Yesterday, I blogged about my thoughts and feelings concerning my church. It痴 no excuse that I thought no one from my church knew about this blog. It was wrong of me to do that, because if I have a concern...
Statement of fact: I am just very stressed out at work right now. No further comment. :P Thanks to Jason Trommetter for this article about meaningful giving during the Christmas season. He explores the meaning of the three gifts brought...
I finally managed to open the Who Links Who page, and discovered that two bloggers who were previously unknown to me, had actually included links to my site on theirs! (Who Links Who is Dave King's brainchild. It shows the...
Awesome! You have to check out Frank Johnson's blog, ProdigalGod.com. In his latest post, he talks about how the house church might be a better idea than a "real" church because it offers a truer sense of community and connectiveness,...
Yesterday, I commented on Cody Clark's assertion that the issue of masturbation gets way too much attention, saying that the church hardly ever addresses this issue among the youth. Cody clarifies:I was not saying there is too much attention from...
For some reason, I am completely unable to get into Looking back... Looking forward and Sister's Weblog: It Boggle's the Mind!. I don't know why. It's been like this for more than two weeks. They keep on telling me that...
Slept at 7:30pm yesterday evening and woke at 10:30pm. The first thing I did was check my mobile phone, which I'd left in silent mode. 1 missed call from home. I promptly returned the call. Of course, my mom wanted...
My heart breaks for this man. Please, please keep him in your prayers....
Two days ago, Owen commented that the phrase "public journal" is an oxymoron. "Why do we do it? Why go public? We're vain, essentially, that's it," he summed up. This made me think about my own motivations for blogging. I...
Bob's blog is finally up and running! Don't pay any attention to anything he says about me unless it's good. :P Also finally added What In Tarnation??!? to my blog links on the left. I read him every day anyway....
You must read this personal account (not mine) of reconciliation and restoration; it's beautiful. via Davy's Homepage....
Mark Morris is looking to set up a comments system in his blog. Here is part of an email I sent to him this afternoon: Personally, I kinda regret putting a comments section on my blog. On one hand, it...
I now have an Amazon wishlist. I've never shopped at Amazon, which is probably a good thing, considering that throughout 2002 I was buying on average about 6 books a month! But anyway, Anne Geddes' books are on the list....
A lot is being said about the blogs4God post against Planned Parenthood. It has upset many people, inculding Rachel C., Jordon Cooper, Darren Rowse, Richard Hall, and Richard Bott (can't get into his blog as usual, though). The author has...
Joshua Claybourn comments on Darren Rowse's latest offering: "The focus here should be on Planned Parenthood's evil ways, and none of the critics, besides yourself in this post, have acknowledged that. The blogs4God parody is not offensive. Planned Parenthood is."...
Bryan McAnally has an excellent post on the Planned Parenthood poster parody issue. His is a very balanced view. Several bloggers, including Locdog and Victor Lams, have defended the use of satire in addressing this issue. Victor Lams wrote:"Greater issue:...
I think some people are irritated with me. Oops. *rueful smile* Both Jon Davis and Karen lectured me on what it means to be a Christian. The consensus: it's easy to call one's self a "Christian", but, as Karen says,...
Read Darren's blog this morning and felt like kicking something. One of his readers claimed it was unholy for a minister of the Word to enter a mosque. People like this need to realise that we live in an unholy...
New links: For What It's Worth /Karen/ Mike Todd (finally got down to adding him in after reading his blog daily for at least a month!) Marn's Big Adventure New blog: Mark Morris has started a new blog in an...
WHY on earth aren't my latest posts showing up??? I've discovered that this blog comes out third on a Google search for the name ...
OK, Haloscan has eaten up comments from the last 2 posts. This is The Last Straw. As of now, I'm officially working on a move to Moveable Type. Blogger and Haloscan have both proven to be unreliable and I Just...
Sometimes I feel outnumbered in BlogWorld, because there are so many bloggers from the US and I'm the lone voice from Malaysia. (Did I hear someone ask, "Malaysia? Whazzat???" LOL) So just imagine how pleased I was to discover the...
I forgot to mention yesterday that Dean has invited me to joined the blogs4God moderating team, to cover the "shining stars of the Southern Hemisphere", as he put it. It's a privilege to work with the rest of the team....
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...
I'm back. It's funny - although I had four days off (five if you include the non-blogging Monday), I still didn't have time to accomplish much of anything. Meaning that I've only written five paragraphs of Dad's birthday present. As...
Very, very cool: Hades College, a la CS Lewis' The Screwtape Letters. If you liked CS Lewis' book, you will like this. I am SO linking him! (Thanks to Melancholics Anonymous for pointing out "The Translator".) Another blog to keep...
In memory of The Gospel According To Mark I hate it when bloggers quit blogging. Mark Morris is the latest to bow out, citing "blog ennui" and a lost of interest. As I said in his comments, I would cry...
OK, I know I have said before that I was moving to Movable Type, but I am typically all talk and no action... until I sense a threat. LOL. After reading stories of lost archives, blocked posting access, and other...
Interesting things are happening on the Malaysian blogging scene. A group of Malaysian bloggers have put their heads together and come up with something called Project Petaling Street (PPS). As far as I understand, PPS is a portal that will...
This is a test because I am technologically-challenged and I better make sure I know how to do this. Wouldn't want the blog to self-destruct, would I?...
Welcome to my new blog digs! The look is temporary, so if you don't like the colour scheme, there's hope yet :P At the moment only the blog is here, but as this will be my personal website the site...
It's interesting to see how my blog has evolved over time. The first God-blogger to leave me a comment was Russ Mayes, in October last year. Up until then, I'd had no idea that anyone could be interested in what...
I feel like I should apologise for the lack of "substance" in my posts lately - but sometimes life is just life, and I don't feel like "spiritualising" it and drawing faith parellels at every corner. You'll notice the layout...
In the past, I've casually mentioned having four blogs. I'm not sure if anyone actually picked up on that, or wondered where all those four blogs happen to be. Apart from the one you're reading now, of course, there's always...
Remember when I mentioned that interesting things are happening on the Malaysian blogging scene? Well, now we have a Yahoo! discussion group for Malaysian bloggers ("Kotaraya", the group's name, comes from the name of a shopping centre in the heart...
Bene Diction is right when she says that each blogger comes at issues from his/her own background and culture. I know I do. After reading the above-mentioned post by her, I wondered if I had been unwontedly insistent or too...
A few weeks back, I blogged about Project Petaling Street. Initially, the portal only cached the few founding members' blogs. Now, a Beta Test is being conducted to see what happens when more blogs get involved... I was not planning...
Good grief... Late last night I switched the template and CSS to those that Jonathan has been designing for me, and everything suddenly went haywire. That's one of those times when I really wished he and I didn't live in...
I should be getting my beauty sleep soon, or the sight of me will be giving the other bloggers nightmares at the bloggers' meet tomorrow. I'm such a chicken that I even contemplated not turning up, but I'd given my...
Boy, I needed two days to recuperate from the bloggers' meet. Just kidding! The meet ended at around 12:30pm, but I hung around in Suria KLCC (a shopping mall - we'd met in Dome café) till about 4, got home,...
People complain about spam all the time. Bloggers complain about spam too. What frustrates me is that sometimes we practically invite spam without realising it. How so, you ask? You have a blog. So do I. We put our email...
I got SMS! I got SMS! I mean, I got an SMS from New Zealand! Rachel Cunliffe, a fellow blogger, sent me a text message this evening. Isn't it cool?? We were communicating "real-time"!!! It just feels like one step...
A few Malaysian bloggers and I are going karaoke-ing tomorrow. I've never been, you know, so when it was suggested I jumped at the chance to, uh, expand my limited scope of experience and garner new skills. What, you mean...
I'm thankful for the friends I've made online; through their blogs and the ensuing discussions & sharing of each other's lives, I've come to realise that I'm not alone. Life is a journey we make together. It truly IS an...
Ahhh... karaoke. I think I've been like the frog under the coconut shell (katak di bawah tempurung, a Malay saying) - always living in my own little world. Perhaps I SHOULD worry about being insular after all... As I half-expected,...
If I ever drop by a blog that uses Enetation's commenting service and am able to leave a comment, I should buy a lottery ticket because that would obviously be my lucky day. Grrr. So if you use Enetation and...
Received a gift from Rachel through the mail today! Wow. I still find it hard to believe, even though I'm holding it in my hands :) [Thanks, Rachel! :)] Recently, as Idlan says, "I feel like my life is one...
Are all bloggers scrambling to get to the top of the blogging ladder? We all want more people to read our blogs, more people to comment, more people to quote us. I know I always hope for people to link...
OK everybody, I am still alive!! And I AM BACK!!!! Yee-ha! :D Sorry, my webhost had server trouble, and in the middle of that, I fell sick - saw the doc four times in one-and-a-half weeks, must be some kind...
A guy called Scott Nowson is doing a "blog experiment" over the summer as part of his PhD thesis. He's studying bloggers' writing styles: I am going to be looking for trends in style, as the relate to the character...
Big THANK YOU to LcF, who informed me that my permalinks are not working. Arrgh! Arrrgh! ARRRGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHHH!!!! I'm OK. I'm OK. *breates in* *breathes out* *breathes in* *breathes out* I've figured out that it's got something to do with the...
There's this "5 questions" thing going around the BlogWorld. (I refuse to say the word "blogosphere"... oops, just said it!) Bryan has devised five questions just for me. Bryan, did you have to ask such HARD questions?!! ...And yes, that...
That five questions thing in my last post? I'm apparently supposed to offer to ask five questions of anyone who wishes to be "interviewed". If you'd like to participate, leave a note in my comments. Actually, in real life, my...
Framing questions is always difficult. I'm always scared of asking stupid questions or not putting my questions well enough to get my meaning across. Sometimes I play back my tape-recorded interviews and I think, "Did I really say that??!" LOL...
I think I need my head examined. I've joined another group blog, The Book Review Blog... well, actually I joined it quite some weeks ago and have yet to contribute. Man, I'm nuts. So I'm now with three group blogs,...
Not so long ago, Dan appointed me the Official Blogger of Introspection at Journey Inside My Mind. I was quite tickled because it reminded me of winning the title "Most Introspective Blog" at Ganns Deen's awards. Now once again Ganns...
Would you say I'm introspective? Ganns certainly thinks so... he's awarded me the title of "Most Introspective Blog" in the Superblessed Christian Blog Awards 2003. Personally, I think he has me pegged but good :) Apparently, I was also the...
It's amazing, the people who actually find my blog. A few months before I wrote about my sleepy little hometown, I received emails from two different people. "Are you from ___________, and is your full name __________?" they wanted to...
Nikkiana has nominated my blog for Best Malaysian Blog at the Asia Weblog Awards. And Howie has nominated me Best Essayist. Wow. Thanks guys :) In other news... Darren of Living Room is organising a secret santa thingamajig among bloggers....
Sometimes I wonder about us Christians. We seem to have a need to yell, "I'm Christian! I'm Christian! Look at me!" But shouldn't that be evident in the way we live, the things we say, and how we treat others,...
I'll be taking a week's break from blogging to reassess my priorities. I've committed myself to a deeper involvement this year in the Graduates Christian Fellowship and their movement for young graduates, iBridge. In particular, I've offered to help with...
Yesterday morning when I was at church service, singing, God started talking to me about living an integrated life. In particular, He pointed out the similarity between the words "integrated" and "integrity". Now, if you are fascinated by words &...
Okay, this is the weirdest search engine query I've gotten so far: "geting read from mucus". Ewww. Whatever that is, it certainly sounds gross. I'm filing it in the What Was This Person Thinking??!?! category, together with this:"elisabeth elliot" banana...
Today my blog turns two. I wonder if blog years are like dog years? I've seen so many blogs abandoned after a few months, weeks or even just after one post. Maybe that means my blog is really turning fourteen!...
I've been remiss. Of course I knew that Tuesday was Malaysia's 47th Merdeka Day, or Independence Day ('Merdeka' meaning 'freedom' or 'independence' in Malay), but I didn't blog coz my parents were around for the long weekend. Dad took Monday...
And now I am getting deluges of comment spam. Grrr. Why are the updates to my MT Blacklist (an application to block spam comments based on keywords or known spam URLs) not working?? I really must set aside time this...
We've been having a string of back-to-back public holidays over here in Malaysia, what with Deepavali (a Hindu festival) on Thursday and Hari Raya Aidilfitri (a Muslim celebration) on Sunday and Monday. I've spent the time off-line, hanging out with...
I'm so mad. Never, ever host with Doteasy. Know why? They hold your domain hostage. Yeah their hosting packages might sound attractive, but if you ever try to move to a different host and transfer your domain away, you'll hit...
The joke's on me. I read about the First Annual Evangelical Awards on Bene Diction's blog a few days ago and winced. Then for some reason I checked my blog stats later that same day (something I hardly do these...
Last night I came upon an interesting website (while over at Leigh's blog). This website displays anonymous postcards from people all over the world, and each postcard speaks of a secret that the author has never revealed to anyone else...
Do not really have time to write anything of substance coz I've been setting up a new blog -- yes, ANOTHER one!!! I think this is my fifth... or sixth... I'm not sure. I know, I know, I'm insane. Was...
Being hungry and sleepy at the same time is not a good combination. Being hungry, sleepy, having a Bad Hair Day, getting lost on the way to a work assignment and thinking about all the bills you still have to...
I have a flight to Penang, one of our northern states, tomorrow morning at 9am which means I have to be in the airport by 7am which means I have to leave the house by 6am which means I have...
Testing to see whether this posts, coz I've been trying to update my previous entry and the silly thing won't save & publish the changes. Grrrr. Of course, if it DOES post, I probably won't be able to change this...
Is Google down? I cannot access its search page and all the Blogger blogs (Blogger is owned by Google) are also inaccessible. What on earth --? UPDATE: MSN appears to be down, too. No access to any of the MSN...
I was in my early teens when one of my uncles died from cancer. I don't remember much, except visiting his house and standing quietly in the hall whilst my parents went into the room where he lay on the...
I was having lunch with a friend, Joshua Raj, whom I was also interviewing for one of my articles... and the photographer didn't turn up. "There goes the glamour and the fame," Joshua mourned. "You want glamour and fame? Send...
Tonight I was at dinner with an old friend plus two other people, one of whom is a girl I met briefly only once, about two years ago. She only knows me as 'Sunflower'. My friend asked the million-dollar "How's...
Once upon a time, a group of bloggers got together and began chatting over MSN Messenger. Malaysia's Independence Day was fast approaching, and in a fit of patriotism, insanity, mischief and jiak bar bo kang jo-ness (Hokkien for "stomach already...
Very recently, when I crashed my car and was worried about not having enough money, some of you, my readers, offered to help me out. I was touched and astounded by your generosity; it was something I'd never expected. As...
Dunno whether anybody noticed, since nobody mentioned anything, but now you guys will have to preview your comments first before posting. Sorry for the extra step -- it's to prevent spam. Also, I have set up a photoblog to post...
Dad bought a computer (finally!) about three weeks back whilst I was still in Sabah. And presto, we were in business! Guess who got to teach Mom how to use email, plus how to do other Internet stuff like use...
Recently, one of the Christian US bloggers passed away. His blog wasn't one I used to frequent. I read about his death on another blog, then went to this guy's blog, and it was still there, looking as if he...
Mom read my blog today and found out about my bout of depression... and called. I was afraid she'd be hurt coz I told the Whole Wide World about it but hadn't mentioned a word to her. Truthfully, the last...
Viceice just left the 7,500th comment on this blog!!! Woohoo!!! It's a fitting time to celebrate four years of blogging. My actual anniversary is June 15 :) I've been doing some blog housekeeping lately and in the process ended up...
The title of this blog comes from a story I wrote in August 2002. It's an allegory, and, as I said to the few friends I showed it to at that time -- no prizes for guessing who the Wilful...
Bob is doing some technical magic behind the scenes so this blog might go offline for a day or two. Don't panic. I'll be back. You can take the blog away from the blogger but you can't take the blog...