namaste shalom

judges 6:24
And Gideon built an altar to the Lord there and named it Yahweh-Shalom (which means “the Lord is peace”).

instead of chanting namaste1 at the end of a yoga or meditation session,
chant "shalom" which means peace in hebrew...

wait what?
chating? do christians do that? isn't that an eastern buddhist monk thing
is there any harm in doing meditation..

hmm

whatever helps to consolidate focus,
bring together a wholeness of the mind,
the fragmented parts of memory,
that brings peace.

shalom

1. btw namaste should mean namaskar: a traditional respectful greeting to a teacher by putting the hands together infront of the chest and bowing the head..
but nowadays in the age of "spirituality" it has the connotation of sepnding out peace vibes to the universe in hopes of getting something back

Orbit Protect Working Holiday Insurance

Just signed up for orbit protect insurance
When i was coming here from Malaysia i was looking for insurance that would cover Working Holiday Visa (WHV). but, there isn't any that when you googled would specifically say that it's fro WHV.

So i just got a AXA "smart traveller annual - gold" that covers NZ. it was abt RM175 bucks
BUT their FAQ states specifically that they DONT cover WHV... zz

https://digital.axa.com.my/travel-insurance-malaysia/faqs/general-travel-insurance
Can I buy travel annual plan for working holiday in New Zealand or Australia?
Travel insurance is designed for travellers who travel for leisure or business only. Working holiday is not considered as a leisure or a business trip.

so yeah..
but i just kept the policy lah, incase .. you know.. need to use it next time.
it's an annual thing anyway

sooooo...
i've been here in NZ for abt 3 months now.
survived the COViD19 lockdown wohoo!
(was working in a factory, it was considered an essential industry)

so yeah...
my whatsapp chat group talked abt getting an insurance,
so there was this one mentioned: Orbit Protect.

but i didn't think abt if for some time
until today... i searched online .. AA insurance etc.. so many out there lah.. so confusing sometimes.
but Orbit.. man.. they are good.. straightforward to the point....

says there right on their front homepage: Working Holiday Insurance

checked out their premiums.. good leh..
and once working here in NZ for a few weeks.. its affordable lah
So yeah.

Got insurance now =)
wohoo!

made to walk

"you're meant to just walk" - Geoff Chapple, founder of Te Araroa

Q: Or maybe it's more simple than that. I once asked an inveterate walker why he did it and the answer was:
A: 'because I'm here, and not there'

soul rest

There is only one true source of soul rest,

And that is God

grounding insole

Watching a documentary abt grounding

https://youtu.be/44ddtR0XDVU 

How going bare foot on earth is good. 

I used to run around alot bare foot, especially during frisbee on the grass! 

Loved it. 

But now i love shoes, 

Doc marts, boots, tennis shoes, zero raise shoes, barefoot shoes, vibrams, luna sandals, asadi slippers and adidas kampung... You name it

Hence... 

How to be grounded while still wearing shoes? An insole (in contact with the foot) made of conductivite material that has a wire running out to the bottom of the shoe sole in contact with the ground. 

The plate at the bottom is not hard as a nail as to make clacking sounds when walking such as thumbtacks in marching boots, but instead made of a soft conductive gel composite of metals and uhh.. Gel. 

Haha. One day maybe. 

on wareables

so i got a huawei band 4 pro and band 4 e

i also have a mate 9,  with huawei's health app installed.

i know they're taking a heck tonne of information from me.

and they are probably tracking me everywhere i go too with the GPS.

listening in onto everthing i say though the always on microphone,

watching me with the camera, that faces both forwards and back

as well as camera's from other phones..

this is it.. this is the state of surveillance that.. destopian stories talk about

but see, it doesn't have to be enforeced upon us... 

we willing accept it,

i willing buy and pay for it,

i willingly put it on my arm

cause in my mind, 

i'm sold out to it,

the advertising worked.

it made me think that this was something i "NEEDED"

well.. technology is only as helpful so far as it doen't master us.

cheerios

predicting what is going to be read next

funny isn't it,

how when we reaad things, somethings. sometimes we can predict what is going to be said next in the line. as if, we've read it before, there's some conception of what's coming next, a foresight, an image.

the more knowledge one has stored up in the brain, the more things seem to repeat themselves, the more things seem to be related and connected like branches to a tree trunk. the more information, the more guesses and predictions can be made, and these calculations happen so instanteneously.

i think that's why music is so nice, we sorta can know what's in the next line, what melody it'll be, and the beat helps alot too. (unless we dont know the song!) xP

too much information nowadays float around without having any proper anchor points in the mind.

and still, always be open to the unexpected happening.

precious difference

"the difference is precious"

Dear God

Thank you for coming as a light into my life, to guide me and to shine the way. May You reveal things in mylife that need to be touched & changed by you. Lord, you were here since the beginning & You are there in the future. Sometimes i worry about what is going to happen. But please let me have peace knowing you are the Light & you will provide all that I need, not more, not less, but just what you'd want me to have that would keep me relient to you. That I may know it is not things i should desire for, you You.

Your Word is always true. Everything you said, all the promises you made. If there was anything in this world that I should put my trust in, let it be You and your words. May it not just be memorised scriptures in my head, but help me to live it out in my daily life, to embodie it, to  be empowered by it, to find assurance, peace, guidance, rest, fullfilment, joy, love, teachings, rebuke, warnings, rewards, my portion. all that is enough for me.

Let it be in you that I find my satisfaction in life, my given purpose, my meaning.
Let my dailty thoughts be shaped by You, when I rise: Your the first thoguht on my mind,
when i lay my head down to sleep: Your the one I talk to to thank you.
That the questions i ask not just others but also myself... are influenced by You
My intentions of the day,
turn myself from me to you

"Self-righteousness has nothing righteousabout it, is is just being selfish"

Let me not miss out on who you are.