Just for fun, hehe.. imagine that Deathnote is real. What would happen if you write : 

Scenario 1:

"[Owner's name]...died because of old age, at the age of 80. Cause of death was partly due to overwork. After managing to obtain phD at the age of 25, [he/she] managed to go to Princeton, Oxford, Cambridge, MIT, Harvard for further studies in science, literature, law, engineering, business disciplines respectively. Obtained several Nobel Prizes in the age of 35, 45, 50, 68. [He/She] became famous, with the unbroken record of obtaining 4 Nobel Prize within one's lifetime." 

Scenario 2:

"[A person's name]... died because of heart attack at 9.00am in 14 February 2007."

Practically, after writing this note, the person is 'immortal' until the date mentioned. =p haha..interesting.

Scenario 3:

"[A person's name]... died in Alaska, murdered by an Eskimo on 28th November 2006, at 9.00pm"

What if this not is written on 28th November 2006, 7.00 pm? And the person is then located somewhere in Japan, which is miles away from Alaska =p

Scenario 4:

"[Owner's name].. died gracefully at the age of 70, remembered (by the God of Death) as the most responsible deathnote owner ever. He wrote nothing in the deathnote other than this passage, and therefore he harm no one."

Change.. Who's not feeling uncomfortable with it? All of us are not used to change! We want constancy. All the more if we had something that's valuable, we want things to remain as it is, and not changed! But who can prevent change? Change is inevitable in this world! Things do change! Circumstance do change! Health, status, ability, anything! People change! Friends change! Families, etc, all of us change! That's reality! You can't resist it! Anyone who fought against change would just live in the imagined realm of the past, reaching something that was there, but is no longer there. It is like having a memory in which no one else share that memory, as if other people around you had been brainwashed, but it's just you that still retained that memory. How painful it is to live in such a world when you can't relate to anyone but yourself! It's like talking to a wall, a mirror, whatever.. It's the kind of feeling where you feel suppressed! Uneasy! But you can't complain since everything has changed and no one would understand what you're saying. When you force yourself to share, they would think you're weird, crazy, talking nonsense. Well.. it's like shouting in a vacuum.. a perfect analogy 

Scenario :

An evil teacher, abusing her powers as a teacher, fails the grades of her students she didnt like at will. With her powers, she has the right to write in her note, the name of the students she will fail. And that student whose name was written in it will fail! She can also make up scenarios to fail her students grade : A fails because he always skip classes (while in fact he didnt!). What was written in the note would then be shown on the report card. Several good students ended up getting frustrated and performed suicide. The principal of the school, was aware that the suicides are due to the 'abuse of power', which happens in the school. And he is trying to investigate who the culprit is.

Trailer : Lecture Note 2 : The Last Student =p 

 ~juz having fun with my imagination~ =p

Today I attended my very first invitation (that directed personally to me) to witness a wedding ceremony. It was held in GRII, queenstown church.

Basically, it really serves as an eye-opener to what a Christian marriage is like. The whole ceremony, as it was held in a church, appeared to be far more solemn, more serious and more dramatic. Perhaps I attended a few wedding ceremonies before, but this is the first time I could really feel the holiness of a marriage. I was amazed. Truly, it is the work of God, and not just the result of mutual agreement between two persons to live as a husband and a wife.

As the liturgy progresses, the atmosphere felt so sacred. The audiences were so solemn, serious and attentive. We also chanted the song "Great is Thy Faithfulness", which added to the sacral aura. Next, it was time for the choir to perform. They started walking up the stage, and began singing. I couldnt remember what was the song that they performed, but it was an excellent performance that really suits the atmosphere. Between periods, partly amazed and dissolved in the situation, I was thinking that this was what a 'true marriage' is supposed to be. Why held a marriage in a grand five-star-hotels or famous restaurants (like most marriages I attended before)? True, perhaps it would invite many more audience, friends and relatives, but would it then became more meaningful to have those? I'm not saying that it wasn't important, but my point is, marriage is something that's bigger than just a ceremony, in which two persons mutually agreed, their friends and relatives would gather, congratulate the couple, and they went home.  More than that, it has far greater meaning!! The Lord participates as a witness, and He Himself is the One who sealed the couple as one. Now, this has become not just the intersection between the desire of individuals alone, but God's hand was there to approve. It was all part of God's plan, as was written on Genesis 2:18 :

' The Lord God said, "It is not good for the man to be alone. I will make a helper suitable for him." ' 

Marriage was hence, Biblical. And this was, I guess, how the holiness comes in. When the joyful couple has a certain dream, and it coincides with God's dream, what could be more beautiful than that? I really feel the joy spread outwards, infecting all the audiences including me.

(Next, the liturgy proceeded towards the preaching session. It was a preach by Pak Amien. He preached of the kind of love that a couple should have, that is agape. The agape love is like the love that God has shown to us, by sacrificing His Only Son to die on the cross. It is the love that is unselfish. It is not a filial love and not eros. After the preach, the attention was then back to the couple. The couple then was asked to confirm their commitments, the exchange of wedding ring and a kiss. After a few words by Pak Amien, taking a photo, then the first session ended. We closed the session in doxology, then the newly weds walked towards the exit as the joyful audience give their thunderous clap to congratulate the two. The next session was a lunch session at the 2nd floor.) 

Morals of the story :

Yep.. marriage is indeed beautiful. But it is beautiful if and only if we are ready to respect and witness its holiness. So let's prepare for it faithfully, respectfully, and joyfully, until our time comes.. perhaps 3 years? 5 years? 10 years? 15 years from the moment from now?. But the real joy comes when God is approved of our marriage.

(PS : Just wondering... what would it feels to be a groom? i mean.. have anyone ever thought? Marriage is a crucial decision! It is not for fun! It really cocoons us of our 'freedom', in a sense. As Stephen Tong in his sermon said, as the image of God, we inherit the sense of His 'Omnipresence'. Thus, we don't want to be bounded!! We want to break free!! We want to travel to many places because we dont want to be 'cocooned' by the spatial dimension! Similarly, we don't like it when people restricts our freedom! But Jesus restricts Himself as a God, by incarnating into the world in the form of flesh. Why?? Why would anyone restrict himself if this is in contrast with his image of the Omnipresent? The reason is the same on why Jesus had restricted Himself : Love..)

7.00 - 8.00 : take a bus to go to sch + revise lect notes + exercise

8.00 - 10.00 : attend lecture, print lect notes + tutorials for the next day during e lecture break, have breakfast inside lecture, check email

10.00 - 11.00 : have tutorial + revise lect notes

11.00 - 12.00 : study / sleep at library if tired

12.00 - 1.00 : Have lunch + watch webcast

1.00 - 2.00 : Watch webcast

2.00 - 4.00 : attend lecture + exercise + do tutorial + download webcasts, sleep during lecture break if tired

4.00 - 5.00 : Do assignments / study / sleep if tired

5.00 - 6.00 : study

6.00 - 7.00 : dinner +watch webcast

7.00 - 8.00 : study

8.00 - 9.00 : take a bus to go home, sleep at bus when tired

9.00 - 10.30 : study, learn guitar, wash clothes, etc2

10.30 - 11.30 : quiet time

11.00 - 12.00 : free time / read books / comics / refreshing time

12.00 - 7.00 : sleep