What goes around comes back around..

Just a tear

2011-10-10T04:54:00.000-07:00

Doesn't the topic say it all.
Let me start by the tears shed in the airport,
leaving Russia is an ideal thing for me, at first, yes, it's me being strong,
conflicts running into my veins. I want it to be out of my system in no time,
The night before my departure, my eyes were kept awake! Eyebags became heavy,
it has been several nights since i was unable to sleep! Thinking about the life in Russia, and it's greatness. These are the facts, the very few ones that made me look up to the future.
I promised and swore deep down in my heart, i would stay strong! OH YES I WILL! what's so hard about it anyway?

In the airport, i guess i was right, i never was going to cry. My heart stood as firm as a rock, an immovable one! the ones you can see in the beach, and was thousands of years ago, never rusted, never moved. Words were mere words. When i heard the announcement, about me departing, part of me faded away, just like the waters in the seas sweeping off the words of the sand of the beach. Part of me wanted to stay.
Time ticked and ticked crazily fast! and there i was nearly boarding the Immigration Custom, the tears i saw rolling down my mother's cheeks.
I couldn't take it, my heart burst into tears, my facial expression remained still and my words held on saying "Stay strong, mum! I love you". Giving my final goodbyes and hugs were not simple.

Upon reaching Russia, the vision of me in beautiful Russia became blurred. my tears rolled down like crazy! I couldn't take it, depression fell upon me! i couldn't take it, it wasn't Russia, it wasn't the cold, it was the picture depicting the tears of my mother, and the warmth of love i felt in that tears.

But anyways, overcoming wasn't easy, took me a week! All with God's help, my parents' support and the teachings from my Pastor! i managed to go through these DARK AGES!

Till next year, MUM AND DAD, till i reach into your arms, with my wide open heart. Until then, the tears flowed would never go away. This must be the most complicated situation i have ever seen! Love you, Mom and DAD!

Russia!

2011-08-25T09:25:00.000-07:00

Russia, the world's most beautiful city, also the most expensive CITY in Russia!
the place where everything revolves hehe, it's so scary! especially when it comes to the fact that you are going to somewhere, a place so foreign (btw, i never in my life crossed the border of Malaysia), i'll update you blog "stalkers' soon aboout my trip there, no worries, heap of news coming! I'll be there for SIX LONG YEARSS! Feel free to leave your house add behind, who knows, i might send you a postcard! :D hehe

2011-04-15T03:59:00.000-07:00

=.= Running away is always an option, but in last days like these, where do we run to? to WHOM DO WE CALL to? For me, GOD! JESUS! being in a place where

What the world is coming into? Guys into cows?

2010-12-08T05:57:00.000-08:00

The sight everyday, not-serviced trucks spitting out dirty exhaust.. And really? things like this.. Inspires me i guess? Things around me starts inspiring me.. Movies like 'totally forgot'.. LOL, sorry .. refers to men as cows ..? The thought of comparing a man literally with a cow makes me fill my belly(nt tht i have with laughter) ... A man, a cow? How selfish can a man be? The thought of seeing jerks makes chills run back my spine.. It is not like i am one (mayb sometimes i am) but, ya'know.. Guys cheatin their girl, girls running over to somebody else and wt happens to the guy again? LONELY! YEA! it's probably the right word! So what? What does it have to do with cows.. Speaking literally? Since i am a guy! How can girls call guys selfish when they themselves do cheat.. C'mon ladies! stop unrolling back your sleeves and cut the crappy lies and rumours that all girls are innocent .. It is definitely hard to imagine what a girl would do when they get themselves busted! Ironically speaking, yes B-U-S-T-E-D! Girls nowadays love being heart-broken or somehow or rather love breaking guys'heart.. They would simply jump into a man's role by sitting on the coach wit their legs up with the remote on their right hand and popcorns on their left.. Just watching about how things go by as if she's like waatching some tv episode! In the nuitshell, girls simply like guys to wait.. They do express their feelings of love .. yada, yada .. then what does a girl do? Shut up and stare ? How pathetic can some girls be.. (BTW am nt speaking in general).. okay, another introductory of a girl's character is.. BITCHING .. yea, a girl who flirts and winks at another.. Looking into guy's eyes making them fall in love with them just so that bed would be one option or simply just the money... yea, money makes the world go round.. What could guys do without the money these days! Men would just extinct out of the world categorized as 'hot girls'... they'll be like "sorry but u ain't on the list'... see wt i'm talking about.. So may i conclude that girls should never call guys a snort, A PLAYER, or whatevr word u can think of to describe a lousy bf cuz i would suggest that u'll take a good look in the mirror to rectify your own judgement and predicament about others .. =D Peace ...

Puppy's love-everlasting?

2010-10-08T02:56:00.001-07:00

.The first time i saw u, my heart dropped.. I was like "wow, who is that beautiful girl sitting across the classroom..".. She looks familiar .. Its like i've seen her somewher.. My eyes, kept looking away but my heart tells me, Justin, u're going to meet ur love.. Chuckled, i murmured to myself, that wud definitely be a joke.. Who believes in love.. ? My again.. My heart kept pushing my feelings closer and closer to her.. That's stupid.. Really stupid.. How can i possibly fall in love wit someone when i'm still wt? Standard 5-primary school.. Ridiculous! Lol, girls mature faster than guys.. Scientific theories are proven over and over again to rectify the doubts of our society..but for me?.. I'm an exception.. I'm totally in love.. Love for another being outside the circle of my family and friends.. Haih, but when next year came, all hopes are gone.. She was in a different class.. Ok? That was truly dissapointing.. Day by day, i walked past her to get at least a glimpse look at her.. The spark in her eyes, the flash of her smile and the beauty that shone within her made me feel like a plant.. I need carbon dioxide and water to survive my day.. Oh, i felt happy until...... Out of a sudden, feelings, intimate ones began drainin out from my love level for her.. Why? Why?.. I asked myself.. But till today the question still remains unanswered.. Puppy love, don't u think?

yawn... Second chance, maybe?..

2010-10-08T02:44:00.001-07:00

Hey..again.. Lol, i'm just wondering.. What perfectly makes a blog interesting and heart-captivating?..cuz i've no idea wt to write and i can c other ppl's blogs are full of their stories which have some interesting ones and some drop-dead stories.. Hmm, give me time to improve my blog.. Let me think about things to write before i start crapping like everybody else..

Ok?..

2010-10-07T09:00:00.000-07:00

Yay! Exam is finally over!.. Lol, sorry for not updating my blog for a long time.. Two reasons!.. 1st, its leceh to type the stuffs out and i only do this thing when I'M FREE.. Lol, secondly, i keep forgettin my password.. So, its kinda like a disturbance to me la.. Lol, ok, where do i start?.. Hmm!... Exam first.. Let me c.. Exam was ok.. Some really hard and the rest is do-able.. But all glory goes to Jesus if i get all aces... Its hard actually to score all A+ but nothin is impossible wit God.. Yea, i'm really feeling glad cuz the exam was like three weeks.. Three frustrating weeks!.. Without God, i'm like kinda dead now cuz of the stress that kills.. Seriously! It really does.. So many more to study and SPM IS JUST AROUND THE CORNER.. Just in approximately a month, the akhirat will come.. Lol.. Haih,... Speakin of exams, there's somethin else tht got bigger besides my brain.. Its my EYEBAG! Lol.. I sleep so much during exam periods.. But the eyebags just got bigger... The noise of the class today is still drumming in my ears.. And thk god!, i'm not takin any other further subjects.. Or i wud've gone to school.. Lol, tell me bout ur random stuffs here la.. I wanna hear from y'all.. Ciauz

A privilege~ (you'll see this soon in one of Star's newspaper articles soon)

2010-09-06T03:56:00.000-07:00

Dynamic a.k.a Pelangi...
Yea.. u should totally know this tuition
One thing for sure, u shud never get involved wit Pelangi (dynamic)
kNow why?
Its like hell! once in, never out!
or maybe the statement tht says
Once you go black you'll never turn back!
Let me relate to you the so-called quotes to what i'm talking about
..this tuition NEVER AlLOWS YOU OUT!!
Yeap, one month notice?
Y the heck does sum1 need a months' notice ?
Its ridiculous..
And the way they treat a student
ITS FAR WORST THAN THEY TREAT YOU IN DETENTION CENTRE or maybe JAIL
My friend (who is sitting for his SPM like me) wants to stop on September and gave a month's notice but what now?
you guess the answer? -yea, like you're really guessing
NO!! They gave all those sort of crap that says
NO, you can't stop cuz they already booked the seats for the classes..
C'mon give us a break!
WOW! is the first thing sum1 wud say
Bcuz this tt is decorated like hell!!
They exploit our money and decorate this tuition
AND FOR WHAT REASON?
Its damn ridiculous.. Who needs a good-looking tt when the tt quality sucks !
Quality as in the teachers (not literally all)
And let me get to the worst part!!
The staffs here are so immature, impolite, and .. etc(all the bad adjectives to desceribe idiotic people)
First, Raymond, he's not even close to the show "Everybody loves Raymond"
I'll probably directa a show that says "Everybody freaggin hates RAYMOND"
I can guarentee for sure that its going to be a hit!
He speaks rudely, doesn't have a mind of his own, always being blown like paddy on a paddy field.. He acts smart -yea right and has a mouth that i would really hope it would shut up
I understand that the tuition is always noisy
But he can at least speak with full courtesy
"students, i wud respectfully ask you to keep quiet. Please be considerate as students having classes now need their concentration. please be reminded that you will reap what you sow"
wow, even i can say that!
But what does he says?...
"MONKEYS DOWNSTAIRS PLEASE KEEP QUIET! HUMANS ARE TRYING TO STUDY"
I find that rude..
He's calling himself a monkey too i guess..
okay, bitching about person number one is totally over..
Phoebe, sweet name for a sweet person
But let me briefly tell you about her
She's alwaays having her PMS!
Moody sometimes, ironically i think its all the time..
Theere' one, everyone in the class was feeling cold bcuz it was raining and the air-cond was like blasting..
So we asked her nicely to reduce the air-cond..
What she replied is going to be a hit!
SHE SAYS, CANNOT, COLD NEXT TIME BRING YOUR JACKET
LACK OF HUMANISME IN HER
One thing stupid about this tt is that they do not have a human & resource department..
Haha.. no wonder they're working in a tt cuz nobody wans to hire them bcuz of their damn attitude..
Oh, one more thing!
Remember there was a policy that says
'customers are always right' but in this tuition!
Its topsy-turvy!
Customers are always wrong and guess what?
When i complained about a teacher, they told the teacher that i complain about him and nhe bitched about me in his classes!
I complained about how lousy it was bcuz this teacher always give us tests to cover up for his laziness? and i thought school teachers were the only lazy educators..
He doesn't return them neither does he marks em'
and right up till now, i have not received the papers yet..
and the tt administrators tried covering up by telling another story by saying that they are keeping em.. Yea, i think its already recycled and its made into STAR newspaper! dAMN RIDICULOUS

What i can say now is that i can't wait to get out form this tuition

Accusing..

2010-09-03T08:04:00.000-07:00

Hey ladies and gentleman.. Let us discuss about somthin we shud like to call accusing..
Forgiving and forgetting is not as easy as said than done..
But true all guys forget and dont forget but its only in general
I find it akward actually..
You suddenly apologize but i find it wierd..
But its ok dear,
i'll forgive you,
cuz forgiving to me is so simple,
its indescribable but yes,
we should discuss about us
How an accusation will sweep away friendship..

..... ATTENTION.....!!!

2010-08-30T01:38:00.000-07:00

yea, as what the title says

So what do i hate the most?
Hmm, i've finally figured it out..!!
Let me spill the bucket!
I HATE PEOPLE WHO FREAKIN LOVES TO GET ATTENTION!!
yea, i am refering specifically to you

Always yelling in class at the top of your voice
I know you are damn smart
cuz others have to study and you don't
So i'm just telling you
CUT THE CRAP!!
You're just getting on my nerves
u think ur cute..
trying to paint that expression bouit urself to ohters
But nash..
You just make a one-hell-of-a-fool of yourself

Here i am
writing on this blog just to tell you of your crap
I'm respecting you first
So please, with courtesy
RESPECT OTHERS TOO!
You're not the one with feelings!!

GOT THAT?!!

Look who's talking...

2010-08-30T01:29:00.000-07:00

Just a random fact..
I hate the way you are
Like bitching around
Always thinking that ur always right
ditching friends is what you do best
And you know what
Just don't pretend that you don't know who yoiu are

YES, you!!
bite your tongue and scream it out loud cuz your the one
that jerk
the one so-called "bitch"
what a hag..
I see your true colours now
I see dark colours that clouds your image
How shameful it is..
What a beautiful world it is
without you hagging

U may be good looking but so what?
Do i even look like i care about what you think about yourself?
"haha"is all i can say
after everything we've been through
Just backstab me one more time
Just one little time

Don play with fire
I'm warning you
A sparkle in the forest will lead to massive burning
Didn't your mama taught you so
Unless you don listen, as usual

Maybe it was suppose to end this way...

2010-08-27T02:39:00.000-07:00

I don hate her,
my pal, she still is i think,
I'll blame fate..
We were not meant to be frens..
But i hope tht we can meet again..
Just one day,
Showing how small the world is ..
How beautiful the world can be..
These are my last words..
GoODByE~

Being a JERK sometimes, who gives a shit..

2010-08-20T17:32:00.000-07:00

Hey don listen to only one part of the story
U'll be termed as a jerk if u do
U talk and talk as if there's no end..
i admit okay that i'm PARTIALLY WRONG..
But u don hve to be so dramatic bout that..
Call me untrustable..
Call me for a million times..
But you call me your good friend when u've been an asshole lately
You check yourself FIRST..
You don tell my secret eh,...??, as if..
U tell it to your 'other'trustable friend..
U still tell em'
Let me tell you something..
I can say that ur wonderful..
Know why?
U can say everthing and everything that u say seems right..
YUP!! the world ciculating around you are wrong..
WHAT!! You can be God or something..
You can fast and fast but what's the point if ur acting like a total jerk..
And you say that you are not okay..
i see you laugh but never a teardrop..
What are you now?? A HYPOCRITE!!
seriously, i should have never met you
and maybe, just ,maybe.. the world wud be a better place
For both you and me..
BTW, stop bitching about me ..
Cuz i don do that to you ...
Calling me ur good fren..
It'll be a joke if u say so..

AND TO PERSON WHO SAID WHAT I SAY TO OTHER PEOPLE~

I REALLY EXPECT YOU TO SHUT THE HELL UP!!
U've got nothing to say ..
Try telling your secrets..
u know who you are, big-ass mouth..
Always want security, want to be famous..
But u don have to act..
cuz to me, ur just a lame-ass trying to get fame
FAME IN AN EASY WAY..

Heh, my picture

2010-07-16T17:54:00.000-07:00

ITS my picture.. (heh, i don knw where to post it.. ) so a blog is where we dump things

2010-07-16T16:57:00.000-07:00

Can tell the difference.. Of course you can... (top picture) is Regina's "Biggy" (guess its not as 'biggy' as it seems to be).. Then its the pastor's dog.. Just returned it yesterday... A vacuum is left in my heart.. I felt a deep sense of lonilness.. But fyi, i get over things quite fast.. Haha.. Within a couple of minutes i guess..^^

Good News for Her, but her mum.....?

2010-07-15T02:36:00.001-07:00

There's a story of a non-filial daughter.. Oh, you can tell of her selfishness at a glimpse ... Puppy love is real love for her and what happens..? you know all about the runaway story amd stuffs like that.. So back to my point.. Her mother, in such a desperate need, came to school today.. and i guess ut wouldnt be much of a coincidence that that mother and i intersected when Mustaza (school's PK HEM-teddy bear a.k.a.. whatsoever you call it)called me to look at a number of boys'picture.. Curious, i asked her why she wants me to look at the pictures.. (its more out of courage actually).. And then,... this is how the story came by...

SO WHOEVER WHO IS INTENDING TO RUN AWAY FROM HOME, THINK TWICE ABOUT THE PERSON WHO LOVES YOU UNCONDITIONALLY... (DON"T BE A CHEAP SKATE RUNNING AFTER LOVERS)

2010-07-10T02:23:00.000-07:00

DOGS! who says money can't buy love.. For the past solid 2 weeks.. AND i can't say how a blessing it is to have this dog... Its indescribable to define this love that the dog shows.. But its so unfortunate to have this dog going back soon.. Sorry for the bad start but let me introduce u to this dog.. Its my pastor's who went to Europe to spent some qualiity time with his family.. Initially nobody wans the dog except me.. for the fact that its damn adorable.. (Thx Estelle for shwoing me wt a dog's love is)... Haha.. yea.. so .. crap?! i forgot how to continue this .. . Wait yáll just hold ur horses.. i'll try editing this post if it comes across my mind..

Random comes after boredom

2010-06-23T07:35:00.001-07:00

AINA!! haha.. have a good laugh at IT!! Finally got a pic that i took long time ago.. Look at wt she's trying to do? Haha.. wait, shud i get a pic of an ape to compare?? LOL,.. Love being random.. Love you Aina!! NO OFFENCE.. ^^

2010-06-23T07:33:00.000-07:00

Its so late at night and i'm soo hungry.. Snacks just makes one fatter!! Yuck, the sight of snacks can make me puke.. Like NOW!! BLUEKK.. haha *kidding la*..

DECEIVED MANY?

2010-06-23T07:16:00.000-07:00

Yea, to the comment-giver that left your comment here.. I do know that Satan has deceived people as the WORD OF GOD has written.. "for the enemy comes to STEAL, KILL and TO DESTROY" So definitely they wanna deceive people and even Christians nowadays are being deceived.. Why? The first FACTOR is compromise.. YEs, it may seem small for people to compromise but in GOD's SIGHT a sin is a sin.. A white sin, black sin.. Lest we ask God for His forgiveness, "Not all who calls me Lord can enter the Kingdom of God" .. so how do we grow spriritually.. ? Obviously in reality we do need food.. espcially protein to help our body develop.. In a same way, as Christians we need our spiritual food, that is, the WORD OF GOD ITSELF.. As Jesus said, Men shall not live by bread alone but by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of God.. Because God's word will not return void, instead it'll be like a double edged sword piercing through every bone marrows.. Thristy? in reality we get a drink but what can cure our thirst FOREVER? by the Living Water of Jesus! He is our living water! Only through him, our thirst-a thirst to desire God is all through Jesus himself, the Son of God!! Which i am prouda to say!! Seriously, to all who's not A Christian, and ur reading this, leave behind a comment to ask any questions.. Happy to answer all of em.. Hope that you can experience God in His own special ways after reading this..

Exam Over? Wt about the results?

2010-06-23T07:01:00.000-07:00

Somtimes,
If you could just give a thought about examinations!
What seems harder than the exam is the results itself..
I think, feel or even better am really determine is the RESULTS itself (LOL, as what the title of this post just mentioned)..
Yea, trusting GOD till the ultimate end..

"god i love you" but sometimes i just don know why i don feel it with all my heart.. Yes!! Obviously i don mean like I DON REALLY LOVE GOD which i definitely DO!! But i can't feel it with all my heart cuz i was like kinda born in a Chrsitian family and all.. Yea.. I think my results are complicated cuz God

Love... ~

2010-06-04T21:52:00.000-07:00

Graphics

Just wanna say that love is the element to every single atoms in life.. Chemistry-Love story match? Wondering how do they come tpgether? tke it in this way, without love, covalent compounds and ionic compounds would never be formed!! Its the "love"-the unspoken, invisible but strong Love ... Some would say Love is just a feeling but wt i would say is that love is a success.. The greatest success of every success.. The first Love ever is when God created us in HIS own image.. His everlasting love...The unconditional, agape, and never-ending, as-deep-as-the-depths-of-the-sea, as-wide-as-the-universe LOVE.. Again, i would like to emphazize.. LOVE, similar to the definition of atom, is the basic element of life.. Peopke,i would conclude, will perish without the existance of Love

Crap!!

2010-05-27T01:30:00.000-07:00

I freaking hate u.. Damn.. u get me to my freaking nerves.. So what? Conscience that awakens ur dumb soul.. Who cares?! BTW, who the heck do you think you are? Messing with me like that... feelings are meant to be cherished.. Yup, its damn true.. Some girls are just bitches.. Bloody blinded with yourselves.. I'm glad all of these is over.. NO MORE TIES... Haha.. what a relief not to see you anymore.. I feel like suffocating the life out of your tiny, heartless soul.. DAmn "sakai" la some people.. They Just don't have the guts.. what more, their f***ed life.. Living all trendy and all.. Who do u think i am? I barely give a damn actually..

~HoW YoU BrOkE My HeArT~

2010-05-14T23:11:00.000-07:00

U'll say..

I like the sight,
Of u when u walk by,
ur hair, ur eyes, ur smell,
It awakens my senses
Awakens my lost, trapped soul,
Thank you for tht,
i owe u big, as big, large, gigantic, enourmous as life itself..
Ur love is my morphin..
It drowns my soul..
Drowns our lives..
Its hard to say,
But when i see the sight of u ...
Every single day,
My heart is enticed..
No words can express wt i feel
How u feel is wt breaks me
Knowing it cuts me
Living a wound in me..
How can it be cured..
How can it be cured,
A doctor, a physician..
None is useful
All tht's left is nothing..
But emptiness..
What can fill my jar..
Water, not quenching enough
Food, not quashing enough..
Asking you to be back
is like calling an end to this World..
Inevitably, u appear in my memories..
From time to time,.
Its Hard to say goodbye...
But this is the end..
Mayb for now..
But nt forever..
U say now..
But i say forever..
And life will never let us go astray..
We will coincide ..
We are predestined..
And when u say tht when ur younger..
But Tu AMOUR baby..

Chorus
U'll say ..
U'll just say I Love You...
Once, i knew u carved my name on ur cupboard..
But u can alwys remove it..
But i carved ur initials on my heart..
How can i scratch it of..
I'm nt asking u to come back
All i can say ,
The most i can do is to
Wish u all the best..

And i knw u gave me a chance..
a chance when i can always take for granted of..
and chances,
come and go like the wind in the sky..
Its up to you..
But i hope u moved on..
Because i've moved too..
Only an inch,
Waiting for u to run back into my arms
Saying that ur sorry..
For saying goodbye to me..
Saying that u love me
And promise never to leave me..

Bridge
All of these
Just for you
Just for you..
And only a little for me..
But to you, not much
But for me ..
I mean it wit..
Every inch
bits.. of my soul....
So take it,
Cherish it
And dump it..
But its only our memories..
So goodbye...~

(c) Created by Justin Chan..

tonnes of stuufs

2010-05-14T23:07:00.001-07:00

What am i going to say after a long time .................OK, starting wit the latest song i've heard.. Your Love is My drug..woohoo...tht song rocks!! Its by Kesha..I'm nt oly fascinated by the song but also by the term.."YOUR LOVE IS MY DRUG"....I just find this sentence fascinating..
Proceeding, ...Its about the prefects stuffs...WE HAVE TO HEARTLESSLY DO OUR DUTY !!! ON TEACHER"S DAYIts a lil too much..Its just not wt the teacher promised..Its unfair..Wt injustice is our school showing.. !!Little by little, they try taking everything frm us..Frm the certificate to the lies..Yes i knw, the teachers ar suppose to so-called 'rest'Fine, who doesn't oppose tht..But the fact thtWE DO NOT AND WILL NOT NEED THE HELP OF THE TEACHERS ANYTIME..ALL these while, we've been managing this ourselves..I hope by asking us to step down early is nt an excuse of wanting us to focus on our studies...!! BECAUSE WE'RE STILL DOING THE SAME DUTY.. NT EVEN LIGHTEN !! SO I BELIEVE IN MY HEART OF HEARTS THT THERE IS SO MUCH INJUSTICE..Why can't you just tell us the real reason y we shud step down..Cuz we aren't darn GOOD.. tht's y...At least its better than keeping it shut cuz by nt telling,YOU ARE LYING IN THE BROAD DAY LIGHT... I CAN SEE!! hELLO!!!Putting this aside is hard as i have to face this crap everyday..Serio8usly, i don't and never will i want to do this if i've a choice..the FOrm 4's especially..I am confident u can mange uthe prefect board URSELF.. The form 3 prefects outnumber the Form 4s and 5s..Try coming into our shoes last year..We've sooo few prefects in our batch and u form 3s last year ar so few..And all the prefects are useless and we have to manage everything by ourselves..Call us suckers, but at least WE TRIED..Who cares bout wt ppl say..Cuz they're untrue as long as u knw tht it is true to urself..*sry, my blood temp is rising when i'm typing this*..This rly irritates me thinking bout the teacher holding our certificates..FYI, teachers, if ur reading this..THAT CERTIFICATE IS OUR EFFORT...One day, try hving ur efforts being stole away..Let's see ur RESPNSE..And one more thing, fine.. Pengetua SAYS THT WE CAN BE HALTED FRM OUR DUTIESSTARTING FROM AUGUST..BUT PUAN JESPALL SAYS WT.. WE STILL HAVE TO DO OUR DUTIES.. JUST THT IT'L BE LIGHTER.. ISN'T IT THE SAME...... I hope this school isnt creating a bad reputation for itself...CUZ i rly love this school like a lot!!
Oh yea, one more thing,I'll be singing for HAri Guru..Creeped out... *chill running down my spine*Wish me all the best, and christians,pls pray for me.. i need ur prayers...
*wow, i can feel a lil backache after typing all these*
To KBH,Seriously, better start repliyng me..LOLZ.. jeez...
kla, i think i'll stop here..So c ya..Tata.. 4 nw..

Unsatisfied...

2010-05-14T22:27:00.001-07:00

Exams,
As u knw ..yea.. it sucks..
LIKE REALLY, REALLY SUCKS!
Especially Malaysian exams..
Complicated formats...!!

Freaking irritating..
Its unexpressably irritating...

GEEE!!!

2010-05-14T18:39:00.001-07:00

At last!!!!! I've found my password.......

Sorry for the extremely LATE UPDATE..

There's a lot to say.. Hmm.. Where shud i start??

Randomness..

2010-02-19T21:00:00.000-08:00

My "mat-salleh" cousin.. Nice hanging out with him..
though, i don speak muc to him..
Can't blame that ..
When nothing comes across your mind..
What can you do besides crapping..
Yea.. that sorta thing!!
Anyway, his sister is coming down too..
I'm so looking forward to her arrival..
And tonight is a hard decision..
I've got 3 parties to atend!!
CRAP!!

Angpows..

2010-02-19T20:52:00.000-08:00

P.S Aunt Caryn, don Read this..!! Its not for u.. *wink

Yesterday..
Friday..
Missedd homefellowship!!
Yea, ok.. so what?
Not like i did it on purpose!!
Anyway, we had our own family dinner...
Guess who came??
My aunty.. A young one.. Newly married.. sorry guys..
I'm so glad to see her
But what's even better is the angpow factor
I was like wow,
here comes another angpow..
Got the angpow.. Looked at the the valuable angpow wrapper!!
Wow, looks fancy..
True enough. My thoughts were right! Its fancy on the outside
AND ALSO ON THE INSIDE!!
I was like F***!!
There's 2 angpows ..
EAch with RM 30 in it..
I'm sorry 4 being uncivilized..
But i still feel happy..
Right up to thiis hour (when i'm writing this)

Fireflies – Owl City

2010-02-14T21:09:00.000-08:00

Fireflies – Owl City

Day 3.. Lmao..(15.02.10)

2010-02-14T20:48:00.000-08:00

Ok.. its another in hell
Pure Hell
Know why?
Cuz its scorchingly hot in here...
its like there's no clouds in the sky...
Where are my natural shelters when i need one?
Its sooooo crappy!!
The only damn thing to do here is to online, to chat, watch tv or watching ppl play poker!! (But i don plsy.. i'm not much of a risk-taker)
Yesterday, i visited my grandmother's brother, or rather called my granduncle..
ohhhhmygooooooooooodness, i can tell you...
You can break into tears, looking at him..
He can't speak and all he does is to murmur..
So i asked what happened to him?
My father's cousin replied that it was because the doctor cut the wrong nerve at his spinal cord.. It totally shut down his speaking nerve!!
And so i talked to my grandmother bout it and she felt so sad..
Just so sad!!
Its her only brother left surviving...
Its worst than losing your cat..
Its an intense sadness for her..
She said that she visited him the day before..
All he can do is murmuring words which is un-understandable..
So all she did was cry and cry and hug him..
I felt touched.. My heart melted to see the love she had for her brother..
Its soooo sad .. if you were in my shoes you'll be crying to imagine that touching scene..

Ok, after that we visited my aunt, staying in Pokok Mangga..'
Its damn bored and guess what..
They offered a dish called "The Eight Treasure on Earth"
(I don know whther my uncle made that crap up)
But anywayz.. i didn't eat it..
Because any sight of seeds in the "tong Shui"(chinese delicacies),
Its an absolute NO for me!!
So we stayed and chat..
That reminds me.. This year is a sad year for me..
First, i lost my thumbdrive
Whiuch i'm hoping to find..
Please God.. Help me get it back.....!!!!
Secondly, anotyher sad thing is there's no less-than-five-percent alchohol drink (Anglia or Jolly Shandy) this year!!
Itsss sooooo saddening!!@
Craplah!!
I did drink Carlsberg actually..
It tastes worst than crap!
Its seriously bitter
and Heart burning..
To admit, it was good at first but when it slowly dissolves into my mouth..
BY GOLLY!! Its terrible
So how was your holidays??

Hopefully, it was not as bad as mine!!

One last thing i forgot to mention is that my cousin from US came back..
He sure looks fit (i think)
And i found out that he can't eat too much sugar..
He has diabetes..
its so sad.. but ..
He sure knows how to gamnble..haha
I think that's it .. for what i've gotta say today.. or probably now
My hands are killing me!! Dammn!!

K tata.. update me wit ur life in this whole week..
And holla me ok!! ByE!!

Taylor Swift

2010-02-13T15:56:00.001-08:00

Me LOVE her a lot!!
Love her songs..
love her look
and definitely love her beeautiul, enormusly big eyes!!

Conflicts faced during Chinese New Year..

2010-02-13T15:38:00.000-08:00

Homework, homework!! no peace until i get it done
Hey just because i'm like that, doesnt make me a nerd..
Life in the kampung sure is boring!!
Everybody is busy wit their things!!
This year is sooo cool!!
Chinese New Year and Valentine? Together?
Marvellous!! LOL..
So do u have any idea how to celerate them?
God!! I feel kinda happy today...
Is it the money or somtehing else
Ok, so i'm going to start keeping my fingers crossed...
Hopefully.. People are not as stingy to give soo little for CNY..
The range that should be given shud be from 4 bucks or more..
I mean C"MON!!! How often do u give in a year..
Its not like you have to bless me like everyday
OH yea.. not to mentioned..
some people are buyers!!
Every different people gets different amount
According to their status and popularity..
I hat it when they do so..
They always seperate those angpows into two different angpow..
Wow.. How pain-in-the-ass some people can be..
Know what's the worst confilct?
People only give 2 bucks??
"with great power comes great responsibility"
but..
"with little money comes what?" Let me answer that .. Comes nothing!!
What can you literally buy with only two bucks in your pocket..?
You can't even afford a char kuey teow!!
And you know what is the worst thing??
Some people avoid distributing angpow because of their scrooge-ness
and end up skipping Chinese New year by going for a holiday..
There's someone (anonymous) once told me that the money you spend giving angpow,
Might as well you go and spend it for the holidays ..
At least it benefits yourself..
Wow,.. Amazing right?
Yes.. its true.. For some people, its not a joke for them,,,
cause u knw y rigtht??
Let your self be the smart one and give a good guess on what i'm trying to say...

Gee.. there's a lot more i can say..
But when there are bads,
there must be some good too right??
Ok judging from the amount of people married..
I think this year is going to be awesome!!
Another good thing is the firecrackers!!
Wow how i love them a lot..

Sceond Day in Grandma's house......

2010-02-13T01:40:00.000-08:00

Wow..
Seriously...
its damn boring here..
Just can't find the reason!!
The weather is scorchingly hot!!
God .. sent down some rain.....
I'm feeling so drowsy..
I can't even sleep
Just tell me... How this feeling can be...
LOL... All the cousins!! Where are u when i need ur presence..
Its so so NOT fun
~There's so much hw.. And yet.. the weather spoils my mood...
How can this be... I'm soo ... just can't express it in words..
I feel extremely....!!! (blah)
I just arrrgghhh!!

First day in "Kampung"

2010-02-12T17:19:00.000-08:00

Wow, tiring... LOL.. slept at 5 woke up at 7...
One crazy fact, my uncle did some painting wit my bro at 5 o'clock... Without sleeping!!!
Its my uncle who is crazy...
Before that, ate in a malay shop until 3!! How crazy can that be!!
And this morning when my father ordered coffee, they ask..
No nescafe.. Wan Kopi Jantan... LOL
That coffeee.. humm...
Taste kinda awesome..
Y do i use the word "kinda"..
Cuz at the first taste of it.. It mesmerize ur feelings to the coffee..
Ur heart and soul becomes one..
And Wooooowww!! Its awesome
But only at the beginning..
LOL
but after tasting it for some time... Yuuuuckk.. tastes kinda wierd..
No offence Kopi JAntan company..
As a consumer , i can voice out my opinion..
Its kinda bitter!!
BUt yea.. to all consumers readin this..
I'm nt telling u not to drink it..
Every1 has a diiff taste..

But mine.. totally different..

Randomnecessity........

2010-02-12T12:00:00.000-08:00

blah blah..

wt frens are for?

2010-02-12T11:43:00.000-08:00

Friends are important.. Frens are closer than your own brother.. but guess wt i totally disagree when ppl say that they will last forever.. unless ur fated to be wit them. What are frens 4.? give it a slight thought.. They're for us to be accompnied.. Imasgine a world without frens.. tht person cud die of extreme loneliness

~ Anyway, some call me their fren, but yet i doubt tht fact.. They treat me well in school .. only in school.. I prefer to keep her anonymous.. sometimes, i just hate her so much but i can;t gather much guts to tell her.. thk god school's nearly coming to an end for me.. its complicated thinking things like these!!~

.....New Year for the Chinese ~

2010-02-12T11:29:00.000-08:00

Once again, like every other year.. Its the New Year again.. I guess its fun , nt the family-outing fun but as in getting-money without the need to toil the ground and work our arse off.. This year is kinda significant.. Combine love and money? What would you get? right?

Still its not an exciting New Year this year.. Cuz my house was robbed.. and yea.. robbed by some idiotic assholes.. (Can u find me a better word to describe them)

~Wow, its been a long time since i updated my blog
But i've been working on my journal..
Love the remarks by the teacher
Sometimes, i feel that by writing journals it kinda help
besides the fact, i feel like the teacher wans to be a nosy(as in a good one)

I can't believe i'm actually updating my blog at 4 in the morning! This is absurd don't you think

In this huge gap of me nt writing my blog, i have met so many ppl.. some pathetic ones.. i can't tell you the exact word for them.. But i do believe that they have a reason to be that way

Oh yea, for a random fact of myself, one thing i hate about teachers is the fact tht they just LOVE making use of students.. For an example, when you are at the wrong place at the wrong time.. which means when there's a teacher and a rubbish nearby, the teacher will make use of the students to pick the rubbish up! how pathetic is that..?? Helping teachers when theyre in need is not a problem.. but simple, just so simple- a task, to pick up a single rubbish and you can't do it yourself?? To all teachers, if you reconsider my statement as a negative one to you, check wheter you have two hands ..

Maite zaitut!

2010-01-05T02:29:00.000-08:00

It is fun to learn how to say I love you in various languages. There are just few exotic languages such as Amharic, Galician, Swahili and Hungarian that will enable you to express love confession in one single word. Below is a list of "I love you" translations into many different languages of the world.

Afrikaans-Ek is lief vir jou!
Albanian-Te dua!
Amharic-Afekrishalehou!
Arabic-Ohiboke / Nohiboka
Armenian-Yes kez si'rumem!
Basque-Maite zaitut!
Bengali-Ami tomake bahlobashi!
Bosnian-Volim te!
Bulgarian -Obicham te!
Catalan-T'estimo!
Creole-Mi aime jou!
Croatian-Volim te!
Czech-Miluji tev!
Danish-Jeg elsker dig!
Dutch-Ik hou van je!
English I love you!
Esperanto-Mi amas vin!
Estonian-Mina armastan sind!
Farsi-Tora dost daram!
Filipino-Iniibig kita!
Finnish-(Mä) rakastan sua!
French-Je t'aime!
Frisian-Ik hald fan dei!
Galician-Querote!
German-Ich liebe dich!
Greek-S'ayapo!
Gujarati-Hoon tane pyar karoochhoon! tane chaahuN chhuN!
Hawaiian-Aloha wau ia 'oe!
Hebrew-Anee ohev otakh / Anee ohevet otkha / Anee ohev otkha / Anee ohevet otakh
Hindi-Mai tumase pyar karata hun / Mai tumase pyar karati hun
Hungarian-Szeretlek!
Icelandic-Eg elska thig!
Indonesian-Saya cinta padamu!
Irish-t'a gr'a agam dhuit!
Italian-Ti amo!
Japanese-Kimi o ai shiteru!
Korean-Dangsinul saranghee yo!
Latin-Te amo!
Latvian-Es tevi milu!
Lithuanian-As tave myliu!
Malaysian-Saya cintamu!
Mandarin-Wo ai ni!
Marshallese-Yokwe Yuk!
Norwegian-Jeg elsker deg!
Polish-Kocham ciebie!
Portuguese-Eu te amo!
Romanian Te-iubesc!
Russian-Yatyebya lyublyu!
Sanskrit-twayi snihyaami
Serbian-Volim te!
Sesotho-Kiyahurata!
Slovak-Lubim ta!
Slovenian-Ljubim te!
Spanish-Te amo!
Swahili-Nakupenda!
Swedish-Jag älskar dig!
Tagalog-Mahal kita!
Thai-Phom rug khun / Chan rug khun
Turkish-Seni seviyorum!
Ukrainian-Ya tebe kokhayu!
Urdu-Main tumse muhabbat karta hoon!
Vietnamese-Anh yeu em / Em yeu an
Welsh-Rwy'n dy garu di!
Yiddish-Kh'hob dikh lib!
Zulu-Ngiyakuthanda!

First day of school?

2010-01-05T02:06:00.000-08:00

So some people asked me .. how's the first day of school?? Yea it has its pros and cons.. but most of em' are the pros... Gosh.. Like it because i get to meet my friens.. Yay!! Ain't it a good thing...? Ok... meeting my frens is a good thing but realising that i do not have thoughtful frens ..know why?? All my frens including the ones i thought were my frens never even reservd a single seat for me? Not sincere frens i guess?? What a way to start the new year and the first day of school?? yea so whatever lah!! Enough of the emo-crap!! Yea all so much for doing prefect duty!!
So as i was saying the pros.. are well...(thinkin) i don think i 've any left...

Yea so i just wanna wish all of you a Happy New School day and to those who are takin theire major examinations this year .. i wanna wish all of you the best of luck .. God be with u and God Bless you!! (Oh yea speaking of this style of ending what i am trying to say, sounds a lot like Puan Saras-my ex-super-duper, cool discipline teacher.) Anyway.. yea u got my point... Byeeeeeeeee!!

New words.. that i've just learned frm church!!

2010-01-01T06:16:00.000-08:00

Learned some new words like, (Tamil) Osai ular kaitalam.. Forgive me, no translation available.. I myelf forgotten the translation.. haha…(Filipino) ang banal na sanggol= The Holy Child, Selamat po??=Thank you .. haha… weird.. but I like the selamat po.. sounds swee-eeet!!

Little help in translating, please??

2010-01-01T06:13:00.000-08:00

Our father thou art in heaven,
Hallowed be thy name,
Let thy kingdom come,
Thy will be done, On Earth as it is in heaven,
Give us this day our daily bread,
Forgive our trespasses as we forgive those who traspasses us,
For thy is your kingdom, and your glory and power,
Forever and ever. Amen.

P.S. a little translation in chinese please, can’t speak (*winx*) Thanks!!

wierd ...

2010-01-01T06:12:00.000-08:00

Just a few days back, I went to a shopping mall in Port Dickson, there’s this weird lady that asked my sister where the changing room was.. Do you know why I think she’s dumb? One, because my sister was not even wearing the same uniform as the workers and secondly, the changing room was right in front of her eyes!! How “smart” can some people be..?? So, after she asked my sister, my sister didn’t even reply her but instead, she walked away!! Haha.. It’s like she’s splashing water back at her own face! I wanted to take revenge and pretend to ask her back where was the changing room back but I guess luck was upon her, she went shopping with her kid and her hubby!! Crap-lah!! (*sighing*)

AvAtAr.....

2010-01-01T06:08:00.000-08:00

Avatar...One of my all time favourite…Do you know why this show is so significant to me? Besides the cool graphical avatar, the love shown in this movie tells that love is blind. Ever wondered, how can you ever fall in love with a weird creature? Something that is not human. So yeap... This person really loved this blue, weird, one-of-a-kind, and sort-of-ugly-creature.. This show really made me mesmerized at first and I kinda fantazied about this show haha… Watched it already? Seriously, this show is worth watching in the cinema!! Watch the 3-D ones!! Its awesome!! About the cool graphics, it is very, very cool. Its delusional!! Haha.. makes you want to leave everthing behind on Earth just to go to that beautiful place!! Haha.. If I had a choice, I will definitely live in that place.. Even if I have to be an uncivilized, immature-minded natives.. LOL.. There’s one super cool tree where you can hear the voices of your ancestors.. How cool is that!! And you can sort of have a bond with certain animals-“dragon”, “lion”, “horse” (the reason why I used the term “horse, “dragon”, “lion” its because it SORTA look like them except that they don’t!!) Yeap, so you really MUST, it’s a M-U-S-T ok!! Don’t waste the opportunity if you have not watch it yet!! Oh yea, the next movie I am targetting is Alvin and the Chipmunks 2! The last time I watched it Alvin & the Chipmunks with a friend that I really want to watch it with again.. If you are reading this, yea you know that I enjoyed watching the show with you and that I really want to watch it with you again!! (B.T.W, if you’re thinking that it’s a guy, NO..If it is a guy, I’ll be writing this statement like a gay!! Haha… It’s a girl actually *winx*)

BaaD MeMoRieS DuRinnGGG RayA =(

2009-10-17T18:05:00.000-07:00

This is going to be a FUNNY One... I went to my father's fren's house,excited cuz i knw very well in my heart that i will be gettin some malay "angpow".. LOL.. Ok let me hit the dot.. Its my habit of opening 'angpow' wrappers and take a glmpse lookof how much ppl give during festives seasons.. So on the way back, when we (my family) were still there(i mean we were there but already in the car after a long chat wit my father's fren), i opened the wrapper and i saw RM10.. I was dumb-strucked!! And i shouted WOW!!! THIS GUY IS AWESOME CUZ HE GAVE RM10 (actually i just yelled WOW! Ten bucks) not realising that my father's car window was open(my father was waving his hands to his fren).. And i was like FISH SHIT!!!!!! WTF!!!!!!!!!!!!!This is CRAZY!! I just yelled the amount that the gave!!! This is CRAZY.. cuz its really rude to open wrappers when ppl give u somtehin in front of the GIVER!!! I'M NEVER ENTERING HIS HOUSE AGAIN!!! THIS IS CALL EM-BaRRase-MeNT!!!!! WTF!!!!

Day Full Of Exhaustion

2009-10-17T15:52:00.000-07:00

WoW.!! Guess what.. mycouz and I walk almost a milestone(make it tow.. no no!! Make it three), going to the shopping mall, and again to another shopping mall and to a route of the EYE OF MALAYSIA...Yea and all thx to Ivan..LOL..

First,our uncle dropped us somewhere in the middle of the road.. Thank God the traffic light was in the Countdown.. Haha.. too bad for them, they've to wait for 100 secs and its like 1 minute and 40 sec!! LOL..Put urself into his shoes and u will feel like killing the traffic lights.. HaHa.. then, we tried going into the shopping mall (Mahkota Parade) thru the BACK way.. but guesss what.. just becuz the door is only for employers, this lady doesnt allow us in.. and this entrance is the same .. Its just that we'll pass thru a stupid door.. so we have to walk quite a distance to the REAL entrance.. yea.. itwas tiring..Later,we in the shopping mall and ate MCD cuz the other food was like expenive(not tht i knw of actually cuz we didnt bother going round to find for food.. WAIT!!forget to insert something.. Guess what, my couz ate a baSKIn RObin that cost RM7.90.. LOL and we were threating to tell her parents about the ice-cream(she's only 9 actually.. but its fun bullying sum1 younger than u actually).. we were like starving and we've to take fast action before our stomachs' get really upset with us).. Ohyea, back b4 we were eatin McD, we met our couz but the sad thing was, the diTCHED us like we're some sort of LOSER team (haha.. i'm just saying.. its just for fun.. i barely even care)..After eatin we walked around like newly-arrived rats in a church.. Haha.. LOL.. we walked around, seeing things.. and yea.. tht's basically what we did.. then after awhile 'sight-seeing' the place, we went to DATARAN PAHLAWAN .. O.o..LOL.. it was fun actually.. there's this beautiful, amazingly cool art which the Indians usually do during Festive season.. its the RICE artwork.. So far, i think that the art there is the "BESTEST" i've ever seen..

Later,we went out .. and coincidentally, we met with this 'sight-to-behold" place.. GOSH..!!!!! IT was beautiful and face-drooling, attention-pulling.. Seriously, u've gotta check it out.. We took some cool pics and there was a car .. The car TUNKU ABDUL RAHMAN used when he proclaimed/declared MERDEKA in Bandar Hilir.. that car was a real antique and not forgetting, a REAL BEAUTY..(IT was an old Cheverolet).. I don know why but the other tourist looked at us like we were a bunch of Hooligans.. that is a funny one.. After visiting this place which consumed most of our time, we stopped by a shop(for Michelle-cousin of mine who is still hungry after eatin McD...).. All of us drank ice-blended.. And u knw wt is the BEST PART..?? Its all on Ivan.. haha.. it was like nearly 14 bucks.. So, we took our time drinkin and 'fellowship-ing'.. Then we've to wait for our uncle to pick us all back to my kampung.. And out of the blue, my cousins who 'ditch' us appeared back into the scene.. Its kinda wierd rite.. LOl.. so we all went back and we slept HAPPY EVER AFTER.. (In case ur wonderin whether this is a make-up, fake storytale, this is not)LOL.. Anyway thx for readin such a long boring historical story(my historical day, yea rite, days passed for all of us)

Finally!!

2009-08-28T21:02:00.000-07:00

Yay.. finally finished readin that book.. I'm in love wit that vampyre girl.. *too much fantasy ad.. LOL

Crap lah!!! I've forgotten to do my hw.. LOLZ.. >.<... And since i didn't attend school, nobody didnt gives a crap to take my hw for me.. So dissapointed.. Call themselves friends.. I'm sorry if i'mma bit too frank but i'll call frens like that worthless.. Not even a slightest thought of takin for me!!

Many are call frens but only a few r considered to be 1.. Don u feel angry sumtimes.. even the person sittin next to u don even give a damn bout takin for u..!!

I'm totally f-ed up if teacher finds out tht i didn't do their hw.. Wt will they say..?? Justin very lazy ar.. this lah that lah.. And I'm in the prefect board.. wt more will they say than to kick and even worst .. firing me from being a prefect.. Haih.. its the frens u count on.. Totally one pain in the neck..

Confused??

2009-08-27T09:16:00.000-07:00

I'm lost.. so lost.. Loving is a total different thing actually.. Its more like the Miley Cyrus song.. "the climb".. Am i being so emo here.. LOL.. But yes.. don't u agree..?? sometimes.. hw u wished that u were an animal..?? Love is completely, i mean 100% completely blind.. (i'm nt talkin bout the mating part k) .. Haha.. LoLz..

So wt did i do today.. Lemme see.. I read aina's vampyre book.. and wow i found it quite amazing .. Its more than amazing actually.. the book name is MARKED..
And the grammar if fan-tasticliciious.. hehe.. its more to the blonde kind of writing style.. LOLZ

HAih.. School holiday's going to end soon.. And i rarely study.. Readin that book is such an addiction.. Haha. i read three quarter of the book.. and i'm lookin forward for the next series.. I am one hell of a fascinated dude who just love readin vampyre books.. Call me crazy but i don give a shit

Always admired vampyres since i was young.. I mean when i staretd watching Van Helsing lah.. Haha.. But anyway there must be some fantacies that u'll like for an instance the warewolf.. LOL

Angrily angry..

2009-08-26T08:08:00.000-07:00

I just don knw y i get angry sumtimes
I feel like i'm being shit up by sum1
WTH.. is it normal.. ??
Anyway.. to sum1.. just wanna say i'm sorry for hurtin ur feelings.. i knw that it is wrong to do so.. And i just wished that i could turn back time.. How i wished i could just wish on the star and all my dreams wud come true.. Haha.. life can't be easy.. or else its not worth living for.. So anyway.. just stay happy .. and all i'm askin frm u is for u to forgive me.. PLS.. every1 deserves a chance rite..?? Can i claim for my second wan.. that's all i'm askin and ntg more..

-sealed to sum1 that i wan that person to read-

P.S try to understnd my feelings when i write this..

Disgustin shit i've evr heard

2009-08-26T07:46:00.000-07:00

LOL.. ever heard stg disgustin lately.. Let me tell u wt i heard just last week.. There's this gal i prefer to keep it anonymous.. She said that

"some people's Br*ast is too long till it can sweep the floor.. And that thing can even mop the floor.. and it said that it'll be money-saving cuz money is nt required to buy a broom and a mop.. everythin is just naturally there.."

Haha.. Imagine tht statement.. Yuck.. LOL.. Oh yea by the way.. it was not me whom made that owful disgusting statement.. and.. it must have take a million year old decade perv to think of that quote.. LOL.. Ever thought of a gud one before..?? Feel free to tell me k.. haha.. i'm all ears to hear the shit.. I kinda think of it as a huge joke.. LOL ^^ but that does not make me a perv..

A lesson LEARNED!!

2009-08-23T23:33:00.000-07:00

Guess what..?? Last Saturday.. I went to IOI to spent quality time wit my family.. Then as we're goin back.. We've to pay the parking ticket rite.. Ok.. here's the story.. This guy.. an old one.. Keeps putting in the money vendor.. Just keep puttin that crap in and that thing doesn't goes in..
And he put the new RM5 note.. And that machine SAYS NO NEW NOTES.. And he keeps puttin that in.. I got so frustrated and pissed and told him off that u CAN"T PUT in the RM5 note cuz its new and its stated there.. After that i think he got pissed and he left.. LAter its my turn.. Gosh i don knw wts so hard to put in the money.. Its not like u need techniques to put in.. So i just put in the money.. made some complains in public..(to myselflah) and left.. And everybody's lookin at me like they never see a human before.. haha..

Then after payin the ticket, i went back to my family and complained so loud about that old dude.. And coincidently.. HE WAS THERE(the old man).. Haha.. i gave up a laugh.. Its so funny yet so stupid..

The moral of this true story is..
"Don put in ugly money notes as the machine doesn't accepts it.. i mean c'mon will u accept an ugly life-partner.. oh yea .. READ INSTRUCTIONS B4 DOIN STG!!

A word of gratitude

2009-08-23T23:30:00.000-07:00

Hey blog-readers.. Thks for wishin me a very happy bday.. And i really am happy.. Even without meetin y'all.. I'm still glad.. LOLZ.. Anyway.. Thx.. ^^

The start of the end!!

2009-08-23T02:54:00.000-07:00

Sorry bout the headline.. Its only for show.. Well this is my first time writing bout myslef.. Other times are just th cut and paste.. Sorry.. bt starting frm nw i'll be writing all bout mylf..!! Keh keh..

hello.. again.. wow life's boring and unfair.. Don u think that statemnt is true.. If its not for u then u must not be human no more.. Holiday is as boring as the others... I'm in malaca(homtown) hanging out wit my baby couz.. Haih.. its so not fun.. I'm typin this to prevent my boredom.. About life being unfair is the truest statement.. Love is blind.. There's a lot of good remarks about love but being in love is confusing when u r torn apart by it.. It's like its kilin u softly... Once u induldge in iit...coming out is always the tough one..

Why i am saying this? Why? Why? u must be thinking that i'm crazily insane.. But the fact is i'm not.. Hw can i b rite..?? Haha..

Anyway.. Hw are all of ur holidays..??! U can't freakin go anywhre..!!! This H1N1 sh.it is really stopping every1 frm hving fun.. LOl.. u can barely go anywhere.. to prevent this.. I think its a gud point there but isn't it torturing??LOL.. So going anywhere guys..??gals.??haha. .

Oh yea bcuz f th H1N1.. i din't go to school bcuz mom forced me not to..!! She sort of like threaten me..! she said that if i go.. i'll never get my allowanc.. Damn unfair lah.. Haha.. But its kinda fun not going to school.. haha. get to sleep early, wake up the latest... haha..This is truly utopia man..!! cool

One last thing. I'm so so so so SORRY AINA.. can't go to ur hse tmr to teach u chemistry.. Ill only arive back tmr.. So sorry.. mayb sum other days lah.. But i promise to teach u.. Hehe BFF.. Best friends wei.. haha

Oklah.. to evy1 just wanna wish ALL who reads this page a very Happy Holiday.. Enjoy it to the max .. This will be the last holiday before the longer school days.. Chaos!! Toodles! Noodles! wteverla.. Haha.. Damn lame lahthe joke but bye!! :-)

Blonde jokes.. Its kinda lame but its funny coz they're dumb..!!

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JOKE 1
There was a blonde who found herself sitting next to a Lawyer on an airplane. The lawyer just kept bugging the blonde wanting her to play a game of intelligence. Finally, the lawyer offered her 10 to 1 odds, and said every time the blonde could not answer one of his questions, she owed him $5, but every time he could not answer hers, he'd give her $50.00. The lawyer figured he could not lose, and the blonde reluctantly accepted. The lawyer first asked, "What is the distance between the Earth and the nearest star?" Without saying a word the blonde handed him $5. then the blonde asked, "What goes up a hill with 3 legs and comes back down the hill with 4 legs?" Well, the lawyer looked puzzled. He took several hours, looking up everything he could on his laptop and even placing numerous air-to-ground phone calls trying to find the answer. Finally, angry and frustrated, he gave up and paid the blonde $50.00 The blonde put the $50 into her purse without comment, but the lawyer insisted, "What is the answer to your question?" Without saying a word, the blonde handed him $5.

JOKE 2
A man was in his front yard mowing grass when his attractive blonde neighbor came out of the house and went straight to the mailbox. She opened it then slammed it shut and stormed back into the house. A little later she came out of her house again, went to the mailbox and again opened it, and slammed it shut again. Angrily, back into the house she went. As the man was getting ready to edge the lawn, she came out again, marched to the mailbox, opened it and then slammed it closed harder than ever. Puzzled by her actions the man asked her, “Is something wrong?” To which she replied, “There certainly is!” My stupid computer keeps saying, “You’ve got mail!”

JOKE 3
A blonde had just totaled her car in a horrific accident. Miraculously, she managed to pry herself from the wreckage without a scratch and was applying fresh lipstick when the state trooper arrived. "My God!" the trooper gasped. "Your car looks like an accordion that was stomped on by an elephant. Are you OK ma'am?" "Yes, officer, I'm just fine" the blonde chirped. "Well, how in the world did this happen?" the officer asked as he surveyed the wrecked car. "Officer, it was the strangest thing!" the blonde began. I was driving along this road when from out of nowhere this TREE pops up in front of me. So I swerved to the right, and there was another tree! I swerved to the left and there was ANOTHER tree! I served to the right and there was another tree! I swerved to the left and there was ...." "Uh, ma'am", the officer said, cutting her off, "There isn't a tree on this road for 30 miles. That was your air freshener swinging back and forth."

JOKE 4
A blonde has just gotten a new sports car. She cuts out in front of a semi, and almost causes it to drive over a cliff. The driver furiously motions for her to pull over, and she does. The driver gets out and draws a circle and tells her to stand in it. Then he gets out his knife and cuts up her leather seats. He turns around and sees she's smiling. So he goes to his truck, takes out a baseball bat, and starts busting her windows and beating her car. He looks back to see that she's laughing. He's really mad now, so he takes his knife and slices her tires. He turns around and she's laughing so hard, she's about to fall down. He demands, "What's so funny?" She says, "Every time you weren't looking, I stepped out of the circle!"

JOKE 5
A plane is on its way to Detroit when a blonde woman in economy class gets up and moves into an open seat in the first class section. The flight attendant watches her do this, and politely informs the woman that she must sit in economy class because that's the type of ticket she paid for. The blonde replies, "I'm blonde, I'm beautiful, I'm going to Detroit and I'm staying right here." After repeated attempts and no success at convincing the woman to move, the flight attendant goes into the cockpit and informs the pilot and co-piolet that there's a blonde bimbo sitting in first class who refuses to go back to her proper seat. The co-pilot goes back to the woman and explains why she needs to move, but once again the woman replies by saying, "I'm blonde, I'm beatiful, I'm going to Detroit and I'm staying right here." The co-pilot returns to the cockpit and suggests that perhaps they should have the arrival gate call the police and have the woman arrested when they land. The pilot says, "You say she's blonde? I'll handle this. I'm married to a blonde. I speak blonde." He goes back to the woman and whispers quietly in her ear, and she says, "Oh, I'm sorry," then quickly moves back to her seat in economy class. The flight attendant and co-pilot are amazed and ask him what he said to get her to move back to economy without causing any fuss. "I told her first class isn't going to Detroit."

JOKE 6
January - Took new scarf back to store because it was too tight.
February - Fired from pharmacy job for failing to print labels....."duh".....bottles won't fit in typewriter!!!
March - Got excited.....finished jigsaw puzzle in 6 months.....box said "2-4 years!"
April - Trapped on escalator for hours.....power went out!!!
May - Tried to make Kool-Aid.....8 cups of water won't fit into those little packets!!!
June - Tried to go water skiing.....couldn't find a lake with a slope.
July - Lost breast stroke swimming competition.....learned later, other swimmers cheated, they used their arms!!!
August - Got locked out of car in rain storm.....car swamped, because top was down.
September - The capital of California is "C".....isn't it???
October - Hate M & M's.....they are so hard to peel.
November - Baked turkey for 4 1/2 days.....instructions said 1 hour per pound and I weigh 108!!!
December - Couldn't call 911....."duh".....there's no "eleven" button on the phone!!!
What a year!!

JOKE 7

A young ventriloquist is touring the clubs and one night he's doing a show in a small town in Arkansas. With his dummy on his knee, he starts going through his usual dumb blonde jokes when a blonde in the 4th row stands on her chair and starts shouting: "I've heard enough of your stupid blonde jokes. What makes you think you can stereotype women that way? What does the color of a person's hair have to do with her worth as a human being? It's guys like you who keep women like me from being respected at work and in the community and from reaching our full potential as a person. Because you and your kind continue to perpetuate discrimination against not only blondes, but women in general, and all in the name of humor!" The embarrassed ventriloquist begins to apologize, and the blonde yells, "You stay out of this, mister! I'm talking to that little shit on your knee."

JOKE 8
Once there were 3 people in an airplane, one took a bite out of an apple. She thought it was too sweet so she threw it out of the plane. The second person took a bite out of a lemon and she thought it was too sour so, she threw it out of the plane. Then the last person took a bite out of a grenade and he thought it was too crunchy so, he threw it out of the plane. Then they landed and decided to go for a walk. They first passed a little girl who was crying and they asked, "little girl, little girl, why are you crying?" and the little girl said, "an apple came down and killed my new kitty". Next they passed a little boy who was also crying. And they again asked, "little boy, little boy, why are you crying?" and the little boy said, "a lemon came down and killed my new puppy." Then they passed a blonde sitting on the side walk laughing her butt off. They asked, "why are you laughing so hard?" and the blonde said, "I farted and the building behind me blew up!!"

JOKE 9
This blonde decides one day that she is sick and tired of all these blonde jokes and how all blondes are perceived as stupid, so she decides to show her husband that blondes really are smart. While her husband is off at work, she decides that she is going to paint a couple of rooms in the house. The next day, right after her husband leaves for work, she gets down to the task at hand. Her husband arrives home at 5:30 and smells the distinctive smell of paint. He walks into the living room and finds his wife lying on the floor in a pool of sweat. He notices that she is wearing a ski jacket and a fur coat at the same time. He goes over and asks her if she is OK. She replies yes. He asks what she is doing. She replies that she wanted to prove to him that not all blonde women are dumb and she wanted to do it by painting the house. He then asks her why she has a ski jacket over her fur coat. She replies that she was reading the directions on the paint can and they said.... FOR BEST RESULTS, PUT ON TWO COATS.

JOKE 10
A blonde guy gets home early from work and hears strange noises coming from the bedroom. He rushes upstairs to find his wife naked on the bed,sweating and panting. "What's up?" he says. "I'm having a heart attack," cries the woman. He rushes downstairs to grab the phone, but just as he's dialing, his 4-year-old son comes up and says,"Daddy! Daddy! Uncle Ted's hiding in your closet and he's got no clothes on!" The guy slams the phone down and storms upstairs into the bedroom, past his screaming wife, and rips open the wardrobe door. Sure enough, there is his brother, totally naked, cowering on the closetfloor. You rotten bastard, "says the husband,"my wife's having a heart attack and you're running around naked scaring the kids!!!

Answers (don cheat!!)

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1. All of them. Every month has at least 28 days.
2. 1 hour. It is a wind up alarm clock which cannot discriminate between a.m. and p.m.
3. 70. Dividing by half is the same as multiplying by 2.
4. 9 live sheep.
5. The match.
6. White.
7. 2 apples.
8. None. It was Noah, not Moses.
9. You are the driver.
10. 1 hour. If you take a pill at 1 o'clock, then another at 1.30 and the last at 2'clock, they will be taken in 1 hour.

iQ test..

2009-06-04T23:46:00.000-07:00

A little intelligence test for you - no cheating. Some of these questions are from an MBA entrance test. There are 10 questions. Do not look at the answers found at the end of this document, that would be cheating. Write each of your answers down, it makes a difference. Good Luck!

1. Some months have 30 days, some months have 31 days. How many months have 28 days?

2. I went to bed at eight 8 'clock in the evening and wound up my clock and set the alarm to sound at nine 9 'clock in the morning. How many hours sleep would I get before being awoken by the alarm?

3. Divide 30 by half and add ten. What do you get?

4. A farmer had 17 sheep. All but 9 died. How many live sheep were left?

5. If you had only one match and entered a COLD and DARK room, where there was an oil heater, an oil lamp and a candle, which would you light first?

6. A man builds a house with four sides of rectangular construction, each side having a southern exposure. A big bear comes along. What color is the bear?

7. Take 2 apples from 3 apples. What do you have?

8. How many animals of each species did Moses take with him in the Ark?

9. If you drove a bus with 43 people on board from Chicago and stopped at Pittsburgh to pick up7 more people and drop off 5 passengers and at Cleveland to drop off 8 passengers and pick up 4 more and eventually arrive at Philadelphia 20 hours later, What's the name of the driver?

10. If a doctor gives you 3 pills and tells you to take one pill every half hour, how long would it be before all the pills had been taken?

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Jesus Characteristics.. (HF assignment)

2009-06-04T23:43:00.001-07:00

Open your Bible to the fifth chapter of the gospel of Luke...the gospel of Luke. We embark upon the next chapter in this wonderful and thrilling account of the life of the Lord Jesus Christ who is indeed Immanuel, God in human flesh.
Some years ago there was a book entitled The Quest for the Historical Jesus. That book offered itself as a scholarly, academic, scholastic attempt to bring together all of the diverse elements of legend and theology and history to try to find in the midst of the maze of viewpoints the real Jesus. A similar effort was made earlier this year by Peter Jennings on the ABC network in a lengthy special called "The Search for the Real Jesus."
Through the years scholars have made what is essentially a hypocritical effort to find Jesus apart from the one place where He can be found. While on the one hand denying the veracity of Scripture, denying the authority of the Bible, denying the inspiration of the New Testament, they attempt to find Jesus when, in fact, the only historical record available of Jesus is to be found on the pages of the New Testament. To disdain the New Testament, to deny the truthfulness of the New Testament and then to attempt to find Jesus is utterly futile and hypocritical.
If you want to find the historical Jesus, He can be found easily. Just read Matthew, Mark, Luke and John. There are four verifiable, historical records of the life of Jesus Christ. Not only are they verifiable historically, not only are they accurate when you compare them but they are inspired by God Himself so that every word is in fact true. You cannot on the one hand reject the only true record of Jesus and then purport on some scholastic level to try to find the real Jesus all the while looking in places where that information is not available. It's not really very difficult to find the historical Jesus, all you have to do is read the New Testament, the four gospels. We're looking at one of those gospels which reveals to us the true story of Jesus. The historical Jesus is found in this document called the gospel of Luke, this historical record of the person and work of Jesus Christ.
It is the lengthiest of the four gospels, as we are learning. It takes a while to get through Luke. And it is a large treatment of the history of Jesus and when you add it to Matthew, Mark and John, you have a relatively significant body of truth, lengthy. And while Luke, as I said, is the longest of the gospels, it doesn't take the whole gospel of Luke to get its message across. In fact, I would venture to say that you could discover the real Jesus in almost any paragraph in Luke that you want to choose. In fact, in just the text we have today, chapter 5 verses 1 through 11, there's enough information here to know exactly who Jesus is. It is very clear in these verses that He is human, that He is a man. He walks like a man and talks like a man and acts like a man and is accepted as human by all the people around Him.
But it is also very evident in these very same eleven verses that open the fifth chapter that He is more than just a man, that, in fact, He is God. If all you had was Luke 5:1 to 11, you would have enough to know the nature of Jesus Christ. You would have enough to understand the ministry of Jesus Christ as well. This is a profound incident in His life that is revealing as to His essence as God. And so while you have the whole body of the four gospels, and while you have the lengthy gospel of Luke, you're not dependent on all of that information to make the case. As I said, any one paragraph might do it, certainly this paragraph is enough, is sufficient to indicate to us who Jesus Christ really is. And it is in the unique setting of a fishing incident that this revelation takes place and takes place unmistakably. One cannot with any objectivity or honesty read these verses and conclude anything other than that Jesus is in fact God. We could say then that the deity of Jesus is the manifest theme of the opening verses of chapter 5. His deity is made evident in the unfolding story that takes place on the shore of the Lake of Galilee in a fishing incident.
Let me read the verses to you and then we'll begin to look at them. "Now it came about that while the multitude were pressing around Him and listening to the Word of God, He was standing by the lake of Gennesaret; and He saw two boats lying at the edge of the lake; the fishermen had gotten out of them, and were washing their nets. He got into one of the boats, which was Simon's, and asked him to put out a little way from the land. And He sat down and began teaching the multitudes from the boat. And when He had finished speaking, He said to Simon, 'Put out into the deep water and let down your nets for a catch.' And Simon answered and said, 'Master, we worked hard all night and caught nothing, but at Your bidding I will let down the nets.' And when they had done this, they enclosed a great quantity of fish; and their nets began to break; and they signaled to their partners in the other boat for them to come and help them. And they came and filled both of the boats so that they began to sink. But when Simon Peter saw that, he fell down at Jesus' feet, saying, 'Depart from me, for I am a sinful man, O Lord!' For amazement had seized him and all his companions because the catch of fish which they had taken. And so also James and John, sons of Zebedee, who were partners with Simon. And Jesus said to Simon, 'Do not fear, from now on you will be catching men.' And when they had brought their boats to land, they left everything and followed Him."
What did happen that day was convincing enough that they left everything to follow Jesus. The drama of this scene literally changed the rest of the lives of these disciples. Here is the divine fisherman. Five divine attributes are manifest here. When you think about the nature of God, you think about the attributes of God, what is true or characteristic of God's nature, those are the very things you see here. For example, one of the attributes of God's nature is truth. God is truth and always truth. Another of the attributes of God's nature is omniscience. God knows everything that exists, everything that exists in the material world and everything that exists in the immaterial world. Thirdly, God is not only the source of veracity, God is not only the source of truth, He is the source also of knowledge and the source of power, thirdly. When you think about God you think of power, Almighty God, all powerful God. Another of God's attributes is holiness. God is holy, holy, holy. And another of His attributes is mercy. God is by nature merciful.
When you look at Jesus in this simple fishing incident that occurred this day in Galilee, what you see here in Christ is the very essential character of God. You see divine truth. You see divine omniscience. You see divine power or omnipotence. You see divine holiness. And you see divine mercy. Here then is the manifest nature of God visible in Jesus Christ. So I say that one doesn't need the four gospels, one doesn't need even the full gospel of Luke. These verses alone are sufficient to indicate who Jesus really is. He must be God because He is the source of truth, omniscience, omnipotence, holiness and mercy. All these characteristics are manifest in Christ.
Let's look at the first one and it appears right away in the account, verses 1 to 3. We see the manifestation of divine truth in Jesus. Verse 1, "It came about that while the multitude were pressing around Him and listening to the Word of God, He was standing by the lake of Gennesaret." Now we'll stop there for a moment.
The verse opens with an indefinite indicator, "it came about." It doesn't tell us when, it doesn't tell us how much time has transpired since the incidents that occurred in the prior chapter. You remember in chapter 4 He had preached in the synagogue in Capernaum and He had cast a demon out of a man there, that was His first miracle, the first one recorded by Luke. And then, you'll remember, He went after the synagogue service home to the house of Simon where His mother-in-law was ill and He healed his mother-in-law of a very great infection that had produced a high fever. And then at the end of the Sabbath day the people in the city were bringing everybody who was sick with every imaginable disease and He was healing them all and He was casting demons out of many. That all occurred on one day in the synagogue in Capernaum and in the home of Peter.
We have an indefinite then passing of time. We don't exactly know what the chronology is, but it came about at some point in time after that. Jesus is still in Galilee. He's still preaching. He's still calling disciples. He's still performing these healings and casting out demons. And on one occasion when surrounded by a multitude, He is near the lake of Gennesaret teaching the Word of God.
Now you need to know as I pointed out briefly last time that Jesus is beginning to collect massive crowds. There are a lot of ways to collect a crowd. A really good way to collect a crowd is to promise people that you can heal them all. I always am amazed when I turn on the television program and I see these healers on the Christian channel filling up these stadiums. Doesn't it amaze you? Ten thousand people, fifteen thousand, twenty thousand people packing in? If you promise you can heal people, you can draw a crowd.
Well, if you can really do it you can really draw a crowd. If you could actually heal. If it weren't just some kind of false advertising, if you could really heal you could draw a crowd. And that's exactly what happened with Jesus. He could heal all the people who came to Him of any and every disease, do it instantaneously and do it permanently. And that's exactly what He was doing and consequently the crowd was exploding. In verse 14 of chapter 4, "The news about Him was spreading throughout the surrounding district, and as the word went that He could heal and control not only disease but control the world of demons, the crowd would get larger and larger." And if you track through the book of Luke, chapter 5 verse 19, chapter 6 verse 19, chapter 8 verse 4, chapter 8 verse 40, come into chapter 9 verse 11, that remarkable verse in chapter 12 verse 1 that says the crowd was so big the people were stepping on each other, chapter 13 verses 14 and 17, chapter 14 verse 25, you just march all the way through and the crowds get bigger and bigger, massive crowds of people. You begin to get the picture that when Jesus was teaching He drew huge crowds because of His power and because of the clarity and the uniqueness and the power of His preaching.
Remember what I told you about the incident when He was in Nazareth when He was in the synagogue, the people said they had never heard any teacher like Him. A good communicator can draw a crowd. A great preacher can draw a crowd. Jesus was the greatest communicator, the clearest preacher that ever walked on the earth. And in a day when there was no media, speakers drew huge crowds if they were gifted communicators and orators. There never was anybody who could communicate the way Jesus could. Noone had such clarity of thought. Noone had such grasp of the language. Noone had such precision in presenting truth. Noone could grasp the perfect illustration for the perfect point the way Jesus could. Noone could make His point more deftly and more profoundly and more penetrating as Jesus could as a communicator because He was operating with the mind of God. And because of that, along with His ability to heal and cast out demons, masses of people flocked around to hear Him and to see the wonders and even to participate in what He was capable of doing. And so the multitude is pressing around Him.
This isn't the only time this happened. It didn't matter where He went, He drew crowds. But He was in Galilee and if you have ever been to Galilee you know that in the very heart of the Galilee, as it's called, which is the northern part of the land of Palestine all the way up to the Lebanese border, bordered on the east by Jordan, on the west by the Mediterranean, that north part of Israel, the major location there is the Sea of Galilee, or the lake of Gennesaret, as it's called here, sometimes the Sea of Tiberias, the Old Testament name was Chinneroth. But that lake, 13 miles long and about 7 miles wide, dominates the Galilee. To the east is the sort of low ridges and then the flat lands of the wilderness that goes to the east to the north are the great high mountains of Lebanon from which the water flows that flows in and creates the lake. To the west are the fertile marvelously, magnificent fertile fields of grain and crops and right on to the sea. On that...Mediterranean Sea...on that are the major cities. Tiberias would be a major city in the time of Christ on the western shore, and the north would be the city of Capernaum. And so Jesus spent a lot of His time around the lake. And it was a good place to speak to people because you could be at the shore and the slope would be a place that would create sort of a natural amphitheater and the people could hear.
But there was a problem. As the crowds got bigger and bigger and pushed and pushed, pretty soon they pushed Jesus into the water. We read about this in Mark 3:9. We read about it again in Mark 4:1. So this was a somewhat typical problem to deal with in the Galilee as He was addressing crowds that gathered around Him along the shore of the lake. And so that's what you see in verse 1. There...there are literally thousands of people crushing and pressing as they listen to the Word of God. And it says in verse 1 He was standing by the lake of Gennesaret. Gennesaret may be a word that refers to garden and could well be a reference to the fertile land on the northwestern shore of the Sea of Galilee which is very defining. As you get on to the Sea of Galilee you see these beautiful fields stretching all the way around from the north sweeping around to the west. And there are even some on the east. And so it perhaps is a word that reflected the garden environment that surrounded the water of that lake. It is not technically a sea. Luke is right in the technical side in calling it a lake. It is a freshwater lake fed by the snow melt out of the Lebanese mountains, the high mountains that ultimately runs the south...out of the south of the Sea of Galilee comes the Jordan River which runs all the way down and empties into the very famous Dead Sea.
So there He is on the shore with this mass of people coming out of towns and villages and cities, crowding around and eventually pushing Him. It tells us in verse 1, this is a very important point, they were listening to the Word of God. They were listening to the word of God. This is a subjective genitive and let me tell you what that means. An accurate translation is they were listening to the word that comes from God...they were listening to the word that comes from God. This is the first time Luke uses the phrase "the Word of God," and to us it's a technical term. You might even have a Bible that says, I know some people around here, the Word of God. When we say the Word of God, that's...that's almost a technical synonym for the Bible. But try to look at this as a non-technical term, as a descriptive term. It hasn't yet become sort of a familiar almost a part of Christian vocabulary. And what He is saying here is they were listening to the word that comes from God.
In other words, when Jesus spoke who was speaking? God. This is the source of divine truth. This is the sermon that He put together by doing research in some other book. By the way, you never in the gospel record find Jesus at the library. You never find Him in His study. He didn't need resource material. He opened His mouth and God spoke and since He already knew everything there was to be known, and all truth came from Him, there was no reason to go anywhere else to find any information. They were listening to the word that comes from God. And it was the word about salvation and it was the word about entering the Kingdom of God. And it was the word about the forgiveness of sins. It was the word built on Isaiah 61 as Jesus referred to it in chapter 4 verse 18. It was the good news that the poor could be made spiritually rich. It was the good news that the prisoners of sin could be set free by forgiveness. It was good news that the spiritually blind could be given sight. It was the good news that the spiritually oppressed would be liberated to the glorious inheritance that God give to His children. It was the good news of forgiveness, salvation and eternal life. And when Jesus preached it, it was coming from God. They were listening to the word that comes from God. Luke uses that same phrase in chapter 8 verse 11 and verse 21, and again in chapter 11 verse 28. This is the first time he uses it.
Jesus then is the source of truth. When He preached the Sermon on the Mount up there on the hillside at the north end of the Sea of Galilee, and He finished that great sermon in which the Beatitudes really were the launch point, the introduction, the people said, "He speaks as one having authority, not like the scribes and Pharisees." The scribes and Pharisees quoted sources, they quoted other people, they gave opinions, they...they attached themselves to some of the current literature and some of the ancient literature to document their viewpoint. Jesus never did that. He simply spoke the truth. There was no other source than His own divine mind. When Jesus spoke it was God speaking. He was giving the long-awaited divine revelation of the Kingdom and how you could come into the Kingdom because God was providing salvation through Him. This was the good news of forgiveness. It was not His opinion, it was not His viewpoint. He was not a theologian. He was not a scholar of the Old Testament. He wasn't giving a sermon from prepared notes. This was not philosophy. This was not theological intuition. This was divine revelation. This was God speaking. He spoke and it was the voice of God. This is clear to the reader of the gospel of Luke in the very beginning in chapter 1 when the angel Gabriel comes to Mary and said you're going to have a baby and that baby will be the Son of the Most High, verse 32. And verse 35, He will be called the Son of God. Son meaning same in essence. So we already know that Jesus is God, God the Son and therefore when He speaks God the Son speaks. When Jesus came to earth He came as God in human flesh and He spoke. He said in John 14:6, "I am the way, the truth and the life." He is truth. He is synonymous with truth. He is one with truth. John 1 introduces Him, "The Word becoming flesh and we beheld His glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father, full of grace and truth." He is the fullness of truth. He speaks nothing but the truth. He is God, Titus 1:2, who cannot lie.
Turn for a moment to the gospel of John. John makes a very strong point of this and I only want to arm you a little bit with regard to this. In John 5:24 Jesus said, "Truly, truly I say to you, he who hears My word and believes Him who sent Me, has eternal life." His word, His truth, so powerful that it literally dispenses eternal life. If you listen to what He says and believe it, you have eternal life. That's how powerful His word is. It is divine. It is by that word, Peter said, that we are begotten again. It is by that word that we are transformed and given life. You hear My words, you believe My words, and those words have divine power to give you life. Repeatedly He defended His words as the very words of God. He said you must believe that when I speak it is God speaking. Chapter 7 verse 16 of John's gospel, "My teaching is not Mine, but His who sent Me. If any man is willing to do His will, he will know of the teaching whether it is of God or whether I speak for Myself. If you will hear what I say and believe it, you will know that it is the word of God. It is not Mine, it is that word which comes from God My Father."
God by nature is true. Let every man be a liar. God is true and only and always true and when Jesus who is God spoke what He spoke was the truth, always the truth, nothing but the truth. Jesus said in John 8:31, "If you abide in My word, you are truly disciples of Mine and you shall know the truth and the truth shall make you free." The truth will set you free from sin, the truth will set you free from judgment. The truth will set you free from darkness and blindness. And the truth is what I say. And if you believe what I say, that is the truth that saves you and sets you free. The gospels record the words of Jesus and the rest of the epistles in the New Testament show us the depth and importance of meaning in the things that He said, but it is the truth that He proclaimed. It is the truth that the Apostles proclaimed about Him that saves sinners.
In John 8:42 Jesus said, "If God were your Father you would love Me, for I proceeded forth and have come from God, I have not even come on My own initiative but He sent Me. Why do you not understand what I am saying? It is because you cannot hear My Word. I come from God, I am God, I speak God's word and you don't hear it." Why? Verse 44, "You are of your father the devil. You want to do the desires of your father and he was a murderer from the beginning and doesn't stand in the truth, there's no truth in him."
So you have two kinds of people in the world, those who believe the devil's lies and those who believe the truth of God. Verse 45, Jesus says, "Because I speak the truth, you don't believe Me." Verse 46, "If I speak the truth why do you not believe Me? He who is of God hears the words of God." Jesus again is saying, when I speak it's the words of God, it's right out of the mind of God. And if you believed it, you would understand it.
This same testimony again John gives throughout his letter, I don't want to read all of the portions but John 12:49 is important. "I didn't speak on My own initiative but the Father Himself who sent Me has given Me commandment what to say and what to speak. And I know that His commandment is eternal life, therefore the things I speak I speak just as the Father has told Me." Literally, I am giving you the very words of God which have the power to produce eternal life.
Now God is true, we know that. That's one of His attributes. Psalm 138:2, "I bow down to Thy holy temple and give thanks to Thy name for Thy loving kindness and Thy truth. Thou hast magnified Thy word according to all Thy name." In other words, God magnifies His word equal to His name because His word is the expression of His essential truth. That's why Psalm 146:6 says, "God keeps truth forever." Isaiah 65:16 twice says God is the God of truth.
And so, it says then in chapter 5 that Jesus was speaking the words that come from God. Here you have evidence of His deity. This is not a human opinion, this is not a man, even a theologian who is well studied, this is not a scholar talking, this is the very word from God. As He stands by the lake and speaks the very word of God, the crowd is pushing Him and in verse 2 it says He saw two boats lying at the edge of the lake. They would have been fairly large boats and so they wouldn't have been all the way up on dry land but the bow was pushed into the shore of that lake and they were there. The fishermen had gotten out of them, verse 2 says, and were washing their nets.
The fishing enterprise was a very, very consuming thing. What they did took up days and nights. They fished at night and during the day they had to repair their tackle, their boat, and in this case their nets. And so it was daytime now and Jesus perhaps had begun His first lesson teaching in the morning, and then there is later to be more teaching when He gets into the boat. It perhaps is 11 o'clock in the morning, maybe even pressing noon by now. He sees as the crowd is pushing and pushing the two boats on the edge of the lake and the fishermen gone and washing their nets to prepare for the next night of fishing.
And just a reminder. This is more information then you may want to know, but it makes this come alive. A fisherman typically and certainly at the Sea of Galilee fish at night because at night the fish come to the surface and to the shore. Fishermen today will tell you generally the cloudier the day, or the darker the sky, the better the fishing. And in the sea of Galilee region, in the Galilee, it is blazing sun in the middle of the day and so the fishermen typically would fish all night and spend the daytime repairing their nets and so forth so they could be prepared to fish again when night came. Days were the days to work on the equipment. Nights were for fishing.
Now the boats were fairly large. We have a couple of incidents in the New Testament that indicate that to us. You have Mark chapter 4 where you have all the disciples in a boat and Jesus sleeping. You have Mark chapter 6 where you have all the disciples in the boat plus Jesus, at least 13 people, and maybe a crew to run the boat. You have another incident in Matthew chapter 8 verse 23, or another account of the same incident that's in Mark 4 and Matthew 8, again indicating that all the disciples were in the same boat.
Now in this boat you're going to see Jesus gets in the boat, Simon gets in the boat, James and John get in the boat and probably there's a crew to assist in the fishing enterprise. So this would be a fairly large boat with some beams that could be used for the nets, with some winches that might be used to pull the nets in, with a sail that could be used to move the boat along as well as some oars with a hold so there was a deck and a hold below where the fish could be dumped into the boat after they were gathered in with the nets. So these boats would be sitting on the shore. Boats that would be manned by whoever owned the boat, the people who were the owners as well as a crew who served in the fishing enterprise.
So there the boats sit at the edge of the lake. Verse 3 says He got into one of the boats which was Simon's. Now there's a reason for this. The Lord didn't do anything just by accident. Everything was intentional, divinely intentional, sovereignly purposeful. It was time to bring Peter to full commitment and to bring those who followed his leadership, in this case James and John, to their full commitment as well.
Let me give you a little bit of background. Jesus first met Peter back in the first chapter of John. John records the first time they met. Jesus met Peter and his brother Nathaniel. That was the first meeting and at that time Jesus called them to follow Him. This was sort of the first step in their following Jesus. It was later on, recorded in Mark 1:16 to 20, and Matthew 4 about verse 18 to 22, that there was a second calling. The first time they just sort of follow Jesus. Later on, as recorded in Mark 1 and Matthew 4, Jesus made a more direct call and I guess they could say, we could say they became part-time followers, only in that case it was Peter and James and John who were the sons of a man named Zebedee. And they were all partners in the fishing business. So they had already had a couple of encounters with Jesus. Peter, that first calling with Nathaniel, that second calling with James and John.
Now Jesus is beginning to know Peter because Peter is following Him. That's why in chapter 4 after the synagogue service, when it was dinner time, Jesus went to Simon's house. He knows him now and Simon has become at least a far...a part-time follower, a little bit of fishing and a little bit of following Jesus. It hasn't been too difficult to follow Jesus and fish because Jesus has stayed in Galilee and so Peter could connect at certain points between his necessary employment as a fisherman. And so Jesus knows Peter but it is time to take Peter to another level. By the way, Jesus did this throughout His whole life, even after the resurrection, trying to get Peter to the level He wanted him at. He was very reluctant and a difficult guy to deal with. But he was also the recognized leader of the Apostles. It was important to have Peter where he needed to be because he was the one who had seemingly the greatest influence on the rest. And so Peter is seemingly the key person for the Lord. You have four lists of Apostles in the New Testament, Matthew, Mark, Luke and Acts, and in all four Peter's name is first. He is clearly recognized as the spokesman and the leader. And so Jesus is going to work on Peter a little bit and James and John, as we see, will follow along. But Peter is the target, so He wants to get in Peter's boat, and that's exactly what He does. He's here called Simon, he will be called Simon by Luke until we get to chapter 6 verse 14 when he is fully identified as Peter. By this time the Lord had already changed his name but it didn't get changed in the text of Luke until the sixth chapter, although He does refer to him here in verse 8 as Simon Peter, which sort of helps us make that transition.
So He gets into Simon's boat. It's going to be school time now for Simon. And He's going to reveal to Simon and the others who He really is. So He says to him, "Put out a little way from the land." Let's get this boat back off the shore or we're going to get pushed into the water here. And because the crowd has gotten right down to the edge, Jesus needs some space. And by the way, water is a good conductor of sound and this is a fairly flat lake and gentle surface of that lake would make a good point to sort of bounce the sound to that crowd of thousands that had gathered and it would give Jesus a little bit of distance. And so He asked him to put out a little way from the land, so Peter gets in the boat, whoever else needed to help him handled this boat and push it back off the shore and stabilize in the water so that Jesus could sit down, it says in verse 3, and begin again to teach the multitudes from the boat. So this is the second set of lessons. The first one completed now, He gets...the crowd is getting bigger and bigger, pressing and pressing, and they've been listening to the word of God but now Jesus has to get away into the water and He teaches them again.
Just a reminder here, this is relentless on Jesus' part. No matter what the exigencies, no matter what the difficulties, no matter how much the press of the crowd is, you don't stop teaching, you just find a way to keep doing it because this is at the heart of why Jesus came. He came to seek and to save the lost in order to bring them the truth because you can't be saved apart from the truth. No difficulty can ever interrupt teaching, preaching. This is that which is most critical. You can set the miracles aside, you can set the casting out of demons aside, you can set the supernatural wonders aside, but you cannot set the teaching aside. And so, Jesus must continue His teaching. He must continue to preach to the poor and the prisoners and the blind and the oppressed who need to hear the message of forgiveness and the Kingdom of God.
He sat down, it says in verse 3, in a traditional, rabbinical posture for teaching, and continued His instruction, teaching the multitudes from the boat again the word of God. Let me just inject this, folks, and I don't want to beat a dead horse but this horse isn't dead yet. I keep reminding you, and I just did that series on deliverance and I was telling you in the series on deliverance that there is a rapidly exploding movement in quote/unquote evangelical Christianity to deny that it is necessary to hear the gospel to be saved. Jesus was relentless about teaching. He was relentless about the proclamation of the truth. And He told His disciples when I'm gone you go into the world and preach the gospel to whom? Every creature and you command them to do all things whatsoever I have commanded you. You take the gospel to every creature to the ends of the earth because there isn't any salvation apart from the gospel, right? Can't be saved, there's no salvation in any other name then the name of Jesus Christ. And Paul in Romans 10 says, "Look, in order to be saved, to be a Christian, you have to confess Jesus as Lord and believe in your heart that God raised Him from the dead. And how are they going to believe that if they don't hear that, and how are they going to hear that...Paul says...unless somebody preaches? And how is somebody going to preach unless they are sent." So there is the whole enterprise. We have to send people to the ends of the earth who can preach the gospel because people can't be converted unless they hear the gospel and believe the gospel. That's pretty endemic, isn't it, to Christianity. Not any more...not any more.
As I told you quoting various sources there is this new movement in evangelicalism that essentially says people are going to get to heaven, they're going to get into the Kingdom of God from all different points of belief and without the Bible and without the gospel. This is not new. And I just want to...I just want to take a minute or two to show you this is not new, folks. This is an old heresy. This is an old heresy that is part of the Roman Catholic Church. This goes back to Saint Thomas Aquinas, for those of you who know any of that history. This is the heresy of natural theology...natural theology, or I suppose you could call it rational theology. And that is the idea that you can get to God through natural means. You can get to God through your own rational mind so that wherever you are in whatever culture and whatever religion and whatever particular system of belief or non-belief, if you follow your rational thinking back to the fact that there must be a God, and you live a good life, you are going to come into the Kingdom of God, be saved and go to heaven if you never see a Bible or ever hear the gospel. Listen, the Roman Catholic Church has believed that for a long, long time. That is Roman Catholic theology. That is why the Vatican welcomes Hopi Indian witch doctors and embraces them. That is why they have confabs with Buddhists and Muslims and everybody else and all religions, that is basic Roman Catholic theology.
To affirm that to you, this is from yesterday's L.A. Times. It says, "Pope takes inclusive view of salvation." I'll read it to you. "Pope John Paul II said this week that all who live a just life will be saved, even if they do not believe in Jesus Christ." This is not new, that is what Vatican II said. And what is happening in evangelicalism, people say, "Oh, we need to embrace these people, we need to put our arms around them, we need to get together with these people because that's the loving thing to do." What they're doing in getting together is embracing this old heresy. "The Pontiff addressing thirty-thousand pilgrims in Saint Peter's Square strongly asserted the Second Vatican Council's liberal interpretation of the Bible's teaching on salvation." This is a quote from the Pope. "The gospel teaches us that those who live in accordance with the Beatitudes, the poor in spirit, the pure of heart, those who bear lovingly the sufferings of life will enter God's Kingdom," end quote. This has always been there. We're...we're the wayward brethren to the Roman system, but if we do good, even as Protestants, we'll get there but so will the Muslims and so will the Buddhists, and so will the pagans and the animists and whoever else is trying to do good. And that's why I told you when I gave you that information from the quotes with Schuller and Graham, this is not naive discussion, this is an old theological error of serious proportions that has been imbibed on a lot of fronts. The main apologist for this today has been Peter Kreep[?] who wrote the book Ecumenical Jihad which was affirmed, as I told, by Colson and Packer and there are others like Clark Pinnock[?] who are quote/unquote "main sort of line influential evangelical people." And they have all embraced this and this marriage with Rome is not only accepting Rome's view of salvation in Christ through works, but it is accepting Rome's view of salvation without Christ. And we're talking about some serious things. I just wanted to throw that footnote in in case you may have wondered where that came from. Nobody is inventing that today, that is an old lie that Satan has been propounding for a very long time.
Jesus knew and you know if you know the Bible that salvation comes by hearing the word about Christ, right? Romans 10. And how are they going to hear if you don't preach? Jesus knew that and so God had one Son and He was a preacher and He preached His whole ministry. And then He appointed Apostles who would preach. And then He chose gifted men to be preachers, pastor/teachers and evangelists all down through history because how are they going to hear if we don't preach? And then He gave us a commission to send people to the ends of the earth to proclaim the gospel because there isn't any salvation apart from it. And this is such a serious error that has come in that it redefines not only the gospel, not only salvation but it redefines the work of the church and the missions of the world. But Jesus knew, Jesus knew what was important, truth was important and the gospel and relentlessly He did it. And if it got difficult, He figured out a way to solve it. There were a number of occasions when He had to get into a boat to get away from the crowd. He taught everywhere. He taught in the temple, as we'll see later. He taught in synagogues. He taught in a cemetery in John 11. He taught by the side of the lake. He taught in houses. Sometimes, as I said, they had to open the roof to let people down the crowds were so big in the house. Anywhere and everywhere all through His life He preached because that is necessary. You cannot come to the Kingdom of God unless you believe and in believing the Word, the Word then has the power to transform you and make you a child of God.
So what do we see in Jesus that indicates who He is? Divine truth, He spoke the words that come from God. Secondly, divine knowledge, this is just a brief point but I want to make it. Divine knowledge. Now I'm no great fisherman. I...I've said this, people say, "Do you like to fish?" And I say no, I like to catch. Fishing is no fun at all, catching is okay. And if you mean do I want to go sit somewhere for five hours and catch nothing? No. But if you have ten minutes that I can catch something, I'll come. I mean, I'm very pragmatic about this. Catching is good, fishing is not interesting. And, you know, but I have been taught to catch by some really good catchers, I call them. Catchermen. One of them is Ray Scott, Ray Scott is Mr. Bass, he's the world's best-known bass fisherman and he taught me how to catch bass. And he took me, the first time I had ever gone bass fishing, and it was pretty amazing, he taught me how to cast. We were on this lake and he's a very experienced guy. And so he said, "I think the fish are over there," and he pointed to someplace in this lake and we're in this little bass boat, this is a couple of years ago and he says, "I think they're over there," and he said, "but I want you to experiment with the cast here." And so I cast and did pretty well at it and I got a hit immediately, I got a hit. And what happened was I pulled in a...I think it was a nine-pound twelve-ounce large-mouth bass which Ray told me would be like in golf getting a hole-in-one. That is a huge fish and he was shocked, first of all, that I caught it and shocked that he didn't think they were there, that they were over there...this is the guy who knows more about bass fishing. But what I found out is he doesn't know where the fish are. He has all these little deals in his boat that, you know, sonar, and whatever to try to find the fish, but he didn't know where the fish were and he didn't know that big fish was over there and I was only just trying to practice. Now there's another great fisherman in our church, Christopher Parkening, who's really a world-class fly fisherman and tarpon fisher, he's won the Gold Cup Florida Tarpon Fishing Tournament and all this, and I went fishing with him. And we...he's world-class and we...we floated around for a long time trying to find a fish. And so I have concluded this, the great challenge in fishing is to find the fish because you can't hook them if you can't find them. Right? So the big deal is not all how you tie things and how do this...the big deal is find the fish! Just find the fish.
Well, that's what makes Jesus a catcher and not a fisher. Jesus had divine knowledge. This is amazing. He knew exactly where the fish were. Wouldn't you like to go fishing with Him? He knew exactly where the fish were...exactly. You say, "How do you know that?" Well, I can give you a comparison. Matthew 10:29 and 30 says this, "Are not two sparrows sold for a cent and yet not one of them will fall to the ground apart from your Father's knowledge?" What does that mean "fall to the ground?" One commentator says the word actually means hops. Never does a sparrow, a little tiny inconsequential bird, never does a sparrow hop that God doesn't know it hopped. God knows every sparrow on the planet and He knows every time a sparrow hops. That same passage says, "The very hairs of your head are numbered." For some of you that's not a really big challenge. For some of us, I guess I should say. But I don't think the point...I don't think the point is that God is up there trying to keep account. The point is that in omniscience God knows everything there is to know, everything that exists He knows. He doesn't learn it, He doesn't conclude it by adding. He doesn't know sparrows hop because He watches them. Everything that exists He knows whether it's material or immaterial. So believe me, Jesus as God will know where the fish are. And this is omniscience. And this is what flows out of this. God's understanding is unsearchable, Isaiah 40:28 says, known to God from eternity are all His works. Paul said in Acts 15 and Hebrews 4:13, "There's no creature hidden from His sight." God knows where every fish in every lake and every ocean is at all times because God omnisciently knows everything that exits in the material and immaterial world and the condition and state of everything, not only now but in the past and the future. He knows everything. Nothing in the universe is beyond His full comprehension.
We see this revealed, look at verse 4. "When Jesus finished His teaching He said to Simon, 'Put out into the deep water, let your nets down for a catch.'" We're going fishing. This is a big enterprise, folks. There are two kinds of nets, this is more than you want to know, but I'm going to tell you anyway. There are two kind of nets. There is a hand-held one-man net. There's a reference to that, a couple of references to that in the New Testament in Matthew 4 and in Mark 1, those comparative passages where the Lord was calling Simon and Andrew. They were fishing with a one-man net and you used the one-man net along the shore when it was dark, dusk at night or before the dawn and you would walk in the shallow water until you came to the school because the fish would come to the shore, to the surface and to the shore in the dark and you had essentially a large circle weighted net on the outside, the perimeter was weighted. In the middle you had a cord you held in one hand, and you spun that net and sent the weights out over the school of fish. You walked along the shallows until you came to a school of fish and you flung that, the weights then went down, sunk to the bottom, surrounded the fish. You had a cord in the hand, you pulled the cord tight and essentially what you had was a catch of fish in that net that surrounded that school that you found when you were wading, it was used when you were wading, you pulled it into the shore. That's a small one-man net. But the kind of net here, it's a general word used, diktuon, it doesn't tell us, but we know the kind of net because it took two boats to work this net so we know what it was. This net is called a sagena, a sagena or sometimes called a seine. It is a massive, massive net. It is a net that is generally put in the fishing experience of Peter between two boats and history tells us it could be as long as a half mile, very, very, very large net and it had corks on the top and it had weights on the bottom. So it created...when the boats separated it created a wall of net and into that wall of net everything would literally swim and be collected and then the net was by cords and some winches pulled together and pulled together and pulled together until you had this massive potential to catch whatever was there. That is what they were using, this great sagena. Well in order to operate this you had to have a crew of men. This was a large operation. This was a very big net. You can imagine a half a mile of net piled up on a boat and dragged out and spread out as the boat separated, covering this massive amount of area. Pulled finally into a great circle as the boats pulled around, they pulled this wall of net into a circle as they got together and then they began to pull the rope in and pull the thing together.
In the middle of the day, however, at the brightest point of the sunlight, it was generally possible that the fish could be so deep they were even below the ability of that net to go down and find them. And furthermore, after all, Peter had fished all night and caught nothing, so Peter was convinced there were no fish there. Peter's experience, lots of years of fishing, that's his lake, that's his area. He knows what he knows and he cannot resist telling the Lord that in verse 5. "Simon answered and said, 'Master,'" it's a term of respect, it's not deity, master is a word that is epistates, it means chief, or commander, or one in authority. Peter's following Jesus but he's not yet quite there in terms of fully understanding who Jesus is, but he knows he's following Him and he sees Jesus as his leader and commander. It's a word that only you...only Luke uses and he uses it about seven times. It refers to anybody who's in authority. So he's...it's more than teacher, the non-followers call Jesus rabbi, or teacher, the follower here calls Him Master. He's not necessarily saying deity, he gets to that down in verse 8 when he calls Him Lord. But here it's Master. And he can't resist saying, "We worked all night and caught nothing." It's as if he says, "Let me remind you, you are a carpenter, we are the fishermen. You're out of your field, right? I mean, you understand we've got to get this...we've got to get all this crew together, we've got to get all this tackle together, we've got to get the nets we've been washing, we've got to get them back in the boat, this is going to take a lot of work. We fished all night, we caught absolutely nothing. I'm telling you, the fish aren't there. We've been there all night, they're not there. That's not how it is and you're going to make us go to all this work and all this effort and get out there and spread this thing out and go through all this and it's going to all be pointless. Then as I said, by then it's noon and the sun is burning down on the lake and the fish are way down and there just aren't any fish. But...he says, and of course you would say this if the Lord had just healed your mother-in-law and made your wife happy, so he says...Master, we worked all night and caught nothing, but at your bidding I will let down the nets, the least I can owe you for healing my mother-in-law who is a tremendous cook and got right out of bed and made dinner and all of that. So hey, what can I say..what can I say? We'll do it."
So the whole enterprise gets going and when he says there, "I will let down the nets," he means "I will have the nets let down because this is an enterprise that says two boats with two crews." Verse 6, "But when they had done this they enclosed a great quantity of fish and the nets began to break." You know why? Jesus knew where the fish were. That's what hits you, He knew where the fish were. Peter says, "There's no fish there." Jesus said, "Put the net down." He knew where the fish were. If He knows every sparrow's hop, He knows where all His fish are. He knew where they were, He knew exactly where they were. One time in Matthew 17 they needed to pay their taxes, remember that? Peter needed money for the taxes. Jesus said, "Go down there, put your hook in the water and pull out the fish and the fish has a coin in his mouth that will pay for both of us." He knew what fish had the coin, where the fish was. He said, "Go put the thing down there, that's where that fish is." And then there was John 21 where Peter was fishing after the resurrection. Peter was fishing and he couldn't catch anything, remember? And Jesus was on the shore and He said, "Try the right side of the boat." Try the right side of the boat. And they did and they couldn't even get all the fish in. Why? He always knew where the fish were. He always knows where everything is because He knows everything that is to know. There are no limits on His knowledge except those which He imposed upon Himself in His condescension. But He is God and He's omniscient as God and He knows everything. It says in John chapter 2 that He didn't need anybody to tell Him what they were thinking because He knew what they were thinking. When He had a conversation with Nicodemus in John 3 He answered a question Nicodemus hadn't asked, but He read his mind.
This is God. We know God is omniscient, Psalm 139 lays out the omniscience of God in the most magnificent language, just a couple of verses will suffice. "O Lord, Thou hast searched me and known me, Thou dost know when I sit down, when I rise up. Thou dost understand my thought from afar. Thou hast scrutinized my path, my lying down, are intimately acquainted with all my ways. Even before there's a word on my tongue, behold, O Lord, You know it all. You have inclosed me behind and before, laid Your hand on me, such knowledge is too wonderful for me. It is too high, I can't attain it. You know everything." This is God. Jesus knew where all the fish were. He knew what men can't know, possessed divine knowledge. And so you have here divine truth and divine knowledge. Now next time we're going to see how omniscience, divine knowledge, blends into power omnipotence.
Now let's go back to where we started. Where do you go to find the quest for the historical Jesus satisfied? The Scripture, right? If you want to know the real Jesus, where do you go? You go to the gospels. And here you have Him revealed. And as I said at the very beginning, if all you had was Matthew 5, you would have to face the fact that what you have here is someone who speaks the very words of God and who knows what only God knows. The best of fishermen, the most professional, the most experienced, the most astute in their own area at their own lake on their own shore with their own boat and their own equipment didn't know what Jesus knew cause He knows everything. This is God in human flesh, the Redeemer, the Lord, Savior of sinners.

Should i start a bible study post.?

2009-03-13T13:57:00.003-07:00

YES...?? reply k... (to all christians only k)

Thanksgiving Practical Joke

2009-03-13T13:57:00.001-07:00

Last Thanksgiving, my mom decided to play a trick on my sister (who's blonde). To get her out of the house, she convinced her that we needed more half and half for the coffee.
While my sister was out, my mom took the turkey out of the oven, removed the stuffing, stuffed a Cornish hen, then put it inside the turkey, packing stuffing all around it. She then put the turkey back in the oven.
When everything was ready, my sister took the turkey out of the oven and began to remove the stuffing. When she felt something, she reached in and pulled out the Cornish hen.
Pretending to be shocked, by mother exclaimed, "Patti, you've cooked a pregnant turkey!"
My sister began to cry and was inconsolable. It took us half an hour to convince her that turkeys lay eggs!

Civic Lesson

2009-03-13T13:56:00.001-07:00

In a high school civics class, they were discussing the qualifications for becoming President of the United States. The requirements are pretty simple. The candidate must be a natural born citizen and at least 35 years old.
A blonde girl in the class piped up and began complaining about how unfair it was to require the candidate to be a natural born citizen. In her opinion, that made it impossible for many qualified people to run for the office. She went on and on, wrapping up her argument with "What makes a natural born citizen more qualified to be President than one born by C-Section?"

A Little too not over you by David Archuleta- i post coz i love this song very muchh.. ^^

2009-03-13T13:50:00.001-07:00

It never crossed my mind at all
That's what I tell myself
What we had has come and gone
You're better off with someone elseIt's for the best, I know it is
But I see you
Sometimes I try to hide
What I feel inside
And I turn around
You're with him now
I just can't figure it out
Tell me why
You're so hard to forget
Don't remind me
I'm not over it
Tell me why
I can't seem to face the truth
I'm just a little too not over you(eh eh eh oh eh eh eh)
Not over you(eh eh eh oh eh eh eh)
MemoriesSupposed to fade
What's wrong with my heart?Shake it off, let it go
Didn't think it be this hard
Should be strong
Moving on
But I see you
Sometimes I try to hide
What I feel inside
And I turn around
You're with him now
I just can't figure it out
Tell me why
You're so hard to forget
Don't remind me
I'm not over it
Tell me whyI can't seem to face the truth
I'm just a little too not over you
Maybe I regret
Everything I saidNo way to take it all back, yeah
Now I'm on my own
How I let you goI'll never understand
I'll never understand
Yeah, oooh, oooh, ooohOoooooohOhOoooh, oh
Tell me whyYou're so hard to forgetDon't remind meI'm not over itTell me whyI can't seem to face the truthI'm just a little too not over you
Tell me whyYou're so hard to forget
Don't remind meI'm not over it
Tell me whyI can't seem to face the truth
And I really don't know what to do
I'm just a little too not over you(eh eh eh oh eh eh eh)
Not over you(eh eh eh oh eh eh eh)

Aiyaaa..>!!

2009-03-13T13:48:00.000-07:00

>.< my sore throat is killing me... Haih.. been having this for almost a week now.. All my medicine are about to finish.. What to do..?? With the sore throat and all.. it makes me feel so sad.. i can't sing well.. i'm totally bogged down by this shit... (T.T)

Isn't life getting tougher..??

2009-03-13T13:40:00.000-07:00

I just feel it..!! In every step we take in life.. things just gets harder.. and sometimes u just don knw hw to face it.. I am saying all these bcoz of the science subjects.. plus with the moral subject.. So many ppl complain about and making such a big fuss bout teaching science and maths in english.. Why are they so bothered bout it..?? The only thing ppl shud complain is the moral sub.. Imagine hw many nilais we have to memorize.. Moral shud not be studied but instead it is practice first.. And after completing ur SPM.. life is only a begining.. Ppl tend to seperate bcoz of tht.. Tht is wt i'm frustrated about... Losing contact wit my gud old pals.. hahaa.. Anyway.. Enjoy life as it is now.. We do nt knw wt is going to happen in future and our future is not for us to determine... SO ENJOY LIFE YEA... (The worst is coming).. so just chill

Hammurabi's code

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The Code of Hammurabi (Codex Hammurabi ) is the best-preserved ancient law code, created ca. 1760 BC (middle chronology) in ancient Babylon. It was enacted by the sixth Babylonian king, Hammurabi.[1] Only one example of the Code survives today, inscribed on a seven foot, four inch tall basalt stone slab or stele. Originally, several stelae would have been displayed in temples around the empire.[2][3]
Contents[hide]
1 Discovery
2 Description
3 Hammurabi
4 Law
4.1 Examples
5 See also
6 References
6.1 Notes
6.2 Bibliography
6.3 External links
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[edit] Discovery
The stele containing the Code of Hammurabi was discovered in 1901 by the egyptologist Gustav Jéquier, a member of the expedition headed by Jacques de Morgan. The stele was discovered in what is now Khuzestan, Iran (ancient Susa, Elam), where it had been taken as plunder by the Elamite king Shutruk-Nahhunte in the 12th century BC.[4] It is currently on display at the Louvre Museum in Paris.[1]

[edit] Description
At the top of the stele is a bas-relief image of a Babylonian god (either Marduk or Shamash), with the king of Babylon presenting himself to the god, with his right hand raised to his mouth as a mark of respect.[1] The text covers the bottom portion with the laws written in Akkadian language cuneiform script. The text has been broken down by translators into 282 laws, but this division is arbitrary, since the original text contains no divisional markers.

[edit] Hammurabi
Main article: Hammurabi
Hammurabi (ruled ca. 1796 BC – 1750 BC) believed that he was chosen by the gods to deliver the law to his people. In the preface to the law code, he states, "Anu and Bel called by name me, Hammurabi, the exalted prince, who feared God, to bring about the rule of righteousness in the land."[5]

[edit] Law
Main article: Babylonian law
The Code of Hammurabi was one of several sets of laws in the Ancient Near East.[6][7] Earlier collections of laws include the Code of Ur-Nammu, king of Ur (ca. 2050 BC), the Laws of Eshnunna (ca. 1930 BC) and the codex of Lipit-Ishtar of Isin (ca. 1870 BC).[8], while later ones include the Hittite laws, the Assyrian laws, and Mosaic Law. These codes come from similar cultures in a relatively small geographical area, and they have passages which resemble each other.

View of the back side of the stele.
The code is often pointed to be a primary example of even a king not being able to change fundamental laws concerning the governing of a country which was the primitive form of what is now known as a constitution.
The Babylonians and their neighbors developed the earliest system of economics that was fixed in a legal code, using a metric of various commodities. The early law codes from Sumer could be considered the first (written) economic formula, and had many attributes still in use in the current price system today... such as codified amounts of money for business deals (interest rates), fines in money for 'wrong doing', inheritance rules, laws concerning how private property is to be taxed or divided, etc.[9]

[edit] Examples
These are the first three laws, in their entirety, of the Code of Hammurabi, translated into English:
1. If any one ensnares another, putting a ban upon him, but he can not prove it, then he that ensnared him shall be put to death.
2. If any one brings an accusation against a man, and the accused goes to the river and leaps into the river, if he sinks in the river his accuser shall take possession of his house. But if the river proves that the accused is not guilty, and he escapes unhurt, then he who had brought the accusation shall be put to death, while he who leaped into the river shall take possession of the house that had belonged to his accuser.
3. If any one brings an accusation of any crime before the elders, and does not prove what he has charged, he shall, if a capital offense is charged, be put to death.
There are 282 such laws in the Code of Hammurabi, each no more than a sentence or two. The 282 laws are bracketed by a Prologue in which Hammurabi introduces himself, and an Epilogue in which he affirms his authority and sets forth his hopes and prayers for his code of laws.

THE ART OF WAR

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The Art of War is divided into 13 chapters (or P'ien), and the collection is referred to as being one Ch'üan ("whole" or alternatively "chronicle"). As different translations have used differing titles for each chapter, a selection appears below. Lionel Giles' 1910 translation is considered the standard reference, but the other titles are, given the nature of translation, equally valid.
Lionel Giles (1910)
I. Laying Plans
II. Waging War
III. Attack by Stratagem
IV. Tactical Dispositions
V. Energy
VI. Weak Points and Strong
VII. Maneuvering
VIII. Variation of Tactics
IX. The Army on the March
X. Terrain
XI. The Nine Situations
XII. The Attack by Fire
XIII. The Use of Spies

R.L. Wing (1988)
I. The Calculations
II. The Challenge
III. The Plan of Attack
IV. Positioning
V. Directing
VI. Illusion and Reality
VII. Engaging The Force
VIII. The Nine Variations
IX. Moving The Force
X. Situational Positioning
XI. The Nine Situations
XII. The Fiery Attack
XIII. The Use of Intelligence

Chow-Hou Wee (2003)
I. Detail Assessment and Planning (Chinese: 始計，始计)
II. Waging War (Chinese: 作戰，作战)
III. Strategic Attack (Chinese: 謀攻，谋攻)
IV. Disposition of the Army (Chinese: 軍行，军行)
V. Forces (Chinese: 兵勢，兵势)
VI. Weaknesses and Strengths (Chinese: 虛實，虚实)
VII. Military Maneuvers (Chinese: 軍爭，军争)
VIII. Variations and Adaptability (Chinese: 九變，九变)
IX. Movement and Development of Troops (Chinese: 行軍，行军)
X. Terrain (Chinese: 地形)
XI. The Nine Battlegrounds (Chinese: 九地)
XII. Attacking with Fire (Chinese: 火攻)
XIII. Intelligence and Espionage (Chinese: 用間，用间)

Chapter summary
Laying Plans explores the five key elements that define competitive position (mission, climate, ground, leadership, and methods) and how to evaluate your competitive strengths against your competition.
Waging War explains how to understand the economic nature of competition and how success requires making the winning play, which in turn, requires limiting the cost of competition and conflict.
Attack by Stratagem defines the source of strength as unity, not size, and the five ingredients that you need to succeed in any competitive situation.
Tactical Dispositions explains the importance of defending existing positions until you can advance them and how you must recognize opportunities, not try to create them.
Energy explains the use of creativity and timing in building your competitive momentum.
Weak Points & Strong explains how your opportunities come from the openings in the environment caused by the relative weakness of your competitors in a given area.
Maneuvering explains the dangers of direct conflict and how to win those confrontations when they are forced upon you.
Variation in Tactics focuses on the need for flexibility in your responses. It explains how to respond to shifting circumstances successfully.
The Army on the March describes the different situations in which you find yourselves as you move into new competitive arenas and how to respond to them. Much of it focuses on evaluating the intentions of others.
Terrain looks at the three general areas of resistance (distance, dangers, and barriers) and the six types of ground positions that arise from them. Each of these six field positions offer certain advantages and disadvantages.
The Nine Situations describe nine common situations (or stages) in a competitive campaign, from scattering to deadly, and the specific focus you need to successfully navigate each of them.
The Attack by Fire explains the use of weapons generally and the use of the environment as a weapon specifically. It examines the five targets for attack, the five types of environmental attack, and the appropriate responses to such attack.
The Use of Spies focuses on the importance of developing good information sources, specifically the five types of sources and how to manage them.

Annotations

A portion of the Art of War in Tangut script.
Before the bamboo scroll version was discovered by archaeologists in April 1972, the most cited version of The Art of War was the Annotation of Sun Tzu's Strategies by Cao Cao, the founder of the Kingdom of Wei. In the preface, he wrote that previous annotations were not focused on the essential ideas. Other annotations cited in official history books include Shen You (176-204)'s Sun Tzu's Military Strategy, Jia Xu's Copy of Sun Tzu's Military Strategy, Cao Cao and Wang Ling's Sun Tzu's Military Strategy.
The Book of Sui documented seven books named after Sun Tzu. An annotation by Du Mu also includes Cao Cao's annotation. Li Jing's The Art of War is said to be a revision of Sun Tzu's strategies. Annotations by Cao Cao, Du Mu and Li Quan were translated into the Tangut language before 1040 AD. A book named Ten Schools of The Art of War Annotations was published before 1161 AD.[citation needed]
After the movable type printer was invented, The Art of War (with Cao Cao's annotations) was published as a military text book, known as Seven Military Classics with six other strategy books.
As a required reading military textbook since the Song Dynasty, Seven Military Classics (武經七書，武经七书) has many annotations. More than 30 differently annotated versions of this book exist today.
Vernacular Chinese became increasingly popular in the late 1920s. Annotations in Vernacular Chinese began to appear after this time. Some of these works were translated from other languages, such as Japanese.[citation needed]
The two most common traditional Chinese versions of the Art of War, (the Complete Specialist Focus and Military Bible versions) were the sources for early translation into English and other languages. It was not until the 1970s that these works were compiled with more recent archeological discoveries into a single more complete version in Taipei. The resulting work is known as the Complete Version of Sun Tzu's Art of War for the National Defense Research Investigation Office has been the source for more recent and complete translations.

Quotations
Verses from the book occur in modern daily Chinese idioms and phrases, such as the last verse of Chapter 3:
故曰：知彼知己，百戰不殆；不知彼而知己，一勝一負；不知彼，不知己，每戰必殆。(故曰：知彼知己，百战不殆；不知彼而知己，一胜一负；不知彼，不知己，每战必殆。)
So it is said that if you know your enemies and know yourself, you will fight without danger in battles.If you only know yourself, but not your opponent, you may win or may lose.If you know neither yourself nor your enemy, you will always endanger yourself.
This has been more tersely interpreted and condensed into the modern proverb:
知己知彼百戰不殆（知彼知己，百战不殆）
If you know both yourself and your enemy, you can come out of hundreds of battles without danger.
Many people interpret this sentence as 'If you know both sides, you will win a hundred times in one hundred battles. (知己知彼百戰百勝)'. This translation is incorrect. The word '殆' in Chinese means 'danger'. '百' in this sentence is better interpreted as 'numerous' rather than 'hundred'.
Furthermore, knowing both sides doesn't guarantee winning. '知己知彼百戰百勝' ('If you know both sides, you will win a hundred times in one hundred battles') is untrue since in the beginning paragraph of chapter four, Sun Tzu wrote 'Hence, we can well predict who would win but there is no strategy guaranteeing winning (故曰: 勝可知，而不可為。)'. The reason of the uncertainty is quite simple. How about dealing with the opponent who knows both sides better than you do?
Similar verses have also been borrowed -- in a manner construing skillfulness as victory "without fighting" -- for example:
是故百戰百勝，非善之善者也；不戰而屈人之兵，善之善者也。
Therefore one hundred victories in one hundred battles is not the most skillful. Seizing the enemy without fighting is the most skillful.
And, the most famous quotation (chapter 1, paragraph 18):
兵不厭詐。
All warfare is based on deception.
or, alternatively:
Never will those who wage war tire of deception.

Military applications
In many East Asian countries, The Art of War was part of the syllabus for potential candidates of military service examinations. Various translations are available.
During the Sengoku era in Japan, a daimyo named Takeda Shingen (1521–1573) is said to have become almost invincible in all battles without relying on guns, because he studied The Art of War.[6] The book even gave him the inspiration for his famous battle standard "Fūrinkazan" (Wind, Forest, Fire and Mountain), meaning fast as the wind, silent as a forest, ferocious as fire and immovable as a mountain.[7]
The translator Samuel B. Griffith offers a chapter on "Sun Tzu and Mao Tse-Tung" where The Art of War is cited as influencing Mao's On Guerilla Warfare, On the Protracted War, and Strategic Problems of China's Revolutionary War and includes Mao's quote: "We must not belittle the saying in the book of Sun Wu Tzu, the great military expert of ancient China, 'Know your enemy and know yourself and you can fight a thousand battles without disaster.'"[8]
During the Vietnam War, some Vietcong officers studied The Art of War, and reportedly could recite entire passages from memory.
The Department of the Army in the United States, through its Command and General Staff College, has directed all units to maintain libraries within their respective headquarters for the continuing education of personnel in the art of war. The Art of War is specifically mentioned by name as an example of works to be maintained at each individual unit, and staff duty officers are obliged to prepare short papers for presentation to other officers on their readings.[9]
The Art of War is listed on the Marine Corps Professional Reading Program (formerly known as the Commandant's Reading List).[10]

Applicability outside the military
Since at least the 1980s, The Art of War has been applied to fields well outside the military. Much of the text is about how to fight wars without actually having to do battle: it gives tips on how to outsmart one's opponent so that physical battle is not necessary. As such, it has found application as a training guide for many competitive endeavors that do not involve actual combat.
The book has gained popularity in corporate culture; there have been a variety of business books written applying its lessons to "office politics" and corporate strategy.[11][12][13] Many Japanese companies make the book required reading for their key executives.[14] The book is also popular among Western business management, who have turned to it for inspiration and advice on how to succeed in competitive business situations.
The Art of War has also been the subject of various law books[15][16] and legal articles on the trial process, including negotiation tactics[17][18] and trial strategy.[19][20][21] [22][23][24]
It has also crept its way into sport: Australian cricket coach John Buchanan handed out excerpts from the book to his players before a match against England in 2001, and the book is allegedly a favorite of University of South Carolina football head coach Steve Spurrier.
Football coach Luiz Felipe Scolari uses the book to help devise tactics. In the 2002 FIFA World Cup he gave each of his players copies. In the recent 2006 FIFA World Cup in Germany he used the book to plan his team's win against England.[25]
On the popular reality television show Survivor: China, participants were given copies as a source of strategy and advice.
It has found use in political campaigning as well; Republican election strategist Lee Atwater claimed he travelled everywhere with it.[26]
The book has also gained influence among players of strategy games, including TCGs, collectible miniatures games, and real-time strategy games.

Sources and translations

Running Press Miniature Edition of the 1994 Ralph D. Sawyer translation, printed in 2003
Sun Tzu translated by Lionel Giles, edited by James H. Ford (2005). The Art of War by Sun Tzu - Special Edition. El Paso Norte Press. ISBN 0-9760726-9-6.
Sun Tzu translated by Dr Han Hiong Tan (2001). Sun Zi's The Art of War. H H Tan Medical P/L. ISBN 0-9580067-0-9.
Sun Tzu translated by Filiquarian Publishing (2006). The Art of War. Filiquarian Publishing. ISBN 1-59986-977-2.
Sun Tzu translated by the Denma translation group (2001). The Art of War: the Denma translation. Shambhala Classics. ISBN 1-57062-904-8.
Sun Tzu translated by Lionel Giles (2002). The Art of War. Deodand Publishing. ISBN 0-9578868-7-X. Text link (reprint; Giles translated the book in 1910). The translation by Giles is one of the most widely used today. Giles provided the first "good" translation of The Art of War, as well as providing the first translation by a serious linguist.
Sun-Tzu translated by Roger Ames (1993). The Art of Warfare. Random House. ISBN 0-345-36239-X. , includes the Yin-ch'ueh-shan (Silver Sparrow Mountain) texts
Sun Tzu edited by James Clavell (1983). The Art of War. Delacorte Press. ISBN 0-385-29216-3. This edition was published as a tie-in with Clavell's Asian Saga; it is essentially a re-working of the Lionel Giles translation.
Sun Tzu translated by Ralph D. Sawyer (1994). The Art of War. Barnes & Noble. ISBN 1-56619-297-8. This translation tries to put The Art of War in its original context as a work of military strategy. It also includes a lengthy introduction and translations of some of the "bamboo strips" recovered from the shrine.
Sun Tzu translated by John Minford (2002). The Art of War. Viking. ISBN 0-670-03156-9. This translation contains two parts. The first part is a completely unadorned, raw version of the core text. The second part is that same text with Chinese commentators as well as others.
Sun Tzu translated by Yuan Shibing (1987). Sun Tzu's Art of War: The Modern Chinese Interpretation. Sterling Publishing Co., Inc.. ISBN 0-8069-6638-6. This book is written by General Tao Hanzhang, a senior officer in the People's Liberation Army. He is a senior advisor at the Beijing Institute for International Strategic Studies.
Sun Tzu translated by Thomas Cleary (1991). The Art Of War. Shambhala Publications. ISBN 0-87773-537-9.
Sun Tzu translated by J.H. Huang (1993). The Art of War: The New Translation. Quill William Morrow. ISBN 0-688-12400-3. This text is not a new interpretation of same texts that other editions are based on. Mr. Huang writes a new text based on manuscripts recently discovered in Linyi, China that predates all previous texts by as much as 1000 years.
Sun Tzu translated by Samuel B. Griffith (1963). The Art of War. Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-19-501476-6. This book is written by Samuel B. Griffith, Brigadier General (retired), U.S. Marine Corps., with a foreword by Sir B. H. Liddell Hart. "Wu Ch'i's Art of War" in six chapters is appended.
Sun Tzu translated by Donald G. Krause (1995). The Art of War For Executives. Berkely Publishing Group (Under Perigee Books. ISBN 0-399-51902-5. This book written by Donald Krause is interpreted for today's business reader.
Sun Tzu translated by Ralph D. Sawyer (1995). 100 Lessons In The Art of War. Barnes & Noble. ISBN 0-7607-0998-X. This book by Ralph Sawyer is a culmination on various Chinese strategic texts.
Sun Tzu translated by Stephen F. Kaufman (1996). The Art of War: The Definitive Interpretation of Sun Tzu's Classic Book of Strategy. Tuttle Publishing. ISBN 0-8048-3080-0. Aimed mainly (but not exclusively) at the martial artist, Kaufman's rendition of Sun Tzu's work was written from the perspective of a Hanshi ("teacher of teachers").
The Art of Strategy. translated by R. L. Wing. Seattle, Washington: Main Street Books. 1988-05. ISBN 0-385-23784-7.
The Art of War plus The Ancient Chinese Revealed. translated by Gary Gagliardi (1st hardcover ed., second printing ed.). hillsborough, Washington: Clearbridge Publishing. 2003-01-14. ISBN 1-929194-42-0. Winner of a 2003 Independent Publishers Book Award for Multicultural Nonfiction.[5]
Sun Tzu translated by Prof. Chow-Hou WEE (2003). Sun Zi Art of War: An Illustrated Translation with Asian Perspectives and Insights. Pearson Education Asia Pte Ltd. ISBN 0-13-100137-X.
Sun Tzu translated by Paul Brennan (2007). The Art of War for Martial Artists. Odos Books. 2007. ISBN 978-1-60402-416-6
Sun Tzu translated by Victor H. Mair (2007). The Art of War: Sun Zi's Military Methods. Columbia University Press. ISBN 978-0-231-13382-1
Sun Tzu translated and annotated by Thomas Huynh and the Editors of Sonshi.com (2008). The Art of War: Spirituality for Conflict. Skylight Paths Publishing. ISBN 978-1-594-73244-7

What Makes A Malaysian A Malaysian

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1. You can name all the players from the English Premier League, but ask you to name one football player from Malaysia , one name also cannot come out.
2. When StreamyX come, you complain StreamyX too slow. When Maxis Broadband come, you complain Maxis Broadband always disconnects. When WiMax come, you complain Wimax too expensive. In the end, you say StreamyX still the best lah.
3. When toll price increase, you complain. When petrol price increase, you complain. When you go Starbucks buy RM10 coffee, NO COMPLAINTS.
4. When you cannot find parking in a shopping mall and have to walk very far, you complain. When you go inside the shopping mall and there's SALE , run from one end of 1Utama to the other also NO COMPLAINTS.
5. You are always late. And the excuse you give when you're late is always either: (a) traffic jam (b) no transport or (c) cannot find! parking.
6. You have a parent who force you to take science stream in high school, study engineering in Uni, then when you graduate, they ask you to forget everything you learnt in Uni and do commerce.
7. You know someone who can specially develop an angmoh accent when speaking to a American / British / Australian.
8. You complain against the government in kopitiam, you talk loud loud. Leave anonymous comments on blogs, you also talk loud loud. Attend ceremah by DAP, you shout loud loud. Then when Opposition organise a protest and ask you to go, you dun wan. Scared later kena tangkap by ISA.
9. Every year on the 30th April, you are one of the people below queueing up last minute to submit your tax return at the IRB.
10. When you pay RM10 for something that costs RM1, you blame the Chinese.
11. When a government service is too slow, you blame the Malays.
12. When a building is not good and collapsed, you blame the Indi! ans.
13. When a Chinese student won a scholarship, you say 'Wa h! Very clever hor?'
14. When a Malay student won a scholarship, you say 'Aiya! Of course lah! He Malay mah!'
15. When an angmoh stranger kiss you on the cheek to say hello, you very happy. When a Malaysian guy kiss you on the cheek to say hello, you slap him.

Welcome to Penang Hill..!!

2008-12-04T00:59:00.000-08:00

These are the few images i took when i went to Penang hill.. Btw this is not a cable car but a train.. This train was built in 1922 and was completed in the year 1977.. This train can carry almost 80 tons or in other words more thab 300 passengers.. can u believe how smart the english whom built this train..??? And i'm proud as a Malaysian to say that this is our MAlaysian Heritage.. coz in this world left two more of this kind of train.. One in our country and another in Hong Kong.. Wish u guys can check it out..

Asimo!! Haha..

2008-12-04T00:53:00.000-08:00

U guys know Asimo rite..? The robot made by Honda.. Guess wt..?? It was my lucky day.. I saw this robot in the Queensbay Mall in penang.. The robot was cute and clever both at the same time.. Just like me don't u think.. except that i don't look like a robot but more handsome than that.. haha ^^

Aeroplanes.. Yay!!

2008-12-04T00:48:00.000-08:00

These are the pictures of the aeroplane i sat on.. hehe.. Was quite fun and scary at the same time.. HAha

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My father amd my uncle when they're young.. haha

So happy after finding this picture.. So does my father looks like me.. Haha

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LOST AND FOUND
REWARD: RM 200 000
These ppl u see in the pic are my old schoolmates.. Anybody who find them please find me to get their reward.. Haha.. Lolz..

JOKES... ^^ Maybe it will cheer u up 4 the day!!(hope its not too lame either)

2008-11-26T16:43:00.000-08:00

Pretty Or Ugly

Mui Mui : Ah Loke says I am pretty. Ah Toh says I am ugly. What do you think?
Ah Meng : A bit of both. I think you are pretty ugly.

Good News and Bad News

Here are some good news as well as bad news for all bachelor kakis:

First, the good news:
She’s a fantastic cook, and keeps a spotless house.
She won’t spend all your money; she has her own. She comes from a rich family.
When you play mahjong or go golfing, she won’t complain.
She does not waste time watching tv or gossip on the phone.
She never nags but she is always loving.
She’s a hottie even without make-up.

Now, the bad news:
She’s all that you dream of, and she’s the girl you are NEVER going to meet!

Comfortable Panties

Rama’s girl friend had to rush to hospital unexpectedly. She asked him to bring a few items from her home. One item on her list was “comfortable panties.” Worried he’d make the wrong choice, he asked, “How will I know which ones to pick?”

“Hold them up and imagine them on me,” she answered. “If you smile, put them back.”

Stupid Cupid

Kimmie worked as a stenographer. She used to enter the boss’ office to take dictation every morning. One day cupid struck and she fell for the boss, and the boss fell for her. So they got married. Now he takes dictation.

Handsome Young Man

Suhaila was sitting at a coffee bar, enjoying an after work chat with her girlfriends, when an exceptionally tall, handsome, extremely sexy, young man entered. He was so striking that the woman could not take her eyes off him.

The young man noticed her overly attentive stare, and walked directly towards her. Before she could offer her apologies for staring so rudely, he leaned over and whispered to her, “I’ll do anything, absolutely anything, that you want me to do, no matter how kinky, for RM 20-on one condition.” Flabbergasted, the woman asked what the condition was. The young man replied, “You have to tell me what you want me to do in just three words.”
The woman considered this proposition for a moment, then slowly removed from her handbag RM 20, which she pressed into the young man’s hand, along with her address. She looked deeply into his eyes and slowly, meaningfully whispered….

“Clean my House.”

Romantic Enchantment

Smart man + Smart woman = Romance
Smart man + Dumb woman = Affair
Dumb man + Smart woman = Marriage
Dumb man + Dumb woman = Catastrophe

I LOVE YOU

Impress your sweetie. Try saying “I LOVE YOU” in different languages every day/

Spanish: Te Amo
French: Je t’aime
German: Ich Liebe Dich
Japanese: Ai Shite Imasu
Italian: Ti Amo
Chinese: Wo Ai Ni
Swedish: Jag Alsker
Malaysian: Aku Cinta Kau
Jinjangan: Ai Lup Yu! (By kind courtesy of JingjangJoe)

Gift For New Wife

Khong Fook had to go on a business trip the day after his honey-moon, so he decided to purchase a gift for his new wife.

At the KLIA gift shop, he found a coffee mug, imprinted with the words “ I LOVE YOU” inside a beautiful red heart. Confident the mug would please his wife, he asked to have it gift wrapped.

She beamed with delight when Khong Fook gave it to her that night at dinner, but her face fell when she saw the writing on the back of the mug. It read, “Grandpa.”

Taking A Bath

The telephone rings and little Mei Mei picks up the phone.

Voice : Hello, Mei Mei. Can I speak to your daddy?
Mei Mei : Daddy is in the bathroom having a bath.
Voice : In that case, can is speak to your mummy?
Mei Mei : Mummy is also in the bathroom having a bath with daddy!

Good Wife

A man was wandering around the field, thinking about how good his wife had been to him, and how fortunate he was to have her. He asked God, “Why did you make her so kind-hearted?”

God responded, “So you could love her, My Son.”

“Why did you make her so good-looking?”

“So you could love her, My Son.”

“Why did you make her such a good cook?”

“So you could love her, My Son.”

The man thought about this. Then he said, “I don’t mean to seem ungrateful or anything, but why did you make her so stupid?”

“So you could love her, My Son.”

Wife Wanted

Have you heard of the bloke in England who inserted an ad in the classifieds column of the local newspaper under the heading “WIFE WANTED.” In the days that followed, he received hundreds of replies. They all can say the same thing: You can have mine!!

Don’t Criticize Your Wife

Husbands please don’t criticize your wives. If she was perfect, she would have married some one much better than you

Once He Is Married

Why is it that before a man is married, he can climb the highest mountain, swim the widest ocean, fight the strongest tiger, but once he is married he can barely take out the garbage.

Permission To Leave

Application from a husband to his wife to go out with his friends:

1. Where are you going?
2. With whom are you going?
3. What will you be eating or drinking?
4. Who is coming to pick you?
5. Will there be any females?
6. What time will you be back?

Application from a wife to her husband to go out with her friends:

“ Oi! I’m going out!”

Golfing with Friends

Wife to husband: What’s your excuse for coming home at this time of the night?
Husband to wife: Golfing with friends, my dear.
Wife to husband: What? At 2 a.m.?
Husband to wife: Yes! We used night clubs.

The Silent Treatment

A man and his wife were havingsome problems at home and were giving each other the silent treatment. The next week, the man realized that he would need his wife to wake him at 5 A.M for an early morning business flight to Kota Kinabalu. Not wanting to be the first to break the silence, he wrote on the piece of paper,
“PLEASE WAKE ME UP AT 5 AM”

The next morning the man woke up only to discover it was 9 AM, and that he had missed the flight. Furious, he was about to go and see why his wife hadn’t woken him when he noticed a piece of paper by the bed. The paper said, “IT IS 5 AM. WAKE UP!”

Mother-In-Law

Husband to wife: No! I don’t hate your relatives! In fact, I like your mother-in-law
better than I like mine

Wife relatives

Manarkam and his wife were driving aling a country road for several kilometers. Neither said a word to the other. They had earlier argued over a discussion, and neither of them wanted to give in. As they passed an ulu part of the country, they spied several monkeys on the tree tops. The husband asked sarcastically, “Relatives of yours?”

“Yes,” the wife replied. “In-laws”

Everybody Marries Relatives

“In our family,” little Mages told her friend, “everybody marries relatives. My father married my mother, my uncle married my aunt, and last week I found out that my grandmother married my grandfather.”

My Absent-minded Grandpop

I have been observing how my grandpop does things sometimes:

1. With his left hand, he takes his car keys.
2. With his right hand, he calls a friend to confirm lunch or dinner.
3. Then he hangs up.
4. After that, he is busy looking all over for his keys

Playing My Ukulele

Lunch was ready. Mrs. Ah Leong Soh yelled for her son Kwai Kwai to caome downstairs for his lunch.

Mrs ALS(shouting at the top of her voice) : Kwai Kwai, what are you doing so long in
your room?
Kwai Kwai : I am playing my ukulele, Mum.
Mrs ALS : You are WHA-A-A-T?!?!?! Go wash your hands and come down
immediately! When daddy comes home I’m going to tell him you played
with your ‘uli-uli.’

Gold Soups

“My mummy makes gold soup.”
“Really? How does she do it”
“She puts in 24 carrots.”

The Doorbell

A salesman was going door to door trying to sell his wares. As he walked up to the next house, he noticed a small boy sitting on the front steps. “Is your mother home?” the salesman asked the small boy.

“Yeah, she’s home,” the boy, scooting over to let him pass.

The salesman rang the doorbell, got no response, knocked once, then again. Still no one came to the door. Turning to the boy, the fellow said, “I thought you say your mother was home.”

The kid replied “She is.”

The man said, “Then why doesn’t she answer the door when I ring the doorbell? Is she hard of hearing?”

“She can’t hear it,” replied the boy, “because I don’t live here.”

Kids’ Eyesight

Salmah, the mother of two teenagers, said to her friend Minah, “I’m worried about my children’s failing eyesight. My daughter can’t find anything to wear in a closet full of clothing, and my son can’t find anything good to eat in a refrigerator full of food.”

The Perfect Son

I have a perfect son.

Does he smoke?

No, he doesn’t.

Does he drink brandy or whiskey?

No, he doesn’t.

Does he ever come home late?

No, he doesn’t.

I guess you really do have a perfect son. How old is he?

He will be six years old next Sunday.

Mind Your Business

What are two reasons why people don’t mind their own business?

1. No mind
2. No business

Long Time No See

Hello, Ali! Long time no see. Where have you been all these years?
I’ve been to UK.
Er….. United Kingdom?
No! Ulu Klang!

Hello, Chin Ming!! Long time no see. Where have you been all these years?
I’ve been to L.A.
Er…. Los Angeles?
No! Leboh Ampang!

Hello, Maniam! Long time no see. Where have you been all these years?
I’ve been to KL.
Er…. Kuala Lumpur?
No! Kuala Langat!

Hello, Ranjit! Long time no see. Where have you been all these years?
I’ve been to K.K.
Er….. Kota Kinabalu?
No! Kuala Ketil!

Bull Shit

Malaysians generally are a hardworking lot. They are not satisfied in achieving merely 100% success. Many want to achieve more than 100%. They want to excel in all they do. Here’s how you can achieve 103%

Let’s begin:

A=1 B=2 C=3 D=4 E=5

F=6 G=7 H=8 I=9 J=10

K=11 L=12 M=13 N=14 O=15

P=16 Q=17 R=18 S=19 T=20

U=21 V=22 W=23 X=24 Y=25

Z=26

HARDWORK: 8+1+18+4+23+15+18+11= 98%

KNOWLEDGE: 11+14+15+23+12+5+4+7+5= 96%

ATTITUDE: 1+20+20+9+20+21+4+5= 100%

Hooray!! This is how you achieve 100%!!!

But, when your boss wants you to achieve 103%, tell him you know what he means!

BULLSHIT: 2+21+12+19+8+9+20= 103%

Business Sense

Smart boss+ Smart employee= Profit

Smart boss+ Dumb employee= Production

Dumb boss+ Smart employee= Promotion

Dumb boss+ Dumb employee= Overtime

SORRY GUYS WRONG INFORMATION..!!

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PMR RESULT DATE IS ON THE 22ND OF DECEMBER

Footprints..

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One night a man had a dream.
He dream he was walking along the beach with the Lord.
Across the sky he noticed two set of footprintsin the sand,
one belong to him, and another to the Lord.

When the last scene of his life flashed before him,
he looked back at the footprints in the sand.
He noticed that many times along that path of his life,
there was only one set of footprints.
He also noticed that it happensat the lowest and saddest times of his life.

This really bothered him and he questioned the Lord about it.
"Lord, you say that once i decided to follow you,
you'd walk with me all the way.
But i have noticed that that during the most troublesome times of my life,
there is only one set of footprints.
I don't understand why when i needed you the most you would leave me."

The Lord replied
"My precious child, I love you and i would never leave you.
During your time of trial and suffering,
when you only see only one setof footprints,
it was then i carried you."

What is Love all about..?

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Love is giving someone
A portion of your heart
Love is thinking of them
When you are close or far apart..

Love is caring when they're glad
And caring when they're blue...
Love is sharing good or bad
As though is part of you..

Love is finding happiness
in just a touch.. or a smile..
Love is everything that counts,
It's what makes life worthwhile

PMR RESULTS DATE.....!!!!@!!!!!!!!! Must read this...!!!!!

2008-11-14T00:27:00.000-08:00

Bernama - The Penilaian Menengah Rendah (PMR) examination result will be announced on December 28, said a statement from the Malaysian Examinations Syndicate. The candidates can get their results from their respective schools from 10 am.

Director-general of Education, Datuk Dr Ahamad Sipon will announce the analysis on the candidates’ performance at a press conference the following day.

A total of 448,324 candidates sat for the examination, 93.7 per cent (420,177) of whom were from government or government-aided schools.

This was followed by 0.7 per cent (2,894) of candidates from the Mara Junior Science Colleges and the Royal Military College while 2.4 per cent (10,766) were from state religious schools.

As for private candidates, 2.6 per cent (11,774) were from private schools, 0.2 per cent (1,110) were independent candidates and 0.4 per cent (1,603) from private religious schools.

The Importance Of Names.. (so guys don tease ppl of their names ar..)

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In genealogy we usually concentrate on surnames since they are the most important way of identifying people who are related. A surname is usually inherited and, while it may be changed, some form of it is usually retained. Given names are more important in a way because they represent a voluntary choice by the parents or, sometimes, by an individual. A name is usually not given lightly. It represents thought and feelings and can be significant to the researcher.

Naming Patterns

You will often see the same names used over and over again in families. While certain names are popular in different areas in different times in history, the repetition could represent a pattern. Many cultures believe in honoring their elders and do so by naming children after them. Angus Baxter in "In Search of Your British and Irish Roots" describes a pattern that was popular in England in the 1700-1875 period:

The first son was named after the father's father
The second son was named after the mother's father
The third son was named after the father
The fourth son was named after the father's eldest brother
The first daughter after the mother's mother
The second daughter after the father's mother
The third daughter after the mother
The fourth daughter after the mother's eldest sister

If this pattern would result in a duplication of names — i.e., both grandfathers had the same name — then they would skip to the next one on the list. Similar patterns have been suggested for other nationalities. This could be a very helpful formula, but many genealogists warn against giving it too much credence. Given human nature, it would be very difficult to follow exactly. It would be pretty hard to convince a new mother of her first-born son to name him after a drunken, abusive father-in-law rather than her own beloved father who had just died.

You will probably see names of parents and grandparents, siblings, aunts and uncles repeated, but not in any strict order. It is difficult to know whom a child called Ann or Mary was actually named after. While over half of the names in a family will probably appear to be repeats, there always seems to be a few totally different ones. A child might be named after a good friend or a popular hero of the times. Of the 12 names given to my grandparents' six children born between 1881 and 1896, I can identify the family namesake of 10. Of the other two, Urquhart is somehow associated with the family because an aunt's will mentions the Urquhart coat of arms and a bequest to a person with the middle name Urquhart.

Frequency

Even if the family did not follow this strict pattern, the repetition of names can be significant, especially if there is an unusual name. Let us say you are researching a family group that went west. The family had children named Benjamin, Obadiah and Catherine. When these children married, they tended to carry on these same names. You know they came from New England, but have no proof as to where. If you find a family of that surname in Rhode Island with children named George, John, William and Ann and another family in Vermont with children Benjamin, Obadiah and Catherine, you will probably want to put your first effort into the Vermont family. It is not any proof in itself, but goes towards the preponderance of the evidence.

Some families may show an extreme fondness for one name. In one family, Samuel and William, both with the same surname, came to America. Twenty years later William signed a power of attorney to settle the estate of Robert who had died in Ireland. Most researchers have assumed, as a working theory, that these men were brothers and Robert was their father. A partial list of 77 descendants shows that in four generations of descendants of Robert the name William occurs 10 times. By contrast, Robert only occurs four times. This makes me a bit skeptical that Robert is really the progenitor of the family. He may have been an uncle or childless relative.

Names as a Virtue

Some of the most fascinating names come from early New England where parents sometimes named their children after virtues they hoped they would possess: Patience, Charity, Prudence, Thankful. Some names appear quite strange to modern ears. In view of 20th century meanings, "Freelove" does not seem to be an appropriate name for a daughter! Other names had special meaning. In early New England it is believed that the name Benoni was associated with sorrow and was used when the mother was not married or died in childbirth or if the circumstances were in some way unfortunate.

Recycled Names

Up until this century, parents could usually count on one third of their children not surviving. If a child died, the name was often used again. If a baby died, the next child of the same sex would often be given the same name. When checking birth records, you should never stop when you find the name you are looking for. You should continue for a few more years, because the first child could have died and your ancestor could have been the second child in the family with that name. If an older child died, a younger one would often be named for him or her. If you see George in the 1850 census as a six year old and then in the 1860 census as an eight year old, it may mean the first one died shortly after the 1850 census was taken.

Surnames as Given Names

Always note carefully a surname that is a given name, even a middle name. The mother's side will often be revealed through the use of family names for her children. One woman named her first son Henry and a later son John Henry. Since Henry is a first name, that did not seem unusual, but it was very significant because the woman's maiden name turned out to be Henry.

Consider the following: Thomas Simpson married Mary. After his death, Mary married John Wiswall in 1808. Thomas and Mary had one child, Ann Simpson, who married Francis Ullathorne. Sons of Ann and Francis:

Thomas Simpson Ullathorne (named after Ann's father)
Francis Ullathorne (named after Francis, the father)
William Ullathorne (named after Francis' brother)
John Ullathorne (b. 1802, named after Francis' father)
Samuel Stevenson Ullathorne
Charles Wiswall Ullathorne (b. 1808, middle name after Ann's stepfather. By the time he was born, Ann had already named one child John which may account for the different first name.)

I didn't know Mary's maiden name and I thought finding a Catholic marriage in London for the right Simpson would be impossible. However, I found a record of Thomas Simpson marrying Mary Stephenson about a year before the birth of Ann. The fact that Stevenson appears in family names makes me look very closely at this Mary Stevenson and I would look doubly closely at any Mary who had a father named Samuel Stevenson. Again, this is not proof but a very helpful directional indicator when trying to navigate through Stevenson records in a city like London.

In one family, a woman whose maiden name was not known had a grandson, 2 great-grandchildren and 1 great-great grandchild with the given names Joel Horton. Her maiden name turned out to be Horton, but her father was Ebenezer, not Joel. She did have a younger brother named Joel. In a case like this, the significance of the frequency was not as obvious because the later generations could have been named after the first man with that name rather than all going back to honor the maiden name.

A surname as a given name does not always mean it was a family name. The numbers of "George Washingtons" and "Lincolns" as given names in the U.S. do not indicate any family connection. A couple might also name a child after a respected friend.

Nicknames

You may think you have a relationship all figured out only to come upon a completely different name for the wife. Nicknames that were common in earlier times, especially for girls, may not be known nicknames at all today. I thought I never would figure out all the wives one man had. He was married to Ann, Margaret Agnes, Hannah and Nancy in different records. Fortunately, my life was simplified when I found out that Ann, Hannah, Nan and Nancy were all variations of the same name. Some even say that Agnes is a variation of Ann so his four wives became two at the most. Here are some others you may encounter:

Margaret: Maggie, Rita, Madge, Greta, Peggy, even Daisy (Marguerite is the French word for Daisy)
Mary: Polly, Minnie, Polette (Polly/Mary is very common in early America)
Minerva: Minnie
Alice: Lisa, Sonny
Amelia: Milly
Helen: Ailene, Elaine, Leonora, Nelly
Sarah: Sadie
Louise: Alison, Eloise, Lois

Most male nicknames are more straightforward, although Hal and Harry for Henry or Neil for Cornelius are a little less obvious. What frequently happens with men is they decide to go by their middle name. Everyone will know them by the middle name and they will be written up in county histories under this name. John William may be called Bill most of the time. But when it comes to some official documents, he will trot out his full legal name. You may pore over the census looking for Bill or Wm. and completely overlook John. Your best piece of luck is when you encounter a document where he uses both names together.

Baptismal Names

In Catholic churches especially, but also found in others, the Latin name will be used at the time of baptism. Most genealogists maintain that a person should be entered in the database under his baptismal name. Since this is often the only time the Latin name is used, I do not think using this name as the primary name is helpful for people trying to look up information on that individual. One person was christened Bonafacius but not one of his descendants would ever know to look under that name. All his life he went by "Bonaparte." Carolus is Latin for Charles, but not a name most people would use. I personally believe the primary name should be the name the person was known by for most of his life.

Translated Names

When foreigners came to the U.S. they often modified the spelling of their last name or even translated the name. Thus Schneider became Taylor. This happened even more frequently with given names because most names in European languages have an English equivalent. A German named Franz, a Pole called Franciszek, and an Italian named Francesco could all easily become "Frank." John is such a widely used name that it has many forms: Jan (Belgian, Czech, Danish, Gaelic, Polish), Hanna (Arabic), Ivan (Bulgarian, Russian), Hans (Danish, German), Hannes (Finnish), Jean (French), Johannes (German), Ioannes (Greek), Yohanan (Hebrew), Sean (Irish), Giovanni (Italian), Joao (Portuguese), Ian (Scotch), Juan (Spanish), Jonam, Jens (Swedish), Yochanan (Yiddish).

On the other hand a Spaniard named Diego, a Scotsman named Hamish or an Irishman called Seamus probably wouldn't change to James. What you have to do is keep an eye out for is switching between the two names — in the Polish paper he may be Wojciech but in the city directory would be listed under Albert.

German Names

In some German areas you will find that all of the sons had the same first name, frequently Johann, and all of the daughters also, often Anna. You might find a family with Johann Georg, Johann Jacob and Johann Michael. Usually they went by their second name. But when an official record was involved, they might revert to their full name. Hans is a nickname for Johann so you might also find records for Hans Michael or Hans Jacob. In the Alsace area of France, the administration of the area went back and forth between France and Germany so you may find some records in German and some in French. Johann Jacob or Hans Jacob would become Jean Jacques. Of course, he might also just be Jean (the original Johann given to the whole family) so it is hard to tell which son it could be. Occasionally, names would be reversed so that Michael Georg became Georg Michael, probably because Georg was the name he went by and Michael was only secondary.

"Sounds Like"

Some foreign languages do not have equivalent names so a direct translation is not possible. Asain names usually cannot be translated directly, but may be too awkward to use when dealing with Americans on a casual basis. In this case a similar sounding American name may be adopted. The Japanese Tamio became Tommy for everyday usage. Again, you have to be aware of the two names and keep an eye out for both.

Patronymics

Given names become even more significant in the patronymic system, as in Scandinavia, where the given name of the father becomes the surname of the son. If Eric Larson has a son, he will be John Ericson and his son will be Sven Johnson.

While given names do not have the importance of surnames, they should still be carefully studied because they can give valuable hints about your family history.

History of the King James bible

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As the reign of Elizabeth (1558-1603) was coming to a close, we find a draft for an act of Parliament for a new version of the Bible: "An act for the reducing of diversities of bibles now extant in the English tongue to one settled vulgar translated from the original." The Bishop's Bible of 1568, although it may have eclipsed the Great Bible, was still rivaled by the Geneva Bible. Nothing ever became of this draft during the reign of Elizabeth, who died in 1603, and was succeeded by James 1, as the throne passed from the Tudors to the Stuarts. James was at that time James VI of Scotland, and had been for thirty-seven years. He was born during the period between the Geneva and the Bishop's Bible.

One of the first things done by the new king was the calling of the Hampton Court Conference in January of 1604 "for the hearing, and for the determining, things pretended to be amiss in the church." Here were assembled bishops, clergymen, and professors, along with four Puritan divines, to consider the complaints of the Puritans. Although Bible revision was not on the agenda, the Puritan president of Corpus Christi College, John Reynolds, "moved his Majesty, that there might be a new translation of the Bible, because those which were allowed in the reigns of Henry the eighth, and Edward the sixth, were corrupt and not answerable to the truth of the Original."

The king rejoined that he:

"Could never yet see a Bible well translated in English; but I think that, of all, that of Geneva is the worst. I wish some special pains were taken for an uniform translation, which should be done by he best learned men in both Universities, then reviewed by the Bishops, presented to the Privy Council, lastly ratified by the Royal authority, to be read in the whole Church, and none other."

Accordingly, a resolution came forth:

"That a translation be made of the whole Bible, as consonant as can be to the original Hebrew and Greek; and this to be set out and printed, without any marginal notes, and only to be used in all churches of England in time of divine service."

The next step was the actual selection of the men who were to perform the work. In July of 1604, James wrote to Bishop Bancroft that he had "appointed certain learned men, to the number of four and fifty, for the translating of the Bible." These men were the best biblical scholars and linguists of their day. In the preface to their completed work it is further stated that "there were many chosen, that were greater in other men's eyes than in their own, and that sought the truth rather than their own praise. Again, they came or were thought to come to the work, learned, not to learn." Other men were sought out, according to James, "so that our said intended translation may have the help and furtherance of all our principal learned men within this our kingdom."

Although fifty-four men were nominated, only forty-seven were known to have taken part in the work of translation. The translators were organized into six groups, and met respectively at Westminster, Cambridge, and Oxford. Ten at Westminster were assigned Genesis through 2 Kings; seven had Romans through Jude. At Cambridge, eight worked on 1 Chronicles through Ecclesiastes, while seven others handled the Apocrypha. Oxford employed seven to translate Isaiah through Malachi; eight occupied themselves with the Gospels, Acts, and Revelation.

Fifteen general rules were advanced for the guidance of the translators:

1. The ordinary Bible read in the Church, commonly called the Bishops Bible, to be followed, and as little altered as the Truth of the original will permit.

2. The names of the Prophets, and the Holy Writers, with the other Names of the Text, to be retained, as nigh as may be, accordingly as they were vulgarly used.

3. The Old Ecclesiastical Words to be kept, viz. the Word Church not to be translated Congregation &c.

4. When a Word hath divers Significations, that to be kept which hath been most commonly used by the most of the Ancient Fathers, being agreeable to the Propriety of the Place, and the Analogy of the Faith.

5. The Division of the Chapters to be altered, either not at all, or as little as may be, if Necessity so require.

6. No Marginal Notes at all to be affixed, but only for the explanation of the Hebrew or Greek Words, which cannot without some circumlocution, so briefly and fitly be expressed in the Text.

7. Such Quotations of Places to be marginally set down as shall serve for the fit Reference of one Scripture to another.

8. Every particular Man of each Company, to take the same Chapter or Chapters, and having translated or amended them severally by himself, where he thinketh good, all to meet together, confer what they have done, and agree for their Parts what shall stand.

9. As any one Company hath dispatched any one Book in this Manner they shall send it to the rest, to be considered of seriously and judiciously, for His Majesty is very careful in this Point.

10. If any Company, upon the Review of the Book so sent, doubt or differ upon any Place, to send them Word thereof; note the Place, and withal send the Reasons, to which if they consent not, the Difference to be compounded at the general Meeting, which is to be of the chief Persons of each Company, at the end of the Work.

11. When any Place of special Obscurity is doubted of, Letters to be directed by Authority, to send to any Learned Man in the Land, for his Judgement of such a Place.

12. Letters to be sent from every Bishop to the rest of his Clergy, admonishing them of this Translation in hand; and to move and charge as many skilful in the Tongues; and having taken pains in that kind, to send his particular Observations to the Company, either at Westminster, Cambridge, or Oxford.

13. The Directors in each Company, to be the Deans of Westminster, and Chester for that Place; and the King's Professors in the Hebrew or Greek in either University.

14. These translations to be used when they agree better with the Text than the Bishops Bible: Tyndale's, Matthew's, Coverdale's, Whitchurch's, Geneva.

15. Besides the said Directors before mentioned, three or four of the most Ancient and Grave Divines, in either of the Universities, not employed in Translating, to be assigned by the vice-Chancellor, upon Conference with the rest of the Heads, to be Overseers of the Translations as well Hebrew as Greek, for the better observation of the 4th Rule above specified.

The work began to take shape in 1604 and progressed steadily. The translators expressed their early thoughts in their preface as:

"Truly (good Christian Reader) we never thought from the beginning, that we should need to make a new Translation, nor yet to make of a bad one a good one,...but to make a good one better, or out of many good ones, one principal good one, not justly to be excepted against, that hath been our endeavor."

They had at their disposal all the previous English translations to which they did not disdain:

"We are so far off from condemning any of their labors that travailed before us in this kind, either in this land or beyond sea, either in King Henry's time, or King Edward's...or Queen Elizabeth's of ever renowned memory, that we acknowledge them to have been raised up of God, for the building and furnishing of his Church, and that they deserve to be had of us and of posterity in everlasting remembrance."

And, as the translators themselves also acknowledged, they had a multitude of sources from which to draw from: "Neither did we think much to consult the Translators or Commentators, CHaldee, Hebrew, Syrian, Greek, or Latin, no nor the Spanish, French, Italian, or Dutch." The Greek editions of Erasmus, Stephanus, and Beza were all accessible, as were the COmplutensian and Antwerp Polyglots, and the Latin translations of Pagninus, Termellius, and Beza.

Four years were spent on the preliminary translation by the six groups. The translators were exacting and particular in their work, as related in their preface:

Neither did we disdain to revise that which we had done, and to bring back to the anvil that which we had hammered: but having and using as great helps as were needful, and fearing no reproach for slowness, nor coveting praise for expedition, we have at the length, through the good hand of the Lord upon us, brought the work to that pass that you see.

The conferences of each of the six being ended, nine months were spent at Stationers' Hall in London for review and revision of the work by two men each from the Westminster, Cambridge, and Oxford companies. The final revision was then completed by Myles Smith and Thomas Bilson, with a preface supplied by Smith.

The completed work was issued in 1611, the complete title page reading:

"THE HOLY BIBLE, Conteyning the Old Testament, and the New: Newly Translated out of the Originall tongues: & with the former Translations diligently compared and revised, by his Majesties Special Commandment. Appointed to be read in Churches. Imprinted at London by Robert Barker, Printer to the Kings most Excellent Majestie. ANNO DOM. 1611."

The New Testament had a separate title page, the whole of it reading:

"THE NEWE Testament of our Lord and Saviour JESUS CHRIST. Newly Translated out of the Originall Greeke: and with the former Translations diligently compared and revised, by his Majesties speciall Commandment. IMPRINTED at London by Robert Barker, Printer to the Kings most Excellent Majestie. ANNO DOM. 1611. Cum Privilegio."

The King James Bible was, in its first editions, even larger than the Great Bible. It was printed in black letter with small italicized Roman type to represent those words not in the original languages.

A dedicatory epistle to King James, which also enhanced the completed work, recalled the King's desire that "there should be one more exact Translation of the Holy Scriptures into the English tongue." The translators expressed that they were "poor instruments to make GOD'S holy Truth to be yet more and more known" while at the same time recognizing that "Popish persons" sought to keep the people "in ignorance and darkness."

The Authorized Version, as it came to be called, went through several editions and revisions. Two notable editions were that of 1629, the first ever printed at Cambridge, and that of 1638, also at Cambridge, which was assisted by John Bois and Samuel Ward, two of the original translators. In 1657, the Parliament considered another revision, but it came to naught. The most important editions were those of the 1762 Cambridge revision by Thomas Paris, and the 1769 Oxford revision by Benjamin Blayney. One of the earliest concrdances was A Concordance to the Bible of the Last Translation, by John Down-ham, affixed to a printing of 1632.

The Authorized Version eclipsed all previous versions of the Bible. The Geneva Bible was last printed in 1644, but the notes continued to be published with the King James text. Subsequent versions of the Bible were likewise eclipsed, for the Authorized Version was the Bible until the advent of the Revised Version and ensuing modern translations. It is still accepted as such by its defenders, and recognized as so by its detractors. Alexander Geddes (d. 1802), a Roman Catholic priest, who in 1792 issued the first colume of his own translation of the Bible, accordingly paid tribute to the Bible of his time:

"The highest eulogiums have been made on the translation of James the First, both by our own writers and by foreigners. And, indeed, if accuracy, fidelity, and the strictest attention to the letter of the text, be supposed to constitute the qualities of an excellent version, this of all versions, must, in general, be accounted the most excellent. Every sentence, every work, every syllable, every letter and point, seem to have been weighed with the nicest exactitude; and expressed, either in the text, or margin, with the greatest precision."

As to whether the Authorized Version was ever officially "authorized," Brooke Westcott, one of the members of the committee that produced the Revised Version, and the editor, with Fenton Hort, of an edition of the Greek New Testament, stated that:

From the middle of the seventeenth century, the King's Bible has been the acknowledged Bible of the English-speaking nations throughout the world simply because it is the best. A revision which embodied the ripe fruits of nearly a century of labour, and appealed to the religious instinct of a great Christian people, gained by its own internal character a vital authority which could never have been secured by any edict of sovereign rulers.

Book Of Revelation

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After a short introduction (ch. 1:1–10)^[4], the book presents a brief account of the author. The first vision (1:11–3:22), related by "one like unto the Son of man, clothed with a garment down to the foot, and girt about the paps with a golden girdle", speaking with "a great voice, as of a trumpet", is a statement addressing the seven churches of Asia. The second vision, which makes up the rest of the book (chs. 4–22)^[5], begins with "a door … opened in the sky" and describes what some might call the end of the world— or more properly, the end of the age, in which Satan's rule through Man is destroyed by the Messiah. These events are foreseen: the Great Tribulation, the Campaign of Armageddon, the Second Coming of the Messiah with the restoration of peace to the world and His 1,000 year reign, the imprisonment of Satan (portrayed as a dragon) until he is 'loosed' for the final rebellion, God's final judgment over Satan, the Great White throne judgment, and the ushering in of the New Heavens and New Earth. Alternatively, according to the Preterist theory, the events of the latter part of the Apocalypse of John are interpreted as being fulfilled by events in the 1st century.

Revelation is considered by some to be one of the most controversial and difficult books of the Bible, with many diverse interpretations of the meanings of the various names and events in the account. Protestant founder Martin Luther at first considered Revelation to be "neither apostolic nor prophetic" and stated that "Christ is neither taught nor known in it",^[6] and placed it in his Antilegomena. John Calvin believed the book to be canonical, yet it was the only New Testament book on which he did not write a commentary.

In the 4th century, Gregory of Nazianzus and other bishops argued against including this book in the New Testament canon, chiefly because of the difficulties of interpreting it and the danger for abuse. Christians in Syria also reject it because of the Montanists' heavy reliance on it.^[9] In the 9th century, it was included with the Apocalypse of Peter among "disputed" books in the Stichometry of St. Nicephorus, Patriarch of Constantinople.^{[citation needed]} In the end it was included in the accepted canon, although it remains the only book of the New Testament that is not read within the Divine Liturgy of the Eastern Orthodox Church. See Biblical canon for details.

Artists throughout the centuries have portrayed the visions described by John.

Book Of Luke

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Early tradition, witnessed by the Muratorian Canon, Irenaeus (c. 170), Clement of Alexandria, Origen, and Tertullian, held that the Gospel of Luke and the Acts of the Apostles were both written by Luke, a companion of Paul.^[12] The oldest manuscript of the gospel (ca. 200) carries the attribution “the Gospel according to Luke”.^[13] Early Christian testimony concerning the gospel's authorship is in full agreement, although "some scholars attach little importance to it".^[14] The Gospel of Luke and the Acts of the Apostles were written by the same author^[15] The most direct evidence comes from the prefaces of each book. Both prefaces are addressed to Theophilus, possibly although not certainly the author's patron, and the preface of Acts explicitly references "my former book" about the life of Jesus. Furthermore, there are linguistic and theological similarities between the two works, suggesting that they have a common author.^[16] Both books also contain common interests.^[17] Linguistic and theological agreements and cross-references between the books indicate that they are from the same author.^[18] Those biblical scholars who consider the two books a single, two-volume work often refer to both together as Luke-Acts.^[19] It should be noted that Acts of the Apostles (1:1-2)says, "In my former book, Theophilus, I wrote about all that Jesus began to do and teach until the day He was taken up to heaven, after giving instructions through the Holy Spirit to the apostles He had chosen."(NIV)

The text is internally anonymous. One of the two oldest surviving manuscripts P⁷⁵ (circa 200), has the attribution According to Luke.^[20] The other P⁴ which 'is probably to be dated earlier than P⁷⁵ ...'^[21] has no such (surviving) attribution. Tradition holds that the text was written by Luke the companion of Paul (named in Colossians 4:14) but scholars are divided on this issue.^[22]

Given this, the internal evidence of the Acts of the Apostles concerning its author pertains to the authorship of the Gospel. This evidence, especially passages in the narrative where the first person plural is used, points to the author being a companion of Paul.^[23] As D. Guthrie put it, of the known companions of Paul, Luke is “as good as any... [and] since this is the traditional ascription there seems no reason to conjecture any other.”^[24] There is further evidence from the Pauline Epistles.^[25] Paul described Luke as “the beloved physician”, and some scholars have seen evidence of medical terminology used in both the Gospel and Acts,^[26] though others dispute this argument.^{[citation needed]}

The traditional view of Lukan authorship is “widely held as the view which most satisfactorily explains all the data.”^[27] The list of scholars maintaining authorship by Luke the physician is lengthy, and represents scholars from a wide range of theological opinion.^[28] But there is no consensus, and the current opinion concerning Lukan authorship has been described as ‘about evenly divided’.^[29] on who the author was.

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A Man of Faith: George Muller of Bristol

I am reading the biography on George Muller of Bristol, England. He was born in 1805 and pursued the life of a minister (as an unbeliever!) because it was a lucrative career and a very honored position. He went to seminary without having any knowledge of the Bible and actually was a thief, liar and drunk. God used that time he was at seminary to open his eyes to the truth and mercifully saved him. George Muller became a preacher and then ran an orphanage in London for hundreds of orphans. He didn't have the funds to start the orphanage or to even feed the orphans but God provided everyday for their needs in extordinary ways.

Last year I read a different biography on him for a class and usually gasped at the things he would do in faith, believing God at His word. I recall one story of a little girl who asked where breakfast would be coming from and George Muller took her by the hand downstairs to breakfast and said, "Let's go see what God is going to do today." They approached the dining hall as all the orphans lined up with their plates for breakfast but there was no milk and no biscuits, nothing to eat. So he entreated all the orphans, maids, and his family to stop and pray and thank the LORD for the food they were about to receive and...just then there was a knock at the door. He went over and the milkman said he had some extra milk and thought to bring it to them. A few minutes later, the baker came and said he arose early because he felt like he needed to make bread for the orphans and brought them just enough for breakfast.

Does that story strike you? Does it ignite in your heart a desire to trust God more? This is why I am reading this biography. There are countless stories of how God provided not only for him and HIS family, but for hundreds of orphans that were under his care at Ashley Down in England. The stories are amazing and the LORD entrusted around 2 million dollars to come through his hands in his lifetime. He didn't keep one penny of it and didn't take a salary while he was a preacher or as he ran the orphanages. Long before I read his bio, Scott read it and was so influenced that he named his first paint company "G.M. Painting." Him and his friend Ernie back in Louisville, Kentucky started this company with nothing, but prayed every morning together for work and for supplies and God provided...sometimes at the last minute. G.M. Painting is still a business today by God's grace. I am so thankful to of been apart of that process, to see how God provides and sustains and grows my faith in the midst of it. I am so exicted to delve into this biography! More to come but I thought I would share this quote from the book I read today at lunch...

"Only by using faith are we kept from practically losing it, and, on the contrary, to use faith is to lose the unbelief that hinders God's mighty acts." p. 84

King Of Majesty

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You know that,
I love you,
You know that,
I want to know you so much more,
More than I have before
These words are,
From my heart,
These words are,
Not made up,
I will live for you,
I am devoted to you,

Pre-Chorus:
King of Majesty
I have one desire
Just to be with you my Lord,
Just to be with you my Lord,

Chorus:
Jesus you are the Saviour of my soul
And forever and ever I'll give my praises to you,
Jesus you are the Saviour of my soul
And forever and ever I'll give my praises to you,

Bridge:
Jesus you are the Saviour of my soul(echo)
And forever and ever I'll give my praises to you(echo)

What is protestantism??

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Millennialists concentrate on the issue of whether the true believers will see the tribulation or be removed from it by what is referred to as a Pre-Tribulation Rapture, a question which continues to cause divisions within evangelical . Amillennialists believe that the end times encompass the time from Christ's ascension to the Last day, and maintain that the mention of the "thousand years" in the Book of Revelation is meant to be taken metaphorically (i.e., not literally, or 'spiritually').

End-times beliefs in Protestant Christianity vary widely. Christians premillennialists who believe that the End Times are occurring now, are usually specific about timelines that climax in the end of the world. For some, Israel, the European Union, or the United Nations are seen as major players whose roles are foretold in scriptures. Among dispensational premillennialists writers, there are those who believe that Christians will be supernaturally summoned to Heaven by Jesus in an event called the Rapture, which occurs before the biblical "Great Tribulation" prophesied in Matthew 24-25; Mark 13 and Luke 21. The Great Tribulation is also mentioned in the last book of the Bible - the book of Revelation.

'End times' may also refer simply to the passing of a particular age or long period in the relationship between man and God. Adherents to this view sometimes cite St. Paul's second letter to Timothy, and draw analogies to the late 20th/early 21st centuries.

Post-Exilic Hebrew books of prophecy such as the Book of Daniel and Book of Ezekiel are given new interpretations in this Christian tradition, while apocalyptic forecasts appear in the Judeo-Christian Sibylline Oracles and in the whole field of apocalyptic literature, which includes the Book of Revelation ascribed to John, the apocryphal Apocalypse of Peter, and the Second Book Of Esdras.

Most fundamentalist Christians anticipate that biblical prophecy will be fulfilled literally. They see current world and regional wars, earthquakes, hurricanes and famines as the beginning of the birth pains which Jesus described in Matthew 24:7-8 and Mark 13:8. They believe that mankind started in the garden of Eden, and point to Megiddo as the place that the current world system will finish, with the Advent of Messiah coming to rule for 1,000 years.

Contemporary use of the term End Times has evolved from use around a group of literal beliefs in Christian millennialism. These beliefs typically include the ideas that the Biblical apocalypse is imminent and that various signs in current events are omens of a climax to world history known as the battle of Armageddon. These beliefs have been widely held in one form, by the Adventist movement (Millerites), by Jehovah's Witnesses, and in another form by dispensational premillennialists. In 1918 a group of eight well known preachers produced a London Manifesto warning of an imminent second coming of Christ shortly after the 1917 liberation of Jerusalem by the British.

Religious movements which expect that the second coming of Christ, will be a cataclysmic event, generally called adventism, have arisen throughout the Christian era; but they became particularly common during and after the Protestant Reformation. Shakers, Emanuel Swedenborg (who considered the second coming to be symbolic, and to have occurred in 1757), and others developed entire religious systems around a central concern for the second coming of Christ, disclosed by new prophecy or special gifts of revelation. The Millerites are diverse religious groups which similarly rely upon a special gift of interpretation for fixing the date of Christ's return.

The chief difference between the nineteenth century Millerite and Adventist movements and contemporary prophecy belief is that William Miller and his followers fixed the time for the Second Coming by calendar calculations based on interpretations of the Biblical apocalypses; they originally set a date for the Second Coming in 1844. These sorts of computations also appear in some contemporary prophecy beliefs, but few contemporary End Times prophets use them to fix a date; their timetables will be triggered by future wars and moral catastrophes, and accordingly believe that God's judgment against the conflict-ridden and corrupt world is close at hand.

ONE OF THE WORSTEESSSST DAY OF MY LIFE

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It was a really fine morning.. I really felt thankful bcoz that day was a school-day.. After PMR, life became more boring each time so going to school is the best option for me to waste my time and to hang with my friends... While i was in canteen on that specific day, i was called by Pn Mageswary.. i was just thinking "what does she wants from me".. ugly thoughts begins to fill my mind... Without any prior notice my body just led me to the teacher's staff room and there she was waiting in the Ketua Bidang's room. So i just steppes in that room. That will be the last step i'll be taking for the rest of the school period bcoz i'm going to be there and my feelings of stepping in there is like forever. Now reaching to my point.. Pn Mageswary instruct me to help her finish the Leo club's report for the whole year.. AND guess what.. the secretary didn't even did a single thing throughout the whole year. I was quite dissapointed and frustrated because i have to sit on that miserable chair completing that report that was assign to do.. ohh that time was so stressful.. I have to do about 14 reports. My fingers are about to break-i was typing using a computer.. After all that job is completed, teacher offered me a post as a vice-president for Leo club next year.. It was something really soothing to my ears as i never heard of a teacher offering me something big before.. So i accept that post.. my facial expressions look normal(as in emotionless) but inside my heart.. it was pounding out for joy.. And guess what the teacher gave me RM 5.. i was quite please woth myself that day.. The next day arrived, out of my excitement i tell mostly all of my good friends that i was offered that high-class post.. The reason why io wanna tell them is so that they can rejoice with me and the next thing i know is that people took it wrongly and started gossiping about me boasting about myself.. I was even dissapointed when i found out that two of my trustable friends were gossiping behind my back during cell group its the time when christians gather to worship our father God, the So and the Holy Spirit).. And guess what the person who gossips about me can even have the cheek to be angry with me.. i meant after gossiping about ppl u shud be relieved rite??(buit pls i'm not encouraging u guys to gossip).. in conclusion, if u really wanna gossip about ppl next time then don bcoz its more hurtful than telling to that person right at their face) but anyway this message is actually not to make u feel insulted but its to tell u about my feelings that i was mistreated by my gud frens.. Bcoz of that incident i don even know who to trust now.. i'm just feeling lost and confused bout everything -but anyway i just wanna tell u guys that i boasted to that i am really sorry and u guys shud know my intentions b4 talking bad about me- or maybe to other ppl also... I've also learned a lesson not to boast about others coz we shud understand this sad feeling.. And also to whoever that i've talked about or back-stabbed i'm really sorry as i'm in that shoe that u guys are wearing.. An to those WHO LOVES BACK-STABBING others pls.. i urge u not to that unless u really want others to do the same to u..

-"Do not do unto others wat u don wan others to do to you" that's all i can say-

Honour ur father and mother...

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In the bible.. Honouring ur father and mother is one of the most important commandment given by God to Moses. The word honour means show respect towards a person. In the olden days, the word honour is used to worship kings. So in reality now, we should be treating our parents like king and queen. The first commandment with a promise is Honouring your father and mother. What are the two promises in the bible?? So that u may have long life and so that everything may go well with you. In other religion, ppl only honour their parents when they are dead. Actually what is the point?? Their soul is with God already. So what is the point of that.....?? Might as well honour them when they are alive and appritiatiate them. Even when things that they do discourage you, u must still honour them and always ask yourself this question.. "without them how did i come here" or maybe "think about your mother's pain when she gives birth to you".. It is an honour honouring them. This act has a win-win situation actually. Win-win situation is defined as both parties benefits. What's the prove- when you honour them they will be blessed and you will also be blessed with long life and everything u do will be a blessing.. So why not start today!!

What goes around comes back around..

Just a tear

Russia!

What the world is coming into? Guys into cows?

Puppy's love-everlasting?

*yawn*... Second chance, maybe?..

Ok?..

A privilege~ (you'll see this soon in one of Star's newspaper articles soon)

Accusing..

..... ATTENTION.....!!!

Look who's talking...

Maybe it was suppose to end this way...

Being a JERK sometimes, who gives a shit..

Heh, my picture

Good News for Her, but her mum.....?

Random comes after boredom

DECEIVED MANY?

Exam Over? Wt about the results?

Love... ~

Crap!!

~HoW YoU BrOkE My HeArT~

tonnes of stuufs

Unsatisfied...

GEEE!!!

Randomness..

Angpows..

Fireflies – Owl City

Day 3.. Lmao..(15.02.10)

Taylor Swift

Conflicts faced during Chinese New Year..

Sceond Day in Grandma's house......

First day in "Kampung"

Randomnecessity........

wt frens are for?

.....New Year for the Chinese ~

Maite zaitut!

First day of school?

New words.. that i've just learned frm church!!

Little help in translating, please??

wierd ...

AvAtAr.....

BaaD MeMoRieS DuRinnGGG RayA =(

Day Full Of Exhaustion

Finally!!

Confused??

Angrily angry..

Disgustin shit i've evr heard

A lesson LEARNED!!

A word of gratitude

The start of the end!!

Blonde jokes.. Its kinda lame but its funny coz they're dumb..!!

Answers (don cheat!!)

iQ test..

Apology..

Jesus Characteristics.. (HF assignment)

Should i start a bible study post.?

Thanksgiving Practical Joke

Civic Lesson

A Little too not over you by David Archuleta- i post coz i love this song very muchh.. ^^

Aiyaaa..>!!

Isn't life getting tougher..??

Hammurabi's code

THE ART OF WAR

What Makes A Malaysian A Malaysian

Welcome to Penang Hill..!!

Asimo!! Haha..

Aeroplanes.. Yay!!

JOKES... ^^ Maybe it will cheer u up 4 the day!!(hope its not too lame either)

SORRY GUYS WRONG INFORMATION..!!

Footprints..

What is Love all about..?

PMR RESULTS DATE.....!!!!@!!!!!!!!! Must read this...!!!!!

The Importance Of Names.. (so guys don tease ppl of their names ar..)

Naming Patterns

Frequency

Names as a Virtue

Recycled Names

Surnames as Given Names

Nicknames

Baptismal Names

yawn... Second chance, maybe?..