월요일, 4월 19, 2004
my brother was very affected by the events that have unfurled in the past few days. today i helped him type out a blog entry. i was quite touched by the thoughts that crossed his mind. here i have the words that i had to type out.

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okay, i know i haven't posted in a while, but that's because school and all that has been bogging me down. my topic for today is...

slander.

according to my sis, slander is any form of non-permanent insult, abuse, or verbal injury to any one person of groups of persons at any one time. it is only one step away from the crime of libel, which, in today's harsh society, is capable of sending you to jail, seeing that the abuse in question has been typed in a letter, put up on a poster, or say, typed up on a blog?

think about it. all the stuff you say on your blog might just land you in jail one fine day, if what you say happens to be, just happens to be, false and totally untrue.

that is, provided your fallacy has been published or shown to at least one other person, which, in the case of hi-techified blogging, will most certainly sound the death knell for all the poor sods out there still living in their own fantasy world.

think about it. that poor sod might just be you.

but then again, you might just make a narrow escape with a dart in your shoulderblade. ha ha. just kidding kids.

but then again, they really should have posted up a big notice with the words: KIDS! don't try this at home. it's vehhh-reee... dayn-ja-rus. *starts doing the tokyo shock squad dance* boogie down.

someone really irritated me today. to be quite frank, he kept on asking me questions in class, like whether i had art paper. that's ok? try keeping your cool when it's repeated 10 times in your face. then, stage 2: i got my shirt poked by a red pen. so duh, i returned the favour with what i had in hand, i.e. colour pencil. as if that wasn't enough, stage 3 of the invasion resumed soon after. there started the assault of my nether regions, or shall i say, attempt. he succeeded twice, too.

now people, is that the behaviour of a normal 12 year old? i think not. that plus the bonus that another classmate of mine got his bag thrown around. quite frankly, that wasn't very nice, but that's my humble opinion. aside from being that someone's idea of 'fun', that wasn't very 'fun'-ny in anyone else's books.

that same person called me 'vulgar and worldly' a couple of days ago. that really bugged me out, because all along i thought this person was my friend, but at the end of it, he just turned out to be a person who didn't have the guts to tell me to my face what he thought of me and, to put the cherry on the cake, told my sister, of all people, through an msn message. if that's not the opposite of courage, then i don't know what is.

at the end of things, who are we to judge anyone else? as christians, everyone knows that we are tainted with sin, and hence, all have fallen short of the glory of God. no one is perfect, hence, no one can judge. his words really hurt, and they would have hurt anyone, but what really surprised me was that he professed to be such a devout christian. just because we have found the way to God doesn't mean that make us any better than the rest of the non-believers. it only makes us more aware of the spiritual warfare that we have to go through each and every day, and more protection too. similarly, just because different people go to different churches doesn't make any group of christians any better than other christians. what gives people from such-and-such a church to judge, (and don't use that word lightly. go look it up if need be) and form their own opinions about people from other churches, or other believers deemed 'less famous' than them?

as long as we aren't over-confident and don't despise other people, simply because there is no reason to do so, that is sufficient to supply us with the tact that we need in dealing with other people. plus, God is not in a church, He is in us. there is no church that is 'better' to attend. after all, the people who serve the church are only human. at the end, we all serve the same God, so why all this antagonism?

and one proverb from my mom: 'in the field of corn, the ears that do not have much kernels stand tall, but the ears of corn with the most kernels, bow the lowest.'

if you still don't know what that means i cannot help you.