My Australian Citizenship Has Been Approved
I got a letter a few days ago stating that my Australian Citizenship Application has been approved.After passing my Australian Citizenship test last month it only took about a month for my citizenship application to be approved.
My Australian Citizenship won't be final until I have completed my citizenship oath. That probably won't happen until after the local council election later this month as the citizenship ceremonies are organised by the local council.
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My New Favourite County Music Blog
I've been spending the last few days slowly looking through a new Country Music Blog that I came across. The web-site isn't new, but it's new to me.The site is very well laid out, easy to navigate, and has a lot of great song reviews. Most of the country music song reviews include a link to where you can listen to the song (although some links don't work from Australia, bummer).
For a good sample of a country music single review check out the review of George Strait - "I Saw God Today".
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How I'm Increasing my Productivity Today
Today I am unsubscribing to most of the e-mail newsletters that I have signed up for.Most of the e-mail newsletters related to Internet Marketing all push the same sales stuff on me, over and over again, and very few that I have been subscribed to actually provide valuable content. I figure that if I only stay subscribed to one or two of them, I should get all the important stuff come through anyway.
The newsletters that I am subscribed to for CNet and other on-line publications are great, and full of original and valuable content, but most the content I can get in an RSS feed, so I don't think that I will be missing anything.
Most mornings now I log in and see over 30 e-mails in the box! How the heck did I ever let that happen?
Time to simplify things... It's time to start reading less, and writing more.
Next step, reducing the number of RSS feeds I subscribe to.
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Questions that Missionaries Hear in South East Asia
Being on outreach is always a cultural experience for our staff and students. The thing that we don't often take into account is that visiting a foreign country is also a cultural experience for the people living there that we are outreaching to.Wan Dee is a Church Panter in Southern Thailand. She's an American who has been in Thailand for 8 years and runs the OceanicThai web-site, plus a few others. She has collected a few of the interesting questions that she has been asked in her years planting a church in Thailand. Here are a few of my favourites:
- "Why do you only take 1 shower a day?"
- "Why do you foreigners wear such embarrassingly tiny swimsuits and clothes?"
- "Why do you think this food is spicy? My baby even eats it."
- "Why are you foreigners so fat?"
Source: Missionary Blog - I'm sure this is what they're thinking...
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Brad Paisley - "Letter to Me" Free Download
Good Housekeeping is currently offering a free download of Brad Paisley's new single, Letter to Me.Check it out over at Good Housekeeping: Brad Paisley Song Giveaway.
I'm listening to it right now and it's classic Brad Paisley, very good.
Brad Paisley's web-site is fantastic if you want to listen to some of Brad Paisley's music or view some of his videos. Brad Paisley has a very wide range of music including some very funny songs (Celebrity & Alcohol), and some very moving songs (When I Get Where I'm Going & Wiskey Lullaby).
One interesting thing is that two of those songs deal with the same topic (alcohol), but in very different ways, with very different consequences for the characters of the songs.
Something that I really like about Country Music is how most of the songs tell a story, and Brad Paisley is very good at doing that.
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Chuck Norris' Top 10 Video
A while ago most of the communcations guys at YWAM - Reef to Outback had loaded a "Chuck Norris" widget on their Mac's. The widget gave a bunch of random "facts" about Chuck Norris.Well, here is Chuck Norris reading out his top 10 facts:
I hope you enjoyed, I had a good laugh.
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I am a full time volunteer with Reef to Outback - Youth With A Mission (YWAM) where I work in Communications and Information Technology. I am married to a wonderful wife, we have a five year old son and a one year old daughter.
