Recently, I got a new Mac computer. Yes, it is expensive. I of course have my reason to get it, but the reason is not important to put it here.
However, there is a good and close friend of mine keep saying that Apple inc. donates money to support same-sex marriage which has conflict with my Catholic religion catechism. Before, I think that she just wants to remind me and will stop saying this after 1 or 2 days. However, she keeps saying this. I somehow want to say "What do you want? I have my reason to get this laptop which you know it!!!! Stop criticizing my decision and my lovely Mac book!!!"
Of course, The reason I sound mad is somehow, I agree on her too. LOL... this idea keeps running in my brain days and days and days... (Yes, actually can't sleep Then, I opened my Bible and read the following scripture:
Tribute to Caesar(Matthew 22:15-22)
...then the Pharisees went and plotted together how they might trap Him in what He said. And they sent their disciples to Him, along with the Herodians, saying, "Teacher, we know that You are truthful and teach the way of God in truth, and defer to no one; for You are not partial to any.
"Tell us then, what do You think? Is it lawful to give a poll-tax to Caesar, or not?" But Jesus perceived their malice, and said, "Why are you testing Me, you hypocrites?"Show Me the coin used for the poll-tax." And they brought Him a denarius. And He said to them, "Whose likeness and inscription is this?"
They said to Him, "Caesar's." Then He said to them, "Then render to Caesar the things that are Caesar's; and to God the things that are God's."
And hearing this, they were amazed, and leaving Him, they went away.
Of course, I understand that buying a computer from Mac is totally different from paying tax to government. One thing came to my mind is that should we still pay tax to Canada government although we know that they are using our money to support "abortion, contraception, same-sex marriage, war...etc" which are also conflicting our faith. According to Jesus, I think, yes, we should still pay tax. Not paying tax will not help on these situations. As a catholic, we should try our best to influence the government to avoid these kind of things.
As a Mac user now, I will try to send a letter to Apple Inc. and tell them my point of view. Also, as a catholic, we should keep doing evangilisation, teach people the "truth". Last Saturday in the Mandarin Sunday School class, one of my students asked me a very interesting question, "Do you think if a person hurts another person because he does not have a chance to learn anything about love, God or Jesus, will that person still goes to hell after he died?" My answer is, "I don't know. However, Jesus may blame to some of us (Catholic), because we did not do our job well which is ... " The 12-year-old kid said immidiately, "EVANGILISATION!!!!"... haha
Of course, I still don't know if my decision on buying a Mac is right or wrong, but I am sure that God knows what I am doing, and believe me or not, he (God) will "contact" me very quickly if I have something wrong.
I see trees of green, red roses too I see them bloom for me and you And I think to myself what a wonderful world. I see skies of blue and clouds of white The bright blessed day, the dark sacred night And I think to myself what a wonderful world.
The colors of the rainbow so pretty in the sky Are also on the faces of people going by I see friends shaking hands saying how do you do They're really saying I love you.
I hear babies crying, I watch them grow They'll learn much more than I'll never know And I think to myself what a wonderful world Yes I think to myself what a wonderful world
Has been 1 week I did not update the blog. It is because of the war!!!! Haha... For those who understand the war, you are either my very close friend or actually inside the war. Anyway, I am recovered.
Last week, I went to mass everyday except for thursday. Daily mass gave me strength to pass through all the hard moment. God did help me. After the mass, I felt very peaceful. I can feel Jesus really holding my hands and walking with me. I know some of you may think that I am crazy, but it is true.
If you would like to join me for mass. Please tell me and we can definitely go together.
Today, there is a war. I am inside the war too. Although there are more people on my side than on the other side, we lost. We totally lost the war. Many people died, and luckily, I am still survive. I think the reason of it is becuase of the weapon is very powerful on the other side or I can say, we do not have any weapon. We are not allow to have weapon, once we have it, we will get kill right away.
The war does not suddenly come, but we cannot do anything to prepare the war. We can only wait for it, wait for it to happen, and wait to see the deaths. There are no doctors and medications prepared, but if you are lucky, you may get some nurses to help you.
Whenever there is a war, you will see people get hurt, tears on the face and feel helpless. The reason of I can survive is because of there is somebody sacrificed his life. 2 weeks ago, the alarm was on. There are lots of soldiers in the press conference.
General J said: Our country will be under attack. Kybsjk city will be the first city get destroyed before March 1st. Soldiers in Kybsjk will be there to protect their lands until the last minute. Then, the war begins, on wednesday afternoon, our team as usual was on patrol. Suddenly, one of the other teammates came by and yelled out: Watch out. I forgot what did he say exactly and he fell on the ground with lots of blood. That bullet supposed to be pointed at me. It is from a silent gun!!! He actually got the bullet straight into his body. Before he died, he said: you should stay, you can do better than me in the team, thank you.
2 mins after his death, general D called an emergency meeting and said: the war is over. It won't be another war within 6 months. Trust me... the war is done... Don't be sared... But, me... I cried... I felt so bad. Although I am still alive, but...anyway. I will pray for the sacrificed. I hope they can be in a happy land soon.
The war was in the beginning of Jan and ended today.
Some of you may know, I am a host in FM 102.3 in Montreal. Every wednesday at 10:30 - 11:30 pm, you can also listen to my voice on the radio. The show's name is called "Happy Wednesday" (開心星期三). The objective of the show is to bring happiness to audience. We will try to present news in a funny way. If you have never listened to it, you can always listen the archieve by click on the link I put in the right hand side of this blog. Give me comments.... I really need comments. I know people always say good thing in front of me, which will of course make me happy. However, people who tell me negative comments, I love them.
I remembered that there was someone actually asked me out for a lunch and told me that... "you know.. you did something and it hurts me... I hate you Billy, bla bla" He can tell me this in front of me because he loves me. I treat him as my real real friend. Nowadays, it's so hard to get someone to point out your mistakes in front of you in a positive way. Here, I want to say thank you to all my Real friends....
It is not easy to do "Happy Wednesday". I am a human. I cannot be always happy. Yes, I always make jokes... it is because I want to see people to smile. I love people to laugh and to be happy. Someday, when I am not happy, it is so so so so so hard to do "Happy Wednesday", when I sit in the studio, my brain will be blank when I am sad. I need to tell myself... I need to be funny... I need to be funny. After 1 year working in the radio show, I found that the actors or actresses are so good. They can change their emotions easily.
Today, I watched a concert on DVD. I cannot count how many times I had tears on my face. So touching. I want to know actually if the singer can be that emotional every night in the concert? If yes, that means he/she really passed thru a lot in his/her life. I am so easy to cry now. Easy to get touched... so emotional.....How can a computer programmer be that emotional???? hahahaha
Happy Wednesday is such a good way for me to encourage myself at least one time a week. I love to do that show because everytime, after the show, my mood will change. So, self encouragement is so important in our daily life. I can only understand this now.. wow... I am an EQ trainer MAN!!!!! Yes, if I don't have those "sad" experiences, I won't know the meaning of "happiness". Thanks God....
I hope this blog can help you know me more. You can know me by using 2 paths. One is by logic. For example, by knowing my age, you can definitely know other thing related to this. The 2nd path is by emotions which is the easiest way to know a person.
