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May 30, 2007

How do you group Messenger contacts?

Filed under: Technology — hendrikch @ 12:33 am

WLM8.5
Windows Live Messenger (previously MSN Messenger) allows us to categorize and groups our contacts into their respective groups. My current groups are admittedly outdated, and screams re-organizing. So, here I am, polling you all again, how do you groups your contacts in Messenger (be it Windows Live or Yahoo)? Is it based on groups like Company Name, School Name? Or based on graduation year? Or based on nationality? Or how?

Btw, if you are wondering why my Windows Live Messenger looks different, it is because it IS different. It is the upcoming Windows Live Messenger 8.5, currently still in Beta.

May 26, 2007

An answer on betrayal

Filed under: Christianity, Personal Ramblings — hendrikch @ 11:49 pm

betrayalFew days ago, I posted a question on betrayal to you all here. The responses were insightful for sure. It ranges from forgive and forget, four-step process of forgiving and making peace, keeping trust, until a quote from Mother Theresa. Thanks all for the responses.

Let me start with the background. Last Monday, I was watching Mars Vs Venus in Channel 8. The episode was about a wife who thought her husband cheated on her, betrayed her by having affair with another woman (who coincidentally is her best friend). Her husband pleaded innocence (and he is) but his wife, even after knowing the truth, refused to forgive him and filed for divorce.

Somehow that episode left an impression on my mind. On my way back home, I was thinking about it. Why is it so hard to forgive, even after knowing that her husband was innocent? What strucked me was the follow up that crossed my mind. How about us, humans, before God? Admit it, we all have betrayed God, we all “had affair” with others, we sin, we ignore God, we wanted a “divorce” from God as we do not want God’s intervention in our lives. And what’s the response from God? What the LOVE Himself do? He has the right to punish us for all of our mistakes, to throw us into a fiery furnace, but He decided to send His Son, Jesus Christ, into this world to save us. He sent His Grace.

That, to me at least, is a demonstration of what a true LOVE is. We disappointed Him again and again, we don’t deserve Him, but He chose to keep loving us, no matter what. (on the other side of the coin, when we have used up all our chances and don’t repent, He will STOP loving us and send us to hell). I feel that I am currently in the process of being moulded to learn this very aspect in my life. Can I love those who don’t love me? Can I pray for those who have hurt me? Can I keep loving those who have disappointed me again and again? Can I keep trusting the person who have abused my trust time and again? Can I keep giving chances one after another even when they all have been squandered? That is EXACTLY what God does, He gives me chances after chances, but can I extend the same towards others?

If you love those who love you, what credit is that to you? Even ’sinners’ love those who love them. And if you do good to those who are good to you, what credit is that to you? Even ’sinners’ do that.” (Luke 6:32-33)

May 24, 2007

Gmail increased attachments limit to 20MB

Filed under: Technology — hendrikch @ 11:08 am

Gmail has increased the maximum allowable attachments limit from the previous 10MB to 20MB. Good stuff!!! :-D

May 21, 2007

A question on betrayal

Filed under: Personal Ramblings — hendrikch @ 10:57 pm

Let me start with getting opinions, thoughts, ideas from my readers here to this question below:
What will you do, when someone you love the most, betrays you?

I’ll pen down my thoughts in a few days, but I would like to get some inputs from all of you first :)

May 17, 2007

Teenagers these days

Filed under: Personal Ramblings — hendrikch @ 12:22 am

Teenagers these days need education. What has this world come to?
http://newpaper.asia1.com.sg/printfriendly/0,4139,130301,00.html

May 12, 2007

Super Duper Tuper Euper Luper

Filed under: Funny-stuff — hendrikch @ 1:28 pm

Yesterday, I changed my MSN nick name to “Super Duper Tuper Luper Sleepy“. Trust me, I anyhow typed the “Tuper and Luper“. Sometime in the afternoon, eMKa messaged me, saying: “You missed Euper there between Tuper and Luper”.
Me: “How can?”
MK: “Somehow I see the pattern there:
S atu (one) -> S uper
D ua (two) -> D uper
T iga (three) -> T uper
E mpat (four) -> E uper
L ima (five) -> L uper”
Me: “Woah, brilliant!!!” And immediately I changed my nick name to Super Duper Tuper Euper Luper Sleepy hahaha……

Two minutes later:
MK: “Ehhhhh…….. got a better one”
Me: “What?”
MK: “Continue the pattern:
S atu (one)
D ua (two)
T iga (three)
E mpat (four)
L ima (five)
E name (six)
T ujuh (seven)
D elapan (eight)
S embilan (nine)

And you’ll get: Super Duper Tuper Euper Luper Euper Tuper Duper Super.
It’s a Palindrome, can you believe it?”
Me: “-.-!!”

May 10, 2007

Why feel troubled?

Filed under: Personal Ramblings — hendrikch @ 11:00 pm

Don’t know where I shall start. These past few days I feel troubled. Many things are running through my heads. Probably worry about too much things. Is it work related? I don’t think so. Personal problem? Maybe? There have been lots and lots of warning signs put for me over the months, but probably only last night I started to realize, started to pull everything together, arranged the bits and pieces of my thoughts and experiences to get a clearer picture of what has happened. Still not sure if I’ll change for the better, well I guess I will, it’s just the matter of time. You said that I like improvements, I do, and I will keep improve for the better. After all, realizing mistake is a crucial step towards change, it’s the people who doesn’t learn from mistake who doesn’t change, and thus keep making the same mistake again and again.

I was told today, look back at my early days, when I was 5, 6, 10, 15, 17, 20 years old, what are the crisis that I faced in my life? If I were to draw all of them into one picture, they said it’ll fit nicely into one picture, that without realizing, the crisis that people face over the span of their life tends to be the same. Once we have identified what our character is, match them with the crisis that we faced, it’ll be easy to understand why we responded the way we responded to the crisis that we faced.

Back to myself, people face troubles, problems (I prefer the word challenges actually) in their life. I feel that I am troubled too, but the thing is I can’t seem to understand why, the thing that came are all too sudden, too fragmented, too hazy, too ………. . However, despite all these, I’m glad that I kept going back again and again to God, knowing that He knows what’s best in His time. It’s just that I’m not sure if I can wait for His time. C’mon c’mon be patient, and everything will finally fall into place !!!

Be patient be patient to wait for His time, keep the faith … when … when …

Sorry for the messy, unstructured post. It’s a ramblings after all :p

But my righteous one[a] will live by faith.
   And if he shrinks back,
      I will not be pleased with him.”
[b] [Hebrews 10:38]

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