Looks like a shortcut taken in 1st year has come back to bite me: I never quite learnt the Greek alphabet in order. What I do is I transpose from English and hope for the best. Well, this is causing me great trouble right now as I *try to* use my print edition BDAG (Greek [...]
Itinerant preaching is tough. For a novice like me, I prefer to know the peripherals beforehand so I can concentrate on delivering God’s word in a context where you don’t know the people. But invariably I forget to check one thing or another because I just assume it’ll be as “usual” – and these least-expected [...]
John Wyatt, professor of Ethics and Perinatology (mother-fetus specialist) at University College London has been a treat this year. His series of lectures titled ‘Bioethics and Future Hope’ speaks knowledgeably from a medical professional’s point of view, but also unashamedly from a professing Christian’s point of view. I attended last night’s lecture, but couldn’t go [...]
Just found out that Peter O’Brien is retiring next year – very untimely as we are finally 4th years! A rumour is going around that another wise senior lecturer will also go from semi-retirement to full retirement. Today is a sad sad day.
One of the ‘bonus’ of going to a fellowship that’s on Saturday nights (perhaps ‘consequence’ is the better word) is that we get to catch Better Homes and Gardens on Friday night tv. Not that I have much interest in gardening (nor any talent whatsoever), but Ed Halmagyi, better know as ‘Fast’ Ed, is a [...]
The doctor said that because more than 70% of flu cases this season has been the H1N1 influenza, they don’t even test for it anymore. They just presribe Tamiflu straightaway now. Its suppose to be some wonder drug for flu … well, at $5 per pill (10 pills for the total treatment), I certainly hope [...]
As TIME reports, a study that came out of Journal of Personality and Social Psychology found that the best way to be perceived as a leader is to talk like one. Consistently, the group members who spoke up the most were rated the highest for such qualities as “general intelligence” and “dependable and self-disciplined.” The [...]
Its almost 2am. Although the first draft is done, I have doubts as to whether this really qualifies as an essay. The only similarity here is that it fits within the word limit. I came across Ackroyd’s ‘Exile and Restoration‘ for another OT essay in first year, but its meaning escaped me then. You can [...]
Quoted in our Hebrew lecture notes: ‘No poem worthy of the name follows the rules’. Great …
I’ve just returned from a Moore College fundraising dinner where Kevin Rudd is the guest speaker for the evening, and I had the privilege of been one of his neighbours during dinner =) We even had a short exchange in Mandarin where I found out he did postgraduate studies in Taiwan! In the after-dinner address [...]