1. I am back on broadband! I will spare you the horror of being enlightened on how many calls I have had to make and how many people I have spoken to in the past three weeks. No, on second thought, I won't spare you the horror... I have made some fifty phonecalls or therabout in the past three weeks, and spoken to nearly twenty people about getting my service activated. Some people are not doing their job; and the worse thing is, there's no way of even knowing who they are. But yes, I'm back on broadband.

2. I have been kept busy settling into my new house with my two parents and two furkids. We are well settled by now, and my parents love this town. To my horror, Mum exclaimed "I hope we will live here forever!" Okay mum, I'll try to negotiate with God about kicking me all over the globe like a ball, spherical though I may be.

3. I have apologetically cancelled my impending trip to Brazil in February 2006 for some foreseen reasons. It is regrettable that I will not be able to participate in the presentation of a theodicy at the 9th General Assembly of the World Council of Churches, but I trust they will find a suitable candidate to replace me in my absence.

4. I am also sustaining a momentum of curriculum preparation for the new term at Seminari Theoloji Malaysia. The specific topics I will be teaching in the coming term are Theological Prolegomena and Theology Proper. It is refreshing to explore once again the depth of the Patristic period in theological development, and utterly humbling to be reminded of the lack of depth in much of my own theological construction.