till then
hui cia.. (hmn, i ought learning speaking mandarin from my brother).
i'm leaving for a month. have a blessed christmas!
Friday, December 22, 2006
Thursday, December 21, 2006
media watch #211206
i wonder if it's even worthed of your time to read the article below :)
Glad tidings: the mystery of Christmas is reproduced everyday
may be not, you'd better think of something more important to do! (read: you've been warned!)
to me, it seems to suggest the idea that you only associate with God when you can gain any logical benefits. then, having got what you wanted, you baulk at Him by bragging on your personal glory, in the name of science. bad thing to start off with the first paragraph per quoted below, so much for someone who thinks they know anything about church history, if any.
"For weeks now the Christian world has been in festive lock-down, enslaved to the demands of Christmas drinks, Christmas parties, Christmas lunches, Christmas catch-ups. During 2000 years of schism and dissent in the Christian church, unanimity has been reached on one subject only: the celebration of Christ's nativity requires the constant and copious ingestion of alcohol and pork."
Sunday, December 10, 2006
rendezvous
i had a catch up with two of my junior high school friends on saturday night. it was a good 7 years ago that we sort of parted ways, and in-betweens, there had only been a couple of updates without any proper intentions to hear from each others. and these days, four of us somehow make it here (one in melbourne, three in sydney, plus another one will be arriving shortly). again, we never thought that we would again this time, cross-path each other's life after all those years.
what's so exiciting to hear is that two of them became cns over the time! we attended a cn school back then, but each had confessed to have never really quite understood what it means to be a cn. simply speaking, we were just a bunch of naive youngsters who were either too innocent to ever make such a decision to truly follow Christ (happy-go-lucky) or stuck-there kind of uncommitted 'cn' due to a cn education. either way, none of us were a cn really (though it is still a link in a chain of knowing God process).
one thing is common among us, that is, it's when we are here, on our own, away from our home country, that God's mercy has been kept on being shown to us. who would have thought of, God does it, He just. and i can say, this time now, our decisions are sincere in following Christ. and i am thankful for that.
and so, we hope that another friend of us will also consider Christ, though it seems like a long way to go. but hey, she has made it here.
Wednesday, December 06, 2006
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