Thursday, February 26, 2009

http://www.wongfuproductions.com/ShortsIndex.html

http://www.asiaarts.ucla.edu/090220/article.asp?parentID=104914

http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/article2276225.ece

http://books.google.com/books?id=6cMC0WXM-iQC&dq=Richard+Tsoi&source=gbs_summary_s&cad=0

http://zh.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=%E5%BC%B5%E8%B6%85%E9%9B%84&variant=zh-tw

Thursday, February 19, 2009

Weekend OT Forecast

Monday: OT 3 hours
Tuesday: OT 3.5 hours
Wednesday: OT 3 hours
Thursday: OT 7 hours
Friday: OT 1 hour?
OT on Saturday: Highly likely 
OT on Sunday??? 

I don't like this. 

Thursday, February 12, 2009

running out of battery

running out of battery

Chance of OT for the weekend: High, very likely

It is 8:34pm and MI2 is very nervous. We hanging in document to our boss. If I leave right now, it means that I will be home at around 10pm. Fantastic. And I am coming back here tomorrow, at around 10pm, which mean I have to get out around 8am. That means that I can get 7 hours of sleep if I sleep at 1am and then I would have 3 hours "personal time" including "shower time." That's why I get. 3 hours of personal time.

Fantastic. Excellent. Amazing. When will I be outta here?

Bibliolatry

i have been noticing this trend of how seminaries and some younger pastors are being overly academic with a heavy emphasis on the "newest" research on the text of the Bible to a point that neglect the message of the Word. Some people seems to pride themselves on knowing the newest Biblical research trend, knowing theories that others don't know. I find some seminaries are just too emphasized on academic and not enough on their students' spiritual well-being, character and relationship with God.

Seminaries become just another research university or college instead of place of training for servants of God. The world is changing but seminaries shouldn't be worldly despite of all the forces but i guess they are under pressure.

I finally know what the official term is, it's "bibliolatry" but the problem is more than that.


"Some people make the mistake of missing the One to whom the Bible is directing them. They become enamored of learning the depths and complexities of the Bible, and they forget that it points us toward God. This problem is technically called "bibliolatry," which means making an idol out of the Bible. This occurs in some circles that emphasize doctrine or Bible study to the point of neglecting a personal relationship with Jesus, who said that the Scriptures actually bear witness to him (John 5:30)

A preacher once said that this is like the man who goes into a restaurant and reads the menu. Then, exclaiming how great the menu is, he puts salt and pepper on it and proceeds to eat it.

Bibliolatry also points up certain character issues in people, such as valuing intellectual pursuits over relationship, or needing closure and black-and-white answers to theological puzles rather than relating to the God of mystery.

The point here is that while we need to diligently study the Bible, it was not written to satisfy our intellectual curiosity. It was written to give us the path to God, life, and growth. "

Cloud and Townsend
pp.199-200

Wednesday, February 11, 2009

Respect for lunchbreak

If we are not going to respect public holidays, can we at least respect our 1 hour lunch break please?

MI2 was at my desk explaining my next assignment at the beginning of my lunch break, it took a little over 10 minutes, 20% of my lunch break!

Isn't it better to explain it to me after lunch break?

A revelation of salvation (not yet fully developed)

Had a revelation about salvation today on the train.

People often say that it isn't fair that someone who had been doing evil things and living a immoral life but believed in Christ the past minute of his life get to go to heaven as much as the person who have been living a good and moral life his whole life in Christ.

A rather blunt and direct answer would be, what right do you think we have to decide why is fair or not? God decides that!

This morning, as I was walking to the train station, I realized that I didn't have my wallet in me.

So I knew I was late even before I board the train. Knowing that I was late already, I did some experiment with the MTR system I usually won't do. I risked getting to work even later by experimenting on a different route to get to work on the MTR system. I made a big mistake and took the wrong train and ended up being late for work big time.

So, for my passage to work, I would knew that I would miss my target or in another word, be late for work very early on, so my earnestness can be compromised. As in, what's the point of trying when you know you already failed.

It is different with salvation. Salvation is like an express train that will get you on time at your destination no matter how you screwed up on the way. I could forget my wallet, miss a train or two, get on the wrong train going the opposite direction yet I would still be able to get to my destination on time if I surrender to Jesus Christ. Jesus is like this super express train that can take me to God no matter how screwed up I am in life.

Thursday, February 5, 2009

江湖地位

I don't like how some people use this term, 江湖地位, to describe serving position in church. I think it's just wrong, as in, "You who seat here at this meaning all have 江湖地位" or in the context of rank. I don't think we have any 江湖地位. As the Bible says, the biggest is the last and the smallest is the first in heaven. We don't have any 江湖地位. The force and power is up there. None of us own that power. It comes from above. We are all scums. We have nothing, everything is given. Even the things we think we deserve.

Of course there are other forces in the world. People can form their own forces, create power, but those aren't from up there. There are forces of evil, power of destruction and etc. But church is another thing.

We shouldn't use those kind of tools.

We are all equal and meager beings.

Sunday, February 1, 2009

Back to the grind

It's Sunday night. In the morning mom, my bro and I saw my sis off the plane after brunch at the airport's terminal 2. Afterward I felt as if something was missing in me. Mom was crying and then we realized that we forgot to call dad who was at still at church.

My sis' visit was short, only 2 weeks but in reality, I only really spent time with her for a week. During her first week here, I was working OT and busy serving at church and thus left little time for her or my family. I realized that I need to spend more time outside of work and church. I have been neglected my other aspects of life and my family and especially my brother. I hate to be coming home late and night, tire and short of patience. I give my the family the worst of myself.

Ate dim sum with dad and mom afterward and then went for a little shopping at the outlets. Picked up some great bargains. I bought 2 pairs of shoes marked over half off. Overall, I spent about $1000 on 4 pairs of shoes this holiday season (in a span of 2 weeks for me). I never bought so much shoes in such short a time. That gave me a happy mood after seeing sis off.

And now, it's Sunday night. I will go back to work again. I have this pile of work in front of me and I am trying to remember what is it exactly that I need to do, getting myself back into work mode. My colleague gave me a note and there is a spelling mistake on it.

I don't like how work just consume me, consuming my life, taking the life out of me. That's just not natural.