So while I was out yesterday my parents attended the Benny Hinn Healing Night at Singapore Expo. They said it wasn't quite explosive as the last time but still was pretty crazy. But more disturbing than anything Benny Hinn made some messed up prophecy. He said Benjamin Netanyahu (leader of the Likud parteh in Israel) would become president this election or next election and then he would be killed by radicals. Seriously WTF? Hinn's success in prophecy like my IPPT pass rate. Even pastor Kong during this morning's service expressed his reservations about it and how we should just wait and see. If there's one thing I dislike intensely about the style of american tele-evangelists is that they make stupid predictions that pretty much don't come true. It completely undercuts the religion and makes it look phony. Bah. 

Anyway from my lone experience from the Asia Conference, it's clearly not aimed at the normal congregation. Rather it's trying to impress delegates and impress upon them what they "should" be doing for their church. In fact it seems that the sermons are taking a backseat to the showboating session. I'm not saying it's wrong. It's just bloody overkill. For example in today's sermon they had the normal glitzy singing, then the choir, then the orchestra then Don Moen singing again. All this was interspersed with videos. It wasn't commercial but it seemed like an extremely commercial spectacle. fried my brain and made me long for a sermon which is almost always never. 

Oh ya Inter beat Juventus 1-0 this morning. I was so damn happy. It was just a great, dominating performance. 

And you know, sometimes the army is such a frustrating place. The red-tape, the politics and the inflexible people you meet. Sometimes this is exactly how I feel on Fridays. 

The geog guys had an outing today and I enjoyed myself! Highlight of my month really. We first went to manhattan fish market at plaza sing to eat lunch. I know lots of people say that the place is fabulous and all, but to me the food screamed more quantity than quality. Reasonably good but not stunning. After that we ate some fried mars bars from Chippy's. The dude was pretty stingy with the ice-cream. It was a blob not a scoop. 

Yeah after that we went to catch Body of Lies at Vivo (Don't ask me how is it that we didn't buy tickets at the PS cinema, I screwed up). The movie was quite entertaining though it had some flaws that got on my nerves. It's very jumpy from location to location and because of that the plot loses it's fluidity. Also Russell Crowe just doesn't get to shine in this. But I think we all agreed that Mark Strong, the British actor who played Hani the head of Jordanian Intelligence

was definitely the standout. He exuded this incredible coolness and style that screamed "Dunt mess with me I am imba". 

Hani makes Leo look like a Pansy

After that we headed over to Carl's Jnr for dinner and to talk somemore crap. Ah geog guy conversations are most fascinating. They range from the incredibly trivial to the dead-serious to the past to the present and to the future. 

Yeah and check this trailer out for The Wrestler, which stars Mickey Rourke as a down and out wrestler. It's a sort of parallel of his real life, because he was once a hollywood superstar that ruined his face with plastic surgery (like MJ) and whose career went into downslide. This won the Best Film at the Venice Film Fest and has been touted as a major Oscar contender. Looks unbelievable.

http://www.firstshowing.net/2008/11/20/must-watch-darren-aronofskys-the-wrestler-trailer/

Woo it was a pretty long week. Went outfield which wasn't too bad, then burnt my saturday morning doing some packing for stores in NZ. Yeah my weekend was pretty boring, just slacking and stuff. However at church today there was some baby blessing service and I saw one of the names. One tod was named ZEPHYR. WTF? HOW?!

Definitions of the word ZEPHYR

1) A gentle breeze (this is as close to a logical reason I can find. They want him to have a gentle disposition?!?)

2) Something that is airy, insubstantial, or passing. WTH. Thats like CURSIN HIM

3) RHCP SONG.

Yeah so that was quite a stunner. Also City Harvest is holding their Asia Conference from Thursday to Sunday. I generally don't sell church events to people but Benny Hinn the controversial yet unbelievably powerful healer is having a 4 hour healing session on Saturday night at Expo. I did a blog post on the first time I saw him do his thing and he smites people like a magnifying glass to an ant. He did some power wave thing and everyone around me except my mum and I fell to their seat (I'm sore about that, I think it was my lack of faith). Even my dad got smited. It was some crazy shit. Sign up for it if you can even if it's just for the spectacle.

1) Yay Obama won and in that moment of history I was outfield  

2) FUCK SANDFLIES. Evolution exists alright? There is no way, no how that god created all the bugs on earth, took a look at the sandfly and saw that it was good. No matter how open or forgiving your perspective is, THAT SHIT IS DEVIL SPAWN. 

3) More outfield next week. That is very sad and demoralising. 

Haha ok enough whining. 

Hello everyone im back from the land of Suckhampton, exercise Wallesuckby!

Basically the only thing remotely interesting and dramatic is that i got into a vehicle accident where i smashed my tank into another tank at pretty high speed since it was downhill and i couldn't brake. Wasn't my fault tho my periscopes were fogged and there was a blindspot and the guy infront stopped int he middle of nowhere. I didn't get any cool injury though just a HUGE bruise on my left inner thigh. No one else got any serious injury so thank God. Anyway had to write a couple of statements defending myself so i wouldn't get charged or any thing. It's so ironic when in the army, the first thing you worry about when injured is not your injury, but whether or not you'll get charged 'cuz you injured yourself. Plain, asinine stupidity. Anyway, it was pretty traumatising but i'm over it already, will thank God some more for saving my sorry ass.

I'm back yay.