Rice 2012-Satisfied

8th and last rice (unless i help out next year)
why 8? because i started going in yr 5.
let me take you through

2005-Town Hall. Free entry. That was a really good talk.
2006-Town Hall. Gold Coin. First met San Choi Bao. He didn't turn up this year ): he's always so "lol"
2007-Sydney Convention Centre. $5 they had this thing where you walked around the building looking at different things leading up to the talk before being seated.
2008-Sydney Entertainment Centre (since heaps of people started to come) $15. this was a really good year
2009-Sydney Entertainment Centre $15 had expos on different youth groups.
2010-Sydney Entertainment Centre $15
2011-Sydney Entertainment Centre $15 started to become alright
2012-Sydney Entertainment Centre $20 they had nothing before or after the rally.
Prices are approx.

this times speaker reminded me of our own youth pastor. kind of chubby, young kids, aussie, kind of same attitude. i found this term more "sermony" if that makes sense, still pretty good, but much less songs. massive games have a nice feel to it.
it's really good to be reminded of what is really "satisfying" and seeing heaps of other young Christians in the same place.
i understand why they're under budget. there were sooo little people this year. i even had an empty seat next to me. usually people would "reserve" rows and rows for their friends but it was not as crowded as other years. even at maccas,  you didn't have to wait long.

Rice: Renewal and Inter-Church Evangelism.
they didn't explain the other meaning so i shall explain if you're curious. well, they only explained it back in '06 and i was full like "wow"
so, basically non-asians won't get this meaning.
well, since as Christians, the cross is symbolic of Jesus who died for our sins.
then you draw a cross.
since it's evangelism (spreading out the Good News), it's similar to how in light globes and for suns, we draw dashes to show it's glowing/radiating like.
then we draw four dashes in the space of the cross.
thus you have a glowing cross, which is then the chinese character for the food rice.
so that's another name for rice.
and it's an Asian event (but now i see more non-asians which is also good) and most asians know the character for rice:
                     

(not ticker for '11 because it was like "print at home")

i think hsc has made me become anti-social since at times you "don't have time" to talk to people. even though i saw heaps of people i knew, i just ceebs to say hello....

twas very lucky to have parked right across from the station (:

i've never been to a big day out before ): oh wells....