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Box after box after box…

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on August 11, 2008

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I haven’t done a proper update in a while, so I thought I would post one and go through lots of the things that have been going on in my little life in the past few weeks or so. All terribly exciting and I know you’ll just love reading it! haha.

First things first, I went to New Wine which was as usual really good fun. This year I managed to stay away from technical related subjects and was on the Youth team in the cafe for a change, it was actually really good fun. I was a little apprehensive, especially at the idea of having to be a group leader of my own little group of kids but actually it went really well and I enjoyed it! I wasn’t sure I was really up to leading kids in their spiritual learning and stuff but actually I think that by helping them and working with them on the stuff we covered I gained a lot too, so they as much led me as I led them!

Whilst on the topic of New Wine, in an interesting twist it managed to remain fairly dry all week instead preferring to just fry us alive in the venue, but at least it wasn’t raining! I mean it did rain one day but it was only a day out of the whole week so not too bad! In fact the one day it did rain was the day I spent the most of it out doors going around collecting money for charity, so yeah… bad choice of day for charity collecting!

After New Wine not much has really happened, I’m now just 2 weeks away from the wedding (Yay!) which is pretty exciting, everything is basically ready now, got suits arriving this week and rings were ordered last week and being collected tomorrow. Naomi is collecting her dress later this week I believe and that’s basically it. The only thing left to sort is some dancing lessons for the first dance, it would be nice to actually do a good first dance rather than just shuffle around! haha.

The main thing going on now is me packing up my life, I have failed to find a job or anything and so with a lack of any better alternative me and Naomi are at first going to stay at her parents after the wedding until we both get jobs and our own place to live. I’m confident the right job will turn up eventually, it would have been nice to set up our own home straight away, but such is life. So yeah, my whole life is slowly being packed into boxes. I remember now why moving house isn’t much fun!

So, there it is… update over.

On a side note my “Assides” section is now a fully fledged Twitter feed of whatever I am doing right now, so I will update it with things like “Going into town” or “Eating some tea” etc etc. I quite like Twitter so going to give it a proper trial.

Also, I’ve added a translate function to the site, not for any particular reason but just because I can. So if you’re feeling particularly Chinese in the spirit of the Olympics then feel free to view the site in Chinese - it doesn’t even break the layout too badly!

Freedom!!

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Kieran

on May 21, 2008

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Well, it’s over. All is finally complete and I am now free from university, the degree has been completed! Horray! Don’t really know what to do now, I’ve only had like one day since I finished so hasn’t really sunk in yet, but yup, it really is done and I really am now a graduate!

I am now beginning my hunt for a job, I’m thinking that sales or marketing could be where I want to go. I reckon it could be quite rewarding and I’ve always been rather good at bullying sales people into giving me money off and whatever so I’m pretty confident I’d be good the other side of the table. I’ve got a few possible jobs I’m looking at so fingers crossed that goes well.

The obvious big thing next is of course the wedding! Which is all rather exciting, we’ve sent all the invites now and we’re getting lots of responses back and we’ve even had a few gifts which is nice. We went to IKEA a few weeks back and bought loads of kitchen type things too which was fun, and we looked at beds and furniture and stuff. It feels much more real now and oh so very soon, it’s only 95 days!

So yes, university over, life is about to begin… I’ll keep you posted, hehe.

The future of pancakes.

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Kieran

on April 8, 2008

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Today I completed my dissertation. Well, technically yesterday as it is now 01:24am and so technically it’s tomorrow, well… today. You get what I mean. The key point is that I finished the dissertation. Now yes I do still have three essays and an exam to do, but it feels strangely like the end at the moment. The dissertation is such an important part of a degree that to complete it and hand it in (later today), well that’s an important moment I believe, it signifies the end of what has been now almost sixteen years of education.

This end of what I have known well that brings about new concerns. I never again have to worry about homework, or trying to think of new reasons why I shouldn’t go to school or more recently, new reasons why I shouldn’t go to a lecture. No, now I need to worry about new things, things like bills, and taxes, and you know… the future.

So, what is the future going to hold? Well… who knows.

I want this blog to be one of my attempts at motivating, putting things in perspective, making people feel at ease. I am fairly sure in my mind that I am not alone, that you or at least some people you know are worried, unsure and uneasy about what may lay ahead in the very near future. But I am also fairly sure that there is only a very limited ability for a blog to put people at ease.

Have a read of this statement:

I want to live! I mean, who in their right mind in a choice between pancakes and living chooses pancakes?

There is a quote for you, it’s from the film Stranger than Fiction and raises that very important point, your life is whatever you make it, if you choose to you could do nothing with your life but eat pancakes. Some may not see that as a very good life, some may not like pancakes - but they key thing to remember is as follows, the response to that statement:

…if you pause to think, you’d realize that that answer is inextricably contingent upon the type of life being led… and, of course, the quality of the pancakes.

What the film is trying to say (Or at least, how I interpreted it) is that life is whatever you make it. Someone may choose to live the type of life where they eat pancakes, the key thing is that they are still living. They are making their life what they want it to be.

The same goes for us, our life is whatever we make of it.

I am uneasy about the future, I don’t know exactly what is going to happen. I don’t know if I’ll get a job (So far I have been far from successful) nor do I know where I will live. But that doesn’t mean I can’t look forward too it. I know it will work out alright in the end and I for one am very excited.

I am at a turning point, anyone who is finishing university or anyone else for that matter, is at a turning point. We are forever able to make choices, we can choose to do whatever we please with our lives and make of it as we will. At this point, at this turn in the road, the world is our oyster! Do you want to eat pancakes? Or maybe you prefer waffles? Maybe you just want a nice job, a family, a nice car, you know… traditional stuff. Either way, your life is what you decide it should be. It is as the film says, inextricably contingent upon the type of life being led.

So go out there! Do what you will with your lives and have fun!