Warning: The following text will contain spoilers. But you won't regret them, because the movie is so bad you'll actually be acutely grateful that you've been spared the ordeal of watching it. Or at least, that's the theory. :P I...
Rick's post reminded me that today is April Fool's. Ugh. You'd think I'd have realised this a lot sooner, but I recently admitted to myself that I simply can't handle being teased. I don't like being laughed at. Of course,...
According to WHO statistics compiled on Mar 31, 17:00 GMT+2, four more people have died of SARS since Saturday, bringing total number of deaths worldwide to 58. Of the four, three were from Hong Kong; the fourth was from Canada....
Eight warded for observationJohor Bahru, Malaysia: Eight people having symptoms similar to Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS) have been warded for examination and laboratory tests. Health Ministry Director-General Tan Sri Dr Mohamed Taha Arif said, "I must stress here that...
19 with SARS symptoms quarantinedFifty-nine suspected cases of people having symptoms similar to the Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS) have been reported in Malaysia with 19 people being quarantined in hospitals.Identity of killer pneumonia bug confirmedScientists have satisfied key tests...
In The Miracle of Agape Love Joseph F Manning writes,If agape love could be defined... I believe it would be like this: I love you (I really experience a giving, selfless love) because God has placed within me His wonderful...
Malaysian news SARS: Six more warded Kuala Lumpur, MALAYSIA: Six more suspected cases of the Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS) have been reported in the country, bringing the cumulative number of cases to 65 as of yesterday [Thursday].This brings total...
One of the worst things about being single and unattached is eating alone. And I don't mean it in the sense of loneliness, either. This was brought home to me one night last week when I went out for dinner....
I am crazy. I know they say that really insane people never think of themselves as nuts, but I'm sure 'they' (whoever they are) can make an exception for me. You see, after all the agonising and dithering, I am...
This is going to be very short. I don't have the time or energy for anything else right now. SARS is in Malaysia. Pray for us....
Rachel Cunliffe writes about getting itchy feet, the urge to travel. I began to comment on her blog, then my comment got so long that I decided to post it on mine rather than hijack her comments section! That way,...
Two days ago, blogs4God directed me to Ken Pierpont's article, Help Or Harm, on the power of the tongue to bless or curse. After reading the article, I fired off an email to Ken:Just an observation - you wrote, towards...
A friend sent me a text message asking me to pray for his cousin, who has been warded under suspicion of contracting SARS. He was admitted to hospital with difficulty breathing, and threw up several times. It brings the whole...
I am so angry. Remember my friend's cousin, the one I mentioned yesterday? Well, I received an email with more details. He was suffering from 'flu symptoms, so his family sent him to their local hospital in Perak (one of...
A friend alerted me to this article: 35 books, detrimental to public peace, banned One of the books that the Home Ministry has deemed so detrimental to public peace is the Iban translation of the Bible, Bup Kudus, published by...
At cell group last night, we did a spiritual gifts inventory test. Teaching came out top of the list. If I were still in denial or doubtful about having the gift of teaching, this would have put paid to all...
The war is over, or so they say. British Prime Minister Tony Blair warned, "This conflict is not, however, over yet." This particular report, however, is worrying: US tells Iran, Syria, N. Korea: Learn From IraqROME (Reuters) - The United...
(Thanks to Neal for drawing my attention to this article, and Richard Hall for drawing my attention to the other) Follow the crowd mentality Apparently the church is such a fuddy-duddy, it needs to get with the times.The Church of...
I have good days and I have bad days. Yesterday was a good day - today was OK, until now, in the night, when I am struggling with old demons. It is midnight and already many tears have been shed;...
I rarely do this, but here I am up at 5:50am. I haven't slept; I was rushing a story that has to be in by tomorrow - err, I mean today - morning. Now I'm debating with myself if it's...
I'm sure Bene Diction, my Canadian blogging friend, will be interested in this: Malaysia bars Canadians Canadian tourists are banned from Malaysia until the SARS scare subsides. "Some may consider it extreme, but with the alarming spread of SARS and...
I've always been one to scribble stuff on random bits of paper and then forget all about them - and lose the paper, to boot. Today I was looking for something entirely different when I chanced upon one of those...
I've been having an interesting conversation with Dan in the comments section of my earlier post. Decided to answer him (her? - have to be very careful with this, expecially after reading point #6 on this list of Dan's -...
And now I can finally talk about the stuff I've been working on over the past few weeks. Today's issue of the newspaper's weekly youth section tackled the topic of abortion. Abortion, by the way, is illegal in Malaysia unless...
I was in a bookshop yesterday. And I bought 4 romance books. There really isn't anything more to say. I was standing there, with them in my hand, and I told myself, "Don't be an idiot. You know you'll just...
I was talking to God last night about this whole purity issue. It saddens me to realise that I've failed to treasure my sexual purity, that I've squandered it instead of prizing it as I should, treating it lightly instead...
I need a bit of help. No, nothing serious, don't worry. :) A good friend says I remind her of the character Donnie in The Wild Thornberrys cartoon. But I don't have cable TV and so I can't get the...
"Grace" is one of those words that, frankly, I find really easy to say; yet I'm not always sure what I mean by it. Yes, we say that grace is "unmerited favour", but that just seems to plunge me deeper...
As I wrote on Apr 9, the Iban translation of the Bible (Bup Kudus) has been banned by the Home Ministry. Acting Prime Minister Datuk Seri Abdullah Ahmad Badawi later said that the Bible "contained certain words which the Government...
My dad turns 52 next month and I was wondering what to do/get for him... what can you get for a parent who has everything he'll ever need or even want - and whatever he doesn't have, I certainly can't...
Rick links to an article that claims the church has been "indifferent" towards singles. "Much of the time, singles live on the fringes of church life because they feel the church doesn't understand or care about their particular needs," the...
I've been leaving looooong comments in a few places today and left myself no time for blogging. But those are interesting conversations, so let me share them with you: Darren Rowse links to a lady's reflections on Easter from the...
Was at my once-a-month "sort of" Bible study last night and we discussed, amongst other things, the concept of Jesus as our Shepherd-King. When we were talking about Jesus as our shepherd, I had this sudden flash: There is a...
(Part I here.) I think, as humans, we generally tend to be immoderate (and sometimes irrational) in our likes and dislikes. When I browse blogs, I see people who are talking about the things that have captured their imagination, things...
Karen posts on The Problem Of Romance, something that has been sitting in the back of my mind lately, saying, "Think about me!" LOL A few weeks back, I read something in Elisabeth Elliot's Quest For Love that has been...
Tomorrow, May 1, is Labour Day in Malaysia. Oops, how politically incorrect of me, I meant to say Workers' Day. ;) Anyway, I've taken Fri off from work as well and hope to spend time writing (or trying to write)...