Wednesday, July 22, 2009

Beautiful MJ Medley

I've become a fan of Cathy Nguyen and a few of her associates on YouTube. A bunch of them have killer voices (Gabe Bondoc, Andrew Garcia). I like Gabe's guitarwork and some of his covers. Taking voice lessons has always been on my list of things to do at some point in my life.

A Snapshot of Matt's Lifelong To Do List:

1234. Take some voice lessons (fully aware that they might not do anything to help :P)
1235. Eat turducken
1236. Visit China
1237. Write a book
1238. Learn how to backflip




I Want You Back --> ABC --> Man in the Mirror --> I'll Be There

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Sunday, July 05, 2009

Something to Celebrate

It's nice when you have something to celebrate and people to celebrate it with.

This evening was a great example of this. Young and old from my church gathered together for a surprise celebration of our Pastor's 60th birthday. It was really great to see so many people turn up, so many getting involved with food preparations, people organizing games and just lots of people around smiling and wishing him well on this milestone of an occasion. Watching the older aunties and uncles playing charades was gold. It was really great to take this chance to acknowledge how important he is to all of us and how much we value his care and service as a spiritual leader and friend. I pray that God will continue to sustain him for many more years of ministry and that we can encourage and support him every step of the way.

One of the patients that I'm looking after has his birthday coming up tomorrow. He will be turning 73. No, I don't make a habit of memorizing the birthdays of everyone in hospital but his stuck in my mind because I admitted him over the weekend. I actually considered getting him a card but had second thoughts because I thought it might be "professionally inappropriate"...which seems ridiculous when you think about it. I know there are ethical rules against accepting gifts from patients and/or drug representatives (surrounded of course by a lot of grey - a card or homemade cookies would probably be fine but bottles of scotch or plasma TVs would probably not be fine) but what about giving something to patients? This guy has never been married, has no kids, and doesn't have much in terms of supports at all. I'm not sure if anyone outside the hospital even knows he's here. He will likely spend his birthday in hospital, alone, getting a full-body-CT-scan dose of radiation while we look for cancer. We may even have to break the bad news to him later on in the afternoon once we see the CT results. Happy birthday.

I'll probably run the card idea by my consultant tomorrow morning and see what happens...

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