Parachute Music Festival 2010

Just came back from Parachute and I have to say that it has been an awesome
experience. Someone from church decided to organise a big group of over 50 people to head down to the festival since it would give us a cheaper price.

The festival was held in Mystery Creek, Hamilton from 29th Jan until 1st Feb, which happens to be Auckland Anniversary weekend. Amongst the bands that were playing included Rapture Ruckus, Family Force 5, Hillsongs United, Leeland and Parachute Band.

Perhaps the best day was Sunday when it was raining pretty much the whole day yet everyone was out in the mosh pit to listen to Leeland and Hillsongs United. No one was bothered that it was pouring whilst these 2 bands were playing.

Ski trip

Just came back from a ski trip with some ex-ocf'ers....it was a very good trip....left auckland for ohakune on wednesday morning....weather was very good on thursday when we were on the mountains...although it was cold, the snow was fluffy and everyone had fun....praise the Lord that no one suffered major injuries - only some minor bruises from falling.....

headed to rotorua this morning....most of us when for a polynesian spa which was very relaxing...spent about 2-3 hours at the spa before we left for auckland...the trip this time round was very relaxing as we were not rushing to get anywhere at any time....we just took our own time going from one place to another.....

So far.....

It has been about 6 weeks now since I started working at Starbucks....the pay is much better then M'sia and I'm working with quite a nice bunch of people....standards have - perhaps inevitably - changed since I left Starbucks 3+ years ago, which means that I have to adapt to the new standards but that isn't 2 hard since I do know and remember the basics.....

New job

started my new job at starbucks today....

Graduation pictures

I've finally gotten round to posting my graduation pictures....

Me on the red carpet

Me during the march from the university chapel to the city's town hall

My graduation bear and degree

Big day

tomorrow is the big day...my convocation will be in the afternoon, with a procession to start off the day....will try to post some pictures of the big day some time tomorrow or the day after

Woohooo

My results are finally out and I relatively well...got a B and an A-....that means that I'll finally be graduating in the third week of September....

On another note, I got a new toy in the form of a Dell XPS M1530....

It's finally over....

I've sat for and finished what should be my final undergrad exam paper about 4 hours ago....Results will start to come out in about 15 days time but I don't expect my results to be out for around 2 and half to 3 weeks time....More on this to come.....

Random ramblings....

With petrol subsidies in M'sia now gone, the price of petrol has now gone up to RM2.70...Even with the government promising a reduction in road taxes to help negate the rise in fuel prices somewhat, I think that there will still be people who will complain about it....

My exams is coming up on the 23rd and 25th of this month and on the 30th, I'll be heading back to M'sia for about 3 and a half weeks...Leave a comment if you want to meet up and I'll text you when I get my M'sian number....

On a side note, I forgot to mention this in my previous post but when I was in Sydney for the conference with my youth, I got myself an iPod 160GB black...Because I was a tourist, I manage to get a refund on the GST for the iPod and what I paid after the refund was cheaper then either NZ or M'sia....

Sydney trip

Just got back from a week long trip in Sydney on Sat....was there for a CCC youth conference and it was a superb conference....one of my favourite speakers at the conference was Pr. Judah Smith....if you haven't heard him speak, you should not pass up an opportunity to hear him speak...he's one heck of a speaker.....his session spoke very powerfully for me and i believe it was the same for every youth at his sessions....

also, we had an hour long session of just praise and worship, led by Delirious?....that session was also a very nice session as it was just an hour of praising and worshipping God....

outside the conference, i did quite a lot of outdoor stuff with the youth group of my church who also went for the conference....we did lots of walking, some shopping, jet boating and wave crashing at Manly beach amongst others...we were also at the Hillsongs church service on the Sunday night after we arrived....i have to admit, their setup is superb....their main auditorium is huge, they have superb audio/visual setup and best of all, they actually conduct a live feed to their city campus for updates as well as updating them on whats happening at each campus....but the sad part is that i think i might have misplaced my camera there cause i couldn't find it the next morning....have called them twice during the week but they said that no one has handed in a camera to the lost and found...