Happy, happy birthday!

Woot! just came back from yet another birthday party and since WoW is down for the night thought i might feed this dying blog with some candies and milo to keep it kicking

So we all have birthdays, once every year. Personally I don’t get the big hoo hah’s about birthdays I mean come on, whats more self-indulging than celebrating yourself man, talk about nasserism pfft. Never got the whole party at my place , yay me thing. Interestingly birthdays come with presents and loads of love, that i’m looking forward to but not the whole celebration festive feeling thing.

So why celebrate them? Do we celebrate yet another year given to us in this beautiful world or is it another step to leaving this forsaken world? Interestingly I did a quick google search and looked at the different articles and most of them have this in common, it is to celebrate one’s cumulative achievements, success, resilience and progress between the years.

This social custom is definitely more than an astrological event if you put more thoughts into it, much more than the endless cycles of stars and planets, the very first pioneers who started to celebrate birthdays must have something great or something so good everyone must remember; maybe this was how festive events and holidays were birth.

So don’t belittle this important time of the year, to celebrate yourself, all the things you’ve done in the past year, the progress of your life, all the goods and bads to remember. It is like popping the sweet wine you have kept for an entire year, on that very day poured out, enjoyed by the people around you.

Cheers!

 

You

When I gaze into your lovely eyes

I know that this is not just lies

I’d still hold on to you ever so tight

If you ever tried to shake me with your might

Nothing could ever convince me

that you’re not the one for me

Its not just when we talk

but also even when we walk,

that you make me wana stutter

because my heart is a in a cluster

When we kiss its like “ohhhhhhh!”

you complete me,

you make me whole

 

Pop! goes the weasel

This happened a few days ago, dint have the time to get it here so here it goes:

The following happened between 1800 hrs to 1830 hours.

I boarded the train at outram park, the purple line, surprisingly got a seat at this rush hour timing. I was sitting beside a nice pleasant gentleman, out of no where, a friend of his showed up, they started to chat, that friend standing in front of him.

Chatting about mundane stuff, about problems he was facing in his life, about his last year in NTU, the guy seated was facing unemployment; “depressing” i thought to myself.

Unzipping my bag, taking out my iPod, I begin to select songs for the next 30 minutes of train ride; Just before I was about to pop in the headphones, I heard “are you a christian?”, I looked up, it was the friend of the guy seated next to me.

Curiosity always got the better of me, I could’nt help but to leave my iPod unplugged, eavedropping on their conversation; the man, in his late 20s started to share how he was depressed and suicidal, and how God unfolded in his life.

Apparently, the man found many opportunities knocking on his life after he went to church, but spoke about being skeptical and all; by this time, a nice caucasian lady with a semi-circle table walked in, we were only at douby guat. I looked up and a nice lady sitting opposite me gave me a nice smile, I smiled back.

Working in a financial institution, the man standing began to share how he got the job from a member of the church and a series of events that followed that led to his success, giving praise to God for every chance. By this time, the train just passed Potong Pasir.

Giving his name card and after being invited church, the man seated said he’ll consider going. Bidding farewell and exchanging contacts, the man with a christian book in his hand alighted at Serangoon.

This set me thinking, how powerful our personal testimony are to our friends, especially when they can see the results for themselves, how often do we tend to forget this important part about giving our personal testimonies?

2 Timothy 1:8
[ Not Ashamed of the Gospel ] Therefore do not be ashamed of the testimony of our Lord, nor of me His prisoner, but share with me in the sufferings for the gospel according to the power of God,

 

effet papillon

Its really wierd, how things fall into place; Looking at how our world is desgined, the perfect oxygen contents and replenishment system, natural balance of the food chain, soil contents and water contents for plants to grow, the natural order for water to be cleanse. Looking at all these, its simply brilliant- we cannot deny that theres a creator, we cannot deny the exsistance of God.

How our lives come to be of, engineered events of our lives, so detailed, down to every meal you take, every breath you took, our lives so intellegently engineered to who we are today.

Think about it, major events that spun your life off to different routes, would it be the route you’re walking on today? Crucial dicisions made, friends, relationship, family, what do they all have influence over? They decide who you are.

Often we hear, it is not you that decides who you are, but rather society that decides; how true is, that the people around us are the ones that decides who are we? Who then, are we to say who we are? We dont decide for ourselves.

How are we being so cleverly engineered today? Maybe the next 1 hour of your life will spin you off in another direction, or maybe after reading this? No one knows, theres no such thing as tentative truths except for One.

Are you being engineered for success? I know i am.

 

Good Morning Vietnam!

Hey WordPress, Irwin’s here to feed you your daily cuppa once again.

So, recently was away for the week to visit Vietnam. If you’re wondering where’s Vietnam, its Above Thailand beside Myanmmar; great place to visit, full of heritage and rich in cultures. Friendly people- and surpringly there were no fat people in Vietnam; never even saw a obese local, probabbly must be the diet there which consist of mainly greens.

So in the 5 day trip, Went to 3 Places in Vietnam- Ho Ching Ming City, Veng Dau and one of the village islands, saw the life there- experienced a boat ride, all-so-many-things to say so ill let flickr do the talking:

This’ my favorite of the whole trip

 

Cease to exist

So my room was just cleaned up with all the useless things thrown out, a.k.a- spring cleaning, yes finally lol. Anyway upon returning home i saw this motivational poster on my wall, it was intriguing to me so here it goes:

Winners vs Losers

When a winner makes a mistake, he says “I was wrong” ; When a lose makes a mistake, he says “it was’nt my fault”

A winner works harder than a loser and has more time; a loser is always too busy to do what is neccessary.

A winner goes through a problem; a loser goes around it and never goes pass it.

A winner makes commitments; a loser makes promises

A winner respects those who are superior to him and tries to learn from them; a loser resents those who are superior to him and tries to find chinks in their armour.

A winner feels responsible for more than his job; a loser says “i only work here”

A winner says “there ought to be a better way to do it” ; a loser says “thats the way it’s always been done here”

 

I bring you, the future of automobiles

A funny thought came into my head when i was reading a certain someone’s blog; what if everything was possible?

Instantly, this struck my head; if everything was possible, we should first solve the traffic overcrowding in singapore! Yes traffic is that horrible to me, you’d agree with me too if you had take a bus traveling slower than a child on a tricycle.

So firstly our cars will run on nitrogen, 78% of sea level atmostphere is nitrogen; why not carbon dioxide? plants need to breathe too! hah! There, all the oil crisis all solved along with it. Next, our cars will be made of a flexible yet strong alloy of metal, with the ability to go back to its original shape when dinged, preventing all sorts of collisions, accidents and what nots.

oh wait, if everything was possible, just teleport lah! hahahah gosh!

okay, im gona go find out how to disintegrate molecules and rearrange them in another space, in the right order now!

 

Chasing Butterflies

Butterflies, beautiful creatures with sadly a short life span; When i was a kid, I loved chasing those little butterflies and i remember they came in all sorts of colors, pink, yellow, purple, orange and I’d run after them till they came to a resting spot. Butterflies are somewhat mystical creatures in those days, they are set apart from the other insects in the insect kingdom, i used to hear stories about butterflies, stuff like how seeing a white butterfly is good luck, stuff like butterflies are the colors of the wind but there’s this one that i just could’nt understand at that point of time and it goes like: “When a butterfly flaps it wings, it’ll create a tornado elsewhere”

That was a mystery to me, i thought to myself : “There are so many butterflies flapping their wings in this world, this can’t be true, if it was, everyone would be dead by now” Little did i know that the story makes perfect sense to me this day, it is known as the butterfly effect.

The butterfly effect, whereby when a small action might lead to a big deviation in the results it produced is very true. Say for example when a seagull flaps it wings, it’ll create a change in the weather course forever or, putting it into today’s time traveling theory context, if you kill the supposedly-to-be researcher who finds the cure for every disease, the ultimate vaccine, the world will be doomed to countless years of diseases and sicknesses ahead. The butterfly effect is that simple.

Our world, made by theories, experiments, processes that come together to support one another. Our world today, its what people in the past used to believe, its what people in the present build on. All these came together, to make up “science”, structured by the many phenomenons observed, recordings and basic theories were produced, mathematical definition was expanded, the understanding of the world around us led to the many technological advances, breakthroughs, leaps. Just because someone decided to try explain what he observed.

Today, the butterfly effect can be explained mathematically, a slight deviation in the Lorez attractor has proven that a displacement of a single coordinate no matter how minor, will lead to a different end results.

What we do in life today, will determine and what our end results will be like. From every decision made in life, from every thought you ever had, will affect what the kind of home you stay in, the wife you have, the neighbor next door, that car you drive, the job you’re holding on so tightly to. Think about it.

Walking through the path full of pebbles