guys but haven't had much concentration lately so decided to decline. Even though its not physically hard to stand in the nets, it takes a lot of concentration to keep up with the ball.
Monday night finally joined some of the SCGH people swimming. Had been meaning to go swimming with them for awhile but usually they end up swimming quite far away and I ceebs. I actually really enjoy swimming, however that usually in the sea. It's more interesting with the waves. Didn't realize it was so different and actually harder >< in a pool. I mean laps didn't seem too interesting but trying to do them was soooo tiring. My freestyle was pretty terrible so had to rely on my breaststroke. Not as bad but still pretty slow. Can't get my breathing right. Need to practice more. Managed around 18 laps in an hour.
Errrm Monday night still, went badminton again ... Okay Monday night is my usual badminton night. Thursday is my extra if I don't do board games. So Monday minimum. Because I swam before this, during the hour in between I ate dinner. Not a great idea. Even though my first few matches were good I started feeling the food coming up. At times I had to ask to be given a moment to get rid of gas building up from running around. Didn't puke or anything. Just hard time playing some games. In the end wasn't too bad. And that was from 9 till 11.
Pretty active week for someone like me. Thing is I'm not doing this for any sort of fitness/losing weight reasons. I actually enjoy been active. Just rather be active with other people, more enjoyable. Also if there's a goal of some sort helps with motivation. Like winning a match or reaching a distance. So not like I'm avoiding doing these sort of things. Just sometimes location to do these things are too far, or cost too much. Otherwise I'd love to do more. If this old body of my will hold up ... well who knows if I don't try.
Starting on Thursday night it was badminton. So taken up badminton since the end of last year with some BWMC people. Been pretty regular playing every week when possible. Had some good matches. That was from 9:30 till 11.
Friday night impromptu bike ride, again with BWMC peeps. Started riding around 9ish and finished round 11:15. Rode pretty hard with some big hills. Hills mean one way easy, the other way not so easy ... Was able to pace myself however some hills I didn't manage to gear properly so had to walk them. Still hard. Hadn't eaten so was hangry ... probably made me ride harder.
Sunday we mucked around with a ball with the SCGH but did put in some goalkeeping practice. I did actually have the opportunity to play with the BWMC guys but haven't had much concentration lately so decided to decline. Even though its not physically hard to stand in the nets, it takes a lot of concentration to keep up with the ball.
Monday night finally joined some of the SCGH people swimming. Had been meaning to go swimming with them for awhile but usually they end up swimming quite far away and I ceebs. I actually really enjoy swimming, however that usually in the sea. It's more interesting with the waves. Didn't realize it was so different and actually harder >< in a pool. I mean laps didn't seem too interesting but trying to do them was soooo tiring. My freestyle was pretty terrible so had to rely on my breaststroke. Not as bad but still pretty slow. Can't get my breathing right. Need to practice more. Managed around 18 laps in an hour.
Errrm Monday night still, went badminton again ... Okay Monday night is my usual badminton night. Thursday is my extra if I don't do board games. So Monday minimum. Because I swam before this, during the hour in between I ate dinner. Not a great idea. Even though my first few matches were good I started feeling the food coming up. At times I had to ask to be given a moment to get rid of gas building up from running around. Didn't puke or anything. Just hard time playing some games. In the end wasn't too bad. And that was from 9 till 11.
Pretty active week for someone like me. Thing is I'm not doing this for any sort of fitness/losing weight reasons. I actually enjoy been active. Just rather be active with other people, more enjoyable. Also if there's a goal of some sort helps with motivation. Like winning a match or reaching a distance. So not like I'm avoiding doing these sort of things. Just sometimes location to do these things are too far, or cost too much. Otherwise I'd love to do more. If this old body of my will hold up ... well who knows if I don't try.
Friday, 4 March 2016
Difficulty Setting
Been playing B-Sieged which looks quite difficult/daunting with the hordes of enemies moving ever so close to siege the citadel. Lost the first two game miserably so didn't have much hope for the third. However with a bit of luck rolling we managed to beat the game.
That night we had Koinonia. Talked about the difficulties serving those we work with. The mentality of the work place is often to put yourself first. So to serve others in the workplace is pretty counter productive right? Well it really depends on the goal of why we do things. As Christians we are serving to show God's love.
The reason I put these two different subjects together is that they both talk about difficulties. Difficulty is a subjective idea because everyone has different strengths and weaknesses. Was just thinking of the things that I found difficult or not difficult. I mean looking at some games I play, some people wold say how hard it is and tell me how I make it look easy or such, even though to me it is neither hard or easy. Then there are things others do that I find extremely difficult/impossible but they seem to do it with such ease. Now breaking that down there are aspects of things we do that I find easy but others that I find hard. Like I don't find it hard working, doing menial tasks but I find it hard to get a job. So would it be said that I find work in general hard because I can't even get work?
I find interacting with children relatively easy to what others have said but I find it hard to study to be able to work in the business even though I have the skills. But this comes down to how the world works. You need a piece of paper to say what you can do, and you need the skills to be able to put that proof on paper. Reading and writing isn't my thing as you can probably find reading my blogging but these are required skills for general education. Practical skills are great but doesn't exactly transfer to paper to hand in to my teacher. I know there are Cert and Diploma level stuff that grade more on practical skills but to teach you need a Bachelor. Even the guy I talked to study a Diploma said it was a waste and that I should study Bachelor if I wanted to teach. Does that mean I should just give up on teaching?
Practical skills also don't transfer to job interviews. All they can see is what is written down and possibly what they hear from referees. I don't have any interview skills so that's mostly what they see. Apparently I didn't know what was appropriate to wear to interviews (no I didn't wear anything dodgy) and that I need to practice interview answers which shows the little I know about interviews ...
In the end it looks like I have the wrong skills to enter into what I want to. I think what I need to do is get some help. Some professional help ...
That night we had Koinonia. Talked about the difficulties serving those we work with. The mentality of the work place is often to put yourself first. So to serve others in the workplace is pretty counter productive right? Well it really depends on the goal of why we do things. As Christians we are serving to show God's love.
The reason I put these two different subjects together is that they both talk about difficulties. Difficulty is a subjective idea because everyone has different strengths and weaknesses. Was just thinking of the things that I found difficult or not difficult. I mean looking at some games I play, some people wold say how hard it is and tell me how I make it look easy or such, even though to me it is neither hard or easy. Then there are things others do that I find extremely difficult/impossible but they seem to do it with such ease. Now breaking that down there are aspects of things we do that I find easy but others that I find hard. Like I don't find it hard working, doing menial tasks but I find it hard to get a job. So would it be said that I find work in general hard because I can't even get work?
I find interacting with children relatively easy to what others have said but I find it hard to study to be able to work in the business even though I have the skills. But this comes down to how the world works. You need a piece of paper to say what you can do, and you need the skills to be able to put that proof on paper. Reading and writing isn't my thing as you can probably find reading my blogging but these are required skills for general education. Practical skills are great but doesn't exactly transfer to paper to hand in to my teacher. I know there are Cert and Diploma level stuff that grade more on practical skills but to teach you need a Bachelor. Even the guy I talked to study a Diploma said it was a waste and that I should study Bachelor if I wanted to teach. Does that mean I should just give up on teaching?
Practical skills also don't transfer to job interviews. All they can see is what is written down and possibly what they hear from referees. I don't have any interview skills so that's mostly what they see. Apparently I didn't know what was appropriate to wear to interviews (no I didn't wear anything dodgy) and that I need to practice interview answers which shows the little I know about interviews ...
In the end it looks like I have the wrong skills to enter into what I want to. I think what I need to do is get some help. Some professional help ...
Friday, 26 February 2016
Boarding it
Thought this might be a good place to start. I just got back so started back up the board gaming with the SCGH and BWMC people on Thursday and Friday nights respectively. Originally the idea was to bring the two groups together so that we from different church can get to know each other so that we can work together as ONE church. However it's quite hard when there isn't a regular attendance in any of the groups. I'm not the greatest at organizing stuff so it's probably just me not been able to put may intentions out there for meeting up.
Tailoring board gaming sessions is hard ... well I find it quite hard. Number of players, game time, genre, or theme are just a number of factors that will affect people's willingness play the game. Statistically with our commonality of Christianity, the likelihood we have that many more similarities, having same preferences is lower ... okay I'm rambling but do you get me? Having the same preference in board games is seriously unlikely. I've had to chose to play games that don't exactly fall in my preferences but guess that's what I need to do as game host. This isn't expected of other people. Bringing more and more people means more and more differences in preferences. Maybe I need to have a specific heavy game night and a lighter game night?
Take playing Resistance. Playing on Sunday after like 20-30 minutes two of us were already over the game. People played the game different to how other people expected so were suspected of spy just because they play different. Even under a genre, when people play dramatically different it's almost like a different game because other people need to respond differently.
Think I need to come up with a different way to organize these game nights. I did make an Excel sheet stating peoples preferences in different game properties ... maybe I can come up with something.
Tailoring board gaming sessions is hard ... well I find it quite hard. Number of players, game time, genre, or theme are just a number of factors that will affect people's willingness play the game. Statistically with our commonality of Christianity, the likelihood we have that many more similarities, having same preferences is lower ... okay I'm rambling but do you get me? Having the same preference in board games is seriously unlikely. I've had to chose to play games that don't exactly fall in my preferences but guess that's what I need to do as game host. This isn't expected of other people. Bringing more and more people means more and more differences in preferences. Maybe I need to have a specific heavy game night and a lighter game night?
Take playing Resistance. Playing on Sunday after like 20-30 minutes two of us were already over the game. People played the game different to how other people expected so were suspected of spy just because they play different. Even under a genre, when people play dramatically different it's almost like a different game because other people need to respond differently.
Think I need to come up with a different way to organize these game nights. I did make an Excel sheet stating peoples preferences in different game properties ... maybe I can come up with something.
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