Just some gloating before I start,
I just finished reading Kumar and Clark's Clinical Medicine from cover to cover. Ok to be honest I started on page 253 read until the end and then started at page 1 until page 253. I have covered 1320 pages in seven weeks! Ok It wasn't all text I would have gone mad. There were lots of nice pictures and colour coded diagrams and of course was readin through like you would Harry Potter with as much understanding i can muster. Now my friend owes me a dinner.
Usually people go out and celebrate after such a monumental task. Me? The moment I looked out my window I know I am not going anywhere. At 341 the API is one and a half times greater than when the haze was at its worst in 1997. But for the hazards to my health and social life, it is actually beautiful. The view outside my window looks like some 30 year old faded photo. It even looks lke a scene from 30 years ago because all the tall buildings which are the signs of the times have been occluded. so I geta retro view n the year 2005.
A short note on what I have read during my Bible-reading. In Deuteronomy 26:12 to 14, the recipients of tithes you give out was not only the Levites but also the orphans and widow and et cetera. Nowadays most of the tithes is given to the church which is the modern equivalent of the levites because the serve God full-time. But i have always been uncomfortable that the more often than not misuse such a big amount. If you read the passage carefully the distribution of tithes were in the hands of the person ho gave it not some third party and they give it to whomever they see fit. Whether it is a poor relative or something. Yes support the Levites but they shouldn't be the only one receiving it and it is not the church deciding where the tithe goes but the giver. God gave you that freedom.