Love thy neighbour as thyself

I don’t know how many know of a RI teacher’s letter on his coming out of the closet. I just read his letter and admit that everybody is capable of prejudice and discrimination in one way or another. As a Christian, my stand against homosexuality is very simple. I don’t approve it; I accept people who are. To me, homosexuals are like everybody else. It’s just that their sin is different.

In his letter, the teacher mentioned Jesus’ sermon on the mount to the disciples, specifically to the command to “love thy neighbour as thyself”. Actually, this is not the only time this phrase is mentioned in the Bible. This is, in fact, the 2nd greatest command all Christians must follow.

The thing is, we are not saints. We are just as susceptible to falling into temptation as any other person; it is only that we have a guideline on our Dos and Don’ts. Yes, many a time we do not do what we preach; but as I said, we were, are and will always be sinners, as long as we are here.

Ok, I have digressed from my point.

What prompted me to write this entry is the teacher’s use of Jesus’ words to prove his point that the society should not discriminate homosexuals. I was just a tad peeved seeing them use Jesus’ words to judge others on one hand, and blatantly ignoring God’s laws about homosexuality on the other. Talk about hypocrisy.

Plenty of comments regarding the teacher’s statement on him not going to hell because he’s gay, but I shan’t say anything here.


Such a controversial entry has not been seen in this blog for the longest time!

Too many things to say

I've got so many things on my mind that I don't know where to start.

Had a busy weekend again. I think I made the right decision in not singing this time round. Don't know how I'd cope if I was. This time, we all learnt a lesson in double-checking things. He really showed us that He is wiser than us all and His ways always work for the best.


Saturday evening was an enjoyable gathering with my maternal relatives. It was my grandma’s 85th birthday? Sometimes I get a little wary of elderly people, especially those 80 and above. :S Thankfully she’s still going strong. As Philos ended early, I managed to rush down in time to eat popiah! :)) My third aunt’s popiah fillings is really the bestest ever. Unmatchable. Tops! Hmm, perhaps I’ll just have a popiah party for my 21st.

OK, anyway, I downed two immediately after I reached her place. Then I ate the mango and basil cake. Alrights, it’s the weirdest cake I’ve eaten, but it was good. The basil added a nice twist. Please visit http://www.thepatissier.com/ for their delicious creations.

You know how fun it is when girls dress up together for a night out? Well, it was interesting, to say the least, to see my aunts doll up.

Much to my cousin’s and the Teng sisters’ consternation, the aunts decided to take bus 65 to Vivocity. Our starting point was Ubi. That pretty much sums up why we felt that way.

When I walked into the restaurant, I was very unimpressed by their décor. BUT! Everything from the ginseng cracker to the chicken sharks’ fin soup, from the iced Chinese hawthorn tea to the roasted chicken, from the addictive buttery mushroom to the fantastic dessert was more than great! Despite our very filled stomachs, we still managed to finish the dessert. Oh, just remembered something. The steamed fish wasn’t good. The meat was tough and the sauce tasteless. But that was the only downside. My sis and I were already making plans for a 2nd visit with our parents in the middle of the meal (my parents are still overseas, so they missed it). While on the bus there, my fourth aunt had asked if any of us would want to hold our wedding at Mt. Faber. I think we’d all rather have it here. (!!) Can you imagine our entire family coming back here for wedding dinners 4 times? @_@

Highlight No.2 of the evening: I played with the iPhone! OKs, I know many of my friends aren’t tech-savvy and are not interested even if I kissed it, but the phone was soo cool! My cousin demonstrated the different functions and you can just see why Apple will always be one of the industry leaders. My cousin doesn’t recommend the phone due to several reasons, but I think most of them were related to the fact that Apple is trying hard to prevent piracy, thus there were a lot of security measures that didn’t allow file-sharing. As such, it really dampens the mood of Singaporeans who lurrve file-sharing. He did, however, mention that it is better and cheaper than a lot of PDAs out there that run on much slower micro-processors.

Seeing that it is Apple’s first foray into the phone market, you really have to acknowledge that they are already better than a lot of other phones out there.

All that talk about iPhone has made me hanker after the iPod touch! I’m now considering between 8GB and 16GB. I’ll just see if 6 months down the road half the people on the streets are walking around with it.

I really have to curb my ‘hankerings’ if I want to continue my studies. >_<

My friends are ignoring me :(

I couldn't help missing my mummy as she left for China with my Dad for almost 2 weeks.


Anyway, I bought this at the airport when sending my parents off:

And I love it! The fragrance is very musky and subtle. However, it is very much an unexpected expense, plus I need a haircut, so will hafta to watch my spending again.

My sister and relatives refuse to let me buy the camera of my dreamm the Sony Cybershot T100 despite the good reviews I saw on the net:

Thus, I may be getting this:

P.S.: Why do I have to listen to my sister when she's not even paying for it??

Hilariously incredulous

Somebody please assure me that this is a rare occurence in the Malaysian papers. Despite the fact that people are passing this around and everybody knows how stupid silly the Association is being and the call is blatantly reported in the newspapers, I shan't say anything about how I thought it was a joke initially, and later wondered how ignorant En. Ambi Mohan, the reporter, the editor and the newspaper in general is due to our countries' close relation. He can throw words like semantics but have no idea where Da Vinci came from.


Note: Please remember to close your mouth after reading the article.

Tagged! by two people!

1. The person who tagged you is:
Grace Sng and Krystal Chew!


2. Your relationship with him/her is:
Church friends


3. Your 5 impressions of him/her:
Grace - Lame; very lame; confident; self-high; talkative
Krystal - Likes beetle juice; laughs a lot; close to her sisters; favourite movie is some old cartoon :D; quiet during BSG


4. The most memorable thing he/she did for you:
Grace - She bought us voice gums :)
Krystal - Hit me just for fun


5. The most memorable words he/she had said to you:
Grace - "Woo Hoo!" when she's self-highing :D
Krystal - "Why??!!" Don't ask me why I remember this.


6. If he/she becomes your lover, you will:
Grace and Krystal - :s
Define lover.


7. If he/she becomes your lover, things he/she has to improve on will be:
Grace - Tell better jokes
Krystal - Her fascination with beetle juice


8. If he/she becomes your enemy, you will:
Grace & Krystal - Try to love them?


9. If he/she becomes your enemy, the reason will be:
Grace - What's with this enemy thing? Anyway, because I finally cannot take her jokes? :D
Krystal - She forced me to squeeze a beetle for its juice.


10. The thing you most want to do for him/her now is:
Grace - Pray for her so that her month with Poly Serve will be meaningful
Krystal - Pray for her so that her mugging for her promos will be effective


11. Your overall impression of him/her is:
Grace - Crazy
Krystal - There are too many.


12. How you think people around you feel about you?
>_< To quote Krystal: It's what others feel.

13. The character you love about yourself is:
I forget about unhappy things quickly.


14. The characters you hate about yourself are:
How come the previous qns is character while this qns is characters?
Jumping to conclusions; judgemental; lazy


15. The person you most want to be is:
Jesus


16. For people that care and like you, say something to them:
Thank you for loving me, I lub you too! *muacks*


17. Pass this quiz to 10 persons that you wish to know how they feel about you (they are not placed in any order of preference)
1. Shirley
2. Rena
3. Cheng Cheng
4. Mei Hui
5. Isaac
6. Afiqah
7. Corrin
8. Ben Koh
9. Faith
10. Florence


11. Who is no.6 having relationship with?
Good question.


12. Is no.9 a male or female?
Female


13. If no.7 and 10 are together, will it be a good thing?
-_-


14. How about no.8 and 5?
Hah! I daren't imagine.


15. What is no.2 studying about?
Business. Right? :P


16. When was the last time you had a chat with no.3?
Last Sunday. :)


17. What kind of music does no.8 like?
Eh.. Another good question. Sorry Benji. :D


18. Does no.1 have any siblings?
Yep, 3 sisters.


19. Will you woo no.3?
I'll let this pass on the basis of ignorance.


21. Is no.4 single?
Yep.


22. What's the surname of no.5?
Uncle LIM!


23. What's the hobby of no.4?
Mh likes to sing, shop. Anything else?


24. Do no.5 and 9 get along well?
Eh.. They don't keep in touch..


25. Where is no.2 studying at?
SMU


26. Tell us something casual about no.1:
She just passed her 20th birthday last Thursday.


27. Have you ever tried developing feelings for no.8?
Erm..... awkward question. How do you try to develop feelings? Anyways, no I have not.


28. Where does no.9 live?
Bendemeer


29. What color does no.4 like?
It has evolved over the years.


30. Are no.5 and no.1 best friends?
Not best friends, but good friends, right?


31. Does no.7 like no.2?
Nopes, strangers. Besides, 7 is attached.


32. How do you get to know no.2?
Classmate in Sec 3/4.


33. Does no.1 have any pets?
Nopes.


34. Is no.7 the sexiest person in the world?
This question is obviously.. you know, but Yes, Corrin is the sexiest person in the world! *tongue in cheek*

Fulfilling weekends

Rmb I mentioned that we had an "official photographer" for Windchasers? Here's a very good shot he captured. Our resident ah bengs in action. :)

My weekends have been quite fulfilling. :\
We decided to meet up to play Ultimate Frisbee last Saturday, and boy did it drain us of our energy. BUT! I got to play volleyball! More of that later :D

Due to the lack of space in church, we decided to adjourn to a park in Tai Keng Gardens. The place was grrreat! Big, lots of different equipment, lots of space, and most importantly, swings! You rarely see guys on swings, and thus the picture. BUT, these boys and Krystal have no idea of the intricacies of using the swing!

Anyway, volleyball was fun! At first it was just Kevin, Qing Long, Krystal and I playing. I managed to spike a few times! But the boys refused to spike to us, so I didn't get to you know, receive the ball? It used to be my favourite thing to do. OK, I'm having a lot of difficulty blogging about this, because all the volleyball terms I know are in Chinese, so bear with me.

After that, the rest joined us, so we set invisible boundaries around us. However, we were more tired from laughing than actual playing because of the boys. OK, Krystal played a part too. Krystal and I were more familiar with the game and the rules, but it was impossible to tell them all of them, so we were just telling them when the fouls occurred. But, the boys viewed them as attempts to score points for ourselves. See the problem? Isn't it right that when the ball hits an obstacle like a tree, that round is considered invalid? Who asked them to keep abusing the trees?? :p

I am seriously out of touch now. My balls kept spinning and they don't go where I want them to! Erm, it's not as drastic as it sounds la, just that they go some degrees off. >_<

Anyway, everybody got too tired to carry on playing after a while due to the Ultimate Frisbee earlier, so we decided to go off after a while.

At night, we had a plan to surprise Ginnette on her birthday! Thank God Jia Lin could drive her Dad's car, so we had transport. :D Grace and Wei Lin were soo excited over becoming robbers and then cops on a stakeout. Hahs.

We filled the entire house with smoke from the sparklers, so we took a photo in the smoke. Got atmosphere right? Haha.

Shopping with a woman who had not been shopping for the psat few months can be quite scary. After the very tiring day before, I went shopping with my mum from Raffles City, to OG to Bugis, from 2 to 7. And I wasn't wearing the right shoes. :\

Finally got to meet up with Cheng and the rest for dinner that evening. Our past few attempts had been futile. I think none of us have changed, but they are going to get busier with school now. Hearing them talk abt school makes me glad that TP put us through PBL. :)

Ok, so i love TP. I went back for an alumni thingy yesterday with De, Ai Li, Wency and Harveen. I so want to go back to school! I really miss campus life..

Anyway, I was sooo tired when I went to work on Monday that I couldn't bring myself to find more politically correct ways to talk to my boss. Could barely bring myself to do anything.. But, on the positive side, at least I spent my time well. :)