Sunday, February 20, 2011

sample prezi

done for 12br awards camp 19feb2011. on passion. lifeskills badge.
i hope in years to come, there will be more depth.


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Thursday, February 03, 2011

it's CNY again.

all so familiar ritual.
The weather, the fake joyous occasion, the fake conversations, the fake harmony, the fake bondedness, as if the families have always been chummy and close.

Familiar as it is, it is a stark stark reminder of what it shouldn't have been. Relationships, family should be better, but often it ain't.

Much as there's a drudgery to cny, is it more than a ritual of small talk, and reunions? There must be something in cny, that people ARE actually willing to go through the drudgery, the motions and the awkwardness.

While cny is a dark reflection of what is not there, there can be hope for what can be.

In every culture, there is at least a feast festival where people have reunions with their family. Cny for chinese, hari raya puasa for malays, pongal/deepavali for the indians, thanksgiving for the angmohs, and the jews too! (tho i forgot what's it called).
Surely, some anthropologist might wanna tell me why such a trend exists in almost, if not all cultures of this world.
It's as if, reunions and joyful feasts were meant to be. Or it's meant to have.. erm.. Meaning?

Fractured families are platforms for the Lord to break thru. To us, it might represent over 100 ppl, and dozens of conflicts and fractures. But to God, it's just a family. He definitely can.

Then of course, what role should i do? Or rather, should i even want to chup my nose into others? Or do i even want to do anything in the first place? Cuz more often than not, we don't really bother, much less want to have a role.

Can there be hope? Can it be possible?
Families and relationships in the presence of the One who created them, is something that should and must be hoped for.

As time flows, even as a former AC Boy, i begin to see how chinese culture is really so profound. If you actually know some of festivals' actual meaning. As a christian moreover, many facets of chinese culture, or at least the old fashioned kind, make so much sense in light of the bible.

Thus there's much hope, cuz leading a family in the future with the Word as guide, you'll know that the culture that He put us in, actually comes to fullness in Christ.

新年恩满,主力充满。
I wonder if that is even correct or right to do. Hahaha.. Just thought there has to be something better than 新年快乐 or 恭喜发财。

:)