http://www.listeningpoint.us/zakky/ en-us 2009-12-01T01:29:16+10:00 http://www.listeningpoint.us/zakky/archives/2009/12/reflecting_on_t.html My 40 day liquid diet ended last weekend. Its primary cause - a personal tradition of marking the end of a season, and the beginning of another; my New Years' Day if you like. Coupled together with that were a... zakky 2009-12-01T01:29:16+10:00 http://www.listeningpoint.us/zakky/archives/2009/11/starting_up_aga.html The conversation tonight with my wife-to-be has given me motivation to start writing again. Most of this year has been living on the fly, with very little reflection and critical appraisal. As exhilarating as it has been, such a lifestyle... zakky 2009-11-22T00:10:34+10:00 http://www.listeningpoint.us/zakky/archives/2008/11/frankenbride.html There are so few things on my mind. Too few for comfort, or more accurately, any semblance of Life. Life, as I have learned to understand it, has more to do with the pains of growth than the comforts of... zakky 2008-11-03T14:16:48+10:00 http://www.listeningpoint.us/zakky/archives/2008/08/this_obsession.html Few years ago, we sat around a table, about twenty of us. They were the new organization we were going to be working closely with, so a good official introduction was the least we could do. We prepared our minute... zakky 2008-08-24T00:30:19+10:00 http://www.listeningpoint.us/zakky/archives/2008/08/vision_vs_struc.html This has been the greatest dichotomy within our leadership circles, at least the ones that I'm aware of and have any decent contact with. It take many different forms depending on where you drop the pin on the spectrum between... zakky 2008-08-09T23:16:31+10:00 http://www.listeningpoint.us/zakky/archives/2008/05/money_musings.html What is the big deal with money? Like, money is a resource, just like time, and my skill and baking cupcakes. Money is like playing the keyboard for you, or cracking your back. It's no different from sitting down and... wordcraft zakky 2008-05-27T23:00:25+10:00 http://www.listeningpoint.us/zakky/archives/2008/05/prayer_for_the.html Where are you going? What is so pressing? What makes you so driven to leave your life and pursue another given? Long coats black and grand you strut the streets big outside void within. Happy makes me sad, makes me... wordcraft zakky 2008-05-23T11:57:39+10:00 http://www.listeningpoint.us/zakky/archives/2008/04/purpose_1.html Never been to a motor race before, much less the Formula 1, until a year ago. One of the pre-race events was the Celebrity Event where a bunch of celebrities got into BMW 1's and raced around the circuit. I'd... zakky 2008-04-18T01:08:47+10:00 http://www.listeningpoint.us/zakky/archives/2008/03/your_listening.html Dear Child, Today is Easter Saturday 22 March 2008. I'm sitting here in a dining hall in Camp Manyung, Mt. Eliza together with Aunty SL, Aunty M, Uncle C, Winnie, and Uncle TK. We've come up from Melbourne to this... Dear Child zakky 2008-03-25T10:39:39+10:00 http://www.listeningpoint.us/zakky/archives/2008/02/happy_birthday.html This is my third attempt at a post. The last two went on for a paragraph and a half before I tagged on "(incomplete)" at the end and dumped it in my archives. Too comprehensive, too try hard, too contrived,... zakky 2008-02-23T00:18:30+10:00 http://www.listeningpoint.us/zakky/archives/2008/02/amazing_grandpa.html Dear Child, What a day it has been. This morning, I gathered up my courage. Hoping against all hope, I called up the agent. If you never ask, you'll never know. It started off with me rattling off a bunch... Dear Child zakky 2008-02-06T22:51:30+10:00 http://www.listeningpoint.us/zakky/archives/2008/02/giving_and_taki.html Dear Child, Today was a funny one, a rather exhilarating one. We went to inspect one of the places in the morning - 10am in the morning to be precise. We were the only people there, the agent was nice... Dear Child zakky 2008-02-06T08:27:02+10:00 http://www.listeningpoint.us/zakky/archives/2008/02/dear_child.html Dear Child, This is very new to me. I've never written to someone that I don't know, but hey, I'm not sure I really know many of the people whom I DO write to, so let's call it even. These... Dear Child zakky 2008-02-05T00:59:11+10:00 http://www.listeningpoint.us/zakky/archives/2008/01/much_ado_about.html Some days, I wish that electricity never existed. That people woke up in the morning and went to sleep at night. I wish no one plundered our night skies and replaced it with our own artificial constellation. The stars are... wordcraft zakky 2008-01-30T17:43:47+10:00 http://www.listeningpoint.us/zakky/archives/2007/12/blogging_140_ch.html Yes I have been hooked. Blogging is much easier 140 characters at a time. Even more enticing when I can twit from a chat-like interface and my mobilephone. See my side bar. This is zakky//thoughts on hyperdrive!... zakky 2007-12-20T10:35:16+10:00