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| A new year and a new start!
I am moving back to blogspot at this address.
=D
See you there!
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| I was in the process of privatising all my entries, but I decided to
save them on to my hard disk instead, preparing to delete them off this
xanga site.
Why, you ask? For the past few days I've been finding this whole
process extremely unrewarding at times: I live through my day, I write
about it online and post it up for any and all to see, you read it, you
have nothing to say to me most of the time, you close the window, and
go on with your life. A highly one-way communication process, I find.
And a little disturbing. I don't know exactly who's reading this, and I
find out only if in person you suddenly decide to tell me "oh I read
your
blog...". It's as if I'm prostituting my emotions, thoughts, and
privacy, reducing myself as a person, a friend. If I was really of
value to you as a friend, I'd hope you would personally contact me (I
love e-mails, phone calls are even better!) to find out how I'm doing
so that we could actually form a proper communication channel (read:
two-way relationship)!
Not only is it pretty much one-sided, it's also a rather impersonal way
of keeping friends updated on my life. I really should get into a
routine with regular e-mail updates to closer friends. I know I haven't
been working very hard at some of my friendships recently, but I want
to take steps to solving that. And if I do
remove my blog, I'm hoping that people might take the initiative to
contact me as well... So if I call you up to chat, choosing the *gasp*
telephone over SMS or MSN, it means I don't want you to be on my 'bulk
list'... It means I want our relationship to remain personal.
Which seems to be increasingly difficult in present times. =/
I'm dismayed by the fact that our generation now chooses the impersonal
over the personal, weighing convenience a more important factor than
quality of the communication. I've expressed to friends how
disappointing it is that almost nobody calls each other up for a chat
anymore (apart from the 10-sec phone call before you're about to meet
in person that goes like this: "I'm here. When are you arriving?"). All
I got was a unanimous "cos MSN so convenient what, can talk to so many
people at once, also can do other stuff at the same time". Great! It's
all in line with what this commercial and capitalist society has been
trying to inculcate in us. Maximum output from minimum input! Talk to
as many people as you can while putting in the least effort, so easy
lor... Also save so much time, can do all your other important stuff
like surfing, emailing, eBaying.. after all friends are always there
what, always online, anytime also can talk. -_-
I'm not saying that I absolutely do not condone instant online
messaging. It's a great way to keep in contact with friends across the
globe (cheaper/free, and if they're online it means you're probably not
disturbing their sleep, a potential problem if you call them up unaware
of differences in timezones) and friends who aren't your closest
buddies and with whom you just want a superficial chat, but in my
humble opinion, there are much better ways of communicating than IM. As
mentioned above, an e-mail, a telephone call, or to guarantee the
highest satisfaction rate: a letter in the post! is so much more
welcome, and so much more effective at maintaining good
friendships I think.
So back to the blog issue... perhaps by maintaining this blog I've
allowed others such as my unknown readers to get to know me better. If
you aren't one of my closest friends and you've somehow stumbled across
this blog, you'd probably understand my character and life better after
reading through my entries. Which can be a great thing! Unfortunately
in most cases it ends at that, with most people failing to
inform/approach the author of the blogs they stumble across, so it's
more often an invasion of privacy than the growth of a relationship. If
you do want to contact me, most of you would probably know my email
already, if not, click here.
Hmm.. as for the rest of you whom I know, if you feel that this blog
has really helped you to get to know me better and kept you updated,
and that it would be a waste to delete this space, please let me
know... If not, this space goes soon. It was good while it lasted. :)
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| Today (Tuesday, 27th) I woke up late :( so brunch with Kenny had to be shifted to tomorrow.
I got out of bed at 11.20 and I had to be in town at 1 so I quickly got up and
washed up. Then CRAZY KENNETH CHIN called me saying he cycled all the
way from west coast to serene centre so he said he'd come find where my
elusive house is:
Seriously some crazy shit. Compared to me, I haven't exercised in like three weeks. -_-
On my way out from home I saw this:
Snake crushed with a rock.
Wow.
Had steamboat lunch with G4 at Coca! For $17.30, not bad eh. We ordered
like 4 plates of dumplings, 3 plates of prawns, 2 plates of tofu,
countless plates of meatballs. Haha.
(Sorry roo not here! Will take a nice nice one with u soon)
Then we were like half an hour late for Narnia hahahaha cos we decided
to cab down (left Taka at the time the show started) and there was a
jam so. Haha. Ah well. We made it in time actually, the show pretty
much just started when we entered the cinema. =D
I think the movie's pretty good actually! =D Does justice to the book.
Now everyone's in a Narnia reading frenzy, including myself.. =P
Shopped around and headed home. I'm in a very lala mood now, think I'll
sleep soon, after my disastrous 5am escapade this morning..
Some pictures from Christmas Day:
Lunch - spaghetti, turkey, crouchen riesling (my new favourite white!),
old harrod's port, and GORGEOUSYUMMILISCRUMPTIOUS Bakerzin logcake! I'm
currently eating a piece! In front of my lappietop =D =D
Outreach service: the heartwarming skit, nativity scene, and various
choir members singing.. It was such a fantastic night, I really hope
hearts were touched by the message of Christ.
Don't feel like many words today, so I'll end here. I think I'll spend
the next (and last) four days of 2005 reflecting, and trying to sieve
out a resolution. I want to make just one that is achievable by the end
of 2006, with God's help.
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| I am sick of the sex that permeates the pores of this world, this
depraved world in which we live. Disgusted by the way it has been woven
into the fabric of modern-day living. Driving design - clothing, cars,
you name it - selling novels, embedded in marketing, disturbing our
faces every day with internet pop-ups, appearing in every other
advertisement, subtly or otherwise. Sex sells, and the whole world
seems to be harping on that fact. I was appalled when we went to Long
Beach (famous seafood restaurant) and discovered that printed on the
towellette wrappers was a picture of a woman dressed slinkily, to what?
Advertise? Lure customers back a second time to drool at "Miss glamour pageant title here"?
For heaven's sake, it's a damned towellette, an innocent item for the
purpose of cleansing, and they had to market sex into that as well.
You're a restaurant, bloody well SELL YOUR FOOD, not SEX. That's just
the wrong thing in the wrong place at the wrong time. I'm also highly
annoyed at the way sex drives 'humour' now, how almost every joke has a
hint of sexual innuendo in it these days (if not racist tones).
Everything is just sexsexsexsexsexsex; everyday the [commercial] world
is just stagnating itself with more and more of the same thing - s e x.
I guess what disappoints me most is the way it's been abused. Sex was
intended to be a wonderful thing - the union of man and woman, two
beings of God's good creation. An action with the purpose of something
equally stunning: the purpose of procreation, to extend the kingdom of
mankind, to populate and appreciate Earth and all that is in it. To
where has the magic of this gone? Pray, bring it back... To abuse
something so basic and so beautiful must indeed be blasphemy, a sin
against God.
:(
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| O holy night! The stars are brightly shining,
It is the night of the dear Saviour's birth;
Long lay the world in sin and error pining,
Till He appeared and the soul felt its worth.
A thrill of hope, the weary world rejoices,
For yonder breaks a new and glorious morn;
Fall on your knees, Oh, hear the angel voices!
O night divine, O night when Christ was born!
O night, O holy night, O night divine!
Truly He taught us to love one another;
His law is love and His gospel is peace;
Chains shall He break, for the slave is our brother,
And in His name all oppression shall cease.
Sweet hymns of joy in grateful chorus raise we,
Let all within us praise His holy name;
Christ is the Lord, Oh, praise His name forever!
His pow'r and glory evermore proclaim!
His pow'r and glory ever more proclaim.
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"Glory to God in the highest,
and on earth peace to men on whom his favor rests."
-- Luke 2:14
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