Today has been one heck of an exciting and interesting day.



I went out at 12pm to catch Prince Caspian at the Cathay with Evonne, Linette, Jasmine, Ruth and Maoxiang and Pearlyn. The movie in terms of action and thrills was good enough, the rest of it was quite disappointing for me, especially the corruption of several main spiritual themes in the book. Quite disappointed. In fact I shall write a review soon on why Prince Caspian is such a let down, as well as being slightly atheist in theme. Anyhow ignoring this, and Ben Barnes' colourless acting, and the almost complete absence of Aslan, and the portrayal of Peter as having qualities more befitting a scullery maid than a high kning, the movie is passable.



The show ended around 4:30, then we walked down to Raffles City to do some aimless wondering. (When you're alone with a group of 5 girls theres always bound to be some aimless shopping, which is actually a waste of time but its ok. I had a lot of time to waste.) So just show some tolerance haha. Then Evonne realised her wallet went missing so we backtracked to Cathay to look for it and thank God she eventually found it.



Crisisover, time for more aimless shopping at the Cathay. It was around 6 that I excused myself and went to meet up with Someone. Then I had a hurried dinner at plaza Sing and rushed down to the Esplanade, because I had another concert there to attend. The concert was scheduled at 1930 hrs. I reached there at 1935hrs. And I realised that the Esplanade had very strict rules on timing. Another 30 seconds late and I would have been locked out.



The concert was a Symphony of the music written for Lord of the Rings triology, composed and directed by none other than Howard Shore. Complete with sketchbook drawings of movie scenes by some renowned artists, it was truly manificent. Worth every cent of the $16 I paid and more. Again, when I have time I will write a review of it too.



By the time it ended and I reached back to Raffles City, it was already 10pm. spent some time browsing at mph then finally left for home at 1030pm. Reached my house at 1130pm.



More next time ciao!

I found this excerpt from the book i was reading the other day, Mere Christianity, by Christian theologian CS Lewis. Yes, he's the same guy who wrote the Chronicles of Narnia and i bet ifhe were to see the movies these days he'd wish his books never got made into movies. But thats besides the point. This inspiring exerpt has him answering the question some non Christians have about God, which is

"If God is real and powerful, and He's supposed to be in charge, then why isn't he showing Himself here on Earth now so that more people would believe in Him? Why couldn't He just stay on earth after his resurrection, if he really wanted to save us? Why would he allow the world to be corrupted by sin and suffering and evil under the devil's control, as Christians claim"

A close friend of mine recently asked me this: "Why can't we accept Jesus after we die? When we can know FOR SURE whether He is real or not. Why must we only become believers before we die in order to be saved?"

Here is Lewis' answer to both questions, and I think I couldn't agree more...

"Another possible objection (to Christianity) is this: Why is God landing in this enemy-occupied world in disguise (as Jesus in human form) and starting a sort of secret society (Christianity) to undermine the devil? Why is He not landing in force, invading it?Is it that He is not strong enough? Well, Christians believe He is going to land in force; we don't know when. But we can guess why He's delaying. He wants to give us the chance of joining His side freely.I do not suppose you and I would think much of a Frenchman who waited till the Allies were in Germany and thenannounced he was on our side. God will invade.But I wonder whether those people who ask God to interfere openly and directly in our world quite realise what it will be like when he does. When that happens, its the end of the world. When the author walks onto the stage the play is over. God is going to invade, all right, but what is the good of saying you are on His side then, when you see the whole natural universe melting away like a dream and something else-something it never entered your head to concieve, comes crashing in; something so beautiful to some of us and so terrible to others that none of us will have any choice left? For this time it will be God without disguise (in His true divine form); something so overwhelming that it will either strike irresistable love or irrisistable terror into every creature. It will be too late then to choose your side. That will not be the time for choosing; it will be the time we discover which side we have chosen, whether we realised it or not."

"God is holding back to give us that chance (to choose to believe in Him freely). It will not last forever. We must take it or leave it." (CS Lewis,Mere Christianity, parenthesized words mine)

So God actually wants to give us a free choice to choose or reject Him. God doesn't want to force us to believe. But when you die, or when God comes again (whichever comes first) its game over. You will finally meet God face to face. You can't change the results or restart the game. You can't switch sides. And your game results have eternal consequences. Its simple: either eternal death or eternal life.

Sounds horrible? No. Actually we are already destined for eternal death, because of our sin. This is the only way out.

In subsequent posts I shall try to answer some people when they say "Christianity is selfish"

Mr CLZL, I hope this answers ur question:)

ardeo alis aquilae in solus Christo

Here are some great videos I found...very inspiring



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