Void

Ever since I have got my work permit I have been applying for jobs but it seems I am not the one that employers are looking for. Maybe I don't have the necessary experience or maybe they need someone who can be vetted. Don't know why, but I feel frustrated. Each time I apply for a job, I build castles in the air. Thinking how I can earn myself, how I can be independent and sorts. God gave us this life to live and not to squander it. Living on someone else's earnings is not living at all but parasitism.
I don't know what God wants me to do. Stretched before me is no road but uncertainty and the unknown.

Today is Good Friday and I have implored from my hearts depth for giving me a job or lead me down a path where I can fend for my family.

God provides

My last post said we were looking for a home and thank God, we found one. Although it has no bedroom, we are happy to have a roof under our head. The living room becomes our bedroom. The rent is a bit costly but we can't really complain.
So that's that.

In retrospect, I have been with unrequited love from my school years up to even the month before my marriage. During all these time, I have expressed my love in varying ways to all the girls I liked. For it is my desire that the other person knows my feelings. I don't like playing games, nor wasting time. Pain and sadness often follows these expression of love episodes. Girls move on all too quickly.

Now, tomorrow will be our second wedding anniversary. Ron has been in my life for two years now. Wow! Of course our marriage was arranged, that we were strangers but that doesn't matter because there's love between us. I had no job and she said yes. Yesterday, she was asking me when will she see me being angry at her. Surely there are fights, the sulking and the silence but in the end love brings us back. I am usually the silent one and who takes all her wrath. But I don't mind because, most if not all the time, it's my fault. Besides, I rarely retaliate, be it her or anyone for that matter.
She is patient with me and encourages me to take risks in life and above all loves me the way it should be.

I'm just beginning my family life and since I am still without a job, I have applied for few jobs and I am waiting for the outcome. As always God provides. 

Work

Thank God for I got my work permit. Now all I have to do is find a job. Yesterday I have applied to the Office of the Clerk for an editorial position. They had asked for references but since all my references are in India, I didn't fill it in. But I said I will produce it once it's demanded. Now then there is the issue of not knowing much Maori. I'm new to New Zealand but I think I can learn the language and culture as I go.
Now if I am accepted.. man! .. that's what we call..a miracle.
But I am grateful to God for at least leading me to this opportunity. Thank you Father.

New Year it is

Onto 2018 and I thank God for keeping me safe, healthy and happy. I don't have a job yet, but that's because I can't legally work. Once I am granted work rights, I hope to get a job. Till then depending on Ron.
But the most pressing matter is we are running out of time to get a new home. Our current agreement is getting over soon. Since New Zealand has high rates of homeless people, it's no wonder that there are few homes in the market.
Because Ron is the only one who puts bread on the table, anything beyond $250 per week is not even worth looking.
Now this is what I call irony is: We have one home in India that's empty and another in Ireland that's for rented.
Again casting our eyes to the sky hoping God do something. It's not that we haven't gone house hunting, it's either expensive or not to our liking or our application not being processed.

What therefore God has joined together, let not man separate.

It's not that I have any aversion to immigration or to it's policy here in New Zealand, but the way it is verified is so strange to me. I am on a tourist visa here so I am not allowed to work. Fine. I can see places, can appreciate the culture and of course the public libraries here are exhaustive that I was able to read a lot after coming here. I don't know why but sometimes I feel I like being here. Maybe it's because Ronitta is here with me.
Ronitta has now completed her course and we both applied for work visa. Thankfully, she got it within a week of submitting.
Now when it comes to me, I feel I am at a disadvantage. I have to prove that I am her husband.
How will or can you prove it when you are in a non native place? For example, in Saudi Arabia I think you have an ID to show around to officials that you are actually a husband. Once that's shown, you are all good.
Here on the other hand we have to prove we are living together. I recently read a news that a couple was denied visa because the husband didn't have enough clothes in his wardrobe. Today someone was saying that investigators can sometimes look at the clothesline to see if you both hang clothes on the same line.
For my proof I sent my passport (with her named as my wife), our joint account, the marriage certificate,our photos and our tenancy agreement. Isn't that enough?
Apparently not. They also seem to be in need of utility bills sent to our address in our names.

What if we live in a shared house where only one person makes the final payments and we contribute our share to that person?  Will I be rejected my visa because of that? Probably, yes. 

 To the immigration official everything seems illegitimate. I see no reason why the name of Ronitta as my wife in the passport might seem fake. If so, will I not be fooling my own country? More like treason.

I'm leaving this to God. If He wills there will be no issues at all. 

Friends

I was thinking of writing something but could not figure out what. But today I dreamt of Rins and Shaina. Hope they are fine. Rins had contacted me a couple of months back. She is happy with a family now. As for Shaina, I have no clue. Sure she is a mother now, but no contact after 2011 or something. Hope she is doing good.

Can not update Zenfone Laser ZE500KL?

For some reason I couldn't update my device because it threw me errors each time I tried both through OTA  and manually. The errors where mainly relating to mounting such as
E: failed to mount /asdf (Invalid argument)

So I went searching in XDA and found a workaround. Here it is:

 Thanks to malachiseelam in XDA
1. Enable USB debugging in your device and accept the PC signature prompt on your phone
2. Download ADB and Fastboot into a folder
3. Download the latest firmware and place it in the above folder. Rename it to update.zip for convenience.
4. Download and place the recovery.img of the Lollipop firmware (1531) into the same folder
5. Open cmd.exe in Windows and change the directory to the folder above by giving the command chdir "your folder location" and press enter. For example if mine is in desktop then the command would be chdir C:\Users\user\Desktop\Folder

6. Check if your device is recognized by typing adb devices. If it shows then all good.
7. Boot into Fastboot Mode by switching off and pressing volume up button with the power button (Release power button once you see the screen or after vibration)
8. Type adb fastboot flash recovery recovery.img
9. Boot into the now installed recovery by pressing volume down button and the power button.
10. Choose "Aply update through ADB", confirming by pressing the power button
11. The device will wait for instruction. Here just type adb sideload update.zip

12. The installation will start in your device.
Source : https://forum.xda-developers.com/zenfone-2-laser/help/fix-asus-zenfone-2-laser-ze550kl-t3579069
Good luck.