Question: Is Lady Gaga's "Judas" blasphemous ?

Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh,
I'm in love with Juda-as, Juda-as

Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh,
I'm in love with Juda-as, Juda-as

Judas! Juda-a-a! Judas! Juda-a-a!
Judas! Juda-a-a! Judas! GA-GA! (2x)

[Verse 1]
When he comes to me, I am ready
I wash his feet with my hair if he needs
Forgive him when his tongue lies through his brain
Even after three times he betrays me

Ahh ah ah ah ah Ahh ah ah ah
I'll bring him down, bring him down, down
Ahh ah ah ah ah Ahh ah ah ah
A king with no crown, king with no crown

[Chorus]
I'm just a Holy Fool, oh baby, it's so cruel
But I'm still in love with Judas, baby!
I'm just a Holy Fool, oh baby, it's so cruel
But I'm still in love with Judas, baby!

Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh,
I'm in love with Juda-as, Juda-as

Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh,
I'm in love with Juda-as, Juda-as

Judas! Juda-a-a! Judas! Juda-a-a!
Judas! Juda-a-a! Judas! GA-GA!

[Verse 2]
I couldn't love a man so purely
Even prophets forgave his crooked way
I've learned love is like a brick, you can
Build a house or sink a dead body

Ahh ah ah ah ah Ah ah ah ah
I'll bring him down, bring him down, down
Ahh ah ah ah ah Ah ah ah ah
A king with no crown, king with no crown

[Chorus]
I'm just a Holy Fool, oh baby, it's so cruel
But I'm still in love with Judas, baby
I'm just a Holy Fool, oh baby, it's so cruel
But I'm still in love with Judas, baby

Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh,
I'm in love with Juda-as, Juda-as

Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh,
I'm in love with Juda-as, Juda-as

(Ew)

[Bridge]
In the most Biblical sense,
I am beyond repentance
Fame hooker, prostitute, wench; vomits her mind.
But in the cultural sense,
I just speak in future tense.
Judas, kiss me, if offensed,
Or wear ear condom next time.

I wanna love you,
But somethin's pulling me away from you
Jesus is my Virtue
And Judas is the demon I cling to (cling to)
I cling to

[Chorus]
Just a Holy Fool, oh baby, it's so cruel
But I'm still in love with Judas, baby
I'm just a Holy Fool, oh baby, it's so cruel
But I'm still in love with Judas, baby

Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh,
I'm in love with Juda-as, Juda-as

Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh,
I'm in love with Juda-as, Juda-as

Judas! Juda-a-a! Judas! Juda-a-a!
Judas! Juda-a-a! Judas! GAGA!

Okay and so ... that is the lyrics for Lady Gaga's latest single.

It's unfortunate really. It's literally hard not to judge.

Lady Gaga has just taken one mainstream icon of unholiness in Christianity - Judas, and turned it into the title of her latest hit single. Tell me that's not gonna get her flamed left right centre.

I, being one of her millions of loyal fans, craving her Midas touch on all the song she releases, finds it hard pressed to listen to Judas in church without feeling this sense of rightly-placed dread that one of the red roof tiles will strike my head anytime I step into church.

Yet I just can't help that the song sounds so damn bloody good !

Lady Gaga Lady Ah-ah ... You're making this very hard on your supporters. Do you love us or not ?

However, even I have to put my foot down on this particular single she just released.

The sad fact of life is that there are just certain lines you do not cross. With the release of this new single, the line is so far gone past Lady Gaga that it has become a dot to her. Yes Gaga Ahah, That's how far you're away from the line.

The moment Lady Gaga repeats the word " Judas " so many times in such endearing terms whilst simultaneously dancing on the dance floor wearing a tight-fitting pants with a cross sewn right at the crotch area, she has lost any credibility to even try to defend the true meaning of the song. Lady Gaga can use her millions to tell the world that the many repetition of the word " Judas " is actually a metaphor for something else and she can go on countless interviews to defend her own viewpoint. That, is not gonna work one bit.

To quote her from Wikipedia, "Judas' is a metaphor and an analogy about forgiveness and betrayal and things that haunt you in your life and how I believe that it's the darkness in your life that ultimately shines and illuminates the greater light that you have upon you."

It's just not convincing enough ! It's too little too late literally ! Your single is a top billboard hit right now and you're already raking in millions for the entertainment industry by taking a swipe at Christianity and now you're trying to weave spells over the crowd that you song ain't making a mockery of what us Christians stand for !

I for one, will love to believe it. But I'm honor-bound not to believe it !




 Lady Gaga trying to say that Judas represents something else and isn't referring to Judas Iscariot is something like this ...

or ...

You can't do such things !

You can't release such a provocative single and expect the entire Christianity world to just accept your explanations that Judas is a symbol of something else altogether ! Your song is so IN YOUR FACE to all Christians so it'll almost be such a sin for us NOT TO REACT!

You drove us to react ! In fact, I think we are the victim over here ! It's like we're lying on our sofa one day while your music video starts playing on TV and suddenly we are honor-bound to talk shit about your new single because we've got to defend something in us that's more important than all your songs ! Our faith !

Maybe secretly, we feel that your songs are awesome. But no ! But somethings have to be done based on principles alone !

And honestly, I think Lady Gaga's interviews ain't really gonna work much. Seriously. Once again, the moment you aim a gun at someone's head, it's not likely that the chat will revolve around happy memories no ?

The fact is that those who care enough to criticize her songs won't be bothered with her explanation. Those who love the song won't care about the meaning of this song because they are merely interested in the music.

I like this song a lot.

It's on one of the playlist I listen to everyday.

But. I disagree with the creating of this song. Hypocritical right ? I know. Boo you anyway. I own this blog.

I am against the release of this latest single because, no matter what Gaga may say about this song, it matters very little because the song itself is a greater testimony to its nature than whatever Gaga may say about the deeper insights behind the lyrics. 

Gaga, you honestly think that people dancing to this song on the dance floor will have a sudden epiphany and start to realize that maybe "Judas" isn't the Judas Iscariot we know, but is actually a representation of a whole new train of thoughts ?

Wake up.

It's not gonna happen.

If you, who has the undesirable reputation of wearing pants with crosses sewn onto the crotch region in your own music videos, release a single titled "Judas", there can only be one 'Judas' who will be on our mind if we listen to your song.

The lyrics, which I've placed at the top of this post for your perusal, has created such a convenient avenue to sing out one's frustration at various elements of their lives. People who dance and rock to this song can officially tell themselves that they are merely singing out their lyrics and having fun but they are actually not blaspheming even though unofficially there's that deep recess at the back of their subconsciousness that is asking them to vent their negativity by rocking to this song. They will know that it is not true, yet they don't have to face up to the truth.

This song provides a good shield for people to blaspheme without blaspheming.

This song allows people to sin without inner reproach by the auto-activating consciousness of the mind.

This song allows people to hate God without admitting to themselves of this bottled up anger they possess.

This song allows people to lie to themselves and make themselves feel more comfortable after this act of lie.

This song is pure genius.

If the devil is using Lady Gaga as an instrument to promote self-delusion, then congratulations Mister Devil, this round is yours. Good job.

I once heard from my friend that saying the names of the devil will give it greater strength and a more powerful hold over this world. So in essence, this song is really helping this entire "name calling" process along. I just counted the number of "Judas" in this song and it numbered more than 60 times. I kinda lost count after that. 

60 X 100 clubbers in a regular club X 50% who will probably sing along X 40 clubs in Singapore = 120 000 mentions of the devil's name in one night. This is excluding people like me who will sing at home and in the showers. A good estimate will be that in any regular night, because of the existence of this song, in the first 4 weeks of this song's debut, the name of the devil will be mentioned about 200 000 more than usual.

Thanks Gaga.You win. 

It matters not the intention of your song, nor the music video, in which you starred as Mary Magdalene, it matters that your song is so shockingly anti-Christianity at face value that honestly, you can't blame people for categorizing this song under certain labels like "satanic" / "demonic" / "untouchable".

This song shouldn't be created and you know it.

Instead of the thousands of interviews you're giving to defend the 'honor' of this song, why not just save yourself the trouble and just not release this song ?

Sammy has an Einstein-Moment !

Today one of my friend, named Siao Liao It's Sammy ! , had one of her moments.

And yes, the exclamation mark is actually part of her name. Do you think it suits her better ?

HAHAHA :D

So, being her usual self, she somehow stumbled on the fact that ...

Yes. Very smart girl.

You deserve no less than a standing ovation !

I have no idea who the shit are the people in this picture but I'm sure they don't mind cheering for you too Sammy !

Hahaha !

Don't kill me :)

I Enjoy Being in ED and I'll Tell You Why

Actually i have a lot of material to blog about but damn I'm either too tired, or too stressed or too lazy. Okay mostly just lazy. The other 2 reasons were added in so I don't sound like a lazytart.

Anyway, what i wanna blog about today is about ED.

Okay it's actually not because of the fact that i just had ED practice today but it's been something that I wanted to blog about for the longest time.

For starters, I just wanna say that one of the stuff that i'm grateful for this year is actually being in ED.

It's always a very comforting feeling to know that on every thursday, i'm gonna be around this group of people who are funny, dedicated and usually on this one-track mind to serving God.

It's really a huge difference being in ED where people are given this opportunity to serve and this opportunity to do things that are pretty much very enjoyable.

I like to sing. I like to make fun of people. I like to sing out of tune sometimes in the company of my friends. I like to explore new ideas and innovative ways to reach out to teens. I like to be in the company of friends who won't judge me. I like to know that making mistakes is fine and I won't be criticized way past the point of being just plain rude. I like to serve without obligation. I like to fellowship with people who likes to do the same things as me.

Being in ED is literally being in another family. Just a whole lot bigger and a whole lot more fun.

It's something I look forward to every thursday and it's something i'll miss when we are on a break.

We pray before every practice and after every practice. We pray when we are doing any session. We pray after we finish our session. Our debrief session are always very comforting and very non-pressurizing. There's never any weird expectation being placed on any of us and yet we always strive to do it for the teens. We work as a team but we don't work for the team. We work for those whom we're trying to reach out to.

It's just something that is very uncommon.

The advisors in ED are not working with their title. Our advisors do not need the titles to work. They are given the mandate to advise but they've never worked by the mandate nor work with the authority but rather just work as fellow Catholics. They do not seek to hoard power nor do they seek to overpower anyone. It's something very uncommon even in our church itself. I've really learnt a lot from them all because it's a very different story from the many youth ministries I've been in. When our advisors do not seek power, they are in fact, being given more autonomy. When our advisors do no seek a manner of reproach, we all learn even more harmoniously.

Our president do not work by his title, rather he is just working together with everyone else without seeking that additional bit of authority. That's a president rarely seen. That's a president i'll love to work with.

I guess that is due to the different elements of this particular youth group that i am in.

Everyone in ED is a "someone". There isn't any need for anyone of us to deal with potentially very destructive conflicts that deals primarily with ego and the need to assert one's authority. There isn't a single one in ED who has issues dealing with this whole lot of bullshit I call "power struggle". Once again, it's very uncommon. We try our best to listen to each and single one of us. There's never statements like " I'm so and so and thus you should listen to my way of thinking" or "I'm better and more senior than you so you should listen to me". NONE ! Not one bit !

In ED, there is no "advisors", there is no "leader", there is no "constitution", there is no "core team". ED has no "fundamentals" and ED has no "youth leader retreat". But ED worked better than many youth groups with the proper structure and hierarchy.

You can't say that ED has different dynamics and different structure that accounts for what it is right now. Rather, I say that ED IS the structure. ED IS the dynamics that made it possible.

It's something i'm very grateful for. It's certainly very refreshing. It's not one bit like those i came from. In fact, i'm so surprised by it that I even tried to seek out the "undercurrents" of ED. Just to see if there's anything fishy that i should take note of.

I enjoy being in ED. I enjoy how we don't see the need to serve the ego of our minds. I enjoy how we direct most of our energy towards being better so that the confirmands in RC can benefit more. I enjoy how our core team members and our advisors do not seek to hoard power. I enjoy how there's no "power hunger" in us. I enjoy how we don't undercut each other but listen to all. I enjoy how it's such a breath of new air when i entered ED from other ministries. I enjoy how we are called to serve and we, in fact, serve. I enjoy how we don't work against each other but to look beyond what we can achieve for those whom we are serving.

I guess there'll definitely be people who will not agree with me and can recount the many times ED has been embroiled in many conflicts and many power struggle. All i can say is that I have no idea because I only just joined ED last year and I can't account for much. As far as I've been in ED, it has been pretty much non-self-serving but rather seeks very actively on it's one track path true to it's aim, it's goal and the reason for it's formation. I'm proud it turned out this way. I can't say the same for the years that I've not been in ED and i'm not sweeping them under the rugs but even if they are true, then at least i can safely say that ED is no longer that way but it's pointing true north right now. It's pointing towards God. Our leader our absolute.

It's an atmosphere of familiarity and love. It's something I hold dear to my heart despite being one of the youngest member.

It's fresh air indeed.

Tutors aren't donkeys ! And even donkeys have rights !!!!

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This post is about clients who offer ridiculooooousssssly low rate and demands a hell lot more from the tutors.

There are times I can totally understand when some clients are only willing to pay a certain amount for their kid's tuition.

But there are times when some clients are being totally A-holes ...

The market rate for primary and secondary kids is actually about 25/hr. Very acceptable. A bit higher wouldn't have hurt but 25/hr is really fine.

Some clients decide to take it way pass the humiliation line and offer some damn ridiculous rate.

I've ever seen a tuition assignment for 2 secondary girls, tutoring together in a group, for $17/hr and the client lives in a SEMI-D HOUSE !

Double the students, double the responsibility and you DARE TO REDUCE THE RATE TO $17/HR.

What cheek you have !

WHAT CHEEK YOU HAVE !!

It's like when you go to buy a plate of chicken rice and when the stall owner says," That will be $2.50 please. Thank you"

And then you counter-offer another price saying, " I'll give you $1.50 for that."

NO SHAME AT ALL !

We are providing you standard service or even more, but you decided to be a huge ass biatch and pay the substandard amount !

Clients like this need to be go for shock therapy by being repeated tasered or something.

I know it's their right to pay as little as they want to, but honestly, there are getting more and more clients who are doing such things !

Previously, there isn't many of such clients.

And even if there were, we, as tutors will totally understand, because we know for sure that there ARE some who simply cannot afford the tutor rates on top of their living cost and yet are trying their best for their child. We understand ! And some of us are even willing to help ! It's true !

I'm definitely not referring to them in this post, I'M REFERRING TO THOSE CLIENTS WHO LIVE IN FREAKING SEMI-D AND HIGH-CLASS CONDO WHO ARE OFFERING UBER SUB-STANDARD RATE WITH A STRAIGHT FACE !

Those are the menace of society !

Bringing down the market rate and working us like donkeys !

Let me tell you this !

Pissed off. They say hate the sin, not the sinner. Sometimes, the sins are the sinners themselves.

In the words of my wise friend, "KICK THEM BACK INTO THEIR MOTHERS' WOMB AND LET THEM BE REBORN INTO BETTER HUMAN BEINGS !"

Why are we protecting only the dogs from becoming dinner ?!?!?!?!?

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You know all this big sensational news about a restaurant in Singapore selling dog meat ?

Honestly, so inconsiderate.

Nope I'm not talking about the restaurant, I'm referring to the people who made such a huge deal over the dog meat.

Have you all ever thought about how pigs and chickens are gonna feel ?

They are gonna feel so left out la !

One incident of dog meat can cause such a huge ripple across our cute little island but no one cares about how chickens and pigs feel when their kindred are being raped left right center every single day in our wet market. Don't even let me get started on the poor cute cows.

Why ?

Little chicks and piglets not cute enough for you all to be sympathetic over ?

I personally love little calves. Damn adorable la.

Look at their black eyes and their "puppy" faces.

Now think about when chicks, piglets and calves are being led to that dark place where they are slaughtered for their meat.

Now think about dogs being sliced and hammered to death to be served as dinner.

Can you honestly tell me you don't feel for the piglets, chicks and calves too ?

So what's all these uproar over dog meat ?

Give the other animal some "face" too !

Defend them with the same fervor as you had defended the dogs !

Because if you don't , you are gonna end up with this ...

I can tell you that they won't taste as nice if they have no confidence in themselves. They will purposely make themselves taste like shit somehow. Just to prove the point that they deserve every single bit of love humans have shown to the dogs.

So make a din for them too ! For them, for their meat and for the taste of their flesh ! Make a stand !

My Own Personal Encounter with the Supernatural Realm

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There was a period of time when my idiotic churchy friends kept me saying that I was the devil.

Dunno why also.

For some silly reasons which I shan't even venture to guess.

Because honestly if I was the devil, I wouldn't have been as patient as the real devil. I would have totally overtaken the world by now.

Anyway..

Coming back to my post.

So because of such nicknames I got such as "spawn of satan" ... "devil's child" ... "darkness" ...

I begun to say things like "you wait you wait ... I send my minions after you then you die"

And somemore stuff like that.

Obviously all in jest.

And yes to clarify any doubts, I AM NOT THE DEVIL.

And to clarify further doubts, my friends who gave me such nicknames were obviously joking too.

I mean unless they can see the hidden horns and my pitch fork which I've carefully hidden from mortal eyes...

Anyway, apparently, the more I say such stuff, there were actual instances that I started to see some "stuff"









So there was this one night when i came back from tuition. It was quite late I think, about 11.30pm. I went to bathe and then cook my maggi mee because I was starving and it was the first meal of my day. After my noodles was cooked, I brought it to my kitchen table and I placed my laptop in front of me because I wanted to watch Friends.

So I was watching and eating at the same time when I saw someone's head pop out from the right side of my peripheral view.

I took a picture of my living room when viewed from my kitchen. It's quite dark.

It was something like this.

Actually, try to visualize without the light in the background. On that day, the light wasn't switched on for some weird reason.

The head which I saw is indicated by the red circle I've drawn in the following picture.

It was quite fast.

I saw it from my peripheral view only. But what I saw was like a young boy's head popping out. He is apparently quite white. I don't know how to describe it properly ? Just visualize a white boy with white shirt and white shorts. That's all I can say.

*obviously I wasn't able to take the real pic when the white boy's head popped out. Duh

Anyway, that wasn't the end of it.

I was a little spooked I must admit. But I managed to convince myself that it probably was just the reflection of my laptop screen that caused me to see such stuff.

So I carried on eating.

Within the next 5 mins, I swear I saw a white figure scampering across my living room into my room.

Something like this.

I think it was the same boy. I'm not very sure. All I was certain of was that he was on all 4 and was scampering towards my bedroom.

It was all i could do not to freak out totally.

The worst thing was that that particular episode of Friends I was watching had a very scary scene of Phoebe's horror painting of a doll. Dolls freak me out by the way.

It made everything so much worse at that moment.

I was debating with myself what to do.

Should I continue eating my noodle because my hand was shivering a tad.

And what if the boy suddenly appeared beside me while I was eating. Will I choke to death ?

Anyway, I decided to walk very carefully and slowly towards the living room and started to switch on all the lights in the living room, my bedroom and even my toilet. Yes, I shit you not.

I was freaking out damn badly.












Actually, that was my second encounter.

The first was actually at Toa Payoh Lorong 7.

I didn't take a picture of that area because I didn't know that I was going to blog about it.

For those who live in Toa Payoh, I'm referring to the Islamic Association building at the end of Lorong 7.

When I crossing the road at the traffic junction just next to that place, that was when I had my first encounter.

I was with one of my friends who, somehow, can see such stuff.

When we passed the traffic junction and were walking back home, I suddenly heard a sound that seemed as though a baby was crying and choking at the same time.

I just paused and stopped walking when I heard that sound. I was a little startled because the sound seemed as if it came from a person right beside me. It was pretty clear.

I tried to look around me to see whether there was any possibility that someone could have made such sound. But the nearest person, aside from my friend, was about 50 metres away.

I turned to look at my friend.

She gave me a look.

I asked whether she heard it.

Apparently she just nodded her head.

Deciding that it was a little too much for me, we started waking again.

About 5 mins later, I asked her whether she saw anything.

She nodded her head.

So I asked what was it.

She told me it was a little boy.

Oh man. Almost shit my pants right there and then.











I honestly have no idea whether it was the same boy who followed me back home.

But the thing is that I felt as if the little boy wanted to say something.

I don't know.

Maybe I wish to know.

Maybe I can help.

I have no idea.

But in my mind, I'm just saying that I don't mind meeting that boy again.

Just on one condition. Try to appear to me when I won't freak out ?

If you are reading this, I'm not saying that I want to meet you right now.

Give me some time.

Just don't appear in such a scary manner.

If I'm scared to death, I can't do anything for you either.

Try your best to appear to me as non-scarily as possibly possible okay ?

:)










Still, that wasn't the last of my encounter.

I was walking towards John Fan's house near Trellis Towers from Jared's house at Lorong 1 with that same friend.

You know the open field smack right in between Saint Nicholas Girls School and Philips ?

My friend and I was walking that path. It was not too late, only about 9.30pm. Still, it was really dark.

Anyway, I felt a chill when walking pass the field towards Fan's house.

I didn't want to comment since I thought that it would only serve to attract that "something"'s attention.

When we were reaching Trellis' Tower, I asked my friend again whether there was anything there.

She just said that she saw a group of people running on the open field.

It was freaking hell 9.30pm.

Who the shit will run on that open field at that time.

And the thing was that I didn't even see anything.

Not a soul was on the open field.

Sigh. How I wished sometimes that I don't have such encounter.
















Apparently that friend of mine had worse luck than me. I don't know whether it is a gift or what.

Both of us attended a camp a few months back. I shan't say what camp just in case my churchy friends read my blog and start to freak out. But rest be assured it is not IJTP I'm referring to, even though IJPT has it's own fair share.

Apparently at the camp, during some night activities, she saw a teenage boy standing beside the staircase. He just starred at her. My friend decided not to react since it would only serve to encourage them. The ghost did had something to say to her because he knew that my friend could see such stuff and when she turned away from him, he punched her back and she almost fell down the stairs.

Once again, I'm not gonna say what campsite it was.














All this happened this year.

It's the first year I started to feel the presence of such stuff.

I've no idea whether what my friend said was really true. But if it was, then I'll be a little more freaked out.

There's a lot more stories I have but I guess I'll just leave it to another day.

Goodnight.

Why Gaga why !

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Have you all seen the video for Lady Gaga's new single Judas ?

Damn awesome.

Haha !

Okay just one part which irks me.

In one of her live performance, the cross was printed at the crotch area of her pants.

Why Gaga why must you do such things ?

If you haven't done such ...

I can openly proclaim to my churchy friends that I look up to you without any weird looks from my friends !

Why u neh neh girl !

WHY !