may i just say this: liverpool may have lost to sunderland, but the fact of the matter is that i love this club so much. and i dunno i just admire the spirit of hope in adversity, being optimistic, positive, pressing onward; compared to a spirit of resignation, pessimism, negativity in the face of subsequent defeats. i admire benitez and carragher for saying, let's put this behind us, learn from mistakes, and look to the next game.

it's foolish to say our season is over, we do admit we have a major setback, but then let us rise up and do our best for the next one.

similarly in life, when we have a failure, are we gonna say ai ya it's over, GGXX to da MAX. i give up la i might as well just screw up my life. or are we gonna say," k i may have failed, but then i learn to pick myself up, dust myself off, and start all over again." i can still do my best and still succeed. even though this situation is so crappy, i'm just gonna do my best, and believe that i can still make it thru the rain, and stand up once again.

which then leads me to the point about what is the greatest need of the world now, in the midst of intense and immense suffering all around. We ask, what is the greatest need for the people in Padang or wherever earthquake/flood areas, those who have lost their loved ones, homes, livelihood. is it a shelter, is it for everything to be rebuilt again? i guess that is so important, but the most important would be hope. The greatest need for this people is hope. if there is no hope, there is no point going on.

If liverpool got no more chance to win the title this season, mathematically, then there is no more hope, then there is no point playing well anymore what. as in ok fine to get champions league or whatever but that's besides the point. you get my point. When we lose hope, when hope is gone, then there's no point going on. Therefore the greatest need for these people is hope. And where does this hope come from.

Christ Jesus.

I will think thru this issue more and then comment about it. You who are reading. Think about it too. For if we can answer the question of why this hope comes from Christ Jesus, then we can answer the question of why do we even bother to spread Christ to the ends of the world. We can be convicted of the reason why sharing the gospel with people in Padang, tribes in rural faraway areas, mission trip in cambodia etc etc, will make a difference to this people's lives. Otherwise, mission trips, going out to evangelise to needy people will just be some sort of self indulgence in our own religion to make us think we are fulfilling God's plan, which we are i guess, but then i don't think we truly understand why God wants us to evangelise to these people.

on a last note, back to the beginning, COME ON YOU REDS! I will always stand by you and cheer you on and know that as long as there is hope, we will go all the way for the title man and we will not give up. COME ON YOU REDS! YWNA