Haw Par Villa

Sometimes have you wondered what the furthest distance between 2 people is? Is it the physical distance, or is it time? Or is it indifference?

I think 2 persons are furthest apart when they are together but yet they are far apart. They don’t know each other anyone, though they seem to still do. They don’t feel for each other anyone, but perhaps they do. Oddly, they have become strangers.
I am leaving my church of 8 years. It’s a fairly large church. I felt sad about leaving. I am leaving many friends and I know I am going to miss them. When you are worshipping in church and you cannot feel God, perhaps you have drifted apart from Him. But when you are not in church and there is a longing, you know He is calling for you. I was in NZ for nearly a month, spent 10 over days all by myself, and talking to myself at times to keep awake while driving alone. I see many beautiful mountains, endless streams, and timeless glaciers. You don’t to see all these to know that someone must have created all these. To me, the Big Bang theory is pure bull shit. I don’t believe in Evolution theory. We, human beings came from some kind of primates. They have failed to impress me with their scientific explanations of how Earth came into being.



I brought Karen’s aunties (from Taiwan) to Haw Par Villa 2 weeks ago. The place is still pretty well-kept and deserted now. The exhibits haven’t changed much for the past 20 years, I guess. One of the most interesting “attractions” for me has to be the 10 Halls of Hade (18 level Chinese hell). There are static displays of how each of the 10 halls looked like. I think they should upgrade it to include groaning sounds or moving parts, throw in some dry ice effects.

My 1st bugging question is… then what happens to the other races when they die? Why do I see only Chinese souls? Does Ang-Mo go to their own western-style heaven or hell, Malays to their own heaven (to see Allah) or hell, Indians too…? If the human world has progressed so much that we have spaceship to bring us to moon and back, why is the ‘Chinese hell’ so backwards? Why are the hell officials still wearing clothes that dated back to ancient China? Perhaps someone had died and came back to us to tell us about the 10 Halls of Hade, then why hasn’t the underworld upgraded their facilities? They have tons of hell money! After all, I see people burning air-plane, Mercs, DVD players and other advanced gadgets. One point to note is that someone ought to burn some Airport run-ways, control towers, pilots, airport staff! Right??? If not, what is the use of air-planes? I grew up in my earlier years believing that there is really a 10 halls of Hade but not now because it is not making any sense to me. Someone may say the idea of creating a hell concept is to make people think twice before they commit crimes or do any bad thing. But ask yourself if such a concept effective today? If yes, then our prison department should conduct guided tours for their inmates to go Haw Par Villa. Or schools should bring their young ones to visit the place as a compulsory educational tour, juvenile courts should send their offenders there as part of reformation training.

My 2nd bugging question, I wonder who wrote the story of Adam and Eve, I am talking about the reliablity of the account, did it really happen? There is only God, Adam and Eve (and maybe the Serpent lurking around) in the Garden of Eden. Who else is there to witness and write down this account? Still, since it is in the Bible, I guess I have to contend for now that it was likely that Moses wrote the account.

Karen recently asked me why is the difference about Jews and Christians? And if you want, Muslims too. After all, all 3 world major religions believe in One and only God, as opposed having an array of many Gods. I told her that early Christianity has her roots from Judaism. For us, our Lord and Saviour had already arrived on Earth in the person of Jesus Christ. The Jews had failed to recognise him as the Messiah and crucified Him instead, to fulfil what was prophesied in the Scriptures. Muslims believe in the revelation brought by Muhammad. She asked me why the Christians today are not united? Why so many different branches? She doesn’t like the pushy and hard-sell approach of many Christians.

(to be continued)