On 18 February I met an old street performer uncle in Bukit Batok interchange playing an interesting tune. I stopped by and asked him what tune it was that he was playing. He replayed it and it turned out to be a familiar song being played badly. We bade each other happy new year and I put some into his box to not feel so awkward.
Entry:
2.00 / street performer / Þ (= donations)
Friday, February 26, 2010
Friday, February 12, 2010
Apologetics Fail
The oft-quoted excerpt from an interview between Christopher Hitchens (atheist) and Marilyn Sewell (retired Unitarian minister)
Sewell: The religion you cite in your book is generally the fundamentalist faith of various kinds. I’m a liberal Christian, and I don’t take the stories from the scripture literally. I don’t believe in the doctrine of atonement (that Jesus died for our sins, for example). Do you make and distinction between fundamentalist faith and liberal religion?
Hitchens: I would say that if you don’t believe that Jesus of Nazareth was the Christ and Messiah, and that he rose again from the dead and by his sacrifice our sins are forgiven, you’re really not in any meaningful sense a Christian.
And because Sewell threw off too much ballast, it could only happen that the many Christians that linked to this excerpt didn't take sides with her.
[source]
Sewell: The religion you cite in your book is generally the fundamentalist faith of various kinds. I’m a liberal Christian, and I don’t take the stories from the scripture literally. I don’t believe in the doctrine of atonement (that Jesus died for our sins, for example). Do you make and distinction between fundamentalist faith and liberal religion?
Hitchens: I would say that if you don’t believe that Jesus of Nazareth was the Christ and Messiah, and that he rose again from the dead and by his sacrifice our sins are forgiven, you’re really not in any meaningful sense a Christian.
And because Sewell threw off too much ballast, it could only happen that the many Christians that linked to this excerpt didn't take sides with her.
[source]
Monday, February 08, 2010
Pashley
Just to prove to myself that I can still do it:
Modelled in 3ds MAX 2009 based on a classic bike model from Pashley, Hand Building British Bicycles since 1926.
It's quite a satisfying finish. I shall gloat on it for a moment, and then go on and find a use for it or do something else.
Modelled in 3ds MAX 2009 based on a classic bike model from Pashley, Hand Building British Bicycles since 1926.
It's quite a satisfying finish. I shall gloat on it for a moment, and then go on and find a use for it or do something else.
Tuesday, January 26, 2010
A tersely-written update
1. Crashing (and has done so since 11 January) lectures at NUS, in three modules: MA1505 Maths, PC1431 Physics IE and EG 1108 Electrical Engineering with Damien and Zhang Hao. Tutorials self-completed and peer-reviewed. Damien going all out for old textbooks; he's more hardworking than I am.
2. Ainan asked me last Tuesday about eye candy in NUS. Eye candy is not a big problem yet.
3. Crashing the art room on Tuesday, Thursday and Friday on consent from Teachers. Gets to be first truly calafare AEP senior on the scene. Despite the stigma that the profession of 3D modelling bore in 2nd Company, I am picking it up again. And thank God I still know how to!
4. Has no job and is not looking.
5. Driving lessons starting in 11 Feb.
6. Guitar lessons starting in ?????
7. Installed: 3ds MAX 9 and Visual C++ 2008 Express, uninstalled: most games.
2. Ainan asked me last Tuesday about eye candy in NUS. Eye candy is not a big problem yet.
3. Crashing the art room on Tuesday, Thursday and Friday on consent from Teachers. Gets to be first truly calafare AEP senior on the scene. Despite the stigma that the profession of 3D modelling bore in 2nd Company, I am picking it up again. And thank God I still know how to!
4. Has no job and is not looking.
5. Driving lessons starting in 11 Feb.
6. Guitar lessons starting in ?????
7. Installed: 3ds MAX 9 and Visual C++ 2008 Express, uninstalled: most games.
Monday, January 04, 2010
Setting off to a better year
The event hyped as the first class reunion of the decade happened on Saturday, 2 Jan 2010 from 1130 to 1800 hours. The atmosphere is markedly more amiable in this reunion: possibly because less people attended this year, and also possibly because we (5 out of 11) went for a drink instead of spending the afternoon watchng something shitty from Hollywood.
Matriculation for Semester Two of the 2009/10 batch of NUS students starts next week at 11 Jan 2010. Damien, Yixiong and Jedi are all thinking of jumping the gatecrashing bandwagon with me. O Merciful heavens! It is dreadful just thinking about crashing lectures all by myself.
Ainan has had a place in High School as a substitute teacher. If my gatecrashing leaves any breathing space, being an assistant to the AEP staff in my school shouldn't be out of the question.
The Sautais are coming to Singapore via Jakarta in an unspecified time. Meanwhile, through cultural differences or whatever it may be, Cyrielle is making me nervous. But never mind, I shall do my best and pick up some French; hopefully, I can pick it up as easy as I did for Indonesian.
Reading profusely again this season, usually in the libraries (i.e. NUS Central or Jurong Regional Library) to avoid the computer and its myriad temptations- Klondike, Mousehunt and whatnot.
Matriculation for Semester Two of the 2009/10 batch of NUS students starts next week at 11 Jan 2010. Damien, Yixiong and Jedi are all thinking of jumping the gatecrashing bandwagon with me. O Merciful heavens! It is dreadful just thinking about crashing lectures all by myself.
Ainan has had a place in High School as a substitute teacher. If my gatecrashing leaves any breathing space, being an assistant to the AEP staff in my school shouldn't be out of the question.
The Sautais are coming to Singapore via Jakarta in an unspecified time. Meanwhile, through cultural differences or whatever it may be, Cyrielle is making me nervous. But never mind, I shall do my best and pick up some French; hopefully, I can pick it up as easy as I did for Indonesian.
Reading profusely again this season, usually in the libraries (i.e. NUS Central or Jurong Regional Library) to avoid the computer and its myriad temptations- Klondike, Mousehunt and whatnot.
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