Wednesday, March 08, 2006

I just realised Tien looks like Jiesi!

Ok I know this sounds kinda sick... ok, not sick, but weird.. but I was looking through some of the photos from Boy's wedding in Bangkok last month and realised that Tien actually looks quite like Jiesi!

See the likeness, here we go..

Don't judge life by one difficult season..

This was sent out by KS and I felt its quite interesting to observe different parts of our lives, the ups and downs, along with everything else.

Lessons on Life

There was a man who had four sons. He wanted his sons to learn not to judge things too quickly. So he sent them each on a quest, in turn, to go and look at a pear tree that was a great distance
away.

The first son went in the winter, the second in the spring, the third in summer and the youngest son in the fall. When they had all gone and come back, he called them together to describe what they had seen.

The first son said that the tree was ugly, bent, and twisted.


















The second son said no it was covered with green buds and full of promise.


















The third son disagreed; he said it was laden with blossoms that smelled so sweet and looked so beautiful, it was the most graceful thing he had ever seen.


















The last son disagreed with all of them; he said it was ripe and drooping with fruit, full of life and fulfillment.


















The man then explained to his sons that they were all right, because they had each seen but only one season in the tree's life.

He told them that you cannot judge a tree, or a person, by only one season, and that the essence of who they are and the pleasure, joy, and love that come from that life can only be measured at the end, when all the seasons are up.

If you give up when it's winter, you will miss the promise of your spring, the beauty of your summer, fulfillment of your fall.

Moral lessons:
  1. Don't let the pain of one season destroy the joy of all the rest.
  2. Don't judge life by one difficult season.
  3. Persevere through the difficult patches and better times are sure to come some time or later.

Tuesday, March 07, 2006

24 ways to classify women in computer terms

Here are 24 different female computer terms. I got it from a German site which was then later translated into English. Reader discretion highly advised!

  1. The internet woman: You need to pay for access.
  2. The server woman: She’s always busy when you need her.
  3. The Windows woman: You know she has a lot of mistakes but you can’t live without her.
  4. The Powerpoint woman: She’s ideal to present to other people at parties.
  5. The Excel woman: She’s said to be capable of quite alot but you only use the four basic functionalities.
  6. The Word woman: She manages to surprise time and again but no one really understands her.
  7. The DOS woman: Everybody had her, but no one wants her now.
  8. The back-up woman: You think she’s got it all but when look closely you see she misses something.
  9. The Scandisk woman: You know she only wants your best, nobody knows what she really can do but to be deadly honest: She’s just annoying.
  10. The screensaver woman: She’s useless but you like looking at her.
  11. The harddrive woman: She remembers anything at any time of day.
  12. The e-mail woman: 9 out of 10 things she tells you are complete bullshit.
  13. The virus woman: When you expect it the least she’s going to install herself to your house. When you try to deinstall you’ll have to find lots of things missing. If you don’t try to deinstall you loose it all.
  14. The Firefox woman: Better than your Ex but she still likes to crash every once in a while.
  15. The Linux woman: You need to spend a lot of time to get anything from her. If you make small mistakes you loose it all.
  16. The bruteforce woman: She just keeps babbeling at you until you say she’s right.
  17. The DDOS woman: She just keeps babbeling at you until you have a nervous breakdown.
  18. The ZIP woman: Upon unpacking she reveals her true body weight :)
  19. The USB drive woman: Just an affair.
  20. The TFT woman: A bit flat yetfulfilling its duties as well as any other.
  21. The webcam woman: You feel watched by her, even if she’s off or sleeping.
  22. The Top-Game woman: First you know her from pictures only and want her at any cost - but once you have her she’s lying around somewhere getting dusty.
  23. The “Duke Nukem 4ever” woman: Nope, she doesn’t exist.
  24. The mouse woman: (non optical) When her underside gets nasty you don’t want to play with her any more.

Sunday, March 05, 2006

Gospel Meeting 4th March 2006

In a rather strange move as seen by some, I actually attended Gospel Meeting.. something which I had not done in quite some time. Even a couple of saints (no I shant mention names like JiaRong and Wicky) were pleasantly surprised at my decision to "return to meeting hall after dinner for gospel meeting".

JiaRong: You this type of pattern also will go for gospel meeting meh???
Caleb: Shut up.
Wicky: (Surprised Look on face) WAH! How come all of a sudden go?
Caleb: Enough of it.
JiaRong: Hahahahahahaha
Caleb: Nvm... Lets go dinner!

Well the evening's turnout was rather good, despite the fact that I had not been attending gospel meetings since work began piling up and my frequent travels. Brother Peter even asked me after everything ended "So, I havent seen you for some time". My answer was an interesting "Oh yes, I have been travelling in and out".

Come to Me...
and I will Give you Rest

This was the theme of this month's gospel meeting printed on the leaflet which we handed out to gospel friends. I was indeed very moved upon seeing so many friends standing up to acknowledge they want to receive Christ into their lives!

Joachim was speaking and Joseph translated for him. Then all of a sudden I asked myself this question, why made me want to go for the gospel meeting in the first place? First thing which came to my mind was that I knew the message would be 'interesting'. Now by interesting I do not mean entertaining or hilarious, but rather, something which I would be able to gain something from. A couple of days back, Kai Seong mentioned to me "Do you know Joachim is speaking on this saturday's gospel meeting" and while I acknowledged something in me made me want to go.

Only after the meeting that I realised I actually wanted to attend the gospel meeting because it would be 'interesting'. Come on lets face it, with all due respect to the other speakers, many a time gospel meetings can be rather boring, unengaging or simply out of point. It then becomes a blatent rattling on of words which we have all heard (pardon me again) upteen times. HOWEVER, if phrased and worded correctly, the speaker can actually turn the same basic message of truth and love so poured out for us into a wonderful message which not only touches our invited guests but also at the same time revive the hearts of many believers who have quietened down over the years. We all need some time to draw closer to the Lord; this doesnt happen over night, but key to this is the beginning.

I praise the Lord again for his wonderful work in bringing so many gospel friends for the night's meeting and continue to pray that there will be many more to come.

Saturday, March 04, 2006

Boy's Wedding 26th February 2006

I flew in to Bangkok over the weekend to attend Boy's wedding and was pleasantly surprised that many of the Thai saints actually remembered me from last year's North-East visiting trip. Muay (Boy's wife) is also from the Church in Mahachai and I was really happy to see them building up each other. It certainly was heart warming to know that you are remembered, and they spared no expense to ensure I was comfortable - this I am very grateful. I was there from the 24th to 27th February 2006 and as much as I would have loved to stay longer, work beckoned.

A picture speaks a thousand words, so let me just get on to the pictures.




















In the morning, we had a wedding thanksgiving session at meeting hall where saints, friends, family members alike were invited to witness the signing of marriage certificates. After which, we proceeded on for a super-duper-sumptuous meal prepared.



















One final goodbye cheer before we head out of meeting hall in preparation for dinner in the evening.















































































































"Taildaters" on MTV

In a rather surprising twist of events, I actually tuned into MTV to check out what was going on. For those of you who know me well enough, I am quite a loud voice when it comes to smalltalk about the "MTV Generation". Firstly, while I believe music videos are quite cool to watch in order to de-stress, I never once supported being glued to the screen while being mindblasted by endless pop culture propaganda about whats hip and happening. Secondly, I think this entire thing is overhyped. I mean seriously, what intellectual benefits do you get out of watching a series of moving pictures with background music playing.

Contrary to my common practice, yes, while waiting for an overseas call, I tuned in a while ago and caught this program screening on MTV called "Taildaters" which screened from 2AM to 2:30AM.

This program is about setting people up on dates while they can be viewed by your friends and/or relatives who are in a moving trailer that follows you wherever you go. Your friends then text you on a communicator device asking certain questions like "Are you feeling the link with him/her?" and after replying, your date's friends would then text your date to tell them your opinion. It sounds kind of dumb to begin with, but watching what people do to each other on dates (ESPECIALLY with their friends watching on) is somewhat humorous :)

I actually don't even know why I am posting this in the first place but it seems to me that people are getting into weirder.. and weirder.. and weirder.. (ok you get the idea) and weirder methods of dating. Helpful? I doubt so. Me believes they are more into it for the fun of things thats all.

.. and I just got back from Bangkok a couple of days ago, next post coming in a while shall be some pictures from my recent trip.