Plants are shaped by cultivation and men by education. .. We are born weak, we need strength; we are born totally unprovided, we need aid; we are born stupid, we need judgment. Everything we do not have at our birth and which we need when we are grown is given us by education. (Jean Jacques Rousseau, Emile, On Philosophy of Education)
.. by nature man is a political animal. Hence men have a desire for life together, even when they have no need to seek each other’s help. Nevertheless, common interest too is a factor in bringing them together, in so far as it contributes to the good life of each. The good life is indeed their chief end, both communally and individually; but they form and continue to maintain a political association for the sake of life itself. Perhaps we may say that there is an element of good even in mere living, provided that life is not excessively beset with troubles. Certainly most men, in their desire to keep alive, are prepared to face a great deal of suffering, as if finding in life itself a certain well-being and a natural sweetness. (Aristotle, Politics)
'What i do not mind is that if students do not understand but have the attitude to learn!' grup over the ends of the classroom from the rear and she left the room. Hollered vocies went over the air of the class 'Who actually cares what is she talking?'. Many times this is the typical scene in class, isn't it? The teachers today may have tons and loads of experience but to their horrific discovery it seems that nothing is working well. It's a unbelieveable loneliness they have within them. May i put the word uncertainity across their hearts. Simply, methods have to change. No matter how ever loads and donkey years of experience you have, the world is changing at a rapid vrlocity. The blazing anger within them leads to no solution untill they will be humble to change certain methods.
i've finally have time to air things out a little. Cannot believed the fact that i mused over a coordinare geo question for more than 1/2 an hour. The never burn out flame just won't give up till i get to the solution. Then again i have to admit defeat now. I tried but somehow it seems not to get it. It's last year question during november paper 2 question 11. I have this guard that something is lacking in the question or the usage of vectors or even similar triangles. Somehow.. i still can't figure it out. i am not going to make a mountain out of this mole. What's the use? decided to ask teacher tomorrow. Yeah. What a day for me. Time files in a glimpse of an eye. Never know what to expect from the earth. A undecisive planet i am living on. This is just a place where i will be staying for a while. Not that long. I am glad that God has been showing himself faithful in my life. Now that he's in my life everything completely change. Tremedously. Actually i am a novice in life transformation but it's he who is not that enable me too.
it was an apple of my eye. Never did it once caught my attention for that few deafening moments. The look of it hunts one but still an apple of my eye. Maybe i am a extremist but i like it. Liking refers to a heart affection i mean. The spilling of the grose blood. The never ending chase. The wide open flesh that undergo excruciating death. The moans from the womans from the street made me realised how much this person meant to them. Who is he? What so great about him that he must undergo such painful death? Is he a bottle neck? Some say he is. I supposed he is too. A bottle neck to hell? Under that harsh conditions yet he stood firm. Never it it once never strike across my mind the wramth of that love showerd upon me. Then did i just realised his name was was.. i will not murmured as i say his name. JESUS. he loves me? really? maybe all those stories i heard about him is true. Fine. i want to know you.
Through the dark corners as i walked home i gazed upon what had happened today. Simply my mouth has gone lost for words. The words was lost on the way to may mouth. But i know it's his grace being with me.
i do not know about you but for me i do not like mono syllabic answer or even expression. The merely expressed a look of disatisfaction which leads you only to figure it out through inferring. Why would people give a monosyllabic answer or expression? Well, like all happenings, no factor can stand in isolation. So i belived that it is not only for a praticular reason that the beings bahaved in such a manner. The rationalise that i am making is that no factor can stand by itself. Likewise, in our daily enhancing walk or race with God. Not only is it the fact that some eccentric answers people give like ' I do not recived much renewal due to my shepherd did not hear me out.'. Ultra rubbish. This factor is only one of the supporting factors. Why not put it this way? I procrastinated in seeking for renewal due to the fact of viewing time management as inconsequential. Yeah. Let's all just be honest people.
whatever decisions we make, the consequence we bring it upon ourselves. It's simply a matter of choice. Hope is that that stream of water flowing within me. yeah. today have been a day which is relatively tiring for me but i'm still amazed at God's faithfulness in providing me with strenght. yeah. haha. hmm.. sought of tired now. yawns. going to mug my last last breath for geography before i call it a day. moreover God's faithful. yeah.
felt as if i was trapped in a cupboard that i never know when it will be opened. Light never penerates in. I wished i can see the light that can at least hits my face. The feeling of the warmness was what i longed for. Never did i thought that you would come to open that door and i have found freedom in you. My first step out of the darkness was much with joy and not knowing what to expect from the light as i have been kept in the dark. Walking along the road and taking a look at what you have installed for me makes me wonder why do you go to the extreme of doing so? Am i really that worth, i questioned. You came right infront of me and said these few words that melted my heart. ' this is how much i loved you.' Never did i felt so loved till i met you. You did not just allow me to step into light but gave me life.
never felt that much luck before in his entire life.
Do you remember the jack-in-the-box toys from your childhood orchildren's childhood? Weren't they great fun! You turn the crank on abrightly colored box while music plays and then ... POP ... out jumpsthe figure. At certain ages, a jack-in-the-box can be hours of fun forboth adults and children!I fear, however, that as we have grown up and "gone to church," we'vetaken our jack-in-the-box mentality with us. We focus our attention onspecial boxes of worship. We attend and see what happens in those boxesto surprise and delight us. Based on what whether we like what happensor not, we go away feeling like we've had a good or bad worshipexperience. Either way, we often feel we've put in our time to fulfillour worship responsibilities, punched out ticket for another week, andcan then pretty much go live our daily lives as we choose.This approach to worship has been sometimes been called the "God in abox" syndrome. While modern westerners didn't invent it, we'veperfected it to an art form! We build elaborate and expensive boxes --calling them auditoriums, sanctuaries, cathedrals, worship centers anda host of pious and important sounding names -- and focus incredibleamounts of attention on what happens in them. We develop a mindset thatsuggests that if we can get our weekend worship event done correctly,we're set for the week and have punched our ticket for heaven. We cango back to our work, recreation, parenting, schooling, and sinningwhile being pretty much okay if we can go get another dose of the"worship thing" again next weekend.Two great dangers have become realized among us with this approach toworship.First, we put way too much pressure on what happens in the worship boxto be breath-taking, earth-moving, and spine-tingling. Rather thanbeing a part of our life of worship, this weekly event becomes our lifeof worship. Rather than being the consummation of a week of dailyworship, it becomes the primary worship experience in our week. Thismeans everything important about our worship depends upon that smallamount of time we are the worship box.Second, this approach to worship helps us secularize andcompartmentalize our lives, so that worship does not intrude into ourworkplace, our schools, our recreation, and even our families. We giveGod his hour at the special box, and then we can do pretty much what welike with the rest of our time. We confine God to the box so we canrule our own lives.God has never wanted us to see our worship as only a little bit of timeon a holy day at a holy box. Worship cannot, and must not, be separatedfrom the daily lives we lead. Simply offering holy words on a holy dayare not God's goal for us. He wants us to be living sacrifices that arefreely offered to him out of thankful hearts touched by his rich mercyand grace. (Romans 12:1-2) While God demands that we worship him withreverence and awe, we must understand that he is not focusing as muchon what happens in our holy box as he is focusing on what happens inour daily lives. (Read Hebrews 12:28-29 and Hebrews 13:15-16 and noticethat everything in between those two passages describes what God isafter in our reverent worship. You will find hospitality to strangers,remembering those in prison, honoring our marriages, handling moneycorrectly, and respecting our spiritual leaders on this list ofreverent worship!)God wants us to move beyond our jack-in-the-box approach to faith andto see that all of our lives -- whatever we do on whatever day we do it-- are part of our worship offered to him. Does this mean what we do onthe Lord's Day is unimportant? Of course not! The Lord's Day should bea time of special fellowship with other believers and worship of theLord. This day of worship should serve as a celebration of our pastweek of daily worship and as an anticipation of the next week of dailyworship. It should be a day to remember the Lord and celebrate hisresurrection from the dead.Approaching each day as our worship to the Lord does not diminish theimportance of the Lord's Day as a day of worship. Instead, itintegrates worship into the rest of our lives and prevents us fromcompartmentalizing our faith, from locking God up in a box on Sunday,and from locking him out of our daily lives.
the screeching sound that makes my hair stands. Was awaken by the shrilled sound by the moblie of mine this monrning. yeah. feels so at ease now. haha.. God is awesome!
i am sitting frozen on my chair in front of my computer. Owls have passed through past few nights and i have not crack time in the furnace to blog. It's downright carelessness that sometimes things sliped off my mind. So i am here blogging this instant. ranching heat beats kept going on as if it was on some drugs just know. the completion of the typing out of teaching for DMM and planning for meeting tomorrow took me a span of 3 days to complete it. due to the claustropobic (very limted time) experience i have to spilt my workload to 3 days to complete it. Phwe. God made a rainbow for me through the darkest period of my life recently. Speak of ministry, stuides on hand prpjects this week really exhuast me as if was running a increasing accleration race. phew. took a retreat yesterday night and God is ultra divine to me. hmm. it's a very long story. it drain a lot from me this few days but that meet up with him was so... DIVINE! pas116 cause time to stand still for few spilt seconds. Tears of joy flow out from my heart that did not transmit my eyes. thank You. He just is faithful. yeah. Like the tsunami, no one know when will it happens ans similary it goes for my unraving life as well. things will come when i least expected. but all i learn is just to TRUST. yes. it's a fallible world, isn't it? i am very blessed with few more things. haha.. share unleash it all out today. first and foremost, i love my buddies. thanks for being with me. Thanks Jarvin. for standing with me and suprring me on through the race. In my down times, God send you to challenge me and remind me. We will finish this rcae together! Thanks matthew! for being a listening ear! thank you all! i love both of you! God simply i feel like i just had anastaic when i look at them. it's like God.. thank you for placing them in my life. I love my buddies. to end this race well, we need good friends with us! like my shepherd. oh my dearest dearest shepherd. Both of you really care for me. When ya knew i has tons of workload today, you went to the mile to help me source out the notes for teaching even though i have done it. BUt i really appreciate you prisicilla! I love you both! i know you all care. through that question that you send. on how's my project. God my opened mouth happened when i gaze upon your faithfulness in my life. oh mine oh mine... seriously thank you for placing such wonderful classmates i haev in class. thank you for sending ben or benson? not sure which one who have helped me a lot in my portfoilo for pool thingy in my school. thank God fro them that he helped me do all the slides in powerpoint and all i do was to give him the infor. thank You... looking back at the track of my life many times the unthinkable happened. If i had not choose to live a life of obediece lats 2 yrs i don't think i will be here today. All these temporal fame i want to redirect it back to you. yeah. this life is just amazing. OHHH... thank you God! our confirmation is like 13 today! we hit goal! yeah! but not enoough! we want more! the final one is to hit 15! 2 more! kick the 6 adn bring the 7! for each Cg! yeah... i know that you will work! all we need is to push our selves and STRETCH OUR LIMIT!!!! yeah! yup yup. i really feel so blessed. Surrounded by a wonderful of sheep with me and my dmm. God just want to say 'Thank You'. You have been faithful to me! thanks! I love you! singing i love you!
i cannot imagine how many blotters have i made grubby. haha.. But then again i thank God for such a marvellous creation of his through mankind. Pretty amazing. the sun made the rainbow through the splashing of rain from the sky. it simply reminds me of God's covenant to us. He will never flood the whole world again. Then i have ever thought of this logic before. hmmm.. maybe in the past before Noah's time the earth was not filled up that much volume of water compared to now which comprises of 70% today. Maybe it was due to the flooding. It's some eccentric thinking of mine which i find it Logical. yeah. hmm.. so i had practically my chinese test today. haha.. i think i will ermm.. yeah i did not best. But it was to strainous that i felt off to wonder land during the last part. but social studies test was much of a better view to look at. haha.. wrote 2 pages long. i just know i did my best. only had 20 minutes. haha..hmm.. first day being a councillor today and it was ermm. ok. nothing that bad lah. seriously i find it just interesting. yeah. haha.. so look on the bright side. i would take this time to thank God for blessing CHS today! they hit 7 for CG! Marvellous! yeah. that's great! i know God will continue to pour as long as they people will keep having their fighting spirit. Meanwhile, please do not forget to renew your relationship with God. yeah. 23rd of april is coming. God's power will transcends human limitations. though it seems tramp but he will provide. yeah. running after you!
a cringed ran through my nerves when i saw the dance performed by the other students. what a day i had today! a mixture of feelings within self. ' i supposed that all of your responsibilites will increse to a greater height' empahsize by mr boo. 'What? you mean you expect me to increase my work load? what the.. Moreover, i am willing.' groans in my heart. basically the long awaited day came today. I became the whatever thing. haha.. it's such a blessing. hmm.. then had meeting with my team and i hope they do get what i told them. yeah. it's all about you i know. whao. okay. hmmm.. shall stop here. i love jesus!
prayer...
bump. here in blogging. Got home not long ago. had a rather fruitful day today. i can decipher some of my writings. haha..
Long long day with a big big God. What a nice statement! (".) kicked off my day with a heart that skipped for joy. The ait held a keeness that made me feel so embrace in God's lvoe during service! a heart that just simply believes in him and no doubt he proves himself faithful! He is a great God! =) He is my rock! We only missed one by service today but we have FAITH! WE BELIEVED!!! we serve a infallible God! That's what i'm certain of! God has changed my life in bits and pieces! Today i find it a blessing that i can share my story to the nation and i hope they won't censor the part on church as well. Yeah. Looking forward for tomorrow. Basically, i'm planning my week. YeAH. Ultra cool. hehe.. alright God's faithful. till then we meet again. I love my sheep! and buddies and good friends too. they are my encouragement!
like dogs that desire so much for water when they stick out their long red thing out of their mouth, i felt the same exhaustions today. woke up and met the dark sky and prepared for school. It was sports day today and i have no comments on it. brezee through it with some friends chatting. Maybe next year i shall participate in some track events. cut the story short. met up with my sheep today and also attended the seminar 'Seasons of life'. I learn few things clearly today.
every spilt second, it's burning up. a random motion and colliding with each other causing me to be exhuasted. the cells just can't seem to be at rest when it gets a little bit more tedious. being kept in the safe hands of his, peace is his hallmark thus i have recieved such abundant grace in doing the work. it's no diffrences like a man burning in hell when i try to understand mole concept. hmm.. put it this way then, understanding is never a issue but rather the application part. Burning my cells off. But i thank God that he created peers for me to ask. Thus i will not let it bypass me. Thank you jesus. it has been a relatively tiring for me over these few days. due to the load and thinking i have to deal with. But nevertheless, he has again proven himself faithful. =) hmmm.. would take this time to count some blessings of mine again. I am so blessed by having a great team serving the Lord with me. Also my sheep. They are just people who seek to love God. Yeah. i love all my sheep! galncing back these few years, i am dumbfounded about what the Lord has doen in many people's lives and i am one of his handywork. yeah. felt with much gratefullness to him. coming to know this realistic God at such a unbelievable age keeps me thinking of his love for me. Definitely it's unconditional. YUp. it's like what made him choose me? do i really deserve his love? i know i do because he died for me. thank you jesus. Keep me always thankful. One thing that i have always been thankful for are the buddies God placed in my life. People like matthew, jarvin and last but not least brandon has all kept me in the race as well. I am grateful to God for them being a listening ear at times for me. thank you jesus.
Like a little dirty and foul smell pig, i had part of it's genes today. Well, look at the mountain of food i ate today. It was a great chuck indeed. ermm.. in particular, i ate 3 finger food for lunch, a double cheese burger, 2 stick of chicken, OQ ice cream and a bowl of chicken again in different interval as my dinner. Just like green revolution, it has produce that much food for me. ultimately, all credits goes to God. i meant that it's a blessing. yeah. i sought of enjoyed today's rainy yet stormy feel in the noon. it's like the only forst or second time that a rain poured over a wide period of time. yeah. another blessing. so glad that my cls and me were able to wack out some new CG plans for our unit. Blessing again. ohh.. it was a pile of notes that i've written for my self study today. it's nice i think. blessing. oh. i understood electorlysis already. yeah. cool. did 1/2 of tys q. like round 40. finally understand a fair bit today after the explaination from my chem teacher. yeah. blessing again. yeah. so cool. hmmm.. God i pray that you enable ty in leading CG tomorrow. yup. thanks.
taking a little time out for what i have been doing for past 2 hours i supposed. well basically, manage to finish my geo notes which i seriously give praise to God. then went to msn chatted with some people on line. haha.. sometimes i really aprreciate who God has send into my life. haha.. speak of sherman. he is a joker. haha.. he chilled me out over msn just now. thank You God. then talked to two of my guys. hmm.. actually i am in no anxiety cause i know it's god working in them. Yeah. i know that God's faithful to them. so i believed in them and know they will grow out stronger of it and indeed it's true. yup. Thank you God. some more blessings. haha.. had a great time of fellowship with bruce practically almost the whole day. we even went to hemisphere cafe to plan and do some studying. then headed for dinner. yah. something like that lah. haha..
A great day with God indeed. I enjoyed every single moment of my day. Walking and doing life with God just brightens up my day. It's ultra cool to know that you are doing life with someone with you 24 hours non stop. Yup. Have you ever considered it a blessing? Yes i do. Sometimes we just take things for granted and we don't exactly count those so called minor blessings in our lives, do we? There are som many things to thank God for but it seems to me that many just only coun those dramatic happenings. That a great pardon. Being grateful to God. So let's count some of the blessings now, 1- Living in Singapore which is damn safe 2- Having a personal relationship with God 3- You don't have wars like sri lanka 4- Living under a roof which not many have 5- Having food 6- Proper education 7- If you have a complete family, it's a BLESSING!!! 8- Having a shpherd 9- You have a bed to sleep on 10- You can bath more than once daily 11- having friends come to think of it. i'm so super blessed. Blessed to be a blessing hmmm. had a great UDMM with my guys today. Ultra cool. hehe. i learn and they learn as well. Be great supporters of our leaders man. Then went to eat with northlites. hehe.. then headed down to somewhere with YK and bruce anticipating to meet my buddy. haha.. there goes the rest of the story. Apparently, i am at bruce hse. hehe.. it's like elo.. super early. 3 in the morning. haha.. but i did had a great time chating with c2 plpe. also with dan and eva. haha.. haha.. byes. David |
i stuumped as i gazed upon the pile of workload i have to complete in the noon today. The ever faithfulness of God rings in my life and i know that he will see me through. 'Oh no! what... it's never been like this before' i fumbled in my heart apparently hoping the load can disappear. This is the first time this year i studied on a friday night! 'How on earth can i ever even understand where does all the forces act on it? How should i even do it?' it kept running in my mind like a sprint race. The smell of his presence just gives me the peace which was all i needed. 'Huh? Did i? How could i have ever done it within a span of a hour for that 2 crappy subjects?' i was dumbfounded. I knew it was the faithfulness of God that help me to understand what i was trying to understand for this 2 days i supposed.