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Youngest kid of six with an inferiority and black sheep complex, but determined that God saves not just his soul to heaven but the remainder of his manic-depressive life, so others won't say he became a Christian and remained a jerk.


MAIN THEMES

On identity
i won't be transparent before i'm opaque. and you'll get to know me starting from the small things: who my favourite bands are. what kind of movies i like. who are my heroes.

On Christianity
I’m convinced that when confronted with sincere, real love, the Jesus factor will become obvious. But let’s not plant the cross before we carry it. I’m not trying to con you.

On dreams
Some dreams are meant to be achieved. I know that. But maybe other dreams are meant to drive us, privately. Never known to anyone but ourselves.


OTHER THEMES

On melancholy
It is a sadness that, when choosing between crying and sighing, will choose sighing. I'd almost say that melancholy is being sad about sadness itself.

On memory and nostalgia
It saddens me when life moves forward and people decide that certain things are worth forgetting.

On language
I've learnt that the word irregardless is filed as a non-standard word in the English language. That's a lexicographer's way of saying it's not a real word.

On politics
Crowds are fickle things. So when we stand in the thousands and cry against the present government, do we know who we're actually crying for?

On society
People always want the best for themselves. But I want to sometimes take second or third or fourth best, just so that the loser down the road doesn't always have to come in last. It must feel like shit to always come in last.

On growing old
Leasehold property make me feel sad. It doesn't matter how old the family photos are that you put on your wall. It's your family but it's not really your wall.

On philosophy
I ask you, if God loves everyone, and if God is also incapable of loving evil, how can there be such a thing as an evil man?

On a daily basis
One line quips, like this.


CHAT





Tuesday, September 14, 2004
A DAY IN THE LIFE OF FERGUS ONG

Now i remember why i sometimes don't like full days!

10.30am - call pastor to confirm tonight's shoot
11.00am - meet jon to do streamyx together
11.30am - get my streamyx application sorted
12.45pm - split to go for job interview
01.00pm - mi ghent chases me about tonight's shoot
02.00pm - arrive by car in jalan raja laut area, and get lost as soon as i get there
02.20pm - park
02.44pm - still walking around looking for building
02.45pm - find it. job interview goes fine.
03.00pm - answer "God" when asked by interviewees "what motivates you?"
04.30pm - in my car. downpour.
04.45pm - i have to tell cell-leader angee that i can't do worship bcos of tonight's shoot
05.00pm - mi me chases me about tonight's shoot
05.44pm - almost home! almost hooomee!!!!!
05.45pm - i crash into the back of some dude in a domino of emergency brakes when some jo decides to make a sudden u-turn
06.00pm - i tell all the swarming toll truckers "i'm waiting for my lawyer". my lawyer is lennie lah!
06.02pm - call sha about tonight's shoot. he cancels it.
07.00pm - sit around dining room with my lawyer, hashing out a police report plan
08.00pm - i go to pj police station to file report
08.30pm - i read Hebrews 2 while waiting. feel comforted
09.00pm - sarjen nor fiza tells me any court in malaysia will find me wrong for "langgar belakang". i accept saman
11.00pm - tell my parents on phone. got the "i told you so" regarding driving on the right lane of jalan gasing
12.30am - ace amylin's bible college spot test. i got 2 questions out of 3 right.

so you see, a day that begins with a call to pastor, ends with answering some bible college quiz questions, filled with being torn between playing guitar for my cell leader's worship and directing a video shoot for my ministry, doesn't necessarily have to include me arriving at church at all. and blogs that strive to be ideas-oriented can respond immediately with a list of a day's events.

irony, it seems, is not without a sense of very wicked humour.

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