Gong Xi Fa Cai! Happy New Year!

Although I am having the public holidays, I don't really feel good or in high spirit. Perhaps it was the stress from the school. Yes, it is really for real. The very first time I'm feeling intense pressure. Although my friend told me to relax and even invited me to his celebration, I politely turned his invitation down as I have some personal stuffs to settle. Yes, I admit that I'm workaholic and I want to finish the works as soon as possible. Right now, I wish that the school would open on public holidays as I need to finish the works by next week. I hope that I can finish the works in few hours' time after the public holidays. If I'm correct, today is the first time that the rain falls since the first day of the year 2009. Hopefully, the rain will not fall the next day as I want to go to the scenery and draw up some pictures.

The beginning

School is going to start tomorrow. My mood is not good today due to some personal stuffs but I will have to give all my trust in God for He does everything for me. So I am going to work harder for Him. This post of my friend's blog really inspires me to the large extent. I don't know whether it can help you unless you are Christian or Catholic. But here it is: http://auburnskye.blogspot.com/2009/01/when-your-sails-no-longer-have-wind.html

To judge or not to judge?

Since the convection to Catholicism almost three years ago, the reminder often shows itself in my head. It said, "Never judge others. Otherwise, you will be judged seriously by God" as Jesus said, "Stop judging, that you may not be judged" - Matthew 7:1 But I came to learn more about the judgement during my reflection yesterday. Yes, indeed we should never judge the others. But Jesus reminded us, "Beware of false prophets, who come to you in sheep's clothing, but underneath are ravenous wolves." -Matthew 7:15 It also requires the judging as Our Daily Bread stated. We need to be able to discern truth from the falsehood. Further, Jesus said, "By their fruits, you will know them" - Matthew 7:16 So we have to judge the people including ourselves by the quality of the fruits we produce. Often, we judge the people in the term of the appearance. For example, we would think that the people are bad since they look like the baddies or ugly. Likewise, we think that they are good since they look like innocent or good looking. Not just that but we often find the faults in others too. Yesterday morning, I was in the lift with the two guys in the office building. In the lift, one of them pressed against the inner door handle with his hand so that we could enter into the lift. He was still holding the door while we were already in the lift. Then, without any thought, I pressed the fourth floor button. The door suddenly closed but that man again pressed the inner door handle to open it. By then, he was staring at me with the anger written on his face as another man came in. I really did not know that he was coming as I did not see him. This is the example. We often find the faults in other people without realizing the whole truth. We need to slow down and think before we confirm our judgment on others as Jesus said, "Why do you notice your splinter in your brother's eye, but do not perceive the wooden beam in your own eye? How can you say to your brother, 'Let me remove the splinter from your eye,' while the wooden beam is in your eye? You hypocrite, remove the wooden beam from your eye first; then you will see clearly to remove the splinter from your brother's eye." - Matthew 7:3-5
So it is okay to judge the others as long as you are careful and understand the whole matter. As Our Daily Bread stated, it must be judged by the heavenly values - the fruit of the Spirit produced within us - love, joy and peace. So I hope that everyone who reads it, will change their own way of the judgement on others. Be slow to judge others and quick to judge yourself.

Thanks be to God for the guide He teaches me. Amen.

Happy Birthday to Elvis Presley

I was not the great fan of Elvis Presley who is having his birthday today. But I like his song, "Love me tender" which I used to create my own "comedy" song for some amusements. I come to know about him through the ghost story which mentions that the couple met his ghost singing at the hotel entrance. Even Our Daily Bread mentions his birthday.

I was frying the chicken thighs for the dinner. I don't know whether it is good for me because of its excess fats. But at least I had consumed a lot of proteins. I'm running out of the supplements. So I can't wait for the coming Chinese New Year. Look like I have succeeded waking up in the very early morning. I also passed the test of not taking the buses to the MRT station since the first day of this year although I had taken the bus to home few times.

Am I ready yet?

I thought that I would feel happy as school days are approaching. But my mood is not dancing with the joy instead. I wonder if it is giving me the pressure. Otherwise, I would be very healthy and able to sleep well now. I guess I need to lead the holy life again. This time, I will be very serious about my religion because I realize that I cannot live without the Christ! My room is still messy and dusty as before. Anyway, I was shopping in the Mustafa yesterday morning. It was the great bargain as those items cost even cheaper than other shopping centres. However, the staffs' attitudes were not good. But it does not matter as I enjoyed myself over there. I guess that yesterday was the good time as I slept for at least 8 hours after some shopping. I guess I have to repeat it today. Oh no, I'm not referring to the shopping but the workout at the gym. Mm... I think I will go to Mustafa again later.

Love at sight

I was carrying the burden of fatigue today yet I found myself going to the gym because I did not want to have another sleepless night. The training was limited but fortunately, my classmate was there to support me. So afterwards, we had the dinner nearby before we were separated in the train station. She was going to buy some furniture in the NTUC whereas I was heading home for the comfort of the pillow. On the way, my eyes were so heavy that I wanted to fall asleep soon. But i forced myself to stay awake. I was standing against the wall for the support between the pretty woman who was busy with her phone and the man who was reading the book or something. My eyes were fixed on the elder man in front of me. I happened to take a peak at the book he was reading. To my surprise, he was reading the Japanese book. Mind you, the elder man was Chinese. After a while, he found the seat and offered it to the lady next to him. By then, my attention was transferring to that lady who politely declined the elder man's offer. Her style of appearance made her sexy and attractive although I was struggling with the feeling of fatigue. Armed with some shopping bags and her stylish purple handbag, black spectacles, black shirt, black trouser and purple long scarf clothed her. Not forgetting, her feet was fit in the reddish pearl shoes and she was reading the book. Although it was not love at sight, I like her sense of fashion because she was wearing my favourite colours. Hey, don't get me wrong. I'm not in hurry in looking for my dream girl. And I don't want to follow the steps of many boys who have the long strings of former girlfriends. Just one girlfriend is enough. That's why I'm serious in my expectations for my dream girl.

New Day

I want to thank God for showing me his beautiful work yesterday. If I had no sore throat, I would never witness the very beautiful yet glorious sun setting evening. I was working out in the gym when I decided to throw the towel due to my terrible sore throat. It was distressing because I only spent one hour in the gym. Not just that, but also I forgot to bring the plastic bag and the lock. But the stress was flowing away my body as I was mediating in the steam room. Later, as the train was emerging from the underground, I noticed that the weather was good. I recalled that I saw the raining through the window when I was warming up on the treadmill earlier. As I was ascending to the exit of the station, the warm, bright and orange filled sight of the trees greeted my eyes. I felt as if my spirit was nourishing by this pleasant and bright evening. So my mood was dancing with the joy and my legs were commanded to walk to the supermarket nearby. My money was spent on my favourite beef, cheese and seaweed. My instinct told me that it was worth of the day. By then, my mind was tuning to the victory celebrated by Shin Chan, my favourite cartoon. He raised his right and straight hand in the air and laughed along with his hero, Action Kamen who did the same. As I was taking the stroll on the way to home, my eyes were fixed on the bright sky. It was seven o'clock and it should be dark. But this time, the sky was bright and blue like the dawn. How pleasant and beautiful is it! Please pardon me for exaggerating. But it is how I felt. Perhaps my mind was simple and easy. During the dinner time, I made the onigiri for myself. I did not know whether everyone had ever done it before because I put my favourite cheese in the onigiri. Naturally, it tasted heavenly and melted at my mouth. So it was my special meal. Recently, I was registering online for the modules. As usual, I was struck at the choices of the new subjects because I could not find what I wanted to have. But I was approaching at the two subjects I had the interest in. At that point, my mind was having the fierce and tensely debates. Fortunately, I found two classmates in MSN and approached them for some advices. Indeed, they had helped to clear the doubts in my head. I was so grateful to them. Then, I decided to take three alternative subjects, which means I am going to have nine subjects for the new semester.

Happy New Year

Again, I failed the attempt to sleep early. I guess that I'm going to have few hours of sleep as the classmate of mine told me over MSN recently, "Let's get us out of our comfort zones. We can feel the presence of the Lord whenever we have the difficulties and hardships." She was right. That is why I decide to keep this new year's resolutions simple yet worthy to fulfill. I was watching the old comedy movie, "Happy Ghost" in Youtube. Yes, it's quite good although it's old. Sometimes, I got the laughs from it. There were feelings of heart touching and excitement too. Although it is described as the comedy and may be not real (It's fiction as we know.), I somehow find some insults from it. It's about the Catholic nun in the movie. I guess that the director of that movie did not know much about the Catholicism back then. If you watch that movie, you will understand how that director made out of that Catholic nun in the show. Despite that, I still want to watch the whole series of those movies.

All right, let's cut to the story. As New Year is already launched today, I am going to abandon my "comfort zone" and regain my workaholic style as if the chick comes out of the hatched shell of its "home". Not forgetting, I must drink the spiritual milk of the Gospel daily so that I may be saved. Next, I'm starting to walk to the MRT station from today onwards. It would be at least 30 minutes. Despite my sweaty type, it would be no problem as the atmosphere is cooler in the early morning. Besides walking, I can save the bus fares! Killing two birds with one stone. I wish that there would be the bike shop near the school so that I can cycle to school everyday. Reduce the air pollution. I got this idea from the newspaper that the foreigner cycled to work everyday. He even does not have to worry about his perspiration from cycling because he can bathe and store his road bike in the bike shop! Rental for the bike and locker in the bike shop is afforadable! Unfortunately, my parents are not the fans of the sports and adventure. Otherwise, I would be rich by now! Five dollars! Five dollars! Five dollars! *laugh*