Under Construction
There are few things sadder than coming back on a plane and realizing you have very little money for the summer
Then there are few things happier than coming home to find the stack ofRed Packets that your parents saved for you since Chinese New Year
Melville, I will miss you.
You and your 5 (or 6) walled rooms
And your Neo-Brutalist architecture
And your sparseness
And your epic TV
And your food (judgement reserved)
And your lovely cleaners (or at least Shirley)
Melville I will miss your cat
You and the scary ducks
And the homicidal heron
And the good coffee and Youtube times
And the mental drunk people
And the zombie movie nights
And the scaring people after zombie movies
Bye bye Melville
Bye bye St. Andrews
See y’all in 4 months
It’s been amazing and I can’t work out where the time went.
I can’t believe First Year is over
A sample of what happens when we write praise and record it at 2am.
I will stay in Your presence, God
I will rest in Your glory, Lord
So won’t You come, won’t You come
Enlarge my heart and enter in
Magnify Your power and pour it out on me
My heart will welcome you
To come and take control
Lord Won’t you take this life
and make it your home
by Clement Chen, Simeon Burke and Oliver Ip
A higher quality version soon to be (maybe) released by A Call to Stand - 24:7 Prayer: St Andrews :D
“From Scotland, God is calling a student prayer movement that will stand for His name. Women and Men that will intercede for our World. Men and Women who want to see universities and their students transformed. A people whose desire is to see all the World proclaiming and living out the truth that the Kingdom of God is at hand. These are their voices.”
Check it out.
So when all the tomfoolery with the snow stopping flights in winter, I figured that come summer nothing could delay multiple flights at the exact precise time I’m trying for home.
The hope is that the cloud of ash from this one won’t mess up flights for the.
That’s definitely my hope.
Seeing as my flight home is on Thursday night from Heathrow…
…it’s prayer time.
HONESTLY, IT’S LIKE EYJAFJALLAJÖKULL AND GRIMSVÖTN ARE HAVING A FARTING COMPETITION IN A LIFT. BAD VOLCANOES. BAD!
…they plan a night of birthday celebration for you, a birthday that actually occurs when you’re not in the same country
…they cook multiple trays of roast vegetables
…they buy a ham and roast an entire lamb leg
…they make you a ninja birthday cake
…they give you birthday cards with yellow ninjas (veiled racism overcome by friend love :D)
…they take you out to live jazz at the Byre
…you share Hoegaardens and Balvenie Signatures together
… they take out time, some of them with exams the next day, to celebrate YOU
How did I find such friends?
“Make no mistake, America is a great country. Like any country, it has its share of problems, one of which being its pride. But it’s created so much: jazz, baseball, and, yes, even video games. American mass culture is world culture. There’s one thing that fascinates Americans more than anything, and that’s themselves.”
Note: I still think gaming’s important, regardless of what the post’s title suggests :)
For the last 2 weeks, despite bearing witness to the purchase of a HUGE amount of potatoes and other small indicators, I have been informed that there is definitely, emphatically nothing out of the ordinary happening tonight.
On this, the night of the 19th.
However I have been told I wasn’t allowed to leave my room today after 5pm and have to be suited up by 8.
Soon all will be revealed…..
“It is finished”
And there’s First Year DONE
Where did that time go???
but money sucking pharmaceutical companies don’t care cause it doesn’t need a patent, thus they lose out on making money.
Also see this article on NewScientist as a bit of confirmation - this did happen. In 2007.
Where’s our cure now, in 2011, you money-grabbing, self-centred, mass-murdering (and if you consider the number of people who could ahve been saved by this and other unprofitable cures in the last 4 years, that’s what you are) pharmaceutical-executive bastards?
Excuse my French, but you deserve it.
…there’s a gene for the development of limbs in the uterus…
…which they named Sonic Hedgehog.
See? Scientists are funny.
Also dorks.
:D
