prison break October 27, 2006
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I just got a whole lot of episodes of Prison Break from jac. She sent me 2 episodes, I watched them, liked them and went to her house to get the rest. It’s been a long time since I got hooked to a tv serial. I don’t normally watch tv, but prison break is really good.
It’s about this guy called Michael who goes to prison on purpose to break his brother, Lincoln, out. His brother was set up for murdering the vice-president’s brother and is on death row. The plot’s intriguing, and the actor’s so good-looking! Or maybe I just like the expression on his face. Haha. His real name is Wentworth Miller.
So fun.
And it’s funny that I get comments from people I don’t know. How about the people I know? Haha 
multiplied October 21, 2006
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We had our first cell group meeting after multiplication today. Last week’s one wasn’t counted because we combined with another cell haha. Starting from pauline in clockwise direction, we had krystle, audrey, jie yun, christopher, rachel, jacqueline, elliot, songjie, ronald, me and kenneth. Altogether, we had 12 people for cell meeting today. That’s a change, after having 20 over people for cell meeting each time before multiplication.
We multiplied according to age group, so people from JC and above joined our side while people below JC age went to the other group. Both are still headed by pauline.
It was great. Krys led games with the milk game haha. Ronald and I did the forfeit because the people who made mistakes were more than those who didn’t. I didn’t make any mistake lor :p Praise and worship was fantastic. The atmosphere of praise was there because we all loved the Lord so much. I don’t know how to describe it but yeah, it was really good. We really have the best cell group around haha 
And we have the best Savior around too
I love Your house. Beginning of the year, I kept having thoughts like is this the right place for me and all. I know now that it is. But now and then, I don’t know whether it’s a spirit or something but I still have thoughts like what would happen if I leave. But everytime that happens, I know that if I did, everything I worked for would come to nothing. I would just fall back to being a stagnant christian. I would never really forsake God because without God, my life would be meaningless. But if I leave, that’s it, I probably would never achieve my highest potential for God in this life. Which would be very wasted. And I still want to meet God, to encounter Him. I know there’s more. There’s always more.
Expo may be far, but travelling all the way there is worth it. Even though sometimes, I struggle to pull myself out of bed, but I’m never disappointed. To be in God’s house, worshipping Him in His presence together with His people, that’s the best way to spend a sunday morning, and I won’t trade that for anything.
death note October 19, 2006
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My physical pharm lecture ended at 2.40pm today. Since PPDA tutorial was more than an hour away, and it would have been for only an hour, peijing, yeeching and I just decided to pon Yay…the first time I ponned a lesson since school started. I think. Can’t remember.
Then we went to vivo city to catch Death note, this movie adapted from a manga. The movie was at 6.10, so we walked around for about 2 hours. I nearly wanted to buy a pair of converse shoes, but decided to wait and check the prices out at queensway first. We walked around vivo city. The place had so many shops! It’s quite a shopper’s paradise haha.
Death note was interesting. It’s quite a good movie. The story’s about this guy who is the son of a police chief who has a strong sense of justice. He finds out that a lot of criminals aren’t getting the punishment they deserve and becomes really angry. Then one day, he chances upon a strange book which says that whoever’s name is written in it will die. And he uses the book to kill off criminals. The rest of the movie shows how the police try to catch him.
It’s nice to pon tutorial, go shopping and watch a movie. I think I need to relax now and then. Haha.
Oh, peijing and yeeching invited me to go to hong kong in december to stay with yeeching for 5 days. Yay. And my mum agreed. So now I just have to decide whether I really want to go and book the ticket. Haha. Cool. Holiday!
Do I exist? October 18, 2006
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We’re currently doing Descartes for philo now. Corgito ergo sum. I think, therefore I am. Sound familiar? Basically this guy called Descartes (pronounced day-cart) believes that if something is considered knowledge, it cannot be doubted. Like when I ask you a question, and you give an answer, I will ask “how do you know?” If you say that you’re not dreaming and you have two hands and legs, I will ask, how do you know?
Descartes imagines that there is an evil demon trying to trick him into believing things which aren’t true. So much so that he can’t trust his senses anymore. He doesn’t know if he’s just a brain in a vat or living in the matrix etc. You won’t know that you’re not dreaming because when you’re dreaming, everything looks real. If your senses are fooled a third of the time while you’re asleep, how do you know that you can trust them the other two-thirds of the time? How do you know that the person sitting next to you is human and not just some machine? The evil demon might be tricking your senses. Ah.
We only studied Descartes’ first and second meditations. So he starts out by doubting everything. He comes to a point where he realises that he cannot doubt doubt itself. Because if you’re doubting that you doubt, you’re already doubting. Something must be doing the doubting since there is doubt. So in short, he concludes that since he doubts his existance, and you cannot doubt doubt itself because once you doubt, there is doubt already, and something must exist to do the doubting, therefore he exists. So technically, it’s not “I think, therefore I am”. It’s “I doubt, therefore I am”.
And I heard my first philosophy joke today in tutorial.
Descartes walks into a bar and the bartender asks him if he wants a whiskey. He says, “I think not”… and disappears. Lol =) Hahaha…get it?
And then Rochelle and I were talking about the existance of God after the tutorial. During the tutorial, our tutor derrick told us that Descartes says that God exist because He is perfect. A perfect being would have all qualitites which makes it perfect, and one of the qualities is existance. So God exists. But it doesn’t make sense because the perfect square, the perfect circle and the perfect cow don’t exist. They exist only in our minds. So in this way, Descartes can’t use this to prove God’s existance.
However, Rochelle told me something AR Bernard said. His analogy of the coins. Suppose you walk along the road and suddenly see coins scattered randomly along the walkway, you would assume someone dropped them accidentally. However, if you walk along the road and suddenly see coins stacked neatly one on top of the other, you would know that someone intentionally placed them there like that. There is so much order in the universe and in the world (we know it when we learn science and maths), meaning that someone must have made things in that orderly way. That someone is God.
Therefore, I exist, and God exists.
