time flies

about a week to go before the reb flies off to UK to prepare for his thesis pre-viva on 7th dec. but still a lot of academic work to be finished here in STM.

also got to represent STM tomorrow at the MBS graduation service at 4pm in klang. then preaching and conducting holy communion this sunday in TUMC and we have about 60 guests from Whispering Hope outreach point PJ visiting us. it will be a packed sunday service.

it's a matter of balancing and juggling whatever little time that is left!!!

p.s. myhomilia colleague off to tyndale house cambridge to do research for his 2nd book. we'll catch up in cambridge as the reb's 1st supervisor has moved to teach in hughes hall cambridge and that means a few days in cambridge is needed.

TEE OT Background

2 missing from the picture.

front row; charis tan, irene wong, benita cheng, elaine teh, choy quin, sarah yap, vivian ngu, rosaleen goh, angeline tan, florine mathew, caroline samuel.

middle row: voon fui, danny chiew, david low, michael lim, anthony loke, peng keong, wai kit, doreen yeoh, francis ponniah

last row: sian peng, jonathan chan, kia sing, richard lai, dr simon wong, yee seng, dr joseph rasiah, aaron tham, christopher toh, david ting, victor tham, james peter, raymond sim.

not in picture: wesley wong, andrew tiong

22nd anniversary of Operation Lalang

it happened one night on 27th october 1987! never forget!!

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TEE class OT Background

this week the reb is teaching a TEE class in seremban on 'OT Background' aka 'Intro to the OT' (in-campus module). this is an elective and offered only for the 2nd time (the first was in baptist church pj joined with their program many years ago).

the module stretches from wed morning till saturday lunch around 28 hours intensive. well, either the reb survives or the students survive or the reverse!!

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for this elective course, i will put up a series of urls that will be useful for the course assignments as well as resources to keep for the future:

http://www.lifeintheholyland.com/

useful site to look at old and new pictures of israel to get an idea of what life was like.

http://blog2.bibleplaces.com/

another interesting blog with lots of archaeological news and pictures of israel.

http://www.findadig.com/

for those interested in archaeology and cannot go to join an actual dig, here is a website that is informative.

http://www.mfa.org/egypt/explore_ancient_egypt/index.html

for those interested in the magic and mystic of egypt.

http://www.hadashot-esi.org.il/index_eng.asp

israel's antiquities authority (IAA) website. lot os informative stuff about archaeological discoveries that are ongoing.

http://www.otgateway.com/

for OT resources, look at OTgateway (counterpart to NTgateway).

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on another note, the reb's itinerary from oct till dec is up. it's that busy time of the year.

1st century AD stone jars

how does a 1st century AD stone jar look like? see link below for a write-up and some pictures:


http://www.facingthechallenge.org/stonejars.php

drama broght HOME

Film screening: HOME [drama + documentary]





Presented by SUARAM
[HOME] the drama

HOME is a short drama about the journey of Burmese refugee Roi Roi's search for a home in Malaysia.

Trailer: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x8EGmIOnQYo
[HOME] the documentary

Many Burmese refugees seek to flee from the tyranny of the military junta.
Despite surviving a grueling journey across the borders of Thailand and Malaysia, they find themselves victims of human rights abuse and human trafficking in Malaysia. This is a documentary that unveils the heartbreaking stories of Burmese refugees in Malaysia through testimonials of their horrific experiences.

Trailer: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IAo5bM7840g

Directed by Desiree Lim
The screening will be followed by a discussion with one of the producers of HOME and SUARAM.
Date: Friday, 23 October 09
Time: 8.00pm
Venue: The Annexe Gallery, Kuala Lumpur
Admission: FREE
Enquiries: 03-77843525 (SUARAM)

IMPORTANT: Please e-mail refugee.suaram@gmail.com to register for this event.
Provide details such as full name and the names of those you are bringing along.
Those who have not registered will not be allowed in.

product testing

normally the reb doesn't do product testing but since he is a computer geek, there's no harm trying to test and write about a product:

http://www.digeus.com/products/snapit/snapit_screen_capture_3_5.html

got an email from digeus to test out their program called snapit screen capture. the reb uses the free program called FS capture.

for snapit screen capture, it does what it is called: capture a screen on the computer. installation was smooth and without difficulty. the site allows one to test the product for 14 days with full functionality. during installation, there is an option to change the directory to install the program.

when installed, the program will have an icon in the task below below. on right click, it will reveal a pop-up window with some choices. the help files are in the 'documentation' link. one can opt to go to 'properties' to make changes in the setting.

snapit allows one to save the screen capture under 5 different picture formats and allows one to automatically save the files incrementally (1.jpg, 2.jpg etc). there is also a choice to change the capture button. the reb changed it to the less-used function F12 key. pressing the capture key changes the cursor to a cross-bar (which shows that the snapit screen capture is on). then right click and drag the rectangle area to what is to be captured. once that is done, one can right click the icon at the bottom to 'save as'. the pictured captured (in this case under jpg) was opened by irfanview (the reb's default picture viewer) and the capture was crisp and clear.

in all, the program was simple and straight-forward. should be useful for people who wish to capture images off the computer screen and load them onto facebook, their blogs, etc. so, snapit is worth a try to see whether it meet your needs.