THE LIST

Refer to this after 24/6/2006

V for Vendetta
X- Men 3
MI 3
Da Vinci Code
The Hills Have Eyes

I was gonna ..'play' a prank which had been played on me. I didnt think it funny when it was done onto me..but the player was amused..so I reasoned "Wouldnt the player think it funny too if the same thing happened ?"

But na...I realised that it may seem that I was seeking revenge...and...the thought of that, it turned me off. I guess it's because before, I was at least hoping the person would feel some remorse after realising the pain I was put through..but no...the 'player' not only didn't apologise, this person laughed and pushed it aside. It was only after I realised that person felt no remorse that I was expecting an apology..and lemme tell you something about expecting an apology..you can wait forever...and its a waste of your space on your list of expectations.

Some people just don't change. They add on more attributes..but..the core is still there. In fact, people almost never change. I shouldn't expect them too and vice versa.

Everybody Hates Kevin

I think I'll start a TV show with that name...today...Kevin sends a text to the wrong person...(theme song plays)

[Kevin asks H if H has done the research for the project due this Friday]
H: Na, I was busy with my Food project.

[Kevin thinks in his mind...WHAT?! So I don't have any projects? I ask you to find ONE decent piece of information..and the only thing you've been giving me is lame excuses..presentation, project...whadda load of crap...I'm in your class for crying out loud..whatever you have to do, I have to do TOO!]

Kevin: OK

[Kevin txts the team leader "H didnt do anything! Are we having a meeting?"]

1 hour later....

H: Hey..why didja send me a text?

[Kevin....AAAAARGHHHHHHH!! How could I send it to H?!?!?!?!]
Kevin: Erm..o..cos Alex want's a meeting

Alex (Team leader) : Hey..H showed me the text which was meant for me. Man..that was uncomfortable....


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It's like

it's like a nice shirt. The best ever to be had..brand new out of a store, proud to be worn ..but each time its washed...and wrung and hung..it loses some colour. Until eventually..it becomes a rag it cannot deteriorate anymore. It's happy to just still have a purpose...to clean up dirt.

Some annoying/ random stuff which people have said to me in the past i.e AGES ago that just won't go away...I forget other stuff so easily...but why do these phrases just...stick like chewing gum to hair?

"That's exactly what my mom said to me"
"That's what my dad said"
"Being careless isn't an excuse, so you drive a car and kill someone on the road...can you say you're careless?"

Emailed

Catechism Quiz—
Have You Been Saved?


by Friar Jim Van Vurst, O.F.M.

The question evangelicals always ask

Have you been saved? Even if you haven’t been asked that question directly, I’m sure you have heard it or read it in various places. And as you know, this is a phrase we associate primarily with evangelical Protestants. You won’t see "have you been saved?" in Catholic literature.

It’s not that it is a bad phrase at all. After all, we all wonder about salvation. But it is a scriptural phrase (John 3:16) that is often taken extremely literally. If you don’t say, “I’m saved because I have received Jesus into my heart,” your salvation in the eyes of some may be suspect.

I recall one minister who was asked by a television commentator during the funeral service for the late Pope John Paul II about “the pope being in heaven.” His comment was, “Well, we just don’t know, do we? If he accepted Jesus into his heart as savior, then he is. But we don’t know if he did that.”

To Catholics (actually, most people) it was an absurd comment on the part of the minister. The pope might have not have received Jesus? Impossible. His whole life was about Jesus.

So, how do we Catholics treat salvation in our own theology? We look at salvation in three ways, which make up our whole doctrine: We have been saved. We are being saved. We shall be saved.

We have been saved.

It was Jesus’ life, death and resurrection that brought about salvation for every person who had lived and would live and for the entire universe. Jesus died for all people, no exceptions, and his death and resurrection opened the opportunity for salvation for all people. Jesus died for the religious leaders who were scoffing at him just as he died for his mother, Mary. He died for the vicious Roman soldiers as much as he did for Peter, the apostles and for all the people who had been born before him. Are we saved? Yes, indeed we have been saved.

We are being saved.

We walk our journey on this earth, and we honor and thank Jesus for what he did for us. The first external act in our faith is that we are baptized, often as infants because of the love of our parents who wanted to share their faith with us. We were saved when we were baptized. We were filled with the life of the Trinity and God’s grace. As we grew older, we learned more about Jesus, about God and all the goodness of God in our lives. We receive the other sacraments, especially the Eucharist, whereby we not only receive Jesus into our hands, but also receive him into our very selves. Have we received Jesus? There is not a doubt in the world that we have. Every sacrament we receive is a personal meeting with Jesus.

It is on our earthly journey that we try to live the gift of faith in Jesus and in his death for us. Our good deeds do not save us. Jesus did that. But in our everyday lives we try to live out Jesus’ command: “Love God with all your heart and love your neighbor as yourself.” Those commands are translated in many ways in our everyday lives. The good deeds we do are our way of saying, “Thank you, Jesus, for this gift of faith." We never do this perfectly, of course, and we regularly ask the Lord’s forgiveness for our failures. So as our journey goes on, we are always being saved day after day.

We will be saved.

As we look to the future, there comes the moment when we breathe our last, step into eternity and in the next moment see the Lord. We know with absolute certainty we have been saved! We enter heaven or purgatory as I discussed in my January and February columns. Even in purgatory, we know we are saved and will eventually have that perfect union with God (which is heaven) for eternity.

Our Catholic theology of salvation is rich and includes the past (Jesus) the present (our journey filled with God’s grace) and the future (our union with God). There is nothing magical about salvation. It is not about a few words we say, but about Jesus’ redeeming death, our response to that magnificent gift and our ultimate destiny with God for eternity. Are we saved? Oh, yes indeed. We have been, are being and will be saved.

Hmm....should I worry?

ben. hopeful says:
so essential msian items

kevin{weird presents} says:
lol..they're ALL expired

kevin{weird presents} says:
i sent cindy's bf home

kevin{weird presents} says:
tht's her way of showing thnks..lol

ben. hopeful says:
oh so it's not kenneth your brother

ben. hopeful says:
sent him home where?

ben. hopeful says:
WALAO YOU DAMN THIN WEI

Alfred Tennyson:

I hold it true, whate'er befall;
I feel it, when I sorrow most;
'Tis better to have loved and lost
Than never to have loved at all.

Foooooooo!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-aiHJgvlTu4&search=hard%20gay%20ramen

Exam countdown...
22 days to 1st paper
1 presentation
1 design report

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Weird Dreams

7 May - Dreamt that petrol prices went from $1.70 to $1.71
6 May - Dreamt I was in a movie set in a scene set in hell. I was being directed by someone and this shot had to be continuously retaken. They got all these actors dressed as devils to desecrate an altar....@@

Dr K

Spoke to another lecturer again...I think its something which happens as you get older...you tend to wanna talk to people older than you... :P heh...Anyways...I realised the importance of how once perceives things. I had this REALLY huge letdown when Shell rejected me after a phone interview for a summer internship. Wasn't I good enough for them?? Heh...that was how I looked at it..but I realised something after speaking to Dr K.

It's not if you're 'good enough' for a company..it's how well you'll fit in. Only then can both sides achieve a win-win situation. There really is no point in joining a company that you'll hate after a month of employment. Dr K has come to the point where he can 'fake' the answers on assessment tests given to potential employess. But what's the point of that ? He said. If you're not yourself when you get hired, then you were only taken in for what you weren't.

Blog Of The Month

This month's goes to Chris Chakky. Thank you for giving me the privilege to be lazy and copying ur thoughts into this free space.

People Deserve 2 Looks.

The 1st look is the sizing up, the grading, the approval rating. You check if your dude has good hair, talks well, smells good and treats you like his king. OR you check if the dudette smiles at you, flicks her hair well, has good boobs, dresses well and has a short, tight skirt.

And then we continue on from there. We choose a category of relationship for them, very quickly while smiling. 'Good friend', 'Nerd Help', 'Football Buddy', 'Chick Target'. No time to waste - we bring out the forms, asking them to fill it in. 'How are you?', 'What do you do?', 'Which school do you go to?', 'What did you get for your SPM?'... Once satisfied, we fill in the 'for office use' section, write our final remarks and submit 'NEW FRIEND' to our hearts to play games.

Then the game begins. Nurture and water them into who they were meant to be. Kick balls with the Football Buddy, ask for help with homework with the Nerd, listen to the Good Friend's problems. Prune them, lecture and advice them, say 'its ok, everyone makes mistakes'. Point them in the right direction we say. We tell ourselves, one day it will be worth it. It will be. We buy them gifts, throw them surprise parties. Talk good about them and to them. Tell them we care, that we remember and most importantly, that they matter to us.

But its not so simple. Waves spit and thorns spike. Suddenly its all gone. Friends were what they were. We say bad things, store up bitterness and dig up gossip. We plot their ruin, and crash their parties. We get angry and lonely, but will not let anyone help, too painful we say, too little trust, too late. We wonder, what happened to those years and memories. The laughs of the good ol' times. Didn't go as planned, we mumble. But why? It was all perfect, every last bit designed for our satisfaction and companion. Didn't we think of their every need? Didn't we make them happy all the time? Didn't we give them all we had? It was supposed to be the perfect friend.


The 2nd Look. The one where we look past the 1st look. And are prepared for people to look at us only with the 1st.



Tough stuff ya? I guess if we could do that to 1 boy(for me), we'll have a good friend... and 1 girl(for me) and we'll have a wife.


No no no...


Where got so simple ya? :) Take care guys.