So... 2008 draws to a close and I will share the main points of a sermon that I heard, when I unashamedly attended City Harvest Church's sunday Expo service yesterday.
Here are the main points.
1) Don't look back at old sins that were already forgiven
2) Don't look back at old defeats that get you down
3) Don't look back at old conflicts that make you bitter
4) Don't look back at old victories thinking you have arrived
That actually sums up quite a lot of problems in our lives. As the year draws to an end, we usually look back. But why do we look back? What are we looking for?
I found myself reflecting quite a bit as the sermon progressed.
With regards to point 3, he mentioned that someone he heard once put it quite simply.
'Don't nurse, curse or rehearse. Release it to to God, and He will disperse'
which we kinda all know but find hard to do. It is quite a nice way to phrase it though.
LAB REPORT
Sermon took no longer than half an hour? At least it felt that way.
Takes me longer to get to Expo but its a shorter service.
Food choices really suck but I guess sermon trumps food anytime.
Lights were turned way down in the Expo hall so it felt like nighttime.. Kinda messed up my internal clock for a while. Good lights and effects though. Singers had awesome voices. Songs had extremely meaningful lyrics.
Pastor Kong actually dressed up like a teenager for the sermon. Which is a bit of a finishing touch, but it hints at the amount of thought poured into the thing.
No crazy words / abstract themes. Biblical truth blasted straight into life's problems. Again and again. Fast and furious. Didn't feel like my time was wasted.
SUMMARY
Good experience, will definitely visit often.
Monday 29 December 2008
Monday 22 December 2008
Sunday 21 December 2008
Updates
Coffee fast has been very good so far, which means a 100% total abstinence.. but i sense very little brain difference.. maybe thats not much of a dependence.
Time to up the experiment.
sigh.
i hate myself.
NO ALCOHOL UNLESS I'M WITH FRIENDS. which means. no alcohol alone in my room.
I'll probably regret this. but. ARGH.
Okay. so the beer and the vodka will go into my sisters' room for storage.
And I hope to report good news soon.
I've been too lazy to start the fitness thing. Sigh. I shall do the situps now, and make myself run tmr.
Onward.
Time to up the experiment.
sigh.
i hate myself.
NO ALCOHOL UNLESS I'M WITH FRIENDS. which means. no alcohol alone in my room.
I'll probably regret this. but. ARGH.
Okay. so the beer and the vodka will go into my sisters' room for storage.
And I hope to report good news soon.
I've been too lazy to start the fitness thing. Sigh. I shall do the situps now, and make myself run tmr.
Onward.
Thursday 18 December 2008
Birthday presents
Some of my church friends pooled their money together and bought me a gaming keyboard!
To be quite honest I feel quite poser using such high end gaming equipment and still being extremely lousy at DoTA. But it does feel quite comfortable and it has a really nice feel about it.
So I guess I'm really a Razer fan right now. They make good equipment, and I hear the Singapore distributor (Ban Leong Enterprises) is quite nice about changing your gear if it happens to be a manufacturing defect.
So far my Razer gear consists of a Razer Krait mouse,
a Razer Exactmat mousepad,
and a Razer Lycosa. (in full glow mode)
A pity one is orange and the other is blue. But I like the Krait. Its cheap haha. I even have a spare one in a cupboard in case the one i'm using dies. But that shouldn't happen anytime soon. They even sell replacement teflon feet for the mouse so you can just replace the teflon when it wears out.
Oh wait i'm supposed to talk more about the keyboard. Well theres a touchpanel on the side for your music program. You can set the buttons to work with iTunes, WMP, Winamp, or a few other programs.. When that's done, you just touch the 'Play' symbol to run your program. There are also volume touch buttons and the 'next track' 'previous track' touch buttons.
The touchpanel.
The light button bears some mention. The keys are darkened at first, so when you touch the lightbulb logo, the WASD keys glow. This is for games like counterstrike and other FPS games.
WASD mode.
Touching the logo again causes ALL the keys to glow blue, which is what you see in the first keyboard picture above. Touching it a 3rd time causes the lights to go off, leaving only the usual CapsLock, NumLock and ScrollLock lights.
Its quite pretty in the dark, but i don't usually do any computing in the dark.. My eyes are messed up enough haha..
All in all, a GREAT product. Something I wouldn't buy for myself cause I absolutely need to be convinced of its functionality before i slap down that kind of money. And I havent seen any display pieces for me to fiddle with. But it works great, its comfortable, and its kickass cool.
What more could a techie want?
:)
To be quite honest I feel quite poser using such high end gaming equipment and still being extremely lousy at DoTA. But it does feel quite comfortable and it has a really nice feel about it.
So I guess I'm really a Razer fan right now. They make good equipment, and I hear the Singapore distributor (Ban Leong Enterprises) is quite nice about changing your gear if it happens to be a manufacturing defect.
So far my Razer gear consists of a Razer Krait mouse,
a Razer Exactmat mousepad,
and a Razer Lycosa. (in full glow mode)
A pity one is orange and the other is blue. But I like the Krait. Its cheap haha. I even have a spare one in a cupboard in case the one i'm using dies. But that shouldn't happen anytime soon. They even sell replacement teflon feet for the mouse so you can just replace the teflon when it wears out.
Oh wait i'm supposed to talk more about the keyboard. Well theres a touchpanel on the side for your music program. You can set the buttons to work with iTunes, WMP, Winamp, or a few other programs.. When that's done, you just touch the 'Play' symbol to run your program. There are also volume touch buttons and the 'next track' 'previous track' touch buttons.
The touchpanel.
The light button bears some mention. The keys are darkened at first, so when you touch the lightbulb logo, the WASD keys glow. This is for games like counterstrike and other FPS games.
WASD mode.
Touching the logo again causes ALL the keys to glow blue, which is what you see in the first keyboard picture above. Touching it a 3rd time causes the lights to go off, leaving only the usual CapsLock, NumLock and ScrollLock lights.
Its quite pretty in the dark, but i don't usually do any computing in the dark.. My eyes are messed up enough haha..
All in all, a GREAT product. Something I wouldn't buy for myself cause I absolutely need to be convinced of its functionality before i slap down that kind of money. And I havent seen any display pieces for me to fiddle with. But it works great, its comfortable, and its kickass cool.
What more could a techie want?
:)
Holidays
Now that my exams + IPPT + wisdom tooth extraction phase I + YPM camp is all over, I finally taste the holidays.
I have since
1) Rearranged my room
2) Gone for a buffet
3) Bought a second hand electric guitar for 100 bucks (it doesn't sound too bad actually)
4) Bought clothes (including a pair of Levi's. They have a promo going on . Do check it out)
5) Cleared some junk from my room
6) Went for Karaoke
I need to
1) Think about Christmas. (not the philosophy of Christmas. I need to think of what i'm going to do for Christmas.)
2) Settle my internship nonsense.
3) Plan my next few weeks
4) Find out about paintball :)
So far so good...
Oh yes.
I am declaring my fast from
1) coffee
2) needless internet
3) too much sugar
for this holiday period
I will also resolve to
1) run 3 times a week
2) do 30 situps a day
so as to get 400 bucks from the gahmen. I got 200 bucks for my silver.. But as the song goes.. THERE MUST BE MORE THAN THIS. So i want my money. :D
By the way today is day 4 of my coffee abstinence. You guys can note my behaviour and tell me if it helps.
If you guys haven't noted, yes i'm back to fixing things in my life. Hmn. Optimisation problem..
Euler-Lagrange equation anyone?
Onward.
I have since
1) Rearranged my room
2) Gone for a buffet
3) Bought a second hand electric guitar for 100 bucks (it doesn't sound too bad actually)
4) Bought clothes (including a pair of Levi's. They have a promo going on . Do check it out)
5) Cleared some junk from my room
6) Went for Karaoke
I need to
1) Think about Christmas. (not the philosophy of Christmas. I need to think of what i'm going to do for Christmas.)
2) Settle my internship nonsense.
3) Plan my next few weeks
4) Find out about paintball :)
So far so good...
Oh yes.
I am declaring my fast from
1) coffee
2) needless internet
3) too much sugar
for this holiday period
I will also resolve to
1) run 3 times a week
2) do 30 situps a day
so as to get 400 bucks from the gahmen. I got 200 bucks for my silver.. But as the song goes.. THERE MUST BE MORE THAN THIS. So i want my money. :D
By the way today is day 4 of my coffee abstinence. You guys can note my behaviour and tell me if it helps.
If you guys haven't noted, yes i'm back to fixing things in my life. Hmn. Optimisation problem..
Euler-Lagrange equation anyone?
Onward.
Wednesday 3 December 2008
Its over.
I got a million and one things to do la...
I don't feel exactly very free...
And crap my room is still a mess...
I don't feel exactly very free...
And crap my room is still a mess...
Monday 1 December 2008
LAST PAPER
By right i should be excited and give it a last burst of fire.
But my mind has already started dumping the other modules' information already...
STOP DUMPING MM2 STUFF YOU DISOBEDIENT HEAD.
There.
Much better.
I really have to stop talking to myself. I might start replying someday. (!)
On the bright side there is a serious stack of notes in a pile on the floor to symbolise the modules that are done with...
ok. work work.
Onward.
But my mind has already started dumping the other modules' information already...
STOP DUMPING MM2 STUFF YOU DISOBEDIENT HEAD.
There.
Much better.
I really have to stop talking to myself. I might start replying someday. (!)
On the bright side there is a serious stack of notes in a pile on the floor to symbolise the modules that are done with...
ok. work work.
Onward.
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