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PURPOSES FOR THE BOOKS OF EZRA-NEHEMIAH

PURPOSES FOR THE BOOKS OF EZRA-NEHEMIAH A. To provide a record of the reconstruction of the "Hebrew theocracy upon the physical and spiritual foundations of the past"25 B. To emphasize covenant renewal in the restored community (e.g., Neh 8-10) C. To demonstrate God's faithfulness through the physical rebuilding and dedication of the wall (cf. Zeph 3:19- 20; Hag 2:1-9) D. To emphasize the historical and theological continuity between the preexilic and postexilic Israel through the institution of the temple, installation of officers like priests and temple servants, the emphasis of the Law of Moses E. To proclaim the legitimacy of the restored community's religious, political, economic, and social life as God's people (cf. Neh 9:32-37) F. To trace the re-establishment of Yahweh worship and the securing of Jerusalem as a religious community separated from all foreign influences unto Yahweh's Law26 G. To foreshadow the full restoration of the nation through that which was accomplished by Ezra and Nehemiah27

Send teaching schedule to Aaron

Send teaching schedule to Aaron

Start tracting in Youth Fellowship

Tell dad abt 12000 btu brand of aircon. Panasonic/daiso/want inverter?

LL, message to be printed on rally tract.

We should start tracting in Youth Fellowship. Continue where we left off from back from the days of Golden Seedling. Places to tract. HDBs, private houses and hospitals.

May God lead the way.

Went to Church with Grandpa(Bedok)

Visited grandpa's shop to see how's he doing. Have not been visiting him for very long, ever since his discharge from hospital.

Quite relieved that he is doing fine and not suffering from any constant pains post operation. Evangelist Uncle was there too. Had a short chat with everyone there.

Evangelist UNcle and Aunt and me later brought Grandpa to Calvary church at Bedok South. Wasn't easy persuading him to go, but alas, he went. Coincidentally when i visited him at the shop, was the day that the there's a parents thanksgiving service that Grandpa could go to. God is working. Managed to persuade him to go in the end.

Service at Calvary is quite unlike Zion. Lots of weird irrelevant English songs and stuff for the elderly audience. The agenda for the service needs serious review man. But the sermon was good. Simple Hokkien that spoke the truth about believeing in God. Tried to check on Grandpa and made sure that he understood the message. Alas, at the end, he is still resistant. The seed has been planted, as Cat say, God, please let it grow and whenever he needs it, he can call upon ur name.Amen.

How can i break the Silence?

http://www.rbc.org/ds/q0706/q0706.html

Blog Entry 26th July

We need to get away from a "win them" mentality. People do not put their faith in Christ because we cleverly "force" them to believe. We must realize that if we "win" someone to Christ, he's probably not saved. D. L. Moody, the evangelist, was riding on a train when a drunk came up to him and said, "Mr. Moody, I'm one of your converts." Moody replied, "I'm afraid you are, because you're obviously not a convert of the Lord's."

You guys have any spiritual beliefs in life?
I guess admist all these money earning, exceling in academic grades culture, i often ask myself, what are all these for? What is life's purpose? We were always taught to have the big picture in school or work, what about the big picture of life?

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THE APPROACH
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1. Do you have any kind of spiritual belief?
2. To you, who is Jesus?
3. Do you think there is a heaven and a hell?
4. If you died right now, where would you go?
5. If what you believe were not true, would you want to know it?

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Verses to guide someone to Christ
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Romans 3:23--"For all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God."

Romans 6:23--"For the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord."

John 3:3--"No one can see the kingdom of God unless he is born again."

John 14:6--"I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through Me."

Romans 10:9-11--"If you confess with your mouth, 'Jesus is Lord,' and believe in your heart that God raised Him from the dead, you will be saved. For it is with your heart that you believe and are justified, and it is with your mouth that you confess and are saved. As the Scripture says, 'Anyone who trusts in Him will never be put to shame.'"

Revelation 3:20--"I stand at the door and knock. If anyone hears My voice and opens the door, I will come in and eat with him, and he with Me."

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Questions to close
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# Are you a sinner?

# Do you want forgiveness for your sins?

# Do you believe Jesus died on the cross for you and rose again?

# Are you willing to surrender yourself to Christ?

# Are you ready to invite Jesus into your heart and into your life?

How can i share my faith wothout an argument

How can i share my faith wothout an argument.

Please read through anyone who chances upon this blog.

http://www.rbc.org/ds/q0709/q0709.html

Tact is the ability to make a point without making an enemy

Tact is the ability to make a point without making an enemy

Now waiting for my sis to 'warm up' before we can leave at 10.15am....

We had one bigshot coming down from NY to visit the Singapore office. She gave quite a long talk on CSFB becoming ONE bank, ONE CSFB. Of course, how does that impact IT? Apparently, there are gonna want to review methods to merge different IT architectures from CSFB and CS to form ONE model. Seems damn high level ya, nothing concrete. But of coz directors all speak like that. Go so high level till its so high that we can't see the ground. lol

What i made out of it was, integrating their PeopleSoft Financials system to the same model. Don't think i will bring in all the details. For those who don't know abt PeopleSoft, to put it simply, its something like SAP.

We all went to Harry's after that. A pub at Esplanade. Had drinks, chats, food. And best moment of the night was, my boss said that he wanted to 'book' me. Asking me to come back to Credit Suisse when i graduate. Ha! Felt honoured that he looked so highly upon me. hehehehe

There was another guy from Controllers IT leaving us to go to Controllers. The place where i realli wanna go. Not IT support or development, but to do the real finance stuff! And of course all its but a dream, if from Controllers you can actually go be a trader!

Ok enough of CSFB. Preparing for later in the afternoon where YF join in SF for 2nd anniversay preparations. Surely goodness and mercy, shall follow me...

holdlocks

tx #1begin transaction
/* acquire a shared lock and hold it until we commit */
1: select col_1 from table_a holdlock where id=1
2: update table_b set col_3 = 'fiz' where id=12
commit transaction

tx #2begin transaction
1: update table_a set col_2 = 'a' where id=1
2: update table_c set col_3 = 'teo' where id=45
commit transaction

Penning down my experiences

Think now that i am experiencing a particular interesting period of my life,
i should pen it down in words so that i can look back at it in future years and recollect the happ moments.

I do not care abt the audience or readership of this blog. Think i should just express my thoughts once in a while.

And really if anyone do reads any of the articles, i hope that it would only input something postive into the reader's mind.

Cheers,
Jason

The trading floor

Anyone been to a trading floor?

Well i am fortunate enough to visit CSFB's trading floor.
First Impressions, the floor isn't like what you see on drama serials with a crowd of people standing, shouting and hand signals in one lump. Its more of people being computers, phones, and occasionally stand,shout, hand signal.

First trader i met, a woman named Yuki Hamasuki. She was conversing in japanese but she can speak perfect accented english too. Way cool... I later found out that she was the MD for FX trading. Power... She went through briefly what her department does and of coz, little of it went into my mind as i could hardly the financial jargon and theories that are involved.

After that, met those who trade bonds. An indonesian girl, Sherly, was previously from the Operations dept (middle office) was a trader there. She too spoke perfect accented English. Traders are reall client focused people and with that, you need good communications skills to communicate to your clients. Especially so when you handle billions of dollars everyday.

Met a few more other traders but the above mentioned 2 were those that left the deeper impressions.

Traders, earn a hell damn lot but the conseqences of a slip up is just too high. Guess that's why i would not want to become a trader. What's a slip up? Having your fears realized in a speculation. Lose a hell lot of money. Money that you can only see in the form of numbers on screens. No physical dollar notes or gold bars. Just too huge an amount.

Of coz, traders have short working lifespans and definitly do not have a good work life balance if any at all. Sometimes we really got to ask ourselves, is this really what i want? Or is there a further cause that i want to fulfill in life.

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April 2005

YF,SF anniversary (1st july)
Gospel camp venue