The Significance of Today

Doesn't really capture my attention, if at all. Went out for a movie with some guys and gals, and watched Keeping Mum. Good British dark humour, but that's beside the point. What did I do for Valentine's Day?

Nothing in relation to the loveness that blooms around the whole world concerning this little holiday. I'm single, and most likely will remain that way, not because no one's interested in me.

It's just that I don't care. I stopped caring for a lot of things up to now. Don't know why, but its a bit of a burden to know that you've lost some things because of your own nonchalance.

Still, its not like I don't care nonetheless. Next year's Valentine, I'd like my girlfriend-to-be to serve me chocolates and wear something revealing. Chainmail bikini? Now that would be a sight to see.


Currently listening to: 311 - Beautiful Disaster

Lost In Space

Seems so, doesn't it? Welcome the new design, which I've spent a couple of hours combined, over a span of perhaps three days, and some months of contemplation. Its not as flashy as some blogs might seem to be, and it retains that simplicity so that those of you with slower connections won't feel so left out. Not that I was really considering you guys, since my pictures will most likely take up a lot of your bandwidth, and I'm not about to start a picture weblog for the sake of pleasing a few individuals.

Some observations you may make may include singling out one day's post worth, which may cause some oddities that won't otherwise be there when you're viewing a full page. On a better point-of-view, those of you who don't use Firefox can now read this without having to read one word per line.

Perhaps I should just rename this place as to the title of today, since it has that kind of feeling. Does it not? I was considering placing a picture of the Milky Way in the middle of the page, just to make it seem extra awesome or something like that, but I'm not too great in the area of making galaxies via Photoshop or Maya or whatever, nor am I about to leech stuff from the glorious Hubblesite. Now that's a place with incredible wallpaper.

I also removed the chatbox because I considered it of slight unnecessity. That's what you have these comments at the bottom of every post for. So that you can make comments.

The page is also, I would suspect, of quicker loadness, since I got rid of a goodly bit of overhead. It pays to work from scratch, if you ask me.

I am stressed by matters with my uni, and have been hit by a bout of food poisoning.


Currently listening to: Kutless. Because it makes me know that despite all the disappointments and hardships in life, there is always hope from On High.

Peace.

I've been in Malaysia for some months, three really, while I'm waiting for the date to arrive that I'll get back to Oz and continue me studies. And have some fun, and stuff.

But if there's one thing that's gotten me a little bit worked up in the duration of my stay, its coming back to the local Christian scene that's happening around. It's a little bit more than depressing to see once-strong people to be playing Daes Daemar (cue: Robert Jordan) in church! A church divided against itself by having its members look for positions and prestige among their own fellow brethern, and neglecting the one true mission that every follower of Christ needs to attend to.

To spread the Good News. And what are they doing? Putting down opportunities and belittling those who try to make an effort. Imagine, that this was not happening, at least not really when I was still around little more than a year before. It is as though people have lost the real thought, lost their God to replace Him with the priorities of the world. The outside plays a greater importance, it seems, the logic behind it all being that if a church was all shiny white, with a big cross and its members cloaked in respectable claddings, it would attract droves of people to give praise to the Supreme Creator.

But how often is it so? Only if the church is really growing, instead of losing its sheep one by one because some sheep are consorting, to steal the already existing feed from the others? All this while, the wolf sits away and watches, laughing while he waits for the opportune moment to attack the fattened sheep.

Alright, enough with analogies and vague generalities here. What's the deal with the local Christian scene? Why aren't people getting saved, and why is it that some churches compete with each other by stealing members? Why do the richer churches squander their money away without much of a whim, but come to stinge when the poor leaders for Christ ask for help? And you thought Chinese loan sharks were heartless.

And did not God make all man equal? Why is it that some races look at each other with disdain in their eyes? That Chinese will sit on the left and the Indians sit on the right, and both will say that is what is right and should not be disturbed, lest disagreements bellow?


More on this later. I'm a bit sleepy.