Note: Before you think I’m basing the religion or ALL Christians, hold your horses. I am not. I’m referring to the few bad apples who go around making everyone else look ugly.

From the episode Damned If You Do, House, Season One

Nun: Just because we live in a monastery and we spend most of our time in prayer doesn’t mean we don’t find time for drama. 

Drama it truly is.

Thanks to The Da Vinci Code fiasco going on in the big “C” of my life, I am now officially the black sheep of this establishment. (I call it an establishment because over the years, I have to grown to see it as an antithesis of the term “bride of God”.) Now how do I know this for sure? Lets just say that the people on the mailing list regarding the book avoided me and pretended as if I was the wall when they saw me on Sunday helping Mum out with her kitchen duties, especially the more “senior” Christians there. The “uncles” and “aunties” don’t even bother with their usual early morning greeting anymore.

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Why do people hog the communal wasabi jar at Genki Sushi?

Why is it okay to excuse racists remarks just because the person made it in the heat of the moment (ie anger)?

Why do people attempt to teach when they cannot even do?

Are men capable of getting into “bitch-fights” or is it just for women?

Why do we continue to ignore when we know that ignorance is HARDLY blissful?

I don’t know if I would have been flattered by all the attention I’ve been getting of late if I were Mr Dan Brown. First his lawyers and that nasty lawsuit business. Now the Opus Dei group and a number of Christian groups/leaders around the world as well. Dan Brown’s The Da Vinci Code has – to date – sold more than 40 million copies in hardback and half a million in paperback. Some of the things mentioned about this supposedly offending book of his are as follows (as quoted from a variety of articles available on BBC.com):

CCK [Christian Council of Korea] said the film was “an insult and defamation” of the holiness of Jesus Christ and the Bible.

The group added that they were “concerned about the damage that would be caused to individuals’ faith” because of the film’s content. – Da Vinci film faces ban in Korea, BBC.com

The Roman Catholic Church in Italy has spoken out against what it says are “shameful and unfounded lies” in the best-selling novel The Da Vinci Code.

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“One of the ways in which we now celebrate the great Christian festivals in our society is by a little flurry of newspaper articles and television programs raking over the coals of controversies about the historical basis of faith,” Williams told worshippers at Canterbury Cathedral Sunday. – Church fights Da Vinci Code novel, BBC.com

The organisation says children should be protected from what it calls “insidious” lies about Catholicism.

Spokesman Marc Carroggio said: “Any adult can distinguish reality from fiction. But you cannot expect a child to make proper judgements.”

The group has aroused controversy in the past, with critics calling it secretive and ultra-conservative. – Call for Da Vinci ‘adult rating’, BBC.com

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…slamming on the accelerator for five minutes and then lifting your foot off IMMEDIATELY.

…driving too close to the left side of the road.

…hitting the curb while make a turn.

…staring at innate objects around you for like forever while the car is moving straight.

…waiting till the last minute to switch lanes, when 100m before, you were told to do so because left lane HAS already ended.

…going way above the speed limit in the city and going way below the speed limit on the highway.

…abruptly making moves on the highway, eg turning left when on the outer most right lane.

Now I’ve seen it all, and I thought M’sian drivers were the worst in the world. I wonder how he got his German driving license.