Monday, August 23, 2004

TO LISTEN TO SONG OF THE YR GO TO
http://www.rathergood.com/moon_song/

visiting relatives on their rural property for the first time, a young city man arrived when things were particularly busy.

'we're flat out,'said his uncle, 'but its such a beautiful day that you should borrow my shotgun and take the dogs out for a bit of shooting.'

when his nephew returned an hour later, the farmer asked him, "how was the shooting?'

'that was fantastic,' said the young man.'Got any more dogs?'




matthew admired God's creations at 11:38 PM [comment]

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Wednesday, August 11, 2004

we must love our neighbours and our enemies.


matthew admired God's creations at 11:12 PM [comment]

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Tuesday, August 10, 2004

Frank believed that five was his special number. He was born on May 5th, had five children, lived at 555 Fifth Avenue. At the races on his 55th brithday, he was delighted to find a horse named wuhao running the fifth race from barrier 5. Exactly 5 minutes before the race, Frank went to betting window number 5 and put $555 on wuhao.

wuhao finished 5th.



matthew admired God's creations at 7:55 PM [comment]

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Sunday, August 08, 2004

why are you depriving others of a place in heaven?

quote from maxwell's blog-

"People tell me to take solace in religion. I personally find it hard to even believe, much less put my trust into something so....intangible. And besides, I've lost faith in religion already.Throughout my entire FUCKING LIFE i've known people who act like they're bloody tenets of their religion, all 'forgive and forget' this and 'do unto others as you would have them do to you'. All that shit.Do they actually DO any of that crap? Do they actually FOLLOW everything their God told them? Or do they just practise selective religion?"Do unto others as you would have them do unto you". Simple enough, isn't it? If I'm not wrong, it's actually a bloody Christian tenet. But I've known tons of people, allegedly 'pious, virtuous' Christians, who don't even listen to that shit. They treat other people like crap, act like they're superior to anyone else, and think that other peoples' problems are all a fucking JOKE.And did you know some of them actually COMPLAIN when I call them hippocrates?They think they're so bloody holy. Just because they worship God, they can do ANY FUCKING THING they want and God'll forgive them, oh, it's all right because god will save us, blah blah blah, we don't care what happens to anyone else, all we care about is saving our own fucking skin...if we maltreat others, who cares? just pray for forgiveness. god will solve it all. you'll still be a holy, 'good' christian. who cares what happens to anyone else, as long as i get salvation and i enjoy what i do? i can torment other people cause my god forgives me when i do it.'Forgive and forget'.That's what they all say.And they refuse to give anyone a chance, all they think about is making other people SUFFER for what they've done. All they like to do is to see people get hurt, feel pain, and then feel good about hurting others. And it's all perfectly justified in their selfish little minds. Here's a tip for all of you....If you treat someone else like dirt, make his life hell, and try to pressure him into depression or suicide, just ask God to forgive you! It's his job. Never mind about the poor sods who get trodden on. They don't believe in god, but we do, therefore we're ALWAYS right in whatever we do! Heck, I can bloody make this guy's life a total sequence of depression and unhappiness, play with his feelings, and turn him into a bloody wreck, and WHO CARES? I'm going to heaven cause I'll get forgiven. And if someone wrongs me, the only thing I'll think about is how to get back at him, how to hurt him. Screw forgiveness. Since I'm a selfish lying bastard, I think I'll go hurt anyone who inadvertently wrongs me or does anything to annoy me! And it's all JUSTIFIED, heck, even, it's GOOD, because I'm CHRISTIAN, i'm so HOLY, and the lord sanctions WHATEVER I do, all i need to do is tell him i'm sorry and he'll make me go to heaven and anyone else to hell.I might not be Christian, and I might not believe much in an afterlife, but believe me when I say. If there's a Hell, you hippocratic, lying bastards are more likely to rot in there than I am."

what happened to the James i knew in sec1? the James who loved God, and was ever so enthusiastic about running the spiritual race. i hope you'll wake up from your slumber soon..i'll pray continually for you.

meanwhile, could you not deprive others of a chance to stake a place in heaven? the testimony that you are setting is making others disillusioned...even if you are scared of him, dont put him down?

can't we all love each other? to other christians/catholics (basically BELIEVERS) i know(to name a few): tim yam, daniel li, ryan, pong, alaric, nahnah, david, and to myself too, i think its time to wake up. we are fighting a spiritual war. lets live a life which is worthy of God's name.



matthew admired God's creations at 11:40 PM [comment]

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Thursday, August 05, 2004

People need the Lord

Everyday they pass me by
I can see it in their eyes,
empty people filled with care
headed who knows where?

on they go through private pain
living fear to fear
laughter hides their silent cries
only Jesus hears

People need the Lord
people need the Lord
At the end of broken dreams,
He's the open door

People need the Lord
People need the Lord
When will we realise?
People need the Lord

We are called to take his light
To a world where wrong seems right
What could be too great a cost
For sharing life with one who's lost..

Through his love our hearts can feel
All the grief they bear
They must hear the words of life
only we can share

[chorus]




Are u lost in this world, like many other people too? This song describes you.


matthew admired God's creations at 6:40 PM [comment]

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Sunday, August 01, 2004

chelsea's going to winn the premiership and champions league!!! they'd better or else abramovich'll murder mourinho. with gosu strikers like kezman,gudjohnsen,drogba and gosu-er midfielders like duff, robben, lampard, makalele [why did mourinho sell gronkjaer T_T], and gosuu defenders like ferreira, bridge, terry and gallas, and power keepers cudicini and cech, they'd better win something.

anyway about the whole issue concerning the tongues thing [which is a continual debate between charismatic churches and other denominations], i realised today during sunday school it wasn't really important. however, eugene[our teacher] mentioned that people shouldn't be concerned about whether they have the gift of tongues [which can be easily counterfeited by satan], but rather, do what the bible says! thats so much more important. for "If i speak in the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, i am only a resounding gong or a clanging cymbal' - 1 corinthians 13:1 so love your enemy!

gym asean schools are starting 16 june, i really really must study like mad to watch the gym gosus in action and probably take more gosu pics with my (fathers) gosu camera and post them on my gosu blog with my gosu links. =D hope i'll be able to complete most of revision by then so that i'll be able to take them....

o and during the track and field finals...i went with jongsterman to kallang, then at the stadium i saw my noisy cousin loojingmin and abandoned jongsterman to go support loojingqin..haha. we ended up in the VJ contingent and we were looking extra. i couldn't find the ri/rgs area so i didn't care and when loojingmin went further up the VJ area there were some RJ people watching too. anyway loojingqin did really well for her 4x400, she started as 1st runner and despite the distance deficit runners have the start of the race, she ended up first and passed the baton to 2nd runner...and in the end sngs won by 50m i think [ the last girls mad...cassondra or whatever her name is]. then after that we came out and met loojingqin and she was being pretty happy and she said some sillee stuff but i can't remember wot it was..i then followed loojingmin to her church for some elijah challenge thingy, it was supposed to b a healing session but we were kinda disappointed because the healings weren't drastic [like wheelchaired guy suddenly starts walking thing], but mainly consisted of the bettering of eyesight, hearing, the relief of joint injuries and cramps, etc. nevertheless it was quite cool to see how God works in small ways, and it was an interesting experience. it was quite worrying to think about what those who didn't get healed felt like. eugene explained that sometimes illnesses are part of peoples lives to enable them to draw closer to God by relying on Him more. we should also 'consider it pure joy, my brothers, whenever you face trials of many kinds, because you know that the testing of your faith develops perseverance. Perseverance must finish its work so that you may be mature and complete, not lacking anything.' - James 1:2-3

i love this song called 'amazing love'

i'm forgiven, because you were forsaken
i'm accepted, you were condemned
i'm alive and well, your spirit is within me
because you died and rose again

amazing love, how can it be?
that you my king would die for me.
amazing love, i know its true,
and its my joy to honour you,
in all i do, i honor you.

sums up God's insurmountable love for us
Romans 8:37-39
"No, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him who loved us. For i am convinced that neither death nor life, neither angels nor demons, neither the present nor the future, nor any powers, neither height nor depth,nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God that is in Christ Jesus our Lord"

All you believers out there who say you love Him! Obey His word and do your Quiet time!! [this reminder goes out to myself too :) ] its something natural we'd do upon believing, isn't it? and so is loving your enemies. Let us all set good testimonies so that more people'll be saved.


matthew admired God's creations at 10:22 PM [comment]

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