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My FAMILY

Joyce

Jenny

Sam

Charles

Me (Tim)

Joyce is my sister
I am Jenny's uncle
Sam is Jenny's father




\and Charles is the overseas student. (LOL)

Welson, the remaining member is away on business ------------>>>>>>>>> ... or so we told Brian.

Vindicated

Hope dangles on a string

Like slow spinning redemption

Winding in and winding out

The shine of it has caught my eye

And roped me in

So, mesmerizing,

and so hypnotizing, I am captivated,

I am

Vindicated

I am selfish

I am wrong

I am right

I swear I'm right

Swear I knew it all along

And I am flawed, but I am cleaning up so well

I am seeing in me now the things you swore you saw yourself

So clear

Like the diamond in your ring

Cut to mirror your intention

Oversized and overwhelmed

The shine of which has caught my eye

And rendered me

So isolated,

and so motivated

I am certain now that I am

So turnup the corners of your lips

Part them and feel my finger tips

Trace the moment fall forever

Defense is paper thin

Just one touch and I'll be in

Too deep now to ever swim against the current

So let me slip away

So let me slip against the

Slight hope

dangles on a string

Like slow spinning redemption...

"Dunlop Volleys lob back into fashion" by Glynis Traill-Nash

article taken from smh.com.au

Parents are breathing a sigh of relief as the classic Dunlop Volley canvas sports shoe makes a comeback against its more expensive competitors.
Gone are the expensive, high-tech, designer trainers that were the must-have shoe for teenagers only a few years ago. Making a return to the hippest feet is the humble Dunlop Volley.
Bolstered by teens wanting to be trendy at school, sales of the Volley, in all its white with blue-trim glory, increased by more than 50 per cent in the past financial year.
"It's all about kids wanting to wear the $30 shoes with the $400 jeans," said Andrew Savage, general manager of Dunlop Sports, Footwear. Part of the appeal, he said, was that the brand didn't advertise.
"That's been one of the keys to it. Once again it's that subculture thing, not something that's slapped in their face. It goes through the playgrounds, schools and pubs like wildfire."
The shoe, created in the 1930s, also appeals because of its retro style.
"What was old is now cool again," Mr Savage said. "A lot of kids go home wearing them and their parents are like, 'What are you doing in Volleys?"'
Seton Kidd, footwear business manager at Rebel Sport, said the shoes were also loved by "dads who can't get out of flat shoes" and labourers. Mr Kidd reported "consistent double-digit growth over the last few years" at Rebel Sport.
He said the shoes have "had a resurgence off the back of Chuck Taylors [Converse] coming back in".
"They've been around for so long, they're an Aussie icon, so they're cool."
"Parents have a connection with the brand and want their mini-me to wear them," Mr Savage said.
But for the driving force behind their renewed popularity, the 10- to 18-year-olds, it's all about what's cool at school.
Angus Killen, 13, from East Blaxland, owns three pairs of Volleys.
Angus wears a blue pair with laces to play cricket and footy and has a white and black pair and a brown pair of checkered loafers to wear out.

Pencilbook Review: Cheap Eats

Tell me I'm not kidding. How can cheap uni student food be even labelled an 'eat'? But I have found the cafeteria that matches up (both quality, quantity and price) to that old underground Chinese foodcourt... was it under Little Bourke?... that got closed down. Union House cafeteria has anything and everything ranging from gelato to Viet noodles (run by Chinese), Donut King to lasagne. You name it, it's there. The atmosphere is friendly and down-to-earth and even if you go by yourself, the experience is still great.
A large plate of Chinese food for $5 seems like a dream when you compare it to the likes of restaurants in The Asian suburbs such as Glen Waverley and Box Hill. SO please, come if you appease, cheap food in the city only AT Melbourne University Parkville campus.

awesome Surge Camp 08 at Phillip Island Adventure Resort

How many of you have ever been on a Christian youth camp? Well never in my life have I experienced anything like this. Sure, Fungus 06 camp was awesome but now that I've grown up, the understanding that comes with maturity has just volted all of a sudden.

During this camp God made me realise just how precious each individual life is. I look back at my current lifestyle, my personality and all and I realise just how much more I have to learn about Him and His plans for me. What horrified me was that when I prayed my words were short and dull, what happened to the passionate days of year 9 where streams of praise and worship would just flow from my mouth? I was ashamed but God got me through this. Then Satan attacked me with negative thoughts about just how insignificant I was but God won me over again; I am not another mere human being. I am fearfully and wonderfully made, and no-one is ever going to tell me that I am not unique because I am, because God said so.

I met so many new people, Derreck, Dot, Steven Fenby, Tim, Daniel... and each one of them had their own little characters and traits that made them so likeable. Thanks guys, without you I would have wandered around the campsite alone.

The teaching was great. We had a preacher from Queenslands, Artia, come down to talk and entertain us. Man, he was funny. The praise and worship were of course my favourite times. Everyone just got caught up so much in the music it didn't matter what others thought of you, everyone just jumped, raising their hands, lifting their voices; screaming till our voices went coarse.

It was raining the whole time but we all looked at it from a positive point of view. We're just hoping that the water did go into the dams.

We left Monday afternoon. The night session on Tuesday, Artie baptised whoever wished to be baptised in the Holy Spirit and God gave many of them (if not most) the gift of tongues.

On Wednesday I had a deep and meaningful talk with Daniel about the supernatural, mainly because I wanted to know whether the book I was reading, Wicked, was alright for me. Daniel is so wise, he told me that if I wasn't sure it was best not to do it just to be safe. Thank goodness, I really wasn't confident at the time that it was appropriate for a Christian like me.

Thursday night, last night, Derreck, Caleb, Dot and I were told off by Pash Patrol because we were sitting out along the lake at 12am . We weren't doing anything bad, we were talking. But it was funny to get up to the dining hall and have them tell everyone else that they found three guys and one girl talking dnm stuff.

Finally this morning we had the best praise session ever and everyone was still so hyped up from the previous night that we danced passionately in front of the stage. Crazy stuff.

And now even though we're not on camp anymore we'll still see everyone on Sunday. Most of us are Crossway kids (except Steven Fenby :]). I don't believe that it was merely coincidence that we were all at camp. I believe God put us there for a purpose, to teach us something about life, and about how to live it.