Random

Welcome to all who started / resumed posting =p

Sigh, sent off another of my friend last Friday. I suspect next year would have a couple more..

I wonder how people live overseas for such a long period of time. I won't want to be apart from everything that is familiar..

That aside, Field camp is over :) It was a strangely exhausting one, even on our part. The weather was excellent though :)

My diary is a little neglected this week though..

Random rambling =p

By the way, C.S. Lewis Rocks to the max! You know right, I had already read The Screwtape Letters for so so many times already, but each time I read it, either new insights hit me, or old insights that I had forgotten, or things which I had not fully understood hits me.. Love it man..

Here is a short extract about Real Pleasure and Substitute Pleasure. The perspective is from that of a senior demon advising his Nephew how to go about tempting a person.

"... you were trying to damn your patient by the World, that is by palming off vanity, bustle, irony and expensive tedium as pleasures. How can you have failed to see that a real pleasure was the last thing you ought to have let him meet? Didn't you forsee that it would just kill by contrast all the trumpery which you have been so laboriously teaching him to value? And that the sort of pleasure which the book and the walk gave him was the most dangerous of all?"

Hmmm.. I realised that it has some more difficult words.. But no worries, just let it flow over you like music or water, and it will be fine ;)

Just a pity he didn't write even more books =p