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verses read: Song of Songs 4

This is the first time I’m reading the Song of Solomon so slowly. I must say it is really beautiful poetry. Never noticed it before! Much more uplifting than the book of Lamentations.

Started going through the materials for this Saturday’s marathon Bible study session. Will break the material up into smaller pieces but the important long session still has to come in the morning.

Sitex begins tomorrow; looking for the travel charger for my phone, will be very handy in camp. Will be looking for a new laptop as well, albeit not for myself. Sad that apple has nothing new to offer so far, though rumours of a tablet from them have surfaced again! Hopefully by the time my laptop dies that one will be a reality!

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verses read: Song of Songs 4

This is the first time I’m reading the Song of Solomon so slowly. I must say it is really beautiful poetry. Never noticed it before! Much more uplifting than the book of Lamentations.

Started going through the materials for this Saturday’s marathon Bible study session. Will break the material up into smaller pieces but the important long session still has to come in the morning.

Sitex begins tomorrow; looking for the travel charger for my phone, will be very handy in camp. Will be looking for a new laptop as well, albeit not for myself. Sad that apple has nothing new to offer so far, though rumours of a tablet from them have surfaced again! Hopefully by the time my laptop dies that one will be a reality!

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verses read: Song of Songs 2-3

Well, I’m still feeling quite geeked out over yesterday’s events. I still can’t believe I was that dumb and slow. Today was a really slow day; didn’t do anything till I went to the gym. Bought two DVDs, one is one of my favourite movies of all time, and the other is for the DVD interest group. Badly needing my Diablo CDs back to get back online. Will be quite something to re-enter the gaming world; not just the computer game world, but the card gaming world as well. Need to “re-feel” the ground before going back to secondary school.

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verses read: Lamentations and Song of Songs 1

Since my last entry I’ve finished reading the Gospel of Luke and the book of Lamentations; very depressing read. So I decided on something a little better, the Song of Solomon. Much better read. Feeling a little poetic lately.

Well, today has been a very eye-opening day. I don’t know what adjectives and adverbs I can use to describe myself and my “slowness” on this. Only found out today, that my partner for the conversation section of the oral exam (see post 120406) for my Bahasa Indonesia course I did just before leaving NUS was the (get this…) former winner of the Miss Singapore Universe pageant! Imagine the shock I had when I found out. And why I didn’t find out earlier, I have no clue! Anyway, have to say that my stereotype of beauty queens has changed a bit, she is really very friendly in real life and the pictures you can find of her online, don’t really do her justice. She is much prettier in real life. Next question I am asking myself is why I’m even writing this into my journal?

More importantly, today, I finally received my SMMT (School Mathematics Mastery Test) results. I passed, THANK GOD! Now I can really enjoy my holidays and practicum a little more! The test was two hours; we had to do the equivalent of about two standard O level mathematics papers in that time. Not too difficult, except that the passing mark was a distinction not just 50%. The paper was okay, save for the terror statistics question, in which they decided to test the whole cohort on something called a “boxplot” some new statistical representation device which will be introduced into the syllabus soon. It is a really stupid representation, to over-simplified. It’s amazing, that we have to teach students how to use something that we don’t know how to use.

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verses read: Luke 12-23

Finally, the madness of the semester has died down, afford me a chance to update this journal. Not really kept up to date with updating this, but at least the reading is still consistent, even though it is still mere reading. No more assignments, and since I have no exams, my semester is essentially done, only one module left, only two more days of school left, one day per week till 1 December. And just one final assessment to which there is no way to study for it.

NIE is tiring, more tiring that any semester I had in NUS but I am not complaining, after all I am well paid to do what I do; cannot argue. The past few months here in NIE have been good, can’t say much about my tutors, but they will serve as example for me, both negative and positive though. I’m really looking forward to going back to a school next year, travelling is a real killer for me now.

The weekend has been interesting for me. Had a real God given opportunity to lead on the Doulos and it was fantastic! The lights literally went out halfway, what a powerful reminder of who God is! The experience was exactly like VCF days, or even the early days of One Voice when we struggled just to have everything working in order. But it seems strange, it is usually when things don’t go right that we truly appreciate the good things for what they are.

Revelations Study 1

This one is for the Flowerpots. Here are some helping questions to help answer those in the book. Or some extra additions on my own. In addition, in page 7 of the book there is a link to a website, you can also go to that website to get more help. But it won't be that much help.

Question 2
- Please don't give "yes" or "no" answers. Please give a reason or example as well. Read the newspapers, a lot of stuff there.

Question 3
- Read John 21, it might have a clue. Also, some of the crucifixion accounts of Jesus also provide a clue.

Question 4 and 6
- Read John 7, 15, 1 John 1 (interesting pattern eh?)

Question 5
- I think this one is pretty straight forward. But, please give me more than just "ancestral worship" or things to this effect. Tell me what you face as a Christian; and don't tell me DoTA or WoW either, that's too generic. Some struggle that is pulling you away from God, or an "easy way out".

Lastly, if you have additional questions to ask, please reply below. I won't entertain questions on MSN. Let's have a discussion here for everyone in the group to see. OK?

A change of seasons

It's is already November. Been a while since I've updated. Been updating my private journal, just not this blog. Nothing really interesting to update. Going to change the blog once again when I get the time.