OCF this time round has been the emptiest I've seen ever since I came to Melbourne. Sure it is the exam times but it's never this empty. The other contributing factor was that the church camp started that day so apparently some of the OCFers (no doubt the pre-clinical med students) are over there. So empty that there were only 5 ppl from my Bible study group (out of a possible 17). Serious.
Anyway, we were looking through the book of Ruth in OCF just as a filler to July Camp, Mission Month and the second semester. The first thing that caught my attention was how Ruth and Orpah responded after their husbands (the sons of Naomi) died. Naomi decided to go back to Bethlehem after hearing word that there is aid there as compared to Moab where there is a famine, she persuaded Orpah and Ruth to go back to their mother's home. Initially they both wanted to follow Naomi but Naomi further reasoned with them otherwise. On a side note, the reasoning I thought was a bit odd. Naomi questioned them on whether they are still willing to wait for her to bear sons, watch them grow up until they are fit to marry them. That is if of course she is able to do so by finding a husband that day and (I think) give birth to sons that same day as well. Obviously impossible. Bottom line is that she questioned them on whether they would remain unmarried just to be with hopefully someone in Naomi's family line (-ish). Somehow that had an impact on Orpah and so she left for her mother's home but not so with Ruth. When Naomi further persuaded Ruth to go back, Ruth gave this almost-can-be-used-as-a-romantic-cheesy-line reply of not leaving her no matter what. She even when as far as claiming that Naomi's God will be her God and that is a pretty big claim for a non-Jew to say almost immediately. She even swears that God with "punish" her if she is separated by any other means than death. *gasp*
Now normally, like anyone knowing how to read the Bible, you'd look for clues in the previous passage etc etc but this is the beginning of a book with little reference about Ruth's past (as far as I know). So we are just left with this. I wonder, what made Ruth say such a thing like that? Even to say that God will be the God of this Moabite woman? It is quite hard to fathom such an event and I wonder what went through her mind when all of this happened. Of course, the textbook answer is that it is all God's plan, work of the Spirit etc etc. Still, it's almost unthinkable for such a reply to come up ever so suddenly from a person whose people worship other gods. The amazing thing is that she was "grafted" into the Jewish family line, becoming the great-grandmother of King David and of course Jesus Christ, inspite of her not belonging to the Jews in the first place. And as we will later see in the book of Ruth, it's another OT textbook example of grace.
A few interesting articles:
Weird attempts at cashing in successful products
Weird sources of fuel for cars
Weird that Burmese people don't go "Huh. That was a funny coincidence"
I don't know if you've seen clips or news feeds on Obama killing a fly during an interview, but when I was on the main page of Youtube and I saw the title "Obama Kills Fly: Ninja Remix", you have got to click it.
Lol. Apparently quite a number of people were asking PETA on their comment regarding the fly-killing. Good thing PETA didn't make noise...or they suffer same fate as fry =P
It's been a long time since I've played pool and today we spent two hours playing pool in a place just literally at the back of my apartments. That place has pretty good tables since they are pretty new, they keep virtually everything in check and they maintain they pool balls well by polishing them after use. Not bad, explains the $16 per hour price tag. The only thing I'd have to pick on is that the place is Asian town. Of the 20++ tables used there, there were only two non-Asians playing. Coupled with the Korean/Taiwanese pop songs blasting over the speakers. They had posters of rather famous people in the pool sporting arena all over the wall. The funny thing is that there were only 3-5 people. The most common was Jeanette Lee (one of the top 5 women pool players in the world) and she has the most aggressive look whenever she plays (seen a couple of matches). And there were some unknowns like Miyuki Sakai and Yu Ram Cha which I should try and look for vids of them. Notice that they still fit well into the whole Asian town feel? That's good until you see a guy called Semih Sayginer, a Turkish carrom pool player as well as quite a renowned trick shot player. Quite random-ish.
Which reminds me, the other thing I think is cool apart from female bassists are female pool players. Not the ones who just started or play when everyone else is chipping in to play pool, the ones who have been playing rather seriously and can give you a run for your money. My first touch of pool was when I was 9 and my mum tried to teach me pool. But it wasn't until when I was about 15 that my maid at that time who taught me quite a fair bit about pool and I played with her when she has her off day. And she is pretty good. She even taught me how to play darts and once tried challenging me to a game of 501. We kinda forgot about that game but nonetheless it was still cool. Yes, it would be extra cool if I know someone who plays bass and plays good pool. And extra hot =D
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