Thursday, February 22, 2007
It's good to be a student
there's a travel fair at ntu and ticket prices are cut-throat!!!
those places are calling... they are enticing me! ahhhhhhhhhhhhh.
i think backpacking would definitely be fun, especially if you are alone!
i remember i took the plane back from china alone last year. it was the best experience and i had such a great time being independent.
i remember mr uri, this jewish man who sat beside me during my plane ride from kunming to bangkok. we talked for 2 hours straight! he was truly passionate about agriculture and i could clearly visualise the glint in his eyes when we saw paddy fields as we are nearing bangkok.
could vividly recall this part of our conversation:
mr uri: what's your name?
me: my name is esther.
mr uri: esther? oh you saved our lives!
me: (blank look for a while) hahahaha yea!!
He was actaully alluding it to the bible story of Queen Esther who saved her people, the Jews, from a genocide
mr. uri: you must be a Christian.
me: you're right! hahaha.
I'm proud of my name because it has such profound significance!
Take science, appreciate God
I am glad I have to take cross-faculty modules because I got to connect back to my scientific roots and marvel at God's wisdom in His creations. As some of you know, I am taking astronomy this semester where I study about planets. Do you know? We could have easily been wiped out if a comet or asteroid (and there are billions of them hurtling around space at terribly fast speeds) hits Earth! So why isn't Earth hit after thousands of years?
Because of the planet Jupiter.
It has such massive gravitational force that it attracts all those comets and asteroids into it. Thus, they don't hit Earth.
WOW.
AND. Earth's life-sustaining atmosphere could have been blown away by strong solar winds of the Sun but it did not as there are magnetic fields surrounding Earth that deflect these winds away.
WOW.
God sure wants to protect His creations.
What to expect from here
FLASHBACK
CREDITS