QuOtEs..

“A dance is a very profound means to integrate the internal world with the external world.” Bill T. Jones, dancer/choreographer

“…the poetry of dance is the expression of unseen spiritual grace.”
Stewart Headler (19th century)

“The art of dancing…perhaps more than all other arts, is an outward and visible sign of an inward and spiritual grace.”
Ruth St. Denis, pioneer of modern dance, founder Sacred Dance Guild

“No, art is not catharsis. Just the opposite: Art is rehearsal. Watching or listening to other people do something is a way of mentally rehearsing it—which makes it easier for us to do the same thing. After all, that’s why businesses spend untold millions of dollars on advertising every year.” Chuck Colson, founder, Prison Fellowship

“Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time.”
Thomas Merton, Trappist monk, writer

“Art takes the ordinary and alters it in ways which make us see a deeper reality, one of things not merely seen but both implied and inferred. It alters relationships and makes us move off our comfortable center, to see, hear and think anew. Art can, in the hands of great talent, make beauty which reverberates through our lives and carries us into rarified strata. It can shatter our perceptions. It can clarify our anger. It can help us to understand our sorrow…Art provides the channel for those qualities which endure beyond the turmoil of a chaotic and threatened world…In dance, one returns to long forgotten basics: the revelations of non-verbal symbology – the physical knowledge of emotion. The body has been learning since before birth.”
Bella Lewitzky, dancer/choreographer

“I scrub my hands with the purest soap, then join hands with the others in the great circle dancing around your altar, God, Singing God-songs at the top of my lungs, telling God-stories.” David, song writer, king (Psalm 26)

“Therefore, I urge you, brothers, in view of God’s mercy, to offer your bodies as living sacrifices, holy and pleasing to God—which is your spiritual worship.”
Romans 12:1 (NIV)

“So here’s what I want you to do, God helping you: Take your everyday, ordinary life—your sleeping, eating, going-to-work, and walking-around life – and place it before God as an offering. Embracing what God does for you is the best thing you can do for him.”
Romans 12:1 (The Message)

“The very moment you separate body and spirit, you end up with a corpse. Separate faith and works and you get the same thing: a corpse.”
James 2:26 (The Message)

“Beauty is not only a terrible thing, it is also a mysterious thing. There God and the Devil strive for mastery, and the battleground is the heart of men.”

Fyodor Dostoyevsky, novelist (The Brothers Karamazov)

The StoRy oF JaCksOn

it GoEs..

Tong Tong Tong Tong Tong

Story of Jackson Tong

Who only lives in his small kelong

He only wears long thongs

And only eats lontong

And when he's free he will fish sotong!

So...

He is Jackson Tong

Who fell into a dong (hole)

And when they found him he became ding dong!

tong tong tong tong tong, tong tong!

hey.. know what i realized... it's been more than a month since i updated...
actually having a blog is pretty cool...
with all the gossip and backstabbing going around when you're this age.. it's hard to even keep a secret.. when u tell something to someone.. you realise that 10 other ppl know about it but they're just keeping mum
what's it with this world and their mouths anyways..
well at least that i have a blog.. i can blog all i want.. say what i want to say... and no one knows.. (or at least i think)

So.. a month has passed.. i've almost completed my papers.. terms over.. exam's over.. but life still sucks.. y do i say that.. coz the only constant thing in this world is... (and every one says).. CHANGE!.. so as climates and seasons change, so do people..

humans... people.. they are the hardest thing to deal with on planet EARTH.. it's hard even to talk sense into them.. well.. not that i'ma genius or sth..

i feel that i'm messing up my life at this point.. there's sos much to decide on.. so many ppl to please... misundersandings upon misunderstandings.. i'm meeting up with so many people and getting involved in so many things that i can't even stop and think who and what's most important to me..

Even my parents think negative now..

It seems as if there are so few ppl there for me.. or m i just too caught up and wasting my time and energy on ppl who won't even care a thing if i'm in trouble?

God, you put ppl into my path.. of course i know it's to mould and build me.. i think you're trying to accelerate it a bit too fast.. haha.. i duno.. it seems like everything is just coming into my life and messing it up so quickly.. before i even clear up the previous mess.. i get myself into another one.. oh well... i just have to work doubly hard and doubly fast..

Clubbing.. right or wrong?

Sometimes.. i just feel that Christians are the ones who judge the most.. coz we have the Bible and we think we are all holy boly roly poly.. that everyone else is wrong.. isn't that judging? i mean.. who are we to say that we're right in the first place?

The bible talks about liberty! not oppression!

i just thought about it today.. if i want to be a successful youth pastor.. i cannot only minister to people whom i like.. or people who are easy to minister to.. or people of a certain characteristic.. i mean.. yea.. there will b certainly strengths in my ministry for example.. i more effective in reaching out to a certain people perhaps.. but i have to even deal with bigger issues.. times are changing and so has the church got to change..

i mean.. Christianity or true conversion is ultimately just about a change of allegience and by following His word.. the Holy Spirit convicts our sinful nature and transformation begins in our lives... but why do some people do it the other way round? - try to get people to change their lifestyle and fit into the 'Christian' culture... THERE IS NO CHRISTIAN CULTURE!! JESUS IS A INTERNATIONAL, INTERCULTURAL GOD!!