[created] for something greater

The word for today is Mum.

Ok so the word Mum in the dictionary doesn’t actually even come close to what we know the word mum to be. So instead a definition i found for mother is

something or someone that gives rise to or exercises protecting care over something else; origin or source.

Isn’t that an awesome definition for mum. Mum’s truly are the ultimate source of protection in your life. No matter how many times you slam the door in their face, back chat them, forget their birthdays, break a bone, eat the last piece of cake, make a mess, forget your keys, lose your wallet, get grumpy, or even forget that they exist they will always be there to provide protecting care over you.

Just think about the times where your mum has copped your yelling and didn’t say a word because you are to proud to admit your wrong, or when she gave you $20 bucks to go to the movies even though she knows you only need $10, or when she went to that parent teacher interview and told the teacher “it’s not your fault”, or that times she rang the school to say your sick even though she knew your were faking it, or the times you fell and grazed your knee and she instantly attended to your wounds, or the times that she cooked for you in the middle of the night because you have crazy sleeping habits, or the times she stayed up waiting and worrying where you are at because you didn’t call her at 10pm like you told her to, or the times she drove you to where you needed to go because you missed the bus or you slept in. Mums are always there for ya.

Well i know my mum has and i probably don’t say i love you enough to her.

Well today was a great day - we headed out to the Mother’s Day Sunday Service called “Cherish” and after that headed home and had dinner at the Toh’s with the Lays, the Jones and some others. It was a really fun night together definitely refreshing.

Me and Lisa definitely had the right idea for the day:

LOVE YA MUMMY! Yes i am not afraid to call her MUMMY!

please refer to this past post about mandarins

Praise God i passed both my anatomy assessment for the year so far!!

For a subject that apparently has a failing rate of about 50% sometimes i was really worried coming into it (I SHAKE MY FIST AT PEER PRESSURE)  and although the assignment wasn’t to bad the practical exam had me worked up a little bit.

But Praise God, when i got my marks back today i found out i got 40/70!  It isn’t exactly a 7 but when you consider that most of my mates got around the 25-30/70 mark i was glad that i passed.

And funnily enough our prac class did so bad compared to the other prac class that our course coodinator gave everyone in my prac class an extra 1.5 marks to boost up our average grade lol.

That leaves 3 more assesment to go for anatomy!

NEED U GOD

Ricky posted a video on his blog of someone drawing Lock from Lost from scratch on photoshop.

A while ago i bumped into a timelapse video of someone who draws cars in MS paint.  Now this guy has skillz

Thank you Lord for your protection over my Mum!

On thursday night our 4WD was playing up with basically the battery power not turning off even with the key out of the car so we took the car in on Friday morning to get a full servicing and check up (since it was due as well). I went to church later on that night and mum went to pick up the car and drove it home. After that she left home for her Family LG held at the Tan’s.

Later on that night while playing Wii at Don’s place we got a call from mum saying that the car had “exploded”. So after a bit we left for home to see what had happened. Mum says that after she got home the garage was full of smoke and there was water all over the floor. Mum moved some of the mats soaked with the water and complained of a burning, tingling sensation over her hands and unknowingly i had accidently put my fingers in my mouth because i had a hair in there and where my fingers touched my tongue went numb so i quickly rinsed my mouth out. We looked at the mats that we had put on the grass to see that 90% of the grass under the mat had pretty much died!

From then on we realised that whatever the liquid was on the floor it was acidic! We called RACQ at about 1am and 20 minutes later the guy had come, we explained, he looked and after many word of profanity later he explained that the battery had internally exploded and leaked battery acid onto the floor and onto the wiring inside the car which is pretty much now eroded away.  so we spent the next 2 hours cleaning up the garage with a hose.

But where the praise comes in is that He said if we had driven it anymore the car would probably have exploded on the driver which would have been my mum! And it is amazing that she was meant to drive to LG but somehow plans got changed.

Praise God, He is always looking out for His children. Isn’t this is a great lesson in that not everything happens by accident! God was right when He said his ways are higher than ours!

studying anatomy has just solidified my belief of creation over evolution.
The human body is a genius piece of organised tissue that works in perfect unison and harmony with itself.  there is no way that something as random as evolution could eventually become what the human body is today!

not even equipment created by man is as complex as the human body, infact, alot of the things created today are a result of studying the human body!  Aren’t we smart little things, drawing inspiration from the original blueprints that God gave to us… and to think the blueprints to technology have been with us all our lives coz we are the blueprints!

but things like how there are muscles in ya neck that remain taunt just so that your head doesn’t topple to the side and snap your spinal cord.  ligaments that keep your arms and legs from breaking themselves because you decided you wanted to bend them furthur than they should.  fossas, foramen, notches, canals (fancy names for holes) that are placed in such percise positions to allow nerve fibres, tendons and blood veesels to run through them so that they can reach all parts of your body, and i mean ALL PARTS!  from the tip of your toes to the top of your head, blood and nerves are present!  Muscles that act against each other to balance out your movements, like when you flex ya bulging biceps your triceps do an opposite action so you can bend your elbow.

And did you know that your body creates its own electricity!  and it maintains its own heat… and that your body heats up air as it enters your body so that you don’t get pneumonia everyday!

from the support of our skeleton to the movement muscles create to the joints that allow you to walk, talk, eat, breathe, jump, run, sit, stand to the organs that keep your body clean, healthy and able to taste, smell, see, feel.  i could just go on and on… it is so amazing this genius piece of work we are.  can you imagine thinking up the human body?  i mean the body supplies blood filled with oxygen to EVERY SINGLE LIVING CELL IN THE BODY.  we humans cant even provide every human being on the earth with drinkings water!  We can’t even supply everyone with a computer or internet!

What an effort God put into us!  makes me want to be a great steward of this get honour to have such an amazing body!  i wanna go to heaven buff haha (yes i know i cant take my body) but alteast i can tell God that i worked his genius piece of living machinary to its highest potential!

today is ANZAC day and with ANZAC day comes the remembrance of those who fought for peace. But something I’ll always remember about the ANZACs is their spirit, what the ANZAC spirit means and how it has defined Australian culture.

I remember doing an essay on it in history in year 10 a

nd getting an A (my first ever A for a full on essay), probably because it really interested me.

but a big part of the ANZAC spirit is mateship.

Australians are known for their valour when it comes to a friend in need no matter the circumstances. whether getting shot at by some fella with a gun or getting an earbashing from the misses. ya mate is always there to pick you back up and carry you to safety. (usually a pub haha not that i go to pubs)

So this ANZAC day grab ya mates and give em three cheers because ya mates deserve to be blessed.

so to all me mates out there reading this. thanks. thanks for being an encouragement, an inspiration, a challenge and most of all a friend that puts up with my nonsense, my ADDness, my randomness, my susness, my corniness, my insecurities, my weaknesses, my bad habits, my procrastination, my laziness, and my inability to comprehend organisation. i know i don’t appreciate you all enough so i’m gonna work on it. this is for you

hip-pip hooray

hip-pip horray

hip-pip horray

love ya like a fat kid loves STEAK MATE! (none of this cake nonsense haha)

and to the ANZACs i salute you for your bravery and courage. in the face of danger you chose to stand between life and death as you marched into guns blazing and bullets flying just so that we could live in freedom.

thanks

The artwork for the new Hillsong Live album is out on their website with a couple of song samples.

here is the cd cover, looks like something that united would do.

but i like it. looks awesome

and here are the four sample tracks they have loaded up.  Very interesting i must say.  Can’t wait for it to come out in July!

Stronger - Hillsong Live

Run - Hillsong Live

Desert Song - Hillsong Live (Brooke Fraser)

This is Our God - Hillsong Live

is the sound made when i headbutted mum lol.  with her permission of course.  we had a good laugh.

lol at the random A.D.D.ness of me and mum.  oh it was A.D.D. because she was asking me to pray for her and i just felt like headbutting her and yea.

joy

Last Wednesday was one of those days you had a reason to be excited about going to uni. Why? No it wasn’t because of market day or anything free for that matter, it was because we had a very interesting Human Physiology Lab Practical that tested something home made.

We tested our own pee, yeap pee, pee as in a number 1, a number 1 as in urine, urine as in the yellow stuff that your body produces. I can’t be bothered going into the science of it (mostly because i don’t know exactly what we were testing for)

the day started off with eating a normal breakfast plus 500ml of water. At 11am we had to drink another 300ml of water then pee between the times of 12-12:30 and note the time. We then had to void, aka pee, at 1pm and drink back 200ml of water and hold in our pee for the next hour until we reached the lab.

The lab started at 2pm and we did the intro with everyone in my group BUSTING for the toilet. Our instructions were to grab a container, 2 measuring cylinders and a tiny sample tube. We had to pee into the container then measure the volume in the measuring cylinders, pour some into the sample tube and then flush the rest down the toilet. Funnily enough i think everybody spilled their first urine sample because the tubes fill up ALOT quicker then you’d expect. I had a whopping 470ml of pee at 2pm. After that we were split up into 2 test groups:

test group 1 had three people

1. drink a can of red bull (for caffine)
2. drink 3.3ml/kg of saline
3. drink 10ml/kg of water

test group 2 had three people as well

1. drink 10ml/kg of water
2. drink 10ml/kg of water + do 8 minutes of exercise after 60 minutes
3. drink 10ml/kg of water + eat 5 sachets of salt after 60 minutes

I drank the saline which is what they give you in hospitals in the drip.  Ended up drinking 429ml of it, it was NASTY.  After we drank our dose of whatever we had to pee every 20 minutes noting the amount of pee and keeping a sample. Group 1 only drank once at the beginning and that was it, group two though had to re-drink (in water) whatever amount they peed out.

I was really happy with my prac group. every second word that came out of our mouths was PEE this PEE that, you PEE I PEE We PEE… haha… and surprisingly enough we were so comfortable with each other that reminding each other to pee was like reminding each other to do our chores haha. Even asking each other how much we peed out was like asking each other how we were going haha, and we were all happy to proudly say our amounts and even encourage the ones that did massive amounts haha.

Anyways it was a pretty awesome prac because we had an awesome group. Downside is that know i have to write a report on it oh wells.

oh yea we established ourselves as the RENAL CLUB! we plan to have a renal camp and meet every other week for renal fun haha jokes jokes.

yeap thats a picture of our pee in tubes! haha. There are some strange ways of meeting people at uni.