Fear of Men.

It is of my opinion that one should not be caught up with the opinion of others. Quite recently, I have had the experience of dealing with the aftermath of someone who just so. He allowed the words of someone else to get to him and eat him from the inside.

How deadly the fear of man is! And how powerful the simple words that come out of our mouths are. I am so much the same. I asked a question just yesterday to fulfill my curiosity of how others thought of me. Yet I realised - how would it matter? It simply does not.

It does not matter if I am fat or thin, handsome or ugly. Even intelligent or otherwise. Simply because everyone would think something else. And I am as real as I think I am. I am only fat when I think I am. Sometimes I think Sis doesn't really think that she is fat. That is how she lives with it.

What really matters is God's opinion of us. At the end of the day, we only account to Him. Yet why don't we see that? Why do we so want to please others by being the thin and handsome guy? I guess it's all instinct?

This is really a reminder for me to do things for myself and not for pleasing others. Now, that's a hard thing to do where I work - the world of balls. I shall persist!

Crikey. Why must Microsoft Word hang right when I was halfway into translating the sermon?! I so hate the rainbow-coloured twirling circle on my Mac now! I hate Microsoft more. Argh!!!

iPhone 2 Leaks

Can it be? Will Apple announce the iPhone 2 on Monday's WWDC keynote?! I certainly hope so! The new one seems to adopt a matte black back cover as compared to the shiny silver (think scratch prone) one we have now.

I certainly hope that the rumours of the upgrades (5 MP camera, GPS, 3G) are true because iPhone just seemed so disappointing despite all the hype that was generated. Hopefully this one lives up to everything we hope for! If, that is, it comes out at all...

Fingers crossed!

See Cult of Mac article

mahjongggg~

I have finally progressed to "The Unfinished Symphony" by Frank Schubert after being stuck on Scheherazade for weeks. Yayness! Hopefully I can progress real quick and take exams! (dream dream dream oh dreeeeam..)

There was also a small mahjong session at Tan Long's today. I think it was the first time in a long time where we decided not to get everyone because well.. it might end up like the last time where not everyone could be involved.

I know I should have did something about my hair!! I look so bad in this photograph! I kinda insisted on taking a photograph so that I can post this here. Hahas.. unfortunately every photo turned out to have something wrong with it. This, I think, is the best we can get.

So anyways, I won money!!! How unchristian of me. Hahas.. But one indulges in such occassional indulgences. It fast got tiring though. As a matter of fact, I am still suffering from a slight migraine right now even as I try to translate Pastor Angeline's sermon into Chinese. Hopefully I'd be able to do a good work of the translation tomorrow!

Thank God It's Friday!

I never used to understand why there was such a phrase as "Thank God It's Friday". Shouldn't it be "Thank God! It's Sunday."? Yet lately I have been finding myself living for the weekends. Just waiting during the week for the precious two days to come in which I will not have to go back to dear old Mandai Hill. I guess I have grown weary of fighting the paper mountain alone... RQ when are you coming back?! The truth is, it's a question no one can really answer. And as Commander of the QM Platoon, it's a truth I have to take in stride and with fortitude.

You know, work's not all bad. I know I make it sound like that here. But it simply isn't true. I have a bunch of good kids who try to do their jobs well. As a matter of fact, I visited Kelvin today at his home. He had a knee injury sustained during BMT, and he's resting at home after surgery. I tried to buy him $25 worth of things as was the entitlement, yet I couldn't find much to buy. Ended up getting durians (my treat) and a watermelon and apples. Hmm. Pretty strange things to give, if I would say so myself. Kelvin is one of the better kids. It's really quite sad that he has to have MC until July.

Anyways, I was supposed to have my off day today, but I felt quite compelled to go back in the morning to clear up my shitload of indents before the week ends. And truth be told, it feels quite good to have some things off my back! Plus the fact that I ran 9KM today. Yay! Fats be gone! And thank you toinh for the perpetual reminder of my FTT failure. And also to Chor Seng for telling him in the first place =/ I expect to really get balloons hor!

The actual highlight of the day was definitely the movie night with me family. We went to watch Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull cos Mum had free tickets for us all.

I went straight to Great World City for the dinner buffet after visiting Kelvin. The food was well, so so. I would say that the event was pretty small as compared to what we have seen in the mess. So anyways, I should get on to the movie. Personally, I felt that having a "aliens came to Earth millenia ago to impart technology and knowledge" plot was a little cheesy. Given the fact that we have already heard this story a million times! But it was a fun action movie to watch. I especially liked the parts where Indy rolled into cars (not a few times!) to push the bad guys out of the cars. And despite what Tan Long said about Cate Blanchett having a minimal roll, I felt that she had the perfect Ukrainian accent and she acted sufficiently this time. I give the movie 4 stars!

I also saw the Nike Band on our way home. You know, if Nike wasn't a money sucking conglomerate which forces me to buy a Nike Plus shoe just so that I can use the Nike Band, I would actually have bought it. But no. You have to have a shoe just for the device. How lame is that?! I have decided to find some way to circumvent this!!! Say no to monopolisation and restriction of consumer sovereignty!