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Sitting in a earthquake prone area is no joke. Indonesia should know. It sits in an area know as the Pacific “Ring of Fire”. An undersea earthquake on Boxing Day in 2004 generated huge tsunami waves that took the lives of nearly a quarter of a million people across 11 countries. The undersea tremblor on September 2 [...] Press reports that world renown 85-year old British orchestra conductor Sir Edward Downes died last week with his terminally ill 74-year old wife in a legal assisted-suicde clinic in Switzerland is disturbing. This is believed to be one of a handful of cases of a person dying in an assisted suicide who is not terminally ill. There will of [...] The subject of death does not seem to want to go away. Death is no respecter of persons – everyone must die one day. Michael Jackson’s sudden death may make some to ponder over the timing and nature of their own death in the future. Perhaps you have been thinking of your own death? Will it be a [...] We were waiting in the blistering sun. The shuttle was due in a few minutes to take us to the airport. We were leaving my wife’s family reunion in Hartford, CT. The shuttle was a sight for sore and hot eyes. We had five bags, one a monstrosity of a bag, the king of backbreakers. The shuttle driver [...] I saw in The Star Newspaper in Malacca (Malaysia) today an advertisement that reads as follows: “We’re giving a discount on discounts.” This is from Citibank. What a catchy statement. Reminds me of the time decades ago when I was working in private equity fund management (aka venture capital). A colleague of mine was working on a deal in [...] What a difference a misplaced punctuation mark makes! Consider this classroom scenario. Teacher: Make a statement from the following sentence by inserting punctuation marks at appropriate places: “woman without her man is nothing” Male Student : “Woman, without her man, is nothing!” Female Student : “Woman! without her, man is nothing.” See how the meaning of a sentence is changed completely [...] The Abruptly Wealthy If you have an opportunity to receive an unexpected financial windfall, how much would you like it to be? How about $232.1 million? A despatch from Associated Press dated June 6, 2009 named Neal Wanless as the sole winner of 9th largest Powerball jackpot in history. After deducting taxes on this jackpot winning, [...] There are five ‘big questions’ people always ask and by giving people logical answers to their honest questions you maybe rolling away the stone so they can come out of their tomb of unbelief? Or your answer to their questions may be that ray of light pointing them to the gospel. On a certain ocean liner, a [...] Lisa Redick
Not a very comfortable way to be — broken. Not for the average thinker anyway. It gives the idea of “spoiled or not working right.” Yet clearly, brokenness (or absolute surrender) is a fundamental in experiencing the promised victorious Christian life-life lived in victory at the foot of the [...] Ah Beng wrote to his former girlfriend. Dear Ah Lian, I could not sleep well ever since we broke off our engagement. It is all my fault. You are the world to me. I don’t know how am I going to live on without you. Think of all the wonderful things we [...] |
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