trips and all that gear

My first experience at an interstate music festival was, to put it in one word, ace. Sonfest was so incredibly cool... well, everything except the weather, which was extremely hot. It was stacks of fun, and the best acts (I thought) were Crying Out Loud and Maverick (I'm biased since I'm friends with them :), Audio A, Third Day, Revive, Nikki Kumerow and Shawn MacDonald.

anyhows, i haveta cut this short because i wanna get to the city to see Missy Higgins FREE at Darling Harbour! (eeek!)

-d

flyyyying

Hehe, I once again leave the supposed familiarity of my home tonight, as I prepare for another trip (!), this time to Boonah, Queensland for Sonfest!! Tonight I'll be staying at James' place first, as we gotta be up around 3 something tomorrow morning to try and get to the airport around 5ish!! No point in sleeping really. Then we fly up to Brisbane, get on a bus at 7am Brisbane time, then travel about 1.5 hours South West to the town of Boonah, where Sonfest awaits. 4 days of awesome music, camping, dodge food, mozzies, flies and bad jokes between the three of us (Me, James and our mate Eunice). Ace! I'll be back on Sunday night if any of you are wondering

Until then, YAY!! (I get to fly in a plane again! :)

-d

Stuck in my head tune: Third Day "Sing Praises"

heatstroke

hmm

You will all call me a complete nutcase, but I played golf in the incredible heat that was today..er, yesterday now, or Friday 14th of Jan. It was quite excrutiating, and the only reason why i kept going was because I needed to finish the round because my handicap had lapsed, and thus I need to put scorecards in. It was truly an experience though... every chance I had, I'd rush to the shade and proceed to try and catch my breath. The only reason I didn't collapse in exhaustion was because I drank like 3.5 litres of water and powerade. The stupid things you do for golf ay.. hahah

My Dad's 50th bday party is on tonight, which will be interesting. I don't remember ever being at any sort of party for my dad... I went to get his present today from Golf Mart. I'm expecting there to be stacks of golf related presents.. One I'm worried about is something Ali said about ppl getting him a golf bag.. which he really doesn't need and will take up lots of room which we don't have.. Ah well, we'll just see. The good thing is that they're being thoughtful for what he likes :)

I realise I've been really slack in finishing off my NTE posts. Not to worry! I'll have them done eventually, hopefully before I go to Sonfest. Lucky I took notes though, the memory jus gets jogged easy as. Heheh

hmm, my face is burnt..

-d

ramblings....rumblings? humblings....

Why am I still up? I ask that question of myself way too many times, so I'm not going to ask that of myself. *spluuunk*

Thats the sound of that question being taken back..

Okay, what is on my mind at this moment?
The question, "Why do I get myself in these situations?"

I don't know, why do I get myself in these situtations?

Oh that repeated it.

Well, its all quite simple really.

I'm an open book apparently.. and even though I'm well aware of this fact, it doesn't seem to stop me doing things which will cause ppl to talk. Seems to be becoming a pattern almost. Perhaps. Maybe.

But I really shouldn't worry about what they say or think.. but I can't help it, weight of observation flattens me like an anvil... like a giant thumb is upon me and pushing me down.. I guess that would be a pet hate.. I figured out one! (I had a convo on pet hates two days ago, hehehe).

I can't handle ppl thinking bad of me at any time, let alone times that are a result of my own behaviour. That is why I am in this situtation.

I think this would be the 2nd in my series of posts which make no sense whatsoever unless you're me or those that are very close to me.

Hope you all have a more realistic grip on the world than I do at this point :)

-d

Tune: Chords in the key of G... I haven't figured out lyrics for my song yet..

filling in the gaps

Well, too many things have happened (again) since my last post..

I'll go in most recent order back to like the 26th..

Thursday 6th to Now
I have had just an awesome time the last two nights after being at the Planet Shakers night rallies (which I'm going to tomorrow as well), where it was just huge nights of praise and worship as well as just feeling the prescence of God just move and stuff. Wooot. And I decided to sponsor a kid through World Vision! His name is Somchai and he's from Thailand. I had been thinking about it for the last two day and I realised that $39 a month isn't really all that much money to me but it is a huge amount to this kid and his family.. So I hope that it will be make a difference :)

Sunday 2nd to Wednesday the 5th
Youth Camp!! It was just a great time of really growing inside of us all, and the speaker Phill was just awesome. We also got to fit in beach time (it was at Collaroy) and Warringah Mall, where I bought a Billabong hat.. Which has a matching design to my Billabong jumper I bought in Melbourne. Odd that, I didn't intend it. But I'm all rustic now, heeheehee. It was a stacks tiring (but fun) camp, and as a result of playing my guitar for nearly every session, I have to get it fixed (the strap lock screw thread is stuffed)

Sunday 26th to Saturday 1st
Had our annual Melbourne pilgrimage via the Hume Highway. Intersting trip, mostly because we encountered a swarm of locusts around the Wagga area. When we went to clean them off the car at Albury, there was stacks just stuck in the grill... and still half alive... ewwwww. Anyhows, had a good time of catching up with family and stuff down there, as well as meeting up with Rene. That was quite cool because he wanted to see art galleries. I have never done that before. So it was a good experience for my first non-school art gallery visit. Did some shopping and stuff (getting a rustic Billabong jumper) and going around the peninsula. We stayed past Rosebud, near the National Golf Club at Cape Shanck. I was cut, I didn't have my golf clubs and I was next to some of the best courses in Australia. Oh well, next time ay.

We were in Melbourne for NYE and it was also the night before we had to leave for SYdney again, so we didn't do anything on NYE except an extended family asian bbq (you know, like ht korean style thingo) and then just watching the fireworks on tv. How can I put this nicely... The Melb fireworks were.. disappointing really. I think I've been desensitised by Sydney's or something, expecting the best all the time. They did show the bridge part of the Sydney's right after Melb's fireworks finished, and they were spectacular. WHat is so funny is that my friends thought Sydney's were crap... which goes to show just how disappointing Melb's was. Oh well, atleast lots of money was raised for the tsunami victims, which is far more important than the quality of fireworks. That whole tsunami thing was just freaky and its scary to think its the worst natural event in modern history or something and we're living to witness it. It just shows that us humans don't run the world or anything.. there are stronger forces in this world than us and we're really quite fragile creatures..

Wells, thats that for all that, time for me to sleep or something

-d

Stuck in my head tune: Planet Shakers "Always and Forever"