Going . . . Going . . .

The countdown has begun. It’s just a matter of time now. How much time? Of that I am still unsure. But, pretty soon, I will be leaving my i.ph blogs completely. 

Like I mentioned when I started my blogs, blogging is all-therapeutic for me. At the same time, it is all-experimental. Well, I am at a stage of the experiment where I found it time for me to have my own domain name (already bought one) and web host (temporarily "hitching" a host with our company’s host space). I have already started experimentally tampering with HTML, etc. and was able to come up with a fairly decent, albeit narcissistically inclined and still temporary website. Having zero web designing/developing skills, that was a major accomplishment for me already. However, I will still refine it. Change the entire look and feel of it. I don’t want to use my pictures in the entry page–not only does that seem rather narcissistic to me, it will most probably also disencharm potential visitors from entering into the deeper recesses of the website.

I have already set up my photo gallery. But the pictures will come only when I have my Nikon D80 on hand already (Click THIS and THIS to read my previous posts on that topic.)

I have also arleady set up a blog there. Though I have yet to customize it.

I am a newbie at all of this so it is a rather slow process of trials and errors and accidental "discoveries" and unexpected results.

I am still contemplating whether I should repost all of my previous i.ph posts in my new website, or if I should just leave them here as is. But, I am leaning more toward tagging them along as well. All the time and effort that will take makes me wish I had not posted pages and pages of stuff here.

Feel free to message me about these matters. I do welcome tips and help and even money donations! (Haha.) I do enjoy asking questions and, of course, having them answered. That is the fastest way for me to learn at the least amount of time.

Going . . .

I decided to attend what could be the first and last GSB Night of my MBA student life. (Click THIS to read my previous post about it.)

It happens tonight!

I’m set to meet my classmates-slash-friends (Cecile, Joselle, and Leila) and carpool with them to the venue. At the venue itself, other classmates-slash-friends will be there to "party" with us, too (Dave, Janice, Maristel, etc., etc., etc.) My former professor, Guy Concepcion, will be there too. He even sent out an email to our class (the class I had with him last term) and literally ordered us all to go. 

Right now, I’m just at home, curled up to the heat of my laptop–alternately reading the Bible, reading several online and printed resources, and blogging my thoughts as they hit me. I’ve felt sluggish for days. And, just this morning, my abdomen started cramping up (perhaps due to the cold water I used at the latter part of my ritualistic bathing process). 

I hope I’ll feel better later. I hope I’ll be pepped up for the event. I hope my dress won’t be screaming bloody red! That would be undoubtedly quite shameful.

Oh, and I hope my friends bring cameras! It’s sure to be another one of those Kodak moments!

Revelation 18 and the Riches of King Solomon

I’m a Bible believer so to me, the world as we know it really does have a definite end. The Bible is clear on that, hence there is no confusion on my part regarding that point. What still confounds me is exactly how the things of this world will end–how the end of time will come and the actual events that will transpire at each stage.

There are books on end-time events and prophecies I’ve read which were very helpful and detailed. However, these books seem to have failed to mention the events that are to transpire in Revelation 18. That chapter is on my mind right now. Ellen G. White’s The Great Controversy failed to mention chapter 18. (Or at least I didn’t notice it mentioned.) A. Jan Marcussen’s National Sunday Law also didn’t seem to mention it.

In connection with that, I also wonder what has actually happened to all of King Solomon’s vast wealth. And, just how vast was vast in that case? Was it ever found? Did anyone ever get a hold of it? Or is it still a mystery up to this day? Also, where is Ophir? I read an article on the Internet theorizing that Solomon’s Ophir was nothing more than the pyramid tombs of Egyptian Pharoahs. Was it really just that? Or, was it as another article claimed, a location in South West Arabia now known as Yemen? Or are those two articles completely off the mark? Is the genuine Ophir still hidden from prying men and yet to be discovered?

I’m searching for answers to these questions now. If you have your "theories" and so-called "answers," please do send them to me. I’d like to prayerfully study them and determine if there really is "light" in them. (Thanks in advance to anyone who’ll be sending them.)