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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Try_Rebooting_Yourself
Sunday, March 4, 2007
Try Rebooting Yourself - A Dilbert Book (2005)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Try_Rebooting_Yourself
Friday, March 2, 2007
on binging on 2 consecutive days...
yesh, last weekend was an especially "sinful" time of feasting~ :p Ate and ate and ate...
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Saturday (24 Feb)
After a good time of prayer-walking around the land on last Saturday's afternoon, went to my friend's place to eat her parents' famous "po-piah". It's a family hand-me-down recipe, apparently the grandfather specifically gave the ingredients and the method of preparing the dish. Some more, my friend's parents chose to use hand-made popiah skin, instead of the usual factory made skin. It makes a big difference in the taste and texture... [drool]
Unfortunately, I only walloped a roll, as I had a dinner appointment with my 2 other friends at Adam Road Food Center later that evening. Saved my stomach for more room to fill up with mutton soup, mutton "tulang", satay, roti john, "Apit" kopi-tarek and Baron's Beer. Din get to order the "la-las" as the seafood store was not open :< Still, I went home pretty intoxicated with good food and great company, a very happy man indeed *hiccup*.
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Sunday (25 Feb)
After church, went to the newly renovated food-court besides my church. They had a new stall that does Korean hot-plate dishes. Tried the saba fish~ not that bad actually. My friend tried the spicy korean pork thingie, but she said not as authentic as the one they sell in Korea. Still, I was satisfied since I got a well-balanced diet - satisfied my seafood craving from not getting my "la-las" the previous night.
In the evening, another friend drove me to Chomps Chomps Hawker center, near Serangoon Gardens. Tried out the famous hokkien mee - absolutely delicious. The "or-lua"/oyster omelet was so-so only.* As was kinda overstuffed with food from the previous day, didn't order the extra stuff like "satay beehoon", chicken wings and the gigantic $2.50 sugar-cane juice.
After the dinner, it was still early, so my friend brought me over to Ice. A great cozy joint, where the desserts are absolutely fantastic. Slurping down the chewy chocolate ice-cream with slices of banana was simply heavenly - and I'm not even a choco-holic to boot. :D
well, with so much binging the past weekend, it's time to hit the swimming pool and the running tracks again this weekend! Keeping my fingers crossed that the weather will stay sunny this evening... :p
*As the French puts it, "comme ci comme ca"
Faith and Doubt Quotes
http://www.tentmaker.org/Quotes/faithquotes.htm
...A dialogue between the faith-full and the doubt-full...
...A dialogue between the faith-full and the doubt-full...
on the pleasure of finding things out...
and what God has to do with that. :P Have to post these thoughts after reading a fellow blogger's dilemma with science. okay, so I'm simplifying his situation, but I believed it's a real struggle, when Christians are asked the simplest and hardest questions. Where does God fits into the big picture?
The following points are just some points I took away from a co-worker sharing during the staff morning devotions. Now this fellow co-worker is what I called a "colorful character"**. He's the type who will start off a devotion session using a sound clip from a Dilbert cartoon episode. He loves all things to do with engineering and science, and he's someone whom we called has been born with the "knack". So on that particular morning*, he started off with introducing a book he was reading at the time, "The Pleasure of Finding Things Out" by Richard P. Feynman.
No, Feynman wasn't a great theologian scientist. In fact, he was a staunch humanist, who only believed in the goodness that Christianity brought to western civilisation through the ages. He believed Christian ethics and morality brought about an advance in western thought and stability to Western civilisation, which contributes to the advent of science. Yet, in all his years of research, he couldn't "buy" the concept of an Almighty God, because he can't proved it. I think the picture my co-worker puts forth is that Feynman was an agnostic, and not an atheist. Hey, to be an atheist, you have to believe fervently in the belief of a non-God, and that's almost faith in itself. :p
Back to the sharing, after that, my co-worker asked us a simple question, "What does a scientist do?" haha, got various people try to give their answers - we "mere mortals" just said something along the lines of "physics and chemistry lor"; the engineer in our midst gave some long answer^ involving words like "experiment" and "data". In the end, the elegant and simple answer my colleague gave was that a good scientist tries to answer "What happens when I do this?" He then elaborates how very few people do good science thesedays, because they cannot be both curious and honest about what they do and do not know.
He also explained the bedrock of good science is based upon Doubt, while the bedrock of Christianity is based upon Belief.^^ Good science is doubting what others have said about how a certain thing will turn out, and doing experiment to verify what that group has said to be the truth; whereas in Christianity, the Truth has already been revealed to us, and all we need to is hanging onto the truth. Now, it does not mean there is no room for doubt in Christianity - remember the Bearens! But ultimately, we must remember as Christians, the truth has been given to us by grace. Many a times God has rebuked the nation of Israel for continually testing Him in the Old Testament. Only in one instance did God asked us as believers to test Him^^^^. Ergo, "do believe your beliefs, and doubt your doubts^^^^^"; do not doubt in your beliefs and believe in your doubts." We can do good science in our theology, and examining over each and every word that is written in the Bible.
so in the end, how does this help my blogger friend's in his dilemma? I also don't know :p I guess the only thing I can do is pray that he will continue to have joy and peace in his research field, while not forgetting where his true Joy lies.
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Faith which does not doubt is dead faith.—Miguel de Unamuno
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* at last Wednesday's morning, between Singapore time 0840hrs till 0925hrs, at 22 degrees Celsius, to be precise and scientific about it... :P
** as compared to me, who probably just go for the "worship-sharing-prayer" format... :D
^ more than 15 seconds :p
^^ or something along those lines. I'm fudging a bit, because I'm recollecting bits of memories after such a long break^^^...
^^^ ok, so it was only 10 days ago, but hey, in this age of data overload, you can have billions and trillions of bits of information passing before your eyes... :D
^^^^ haha, do you know where? Answer is here
^^^^^ by Fred Francis Bosworth (1877-1958)
on catching up with work then and with blog now...
these past 10 days went past in a blur. Last week was a short week, with only 3 workdays after coming back from Chinese New Year break. Then this week, had to run full steam doing up new plans and catching up with work. Give thanks that am able to at least catch with the schedule. Only downside is that after a full day of staring into the computer screen, come back too tored to write up my blog. Ah well, time to play catch up on my entries again. Return of the Blogger Monster! :D
Thursday, March 1, 2007
YouTube - orange range sayonara
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6kayIGj47WQ&NR
Sob sob, a very sad MV, get out your tissues....
Longer MV link:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XVTJwo3EGzM&mode=related&search=
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