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Only till last incident have I realized that there's
an alternation of how I would respond and react
to situation. Normally I would give a "alright up
to you lor attitude and totally ignore the situation
by walking away" but guess working coming close
to three years and one year in my current team
lead position does changes how I would react or
respond to different situation. Some people called it
maturity but no, I would rather call it alteration.
Inwardly, I rejoices and welcome this alteration
and strive for more of such changes in my life;
making one a better person for Christ and as a truth
testimony showing people and yet remain real to
people around without having all the fluffs and huffs.

Secondly, GOODNEWSSINGAPORE update.
It's awesome to see things coming together and people
(christian or non-christians) react to the event.
Some welcome it with open arms and others just needs
people to pray for them not knowing what to do with the
situation in life and yet others who would submit
"hate mails". Underlying thing is that we achieved in getting
a response even from those and I'm pretty sure they would
had seen the first page delivered by the Web Team
and had read something; may that seed grow and sprout
into a tree.

Let's pray together and see this event coming into fulfillment
and people coming into a relationship with God and His people
and NOT to a church.

GoodNewsSingapore Website can be found at
http://www.goodnewssingapore.com

Caught another inspiring korean movie titles
"Our School E.T." (ET means English Teacher)
It talks about how one gym teacher changes
his career path and choose to teach English
and at the same time just like the Japanese
counterpart GTO he changes the lives of 5
young people and made an impact from the
way they live their lives to even their career
paths.

What blows me was the fact that he believes
in a system whereby school is a place for learning
and not just a prep college step board. It's
not about GPA, not about individual grades neither
is it about grades collectively for the school.

Looking back to the discussions I've been hearing
within our island, I notice the stark similarities
between what was portrayed by the students
(the mentality and mindset); What they had in the
movie was that school is just another resting place
and real learning comes from tutoring or private
lessons, and they are at school because it's a formality
and needed to go through the social rites of path to
attain the much sought after prestigious institution of
learning.
Teachers likewise strive to ensure the student study
and attain good grades without looking at developing
the inner man.

Though one may simply say that it's just another movie
and things normally are magnified to dramatize the
story but how far are we from this actually?
Are we studying for the sake of getting the GPA score
we want and then study in a better place so there's a
dream job waiting for you? If yes, then after that what?
Get a wife, have kids and die?
If so, then I would suggest we fast forward it without the
pain of raising children and the pain or sickness we have
to go through when we grow old.

Guess we do not live in this place for no reason.

Was watching this movie titled Statistics and though
it's pretty morbid (the subject matter of course) got
me looking into the subject and deduce my Singapore
version of Statistics. Let's just see what we have here
in Singapore first:

Life Expectancy (2007)
Male: 78.2
Female: 82.9

Death (2007): 17,140
Death Rate (per 1000 in 2007): 4.5

Number of Road Accident (2007)
Fatal Accident: 214
Serious Accident: 80
Slight Accident: 8,029

Number of persons killed and injured in accidents (2007)
Killed: 219
Seriously injured: 92
Slightly injured: 10,250

Suicides per 100,000 people 2006
Males: 12.9
Females: 7.7
Total pop: 10.3

And the list goes on.......

Everyday is the same and everyone
is just another statistics after something
happened.

The question would then lead to this,
which is not very different from what the movie
shows, what would you want to do since we
know not when we are going to die?
How would you live your life since we got a
veil over the clock that's counting down
constantly?
Would that change the way you treat people
or even even lend a helping hand?

Looking inwardly, what would I do?
Would I walk away and not care?

We should be careful to get out of an experience
only the wisdom that is in it -- and stop there -- lest
we be like the cat that sits down on a hot stove-lid.
She will never sit down on a hot stove-lid again, and
that is well; but also she will never sit down on a cold
one any more.

Mark Twain, author and humorist
(1835-1910)

Eyes are vocal, tears have tongues, And there are
words not made with lungs.


Richard Crashaw, poet (1613-1649)

Seeing a young chap grew up from Youth Ministry
in my church and then see him grad from secondary
school, to JC and then into army, and out, and now
he's just celebrated his 21st.

People around me says "man, I feel OLD" but honestly
I do not. Is that the reason why I can clique with them
and just bum around? Or could it be something else
deeper?

But looking forward, it's almost end of 2008 already.
Scary just looking back, I've already been at my
this current account for more than one year.
(Actually is One Year One Month exact) Thank God
I've managed to be productive and see through
many issues. No doubt there are still some bugs here
and there but the major ones are addressed and
settled and finally my team here can move forward
with me.

Being a Team Lead here at this account for a mere 6
months had taught me a lot. Especially on handling
"difficult" people and when to really "pick a fight" and
it had also made me understand how do I handle
situation when stressed. Something that I think I needed
to review it constantly and not settle for my habitual
method to resolve issue. But yet at the same time, I
do feel that everything is like a scale, a constant balancing
act. But yet, I still thank God for allowing me to forecast
all pitfalls and plan with my guys to deter from it.
Sometimes I do admit I "overthink" things and worried
too much; possible case of over-worriedness ha!

Can't say I enjoy 2008 much, but I did learn a lot which
I think working in my past position would not allow me to
be so "exposed". I'm looking forward to 2009 for something
new to learn and achieve.

Yet HEY, We are constantly learning anyway!

Alright everyone who still bothers to read this space
here can start giving the sound "WOOOOooooooooo"

Anyway, this is my short sharing to myself especially
and to whoever reading here.

For I know the plans I have for you," declares the LORD,
"plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give
you hope and a future.
The Bible, Jeremiah 29:11

Awesome ain't it? so far I've not hear from any supreme
beings that promises that. But let's examine more on the
word prosper then and see to what extend it goes to.
But in general and summarizing them we get the following:

Prosper - In wealth, In favor, To Gain, to become strong and
flourishing

So in short, we see that wealth is only one subset of that
prosperity. But the rest, wow, we get to to be strong in
our relationship with people and in favor of others etc etc
How about health? we prosper in that too!
Ever wonder why did God constantly tell us throughout the
Bible that "do not be afraid", "have no fear" and in this case
"not to harm you". I do believe that it's inside all of us to be
fearful once sin entered into our life thru adam. So it's like
a dad constantly telling the child, "scare what, I do you no
harm ma, see I love you wor"

So rest assure that God's plans are not to harm us but
to give us hope and A future. Note that He never promises
us that life is without suffering / trials.

hehe.

Conscience is a dog that does not stop us from passing
but that we cannot prevent from barking.

Nicolas de Chamfort, writer (1741-1794)



Conscience is a hypothesised ability or faculty that
distinguishes whether our actions are right or wrong.
It leads to feelings of remorse when we do things
that go against our moral values, and to feelings
of rectitude or integrity when our actions conform
to our moral values

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conscience



For when Gentiles, who do not have the law, by nature
do what the law requires, they are a law to themselves,
even though they do not have the law. They show that
the work of the law is written on their hearts, while their
conscience also bears witness, and their conflicting
thoughts accuse or even excuse them

The Bible, Roman 2:14-15

EPONINE
And now I'm all alone again,
No where to turn, no one to go to
Without a hope, without a friend,
Without a face to say hello to
but now the night is near,
and I can make believe he's here.

Sometimes I walk alone at night
When everybody else is sleeping
I think of him and then I'm happy
With the company I'm keeping
The city goes to bed
And I can live inside my head.

On my own
Pretending he's beside me
All alone, I walk with him till morning
Without him
I feel his arms around me
And when I lose my way I close my eyes
And he has found me

In the rain the pavement shines like silver
All the lights are misty in the river
In the darkness, the trees are full of starlight
And all I see is him and me for ever and forever

And I know it's only in my mind
That I'm talking to myself and not to him
And although I know that he is blind
Still I say, there's a way for us

I love him
But when the night is over
He is gone, the river's just a river
Without him the world around me changes
The trees are bare and everywhere
The streets are full of strangers

I love him
But every day I'm learning
All my life I've only been pretending
Without me his world will go on turning
A world that's full of happiness
That I have never known!

I love him
I love him
I love him
But only on my own.