Wednesday, December 05, 2007

I wanna testify!

I've been busy relaxing lately...Hahaha. I received my results for my last sem about a week ago. I can't believe my eyes when I saw that I got credit for Information Systems Management. Either the marker was blind or there was some BIG time moderation going on. I think it must have been God. Let me tell you why. Just to illustrate how tough the paper was, let me explain what I felt when I was doing the paper. I remember rushing like mad for time answering the questions and at the same time thinking hmm... I think even if I repeated this module I'd still fail this paper. That was how out of this world tough it was too me. I needed to get at least 52 marks to pass the module. As I recalled, I counted the marks I thought I could secure at the end of the paper and it only amounted to around 20-30 marks (yeah i know it sounds ridiculous). After the paper came the fear. I spent most of the time struggling thinking whether I should pray and ask God to intervene. Somehow subconsciously I felt that God could not help me since it seemed that I didn't study well enough. I was like thinking if I get 40 marks I can pray and ask God to help me la, but when I thought how many marks I could secure I didn't quite dare to ask. Perhaps I thought I didn't study hard enough. Then again I felt that I did. But since I did, how can the paper possibly be that hard? Anyway, I was desperate and needed God to help me. I know life will be complicated if I had to repeat as mentioned in my earlier post. So I prayed. Some thoughts came across my mind during this period...Is it possible to shipwreck your faith by having too high hopes? I realized I didn't dare to ask because I was afraid that God might not show up. I've heard many times that hope is a dangerous thing. It can make you or break you. Hope can give us a purpose and a passion. Yet when you commit so much of yourself into hoping, and things don't turn out the way you hoped it can really shatter and break you. But desperation drove me to pray and I hoped. I'm glad I did because if I didn't I would not have learnt the lesson that God is good all the time and God can exceed my wildest expectations.

Anyhoo, I went to JB today with shuz, mei and esmond. We went to city square to shop then headed to eat seafood somewhere nearby. Shuz bought a pair of sandals and esmond bought a soccer ball for our HPL team from city square. We went to eat at Tsih Lin Taiwanese snacks at the basement. The XXL chicken cutlet is really XXL. Not like the ones in Singapore. They are so puny compared to those in JB. Very nice. We left city square and headed to the seafood place. Driving there, we passed by a building where there were many people gathering and looking up. Curious, we also turned to look. Apparently there was a woman who was attempting suicide from the building. I looked for a while but turned away soon after because I didn't want to see the woman jump off. She was actually on the ledge. The firemen were preparing to go up. Wonder what happened after that. We uttered a prayer and continued driving. The gals kept looking but I told them not to. I think seeing someone falling off a building can be a very traumatic sight. I hope God intervened.

I'm coming to the end of Grey's Anatomy Season 2. Anyone can lend me Season 3?

Monday, December 03, 2007

Seacow

Ever wondered what seacows were? The Hides of Seacows were mentioned here and there in Numbers. I just went online to check what seacows were. Check it out...

http://www.edgeofexistence.org/species/species_info.asp?id=53



Pity the ones hunting them...