tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-82591392011-07-28T19:06:04.151+02:00This site contains brief stories and updates about the life and times of absolute Gareth. Feel free to post a comment.Garethhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17511869029294853297noreply@blogger.comBlogger751100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8259139.post-62125754193031950372007-11-09T08:52:00.000+02:002007-11-09T09:39:24.778+02:00

I've been threatening myself the last few weeks that I'm going to try blogging again. Not sure what tone it's going to take. Millionbicycles.blogspot.com hasn't really gone anywhere. I guess as newly weds we have erm... other things to do.A colleague of mine is quite active on the Xbox forums and mentioned something interesting (to me in any event).http://www.xbox-360.co.za/forum/showthread.php?t

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Je veux passer le reste de ma vie avec elle. Je t'aime ma belle princesse

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I realised after reading Katherine's last post on MillionBicycles that we have differing views on what constitutes a "romantic" occasion. Com'on guys... I'm sure its happened to you before: You and a large group of friends (guys and girls) are having a conversation about how when Jimmy got shot in the head, went blind and got testicular cancer, he crawled 69km in -20 degree weather to the nearest

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Ladies and Gentleman, esteemed colleagues and friends, members of the press and all pet rocks... I'm privileged to announce the launch of http://millionbicycles.blogspot.com the new exciting blog containing the "Adventures of Asparagus and Litchi-pip"Intrigued? You should be... check it out.-->Ek is 'n moeg flam vanaand. *yawn*

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Something horific happened the other day just outside my house.With South Africa having a massive unemployment rate it is not uncommon to have people coming round to your house asking if you have any work for them. Now I live in a predominantly "white" area. Now living in a country where a) racism is a very real problem and b) public taxes are badly distributed you end up with a situation where

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It recently came to my attention, that I have many unrealised dreams. Dreams which although they are God honouring, I have not really moved towards in the last 18 months.What has replaced them (or prevented me from moving towards them) is the pursuit of a career. Don’t get me wrong, I like working. I like technology, I enjoy the mental challenge. But not enough for me to justify to myself the

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the title of this post makes reference to PMS!!!Do I have a problem with it. Nope. Not actually. This got myself and Katherine chatting.Our final conclusion and theory is this... (or was it just my theory... oops)PMS causing a girl to become emotional doesn't have to be a bad thing. If a guy is operating/treating his wife/courting partner/girlfriend in a God honoring manner at all times... then

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In a recent post of mine (see post) Anonymous posted a comment.He/She asked, "would you agree that offence is a form of hurt as well?"No, I do not. Please understand that my post on offense does not in anyway negate a tragic event done to you by someone else.I, and many of my friends, have had shocking things done to us throughout our life time. Among my large circle of friends we can put

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Coincidently it has been very cold the last 2 days here in currently-not-so-sunny sunny South Africa. But that's not what my title refers to.As previously stated I'm trying to pioneer 2 businesses. The one revolved around a possible 2 year contract. Which has fallen through. Leaving me essentially unemployed.The second involves retailing some nutritional products that I've been using the last

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From time to time someone pops by my site... drops a note and then asks for my email address.You will not find my email address on my site. Why?Because you get little computer programs called email-harvester bots... what they do is search the web for any email addresses they can find and add it to a database... the result then is that you get any/all of the following emails on a daily basis:1.

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Just came back from Victory Weekend. For a long time now I’ve made the claim that I am unoffendable and that the only thing that “offends” me is when someone thinks I’m offended with them. lol.Anyway... one of the lecturers communicated quite nicely what was in my heart.How often have you heard the statement “that person offended me” or “I offended that person”? How often has someone “offended”

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wow... can you believe the crazy titles of some of the links that google throws up on my site... heheI wonder how it decided that "Learn Voodoo Powers" was a relevant advert... oh well... I'm lucky enough that I don't need to bow down to occultic powers to try control people... my self esteem is good enough thanks to God.Or whats up with "Coming World War" Nostradamus prediction adverts.I have

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It just dawned upon me...I'm pioneering a 2 business's,I'm part of the leadership team of a church plant,Busy courting the most dynamic, powerful, wonderful and beautiful princess andPlanning to launch an outreach cell using some John Maxwell materialall while deepening my relationship with God.I'm busier than ever... yet everything seems easy... It's been such a long time since I felt so at

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Not sure if I mentioned it yet... surely I have... I guess you forget important things when you don't post for a couple of months... anyway, sometime last year I mentioned that Themba had approached me about a Church plant on the East Rand.Well that went ahead. His People East is now an official congregation. YAY!!!Pioneering so far has been great. Nothing like any other church experience. I

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hehe... once again just because I can here are some photo's.This first one is from Katherine's 21st. She decided to have a medieval party....And of course lets not forget one of my favourite pastimes... eating left over "Brian's Special" Ginno's pizza the next morning.... That's right I was in Grahamstown for a few days while on leave.and lets not forget this classic picture of me falling

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Out of interest do a search in google for "fossils of giants" or "giant human skeletons"... do enough searches and you will see that there seems to be 2 species of giants... just as in the bible. One which is human like and one which seems to have a double row teeth (like sharks)Disclaimer... I know some sights you find by doing that search will try convince you to join some "the aliens are

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I think I need to clarify some things quickly. (I hope its quickly)This is in reference to Peters comments (who btw is an awesome bass guitarist) but is once again done as a main post because it might be useful for others to read.Comments 1Comments 2Comments 3When I refer to evolution I refer toa)Darwin's hypothesis.b)Its presuppositions.c)The consequences of those beliefs when hold on to in a

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Yes I am actually. (oh boy... this is a big can of worms... I have now just opened up myself to millions of potential questions).The third question is quite a common question actually.I believe the two chapters are written for a different context and purpose and this different context and purpose is why they (whoever they were) decided to make the beginning of chapter 2 at this point.Genesis 1 is

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A very good question.I will take a philosophical look at this. I will do this because essentially evolution is really a philosophy/religion and not a science. (btw this could be funny because I have not formally studied philosophy).Evolution presupposes a couple of things that simple don't fit within a COHERENT worldview. For the purposes of anyone else reading this I'm quickly going to define a

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So I was asked in this COMMENT a couple of questions... I will attempt to answer them here on my main page. I will post each answer up 1 at a time... (because I have a strong dislike for long posts).BTW thanks for the reply Peter... I hope my answers at least partly satisfy you (I say partly because I would hate for someone to just believe me at face value.)And yes... the post was "an impassioned

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So on Saturday I was in pick 'n pay with Themba doing some shopping when we passed the toiletries aisle. For some reason I stared at a bottle of "head & shoulders" and instantly thought to myself, "self... I wonder why they call it head and shoulders... in this country we only wash the hair on our heads with shampoo".I then quickly concluded that it must have been invented by a Greek.Head and

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This link --> Carbon Dating is taken from the answers in genesis website.Something I didn't mention in my previous post is this:While I believe on creation vs evolution let me state the following:Not all "creation" science is science (just like evolution science)Not all "creation" agruments are well thought out (just like all evolutionary arguments)Not all "creation" documentaries target a

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Shame... sometimes I wonder how you can call yourself a scientist and believe in evolution and sleep at night.Mexican foot prints is yet another interesting article for thought.If you don't know then now is a good time to let you know. I don't believe in evolution. WHAT!!!How did this start.Well growing up I was initially skeptic when taught that I was basically a super intelligent monkey. But

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That is the most common question you will be asked if you are a victim of crime in this country.On the 22 November Katherine and I were hijacked. Since then I have once again been disgusted at peoples racism and prejudice.Ok... so I had someone hold a gun to my head, pull the ring off my finger and rob me of an mp3 player, cellphone, keys and wallet containing R800 in cash, bank cards, id book

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If you aren't in the loop then you need to know that my greatest highlight of 2005 was to finally start courting Katherine.Katherine and I have known each other a couple of years. It was only last year though that I felt a go ahead from God to start courting. I don't know if I've ever posted on my blog my views on dating.Anyway... after been single for 5 years I can honestly say that it was

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Ok I realise it has been almost 7 months (in fact tomorrow will be seven months) since I last posted.Hope no-one was holding the breathe.Blogging just isn't such a natural thing when you don't have a connection at home.Perhaps I could justify blogging at work as a "blog-break". After all my colleagues get a smoke break.... what if I blogged every time they went for a smoke break.Wow.... that

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Mmmm.... So I recently discovered from one of my band members thatJonana Jo.... is an "expression of amazement".Better expressed as "Jo jo jo jo"..... now if you're from Africa you'll know how to pronounce that... if you're from Europe or America and english speaking... then I imagine you're pronouncing it as Joe Joe Joe.I don't know how to spell phoenetically (or spell phoenetics for that matter

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Happy re-birthday to me!!!Well today marks 5 years since I died and was reborn of the spirit of God. 5 years of being changed and making a difference. 5 years of happening to life instead of life happening to me. 5 years of allowing God to constantly challenge my perceptions and paradigms. 5 years since I was suicidal. 5 years since I stopped living for myself. 5 years since I met the person of

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Wow… the last couple of weeks have really been busy. So I’ll have to divide this into different parts. In fact I don’t want to bore you guys with 2 many details so I will try do it in point form. Yeah right... ok… I’ll try keep it brief at least. I am now leading our youth leadership team here in Springs. (That kind of makes me youth pastor except that I’m not in it full time). My

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Don't worry... I havn't droped off the radar... I have been putting together my next 2 posts... unfortunately they will be largish in size.... unavoidable. Personally I hate long long long large posts... but for those of you that have your own computers there is light at the end of the tunnel.I just installed Mozilla Thunderbird. It is an email program. A really awesome, easy to use email program

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A couple of posts ago a spoke about "sanctified identity". In there I mentioned that I wasn't really sure how it worked and went on to explain my experience of God changing how I see myself etc.Well... here's a little insight into why it works.We know that Jesus sacrifice was perfect and blameless. Therefore his sacrifice doesn't just atone our sins but actually does a whole lot more. Why is

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Hey guys... got to spend some good time with KC last night. For our international / non grahamstown readers KC is one of the lovely powerful ladies of the 4 Durban Street Digs of 2004.She also went on the Chrysalis thingy that I went on a couple of weeks ago and there was a Chrysalis reunion type event last night in Benoni (where KC lives). So we hooked up so that I could get directions and

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Well... I started getting really bad headaches a while ago because of my prolonged hours in front of computer monitors. I did a little research and discovered that some astonishing things about eyesight.If you have frequent headaches or wear glasses you might want to check out:http://www.program-for-better-vision.com/One of the things I have done since is take a vitamin supplement and no longer

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A while ago I mentioned that I had been thinking of the possiblity of a church plant here in Springs.Well... good ol' pastor Themba approached me on sunday... he wants me to give him a tour of the East Rand. The jhb church is seriously considering planting in the east rand. Wow. Steve and I have chatted about this a couple of times. We are both very well equiped. We could easily start by planting

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Hey guys...I am so overwhelmed and humbled by this experience that I am actually shutting myself off emotionally to it. What experience you are asking yourself?The other night we had a praise and worship evening here in Springs for the youth.Half way through the awesome worship (but nowhere nearly as awesome as the Grahamstown guys) one of the guys from the youth group that Steve and I have been

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Hey guys... thought this might be a good place to post a couple of prayer needs1. There has been some really hectic forensic investigation going on where my dad works. He is really stressed. It looks really bad... my dad is in court today so pray that he would be filled with the peace of God and that God's grace would flow over him. For the last 2 weeks he has been running on the most hectic

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Perhaps one of the deepest questions of life that anyone will ask is, “Who am I?” Growing up it was a question I constantly battled with. Perhaps you never asked yourself that question in the same format… it is a question of identity and takes on many forms. “Am I really special?” “Am I unique?” “Am I strong?” “Am I clever?” “Am I cool?” “Are my clothes cool?” “Is the music I

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Recently saw the movie Constantine. Now obviously a lot of it was bound to be a twist of Christianity… this I am sure is obvious to most people…I will give merit to the part were Gabriel tells Constantine that he can’t buy his way into heaven. That it is not about works… I thought it was quite nicely put.The one major twist of the movie which will not be so obvious to people watching it is that

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Ross (my best friend) recently got married. It was an incredible event. It was attended by just under 300 people. Expensive? I have no idea... If it was a typical urban organised wedding then it would have been rediculously expensive, but this wedding was largely pulled off by a loving community.I arrived a couple of days early to spend time with Ross. I was amazed at the involvement of the

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Hey everyone...Skype rules...Thought that everyone should know this. The delays are minimal and itdoesn't waste time with things like advertisements etc.What is Skype? Skype is a Voice of IP program that allows you to chatacross the internet.This is now finally legal in South Africa . Yay. Telkom (the worldsmost expensive telecommunications company) has finally decided toallow us to make use of

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Shucks... I was wondering how often I've used South African lingo without realising it.There are some really good stories about how local words can get you into trouble when you're not at home. Two come to mind.A buddy of mine's sister was in the UK. She was staying in a commune and the places geyser started giving problems. So one night at the table she said to the rest of the people living

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This is my new place. This is where me and my two boets live. Boet is a South African slang term based on an afrikaans word that means brother.Here we have the main house. The garden is very new. Basically there was nothing but dust and mangled bushes when we moved in. Thanks to much appreciated help of my Mom the avid gardener, it now looks pretty decent I think. THANKS MOM.Here is the back

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I have been contracted to develop a system for the cellular retail industry.A basic (with all the jargon left out) run down of what I have been doing and will be doing is as follows:Analyse all the business processes of my employers business. From the shopfront (sales) to all the admin processes. Analyse all the short comings of their current system. Look for uneccesary paper-trails that can be

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Ok... so you might have picked up from the last post or two that I've got a job this side... so what am I doing?Well the above pic is my office computer.P4 3.0 Ghz HT1GB RAM80 GB SATA Hdd2 x 17" flat panel monitors(thats really cool if you know nothing about computers)If you are not from an African country then it's even better than you think because 99% of computers in South Africa still have

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Well... there we go. My new design is up... It still needs a bit of work though... I am still getting use to CSS... so maybe when I feel inspired again (not to soon I think) then I'll mess around with it a bit more.Why the change... I was tired of all the blue.More to follow...

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Hey... I haven't forgotten you guys at all.I have taken photos of my place... plus I have lots of news... I will shortly (in a week or 3) update everything.... plus I will putup a new design for the blog... so it looks cooler.Here's a little appetiser of news regarding church:In the mornings I go through to HP Jhb. Which has been great... I havebeen meeting up with just the right people who I

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I realised quite recently that I had typed this out but forgotten topost it. For those of you that are interested I am now in my newplace. My two brothers and I are renting a 3 bed roomed house, aninvestment that my parents recently bought. It is a pretty decenthouse and the rent is a steal. R660 a month. (that's about 100 U.S.dollars or 66 pounds). We have a large kitchen, two bathrooms and

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Hey everyone...We just got ADSL installed at home... that means I will now be able toupdate more often again. With less pain (because of the extra speed)and with photos once again (because I get to use my computer).Recent news: hmmmm there is a lot.I got to preach a few weeks ago at a local youth group. It went prettywell for a debut preach. I did record myself... it turns out that Isay OK a lot

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My lost few days were great. It consisted of a lot of invites to friends’ places for lunch and supper as well as a number of movies invites. As a result I have now seen the “Bourne Supremacy” as well as “The Village” twice on the big screen, all in my last 8 days of been in Grahamstown. Both are really good movies (in my opinion anyway). Then there are all the amazing cards and letters that you

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So… as promised a little about my church.We are word based and spirit filled, believe in extravagant worship(the way it is in the bible) and don't care much for religion.We are about Christ. About knowing, following and becoming like Him.And we are quite serious about it. If something is close to God'sheart then it is close to our heart. We are spontaneous, loud, vibrantand full of life.There

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Here is 6 of the 7 of us that live together. At least for another week that is. I move out next week and head off for Jo'burg. I finally discovered how it is spelt. Jo'burg not Johburg or Joburg. It is about time.

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I will remember to use sunscreen... I will remember to use sunscreen... I will remember to use sunscreen... I will remember to use sunscreen

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Here is the picture of my foot that I promised a while back. Don't worry... it is feeling and looking much better.

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I succesfully burnt myself to cinder over the weekend. A couple of ustook some kids from the township to Kenton for the day. Of course Ididn't have any sun screen as usual. Except this time the unthinkable(in my mind anyway) happened. I got burnt. Badly. I have now learnt mylesson. From now on I will start using sun screen.Yesterday I was finally able to wear a shirt without wanting toscream. And

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Hey guys...It definately sucks when you don't have 24hour internet. Well... Idecided to quickly jump on the net on my trip back from the doctor.I ruptured legaments in my foot again. This time the left foot. Infact I even have a photo this time. Where you can see all the bloodthat has collected on the side of my foot under the skin. The bloodcan even be seen in my toes. Ergh.You'll have to wait

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Hey everyone...I am now working from home and no longer have 24 hour ADSL. **sniff** **sniff**.My monumental news for the week is that I hand over the leadership ofmy cell this week. Andrew will be taking over from me on wednesday. Iam quite excited about it. I really feel that he is the right guy forthe job. Solid, faithful and hungry for God. I couldn't be handingover my cell to a better man. I

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Alas, it is official. My time in Grahamstown has come to an end. I made my final decision on monday while driving back from Cape Town. I am heading off towards Jo'burg next year. Actually before then, I will be settled in Jhb in the next 2 months. My plans are as follows: To gain industry experience in programming, systems analysis and project management. Specifically focusing in on Java. So I

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Here is my first attempt ever at making bread. It was my turn to cook again on Tuesday (As is every Tuesday), and so to keep up my reputation throughout Grahamstown as been not to shabby in the kitchen, I decided to bake some bread. Don't get me wrong rice, pasta and cous cous are great carbohydrates, but they are so predictable. So this weeks protein was some fried chicken (the way I learnt

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Ok, so I recently finally got the chance to go to Cape Town. Friday the 24 September was Heritage Day and therefore a public holiday. So I took off Thursday afternoon as well as Monday to make the trip worthwhile. The trip to Cape is 870km and so a good day is spent driving there. The first noteworthy piece of news is that I stopped at Stormsrivier (Storms River) to check out the infamous ravine

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Yeah... I was blessed with another opportunity to water baptise someone. Eben (the guy I am baptising) was recently led to God by John (one of the guys that I am discipling). Basically in a round about way (without trying to mess with anybodies theology) it means that spiritually Eben is my grandson. I guess that’s what happens when your church comprises mostly of students and it only takes 3

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Yes Yes... due to the increasing demand for news about me... I will over the next few hours (as I have fleeting available moments) be adding some more pics and news. So come back soon.

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I see that news of my princess has made it to the following blog. Check out Glen's Article ciao

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Now for some recent news. I actually just got back from a trip to Johburg. I left Grahamstown for a few days to visit family and do a bit of thinking. As some of you know I decided to try my hand at business this year. Basically I needed something to keep me in Grahamstown where skilled jobs are very hard to find. My reason for wanting to stay in Grahamstown was simply because just over a year

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Agh... finally. This brings us now to September. On the 1st of September we celebrated Spring by having a cocktail party at my digs. Below is a picture of myself and Ryan.

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I was blessed with opportunity to water baptise 2 of my cell members. It was really a beautiful moment. Apart from the fact that I had the flu at the time and that the water is only slightly above 0 degrees Celsius. It was really great for Debbie and Kirsty because they are best friends and Kirsty was going to permanently leave Grahamstown 3 days later. For me baptism is always a powerful

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These photos are from a Cultural evening we hosted at my Church. Basically we were celebrating the diversity of creativity and culture that God has created. Everyone came representing different nations from around the world. We also had people pray in different languages. Man… I had no idea how many nations are represented in our congregation. Some languages I have no idea how to pronounce or

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A major part of being a Christian is understanding that when your life belongs to God, then your life is a life of service. Here are a few of us washing peoples cars for free and inviting them to Church. We washed +-60 cars on this day.

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Here’s just a little post to honour the 'bokke' who are finally starting to play up to scratch again. This picture was taken in August when the 'bokke' beat the 'All Blacks'. mmm... just goes to show you... some people seem to worship sport. At least I know that Brynmor doesn't only throw his arms out during a game of Rugby, and that he has no problem saving his loudest and most extravagant

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August was a month filled with many birthdays. These are the ones that I had my camera with me. Sizwe's 23 Birthday. For this one I was asked (once again) to be the MC. The evening was great. Brynmor and I were undercover agents for the evening. I had a microphone hidden in my Jacket sleeve. Brynmor and I went around recording individual messages for Sizwe which I later burnt to CD for her. We

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I suppose an important event (although I found it dreadfully boring except for the fact that I got to see friends) was my graduation ceremony where I was awarded my Bachelor of Science in Information Systems Degree. The ceremony was so cramped that I practically dislocated my shoulder. Fortunately Leanne (a friend of mine, who has formally studied something I can't spell or prounounce) was also

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Below we have Ross (who I miss terribly) and Camilla... who started courting the week before this photo was taken. Incidently it was in the same week that Ross got a job. I was over the moon (about both), I must have been waiting about a year for them to get together. So now we wait in anticipation to see where this budding Romance is going. mmmm actually I would call it a blooming Romance. I

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Well... what would february be without Valentines day. Ok... so there are 7 of us that live together in my digs. 3 guys and 4 girls. Glen thought it would be a nice idea to bless the girls with a breakfast. So we woke up at the crack of dawn to prepare the breakfast for the 4 fair maidens of Durban Street. It consisted of Fresh Fruit Juice, Strawberries, Blueberry Muffins, Muslie, Low-fat

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I have decided to give a little update of what I feel have been the higlights of this year. Actually there are lots, these are the ones that I have pictures of. The next three posts (once completed) should summarise Feb, March and April of 2004.

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I have now uploaded my new template for my blog. Half of the design is original to me, the other half is stuff I learnt from looking at other peoples styles. The end result of my 2 day self stufy of Cascading Style Sheets is what you see before you now. Yeah for clever Internet Nerdy Geeks that like to invent great technolgies.

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Hi there, If you're wondering where everything went then wonder no longer. I was having some problems with the previous blog (remember the hidious red), I had modified the look of the blog and after that it just did not want to update again properly. Not sure why... but my final resove was to delete the whole blog and create a new one. So here it is... Hope you find my bog interesting. Gareth

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