2007年8月6日月曜日

Terror on Earth

06 August 1945 @ 0815 hrs
A flash of light covered Hiroshima City, vaporising everything within 3km at the site. Approximately 70,000 people lost their live instantly that morning, approx. 60,000 people died from injuries and radiation in months to come, and many still suffer from radiation sickness today.
It was the first time in the history of mankind where many life perished in a blink of an eye. It was also the first time in the history of mankind where a nuclear weapon was used in a war. Code name "Little Boy", developed by USA during WWII with a destructive power of 16kilotons of TNT, was drooped from a B-29 Superfortress Enola Gay.

Figure 1: Aftermath of the explosion at Hiroshima City. A single bomb can do this much damage.
09 August 1945 @ 1105hrs
09 August is a day of celebration for the nation of Singapore as they celebrate their National Day. However, in Nagasaki City the exact same light blinded the people in the city and by the time they knew wat was going on, they were gone. Women, children, every living organism. 40,000 lost their lives instantly that morning, 25,000 injured and eventually died from their injuries, and thousands suffer from radiation sickness today.

It is hard to imagine how my hometown (well not really coz Hiroshima city is in the west and i live in the west end of the prefecture) was once in such devastating state. Who knows if radiation is still present from that day around that area (dont worry im not radiated).

Man have been fighting each other since the beginning. Over power, territory, religion, resources, and occasionally, Food. People who have power will want more power. People who have huge territory will want more. Religious people fight for wat they believe is right which could be false and hungry people fight for food as they are... hungry?

Present day, many nations around the world is still at war. At Iraq, Afghanistan etc. So the question is, "Will there be a day where the world is at peace without any war?". The answer is no. As long as man continue to sin and not realising that they are sinning against the will of God, there will still be war. Not only physical war but also spiritual war.
Figure 2: Fight for the prawn. An example of how hungry ppl fight for food.
Dear Father in heaven,
I pray that people around the world will realize how meaningless fighting against each other for things like power, land, religion, and food (?).
I pray that one day people like osama and bush will shake hand (thought it is impossible) and all nations abandon all the weapons that they have (why are they even necessary at the first place?).
I pray that they will realize that there are many things that they need to do to make the world a
better place rather then fighting each other and there are many starving and dying from sickness while these people are at war.
Amen

2007年7月29日日曜日

Karen's Cooking Report

Finally... I've waited for this day to come for a long time (months I should say). The day that I can make and eat one of my favorite food... Jap Curry... Honestly speaking, I can just eat this curry for breakfast, lunch and dinner =)

Introduction
It is a simple yet very popular dish among young children in Japan. Most children in Japan, when asked, "what is your favorite food?", most will answer "Curry Rice". In this post, we will exploring the methods in which Jap Curry can be made.

Materials
- Pot & Frying Pan
- Ladles
- Knives
- Chopping Board
- Onions
- Carrots
- Potatoes
- Beef (or any meat)
- Jap Curry blocks

Method
1. Peeling the skin of the vegetables (obviously...)
2. Cut them up into small cubes. The next step is to fry the ingredients
3. Stir fry onion until it is soft
4. Add carrot and potatoes that are diced
5. Let it stew on low heat for about 30-40min until ingredients are soft
6. Add the Jap Curry blocks and dissolved them (ensure that fire is off)
7. Heat it until it boils and constantly mix the base of the pot
8. Serve on plates

Results
Figure 1: Completed Jap Curry Rice. This figure shows the final product of the Jap Beef Curry Rice made by Tree and Karen.
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Discussion
The onions were put into the pot to be fried first to get the fragrant out of the onion. Carrots and potatoes were added later and fried to decrease the time for stewing the ingredients in later stage. Ingredients should be stirred at all times to prevent it from burning. H2O is added once the ingredients are cooked for stewing. Again, stir them regularly to prevent burn at the bottom of the pot.

While the vegetables are been stewed, the beef was prepared. In this cooking, we used a slice of beef steak. The beef was seasoned via salt and pepper and put onto the frying pan. The reason over not cutting the beef before it is fried is to trap all the juicy stuff in the meat and later can be transferred to the pot for stewing. The beef was cooked at medium rare and removed from the pan and sliced into cubes and added to the pot for stewing.

After stewing for about 15min, the curry blocks were cut into smaller blocks and added. This will facilitate the dissolving process of the blocks and reduce the time taken for cooking. The pot of ingredients were mixed to further facilitate the dissolving process. H2O was added to adjust the thickness of the curry to its optimum thickness.

Served on plate showed in Figure 1.

Conclusion
The cooking was a success and hunger of the participants were satisfied =)

2007年7月22日日曜日

白紙のページ - White Page -

白紙のページ。何もない真っ白な紙。この何もない真っ白な紙を僕たち人間はいろんな風に使ってきてきる。自分の身の回りにある「紙」の大方はこの一枚の白紙から始まり、その役割によって違う風に文字や絵、色などが加われる。

土曜日の朝、OCFのコミティーミーティングのあと、 OCF Uni SA が企画した「祈り」についてのワークショップに参加した。ワークショップの中でスピーカーの人に5分、10分間目を閉じて神様が自分に何を語りかけようとしているのか耳をすまして聞いて見てくださいと言われ各自それぞれ”お気に入り”の場所を選んで言われるままに目を閉じ、耳をすましてみた。

白紙ぺーじ。それが自分に見えた。最初は「えっ?白紙のページ?何で白紙なの?」って思った。しばらくして教会で歌っている賛美歌、「陶器師、主よ」が浮かび上がった。

用いてください 陶器師 主よ
私を創りかえて
共に歩み みちびいてください 
陶器師 主よ

陶器師である主が人を創りかえるように画師でもありえる主が自分を画きかえるという想像を画き始めた。なるほど、神様がOCFのコミティーに参加する機会を与えてくれたり、アシスタントBSリーダーしてくれたり、いろいろなことが今年はおきている。「神様が僕の新しい人生を描き始めようとしているのかぁ」っと思うと怖いような、ワクワクするような複雑な気持ちになってきている。でも、神様の計画であるなら、彼の御心であるのなら、従って安心だわさ(笑)

明日から又大学が始まるから、気持ちを切り替えて神様の栄光のためにがんばるぞー!!

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For the sake of my friends that don't understand Japanese, I shall type some English in it...

A blank page. A white page that has nothing. We use these blank white papers in all sorts of way. Papers we see around us such as books and lecture notes all come from this blank piece of paper and texts, graphics and colors are added according to their purposes.

Yesterday morning, after committee meeting, I attended a "prayer" workshop organised by OCF UniSa. During the workshop, the speaker told us to take a few minutes and try listen to what God is trying you tell you now. So we took off to our "own space" and took a few minutes listening to God's callings.

A blank page. That's what I saw. At first I thought "huh? a blank page? why a blank page?". A while later the song "Potter's Hand" came into my mind.

Take me, mold me use me, fill me
I give my life to the Potter's hand
Call me, guide me, lead me, walk beside me
I give my life to the Potter's hand

God, like a potter, molds our life. At that moment in me, I felt like God, like a artist, drawing each stage of my life and that the reason being a blank page is that its a new beginning. He gave me opportunities to serve in OCF this year as a BS leader and now as a committee. Thinking that "So, God is gonna start drawing my new life" makes me feel excited but scared at the same time. BUT, if it is God's plan and his Will, I will follow his plans.

Uni is starting tmr and its time to switch my mind back to reality and live for God's glory~!!


2007年7月19日木曜日

Immunovirologist down

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14.07.2007
Check in to work at 1800hrs, non-stop working till 12am.
Temperature measured at 37.3 dc.
Increased H2O intake and Vitamin C to prevent further increase of temperature
* This prob caused my immune system to deteriorate which allowed invation of virus X
* Virus invasion and replication initiated

15.07.2007
Woke up at approx 1130hrs again feeling extremely bad. Temperature measured at 38.5 dc.
Did nth but slept the whole day. Praying that the fever will subside a.s.a.p.
*Virus replicaiton and invasion at its peak. Immune system unable to handle and back up is being called in (increase body temp)

16.07.2007
Praise God that he had brought the fever down to 36.2 dc.
Fever return at night at approx 37.2 dc.
* Immune system manages the virus and back up being called off in the morning.
* Back up being called to contain the situation at night

17.07.2007
Fever subsided once again never to return for the time being
Coughing and runny nose to clean up the mess in the body
* Mucus trap and remove debris (i.e. dead virus etc) from the battlefield
* Well done immune system

(-O-)> salute to our many brave soldiers that fought and died for my body!

2007年7月9日月曜日

Nature's Call

An Immunovirologist like me loves nature. So a bunch of nature lovers (i hope they are) and I took off to hills; Cleland Conservation Park & Mt Lofty to appreciate God's wonderful creations =)

Cleland Wildlife Conservation Park
The first stop of our exciting adventure. Getting there wasnt a problem (even thought my co-driver has no idea how to look at the map and located our position) as I've been running up and down the hills like my own backyard (>▽<)ノ. It was kinda sad that i couldn't speed as much as I do when I drive alone or the two "girls" in my car will start screaming and strangling my neck and that can cause serious problems (^^;).

Hahndorf


Figure 1: Black S2000 parked outside Hahndorf Inn where we had lunch


Figure 2: Taste of German Platter. Image taken on different day but same content.

Food food and seriously only food. We basically went there just for food. Yes! German sausages! We ate till we almost drop dead expect for one "girl". But it was good stuff as usual and it was even better when we got to pay like $30 less!

Mt Lofty
We wanted to admire the magnificent view from the summit with a cup of coffee (and Cheese Cake!) but unfortunately for us, the cafe at the summit was closing when we got there... >.<".

Ok, I'm feeling sleepy now... Need to go jogging tmr morning at 9am... ZZzzzz

2007年7月8日日曜日

ぶろぐ

ブログかぁ…
友達に進められてはじめただがはたしてどれくらい続くものだろか(笑)
明日はクリーランドに行くもののみんな俺の部屋で「ギャアーx2」騒いでいる(汗)

Oh my gosh (Esther 2007), 果たしてみんな起きれるのだろうかとつくづく思う。
明日行くクルーは皆、時間にルーズな人達ばかりだからなぁ

本題から外れるがこのブログを今この時点で日本語でうっているのは後ろからジロジロ見ている
人達がいるからである。

Oh well, 今日は走り屋君が一日中寝込んでしまった。なぜだか知らないけどどうやら精神的、霊的に参ってしまっているらしい。詳しい話は後ほどに又聞こうかと思う。

To my good friends that are reading this blog that don't understand what I posted... hehe good luck finding out wat I posted =)