How are you today? Looking forward to an eternity in hell?

A song to personify my disposition: Woman Shouldn't Let Men Get Too Tired (Jordan Chan)

Sometimes this is what I want to say to people when I greet them. I know it's probably mean and not very nice, but face it, at least I'm truthful and much better than "so, what have you been up to lately?".

I have a few friends who are just so stoopid, insensitive and disrespectful of religion and especially Christianity. Some of it probably would be my own fault as I have not been a very good witness, but they are total immature morons in other areas too, so I can't be fully at fault. Its as if they have no concept of pain or eternity. I wish they'd just wake up one day in a cold sweat with the realisation that they have no idea what is going to happen to them if they die that day.

Wouldn't it be great if Jesus just came back now and all this would just end and we could all go to our respective homes. YAY! Ok, I'm just a bit bitter at the moment. I should probably be more loving. *sigh* So hard!

On another note, here's a cartoon pic I made of myself from a site that a friend recommended (thanx Jane). I reckon I look funky!


Oh, and more randomness. Had a team lunch today at Redoak beer cafe, had some really strange beer (Choc Cherry beer), and rabbit pie, which was really nice. Mmmmmmmmmmmm rabbit pie *drool* yum...

Drinking Alone Under the Moon

A song to personify my disposition: In the End (Linkin Park)

Amidst the flowers a pot of wine;
I drink alone, with no one dear to attend.
I raise my cup to invite the bright moon,
The resulting shadow makes three friends.
Although the moon knows not how to drink,
And my shadow can only follow me thus.
For the moment I'll just take them as they are,
Enjoying the Spring while it's here.
I sing, the moon lingers with my song;
My shadow disperses as I dance along.
While sober, we'll rejoice together;
Drunken, we'll part and each goes his way.
To seal forever such unfettered friendship,
Next time we'll meet beyond the Milky Way.

- Li Bai

This is actually a chinese poem written in the Tang dynasty (618-907AD), a peroid almost like a Chinese Renaissance. It was probably the height of the four Chinese cultural arts, caligraphy, music, painting and chess. Poetry is heavily linked to caligraphy and Li Bai was the most famous poet of the period.

This particular poem is extremely famous as it contains 2 lines (3rd and 4th) that are often quoted throughout the Chinese language, "Ju bei yao ming yue, dui ying cheng san ren". It signifies the epitome of a carefree attitude which cares not about the events of the world or other people. The translation above is actually a mixture of different translations, as I found that no single one could properly translate every line.

Anyways, if your a hardcore Chinese scholar, please point out any mistakes I've made in the translation or in its interpretation. I'm just a Twinkie who has trouble even reading half the words of the poem.

Christian Femenists

A song to personify my disposition: Reflections (Christina Aguilera)
^If only it was sung in male persona

This article in the SMH has prompted me to go investigate more on the issue of feminism and its origins in Christianity.

I came across this interesting article. It's pretty long and admitidly I didn't read the whole thing, but after skimming it I came across the conslusion that it was probably pretty interesting =P

Roronoa Zoro

A song to personify my disposition: Yong Gan (A-Mei)


Similarities between myself and Roronoa Zoro of One Piece:

- Infatuation with the colour green
- Inclination towards drinking, lots of drinking(click here)
- Agro attitude most of the time
- Loath stoopidity
- Tendency to play with sharp objects
- Value the traditional sense of honour (the warrior code! wooha!)
- Willing to give up life for true friends (I've yet to test this one)
- Capacity to sleep alot
- Belief in the phrase "no pain, no gain"
- Carefree/I-dun-really-care approach to life

Hmmmmm... When I think of some more, I'll be sure to add it.

Masochism

A song to personify my disposition: By Myself (Linkin Park)

"A willingness or tendency to subject oneself to unpleasant or trying experiences"

The word to describe my situation. I think I have a propensity to do certain things which I know will result in myself feeling like crap afterwards. I'm sure this sort of behaviour is immensely unhealthy. At least the pent up frustration and pain is good for motivation at the gym.

Plasticize your Christian life!

A song to personify my disposition: Get Away (Avant)

Went to dinner with Young Workers group today. Whilst talking to Joostine and SM, we came up with an interesting thought. Somehow we managed to get onto the topic of asians and their insatiable habit to put platic over everything. I'm sure if ur asian you'll know what I mean. Do your parents buy a couch and never take the platic off it? Or do they buy a really nice dinning table only to put a sheet of plastic over it? Well I've surely had my share of plasticizing.

Anyways, SM said that she still hasn't taken off the plastic film that covers the screen of her mobile phone, pointing out that the reason we asian's plasticize things is to keep them as new as possible for as long as possible. Joostine then pointed out that all things of this Earth will one day perish so what's the point. This then led us to conclude that instead of plasticizing our material items, we should be plasticizing things that will endure for all eternity. Hence we should plasticize our Christian life!

We all had a good laugh and ended at that. But this has prompted me to think, it s very true, we SHOULD plasticize our Christian life. Trying to keep it as new as possible for as long as possible. I myself am guilty of being a laid back seasoned Christian. I find that sometimes once we've been a Christian for many many years we tend to slack off and the zeal that was once there as a new Christian fades away. The plastic newness of that newby Christian has been torn off and the Christian begins to show signs of wear and tear.

So, wrap yourselves in the Holy Spirit and regain that glowing newness and zeal, because it our walk with God is the only thing that endures forever!

Therefore, as God's chosen people, holy and dearly loved, clothe yourselves with compassion, kindness, humility, gentleness and patience.
Colossians 3:12

华秋 - Chinese Autumn

I've decided to go FOB style with my blog. Nice earthy colours, I hate bright stuff, subtle is better. Creates a sense of tranquility, calm, soothing, relaxing...

For those wondering what the characters on the left of the page are, well, it's a poem. I'll give you $100 if you can read it, hehehehe. When I can be bothered I might post up the translation.

Had an relatively good day today. I was the only one in my team at work today, the others were on leave. Good thing nothing major went wrong, but there were enough issues coming in so I had sufficient work to keep me occupied. Gerry and Patrick bailed on running today, but Chris was still keen. I was all prepared to go, but since the others weren't going I thought I'd be responsible and stay in the office since the other members of my team were away, just in case there was an emergency incident. Stayed at work 'till about 7pm waiting for my change to go in. Andy (the guy that sits opposite me) was also waiting, but he got to watch Gu Wat Zai VCDs that I lent him at his desk.

Oh, and "Charmed" is the WORST show I have ever seen!!! It's so ridiculously dumb! I had to sit through 20 minutes of it while eating dinner cause nothing else was on. Let's not let that happen again!

Flippidy flippidy flip...

Found this cool site, tells you how to do wall flips and other funky stuff.
I'd try it, cept I need my neck un-broken for the time being...
http://www.urbanfreeflow.com/UrbanFreeFlow/frontpage.htm

Also while venturing through the infinite crevasse of 1's and 0's I also came upon this rather interesting site...
http://www.idiomsite.com/
It tells u the origin's of common English idioms and sayings. Surprise surprise most of them come from the Bible, and surprise surprise again, most of those have their origin in the quotes of Jesus.

Naruto

I've run out of Naruto comics to read. I also ran out of One Piece comics too. Tragedy!!!
So hence why I'm writing this post, YES, it's cause I'm bored...
I dunno how pple have so much to say in their blogs. Guess I'm just not a very interesting person, oh well like King Solomon once said:
"There is no remembrance of men of old,
and even those who are yet to
come will not be remembered by
those who follow"
So blog or no blog, interesting or not interesting, and common fate awaits us all:
"So I reflected on all this and concluded that the righteous and the wise and what they do are in God's hands, but no man knows whether love or hate awaits him. All share a common destiny-the righteous and the wicked, the good and the bad, the clean and the unclean, those who offer sacrifices and those who do not"
And the conclusion of the matter:
"Fear God and keep his commandments,
for this is the whole duty of man"

So, what's my point? I dun have one, I guess I'm just rambling cause I had a crap day, or two.

Cheerio!

Don't Stay

Hmmmmm... Not much to say today, Linkin Park is cool though...

sometimes i
need to remember just to breathe
sometimes i
need you to stay away from me
sometimes i'm
in disbelief i didn't know
somehow i
need you to go
sometimes i
feel like i trusted you too well
sometimes i
just feel like screaming at myself
sometimes i'm
in disbelief i didn't know
somehow i
need to be alone
don't stay
forget our memories
forget our possibilities
what you were changing me into
[just give me myself back and]
don't stay
forget our memories
forget our possibilities
take all your faithlessness with you
[just give me myself back and]
don't stay
i don't need you anymore
i don't want to be ignored
i don't need one more day
of you wasting me away
with no apologies

Sucky site

This site looks pretty sucky right now. And all the templates aren't really nice looking either...
When I get time I'm gonna be real geeky and spruce up my site a bit. But for now you can all just read my ramblings on an ugly site.

So, what happened today? Absolutely nothing... Started reading Naruto, pretty cool, wanna be a Ninja now. I already have a necklace with the word "Ren" (tolerence) on it, so that's a start. Just gotta get a coupla swords and some throwing knives, shurikens, etc. Sweet.

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AAAAAAAAIIIIIIIIYYYYYAAAAAAAA!!! So MA FAN!!!

Gonna go read some more Naruto, I love living in my fantasy world. *sigh of relief*

Nostalgic

Walking around Uni today just made me feel old. Saw so many people that I knew from Uni and realising that I wouldn't see them very often again made me feel a bit sad. Oh well.
Got a sense that I totally didn't belong anymore. The uni-bum phase of my life is officially over, time to face up to the real world. *sigh*
Oh another note, doing the vox pop thing was fun, interesting to hear pple's thoughts on Jesus. Had some interesting responses to our questions. I guess if you wanna know what pple said then ya'd better turn up to RICE. Hehehehehe.
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Ok, enough whining...

Newby

Alrite, by signing up for a blog site I've now officially become a net geek...

I a bit new to this so yeah, dun think there will be anything impressive here for now.

It's almost 1am, usually I'd be asleep, but I'm not cause tmr I'm not going to work. I'm taking a sickie to go to Uni and help with the RICE vox pop. I dunno if taking a sickie was is a good idea... I dun even know if I want to go tmr. I'm just gonna stand around looking dumb, and pple at uni will be like "what the hell are you doing here?", and they'll get all suspicious. Dunno if that's worth the pain. I guess I have another 6 hours to change my mind.