Saturday, November 05, 2005
dies irae
Oh my goodness its a purple 'old man' S-class Mercedes! The paintwork, wheels and clear side indicators are really nice and funky too! Excellent 2 tone colour coordination with nice silver trimmings too. Can you say shagadelic :)Anyway the 301 studying is progressing at a snail's pace basically its kinda like repeating itself over and over again... ... ... those vague management modules... and the textbook reads like the author was paid by the word... redundant... nice diagrams and charts and tables too (marketing / business people love using these)
Condolences to Jan... take care
Friday, November 04, 2005
Islam and the Bible
1 GE exam over... IC0103 E-Commerce... Wrote quite a lot of rubbish basically... I really should not have skipped any of the lectures. I ended up turning up half an hour early by mistake too...
and also, some wise-crack who sped up when i changed into his lane almost crashed into me when i braked because all the cars in front were braking just at the point he was tailgating me super-closely just to be childish... he panicked so much that he jammed the brake till i could see his car slide off half a lane to the side... well... hot-headedness....
WANT to listen to a sermon on Islam vis-a-vis Christianity based on their source of revelation? http://media05.sa-media.com/sermons020/2105131317.mp3
Islam as described through the Koran...compared with Christianity through the Bible
its not politically correct but its honest so be careful... thought it'll be appropriate for this festive season... take note that he speaks in generalizations...
Thank God for seeing me through these weeks meanwhile....
Amen
and also, some wise-crack who sped up when i changed into his lane almost crashed into me when i braked because all the cars in front were braking just at the point he was tailgating me super-closely just to be childish... he panicked so much that he jammed the brake till i could see his car slide off half a lane to the side... well... hot-headedness....
WANT to listen to a sermon on Islam vis-a-vis Christianity based on their source of revelation? http://media05.sa-media.com/sermons020/2105131317.mp3
Islam as described through the Koran...compared with Christianity through the Bible
its not politically correct but its honest so be careful... thought it'll be appropriate for this festive season... take note that he speaks in generalizations...
Thank God for seeing me through these weeks meanwhile....
Amen
Friday, October 21, 2005
Friday night
It's Friday night.
I'm in a happy mood. Have Class 95 playing over the Internet.
Am going to intern in a children's magazine next year.
Still have a presentation, feature article, photo essay to complete for this term.
Strange, this illusion called time.
It seemed like yesterday when I was in my army camp, living day by day and running about doing stupid things.
It seemed like yesterday when I was standing in line on the track outside my BMT barracks at 5.30am, waiting to march off for breakfast, and I stared into the sky as a plane roared past overhead, and I wanted to fly away from that miserable prison of an island.
It seemed like yesterday I passed my driving test, and I was so overjoyed I went back home to my original house, and told everyone I had passed on the first time.
It seemed like yesterday she put her head on my shoulder on the MRT, and I didn't know what to do.
It seemed like yesterday when I would reach VS 20 minutes before school started in order to copy homework.
It seemed like yesteday I would fight with my brother for the front seat in my dad's car.
It seemed like yesterday my dad took us for an MRT ride around Singapore when it first opened.
It seemed like yesterday my grandma would dab cold water over my chest before giving me a bath by scooping water from a red pail and pouring it all over me.
It seemed like yesterday when I went home after school, stopping to buy 10cents ice-sticks.
I could go on and on. Being thankful for the past. And hopeful for eternity. For God has always been there watching me. And the things of this world will not be remembered.
Man that is born of a woman is of few days, and full of trouble. He cometh forth like a flower, and is cut down: he fleeth also as a shadow, and continueth not. - Job 14:1-2
I'm in a happy mood. Have Class 95 playing over the Internet.
Am going to intern in a children's magazine next year.
Still have a presentation, feature article, photo essay to complete for this term.
Strange, this illusion called time.
It seemed like yesterday when I was in my army camp, living day by day and running about doing stupid things.
It seemed like yesterday when I was standing in line on the track outside my BMT barracks at 5.30am, waiting to march off for breakfast, and I stared into the sky as a plane roared past overhead, and I wanted to fly away from that miserable prison of an island.
It seemed like yesterday I passed my driving test, and I was so overjoyed I went back home to my original house, and told everyone I had passed on the first time.
It seemed like yesterday she put her head on my shoulder on the MRT, and I didn't know what to do.
It seemed like yesterday when I would reach VS 20 minutes before school started in order to copy homework.
It seemed like yesteday I would fight with my brother for the front seat in my dad's car.
It seemed like yesterday my dad took us for an MRT ride around Singapore when it first opened.
It seemed like yesterday my grandma would dab cold water over my chest before giving me a bath by scooping water from a red pail and pouring it all over me.
It seemed like yesterday when I went home after school, stopping to buy 10cents ice-sticks.
I could go on and on. Being thankful for the past. And hopeful for eternity. For God has always been there watching me. And the things of this world will not be remembered.
Man that is born of a woman is of few days, and full of trouble. He cometh forth like a flower, and is cut down: he fleeth also as a shadow, and continueth not. - Job 14:1-2
Thursday, October 13, 2005
Do you believe in Hell?
I may have sort of guessed why some people insist they descended from apes, that the existence of life is merely a by-product of a chance chemical reaction that had a probability of 1 in 999999999 gazillion of happening randomly on its own, that they just simply cease to exist and have no eternal self-awareness after they die physically, and that there is no afterlife, eternity, heaven or hell.
Because they are terrified of judgement and being held accountable for their behaviour after they die! Of spending an endless time in the depths of hell burning in agony and pain, from this terrible all-consuming fire of God's angry wrath for the defiant, disobedient and ungrateful. I think people here, even Christians, forget the characteristics of God that are so revealed in the Bible.
No doubt, God is of love for He shows mercy by forgiveness of human transgressions through Christ, but don't forget, God is also just, holy, and perfect, without sin, and abhors even the slightest bit of a taint of imperfection. And He certainly is angry and there is clear description of the terrible hell that awaits damned souls that refuse to submit to Christ's saving grace.
And we like to think hell's a fun place. A joke of ancient myth, of superstition and human invention. Ouch is an understatement.
Because when you get there there's going to be no way out.
If you can't swallow that, then just continue to pretend that you just lose consciousness or self-awareness (for those of you who don't believe you have something called a soul) when your physical body rots, and you just become nothing.
At least this preposterous form of denial sounds better than burning in hell forever.
Because they are terrified of judgement and being held accountable for their behaviour after they die! Of spending an endless time in the depths of hell burning in agony and pain, from this terrible all-consuming fire of God's angry wrath for the defiant, disobedient and ungrateful. I think people here, even Christians, forget the characteristics of God that are so revealed in the Bible.
No doubt, God is of love for He shows mercy by forgiveness of human transgressions through Christ, but don't forget, God is also just, holy, and perfect, without sin, and abhors even the slightest bit of a taint of imperfection. And He certainly is angry and there is clear description of the terrible hell that awaits damned souls that refuse to submit to Christ's saving grace.
And we like to think hell's a fun place. A joke of ancient myth, of superstition and human invention. Ouch is an understatement.
Because when you get there there's going to be no way out.
If you can't swallow that, then just continue to pretend that you just lose consciousness or self-awareness (for those of you who don't believe you have something called a soul) when your physical body rots, and you just become nothing.
At least this preposterous form of denial sounds better than burning in hell forever.
Monday, October 10, 2005
Lazarus
My lesson starts at 2pm so what am I doing in school at 9am?
1. I plan to go swimming at 11am.
2. I sent my brother to camp. He's booking in to go for Modified BMT recourse.
3. I've been sleeping too much these few days. Approximately 30% of my house area consists of bed / sofa. The rest is just really noisy. And yea, its 100% hot and stuffy.
4. I have the 301 report to finish.
5. I have the Falling Man article to critique
6. I have Photojourn readings to read
7. I have a feature story to mull over
8. I need to blog because I haven't done so for a long time.
Hopefully you'd want to step out of the tossing sea of uncertainty too.
1. I plan to go swimming at 11am.
2. I sent my brother to camp. He's booking in to go for Modified BMT recourse.
3. I've been sleeping too much these few days. Approximately 30% of my house area consists of bed / sofa. The rest is just really noisy. And yea, its 100% hot and stuffy.
4. I have the 301 report to finish.
5. I have the Falling Man article to critique
6. I have Photojourn readings to read
7. I have a feature story to mull over
8. I need to blog because I haven't done so for a long time.
The heartbroken realist
What is love but a foolish fleeting glance?
A thing to be enjoyed for as long as it will last?
A magic-carpet ride on foundations all so sparse?
But of faithfulness remaineth when the ecstasy has passed.
Hopefully you'd want to step out of the tossing sea of uncertainty too.
Monday, October 03, 2005
Mercy
My soul teetering on the brink of damnation.
Don’t I always start from zero.
When you’ve lost your way return to the source.
Any object, any stimulant. Don’t dwell on it.
Don’t think it your right either, those wretched theories that distract you from God.
What of direction, aim, purpose. Ignoring the exhortation of brothers.
Are you near yet so far dear Father? Separated by this gulf.
Time is but an illusion to trap the sinful, but it sure is a long time down here.
I abhor myself.
I beg, take away those vile things whose use I desire to contort.
For I am filthy, an abomination. I wax iniquity.
Have continued mercy I pray – your faith is greater than mine own.
I cannot deny your glory.
And if the darkness is to keep us apart
And if the daylight feels like it’s a long way off
And if your glass heart should crack
And for a second you turn back.
Oh no, be strong.
U2 – Walk On.
O wretched man that I am! who shall deliver me from the body of this death? I thank God through Jesus Christ our Lord. So then with the mind I myself serve the law of God; but with the flesh the law of sin. – Rom 7:24-25
Don’t I always start from zero.
When you’ve lost your way return to the source.
Any object, any stimulant. Don’t dwell on it.
Don’t think it your right either, those wretched theories that distract you from God.
What of direction, aim, purpose. Ignoring the exhortation of brothers.
Are you near yet so far dear Father? Separated by this gulf.
Time is but an illusion to trap the sinful, but it sure is a long time down here.
I abhor myself.
I beg, take away those vile things whose use I desire to contort.
For I am filthy, an abomination. I wax iniquity.
Have continued mercy I pray – your faith is greater than mine own.
I cannot deny your glory.
And if the darkness is to keep us apart
And if the daylight feels like it’s a long way off
And if your glass heart should crack
And for a second you turn back.
Oh no, be strong.
U2 – Walk On.
O wretched man that I am! who shall deliver me from the body of this death? I thank God through Jesus Christ our Lord. So then with the mind I myself serve the law of God; but with the flesh the law of sin. – Rom 7:24-25
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