The Caffeine Junkie and Her Escapades
“Let us hear the conclusion of the whole matter: Fear God, and keep his commandments: for this is the whole duty of man.” Ecc 12:13Archive for August, 2007
Episode 235: a bruised reed, You will not break…
well, how about a bruised shoulder?
the stupid 7 hardcover super thick books have caused an 8 cm long and 2 cm wide bruise on my left shoulder. and probably someone’s skull as well, the random person whom i accidentally hit while alighting from the bus.
is this sem mad, or is it mad? *furrows brow*
Episode 234: meme
Since R tagged me (welcome home, bringer of tim-tams!), and I’m not in the mood to do work, I shall do her meme.
8 random things about me
1. i laugh when the “Just for Laughs” segments are shown on TV Mobile. oh occassionally, if a show i really want to see finish comes on TV Mobile (and if i’ve the time), i sit a couple more stops just to watch the ending. if it is nearing an interchange, i cross fingers that there is a traffic jam. sad but true.
2. none of the clocks in my house is set to the correct time. they are all at least 5 mins faster, with the worst at 20 minutes faster then the correct time. i know how much faster each one is, but my parents don’t. HAHA.
3. i still feel guilty about the death of my first pet, Dorky, whom i won at the school fair when i was 18, but promptly killed it 4 hours later. 
R.I.P Dorky.
4. i am actually a quiet person. if i feel comfortable with someone, i can walk/sit/random-verb for a long while without talking and yet not feel weird. ironically, if i do not feel comfortable, i will start rambling nonsense.
5. i collect empty cereal boxes and stones and buttons and badges. in fact, i’ve a praise-worthy badge collection. Bert, as in Ernie’s friend, was my childhood hero with his bottlecap collection and his anal-retentiveness.
6. i dunno what the tenses are. like present tense, past tense etc. in fact, i still don’t know what tense we are supposed to write uni essays in. i just wing it and hope the lecturer doesn’t mind. darn you PETS worksheets!
7. when xeroxing stuff, i can eyeball the document very well, so i know roughly how many percent i’ve to shrink the document by. never estimated wrongly…yet.
8. i feel scared in crowds greater than 4 people and tend to just freeze there and attempt to hide social ineptness.
there! easy peasy! 
Episode 233: make it simple, to last your whole life long
Jesus, take me as I am
I can come no other way
Take me deeper into You
Make my flesh life melt away
Make me like a precious stone
Crystal clear and finely honed
Light of Jesus shining through
Giving glory back to You
Episode 232: viewing things from the top
Each time your spirit goes under and faints in the trials which come to you, you lose mastery over the powers of darkness – i.e, you get below them instead of abiding above them in God. Every time you take the earth standpoint, you take a place below the powers of darkness. The mastery of them depends on your spirit’s abiding in the place above them, and the place above them means knowing God’s outlook, God’s thought, God’s plan, God’s way, by abiding with Christ in God. — J. O. Fraser
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What if you’re scared of heights?
Episode 231: a rose by any other name is just as sweet
well, not quite.
was supposed to learn how to bike today at S house, and while I was all dressed up and ready to go (with cute rainbow toe socks to boot!), the elements decided to conspire against me and the black clouds drove us geog people (R, S and psuedo-gay-class president) to holland v instead.
After laughing over silly stuff, like how as kids we all practiced raising one eyebrow in the mirror (and today R and I just discovered we both did the same thing to curl our tongues in three. HAHA! yay my best friend rocks.) and how we people thought we were lesbian, and mimicking the ecstasy some geogprofs have over beaches, we came to the all important discussion of choosing psuedo-gay’s new name when he gets baptised next week.
the names ranged from the normal “James, Matthew, Mark” to those of the minor prophets flavour “Obadiah, Hosea, Zephaniah” to the really bizzare ones like “Seth, Zerubabbel and Nebuchadnezzar”. Because his surname is Lu, we thought he could have a post-modern name like Lu(ke); or he could be Theran, but that’d go against his current denomination. But in the end, it was unanimous. When we vote him in as class president on Monday and when he comes out of the baptism pool on Sunday, we will all shout “Nebuchadnezzar Lu”. HAHAHAHAHAH.
I’ve also decided that should I not get married but still decide to adopt a son, then I will name him Ram, and his Chinese name will be Bo Ge. He’s going to have hot buns.
I think I’ve not laughed so hard in quite a while.
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Some say God whispers through circumstances. It’s just that I had decided to scream at the top of my lungs. I promise I will stop screaming soon. It is just getting a bit too tiring on me lungs.
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If you rarely think about life in general, perhaps, now is a good time to start.
Episode 230: she who has ears, let her hear
my foot.
if you do not wish to listen, why do you bother asking me in the first place? sometimes silence beats hearing hollow words. dammit.
Episode 229: a moment of fangirly-dom
hottie lecturer from exchangeuni emailed
SUPER!
*SQUEALS* *BOUNCE* *WAVES FANGIRL POSTER* *SMILES A SILLY GRIN*
oh my life feels complete already. 
Episode 228: small reminders
God is cool. He sends me His love in the most unexpected and yet most necessary times, to talk to me in the quiets of my heart.
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in other news, school starts tomorrow! Yay! I’m so super duper de ultra stoked about honours year! Thank you God, for the chance of one more year at school. school, school, i love school! i really do! whoopeedeedoodarrday!
Episode 227: the two tasks
Wake up, my friends, wake up: the great universities control the mind of the
world. Therefore how can evangelism consider its task accomplished if it
leaves the university unevangelized? And how can evangelism evangelize the
university if it cannot speak to the university? And how can it speak to the
university if it is not itself already intellectualized? Therefore
evangelism must first intellectualize itself to be able to speak to the
university and therefore to be able to evangelize the university and
therefore to save the world. (Dr Charles Malik)
What an apt reminder, to start final year with!
