You can start enjoying your Chinese New Year's break, truly; once you stop feeling sorry about its duration.
Tuesday 24 January 2012
Monday 16 January 2012
Car Accident
A doctor would say injury.
A policeman would say work.
An undertaker would say business.
Sunday 15 January 2012
Like Clay
Jeremiah 18:6 “O house of Israel, can I not do with you as this potter does?” declares the LORD. “Like clay in the hand of the potter, so are you in my hand, O house of Israel..."
"Why are there always people better than me at literally everything I do?"The list goes on and on forevermore. Isn't it unfair, that you couldn't choose your skin colour, hair colour, etc? Heck, isn't it unfair that you have no choice over who was going to be your sibling(s)? Or if you were going to get any, for that matter.
"Why am I not as good-looking as....?"
"Why must I live with the background I was born into?"
"Why can't I be this?"
"Why can't I be that?"
"If God were a gentleman, why couldn't He asked before shaping my nose this way?"
Isn't God fair and just to all?
I can do all the exercises in the world and eat every thing possible out there that could help me gain a little more height; but the genetic constitution in me says that I may as well give up all hope if I wanted to grow as tall as Yao Ming. Why do certain people stand out to be taller than average, without any interventions? Just because of the genetic material they inherited from their tall parents? Where is the fairness described as one of God's attributes?
"God, if you are fair to all then make every body the same lah!" Notice I write 'every body' instead of 'everybody'.
Well, aren't we His creation? Who am I to question His works? Nothing qualifies me to doubt His intelligence since He is the Creator and I am merely a creature in need of grace every moment of my life. A potter, has every authority to do as He pleases with his clay.Sunday 8 January 2012
Customer
It is a Sunday, but a working night for me. Felt a bit bad for not working in the past two weeks, so I stood in for another staff who apparently could not turn up this evening.
Phew! Where did all the customers today come from?? Where do all the people come from in Singapore, by the way? If I were to ever venture into a business, food will definitely come on top of my list! Sure can make money in this city state because people are everywhere and they need to eat!
Anyway I was just trying to tell you that it was a busy night at the cafe. That, I can live with. However there was this couple who walked in just a minute before our last order, who really got my attention. The man ordered soft-boiled eggs which were what the pantry prepared for him. When I served it to him, he looked at me with an attitude and demanded for a replacement because one of the egg yolks were broken. I was like.... "What??! You're gonna eventually break both of the yolks, aren't ya? Why change?!" and "Hello, the staff who prepared these eggs was kind enough to break open the shells for you, take for granted ah?" but I relented anyhow. The customer had a right, my colleagues agreed. For those who are interested to know, he and the lady with him behaved like a king and a queen throughout their dinner and they were the last to leave the cafe. I was almost done mopping the floors by the time their royal buttocks got out.
Sigh, you have your rights as a consumer lah! But do you mind having some manners as a human ah?
Phew! Where did all the customers today come from?? Where do all the people come from in Singapore, by the way? If I were to ever venture into a business, food will definitely come on top of my list! Sure can make money in this city state because people are everywhere and they need to eat!
Anyway I was just trying to tell you that it was a busy night at the cafe. That, I can live with. However there was this couple who walked in just a minute before our last order, who really got my attention. The man ordered soft-boiled eggs which were what the pantry prepared for him. When I served it to him, he looked at me with an attitude and demanded for a replacement because one of the egg yolks were broken. I was like.... "What??! You're gonna eventually break both of the yolks, aren't ya? Why change?!" and "Hello, the staff who prepared these eggs was kind enough to break open the shells for you, take for granted ah?" but I relented anyhow. The customer had a right, my colleagues agreed. For those who are interested to know, he and the lady with him behaved like a king and a queen throughout their dinner and they were the last to leave the cafe. I was almost done mopping the floors by the time their royal buttocks got out.
Sigh, you have your rights as a consumer lah! But do you mind having some manners as a human ah?
Friday 6 January 2012
Rise to?
"... And those who have done good will rise to live, and those who have done evil will rise to be condemned."
John 5: 29
Life doesn't end at the point where you breathe your last. One day all will be summoned for a hearing that determines the eternal fate of each and every soul. Sounds scary, huh? Makes me afraid if it doesn't scare you. However it feels difficult to live up to holy standards in this earthly body, to think of being held accountable for every deed you have committed; good and bad altogether.
If you believe in Judgment Day, how confident are you of your fate? How hard are you working towards where you want to be, forevermore? For what you want to be as well, for the matter; sheep or goat?
I guess this serves as a very powerful reminder to what to do, whenever we are caught in dilemma between being kind and the opposite; doing what is right and otherwise. I don't know about you, but hell scares me.
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