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Oodles of Noodles…

August 15th, 2008 | No Comments | Posted in Church, General News

This week the Holiday Bible Club was on in the church, so there were 150 odd kids running about and screaming each morning…  Great fun…  I was only free to help three of the 5 days as I had work, and I have fallen a little behind on my dissertation as a result.  But it was great fun really!

On Thursday I left the club and headed off to Belfast to go to the library at college.  I arrived in the town and hunted for a parking space (building work has the college parking restricted to staff etc), parked and abandoned I left the car and strolled down Botanic avenue to get some lunch.  I was thinking about getting a sandwich, but I remembered a small noodle bar I noticed there a week or two ago and decided to give it a go.  On arriving I spied the chalkboard rendering of “try our ramen!”  Now I love ramen!  Ramen is delicious!  So I hastily ordered some up and waited eagerly only to be presented with a bowl of soup with slim udon in it… definately not ramen…  It was still tasty though!

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Working away…

July 27th, 2008 | 4 Comments | Posted in College, Website

This week I met with my new dissertation supervisor and we talked about moving on into producing an actual dissertation.  After a bit of discussion and idea chewing, we have settled on the subject of the pagan reaction to Paul in Acts  (This is a bit narrower than simply reaction to Paul).  I am looking particularly at three instances in Paul’s 2nd missionary expedition, the interactions with a Roman colony in Philippi, Paul’s encounter with the philosophers of Athens and finally the confrontation with the Artemis worshippers of Ephesus.  The main thrust being to look at the reaction to Paul’s message by the three main relevant aspects of pagan culture at the time: Roman government/imperialism, greek philosophy and pagan worship.  I have been working away since our meeting at Philippi and it is so rich and deep in terms of material it is beginning to feel quite daunting (just this one section!)  But at the same time it is very interesting, and as I read more and study more it is increasingly relevant to today’s society and also particularly to Japanese society, as each aspect studied has a parallel aspect there…  I don’t know if I will be able to include a bit of discussion on that in my actual dissertation itself, or if it will just be something to think about on my own afterwards…  but it is interesting and quite challenging too…

I have plunked for a flickr photo display on the right there as Picasa was just a bit too annoying to get to work quite right with the sidebar.. I want it to be like a kind of photo-blog, with the latest photo being most prominent and the previous few as thumbnails beside… Picasa wanted to start at the beginning each time!  Maybe when I have more time I will write a little bit of php to do the work with picasa..  But for now I have downloaded picasa2flickr and am just sticking them up there instead.  It is actually pretty well suited for this purpose as the limitations are upload bandwidth based, whereas picasa’s are storage based…  I will continue to use picasa to share albums of photos though, but they will get posts of their own I think!

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