Thursday, December 25, 2008

Merry Christmas

Merry Christmas everyone! Just thought I'd pop in before lunch, yum I can smell the pudding already haha cant wait!

Hope you all have a great Christmas and a happy New Year! =]

God bless
Thomas

Wednesday, December 24, 2008

Christmas greetings from the family

"Yep it's that time again. I think someone must have cancelled a least 3 months in this year and didn't tell us. It just went by so fast.

Well as you know we recently moved back to 3 Kawaroa Close(by the sea) as it hadn't sold, and put 42 Shelter Grove on the market. It turns out that after 3-4 months on the market it also hasn't sold. We loved it down at Kawaroa Close but unless we engaged in some major extensions we couldn't cater for all the people we seem to have visiting and staying as well as special events(James & Michelle recent engagement party being the last), then Christmas day with some of the Butler clan, some of the Cummings(Nicki's side) and a number of friends who had no where else to go or just wanted to join us.

So here we are back at 42 Shelter Grove and ready for anything. Nicki will do a little interior painting at Kawaroa Close and that will be back on the market in Jan.

Thomas is off to Excel School of Performing Arts. He has been learning the bass guitar this year and we are proud to see him on stage at church playing in the band. He has been very involved in the media presentation at church on the sound desk in between. Thomas has taken a break from BB while concentrating on his bass lessons.

Andrew continues to grow as a young man of 18yrs on the 19th Dec. He and I played summer league Basketball together and his height 6' 2" is a certain advantage. He is currently working at a Cafe Bar in town as a waiter but is currently looking for a more permanent and more hours per week job. He still seems to always have a number of friends around home or he is out visiting them, skateboarding etc.

Evie has been in Auckland for a couple of years now and was working with JPNZ(Japanese to English interpretation Company) until recently. She is currently working on going out on her own and has her own website. She will also be home for Christmas bringing a couple of her friends.

Nicki continues to be a major family supporter and keeps the family ticking along, oiling the squeaky joints. She has a lot of energy for helping others and is always on the go. We have a 1600sqm section with 400spm home so 1200spm of lawns are mowed by Nicki as one of the jobs she enjoys. The boys occasional help out but only with Nick's permission. She has moved us(house) twice this year with a little help from the boys.

We have been enjoying church life back at citywestchurch(AOG) and have a Life Group on Wed's night each week in our home. Nicki is involved with the children's ministry as well as looking after our grand children.

Little Charlotte and new born Isaac keep Nathan & Nic busy but we enjoy their company when they need a break. We often have Ethan and Eli visit us on Sunday mornings when Justin is rostered on the music for the service, both boys getting big with Ethan just turning 7 and Eli is 4 1/2.

Uncle Ray continues to visit for tea on Thursday nights and play with me on his old 3/4 size slate top pool table. We bought it from him when we moved. He is a great character coming up 87yrs this year and still driving all over the country with his friend Alison.

Cassie is 12-13yrs old this year but continues to be a lively little dog, a hit with adults and children alike. She is always ready to greet guest with her tail wagging, waiting for them to sit down so she can hop onto their lap.

This year in business has been tough with all the changes in our industry as well as the financial state of the world but with God's help we will succeed and look forward to a prosperous new year. I am hoping for a change in direction to give me some time off this coming year do to a few things with Nicki. Later in the year we are joining with David & Lurline to ride a trail down south on our mountain bikes.

All our love and God bless.
Paul, Nicki, Thomas, Andrew"


I hope everyone has a merry Christmas and a happy new year! Things are getting a little chocca-block for me atm with Christmas productions at church (might upload some of the show for you), new years camping trips then Parachute and well after that I'm moving to Auckland, man this time of the year goes too fast...

Anyway I best be out and help get the house ready for the festivities tomorrow.

God bless
Merry Christmas
Thomas

Sunday, November 16, 2008

God noise (3 of 3)

By day 5 fish and birds filled the planet and noise was born. Perhaps even before that as God placed the stars in the sky. God spoke, Adam and Eve spoke and verbal noise filled the silence of the garden. Communication and dialogue became the basis for relationship.
Always has been and always will be.

God speaks and we speak. God sings and we sing.

Noise is formed on earth that has a heavenly audience and noise is formed in the heavens that reverberates on earth. Noise always has a response.

The king of the Psalms required the most skilled musos in the temple. Releasing the best possible sound in the House became the offering that was indeed precious and had value. Extravagant worship.

When noise becomes orderly and executed with skill, it becomes music. Notes, chord structures, lyrics and rhythm. Chaos becomes Beautiful. Honourable. Memorable. Worthy. God’s instructions are that we make it joyful and that we make it in truth.

Communicating the state of our heart is perhaps the most precious gift we have ever been given. This is the real art of noise.

Saturday, November 15, 2008

the art of noise (2 of 3)

There once was a man who stumbled across the notion that “noise was the sound of music for the new century”. That man was Luigi Russolo and the year was 1885.

Associating the new urban sprawl and industrialisation with a new sound, the futurists of the day saw with clarity and vision that the aural landscape of the future would sound vastly different than the Victoriana they were used to. Noise and industry were shaping the soundtrack of the future.

Noise that could be broken into categories like: Skilled and Unskilled, Pitched and Unpitched, Considered and Spontaneous, Appropriate and Inappropriate

Once these parameters were established, dexterity and discipline was required to execute the noise with precision and passion.

Man has always understood the need for noise. Understanding a little history helps.
The evolution of music runs in tandem with the development of man and his surroundings. Primitive man created with a reed and a piece of stretched string. Middle ages man understood melody but used no chords in their Gregorian chants. 19th century man saw polyphony fully developed, orchestras tackling complex rhythmic works from composers who understood the layering of multi-rhythmic and melodic structures.

21st century man has been spoiled for choice. From the early days of rock and roll, to motown to the present conglomerate of beats, technology means that music is more accessible than ever before. This man understands how to listen but also how to create, perhaps more than in any other time in the history of music.

The key is what we do with what we have.

Russolo issued the challenge back in the day to “young musicians of talent” to develop new sounds, tones and noise.
To combine the sounds of life with imagination and creativity. To be innovators not imitators. To be first, best or different.

Nothing has changed. The challenge is as fresh today as it was then. Noise is still the soundtrack for modern life. The rest is up to us.

Friday, November 14, 2008

the essence of noise (1 of 3)

Noise is the soundtrack of our life. Over the past few decades that soundtrack has been radically transformed. Goodbye to blue suede shoes, black and white TV and Vietnam…hello to justice, digitalism and denim that’s tight.

Noise is your fingerprint…your effort to scream out from the masses and establish your uniqueness. That sound is yours and yours alone. Make it loud and make it joyful because there’s no one else like you that can make someone sit up and take notice.

Noise is the sound of triumph in adversity, the sound of laughter and crying, the sound of industry and individualism. Noise can exist in our heads when the rest of the world is silent. Noise can bring peace in our heads when the sounds around us are trying their best to drown it all out.

Noise is the antithesis of peace yet noise is peace.

The dichotomy of the two is the very thing that causes us to use our voice. To use it for good. To use it for change. To use it for beauty.
To use it to give praise.

Noise is life.

why do we make noise?

Psalm 149 in the message says this:

Sing to god a brand new song; praise him in the company of all who love Him. Let us strike up the band and make great music. And why? because God delights in His people...He festoons plain folk with salvation garlands.

The word festoon means to decorate, adorn, or wear and the word garland means a beautiful plaited wreath of flowers worn as a mark of honour.

The Psalm is saying that God will decorate us in a wreath of salvation...in other words, He will clothe us beautifully in salvation. As we praise Him, he will decorate us with the beautiful fragrance of eternity. He will turn the plain and ordinary into something extraordinary. He will take us plain fold and make us beautiful. Forever.

Monday, November 10, 2008

change

Helen Clark concedes

John Key's victory speech

happy :)

Friday, November 7, 2008

parachute 09

the promo vid came out the other day... here ya go :)


accepted

did my audition, it went great, so great in fact that i got accepted! so watch out auckland cause im hitting you up in 2009. boom ba boom boom boom.... boom...

EXCEL SCHOOL OF PERFORMING ARTS here i come =D

Saturday, October 25, 2008

soon

so i dropped my shazzy off in auckland yesterday, traveled home today and i miss shazzy something terrible. hopefully that should all change soon, excel audition on tuesday got my two pieces down as good as ill get em, i wish by stevie wonder, and my future decided by hillsong united. should be good, pray for me 8.15pm on tuesday the 28th october 2008 ok?

anyway im naffed a road trip to rainbows end with 30-40 13-18 yr olds will do that to you, not to mention everyone sleeping in a hall (it was divided into boys and girls sides! lol), but when they get excited they wont shut up!!! lol

anyway i have to sleep so bad! my own bed tonight! yay

Sunday, October 5, 2008

esther melody

cool chick, you should check out some of her music, serious...

myspace
youtube

Falling on my face



btw her song poverty is amazing

Thursday, October 2, 2008

missing people... ...it hurts...

i miss that girl, we've been going out for something like 2 months now and have hung out for, oh say 4 days MAX... its guna be another 2 weeks til i see her again, then well i dunno how long after that til we see each other again.

i love her, shes mine, and im hers (lol i think i stole that from my cousins love diary with his girlfriend, well wife now lol). i love hanging out with her, and i love being able to hold her, talk to her, stroke her hair... she makes me so happy that words cannot describe.

thats why missing her hurts, its like trying to connect to the internet when your network is down. nothing happens, and you sit there frustrated cause you cant fix anything, you cant even go online to find a solution to fix your problem. prehaps you call your service provider, but they are never helpful, always a few hours away. or prehaps you just find something real heavy and throw it cause you have all this spent up energy that you needa get out.

well thats what i feel like, pretty helpless. i cant talk cause her phones broken, i cant run my fingers through her hair when she needs it (or when i need it), i cant even go out on a date with her cause she lives a few hours away.

it'll work, one day i guess we'll be looking back at this and have a good ol laugh while sipping iced tea on a tropical island somewhere (eh eh eh).

that'll be nice.

Wednesday, October 1, 2008

summer

so summer is approaching, which means some awesome things are coming up...

first is the daylight saving, which has already happened and its been great!

second is the weather gets warmer, which has kinda happened but being in a coastal city with a mountain we get vicious weather changes hahaha...

um other things to look forward to:
  • the weather actually getting warm all day and all night
  • Christmas (my fav time of the year)
  • PARACHUTE!!!! AHHHHHHHH!!!!
  • Shaz's birthday
  • Traveling to Auckland to see my shazzy
  • My excel audition
  • Christmas production at church (tis guna be hilarious this year!!!)
  • New Years!!!
OOoh more on Parachute: Im really diggin this years design, kinda like woodstock '69 like the original, peace love and music yo!
The headliners this year are:
  • Casting Crowns
  • David Crowder Band
  • Dave Dobbyn
  • Kutless
  • Family Force 5
  • Parachute Band
  • Rapture Ruckus
  • Mumsdollar
  • Nathing King
  • Kingston
  • Brian Houston (Speaker)
  • Jurgen Matthesius (Speaker)
You should really come yes? Please do, come camp with me and 27000 other people! It'll be fun in the sun!

Oh and vote for Arms Reach to play on Mainstage here.


Monday, September 29, 2008

or not

i cant keep in contact with shazzy, its not my phone, its hers thats broken... get her a new one? i dont even know her address or home number, shes touring so its a new home every week...

hope i can talk to her sometime soon, its been too long :(

Saturday, September 27, 2008

broken...

so i think my cell phone is broken... new one please? it sucks too cause i cant keep in contact with people i need to keep in contact with :(

hopefully it fixes itself else ill have to buy a new one with that money that i have to spend on other things such as bills...

life is fun...

Thursday, September 25, 2008

copycat

sometimes i jus sit and think or when im talking to someone and see a wicked word or say / hear a word that sounds funny... i love words, words like:
  • aadrvark
  • banana
  • copycat
  • dangly
  • emu
  • groovy
  • hippopotamus
  • ladle
  • lips
  • oblong
  • rad
  • squiggle
  • widget
hmmm i cant think of many at the moment... i might do a v2 a bit later when i think of more...

auditioning

so ive applied for excel school of performing arts as a bass major. i got a letter back saying what i need to bring for my audition and when / where my audition is. so it's tuesday the 28th october at 8.15pm in palmy north. not exactly sure what im going to take for a bass amp since i hate mine and always sound like crap through it (so if anyone has any ideas? or nice bass amps that i could borrow???). the two songs im doing are my future decided by hillsong united, its got a nice bass riff in it, and then stronger by hillsong since its in 3/4 timing i thought id show my ability to play in other time signatures.

anyway im pretty nervous about it lol, i always get nervous. i know stronger like the back of my hand and am learning the main parts to my future decided. i really hope i nail the audition and get into excel. it'll give me something fabulous to do next year, and ill be closer to my girl =D oooooh i should post some pics of when she was here last week...



Thursday, September 4, 2008

shifting

typically what comes to mind when someone talks about shifting is the age old grab the brown cardboard boxes, load them up with your old crap and moving them to another locale, and usually that is the case with me too. but for tonight im meaning about shifting mentalities or shifting priorities or whatever, like changing i guess is what i mean.

like next year ive got plans to leave town, and go studying etc, hopefully this all goes to plan. should be great to get out of town, be able to go out with my girl every so often =], being able to participate in a church service and enjoy the fact of not having responsibilities during the service etc.

i have this big dream of what it will all turn out like and i cant wait to see it come to pass. i really hope it happens how i dream, im dreaming of a lot of hard work to make it work, but i feel it'll be worth it.

oh on a side note i get to see my girl next weekend, and then shes coming back here for a few days before she goes back on the road again with her touring roadshow... i cant wait and im so excited =] hopefully will get the typical "couple" shot lol and post it somewhere on my bebo, or myspace, or facebook, or youtube, or blogspot, or photobuckt, or msn? im like internet crazy i guess lol...

anyways im out. night =]

Monday, August 25, 2008

fusion 08

so we just had our schools / youth conference and boy can i tell ya it was off the hook cool! we had ps levi marychurch from arise wellington come and speak and man he must have nailed it! 50 first time decisions for Christ in the morning and another 30 at night, woo it was great to see and hear!

speaking about hearing we had the regional worship band, epic come play too. they are so cool (not just because im their lighting / media guy), they were so creative this year throwing in some rocking out instumentals into break free etc. oh i have to give huge props to leightion and tracy who led songs in epic for the first time (i think) they did real well!


anyway right now i am so tired and sore its not funny, i just want to sleep but theres more packdown to go =/ might save it for tomorrow and rest today. lol

anyway ill include some pics.

God bless
thomas





Thursday, August 21, 2008

healer?

a wise friend once said

i still think there is power in healer, that song is anointed by god, not by mike, and god is still our healer and hes still on the throne and sovereign and thats what matters

thank you. i am blessed to have such wise friends

Friday, August 15, 2008

mums the best =D

wooo i was sittin on the couch just before and said my feet were cold... and mum went to her room and got me a pair of moccasin slippers! im so stoked!! theyre the best!! i love em!

yay and my feet are warm!

oh btw if youre in town next friday make sure you come to fusion ok? its going to be sick!!!


What’s Fusion About?

- Having hope for a generation
- Living purpose filled lives
- Becoming empowered to bring change

When: Friday 22nd August 2008
Where: citywestchuch, 62c Poplar Grove, New Plymouth
Session One: 9am - 4pm - $10
Session Two: 7pm - 9pm - (Offering)
Guest Speaker: Levi Marychurh from Arise, Wellington
Also Featuring: EPIC

What are you waiting for? Register now!
youth@citywestchurch.org.nz

Saturday, August 9, 2008

some people

are just annoying. i care for all my friends i do, and i try to help whenever i can. but i dislike it when i get told i dont know whats happening, i dislike being told that my advice is crap or whatever. all i can do is draw on all my experiences (yes they arent the same as everyones but they can relate), and offer what i see and what i believe would help. dont tell me its crap advice, its based on what ive been told...

basically in every situation you have to put God first... He is bigger than everything.

recomended watching - "How Great Is Our God" - By Louie Giglio

Friday, August 8, 2008

parking

our neighbours are a joke, apparantly we cant park outside our house cause they'll hit the car... they say its in our covenant but i cant even see it in there... so im just going to keep parking there, its their fault if they hit the car lol... its actually rather funny, cause they live across the road and we park on our side. but they have to swing across the whole road to back out? senile old people


outies

Sunday, July 27, 2008

bass

so i played bass in church tonight... it was a shank... messed up so bad... feeling stink bout it...

outies

night

Thursday, July 24, 2008

4 hours...

so i talked to her last night, it was fun, actually so much fun time flew and before we knew it, it was 3am and we had been talking for 4 hours... uh oh, i hope she doesnt kill me today, she must be real tired, but she likes me so should be all good =] oooohhh so exciting! lol

oh man job update!!! for like the past 3 months or so i havent had a job, ive been applying at places and being continually rejected. i just got a phone call from one place (usually all people would do is give me emails), and no i have a job interview tomorrow inbetween 9 and 2... someone remind me k?

anyway im out, another phone call tonight =D

god bless
thomas

Wednesday, July 23, 2008

smitten

i'm smitten, it's cool, shes cool, we're cool, life's cool

got an 021 today, yeaya bestmate and txt2000 all the way lol

oh to be smitten, it's enjoyable, talking to her is enjoyable

Friday, July 18, 2008

if you dont have anything nice to say dont say it at all

people who say things without thinking should seriously stop. please stop it. esp if its something , negative, it hurts when you are on the receiving end... so just stop it; for you, for me...

apparantly im good for nothing, but ill throw it into the category above, cool?

anyway im off to do a whole lot of good nothing

ciao

Monday, July 14, 2008

shifted

so we shifted again... back to our old house, long story and not for here lol

im so tired, had a busy busy weekend.

3 girls from our church had their 18th birthday party, i was helping thursday and friday and then was jumping up and down in a bouncy castle all night lol, they are amazing!!! you should get one!!!

had 11 people get baptised last night, man it was a long service but its always great to see people obeying God...

and yeah we shifted, and im so run down now that i have the flu and thats not cool...

anyway time to go, catch ya later

god bless
thomas

Friday, July 11, 2008

this is...

this is our world, this is our life, this is our time, this is our God...

i highly recomend getting the new hillsong cd/dvd, "this is our God"
it has some of the most amazing songs written to date on it. healer, run, with everything, stronger, i could go on about all of them...

i cant think of anything to finish this blog...

Jesus you're all i need, nothing is impossible for You, nothing is impossible...

Monday, July 7, 2008

cold feet

its cold here... i have a wheat bag and socks and a blanket over my feet but they're still cold... i dont think thats normal...

fire and snow

im on fire when youre near me
im on fire when you speak
im on fire burning at these mysteries

i love that song. its one of my favs!!!

its been so cold recently!!! like so cold! it actually snowed here!!! pics, yes... (from my friends julia and andrew's house. thats julia with the snowman)






im cold, cuddle anyone?

you know what i dont get, how people can go from being the friendliest to not wanting to know you just cause you had a crap day. doesnt make the crap day any better...

im so glad my laptop is warm, its just about the only thing warm so im cuddling that right now, sad i know but hey its warm and its better than nothing haha and it doesnt reject me ever!!! hahaha

anyway im off to freeze

bring on summer



oh chrissy, i miss you and our chats, have fun in sydney

Saturday, July 5, 2008

sometimes

three sleepless nights
this isn't how it's supposed to be
but you're so good at taking your time
to give back to me

I will wait for you forever
if you would just ask me
I thought that I could change you
but you changed me

but it doesn't feel right
holding someone else's hand
together on phone lines
and living at two opposite ends

it scares me to think that you could find takers
other than me and better than me
but your head is elsewhere
and I'm talking enough for both of us
when will you see it's not so easy for me

you careless and whispered
insulting and bruising
and I thought that you said
things were improving
these laces are untied
but my feet are walking away
(I fall from your eyes. Your eyes I trusted. You said forever)

I never thought you could say these words
is this really happening
(don't say that we can still be friends)

erase my name from this page
how can you take all these days
(what is inside me, what have I done)
and throw them away,
(is this the only way that you will notice me)
as I sit here waiting for you
(dead words for closed ears, all this is sung for you)
I stay up nights
(if you are still pretending this is what's right)
until stars leave the sky
(why can you look at me can you only see)
knowing what my dreams can take away
(sides, your side, can take away)

walk away from me
this night is done

the ponytail parade - emery

i wish you'd notice me, wish you'd like me too...

nite

Thursday, July 3, 2008

over it...

sometimes i just wish...

i just wish...

wish...

wishing...

wanting...

longing...

rough night...

bye for now...

public speaking

not my forte, dont like it, i know its been prophesied that i will one day preach but that still doesnt change my view of speaking in front of people.

i just hate it, theres no two ways about it.

its one thing in my life that God will always test me on, its one thing that i will always need His help with, its one thing that i know that i know i would only be able to do it with Gods help.

"If anyone speaks, he should do it as one speaking the very words of God. If anyone serves, he should do it with the strength God provides, so that in all things God may be praised through Jesus Christ. To him be the glory and the power for ever and ever. Amen."
1 Peter 4:11 (New International Version)

God bless
Night

ps. im leading the church in communion this sunday

Wednesday, June 25, 2008

theme

so i have noticed something, there seems to be a theme thats going around... its one of hunger for god, one of seeking for him...

the story of the women with the issue of blood has also come up, basically there were heaps of people who were bumping jesus, but she went and touched him. she stood out and touched jesus while all those around were merely bumping into him...

tonight we had a church service with arise church from wellington who are on a week long tour touring the north island going to a new church every day... ps john cameron spoke about crossing the jordan river in our lives, which man its amazing how it all follows the same theme of being hungry for god.

to be hungry for god we have to step out in faith like the israelites had to step out in faith and cross the jordan river to gain gods blessing for them.

gods awesome when he uses many different people to speak the same message.

basically ill leave you with this, be hungry because hunger is the enemy of comfort and if you are comfortable then you are not moving in what god has for your life.

god bless
thomas

Sunday, June 22, 2008

i have decided

i have decided that i will join with something that is bigger than me, something that calls me to what god has for my life, something that can enable me to bless others through what i do even if i have to pay a price.

right now i am sitting on my laptop after church on sunday the 22 june 08, it is 1:08pm

it has just been a very hard and long weekend but well worth it. on friday and saturday we had a womens conference up at church and i was on media as well as being the stage tech for the band. i was up there from tuesday the week before getting things ready, setting up the stage, the risers, running leads, sound checking, making sure everything on the computer worked etc. on thursday i went up at 10am, i didnt leave til 11pm. on friday i went up at 10am and didnt get home til 12, and yesterday i went up at 8am and didnt get home til 1am... i dont even want to add that up, but i am blessed to be able to do that because i was able to bless over 450 women and was able to deal with 2 influential speakers (being maree de jong from life church, and julia a'bell from hillsong).

i rejoice in the fact that this conference has impacted so many people and that the impact from this conference will go further into the community and impact others. like a ripple from a stone in a body of water.

i saw this video on friday and i am 100% certain that seeing this gave me the strength and ambition to get through the weekend, and now i sense that it will help me to get through the tough times in my life with more conviction that god is awesome and that nothing is impossible.

[edit 26/9/08: decided to remove the video for copyright reasons and in light of other occurrences]

god bless
thomas

Monday, June 9, 2008

easter camp


apparantly god called me to michigan? hah

yeah well nah thats not the case long story and personal joke on that...

um well ima just copy and paste what i spoke in church yesterday sweet?

"Hey ya, well I’m Thomas and last night while I was sitting at home Julia asked me if I would like to share with all of you today about what I enjoyed about and what God did for me at Easter / Queens / Fresh It Up Camp this year. I don’t think anyone knows what it’s called.

Initially what went through my mind was heck no, I mean I’m terrified enough to even be standing on a stage with a group of people let alone being the centre of attention. But at camp during a powerful time of prayer on Sunday night Craig Clark, who was one of the guest speakers at the camp came over and prayed for me. And what he prophesied scared me just the same as what Julia had asked last night. 

He said that I had the gift of speech over my life and that I would reveal old things in new ways to people, and well that I would one day preach to people. Who would have thought that a week later? Ok so I was standing there absolutely terrified, cause I’ve never been confident in being in the public eye, but everything else he said over me was so real that it broke me, broke who, or what, I thought I was in God. It gave me a greater conviction as to what my plans, or should I say Gods plans for my future were. 

Nadia Clark shared a message on Saturday night about everyone being a sound that has to be heard, just like in a band, like our band here, without the bass guitar playing the music sounds empty, I may be bias in that fact but hey bass for life!

When your sound is missing; the world, your friends, your family is missing out. Ill finish with this scripture that Nadia used during the Saturday night session.

2 Corinthians 2:12 “Now when I went to Troas to preach the gospel of Christ and found that the Lord had opened a door for me”

He went, stepped out in faith, and found that God had opened a door for him.

Which to me emphasis that faith without works is dead, and that I need to step out in what has been prophesied over me cause then, God will open the doors in my life."

Hope you enjoyed that or was blessed like some of the congregation at church were... 

Peace




Saturday, May 17, 2008

a while

sorry guys its been a while, but ive been really busy between looking for a new job and all the events that are being organised up at church.

i best be off i still have heaps to do and im tired so i need my sleep

ciao

Thursday, April 3, 2008

i know i know

yeah its been a while and i miss you too, but really i havent had anything interesting happen... oh oh oh oh wait a sec i lie, brain flash, you know how you just randomly remember things?!!! well that just happened. its a bit of a story but if youre keen to listen (read lol) im keen to write, well im writing it anyway so tough.

on monday i went to wanganui with a mate cause she had a job interview down there for a photography job up here, but thats beside the point.

after the interview i did some shopping and went into this amazing store called fabric and bought a cardy, but thats still beside the point but its part of the story telling experience that fills out the story haha.

me and the guy who runs the shop ended up having a bit of a chat for a while since it was a quiet day, well i found out that the store is doing an expo up here in may and he asked if i knew if there was anywhere where he could have the expo and if i knew anyone who would be keen to help. and after i found that out i asked about this pamflet he had on his counter and it turned out he ran a cell group at his store for all the christian students at ucol there. so it was cool finding out he was a christian.

well to cut all my waffle to an even shorter story, fabric may be opening a store up here later in the year and ive made a great contact with lez, and id be so so so keen to work for that store. and i have a feeling that i will be. it would have had to have been a god thing that i met him that day. its awesome.

damn that was a bit more waffle than i hoped, but yeah it was awesome :]

anyway im out
badda bing badda boom

rad

god bless
thomas

Wednesday, March 26, 2008

poser

so i did some posing before while practicing bass... thought id post the pics.
sorry for the bad quality, i just took them with my webcam =/



the haircut??

so yeah i got bored today, and went into the bathroom with a pair of scissors (why is it a pair? theres only one?!?!) and started to hack away at my hair into something that looks somewhat trendier than the mop i had before. maybe ill just start posing again so i can get some pics up eh?

anyway i think i need to go get some more skinny jeans, im kinda getting sick of just the black ones i have... im thinking about yellow, red, or orange? but whatever colour i get ill get a matching guitar strap for my bass. oh thats right, i havent told you yet that i play (well attempt to play, im getting lessons k!) bass guitar.

im pretty keen on a few bands, would like to one day play a similar style. paramore being my fave atm. but also pretty keen on cats like jonezetta, switchfoot, family force 5, underoath, red jumpsuit, etc.

anyway catch ya'll laters. im off to do some posing haha

today

today i feel like getting a hair cut, but i want my hair to be long. bah, cant it just be long so i can do something? i dont like the in between stages, its too short to tie back, but its too long to be controlled with gel or something... what a dilemma haha

anyway ive been thinking for the past hour or so, and cant decide, so ill just leave this thing now and get onto something else haha

laters
thomas

Tuesday, March 25, 2008

no. 1

so, this is my first blogger blog thing. to be honest, ive never really blogged before. i have no idea what i should write in here or what a blog is supposed to necessarily be about.

i guess im going to use this as a journal for everyone to read, i guess im going to be honest, i guess im just going to be me cause i cant be anyone else. so if i dont entertain you well then that is just your problem.

i am who i am, therefore this is me who i happen to be

god bless
thomas