Oswald Chambers
I stumbled upon Oswald Chambers (1874-1917) journals one fine day while I was surfing for some articles in RBC Ministry and I got hooked ever since. His journals or rather his sermons are the most straight forward and raw I have ever come across. It is as if he was rebuking from his pulpit everytime he gave a sermon. I often wonder how the congregation would feel after every session they had with him. And perhaps, it is because of his raw honesty on the issues of human nature that draws me to read his sermon at least once a day.
Here is an excerpt from RBC on Oswald Chambers biography :-
Oswald Chambers (1874-1917) was born July 24, 1874, in Aberdeen, Scotland. Converted in his teen years under the ministry of Charles Haddon Spurgeon, he studied art and archaeology at the University of Edinburgh before answering a call from God to the Christian ministry. He then studied theology at Dunoon College. From 1906-1910 he conducted an itinerant Bible-teaching ministry in the United States, the United Kingdom, and Japan.
In 1910, Chambers married Gertrude Hobbs. They had one daughter, Kathleen.
In 1911 he founded and became principal of the Bible Training College in Clapham, London, where he lectured until the school was closed in 1915 because of World War I. In October 1915 he sailed for Zeitoun, Egypt (near Cairo), where he ministered to troops from Australia and New Zealand as a YMCA chaplain. He died there November 15, 1917, following surgery for a ruptured appendix.
Although Oswald Chambers wrote only one book, Baffled to Fight Better, more than thirty titles bear his name. With this one exception, published works were compiled by Mrs. Chambers, a court stenographer, from her verbatim shorthand notes of his messages taken during their seven years of marriage. For half a century following her husband’s death she labored to give his words to the world.
My Utmost For His Highest, his best-known book, has been continuously in print in the United States since 1935 and remains in the top ten titles of the religious book bestseller list with millions of copies in print. It has become a Christian classic.
Indeed, we need more courageous preachers like him these days! Thank God for the internet 
Little things that make u happy
It is 3:30pm in the office and here am I writing a blog in a friendster webpage. Shows how productive I m today The R&P recon which I have been looking at since this morning, is starting to give me headache (and heartache too :P). Of course until a collegue came in and make some stupid jokes about the Rainforest Festivals which some of us will be going. Oh…how I m looking forward to it after a difficult week.
Today is Thursday! Which means yeah!! for me. This is the day when I have my free Japanese lessons at the Japan School. I dont particular feel so excited about it yet it is a place where I look forward to be at. And it dawned on me that the best feeling in the world sometimes is not some sort on-top-of-the-world kind. It is those little things which make u feel u wouldnt want to change it for the world at that moment.
It is when you are attending your fave language course after work and had fun even though u have no idea what the teacher is babbling about half of the class. It is when you are thinking of your fave song, and suddenly it plays on the radio. Or it is when you received an email from a long lost friend whom you havent meet for nearly 10 years and know that she thinks of u often. It is also when you are stuck in a traffic jam or in the packed LRT and you see a beautiful sunset sky which make u praise God’s beauty. Sometimes, it is when you are training Kendo with a senior and you managed to score a point from him! But most of the times, it is when you realised your prayers are answered in a tangible way and know that God is your Rock in times of need. Once in a while, it is when you found some souveniers that collegues got u when they went overseas for meetings, lying on your workstation waiting for you to open it. Or when you hear some really good news on conservation work of your organisation and you feel it is a job which makes a difference to the world. It is when you receive an sms from a friend telling u that u r missed after a week of M.I.A.
Goodness!!!! The crap I write when I m bored…. Cheerio and God bless! 
Testing
i wonder how this looks like? how come i cant put any other photo besides the friendster primary photo… well, talking about free stuff.
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