morning :) :)

haha... today i had a GREAT morning :)
cos' i slept at 10 last nite and woke up at 8...which means i slept for 10 hours... haha, haven't slept that long since... since...don't know.. :|..
anyways.. last nite the light in my room couldn't switch on... so like, i couldn't study... but after trying to study ECG at the dining table i gave up after about an hour, cos' it was so uncomfortable... and the computer table was occupied by dad... living was occupied by mum...so, having no where else, i decided to try switching on the light again... well it still didn't work, so... why bother?i just went to sleep...
hehe, and then sometime last night or early this morning it rained.. which improved the "quality" of sleep by much much :)
so, long sleep+rain at nite= refreshing state of awakeness... so i'm powered up to study today :) yay... let's hope i finish most or all of my remaining lectures today so that i can start memorizing :)

zhiyong

dropped

hmm... my post frequency has dropped dramatically this month... actually its been coming over the past few months... i think its cos' of me spending more time in IMU.. haih... don't know if i should keep this blog going...
on the one hand i won't be updating frequntly... on the other hand..it's nice to have a place to complain and rant...

fears

fears... today we were talking bout fear in sunday school.. hmm.. ok-lah, on the spur of the moment i answered that i don't have any fears in class... heh, typical "macho-guy" response?... nolah.. i DO have fears... just that i don't think much about fears cos' i'm... uhh.. afraid of them?
i suppose i'm also afraid of losing my friends either by death or rejection... but not so much as i used to last time...
i suppose i the sickness i would fear most would be dementia or senility... stuff that makes you go crazy... can't imagine myself... or even ppl close to me, like my parents or friends going crazy...
but i think wat i fear most is losing my parents.. yeah, can't imagine losing my dad or my mum...
hmm... oh yeah, it FATHER'S DAY... my dad probably won't read this... but i think he's the coolest dad ever :)... okay, let's not bring up the fact that he's the only dad i'll ever have... ~_~

home and family

home... where is your home?
family... who is your family?
for some reason i've been thinking about this lately...

yups, still around

yeah, i'm still around... exam just over yesterday...
actually i don't really have much to blog about, but heh, want to put something up so that the previous post can start moving downwards... ehh... a bit paiseh also still having the blog on my sister's birthday still there after a week...

zhizheng

lol... a bit funny... first my name, then my sister's..
but anyway.. it's my sister's birthday tomoro :)
so here's a little msg for here which hopefully she'll read...

Hey, cheng-cheng:P
happy birthday... although this isn't much... HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!:) thanks for all the times you've been nice to me and for giving me stuff... although i don't always say thanks or show my gratitude... but thanks...you'll always be the best sister i'll ever have ;)... Keep growing in the knowledge and maturity of God:)

zhiyong

happy birthday,
you're 17 today,
no longer a girl but a lady,
stand tall today,
be proud of all you've done,
cos' i'm proud of who you've become.

yeah, i know it doesn't really rhyme exactly... but hey, it's the heart that counts rite?and i'm not telling how long it took to come up with that... ;)
happy birthday cheng... :)

zhiyong

have you ever tried googling your own name?... heh, the results can be quite interesting... this is what i came up with...

*Tang Zhiyong, the former general manager of Shanghai Baosteel Equipment Maintenance Company, who together with two others accepted bribes worth 4.6 million yuan.

and this:
*During the Sui Dynasty (589-618 AD) the monk Zhiyong, a seventh-generation descendant of Wang Xizhi, produced many copies of traditional Wang style writings for distribution among various temples throughout (modern day) Zhejiang province. Zhiyong was also the teacher of Yu Shinan, an assistant in the Palace Library at the Sui court who went on to hold more senior academic positions at the early Tang court under Taizong

heheh... try it yourself :)... you'll never know who you are :P

call a doctor

I recently realized the enormity of the task of a doctor...
it actually struck me when i was taking my first aid course. Among some of the basic rules for first aid is that if the situation is too serious or out of your control... call emergency medic service... which leads you to a doctor. If you're facing any sort of medical problem, call a doctor. If you don't know what to do in a n emergency, call a doctor.. for that matter, whenever an emergency occurs, the first person you call is normally a doctor.
heh, then i realized that becoming a doctor is akin to being like being some sort of "superman"... cos' you're expected to know what to do when nobody knows what to do, you're expected to "save the day" when everyone's panicking and running for cover, you're expected to save a life that would otherwise die.

hmm...and then i come to what i'm studying now... and it seems quite scary cos' what i study now doesn't seem to teach you anything related to being that "superman" :P... well, i suppose you could say you've to learn the basics n stuff like that... but yeah, suddenly you realize how important it is to pay attention in class.. ;) this coming from the guy who falls asleep in class almost everyday, lol... today being one of those days...

blogger's prayer

heh... found this in william's blog...

Saturday, May 21, 2005
check out something out that i found. its funny but also serious.
The Blogger's Prayer
The Blogger's Prayer 1.1 by Andrew Jones (June, 2002)

Our Father
who lives above and beyond the dimension of the internet

Give us this day a life worth blogging,
The access to words and images that express our journey with passion and integrity,
And a secure connection to publish your daily mercies.
Your Kingdom come into new spaces today,
As we make known your mysteries,
Posting by posting,
Blog by blog.

Give this day,
The same ability to those less privileged,
Whose lives speak louder than ours,
Whose sacrifice is greater,
Whose stories will last longer.

Forgive us our sins,
For blog-rolling strangers and pretending they are friends,
For counting unique visitors but not noticing unique people,
For delighting in the thousands of hits but ignoring the ONE who returns,
For luring viewers but sending them away empty handed,
For updating daily but repenting weekly.

As we forgive those who trespass on our sites to appropriate our thoughts without reference,
Our images without approval,
Our ideas without linking back to us.

Lead us not into the temptation to sell out our congregation,
To see people as links and not as lives,
To make our blogs look better than our actual story.

But deliver us from the evil of pimping ourselves instead of pointing to you,
From turning our guests into consumers of someone else's products,
From infatuation over the toys of technology,
From idolatry over techology
From fame before our time has come.

For Yours is the power to guide the destinies behind the web logs,
To bring hurting people into the sanctuaries of our sites,
To give us the stickiness to follow you, no matter who is watching or reading.
Yours is the glory that makes people second look our sites and our lives,
Yours is the heavy ambience,

For ever and ever,
Amen

yeah, like william said... its funny, but also quite worth reflecting upon...
btw... yeah, its william's 21st birthday :) he's in Aus though... pity...

small world

its a really small world...
last nite i went to watch Star Wars III with andrew and his fren(Michelle)...
that she studied in NUS i knew-lah.. but then when she said she knew my brother... wah, suddenly the world seems so much smaller... apparently they both stay in the same hall and have seen each other before... okay..which also means she knows joshua teo who also stays in the same hall(King Edward VII)...

anyway, i was browsing through links... and found out that this friend of daniel's... sueanne... know adeline gong.. who goes to IMU... uhh, yeah... so its wierd... its like ppl i know are suddenly "connected" to other ppl i know that i never knew could know...

narnia

if you all haven't heard... there's news that the story The Lion,The Witch and The Wardrobe is being made into a movie... i first read this story when i was a kid... and about 10 years later.. now, when i take the book out, its still as cool to read as always...
i think it'll make a good movie, esp since its quite short... so i think it'll be safe to assume that it won't be like LOTR...and... Disney is producing it... so it should be good:)

blogopoly

heheh... i thought this is pretty cool... blogopoly ... via sivinkit.net
haih... sitting in library studying while waiting for CAL... anyways, since its nursing week... i think i'm mentioning this again but anyway, its nursing week n i don't have classes the whole week... cos will be in hospital wed n thurs while today n tomoro nth really much to do....

nursing week

this week is nursing week... so technically i don't have lecture for the whole week... but then on wed n thurs have to wake up at 5 to go Seremban Hospital to learn to be nurse...
hope this nursing week is survivable...

jargon

people in a group tend to like jargon.. it's actually kinda cool to have your own personal lingo amongst a group of frens.. until u start forcing it on other ppl that is...

last weekend i was in CF camp... it's really bad(uhh, no not the camp), but i realized that among christians we tend to talk in a certain way... like when have you ever talked about "righteousness, salvation, eternity, holiness, divinity.." n stuff like dat among your frens... still, its no wonder non-christians feel downright out of place amongst some christians..
i also realized this happens amongst doctors... let's try physiology,myocardial infarction, cerebrovascular emboli... well, at least doctors don't try to make you believe in something...

n/eways... today in IMU we had this IRF thing... it was pretty enlightening actually...muslims and christians actually have much in common in our ideas about the purpose of life(muslims purpose of life is to serve n worship Allah), where we go after death n stuff... but i suppose where we split off is where we stand on forgiveness i think...

death

Joseph's mum just passed away. Its extremely sudden n saddening.
won't really blog much today although just came back from camp...

off again

it seems i'm hardly ever home nowadays... it's really bad.. n today i'm going off for camp again till sunday... haih, reli shud put aside more time to be in the house... hmm, actually even when i AM in the house i'm hardly even seen cos' i'm probably in my room sleeping/studying... alamak, how come like this...

anyway... going off for CF camp, uhh... yeah, in genting, Peacehaven... i'll probably blog about this again when i get back cos'... yeah, lotsa stuff happened in the preparation of this camp-lah... but anyway... hopefully its enjoyable :) hmm, but i suppose more importantly, that its "God-sent".. :)

returned

urm... yeah, actually today i just came back from a retreat... a really good wan-lah... it was a Sunday School Teacher's Retreat, n yeah... i rarely come back from a camp feeling so "high"-la...but also actually quite draining for some reason... i think bcos rarely use brain so much for church stuff...
anyway.. am quite excited for the future prospect of where Sunday School is going... hopefully we can maintain the "high" we're currently on n achieve the dreams we have...
uh, yeah... in case ya'll dunno... i'm teaching youth sunday school class...

again

heheh, referring to previous post cos' of something i thought of...
mei sent me a rather thought provoking mail some time ago regarding wat i've just blogged...
it's a bit long but, yeah... i think worth reading thru...

Jonathan,
I loved this post but I must disagree with the Catholic part. Ireally dont like to get into talking about other denominations, it'ssuch an unstable subject with me. I just don't want to try to be the"best" or "favorite"member of believers. Lately, I have come to therealization that man is trying to worship a great God in whatever wayseems possible to him. Some call Him Great Spirit, some call HimBright Light in the Sky, some call HimAll Knowing or All Powerful. It all boils down to the same God. (Notspeaking about outright idol worship of the disobedient of course.)
When I was in bible school, someone taught us about the down points ofother religions. Trust me, I learned them all. I even have a hugenotebook with chapters of information from a ministry that hunts downthese religions and warns' others about them. Even though theinformation from the notebook and class was interesting, I just feltit in my heart not to take the class so seriously. Judge not lest yebe judged. I make too many mistakes to say that I belong to the onlytrue religion out there, (non-denominational). My take on it is, aslong as you believe in Jesus of Nazareth and accept Him as yourpersonal Saviour, you are fine. I need to make the reader aware alsothat the bible also states that some people worship another Jesus, Iunderstand that there may be some who do. With the discernment thatGod has given me, I can tell when that time has arisen around me so,therefore, I back out gracefully and pray for the practitioner.
Yesterday a couple of young men came knocking on my door, one black,one white. They were Mormons who live across the street from my home.They wanted to talk to me about the bible. I kindly stepped outsideto talk with them for a minute. I didn't want to shoo them off like apair of bandits because after all, it is all about Jesus and where twoor three are gathered in His name, there He will be in the midst ofthem. Not only that, they were obedient enough to go out two by twoas the Word of God commands uswhich is more than what I have ever done, especially in this badweather. I have seen them walk in freezing, rainy weather when peoplewere afraid to empty their garbage because of the cold.
In bible school we were taught about the Mormons and their practices. I have my library of VCR tapes about their alleged secret temples andhigh suicide rates, etc. Even their name means a type of monster inJapan which is supposedly why they took on the name "Latter DaySaints" because in Japan "mormon" is a type of monster...hence,"pokemon" the cartoon, which means pocket monster." I have heard itall. As they stood there, trying to do a good deed for the Lord God,my question was, "what can I do for them to help out the Kingdom?" Iexplained that I had just pastored a church in our town for threeyears and I do have a personal relationship with Jesus Christ. Theywere glad. They asked if I ever read their Mormon bible and I showedthem that I had one, (which I keep in my library for informational andteaching purposes but I didn't have to tell them all of that.) Theyasked why I never became a Mormon since I had read their bible. Ijust simply explained that I use the King James version and that Idisagreed with some of their teachings. They were kind about it.After I talked to them about my beliefs and what God's Word says in mybible, they soon began to ask about my neighbors. I teased the blackone about looking like the Rock from WWE wrestling and they bothlaughed. He looked exactly like him too, handsome. I told them, "hey,anyway, we are all brothers and sisters in Christ Jesus." They smiledand agreed and simply walked away. I didn't condemn them to hell andinvite them in to see my video tape on Mormonism that I had received afew years ago with the purposes to sway me from joining the Mormon wayof life. I wasn't afraid!!!
That is how we should all be with one another...not afraid. We shouldhave such a personal relationship with God that nothing can sway us asPaul said in the NewTestament in Romans 8:35-39..."Who shall separate us from the Love ofChrist?"
I will keep those brothers in prayer that Jesus will have His way withthem and their lives. Isn't that what we are supposed to do? Honestly. We have bad Lutherans, bad Methodists, bad Baptists, badNon-Denominational, as well as the good people in each of thedifferent catagories, denominations and churches. People get angrywith me and say that I am passive or whatever the word is. Actuallythey are angry at the Jesus in me. Didn't Jesus say, Love thyneighbor as thyself?" satan wants us to hate one another and blameone another. Old folks have a joke about the World War...how didHitler take Poland? He got Poland and Russia to argue with oneanother and it wasover. That's what's happening to Christianity today. I have heardmore Catholic bashing than one would want to admit. I agree thatthings that they are going through is terrible right now. But aren'tother denominations suffering also? What we should do is pray for oneanother that satan will not be able to have his way with us. Whatabout theBaptists that don't believe in speaking in tongues? Do they belong inhell? Or the Methodists who don't believe in beating tambourines?
We cannot take our eyes off of Jesus right now or ever. When you takeyour eyes off of Jesus and start focusing on others and theirdenominations, you are in all actuality turning your back on Jesus. You lose. You have to turn your back on Him to see what's behind youright?
I understand that Iraq's old name was Babylon and yada yada yada. Once we keep our focus on Jesus Christ-the Lord of the Battles, wedon't have to worry which country the Whore will spring out of. Let'sleave that to the Kings and Rulers. God has a hand on the rulersalso, we should continue to pray for them. I hate finger pointingwithin the body of Christ. The head hates the toe and the toe pointsto the arm. The arm hates the neck and the neck dogs out the head. We all need each other, amen?

Rev. Essie Scott

it's cool

yeah, it's cool... this is the most frequent i've blogged in a long long time...
although i'm not sure wat to post about... but yeah, at least i'm regularly being regular...

ok-lah, for the sake of myself i'll just put something here that makes it worth your time coming here... uhh, yeah something-lah...
anyway, today i realized that i kinda had some sort of prejudice against catholics... in fact as far as i can remember think i thot of them as being slightly cultish and super traditional partly cos' i always remember ppl telling me that they believe that mother Mary as being God or something like that...and traditional cos' i always hear about Mass(which i don't know wat it is in fact)...
that is until came to IMU n met Desmond... in fact other than the fact that his bible has a few other books called the Apocrypha and that he calls identifies himself as a catholic(unlike most of the other christians who know not wat denomination they're in and thus take the umbrella denomination of protestant which roughly translates in our understanding as to being non-catholic)... he's pretty much a normal fired up christian... much more fired up than most christians i know, more friendly also.. but also with his weaknesses and all-lah...
so nowadays i find it kinda irks me that ppl sort of segregate btw christians and catholics...yeah, thinking about that, i realize many times whe form prejudices and misconceptions about other groups of ppl without really understanding what or who they are... for that matter we hardly bother to find out cos' it doesn't hurt anyone we know, and anyone who doesn't "fit" into our circle is okay to hurt...
put a bit crude but yeah, i think its true to an extent... we don't really care about others until we can start to "connect" or put a face to them...

so yeah, i will try to learn more about catholics from now on...

its over

yay... summative one is over... now to get back to normal life :)..
and yeah...yesterday would have been the last day of dotA for me, "everything that has a beginning, has an end".. so yeah, its time to stop dotA n get on with real life :)...