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The photo above looks very inviting with all the matching pink cloths. Wish I could furnish my new home with the matching materials from pink slippers to the bowl cover and toilet roll holder. It looks so inviting that you just wish you have a good novel and sit in this water closet and read for hours. In fact, my dad has put a fan in our water closet and reading is what some of us do mostly while sitting on the ‘throne’.

You might be wondering what those two terms above mean. Well, Eschatology is defined as the study of events on earth that leads to the establishment of God’s final kingdom. On the other hand, missiology is the study of strategies and initiatives that determines the final population of God’s kingdom.

Hence, Eschatology + Missiology = Our Destiny.

Basically, a kingdom requires a king, a territory and subjects. What happens when you have a king, subjects but no territory? A refugee camp!

God established himself a kingdom through creation. Adam and Eve were the first man and woman God created. When Eve sinned, Adam suffered from temporary lapse of judgement. Afterall, it was Eve who asked Adam to taste the forbidden fruit and hence, it was woman who sinned. Interesting eh?

There is a portable duplex document scanner from Scanshell-Store dot com. It has many features such as scanning both sides of the scanned document simultaneously, it scans to PDF (a compressed file format). It can also scan business cards, plastic ID cards, and documents up to legal size and uses USB 2.0 standard interface. No external power is needed and comes in small footprint and lightweight (<18 oz). The scanner also has Auto Launch mode which is Twain and WIA compatible.

What's more? It comes with bundled software. Scanshell 3000DN comes with bundled DocShell for easy scanning, sharing and organizing of photos and documents. DocShell is an easy to use utility that scan documents and export the scanned image into existing, pre-installed application on the user's pc (PDF,Microsoft paint etc.). The scanned document can be saved to one of the following image types: BMP, JPG, TIF, PSD, PCX, PNG or TGA. This makes it very flexible to work with so many image file formats depending on what software your PC has.

If you run a home office, you cannot make do without a scanner. In my own home office, I have a computer, internet connection, a HP printer, a Canon scanner, digital camera and a fax machine. All these gadgets make my work complete and I am able to work from home comfortably.

Last night I watch life on Astro channel 588, our very handsome doctor, Sheikh Muszaphar lift off into space on board the Russian Soyuz TMA-11 spacecraft at 9:21pm (Malaysian time). Rephrasing Neil Armstrong’s legendary words, Dr Sheikh Muszaphar said, “It’s a small step for me, but a great leap for the Malaysian people.” Hospital UKM’s Dr Sheikh Muszaphar will make history being the first Malaysian in space.

The TMA-11 aircraft carrying the 35-year-old doctor and his flight mates - Russian cosmonaut Yuri Malenchenko and American Peggy Whitson - is scheduled to dock at ISS (International Space Station) at 10:51pm (local time) on Friday. Soyuz TMA-11 will take 2 days to reach the ISS - 360km above the Earth.

Dr Sheikh Muszaphar is to study the effects of microgravity and space radiation on cells and microbes, as well as experiment with proteins for a potential HIV vaccine. Malaysia is paying for the voyage as part of a billion-dollar purchase of Russian fighter jets. The rocket - adorn with a Malaysian flag and coat of arms and carrying the Soyuz TMA-11 spacecraft - was moved on Monday to the launch pad from its assembly site at the Baikonur Cosmodrome, which Russia rents from Kazakhstan. Dr Sheikh is to return to Earth on Oct 21 with two Russian members of the current space station crew.

Another first for the Malaysian ‘angkasawan’ (astronaut), is that he will be hosting a Hari Raya party on board the space station on the first day of Syawal. He has taken satay and some ‘kuih’ Raya to treat the others on board. This is all so exciting. I bet Dr Sheikh will get his Datukship when he returns to Malaysia - our very handsome orthopaedic surgeon who’s also a model.

It was still raining when I woke up this morning. I was very tempted to go back to sleep under my silk comforter as the weather was so cool. After reading the Bible, I turned off the air-con and fan and headed downstairs for breakfast. One of my colleagues gave me Hari Raya cookies and I had some of them with a packet of Dutch Lady milk. Then it is the beginning of the day to work. I turned on the PC and checked emails besides login in to PayPerPost to check for any opps. This has been my routine for months since last year. I’m lucky, there are a few to take this morning. So here I am blogging about it.

The internet is a marvellous technology. You can do business online, set up a date online, chat with people online and do a host of other beneficial activities online via the computer with a broadband connection. Who knows, you can even shop online for your furniture and buy them using your credit cards through their payment gateway and have the items delivered right to your door steps. You can furnish your bedroom by checking out GowFB dot com. They have a wide repertoire of selection of furnitures from those in the living room to dining room and even the bed room. Check out the link today.

Some online chatters are amazed that I could work from home earning a comfortable income. That’s because I work for my friend in his sports building business using my home office with internet connection. It is complete with a fax machine, a scanner, digital camera and a printer. I don’t have to wake up early to beat traffic jams or get dressed before going to work. All I need is turn on the PC in my pyjamas and after taking a cup of milk as my breakfast. It is so convenient and I have been doing this since March 2004. I am never short of work and almost everyday, there will be emails and faxes to reply to for the tenders and quotations. I also get to blog part time whenever there is extra time.

I am pondering should I put the bulk of money into the slow and steady FD (Fixed Deposits) or takes risks and invest in Unit Trusts which hopefully bring in more returns. Unit trusts are a group of shares managed by a fund manager. When you put your money into unit trusts, about 5% is already deducted from the principal for the fund managers. This is quite a huge amount but the proposed returns are supposed to be better. This is just a projected return. However, I feel much safer to put into FD for less but sure profit. FD return is around 3.7% a year which is not too bad. So between the two, to avoid less headache, I rather put into FD for a less but sure return.

As I blog here, my colleague is still fast asleep being tired from driving down to Johor and back to KL yesterday. It is about 10:10am on a Sunday here. I will skip church service in Penang since I am still in the condominium in Subang Jaya. Today we plan to drive back to Penang from KL and hopefully the trip will be pleasant. This place is a very peaceful environment and the residents are quiet. You don’t hear vulgar words spoken loudly and people are generally peace loving. I love this place and the rental is only RM800 a month. Wish I had bought up the place instead of renting it.

Last night, I watched Rush Hour 3 in Queensbay Mall’s cineplex. Director Brett Ratner returns to his element, offering a third fun, funny, and violent slapstick installment in the Rush Hour series. Rush Hour 3 sees Inspector Lee and Detective Carter back together again, trying to save the lives of a Chinese ambassador who may be on the brink of cracking open a massive organized crime syndicate called the Triads, the ambassador’s daughter, and a woman with a very dangerous secret. The biggest problem, however, is the return of somebody from Lee’s past with the potential to derail the otherwise stalwart Inspector. Most of this takes place in Paris, providing a different setting and a few opportunities to exploit cultural stereotypes that are new to the series.

The film is jam-packed with the wild, mildly provocative humor the series is known for, and the silly but entertaining martial-arts slapstick that is Mr. Chan’s trademark. Chris Tucker gives his best performance in the series, delivering a lot of comic punch and playing a nice complement to Chan’s sombre and serious Inspector Lee.