Study Day

It's Anzac day in australia today. i have no idea what it is actually..all tt concerns me was tt there's no uni today!!! haha! spent almost the whole day studying today. clocked in almost 7 hours of study today...impressive...

did some econs and econometric revision (duhz...these r the only majors tt i m doing...)...study today was very productive. feel better now as i treated this revision as revision for my coming exams!!! yes..exams in abt 6 weeks time...time to hit the books! not really memorising much now..just trying to refresh my memory on the content. yeaz..

just came back frm bday dinner at Springvale. celebrated kevin's and samantha's bdays together. both 20 years old now..haha! no more a teenager!!! same as me...sighz...

ok, realised tt i m not really making much sense in this entry..most probably becoz i m really really tired now...eyes abt to tutup...haha!

oh ya, exam timetable is out....my papers are spanned over 3 weeks...and again, my greatest concern is my momentum...i remembered last semester that the long exam period drained my energy halfway through the exam period. gotta be careful in planning my revision timetable this time...

tt;s it folks...take care!

The Case for Faith

Just began reading a new book called "The Case for Faith". Am only in the middle of the 1st chapter but I am already impressed with the writing. This book is an apologetic book that focuses on the 8 heart barriers to faith.

The 1st chapter that i m reading is the question of whether a Loving God exists since suffering and evil is rampant. The atheists argue that if God is loving and compassionate, He will not allow there to be suffering and evil in the world.

In response, the author gave this analogy and i quote directly:
"Imagine a bear in a trap and a hunter, who out of sympathy, wants to liberate him. He tries to win the bear's confidence, but he cant do it, so he has to shoot the bear full of drugs. The bear, however, thinks that this is an attack and that the hunter is trying to kill him. He doesn't realise that this is being done out of compassion."
"Then in order to get the bear out of the trap, the hunter has to push him further into the trap to release the tension on the spring. If the bear were semiconscious at that point, he would be even more convined that the hunter was his enemy who was out to cause him suffering and pain. But the bear would be wrong. He reaches this incorrect conclusion because he's not a human being."
"Now, how can anyone be certain that's not an analogy between us and God? I believe God does the same to us sometimes, and we cant comprehend why he does it any more than the bear can understand the motivations of the hunter. As the bear could have trusted the hunter, so we can trust God."

After reading this paragraph, I had a sudden thought. God's ways are higher than our ways, man's ways. When we impose our views on how God should be, we are actually assuming that God is a human and that He should act in a human way, but we are wrong. He is God and he acts in ways above ours, above our own comprehension. If God had acted in the way that we want Him to, we are all Gods! Similarly, if we knew why God acted in the way He does, we are Gods too....

In this world, faith can only exist when faith is difficult....

Overwhelmed

Would you believe me if i said that i typed more than 50 pages of assignment in about 1 week? Unbelievable? Believe it! haha!
i have completed 2 of my assignments in about 1 week (well, just the typing.. all the computing took me another week). Is absolute madness manz....but i am glad that i have finished them all. i just hope there's no hiccups
Guess what...these 2 assignments are due only in 2 weeks time..muahahahahah! Now i can focus on my 3rd assignment, which is the toughest assignment that I would be doing in my whole 3 years in monash...VBA!!!!!! a computing programming assignment!
i really need lots of patience and peace...i realised tt i m feeling very upset easily coz of this assignment..easily frustrated too...sighz...
really hope i can pull this through....

Priceless

A well-known speaker started off his seminar by holding up a $20 bill. In the room of 200, he asked, who would like this $20 bill? HAnds started going up. He said, I am going to give this to one of you, but first, let me do this. He proceeded to crumple the bill up. He then asked, who still wants it? Still the hands were up in the air. Well, he replied what if i do this?

He dropped it on the ground and started to grind it into the floor with his shoe. He picked it up, now crumpled and dirty. Now, who still wants it? Still hands went into the air.

My friends, you all have learned a very valuable lesson. No matter what I did to the money, you still wanted it, because, it did not decrease in value. It was still worth 20 dollars.

Many times in our lives, we are dropped, crumpled and ground into the dirt by the decisions we make and the circumstances that comes our way. We feel that we are worthless. But, no matter what has hapened or what will happen, you will never lose your value, dirty or clean, crumpled or finely creased, you are still priceless to those who love you. The worth of our lives comes not in what we do, or who we know, but by who we are.

from www.christianlifestories.com