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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.


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Tuesday, December 08, 2009



Life moves fast. and it's easy to forget that as it flutters by, new memories are being made. athalia and i have started a blog together called These glorious days. i like to think that it arrests the everyday mundane moments so that we can grow old safe in the knowledge that we're leaving behind a trail with which we can use to reminisce.

you can journey with us by clicking here.

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Sunday, August 16, 2009


Where am I?

has a lot changed? was it long?

not very long. but it's felt long. i feel groggy.

have i got stories? i think they're stories. some of them i can tell. yeah. some of them i definitely can tell. 

wait, let me get up.

i think i'm gonna stay up for a while. 

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Friday, August 14, 2009



Poke.

Poke.

I think he moved.

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Friday, February 20, 2009



Today is word processor day. i've done nothing today but compare online reviews about word processors for macs. how did it start?

thay's got a mac friend called leroy (yes, mac people have cool names like leroy) and leroy asked her today if she'd like to be one of five people sharing iWork and iLife. when i caught wind of this, i knew immediately that i needed to dig to the bottom of the iWork well and see how Pages (the iWork version of MS Word) stacks up against the other word processors in its weight division. so here are the challengers.

ms office for mac
the most poweful, the most expensive but also the most familiar of all word processors. what constitutes power in a word processing world of course is beyond me. maybe it can lift trucks while accepting track changes. point is that office is the tried and true and if you're not up sticking one of the pasar malam versions into your virginally white macbook, then it's either look elsewhere or pour a gazillion dollars down bill gates' throat to go with the other gazillion dollars that you've previously poured in.

openoffice
so if gazillion dollars of dollars matters to you, then welcome the open source rivals. openoffice, originally dredged up by sun microsystem geeks is about as plain and straightforward as they come. it's used across platforms, which made it hard for me to find good screencaps of it running on osx. which sucks. on to the next one.

neooffice
neooffice is built on openoffice but fitted to work best on osx, which makes it a very dandy option indeed. it looks quite alright and supposedly integrates well with other mac programs. i tried this once myself, and actually have the dmg file on salvador. unlike the ms office or iWorks, it's one program from which you launch your word processors and spreadsheets, etc. compact. best thing is, like openoffice, this one is open source, which means it's free. if you can access my blog and read this, you can download it completely.

iWork
showoff. ok fine. i have no idea why i ended up rooting for all the underdog open sourced word processors because a true machead will fall in love with iWork and for good reason. it's prettier than scarlett johanson, it's got templates that make me want to use templates and best of all, you can drag in songs from itunes, pics from iphoto and videos from imovie to add to your iWork document. you can do this even on Numbers, which is their version of Excel. showoff. i know.

so that's how it's stacked up. one whole day researching on word processors when the one word processor that i'm supposed to be using (epic editor) has been left on idle since morning. my verdict? if you can find the money, go iWork. if not, open source. actually no. if you don't have the money, how da heck have you afforded a mac in the first place?

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Friday, January 23, 2009



Yes. increasingly, boundless line is starting to feel like a lot of wasted reading time. i keep going back hoping for more of what hooked me to it in the first place. but every day now, it looks more and more like a lobby group. or an american version of rtm.

take candice watters for instance, who two days ago went on about how she lives in the greatest country in the world, because "for all the bombs lobbed against us -- figuratively and literally -- we will witness again the transfer of power from one ruling ideology to another, all without a single shot being fired".

obviously you can't take stupidity like that lying down, and not just because America hasn't been properly bombed in a long time. so i wrote a comment to her reminding her that this great nation is the same great nation that sells about 30 billion dollars worth of firearms to the third world every year so they can kill each other while she has her peaceful inauguration. i also told her i hope she enjoyed her peaceful inauguration.

true to form, they didn't publish it. not that i expected them to. they never publish my comments and maybe for good reason. they're not speaking to young christians and "bringing focus to the single years" anymore.

boundless line, which started off as a place where honest young christians wrote largely about relationships, christian character and what it means to serve and love has degenerated into a somewhat ugly mouthpiece for pro-life obsessiveness (don't mess ok, foetus fatigue is not an option) and idolatrous americanism. i really don't know how writers like candice watters can get a writing gig with them. i guess like most things, it's a case of standard jatuh.

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Tuesday, December 16, 2008
DEATH OF SAFARI

I think somebody sitting in a stinky tech support cubicle a quarter of the world away woke up one morning, took a stab in his post-slumber stupor at a list of web browsers and decided that he would block all safaris from running.

to the guy behind this decision, i hate you. for robbing me of my favourite web browser, i sincerely hate you.

i've now reinstalled firefox because i refuse to use the monstrosity that is internet explorer. i've got no complaints with firefox. in fact, it might even be a superior browser. but i love safari. i love it's stability, its little blue folders, its intuitive menus and brushed steel interface. and today, i am mourning what seems to be a its indefinite demise from my 9 to 5 existence.

in the meanwhile, allow me to direct my grief at the person who disabled safari from running on our system by reminding him that when he goes to bed tonight, somebody in the world thinks that he contributes negatively to existence.

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Wednesday, August 06, 2008
MOMMY BLOGS

Athalia's been surfing a lot of mommy blogs. wait, correction. athalia's been surfing mommy blogs a lot. just a few, but she ploughs through them, right into the archives and devours everything. first it was heather's blog, dooce. heather's this ex-mormon mom with a little girl called leta and her husband jon.

because she (she here being athalia) reads it like the daily bread, i try to keep up as well. otherwise, she'll drop a line somewhere in the evening like "you know when heather something something last week?" and i'm "err... ya. but you know, i don't retain these things very well". so anyway, that's heather in the picture, on the right, on the today show. yes, i even knew she was gonna wear that dress before she did the show. i've been reading i tell ya.

but now it's not just heather anymore. it's also a british mom called antonia. with her little girl esme. and her lover ian (the first draft of this post had "boyfriend" but i've since been corrected. ian is antonia's lover). antonia's blog is called whoopee and i've just added her rss feed to my daily drip-feed. in a matter of days, i'll be acquainted with the daily lives of two young mothers, retained in homage to every ounce of liverpool junk that athalia has taken on board to read with a smile. difference is, these moms aren't hot. not even in the fernando torres kinda way.

nonetheless, antonia is frighteningly like athalia. they must have hired the same general to strategise all their domestic fights. which makes reading antonia's blog doubly important for me, as i've just pointed out to her: (1) because she likes it, (2) because she's like it.

mommy blogs are a whole blogging genre of their own. and reading them is gonna become a norm for me now. i just know it. and one day, athalia's gonna become one herself. heck, she's gonna become the mommy blogger of mommy bloggers. just she wait.

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Thursday, April 17, 2008
I SWEAR NOBODY IS PAYING ME TO DO THIS: ON BLOGLINES

Clock in. say hello. start up. get a hot drink. plonk down. start work? no. read news. yes. and then read blogs. :)

if you read lots of blogs, you may or may not know that having an rss feed reader will make your life a lot better. if you've never used one before, it works like this: subscribe to a feed reader. dump your blog urls one by one into the reader. and load it up daily. your reader will tell you when there are new posts in your subscribed blogs. the idea, as you can see, is that you can keep track of blogs without having to hit them daily.

i've been using google reader ever since i came into contact with this beautiful internet tool. and to be fair, google reader has served me well. it's got a clean google-looking interface and everything is jolly in an user-friendly kinda way.

but a few things drove me to find a new reader. in the great tradition of vanity that i can be capable of, it irked me that google reader could not - for some reason - subscribe to my own blog. what's worse, whenever i try to subscribe to GCB, it subscribes one of my friends' blogs. totally unrelated, totally illogical, but for some strange reason explainable only by 9-year-old tech geeks who see things nobody else can, it happens.

and so i've found myself this nice other home: bloglines. scrolling around is easier, the interface is cleaner, there are some really awesome keyboard shortcuts, and there's this delightful function that allows you to pull out an individual blog post and file it away in a folder full of your favourite clippings. just like attacking a newspaper with a pair of scissors.

i've fixed up all my subscriptions and put them into relevant folders (right now, it's just "friends" and "politics". i wonder if they'll ever merge). there are lots of other features to discover but i'll take my time on this one. my back's not fully turned on google reader yet. but i'm really quite in love with bloglines. and yes, i think you should use it too.

to get your own bloglines rss reader, go to www.bloglines.com

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