Being Female
Noticed several things. Don't know if they are signs of dementia.

a. i am making spelling mistakes more than ever. perhaps the spellcheck given shld be used often. pride, pride!
b. forgetting to inform viewers to my Life homepage that it is best to be viewed at 1024x768 resolution. at 800x600 it gets rather 'cataractish'
c. i am repeating myself too much, sometimes (as tho anyone cares...oops there I go again!).

Back at the Seminary and now going thru the Human Sexuality and Relationship seminar. Very long session (9.30 am till 5 pm) and after the end of it all, I came to conclusion that we still don't know who we are, really. We cover the real self with vague & general labels that confuse the matter further. Anyway managed to get some insights that wld be good for my meditation and consciousness examen later: up to 6 weeks of conception, the embryo is actually female. after that something happens (androgens coming into the picture here) that will change the embryo to male or remain female. that's how we get the gender. so for a shooort while, I was female. the mind boggles!

I wonder - what if I had became female... naaah!

The Thing about the Thong
All my bags are packed and ready to go...'tis au revoir to St Anne's (for now) till I resume my weekend pastoral in August.

Fr. Jack left this morning at 6 a.m. heading back to California. Heard it is summer there. Here it is hot, humid and there are sounds of thunder heralding the arrival of rain..oh, wait a minute, it is raining now...!

Yesterday's sports news from ST (dated June 27th): <The Women's International Squash Players' Association (Wispa) has given the green light to play in thongs> I don't quite know how to take to this but it seems that sports have now taken a rather downward turn towards making women more a 'sex object' than what they really should be - sports women. Then again what do I know... everyone now seems to be herding towards a society of 'less dress' being a better mode of expression. A thot just occurred to me... if we keep on with this, perhaps sports would to an ultra-modern concept of total undress for all players in all kinds of sports where even the spectators are in their 'birthday suits' too. Actually this is nothing new. They did this at the ancient Olympics, but that was only to keep the women out and I thot we have progressed...This may be a boon for TV viewers at home tho. They get to watch the whole 'au naturale' thing but get to keep their clothes on. What is the world coming to??...sigh*

New longstory...
OK, take a deep breath....breathe in...out (me, not you!)

What a day! Suppose to be my off day but ended up troubleshooting my blog pages that eventually couldn't be resolve. Wanted to post them onto Geocities server but apparently not compatible, or something. Anyway due to complications I had to delete my previous postings and created this newer one from scratch. So my previous rants and raves are gone! (as if any one cares...).

Now that I've gotten things back into order, I'm spaced out with too much staring into the flickering screen. Had reshuffle some of my homepages again to, hopefully, give a better flow and presentation to my 'long story' (again, as if anyone cares...)

Meanwhile life goes on...
a. New archbishop ordination 7th Oct 2001, venue National Stadium.
b. am finishing St Anne's stint tomorrow - had great fun here.
c. put in work like parish census (walking from floor to floor seeking out Catholic households, having doors close ever so gently in yr face, waiting for ages outside the corridor while they fill up the census form, admiring the different sets and colors of the shoes displayed outside each unit), helping in the youth activities (masquerade party, preparing the core team for the start of the youth group in St Anne's), distributing communion on Saturdays and Sundays, even assisted in one installation service for one niche in the columbarium.

My admiration goes out to:
a. catechists - for trying to pass on the faith to the next generation of youths and young people who seemed more keen on the ads of the newest Nokia handphone
b. youth group - for sincerely trying to make something out of their activities and gathering never minding whether it would ever last into next year...
God bless them all!

Fr Luke came back from his short holiday. He saw his car. He...why don't you check out at Barmies.
OK enough for one night. Enough of crying on the web and enough of today! Good night!

This is a new blog. Deleted the previous one as work done that did not come out in my geocities server as I'd like it to be. Problems, probs...u know what they say about when it rains...sigh*

Anyway one more day to go before I end my stint at St Anne's. Enjoyed myself here.

More on this later...after I am more composed.