Life, Travel, GRACE

Psst, it's no good for baby under 2 years to watch TV. Recent research has pointed out that watching too much TV will cause development delays. No wonder Micah has speech language delays; because he watched too much Baby Einstein and TV? No doubt educational programs are educational, but they are only effective for toddler above 2 years old (when they know how to differentiate things, recognize stuff etc). What about iPad apps? No research on this yet. Perhaps few years later we will know.

Born on 14 Oct 2011, 11.30am.

I remember my first PC experience was when I was in primary school. At that time, I had a fun time with the dos-based PC game with a schoolmate (you can say he's from a wealthy family background as buying a PC at that time cost a lot). Few years later, my secondary school had its first ever computer lab. Everyone was very excited. If I remember correctly, at that time only two notable PC brands were prominent: IBM and Apple. The school chose the former brand though. PC had become a cool tool to do your word processing. That's my PC experience back then. As time evolves, so as PC technologies. Windows system was lauded as the most popular and successful PC system in the late 90's. Though some praised on UNIX system, which I came across in my previous Engineering Faculty. Then there was a hype on Apple's new iMac. My first impression was that it had a very sleek design - unconventional. But I had not a single idea about its system. Thought it was the same as Windows. At t...

How should we educate our children based on the Lord's Prayer? 9 “This, then, is how you should pray: “‘Our Father in heaven, hallowed be your name, 10 your kingdom come, your will be done, on earth as it is in heaven. 11 Give us today our daily bread. 12 And forgive us our debts, as we also have forgiven our debtors. 13 And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from the evil one.’ Matt 6:9-13 We first teach our children that God is our heavenly Father (Matt 6:9). This is the first step to cultivate a sense of security in the children. This same verse also set the ground of teaching children to honor God. In verse 10, we are to instill God's purpose in our children. As we come to verse 11, we are reminded to teach our children that God is our provider. God provides our physical, emotional and spiritual needs. How then should we educate our children to respond to God's provision? We teach them to share, trust and give thanks to God's provision.

The main cause of the hatred of early Christians in Roman society lies in their distinctive life-style....Men always view with suspicion people who are different. Conformity, not distinctiveness, is the way to a trouble-free life. So the more early Christians took their faith seriously the more they were in danger of crowd reaction. Thus, simply by living according to the teachings of Jesus, the Christian was a constant unspoken condemnation of the pagan way of life. It was not that the Christian went about criticizing and condemning and disapproving, nor was he consciously self-righteous and superior. It was simply that the Christian ethic in itself was a criticism of pagan life. (Shelley, Church History In Plain Language , 38-39.) Any difference with our country's current situation lately? After all the years, it sounds like meaningless to celebrate the National Day where the majority of the people has taken advantage of the media in persecution of a certain Chri...

I read Luke 12:22-34 again. This is not the first time I read it. It is said that God will provide us. Interestingly, this time verse 34 got my attention. For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also. So if we treasure gold, there our heart will be. We will think about it day and night. Worry if someone will steal it. If we treasure life, there our heart will be. We think about people we love and care. We pray for their blessing. So what are the things that sit in your heart and become your treasure? Financial providence, life and all the nitty-gritty? Note: I just realized this is the 500th entry. Time flies. Lately have been writing less frequent. Hope will share more insightful thought in future writing.

Interesting illustration on debt settlement in an economy system: A merchant happened to come across a village on one of his travels. This village was not doing well economically. Business was slow, jobs were hard to come by and many people were in debt. He stopped by an inn to see if he likes it enough to stay for the night. He put a $100 bill on the counter as deposit to the innkeeper to allow him to inspect the available rooms. While the merchant was busy checking out the rooms, the innkeeper went out, taking the $100 with him, to see his supplier. He gave the money to his supplier to pay his outstanding bills for supply of goods to the inn. After receiving the $100, the supplier then gave it to his employee as wages which he had owed for a long time. The employee then went home and on his way met his neighbour who had lent him money several months ago. He repaid the loan from his neighbour with the $100. The neighbour who took the money then went to the inn wher...