funeral

Just attended a funeral today. Of my coursemate, 5th year Med student from Singapore. Very saddening, and worse since it was sudden and unexpected. 20s and peak of her life, the world was her oyster. But no longer.

Friends, we are not immortal. It ends. The world tells you to live like you are. I'm telling you, it is foolish to think that. Ignorant.

But that is not the point of this post. The point is that, in the chance that I go unexpectedly, please get someone to log into my blogspot using my laptop or some hacking skills and look for a post regarding death. Lets not waste what was written shall we :p haha.

peace out, A town.

my blog is lonely

i was just about to study, and then I thought to sift through my blog for a particular post, but i cant find it. It mustve been lost or deleted. I must say a lot of the things I wrote in the past is rather embarrassing. I thought I already talk a lot of nonsense nowadays, but boy was I crazy. haha! Must be all that Stephen Chow I watched since young. Just watched a couple on Youtube the other day. He's the best, seriously. King of slapstick, bar none.

Why am i blogging? because I included this (below) and blocked off my frequented procrastination sites. Now I have to do this. 

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/stayfocusd/laankejkbhbdhmipfmgcngdelahlfoji

Exams in 5 weeks. I am very unprepared. I am so calm. This is called denial. 

That aside, one of the free-er days, I went walking around the campus to tell someone about the Gospel ("good news") of Jesus. And I met a guy from China. And to my surprise he said he heard about Jesus before. But then as he continue to tell me what he had heard, it was a mixture of stories and pretty warped. The conversation didnt last long.  

I wonder if people nowadays even know that Jesus is actually a real person historically :\  But who am I to say. I never really knew until I was challenged in Uni.

If only I knew the existence of excerpt below. 

"An inordinate number of websites and blogs make the wholly unjustified claim that Jesus never existed. Biblical scholars and historians who have investigated this issue in detail are virtually unanimous today in rejecting this view, regardless of their theological or ideological perspectives. A dozen or more references to Jesus appear in non-Christian Jewish, Greek, and Roman sources in the earliest centuries of the Common Era (i.e., approximately from the birth of Jesus onward, as Christianity and Judaism began to overlap chronologically). These references appear in such diverse authors as Josephus (a first-century Jewish historian), several different portions of the Talmud (an encyclopedic collection of rabbinic traditions finally codified in the fourth through sixth centuries), the Greek writers Lucian of Samosata and Mara bar Serapion, and Roman historians Thallus, Tacitus, Pliny, and Suetonius. Tacitus, for example, in the early second century, writes in his Annals about Nero’s persecution of Christians and then explains, “The founder of this name, Christ, had been executed in the reign of Tiberius by the procurator Pontius Pilate" (44:3). The Talmud repeatedly acknowledges that Jesus worked miracles but refers to him as one who “practiced magic and led Israel astray" (b. Sanh. 43a; cf. t. Shab. 11.15, b. Shab. 104b). Josephus, in the late first century, calls Jesus “a wise man," “a worker of amazing deeds," “a teacher," and “one accused by the leading men among us [who] condemned him to the cross" (Ant. 18.3.3).

It is, of course, historically prejudicial to exclude automatically all Christian evidence, as if no one who became a follower of Jesus could ever report accurately about his life and teachings, or to assume that all non-Christian evidence was necessarily more “objective." But even using only such non-Christian sources, there is ample evidence to confirm the main contours of the early Christian claims: Jesus was a Jew who lived in Israel during the first third of the first century, was born out of wedlock, intersected with the life and ministry of John the Baptist, attracted great crowds especially because of his wondrous deeds, had a group of particularly close followers called disciples (five of whom are named), ran afoul of the Jewish religious authorities because of his controversial teachings sometimes deemed heretical or blasphemous, was crucified during the time of Pontius Pilate’s governorship in Judea (26–36 C.E.), and yet was believed by many of his followers to have been the Messiah, the anticipated liberator of Israel. This belief did not disappear despite Jesus’ death because a number of his supporters claimed to have seen him resurrected from the dead. His followers, therefore, continued consistently to grow in numbers, gathering together regularly for worship and instruction and even singing hymns to him as if he were a god (or God).4

Contemporary reactions to this composite picture sometimes complain that this seems like a rather sparse amount of information. On the other hand, until the last few centuries, history and biography in general almost exclusively focused on the exploits of kings and queens (or their cultural equivalents), military conquests and defeats, people in official institutional positions of power in a given society, and the wealthy more generally, not least because it was primarily these people who could read and/or afford to own written documents. Jesus qualified for attention under none of these headings. Moreover, no non-Christians in the first several centuries of the Common Era had any reason to imagine that his influence would grow and spread the way it did in the millennium and half ahead. So it is arguable that it is actually rather impressive that as much has been preserved outside of Christian circles as has been. And of course, most ancient testimony to any person or event has been lost over tplhe centuries, so many other references to Jesus might have existed that we simply no longer know about.

By far the most important historical information about Jesus of Nazareth appears in the four Gospels of the New Testament. "

Oh oh better get back to studying. Chronic renal failure. 

Also, why are there so many people getting married or engaged recently? Is it a chain reaction? Did 1 person get engaged and pressured the rest to act? I just got another invite to a wedding (but i cant make it, since its in AUstralia and ill be in Msia doing my electives). This guy is prob one of the coolest guys I know (well, "knew".. havent really talked to him much. I wish we kept in touch more, but I didnt really try..) Just talking to my room mate about this.. I was joking about going out with the girl, but telling her that our relationship will depend on my internship allocation, and how I have till May to find one, and then a few months to "make it solid".. was LMAO about how ridiculous that sounds, yet almost having some bits of truth in it. This be crazy. haha