Blog stats update

I’ve just updated the “Useless Trivia” page which gives, well, useless trivia. A trend that is becoming apparent is that readership is dropping, presumably because I don’t write about sex so much anymore.
Catholic Writings crossed 200,000 views mark a few days ago. I’m not sure when, but I think it was on Jun [...]

The Mass is about the Body of Christ, the People of God

Some Catholics today say that the Mass is becoming more like a Protestant service, and that it focuses more on the meal aspect than on the sacrificial aspect. That is exactly what the Church is trying to do, for good reason. It helps by looking at what the Second Vatican Council really was about and [...]

Recommended sites updated!

I just updated the “Recommended Posts” in the left sidebar, removing some outdated posts (mostly about homosexuality, since my understanding of it has grown over the past few weeks), and added a few new ones… or is that old ones?
These recommended posts are a good way of bringing to attention some posts which written in [...]

Facebook

I just added a whole bunch of people as friends…
One day, I need to figure out how to use Facebook. It looks fun.
Not today…

Thoughts on Chee Soon Juan and Gopalan Nair

I haven’t been closely following the court case between Dr Chee Soon Juan and the two Mr Lees, but from what little I have read, I think St. Francis de Sales writes about people like Dr Chee.
In chapter 3 of Introduction to the Devout Life, St. Francis writes about patience. The saint writes:

“Do not limit [...]

Bestselling Befriending Jesus… in Mandarin?

I met with a couple of Nutella’s friends on Thursday evening. They are Methodists and having read my new book Befriending Jesus “cover to cover twice”, as one of them put it, they prayed about it and decided that God was calling them to translate the book to Mandarin!
Now this is truly ironical, especially if [...]

Blog stats update!

It’s that time of the month again when I give an update on statistics for Catholic Writings.
May 2008 has seen a significant drop of about 2,000 in the number of page views. The last time numbers were this low was back in December 2007. Maybe it’s because I’ve grown comfortable with the number of readers.
These [...]

Chilli chocolate

A few weeks ago, Nutella and I paid a visit to Changi Airport Terminal 3. While at Candy Empire, we found a curious type of chocolate containing “finely and roughly ground chilli pods” in it. To satisfy my curiosity, I bought a block of it and am now trying it. It tastes like…. chocolate with [...]

Calling all cat lovers!

There’s an art exhibition of photographs of cats at the Arts House until 31 May. For more information, check http://gattidelmondo.blogspot.com/
The name of the exhibition is “Cats of the World II”.

Book Review - Understanding Comics

I’ve seen this book many times in the library, but never felt compelled to borrow it until one day in the Ang Mo Kio library, I found nothing else more interesting.
In short, “Understanding Comics” is a book about comics written in comic style. With the use of the various comic techniques, author Scott McCloud is [...]