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I just realised while talking on MSN that lol actually looks like someone with their hands in the air
lol
There has been and continues to be much suffering in the world. Someone I know has just found out that her entire village was washed away in the recent flooding. She can’t get in touch with her family because all communication is down.
Sometimes I look at my life and wonder if it’s wrong for me to worry about my 7 essays. Sometimes I berate myself for living the lifestyle that I live. Sometimes I wonder if it’s just wrong. People have told me that I have been blessed and I should enjoy it rather than being ‘ungrateful’ and disowning it. But something still doesn’t sit right somewhere deep down inside.
I just saw Ris Low going through another painful interview on Channelnewsasia. Now honestly, if she has bad english, move on. There’s no need to keep milking the story for all it’s worth. If anything, it just shows that Singaporeans get hung up about stupidly small things. It’s a beauty pageant, speaking does not come into the judging (otherwise the stupid answers given by some contestants would cause them to be thrown out).
About her criminal offence, yes, she committed one. But she’s served her time and what’s done is done. She’s out of the competition, but don’t we send sportsmen who have committed offences for sports tournaments? Furthermore, it seems rather hypocritical that we have this “Yellow Ribbon Project” in which we aim to rehabilitate ex offenders, but we can’t even accept someone who committed credit card fraud but keep making her answer for it even though the punishment has been meted out.
About her supposed exam cheating, if the school has made her retake it, why are we bringing it up again?
She’s 19. My goodness.
She’s causing more furor than Steve Chia did or Devan Nair ever did.
I think that this is like the AWARE episode, the media is just hyping things up. Surely there are more important things to report about rather than spending time harassing a girl?
Today, I just skimmed through some old emails ranging from November 2006 to March 2007. Some made me smile to see how far we’ve come and others were accompanied with a sense of disbelief and a brief flash of nostalgia. I’m sure if I looked through my posts from that period, I’d feel the same way.
How life moves on.
This time next year, I’ll be on my own (physically anyway).
At a recent class on religion in the contemporary world, my classmates and I were discussing a reading regarding the concept of transhumanism, specifically speaking about how one day mankind will be able to upload our brains into a computer (as brains are “simply electric signals”) and thus, live forever in the computer though our physical bodies may pass away.
Strangely enough, everyone in the class was repulsed by it. There were expressions of horror and criticism, implying that they felt that a human could not simply be uploaded into a machine and remain the same, without losing a certain part of him or herself. It seemed to me that they (even though a lot of them are professed atheists) instinctively felt that there was more to mankind than what could be uploaded into a computer and some inexplicable value or characteristic that if one were to be uploaded, would not be present anymore, making the subject less “human”. If I were to further that logic, it would seem that their instinct would be to place a special value on humans, which implies a special purpose and value for our lives. If we have a special purpose and value, it would seem that we are created that way, somehow pointing the way to an “intelligent designer”.
Moreover, in another more recent religion class, we were discussing the idea of the Big Bang and chance evolution and how people have an innate desire to find order in chaos. Similarly, in my math class, we were discussing a similar situation, where humans seem to find patterns in what seems like chaos. Why do we do so? I don’t have an answer, but an inkling of one. And that can be found in Colossians 1:17 which says, “He is before all things, and in him all things hold together.“
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