If u were to watch a person closely enough, you would be able to observe his/her pattern. In other words, his lifestyle, the way he talks, the way he handle a situation, the way he treat friends, the way he select who to be friend with and lastly, who he choose to be his real friends.
Eventually everything becomes crystal clear to you. Even how much he/she can lie to you, you still be able to see through those lies. I suppose this is one of the greatest gift of God.
This is one of the ways in which I am able to relate to the bible verse which states that we men were made in the image of God. God sees the character of a man in one glance, we however would take more time but it is still possible to see the character of that man eventually. Thus, the verse said 'in the image of God' and not 'like God'.
Okay so u may be wondering..why this topic in the middle of the day? What's with observations that I even talk about it here?
I, like all other human beings, tend to choose who to be closer friends with. We make those choices on a variety of reason, among which some might involve identical pasts, religion and stuff. But alot of times its because he/she is like a role model to you, that in turn, causes you to want he/she to be your close friends. Well, needless to say, if u want to be your role model, you got to get really close to the person till you know how or why he/she make those decisions in those situations. So when u really get so close and you start to see all the flaws of the person, and you wonder..is that who i want to get influenced by? Is that person good enough to be a role model?
At the end of the day, you start to realise that no human being is good enough to be a role model. Because we are human. We make mistakes. And we have flaws. We always will have flaws.
That was my flawless observation that we are all flawed in some way or another. Come to think of it, it seemed so very obvious but in our hurries in our life, we tend to miss out the simple pieces of life. :D
Friday, July 29, 2011
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Monday, July 18, 2011
My Life
I used to be very sure of precisely what i want to do after army but im not too sure now. Sometimes i wake up n think to myself maybe i shld work immediately after army then maybe study part time ltr on, and then some other times i think i shld study first then get a better job. And then yet some other times i just dont give a damn abt my life, like i give up trying to think of the best path for my life.
I think of almost every possible outcome n scenario of my life be it good or bad n then i still haven got a clue of which path is the best. No doubt i have been accepted into ntu but then it is just an acceptance. I did not enrol n pay for the first year yet n therefore my options in life are still variable.
So then maybe u wld start to wonder..why i cant make up my mind? Or why im so fickle-minded? The answer is i dont know.
I look at the people around me. Friends from camp. Friends from my poly. Friends from my sec sch.
Some are studying.
Some are working.
Some are happy, some are unhappy while yet others just survive each day at a time n wait for the light to come out at the end of the tunnel.
Back to my decisions. We dont have many lifes, only one life, one chance, one opportunity and therefore if we make a mistake, the next u-turn in life might come only some time ltr. Yes God is there to guide me through my life but then i hv to be careful in the decisions i make too.
N yes the pastor last week said to seek and save the lost. Im no angel. I want to seek n save the lost but alot times im afraid. I want to show God in my camp, in my life but i make mistakes. N i still represent God everywhere i go. I admit im not a good representation of God. Looking around me, i dont even see a perfect representation of God, not even in church. We are born sinners so thats why we hv an inclination to sin n thats why only through the power of God are we able to become holy n righteous, in the image of God. But the problem that i always face is how to project God in a cool manner. How do i make God the next IN thing? Yayaa..u can tell me follow God n pray to God n walk with God n all will come naturally. Im sorry to say that it is entirely bullshit. Yes i have to walk with God to project God in my life but it does not necessarily enable me to project God n christianity in a cool manner. I must become a sheep in wolf skin. N that is the hardest thing to do. Even my pastor has a hard time doing it. Not everybody might notice but he is trying to be a sheep in wolf skin. He is a pastor n a celebrity at the same time. He has the power n is in the position to influence the masses in a Godly way because people know him. N he represents God in all that he does which in my opinion is rather cool. So the question for me is how or what is my calling? Because once i know my calling, i can then know my future n what it wld hold. My entire life is revolved n is supposed to be revolved ard my calling. Until i know my calling, my life wld be in a mess, an unfinished jigsaw puzzle that the Creator has not started to work on.
Just a few months or weeks ago, if a person were to talk bad abt me, i wld instantly turn ard n say so many bad things abt him till he turns red with embarassment n regret that he ever tried to talk bad abt me. But now, when ppl talk bad abt me, i just shrug n not reply. I dont want to say anything to hurt the person but then i wld look stupid in the eyes of others. Is it worth it? Maybe. But everyone has got their limits. I start to try to look at the person perspective of thing n try to decipher why he does it in that manner. N then afterawhile, u realise that it is because God made us differently, we cant live up to the expectations of everyone so we live our lifes in the manner that is most pleasing to God, or to themselves (for the non-christians).
Sometimes i can surprise myself with the things that i can type out. It is like all in me but i got no one to just give me a listening ear to. Well definitely i can talk to God. I always pray to God to give a woman who i wld marry n she wldnt mind me sharing this kind of stuff. She wld just sit there n listen to me as i try my best to phrase my thoughts into sentence slowly so that i can make sense of everything as i go along n talk. Ya..i know that im not matured enough to hv a wife, let alone a gf. Because i cant even take care of myself. I cant do so many things in life by myself. Im just incapable. Hokkien call it chui. Or lousy in singlish.
Alot of times i want to talk freely but i keep thinking, if i say this n that, what wld they reply me? What wld they think abt me? Wld it reflect me as a wordly person or a Godly person? So most times i just shut up. Isnt that the safest bet? When in doubt, either u pray or u shut up. In this blog, i dont have to care what i write here cos not many ppl read it and i have made the address so difficult to rmb that very few or none can rmb it off-hand. So when in doubt, i can type it out here.
Well mr bloggie, if u haven been taking note of the world lately. U might be interested to know that almost everything that we do today is being observed by the ppl ard us. They observe us n they talk to other ppl abt us either behind us or sometimes in ur face. Its called gossip. But it is like the next generation of gossip. In the past gossip was like everyone except that guy, of which the gossip pertains to, wld know abt the gossip. In other words, if that guy has got smelly foot, everyone wld know abt it but the guy doesnt know that everyone knows. This generation of gossip wld be everyone including the guy of which the gossip pertains to wld know that the gossip is passing ard. So this generation of gossip is much more effective in doing damage then the previous generation. Dont u agree? It is the same in the army, in the workplace, in the church, in the neighbourhood. This 6 letter word does so much damage to a person's credibility and image in a short few minutes, be it true or false. Now the question of the day is that..if u are a christian n u suddenly become the gossip of the day (be it true or false) n u become aware of it, what wld u do and how shld u respond that wld reflect that u walk closely to God n u represent God?
U see..these are the things that comes to my mind every now and then. And i spend time pondering over how i shld respond. A neutral approach wld be best but it wldnt reflect too well on how they wld view a christian who represents God.
I suppose thats y ppl say that there is no such thing as a simple life, a simple decision, a simple conversation, a simple relationship, a simple religion n so on n so forth.
I hv to go for ro in abt 10mins, so i probably shld start on writing my conclusions. Oh wait..ro was just given. So sweet.
I have absolutely no idea how i could possible conclude n close such a diversified topic that i have started. But i hv got to try. In life it is all abt trying. It is all abt putting ur first step forward n praying that u didnt just step on a landmine.
So this is my life, more or less. Messy in almost every way i can possibly think of. But i have got to make sense of the mess and try to straighten it up before God n pray that on the day I die and i stand before Him n He wld say, no doubt you hv done many things in ur life, some good, some bad but well done my faithful servant, u have done Me proud. Welcome to My Kingdom.
Regards,
M.
I think of almost every possible outcome n scenario of my life be it good or bad n then i still haven got a clue of which path is the best. No doubt i have been accepted into ntu but then it is just an acceptance. I did not enrol n pay for the first year yet n therefore my options in life are still variable.
So then maybe u wld start to wonder..why i cant make up my mind? Or why im so fickle-minded? The answer is i dont know.
I look at the people around me. Friends from camp. Friends from my poly. Friends from my sec sch.
Some are studying.
Some are working.
Some are happy, some are unhappy while yet others just survive each day at a time n wait for the light to come out at the end of the tunnel.
Back to my decisions. We dont have many lifes, only one life, one chance, one opportunity and therefore if we make a mistake, the next u-turn in life might come only some time ltr. Yes God is there to guide me through my life but then i hv to be careful in the decisions i make too.
N yes the pastor last week said to seek and save the lost. Im no angel. I want to seek n save the lost but alot times im afraid. I want to show God in my camp, in my life but i make mistakes. N i still represent God everywhere i go. I admit im not a good representation of God. Looking around me, i dont even see a perfect representation of God, not even in church. We are born sinners so thats why we hv an inclination to sin n thats why only through the power of God are we able to become holy n righteous, in the image of God. But the problem that i always face is how to project God in a cool manner. How do i make God the next IN thing? Yayaa..u can tell me follow God n pray to God n walk with God n all will come naturally. Im sorry to say that it is entirely bullshit. Yes i have to walk with God to project God in my life but it does not necessarily enable me to project God n christianity in a cool manner. I must become a sheep in wolf skin. N that is the hardest thing to do. Even my pastor has a hard time doing it. Not everybody might notice but he is trying to be a sheep in wolf skin. He is a pastor n a celebrity at the same time. He has the power n is in the position to influence the masses in a Godly way because people know him. N he represents God in all that he does which in my opinion is rather cool. So the question for me is how or what is my calling? Because once i know my calling, i can then know my future n what it wld hold. My entire life is revolved n is supposed to be revolved ard my calling. Until i know my calling, my life wld be in a mess, an unfinished jigsaw puzzle that the Creator has not started to work on.
Just a few months or weeks ago, if a person were to talk bad abt me, i wld instantly turn ard n say so many bad things abt him till he turns red with embarassment n regret that he ever tried to talk bad abt me. But now, when ppl talk bad abt me, i just shrug n not reply. I dont want to say anything to hurt the person but then i wld look stupid in the eyes of others. Is it worth it? Maybe. But everyone has got their limits. I start to try to look at the person perspective of thing n try to decipher why he does it in that manner. N then afterawhile, u realise that it is because God made us differently, we cant live up to the expectations of everyone so we live our lifes in the manner that is most pleasing to God, or to themselves (for the non-christians).
Sometimes i can surprise myself with the things that i can type out. It is like all in me but i got no one to just give me a listening ear to. Well definitely i can talk to God. I always pray to God to give a woman who i wld marry n she wldnt mind me sharing this kind of stuff. She wld just sit there n listen to me as i try my best to phrase my thoughts into sentence slowly so that i can make sense of everything as i go along n talk. Ya..i know that im not matured enough to hv a wife, let alone a gf. Because i cant even take care of myself. I cant do so many things in life by myself. Im just incapable. Hokkien call it chui. Or lousy in singlish.
Alot of times i want to talk freely but i keep thinking, if i say this n that, what wld they reply me? What wld they think abt me? Wld it reflect me as a wordly person or a Godly person? So most times i just shut up. Isnt that the safest bet? When in doubt, either u pray or u shut up. In this blog, i dont have to care what i write here cos not many ppl read it and i have made the address so difficult to rmb that very few or none can rmb it off-hand. So when in doubt, i can type it out here.
Well mr bloggie, if u haven been taking note of the world lately. U might be interested to know that almost everything that we do today is being observed by the ppl ard us. They observe us n they talk to other ppl abt us either behind us or sometimes in ur face. Its called gossip. But it is like the next generation of gossip. In the past gossip was like everyone except that guy, of which the gossip pertains to, wld know abt the gossip. In other words, if that guy has got smelly foot, everyone wld know abt it but the guy doesnt know that everyone knows. This generation of gossip wld be everyone including the guy of which the gossip pertains to wld know that the gossip is passing ard. So this generation of gossip is much more effective in doing damage then the previous generation. Dont u agree? It is the same in the army, in the workplace, in the church, in the neighbourhood. This 6 letter word does so much damage to a person's credibility and image in a short few minutes, be it true or false. Now the question of the day is that..if u are a christian n u suddenly become the gossip of the day (be it true or false) n u become aware of it, what wld u do and how shld u respond that wld reflect that u walk closely to God n u represent God?
U see..these are the things that comes to my mind every now and then. And i spend time pondering over how i shld respond. A neutral approach wld be best but it wldnt reflect too well on how they wld view a christian who represents God.
I suppose thats y ppl say that there is no such thing as a simple life, a simple decision, a simple conversation, a simple relationship, a simple religion n so on n so forth.
I hv to go for ro in abt 10mins, so i probably shld start on writing my conclusions. Oh wait..ro was just given. So sweet.
I have absolutely no idea how i could possible conclude n close such a diversified topic that i have started. But i hv got to try. In life it is all abt trying. It is all abt putting ur first step forward n praying that u didnt just step on a landmine.
So this is my life, more or less. Messy in almost every way i can possibly think of. But i have got to make sense of the mess and try to straighten it up before God n pray that on the day I die and i stand before Him n He wld say, no doubt you hv done many things in ur life, some good, some bad but well done my faithful servant, u have done Me proud. Welcome to My Kingdom.
Regards,
M.
Sunday, July 17, 2011
The definition of Happiness
Different people express or get happiness in different means. Well for some is their first pay check, some is receiving God as their Saviour, while for some others, it is shopping.
I love shopping..maybe a little too much that i tend to overspend till it get a little ridiculars by my means. It is hard to explain the feeling. It feels kind of humbling but yet on the surface im bubbling with happiness. It is like magic, like heypresto or something like that. I feel as though i see light at the end of a dark creepy tunnel. It is like salvation, it is like reading a bible passage a few times n then suddenly u get the revelation from God.
But then again, maybe i hv lost my mind..maybe im just crazy. Yea..my character sucks. Never was proud of myself. But at least i felt happy when i do shopping. It is like as though everything falls into place nicely. Like as though the world feels like a better place to live in, not that i dont want to go heaven. Its like a sanctuary..a home away from home.
God, am i going crazy? I hope not but i want to thank you for this last friday night. It was the best night i have ever had in quite awhile. So magical n beautiful.
Regards,
M.
I love shopping..maybe a little too much that i tend to overspend till it get a little ridiculars by my means. It is hard to explain the feeling. It feels kind of humbling but yet on the surface im bubbling with happiness. It is like magic, like heypresto or something like that. I feel as though i see light at the end of a dark creepy tunnel. It is like salvation, it is like reading a bible passage a few times n then suddenly u get the revelation from God.
But then again, maybe i hv lost my mind..maybe im just crazy. Yea..my character sucks. Never was proud of myself. But at least i felt happy when i do shopping. It is like as though everything falls into place nicely. Like as though the world feels like a better place to live in, not that i dont want to go heaven. Its like a sanctuary..a home away from home.
God, am i going crazy? I hope not but i want to thank you for this last friday night. It was the best night i have ever had in quite awhile. So magical n beautiful.
Regards,
M.
Sunday, July 3, 2011
True Love
This is what true love should be. Not some 'oh I love u because you are kinda cute n funny' n stuff like that. :D
A girl asked a boy if she was pretty.
He said no.
She asked him if he wanted to be with her forever.
He said no.
She then asked him if he would cry if she walked away.
He again said no.
She had heard too much.
She needed to leave.
As she walked away, he grabbed her arm and told her to stay, he said,
"You're not pretty, you're beautiful. I don't want to be with you forever, I need to be with you forever. I wouldn't cry if you walked away, I would die."
He said no.
She asked him if he wanted to be with her forever.
He said no.
She then asked him if he would cry if she walked away.
He again said no.
She had heard too much.
She needed to leave.
As she walked away, he grabbed her arm and told her to stay, he said,
"You're not pretty, you're beautiful. I don't want to be with you forever, I need to be with you forever. I wouldn't cry if you walked away, I would die."
Regards,
M.
Saturday, July 2, 2011
Dior Homme
Another dream. Another possibilty. Another time. Another opportunity.
Fashion is costly. Style is eternal.
Regards,
M.