Went shopping with joan & liping today at Ameba! and look at what i bought! I just realised that it's named 'Top Secret' cos it's a top. lol. check out the website of fascinations, where all those funky things happen!
The Science of Top Secret™ The "Top Secret" consists of a spinning top with a radially oriented magnetic field and an associated base that houses a conductive coil. When the top spins past the center of the base, its changing magnetic field induces a current in the coil which momentarily opens the switch to the battery resulting in powering up the electromagnet. The electromagnet then delivers enough torque to the spinning top to allow it to speed up and spin away from the center. Since the electromagnet is only engaged when the top crosses near the center of the base, one 9 volt battery can last for over a week of continual use!
topsy turvy-ed @ 11:54 PM
Wednesday, February 27, 2008
Rmb this picture from my previous post in 2007? They are cousins of the below!
This is one of the games i have on the right column of my windows vista desktop. I finally managed to turn off all the lights (i.e. make all squares red) and it isn't an easy thing to do! However, i did it in countless moves which is not suppose to be the case if i want to advance to another level. They only allow maximum of 10 moves on top of the 6 minimum moves indicated in the picture above. That's like only 16 moves! I did it in 27! Hence, my score is 0.
Today, i'm on a blogging spammage cos there are so many things to share but so little time! So quickly, without haste, here's Spurgeon's daily dose a few days ago which reminded me of Psalm 39:5:
[Indeed, You have made my days as handbreadths, And my age is as nothing before You; Certainly every man at his best state is but vapor.]
Note: Spurgeon preached a message on the uncertainty and fragility of life, from which this excerpt is taken, eight days after a mining disaster in the Welsh town of Risca took the lives of 146 men.
I stayed but a week or two ago with an excellent Christian man, who was then in the halest and most hearty health. I was startled indeed when I heard immediately after that he had come home, and sitting down in his chair had shut his eyes and died. And these things are usual, and in such a city as ours we cannot go down a street without hearing of some such visitation. Well, our turn must come. Perhaps we shall die falling asleep in our beds after long sickness, but probably we shall be suddenly called in such an hour as we think not to face the realities of eternity. Well, if it be so, if there be a thousand gates to death, if all means and any means may be sufficient to stop the current of our life, if really, after all, spiders’ webs and bubbles are more substantial things than human life, if we are but a vapor, or a dying taper that soon expires in darkness, what then? Why, first, I say, let us all look upon ourselves as dying men, let us not reckon on tomorrow Oh! let us not procrastinate, for taken in Satan’s great net of procrastination we may wait, and wait, and wait, till time is gone and the great knell of eternity shall toll our dissolution. Today is your only time. O mortal men, the present moment is the only moment you may call your own, and oh! how swift its wings! This hour is yours; yesterday is gone; tomorrow is with God, and may never come. “Today if ye will hear his voice harden not your hearts.”
facebook has all sorts of silly but fun applications and this one in particular i enjoy! Seriously, it was my favourite pasttime. Popping bubble wrap used to wrap packages and fragile items. This application even has a Manic Mode that lets you pop more than one bubble with the swipe of the mouse and has real sound effects! But nothing really beats the real bubble wrap popping...
topsy turvy-ed @ 3:11 PM
Thursday, February 21, 2008
We need not that men should be adopting new schemes and new plans. We are glad of the agencies and assistances which are continually arising; but after all, the true Jerusalem blade, the sword that can cut to the piercing asunder of the joints and marrow, is preaching the Word of God. We must never neglect it, never despise it. The age in which the pulpit it despised, will be an age in which gospel truth will cease to be honored. Once put away God’s ministers, and you have to a great extent taken the candle out of the candlestick; quenched the lamps that God hath appointed in the sanctuary. Our missionary societies need continually to be reminded of this; they get so busy with translations, so diligently employed with the different operations of civilization, with the founding of stores, with the encouragement of commerce among a people, that they seem to neglect — at least in some degree — that which is the great and master weapon of the minister, the foolishness of preaching by which it pleases God to save them that believe. Preaching the gospel will effectually civilize, while introducing the arts of civilization will sometimes fail. Preaching the gospel will lift up the barbarian, while attempts to do it by philosophy will be found ineffectual. We must go among them, and tell them of Christ; we must point them to heaven; we must lead them to the cross; [thus] shall they be elevated in their character, and raised in their condition. But by no other means. God forbid that we should begin to depreciate preaching. Let us still honor it; let us look to it as God’s ordained instrumentality, and we shall yet see in the world a repetition of great wonders wrought by the preaching in the name of Jesus Christ.
From a sermon entitled "Preaching! Man's Privilege And God's Power," delivered November 25, 1860. Flickr photo by Troy Mason; some rights reserved.
This is taken from The Daily Spurgeon, a blog website dedicated to excerpts of Spurgeon's sermons. For more, visit http://www.thedailyspurgeon.com/ I find this post especially meaningful. The importance of preaching the gospel in this age of darkness. Now that we've read it, we must be doers of God's Word!
topsy turvy-ed @ 12:45 AM
Monday, February 18, 2008
hmmm according to my friend, the dome staff said we paid the bill! but we didnt! this is really oddddd
topsy turvy-ed @ 9:54 AM
amazing! we walked out on paying a bill! just yesterday, a few church friends of mine went out to parkway parade to have high tea. So we assumed that it was paid but apparently not! and we just walked out without realising until my friend just messaged me... it's a little late but i guess we have to go back and pay cos if not my friend cant hang out in her favourite hang out anymore as she'll be considered a wanted customer, reward - bill amount. this is hilarious. i did walk out of popular with an unpaid vangaurd sheet before. didnt get caught too but i walked back in to pay... this is called forgetfulness. not only carelessness. haha
topsy turvy-ed @ 9:34 AM
Saturday, February 16, 2008
Hi church friends searching for photos from all those gatherings we've had together in our youthful days (WE WILL FOREVER BE YOUNG at heart) but while we're still really really young, here's how you do it:
1) Go facebook and look for Lois's photo albums - instant for msn and facebook profile pictures
2) Go photobucket.com and type ekklesis for id and trackbanana for password. go to folder for church - takes longer but photo resolutions are bigger so better for wallpapers and printing
Enjoy and upload whatever you guys have if you ever had cameras on those days as well!
Here's a pleasant variation of 'Great is Thy Faithfulness' which is one of my favourite hymns. Enjoy that as well!
topsy turvy-ed @ 3:22 PM
Tuesday, February 12, 2008
heard of ipod, tripod, pot, pod, podcast... but have you heard of the octopod? got one from the sheares hall bazaar at the central forum in NUS. it is only $16 and acts as a bendable tripod for your camera! hooks itself on any railing, hookable area... perfect for cam spam people. like me : D
remember the lost bicycle keys on the grass patch (post on 18th Jan)? my dad found the keys to the lock we cut! the mystery keys were found on the bike!!!!??? 0_O
exactly... i know what you're thinking... i think i deserve to be thrown down from somewhere. found on the bike itself!!! we shook the bike, rode it everywhere, but the keys didnt dislodge! they were stuck to the back of the bike at the gears. O_0 at least it ends the drama and mystery. those Ghim Moh pple must have thought we were nuts looking at the grass so intently...
topsy turvy-ed @ 5:09 PM
Tuesday, February 05, 2008
went to borders to shop for a book as charlyn just gave me a 30% voucher! so along the aisles i went, browsing through books like a normal person. then i chanced upon a book called 'Chinglish, Lost in Translation'. This book contains all those signs from China which are pretty interestingly phrased. One of them goes roughly like this and i had to stifle a laugh in case i look abnormal: 'plants and flowers are good helps our breathing. so do not step on them. if you do, they die and you will die too'
Indeed. That is very true. But you would have to step on all the trees and vegetation on this earth... even that wont kill you.
topsy turvy-ed @ 9:41 PM
Saturday, February 02, 2008
before you blink a hundred times just to make sure that you're indeed seeing black and not green for my blog background colour, i just changed my blog template. it's not a deliberate change. but i had to. cos the pictures all went missing due to the hosting site cancelling those nice pictures, hence not hosting them for me. so 'i'm making it happen' and the 'fish' and the 'stick person snickering' pictures have all disappeared into thin air. i'll just have to make do with this i-phone one which is the only one i've managed to load up perfectly with a few glitches like not having a a birthday and people counter anymore!
looking out on the world is my blog theme. it speaks for itself so i wont explain why i chose it.
topsy turvy-ed @ 9:14 PM
Who Am I
I'm Lois, a human being saved and currently alive by God's grace.
[I am crucified with Christ: neverthless I live; yet not I, but Christ liveth in me: and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by the faith of the Son of God, who loved me, and gave Himself for me.
Galations 2:20]
“Yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery, today is God's gift, that's why we call it the present.”
“Arbeit macht das Leben süß” - "Work makes life sweet" :D
Loves
God
Studying (studying is good for your health) - Arbeit macht das Leben süß
Reading the Bible
Having fellowship my family in Christ
Rock Climbing
Cycling
Tennis
Blading
Badminton