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Sometimes in life, you find a special friend;
Someone who changes your life
just by being part of it.
Someone who makes you laugh
until you can’t stop;
Someone who makes you believe
that there really is good in the world.
Someone who convinces you
that there really is an unlocked door
just waiting for you to open it.
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Currently, I’m still doing critical editing for my 2nd draft of my thesis. Frankly speaking, it is not a wonderful journey when comes to thesis paper; however, the sweet-and-bitter journey has taught me how to be critical and analytical especially in selecting appropriate content and gist.
But time certainly waits for no one when I felt the rushing adrenaline in my nerve: “Oh, I need to submit these 3 chapters as soon as possible”. “But, I haven’t finished editing my work.!”. In circumstances, I felt like everything was empty. The idea seems to be invicible. I tried to pull it out, but it refused. It was dry like a drought season. I just wish I can close my eyes and envisage that I was in fantasy island. Ignoring and neglecting the tasks and just have fun for a while.
The mind is like an arrow,
it either moves towards the direction or moves to the other direction,
I try to shoot with great focus,
but my mind seems to be distracted,
what should I do so that I remain focus?
Oh…just have fun and relax.
Bonjour my fellow friends,
I have to admit that Facebook is definitely the right choice for all of us. Perhaps, we might still attach with our beloved friendster, myspace or etc; but, it is the time for all of us to go out from our comfort zone: paradigm shift. Accepting new changes will enable us to see new perspectives. Despite the fact that some people try to degrade the quality of facebook, perhaps, ‘they’ are just too scared that one day, facebook will be GIANT like Google Company…washeh…Alright, have fun with facebook. There’s no regret for that!
PENANG: From the front, it looked just like any other shoplot but on the inside, the third-floor shoplot in Medan Fettes actually housed a fitness centre-cum-sauna used for gay sex parties.
A police team raided the premises at about 7.30pm on Sunday while a sex party was in progress and rounded up 34 men, aged between 22 and 55, including a Briton.
George Town OCPD Asst Comm Azam Abd Hamid said numerous used condoms were found strewn all over the floor of the sauna by the team.
“Seven tubes of lubrication jelly, 20 gay magazines, four pornographic VCDs and six boxes of condoms were seized from the premises.
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Anti-vice op: Some of the 34 men nabbed at the fitness centre-cum-sauna waiting to have their statements taken at the George Town district police headquarters on Sunday night. |
“The men were brought back to the Patani Road police station and released after their statements were taken. Three workers were also picked up in the raid.
“We will check with the authorities if the operator has abused his business licence. We will not tolerate the presence of such joints in the district,” he said yesterday.
ACP Azam said the raid was part of the police’s ongoing operation codenamed Ops Bersih aimed at keeping all types of vice activities in check.
A resident who wanted to be known only as Ah Leong, 35, said he had lived in the area all his life but he did not know that such a place existed.
“Apparently, the place was only known by word of mouth. I was told that the place had been in operation for more than a year.”
On April 3, police raided two similar joints, which was operating without a licence, at a shopping complex in Jalan Burma and picked up more than 30 men.
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My Criticial Comment:
Welldone to the Police Team! Congrats!
Sex party? In this globalization age, immoral activities are becoming desensitized among the Malaysian youth. The idea of sexual gratification has escalated to another level: homo-cum-party. In the past, the issue was about the hideous prostitutes sexual activities despite the fact that it is still prevalent. Unfortunately, some naive-and-curious youth has been wrongly influenced to engage in this activity while thinking that it is ‘O.K’ to do so.
What can we do to stop this problem from affecting the Malaysian youth?
Today, I have attended the healing and deliverance talk at Sacred Heart Cathedral. After listening to the given talk by Brother G., the issue on empty meditation abruptly strike my mind. Why? Since he asserts that Buddhists, Hindus, and other religion bodies have widely practiced empty meditation. Hereby, he proclaims that such practice would lead to devil possession (in the previous talk) or ‘unexpected’ event to any individual who have great devotion to empty meditation. Generally, he defines ‘empty meditation’ as a way of emptying ourselves by thinking nothing or in other words, loose ourselves with total plainness.
Well, it is crucial for me to re-correct such erroneous belief that the Buddhist practices empty meditation. I can’t talk about the other faiths since I have not done any thorough research on that yet. But for Buddhism, yes, I have evidence from one of the Buddhist texts which explains clearly on the concept of meditation.
The issue here is whether the Buddhist practices empty meditation or non-empty meditation. This is the short-excerpt on what the Buddha has explained about the types of Meditation to His followers:
Said the disciple: “Teach me, O Lord, the meditations to which I must devote myself in order to let my mind enter into the paradise of the pure land.”
Buddha said: “There are five meditations. The first meditation is the meditation of love in which thou must so adjust thy heart that thou longest for the weal and welfare of all beings, including the happiness of thine enemies.
“The second meditation is the meditation of pity, in which thou thinkest of all beings in distress, vividly representing in thine imagination their sorrows and anxieties so as to arouse a deep compassion for them in thy soul.
“The third meditation is the meditation of joy in which thou thinkest of the prosperity of others and rejoicest with their rejoicings.
“The fourth meditation is the meditation on impurity, in which thou considerest the evil consequences of corruption, the effects of wrongs and evils. How trivial is often the pleasure of the moment and how fatal are its consequences!
“The fifth meditation is the meditation on serenity, in which thou risest above love and hate, tyranny and thraldom, wealth and want, and regardest thine own fate with impartial calmness and perfect tranquility.
“A true follower of the Tathagata founds not his trust upon austerities or rituals, but giving up the idea of self relies with his whole heart upon Amitabha, which is the unbounded light of truth.”
Henceforth, it is justified that the Buddhist does not practice empty meditation based on the Buddhist text. Unfortunately, the talk itself might be misleading in this pertinent issue which thereafter capable to create misunderstanding and confusion among the Catholics.
As for today’s reflection, please read this short biblical excerpt:
Matthew 5:43-48
You have heard that it was said, “You shall love your neighbor, and hate your enemy.” But I say to you, love your enemies, and pray for those who persecute you in order that you may be sons of your Father who is in heaven; for He causes His sun to rise on the evil and the good, and sends rain on the righteous and the unrighteous. For if you love those who love you, what reward have you? Do not even the tax-gatherers do the same? And if you greet your brothers only, what do you do more than others? Do not even the Gentiles do the same? Therefore you are to be perfect, as your heavenly Father is perfect.
MELEE LYRICS
“Built To Last”
I’ve looked for love in stranger places,
but never found someone like you.
Someone whose smile makes me feel I’ve been holding back,
and now there’s nothing I can’t do.
‘Cause this is real, and this is good.
It warms the inside just like it should,
but most of all, most of all, it’s built to last, it’s built to last.
All of our friends saw from the start.
So why didn’t we believe it too?
Whoa yeah, now look where we are.
You’re in my heart now.
And there’s no escaping it for you.
‘Cause this is real, and this is good.
It warms the inside just like it should,
but most of all, most of all, it’s built to last.
Walking on the hills that night with those fireworks and candlelight
You and I were made to get love right
‘Cause this is real, and this is good.
It warms the inside just like it should,
but most of all, most of all, it’s built to last.
‘Cause you are the sun in my universe,
considered the best when we’ve felt the worst
and most of all, most of all, most of all, most of all,most of all, most of all, it’s built to last.
If you have the gift of wisdom, you will find the lyric and music as worth as immesurable diamonds in the universe.
This song is dedicated to my students in SMK Kolombong and also to the teachers.
You might have heard the apparition of Mother Mary in Egypt or looked at the images. But this short clip might enlighten us on the importance of this apparition. Anyway, let me quote what has been said about this apparition:
“…The apparitions were seen by millions of Egyptians and foreigners. Among the witnesses were Orthodox, Catholics, Protestants, Moslems, Jews and non-religious people from all walks of life. The sick were cured and blind persons received their sight, but most importantly large numbers of unbelievers were converted…” [Coptic Orthodox Church, Cairo, Egypt 1968-1970 and 2000]
Please check this website: http://www.zeitun-eg.org/zeitngal.htm
Your questions answered by Fadzilah Amin.
I CAME across two different usages of commas, i.e.
1. The food sold in the canteen includes fried noodles, fried rice, noodle soup and sandwiches.
2. Food served at the party included sandwiches, hot dogs, spaghetti, and fried noodles.
In sentence No. 1, there is a comma before the conjunction “and” but it is not so in sentence No. 2.
Sentences similar to these two situations also appeared in the Standard One Bahasa Melayu books. I was informed that it’s a matter of the old or new English/Bahasa Melayu syllabus.
Could you please confirm the position of the comma with respect to the conjunction “and”? – C.S. Yeoh
In British English, the comma is usually omitted before the “and” separating the last two items in a list or series, as in your sentence No. 1.
However, if these items are long, a comma is usually used, e.g. “The food sold in the canteen includes fried noodles, fried rice, noodle soup with prawns, and toasted tuna sandwiches.”
You’ll have to ask an English or BM teacher in school whether the new or old English or BM syllabus requires a comma before such an “and”.
Speaking for myself, I find your sentence No. 2 quite acceptable.
Plural after ‘no’?
I HAVE a question that came up when I saw The Star’s front-page headline that was something like this: ‘Chelsea have no plans to sell or buy’.
Can you explain why we use “plans” and not “plan” here, since it is a negative statement? – Richard
When there is a “no” before a countable noun, the plural form of the noun is generally used unless the context makes it necessary to use a singular noun, e.g.
“She had no mother to look after her.” (We can have only one mother.)
“Are you looking for a boy? There are no boys in this hostel.”
“There were absolutely no taxis on the road!”
HYPERBOLE: A figure of speech which uses extravagant exaggeration for emphasis or effect. It is not intended to be taken literally. Many idioms are hyperbolic, e.g. “a flood of tears”, “waiting for ages”, “costs an arm and a leg”.
The big eater
“The amount of cholesterol my husband consumes can put an entire lumberjack camp into cardiac arrest.”
“How much food does he eat?”
“Well, yesterday the waitress asked him, ‘How do you like your steak?’ And he replied, ‘Big.’”
The hot room
The air conditioner had been out of order for several days, and the wife complained for the umpteenth time, “This room is oven-hot.”
The husband said irritably, “Why don’t you drop the thermometer and watch the temperature fall?”
LOOK at the following ‘stories’ and see if you can replace the italicised words with some other words to make the writing concise.
The accountant
The best friend of Tom’s wife saw him in the company of a bald man at the football stadium and told her about it. When Tom reached home later that evening, his wife accused him of lying. “You told me you were going to see your accountant,” she said.
Tom said, “That was my accountant.”
Change “in the company of” to “with”.
The secretary
The boss had asked for a duplicate copy of the document, and the new secretary asked a colleague who happened to walk by, “Do you know how this thing works?”
Smiling, the colleague turned the machine on, inserted the paper, and pressed the start button. “Simple, isn’t it?” he said. “This is an efficient shredder.”
Delete either “duplicate” or “copy”.
The maid
Before the arrival of the invited guests, the hostess said to her maid, “Bridget, make sure you don’t spill anything when you wait on them.”
“Don’t worry, ma’am,” Bridget said. “I won’t say a word.”
Delete “invited”.
The house
A man and his wife were looking over a house. They were undecided about the purchase until the estate agent mentioned that the house was in proximity to the bus stop.
“We’ll take it,” said the man after consulting with his wife. “There’ll always be something to do in the evening, throwing stones at buses.”
Change “in proximity to” to “near”.
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