TIME AND TIDE WAIT FOR NO MAN


Hearing my male friends groaning and moaning over their upcoming enlistment,
I can't help but to feel old.

It just bring so (disgustingly) forcefully to mind that a decade has passed,
and that I'll officially be 20 come September.

20!!!

Oh my goodness!!!
I've hit the big 2.
No more 1. That's sad.
)=


Anyway, back to what I was saying earlier, I can't for the life of me imagine what the guys have to complain about.

Being an NSmen, in my humble opinion, is definitely the most terrific occupation in the entire universe (second to footballers, that is.)

I mean, where else can you....
Get paid to exercise...
Free food...
Free lodging...
Free training...
Free fitness instructors... *drool*
Free medical officers...

What more can one ask for?


All in all, the expenses of your daily living are taken care of, and you get proper training tips from qualified and professional training instructors.

Apart from getting all beefed up, muscular, and macho, discipline and perseverence are instilled as well.

To top it off, there's no need to pay for medical visits, since Medical Officers are there 24/7. (poor civilians like us have to dig into our pockets to get approval for MCs, you know? Boo hoo hoo...)

Being botak?
What's there to grumble about?
The advantages offset all the down factors, anyway.

Let's count our fingers...
1) no bad hair days
2) save water
3) save shampoo
4) save hair conditioner
5) save hair gel/styling cream/hair clay (blah blah blah...)
6) no. 2) + no. 3) + no. 4) + no. 5) = save $$$
7) no worries in rainy days (hair no wet, you know?)
8) feels cooling (which is a seriously great advantage, considering the sweltering Singapore weather)
9) no use for combs (save money again)
10) no head lices
11) better camouflage for dandruff (scalp too bright and oily, and thus cannot execute dandruff-spotting as effectively)
12) some women might (note the emphasis, please) have a fetish for botaks

Hah!

KENA SUAN, AS ALWAYS...


Propping myself up by my elbows, I was dutifully minding my own business and devouring "A Love Worth Giving" by Max Lucado.

The guy entered my room and bending down with his eyes at a level parallel to that of the cover of the book, he asked innocently, "Wah!! Preparing for your marriage tomorrow ah?"

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Thank goodness I've already finished the book I loaned from Pei Hua, titled "He Chose the Nails", similarly authored by Max Lucado.

I can just imagine what he'll say if he catches me reading that.

"Wah... Poor thing. Your husband certainly knows what pits he's unwittingly gotten himself into, huh? I pity that poor guy."

ADDICTED


I've got to admit, I seriously suspect I'm getting hooked onto blogging.

My entries are the most for the month of May.
I've never blogged so consistently before.

Guess I'm really bored.

Hah!

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Anyway, I was filtering through my email inbox, and when I got to the last pages, I suddenly remember that there are quite a number of meaningful emails that I could not bring myself to delete, and have been storing them in my inbox for years.

Some of them date back to year 2002.
No kidding.

I think I'll make a fine, bona fide garang guni aunty.

*beams*


And here is one of the emails which I like best:

A university professor challenged his students with this question.
Did God create everything that exists?

A student bravely replied, "Yes, he did!"
"God created everything?" The professor asked.
"Yes, Sir", the student replied.

The professor answered, "If God created everything, then God created evil since evil exists, and according to the principle that our works define who we are then God is evil".

The student became quiet before such an answer.
The professor was quite pleased with himself and boasted to the students that he had proven once more that the Christian faith was a myth.

Another student raised his hand and said, "Can I ask you a question, Professor?"
"Of course", replied the professor.

The student stood up and asked, "Professor, does cold exist?"
"What kind of question is this? Of course it exists. Have you never been cold?"

The students snickered at the young man's question.

The young man replied, "In fact, Sir, cold does not exist. According to the laws of physics, what we consider cold is in reality the absence of heat. Every body or object is susceptible to study when it has or transmits energy, and heat is what makes a body or matter have or transmit energy. Absolute zero (-460 degrees F) is the total absence of heat; all matter becomes inert and incapable of reaction at that temperature. Cold does not exist. We have created this word to describe how we feel if we have no heat."

The student continued, "Professor, does darkness exist?"
The professor responded, "Of course it does."

The student replied, "Once again you are wrong, Sir. Darkness does not exist either. Darkness is in reality the absence of light. Light we can study, but not darkness. In fact we can use Newton's prism to break white light into many colors and study the various wavelengths of each color. You cannot measure darkness. A simple ray of light can break into a world of darkness and illuminate it. How can you know how dark a certain space is? You measure the amount of light present. Isn't this correct? Darkness is a term used by man to describe what happens when there is no light present."

Finally the young man asked the professor, "Sir, does evil exist?"
Now uncertain, the professor responded, "Of course as I have already said. We see it every day. It is in the daily example of man's inhumanity to man. It is in the multitude of crime and violence everywhere in the world. These manifestations are nothing else but evil."

To this the student replied, "Evil does not exist, Sir, or at least it does not exist unto itself. Evil is simply the absence of God. It is just like darkness and cold, a word that man has created to describe the absence of God. God did not create evil. Evil is not like faith, or love that exist just as does light and heat. Evil is the result of what happens when man does not have God's love present in his heart. It's like the cold that comes when there is no heat or the darkness that comes when there is no light."

The professor sat down.

The young man's name: Albert Einstein.