Ben Tshin

Bah, what a long day today. Long day at work since my manager is down in the States and I have take over what he does. Trying to fight spam spam spam – Monty Python’s Flying Circus. Work is always long and tiring. I’m trying to skip my lunches so that I can log more hours of work. I think this is a bad idea.

Then softball practice: 6:30 till 9:30. I don’t think we really practised per say, but it was fun playing impromptu ball in the fading sun. We have a really solid infield. Just check out Esther Ng robbing 3 Scoops a few weeks back. And I’m finally hitting right. My teammates told me to simply swing SLOWER and my workouts are really building my musskells. Just need to wait for the ‘perfect pitch’.

After practice, we all head out to the McD’s at Creditview & Eglinton. We ended up meeting up with a few other teams so it was a semi-big MCBCSL group there. We chatted for a while and at the end it was only Ollie, Joel, his sister Joyce, and myself just chatting around 10:30. And then this old man came over and started talking to us. And it was really weird because we couldn’t understand what he was mumbling. We initially just listened to his ranting but then we realized he wouldn’t leave. So we got up to leave and he followed us outside. Fortunately we got the idea that we weren’t going to keep listening to him and he left us alone. *whew*

After THAT, Joel and I drag raced red light to red light along Eglinton back to Erin Mills. Unfortunately it wasn’t much of an even match with my 6-banger outgunning his small 4-banger.

To top off the night I got back and found Ani and Gordon just finishing their workout that I had missed. I walked over to talk on Ani’s driveway (the old tradition) and we ended up talking for a good long while. They grilled me on my beliefs and they vented their beefs with the church and its preachiness, and how the Christian church doesn’t accept and respect other beliefs or faiths. What a battle! I was totally outnumbered, 2-to-1. The sad thing was I agreed that the Christian faith is being misrepresented by hypocrites and ‘radicals’ who have some pretty extreme beliefs. If I saw the church as an outsider I would be a bit skeptical like them about joining.
Fortunately, the Christian faith is based on a relationship with God and not a religion based on the “institution of the church”.

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