new challenges !

ha, I'm sure you thought I disappeared into thin air :-)

not true! Here I am !!! I'm challenged by a number of things these days:

1. working with Lightroom by Adobe.

A wonderful program (to be downloaded for free because it's in beta testing) ... it really gives you more insight on how a digital photo can be mastered in so many directions! Fascinating !

2. Google Sites

Another challenge! Google is really incredible when it comes to intuitive programming: the programming is so clever that with a minimum of efforts, you can build a website that looks quite amazing !!! 

3. Christian charity

HowLan and me had a discussion last night ... the discussion started about money, and what would happen if I pass away. This also is a challenge for me, because his reasoning and my reasoning are not alike when it comes to money and the combination of that with my desire to spread the joy to friends (you could call it also: christian charity, although that leads us to a total new discussion hehe!)

I gave a number of friends in the far-away and recent past a helping hand, financially, for their studies, exclusively doc and postdoc. HowLan had no problems with that.

On the next trip, I want to go one step further. I have some cyberfriends in the Phils, who are gay and unfortunately not wealthy. They want to study but they don't have the funding. 

What should I do? There is not one moment of hesitation in my heart that I should help them. I discussed it with Apsie, and he confirmed that it's a common pratice in the Phils that a benefactor is paying the university bills directly to the university for certain individuals. 

I can do that.

But I don't want to do it without the consent of my partner. I know it's money that I earned with lots of problems and energy and heartpain, but I don't care, I enjoy earning money and using that income for others to benefit from it.

Well, the discussion with my partner didn't go too well. He's not really in favour of financially helping Pinoys. I cannot blame him, given the fact that we had some bad experiences in the past, not to mention Joel. But nevertheless. Isn't it written in the Bible that God would spare a whole city if only there was only one good-hearted-person?

Fortunately, this morning, my partner told me that he has full confidence in me, when it comes to money and how to spend it, even when it concerns giving a helping hand to the studies of my pinoy friends.

However, I still want to continue our discussion with him, how he sees christian charity applied in his personal life.

Room for more blogs, I suppose!

Now I stop rambling, and go to sleep !!! nitey nitey :-)

PB

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