May 29, 2009
Liverpool News
Quirky News
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The Women's Development Department plans to ask Parliament to ban "emotional violence'' against women who currently have legal protection against physical assault only, The Star reported. Offenders include a husband who "tells his wife she is ugly or humiliates her until she feels emotionally pressured'', the department's head, Noorul Ainur Mohamad Nur,
said. AP
'GRATEFUL DEAD' GET GOVT CASH PAYOUTS
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Australia
Australia paid cash bonuses to 16,000 dead people as part of a stimulus package designed to kickstart the economy. The Australian Tax Office said the 16,000 deceased - dubbed "the grateful dead" - received payments of up to US$900 ($1,310) each earlier this year, costing an estimated US$14 million.
The payments were part of an A$42-billion ($47.7 billion) stimulus package passed by Prime Minister Kevin Rudd's government in February that gave cash handouts to all eligible Australians who lodged a tax return last financial year. However, thousands of the seven million-plus taxpayers who received the payments have died since lodging their return. AFP
May 28, 2009
Good joke
A lecturer teaching medicine was giving a classoom observation. He took out a jar of yellow liquid. "This," he explained, "is urine. To be a doctor, you have to be observant of color, smell, sight, and taste."
After saying so, he dipped his finger into the jar and put it into his mouth. His class watched in amazement, most in disgust. But being the good students that they were, the jar was passed, and one by one, they dipped their finger into the jar and put it into their mouths.
After the last student was done, the lecturer shook his head. "If any of you had been observant, you would have noticed that I put my second finger into the jar and my third finger into my mouth."
Haha
This video still brings smile and laughter to me everytime i see it. Today i got reminded of it coz TSSD was asking for a Halal place to eat.
Hahahahahahhahaa
this one is quite a gem too
May 27, 2009
Recounting my life at 32
擁有的多，不一定讓人滿足；擁有的少，不一定讓人貧乏。
As a teenager I spent most of my time on basketball courts and void decks and billiard saloons and coffeeshops.
I sat through countless futile 'negotiations' and scraped thru countless pointless arguments and fights during my teenage years.
Of course, there were the women in my life as well. That's another story for another day.
Some things feature prominently thru out my entire 32 years of existence.
Namely Church, Friends and Basketball.
Haha..
Why Church?
Let me confess something first. I've always thought church is boring as a teenager. I have always imagined pple going to church is akin to students going to school for lessons. I was sick and tired of listening to someone talk in front while I have to sit down and listen for 30 -45mins at a stretch. The songs that we had to sing were boring and when I was a non-believer, they didn't really mean anything except for a chance to rebel and just lip-sync or substitute certain words for laughs. One of those things I always do is to doze off and catch up on my sleep.
And when I always jeered at those who say they have to go to church on Sunday mornings.. I even managed to diss someone till he actually din go. Till date i still regret this. My utmost apologies to
Well, since that time, I've become an "ardent fan" of going to church. Not that it's anything hip to do or that I go there to look and act holy, but church has become much more than waking up early on Sunday mornings to say my prayers and confess my sins. Well, as my pastor used to say, "Unless u have King Kong sitting on you or there's a national state of emergency, Nothing else is gonna stop us form going to Church" Well, I tink I m pretty sinless from this apart from the occasional physical exhaustion or temporary disablement actually stopped me from going to church and there are good reasons why, something I hope non-church-going Christians friends of mine and non-believing good friends of mine out there will read about here.
Church/Christianity is not a building/ religion.
This is what my pastor says.
It is about a family/ community of believers of a supernatural relationship between God and Man. Namely Jesus reaching out to us.
Alot of pple tend to diss Christianity as overbearing (evangelism) and pesky (follow-up).
Well, if you ask me, look at it this way, I found a nice char kway teow. Its cheap and good. Lots of hum and extra noodles and chilli upon request at no cost. Furthermore there's space there for everyone. Would I not share this?
I am not on a evangelistic roll now.
I know I have many (probably countless) flaws and sins. But ultimately I know I have a Friend in
When I'm with my church mates, I learnt of their joys and their pain in their walk with God. I tell of my own thanksgiving. I learnt again and again that I am not alone in this long and winding road towards Christlike-ness, and more importantly that our faith is real, and that there are people who are willing to bank their entire lives solely for the faith alone.
I aspire and want to be like them though I fail on many counts.
I see the work of God in my life and my church friends' lives. I see miracles though nothing like the parting of the
I learn the meaning of accountability thru my years in church. I have made my public confession of good faith in front of them, and in my confession, promised to keep true to the Lord, both to them, to myself and most importantly, to Him. I backslide easily, and there are always hands to reach out and grab when I feel myself falling from grace. Some hands are weak, some are strong, but nonetheless they are there, always.
I think alot about theological issues. Sometimes, the mystery of God is too much to take and silly ideas come up to challenge my faith.
I've never been a good singer, and get tired of singing easily. But I never cease to be amazed by the songs which were penned by Christians, which often describe so accurately my own circumstances, situations, joy and pain. Often, to tell the truth, the songs are just sung for the sake of singing, but there are times when they minister to my soul so strongly I weep.
Lastly, and most importantly on why I go to church. To show love, admiration and respect to my God. I can of coz do it by myself, but isn't better to feel the joy of others worshipping God alongside you? Isn't it great to know that you'll be seeing these people for eternity, as we take on new bodies and see God in all his glory?
May 26, 2009
Spoof of "Nobody butt euwwwwwww "
May 25, 2009
The Nazarene
anyone still remembers this song ?
I was doing my QT this morning when i was reminded of this song and its lyrics.
The Nazarene had come to live the life of every man
And he felt the fascination of the stars
And as he wandered through this weary world
He wondered and he wept
For there were so few who would listen to his call
He came, he saw, he surrendered all
So that we might be born again
And the fact of his humanity was there for all to see
For he was unlike any other man
And yet so much like me
The Nazarene could hunger and the Nazarene could cry
And he could laugh with all the fullness of his heart
And those who hardly knew him
And those who knew him well
Could feel the contradiction from the start
Caesar has a famous saying which goes "I came, I saw, I conquered." It was sort of his motto. or was it Napolean... hahha.. this isnt important la. the main point is
Caesar was finally conquered and he who was the defeater became the defeated.
Jesus, who possessed infinitely greater power, lived his life by a strange and unexpected twist of Caesar's saying. Jesus lived by the motto, "I came, I saw, I surrendered."
By living out this unorthodox pronouncement Jesus demonstrated what the world regards highly as power is really impotence and that true victory is only possible through absolute surrender even upon death of oneself.
His humanity was part of that surrender. Understanding the humanity of Jesus was no problem for the first disciples. There he was, toally human standing amongst them, eating, sleeping, laughing and crying. A 100% man, just like them.
His claims to divinity were the problem for the very first believers.
"I am", Jesus would say, appropriating to himself the name of God which no one else claims.
They fell down in Gethsemane when he said it.
More than once they picked up stones to stone him for his seeming blasphemy.
His humanness was evident thru the bleeding and the bruises and it is the greatest barrier to seeing his divinity, for he was fully human.
Not half man and half God but fully man and at the same time fully God.
Today it's not the divinity of Jesus that presents the problem, it’s his humanity. Our confession that Jesus is God the Son presents little problem for the believer because in many ways Jesus seems separated from us as God. Unlike with the first disciples, Jesus is not physically present, standing on two good legs before us, though in a more real sense our faith tells us He is present.
Our struggle today is to grasp the humanity of Jesus as evidently seen in our daily struggles to portray him.
Some earlier writers show us a Jesus who walks three inches off the ground, who cuts through temptation like a hot knife through butter. It’s hard to say which portrayal is worse. Most present someone so unlike the Jesus we see in the gospels, who was very human and very God, who was one moment thoroughly mired in the mundane and the next radiant with the glory of God.
The point is we, along with those first believers, are caught up in a dilemma.
We believe the unbelievable.
We follow a man who is God. Who conquers by allowing himself to be conquered and bids us follow the same way.
What are your thots?
PS: i know my writing for this post seems abit scattered. but i do hope u know what i m writing abt
