God’s Warriors

I just finished watching God’s Warriors on CNN. Now that’s a term that’s great for garnering a large audience interest for your station’s rating but it’s a misnomer by any standards.

It seems to suggest that God needs man to fight for God?

Wasn’t it stated somewhere that man was made in the image of God? And if God is Spirit, then man’s image is that of Spirit; not the physical.

We’re stuck in our heads that we are different; the colour of our skin, our clothes, our appearances, our possessions, our race, our religion, so thick are we that were physical, that we’ve forgotten we’re indeed spirit – holy.

I’m Spirit, I’m soul, and I live in my body.

On CNN I saw a mother say that’s it an honour that her son killed 4 women, before being shot dead by security forces.

I saw a blond haired right-wing politician justifying the need to discriminate between Europeans and Asians. (Here we go again?)

I saw a woman agree that she’s only worth half that of a man.

I saw a man blaspheme the name of God by carrying a rifle in the name of God?

All of this has always happened, and will continue to happen no matter how many fingers are pointed, hate, mistrust, blame, anger, revenge. The scenarios are different but the context is the same. It comes from a place called ‘I’m right – You’re wrong.’

Strangely I can’t help but feel that it’s all part of the great plan by the Universe, to help us realise the Truth, finally, just before we nearly annihilate ourselves.

The day we put aside our differences is the day that Peace begins. The day we can earnestly celebrate, accept and embrace not our differences BUT our ONENESS, is when Peace will reign – and that is the Truth.

God’s Warriors indeed!

Thou Hast Forgotten

When Thou art troubled about anything, thou has forgotten this, that all things happen according to the universal nature; and forgotten this, that a man’s wrongful act is nothing to thee; and further thou hast forgotten this, that everything which happens always happened so and will happen so, and now happens so everywhere; forgotten this too, how close is the kinship between a man and the whole human race, for it is a community, not of a little blood or seed, but of intelligence.

And thou hast forgotten this too, that every man’s intelligence is a god, and is an efflux of the deity; and forgotten this, that nothing is a man’s own, but that his child and his body and his very own soul come from the deity; forgotten this, that everything is opinion; and lastly thou hast forgotten that every man lives the present time only, and loses only this.

Marcus Aurelius Caesar – philosopher and Roman emperor

Feeling Uncomfortable

I invited my ex girlfriend for coffee the other day. She turned me down saying that she was uncomfortable; that she'll only feel 'comfortable' again when I find a new girlfriend. I was left wondering what made her feel that way.

And only last night did I recall telling her a few months ago, that I still had feelings for her.

Isn't that only natural? Can you love someone one day, and not the next?

In a meeting a few weeks ago some friends and I were discussing a Money and You chart titled 'Orbit in Love'. It was there in fact that I asked this question. Every relationship, every person I have met are still very much in my orbit. It's the degree of their pull that matters.

With my ex, she'll always be in my orbit, just not near enough for me to feel romantically connected anymore.

For the role she played in my life, and the lessons she taught me, I'm grateful - and for that I love her.

I should not be made to pay for:

1. Buses that are late, if I have to wait 25 mins for one,
2. Air con fares in air con buses with very badly maintained air cons, that are not even cool - many have a stuffy smell and warm,
3. Additional bus fare increase for no improvement in service

Pssst have you notice how the bus drivers are painfully trying to greet passengers..I think they'll use that as an excuse for 'improved service'.

Ordering food is now a BEEEEG Hassle for me

Why? Because the lady behind the Gu Bak Kway Teow stall doesn't speak English, Malay or even Hokkien..

She from some remote corner of China and she only speaks a very strange kinda Mandarin... How to feel Singaporean???

Beechy Road Kway Teow anyone?

En Bloc

EnBloc GorBloc - A term coined by my manager, referring to all those who’ll probably get screwed in the well publicised recent en-bloc fiasco.

We’re Screwed

What are we doing to ourselves and our children?

I was checking my email at Spinnelli Coffee today and saw a woman getting seated with a drawing block under her armpits. I paid little attention to her until her friend joined her.

That when I began eavesdropping. They were there to do their children’s homework. They were discussing what the best crayons was, the best strokes blah blah.

When I peeked over, I saw pencil tracings on the paper. Their conversation went on, “the stock market, blah blah blah,”, “My husband, blah blah blah,” they went on.

When I peeked again half an hour later, I saw the most child-like, what you can see winning ribbons at children’s art contests, type of drawing. The woman had expertly drawn a scene with MRT trains, Merlion (which incidentally still hold’s the title to the World’s Largest Mutant award), Condominium blocks, cars, Benjamin Shears Bridge and the Durian.

This was probably the child’s homework or competition piece for National Day. I won’t be surprised if the child ‘won’. Ya sure he ‘won’.

If he did, then as a nation I now am convinced we are screwed!