Adam's Chicken Soup

I threw this together one night so we could have something healthy with our pizza. My wife and I liked it so much we decided to make it again.

It uses:

• Carrot
  
• Onion
  
• Corn
  
• 2 Cuppa Soup Sachets
  
• Leftover chicken meat
  
• Flavouring

Chop up one big carrot (or two little carrots) and chuck 'em in a saucepan.
Chop up an onion and add it
Add some frozen corn
Pour in some water (I used pre-boiled water from the kettle) and start it cooking
Add some salt, pepper, chicken salt, whatever.
After a bit put some left-over chicken meat in. You often have some leftovers when you have a whole chicken.
After another while open the sachets of cuppa soup. I used cream of chicken (the really cheap brands are great for this).
Let it cook for a bit and then eat it.

This should serve two to three people.

Holiness

Our Youth Pastor preached last Sunday night on Holiness. She made some interesting points which made me think. We know that God is holy. He is perfect in righteousness. It is His holiness that makes him so unaproachable without Jesus.

It is often to see God's holiness and think we can never come close. Interestingly, God commands us in the bible "Be Holy because I am Holy" (1 Peter 1:16). We will never be sinless like God in this mortal life, but it must be possible to be Holy because God would not command something to us that is impossible.

We can use our sinful nature as an excuse not to bother persuing holiness. As my youth pastor put it "Holiness is possible because of the exchanged life"
Thankyou Jesus.

Chloe Artwork

Chloe has been busy creating artwork.

First Cast Photos from Star Trek

Well, a new posted has been released by Paramount for the new Star Trek film, and on it we are able to see the first four cast photos from the film. Kirk, Spock, Uhura and Nero are all seen in make-up and costume. I have a few random thoughts.

Firstly, I must say that Zachery Quinto looks very much like Spock. I am very impressed and can't wait to see him acting in the role. His uniform looks extremely similar to the original uniform on the original TV series.

Honestly, I can't quite see Kirk yet in the photo of Chris Pine. He looks a little...well...evil. I still have faith in his casting and I'm sure I will be able to accept him as Kirk when I see more than one still photo. It took me some time but I have come to accept James Cawley as Kirk in the fan production Star Trek Phase II. I'm sure this will be no different.

The most interesting shot is the one of Eric Bana's Nero. The rumour has always been that Australia's current favourite export to hollywood was playing a Romulan. He we see no pointed ears (although his ear does look damaged, as if it has been chewed off). In addition to this, he has some interesting facial markings. Could it be that Nero is an alien of a race we have not yet encountered in Star Trek, or is this just an elaborate tatoo? Only time will tell.

Images of the poster can be seen at Trekmovie.com

Intersting times.

Telstra Sitcom

We all know the rabbit ad for bigpond, where the little boy asks his dad why the great wall of China was built. Dad response hesitantly "To keep the rabbits out Son." This is, in my opinion, probably the best ad I have ever seen. It made me laugh like few ads can.

The interesting and somewhat bizare news is that Telstra are considering making a TV sitcom based on the father and son characters. The question is, will it work? There are certainly oppertunities for comedy between those two characters, but will it ever be considered a true peice of entertainment, or just a cheap attempt to make us watch a 30 minute advertisment?

Only time will tell - but it is certainly a bold concept.

Read about it at The Australian.

New Harrison Photos

It's time I shared some recent photos of Harrison.


Standing Up



Hanging out with William



With mum near the QEII

Cloverfield

Well, last night I finally watched Cloverfield. I have certainly heard a lot of good things about the film over at Trekmovie.com but wasn't sure exactly what I would be getting myself in to.

What I found was a fascinatingly unique approach to story-telling. JJ Abram's unconventional aproach of using a video camera belonging to one of the characters in the story as the means for seeing the entire film created a level of realism I have never experienced in a movie. The concept was basically, what would it be like to really live through an 'end-of-the-world' style event such as a monster attack.

The film-makers faced a difficult task. Using the camera as the sole means of following the action required finding valid and believable reasons for the characters to be filming. JJ pulled this off, and managed to create interesting characters in the process. This movie was deffinately not carried by the special effects (although they were spectacular at times).

It's hard to describe a film like Cloverfield, let's just say that I liked it - a lot. Seeing the level of realism that JJ Abrams can bring to a sci-fi movie makes me more eager than ever to see his realisation of Star Trek next year.