Psalm 40:1-2 1I waited patiently for the Lord, And He inclined to me, And heard my cry. 2 He also brought me up out of a horrible pit, Out of the miry clay. And set my feet upon a rock, And has established my steps. Galatians 2:20 I have been crucified with Christ; it is [...]
Archive for May, 2009
Christ, my Solid Rock
Posted in Family, Friends, Personal, Spiritual on May 30, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Sustaining Words
Posted in Family, Friends, Personal, Spiritual on May 28, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Thank you everyone for everything. Affirmations and exhorations “Please please don’t despair. Jus continue praying as you have. I don’t know what to say except we will pray up a storm for her. Hang in there.” “I pray that God’s light will shine the brightest in your household during this time. You and your family [...]
Tomorrow
Posted in Family, Spiritual on May 27, 2009 | 2 Comments »
Last week we did an exercise in class, planning for our ‘careers’ five or ten years in advance. We were asked to visualize where we would be five years down the road, and think about what actions we had done to get to that position. If this activity were done retrospectively – meaning jumping back [...]
Sowing and Reaping
Posted in Spiritual on May 27, 2009 | 2 Comments »
Within the span of 1 hour in the morning today, I read 4 messages about sowing and reaping. My REAPING is coming soon! At 7:45 a.m: Robb Thompson’s Daily Devotional Whatever You Make Happen For Another, God Makes Happen For You. ___________________________________________________ “Knowing that whatsoever good thing any man doeth, the same shall he receive [...]
Graciousness Campaign
Posted in Personal, Singapore on May 25, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
It’s people like these (“As graciousness drive starts, some want penalties imposed”, CNA), who really convince me that Singaporeans focus more external acts rather than the inculcation of the actual values. (Read the blogger’s views on the Singapore’s kindness movement, at the last few paragraphs of the article). I can’t believe there are members of [...]
Daily Telegraph News
Posted in Teaching on May 24, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Features from today’s Daily Telegraph: Too much fast food ‘harms children’s test scores’ When I was in Secondary school, I used to have KFC or MacDonalds at least 2-3 times a week – perhaps I should have eaten more at the hawker centre to improve my test scores. I find the studies of such a [...]
“Your body of work is yet to come”
Posted in Personal, Spiritual on May 24, 2009 | 2 Comments »
Obama’s commencement address to Arizona State University in Tempe is really one of the best pieces of rhetoric in our modern times. I really felt something stirring in my heart as I watched him deliver it masterfully, as he always does. Obama has delivered some of the best speeches of the 21st century and this [...]
The school as battleground
Posted in Singapore, Teaching on May 23, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
In yesterday’s Straits Times article, MOE tightens vetting on sexuality programme, the article concludes with a cautionary note by Dr. Ng, ‘What we must avoid is different groups with competing ideologies using our schools and young as proxy arenas to push their own set of beliefs. ‘We must not go down the way, as has [...]
It Matters
Posted in Family, Personal, Spiritual on May 22, 2009 | 2 Comments »
Do your daily battles of faith and testing really matter in the bigger scheme of things? This is what Philip Yancey has to say. “The Wager [between God and Satan in the book of job] offers a message of great hope to all of us – perhaps the most powerful and enduring lesson from Job. [...]
Threats to Science
Posted in Personal, Singapore, Spiritual, Technology on May 21, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
I watched Ron Howard’s Angels and Demons twice within 24 hours and Davis Guggenheim’s An Inconvenient Truth (more commonly known as Al Gore’s Inconvenient truth) today. Although both films are very different in nature – one being a fictional action-packed thriller with a very loose connection to reality, and the other being a documentary which [...]
