Spiral Effect No.1

A song to personify my disposition: Crawling (Linkin Park)
(I probably need to get some new CD's)

Bordem leads to thinking,
Thinking induces comtemplation,
Comtemplation converts to analysis,
Analysis results in vexation,
Vexation produces apprehension,
Apprehension builds into paranoia,
Paranoia catalyzes depression,
Depression ends in...

Moral of the story, don't get too bored and start thinking about stoopid stuff... That's all folks.

Disaster Recovery

A song to personify my disposition: The Reason (Hoobastank)

Grrrrrr... It's Sunday and I'm at work. Had to come in to do testing of our applications for a disaster recovery exercise. I'm now sitting here with nothing to do while I wait for the systems to be restored.

I have run out of Ranma comics to read, hence why I am blogging. Ranma is so entertaining, takes me back to high school days... ahhh... If only girls like Shampoo existed in real life, hahaha... Hmmmmmm... 'tis but a dream *sigh*

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Ok, lets see what else I can blog about... Life not so interesting at the moment, was sick last week so no gym, feeling a bit fat and unhealthy. Especially since all I've had to eat all day is Hungry Jack's for breakfast and Pizza Hut for lunch, and excessive amounts of Coke.

Went to MYC the other night. Didn't expect much from the talk but God always seems to surprise me and I found the talk to be very useful and thought provoking. Was also great to see so many farmiliar faces. It'll probably be the last year that I'll be involved in any sort of Uni event, since next year there won't be many pple left that I know.

Feeling a bit disappointed 'cause I can't make it to a party that some friends are holding due to my snow trip commitments. Alot of people I know from Uni will probably be there that I don't get to see much of these days. So its rather annoying that I won't be able to see them. Oh well, like my favourite quote says "men can plan, but Heaven decides".

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Something that my feable brain has been pondering lately, does God still give us 'signs'? In the bible there are countless examples of where God shows His people a sign to direct them to where He wants to lead them. So in this day and age should we still respond to things we perceive as sings from God? I remember Grimmo saying at last MYC that when we look for guidance from God we shouldn't look for signs. But what if you're not specifically looking for a sign, but one just pops up in front of you? Do you still ignore it? Is it a sign at all? Hmmmmm... I'm confused, maybe I try to read too much into things. Over analysis, I have come to realise, is just as bad as cluelessness sometimes. In the end you worry too much and get overly confused and end up in the same boat as the idiot that has no idea to begin with. Whatever happened to that carefree xiao-sa person I used to be? I think I liked him better...

The Birds mit RICE

A song to personify my disposition: Invisible Man (98 Degrees)

At about 8am this morning as I was approaching Bond St. via my normal route, I was suddenly attacked by a tumultuous magpie. My initial thought was that someone had just clipped me over the ear. My instant reaction was "Doh! Who was the fool, I'm gonna turn around and give him what for". But as I moved my head, a black shadowy figure passed overhead and perched itself conveniently on a nearby tree.

Lessons I have learnt from my ordeal today:

1. Magpies can attack pple even in the middle of the city (I had previously thought that it only happened in parks and well treed areas. But apparently this one is famous, even having a stint in the newspaper. Many pple in my building know of it and have been attacked by it also)


2. My instant reaction was rather un-Godly, which reflects the need for constant change in my character

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In other news, I went to a boxing class at the gym today. My arms are so dead that they were shaking and I couldn't type properly. My partner was the doOd that sits opposite me at work. He does Tae Kwan Do, swims and goes to the gym twice a day. He's such a crazy doOd, punches way hard and is a bit psycho. Dunno if I'll be going with him anymore.

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Other other news, RICE Event 2 was the best thing I have been involved in ever. Everyone did what they were suppose to do meticulously and with such great enthusiasm. Great to see so many kids excited for the Lord. Also 70 kids prayed 'the prayer' over the two RICE events which is so great. If only 1 kid was converted then our work would not have been in vain. But 70?!?! Wow, the Lord IS GREAT! Lets hope they all get followed up well.

A special well done to my ushering team. GO USHERS!!! We were da bomb, as Steve said, military precision, niiice...

Here are some photos from the two events.

RICE rocks cause God rocks!

RICEFest Rocked!

A song to personify my disposition: Ordinary Friend (David Tao)

I don't think I need to say anything more about RICEFest last Saturday. It was absolutely awesome. Looking at other pple's blogs and talking to pple who were there will give you an idea of how much it rocked. There were many more people than expected and the talks were stoopendous. It is so good to know that so many young people were able to hear about Jesus. Let's just hope they will be interested enough to come this Saturday to the main RICE event to hear a more comprehensive account of the gospel.

The event also shows teenagers that Christians aren't just a boring bunch of geeks, as is commonly percieved. Well, guess that really isn't the important bit, hehehe...

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On another note, reading a really interesting book called "Is the New Testament History" by Dr. Paul Barnett. A great book that deals only with the historical legitimacy of the New Testament rather than any theological legitimacy. It aims to show how the books of the New Testament are more reliable as sources of facts and history than most of the other sources we have about famous historical periods. To compliment this I stumbled across a show on SBS showing over the last few Tuesdays at 7:30pm about the first century Roman Empire. It was really interesting because it recalled accounts of Paul and referenced alot of information about the period from Tacitus and Josephus. Both of whom are non-Christian testaments to events that happen according to the New Testament.

Maybe when I finish reading the book I can do some more research on the topic of Christian apolagetics and then give a presentation to my youth group about the viability of the Bible as a source of historical truth.

I think knowing these things are extremely important to our faith. Unlike other religions which relly on 'mystical' writings that can only be interpreted properly by 'leaders', I think Christians are called to seek the truth on our own rather than follow like mindless drones.

If you think about it, the New Testament is a book made up of a collection of writings by a bunch of criminals who believed that an executed criminal was God. It also claims to be 2 millenia old and if you've ever played Chinese whispers you'll know that passing information down through so many years and not altering it is highly improbable. Hence to believe what it is written in such a book and live your life by its teachings without considerable investigation into its authenticity would be plain stoopid. Are we meant to be like any other member of a ridiculous cult who believes anything s/he is told? I don't think God wants us to blindly believe, I think we have a duty to seek the truth.

YOU CAN HANDLE THE TRUTH!!!