Every Once In A While Blog

Here’s a thot. A person left to his own thoughts for too long, would most certainly fall into some form of extremism. Any longer than too long, he would go insane. Worse, if a person reads (and most people read selectively) and is left alone to his thots, the combined potency is a recipe for disaster.
    Let’s take the example of the humble roti canai. You have to toss and wallop the dough to get the right texture correct. And if you don’t, the roti canai at best will be brittle (that’s what I’m told). Same thing with ideas you get when you read. You need to toss and wallop them so you get sound ideas, not crazy ones. To do that, i reckon that we ‘bounce’ our ideas with other people. Iron sharpens iron.

Another thot, a person who attempts to be humble on his own would most certainly be proud of it. Being humbled is not an independent, solitary act. But it is almost always (if not always) brought about by circumstances. And circumstances are brought about by a sovereign God. So effectively, it is God who does the humbling on us. The state of being humble is captured better in the word HUMILITY than humbleness. It takes two for humility to work. If no one is looking, there’s no need to feel humiliated. So we cannot be humble on our own.

So these are thots, wanna ‘bounce’ with me?

                                                    …HOW LONG…
                                                 

                                       …CAN ONE MAN…
                                             

                                  …FIGHT THE LAZINESS…

                The end of second year

                          Uni Life 3

       Coming Soon In July

And I wanna watch Spider-Man 3.

Just finished reading a most fantastic book. I was blown away!"The Jesus I Never Knew" by Philip Yancey. Wonder why I never picked this book up before?

    Many people today, Christians and non-Christians alike, tend to look at Jesus in a ‘dignified’ manner. A tamed Jesus. He was a very real person as much as he was sinless. This book attempts to put things into perspective. I think that many times we read the Bible (in this case, the Gospels) through the foggy lens of ‘religiousity’ as we know it today.

    Well, the cure, or a part of it i guess, would be to read the Bible without our own preconceived ideas about who God should be or who Jesus should be. Quoting David Pawson, "Jesus is not your cute-cuddly thing".

"I know men and I tell you that Jesus Christ is no mere man. Between Him and every other person in the world there is no possible term of comparison. Alexander, Caesar, Charlemagne, and I have founded empires. But on what did we rest the creations of our genius? Upon force. Jesus Christ founded His empire upon love; and at this hour millions of men would die for Him." - Napoleon Bonaparte

"I keep everything unless I throw them out"

Next semester, I plan to be spontaneous!

Worth is inherent, value is assigned.
What do you think?

Past few days, i have been quite forgetful. I….uh….erm…..uh oh….

I’ve been reading other people’s blog a lot lately, particularly the ones on PKA website’s blogroll. And it dawned on me gradually that, while people are blogging about social concerns, politics, and significant events in their lives, I’m busy blogging about chickens and cartoon robots among other things (actually, technically I wasn’t really blogging about cartoon robots coz it’s a live action movie). I still don’t have the guts to lay out my life before the blogworld. I’m a private person y’know.

Anyways, let’s get to the task at hand: To figure out why on earth do Big Macs have one silly pickle in the middle?

I think it’s quite silly to have a pickle less than half the size of a Big Mac to be in the middle. I don’t see why. What’s the point? It doesn’t particularly taste good. It’s hidden in between the burger buns and beef and other stuff, so it can’t be for presentation purposes or aesthetics. Some people even request to have their Big Macs without them. Why?! Why?! Why?!

Maybe it’s laced with some kind of drug to get you addicted to Big Macs? Or maybe it’s suppose to be that extra something that sets it apart form other burgers? Or maybe, just maybe, it’s some kind of secret weapon to take over the world? I’ve seen a few movies where they put stuff in food or water supplies of communities and then take over them overnight (think Batman Begins). I suppose the guy who created the Big Mac (if I didn’t know any better, I’d say it was Mr. McDonald. Or do I?) had a perfectly good reason. What could it be? This is very puzzling indeed.

Another question, what are these Big Mac pickles made of? I wonder…

P.S. I always thought there was something fishy going on with Ronald McD. What do clowns have to do with burgers? Something is going on!

It’s the holidays. It’s here. This semester is flying by pretty fast. I’m having the time of my life! Mid sem break a’dy!

Well, i guess we all need a break from the pressures of university life anyway. I’ll be taking this time to catch up on my studies, reading books I’ve bought but haven’t got the time to read, clean up the house for CNY, do some shopping (that probably sounds weird to you, but it’s out of necessity)…basically like that lor.

I’m missing USM already…even if it’s just 10 minutes drive away.

HAPPY CHINESE NEW YEAR TO YOU DEAR READER!

It’s not really a discovery…but I was puzzled by it for some time and now I think I have the answer. You know how people joke about getting a ‘permanent head damage’? A phD. But really, it stands for Doctorate of Philosophy (correct me if I’m wrong).
    The thing I find amusing about this is that when one pursues a phD in any field , one will actually be pursuing a doctorate in philosophy. Does a physicist/biologist/chemist etc. end up a philosopher? If a person is pursuing a phD in Physics, why does he get a Doctorate of Philosophy? It sounded to me as if one would lose all that one has learned and become a philosopher. I imagine a person sitting under a tree, just thinking, thinking and thinking. And if he has to, he will speak, but he will speak philosophically (read:in riddles no normal human like myself will understand)
    I recently was made aware that philosophy comes from the Greek words Phileo (one of the greek words for ‘love’) and Sophia (Wisdom). Put together, it becomes philosophia, the love of wisdom. Of course! It makes sense! Anyone who would dare pursue such a high level of scholarship would certainly do it for no other reason but for the love of wisdom (am I being too naive?).
    Do I want to get a phD? I dream of it from time to time, but out of the love of glory, not wisdom. Am I capable of getting it is another question.
    So lets put things into perspective. First you get a degree, then you try and master your field. And then you find you love it so much, you decide to go beyond mastering it for the love of wisdom. Why do you want/not want a phD?