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Thursday, 05 November 2009

  • "If the message of love is perfect, then the only way for it to screw up is through the messenger."


    Paraphrased from the Hillsong United Documentary "We're all in this together".  The thing was really long, and had what it feels like multiple endings (when the ending didn't seem like an ending either).  But the quote that one of the Hillsong dude said, just got me thinking I guess.  If the message of love is indeed perfect, then why there are so many places where there are absent of love?  It really can only be the messengers. 

    And maybe we as a church are making too big of a deal over small things, and too small of a deal over big things.  We are always trying to protect our image as a church that we will fight for what is right (defending same-sex marriage, use of drugs, etc.), and yet the people we are condemning are the people that we have to help the most.

    I always wonder, since we're so against same-sex marraiges, if Jesus was here on earth today, would he have been at the rallys?  Would he try to get parlimentary leaders to hear him out?  Or would he be on the very streets sharing the gospel to them?  If it is the latter, then have we the church used the wrong strategy?

    I don't know, just a thought.  Either way, the movie was thought-invoking, but not something I would want to pay and watch again.  Hillsong should just stick to the music.  Keep those aussie-voiced songs going, mate.

    It's late, should sleep.

Monday, 28 September 2009

  • To start off my blog, I heard this from one of those college humour vids that matt was watching behind me:
    "Your mother is so fat, that when she try to get up, she rocked herself to sleep".  LOL -> I laughed at that for a good while.  That made my day ... probably the first time I smiled all day haha.

    So I was talking to viks about this earlier about my major in university.  It's call Equity Studies (many people think, it's business related, but its not.)

    So simply, my TA summed up what equity was and what equality was:  equality is equal treatment, while equity is equal outcome.  He said that in order to treat someone equally, we must treat someone unequally to do so.  To have equity, we raise the people who are below (in status, health, etc.) to the same level as everyone else.

    I know thats my major and all and I should be all enthusiastic about it but I do have some problems about it once in awhile when I think about it.  If we are equalling the playing field by bringing up the people from the bottom up, I have no problem with, but that has to be done without limiting the opportunities for the people at the top.  Whether they earned it or inherit the right to be at the top of status, we cannot limit them simply for the fact to allow the rest to level out.  Also, the people at the bottom also cannot assume because they're at the bottom, they will receive help.  I have met families and people before that because they are at the bottom, they just expected to be help.  No.  You get up and get up there yourself, and people will be there to support you along the way.  If they expect to be pity, then there's too many of you people around and not pity enough and this "equality" thing will never go through.

    That's it.

    End off with my new catchy song!
    薛凱琪 找到天使了

    作曲：劉永輝
    填詞：姚若龍

    窩在舊沙發 聽著老音樂 愛纏在一起聊感覺
    在你的身上 假裝彈鋼琴 我們笑一整天
    逛風景圖片 作夢環遊世界 就像真的到了愛琴海邊
    快樂的關鍵 不是去哪裡 而是誰在身邊
    陪我 有你陪我 心情總會過得像週末

    我們都找到天使了 說好了 心事不能偷藏著
    什麼都 一起做 幸福得 沒話說 把壞脾氣變成了好溝通
    我們都找到天使了 約好了 負責對方的快樂
    陽光下 的山坡 你素描 的以後 怎麼抄襲我腦袋 想的

    窩在舊沙發 聽著老音樂 愛纏在一起聊感覺
    在你的身上 假裝彈鋼琴 我們笑一整天
    逛風景圖片 作夢環遊世界 就像真的到了愛琴海邊
    快樂的關鍵 不是去哪裡 而是誰在身邊
    陪我 有你陪我 心情總會過得像週末

    我們都找到天使了 說好了 心事不能偷藏著
    什麼都 一起做 幸福得 沒話說 把壞脾氣變成了好溝通
    我們都找到天使了 約好了 負責對方的快樂
    陽光下 的山坡 你素描 的以後 怎麼抄襲我腦袋 想的

    罰你答應我 學會彈 guitar 每天都陪我唱歌

    我們都找到天使了 說好了 心是不能都藏著
    什麼都 一起做 幸福得 沒話說 把壞脾氣變成了好溝通
    我們都找到天使了 約好了 負責對方的快樂
    我為你 體貼的 你為我 守護的 用心的事越小越感動



Thursday, 17 September 2009

  • My small pet peeve.

    Ok, I must admit ... first of all, I know most of the time that I don't really act my age (nor do I look my age.. I've been told i look like a 15, 16 year old... when I'm actually 21...) and I drive a lot of people crazy sometimes (sorry vik).

    But my question is, are we growing up/trying to mature too fast than our age?

    I know age is just a number, but I feel like that even at a younger age, much is now expected of them because the worldly standard has its maturity level increase exponentially.  And that sometimes really bugs me.

    Here are my examples, and how it bugs me:

    There's like little girls, 7 or 8 years old, sometimes not even old enough to walk across the street, dressed up in clothes adn wearing accessories that are sometimes seen more worn by people in their 20s.  I mean... they just ditched their barbies a year or two ago, what on earth are they wearing miniskirts and putting makeup on for? 

    I realize a lot of the times its mostly what girls wears that bugs me.  Sometimes guys too... they act older than they really need to and I just absolutely hate it.  I want to go and shake that kid up and make him cry.  

    Anyways.  End of feelings expression.

Wednesday, 16 September 2009

  • I was random browsing random pages and i came along this:

    (Sorry its in chinese... if i get bored in class later I'll translate...)

    But its a scale of ranking your boyfriend or husband


    算一下你男朋友，老公值多少錢？


    底價都是1000元


    身高超過180cm，每過1cm+100元


    身高低於170cm，每低1cm-100元


    排球藍球足球會打的各+100元


    網球斯諾克會打的各+100元


    不會溜冰-300元


    會游泳+200元


    體重超過150斤的，每超過10斤-100元


    體重不足110斤的，每差10斤-100元


    近視的，超過300度，每100度-100元


    談過戀愛的，被甩一次-100元，甩別人一次+100元


    沒有談過戀愛的+100元


    超過30歲的，每超1歲-100元


    不會騎自行車的-100元


    會開車的+100元


    能背你走的+100


    唱歌唱得好+200元


    會給你繫鞋帶的+300


    有病史的，每一項-100元


    不會麻將+100元


    不會喝酒-100元


    很能喝酒但不嗜酒的+200元


    嗜酒的-200元


    養寵物+100元（能養大象、獅子、蟒蛇一類大型動物或    猛獸的再+200）


    會做飯+100元 （國家特、一級廚師+200）


    喜歡玩遊戲的+100(cs〔反恐〕不計算在內)


    會陪你逛街給你拿包的+200


    在一起平均每天會吻你10次以上的+200


    一連幾天不聯繫的-200


    每天陪你超過2小時的+100


    --------------------------    ----------------------------
    最後估值１３００以下的不能要．


    １３００－１８００的算是正常．


    ２０００以上的算是精品．


    達到３０００或３０００以上的，恭喜你．這輩子的幸福有    著落了


Monday, 14 September 2009

  • school, money, and escalators

    Officially 4 days into school.  I have already...

    -read more of my class text than I ever did in the first few years of university
    -spend almost 200 dollars just on course readers ALONE
    -got sick and coughed out a lung for donation

    It's crazy how things just seemed to pick up where they left off.. having been away from school for 16 months, after four days, I seem to get back into the swing of things already.  I really need to learn how to balance the time that i have.  with class everyday, work, church work and then maybe an extra curricular activity or two... it's gonna be crazy just to find time to blog. 

    BUT BLOG I SHALL.  Cause the rest of the world is clearly interested in what I have to say right?

    And I promise this to all my Xangaian readers out there (or Facebookers, if you read it there) .. I'll one day run out of the subway train like all the frantic's out there just to be the first down the escalator.  I PROMISE I WILL.

    until then.