Vose Quiz Night

Yippee! Final assignment handed in yesterday :) Still 2 exams to study for, but was catching up with my sleep today! (Oh.. it feels good having 10 hours of sleep after only 4.5 hours the previous day... haha)


Went to my seminary's Quiz night tonight.. our group came in 2nd last (yeah, I know! what an achievement for not being the last!!).. There were only 5 of us in the team when other ppl had 8 ('cos I couldn't find anymore friends to join...)... someone commented.. "It's not about the quantity, but the quality..." .. and then he joked "But we have neither!"

Hahahaha...

Anyway, it was a fun night.. especially when we made up silly answers for questions that we had NO clue about. Like...
Q: Who was the lead singer of bla bla band?
A: Darth Vader

Some items were up for auction as well to raise funds for my seminary. David bid and bought a framed up scenic photo.. it does look quite nice :) Good bid.

Tonight.. I learnt a few things:
1. A somnambulist is a person who sleep walks. (We got this one right thanks to Ming Ghee!)
2. A campanologist studies the art of making and ringing bells. (Our wild guess - Camping?!)
3. A person with phagophobia is afraid of eating. (that's definitely not me!)
4. A gerontologist studies about "old age" or "ageing". (Got this one right thanks to David - an educated guess from the word "geriatrics")
5. One of the early church fathers, Tertullian, says that men should not shave because shaving is like saying that they want to look better than what God made them to be. (or something like that)
6. An alleged relic, kept in Canterbury, is said to be the oldest relic.. what is it? The clay that God made Adam from.

Hahaa.. interesting stuff eh?

I managed to score with most of the theology/Bible related questions.. hehe.. (well not Tertullian though... it was a bonus question to decide a draw between the top 2 tables), but there were only 8 qns in 80! Was totally dumbfounded by most of the other qns though.. haha..

Ok time for lala land! Will post up more interesting stuff when I remember them!

one more one more!

Whoopie! Thank God for a very productive past few days in finishing up one of my major essays on
"Evangelism in a postmodern world".

Just one more to go now - an OT book review due tmr. Ok, short one then... more updates after Thursday!

p/s YP, I got your sms but no time to call you yet!! Talk to you soon

one more week to go

Wahahahahahahaa!!

Finally finished another one.. 2 more to go!! First time I'm late in handing in my assignment.. by one day.. haha.. haven't had enough 'guts' to submit any later. Not too happy with the essay cos it feels like it's all over the place.. but ah well, too late now!

Been a crazy past week having to finish 3 assignments, run 1 workshop and preach 1 sermon. Gosh, makes me wonder... did I not use my time wisely in the semester? Why is there this tidal wave of assignments at this time? Hmm...

Anyway, looking forward to the next assignment.. not actually the process of doing it, but just the topic - Evangelism in the postmodern world - do we/should we alter our methods of evangelism in this postmodern society? If so, what and how?

Basically it would cut to the core of what's central to the gospel and what can be contextualised to fit into the context of the people we're reaching out to. Or at least, that's what I'm hoping to achieve in this assignment... if i'm efficient enough in my reading!

Preached a sermon on "mercy" (based on Jonah) at Chapel in Seminary. Found myself struggling to prepare for it because I've never really had any enemies I had to forgive/show mercy like Jonah did. Still got good feedback from the lecturers and students, so praise God! But it did raise the question for me in terms of preaching, how does someone preach something that they've never really experienced before? Is it hypocritical? Or is it a matter of drawing experiences from other people and reflect on similarities in our own situation?

Hmm.....

Oh, only one more week of classes to go. So sad! I'm going to miss attending lectures...

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Yay! One more assignment down! Thank God for the stamina to work through it and finish it off! 6 more to go! Muahhhaaa...

As mentioned, David ran a workshop on outreach today. Thought it went well though I was only half listening as was trying to read my book for an assignment.. to no avail! haha.. sheesh...

Anyway, realised today that I need to put off my habit of stereotyping people.. not good not good.. gross generalisations do no justice to individuals.. not to mention that the stereotyping is coloured by prejudice as well.. so "Die you bad habit of stereotyping", and "live you good habit of love" (following the principle of putting off of the old self and putting on of the new self (Col 3:1-17))

Nagging question at the back of mind: What's going to happen next after I finish my contract with OCF? God please lead!

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No time for blogging... (7 more assigments in 3 weeks to go!), but thought I kinda need a break for a short while...

The evangelistic talk last Friday went well (thank you all who have prayed for me!). Had fun wearing a "sarung" during one part of the talk.. (haha.. won't tell you what it was for!).. I know the gospel has been sown as seeds.. may God make them grow to bear fruit!

Otherwise, the past week has been hectic trying to finish up my apologetics assignment on the topic "The scientific method and its significance to Christian apologetics". Really interesting stuff, wished I was more organised & started my research earlier.. didn't feel I tackled all that I could have, but oh well.. you can only do so much within a limited space of time.

David's giving a workshop on outreach tomorrow to the OCFers. Phew, glad I'm not the one doing it. Wouldn't be able to cope. Besides, I'm already scheduled to give a talk (together with Emperor Chin) this coming Friday on the topic "Homework".. haha.. goodness, who would want to sit and listen for 45 minutes on THAT?! :P

Ok, time to hit the books else I'd regret it next week when the tidal wave comes.. *swim.. swim.. AHHHHH*