Prayer

Because He Lives

God sent his Son

They called him Jesus

He came to love, heal and forgive

He lived and died,

To buy my pardon

An empty grave is there

To prove My Savior lives

CHORUS:

And because he lives

I can face tomorrow

Because he lives

All fear is gone

Because I know He holds the future

And life is worth the living

Just because he lives

How sweet to hold a new born baby

And feel the pride and joy he gives

But greater still- the calm assurance

This child can face uncertain days

Because He lives...

And then one day I’ll cross that river

I’ll fight life’s final war today

And then as death gives way to victory

I’ll see the lights of glory

And I’ll know he reigns

Be Thou My Vision
Be Thou my Vision, O Lord of my heart;

Naught be all else to me, save that Thou art.

Thou my best Thought, by day or by night,

Waking or sleeping, Thy presence my light.

Be Thou my Wisdom, and Thou my true Word;

I ever with Thee and Thou with me, Lord;

Thou my great Father, I Thy true son;

Thou in me dwelling, and I with Thee one.

Be Thou my battle Shield, Sword for the fight;

Be Thou my Dignity, Thou my Delight;

Thou my soul’s Shelter, Thou my high Tower:

Raise Thou me heavenward, O Power of my power.

Riches I heed not, nor man’s empty praise,

Thou mine Inheritance, now and always:

Thou and Thou only, first in my heart,

High King of Heaven, my Treasure Thou art.

High King of Heaven, my victory won,

May I reach Heaven’s joys, O bright Heaven’s Sun!

Heart of my own heart, whatever befall,

Still be my Vision, O Ruler of all.

Honor the Lord with thy substance, and with the firstfruits of all thine increase.” Proverbs 3:9

Dear God, Strengthen me and keep me safe from all harm.. grant me Your wisdom for I am lacking it.., keep my heart humble always, forgive me of my sins and cleanse me of all bitternes or grudge, guide me and deliver me from all evil or temptation. Grant me patience love and kindness for others and to serve them humbly.. let all that I do testify to your goodness and providence for me and let me do them to the best of my abilities, bless me for I am nothing without You, in Jesus name I pray.. Amen..

Holiday

ENTROPY:

Entropy is a measure of the unavailability of a system’s energy to do work.It is a measure of the randomness of molecules in a system and is central to the second law of thermodynamics and the fundamental thermodynamic relation, which deal with physical processes and whether they occur spontaneously.

This is defined by the equation

ΔS = ΔQ/T

where S= blahh..

S= Entropy
Q= Heat (energy) absorbed

T= Time

and, Δ is really just an incredibly fancy of saying "Change in"

This equation means.. Get Smart is quite a good show and I should catch it next tues when ticket prices are cheaper.. other than that, I haven't a clue..

And from this load of physics junk, we can understand that "everything in the universe tends to its lowest and thus most energetically favourable state.."

Assuming Honours Student Kenneth Chin as a system which is INCREDIBLY RANDOM and incredibly unavailable (or at least reluctant) to do work.. (because he has no holidays..), it is thus essential to estimate the most energetically favourable state of the honours student.

After a series of theoretical calculations, and by plotting linear regression model and assuming binomial, poisson and normal (homogenous?) distribution of sambal belachan on my lunch,

it can be deduced and extrapolated that:

The most energetically favourable conformation (where ΔGº≈0 and T=anytime-of-the-day) of honours student kenneth chin, is sleeping in bed.

This can be further substantiated with Newton's 3rd law of Physics-

"to every reaction there is an equal and opposite reaction"

hence every attempt of escaping the energetically favourable conformation (ie. sleeping in bed under 2 quilts) will be met with an equal and opposing force (ie. the incredible warmth and comfort of my egronomically designed 2 quilt bed for maximal and optimal warmth:coolness ratio.. which just works by sleeping under 2 quilts..).

Hence I propose that the best solution to this.. is to remain stationary in bed.. and snooze..

More Pix from Run Melbourne

Funny how the more I look at it.. these pictures actually capture my pain as I run.. I should make an effor to smile more at the camera next time.. despite not knowing where the camera is.. I'll look like some crazy person madly smiling to himself!

And dad forked out 24 bucks for these.. man..

1:47:25

6am in the morn 22nd June '08.. it was freezing and to make things worse.. it was raining.. nevertheless, drugged up to my eyes with caffiene.. I went for another 21.1km test.. it was really freezing.. the worst possible conditions I could think of- hands freezing up.. muscles going cold and starting to cramp, slippery roads, worn out shoes and best of all.. no prior training for terrain running.. but nevertheless.. thank God I'm still alive and breathing.. 1:47:25.. knocked off 6 min from my previous timing.. Thank God for the good friends and well wishes that came thru.. they were the last bit of warmth I could muster.. and after that- dragging my wet and soggy ass back all the way to the Kwek Residence..

21.1km in 1:47:25.. very nice! *borat style*

Kwek PeiQi (affectionately known to all as "mei mei") and I




Yixian says it looks like I had explosive diarrhoea..

Chocked up quite a few injuries especially at my knee joints and the 5th metatarsal of my left foot.. there's a bruise mark and the ligament gets a wierd "rubbery" feeling when I rotate my ankle downwards.. Nevertheless... it was a good journey.. feeling abit overabitious.. but I would like to train for the mini triathlon in future referance.. first, gotta learn how not to swim like a whale on discov channel..

Half Marathon 2mr

Feeling anxious.. I think i'm way underprepared.. and it would be overtly ambitious to aim to clock between 1:40-1:50... how about not dying for a start? maybe that'd be a good starting thought.. nevertheless.. hopefully the caffiene will bring me into overdrive 2mr... the most painful is the first 5km.. after that, the blank out phase occurs and adrenaline kicks in.. well.. hope it'll be a good run..

Engrish

China people sure have the funniest things to say.. well visit www.engrish.com for more entertainment and if you're looking for a much easier alternative to doing crunches- cos i couldnt move after reading some of these.. nevertheless I do salute their trying and thank them for their fantastic entertainment :) Enjoy!

Sounds like one of my mom's job description.. especially when I call

Yep.. thats honours year

Yeah and if I'm dead, I'll call the ambulance

Thats stuck on my lab desk space..

My supervisor requested that I added this to the previous desk regalia..

A Scientist's Life

This probably epitomizes what my life will be like.. the life of a scientist... maybe thats why I'm still single.. I should introduce myself studying either law, commerce or medicine.. suddenly I'm starting to think i shouldn't say "I ARE BIOCHEMIST".. :s Just as my sister so coyly and saucily jibes- "The handsome young banker (SEE! A COMMERCE STUDENT!) handles his attractive female client's assets well.." or Medicos cos they become like House.. bleah!

Forget the horoscope- this's a snapshot of my future prospects very cleverly crafted by Alexander Dent.. www.dentcartoons.blogspot.com


I forsee myself as the stoner dude- THC = Tetrahydrocannabinol, the active ingredient in Marijuana.. A highly active THC isomer sounds perfectly like top notch biochemistry to me :) haha kidding..

Man, what a life I (will, if not already) have... bleah!

Singularity

God must seriously think I'm a joke then..

Anyway as an off tangent- What about "Melbourne Uni Fortune Cookie"? It kinda rhymes anyway.. you might get messages in them like:

"Your assignment due date will be extended by 2 weeks"

"You won't have any 8am lectures next semester"

"Your only friday class will be cancelled this week"

"You will win Ms/Mr Medicine 2008 award"

"You put the stud in studying" (applicable to males only)

"There will be a space in the library for you"

"There won't be any noisy people in the library" (Zhikai's favourite)

"You will score 4 H1s" (most popular)

Imagine downing your lunch at union house and subsequently partaking in one of these delightfully little nibbles and reading the little white slips with overwhelming cynicism- i guess its the same reason why people read the horroscope anyway- just for entertainment.

Enough of the idle banter..

Its not the sort of post that I would put up.. but nevertheless it has weighed on my heart for quite a while.

Today's sermon on searching for a partner struck me about my predicament.. I began to examine myself.. and I felt this hollow feeling in me. Its surprising how the sermon catalyzed the release whole gamut of emotions.. a strange mixture of amusement, abit of comfort and distress.

Amusement firstly because, well if you can't control yourself- get married. In my mind I was thinking "Man some sort of solution that is!" but I guess it does make sense.. you enter into a covenant where your urges from unedifying become edifying when translated to your partner. Come to think of it, its actually quite a good idea- albeit its probably not so simple.

Distressed as I've been single for the longest time I can remember... and I've done everything possible to wrestle myself from this status.. being every form of a good guy I can be for myself that benefits others and glorifies God tho still with lots of flaws.. but still trying...It kind of feels unfair sometimes when you've done every attempt feasible to be a good person and a choice candidate and yet watch others pair off effortlessly.. The futility strikes when you realise that +25kg before and -25kg after, there isnt a difference (and 25kg without liposuction isnt easy to do at all..).. still remained single- maybe this means that looks dont really matter.. not smoking, drinking, clubbing or swearing.. being a relatively decent student at uni.. nothing has changed.. What more can I do? After hearing so many "When the time is right.." it seems to lose its therapeutic property- maybe there's something wrong? something dysfunctional? Am i not putting in enough effort? I dont know.. It feels as if all that I am isn't good enough or cut out for it...

There're days where I return home from the lab and I face an empty house.. my cuz's with his gf.. and I retreat to my own enclave and it has a very hollow feeling.. you just want to have that special someone whom you can listen to her pour out her day onto you, and you share your day with. Often these thoughts are suppressed or just shaken off.. but I cant deny their existance and persistance.. its not so much the self pity.. but more of the exasperation-What else can I do? if there is an answer, someone please tell me.. if there's a mathematical equation to solve this, please explain it to me..

Comforted in the sense that, I began to see how I am willing to change the unbearable.. no matter how futile it may have been..

All I can do, I guess is hope, pray and stand fast..

Dinner is Served

A sudden inspiration to cook today.. for a reason I know not..

What's Cookin' Doc?

Steak, Brocolli and Tomato-Basil Brown Rice Risotto

Phase I Experimental Ice Cream Cake is currently in 1st layer freezing in fridge..

Fat

I'm starting to begin to doubt the BMI is a real indicator of ideal based on these calculations obtained at my Army Medical:

Height: 168cm [bloody hell i'm a shortie :( ]
Weight: 75kg [blood hell i'm fat.. :(]
BMI [(weight in kg)/ (height in m) ^2) = 26.6

if BMI= 25 is ideal, then (25 x 1.68^2) is the ideal weight which = 70.56kg
Thus to achieve ideal weight, I need to lose ~5kg

Fat impedence test [based on electrical resistance- fat is a good electrical insulator]
Impedence: 400 ohm
Fat mass: 16.8kg
Fat percent: 22.0%
Ideal= 14-20% fat
if Fat %= 20% is maximum tolerable fat, then 16.8/22 x20 which = 15.27kg
Thus to achieve ideal fat % i need to lose 1.53kg of fat

But taking the median of the fat % ie. median of 14 and 20 is 17 and recalculate,
Median fat % range = 12.98kg
Thus to achieve median fat% range, i need to lose 3.82kg of fat.

Argh heck it.. I give up calculating.. losing weight is still so difficult.. losing fat is even more difficult :( Hopefully the Army will whip me into shape..