jeremy
child of GOD
Do you see those who are skilled in their work?
They will serve before kings;
they will not serve before officials of low rank.
Proverbs 22:20
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Wednesday, February 03, 2010 |
it's a nice day when you wake up in disneyland.
I HATE LAB REPORTS!
Posted at 21:22 by jeremy
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Saturday, January 30, 2010 |
so God says patiently wait. so i'll just have to wait.
Posted at 00:36 by jeremy
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Tuesday, January 26, 2010 |
listening to emo music by yukiko nishimura. starship is very good. but i couldn't find it in myspace. but the other pieces on myspace are good too. http://www.myspace.com/yukikonishimura
if anyone wants to hear starship which i think is better then the myspace ones, ask me.
and, i have decided to sign up for turt. pray that i get in, and learn much from it.
ok, that's 5 mins worth of words.
the end.
Posted at 23:10 by jeremy
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Thursday, January 21, 2010 |
masters the art of permenant head damage under graduates I need to constantly tell myself that i'm a physicist in math class. the rigourous math derivation is so horribly unintuitive in ODEs. ODE, not so ordinary actually. as she said, theory of relativity is that everything is relative ma.. haha. so ordinary with respect to EDE, extraordinary DE. so i'm just a physicist in training. don't bother so much.
then when i'm in modern physics lecture, we get a different story. WHAT is relativity?????? time is toooooooo relative le. can't we just fixed some things. couldn't God be just a little simpler. hiaz. respect for einstein and lorentz and newton and leibniz. wanted to understand God? try to understand nature first! then you'll know how un-understandable it's creator is.
Posted at 16:47 by jeremy
school has started for a week already. wk 2 start's tomorrow, and i have a presentation already, and a tut that i don't know how to do. =( this is going to be an exciting sem! haha.
i've started to exercise again. hopefully i can keep this up. every sunday evening i meet this bunch of people from my secondary school and play soccer. for me it's just kicking the ball around, i'm so noob among them.
but more importantly (compared to scoring goals), i was thinking of who is reaching out to these people and how? according to the singapore stats, there is a population ratio of 50+% whose religion is budhism or taoism. and also, the article states that the increase in the christian population is due to better educated chinese. so all this football khakis of mine are not very educated. most of them are from normal stream, not well off, working part time and studying at the same time. they don't think much about their faith, or i think they don't. well, in any case, i guess you guys reading this roughly know the kind of people i'm talking about.
i don't know why, but i always think that christianity is an 'educated' religion. even the article agrees with me. maybe i hear of teban gardens resident receiving christ, christian's relatives saved and some uneducated cleaner being a christian, but generally, why is christianity still protrayed as a englishmen's religion. In the report, there is a clear distinction of the religions between the different first speaking languages, the affluence and the education level. christians are rich, english speaking eduated people in general.
I think, one reason maybe that we christians in singapore love to stay in our group of christian friends, form christian organisations, and form christian cliques. this is just a generalisation and i know of people who mix around people with diff religions. I for one must admit that i am part of this general group. in my entire school life, i mix with people with english speaking families, mostly christians. in sec sch and jc especially. one reason why i hated commonwealth was because there weren't my 'kind' of people, the english speaking atas christians. so i kind of shun away from all my classmates. in jc, i was so happy. firstly SA is a christian college, secondly, i found my 'exclusive christian club'. it made me not talk to my classmates much, or even the band members that are pre-believers.
so all that i actually wanted to say was, i don't really like talking to these people i play soccer with. they smoke, the say bad words, they don't share the same kind of humour, and i don't speak their lingo, so how am i going to reach out to them? still thinking....
ok, i think i'll stop here. lesson at 0800 later. and btw, the previous post was a quote from my modern physics lecturer. i totally agree with it.
ps, the article i keep refering to is here -> http://www.singstat.gov.sg/pubn/papers/people/c2000adr-religion.pdf
Posted at 23:32 by jeremy
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Tuesday, December 22, 2009 |
i have no mood for christmas
Posted at 01:26 by jeremy
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Wednesday, November 04, 2009 |
i'm blogging again. well, i'm more free these 2 weeks cause i just ended 2 tuition. promos and pri sch final yrs are over so i stopped teaching le. now just left with a a level chem so got more breathing space. i don't know how many i should have next year. maybe just csc's one. but then if that's the csse, i'll be very free like now...hmmmm.
a few post ago, i said that i had not been in contact with a 'once called bestie'. well, i think i'm not ever going to be in contact with her ever again. and i'm feeling quite horrible about it. i think that's why i have no moitivation to do anything. i have assignments, exams are in 2-3 wks time but i just play bejewelled all day. this episode in my life is eeally trying. i asked God for a close friend whom i can share my troubles and joy with, and He provided. then 2 years later, He took away. it's like i'm back to square one in css. no one to share things with, no one to call when i'm down, no one to tell when i did well in school. what is God exactly doing? i also don't know is it because of this i'm drifting away from Him or i'm drifting away so He's doing this.
at least there's still the one best friend i talk to. just that he's very stressed all week long.
i need to pick myself up, is it going to be by myself?
Posted at 09:44 by jeremy
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Monday, November 02, 2009 |
The semester is coming to a close soon. nows wk 12 which maens next wk is the last wk of sch. oh man! that was fast. 14 wks just passed like that. so many things i haven't understood, so many things i have not done. Exams are coming! Freak out!!!!
no la. just that i realised that this sem has been quite crazy for me. and blessed by God. really thank God he has brought me through, blessing me with good results, better relationdhips with friends, improved my driving! In the first half of the sem, it was quite jialat, cos there were a lot of new concepts to learn in a short peroid of time, plus the fact that the things i learnt in jc were all forgtten. it was terrible learning what is entropy and heat engines when i couldn't remember the first 2 laws of thermody. forgot how to diff and int trig forms. can't understand how mathematicians see numbers as a language in MA1100. but i think i survived. still not understanding much now, but i think it's alright. By God's grace i have survived 11 wks of horrible torture from nus phy and math lecturers.
Lokking ahead, i am kinda like "jing tui liang nan". I'm really excited about learning new stuff in physics, but the senoirs are all scarying me. what they say i'll learn is just intimidating la. but i still have a little more passion than fear. let's take it 1 more year. Actually, i'm also quite keen to learn a new language! like french or bahasa? preferably one without script. but no one wants to take it with me, then i won't have anyone to practise with. don't know whether i should take it next sem or really wait until there's someone to take it with me. hmm.. this journey on nus is starting to get exciting. =)
ok, back to mugging! sianz.
Posted at 16:44 by jeremy
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Thursday, October 15, 2009 |
i'm back again. guess this is the frequency of the post you'll ever get. it takes quite a bit for me to have the urge and time and things to write about to blog.
firstly, thanks to the good friend out there who really light up some portions of my life. it's great to have a friend who cares.
but this post is really more about what my physics lecturer said and few other ppl's comments that make me rethink the purpose of education. (well, i AM going to be an educator anyway, so might as well think of it now right?) yup. so my physics lecturer was showing us the feedback he got from the post mid-term survey he conducted. there were the usual "leave the math out, just teach me the physics" kinda comments which really irritats me a little, since the lecturer had already established the fact that math is the language of physics, like how do you do e lit without english? chemistry without the periodic table? The Bible without the Spirit? yeh, sorry, sidetracked.=P, so, he went on again and said sth about the objectives of the module that he mentioned at the start of the sem. that objective was to transform the thinking of the undergrands from 'A' level-thinking to undergrad thinking. it was a response to quite a number of feedback on the students wanting to get more exercises from the lecturer. he was implying (i think) that 'a' levels style was to give a lot a lot of exercises and drill until you'll know how to do it in the exams, but it should be different in uni.
also, someone from ccc asked a question, "is uni life all about mugging only?" i know it's a bit out of context but it triggered me to think about a more acedamic and 'worldy' aspect.
actually, singapore has one of the best education systems in the world. we produce the best results, our scholars top the overseas unis, compared to the UK and US, the things we learn are more advance at the same levels of education. but i think we don't get the point of uni. not all of us. but some of us and most of us in science. we're very results driven, which is not a bad thing. just that it's the wrong priority in education. i'm sure this is like super cliche and stuff, but it's really a cultural problem in singapore's education system.
1. we do not know what we are learning. why we do well for exams is because we mug hard for it. after we graduate, we forget.
2. a lot of times, we forget the joy of learning new knowledge due to the stress involved in needing to know the concept well so that i can do well in exam. I have a lot of times this sem forgot why i came to major in physics.
3.why is it that unis overseas are less stressful? or is this just wrong and i have heard wrongly from my friends.
well, i remembered why i chose to major in physics. 1. I love the lagguage of it. i'm facinated by how mathematicians can come up with amazing things like calculus and complex numbers to solve physical problems. 2. i want to know how relativity works. and how einstein can come up with it so brialliantly. 3. i see the hand of God in this world. physics does not explain the world only, it shows us how the universe falls so neatly into place. shows me how brilliant God, like a computer genius writing a program that runs the world. and people can say that there is no God? there is.
so, i do hope uni do turn out to be what the lecturer says it should be. (though i doubt it) but i can just try my best to stand by my principals of education to learn and be facinated by what i do not know.
gd night.
Posted at 01:18 by jeremy
I'm watching those films that make you feel good again. the whole fairy tale thing has gotten to me. not like the last post, now i'm watching some taiwan drama. can't believe i'm watching a chinese drama.. but since i'm very free.. just to past the time i guess.
But seriously, isn't everyone's life a fairy tale? one written by God. I guess so, just that everytime you watch a drama/movie love story, you know the male and female lead will always end up together ultimately. i also don't know why i've become like some material girl or something. but i really wishied for some great love story could happen in my life. well.. hopefully that's what God has written! but for now, i wish i have enough faith to believe my life's ending's going to be good.
i haven't actually finished the drama series yet. left with 4 more episodes. prob be done with them tomorrow morning. then the princess can be with the prince. well, some day my princess will come? haha. i actually i feel a little weird writing all these down. I want to be the prince in my story. will God let me? did God let me?
Posted at 01:30 by jeremy
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