The reflecting theologian

Who are you??? 'I am Huanyan...' No, I don't want to know what's your name, I wanna know who you are. 'I am the son of my father and mother...' No no no, I don't wanna know whose chidren you are, just anwser the the damn question.... who are you??? 'I am a NUS student...' Nope, I dun wanna know what are you doing now. Who are you, why are you different from the person you are sitting beside? Why? 'I am ....' Who are you? To my dear readers, have you ever thought of this really profound question? Not in a philo sense, but who and what we really are is actually the result of our decisions and thoughts over the years. Think about it....you are a NUS student, not because people tell you that you must become a NUS student, but it's because you chose to become a NUS student. Most of us are not really successful today, all due to the decisions and choices we made. That's who we really are - the result of our thoughts, beliefs and decisions a...

29 July I had the most boring orientation I ever had in my life. The Arts Oweek 2005 is damn boring. To start with, the groups are too big for people to gel together. Secondly, most of the councillors were having fun with themselves, not with the freshmen. Thirdly their leadership really sucks, they totally dun have the calibre to bring out the spirit... especially when Charmaine Wang(yes! I mention names now cos I was so irritated) say 'Yeah'!!!! 'Are you from Achar? YEAH!!!' 'You from Atapchee??? YEAH!!!' 'You are the first two to come. YEAH!!!' 'Why look so bored??? YEAH!!!!' Come on lah, I know you wanna be enthu, but aku think that you are still a hundred years too early. Go and train more then come back and try to motivate me. A Apparently, to those who has attended the ACTStrinsic Camp, the Arts Oweek is nothing, totally zil compared to it. Think they should go and attend GEN ACTS events then they can understand. Luckily siam before I reac...

Something which happened recently kinda triggered me today. It's regarding the NKF saga, which I'm beginning to feel quite irritated about. People are saying that 'as a charity organisation', they dun approve of the way they operate and they dun like the fact that the director is receiving so much money as their salary and they dun like the fact that employees are receiving so much bonus. People dun like their successes in fund raising and they dun like the extravagant way of their office and headquarters. But then, do you view NKF as a charity organisation, therefore you dun approve of all these? To me, NKF is NOT a charity, it is a social enterprise, that's why I feel that it has a right to operate the way it was and has every right to do what it was doing. I feel that it operates in a way which all charity organisations should learn from. When they approach companies to sponsor them, they basically provide values for the companies. It becomes a win-win situation,...

A weekend in Genting and a day for matriculation, it's time to really start working... on my blog????? Genting has been very fun, tawning for 3 nights since friday. Got to know quite a lot of people and glad that I get to know those I know even better. Got to see the other side of CY, got to know YK, Gilby, ZQ, WQ, MQ, AB, Jassy, KR better. Got to know this new person called LJ, ZQ's sister. Quite a crazy girl I must admit. The first day of our trip begins with a long and a little boring trip to the highland. Basically everyone fell asleep in the bus since we all tawned the previous night. But I know that people began to get excited when we are reaching, especially Gilby. The weather there is fantastic. As I always say, the climate there is so good for studying, just sit at the Starbucks or Coffeebean, get a hot cafe latte and sit at the outside, and get your notes. Perfect sia. When we checked in... btw, I was in the same room with MQ, we had only an hour to prepare for dinner...

Yo, just taking the time update my blog for a while. I'll be going to Genting in about 1.5 hours time and I dun think I'll be updating till tuesday. A really intriguing question just strucked me. It's a question which has been bugging me since young, only that I realise it until a few days ago. Who is the one who determines what is right and what is wrong? Yes, it's related to the questions I have brought myself to answer a few days ago. From young,I have been arguing with my parents that whatever they say is just whatever they say. They can talk a lot of stuff and they can talk big but it's just whatever they say. Why is it that what they should be right and what I say should be wrong. In actual, I have been questioning this for years but I didn't know that I'm doing so. This really reminds me of the saying that I have spoke of in the previous post : 'The winner is the king and the loser is the thief' I believe that the rights and wrongs that we kn...

Been a tiring day. Been out for QET today, a really easy and stupid paper. And also failed to apply for my NUS bus concessionary card due to some stupid reasons. Went to play badminton and basketball with friends after that, whoa, what a tiring experience. I was like... almost dead.... cos I played three sets of basketball games, each 6v9, I have to like defend against 7 oppositions by myself. Shacked sia. Today is also quite an intriguing day. I am asked this question, with relation to the post about the criminal. Is there such a thing as an absolute Truth. Does relativity really exist? Before I actually answer this, I would like to emphasize that my opinion is largely influenced by an ancient philosopher called Lao Zi and after years of readings. Lao Zi once said something like this: 'In order for something to exist, there must be 'nothing' first.' For me, there is really something called the absolute Truth, after a lot of thinking and ... thinking. That absolute Tru...

'When things go wrong, as they sometimes will, When the road you're trudging seems all uphill, When the funds are low, and the debts are high, And when you want to smile, but you have to sigh, When care is pressing you down a bit, Rest if you must, but don't you quit. Life is odd with its twists and turns, As everyone of us sometimes learns And many a failure turns about, When he might have won had he stuck it out, Don't give up though the pace seems slow You may succeed with another blow Success is failure turned inside out, The silver tint of the clouds of doubt, And you never can tell how close you are. It may be near when it seems do far. So stick to the fight when you're hardest hit. It's when things seem worst That you must not quit' - Unknown I think this is a meaningful poem, so I wanna share with my readers. I know this poem on 14/02/2005, Valentine Day. It has been guiding me along since then. One of my guiding principle: Don't give up. Giving ...