I am talking to a close friend this morning and somehow we stumbled across this topic.
I used to be a darwinism believer, it's logical and easy to understand.
Although my choice of religion has prompted me to ask questions about it, but I think it's the evidence, or rather 'lack of evidence' to the theory that has made me less inclined to the theory.
Just type in 'darwinism is true' in google and see the many writtings to know what I'm talking about.
What's more scarry is that darwinism is a theory. They don't teach you that in school. They tell you it's the truth, so many of us didn't have a chance to make up your mind. However, if you made up your mind that darwinism is true, I also respect that.
This reminds me the story, where for a time people believe Aristotle. He said that the heavier the object the faster it would fall on earth. He is the greatest thinker of his time so he cant' be wrong... It was probably accepted as truth for 2000 years?! Galileo in 1589, went on top of the leaning tower of pisa and drop 2 objects of the same size but of differing weights (as legends have it). Both objects landed at the same time and hence disproved aristotle. But ppl refused to believe that until hundreds of years later....
check out this site: http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/historic_figures/galilei_galileo.shtml
Tuesday, February 22, 2005
Monday, February 21, 2005
part 1 and part 2
Part 1's Friday.
It must have started earlier in the week, when me and my gf exchanged little sarcasm. By friday, it was a full frontal war. Every sentence was with a dagger, laced with poison.
With so much practice, by Friday evening, we were launching guided misiles. I was losing, and I hated losing. I never was good with words anyway....
We decided to have peace talks at night. And obviously an absence of violence doesn't mean peace.
Part 2 continues on saturday morning when she came over to ask me something. I answered her, except I was still in bed and I was having this nightmare and I was talking to her with this really frowned up face... She thought I was being pissed at her for nothing.
Assumably Eric has draw 'first blood'. The rest of the day is history.
Until at night, we both admitted that it was the 2 worst day of our life. Still it was awkward to talk like normal because the hurt was so real and so deep and so frustrating. I took on both our parts to be gracious and step down.
Then instead of fighting, Liping decided that we should say sorry to each other. Apologizing to one another for the things the other part would want apology for. We also must thank each other for things they have done. Both must do it sincerely.
We both did. Again it was difficult. You must understand, our egos are like the KLCC twin towers standing together. At that moment, and the sky bridge wasn't too secure.
But after saying sorry, kiss and make up. Some maggi. Some Sim city 4. We both were chirpy again! yay!
A friend called on Sunday from Germany. Thanks Shan for the encouragement again! She just said that our arguements are healthy because as we grow closer, we fight at a different levels...etc Her mere positivity cheered me on Sunday! Thanks Yu Shan.
So on sunday, there wasn't any part 3. It'll probably come another day. But not on Sunday. Sunday, I got to know Liping a little more. On Sunday, I learn to love her a little bit more for who she is.
It must have started earlier in the week, when me and my gf exchanged little sarcasm. By friday, it was a full frontal war. Every sentence was with a dagger, laced with poison.
With so much practice, by Friday evening, we were launching guided misiles. I was losing, and I hated losing. I never was good with words anyway....
We decided to have peace talks at night. And obviously an absence of violence doesn't mean peace.
Part 2 continues on saturday morning when she came over to ask me something. I answered her, except I was still in bed and I was having this nightmare and I was talking to her with this really frowned up face... She thought I was being pissed at her for nothing.
Assumably Eric has draw 'first blood'. The rest of the day is history.
Until at night, we both admitted that it was the 2 worst day of our life. Still it was awkward to talk like normal because the hurt was so real and so deep and so frustrating. I took on both our parts to be gracious and step down.
Then instead of fighting, Liping decided that we should say sorry to each other. Apologizing to one another for the things the other part would want apology for. We also must thank each other for things they have done. Both must do it sincerely.
We both did. Again it was difficult. You must understand, our egos are like the KLCC twin towers standing together. At that moment, and the sky bridge wasn't too secure.
But after saying sorry, kiss and make up. Some maggi. Some Sim city 4. We both were chirpy again! yay!
A friend called on Sunday from Germany. Thanks Shan for the encouragement again! She just said that our arguements are healthy because as we grow closer, we fight at a different levels...etc Her mere positivity cheered me on Sunday! Thanks Yu Shan.
So on sunday, there wasn't any part 3. It'll probably come another day. But not on Sunday. Sunday, I got to know Liping a little more. On Sunday, I learn to love her a little bit more for who she is.
Tuesday, February 15, 2005
CNY
I had loads of fun last week... particularly because I spent quite a bit of time hanging out with Ricky Liew. Why? Coz he is such a meloncholy. Everything's well planned, well timed. If he arrives 5 minutes b4 the appointted time he considers himself late. While I am the opposite. I am implusive. I arrive on the dot - early, or 5-10minutues late - on time, 10-20minutes late - wasn't me but the traffic.... I change plans on the very last minute....etc
Our trip to watch 'Constantine' was a normal one to me. We arrived just about 15mins before a jam packed cinema to only que for a ticket. (of course we got our tickets.... send me a comment below and maybe i'll tell you how i get it! :) hehe ) We had no tickets and no plans what if we didn't get a ticket. Ricky has nice enough to go along and see what happens, but he did tell me later on that he don't like such 'adventures'. When we watch 'Seoul Raiders'. We arrived 5 minutes before to the Cinema....
Though on both occasion we manage to get good tickets to the movie, I felt really bad... hahahaah It's like he takes timing so seriously! (duh?!)
My gf was quite pleased to see some changes on my effort to being on time after she came back from penang. It's going to be a tough 2 months for me to fight this habit!!
Our trip to watch 'Constantine' was a normal one to me. We arrived just about 15mins before a jam packed cinema to only que for a ticket. (of course we got our tickets.... send me a comment below and maybe i'll tell you how i get it! :) hehe ) We had no tickets and no plans what if we didn't get a ticket. Ricky has nice enough to go along and see what happens, but he did tell me later on that he don't like such 'adventures'. When we watch 'Seoul Raiders'. We arrived 5 minutes before to the Cinema....
Though on both occasion we manage to get good tickets to the movie, I felt really bad... hahahaah It's like he takes timing so seriously! (duh?!)
My gf was quite pleased to see some changes on my effort to being on time after she came back from penang. It's going to be a tough 2 months for me to fight this habit!!
Tuesday, February 01, 2005
my weekend
Last weekend was a great one for me!
God was so good to me. He is actually always good, but on this occasion, I think I was pampered :D. First, there was a prophetic conference in our church DUMC. The speaker is Dr. Ron Sawka. An American missionary to Japan. Who would thought that a speaker with the name 'Dr. Sawka', and esp a missionary to Japan would be so fun to listen to! (BOOORRRINGGGG... or so I thought)
My initial thought about the 'prophetic conference' was that Dr. Ron will just preach on what God has prophecied over Malaysia and pray for each one of us.... But none of that happen really. In fact in the conference he taught all of us to prophecy over our lives as accordance to Biblical truth. "Prophecying is as easy as being saved" he says. Shocking at first, but after countless practices of hearing the holy spirit and prophecying to strangers... We were all blessed and awed by how God can work through us. By the end of the conference, we were having so much fun and the joy of the Lord just came upon us, BIG TIME. It was like discovering new sets of ears all over again... I felt as if I have only one thing the Lord wanted to tell me and it was prophecied over me by different (strangers) people over and over again. I was truly blessed.
Dr. Ron, if you're reading this -- I think you're a cool dude! He spoke with such passionate and fevor. Althought I was sitting really far away, but it felt as if he was chatting with us. Just going with the flow, he made us laugh through out the conference. And he's got this smirk/grin on his face! He was even able to make the most boring stuff funny, which was great coz it helps me remember them. I found myself wanting to hear more of his 'stories' and how God has used him.
Okay.. that was just the start of my weekend.
On Saturday night, we had a party for Angeline's Birthday. We had yummy, really yummu tom yam soup as base for our steamboat session!!!! muahahahahahahahahaha
Liping she makes good soup! yeah! I love you!
Angeline also made very good mushroom with chicken feet (tung ku kai keok) , then there was BA KUA, tonnes of stuff to steamboat with (I can only remember the mushrooms mushrooms and more mushrooms.... im sure ricky feels the same!), esther made nice 'tong sui', we also got desert and deserts........
then my James Seeee came and he brought along with him all his stupid jokes and then timmy and then ricky... hahahah and then somemore we watched white chicks (again!) .
With this bunch of people, I finally feel that KL is my home!
Then on sunday, Dr. Ron preached. During the last song, I was so 'high' that I was screaming and jumping because I really wanted to see Jesus coming back! It was tremendous, I haven't done that in DUMC ever....
Sunday night came and we had our MWM appreciation night! With people like Ian and Ricky in the organisation team, you really don't know what to expect! We were all asked to dress up. So I wore a jacket and looked really smart :P the girls... i mean ladies, they were hot! hot! hot! Now, I was thankful that I dressed up. Amy and Patrick won the best dressed award for the night. They were stunning. We also had a game session.... and wen ai won a HP notebook! We were all cheering for her! until we found out that it was really a HP - notebook, about 50 pages of good quality paper! Someone won a PC --- plastic cup, Surround Sound System --- used ear phones! hahahahahaha.....
This year, we were presented with a token a REALLY cool polo-shirt. I thought, this was the only tshirt I earn because I was faithful and consistent in serving! Yeah! I'm giong to feel so proud wearing the shirt!
The tshirt was presented to us in a award-ceremony style. Like in the oscars, we go up on stage, receive the gift and the section leader was to give a short speech. Elliot was hillarious when he went up and spoke in cantonese......
oh yeah, he dressed up like a rapper that day instead of a suit. He looked almost, it was ridiculous! but it was so funny. It's irritating being around him sometimes, I can't feel sad around him. He just makes you laugh. He's a well-spring of stupid jokes (and some seriously wise words at the right times)
God was so good to me. He is actually always good, but on this occasion, I think I was pampered :D. First, there was a prophetic conference in our church DUMC. The speaker is Dr. Ron Sawka. An American missionary to Japan. Who would thought that a speaker with the name 'Dr. Sawka', and esp a missionary to Japan would be so fun to listen to! (BOOORRRINGGGG... or so I thought)
My initial thought about the 'prophetic conference' was that Dr. Ron will just preach on what God has prophecied over Malaysia and pray for each one of us.... But none of that happen really. In fact in the conference he taught all of us to prophecy over our lives as accordance to Biblical truth. "Prophecying is as easy as being saved" he says. Shocking at first, but after countless practices of hearing the holy spirit and prophecying to strangers... We were all blessed and awed by how God can work through us. By the end of the conference, we were having so much fun and the joy of the Lord just came upon us, BIG TIME. It was like discovering new sets of ears all over again... I felt as if I have only one thing the Lord wanted to tell me and it was prophecied over me by different (strangers) people over and over again. I was truly blessed.
Dr. Ron, if you're reading this -- I think you're a cool dude! He spoke with such passionate and fevor. Althought I was sitting really far away, but it felt as if he was chatting with us. Just going with the flow, he made us laugh through out the conference. And he's got this smirk/grin on his face! He was even able to make the most boring stuff funny, which was great coz it helps me remember them. I found myself wanting to hear more of his 'stories' and how God has used him.
Okay.. that was just the start of my weekend.
On Saturday night, we had a party for Angeline's Birthday. We had yummy, really yummu tom yam soup as base for our steamboat session!!!! muahahahahahahahahaha
Liping she makes good soup! yeah! I love you!
Angeline also made very good mushroom with chicken feet (tung ku kai keok) , then there was BA KUA, tonnes of stuff to steamboat with (I can only remember the mushrooms mushrooms and more mushrooms.... im sure ricky feels the same!), esther made nice 'tong sui', we also got desert and deserts........
then my James Seeee came and he brought along with him all his stupid jokes and then timmy and then ricky... hahahah and then somemore we watched white chicks (again!) .
With this bunch of people, I finally feel that KL is my home!
Then on sunday, Dr. Ron preached. During the last song, I was so 'high' that I was screaming and jumping because I really wanted to see Jesus coming back! It was tremendous, I haven't done that in DUMC ever....
Sunday night came and we had our MWM appreciation night! With people like Ian and Ricky in the organisation team, you really don't know what to expect! We were all asked to dress up. So I wore a jacket and looked really smart :P the girls... i mean ladies, they were hot! hot! hot! Now, I was thankful that I dressed up. Amy and Patrick won the best dressed award for the night. They were stunning. We also had a game session.... and wen ai won a HP notebook! We were all cheering for her! until we found out that it was really a HP - notebook, about 50 pages of good quality paper! Someone won a PC --- plastic cup, Surround Sound System --- used ear phones! hahahahahaha.....
This year, we were presented with a token a REALLY cool polo-shirt. I thought, this was the only tshirt I earn because I was faithful and consistent in serving! Yeah! I'm giong to feel so proud wearing the shirt!
The tshirt was presented to us in a award-ceremony style. Like in the oscars, we go up on stage, receive the gift and the section leader was to give a short speech. Elliot was hillarious when he went up and spoke in cantonese......
oh yeah, he dressed up like a rapper that day instead of a suit. He looked almost, it was ridiculous! but it was so funny. It's irritating being around him sometimes, I can't feel sad around him. He just makes you laugh. He's a well-spring of stupid jokes (and some seriously wise words at the right times)
Sunday, January 23, 2005
Consistency and humility
I had a wonderful time im Camerons last weekend with our worship team. There was so much food. So much laughter, too little sleep and so much of His Grace.
We were filled with the Holy Spirit for the entire weekend and cried buckets during worship, prayers. It was an awesome time.
There were a lot of things that happened over the weekend that left a deep impact on me. It has, in many ways, changed my life. I also receive a prophecy, from 3 brothers who prayed for me seperately but consecutively, talking about the same thing. That will be another entry altogether.
Above all else that I learn from camerons, Ive been inspired and humbled and awed by brothers & sisters who have served MWM faithfully. I feel that I'm so far behind them, and feel great privilledge to be able to serve beside them so that I may be able to learn from them.
The 2 very impressive traits that stood out from them was :-
1) consistency
2) humility
(I wouldn't have swore that I could have figure that out a logn time ago... but... )
It hit me really hard when i observe that it was consistency that earned respect and gives confidence to the ppl around us. That's leadership. And a humble attitude that allow us to go far in life (in many aspect).
For the first time, I saw it differently. The effort put in to do the small things, consistently over the years speaks GREAT volume. So much volume it nearly knocked me over unconscious! My brother Ricky Liew sets the standard for consistency (he is a super meloncholy). He is always early, always prepare, keeps himself neat and tidy be it 5am or 11pm, print out immaculate score sheets...etc And Janan, whenever I missed a sermon, I'd look for his email detailing an accurate summary - all typed before work starts.
I'm amazed at all these ppl. (I only mentioned 2 here because it would take a book to write them all down). Consistency like that really translate to 'dependability'. I would be comfortable knowing that such responsible individual is my leader.
Reflecting on myself, I'm embrassed to say that consistency is almost, (almost!!!), non-existent in my life. Perhaps the only consistent thing I do is being inconsistent.
As for humility, James See says it like this when we complimented his leadership style (esp on his approachability and 'realness'), ".... truly, I don't feel that I'm coming down to your level to talk to you when I'm leading you in this team. I feel honoured that I'm leading you. Really, I feel that I'm looking up to you all when I'm talking to you because I'm so far behind you in so many things....."
We were filled with the Holy Spirit for the entire weekend and cried buckets during worship, prayers. It was an awesome time.
There were a lot of things that happened over the weekend that left a deep impact on me. It has, in many ways, changed my life. I also receive a prophecy, from 3 brothers who prayed for me seperately but consecutively, talking about the same thing. That will be another entry altogether.
Above all else that I learn from camerons, Ive been inspired and humbled and awed by brothers & sisters who have served MWM faithfully. I feel that I'm so far behind them, and feel great privilledge to be able to serve beside them so that I may be able to learn from them.
The 2 very impressive traits that stood out from them was :-
1) consistency
2) humility
(I wouldn't have swore that I could have figure that out a logn time ago... but... )
It hit me really hard when i observe that it was consistency that earned respect and gives confidence to the ppl around us. That's leadership. And a humble attitude that allow us to go far in life (in many aspect).
For the first time, I saw it differently. The effort put in to do the small things, consistently over the years speaks GREAT volume. So much volume it nearly knocked me over unconscious! My brother Ricky Liew sets the standard for consistency (he is a super meloncholy). He is always early, always prepare, keeps himself neat and tidy be it 5am or 11pm, print out immaculate score sheets...etc And Janan, whenever I missed a sermon, I'd look for his email detailing an accurate summary - all typed before work starts.
I'm amazed at all these ppl. (I only mentioned 2 here because it would take a book to write them all down). Consistency like that really translate to 'dependability'. I would be comfortable knowing that such responsible individual is my leader.
Reflecting on myself, I'm embrassed to say that consistency is almost, (almost!!!), non-existent in my life. Perhaps the only consistent thing I do is being inconsistent.
As for humility, James See says it like this when we complimented his leadership style (esp on his approachability and 'realness'), ".... truly, I don't feel that I'm coming down to your level to talk to you when I'm leading you in this team. I feel honoured that I'm leading you. Really, I feel that I'm looking up to you all when I'm talking to you because I'm so far behind you in so many things....."
Monday, January 17, 2005
ppl i meet
It's been about 5 years since I've been attending my current church.
I'm still being surprised by the people I meet there. Extraordinary people who shocks me out from my chair. You never know who you're talking to in church really.
There's this guy, who often comes very early to help arrange chairs. Pick up rubbish... etc. In fact, I don't remember a time when i don't see him. Mind you,my church is about 2000++ in size. So there's a lot of chairs to be moved and he is not young either. He is usually jovial, and full of candor. I nearly fell off my chair when i saw that he is a president of a large organisation here.
There's this dude, who is always helping out with the traffic. We have a lot of cars moving in and out. Being a tropical country and all, hot sun and humid weather really add on to the discomfort. But he is always with a smile. Rain or shine. Joy of the Lord must be.
(don't have much time now.. so i have to cut short)
There are some really successful man who when I talk to them remains so humble, that literally puts me to shame at my own boast.
Like I said, I never know who I'm talknig to in church. Praise God for these men and women who really earns my utmost respect with such humility.
I'm still being surprised by the people I meet there. Extraordinary people who shocks me out from my chair. You never know who you're talking to in church really.
There's this guy, who often comes very early to help arrange chairs. Pick up rubbish... etc. In fact, I don't remember a time when i don't see him. Mind you,my church is about 2000++ in size. So there's a lot of chairs to be moved and he is not young either. He is usually jovial, and full of candor. I nearly fell off my chair when i saw that he is a president of a large organisation here.
There's this dude, who is always helping out with the traffic. We have a lot of cars moving in and out. Being a tropical country and all, hot sun and humid weather really add on to the discomfort. But he is always with a smile. Rain or shine. Joy of the Lord must be.
(don't have much time now.. so i have to cut short)
There are some really successful man who when I talk to them remains so humble, that literally puts me to shame at my own boast.
Like I said, I never know who I'm talknig to in church. Praise God for these men and women who really earns my utmost respect with such humility.
Thursday, January 06, 2005
love hate relationship with Teh-o-ice-Limau
I found out quite recently that if i drink tea at night I would be awake for most of the night... and I foolishly drank the strong cup of Teh o ice limau last night. Somemore the one i had last night was quite 'kau' i think.. because it's 1127am now that I haven't been able to sleep.
This is one of the worst feeling ever, tired but can't sleep. It wrecks my whole system and timing. I wanna work but I'm like 3x slower. I wanna sleep but I kinda just lay there. It's horrble. No wonder soldiers goes crazy when tortured without sleep for days.
This is one of the worst feeling ever, tired but can't sleep. It wrecks my whole system and timing. I wanna work but I'm like 3x slower. I wanna sleep but I kinda just lay there. It's horrble. No wonder soldiers goes crazy when tortured without sleep for days.
Tuesday, January 04, 2005
When life hands you a lemon, try to make lemonade
the most important thing in life is not to capitalise in gains. any fool can do that. the really important thing is to profit from your losses. that requires intelligence and it makes the difference between the man of sense and a fool.
Monday, December 06, 2004
My ipoh trip
Hey all!!!
I'm back! from a wonderful wonderful weekend in Ipoh. It was just great to get away from KL for awhile to enjoy the easy-slow pace of ipoh, the good food (at reasonable prices), the ipoh-leng-lui (who is with me -- my gf! muaks!) and great companies of friends.
I also attended a friend's wedding and it was a blessed time to see everyone celebrating with him. It would be one of those occasion ppl will be talking about for years to come esp the early morning session where the bridgegroom have to 'prove himself worthy' at the door before he is let into the house of the bride.
This entry is about food really. I think it's a passion that has been recently unlocked and I'm all out to map out all the delicious yummies in ipoh.
There are 2 very outstanding makan session is noteworhty here. The first is the police-station-curry-mee. It's so yummy!!!!!! It has got this spice in it and taste very different from the 'normal' curry mee I've had. The blend of spices, chilli... etc makes whole event unforgetable really. Even Chou Yun Fatt came to the shop to taste the food between breaks during the shoot of 'The King and I'.
The other occasion, which i failed to document any picture with my digicam is me having timsum with Lawrence at -Tai Thong Restraunt on Sunday. Both of us ate rm40 worth of timsum! That's alot for Ipoh really! Muhahahahaha... The porridge and the carrot cake was mediocre but the other timsum tasted real fresh. They weren't over steamed so the juices was filled with flavour. The mixture of fillings in the tim sum was also done in good proportion.
Finding these great makan places is easy in ipoh. You tell your driver, or your friend who is taking you around the name of the food. For example if you want to eat the beef noodles in rainbow-city just say 'rainbow city beef noodles' or 'police station curry mee'. I've been to ipoh a few times. So far, my mental map of ipoh is landmarked by all the eating places... hehehe.
I'm back! from a wonderful wonderful weekend in Ipoh. It was just great to get away from KL for awhile to enjoy the easy-slow pace of ipoh, the good food (at reasonable prices), the ipoh-leng-lui (who is with me -- my gf! muaks!) and great companies of friends.
I also attended a friend's wedding and it was a blessed time to see everyone celebrating with him. It would be one of those occasion ppl will be talking about for years to come esp the early morning session where the bridgegroom have to 'prove himself worthy' at the door before he is let into the house of the bride.
This entry is about food really. I think it's a passion that has been recently unlocked and I'm all out to map out all the delicious yummies in ipoh.
There are 2 very outstanding makan session is noteworhty here. The first is the police-station-curry-mee. It's so yummy!!!!!! It has got this spice in it and taste very different from the 'normal' curry mee I've had. The blend of spices, chilli... etc makes whole event unforgetable really. Even Chou Yun Fatt came to the shop to taste the food between breaks during the shoot of 'The King and I'.
The other occasion, which i failed to document any picture with my digicam is me having timsum with Lawrence at -Tai Thong Restraunt on Sunday. Both of us ate rm40 worth of timsum! That's alot for Ipoh really! Muhahahahaha... The porridge and the carrot cake was mediocre but the other timsum tasted real fresh. They weren't over steamed so the juices was filled with flavour. The mixture of fillings in the tim sum was also done in good proportion.
Finding these great makan places is easy in ipoh. You tell your driver, or your friend who is taking you around the name of the food. For example if you want to eat the beef noodles in rainbow-city just say 'rainbow city beef noodles' or 'police station curry mee'. I've been to ipoh a few times. So far, my mental map of ipoh is landmarked by all the eating places... hehehe.
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