"Name something good God has done for you this week," Jason suddenly said while we were chatting on Yahoo Messenger tonight. "He's been giving me meals through people," I replied. Yeah, people have been offering to pay for my food...
When I was a journalist, I used to wonder what was the point of my work. People used to tell me, "Oh, you write for a newspaper! Just imagine all those readers reading your articles... you have such influence!" I...
I dunno about you, but whenever I've thought of heaven I've never thought of it as a place where I'd have to work. Although if you asked me what we'd be doing in heaven, I really couldn't tell you, apart...
After reading Ted Haggard's letter to his church, I am very saddened. In addition to being senior pastor of his church, Haggard was president of the US National Association of Evangelicals, the American counterpart of our own NECF (National Evangelical...
I'm starting work tomorrow. Yes, I got a temp job! Yay! Thank you, God!! -- and thanks to a certain blog reader of mine... ;) After I wrote about quitting my job and looking for a temp job, one of...
After nearly nine months mostly working from home, I had forgotten how little time you have when you work outside! Started at the usual 9am -- skipped out during lunch hour to get my car insurance renewed and then dashed...
Bob keeps on trying to push me back into writing. It frustrates me. I asked him why he's doing this and he said I should go back to doing what I'm good at. I think he's afraid I'll find out...
Yesterday I received an offer from a local university to pursue a Masters in Linguistics. So happy! I've been telling everybody that I plan to take this course, deep down wondering if I was being rather premature because I hadn't...
I vividly remember my schooldays where Mom would say, "Why can't you be like so-and-so? She participates in all those extra-curricular activities, and STILL manages to be one of the top 5 in class!" To which I would reply, "But...
For the past two weeks, I've been thinking about what 'ministry' is and isn't. Y'know, ministry in the Christian context -- coz most of the time that word is used to mean 'participation in church activities and programmes'. So today...
Judith, my housemate, is moving out on Nov 30. Anybody wants to stay in my house? -- I'm serious! Another housemate, Adeline, said, "If you can get a job via your blog, maybe we can get a housemate via your...
So many things to write and so little time in which to write them ;) I yielded to a friend's persuasion and went to church with her yesterday. It was good to hear the speaker talk about the need to...
For the second half of this year, I've been clinging on to this saying -- "Life doesn't exactly suck, but IT COULD BE BETTER!" I made it up myself :P You know those conversations you have with yourself in your...
"You have amazing friends," Ariel said to me. I do, don't I? ;) It is something new to me, having friends like these. As a child I was quite an introvert and, although I did have friends in school and...
A blogger friend of mine used to have this saying: "Real life trumps blogging." Meaning that when real life and blogging start jockeying for position, real life is gonna win all the way. I've been too busy to blog, can...
Watch the Transformers movie trailer and you realise there isn't even a hint that they've used the original Transformers theme song; not a good sign. I told my housemate Meera, and she began singing, "Transformers, robots in the sky." I...
Talking about old shows yesterday made me think. Do you realise that most of the old shows featured a hero? Knight Rider, MacGyver, Matlock, Hunter... okay, I didn't watch a lot of tv back then, so these are the only...
The other day a friend was saying that if you have a job that consistently prevents you from attending church Sunday service, you should quit your job. Blink & I objected to this because, if that's so, then there would...
Got an email from Dad last night which made me very thankful I've moved my blog. He started off by noting that I seem to be one of the more well-known Malaysian bloggers, and ended by saying, "However, I wonder...
One of my duties in my current job is to make name tags. In doing so, I get to look at hundreds of photographs and marvel at how different each person looks. Really, you don't get any two people looking...