Friday, March 6, 2009

Off site training (06 Mar '09)




Yesterday was able to make my way down for the last day of training, after finishing up with work, Went shutter-happy and clicked away on my camera. However, a lot of the pictures didn't turned out, cos I always forget to hold still and snap.

P.S> Last 2 group shots courtesy of my good friend Aaron Tan. The power of a "dua leng gong!*"


*DSLR XD

Wednesday, March 4, 2009

JULIAN SMITH - 25 Things I Hate About Facebook





on killling virtua bunnies...

After losing five hours of my life to this free online game...

I have all weapons, tricked out to their maximum upgrades

I have all 58 medals

Which can unlock all the unlocakbles

Best of all, I've attained the ranking of "Bunny Antichrist"

hahahaha, revenge on the descendents of the Killer rabbit from the Holy Grail!

 

 

Play this game at

http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/484812

Five loaves and two fishes - Corrine May

Two Sundays ago, Pastor K.K. show this clip in church. A familiar story, put to a refreshing song~

 

Yesterday,  we visited this episode again* during staff devotions. The facilitator was remarking on how we are not to be like Philip and Andrew, who didn't put their trust in Jesus to feed the multitudes. Now this is familiar ground, that has been covered a lot in sermons over the pulpit. Still, somehow I felt disturbed in my spirit. Not that the point conveyed was wrong, but more of the manner it was conveyed. It was akin to somebody wagging their fingers at me and say, "now now, look at Exhibit A & B (Philip and Andrew), look upon their behavior, tsk tsk, and do not do what they do."

Maybe I'm just over-reacting, but if you put me in the shoes of Philip and Andrew, I think I will probably give their kinda responses. That's the way sinful man is, always seeing things with eyes of flesh...

Then my mind wanders off again, and think, "Wah, how come in times such as this, then have all these messages pop up more frequently ah?"  I immediately squashed off that line of thought, because it was dripping, nay, overflowing with cynicism^. Well, man is not only short-sighted, but short-memory-ed**. Rather than think this is man's way of controlling the negative thoughts, better remember it as "wa eh Ti Bei's"*** way of reminding myself that He can and will make use of my meager offerings.

As my friend reminded me through his sms, "... not so much great faith in GOd as faith in a great God!"

*For those of you who wants to refresh your memory, go read Matthew 14, Mark 6, Luke 9 and John 6.

^ which is just another form of unbelief. If one is cynical, one would tend to ask, "Are you sure? Sure or not? Can it really be...?"

** Is there such a word?!

*** "My Heavenly Father's", en hokkien, s'il vous plat 

P.S. Is it me, or does the bread in the picture above look like chappati?!

on typos abound...

...when one use T9 dictionary to text sms.

Last week wrote out the following verse:

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Jesus replied, "'Love the Lord your God with all your heart, & with all your mind." This is the first & greatest commandment. & the second is like it" "Love your neighbor as yourself." Matthew 22:37-39 Good reminder on who's our greatest loves are to be!  may this bless you

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Nicely written, right? Except I was writing this too early in the morning, and didn't read the first version that went out. It came out as the following:

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Jesus replied, "'Love the Lord your God with all your heart, & with all your mine." This is the first & greatest commandment. & the second is like it" "Love your neighbor as yourself." Matthew 22:37-39 Good reminder on who's our greatest loves are to be!  may this bless you

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2 of my friends replied back, pointing out my typo with a "hahaha!"* Another one said:

"' with all your mine' - unintended, but thought provoking!"

 

Morale of the story: Always, ALWAYS do spell check.

* Good la, shows that that got read, as well as they are not like me, half asleep when composing the sms :p

on "deo lao bei mair"*...

Was just about to come online to surf net after dinner, when my father asked me aside. Took out his handphone and asked me about an sms I sent him this morning:

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"For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my way," declares the LORD. "As the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways and my thoughts than your thoughts."

Isaiah 55:8-9

Will you go your way, or go Lim Peh's** way?

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My dad asked me who is "Lim Peh". I stare at him for a while, and told him Lim Peh is "your Father" la. He exclaimed "'Wa lao'! That so rude!^ How can you call God "Lim Peh"? It should be "Siong Dei" or "Ti Bei" mah. "...

Haha, i think this kinda conversation can only happen in my family

 

 

*loosely translated as "being scolded by my dad" in Hokkien :p Sorli la, phonetics "bway zhun"*, my Hokkien not so powerful...

** "Your Father's" en hokkien, s'il vous plait

*not accurate

^ Irony upon irony... XD

 

P.S. A few of my friends sms me back after I sent them this verse:

1.

"I've never quite heard of God referred to like that before, but I guess it works, still  thanks for the verse, bro! It's a good reminder

2.

Ha ha.. Lim peh's way! LOL

To those who replied, thanks for your understanding :p To those who were offended, please note I am duly chastised by "wa lao bei"...  

Sunday, March 1, 2009

Basic (2003)

Rating:★★★★
Category:Movies
Genre: Drama
Nice film made for homevideo, enough twist and action to keep the plot going. Wondered if this was ever released for the big screen...

Official Site:
http://www.sonypictures.com/homevideo/basic/index.html

IMDB Entry:
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0264395/

Wiki Entry:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basic_(film)