Hmmm...

MSA-0011 ( Ext) Ex S Gundam 1/100 MG and SD

2012-01-28T19:37:00.001+08:00

What the course offers.

What course work is given.

What you have.

What they want.

What you hope you can give at the end of the course.

What you actually hand up.

On a serious note this variant of the rambutan was delicious. I have yet to own a spray brush set or the patience to use one, so I used Tamiya spray paint for plastic models. It turned out pretty well for me.

2012-01-18T01:17:00.000+08:00

Laughter is the perfect receipt for epiphany.

Juxtapose

2012-01-05T22:37:00.000+08:00

Juxtapose means to place side by side.

Quote of the day-86

2012-01-04T19:37:00.002+08:00

"A man can no more diminish God's glory by refusing to worship Him than a lunatic can put out the sun by scribbling the word, 'darkness' on the walls of his cell."

~ C.S. Lewis

The year the sun stands still

2012-01-01T19:40:00.000+08:00

And the sun stood still, and the moon stayed, until the people had avenged themselves upon their enemies. Is not this written in the book of Jasher? So the sun stood still in the midst of heaven, and hasted not to go down about a whole day. - Joshua 10:13

We will not say that it is too late for us. We will not say that the sun has set and the time for miracles has passed.

We shall know that God is greater. This year, our sun stands still.

2011-12-26T20:08:00.000+08:00

If only there were vanilla clouds. I would sit outside on a lounge chair with my large cup of root beer just waiting for it to snow.

2011-12-24T03:07:00.000+08:00

I miss having a Christmas tree at home. We stopped having one after my parents decided that there was no space for a plastic tree that mysteriously had a fair supply of fake leaves to shed in our living room. My parents did put up a small little thing that resembles a Christmas tree, but it's small enough to fit into my hamsters' cage.

Fortunately my presents have been bigger than the tree. I miss putting my presents under the tree so that we could compare our stash. I would hold out till the first day of Christmas to open my presents. Hard cased presents were the most exciting, because they were always toys. I fondly recall that one of the nicest presents I unwrapped was given by Winnie, our family maid at one time. It was a beautiful little toy car. I held it to bed and rolled it all over my pillows pretending them to be hills and valleys.

The Christmas tree was also meant rituals to me. Hanging up my favourite ornaments, I imagined a history for each of them. My sister and I would compete to see who could decorate our side of the tree better. My parents never voted anyway, so we would each declare ourselves winners. My papa would hang the lights on the tree, and I would wait till it was dark enough to turn them on, delighting myself with the kaleidoscope of colours bouncing off the ornaments. Dad had his cassette tape full of Christmas carols, and we would listen to the songs trying to sing along to the parts we knew, humming to those we forgot.

So today I promise my future kids that I will put up a Christmas tree, one big enough to host boxed up dreams, an orchestra of lights and of course, a mysterious supply of leaves to litter the floor.

The view at Marina Bay Sands

2011-12-21T23:58:00.000+08:00

Thanks to Aundrea who brought us up to her room and the Infinity pool at the Marina Bay Sands hotel.

Chapter 20

2011-12-18T17:09:00.001+08:00

A ripple of nostalgia lapped against the banks of my memory as I threaded a puddle. I had just alighted from a bus a stop earlier than my usual. The clouds were threatening to applaud my arrival with a heavy shower, rain drops already greeting windows. A sheltered path led from the bus stop to my block, another to one that had a stationery shop.

As a child I never frequented the toy stores of shopping malls except for special occasions such as my birthday or Christmas. The humble stationery shop in my neighbourhood was my source of all things a boy could hope to buy with his pocket money and a few skipped meals.

One of those things was the toy car otherwise known as the mini 4wd made by Tamiya. It cost me a week's allowance to buy a kit and another to buy the motor. I spent my afternoons listening to the running motor, imagining my car winning race after race. It was all imagination of course, the track was too expensive to buy and no amount of gazing would get my papa to buy one for me.

It was a rainy Thursday afternoon when my friend and I visited the stationery shop to stumble upon a limited edition toy car. It was called the Black Special and it was the only one left in the shop. We decided that the fairest way to own that beauty was to race for it, and made a pact not to buy it till the next day. A restless night and half a day of school later, we ran. Our race started from the moment we alighted from the bus, and ended when I grabbed that box with triumph. I was still panting when I paid for the toy, my legs still burning and my hands shaking from the excitement. The look of envy on my friend when I opened the box to reveal my prize. Those were the first things I remember to have ever won from a foot race. The car I have long lost or given away, but the taste of victory remains salted with sweat on the tip of my tongue. If and when I do have kids of my own, I hope they run for the things they prize, and I hope they win as well.

2011-12-15T23:22:00.001+08:00

"For many years I looked at life like a case at law. It was a series of proofs. When you're young you prove how brave you are, or smart; then, what a good lover; then, a good father; finally, how wise, or how powerful, or [whatever.] But underlying it all, I see now, there was a presumption. That one moved... on an upward path toward some elevation, where...God knows what...I would be justified, or even condemned. A verdict anyway. I think now that my disaster really began when I looked up one day...and the bench was empty. No judge in sight. And all that remained was the endless argument with oneself, this pointless litigation of existence before an empty bench....Which, of course, is another way of saying-despair."

~Quentin in After the Fall.

2011-12-14T23:02:00.000+08:00

When no argument is infallible and truth is indefensible, it falls to one to make sense out of the little clues we are given. Truth cannot be imposed, it must be learned, it must be discovered.

Quote of the day-85

2011-12-14T13:15:00.000+08:00

Either God exists or He does not, but if He does not, nothing and no one else can take His place....
~Arthur Leff

Continued Part 3

2011-12-14T13:09:00.000+08:00

The term unconditional love carries with it the implication of condition. It also implies that the conditions are in conflict to our nature and adverse to the relationship. Another way to translate the word is to replace it with the phrase, "to love in spite of." God loves us unconditionally, in spite of our sinful nature.
In spite of what? That is the question we ask ourselves when we want to know what conditions are unnatural to us.

So when my friend made her argument that "God enabled her to love unconditionally", there is the implication that there was a conflict. Something was not right with the type of relationship she proposed and her nature.

We were made in God's image, and our nature resonates with His. This is a pretty big clue in helping us deduce whether something is right with God or not.

Continued Part 2

2011-12-11T07:16:00.000+08:00

My friend brought up the argument that her God enabled her to love unconditionally, and that if that was the case, homosexual love was certainly fine by God.
This is a similar argument to that made by another friend of mine. He used the following example to highlight this point.

“The greeks thought that homosexuality was more pure than heterosexuality, because one of the main purposes of heterosexuality is the option of reproduction. The greeks considered heterosexuals desire for only this to be greedy, where as homosexual love is more about true love for the other person, not just the desire to reproduce. Also, because homosexual love isn’t the dominant culture. It’s different.”

Again this is a case of unifying love into a singular type. One can see why it is wrong. We are able to love the people around us with different types of love regardless of the degree. The extend of love does not justify the type of love a person bears for another.

The second point that is wrong with such an argument is the assumption that the main purpose of heterosexuality is the option of reproduction. This point is moot because both heterosexual and homosexual love are different only in terms of choice of gender pairing. Claiming that one motive to enter a romantic relationship is more selfish than another, is somewhat biased. If we are going to justify the correctness of a romantic relationship based on personal motives, then it will impossible to do so from a point of complete objectivity.

Finally, romantic love otherwise known as Eros in Greek, is simply not akin to unconditional love. It is possible and most likely for one to love a person with a compound of different types of love. A homosexual relationship certainly involves Eros and can contain unconditional love. However, both heterosexual and homosexual love are types of Eros. Therefore it is not reasonable to tie either type of romantic love to the state of selflessness. Neither should selflessness be tied to Godliness to begin with. Just because God has unconditional love does not make unconditional love Godly.

Quote of the day-84

2011-12-11T01:02:00.000+08:00

"I believe the sun has risen, not only because I see it, but because by it I see everything else."
~C.S. Lewis

Waking up to ask a friend a maths question in the middle of the night

2011-12-10T02:56:00.000+08:00

What I asked my mathematical genius of a friend at 2:51 am:

"Would it be mathematically sound to think that you can add on a prime number eg. 31 to an infinitely large multiple of a recurring number like 0.333..... so that you get something like 333333333333333333333333331 in order to figure out what the largest prime number is? Or did I make a logical error somewhere."

The above thought came out of no where, or at least some place I didn't know of consciously. Not wanting to sound like an idiot I googled 331 just to check if it was not a prime number, followed by 3331..and by induction I realised that I was somewhat on a right path that the "largest" prime number that there is could possibly be something along the line of 3333333333333333333333333333333333333333....33331

However I do not think that I could write off a book of numbers long enough to win that prize money they have been offering for the world's largest prime number.

Back to the start

2011-12-10T02:27:00.000+08:00

Every argument is inevitably rationally avoidable. There is no such thing as absolute proof, for even empirical methods cannot be proven by empirical methods infinitely. There is simply no position of complete objectivity. Strong rationalism falls short of its own standards.

So we realise that there is no absolute proof of God, or an absolute truth for that matter. Yet it does not mean that either do not exist. Instead we piece together the clues we have to form the picture that makes the most sense. A puzzle of pieces each unique to us in experience and interpretation, we find that image of God through sheer discovery. The most beautiful picture we can form that resonates with us, we frame with our faith.

Continued Part 1

2011-12-09T22:43:00.000+08:00

One point my friend used in defence of homosexuality was that gender is a mere social construct.

This assumption undermines the planning that when into our designs when our Creator made us. Gender is a property of God. He created Adam and Eve with different roles in mind for each gender. He made us different.

The thought that gender is a construct of man is based on the idea that we are independent of God. It stems from a desire to craft an identity apart from God, the delusion of control over life and all its aspects.

To be continued because my noodles is getting soggy and I need to find my thoughts, words and resources for the next part.

2011-12-09T14:11:00.000+08:00

Sin is not about breaking divine commandments. It is not about doing wrong things. It is the act of putting things above God, even things we can define to be good.

Christians who bear the idea that homosexuality is a right condoned by God, often do so because they deify love relationships. It is a misconception that because love relationships can be pure and essentially good in nature, God must therefore support all mannerisms of love relationships. However this is not true, as God has set the ways in which people can engage in such relationships.

One main argument for homosexuality is that God is fine with it. Yet the bible cannot be interpreted to support such a truth claim. If anything, the bible refers to homosexual acts as abominations in God's eyes.

A friend once chided me for riding a moral high horse when I told her that homosexuality was a sin. If I had any sense of self righteousness, it was greatly diminished by my trust in the word of God. My view that homosexuality is a sin was born purely from belief in the word of God. All I have left is a counter productive gospel donkey which refuses to ride my way. ( Yet another sign that the biblical word was never popular enough to be just legend )

The only problem I have thus far with homosexuality is my belief that it will distant people from God. I have yet to see why homosexuality is a sin, but to see through my eyes is not to see through His. To stay my aim through the sight of God, that is my hope, that is my prayer.

2011-12-09T13:20:00.001+08:00

One barrier Christians face with core concepts of Christian theology is the transcultural nature of God. God's written word is not a product of man, let alone culture. It is inevitable that biblical teachings are not always in line with what people claim to be cultural progression. The orthodoxy of the bible is then judged, but it is a mistake to do so without a plumb line that could possibly serve for all social norms.

We can only trust the bible in its entirety or not at all. It is the moral datum upon which we measure our thoughts. Doing so otherwise would only defeat the purpose of the written word, for the moment we do so, we sow the seeds of self justification.

2011-12-09T10:30:00.001+08:00

The funny thing about ideas is that it takes a liberal mind to hold ideas that are far from liberal. The less a thought has in common with personal interest, the more open the mind is likely to be in order to hold it. Popular opinion then, is not necessarily a sign of an open mind. It can be seen that the degree of freedom a belief offers, need not bear relation to the openness of the person who convicts the thought.

Dear j,

2011-12-09T01:53:00.000+08:00

God, please take over. She doesn't want to hear from me. She prefers to take it up with you personally. I pray that I have tried what I could. I pray that I said the right things. I pray that I was not mistaken. I pray that this was not in vain. I pray for her to be my friend.

God alone is wise

2011-12-08T23:16:00.000+08:00

My friend argued that her God enabled her to love unconditionally and therefore she was right in thinking that homosexuality is fine by God. Let me remind you that God enabled everyone to love unconditionally. We were made with free will. However that doesn't default all behaviour born of free will to be in sync with God's will.

God never willed humans to be anything but heterosexual. This is according to the bible and my interpretation of the word. If you choose to interpret the bible differently, then there is nothing left to debate. It is my belief that the word of God remains true and relevant until He says so otherwise.

The Bible states that homosexuality is wrong in God's eyes. It also states that Jesus walked on water, healed the sick and rose from the dead. We cannot cherry pick the Bible for the miracles and teachings that we agree with but say that the rest cannot be taken literally. It is important that we understand the core concepts of Christian theology before we dismiss the teachings and commandments that we think are wrong.

People who say that the bible cannot be taken literally usually ignore the historical and cultural context in which the events have occurred, or they do so with the belief that they live in a moment of superiority over all others. They hold a misconstrued belief that they have reached the pinnacle of progress upon which they can fairly judge regression and progression.

Once again I stress that all I have written is only valid when one believes in a God and that the bible is His word.

There is a God, but it is simply wrong to assume that He will never have a view that conflicts with yours.

2011-12-08T14:38:00.000+08:00

God alone is wise. We cannot prove what righteousness is through any empirical means or social research. Our worldly views simply do not match up with His eye on us. His designs may never be within our comprehension, but we choose to believe that what He planned is good.

2011-12-08T11:25:00.000+08:00

Homosexuality remains a choice as long as you possess free will, it remains a sin as long as the word of God is true.

2011-12-08T01:44:00.002+08:00

An expert is someone who takes what you already know and turns it into something you don't.

2011-12-08T00:27:00.000+08:00

You alone could not define right and wrong. You would find that it is impossible for us to forge a universal standard by ourselves. There simply is a higher code of morality that exists, one that is not defined by us.

2011-12-06T13:04:00.000+08:00

A wave of deja vu just hit me last night. Somehow I stand soaked in its ebb.

2011-12-06T01:33:00.002+08:00

Having regret is like making a wish for the past.

The Dire Straits Times - 6 Dec 2011

2011-12-06T00:34:00.001+08:00

I write in reference to the letter by Bosephine Kay, published in DST on November 26th.

In that letter, she expressed disappointment over the naming of an orchid after singer Elton John. She claimed that the government was promoting homosexuality and that they could have picked a better person to honour, such as Formula One driver Sebastian Vettel.

I am appalled that she could suggest naming an orchid in honour of an F1 racer. Does she want the Government to promote speeding in Singapore? We have enough ERP as it is, and now she wants street racing to be the next bane. Do we not have enough "beng mobiles" revving inconsiderately through Orchard Rd? Clearly we do not want to promote such a vice. Instead, I would like to suggest naming vegetables after the PSLE top scorers. This not only promotes scholarly behaviour but also a healthy diet. One can see the honour of having a breed of bean sprout named after his or her prodigy. I look forward to the day my son is accorded the privilege of having a potato named after him.

Ms Emma Couch

Word: Ad hominem

2011-12-03T16:28:00.000+08:00

An ad hominem (Latin for "to the man" or "to the person"), short for argumentum ad hominem, is an attempt to negate the truth of a claim by pointing out a negative characteristic or belief of the person supporting it. Ad hominem reasoning is normally described as a logical fallacy.

Tamiya 1/10 TT-01D Type E Drift Spec- Nissan 370Z

2011-12-02T17:58:00.002+08:00

I used Clear Orange X-26 and Clear Red X-27 from Tamiya Acrylic paint for the head and tail lights of this particular kit. I have yet to put in the license plates or the decals but I am not a fan of sticking them onto cars.

This is my only other car from Tamiya scale electric car kits apart from my first which was a 1/10 scale 2WD off road buggy. It was the limited edition Dyna Storm which I remember to cost $600 SGD at that time. If I had kept the kit in new condition I would be able to sell it now, possibly at a much higher price though I am not sure who would be able to keep it in the box.

Fish tank

2011-11-29T02:19:00.000+08:00

One misconception about love is that it blinds. Far from it, I believe that people are merely growing their relationships to the nature of their faith and beliefs, whether in love or friendship.

Love is a type of freedom exchange. It requires that we lose personal autonomy to gain the freedom of love.

"Freedom, then, is not the absence of limitations and constraints, but it is finding the right ones, those that fit our nature and liberate us." ~Timothy Keller.

We find that we have limitations that define our relationships. Age, gender and distance are some of the limitations we face. They vary for everyone and are based on our faith and beliefs.

I dare say that a person in love is not blinded to the visible flaws of another. A person loves because he or she, has faith; a hope for that unseen.

Veracity

2011-11-28T20:08:00.000+08:00

habitual observance of truth in speech or statement;truthfulness:

conformity to truth or fact; accuracy

correctness or accuracy, as of the senses or of a scientific instrument.

something veracious; a truth.

Quote of the day-83

2011-11-25T21:36:00.000+08:00

The new rebel is a skeptic, and will not trust anything...
therefore he can never be really a revolutionary. For all denunciation implies a moral doctrine of some kind...
Therefore the modern man in revolt has become practically useless for all purposes of revolt.
By rebelling against everything he has lost his right to rebel against anything....
There is a thought that stops thought. That is the only thought that ought to be stopped.

~G.K Chesterton

Supernatural

2011-11-25T18:25:00.001+08:00

It is completely possible to believe that there is something beyond the realm of the natural, without denying the authority of science where it is due. It is philosophically sound to believe that there is more than the sum of natural causes, that there is something apart from action and reaction. Something created from nothing.
Perhaps religion is man's way of studying this relationship between the creator and the creation. Then maybe faith is a way of saying, we know we will be tested.

"Tada!"

2011-11-24T16:46:00.000+08:00

Is what God said when he photoshopped all the nice things on earth.

Quote of the day-82

2011-11-24T16:16:00.000+08:00

To choose doubt as a philosophy of life is akin to choosing immobility as a means of transportation.

~Life of Pi ( 1.7.21 )

It isn't a phobia

2011-11-24T16:13:00.002+08:00

I get amused when people freely sling the word "homophobic" at others who are against homosexuality. A person has the right to believe that homosexuality is wrong. An equal right. Labelling such a belief as homophobia only serves to dumb down and trivialise the belief to a prejudice that is based on irrational fear. The belief that homosexuality is wrong may stem from innate knowledge that one does not define as religious, it could also stem from a variety of reasons not limited to logical thought. Nevertheless it is irresponsible to rule out the possibility that the thought of homosexuality as an absolute wrong, is based solely on religious faith, one that defines homosexuality as a sin.

Generalising the movement against homosexuality as an act of irrationality is discriminatory to religious faith. Every individual is entitled to their beliefs, religious or not. One must recognise the freedom to manifest religion not only in observance and practice, but also in teaching and evangelism. One could argue that homosexuality is backed by science, yet one can only do so by favouring science over religion. The concept of homosexuality is not limited to the arena of science alone, but that of philosophy in which religious faith and science each have their respective spheres of authority. Only in lending credit to each view where deserved does one have the capacity to judge fairly.

2011-11-24T00:49:00.000+08:00

Trying to remember who Sam is and how he found my blog. Yes I remember Sean Douglas, he said my orange looked real. Who is Sam and why can't I remember him?

For a friend

2011-11-24T00:37:00.001+08:00

This isn't the original. My friend wants to see what I painted recently so I took the liberty of displaying this here.

*This was meant to be published a long time ago, but I spotted this as a draft when I was looking for an old picture and realised that I never did post this for my friend who wanted to view this. I cannot remember who and I cannot remember when, but here it is because the title reminded me.

Rain Down - Planetshakers

2011-11-23T21:35:00.002+08:00

I am falling to my knees
I need You Lord to breathe in me
My prayer is still the same
My heart is calling out Your name

Sweet anointing fill this place
I am found in Your embrace

Rain down on me
Rain down on me
Here in Your presence I am free
Pour down like rain
Come and touch me again
Lord let Your presence fall on me

I'm longing just to see
Your power and Your majesty

Sweet anointing fill this place
I am found in Your embrace

Sweet anointing
Wash me over
Sweet anointing
Wash me over

2011-11-23T01:17:00.000+08:00

Hello United States, Russia, Australia, Pakistan and Germany. I wonder which one of you used the iPhone to browse my blog. Must have had a long wait somewhere.

Catherine Lim

2011-11-23T00:57:00.003+08:00

I read The Bondmaid, probably read The Teardrop Story Woman, not sure about The Shadow of a shadow of a dream. The pages are all browned now and they make that raking sound when you rub them together. That reminds me, I should put together a list of books that I would let my future children read. A kind of book bank, hopefully one that grows their interest more than an iPad. I get reminded of lots of random stuff all the time, like how I am hungry, or just bored. Either way, a sandwich seems pretty interesting right now.

Quote of the day-81

2011-11-22T20:26:00.000+08:00

“It is more fun to talk with someone who doesn't use long, difficult words but rather short, easy words like "What about lunch?"”
~Winnie the Pooh

Roses are red

2011-11-22T16:36:00.000+08:00

Roses are red, violets are blue,
I go to bed when dreaming is due

F117 / 70 mm EDF

2011-11-22T00:59:00.003+08:00

A scale model of the F117

I am probably going to crash this plane beyond recognition, so I thought I would take some photos of it first. Going to Spotlight later to find crochet needles and a glue gun to put in those really strong rare earth magnets for the cockpit.

Internet zombies

2011-11-21T13:59:00.000+08:00

It used to be chain letters that kept coming back to your inbox. Back in your youthful days when you and your peers just got their email accounts along with all the funny addresses, chain mails with gags and curses were one major source of entertainment you got besides internet chatting.

People tend to express their individuality by attaching the works of others to their virtual avatar, their desire for social credit and recognition have thus shifted their avatars from the suburbs of one's inbox to the Manhattan of bigger social platforms.

These social platforms are larger melting pots in which ideas go viral faster than a sneeze. The inconsistency of the mix however, ensures for slow cycles of rehash. With numbers ranging from the millions to the billion for virtual populations, the inevitable delay in the circulation of ideas creates a recursive pool in the information river teeming with what I call internet zombies. They are the youtube videos, tumblr pictures and facebook gags that keep resurfacing from the grave for another viral crawl in your friendly virtual neighbourhood.

Whilst I often snipe down such zombies with a my trusty mouse, some of them carry the pleasant smell of nostalgia and I redirect my scope to view them in their aged glory. Oldies recorded on the the vinyl of style, gags that leave a smile after the ribbing and photographs that never yellow in their meaning. These are the zombies I gladly give a bite of my time, happily redirecting them to my neighbours after a round of brain nibbling.

2011-11-19T23:38:00.000+08:00

How easy it is to love someone depends on your freewill and the degree of which it is true to the way God had intended it to be. It is entirely possible to love someone without ever acknowledging God or any doctrine regarding love and relationship, but it would depend entirely on how one would convince self about the nature of love.

Relationships can be successful without ever being whole. You could have a relationship based on personal values that may or may not coincide with divine doctrine, and still have enough happiness to deem it successful. Enough mimicry of divine doctrine eventually makes for a substitute for religious faith. One can succeed a relationship based on a set of personal values, thus making the relationship as successful as one's self righteousness and will. One is also prone to fail such relationships.

It is therefore wise to understand the true mannerisms of love by inspecting it at its source, God. All in order to make whole a relationship that is based on something more absolute than personal belief, something more worthy than self confidence, something more than the sum of two.

My lazy meal

2011-11-19T00:24:00.001+08:00

This is my lazy snack. A piece of bread dented to hold a egg , sided with a cheddar bratwurst.
1 minute in the microwave at 1000 W did the cooking and toasting for me.

Oh my scientific method

2011-11-18T16:48:00.002+08:00

Does no one see the irony of trying to argue the existence of God with scientific methods?
Supposed we actually manage to find evidence of God, would that not discredit Him? It literally would be bringing God down to earth, trying to fit him into a petri dish.

What happens when you finally measure something that is immeasurable, would it not make false its nature? Then what of it should we be able to find God through our natural means? Would that not make Him less than supernatural? Therefore it would be an insatiable chase to find God through scientific method.

One can see how results would instantly be invalidated by the very conflict between the nature of the test and subject. Yet people strive to contradict or validate God through scientific means, and scientific method is valid because, it has been validated by scientific method in the court of science?

Science cannot validate itself any more than belief in the supernatural can validate the supernatural. It is self justification at best and that is worth nothing.

I say to that, how silly. It is not science that made water. Water would be water regardless of how it was tried and tested. It is instead the object of faith that makes good the faith, not faith that makes good the object.

Quote of the day-80

2011-11-16T00:40:00.001+08:00

Weave in faith and God will find the thread.

~Anonymous

To my friend

2011-11-16T00:39:00.001+08:00

Well sooner or later you are going to hit this page because you are on a break, and you have refreshed facebook at least four times in the past ten minutes.

I just want to say that no matter how you feel, you will always be enough for your life's purpose.

I am not a guru who can give you a mantra to calm yourself down or to perk yourself up. I will not give you self confidence quotes because they just will not work.

So I will not tell you that you are infallible if you have confidence. Confidence is like a balance beam for a tightrope, it helps you to walk but it won't get rid of gravity. I will tell you instead that there is a greater force than gravity, the one that put gravity there in the first place. This may sound corny, but this is one force that is with you, and for you. You have a God who is able, you have a God who cares.

Have faith in this greater God of yours. Faith is independent of feelings. You can feel scared, suffocated, depressed and you can hold on to your faith regardless. Faith is not the emotional crutch that comes with temporal joys, it is the spine that grows. It is the smallest faith in the greatest thing that makes you bigger than anything against you.

2011-11-14T20:02:00.001+08:00

"Your item was processed through our ISC LOS ANGELES CA (USPS) facility on November 12, 2011 at 12:55 pm. The item is currently in transit to the destination. "

Los Angeles is prone to earthquakes. So if I want to stay there, I am going to have to make a house of jelly. Or so I would wish.

Uncensored

2011-11-14T02:39:00.004+08:00

A teenage drama like Glee might cast premarital sex and homosexuality into the living room for all to scrutinise under the not so microscopic, 64 inch wide screen. And I'm thinking, it's all right.

I have watched Dexter ( the serial killer, not the lab coat ) and I am unashamed to say that I enjoyed it for its entertainment value. While I rooted for the protagonist who went round killing criminals, I am not about to go around cling wrapping bad people. Sitcoms like F.r.i.e.n.d.s, The Big Bang Theory and How I met your Mother trivialise sex while making gags out of it. I'm still not getting any. Not that I can, or cannot ( I must emphasize on the latter ), but I wouldn't. Not till I meet the right woman. ( By that I might mean that she would make me have some, but I'm not righteous enough to boast that I would never have some before marriage. I'm just upright enough to hope it is that way.)

I am aware that shows impart more than just stories to tell and giggles to share on the school bus, as do all sorts of media. 'Harry Potter' for one, gave us the idea that magic could be used for good as well as evil. X-Men showed us that mutants could use their powers for good and evil too, though it amused me when I realised that the storyboard somewhat involves a country that has legalized firearms. Well a set of retractable claws on a hairy guy are somewhat less desirable than a handgun. Totally makes sense.

Illogical comics aside, I rather my hypothetical kids learn about right and wrong the tactful, cushioned way. No gore, no pornography, and preferably, no bad music.

Then again it remains a preference, not something I always have control over. My hypothetical children will grow up ( once they become real, they'll have to ) and I will grow old and die someday. Not yet, but some day. I once thought of being a vampire when I still in kindergarten. I thought that it was going to be a good thing for me if I could suck on women and be immortal. The bat wings were a definite plus. Eventually I realised that being an eternal sucker was somewhat unrighteous and so I fell out of love with the idea of being one. Plus, I had just learnt that it was impossible. So I would die someday and never be able to stand behind my son or daughter wondering what could be so interesting about the desktop on his computer.

I have to believe that my hypothetical sons and daughters will have a heart that loves what is right, and that they will be guided by faith and not feelings. So as a hypothetical father, I say, let them watch what they want, read what they want, hear what they want. After all, life itself is the reality they could never switch off, nor would I for them.
As long as they show, write, and say that which is right, I would know they are in the right place, on the right path.

Word: Quasi-

2011-11-11T14:32:00.000+08:00

Quasi-
1. Seemingly but not really
2. Almost or partly

My order has been shipped

2011-11-11T03:28:00.000+08:00

From MONTEREY PARK, CA 91754, 14158.999 kilometres from where I am now.

Title goes here

2011-11-09T22:22:00.001+08:00

It long has been a common view that the theory of evolution contradicts theism. That view is wrong.

I support the theory of evolution. I simply do not agree that it bears sole responsibility for everything that happens in the universe. It is not an all encompassing theory that can explain everything, especially the condition of the human soul.

Evolution is a biological mechanism. Philosophical naturalism is the idea that nature alone is responsible for everything. The two are are different and independent of each other though compatible. Evolution as a biological process is equally compatible with theism.

I believe that God fine tuned the universe, putting every bit into place from the stars to the DNA. May everything remind me of that.

*Oh and episode 3 of Friends season 2 had a nice bit on evolution*

Isaiah 43:2 NKJV

2011-11-07T01:57:00.002+08:00

" When you pass through the waters, I will be with you;
      And through the rivers, they shall not overflow you.
      When you walk through the fire, you shall not be burned,
      Nor shall the flame scorch you. "

2011-11-06T19:43:00.002+08:00

I was wondering why the ball was getting larger. Then it hit me.

2011-11-04T20:44:00.000+08:00

One of the rare rain free sunsets this wet November.

Catch 22 in the eye

2011-11-04T13:02:00.000+08:00

My master eye is the left one. I first found out when I had to fire an M-16. This made me wonder if I was supposed to be a left hander. I do have a few actions which are instinctively conducted exclusively with my left hand. Rubbing my eyes is one of those.

I was curious to know if I was a better shooter with my left or right hand, so I ran a test.

The results of shooting a dart gun with my left hand. One dart bounced off another.

Right handed shooting gave me a near perfect line of darts minus the odd dart that bounced off and that one moment I opened my left eye.

Dear j,

2011-11-04T02:16:00.000+08:00

Je rends grâce à Dieu pour le temps qu'il m'a donné.

Je prie pour la sagesse, je prie pour la grâce, je prie pour la bénédiction d'être sur nous.

Je prie pour ma famille, je prie pour mes amis, je prie pour les visages que je n'ai pas encore vu et d'amour.

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2011-10-31T23:34:00.001+08:00

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TV schedule reminder

2011-10-31T14:04:00.001+08:00

What I want to watch:

Weekly:
The Big Bang Theory S5: Thursday
Modern Family S3: Wednesday
Fringe S4: Friday
How I met Your Mother S7: Monday
Gossip Girl S5: Monday
The Walking Dead: Monday

Just realised that none of my favourite shows come out on Tuesdays. That makes Tuesday my George R.R. Martin book and sandwiches day with a nice cup of whatever is in the fridge.

On hold until the complete season is out:

The Big C S3
Breaking Bad S5

Chuck S5

Dexter S6

White Collar S4

The above series have pretty good cliffhangers and I prefer marathons to cliff hanging, thus the waiting.

2011-10-30T14:54:00.002+08:00

My mom giggled today when my younger sister asked my dad what his Chinese name meant, and he replied, "I think it means handsome."

2011-10-30T14:45:00.000+08:00

May I follow my heart, may my heart fall for that is right.

2011-10-29T19:43:00.000+08:00

You said you didn't feel bad. You told me you wouldn't feel bad. I said I wish you would. I said I wish you would feel bad that I loved you and you didn't love me. Now I take it back. Maybe we were lying back then. At least I was. I wish you happiness, and love, wherever you may find it, whomever you may take it from. ( As long as you never leave God behind. Then I know you will. )

2011-10-28T22:05:00.000+08:00

There I have it. My first square of knitting. Nothing more than a hamster blanket. Now all I have to do is figure out how to put more squares together to make a bigger blanket. Then I'll probably cut out some designer pullover from that.

To my future kids

2011-10-27T00:44:00.000+08:00

To my future sons: If you fall for someone, let me know and I will give you money for breakfast with the girl you like. For everything else, please ask your mom.

If you happen to look anything like me, I might have to buy you a convertible to convert her over to our side.

To my future daughters: Nope.

Well all right. We'll see if he's a nice guy and then maybe, just maybe I will let him clean the hamster cages and see how he does that.

Thank you note

2011-10-26T18:36:00.000+08:00

Thank you for the rain and the sun,
thank you for the grapes and attap seeds that were sweet.
Thank you for the breakfast, lunch and free broccoli.
Thank you for the safe journey there and back.

and to my other beautiful friend,

Thank you for the lovely day.

I knit to stitch

2011-10-26T01:08:00.000+08:00

I am going to have so much fun telling people that I have got stitches. 10 of them. Then I'll space out my indexes to show them how long my stitches are.

Then I'll let them know that I've picked up knitting.

I'm still struggling with all the counting. This is not a hobby for someone with the ability to zone out between the tenths of a second. The book I bought for $25 is utterly unhelpful. It pretty much jumps from the slip knot to the patterns. That being that, I practically got to where I am by watching free video clips on knitting.

My Dad proudly holding out the budgie which my sister knitted. You wait and see, I'll make the egg.

Quote of the day-79

2011-10-24T00:25:00.001+08:00

Son, in 35 years of religious study, I have only come up with two hard incontrovertible facts: There is a God and I am not Him.

~ Father Cavanaugh ( Rudy, 1993 )

Chapter 19

2011-10-23T20:09:00.000+08:00

Alas, I have gone mad. Not in the clinical sense the least. I pray you pardon my quirks, I dare hope you embrace them. You have magnetised my soul and my compass has gone awry. So I let go of the wheel and I let the winds take me. It's your fault by the way. If I had multiple personalities, damned I would be to bestow you the one that never fell for you. As it is I remain quite singular in every sense, and I remain quite lost. Nothing should make me quite as happy to wreck myself upon the isle you call your heart. At least shine a light that I might take the wheel, would you not be kind enough? Damn this seasickness.

2011-10-22T20:15:00.003+08:00

I may be a really bad card. The Joker? Well I don't know if that fits me. I hope you hold on to me anyway. Maybe someday I'll be a king.

Dear j,

2011-10-22T18:50:00.003+08:00

Seriously? How did you make my parents think that I was the one with the choice, that I was the one being loved. Then again my parents think highly of me and even more so of the stuff in the fridge right now. They clearly deemed it as a sign of love. Well so much for the irony, for the first time in my life I told my parents that I like a girl. I also told them that she didn't like me. My parents probably didn't catch the drift, or they did and they reacted by giving me a bowl of soup. I'm not angry at you God, I can't be angry. I'm not even angry. I'm just wondering if my purpose in life was to make you laugh to make the thunder in the skies.

And maybe, just maybe I hope they saw something I couldn't see.

2011-10-22T17:43:00.000+08:00

And just because I trust, doesn't mean I'm not scared. My feelings contradict my faith, they refuse to determine as one. What you think it is that is keeping me together is not a web of false hope, no. This hope pulses from a different beat, yet it comes from the same heart. Where I should be sad I feel happy, where I should be lost I am I found. Yet you do not comfort me, but the knowledge of your being does. I fear for you, yet I believe everything you say. I pray it is all true, that everything will be well for you.

Joy will come - Desperation Band

2011-10-22T15:29:00.000+08:00

Joy will come in the morning

Riding on the wings of dawn

I know

Joy will come after mourning

As surely as you are God

Joy will come

Believe

Joy will come, joy will come

Joy will come like the harvest

Reaping for the tears that we sow

I know

Joy will run to the farthest place

Surely as you are God

What is this hope I feel

It's helping

What is this peace beyond

understanding

You fix the broken heart,

there's healing in Your wings

What is this whisper small

I'm hearing

So far above it all

It's speaking

You're still the sovereign Lord,

there's healing in Your wings

2011-10-22T11:21:00.002+08:00

What is this I am feeling? Whatever it is, I trust in you God.

Dear n,

2011-10-21T23:48:00.000+08:00

I know we're not that different after all. I only had one thing extra that really stopped me from a bad ass. When heart and mind both failed me, faith never did. Sorry for being bad ass cliched now. I still wouldn't trade places with you, because then I wouldn't be able to have the awesome you to fall for. Well so much for the corn. I hope you feel guilty and love me some day. Not out of guilt anyway. Not because I'm so much awesome. I hope you just fall and never would bother to know why. Like real soon. I hope. Maybe. Next year. Or the year after. Tomorrow is fine.

A Time For Everything - Ecclesiastes 3:1 - 3:8

2011-10-21T11:08:00.001+08:00

There is a time for everything, and a season for every activity under heaven:

a time to be born and a time to die,

a time to plant and a time to uproot,

a time to kill and a time to heal,

a time to tear down and a time to build,

a time to weep and a time to laugh,

a time to mourn and a time to dance,

a time to scatter stones and a time to gather them,

a time to embrace and a time to refrain,

a time to search and a time to give up,

a time to keep and a time to throw away,

a time to tear and a time to mend,

a time to be silent and a time to speak,

a time to love and a time to hate,

a time for war and a time for peace.

Memory lane 4

2011-10-20T12:04:00.002+08:00

My cousin Joanne and I.

Making faces before it was hip.

Being hip with my Uncle Peter. You're the best uncle Peter. Just don't tell the rest.

Thank you for capturing this moment. That's me koala-ing my mom.

2011-10-19T11:31:00.000+08:00

New with every smile/ as the clouds roll in sky
till the diamonds move a mile/ ask myself the reason why
love would only tell me how/ it answered not a moment shy
every beat was hers from now/till the day that I would

2011-10-19T10:37:00.000+08:00

I had the best dream of my life, and it made me hate that it was just a dream.

2011-10-19T00:58:00.000+08:00

I was in so much pain I actually laughed at the thought of the conniving stack of CDs which has been targeting my toes. Damn CDs.

2011-10-18T22:26:00.000+08:00

Would you like to have dinner with me sometime?

Just another draft, move along~

2011-10-18T16:59:00.001+08:00

It would be a mistake to trivialise the legalization of gay marriage to the simple caricature of gay couples getting married.

The very basis of legalization would be to recognise a certain conduct to be lawful, and in such recognition, protect such conduct. Legalizing gay marriage will not define homosexuality to be righteous. It simply assigns social tolerance to the conduct. Smoking is legal in most places, it is not righteous, it is simply tolerated.

The homosexual community seeks legalization of gay marriage in order to gain legal recognition and protection for the union of homosexuals.

The act of matrimony creates legal obligations for the individuals involved, and invokes legal rights as well.

Legalizing the act of smoking is not a simple matter of protecting an individual's right to light up a roll of nicotine laced tobacco in the streets. There comes all sorts of laws that implicate everyone else apart from the smoker. Taxes, tariffs, bans on smoking, age restrictions, warning labels and the lot.

Legalization of gay marriage does more than placing a flag on the contract between the individuals. It has to redefine the topography of the homosexual community, married or not. Mapping out the boundaries will be no easy feat as with any matters pertaining to law and morality.

One such boundary would be the adoption of children by gay couples. A main concern that arises is the possibility of irreconcilable differences between the child and the parents. While the possibility remains that a heterosexual couple may raise a homosexual child who could have conflicting interests, the probability remains lower than that of the alternate scenario.

In general, the grant to freedom paths for possibilities that spectrum from good to bad.

I am not for the law to babysit society based on probability. Yet such is the case, where we govern our society based on the odds, acting on the side of caution. The law then becomes a double edged sword. In never letting us be ready to fall, we never quite are ready to stand.

2011-10-18T00:22:00.001+08:00

Sometimes it feels like love scares the socks off of you, and then makes you put on your shoes to walk right to the person you love.

Quote of the day-78

2011-10-17T23:41:00.002+08:00

Courage is not the towering oak / That sees storms come and go,
It is the fragile blossom / That opens in the snow.
~Alice MacKenzie Swaim

2011-10-17T02:03:00.001+08:00

Falling for what I cannot see, what I do not feel. Only that is hidden, only that I seek.

2011-10-16T22:06:00.000+08:00

My other favourite hamster passed away today. I have a feeling that it had something to do with a funny mark that looked like a bite on its back, and that lump I could feel. My dad suggested that we could buy a pair to replace him, and my mom immediately protested. "I'll bite, I tell you." she said. I held him a lot. I hope heaven has a wheel for you buddy. Say hi to my other old ones won't you.

2011-10-16T21:37:00.000+08:00

She's my favourite.

Mon amie Natalie, au crayon sur paper. part 2

2011-10-14T22:11:00.002+08:00

Step 1: Draw some landmark features. Personally I like the eyes, and the widest points of the face. Whatever helps me gauge the rest of the distances.

Step 2: Draw everything else

Step 3: Shade.

Step 4: Squint at the picture until it looks better.

2011-10-14T17:29:00.000+08:00

When I was little, I used to wear these Roller Coaster potato rings on my fingers. All of them.

Alas, the lid is stronger than my appetite for the crunch of sweet cocktail onions. I left the jar in the fridge where my dad will spot it.

That is the top of my now defunct lava lamp. I was testing out the new OS for my iPhone.

2011-10-14T14:13:00.000+08:00

You can tell a lot about a man from the way he holds a hamster. A creature that offers nothing much apart from the bite that testifies to its nature.

2011-10-14T14:05:00.000+08:00

Contrary to popular belief, love is not about how you feel. Be it yourself, someone or God. You may not always feel the same way you love a person. Being in love with someone is when your feelings are in sync with the manner you love that person. That may not always be the case. It is about what you believe. Whom you believe in, that's who you love right now.

2011-10-14T13:38:00.000+08:00

Imagine if we all were single cell organisms with souls. We would be swimming toward the light and life would be simple. Give us more cells and a body with a brain to boot, and we are a little more complicated. We would still gravitate towards what we perceive to be good, but our perceptions are now diversified.

Our thoughts have since been compartmentalised into categories of logic, rationality and faith. Logic would stem from our interpretation of the nature of the physical, rationality from that of human nature and faith that of God.
We exercise our free will by balancing our thoughts and forging them into words and actions.
Wisdom would then be the scale that helps us to weigh the consequences.

No matter how isolated faith is from the rest of our knowledge, it is the very core that determines our sense of righteousness and goodness. It takes more than laws and punishment to keep us just. It takes more than hormones and genitalia to be in love with someone

*I lost my train of thoughts here. I vaguely recall something about different levels of choice and the conciousness of faith and religion but everything pans out into blah blah blah for now.

2011-10-13T23:37:00.000+08:00

I suddenly have this idea that one day, I would wear a chicken costume and spend my afternoon crossing streets in the middle of Orchard Rd. It might raise enough questions and I might get head lined, preferably to head lights.

2011-10-12T23:12:00.000+08:00

I actually like lemon skittles too. I just wanted you to have them.

Today's sermon

2011-10-09T23:23:00.000+08:00

In a few words:

Greater faith does not depend on feeling, we believe in the authority of God despite what we feel. And faith must be placed in an object of worth, or it will be in vain.