October 2011
1 post
“Whoever is wise, let him heed these things and consider the great love of the...”
– Psalm 107:43
September 2011
3 posts
“Wake me up when September ends”
– Green day
This is my Father's world
Today is the Friday of my first recess week, and I remember feeling rather happy all through my last lesson a week ago, from pre-class note-making prep to finally ending half of a semester and leaving campus. Getting to go home a little more carefree as afternoon waned is brought to mind now as I think of the last 4 brilliant days and nights I’ve had on campus, perhaps the most fun...
Remembering 9/11
While teaching tuition today I realized as I wrote down the date that it has been 10 years since September Eleven. As an 11 year old watching the BBC it was fairly surreal and disconnected, and since then it has come define a new paradigm, not just for terrorism or national security, but for a debater and now, a student of politics. What struck me a number of years ago and continues to strike me...
August 2011
2 posts
There was a month called August
On any given Thursday night exactly a month ago from tonight, I entered the hallowed halls of USP college not knowing much and left feeling fairly unentertained by what I found to be a pretentious dinner. Come next week I would have spent one month in university; how different things have turned out, not just from my grandiose plans made in the hazy days of 2008, but from that aforementioned...
“Our help is in the name of the LORD, the Maker of heaven and earth.”
– Psalm 124:8
July 2011
5 posts
“And do not forget to do good and to share with others, for with such sacrifices...”
– Hebrews 13:16
typing smileys ups joy.: 2 Timothy 4 1 In the... →
phishesleap:
2 Timothy 4
1 In the presence of God and of Christ Jesus, who will judge the living and the dead, and in view of his appearing and his kingdom, I give you this charge: 2 Preach the word; be prepared in season and out of season; correct, rebuke and encourage—with great patience and…
Sermon revisited
“Make level paths for your feet, so that the lame may not be disabled, but rather...”
– Hebrews 12:13
“I like those scenes in the Bible where God stops people and asks them to build...”
– Great Stories Have Memorable Scenes, A Million Miles in a Thousand Years by Donald Miller. (via comfortableandsobrokenin)
We chose the right text(:
“For God did not give us a spirit of timidity, but a spirit of power, of love and...”
– 2 Timothy 1:7
June 2011
4 posts
“Oh, that their hearts would be inclined to fear mr and keep all my commands...”
– Deuteronomy 5:29
“And if we are careful to obey all this law before the LORD our God, as He has...”
– Deuteronomy 6:25
Purging of the emotions
Otherwise known to us in the literary circle as Catharsis, more often than not applies to something in the postmodern age. I shall use it here in a different context, sort of reflection while I prepare for our meeting on Thursday:
Around the time while I was planning for camp in 09, I was asked to fill the vacancy in the non-vice-headed half of our committee, and after prayerful consideration I...
May 2011
7 posts
WatchSam is so qt
“So the LORD spoke kind and comforting words to the angel who talked with me.”
– Zechariah 1:13
when i feel the mystery of a distant galaxy/it... →
“…to grasp how wide and long and high and deep is the love of Christ, and...”
– Ephesians 3:18-19
i'd venture to posture
fedelta:
I actually think political views have a very great impact on values and idealogy and that somehow when two people are unable to see eye to eye or at least agree to disagree on politics, it’s quite a big disagreement.
And you bother only to debate and argue, only if you truly want to understand, and usually it comes to a point of, though disagreeing, acceptance of the other person’s...
“During the reign of David, there was a famine for three successive years; so...”
– 2 Samuel 21:1
April 2011
5 posts
"I know that You will never forsake me in my... →
March 2011
5 posts
WatchThings to do: 1) improve cebu trackers graduation video 2) finally get a driving license to make use of the neglected family car 3) store up sleep because i won’t be sleeping come april 11th
February 2011
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November 2010
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October 2010
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5. Egg prata & meatslab supper.
August 2010
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July 2010
4 posts
Precipice Thoughts
On my faithful blogspot blog I’ve once written a post with the same title; truly, thoughts on the precipice slightly after midnight on 1 Aug make for some good reflection, especially if it’s after a good weekend so far. So allow me the indulgence of recollection before reflection. Friday afternoon was spent at lunch and walking around marina square catching up with Royston, over...
All those years ago when this was undisputedly our... →
So there isn’t a single photo of our first .9 class gathering in, what, 7 or 8 months. No matter. As always, each moment is captured in its sounds as well as sights, and there’s no better sound than some John Mayer. There must be a class trip, and soon; Hong Kong 2011 anyone?
June 2010
2 posts
"someone like me" →
May 2010
3 posts
Matthew Morrison as Will Shuester is the man →
Pointed Nostalgics
To borrow, and alter, the title of Jamie Cullum’s newest album as the title of this post. Just as midnight rolled around to welcome 3 May 2010, I have discovered that I share company with the most hopeless, most intense memory-keepers known to man. And this, while instinctively surprising, is intuitively expected. I am, for all intents and purposes, the single largest liver-of-the-past,...
April 2010
1 post
I've scaled these city walls/only to be with you. →
Inspiration for this portal’s title.
In theory, and in writing, the quiet midnight hours in the middle of the weekend are almost always when the best memories of the week are made. On any given Saturday, in the company of those you feel most comfortable with, one finds oneself at peace. Second only to Sunday mornings in church.
These hours are sleepy, and in spite of this mist, there is...
March 2010
1 post
Exposition #1 of 423825796842376 in my head
I have told my friends on, I think, more than one occasion that debating, that activity which those of us participate in at its most cutting edge and loftiest of levels, is like running a marathon in a suit. An equally acute sports analogy would be a cross between tag-team wrestling and playing tennis in suits, for there is a large element of the need to compete as a team of individuals just as...
February 2010
1 post
December 2009
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November 2009
3 posts
