PC have started out as a device for geeks, and Apple have been attacking that ever since. Now, Microsoft is punching back. The ads are quite good and non-offensive.

After Kyle, and Alexa, I thought Microsoft will continue using children to show that Microsoft software is easy that even children can use it. However, they changed! More interestingly, the new ads were about a battle between 7 years old Alexa and a 70 year-old grandpa… a 8 year-old and a 80 year old… a 9 year-old and a 90 year-old. Still, my favorite is Kyle. She’s the cutest of them all.

Quoted from “The Bible Jesus Read” by Philip Yancey

Pascal concluded that faith sometimes resembles a wager. He told his friends, “If I believe in God and life after death and you do not, and if there is no God, we both lose when we die. However, if there is a God, you still lose and I gain everything. “

I think it’s a good reflection and a convincing argument to convince someone who is still finding reasons to believe. I am once in that position -- finding reasons to believe and what I wanted was a win-win arrangement. I think that this argument is a good start to start thinking about our faith, and after life. I just hope that as we move forward, we don’t get stuck in this mindset – just wanting to gain everything, but instead move forward to find God, His grace, and His unconditional and steadfast love for sinners. Learn to love God, appreciate His grace, and learn to let go of ourselves, trusitng in God with all our hearts, all our minds, and being sure that He knows what He's doing.

I reflected today where I usually spend my time… this is usually my schedule for weekdays and Saturday is definitely unpredictable because I sleep as long as I want and only go out if I feel to. Sunday, however, is a different story, it’s God’s day.

Monday to Friday

8:00am – 8:30am Wake up.

8:30am – 9:00am Prepare myself. Take a shower, brush my teeth, hang washed clothes.

9:00am – 9:15am Walk to the office.

9:15am – 12:00pm Work.

12:00pm – 1:00pm Work and Lunch in front of my PC.

1:00pm – 6:00pm Work.

6:00pm – 7:00pm Go home and dinner at my choice of restaurant.

7:00pm – 7:30pm Cook my lunch for the next day.

7:30pm – 8:30pm Quiet time with God

8:30pm – 10:30pm Quiet time with my girlfriend (every Tuesday) Me time, the rest of the week, watch a movie, read a book, do whatever.

10:30pm – 8:00am Sleep time.

That’s my ideal time table, but if I work overtime in the office like today, the whole time table will adjust and I’ll be able to get to bed around 12:00pm. Still, I believe that I am making use of my time very well. I’ve got plenty of me time, and have a time to be with God.

Another exception is on Wednesday, below is the schedule change.

7:30pm – 9:30pm Church friends time every Wednesday. (cooking will be delayed to 11:00pm and quiet time with God will be delayed to 11:30pm, and I get to sleep around 12:30)

On Sundays….

11:00am Wake up

12:00pm Lunch, maybe some light brunch, noodles and beef.

2:00pm – 3:30pm Church, time to worship and give praises to God for the blessings all through out the week and prayer for the next week.

3:30pm – 4:30pm Travel back home. yes the church is quite far from me.

4:30pm – 5:00pm supermarket for next week’s lunch food.

5:00pm – 6:00pm cook for today’s dinner or eat out with friends.

6:00pm – 6:30pm dinner

6:30pm – 8:30pm Me Time! fix the room, keep dry clothes inside the cabinet.

8:30pm – 9:30pm Quiet time with God

9:30pm – 10:30pm Me time again!

Notice I have lots of me time everyday and Saturday is a me time as well except for the quiet time I a lot for God everyday. I love Me Time next to spending a little time to thank God for every day’s blessings and asking for wisdom and guidance for the next to come.

I hope one day, when I look back at this blog entry, I will not regret that I didn’t spend my time better but realize how blessed I am to have plenty of me time, and plenty of time to reflect with God.

When Jesus says, “I will” – he will.

1. I will never cast you out. (John 6:37)
2. I will cleanse you. (Luke 5:13)
3. I will acknowledge you before my Father (Matthew 10:32)
4. I will make you fishers of men. (Matthew 4:19)
5. I will come to you (John 14:18)
6. I will raise you up at the last day (John 6:40)
7. I will take you into glory, to be with me where I am. (John 17:24)

Jesus is the only reason we need to have joy in our heart no matter what other people do, or what circumstances we will be into.

Psalm 127:1-2 Unless the Lord builds the house, those who build it labor in vain. Unless the Lord watches over the city, the watchman stays awake in vain. It is vain that you rise up early and go late to rest, eating the bread of anxious toil; for he gives to his beloved sheep.

What is Fibonacci number? It is a number series that gets the next number by adding the previous 2 numbers.  So 1, 2, the next number is 3, and the next is 5, and the next is 8, 13, 21, 34, 55, 89, 144, and so on.

That’s how we should look at the responsibilities we have. Let’s say you’re already loaded with 6 major responsibilities. Then two more comes along. According to normal math, you now have eight. But on the Fibonacci scale, you’re suddenly at a much higher number. The eighth number in Fibonacci sequence is not but; it’s 34! Each new responsibility brings more to the equation than if you had added just one thing. In the end, our lives gets too busy, too crowded, too tiring, and we don’t have time for the Lord. We tried improving ourselves too much, we end up doing it all by ourselves and relying too much on our own efforts and energy. Always remember the Fibonacci sequence when accepting responsibilities and make sure you leave time for the Lord. Always remember that Fibonacci sequence grows exponentially.

It’s all because we’ve bought the lie of trying to “do it all” We need to remember, “unless the Lord builds the house, who who build it labor in vain." We need to leave time for the Lord, because the time for the Lord is time for worship, thanksgiving, repentance, and peace. Trusting in the Lord, with everything in our life means salvation, contentment, and peace. Don’t try to do everything by yourself, leave time for God and get to know Jesus, and make Him part of your daily life.

I find Kylie so cute. :)

Windows 7 Beta is looking good for a stable, and consumer-friendly release to the point that it knows that my notebook’s battery is broken. It warns me that the battery I am using might cause my machine to shut down quickly and it’s right. My notebook’s battery has been broken for a year and it only lasts for 5 minutes. Sometimes the charge it have isn’t even enough to boot up Windows.

Thank you Windows 7 for telling me. :)

Oh, how I love your law! I meditate on it all day long. Your commands make me wiser than my enemies, for they are ever with me. I have more insight than all my teachers, for I meditate on your statues. I have more understanding than the elders, for I obey your percepts. I have kept my feet from every evil path so that I might obey your word. I have not departed from your laws, for you yourself have taught me.

How sweet are your words to my taste, sweeter than honey to my mouth! I gain understanding from your precepts; therefore I hate every wrong path.Your word is a lamp to my feet and a light for my path. I have taken oath and confirmed it, that I will follow your righteous laws. I have suffered much; preserve my life, O Lord, according to your word. Accept, O Lord, the willing praise of my mouth, and teach me your laws. Though I constantly take my life in my hands, I will not forget your law. The wicked have set a snare for me, but I have not strayed from your percepts. Your statutes are my heritage forever; they are the joy of my heart. My heart is set on keeping your decrees to the very end.

Jesus answered in John 14:6, “I am the way, the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me. If you really knew me, you would know my Father as well. From now on you do know him and have seen him.”

God is so good. We’ve sinned and fall short of His glory but He made a way for us to come back Him. If we look back in the Old testament, we’ll see that God is a face that we can never see. He is a God that is feared just because of His sheer magnificence, and terrifying beauty. There are many instances in the Old Testament that God’s people asked to see Him but God always responds with a NO.

In Exodus 33:18-20 Moses said, “Now show me your glory.” And the Lord said, “I will cause all my goodness to pass in front of you and you will proclaim my name, the Lord, in your presence. I will have mercy on whom I will have mercy and I will have compassion on whom I will have compassion. But,” he said, “you cannot see my face, for no one may see me and live.”

Psalm 13:1 How long, O Lord? Will you forget me forever? How long will you hide your face from me?

Psalm 27:9 Do not hide your face from me, do not turn your servant away in anger; you have been my helper Do not reject me or forsake me, O God my Savior.

Psalm 44:24 Why do you hide  your face and forget our misery and oppression?

Psalm 69:17 Do not hide your face from your servant; answer me quickly, for  I am in trouble.

Psalm 80:3 Restore us, O God; make your face shine upon us.

Psalm 88:14 Why, O Lord, do you reject me and hide your face from me?

Psalm 102:2 Do not hide your face from me when I am in distress. Turn you ear to me; when I call, answer me quickly

Psalm 143:7 Answer me quickly, O, Lord; my spirit fails. Do not hide your face from me or I will like those who go down to the pit.

God made all these possible through His love for us in Christ Jesus. Paul celebrated that truth in 2 Corinthians 4:6 “For God, who said, let light shine out of darkness’ has shone in our hearts to give the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ.”

We don’t deserve to see God, we don’t deserve God’s glory because we are sinful and we’ve grown too far apart from Him. But God’s grace is something we can’t understand either, it is so beautiful that He gave His only Son to die for imperfect people, wrap them in clothes of righteousness them and make them look white and holy in front of Him. It is a gift that we will never deserve but He whole heartedly blessed us with it. God loves us so much that it is impossible to see Him the Old Testament but today, I cannot imagine living a life without Jesus. Jesus is the ONLY way to see God.

Hebrews 4:15 For we do not have a high priest who is unable to sympathize with our weaknesses, but we have one who has been tempted in every way, just as we are -- yet was without sin.

J.B. Phillips translates Hebrews 4:15: For we have no superhuman High Priest to whom our weaknesses are unintelligible - he himself has shared fully in all our experience of temptation except that he never sinned.

It's as if he knows that we will say to God... "God, it's easy for you up there. You don't know how hard it is from down here." So he boldly proclaims Jesus' ability to understand. Look at the wording again.

1. He himself. Not an angel Not an ambassador. Not an emissary, but Jesus himself.

2. Shared fully. Not partially. Not nearly. Not to a large degree. Entirely! Jesus shared fully.

3. In all our experience. Every hurt. Every ache. All the stresses and all the strains. No exceptions. No substitutes.

Why? So he could sympathize with our weaknesses.

Philippians 4:6-7 Do not worry about anything, but pray and ask God for everything you need, always giving thanks. And God's peace, which is so great we cannot understand it will keep your hearts and minds in Christ Jesus.

Find peace in Jesus Christ. In times of stress, pain, sorrow, he understands. Never stop praying, never stop talking to God, trusting Him to give you peace.