Thanks for being my friend? Thanks for sabo-ing me more like..

> > > > > > > > > __000________000__000________000___ _000___________0000___________000__ 000_____________00_____________000_ 000____________________________000_ 000___________THANKS__________000_ _000____________FOR___________000__ __000__________BEING_________000___ ___000__________MY_________000____ _____000______FRIEND______000______ _______000______________000________ _________000__________000__________ ____________000____000_____________ ______________000000_______________ ________________00_________________ ________________ 0 _________________
> > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > First, I like u.
> > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > then i love u,
> > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > Now, im afraid to lose u,
> > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > If you dont send this to everyone on ur list,
> > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > U will lose the person u love.
> > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > Sorry... I dont wanna lose the person that I love...
> > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > If i dont get this back, I guess u r not my friend.
> > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > If u have a lot of love 4 someone...
> > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > copy and send this 2 ur whole buddy list...
> > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > In 5 min ur true love will call or msg..
> > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > Good luck to you, my dear friend..



Sounds familiar?

Would a friend do that? Would a friend tell you, "Hey, 'If you dont send this to everyone on ur list, U will lose the person u love.'"?

Ditto to those about "forward this or your parents are dead" or "forward this or your love live is history" or whatever stuff that's like that.

You know what's worse than BS in i-m-u? It's actual bullshit. Bullshit like this. At least BS still contains other aspects of behavior and labels itself as science.

Exams!

PBL is cancelled!

Wow!

Check it out here! =)


PS.! Apostrophes have escaped! Help! !!!

If God is for us, who can be against us?

Romans 8:28-31

Predestination.

What is a destination? It is the end point of a journey. Many times people have asked, does the means justify the ends? How about the other way around? Does the ends justify the means? But that's not really what I want to delve into right now.

What I want to ask is this: Is the ends the means?

And so, is the destination the journey?

Clearly that is not so.

Pre- is a suffix that just gives the meaning of "before". Like prehistoric, the era before recorded history. Like predate, the time before that particular date. Like predestination, knowing what happens in the end before it happens.

So, predestination is not fate. It is not a fixed timeline, where what we are bound to do has been dictated by God or anybody else.

Ie. God willing or not, what we do or do not is solely our responsibility. Our decision. Our action. (Or inaction). In essence, we have free will, and with that privilege entails responsibility for what we do or do not do with it.

So we are not bound by fate. Partial answer to my questions earlier on.

Shall wait till two weeks later. Hopefully Pastor Tim will finally move on and cover Romans 9.



PS. What a powerful idea right? "If God is for us, who can be against us?" Ultimately, victory lies with God, and so victory lies with those who are with God. Those who love God. Who fear God. Who are heirs of God. Cool!

PPS. "What if your father lived forever? What if he never grew old, never weakened, but instead grew stronger with every passing day? What would you do for him? What would be your obligations?
Assume your obligation as His rightful heir and accept your inheritance."

WOW! That's what our obligations are? Accept our inheritance? Sign me up. =)

aihz

Looking through the VJC homepage, particularly the teacher's day celebration.

And I catch myself wondering. Where's Mrs. Chan?

And then I remember.

SWOT!

Nope, that's not the sound the book makes when it connects with the fly you were trying to "show the path out of this abysmal world".

Wikipedia has this to say about swot.

Which isn't quite right.

Wiktionary on the other hand, has this to say about swot.

Not too bad, close to what SWOT vacation is. What's more, it's backed up by Merriam-Webster.

Or you could always believe what san says.

But who cares? Don't let the words get in the way. It's a holiday! Yay! =)

Easy as ABCD

Heard of F.E.A.R. ?

Should try P.A.N.I.C.S. It's hilarious! =p Just four short clips, and you'll seriously laugh your behind off. =)

Go here to download.

And why did that come up?

Because. It. Is. Hilarious.

And. Because. I. Am. Insomniac. Again.



When management of high blood pressure through lifestyle modifications (eg. diet, exercise, getting enough sleep), administration of the ABCDs should be considered.

ACE inhibitors/ACE receptor antagonists.
Beta blockers.
Calcium channel blockers.
Diuretics.



Ergo, if insomnia is not overcome by attempts to adhere to a strict timetable of waking and sleeping, should the next step be chemical in nature?

zzz

I'm so screwed.

But who's to deny the debtman when he comes round to collect the sleeping debt?

gone..

I missed the dean's lecture! :(

Insomniac

Can't sleep.


The very definition of insomnia.

Rain, rain..

It's raining, it's pouring.

I wonder why.

Shall sleep on it. =p

Free Will?

Romans 9:15-23

Can somebody please explain these verses to me?

God, as the creator of all things, certainly possesses the right to act as He wishes, including softening or hardening some of us, or raising some people up in a manner so that He can manifest His glory.

However, does this in fact show pre-destination? A sense that we are bound by what some have termed fate, which in these passages is illustrated by the fact that we are brought up in ways that God wills. If we are so bound by fate, it would mean an exclusion of the existence of free will. That no matter what we decide, whether by our volition, or to test God/circumstances/these verses, we are headed down a path that is fixed. In fact it could be argued that in that case you can't really blame sinners, because they were fated to sin. Like the Pharoah who had his heart hardened by God, does this mean that it's "not his (Pharoah's) fault"? After all, God did harden his heart.

And if God did raise some people up to sin, does that make Him a cruel God? How can this be reconciled with the fact that God is a just and good God? (Yup, I'm still holding on to the belief that God is good.) It IS definitely quite fearful if God is not a good God. Just take a look at Ergo Proxy. The PROXIES, believed by the people to be Gods, were not quite benevolent nor good. Ophelia PROXY slaughtered the whole city just because she wasn't accepted by its people; Senekisu PROXY was insane and let the survivors of her city be stuck in a meaningless war against androids before slaughtering them all; Proxy 1 who decimated most of the other cities by launching ICBMs just so he could take revenge on the original humans, that race which created the PROXIES. Yet that is not a true parallel, for after all PROXIES were not Gods, nor were the original humans Gods themselves. Steps could be taken, rational thought called upon to devise ways to escape from their fate (although the future was quite bleak). If God were to be cruel, there is NOTHING that we can do to escape or take revenge.

But anyway, can somebody just explain those verses? I'd just want to know how they can be reconciled to my beliefs that God is good, and that we have free will to forge our future.



On a completely random note, does anybody know of any jobs that I can take for just ONE week? Specifically the 2nd week of June, since I'm free and most other people are busy with their exams. If there is could you tell me ASAP? I need to apply for my working visa, since it'll be worthless until next winter and totally not worth the price if I can't get a job for this period. Thanks!

Ergo Proxy Bo Liao Stuff

The supposedly immortal Amrita cells of PROXIES are actually still considered biologically immortal. Although susceptible to FP rays, they still do not obey the Hayflick limit and can thus divide and survive forever through those clonal progenies. And, according to clues within the show, they have lived for far too long.

But if they do not obey the Hayflick limit, and are obviously differentiated cells, does that mean the PROXIES are lumps of sentient cancer tumors? =p

Randomopia

Cold in the morning. Sleepy.

Suddenly warm in the lecture theatre. Sleepy or alert depending on totally random conditions.

Blazingly hot after lecture. Sienz.

Cold wind on the way back. Awake.

Toasty room. Sleepy.

Cold wind in the evening. Sleepy.

Cold nights. Missing you.

Left? That's Right

Kiri, by Monoral



Indeed, you complete my fate..

Round and round the mulberry bush..

Circles.

We humans have always been fascinated with it.

Consider the wheel.

Consider the Yin Yang sign.

Consider the circular movements and philosophy of many martial arts.

Consider the Carbon cycle.

Consider the Circle of Life.


All ideas connected with the circle is probably born out of a want or need to negate the effects of change. To show that although things change, they can and will finally go back to what and where they used to be. That not everything leads to an end. That there would be some sort of continuity. That will not be some sort of finality.


The wheel makes a revolution and the same point then comes into contact with the road again.

The Yin Yang speaks of how completeness is a circle.

The circular movements attempt to deflect and/or reduce the impact and still be able to return to a suitable position.

The carbon cycle shows how a single carbon atom can be traced in its path involving various forms and end up back as the initial form it was in.

The circle of life seeks to demonstrate how life and death and cyclical, the living live and then die, nourishing the living.

But in life there is no real circle of life is there? At least individually. A person is born. He eats. He sleeps. He grows. He meets his love of his life. They have many experiences together. They grow old together, rich in those memories and experiences. They die.

And there is no cycle in there.

After all, every story has its ending. Even the greatest love stories must come to an end, however dramatic, however lovely, however touching it is.

I just hope that the end signifies a new beginning for us. A beginning of our eternal place in heaven with God. Maybe then we would not want or need a circle anymore, for then there'd be no ending. =)