{An Eventful Day}


I got excused from lessons at 9AM yesterday, and left for drama till 1. I hitched a ride on Ms Chua's car (and talked about some silly stuff like how Nusrat reacts in the face of fear) and met the rest of the dear exco members, sans Cindy and Mardi, at Pizza Hut! I ate 5 slices of pizza (don't know why, I didn't want to see the food go to waste!), soup, garlic bread and dessert. Then we went to the funeral of one of our school advisor's father, and we could tell that his family appreciated our presence even though we stayed for only a while.

The most interesting thing that we've done yesterday was going hotel viewing at Orchard Road! Ms Chua was very nice to send us there. We walked in single file, making heads turn in the process, down the street to Orchard Parade Hotel and Grand Hyatt. I love the ballrooms that they presented to us; OP has a very cosy ballroom while Hyatt's ballroom is uber glam. I also enjoyed talking business with Mandy, the F&B IC of the Grand Hyatt. She's very approachable, and gives us a sense of security, that we're dealing with people who are concerned about more than how fat their wallets will grow. That's something that today's businesses lack, the part about actually caring about the customer. Thank God we found a hotel that cares!

Today, LiFeng, WeiTing and myself changed in school and went to a nearby hawker centre to eat before leaving for Orchard Road yet again, only to realise that none of the hotels could make it. Argh. D=

Backtracking till last weekend.. the G12 conference was great! I learnt a lot of things, and experienced God's Spirit fall afresh on me again. And I feel so excited to watch Him move in my life stronger than before, and break down walls that have been built inside. And on a side note, Delirious? was great! They add an interesting element of rock to Contemporary Christian Music. They are truly unafraid to express whatever is lying at the bottom of their artistic souls. I believe that being Christian is not a reason for all our emotions to remain squeezed within a steel box. If you so desire to express your emotions through rather depressive-sounding music, then go ahead with it!

Oh, come on. Your auditorium is so not worth the S$400. Even a top-rate hotel doesn't charge us that much.

Congrats, Fuhua Debate, for getting into quarters! =)

Benson blogged at 3/17/2009 06:58:00 PM.
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{It's like getting to know You again.}


I overslept by 50 minutes this morning, but thank God I made it to church today!

Today's service was immensely powerful. Getting to fellowship with the Holy Spirit is so powerful and amazing. It's like playing the violin after a very long time; after a few weeks of devoting my time to common tests, I finally picked up my trusty violin, and I relished the feeling of feeling the notes resound under my chin. It's like drinking water after thirsting for days. Similarly, feeling the Holy Spirit stir within me today felt like my thirsting for something that this world will never satisfy has finally been satisfied by Him.



This is our extremely long table, formed as a result of common test seating arrangements. We're like a panel of judges adjudicating every single teacher as he comes in to teach. Haha. *evil*

Benson blogged at 3/08/2009 08:52:00 PM.
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{Foodography. Oh, no.}


I was reading Mere Christianity last night when I came across an extremely hilarious chapter. I thought my dear readers could use a good laugh.


5. Sexual Morality

Chastity is the most unpopular of the Christian virtues. There is no
getting away from it: the old Christian rule is, "Either marriage, with
complete faithfulness to your partner, or else total abstinence." Now this
is so difficult and so contrary to our instincts, that obviously either
Christianity is wrong or our sexual instinct, as it now is, has gone wrong.
One or the other. Of course, being a Christian, I think it is the instinct
which has gone wrong.
But I have other reasons for thinking so. The biological purpose of sex
is children, just as the biological purpose of eating is to repair the body.
Now if we eat whenever we feel inclined and just as much as we want, it is
quite true that most of us will eat too much: but not terrifically too much.
One man may eat enough for two, but he does not eat enough for ten. The
appetite goes a little beyond its biological purpose, but not enormously.
But if a healthy young man indulged his sexual appetite whenever he felt
inclined, and if each act produced a baby, then in ten years he might easily
populate a small village. This appetite is in ludicrous and preposterous
excess of its function.
Or take it another way. You can get a large audience together for a
strip-tease act-that is, to watch a girl undress on the stage. Now suppose
you came to a country where you could fill a theatre by simply bringing a
covered plate on to the stage and then slowly lifting the cover so as to let
every one see, just before the lights went out, that it contained a mutton
chop or a bit of bacon, would you not think that in that country something
had gone wrong with the appetite for food? And would not anyone who had
grown up in a different world think there was something equally queer about
the state of the sex instinct among us?
One critic said that if he found a country in which such striptease
acts with food were popular, he would conclude that the people of that
country were starving. He meant, of course, to imply that such things as the
strip-tease act resulted not from sexual corruption but from sexual
starvation. I agree with him that if, in some strange land, we found that
similar acts with mutton chops were popular, one of the possible
explanations which would occur to me would be famine. But the next step
would be to test our hypothesis by finding out whether, in fact, much or
little food was being consumed in that country. If the evidence showed that
a good deal was being eaten, then of course we should have to abandon the
hypothesis of starvation and try to think of another one. In the same way,
before accepting sexual starvation as the cause of the strip-tease, we
should have to look for evidence that there is in fact more sexual
abstinence in our age than in those ages when things like the strip-tease
were unknown. But surely there is no such evidence. Contraceptives have made
sexual indulgence far less costly within marriage and far safer outside it
than ever before, and public opinion is less hostile to illicit unions and
even to perversion than it has been since Pagan times. Nor is the hypothesis
of "starvation" the only one we can imagine. Everyone knows that the sexual
appetite, like our other appetites, grows by indulgence. Starving men may
think much about food, but so do gluttons; the gorged, as well as the
famished, like titillations.



I actually laughed out loud for about a minute after reading this. I was still laughing at it during lunch with Benjamin Low, Joel and Bran, and I continued laughing even at Brendan's house. I think the food porn part actually might apply to me. Oh, the terror.

Benson blogged at 3/01/2009 11:00:00 PM.
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In Your freedom I will live;
All I am is Yours!