Upon embarking on a conversation with a friend at church last night, I have encountered a condition of mine which I must say is pretty rare. Many things about me are rare but see if you have met anyone with Hydrosockaphobia.
Hydrosockaphobia is a condition where the person suffering from it has a phobia of wet socks.
In my case, the reason behind this is because I keep thinking that by walking around in wet socks, mushrooms will grow on my feet. Its bizzare I know, but its a condition that cannot be helped. Mushroomy feet. SPeaking of mushroomy feet.... I also think that if I breath around mushrooms that the spores will enter my lungs and sprout. Ew.... o.o;
Saturday, August 30, 2003
Sunday, August 24, 2003
Pseudo-ale
Apparently if you mix equal amounts of coke and orange juice, you get a somewhat funny coloured drink that tastes like Ginger Ale. Try it.
Friday, August 15, 2003
Ulcers
I curse ye ulcers, I curse ye
You're nothing but trouble, despair art me
I cannot even polish my mandabilic prongs
Without feeling thy sting on my singer of songs.
Indeed thy curse I curse as well
It may well be that within thou'st dwell
A mournful regret to match my own
As you eat at my flesh, reach for my bone.
It may also well be that I brought this on myself
All the boxes of chocolates now missing on my shelf
All the late nights and days spent worrying for work
All the socials and dinners, i really went bezerk.
Now that I think of it, there is no one to blame
All of our faults are equally the same
It was really quite wrong of me to place the ulcer in scorn
I shouldve been like Job and said, " I wish I were never born!"
Hahahahahaha... man that Job guy is soOOoo funny/pathetic. :P
You're nothing but trouble, despair art me
I cannot even polish my mandabilic prongs
Without feeling thy sting on my singer of songs.
Indeed thy curse I curse as well
It may well be that within thou'st dwell
A mournful regret to match my own
As you eat at my flesh, reach for my bone.
It may also well be that I brought this on myself
All the boxes of chocolates now missing on my shelf
All the late nights and days spent worrying for work
All the socials and dinners, i really went bezerk.
Now that I think of it, there is no one to blame
All of our faults are equally the same
It was really quite wrong of me to place the ulcer in scorn
I shouldve been like Job and said, " I wish I were never born!"
Hahahahahaha... man that Job guy is soOOoo funny/pathetic. :P
Sunday, August 10, 2003
Choir
At an ordination service today, I heard the choir sing. It was marvellous. Just standing there and hearing them lift their voices to honour and glorify God was just absolutely breath-taking. And back in Malaysia, my church consists of a shop-lot. Nothing grandeur but its the contents that count right? :) Yea and at church today, standing amongst God's people in an old sandstone church with sunlight filtering through the stained-glass windows, listening to the choir.... again I was reminded of God's glory. Again I was reminded of His beauty, His holiness, His magnificence. And I thought as I have thought many times before...this is what Heaven is going to be like. Just us, His people focusing all our energy on God, resonating His glory. Being so utterly overwhelmed by His majesty that one could only hope that He created us with a heart that is big enough to bear the wonder of being in His presence.
In so many ways You've loved me
Just as I am not as I should be
And as Your child You take a hold of me
I see just why Ive fallen in love with You...
The purest love that I have ever known
Whats that You chose to give and die
And the blood that poured from Your open hands
All so I could fall in love with You...
Ive got to worship You my Lord
I cant contain the way I feel
Im desperate for You Lord
For its You, that I adore....
song from Fusion, Brisbane
In so many ways You've loved me
Just as I am not as I should be
And as Your child You take a hold of me
I see just why Ive fallen in love with You...
The purest love that I have ever known
Whats that You chose to give and die
And the blood that poured from Your open hands
All so I could fall in love with You...
Ive got to worship You my Lord
I cant contain the way I feel
Im desperate for You Lord
For its You, that I adore....
song from Fusion, Brisbane
Thursday, August 07, 2003
Unforgetful You
I never minded calling You a King
If that meant that I could count on You to give me everything
I never thought to ask You
I always thought You knew
It was never my intention to question You...
You never minded calling me a child
Well I guess thats how Ive acted all the while
But You live through every tantrum
You see through every lie
it seems to be so common
I just wanted to know why oh why...
Unforgetful You.....unforgetful.
Unforgetful You.....You're so unforgetful.
You never minded giving us the stars
And then showing us how blind and unaware of You we are
You painted me a picture
And You showed me how to see
But I just wont behold it
Unless it pertains to me...
Unforgetful You......unforgetful.
Unforgetful You......You're so unforgetful.
written and composed by Jars Of Clay, from the album If I left The Zoo.
If that meant that I could count on You to give me everything
I never thought to ask You
I always thought You knew
It was never my intention to question You...
You never minded calling me a child
Well I guess thats how Ive acted all the while
But You live through every tantrum
You see through every lie
it seems to be so common
I just wanted to know why oh why...
Unforgetful You.....unforgetful.
Unforgetful You.....You're so unforgetful.
You never minded giving us the stars
And then showing us how blind and unaware of You we are
You painted me a picture
And You showed me how to see
But I just wont behold it
Unless it pertains to me...
Unforgetful You......unforgetful.
Unforgetful You......You're so unforgetful.
written and composed by Jars Of Clay, from the album If I left The Zoo.
Tuesday, August 05, 2003
Emotional Homeostasis...
Do you think that life contains an emotional homeostasis? That is, when there is excess of one emotion, it is eventually countered by another of an opposite element such that a feeling of "bla-zeh" is achieved? Many people talk about life having their ups and downs and why do you think that is? There must be a universal emotional Receptor to recieve these impulses, send them to a Control Centre (possibly a celestial pentagon) and then to the Effector (possibly God Himself). That is why the sayings of "When you hit rock bottom, theres nowhere else to go but up" and " If you laugh too much now, you'll cry alot later" are inversely popular (maybe not so much the latter of Chinese origin).
Thinking of my life now, I am so happy I couldn't possibly be any happier. If I was any happier the Heavens would burst and ochestrate melodies of divine content. Obviously that hasn't happened yet so when it does, be sure to hug me otherwise I would be traumatised for life. If I say that it has happened but nobody else has experienced it, please drag me to a drug rehab centre, regardless of my vicious threats to decapitate you. But I can also look back and remember desolute days and bitter thoughts and moments of such anguish that even choirs of cherubims could not manifest warmth in the dungeon that was my soul. And thus I conclude, "for every up there is a down, for every smile there is a frown, and thats what makes the world go round!" (an excerpt of the song from Disney's 'Sword in the Stone'). Maybe for people with more internal pressure, the homeostasis never really hits neutrality. This is especially true for younger people.
Children have alot of passion. Passion creates energy. Energy builds internal pressure, and that is why children are never quite what we percieve as "normal". They always do things in extremes....when they play, when they talk/scream, when they eat....even their thinking is rather eccentric and is inevitably cherished by society these days. However their passion is blind passion. Its an instinctive passion. When they hit teenhood, their innocence is no longer a barrier and their passion becomes knowledgable passion. They become too darn smart for their own good and they know it. And it builds on their passion. This is why teens also act (or react) with equal amounts of extremity and yes, their thoughts too are quite odd, but obviously not as cherished by society due to the fact that the thoughts of your average teen is not so easily handled and manipulated as that of a 3 year old. Internal pressure... building, building. One day happy, one day depressed, one day loving, the other suicidal. Building, building.
Then you hit adulthood. And for some evolutionary reason, all the pressure is let loose. Internal pressure, going, going. Passion for life, receding, receding. Living for the moment......a thing of the past. Emotional homeostasis works it's magic on you and then life becomes a routine. You experience the bladahness of everyday life and even though you realise it, few struggle to escape it. The neutrality corrodes at your life, eating away all forms of passion and creativity and zest. Before you know it, you've hit midlife crisis and at the next blink of an eye, you're drinking tea on your rocking chairs complaining about the young wasting their youth. YOU WASTED YOUR YOUTH! You had a chance to build up passion, you had a chance to overcome the neutrality of the universal emotional homeostasis and YOU BLEW IT! Dont go blaming your regrets on us kids. Ive lost my point..... Simpsons is on now.
Catch ya later.
Thinking of my life now, I am so happy I couldn't possibly be any happier. If I was any happier the Heavens would burst and ochestrate melodies of divine content. Obviously that hasn't happened yet so when it does, be sure to hug me otherwise I would be traumatised for life. If I say that it has happened but nobody else has experienced it, please drag me to a drug rehab centre, regardless of my vicious threats to decapitate you. But I can also look back and remember desolute days and bitter thoughts and moments of such anguish that even choirs of cherubims could not manifest warmth in the dungeon that was my soul. And thus I conclude, "for every up there is a down, for every smile there is a frown, and thats what makes the world go round!" (an excerpt of the song from Disney's 'Sword in the Stone'). Maybe for people with more internal pressure, the homeostasis never really hits neutrality. This is especially true for younger people.
Children have alot of passion. Passion creates energy. Energy builds internal pressure, and that is why children are never quite what we percieve as "normal". They always do things in extremes....when they play, when they talk/scream, when they eat....even their thinking is rather eccentric and is inevitably cherished by society these days. However their passion is blind passion. Its an instinctive passion. When they hit teenhood, their innocence is no longer a barrier and their passion becomes knowledgable passion. They become too darn smart for their own good and they know it. And it builds on their passion. This is why teens also act (or react) with equal amounts of extremity and yes, their thoughts too are quite odd, but obviously not as cherished by society due to the fact that the thoughts of your average teen is not so easily handled and manipulated as that of a 3 year old. Internal pressure... building, building. One day happy, one day depressed, one day loving, the other suicidal. Building, building.
Then you hit adulthood. And for some evolutionary reason, all the pressure is let loose. Internal pressure, going, going. Passion for life, receding, receding. Living for the moment......a thing of the past. Emotional homeostasis works it's magic on you and then life becomes a routine. You experience the bladahness of everyday life and even though you realise it, few struggle to escape it. The neutrality corrodes at your life, eating away all forms of passion and creativity and zest. Before you know it, you've hit midlife crisis and at the next blink of an eye, you're drinking tea on your rocking chairs complaining about the young wasting their youth. YOU WASTED YOUR YOUTH! You had a chance to build up passion, you had a chance to overcome the neutrality of the universal emotional homeostasis and YOU BLEW IT! Dont go blaming your regrets on us kids. Ive lost my point..... Simpsons is on now.
Catch ya later.
Friday, August 01, 2003
August...
After Julius's grandnephew Augustus defeated Marc Antony and Cleopatra, and became emperor of Rome, the Roman Senate decided that he too should have a month named after him. The month Sextillus (sex = six) was chosen for Augustus, and the senate justified its actions in the following resolution:
Whereas the Emperor Augustus Caesar, in the month of Sextillis . . . thrice entered the city in triumph . . . and in the same month Egypt was brought under the authority of the Roman people, and in the same month an end was put to the civil wars; and whereas for these reasons the said month is, and has been, most fortunate to this empire, it is hereby decreed by the senate that the said month shall be called Augustus.
Not only did the Senate name a month after Augustus, but it decided that since Julius's month, July, had 31 days, Augustus's month should equal it: under the Julian calendar, the months alternated evenly between 30 and 31 days (with the exception of February), which made August 30 days long. So, instead of August having a mere 30 days, it was lengthened to 31, preventing anyone from claiming that Emperor Augustus was saddled with an inferior month.
To accommodate this change two other calendrical adjustments were necessary:
--> The extra day needed to inflate the importance of August was taken from February, which originally had 29 days (30 in a leap year), and was now reduced to 28 days (29 in a leap year).
--> Since the months evenly alternated between 30 and 31 days, adding the extra day to August meant that July, August, and September would all have 31 days. So to avoid three long months in a row, the lengths of the last four months were switched around, giving us 30 days in September, April, June, and November.
Among Roman rulers, only Julius and Augustus permanently had months named after them—though this wasn't for lack of trying on the part of later emperors. For a time, May was changed to Claudius and the infamous Nero instituted Neronius for April. But these changes were ephemeral, and only Julius and Augustus have had two-millenia-worth of staying power.
by Borgna Brunner, taken form the below website as of 1 August 2003
http://www.infoplease.com/spot/99aughistory1.html
Whereas the Emperor Augustus Caesar, in the month of Sextillis . . . thrice entered the city in triumph . . . and in the same month Egypt was brought under the authority of the Roman people, and in the same month an end was put to the civil wars; and whereas for these reasons the said month is, and has been, most fortunate to this empire, it is hereby decreed by the senate that the said month shall be called Augustus.
Not only did the Senate name a month after Augustus, but it decided that since Julius's month, July, had 31 days, Augustus's month should equal it: under the Julian calendar, the months alternated evenly between 30 and 31 days (with the exception of February), which made August 30 days long. So, instead of August having a mere 30 days, it was lengthened to 31, preventing anyone from claiming that Emperor Augustus was saddled with an inferior month.
To accommodate this change two other calendrical adjustments were necessary:
--> The extra day needed to inflate the importance of August was taken from February, which originally had 29 days (30 in a leap year), and was now reduced to 28 days (29 in a leap year).
--> Since the months evenly alternated between 30 and 31 days, adding the extra day to August meant that July, August, and September would all have 31 days. So to avoid three long months in a row, the lengths of the last four months were switched around, giving us 30 days in September, April, June, and November.
Among Roman rulers, only Julius and Augustus permanently had months named after them—though this wasn't for lack of trying on the part of later emperors. For a time, May was changed to Claudius and the infamous Nero instituted Neronius for April. But these changes were ephemeral, and only Julius and Augustus have had two-millenia-worth of staying power.
by Borgna Brunner, taken form the below website as of 1 August 2003
http://www.infoplease.com/spot/99aughistory1.html
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