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I found this statement of faith over here while surfing at the church sites designed by this guy, its really interesting.

We believe in all the basic doctrines of conservative evangelical Christianity. On doctrinal issues which have historically divided believers into denominational groups we seek to find Biblically sound middle ground.

In essential beliefs — we have unity.

There is one body and one Spirit, just as you were called in one hope of your calling; one Lord, one faith, one baptism; one God and Father of all, who is above all, and through all, and in you all.

Ephesians 4:4-6

In non-essential beliefs — we have liberty.

Receive one who is weak in the faith, but not to disputes over doubtful things…. Who are you to judge another’s servant? To his own master he stands or falls…. So then each of us shall give account of himself to God…. Do you have faith? Have it to yourself before God.

Romans 14:1, 4, 12, 22

In all our beliefs — we show charity.

And though I have the gift of prophecy, and understand all mysteries and all knowledge, and though I have all faith, so that I could remove mountains, but have not love, I am nothing.

1 Corinthians 13:2

Its really what I feel sometimes. Maybe I’ll list some things I believe are essential and non essential.

Well, at first its just lunch with Shirley. Then so funny, Clarence joined us. Quick summary:

• He’s at some other church just around the corner at Kent Ridge
• He’s doing electrical engineering

The projector upstairs has really suffered so much grief and abuse. Lets take a look.. the poor cover is broken in 4 places! sigh..

Made a small thing to stick on the projector so ppl don’t switch off the power while its still cooling down

Back home. Long long day today, 5 hours of lecture in the same LT.

Well, did the 2nd last recording session with David and Eunice.. Last thing we need to do is background music. Kinda think we should record the script in church but whatever la.. it seems that we got 35 more hours in the studio? But I think that will run out pretty quick at the rate we are going. I also think I have too much on my plate and don’t want to record (and process) it.

Quick summary of things I signed up for:

• Buck’s Site (6hr)
• Patrick’s Site (3hr)
• Cantata Site (12hr)
• 3 more songs to process (2hr)
• Cantata Songs recording (108794738299437829628719hr) (okay okay.. 20hrs)
• Background music recording (3hr)
• Pastor’s Msg on Cantata CD — I’m definitely doing this (4hrs)
• Fix children’s ministry projector (1hr)

Grand total of 51 hours. Just a little more than 2 whole days of work. Oh man! Can anyone help me do something? I need to narrow down my skill sets further.
Anyway, I had a nice time at recording surprisingly.. probably because there is a standard operating procedure now and I’m more experienced. Shall post up some bloopers which Eunice will cringe at. Among those include confessions of David’s inner thoughts and Eunice whining pretty loudly. haha.. Stay tuned!

Lastly (I think), I also put all the projector cable into the trunking along the walls. I can’t really bash a hole in the storeroom door so I left it outside for now pending their decision to do whatever with it. I have to turn up on Saturday if I cannot get a second (third, counting the downstairs one) projector.. I really REALLY hope kim has an extra projector. sigh… I cant imagine dismounting the projector and putting it back, makes me wanna puke. People make it sound so simple but its really like so super troublesome. “Only a few screws right?” yeah right.. YOU missing some screws ah.. I have to take out the entire thing from the projector. Prob 15 min to take down and the same amount to put back up. All for 2 hours of video upstairs only. Tell ppl don’t mount already don’t listen.. now want to dismount and use.. pui! I always feel like saying “I told you so” but that frustrates me also.

Oh well, I’m tired.. need to sleep. I sent Eunice back (birthday what..), too tired to go drive home (Not so safe and I’d be leaving in like.. 7 hours anyway?!?!?) so I came over to NUS to sleep in ZG’s room. Does that sound reasonable to you? Well, it doesn’t to people who matter. Rahhhhh.. today no good la. Shall just rot in my 5 hour lecture tomorrow, go home and get scolded for nothing. Ta..

Off(line) I go! for a better sleep and a better tomorrow (literally). Have a lecture at 8am, then going to do 2 hours of work, have 1 more hour of lecture, then lunch with Shirley, then home, then to church to put in the wire for projector then for recording. phew.. long day ahead…

Check out these new findings about computer usage and sleep. I think I’m like so  dead tired because of it.

Sian man. Haha. Sigh.. so borrrrrrrrrrrrrrrred.. and tired.. and everything else..  oh man. Anyway, I think i have someone to be with at least for 2 modules. This girl I met during my previous sem. Did project together cos we were the “leftovers” after everyone else grouped up. Oh well.

Well, I was busy taking free tau hui jui from the good people at radiopulze NUS when I bumped into Loy. He was about to pay for it though. haha.. anyway after congradulating him for his second kid (yay, no need find his office already!) he told me elaine had started a blog for the kids quite a while ago, here it is. If you’ve got google reader you can just add it..

Well, I used to think HTML was bad.. then I started using CSS then C, then C++, then PHP, then this sem I’m having to learn SQL and to REALLY top it off, Assembly Language. I mean, this is the most super super basic language of programming, just short of entering all the 1’s and 0’s into the computer as binary code. Its ridiculous! Check this ’simple’ program out!

; This program reads 5 single-digit numbers from the keyboard and
; then output it to the monitor in ascending order
;
;
stk segment stack
db 1024 DUP(?)
tos label word
stk ends
;
data segment
array db 5 dup (?)
data ends
;
code segment
assume cs:code, ss:stk, ds:data
count equ 5
;
start: mov ax,stk ;initialize stack
mov ss,ax
mov sp,offset tos
mov ax,data ;initialize data segment
mov ds,ax
;
; Read in the 5 single digit number from the keyboard and store at array
xor ch,ch ;initialize counter
mov cl,count
xor bx,bx ;initialize index register

key: mov ah,7 ;read in number
int 21h
cmp al,30h ;check that it is a digit
jl key ;otherwise re-read the keyboard
cmp al,39h
jg key
mov array[bx],al ;store the number at the array
mov ah,2 ;display the number at the screen
mov dl,al
int 21h
inc bl ;increment index register
dec cl ;decrement counter
jnz key ;continue reading
;
; The 5 numbers are rearranged in ascending order
xor ch,ch ;initialize counter
mov cl,count-1
xor bx,bx ;initialize index register
again: mov al,array[bx] ;compare 2 adjacent numbers
cmp al,array[bx+1]
jle next ;process next data if in order
xchg al, array[bx+1] ;exchange the data
xchg al, array[bx]
cmp bx, 0h ;if first piece of data, go on
jz next
dec bx ;otherwise move back the array and check
inc cl
jmp again
next: inc bx ;process next piece
dec cl
jz done
jmp again
;
;display the 5 data at the console
done: xor ch,ch ;initialize counter
mov cl,count
xor bx,bx ;initialize index register
mov ah,2 ;sent space
mov dl,20h
int 21h

next1: mov ah,2
mov dl,array[bx] ;display data on screen
int 21h
inc bx ;next piece
dec cl
jnz next1
;
; call exit function to DOS
exit1: mov ah,4ch
int 21h
code ends
end start

If thats not cryptic enough for you.. You must be some cold unfeeling machine. Imagine it without all the comments. Sigh. SQL is pretty simple though, very intuitive. I guess its just the database logic and efficiency I must learn.

Oh man.. Am I really a computer person? or just a lazy engineer who doesn’t want to work thats why cannot even pass? Pending my decision to switch faculty, I really still have left the “Have I worked hard enough or do I honestly have no aptitude for engineering?” question unanswered.

Finally, I’m feeling extremely disorganized. I feel like there’s a TON of admin info, and maybe another 2 TONS of homework and lecture slides I need to work my way through. I am officially OVERWHELMED, just 2 weeks and 2 hours into the sem. Well done *pats myself on the back*. I need some3 TONS of divine guidance on my organization.