Dear Felix,

C

Hmm miss em..

Often, we face these common opinions :
“It doesn’t matter what you believe, as long as you are sincere”
“All religions lead to God, but there have different routes”
“Your belief is true for you, but it’s not true for me”
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Finally found a place to live two days ago, but the deal was sealed yesterday. On Tuesday arvo, G from LSKK left a message on me mobile, saying that there’s a unit that I might be interested in in Forsyth St. After work I met up with Lina on the bus, as we had an appointment with another agent to see a unit in Anzac Pde. We came over to LSKK as we still have about 30 minutes before the appointment.
G told us to come to the place at 4.35 coz he’s still busy, and he needs to be there to show us around. Me and Lina went to our appointment at 4pm to see the unit in Anzac Pde. I knew it wasn’t for us as we stepped in inside the building, Sandy used to live there and I don’t like the place, however the actual unit itself is quite good, they have done very good renovation job. We had a problem coming in as the door didn’t work, so we had to go in through the window, must be very embaracing for the agent..
Then we went to Forsyth unit to meet G. Our first impression of the place was “wah! so neat”, we soon found out why, the owner of the place still live there and they are moving out this weekend. Was very interested, everything neat and clean, oh and the bathroom I luv it, I am dying to see units with good clean bathroom (as the most of the units that I went to see, dont have it) , this one has got it! G then shown us the garage and the laundry room.. We’re so interested. We then gone back to LSKK to sign an application form.
C talked to us (G’s boss??) and told us that there are already 3 applications on the unit, he’s very keen to show us another unit that he said better than that one. And so we went, the unit was bigger (seperate kitchen), but Lina didnt like the smell and the lack of sunlight+air throughout the building. And so we told C that we want the other one, C told us that there is already someone offering 250 for that unit and he also said that 245 is actually without the garage, apparently G told us wrongly. So I offered 255 with the garage. He said he’ll get back to me.
Yesterday after work about 4.30 ish (also after I wandered around Maroubra to linspect units) C called me that the owner would like us to have the unit in 2 conditions: 1. The garage is not available for us 2. I have to pay 1 week rent deposit that day. So I did.
Will be signing the paper tomorrow. Now will be a hectic period of packing and moving.. Duh hate this, owning too much stuffs is not always pleasant..
Thank GOd for the place.. already sick of seeing units after units

Last week and weeks to come, will be filled with hunting a car and hunting a place to rent.
Car hunting has been very frustating so far, as there just too many conflicting suggesions from people on:n1. Whether to buy from Private or Dealer.n2. Whether to buy new or used.n3. Whether to buy Toyota or Honda or something else.nNot to mention that some of the car sellers/dealers are so far away, thus need the help of people with car to go there. Andy has been very helpful so far in terms of getting me to some dealers, thank God for him, never expected to find help from him.
Another hunting to do is to find best possible price for our honeymoon.. almost certain that we are going to NZ..
Tomorrow will take a day off work, to do an interview and will hunt some units around Eastern Suburbs.. go
a be a long day, hope it’s not too hot..
Exciting but tiring..

On the sermon today, Josh once more challenged us not to be career minded, but heavenly or God minded. It was a very good and challenging sermon from Proverbs 8.
I guess I was/am person who struggle with this issue a lot, people think career-ism is an easy struggle thus they put other struggles like singleness or homesexuality as the “real” struggles. Except for Lina, I don’t think people know that I used to have problem with contentment, last year, I am pretty sure I was qualified to be categorised in having mild depression. I came to a conclusion today, that perhaps uni IS evil. Perhaps christians shouldn’t go to uni at all, why you might ask..
Uni gives you this pride, it gives you status that you are better/more able than most people, and once you graduated you will find it very hard to be content with jobs that don’t pay as much as they should or jobs that aren’t in line with what you have studied. If you are a graduate you have the burden to be excellent in your career, if you studied at a well known uni, the burden is even more. Personally, I think it would be better for me if I didn’t do uni, then I wouldn’t have to struggle with contenment, if I knew God the way I know Him now back then, I would probably just go to a theological college or maybe even if I do go to uni, I wouldn’t put too much effort in it.. An honours degree, that doesn’t give me satisfactions in life.. what is it good for, absolutely nothing.
Or maybe if I wasn’t born as a chinese (or indo chinese), and hang around with the chinese, maybe I won’t be pressurized too much. If I was born in an aussie anglo family, I think I can be more freely enjoy this life.
Maybe Matthias ministry got it wront, if you trying to catch people in Uni to know God, it’s probably too late, put more effort in high school ministry I say and discourage people from going to uni 🙂