Have u ever met sales people while walking back to your home or your destination and they stop u and ask "Hi can i have 5 min of your time to tell you about our wonderful offer for you" ?? I met 1 yesterday and as usual i fell back on every excuse i learned throughout my 25 yrs of life, "Erm, i got somewhere to go to, very bz, sorry",
"Not interested, sorry", "TOILET NOW CANT TALK!"
but yesterday i remembered something Ps Wenan told me, "What if they asked us for 5 min of our time and we tell them, Would you give me 5 min of your time for me to tell u about a wonderful offer too? his name is Jesus!"
heh, sales person beware, a convicted man is a scary one =D~
Sunday, December 13, 2009
Thursday, December 10, 2009
I must Praise God
How many people can say that they shared their testimonies with a colleague?
I was able to share mine with the whole office (it wasnt tat big an office =p)
To God be the Glory
I was able to share mine with the whole office (it wasnt tat big an office =p)
To God be the Glory
Tuesday, December 8, 2009
Sunday, December 6, 2009
Why there is no Santa...
Consider the following:
1) No known species of reindeer can fly. But there are 300,000 species of living organisms yet to be classified, and while most of these are insects and germs, this does not COMPLETELY rule out flying reindeer which only Santa has ever seen.
2) There are 2 billion children (persons under 18) in the world. BUT since Santa doesn't (appear) to handle the Muslim, Hindu, Jewish and Buddhist children, that reduces the workload to 15% of the total - 378 million according to Population Reference Bureau. At an average (census) rate of 3.5 children per household, that's 91.8 million homes. One presumes there's at least one good child in each.
3) Santa has 31 hours of Christmas to work with, thanks to the different time zones and the rotation of the earth, assuming he travels east to west (which seems logical).
This works out to 822.6 visits per second. This is to say that for each Christian household with good children, Santa has 1/1000th of a second to park, hop out of the sleigh, jump down the chimney, fill the stockings, distribute the remaining presents under the tree, eat whatever snacks have been left, get back up the chimney, get back into the sleigh and move on to the next house.
Assuming that each of these 91.8 million stops are evenly distributed around the earth (which, of course, we know to be false but for the purposes of our calculations we will accept), we are now talking about .78 miles per household, a total trip of 75-1/2 million miles, not counting stops to do what most of us must do at least once every 31 hours, plus feeding and etc.
This means that Santa's sleigh is moving at 650 miles per second, 3,000 times the speed of sound. For purposes of comparison, the fastest man- made vehicle on earth, the Ulysses space probe, moves at a poky 27.4 miles per second - a conventional reindeer can run, tops, 15 miles per hour.
4) The payload on the sleigh adds another interesting element. Assuming that each child gets nothing more than a medium-sized lego set (2 pounds), the sleigh is carrying 321,300 tons, not counting Santa, who is invariably described as overweight.
On land, conventional reindeer can pull no more than 300 pounds. Even granting that 'flying reindeer' (see point #1) could pull TEN TIMES the normal amount, we cannot do the job with eight, or even nine.
We need 214,200 reindeer. This increases the payload - not even counting the weight of the sleigh - to 353,430 tons. Again, for comparison - this is four times the weight of the Queen Elizabeth.
5) 353,000 tons traveling at 650 miles per second creates enormous air resistance - this will heat the reindeer up in the same fashion as spacecraft re-entering the earth's atmosphere. The lead pair of reindeer will absorb 14.3 QUINTILLION joules of energy. Per second. Each.
In short, they will burst into flame almost instantaneously, exposing the reindeer behind them, and create deafening sonic booms in their wake. The entire reindeer team will be vaporized within 4.26 thousandths of a second.
Santa, meanwhile, will be subjected to centrifugal forces 17,500.06 times greater than gravity. A 250-pound Santa (which seems ludicrously slim) would be pinned to the back of his sleigh by 4,315,015 pounds of force.> In conclusion - If Santa ever DID deliver presents on Christmas Eve, he's dead now.
1) No known species of reindeer can fly. But there are 300,000 species of living organisms yet to be classified, and while most of these are insects and germs, this does not COMPLETELY rule out flying reindeer which only Santa has ever seen.
2) There are 2 billion children (persons under 18) in the world. BUT since Santa doesn't (appear) to handle the Muslim, Hindu, Jewish and Buddhist children, that reduces the workload to 15% of the total - 378 million according to Population Reference Bureau. At an average (census) rate of 3.5 children per household, that's 91.8 million homes. One presumes there's at least one good child in each.
3) Santa has 31 hours of Christmas to work with, thanks to the different time zones and the rotation of the earth, assuming he travels east to west (which seems logical).
This works out to 822.6 visits per second. This is to say that for each Christian household with good children, Santa has 1/1000th of a second to park, hop out of the sleigh, jump down the chimney, fill the stockings, distribute the remaining presents under the tree, eat whatever snacks have been left, get back up the chimney, get back into the sleigh and move on to the next house.
Assuming that each of these 91.8 million stops are evenly distributed around the earth (which, of course, we know to be false but for the purposes of our calculations we will accept), we are now talking about .78 miles per household, a total trip of 75-1/2 million miles, not counting stops to do what most of us must do at least once every 31 hours, plus feeding and etc.
This means that Santa's sleigh is moving at 650 miles per second, 3,000 times the speed of sound. For purposes of comparison, the fastest man- made vehicle on earth, the Ulysses space probe, moves at a poky 27.4 miles per second - a conventional reindeer can run, tops, 15 miles per hour.
4) The payload on the sleigh adds another interesting element. Assuming that each child gets nothing more than a medium-sized lego set (2 pounds), the sleigh is carrying 321,300 tons, not counting Santa, who is invariably described as overweight.
On land, conventional reindeer can pull no more than 300 pounds. Even granting that 'flying reindeer' (see point #1) could pull TEN TIMES the normal amount, we cannot do the job with eight, or even nine.
We need 214,200 reindeer. This increases the payload - not even counting the weight of the sleigh - to 353,430 tons. Again, for comparison - this is four times the weight of the Queen Elizabeth.
5) 353,000 tons traveling at 650 miles per second creates enormous air resistance - this will heat the reindeer up in the same fashion as spacecraft re-entering the earth's atmosphere. The lead pair of reindeer will absorb 14.3 QUINTILLION joules of energy. Per second. Each.
In short, they will burst into flame almost instantaneously, exposing the reindeer behind them, and create deafening sonic booms in their wake. The entire reindeer team will be vaporized within 4.26 thousandths of a second.
Santa, meanwhile, will be subjected to centrifugal forces 17,500.06 times greater than gravity. A 250-pound Santa (which seems ludicrously slim) would be pinned to the back of his sleigh by 4,315,015 pounds of force.> In conclusion - If Santa ever DID deliver presents on Christmas Eve, he's dead now.
Friday, December 4, 2009
My Cup Overflows
Indeed my cup overflows. As some of you may know, i actually started work at One Fullerton on Monday. I have to praise God, and also thank a few people like Lay Keng and Huimin who helped me get this job.
At first Lay Keng told me that it was gonna be an $8/hr job~ and there i was prancing around like a madman cos it is considered quite high for a part time job. Then another sms came from my employer, who smsed me saying that he was gonna pay $10/hr.. i couldnt believe my eyes and rejoiced even more. But little did i know there was more to come~
I always remembered this verse that i read on Lemuel's wall when i went into his room. Matt 5:41: If someone forces you to go one mile, go with him two miles and it stuck on me for a long time. After the first night, i couldnt sleep at all and i started to do 2 things, one which i would not devulge as of yet, the other was God challenging me with Matt 5:41.
The next morning i went to work early at 7.30 and did abit of quiet time before starting to work. I actually got convicted to email my boss telling him that he was paying me too much and that if it was alright, i would go an hour earlier to work and he need not pay me for that extra hour and if it was alright to take a 2 hr break on mondays to go for prayer. He replied thanking me for my support and told me no problem!! but the best was yet to come.
I always believe in doing my best when under authority, just as Joseph was to Potiphar, i wanted to be diligent in what i do as a man under authority and yet still be able to uphold God's standards. Then today, my colleague told me that we were gonna be paid by the volume of work that we do!!
i was shocked honestly, it meant that whatever i sowed for the 1 extra hour everyday which i meant to just honour God and to help my Boss abit more actually produced a blessing which i did not even ask for or expected! Because of the extra 1 hr i put in everyday and doing my job diligently, i have done almost 2 times the amount of work that my fellow colleagues have!! so it means that i would be paid almost 2 times more as well!!
But in all this, it really wasn't me at work. I was just faithful in doing what i believed in and God gave the increase. And where there's sowing, so is there harvesting. So just like Abel gave the first fruits of his harvest, so will i honour God with my first fruits as well.
you might think that i might be starting from zero if i gave all i earned~ but i think the last verse of the Desert Song really sums up why i do it.
Verse 4
This is my prayer in the harvest
When favour and providence flow
I know I'm filled to be emptied again
The seed I've received I will sow
To God be the Glory =)
At first Lay Keng told me that it was gonna be an $8/hr job~ and there i was prancing around like a madman cos it is considered quite high for a part time job. Then another sms came from my employer, who smsed me saying that he was gonna pay $10/hr.. i couldnt believe my eyes and rejoiced even more. But little did i know there was more to come~
I always remembered this verse that i read on Lemuel's wall when i went into his room. Matt 5:41: If someone forces you to go one mile, go with him two miles and it stuck on me for a long time. After the first night, i couldnt sleep at all and i started to do 2 things, one which i would not devulge as of yet, the other was God challenging me with Matt 5:41.
The next morning i went to work early at 7.30 and did abit of quiet time before starting to work. I actually got convicted to email my boss telling him that he was paying me too much and that if it was alright, i would go an hour earlier to work and he need not pay me for that extra hour and if it was alright to take a 2 hr break on mondays to go for prayer. He replied thanking me for my support and told me no problem!! but the best was yet to come.
I always believe in doing my best when under authority, just as Joseph was to Potiphar, i wanted to be diligent in what i do as a man under authority and yet still be able to uphold God's standards. Then today, my colleague told me that we were gonna be paid by the volume of work that we do!!
i was shocked honestly, it meant that whatever i sowed for the 1 extra hour everyday which i meant to just honour God and to help my Boss abit more actually produced a blessing which i did not even ask for or expected! Because of the extra 1 hr i put in everyday and doing my job diligently, i have done almost 2 times the amount of work that my fellow colleagues have!! so it means that i would be paid almost 2 times more as well!!
But in all this, it really wasn't me at work. I was just faithful in doing what i believed in and God gave the increase. And where there's sowing, so is there harvesting. So just like Abel gave the first fruits of his harvest, so will i honour God with my first fruits as well.
you might think that i might be starting from zero if i gave all i earned~ but i think the last verse of the Desert Song really sums up why i do it.
Verse 4
This is my prayer in the harvest
When favour and providence flow
I know I'm filled to be emptied again
The seed I've received I will sow
To God be the Glory =)
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