Christmas- post no.2

ok... this is the SECOND post which appears BEFORE the first post which i typed AFTER the first post... but never mind... if you're smart you'll know what i'm typing... if you're clifford.. you'll probably ask me... but never mind...

this is post is about... CHIST-MAS... which sounds like CHEESE-MAS... hahahaha....
okay.. i found that really amusing cos' CHEESE was also born in a manger, is also good for everyone... and can be found on pizzas...
ok.. this is just the meaningless counterpart to the meaningful post down below...
but... i really find CHISTMAS really funny...

Christmas- post no.1

ok... because of my blogger template... this post will appear at the bottom... but none the less...
THIS is the FIRST Christmas post which PRECEDES the one AFTER this which actually appears BEFORE this... ok... now the the crappy stuff is done...

this christmas is one of my less "happening" christmases... but i think... one of my more meaningful ones... this morning woke up early to go for my fren's christmas mass... i think the very act of waking up early before everyone else and going out in the early morning christmas air helps to reflect on christmas... and also the fact that i don't have to rush for service to be pianist or PA... so even as today began it was already.. nice... to just sit and listen(like mary)... instead of rushing about doing stuff (like martha)...
have you ever been to a catholic service... i think everyone should at least once... Christian denominations i was thinking earlier this morning face two extremes... either ritualism which pushes God to a distance or spontaniety and informality which brings God nearer... canaan i think is kinda moving towards informality, and i realized that although we make God more relevant to people... we run the risk of making God a bit "too close" to the extent that the Value of meeting God is kinda lost... where as in a catholic church where almost the entire service is already pre-ordained, although we run the risk of making God distant and running rituals just for the sake of running them, i realized that if run with a correct understanding of why things are done.. we actually honor and respect God.. as God and not some "guy" that we can come how and if we want...
on christmas especially, when we remember how God who once was far chose to come near... i think it's good that we remember how awesome the God who is contained in baby Jesus is...

meaning of life...

i was just wasting time online...
came home from library and didn't really feel like continuing studying...
when i came across this...
it's quite... interesting and cool... and weird...
it's from yahoo... and i came across it while mindlessly surfind around...
basically i just wanna waste some more time by posting some mindless internet surf...

but still... it is a little thought provoking... more of interesting actually to see what the world at large thinks...

here are some excerpts... the site is here...

This is the supposed "best" answer... it's a bit long... so i'll just give u up to about 30 words...

A question that has been asked so many times in so many ways.There is no finite answer that human beings at this level would be absolutely satisfied with, because any answer would only lead to another question.
More why's, but...what..how?

it's really long... if u really wanna read it go check out the site..

here's more shorter and more interesting answers...
i think this is the bane of the internet... no one's interested in substance anymore... just bright lights will do... and not too many of it...

By, popsicle

hard to describe
but life is like a hamburger with everything on it
there are parts i like
and parts i just wanna get through
but overall the hamburger is good
*nice... but a bit like Forrest Gump*

By, Brian

According to the Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy, it is 42.
*lol... first entry to get me smiling*

By, ssendaj

Ah! The meaning of life! The human experience is the single thing that ties all of us together. You should read some of the basics existentialism; satre, nietzche. Also absurdism; Albert Camus, in the Myth of Sisyphus, ponders if life is worth living. Though a seemingly depressing notion, Camus argued that the only way to find true meaning is to free oneself of presupposed notions of fate. It's really great stuff. Life is a wonderous thing and the universe is full of possibilities!
*wat?? *

i found it mildly interesting that amongst over 20 replies to this question... 4 were religious...
3 christian (kinda).. and one buddhist i think.. Dharma is buddhist rite?... the other's were mainly... fun answers... but most of the answers as well as the longer answers... consisted of probably atheistic ppl trying to promote their belief or rather.. un-belief in God... strange, but i realized that if the tables were turned... and it were the religious ppl trying to persuade others to see things from their point of view ppl would ask...
"Why do you have to force everyone to believe wat you believe in?"
but since its coming from some one who "doesn't believe in anything"... heh, i guess it's "okay" to "persuade" someone to "not believe" in anything, but it's bad to persuade someone to believe in something... hmm...

christmas shopping

did my christmas shopping today...
hmm... and lost one whole day of studying... hmm...
rushing to try to finish everything b4 christmas... but it looks impossible by the moment...
hmm... suddenly seems like got so much to do...

oh yeah... although i did my christmas shopping but its... rushed...
so.. if you didn't get a present from me, its not bcos' i don't like you...
its cos' i'm... rushed...
yeah...

not sick

heh.. umm.. don't really have much to post...
this is more of a "counter-post"
just to avoid any misunderstanding...
i'm not sick no more now..

scik

hmm... diarrhea+emesis last nite...
not feeling too good today...
haiz... but don't have time to be sick... lest than 30 days to EOS...

life.. and exams

hmm... i realized today... how much exams and IMU have taken from my life...
i was thinking back on today, and i realized that so much stuff that i used to do with all my heart has almost lost meaning and just become some to do from day to day..
teaching sunday school, which i used to enjoy... has just become something to get over with from 930 to 1030 every sunday...
followed up almost immediately with PA duty(unescapable... i'm never not on duty somehow) which had become a drag as well..
strange as it may seem... today during VBS graduation service, PA was hectic as usual, but as things slowed down, Noel n Ju Liang appearing from no where to suddenly be in the PA room and help out, as well as yeesan, juping, wengkit suddenly wanting to help out too...
i remembered that PA used to be enjoyable too...
then i began thinking forward more... to TU... yeah, TU had stopped become enjoyable too :... and then just everyday living...

there's more to life than just study, sleep, eat and study... even though time may not seem to be enough... but i've committed exams to God, i suppose i should leave it in His hands and live my life with more to it than just studies...

okay.. so now i've a couple of things on my mind that i want to do in spite of exams...
Get Christmas presents for sunday school students =)
Enjoy my last few TUs
take each day slowly... and do more than just study... to give something to someone everyday...

having said that though... tmr and day after is the LAST 2 DAYS OF LECTURES!!! time flies so fast... (= i hope i don't sleep through it...

christmas

its christmas soon...
and i'm thinking of mei...
heh, i still remember the first time we met up was on boxing day...
haha, and i'm still keeping the card with bad handwriting...

christmas~ ^^