Just watched a movie yesterday and to be honest, I wasnt looking forward to this movie..but seeing the cast...I gave it a shot. Turns out really well! Got me thinking!
- Lions for Lambs
Cast: Robert Redford, Meryl Streep, Tom Cruise
Storyline: A new development in war tactics in Iraq, has a seasoned reporter in the senator's office. The scoop is to inform the nation of the new war tactic and ensure that America will win this time. Thereby garnering votes and sacrificing more men
Its also got a bright yet uncommited student in his lecturers office discussing the meaning of political science and whether fighting (literally & figuritively) is better than scurrying by the sidelines
At the same moment, 2 army men, drop into the ice cold mountain range after an enemy ambush. Surrounded by Taliban forces....one is injured in the arm and leg and another is shot in the arm. To lie low and play dead till reinforcements come...or to stand up play hero and die
This movie talks about only 1 thing. A simple question that has been debated a thousand times by many different groups of people with different backgrounds. This movie is a big scale debate on its own from reporter to senator, from student to lecturer and it leaves you leaving the theatre thinking about who you side with and whether you would do the same.
And this wonderfully debatable movie takes place within 1 hour. The different debates on the same topic happen at the same time with different people, defending their positions with different reasons. Is the fight with IRAQ worth the loss of so many american men & women?
The last scene shows the Pentagon (now good as new) yet along that same road trip, is a long hillside of white tombstones..for the countless men & women who died for the past 6 years.
I believe this movie is soo controversial that they probably had a prob getting it out into the market. The possible reasons to it successfully being shown would be either due to the lack of sensitive info or providing only the info that is already known to the public. Either way..whether the statistics are real or not, it doesnt affect the question. Is this war worth fighting anymore?
This movie will get any debator's blood boiling
God Bless
Monday, November 12, 2007
Saturday, November 10, 2007
Happy Deepavali!
The festival of Lights!
Went to frens place on thurs and had good homecooked indian food w briyani rice. We sat down, chatted until 4pm, then shifted to the living room to watch "Pokiri" staring Vijay. :)
Im a vijay fan if you havnt already guessed. a 3hr long show but it was good, the indian version of "Departed" staring Leonardo Di Caprio...sorta makes me wanna watch that movie.
Fri was supposed to be a free day for me but i had to go back to work for at least half the day to settle some stuff. Haiz...
Met frens int he evening for a cool round of "You must be an idiot!" at Settlers Cafe. :) The beauty of this game is being able to call everyone an idiot hahhahha In fact while the girl in the cafe tried to explain to us the game, she called us idiots unprohibitedly hahah causing a certain bro of mine to cringe at every sentence hahahaha
Girl says:
- everybody get s turn to be the genius and ask questions
- the goal of the idiot is to make sure he/she doesnt get discovered, if you dont get discovered, you get 3 points
- if you say that another member is an idiot and you're right, you get 2 points
- if you wrongly accuse another opponent to be an idiot, you lose a point and she/he gains one
- the idiot can not answer the trivia questions correctly, if he/she does, minus 1 point
- For every turn, you can make a guess on who the idiot is
The questions for thsi game were so american that we had to more or less skip the geographical questions and political questions. my bro and I were more english based while the other 3 girls were more chinese based hence alot more questions cudnt be asked hahaha think we all cheated in the game, By the end of our game time, we were shooting questions at the 2 remaining players without even playing w the board hahaha
Throughout that whole time, Ian & I were into our "real bro & sis" mode.
Ian: I'll tell mom when we get home
Ning: Go ahead! guess who she'll side with!
Ian: Of all the times you say you love me (while getting smacked by Ning)
Ning: The chinese say Hitting is doting you, and scolding is loving you
Ian: Yah well you hate me remember! You really really hate me!
Ning: Im also half indian. So I'll still hate you and hit you!
With a bro like that who needs enemies.....Haahahahah
As we took a bus home (Ian & I), we got a chance to catch up on other issues. He has his problems and i lend a listening ear. And while I listen to all my bros & sisters replationship probs...or happiness, 1 thing keeps popping into my mind, "No matter what happens, Im just glad htat everyone else around me is happy" :) And so far I thank God that its going that way. :)
Going to Bala's house today. Gonna see his baby girl and his wife too! Whoopee! Photos will come soon!
Happy Deepavali!
God Bless
Went to frens place on thurs and had good homecooked indian food w briyani rice. We sat down, chatted until 4pm, then shifted to the living room to watch "Pokiri" staring Vijay. :)
Im a vijay fan if you havnt already guessed. a 3hr long show but it was good, the indian version of "Departed" staring Leonardo Di Caprio...sorta makes me wanna watch that movie.
Fri was supposed to be a free day for me but i had to go back to work for at least half the day to settle some stuff. Haiz...
Met frens int he evening for a cool round of "You must be an idiot!" at Settlers Cafe. :) The beauty of this game is being able to call everyone an idiot hahhahha In fact while the girl in the cafe tried to explain to us the game, she called us idiots unprohibitedly hahah causing a certain bro of mine to cringe at every sentence hahahaha
Girl says:
- everybody get s turn to be the genius and ask questions
- the goal of the idiot is to make sure he/she doesnt get discovered, if you dont get discovered, you get 3 points
- if you say that another member is an idiot and you're right, you get 2 points
- if you wrongly accuse another opponent to be an idiot, you lose a point and she/he gains one
- the idiot can not answer the trivia questions correctly, if he/she does, minus 1 point
- For every turn, you can make a guess on who the idiot is
The questions for thsi game were so american that we had to more or less skip the geographical questions and political questions. my bro and I were more english based while the other 3 girls were more chinese based hence alot more questions cudnt be asked hahaha think we all cheated in the game, By the end of our game time, we were shooting questions at the 2 remaining players without even playing w the board hahaha
Throughout that whole time, Ian & I were into our "real bro & sis" mode.
Ian: I'll tell mom when we get home
Ning: Go ahead! guess who she'll side with!
Ian: Of all the times you say you love me (while getting smacked by Ning)
Ning: The chinese say Hitting is doting you, and scolding is loving you
Ian: Yah well you hate me remember! You really really hate me!
Ning: Im also half indian. So I'll still hate you and hit you!
With a bro like that who needs enemies.....Haahahahah
As we took a bus home (Ian & I), we got a chance to catch up on other issues. He has his problems and i lend a listening ear. And while I listen to all my bros & sisters replationship probs...or happiness, 1 thing keeps popping into my mind, "No matter what happens, Im just glad htat everyone else around me is happy" :) And so far I thank God that its going that way. :)
Going to Bala's house today. Gonna see his baby girl and his wife too! Whoopee! Photos will come soon!
Happy Deepavali!
God Bless
Monday, November 05, 2007
FUNBUZZ 2007
Spent the saturday w my ISC students at Ngee Ann Poly, we were e rep team from SP ISC.
The team consists: Liting, Dodo, Ai Yun, Helmut, Jonathan L, Hainita and I
Think Im probably the only team w an officer in it and mind you, didnt let any of them mention that I was the officer...all the other officers were comfortably sitting under the shade while I was in the bloody hot sun, w face paint and sweating..I mean perspiring....
Even got such a good tan that the face paint I had on, caused a white mark on my right cheek (from ur view)...hence the number "20" is now on my cheek. My team number is 20.
We got through the 1st round of games and amazingly won 2. Which meant we had 2 rounds of semi-finals...Then we lost for both of it and amazingly, we still got 3rd prize! Hahahahahah
We whacked Kong Kong (dont ask me why they called themselves this) for dunking and got their member wet 2-3 times. Poor guy. we said sorry to him. Thanks to everyone for aiming accurately. I must say that when it was their turn to whack our Dodo ito the water, they did it fiercely and against the rules (in front of the line) Plus when Jon was blindfolded and had to follow our voices, they came in and 1 of them apparently pushed jonathan the other way. I must admit that we might have stepped over the line once or twice but we tried to be a sport and correct each other. At the end of every game, we said thank you to the teams. Thanks Dodo for sacrificing. BTW...we took a pic of Dodo w his abs hahaha soon to be on multiply.com *evil laugh*
The team consists: Liting, Dodo, Ai Yun, Helmut, Jonathan L, Hainita and I
Think Im probably the only team w an officer in it and mind you, didnt let any of them mention that I was the officer...all the other officers were comfortably sitting under the shade while I was in the bloody hot sun, w face paint and sweating..I mean perspiring....
Even got such a good tan that the face paint I had on, caused a white mark on my right cheek (from ur view)...hence the number "20" is now on my cheek. My team number is 20.
We got through the 1st round of games and amazingly won 2. Which meant we had 2 rounds of semi-finals...Then we lost for both of it and amazingly, we still got 3rd prize! Hahahahahah
We whacked Kong Kong (dont ask me why they called themselves this) for dunking and got their member wet 2-3 times. Poor guy. we said sorry to him. Thanks to everyone for aiming accurately. I must say that when it was their turn to whack our Dodo ito the water, they did it fiercely and against the rules (in front of the line) Plus when Jon was blindfolded and had to follow our voices, they came in and 1 of them apparently pushed jonathan the other way. I must admit that we might have stepped over the line once or twice but we tried to be a sport and correct each other. At the end of every game, we said thank you to the teams. Thanks Dodo for sacrificing. BTW...we took a pic of Dodo w his abs hahaha soon to be on multiply.com *evil laugh*
We got thrashed by this Kong Kong team for dodgeball. They whacked poor jonathan and the rest soo hard and yet jonathan was soo sporting and small and springy that he managed to siam alot of the balls HAHAHAA very proud of him We lost for that but we didint want to win that anyway...
Wargh Games is a game of guns and soldiers and we were against this weird team which had all guys..so we sorta figured we'd lost already hahaha It was fun while it lasted though. :/ We got killed off quite quickly but Dodo was the last one to hold on and spent his last breathe shooting the enemy. *salute*
Then the relay race. We were last but it doesnt matter. We tried our best. The hardest was probabaly the gunny sack...Aiyun stumbled in that...thanks to having 2 big and 1 small guy..we had no prob balacing on 3 chairs hahahaha Jonathan was evil enough to catch and incoming water bomb and throwing it back at the thrower hahahahahaha
We won another round of Sumo and Jousting. Dodo, Hainita, Liting & I were jousting on a shaky inflated platform and we won our 1st opponents easily. The other smaller ones decided to be Sumos! So they wore the Sumo costumes that were heavy enough to bring them down without having anyone helping hahahah. The 2nd opposing team was from Africa and we sorta gave up the moment we saw them. Hahahahah well it was fun while it lasted.
All in all, we won and we lost w grace. :) Every match we had, we said our thanks to our opponents. Whether they deserved it or not I will not judge but while it lasted, at least we showed that we are not the team to hold grudges.
Anyway...this event also proves that Im getting old. Even today, I am aching...
I dont regret going for this..even though I had my reservations and hesitations. It sorta proves one thing....that you wont know until you try. We had a strategy for almost every game even if we didnt win it...least we tried.
This event got me thinking as well...at how they organise it. How different the club is from the ISCs from the other schools. Why is it they're so "on" about these things...while our club is sooo "off" where has the spirit gone to? One thing I know that resurfaced...was te "respect" sign that we gave each other. We lost it mid this year....we lost our vision mid this year too...
All in all...it was really fun..the event got us sweating and all but it was fun and insightful while it lasted.
God Bless
For every Christian I know...watch this...
http://www.godtube.com/view_video.php?viewkey=ee73e63418003b47d7d5&page=1&viewtype=&category=mv
I cried after watching this and it haunted me through the weekend. Thanks Stephen...
So many things we can reflect on in this video....
1) God's love for us and creating everything on earth for us, for our pleasure
2) God constantly looking down on us in concern even when we are in our darkest moments
3) God coming to our rescue the moment we want to go back to him. He gives us the strength to come back to Him and also protects us from our trials and evils as we once again come back to his safe haven and grow in his love.
Ning
I cried after watching this and it haunted me through the weekend. Thanks Stephen...
So many things we can reflect on in this video....
1) God's love for us and creating everything on earth for us, for our pleasure
2) God constantly looking down on us in concern even when we are in our darkest moments
3) God coming to our rescue the moment we want to go back to him. He gives us the strength to come back to Him and also protects us from our trials and evils as we once again come back to his safe haven and grow in his love.
Ning
Thursday, November 01, 2007
Nothing is Imposible...Luke 18:27
The msg I got from God today....Luke 18: 27, Nothing is Impossible.
How do I know?
Was on the MRT and reading a christian magazine and there was an article of one of the pastors and he told of his scripture verse..a verse that he lives by or believe in...Luke 18:27
Normally Id shun it after the reading. Nto coz I want to...but because its my bad nature...but this time it hit home and Im living by this verse today....
When I got my brithday present from my colleagues...they gave me a clay tablet to place on the table....guess what it said..."nothing is impossible"
My talk w God in the morning as I walked to the mrt was somethign along the lines of, "I dont know how good I am at working" "Feel like I cant cope at times....what do I go God?"
God: Pray before you do anything Ning...
Likewise..this tablet had a pair of hands on it and "prayer" in golden. Below it, engraved into the tablet, "nothing is impossible"
I dont believe in coincidences, never did and never will...not that accidental meetins dont happen...but I believe it happens because God willed it so...
I found my bible verses notebook and casually flipped to a page that said," Or do you think that I cannot now pray to My Father, and He will provide me with more than twelve legions of angels." Matt 26:53
My day today was full of my own condemnation and as I read this and thought of God and His love for me, I felt my mood turned for the better. Thank you sooo much God. I actually feel that whatever I do now..will go smooth.
God Bless
How do I know?
Was on the MRT and reading a christian magazine and there was an article of one of the pastors and he told of his scripture verse..a verse that he lives by or believe in...Luke 18:27
Normally Id shun it after the reading. Nto coz I want to...but because its my bad nature...but this time it hit home and Im living by this verse today....
When I got my brithday present from my colleagues...they gave me a clay tablet to place on the table....guess what it said..."nothing is impossible"
My talk w God in the morning as I walked to the mrt was somethign along the lines of, "I dont know how good I am at working" "Feel like I cant cope at times....what do I go God?"
God: Pray before you do anything Ning...
Likewise..this tablet had a pair of hands on it and "prayer" in golden. Below it, engraved into the tablet, "nothing is impossible"
I dont believe in coincidences, never did and never will...not that accidental meetins dont happen...but I believe it happens because God willed it so...
I found my bible verses notebook and casually flipped to a page that said," Or do you think that I cannot now pray to My Father, and He will provide me with more than twelve legions of angels." Matt 26:53
My day today was full of my own condemnation and as I read this and thought of God and His love for me, I felt my mood turned for the better. Thank you sooo much God. I actually feel that whatever I do now..will go smooth.
God Bless
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