Thinking aloud

The accumulation of lactic acid in my legs increases significantly when I walk around Orchard Road, City Hall and places like that. Why leh? Shouldn't be what? I can walk for and hour plus round Pasir Panjang road without feeling tired at all.

Anyway, I'm probably not going to expect my CAP to reach 4.0 this sem, and it's probably going to drop. And on another note May yin started her own site. Go check it out. Good stuff there.

Looking forward to Genes and Society and AGM. Then I can call it a year.

...and what a year it was. Will do a run down on the year some time later after my exams are really over.

Diagonalizing matrices during a paper is not fun.

I repeat not fun.

Does NUS want to train us hand calculate eigenvalues when the whole world is using MATLAB?

Entahlah macam mana...

'Field Theory' tadi tidak berjalan begitu lancar. Haraplah apa yang saya dapat jawab diberi markah yang berpatutan. Saya tidak meminta banyak, hanya A- pun mencukupi.

Mengapalah otak tidak berupaya berkerja tadi. Ya, saya mengakui kertas itu sedikit seberapa susah. Tetapi ada soalan yang saya berupaya jawab dengan baik, hanya masa tidak mengizinkan. Tambahan pula, satu soalan (14 markah) tidak dapat dijawab langsung.

Haih...

Mengapa, bukannya saya tidak pernah lihat soalan itu. Pernah. Malah, semasa mengulangkaji subjek tersebut, terserempak dengan jawapannya. Malangya aku langsung tidak menilai teorem and bukti tersebut. Jikalah aku menelitinya pastinya soalan tersebut dapat aku jawab.

Terkilan hatiku...

Durian, oh durian. Merasa otak saya dipenuhi durian sahaja.

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Any idea how to prepare for GTI on Saturday.

Jialak.

This is the surest way to a man's heart...err, at least my heart. :)


Craving

It's so hot nowadays that I've got to bathe every other time I return to my room.

Save water!!

I seriously need a bath.

Think will take a nap first. Pardon for the brief post...midst of exams.

joan's jots: Fooling the ministers

I don't mean to denigrate my country or something like that. It's just for us all to take a good look at ourselves and chuckle.

But seriously, developed nation by 2020?

I'm starting to panic now...really starting to panic.

My discrete opt has been totally abandoned and I don't think I have the time to work at it.

Mati!

Fundamental forms are the bread and butter of differential geometry. Everything, from Gaussian curvature, mean and normal curvatures, length, area and angles, geodesics and topological properties mind you are all calculated from the fundamental forms.

Powerful! A whole geometry of surfaces just from something as simple as the inner product.

(I have a exam on the 26th...let me be nerdish and wax lyrical about it for a while).

But what's this post all about anyway?

'Fundamentalism' is a dirty word nowadays. One reason is it gets lumped in together with bigotry, which is not a very nice attitude to have. Another associated idea is 'foundationalism' which also has seen it's sunset.

But I think that these ideas were not the brainchild of desperate theologians or philosophers who were out to enslave the whole world with prudish morals, or some dusty old modernist who just can't seem to accept change.

Fundamentalism in religion I would think is an honest response from honest people who are dismayed by the mad rush to embrace the latest fashion in theology, philosophy or what nots in a new market place of ideas. Fundamentalism just starts from a very basic question: What are the basics?

Social change is not deterministic as Hegel thought. Change comes about because people make a difference, either good differences or bad ones. In the case of the 21st century, it's like in the parable of the weeds, weeds growing among the wheat. Social change happens because people make conscious decisions to abandon ideas which they deem is wrong and embrace ideas which they think is right. We are asking for trouble when we try to make our religion up-to-date with the times, because being up-to-date usually means being enslaved by sombody's wrong idea.

What are the basics?

How about foundationalism? Foundationalism starts when we ask a very commonsensical question: How do you know? Let's not be caught up with foundationalism talking about some 'bedrock of truth from which all other propositions are hence justified'. Nobody can say two or more words before his inner man starts asking with a ghostly voice, how do you know this is true?

I believe that we still can believe in a 'bedrock of truth' even in this colourful age. Sanity demands it. We must satisfy that ghostly question. Failure to do so drives us closer to a fantasy world of our own.

Well I guess what makes the 21st century such an interesting place to be is because there are so much colourful people out there in thier own fantasy world. But lets not hide the fact that such people are also desperately lonely and hurt, despite appearences to the contrary.

Maybe metaphysical foundationalism is untenable as an epistemology, but we have killed more that we bagained for when we advertise it's demise in the popular media.

Marcus did a little run down on the maths modules he's taking. I think I'll do the same too...I'll be cheeky here and say that the intersection of my set of modules and his is nonempty. . .

I'm taking

MA3215 3D-Differential Geometry: I kind of enjoyed this module cos the ideas were simple to grasp and have lots of depth to them (of course, the deeper parts require more effort). But overall, the best strategy would be to mug tutorials and practise partial differentiation.

MA4203 Field Theory: This is definately not for the faint of heart. The crux of it is the galois correpondence between fields and groups. It is super technical, but the central idea is beautiful. Now I know why you can't do certain things with a ruler and compass, solve the general quintic (and higher powers) and find out which regular n-gon's are constructible.

MA4235 Graph Theory I: This is the module with the least amount of theorems, but don't let that fool you! It's simplicity belies it's enourmous difficulty. (esp for the 'Section B' questions), graph theory could be classified as a discrete mathematics type. Keen observation powers are needed here.

MA4254 Discrete Optimization: It's LP all over again with the added constraint of solutions being integers. Gah, lots of words and little symbols make me nervous. It's a pure mugger module, practise...something which I detest. Nothing deep here, this is a applied math module rather than a pure one.

There you have it, the four tigers I must tame next week.

I need to blog, while waiting for some divine inspiration from on high.

(stupid clique number, why are you equal to p!!??)

I guess a mark of wisdom is to recognize bad assumptions that are inherent in certain ways of doing things.

Our human mind's propensity for coherence and consistency is stronger than we think, and very subtle as well.

I guess for me personally, upon reflection for two whole years of serving in NUSVCF, certain practises which betray a very unchristian assumption come to bear. These practises may not be blindingly obvious to many, but the effects upon the spiritual health of the fellowship is real and dangerous. There are decietful.

I guess I'll just list down a few.

1) Taking pride in structure. This shows the clearest when we use technical vocabulary and treat the ministry from an abstract point of view. 'Ministry' becomes a noun, rather than a verb.

2) Elitism. It's there. 'Nuff said.

3) Taking pride in student initiative. We should never, never take pride in any of our distinctives for that matter. But student initiative is a heritage passed on to which we accept humbly from our predeccesors, not a right to claim or something to parade as a badge of identity.

Yes, this is the deadly assumption in NUSVCF, pride. That we, as an organization are better than any of the other christian (including RC) movements on campus.

I myself have committed all of those crimes listed above.

Could it be that we are not growing, our struggles with commitment stem from the fact that we all know deep down in our heart, that we are doing this for the sake of face, rather than the love of God.

Questions to consider, before the LPC starts.

I have a new blogsite. Check it out!

My primary blog will still be here. (I kinda prefer blogger's interface, still not used to xanga) Xanga is used mainly for my fanfic attempts at recreating the matrix. so expect it to be super incoherent and jumping all over the place.

Bleah...I should be studying.

...it's in the air you breathe, it's there when you stare out of the window, when you go to church, when you pay your taxes.

So says Morpheus.

I know I'm too old for this, but please, let be be a geek for once.

I LOVE THE MATRIX!! ALL HAIL THE WACHOWSKI BROTHERS.

but only the first installment, mind you. Sigh..if only they had tightened up their script for the second and third movies. It had such potential, but the need to fit the whole narrative into a straightjacket trilogy form killed the story.

I have a dream: Start a new blogsite and run my own fanfiction of how the matrix should have ended.

I'm mad...in the midst of exams!??!

Who am I? This or the other?
Am I one person today and tomorrow another?
Am I both at once? A hypocrite before others,
And before myself a contemptibly woebegone weakling?
Or is something within me still like a beaten army,
Fleeing in disorder from victory already achieved?
Who am I? They mock me, these lonely questions of mine.
Whoever I am, Thou knowest, O God, I am Thine!

Dietrich Bonhoeffer.

Sometimes I wonder why I am the way I am...

Have been doing some reflecting, in and out the times when I am not studying. I realize that sometimes I am just not the person I make myself out to be. Guess that I don't really know myself as yet. Come to think of it...hmm....words fail again.

Last night as I was reading through my differential geometry notes, just stopped for a while to clear my mind. Unfortunately I wandered over to Joshua's desk and found two books by Joshua Harris. I had always wanted to have a peek into his books since when relationships got mentioned, his books got into the conversation as well. So I did, and I couldn't put it down. By the time I finished it was 1230 and the only 'studying' I did was to look up some maths trivia.

The book sort of resonated with what God has been trying to get to me through my thick head. Things sort of became clearer now. He has spoken.

On the intersting side of things, I met Jasper, a final year student from my field theory class in NUH. He says that NUS is a horrible place to be and commented that it wasted Kay Jin's talent. His cap was 4.5...I guess he has a right to say that.

I love my desktop

Sigh...i really should be studying, but this is so much more fulfilling and satisfying. Bleah...

Hope you enjoy it. Hehe.

Sigh..i'm supposed to be mugging, but what the heck...

Who are the prophets of the modern age? Who is willing to hear what God is still saying to all of us?

Are the prophets the modern apologist, speaking against the despair and meaninglessness of life? Are they the activists on the moral right, speaking up against declining moral standards? Are they the cultural critics, trying their best to be relevant to the world? Are they the church growth experts, intent of bringing the lost in the kingdom by exploding the church?

The true heroes of the faith are scarce-those gigantic men of character and uncanny wisdom. Where are the voice of those that stood at the center of the last century and proclaimed the warnings of God to a fast changing world. Where are the Solzhenitsyn's, the Schaeffer's, the Tozer's, the Lewis's whose spiritual discernment was so sharp that their writings left a legacy.

I feel, when perusing the net, on the christian community boards, the online book reviews, websites and blogsites that there is a dearth of such exempleries of character. No spiritual heroes to challenge young minds. All that is and are, are reactions. Knee jerk reactions to symptoms of a deeper malaise that somehow, nobody has the courage to confront.

You'll get more deeper understanding of the world we live in from people like Hayao Myzaki and Mamoru Ohsii, than from any Christian writers nowadays.

Centenary status for schools more than 100 years old

Apparently MBS is included also. (That's right, we celebrated our centenary when I was in F5 anyway).

It's about time, my old school seriously needs and upgrade. Really needs a building upgrade. But as always, with the M-Gov, will they keep their promises and deliver when the time comes?

Been running through my old archives...

...and decided to do some serious spring cleaning. Cleaning out dusty stuff. It's done then. I know one shouldn't delete posts, but well-it's kind of neccesary.

I have enough of living in a fantasy world.

'Nuff said.

Go here for more nonsense from the American courts

"Q: Doctor, before you performed the autopsy, did you check for a pulse?
A: No.
Q: Did you check for blood pressure?
A: No.
Q: Did you check for breathing?
A: No.
Q: So, then it is possible that the patient was alive when youbegan the autopsy?
A: No.
Q: How can you be so sure, Doctor?
A: Because his brain was sitting on my desk in a jar.
Q: But could the patient have still been alive, nevertheless?
A: Yes, it is possible that he could have been alive and practicing law somewhere."

Let one live alone doing no evil, carefree...

...like and elephant in the elephant forest.

-Buddha

I know I wasted so much time watching Ghost in the Shell :Innocence this morning. Yeah, so sue me.

This is the second time I'm watching it. The first time was a feast for the eyes, but since the subtitles were horrible, I didn't understand a thing. With the new subs, its much more clearer. Will probably be watching it again. I dunno, but I find it a really rich film. And it's worth repeat viewing since the artwork is just so detailed.

The main characters are intellectuals I must say, they quote a lot-I mean really a lot. Confucius, Buddha, some french and russian writers, Plato, the Bible and this mysterious japanese guy named Ryokuu Saitou.

But this quote by Buddha appeared two times, one by Aramaki and another by Major and Batou.
Suffices to say, it is the mood for the entire film: Resignation.

p/s I want to blog on this film in a later post. I promised I'll write something about Cry the beloved country, but still haven't finished it yet.

Then


..and now


Passing on the flame 03/04 to 04/05


Passing on the flame 04/05 to 05/06


remembering those that went before

Another series on those sweet memories. (Several photos were from last year. Not all are recent)

Check this entry from a blogthat I readpretty much every other day.

No I don't know the person, but being the snoopy person I am, chasing links on weblogs lead around to interesting people. And relating their struggles with God encourages me a little.

To be in communion with God? What does it mean actually?

I have realized that the teaching I grew up with concerning this matter actually conflicts fundamentally, i.e. they come from different premises. I didn't realize this conflict growing up. But hitting uni years, when semester after semester of mathematics has sharpened my mind, I begin to see how actually the teaching on having a relationship with God are divided into two camps which start from conflicting premise.

No one needs semesters of mathematics to realize the conflict. There will come a time when reality hits hard and confusion sets in. And no 'walking the middle road' or 'finding the balance' is ever going to do. I guess adult working life will function as a furnance to test the viability of our theologies regarding our relationship with God.

For me at least, I realize two things about a relationship with God and what it is:

1) It must be cultivated. There is a discipline and intentionality to it. This covers the mystical (so called the spiritual) part of that relationship. This means daily QT at a regular time slot. Legalistic as it sounds, it's the only time when I can be silent before God.

2) Silence is an integral part of relating to God. Silence I realize is not the stillness of the mind. Is just means a standard noise level that's just about the rustling of the leaves and bird song. That is silence. Silence is a time when the inner mind speaks the loudest and we are most conscious of our stream of thought.

3) Our relationship God also covers the way we relate to people. I guess we cannot say we truly love God, when we treat people unlovingly. 'Nuff said.

4) I have come to realize that intimacy with God has less to do with 'feeling his presense' or 'focusing on God' or 'thinking of Jesus all the time' or 'experiencing God' stuff like that. I just leave one word with any readers who come by this: It's in the intangibles. Go figure out what it means.

5)Corporate worship and formal rituals (i.e. Holy Communion) help me in my walk in mysterious ways I will never understand. But yeah, it also in an integral part.

I guess in summary: I would advise...set apart a time to do QT. Forget the debate about being informal or that God accepts us at anytime at any place. That may be true, but it is an impertinent detail. Communing with God requires silence, QT provides that required silence.

Err...

I actually managed quite a little bit. Not to bad considering how lazy I am by nature. Ok,

1) I woke up for Field Theory! Generally I could do most of the past year papers and much of it tallied with the lecturer's answers.

2) Did my QT after returning back to my room. Again, words fail me. One of those silent wordless prayers again. Been reading to Jeremiah.

3) ...

4) Started on my Graph Theory, stumped now and the last few questions. What could I do? It's just so difficult. Patience, the inspiration will come...somehow *sheepishly*.

5) Prayer meet and dinner with EXCO - {Sue Anne, Paul}. So, so lar...we are really a bunch of jokers. I really wonder how Paul feels sometimes-being the naughty EXCO we are. :P

6) Come back and continue of Graph Theory lar, still no inspiration. Never mind, iron clothes and blog.

7) Back to work!!

There is a certain power in the dark rain clouds that move across the sky before a tropical storm. The sun gets blotted out and the belly of the clouds descend so low that you feel as though you could reach up and touch it.

This is called the dark majesty of the monsoon.

A totally humbling experience.

Laughing at yourself is a good thing sometimes. Yesterday, for some reason, was feeling super lonely. It's not that everybody has abandoned me or like that, dunno, it's that feeling like everybody has faded into a photograph and me, just me is outlined prominently.

It helped tremendously during church service that William's wife passed me Belgian chocs as my birthday present. God spoke also, telling me not to myself so seriously. Yup, so actually laughing at myself does help, things get put into perspective and a reason to hope is found.

Well....

The struggle is real, but so is the laughter sometimes.

Trust and obey, for there's no other way...goes the line from that age old hymn. Really, sometimes I do rant out to God and complain, but if I abandon Him, who else can I turn to?

I want want want this as my desktop!

Just don't have the time and patience to slowly look for the materials. I guess I really want a lot of things, but am not willing to put in the effort to aquire them.

Mwahaha...how materialistic one becomes and one grows older. :P

Seven flowers pressed to paper thin,
One black cloth, twisted into a bow,
Three manila sheets, cut down to size,
with a pretty lady coloured in pink and blue,
offered a rose.

Scribbles on a card pinned onto a maroon board,
one cute pig disemboweled and hollowed,
a pillow wrapped in human smells.

The gems of my life, my room.

I've used G. Now's left letters J,M,U,V,Y and Z.

Todays headlines was about HIV. The central dilemma is: Your husband has HIV, but you don't know about it. The government knows but can't tell because of confidentiality laws.

Dr. Balaji (Senior Minister of State for Health) laments this unfortunate situation. Of course the onus is on the husband to break the unhappy news, but this rarely happens. So how?

Indeed it is usually those who are weak and innocent that get trapped because of someone elses irresponsibility. This is the unfairness of it all, the great dastardliness of evil. Doesn't it really make you scratch your head and break your heart?

Compare this articleto thisarticle. Who do you think is more believable?

Sigh...one more very good reason to avoid cyber cafe's late at night. You'll never know what jokers are around prowling. Doesn't matter if those were 'bogus' cops in the end, being caught in a 'raid' sucks big time.

Welcome to Malaysia man...

Finally, the end of the road...

The last council has just ended and what remains are those memories of sitting around in the Function Room waiting for the announcements and other stuff to be done over with so that I can get back to hall. I'm really going to miss those times...

Distinctive, what is it?

Many CFers (hehe...witnessed by yesterday) would think of it as a keyword that defines what CF is all about. An imposition from outside, or something leftover from the past that forces the current generation to adopt it. Some say it gives us identity.

I replied by giving them (I think!) a better understanding. If they say that a distinctive gives us identity, I would reply that a distinctive reflects an identity already present. A distinctive embodies an ethos. The tension arises when we see what is actually reflected and compare it to what supposedly should be. Indeed, ethos loses something once it is written in black and white, but for the sake of continuity, it is nesscesary.

Which then brings us to the justification for all the 6 distinctives. What is the basis for being Evangelical, Evangelistic, Missions minded, Church Orientated, Interdenominational and Student lead? What justifies believing in a ministry that has this ethos? What justifies the past generation, (and our generation of students) to believe that VCF should go on and future generations experience what we have experienced?

I think that there is one partial answer: All 6 embody in part and simplistically the movement of the grand story of redemption. In particular, it connects us to the story of God moving to redeem the tertiary institution from whatever idols and sin it is trapped in. Our past predecessors believed in this grand story and laboured on as God applied this story in thier lives. We labour under the same yoke, and though we may not find words to express in precise manner (doubt that we may ever able to), we pass on this 6 distinctives as an ethos for the future hoping that God will similiarly work out the story in their lives.

"VCF is a movement," leaders always emphasize, especially when passing on the reins. Fragile as it is, student ministry will always be a testament to the watching powers, to a God that sustains and is faithful. 'Nuff said.

"It is a matter of which story is shaping our lives. Some story will shape our lives. When the Bible is broken up into little bits — theological, devotional, spiritual, moral bits — then these bits can be nicely absorbed into the reigning cultural story with all its idols! One can be theologically orthodox, devotionally pious, and morally upright and yet be significantly shaped by the idolatrous Western story." -Mark Goheen

What am important quote I must say. Yes, I finally found something that strikes a chord with what I wanted to say on fragmentation.

As a science student, I must say that analysis is part and parcel of the way we study and understand the way things work. I'm sure all science students can identify with this. Dissection and studying the smaller parts indeed is a practical and good way to study huge and convulated structures.

However, this method carries over to real life only partially I guess. In our life, when interacting with people, I guess we all interact in the context of one huge backdrop of history. And it is this history that becomes to us all a story that drives what we value and cherish, and what we don't take so seriously, and what we draw lines against.

People usually ask, " Why didn't God just give us a theological textbook and tell us how to live instead of giving us narratives and whatnots. And a whole lot to intepret...:s"

That's a valid question. And I think the quote above answers it partially. We may never know the full reason, it is what contitues a mystery of our faith. But at least we know that the Bible, communicated to us in story and poetry affects us more strongly that mere propositions can. And indeed it is a matter of which story that drives us, as per the quote above. Is it, my Malaysian national agenda or Singaporean secularism that drives me or is it the story of the Bible that drives me?

Finally, one more reason why daily quiet time is so important. It immerses us in the story of the Bible. The action is mysterious, we may never understand it, but the effects are real. The more time we spend alone being caught up in the themes and story of God and man, the more we begin to recognize the idols that litter our landscape.

My desktop!!

I have a hobby I aquired since I had a computer all to my own. I love to personalize it. And I think this is the best I can manage so far. Aaah...it's really satisfying.

I had earlier wanted to post something under the theme of Fragmentation, but my thoughts didn't flow so I guess I'll wait until things are a little clearer. Anyway, council meeting is tonight and finally have some chance to present my thoughts to council after 9 whole months of silence. Hehe...I feel like a manipulator once again.

I have my future room and it's none other than my quaint E701. Lydia and Lingyin and Dawn will be below me and that's about it. Somehow, all others have spread themselves all over hall. Drawing back the same room means that I have to find some extra motivation to do a serious spring cleaning.

Sigh....

I have been sighing a lot these days-long drawn out ones. It's because time really passed and very soon I'll be joining the workforce. Working, really tasting the real world, not a projection of a students worldview of what the adult world is like but the real real working world. Doesn't that make all of us scared?

I'm 23 today and will graduate (hopefully) in one years time. *sigh....*

Talking about maths with Dr. Tan, getting praised for a cute, nice and neat proof in GT class by Dr. Koh, and even chatting with Ee Wan.

Really, what could be sweeter?

Oh...don't you just feel warm and fuzzy inside.

I started with an X to my title post so that I can run through all the letters of the alphabet. Lame huh.

I was restless last night, and couldn't sleep, so wanted to post something. Unfortunately due to some technical reasons, I lost my entire post, a whole half and hour of typing. It was soooo irritating. I mean I was typing from my heart, and the computer just chose to screw up at that time. Grrr....

Anyway, going to meet Dr. Tan after my tutorial to discuss some FYP stuff. Hope I'll be able to get some good topics. I just want to thank God for answering my prayer. This has to be the first time He answered so quickly...within two hours. God is indeed my provider.

I'm thinking alot about EXCO's role in the CF and their approach to issue discussion. But will collate my thoughts and blog about it some other time, probably later today.

That just means I have been kidding my myself that the exams are still a distance and a dream away. How awfully naive. Yesterday during prayer meet, Siew Jin reminded all of us that its 19 days till exams.

19!!

And I haven't even done some serious work of FT, GT and DO. Mati....

Anyway, was surfing looking for interesting things to blog about, but there wasn't. Sigh..

I emailed Dr. Tan today, hoping that we will become my FYP supervisor. I hope, I really hope that he will agree or at least recommend somebody else if he is not free. I'm really intimidated here, this is my very first venture into the world of mathematical research. Hehe, now I can really know what I am talking about and not just talk only...[of course that relies on whether I do well for this finals. I must or else I can pack my bags and go home]

Work work work...

ANNTIC meeting at YIH student lounge later 3.30. But the +side is that I get free dinner courtesy of Mark who is treating us Munchie Monkey. Thanks...

As little children
We would dream of Christmas morn
Of all the gifts and toys
We knew we'd find
But we never realized
A baby born one blessed night
Gave us the greatest gift of our lives

We were the reason
That He gave His life
We were the reason
That He suffered and died
To a world that was lost
He gave all He could give
To show us the reason to live

As the years went by
We learned more about gifts
The giving of ourselves
And what that means
On a dark and cloudy day
A man hung crying in the rain
All because of love, all because of love

I've finally found the reason for living
It's in giving every part of my heart to Him
In all that I do every word that I say
I'll be giving my all just for Him, for Him

He is my reason to live

Avalon


This is one of my favourite Christian songs. Somehow it brings back memories of Canaan Baptist, growing up there, of serving in Sunday School and YTU. Well another reason is that it somehow strikes a chord in me. Was listening to it just now... nice.

Check out this link for something interesting.

Can imagine CS Lewis turning in his grave. I can understand a movie adaptation, but a video game? Gosh, the whole world is not peaceful...

Anyway, just came back from Holland V with Lydley, Michelle and June after a dinner at Subway. Hmm.. the next time I eat at Subway, I'll be taking meatball sandwiches, remind me.

This makes me think of the things I will be doing after the exams. Sigh, the novelty of chilling out seems to have faded away. Now the only thing I'm looking forward to is my future date with my supervisor. Surprisingly am anticipating my FYP. Hope that I'll really get a sense of my calling then. Ok, now back to some serious work. Essaying my Genes and Soc. I WILL FINISH IT BY TONIGHT NO MATTER WHAT!!!

Check this out and this. That Pope John Paul II is desperately ill is no news to anybody. The question is how should we respond to his death.

I woke up at 10 am today. How wonderful...I thought I could get some breakfast. Sigh, but somethings are just not meant to be i guess.


Kingfisher

I remember posting up a picture of a kingfisher, my favourite bird a few days back. But I deleted the post. Really liked the picture though. So here it is. The Kingfisher should always remind us that there enough fish in the whole wide world to feed us all, so don't fight over maritme space. *wink*

I know I'm not making sense. Hehe, because I'm not even trying to do so. Have been kind of confused lately. Sigh...

But anyway, do check out the two links above. Both are evangelicals, and yet both have such differing opinions. It is instructive to compare and contrast how people respond to each other.

Happy April Fool's Day dear readers!

A thought that crossed my mind, influenced by the numerous articles that I have been reading online.

Rather than building a lighthouse that will give light to penetrate a culture, we all, who are the kingdom's agents, are torch bearers, bringing light into the darkness, each of us armed with a rumour," Have you heard?Have you heard the good news?"

Of course this isn't my original idea. I shamelessly copped it from an article by Vinoth Ramachandra. I think CS Lewis also had roughly the same idea in mind.

On the other hand. Things I definately (desperately) need to finish.

1. My Genes and Soc essay
2. Discrete Opt Tut 8

3. Buy shower foam and detergent.