I was dragged through some arty shops today, and strangely found myself enjoying it. Any excuse to stay away from the studying has become the oasis to my desert. In one of these shops I stumbled upon a collection of cards by Redback Cards and WulffmorgentHaler. They are brilliantly funny, so much so that I just had to buy one. Below is the one I bought. You can visit their website here.
I so want to ride this lift. Watch Fanta make every bodies day.
These along with the awesome open happiness trucks are just amazing marketing. Whatever team is behind it, you guys rock.
It finally arrived. HCF is now CityHill church. The 6th of March was an amazing day, thousands gathered from all the church’s sites in one venue. There was excitement in the air as the church began to worship God together and celebrate his amazing love.
I was involved in the Promise Land, our children’s church’s, rap. The most daunting part was trying to remember all those words. It’s amazing how, even though you know the words, when you stand on a stage the words can disappear. In the end I remembered most of them, and improvised for some. It was an awesome privilege to be a part of such an iconic moment in the church’s history.
Visit CityHill’s website here to find out more.
Special thanks to Mandy Rothquel, Msizi Hadebe, Cole Marshall and Ayanda for filming different bits for me.
Knowing that SingStar is more fun with friends, I packed up my PS3 and all it’s essentials, PS EYE, Mics, game disks, and lugged them over to a party. SingStar is slowly growing on those of my friends that don’t count themselves as singers. I think it’s because it lets you be that rock star you’ve only ever dreamed of.
With the kit set up, names typed in and photo’s taken the group sat down to play. As with all the PS3 versions of SingStar the interface is a breeze, so much so that you may just spend a few extra seconds in the menu because it’s so good looking.
With SingStar Pop a new update has been added to the game that is definatley worth a mention. After the last SingStar update added harmonies I was curious to see what other features Sony would be able to come up with. Introducing the voice control option, no more messing around with silly remotes, simply tell your PS3 what you want and it’ll play it for you. Looking for a Jordin Sparks song? Just say, “Show Artists,” followed by, “Jordin Sparks.” Select the song with your voice and off you go. Although it’s certainly not perfect, I love the new addition. Unfortunately though, when there’s a lot of shouting going on SingStar doesn’t understand you as well. I say unfortunately because when a group of friends is playing SingStar there is a lot of shouting involved.
The new SingStar pop has some fantastic new songs that’ll have you jumping on your coffee table and performing for your adoring fans. “So What,” from Pink leads the pack with the opening game song, a fantastic SingStar tradition. The Killers are feeling ‘Human,’ and Kings of Leon adds another of its latest hits to the SingStar library.
The new songs take full advantage over the harmonies feature this time around, something which adds an interesting new challenge to the game. Singing No Air with Jordin and Chris will have you finding new ranges you never thought you had. But the best news about Pop is that as you browse through the songs you will know a lot of them. Although the oldies are there they are mostly popular songs, after a bit of a wobbly play list on the last SingStar Volume 3 it’s great to see the songs back to the usual high standard.
Below is the play list for SingStar Pop edition.
| Alphabeat | 10.000 Nights Of Thunder |
| Black | Kids |
| Amy Winehouse | Rehab |
| Black Kids | I’m Not Going To Teach Your Boyfriend How To Dance |
| Bon Jovi | Livin’ On A Prayer |
| Chris Brown | With You |
| Chris De Burgh | Lady In Red |
| Cyndi Lauper | True Colors |
| Gloria Estefan | Rhythm Is Gonna Get You |
| Jordin Sparks feat. Chris Brown | No Air |
| Kaiser Chiefs | Never Miss A Beat |
| Kate Nash | Mouthwash |
| Kings Of Leon | Sex On Fire |
| Klaxons | Gravity’s Rainbow |
| Little Jackie | The World Should Revolve Around Me |
| N*E*R*D | Sooner Or Later |
| P!nk | So What! |
| Queen | Bohemian Rhapsody [DSCIMG] |
| Robbie Williams | Angels |
| Robyn | Be Mine |
| Rockwell | Somebody’s Watching Me |
| Sam Sparro | Black And Gold |
| Solange | I Decided |
| Sugababes | Girls |
| The Feeling | Rose |
| The Killers | Human |
| The Police | Every Little Thing She Does Is Magic |
| The Script | The Man Who Can’t Be Moved |
| Will Young | Changes |
| will.i.am Feat Cheryl Cole | Heartbreaker |
| Yazoo | Don’t Go |
Experimentation. Over the last month I have began to loath that word from the very core of my being. A Google definition search pulled up the following:
experiment: the testing of an idea; “it was an experiment in living”; “not all experimentation is done in laboratories”
An experiment in living? That needs some clarification. What does that mean? When we grow up we are taught the difference between right and wrong, most people essentially think they’re good people and boy do they not have a clue.
“Come on bro, you never drink? We have to get you drunk sometime.”
Please excuse the verbal attacks that will follow. Are you mentally handy capped, retarded, stupid, dropped as a baby, or just blind?
“Ah, you’ll never know what it’s like until you try.”
Buddy, you’ll never know how great it feels to have a truck roll over your head until you try either, that doesn’t mean I’m going to do it. Forget all the normal logical and spiritual reasons for just staying away from alcohol to be safe, why would I ever want to put myself in such a venerable state? I can’t even trust you to look after your own life, let alone mine.
You see, what people just don’t seem to be picking up is that every decision you make today, and every stupid thing you do will affect your entire life in some way. It will shape you as a person, put you into almost unbreakable habits and lead you down paths that would cause your seven year old self to run away screaming if they saw you.
It’s not the kids of today, or the people of today. It’s been happening for centuries. We make the same stupid mistakes our parents made, and one day you’ll sit and tell your kids not to do what you did. When they do it, you’ll probably sit back and say – ah let them experiment.
Hello! That’s not how this deal works bud. It’s not just an experiment; it’s a decision to engage in whatever activity against your better judgement just for… That’s just it, I don’t know why? Why do people take drugs? Why do people smoke? Why do people drink excessively? Why, why, why? I just don’t understand the logic, reasoning, stupidity, whatever you want to call it that’s involved.
Don’t blame it on divorce, television, poverty or anything like that – those aren’t the reasons. I guess it’s just a lack of God in their life. No light means dark.
Today I got told that one of my younger former friends was now experimenting in smoking stuff. The way he’s been going I’m not surprised but it still made me so sad. I can’t even imagine what God must feel. He’s wasting his life on something he knows isn’t right.
I’m a person who really enjoys spending time with young people, but as they get older most change in ways that just make you so sad. They forget God, they ‘experiment,’ they loose who they are in a world that encourages compromise and rejects truth. Maybe that’s why I love young people; they are uncorrupted, open, honest and free. But unless they choose to stay that way, and most don’t, they become the so called good people of today. People that are so caught up in the nothingness of their lives that they don’t even know right from wrong anymore.
I’m not trying to judge other people, because I’m just as susceptible to doing wrong in different ways. In fact if I don’t check myself I easily fall in to the trap of thinking I’m a good person when that’s not what it’s about. God first, life second. That’s how it should always be. If you don’t believe me, try it, you just might find this is the last experiment you’ll ever need.
God means life, love, eternity, happiness, completeness. He makes you want to be a better person all the time. I am a very judgemental person by nature; I look at people and often accurately sum them up at face value. What I’ve learnt to do is see what I don’t like and instead of judging them look at myself and say, do I do that? Am I like that? If I am then it needs to be sorted out, if not then thank God for that and move on.
People often say they just can’t stop sinning in a particular way. My first question is do you really want to stop? The difficulty is not in stopping the action; it’s in the reasoning behind the action. How badly do you not want to do it? That’s what you should be correcting, that’s the root of the problem. If you don’t want to change for the better than nobody can force you, but it’s a shame that your life would have been wasted when there is so much more to find.
