the four meme

thanks to laughingcow for spreading the love. but it's by doing memes like this that i realise how boring i am. =(

Four jobs you've had in your life:
1) tax officer/call center operator
2) freelance web designer
2) maid (cos we don't have one at home)
4) student..?

Four movies you could watch over and over again (not to be confused with favourite movies):
1) moulin rogue
2) shrek
3) memoirs of a geisha (tis good, really)
4) coyote ugly

Four TV shows you love(d) to watch (among many others):
1) Charmed
2) Whose Line Is It Anyway?
3) The Simpsons
4) X Men

Four places you've lived:
1) Yishun
2) Choa Chu Kang
3) Boon Lay
4) Toa Payoh

Four places you've been on vacation to:
1) Perth, Australia
2) Brisbane, Australia
3) Sunshine Coast, Australia
4) Sentosa
(ok so i cheated. it just shows how little i travel too.)

Four places you would rather be:
1) church
2) home (where i am.)
3) Maldives
4) England

Four of your favourite foods:
1) stir fried belachan kang kong
2) salmon sashimi
3) pasta and cheese
4) fish curry

Four websites you visit daily:
1) livejournal
2) gmail
3) this blog (to access all other blogs i regularly read)
4) hotmail

Four tagged:
1)
2)
3)
4)
shall tag everyone who wants to do this.

shaming the wise

announcement: please change all links to http://7kmh.blogspot.com! thank you!

one of the things that will never fail to ruffle my feathers is how some people love to talk or write as if their logic is absolutely right. no alternative explanations, no other answers. 1 plus 1 will equal to 3 simply because this person says so, and every other answer is wrong.

look here. wake up from your self-centered world and smell the coffee. there are NO absolutes in this world, there is NO such thing as pure black or white.

and if you think you are authority just because you are deviant, i'm sorry. so long as you do not make a point that makes sense to me, i do not care if you are a porn queen or the president of some unfound nation that you claim exist (because YOU say SO), your narrow-minded, myopic views mean nothing to me.

another thing. if you claim to be previously christian, the way you write reflects otherwise; because i simply refuse to believe that a true christian (even one who has backsliden) will be able to say such things about her faith. and if you were never a christian, well i don't know what is your problem with the religion that you obviously do not know much about.

ladies and gentlemen, this lady's blog is the second blog i'm swearing off, of course, second to xiaxue. i must thank her though, she piqued my interest in the apologetics and my determination to get my bible studies right.

christianity is not something you expect to fully decode using science and logic. but God has never ever left us defenseless when our faith come under fire from such skeptics.

on a loosely connected note, morals.

we all have our own notion of what is right and what is wrong. murder is wrong, doing charity is right, etc.

personally i try not to impose any judgements on people, for the simple reason that my initial judgements have nearly always failed me. (maybe my woman's intuition is severely underdeveloped.) on a more christian-y level, i am not in any position to judge. God is.

it gets quite saddening to know that some think that evangelism is more of an imposition of our moral values on other people.

i admit, there are people out there who use the wrong disagreeable ways to share Christ with pre and unbelievers. it gets pretty tempting to do the following when one argues the case for Christ:

1. to compare religions. e.g.: christianity is superior to other religions such as islam or buddhism..


2. to emphasize on the sinful state of the unbeliever.

evangelism, from my point of view.

the basic message behind christianity is love. the love of God for His creation, Man; the love of Christ for all who have wandered away from the Father. basically, i do not believe in "cheap good to be hawked to the public", because i, myself, am not sinless, nor always morally upright.

while it's great to know that there are people out there actively trying to share the gospel, maybe we all have to reflect inwardly and ask ourselves, "is this how we want non-believers to see us? as people who impose our so-called 'righteous lives' on them?"

one of the most powerful testimonies that will bring people to Christ is how one lives his life, and how one presents oneself to other people.

point of this post? not much. just to release some steam about a certain blogger and some apparent black Christian sheeps. pun fully intended, if you know what i mean.

he said, she said, who cares

i always find myself fascinated by any scandals involving xiaxue. this may be due to my initial embarrassment and disdain for the thing she calls "blogging", it's somehow a quirk of human nature to be interested in things we do not really like.

a guilty "pleasure", if you can call it pleasure in the first place.

so read up on the massive expose on tomorrow.sg if you want. the above mention is merely a springboard for my thoughts (there is no need for analysis on such a person).

i was once challenged by this guy who claimed to be atheist:

"if this world is the best that God can do, He is not a God worth following."

to put it in the words of another friend, "Dad, Your creations kinda suck."

many forget that we live in a fallen world, where satan is the reigning prince. that is the reason why the bible tells us not to befriend this world, because when we are reborn with Christ, we essentially are "dead" to this sucky world full of hatred, hypocrisy and violence. this includes gossip and bitter hypocrisy.

so when gossip comes into my face, i pray for the strength to smile at it in its ugly face and go on my own merry way.