Wednesday, April 26, 2006

THE CHERNOBYL LEGACY: Their lives were over before it had even begun

Lennel shared this with me today, thought I'd share it with you guys. It's a photoessay that's beautifully done by a professional depicting the aftermath of the Chernobyl disaster, focusing on the children that were affected. (WARNING: Pictures depicted may be deemed disturbing to some. But in my opinion, it's fine. It's more saddening than anything) It would be a good, timely reminder of how we are often so engrossed with the seemingly important issues with life like education, material wealth and the pursuit of various ideals that we often become so disillusioned and upset when small, little things do not go our way.

This photo essay will speak more to us that anything I can think of right now I believe. Listen to the commentary by the creator (Paul Fusco, I'm assuming he narrated as well), he provides really fascinating and moving commentary along with the pretty well taken photos. Bear in mind these were children who were hit by the biological and radiological harm of the disaster at an age where they could hardly even discern the event in itself. They grew up to face the consequences and experience life in a way that was not meant to be, a life that could have promised just as much as the ones you and I have. Have a really insightful time!


Photo essay may take time to load, press play to begin. You should hear an informative narration accompanying a long series of monochrome photos. Click the picture to enter.

"We are all humans: some fair, others dark; some ebony haired, others blonde; some have blue eyes, others have brown eyes... So, why do you get the chance to live a life...and I don't?"

sean || 10:59 PM

EARLY MORNING LATEST-FOOTAGE OF PEACOCK HEADING FOR WOLVES' DEN

Mandai - Intrepid zoo lover Joe Choo has revealed breaking news just days following his exciting adventure to the Singapore Zoological Gardens with his cell kids. On his hands were precious footage of the exciting moments leading up to the flying peacock landing in the wolves' den. Unfortunately, the footage of the actual entering and escape act of the peacock was not captured on film. Still, the thrilling moments leading up to it has provided us with entertaining and hilarious footage, safe in the knowledge that the peacock was ultimately unharmed. Enjoy the footage and have a great Wednesday ahead!

(Due to inevitable format conversion problems changing the file from handphone 3gp format to a more universal shockwave flash format, the admittedly hilarious audio could not be brought to you all. Apologies!)


sean || 1:05 AM

Saturday, April 22, 2006

Zoo on 22nd April 2006

Let's see, the zoo outing with my guys was fun. Justin, Kai Bin, Gabriel, Calvin and Joel went. We were touring around until Joel and Calvin decided to chase the peacock around, so there they went, and guess what. The peacock flew into the WOLF'S DEN!!! That poor bird, almost got ripped into bits and pieces by those rampaging wolves. Luckily it flew out before being mauled by any of them. Well, other than that, everything else is fine. But some exhibits were closed for renovation, so no choice. Anyway, we had quite a fun time together, haha... It ain't easy bringing 5 kids to the zoo, was nagging them all the time, haha.. Anyway, thanks to Jacqueline and Calvin's parents, we all had a free trip, haha... Zoo card!!!
Joe Choo || 5:15 PM

Thursday, April 20, 2006

What a week!

hey hey the time now is 0028hrs and I'm still in the Avid DV Xpress Editing Room exporting videos after videos to tapes after tapes. haha... funny right. also... I'm gonna stay till like 6.30 am so that i can go home... I'm the dvd author for the 7th Milo Asian Synchronized Swimming Championship and really, i'm tired now. Gonna drop soon.

School's editing system's really slow...

Prayer Requests.
I'm gonna be doing this thingy till the end of the week. Hopefully i will be able to attend service. Ya...
Pray that nothing's gonna screw-up in the midst of exporting the videos and rendering to DVD formats... U know... computers can go cranky @ times.

Logging off now...
Francis Lim || 12:29 AM

Sunday, April 16, 2006

here's a little story for everyone...

last nite i went to buy the chocolate eggs that i gave out today, a special little treat for my family + spiritual family... after that i went to meet this guy whom i've identified as a potential "son" of mine... we had a good chat and all and i'm quite set on bringing him to church one day...

well anyway... when i bought the eggs, i just grabbed a bunch and guessed how many people might be coming to service today... but in the end i juz took a bunch coz i din noe how many to buy... so the whole day i was worrying about not having enough to go round... but i told myself to believe that there'll be enough...

so i started to give out the eggs:
1. my sister and her bf
2. my gf + 6 of her girls
3. all of us
4. myself

the thing is during worship suddenly i remembered that i should have given one to that guy last nite...

and i had EXACTLY 1 egg left.

Happy Easter Sunday!
lennel || 10:40 PM

Dear cell,

These are prayer requests for William and Dennis.

William - He will be having his mid-year exams on the following dates:

- 20 April English
- 24 April Economics
- 26 April Mathematics
- 27 April Japanese Studies
- 02 May Mathematics
- 03 May Computing

Please keep him in all your prayers, may God grant him the strength and quickness of mind; wisdom and knowledge for all his coming papers! All the best for the exams!

Dennis - Please pray for his work in school.

A student by the name of Samsul has not been attending his lessons and giving him a lot of problems.
Please pray for Dennis that he may find ways to help and reach out to the boy. Pray as well for the boy, that he may be open to Dennis' care and that he will change for the better and focus on his education.

Please pray for me, Daniel, too as I am taking this boy for Secondary One English tuition. The syllabus has changed A LOT. I've been out of touch for sometime, hope I will be able to cope and do well.

Thanks everyone, have a great week!
sean || 10:12 PM

"testing, testing, 1...2...3!"

YES!!! Our cell blog is finally up! Heheheh I get to do the first post! It's a bit bare bones at the moment, our profiles on the right are not up yet too but mean while it's serviceable so bear with it! Glad that we now have our own patch of land in cyberspace! My wish is that we would not only keep track of events and with each other but also to post comments, stories, devotions, interesting features and just about anything we would like to share! So get those fingers working soon! To all the brothers of Dennis' cell, HOORAY!
sean || 12:29 AM