Just talked with my mom over Skype. It was kinda cool to connect over skype as this is my first time.

Had a farewell dinner with the NYP DMM and Jey as Jey is enlisting to Tekong soon. Really enjoyed ourselves as we share about food, our week, some funny things that happened along the way as we chat and also about movies! Movies are really a great entertainment source for many people. Recently there are many good movies such as the "Prince Caspian - Narnia," "Indiana Jones" and what some of them recommended "Maid of Honour" and "What happened in Vegas." One of my favourite Chinese film is "The Secret" LOL and also enjoys Korean dramas recently.

However as a caution, we must watch what we see. Matthew 6:22 "The eye is the lamp of the body. If your eyes are good, your whole body will be full of light. But if your eyes are bad, your whole body will be full of darkness. If then the light within you is darkness, how great is that darkness!"

God is neutral about entertainment. However, I'm afraid some of us get ourselves too addicted or too emotional or too imaginative about the thing we watch that it caused unfruitfulness in our thoughts and daily life.

We should be careful what we watch and don't live by the schedule of the cinemas, chasing after new shows and waiting for the next one and the next one and the next one. Nowadays movies are also often filled with gore, sex and violence which leads us to either get too involved in Hollywood we might miss out on something better. The media will play down the effects of sinful/wrong desires, such as sex, to make us think its alright but that must not cause us to compromise God's standard. No matter how people say its "an art" or "its normal nowadays", we must not fall for it.

I think just as Matthew 6:22 says, we ought to have wisdom in the way we select movies and not get sucked into Hollywood. Let's put our priority not on entertainment, but put our energy and efforts on more useful things.

Philippians 3:8
What is more, I consider everything a loss compared to the surpassing greatness of knowing Christ Jesus my Lord, for whose sake I have lost all things. I consider them rubbish, that I may gain Christ

We gotta remind ourselves what our life's purpose is for, and we are consecrated for God's purpose! We have a mission for this world, a vision for this lifetime! I believe many of us know this and loves God, just that some movies are helpful while some are not. all things are permissible yet not all things are beneficial.