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Name: Ernesto
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Gender: Male
Interests: NBA, NFL, Xbox 360, Working Out
Expertise: I am an expert tease indeed! Ok, besides making sad calls, I'm good at: 1) Cutting my own hair (well wouldn't exactly say good...) 2) Scoring goals from a maximum of 1 metre away 3) Finishing my Mass Comm/Law degree without having killed anyone in frustration 4) Eating heaps and still remaining toned. No, actually that is a lie: I do eat heaps but I look like Jabba the Hutt 5) Coaching basketball teams to their inevitable downfall 6) Listening to people and their issues... especially cute nordic blondes 7) WASHING CARS!! 8) 21st Speeches 9) Surviving "debaucherous nights" and mammoth hangovers 10) Eating dodgy food and still surviving 11) I used to be a wild child but Steph has put me on the straight and narrow 12) I used to live for myself until I accepted Jesus as my Lord and Saviour.
Occupation: Editor/Journalist
Industry: Media
Message: message me
Website: visit my website
MSN: lchan020@hotmail.com
Member Since:
2/26/2004
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| I thought that my Xanga site had been made redundant as a result of utter neglect but to my pleasant surprise, it's still functioning. Anyway, much has change since one year ago but i guess that's all part of life. Hope that everyone is doing well!  | | |
| So State Elections are coming up and given that i've
been campaigning i think that it's only fair that i do a blurb about
the candidate i'm helping out. He is David Rofe QC (Queen's Counsel)
and he is running as an Independent Candidate for the Legislative
Council (Upper House). Now let me clarify some questions:
David Who?
David
Rofe has been a highly respected and successful barrister for over 50
years (the last 32 years as Queens Counsel). He has also been a former
Mayor of Woollahra and spent 14 years in local government.
What does he aim to do?
Since there are multiple areas that he covers, click here to find out more.
What electorate is he in?
As he is running for the Upper House he is not running for a specific electorate. That is to say that the whole of NSW will be required to vote for Upper House candidates.
What is the Upper House?
The Upper House is traditionally known as a House of Review.
Since there is a Upper House, there is also a Lower House. The Lower
House (Morris Iemma, Peter Debnam & Co.) introduces legislation in
NSW and the Upper House scrutinises it and makes sure that if the
legislation is passed, that the elected Government follows what they
promise according to their mandate. Therefore it acts as a watchdog to
ensure that the elected Government is doing their job. That is why it
is important to vote for someone whom you believe will be able to carry
out the task of objectively keeping the Government in check.
Should i vote for him?
Well,
he's neither Liberal or Labour so he's not influenced by party pressure
to say something he doesn't believe in (hence being an Independent). It
would also be better if there was someone in the House of Review with a
long history of legal expertise and a keen eye to detail to really make
the Government (regardless of which one is elected) honest and
accountable. I guess at the end of the day who you vote for is pretty
much up to you. But to have a guy who's passionate about making sure
the Government is doing their job properly coupled with past political
experience and the reputation as one of the top lawyers in the country,
you can't really go wrong voting for him.
Finally, you may not
think that your vote is going to make a difference but with enough
individuals voicing their opinions what you have is a rather strong
voice.
For more information on David Rofe, go to www.davidrofe.com and www.chinatown.com.au. If you click on the Chinese brochure you can see yours truly! | | |
| Ernest Chan Ling Chien cordially invites you
to...
Drink cordial with him for his 26th
Birthday.
Hah! Amazingly sad jokes aside, let me get
to the point:
When: 2nd March (Tomorrow night!)
Where: Epping Hotel (along Beecroft Road next to
Epping Station)
When: 10pm onwards
Why: Because on 2nd March 1981 a devishly good
looking Singaporean guy entered the world. I don't really know him, but on that
day i too entered the world.
Who: Everyone on this list PLUS partners and anyone else who a)
is not on parole; b) someone i owe money to
Anyway, i hope to
see you guys there! Come celebrate and take a photo with me!
Oh yes,
POSITIVELY NO PRESENTS AS
YOUR PRESENCE ITSELF IS ALL I WANT .
Disclaimer: Apologies for the late invite but i have a
very good reason for this. By tomorrow I would have left the realms of mid
twenties and entered the wholesome goodness of late twenties. As such, I believe
that the first traces of memory loss has actually begun knocking on my door,
which is why i did not post this any earlier. | | |
| I think that i've written this post about 5 times in the last week or so but every time i write it i always delete it mid way. My grandfather passed away on the 17th of January. I only found out about it on the Saturday from my parents because during that time i was in the midst of exams. I haven't talked to anyone about it since knowing about it and in fact i've been acting pretty normal when i'm around others even though there are times when i sit down to think about it and just feel so beat up about it deep down.
To be honest I'm not very good with the whole issue of other people dying. In regards to myself dying i'm not really that afraid of it given that having been through Army i'm pretty much at peace with the thought of dying. But when it comes to others who are dear to me dying it stings pretty hard. I think that within the past 5 years the remaining 3 grandparents of mine have passed away. It's a little ironic that my other grandmother also passed away on the 17th of January. What makes it even more ironic is that my mum's birthday is on the 18th. Imagine that. I won't.
My final assessments for college are about Wills (the legal stuff where you designate where you assets go once you die). I guess the issue of the bigger picture has therefore really been on my mind. One day we're all going to die. It's sad but that's life. And so there's a couple of things you can do about it: mope and get depressed or live every day to the fullest without any regrets. I for one choose the later. Which one are you going to choose?
Anyway, i'm contemplating whether i should delete this post as well... i'm at that stage where i just feel that i have nothing more to say even though i have so much more to say. Yet i feel that if i end this post here it's not doing justice to my grandfather. I just keep feeling that if i post about him it should be my best post. But i just don't know what to write because i'm afraid that no matter what i write, it's not got going to be good enough. I guess the following is some thoughts about what i'd like to say about him...
We never really had long conversations because he could only speak cantonese and i could only not. Yet as i have come to experience in the past, some of the best relationships in this world don't really require words, just actions and the knowledge that they care about you. I remember that about Yeh Yeh, the fact that his smile always somehow told me that everything was going to be ok. One recurring image in my mind is him babysitting me in our old apartment where I'd play with my toys and he'd sit on the rocking chair watching over me whilst at the same time watching television. It's nice thinking about it.
My Yeh Yeh came over to Singapore from China all by himself at age 14 and was the pioneer for the Chan family. Since then he and Mama have had 8 children, 14 grandchildren and 7 great grandchildren. My dad often tells me that during World War 2 when the Japanese occupied Singapore both Yeh Yeh and Ma Ma had to constantly be on the move with some of the kids running and hiding from the Japanese soldiers given that capture usually meant death for all. Another story that I'm usually told is that all 8 kids would live in one room and at times share one mandarin.
Yeh Yeh's main occupation has always been a watch repairer and I'm sure that he was pretty awesome at that given that i'd always give him my watch to fix and it'd come back brand spanking new. As i grew older i came to appreciate his ability that even in his old age he was still such an ironman, catching public transport, rocking up to church service, hanging out with his friends at Chinatown. I'd be fortunate to be able to do all that when i'm half his age.
Anyway, Yeh Yeh was baptised at Grace Baptist Church on 20 June 1986. And i guess that's the most important thing... the fact that he's a Christian. It shows that even though i didn't get to attend his cremation, it's not really goodbye. I mean sure, i won't see him for a while, but it's not goodbye. It's "I'll see you later". I guess my dad best sums it up:
Yeh Yeh went ahead of us, not as one without hope, but one with hope in anticipation of the Lord's second coming and that those who belong to the Lord will meet again - not in the form of a corruptible body.
Nonetheless despite having such hope i must admit that i'm going to miss him terribly. I miss all of them terribly. Yet I guess the thing to remind myself is that I should not remember the suffering that he endured prior to death but rather how he lived. And he live he did, to the fullest 94 years that one could possibly live. I miss you already but I'll see you soon. | | |
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Do you feel like "everything" in
your life just isn't going right? 
Perhaps you feel like you need some
direction in life. Or maybe you just want to relax, refocus on God and
get back on track spiritually. 
