the time has come to set aside childish things

 

 

 

 

 

 obama is in the house and from today onwards I will ask God’s help to set aside childish things and use the time God has given me to work with him in establishing HIS KINGDOM … so help me GOD

moving on

the dust is settling and i now move on to prepare for the transition to a phd at anu on 13 july 2009

praise GOD for this opportunity for the next phase of my life

i will set down a time table today and work it from monday onwards prioritizing jawi dutch and some sense of the history of language writing thought and intellectuals

black

                                                                                                                     

BLACK JUBILEE

 

Usain Bolt

                

Lewis Hamilton

 

Barack Obama

 

just seconds ago as i sit here in my office at about noon in singapore, the american television networks declared barack obama as president-elect of the usa can this be a black man will soon hold the most powerful office in the world this happens hot on the heels of lewis hamiltons f1 win three days ago and the bolt phenomenon of the summer olympics

 

praise GOD for vindicating all black people in 2008 do we need anything more to demonstrate that all of mankind has been created in HIS image and everyone of them can work with HIM to have HIS image fully formed in us

 

bolt for raw human physical power hamilton for human ability to capitalize and exploit industrial power and obama for leadership pertaining to political and cultural power

 

it is freedom experienced and celebrated

 

a black jubilee!     

obama

    

the time is now

 

 

hey

finally i am blogging i told Sophie one time too many over the weekend that yesterday was the begining of the rest of my life it marked the eight month anniversary of our marriage and the first sunday after i had sent off the application to the ANU i ask GOD to favor me by giving me a full scholarship to commence a phd there next july i hope to study the effect of print technology on the malay mind the ways malay think malay conciousness i am still searching for a good interpretive handle on this subject i hope to blog my thoughts and reflections on this subject daily to record my journey with these questions this is a more specific way to begin an inquiry on the impact of print technology on human conciousness my conciousness in particular it will be a great way to add further cultural stream to biblical studies as most scholars and chistian institutions christian interpretive communities approach the inscriptions of a manuscript culture as if it were the produce of a print literate culture appraoching paratactical material with analytical assumptions so the journey begins stop by with a comment thought or whatever you wish keep it real though i also hope to use all opportunities in life from here on to develop my authentic self so as to present my faith as helpfully as possible to my neighbours so as to bring glory to HIS name and for the furtherance of his kingdom i have tried to blog today with the barest minimum of modern grammatical conventions save capitalizing s in Sophie  and all of GOD and HIM to the best of my knowledge shorn of my indulgences this is how some manuscripts read even then i am sure traces of analyticalism like coordinating and subordinating tendencies are present in my writing as i surely am a child of such modern tendencies but ill leave that to another time i would like to begin this journey by writing in a manner I am not used to but maybe reminiscent of the following 

jewish writing from a long time ago maybe eight to ten centuries ago

 

 

malay writing from two hundred to three hundred years ago