Well, my appeal for saturdays off from fyspj was not approved by the course directed. "It's not the norm for us to grant saturdays off." Was his words... or something like that.

But interestingly enough, this has had a very odd effect. If I infact did get sat off, I'd probably still be alternating sabbaths at church and canoeing, or still playing around in church like usual. But it so happens that this was the perfect situation to spark my rebellious bahaviour again. So now I'm sitting down here at the computer for bible study, not touching any work, and analyzing this "purpose driven book" from sabbath school. Driving Yao feng mad when he asks me to do something and I tell him "Ok, on monday." I won't budge, and he still asks every week. Sorry Yao Feng. He even tried to engage me in little mind games to get me to do work on sabbath, but unfortunately for him I am the king of all mind games, in and out of the world of collision boxes. And let the lecturers come and see me if they don't like me resting on sabbath, I put back the extra hours on weekdays anyway. Sha-neroh!

Looks like that Bugger found the perfect situation to have me willingly bible study.

Hmph.

Whatever, I need to bring a bible here next saturday. This purpose driven book is good and inspiring, but I disagree with the author at too many points.

About contentment in life:

"In order to keep us from becoming too attached to earth, God allows us to feel a significant amount of discontent and dissatisfaction in life - longings that will never be fulfilled on this side of eternity. We're not completely happy here because were created for something much better.

A fish would never be happy living on land, because it was made for water. An eagle could never feel satisfied if it wasn't allowed to fly. You will never feel completely satisfied on earth, because you were made for more. You will have happy moments here, but nothing compared with what God has planned for you."

But a fish would die on land, just like we would die in water. An eagle may miss flying, but if he never flew in the first place, what would be there to miss? Just like we were never physically in heaven in our life, I don't see why we would be discontent with our lives.

He's trying to tell people that loving God is all about being a loser, missing a home we've never been to, suffering for Him, dying like a martyr.

That may be true at times, but I think to really glorify him, you would succeed, and people would see God's power and glory through you. He quotes a runner in his book by saying "God made me good at running, and every time I run, I praise God."

How can we be losers if we are his chosen children, his beloved creations, whom he has set good guidelines and morals to live by in life. We're following the guildelines set for healthy living, succesful friendships and bonds.

People praise God when they're succesful, then when they're down they say "oh, being a christian is about trials and tribulations."

I'd rather not look dwell at the problems at hand but think of how we can glorify him next.

Still not feeling well since tuesday's fever. I'm going to skip afternoon db training. Don't wanna be the weak rower who's trying to keep up due to him not feeling well.



Still indecisive about the Desaru trip, too. Esther was bugging me to go on icq. Don't know why she wants me to go so much. Probably a class reunion thingy to her. Why do females like class reunions so much? And its such a pain to get that passport renewed.