I know I haven't blogged for the longest time ever. I thought blogging is already a PASSE? Correct me if I'm wrong please. You mean people still actually blog and surf? I thought the world now revolves around twitter, facebook and the iphone now.

Whatever the case is, I know I've never been an avid blogger (and will never be one), but just hit by some random thoughts that I decided to just blog about since I am errs connected to the internet and finishing up some last min work (at an unearthly hour of 2.30am), so much for lovely bosses who overload you with ten million tasks to do.

Ok, no more digressing, let's get going.

You know I do understand the whole hype in the newspapers/in online news websites with big headlines shouting at you about whatever that is going on about the tragedy that has just struck Haiti.

Sometimes I don't get it about how people get so concerned about what is happening elsewhere but yet do nothing about whatever that is happening in their own land. It upsets me to know that many people only get themselves 'involved' when something as big scale as what has happened in Haiti happens. Other than that, the poor old man selling tissue outside the mrt station, schooling kids working to earn their own pocket money, the physically disabled man struggling in leading a normal lives like others, the intellectually disabled struggling in receiving acceptance from the society just doesn't seems to bother us as much.

The people in Haiti don't need you to feel sad for them, that's simply pity and they don't need our pity.

I bet with you, the news about Haiti will start to lessen in a few more days to a week's time. The amount of hype created about news is all about media sensationalisation. The news mention it, the people talk about it. If the news stop talking about it, the people will so naturally stop talking about it as well.

Come that 7 days later when there are no longer any headlines about Haiti, I question whether people will think about the people in Haiti and pray for them. I question whether anybody will still remember about Haiti and will want to keep themselves updated with the progress of relief work in Haiti and to pray for the people who have been affected by the earthquake.

If our giving to the poor and needy only happens when bad things like natural disasters, etc strike a particular place, I feel that that's as good as giving out of pity. Let's not wait for such things to happen before we want to do something, start by doing small little things in the society that God has already placed you in at the moment.

Nobody gives a shit to old clothes/food collection for the poor and needy singaporeans, but people get activated after they've heard about Haiti. I'll be the first to admit, i'm one of the idiotic singaporeans who doesn't give a shit to this kind of thing. The Haiti plight did not made me convicted to want to join some relief work force and fly over to Haiti to help, I know i do not have such resources. This time round, on top of giving what I can for the Haiti relief efforts, I want to start locally as well. I want to start being bothered with what is happening around me and not turn a blind eye towards it.

Pardon me if i sound incoherent, ridiculous or whatever. it's an ungodly hour of 3 hours and 10 minutes into the whee hours of the morning.

What are your convictions?
How do convictions become convictions?
When do convictions become rooted as values?
Do convictions = values?

Share with me, if you happen to still chance upon this.

What are your convictions?

Share with me, if you happen to still chance upon this.

dear friend of mine, i so want to tell you that God is the answer to all your problems in life. i so want to let you know that only the love of God can possibly fill that emptiness in you heart. your life is screwed, but God can unscrew that screwed life of yours. i will be praying for your mum next week. my heart aches whenever i think about you. i am praying for you, your mum and your entire family. i love you friend, but i know someone who loves you more than i do.

about tough decisions.

Making tough decisions in life makes one tougher.

i am contemplating on something that i am pretty sure is just an infatuation after shopping at the nearby supermarket last night. i feel like eating all the pocky in the world (esp the rare ones), and collect all the different flavours. so next time when i go overseas, i'll collect all kinds of pocky in different flavours back! i just spent 5 dollars buying those rare pocky at the supermarket just now.

but this i have decided, which is that, when i have my own house in the future, there are a few things i'll make sure i'll never run out of supplies in my own fridge next time.

1) yoghurt

2) milk

4) museli

5) lettuce, cherry tomatoes, bacon bits, tuna and eggs (perfect salad combination!)

i secretly always believed i was born in the right part of the world. i never fancied oily bee hoon for breakfast. milk with museli still beats everything else heads down for the best breakfast on earth. followed by scones and bagels. they rock.

first, before i can even start collecting pocky boxes or buy unlimited supplies of museli, milk, yoghurt, salad, etc. i need to find a job.

and if you are reading this, perhaps you might want to pray for me as well! job hunting's tough i must say. i really really need God's guidance in this, i need step by step guidance. ideally, i would definitely want to get a job that is still closely related to what i love, which is the arts! so i'm really committing all these into God's hands and see what he wants to do with it.

yays! i'll get a job soon by the grace of God, amen! :)

Leadership is lonely.

Yeahs, when you think about it in a self-pity manner.

I've got a God who's by my side 24/7, a God who understands my every thought pattern and emotional ups and downs, my struggles, my cognitive dissonances etc.

Now, who says that leadership is lonely?