suffering in pain

i just loveee Chuck! It's such a great series with a talented lead actor, who portrays the geek-nerd character just SO well, a good cast, as well as a well written script.
there is a perfect balance of comedy, action , and in the latest action, romance!! finally some progress!! i'm a total Charah fan =)
and Sarah (yvonne strahovsky) is just hot!! haha. sucha hot name too.. is that russian? i dunno



















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still yet to watch heroes and OTH of this week, will catch them tmr. really, i dont know what ill be doing without TV shows like these. probably playing more warcraft and ... sleeping more? haha.


went for my first ever christian seminar today @ orchard rd presbyterian church (it's opposite Cathay).. the theme of the whole series was 'Struggling with God', an exposition on the book of Job.

First night was pretty interesting with what i thought was a key point about what the speaker thought was 'marks of a real believer.'
He said that a real believer (e.g. not one that just pays lip service to God and says God is good when everythign is going well in his life. then when he loses his wealth/health he abandons God etcetc) is one that will feel the pain of suffering

This is because we (haha yes im claiming i am one. hopefully i can live up to it) believe that God is a just God, hence it seems like in a logical sense, good people should get good things and bad ppl should be punished.

But of course, this isn't the case in the real world. in the real world good people suffer too. and because of the premise that we believe in a just God, we wonder WHY this is happening to us, whereas non-believers dont have this problem, and they simply dismiss it as karma/whatever.


ok i think i didnt summarize the points very well.. cos i dont have the notes with me. ugh.
but i thought that the talk today was very beneficial for those who are undergoing trials and such. and i thought it had an interesting psychological aspect which timo unknowingly included -
he asked "Is it necessary for someone who is sad to undergo the grieving process like Job?"
like should we let the person weep and mourn and not just feed him 'cliche christian lines'?

This opened up the psychological aspect which i really hope i will study - grieving process! for a person undergoing sorrow and such.. are there phases of it? how should each phase be handled?
what are the characteristics of each phase?

ah! i'm so hyped up about this. maybe it's in behavioural psychology? i dunno! i wanna learn! stuff like this makes me all-so-interested in studying psychology =)

and i finally have an answer for people who ask me 'what do you wanna work as next time?'
everyone assumes that if i studying psych ill be a shrink. u know , the person who sits in a chair and listens to your problems.

but no! i wanna be this definition of a psychologist:
" A person trained and educated to perform psychological research, testing, and therapy."

i wanna do research! in whatever aspect of psychology. you know people even research and study on how doctors treat patients and their thought process when evaluating a patient. so cool la.


alright then. on a random ending note, my best friend started msging again . yays.