Proof of the Pudding
Why Explore
Posted by Wayne (Melbourne, Australia) on 25 March 2008 in Miscellaneous.
This entry's been pushed further back each time. Originally it was meant to be an update on where I am and what I'm doing so I'll just dive straight into it
I've been busy working on my thesis to get it ready for submission to a conference that's coming up in Singapore and I've been doing other things as well. Long story short...my supervisors are nothing short of amazing (one of them emailed me almost instantly all the way from Liberia where he was working and the other responded to an email I sent out at 5 am immediately after just returning from a conference in Sydney)...and I've gotten out an abstract that they're pleased with and think is good enough so I've sent it off to Singapore. I should hear from the organisers by the 14th of April so keep me in your prayers!
I've been cooking a lot more but unfortunately I haven't had much opportunity to take photos of them. A friend invited me to a guest lecture and I had the opportunity to take photos of the event for them (their photographer landed up in a car accident and couldn't make it). I've since gotten my ipod touch and did some shopping from the recent sales going on. I'm heading off for a short hiking trip in a while and I've been updating my cook book. Also I've gotten approval from my law school to do the oxford exchange. And I've started out on the security team at church - its rather exciting and enlightening to see how things function from that particular perspective. I am simply loving it!
Why explore? was the title of the entry from way back...and it still remains a rhetorical question for me. The National Geographic has been a constant feature in my life since I was old enough to read...and when I was in secondary school I continued to add to the family's extensive collection of the journal's issues by buying up second-hand copies from the years past. It started in me something that continued to be fed from various sources...science club, the gardening club and those unforgettable school yard adventures of bug and slug catching in primary school, the boys brigade, kayaking and even debate research in secondary school, the army and all those lectures and field work and even now whenever I go through life. Why explore and its various permutations have continually spurred me on to experience new things, meet new people and constantly test the limits of my knowledge, abilities and more importantly my expectations.
I recall reading the adventures of men (and women) who've viewed vistas that previously before were never beheld with human eyes. Of trials of fire, ice and all manner of weather and obstacles (natural and man-made). Their pages gave me deeper insights into the world around me and its complex inter-relations but more importantly gave me that hunger. The hunger to wonder about what lies beyond the next knoll, hill, mountain. The desire to constantly push the envelope and in the process discover from without the within.
I don't really know where this entry leads to or how to really end it...but I guess its kind of an apt situation for such a question as this. There never really is an end or a reason...nor should there be =)
I'll be posting more regularly from now on so if you're still bothering to read this blog I hope to make it worth your while eventually.
