The Abbreviated Life

Sweet Red Video

2009-03-18T01:11:00.000-07:00

Heres a video of one of the songs from teh new Red album Innocence and Instinct.It is so true that our worst enemy besides the devil is so often our own desires.

Anyway enjoy the clip.

RED - DEATH OF ME from INNOCENCE & INSTINCT on Vimeo.

Ultimate FF5 Video

2009-01-01T15:37:00.000-08:00

Book Review: Sinner

2008-12-22T15:21:00.000-08:00

After getting tonsilitis on Sunday i decided to read Sinner seen as i had ben putting it off for a while. 7 Chapters in and i decided it was time to go to sleep. So I wake up on Monday at 11 am and begin anew on this amazing book from Ted.

I have to say it is awesome. There are still the familiar twists and turns that Mr Dekker writes so well but aswell as the thriller aspect there is also a lot more of an emphasis put on christianity. It is very chellenging leaving some questions of would you be willing to stand up for Jesus the way the people in this book do? Most of us would say yes, but when it comes to the crunch time would our answer still be yes?

Looking forward to his 2 books coming out next year. Green which sounds like a 4th book in the circle TRI-logy..lol and another called Kiss which he is co-writing with Erin Healy(heres hoping Symon is wrong about woman not writing good books or this one will dissapoint).

Frozen-by Stephen Mawson

2008-12-19T16:59:00.000-08:00

He stood there as the car bore down on him, the blood like ice in his veins. Thoughts of his now deceased brother flew through his mind, words which he had never said but wished he had began edging into his thoughts.

Then it hit him. He can now say what he wanted to say, so long as they are both in heaven.

What can i say Jon's aninspiring guy ;) more to come

Worst 5 Crushes

2008-09-13T02:42:00.000-07:00

5. The Garage Door

When i got my fingers crushed in our garage door before we had the automatic opening device... Ouch!

4. Ong Bak

Some absolutely crushing fighting in this movie almost makes you cringe. Actually this should be in my top 5 crushes but i had nothing else to put in at number 4.

3. My leg

More of a break than a crush but it still makes the top 5. What was actually more crushing than the actual break was that it was on the first day of 10 scheduled days on the snow...

2. My Pet Rabbit

My pet rabbit wriggled out of my hands after i had him for about a month crushing his back. Poor little fella I have to admit i cried, yep big salty tears. Just so happened that it was mothers day too, it sort of took first place and my poor mother was neglected on that mothers day I will have to make it up to her.

1. Nothing

Thats right there really has been nothing quite crushing enough to reach number one. What a b-e-a-utiful letdown.

Pic of the Week 29 Aug

2008-08-28T16:56:00.000-07:00

Ok here's the abbreviated life pic of the week. Symon Drake taking some time out from blogging to watch TV ads with his family.Congratulations to Symon and family for making pic of the week a free comment is coming your way!

The Fetus or The State of the World

2008-08-23T17:59:00.000-07:00

When my and Jamie where up in the Tangihuas 2 of the goats we shot had small almost fully formed fetus' inside of them. While at first finding these was really cool it got me thinking; I know its crazy but i do it every now and then.

Some of you are probably shocked by this image and i agree it isn't the most pleasant picture ever taken. Yet as I began thinking about it the world is nuts. If an animal rights activist saw this picture they would be on me like fly on rotting fish. And yet they would probably not even flinch at the news that another baby got murdered through abortion because abortion is as normal in this society as walking out to the letterbox to get the mail. This is crazy, the world now places more importance on the lives of animals than on unborn human babies. When a whale is stranded on the beach it is all over the front pages of the national news papers and one of the headline story's on the news, yet the thousands of unborn babies killed through abortion do not even feature!

Yes stranded whales and animal testing are sad but they do not even compare to the importance of the thousands of unborn children murdered through abortion each year!

The Hunt a.k.a Jamie the Man

2008-08-23T03:32:00.000-07:00

Dear Diary.....

Well anyway a couple of weeks ago Jamie and me took off into the Tangihuas(spelling?) to do some goat shooting. After hiking up a hill for about an hour and not seeing a thing we decided to walk back to the car seen as there wasn't anything around, so we stop walking quietly and begin talking as we stroll down the hillside. Anyway as we are meandering along talking about all manner of things(maybe even you) we saw a goats head poking up over the hillock we where on so we stop talking and go back up the hill a bit and there below us is a little herd of about 10 goats wandering about chewing on the lovely green grass.
Jamie motions for me to sit still and begins silently going down the hill towards them then raises the rifle and BAM! a goat drops like a rock and the others take off. Another shot and another goat drops but rolls away into the bushes never to be seen by the human eye again. Meanwhile the other goats are running into the bush so we give chase and another shot from the rifle brings another to the ground. So while Jamie cleaned up that goat up i grabbed the gun and began walking back to find the others he shot. Then seeing a goat walking about on the hillside all by its lonesome i decided to put it out of it miserable loneliness and lifting the gun to my eye dropped it. But thats where the fun ended and the work began Jamie set about gutting them while i stood by taking some pics. Then came the fun filled job of carrying them back down the hill and across a paddock to the car with blood dripping down our shoulders like red waterfalls of joy and happiness.
Some of you might be thinking Jamie hunting..? Isn't he that guy with the tight jeans and the emo swish haircut(no offense James :D) Unlike common misconception Jamie is not a emo who gets his nails manicured for flame on a Friday night but a real man. Not just a real man but probably the only bloke at flame who could survive without power or a roof over his head. I would go as far as to say that he could probably survive with nothing but a knife and a loincloth for the rest of his life, heres some proof.

Not shying from all that blood.

Thats a real dinner...

Jamie the REAL man!

Sacrifices

2008-08-14T04:09:00.000-07:00

Ever stopped and really thought about how you live your life?

Do you feel like you are truly living a Christian life. Over the last couple of weeks I've been thinking about the amazing sacrifice Jesus made for us and how little i am willing to give up for him.

Also the incredible sacrifices Christians in other parts of the world like China make as a part of their daily lives. When i really stop and think about these sacrifices it makes my life seem pretty insignificant with the things I ask God for e.g.. the right car, help finding a better job etc.

I've also been thinking about the sacrifices I have made, and there haven't been many. In fact none that i can count as significant... Given the sacrifices Jesus Christ the son of GOD and other Christians endure what right do i have to complain when I'm given the bad job at work or even my job. I mean hey I'm working full-time at McDonald's and still in the richest 20% of the world life cant be that bad.

Given this i think it is time for all of us as Christians to give a little more and ask a little less of others, to be willing to sacrifice what we have for others and not just be Christians for the life insurance plan. This applies to everyone, especially me.