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Saturday, January 26, 2008

One Month Ago


This landslide claims 4 lives.

Today


At this level, king tide or no king tide, towns and villages down river are safe from flooding,

Thursday, January 24, 2008

December 26




December 26 holds memories that are both pleasant and unpleasant. To the peoples around the world, the tsunami of Dec 26 leaves a scar that is very hard to forget.

To the people of Sarawak December 26 holds the worst marine time disaster that they ever remember.

Over here something that is not less tragic also falls on that fate full day.

(Pic. shows the water level 2 weeks after towns and villages down river were flooded. At the height of the flooding, the wharf almost submerged)

Monday, January 21, 2008

Sarawak to hold big bash

MIRI: Sarawak will hold a grand celebration to commemorate the 45th year of independence and formation of Malaysia in all its 11 divisions here soon.

Deputy Chief Minister Tan Sri Dr George Chan Hong Nam said every division had been told to organise a special event to mark the day.

“We want to celebrate this 45th year in unique ways. All divisions will organise unique events, based on their ethnic background, diversified cultures and traditions, to mark this day. We want them to showcase the development and transformation of their communities since they joined Malaysia,” he said.

He said they would also hold events to remind the younger generation of Sarawak’s past.

“We hope to get the cooperation of the public and private sectors to host these events,” he said.

Dr Chan, who is also State Industrial Development Minister and State Agriculture Modernisation Minister, hoped those who witnessed the changes that took place in Sarawak in the last 45 years would share their knowledge with others.

“People who have old photographs of Sarawak can also share them in exhibitions,” he added.

On Sept 16, 1963, Sarawak gained independence from the British colonial “white rajahs” and joined Malaya, Sabah and Singapore to form Malaysia.

Wednesday, January 16, 2008

Halal Pork???





Sorry guys but I think this is really weird especially when it is happening in the BolehLand. Was the sticker placed by mistake or no one really ever check any? I wonder what else is Halal in this BolehLand.

Saturday, January 12, 2008

Tenggaroh state rep gunned down

JOHOR BARU:
Tenggaroh state assemblyman and Johor MIC deputy chairman Datuk S. Krishnasamy was murdered gangland-style yesterday at the MIC headquarters here.

Datuk S. Krishnasamy, Johor MIC deputy chairman was shot point blank in a lift
Krishnasamy, 61, was shot once in the neck at point-blank range by an unknown gunman just as he entered the lift on the ground floor of the building at 2pm.

He had been dropped off by his driver and was on his way up to the second floor for a meeting.

Witnesses in the building in Jalan Segget heard a shot that sounded like a firecracker but thought nothing of it.

Two party members waiting for the lift were shocked to discover Krishnasamy lying face down in a pool of blood as the doors opened.
V. Kamala, a secretary, was on the fifth floor with Johor MIC Puteri chief R. Vitiya Mohan. They were on their way down to the second floor for the meeting.

“The doors opened and Vitiya almost fainted when we saw a man lying in blood. We did not know who he was as we could not see his face. We did not dare go near the body.

“The doors closed and we took the stairs down,” said Kamala at the crime scene.

On its way down, the lift stopped on the second floor where Sri Gading division chairman V. Murugan also saw the body.

“I thought it was Datuk (Krishnasamy) because I recognised his shirt. But I was not sure. I was in shock and before I could do anything, the lift doors closed and I took the stairs down.”

By this time, a small group of people had gathered around the lift as it had reached the ground floor. Krishnasamy’s driver confirmed that it was him and an ambulance was called.
Another witness, Taman Datuk Chellam MIC branch chairman Arumugam Suppiah, said he could see a bleeding wound in Krishnasamy’s neck.

Johor deputy police chief Datuk Mohd Mokhtar Mohd Shariff said a task force of senior investigators had been formed.

“What is important is that this matter is left to the police and I urge others not to speculate on the motive. Let us do our jobs. If anyone has information, please call us.”

Krishnasamy’s body was brought to the Sultanah Aminah Hospital for a post-mortem. His body was later taken to his home in Segamat.

The funeral service will begin at 2pm. The cortege will leave the house at No 5, Jln Putra 1/40 Bandar Putra at 4pm for burial in Tangkak. For further details, contact 012-7205891 or 016-7289194

Thursday, January 10, 2008

Words of faith inflame Malaysia

Already reeling from ethnic and religious dissent, Malaysia's new rules for religious lexicons have shocked and angered the country's non-Muslim communities. The announcement that only Muslims can use certain Arabic words, such as "Allah", in holy services is especially insulting to the country's Christian, Sikh and Hindu faiths, which for centuries have woven Arabic words into sacred scripts and sermons.

Minister of Health

The portfolio of Minister of Health is traditionally reserved for MCA.

However, past records show whoever that occupies the seat will come to the end of the road in politics.

Ng Cheng Kiat (1990), Lee Kim Sai (1995) and Chua Jui Meng (2004) are indisputable examples who are still alive. Whereas, Dr Ng Kam Poh (1969), Lee Siok Yew (1978), Chin Hon Ngian (1986), Mak Hon kam (1987) and Chan Siang Sun (1989) were older testimonies of similar fate, cast in stone.

Only Chong Hon Nyan managed to break the chain in 1984, when he retired as a short-stint Transport Minister after serving as the Minister of Health.

Let's see if Chua Soi Lek can break the curse this time.

Posted by Jeff Ooi on December 31, 2007 11:50 AM | Permalin

Tuesday, January 8, 2008

70

Today is the 70th.day. The world seems to be shrinking and getting smaller. I keep on meeting and bumping into the same person.And it becomes very often.

70 holds many mysteries and memories in one's life. In my 70 days here, i have witnessed 2 main catastrophe. Flood and Landslide with the loss of 4 lives......so sad.

70 Day Program was designed to help women makeover virtually every area of their life.

70 days was the duration of DMX jail term in New York Jail.

70 Days of Sweat was the challenge put forward to complete a manuscript.

70 days of Vision Campaign was carried out by Church Doctor Ministries.

70 days working without break for a cane cutter in Brazil caused him his life.

70 days lost in the Outback survived on diet of frogs and snakes,

The list of 70 days could go on and on. But do not forget, Muslims celebrate Eidul Adha, 70 days after Eidul Fitri.

Thursday, January 3, 2008

Wednesday, January 2, 2008

‘Kentucky Fried Cruelty’ with Pamela Anderson





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A Guest At Last!

The prophet Abraham (peace and blessings upon him) is the symbol of generosity and hospitality. He never ate unless there was a guest at his table. At one time, a whole month went by and no one came to his house. Nobody shared his food, so he hardly ate for the whole month. Finally he prayed to God and he said, "Oh, God, You have given me this wonderful habit of not eating without sharing my food with someone else. I haven't eaten for a whole month. I wonder if there are other people like me."

God told him, "Go and travel in the world and see if there are others like you." So Abraham began to travel. Finally he found someone who begged him to accept his hospitality, saying, "Look, three months I haven't eaten because I haven't had somebody at my table." Although Abraham had not eaten for one month, here was somebody who had not eaten for three months because nobody had come to his house as a guest.

Abraham happily accepted the invitation of this wonderful man. After dinner, it was Abraham's custom to pray. He said that he would include his host in his prayers and asked the man to pray for him. His host replied that he had given up making such prayers. He had prayed for something for many years, and since God did not choose to answer his prayer, he felt he was not worthy to make such prayers. Abraham asked, "What was your prayer?" His host replied, "I have heard that there is a great prophet here on earth, a special friend of God, by the name of Abraham. For years I prayed to meet him. But my wish was not granted. My mouth cannot be worthy to make such prayers to our Lord. You pray instead."

Tuesday, December 18, 2007

Count Your Blessings

If we could shrink the earth's population to a village of precisely 100 people, with all the existing human ratios remaining the same, it would look something like the following:

There would be:

57 Asians
21 Europeans
14 from the Western Hemisphere, both north and south
8 Africans

52 would be female
48 would be male

70 would be non-white
30 would be white

70 would be non-Christian
30 would be Christian

89 would be heterosexual
11 would be homosexual

6 people would possess 59% of the entire world's wealth and All 6 would be from the United States.

80 would live in substandard housing
70 would be unable to read
50 would suffer from malnutrition
1 would be near death; 1 would be near birth
1 (yes, only 1) would have a college education
1 would own a computer

When one considers our world from such a compressed perspective, the need for acceptance, understanding and education becomes glaringly apparent.

The following is also something to ponder...

If you woke up this morning with more health than illness... you are more blessed than the million who will not survive this week.

If you have never experienced the danger of battle, the loneliness of imprisonment, the agony of torture, or the pangs of starvation... you are ahead of 500 million people in the world.

If you can attend a church meeting without fear of harassment, arrest, torture, or death... you are more blessed than three billion people in the world.

If you have food in the refrigerator, clothes on your back, a roof overhead and a place to sleep... you are richer than 75% of this world.

If you have money in the bank, in your wallet, and spare change in a dish someplace... you are among the top 8% of the world's wealthy.

If your parents are still alive and still married .. you are very rare, even in the United States and Canada.

If you can read this message, you are more blessed than over two billion people in the world that cannot read at all.

Busy

Busy....busy. So simple a word that's we use so often and freely.So easy to say and simple to write.

Busy....busy. When translates into action it is very hectic and energy consuming.Your routine becomes haywire,your activities overtakes your schedule and your energy level drops very fast.

Busy....busy. For every action there is an equal and opposite reaction. As your activities goes up and energy level drops.....chemical reaction takes places. Tolerance
level goes down and emotional level rise rapidly.Your rationality equilibrium destabilizes.

Busy....busy. Before, this was never in my vocabulary. Every thing that i experience was jolly and life was just a stroll down the lane.In the last five weeks i have traveled and crisscrossed the state for five times.

Tuesday, November 20, 2007

The Meaning Of Life

If you do a search on "meaning of life" on Google, you'll find more theories than I've had hot dinners... and that's a lot!

There will be different definitions depending on whether you :
- are questioning the meaning of life because you've been unhappy
- want to know the meaning of life because you feel useless
- want to see their answer so that you can prove your intellectual prowess by poking holes in it
- don't understand why bad things happen to good people
- think that most of the rest of the world seems completely insane
- wonder why there is so much hatred in the world.
- wonder why there is so much violence in our society
- really don't care about the meaning of life, you're just surfing

On the other hand you could ask a philosopher (A philospher can best be thought of as someone who thinks a lot so you don't have to.)

- For Erich Fromm, man makes his life meaningful by living productively, and by using his powers of love and reason to their fullest capacity.

- For Abraham Maslow, meaning is experienced by the self-actualized,growth-motivated person who delights in using his creative powers for their own sake, and who can affirm himself and simultaneously transcend himself through peak experiences.

- For Rollo May, meaning is experienced by a person centered in himself, who is able to live by his highest values, who knows his own intentionality, feels the power of his will to choose, and is able to love.

- For Krishnamurti, the world is experienced as most meaningful when through the knowledge of self gained through self-observation, man frees himself of the self and attains the state of passive awareness and self-forgetfulness which is love.

- For Paul Tillich, man can choose to make his life meaningful by surrendering in faith and love to Jesus. By opening to Jesus and experiencing His acceptance and forgiveness, one experiences the joy and freeeom of "new being" and the courage to be oneself.

- For Abraham Heschel, man experiences his life as a meaningful when he lives in God's presence - not simpy by encountering God in the world, but primarily by serving God in everyday life, infusing every moment with the spirit of God, and by dedicating himself to ends outside himself.

- Finally, for Viktor Frankl, meaning is experiencing by responding to the demands of the situation at hand, discovering and committing oneself to one's own unique task in life, and by allowing oneself to experience or trust in an ultimate meaning - which one may or may not call God.

A night out

It rained,gently but never the less the evening was wasted in front of the TV. Nothing much to see and no choice on the channels.....only two.So i took my bath early and waited for the night.

Around 2000hrs i went to the open air stalls to have a bite. I choose the furthest stall so that i could sit peacefully. While waiting for my order, i try to make some observations of things happening around me.

About 15 stalls were operating and about the same number were closed. By the look of things there were not operated for some time. All stalls were attended by customers and it looks as if business was quite brisk.

Not far from me were an European couple, tourist i guess....or backpack travellers. This is not an unusual sight as i have seen many tourist coming in and out of this town. Recently a very notable British Lady was in town......the grand daughter of the last white rajah of Sarawak.

At the other stall, just across were a group of teens....still wearing foot ball jerseys. They were talking about Euro 2008. Not discussion or forum but more like arguments. Can't make much, just it seems that they are unhappy that Russia should lost to Israel. Ahh, boys will always be boys.

Then i saw a group of Indians passing by me. Wow, here we also have Bangla and Tambi?
Even though they were talking, to me it's just sound and noise. When i heard they mentioned SPM, STPM then i realized that they were fellow countryman. Thousand apologies.

When my order arrived i was quite surprised. My waiting time was so short and the food is still hot. Express service.

By the way, how's my Angelina Jolie's background?

See you another day

Monday, November 19, 2007

Hi....it's me

It's quite sometime i did not jot anything down and that was because i have some urgent matters and errands to attend to.

Being away does not mean that you are alone. Being far does not imply that you are cut off from the rest of the world.

Hey.... what are you doing here? How long have you been in this place? Those will be the questions that you get if you suddenly bumped into someone that you know and they knew you.Both of you will find a cozy place to continue the conversation.

Conversations will then take place over a cup of tea. It does not matter for how long you have last meet each other.It will drag on and on covering a vast variety of topics. Seems that duration does not matter as long as the bla, bla, bla......can continue. You peek over your companion shoulder and caught the glimpse of the coofee-shop operator and and the look on his face is not so good.Fair enough you has robbed him of space and this means losing money. Come on man, just two cups for a couple of hours wouldn't hurt your profit....

Hi.....are you so and so? How long have you been here? Well...this is the situation if you meet someone that you know by face. Probably someone from the same town you were born or your old classmate in the kindy......decades ago. You probably rubbed shoulders with him while you were in the comfort zone,but then you never greet him. After some answers you both exchange smiles and then disappears into the crowd.

So strange. If you wanted to find someone that you might remember by face, where is the place that you might get the greatest hit? So easy....find the most popular place in the town? Where is the most popular place in the town? Is it easy to locate that popular place? It's every one guess and for me to know!

Adios

Wednesday, November 7, 2007

Today



After the morning shower, the level of river water is still very normal. There's no reason to push the panic button,

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