Wednesday, April 24, 2013

Surat Terbuka Kepada Encik Lim Guan Eng


Terlebih dahulu saya meminta maaf kepada para pembaca yang budiman sekalian sekiranya ada terlanjur kata. Memandangkan saya adalah seorang yang miskin dan tiada banyak berpelajaran, saya akan menulis kandungan surat ini dalam dwibahasa untuk pembaca menjadi hakim dalam isu ini with your wisdom.

Sebagai pendahuluan, saya berharap artikel ini janganlah dijadikan isu agama.Di dalam keluarga saya, terdapat ramai juga yang beragama Kristian. Hormat menghormati adalah amalan kita. Tujuan saya menulis surat ini hanya untuk menuntut satu keadilan kepada kawan dan jiran saya sejak kecil yang meninggal dalam satu kemalangan lebih kurang 12 tahun yang lalu. Orang yang mati tidak boleh bercakap seperti kata Dr. Porntip.

En. Lim Guan Eng, email yang di kirimkan oleh saya kepada kamu dan di sk kepada En.Chow Kon Yeow (Pengerusi DAP Pulau Pinang) dan En.Tan Beng Huat (bekas ADUN Jawi) pada hari Jumaat. 17hb Disember, 2010 dan di susuli dengan email kedua terus kepada kamu pada 18hb Mac, 2013 masih lagi tidak di balas sehingga kini oleh sesiapa pun. Saya mengadu terus kepada kamu tentang kelakuan seorang councilor lantikan kamu dari DAP kerana saya tidak mahu perkara ini di politikkan. Ugama adalah satu senjata yang paling bahaya dan sentiasa di salahgunakan oleh orang yang tamak dan ianya berlaku kepada setiap agama.. A spark of fire can burn an entire prairie.

Bukankah En. Lim juga marah bila orang politik mempergunakan anak kamu di dalam satu video yang disiarkan melalui Youtube ? Anak En. Lim adalah anak dan anak kami yang miskin bukannya anak ?

Kenapa saya sangat marah mengenai isu ini, En. Lim ? Saya menitiskan air mata semasa saya membaca blog kepunyaan anak perempuan mendiang kawan saya yang mengatakan emaknya sebagai "HOPELESS" (Tidak Ada Harapan) dan "USELESS" (Tidak Berguna) disebabkan indoctrinikasi ugama. Budak ini hanya berusia 14 tahun ketika dia menulis artikel tersebut.  Di dalam satu kata perpatah Cina berbunyi "antara langit dan bumi, ibubapa adalah yang paling mulia dan anak yang derhaka akan di panah petir".

Budak ini hanya berusia empat tahun bila bapanya meninggal dunia. Siapa yang beri makan serta minum dan pelbagai keperluan hariannya, jika bukan emaknya yang beri ? Emaknya berkerja dari subuh hingga ke malam seperti se ekor kerbau membuat kuih untuk menyara empat anak beranak. Begitukah caranya kita mengajar anak muda membalas jasa ibubapa kita dengan perkataan yang sebegitu biadap dan menyakitkan hati ?

Bagaimana isu ini boleh timbul ? Councilor tersebut serta isterinya memiliki satu pusat tuition. Mereka mengajak budak budak dari pusat tuition tersebut untuk menyertai Gospel Hall. Kalaulah hanya untuk bergaul dengan penganut ugama lain dan belajar alat musik, maka ianya amatlah di galakkan. Tetapi malangnya, budak budak ini di ajar ugama Kristian versi Gospel Tuth mereka di tempat tersebut tanpa pengetahuan ibubapa.

Tujuan ibubapa menghantar anak mereka ke pusat tuition adalah untuk menimba ilmu dan bukannya membayar mereka untuk menimba ugama dan mendengar kelentong politik selama 10-15 minit. Saya tidak melaporkan perkara tersebut kepada Kementerian Pendidikan kerana saya tidak mahu merosakkan tempat orang mencari pendapatan hidup.

Saya mengaku dengan secara lisan En. Lim ada mengarahkan councilor tersebut untuk menyelesaikan perbalahan ini. Adakah mereka ikhlas untuk berbincang dengan kronologi perbualan seperti berikut:

Saya menyuruh Teoh (councilor) untuk mengajar mengikut syllabus dan jangan babitkan ugama dan politik. Dia kata tidak boleh sebab dia mengajar Sejarah. Ya, kebanyakkan kandungan Sejarah pada hari ini adalah mengenai Islam. Bila saya tanya, di dalam buku Sejarah, adakah ianya tertulis panggil ibubapa kamu mengundi DAP ? Saya amat terkejut semasa dia memberi balasan sebegini "oh, kalau begitu, kamu beritahu ibubapa yang tidak suka dengan cara pengajaran saya, jangan hantar anak mereka ke pusat tuition saya". Begitukah caranya kita bercakap kalau ada keikhlasan untuk berbincang ? Bagi saya ini adalah macam cakapan orang samseng di zaman muda saya.. Ini tikaman pertama yang saya  kena terima.

Tikaman saya yang kedua datangnya dari pengerusi Gospel Hall tersebut, iaitu En. Goh. Saya merayu kepadanya supaya jangan menggunakan budak untuk mendakwah. Biar mereka mengikut ibubapa mereka selagi mereka masih lagi kena bergantung kepada ibubapa mereka. Bila mereka sudah boleh berdikari, kita sebagai ibubapa akan hormati apa jua ugama yang mereka akan pilih. Adakah kertelaluan permintaan saya En. Lim ? Bukankah amalan saling hormat menghormati adalah diantara salah satu budaya kita sebagai rakyat Malaysia yang berbilang kaum dan ugama ?

Jawapan dari pengerusi tersebut adalah TIDAK BOLEH. Sebagai seorang loose cannon, saya pun menaikkan suara saya, KENAPA TIDAK BOLEH ???

Dia berkata kalau begitu, dia mencadangkan dimana ibubapa menandatangani surat persetujuan untuk anak mereka menyertai Gospel Hall. Saya cakap, boleh, tetapi dengan syarat di dalam surat persetujuan tersebut menyatakan kamu juga mengajar ugama Kristian. Dia kata tidak boleh pula. Bukankah kenyataan sebegini membuktikan mereka masih berdegil untuk menggunakan budak budak yang berugama Buddha untuk berdakwah ?

Bagaimana untuk mencari jalan penyelesaian dengan perbualan yang sebegini En. Lim? Mereka selalu pegang pangkal pedang tetapi saya selalu kena pegang penghujungnya. Saya tidak akan dapat menerima tikaman yang ketiga, justeru itu saya pun meminta izin untuk balik. Sebelum saya hendak balik, Teoh memanggil saya menggambil sekeping gambar sebagai kenangan, saya pun bersetuju sebagai tanda penghormatan saya kepada tempat beribadat.

Budak budak DAP Komtar, saya bukannya gila dan saya faham segala apa yang saya tulis di sini boleh di hadapkan ke mahkamah sekiranya tidak ada kebenarannya. Kalau saya di hadapkan ke mahkamah, saya tidak mampu untuk mengupah seorang peguam tetapi saya akan membela diri sendiri.  

Sebelum saya postkan surat terbuka ini, saya pergi bersembang dengan Mother Mary sebanyak dua kali di St Anthony Church yang jaraknya hanya terletak 500m dari rumah saya. Walaupun saya berugama Tao, tetapi saya lebih selesa bersembang dengan Mother Mary sejak saya berumur 15 tahun. Adilkah En. Lim untuk terus membenarkan mereka berbuat begitu tanpa sebarang tindakan disiplin ?



This is my religion. There is no need for temples; no need for complicated philosophy. Our own brain,our own heart is our temple; the philosophy is KINDNESS -  Dalai Lama










































Tuesday, April 9, 2013

Open Apology To Madam Tan Cheng Liang

As a member of the Liu Kwee Tang Seberang Perai Selatan, Krian, Kedah Selatan, I hereby wish to extend my sincere apology for the disgraceful and biased treatment accorded to an invited VIP, Madam Tan Cheng Liang during the clan dinner held on 7th of April, 2013, which was also attended by YB Tan Beng Huat.

As a son of the co- founder (pioneer) of this association, I strongly condemn the uncivilized insolent action taken by one (i heard that he was bestowed with a title) of my clansman member. All this happening was uncalled for. Unfortunately, I didn't attend the dinner due to my health problem. Honestly, if I ( a loose cannon ) was there, I wonder what are the scenarios will becomes ?

As an association, we are non-partisan in politic. Every member has a right to vote for whatever party they like in this coming GE. We should understand what is call mutual respect. Different strokes for different folks.

Once again, on behalf of the Chairman of the clan association, our sincere apology to you Madam Tan. You have a very close relationship with this association since you are our previous YB. Wish you all the the best in this upcoming battle.

   

Wednesday, April 3, 2013

Where Is The CAT, YAB Tuan Lim Guan Eng ?

Sir, you have my utmost respect for going to jail in defend of a poor Malay minor. This is the kind of CM that we want. A CM who's always fighting for justice, colors and religious blind. Where is the previous Lim Guan Eng ? Power had corrupted the mind and became arrogance ? Mastering the art of cronyism within a span of just five years? You really don't mind to loose the votes ? Forget what is call humility and courtesy.

Common Sense Goes Further Than A Lot Of Learning

Sir, I was perplexed on how you will be able to accept this joker ludicrous explanation in his press statement  released ? "GOH PAK" @ "FIVE HUNDRED" and GOH CHAP" @ "FIFTY", the media MISHEARD it because the SOUND is SIMILAR in Hokkien ? This explanation is a great insult to all the village bumpkins intelligence, Sir! As one of a penny wise, pound foolish and uneducated contributor's, do I have a right to ask Sir ? May I know, which charities bodies that had benefited from the proceeds of the event ? A penny for your thoughts, sir.

Distance Test The Endurance Of A Horse; Time Reveals A Man's Character

Sir, preach your CAT and don't just hang it on the wall. No element of thieving with this chap ? Let him off scot-free with impunity ? Still reappointed as a councillor again after this ignominious explanation ? This kind of thieving is not a joke sir ! Taking  NINETY PERCENT money meant for the hardcore poor. Where is the CAT Sir ?

KOMTAR boys, am I insane ?

THE DOOR IS STILL OPEN UNTIL NOMINATION DAY

WISH BOTH BN AND PR ALL BEST IN THIS MOTHER OF ALL BATTLE 13TH GENERAL ELECTIONS.

         






     

Monday, March 25, 2013

The Smearing Campaign Had Started In DUN JAWI

Bravo Teoh for firing the first salvo by questioning the academic qualifications of a potential candidate for the coming GE. Of course, there must be a blessing from the top. A lot of people are saying, when election comes, politicians will come and shake your hand and CONFIDENCE LATER. 

In front of the Chinese audiences, they are going to sing a Mandarin song, Indians audiences, a Bollywood movie and so forth. What's the motive behind this dirty smearing tactic ?

Yes, in term of academic qualification, the present state assemblyman is not up to the standard. Dap will be using this excuse to kick out the present YB, and replace him with a lady candidate and will be appointed as an Exco IF PR can retain the state. Prove me wrong Penang DAP if you are all sincere in upholding Competent, Accountable, Transparent ? 

Teoh, I don't have any grudges against you as I was also playing the bad guy for helping you to solved an issue with the hawkers which was also attended by YB Phee Boon Poh. You know, I have to offend a childhood friend by doing this. You can claim for all the credit, but all I want is just justice. 

Whack me Teoh for anything that you like but not gangsterism  as i have not involved myself since the untoward ugly incident that happened 26 years ago (if memories serve me right). And I hereby pledge that i won't sue you for anything that you want to say about me. Is it fair ? 

TO BE CONTINUE      

    

Sunday, July 15, 2012

My Gratitude To My Siblings & Families Members


It's really a blessing for me in my life's for having such a wonderful loving, caring siblings and families members. A very big thank you to all of you especially to my three sisters-in-law and five brothers-in-law. 


To my eight siblings, once again a very warm thank you for having all of you as my brothers and sisters. It's really no any amounts of monies can buy. Although we are from a poor family, but the loving, kindness, caring bonding between all of us is really fantastic that no words can ever defines. I will forever cherish it in my life. Please take care of both my sons if I'm no more in this world as we really don't know what is going to happen tomorrow. I still miss our departed ones very much till these days. I'm really very happy today to see both my sons can jingle around all of you very well with a good attitude. 


To my sisters-in-law, once again, my warmest thank you to all you for being able to adapt well into this big family. Putting aside our different religions. Very respectful to the elders, caring and the kindness. Your choice of husband is correct. We are all very faithful husband and i  think all of us are not romantic. We are also very filial sons and husband. Like my third sister always said I'm an almost extinct type of person. Cherish it in your lives. Sister Deborah, although elder brother's had left us, you still take all the trouble to visit all of us when you are back form UAE. You still keep the important of family bonding within yourself. This is the kind of spirits that will keep the root of our families tree together forever. Sis, it's time to retire and enjoy your life. Sister Mag, still remember what I told you when, what's the most important thing in your life's when you are in your twilight years ? Trust my words as I'm very sure about it. It's my blessing to have you as my sister-in-law. Take your mom to stay with you more often as I think my brother's will welcome her with open arms. Being able to care for our parents is our blessing.  


To all my nephews, nieces, grandnephews and grandnieces. This group have too many members as I also don't know some of their names or sometimes confuse with their names. It span five generations and if lucky the sixth generations will be coming soon. Try to keep in touch with all your cousins to preserve this great family tree. Pleased arrange your time and come back for Qingming Festival if all of you are able to make it. It's the most important observance in my life. I never fail to pay homage to our late beloved ancestors since I was in my teens. To me, the objective of this observance is teach us not to forget our roots and at the same time it also act as a gathering to bring all the families closer. It's also to teach us how to be filial, respect the elders and humility. Hey, how about organizing a big gathering this coming CNY with a karaoke session thrown in at our ancestral home ? Its been a very long time we didn't celebrate it with all our families joining together like those good old days. I always insist good cultures that the teach us filial piety, kindness, humility and honesty should be preserved.              


Monday, January 23, 2012

Rise Of The Water Dragon

This Lunar New Year mark the beginning of the Water Dragon's since 1952. The beginning of the new year should give us hope for a better tomorrow. But it seems the premonition global recessions will be inexorable especially with the Euro zones mess and USA will fall into double dips. The lower and middle income groups will definitely felt the contagion effects.The disparity income gaps will be getting wider.

The soaring cost of living is a elementary concern to the majorities. For the past few years, price of vital foods are increasing sharply like there is no tomorrow. Foods that are customary symbolic for the Lunar New Year like pomfret means "abundance", sea cucumber "longevity" and abalone "prosperity" are beyond the means for the ordinary Joe.

Anyway, I hope that my premonition was wrong and everyone can have sanguine to breeze through the stormy weathers.

May the auspicious Dragon bless everyone abundance of good health, longevity, happiness and prosperity.
GONG XI FA CAI.            

Wednesday, February 2, 2011

Season's Greeting

Another year gone by and a brand new year begins. May the auspicious year of the Rabbit brings you abundance of longevity, togetherness, prosperity and happiness always.


GONG XI FA CAI

恭喜发财 

Friday, December 24, 2010

Season's Greetings



TIS THE TIME FOR GIVING AND FORGIVING
WISH EVERYONE A JOYOUS MERRY X'MAS 
HAPPY NEW YEAR 2011

Saturday, December 18, 2010

My Plea And My Pledge

First and foremost, my sincere apology if any reader's felt offended with this article. I don't mind if you want to call me an insane, lunatic, buffoon and whatnot as you wish as I was also known as a loose cannon since my teens. I'm also not the holier-than-thou type. To err is humane. Different strokes for different folks.

Religion is teaching of good values should be the essence. But sadly since time immemorial, it has been greatly abuse by those selfish peoples for personal gains and become one of the most perilous weapon. Because of bigotry in religion, an estimated 20 millions of innocence lives were lost in the Taiping Rebellion (1850-1864), one of the deadliest conflict ever recorded in history.

My Plea,

I'm not against any religion's. I'm against the method use by those who proselytize one's religion by indoctrinating the kids who insolently rebel against their parents just because of religion. Please remember all these kids are still minors by law. Please tell me honestly, what's your feeling if your children whom had been indoctrinated and insolently rebels against you ? Please respect each others religion's in order for us to have a salubrious environment to live in.

My Pledge,

To me, no God is greater than our parents. If anyone still insist to cross the borderline by using the children to proselytize, then I hereby pledge to play along with you in this foolish zero sum game. You may fool some people some of the time but you won't be able to fool all the people all the time.

A woman who open her leg to make a living out of abject poverty has more dignity than those whoring themselves in the name of religion for selfish personal gains
My sincere apology. This quote is not meant to insult the women. 
       

          

Sunday, November 14, 2010

Tribute To My Beloved Mom

Toiling the soil with moonlight as pathway guide,
called it a day when darkness wrap up the night,
just for the sake of nine children futurity ray of light,
teaching us humility, what is wrong, what is right.

Mom work is priceless, with long hours and hardly any rest,
struggling to ensure all the children have food on their plate,
plain congee is sufficient for us to call it a wonderful day,
Mom, all your sacrifices that we won't be able to pay.

Mom, we know, it's a very tough row for you to hoe,
Father know best, but Mom knows better,
an ounce of Mom is worth a pound of clergy,
forever a shining virtue in the eyes of your posterity.

Mom, both of us share mountains of sorrows since I lost my bachelor degree,
a shoulder for me to lean on, when desolation befallen upon me,
i don't blame anyone for my disconsolate, it's all written in my destiny,
living on borrowed times, tomorrow comes or not, is not for me to foresee.

Mom, invariably with teary eyes, you plead me to set you free,
a liability and a very heavy load on my shoulder for me to carry,
umpteen years, Island's was like a second home to you and me,
agonizing dialysis, aggravated with a churlish hummingbird rumbling daily.

Mom, pardon your unfilial son for not hone in on, to your plea to set you free,
in my dictionary, no parents are a liability nor burdensome to their children,
to care for our parents when you need us the most, is a children solemn duty,
the cushdy seeds that you sow, are your children life's greatest blessing harmony.

Mom, as you crooning to me, how could i know you'd go one evening,
with teardrops fall freely, caress my hand tightly, told me not to grief dearly ,
for you know, the sorrowful conundrum that I've to endure in this life eternally,
you are craving to see your very flesh and blood for the last time in a hurry.

This onerous pathway through life, feels unbearable at times,
for i don't have the strength, for this slippery slope i climb,
you're my dearest angel, whenever my life is in a shambles,
a place for me to find solace in, whether i lost, whether i win.

Mom, now you are free to go, rest assured you will always on our mind,
without you and dad, we won't be able to have this kind of loving life,
a noble motherly loves, that we will forever cherish throughout our life,
Rest In Peace Mom ..............................................................

A dedication to my late beloved mom sixth anniversary.

Thursday, November 4, 2010

Greeting




MAY THE LIGHTS OF DIWALI BLESS YOUR FAMILY WITH ABUNDANCE OF GOOD HEALTH, PROSPERITY & HAPPINESS



    HAPPY DEEPAVALI

Saturday, October 30, 2010

Gauze Window Ecstasy Dream In

The night is like a hundred thousands others
When the train threads the night
Jumping out of the frying pan and into the fire
Pardon my regressiveness, all my dearest

Misogamy exacerbated with disquieting offspring
From a loquacious transform into an ethereal person
Desolation with no room to swing the cat
Hell in a basket is just waiting in the spring

I'm still a very bad poet
Lives by the poetry that he can't even write
A sweet lily trembles, the poet's flower
Like a poetry in Romance of the Three Kingdom

Emotions stirred, I think of my late beloved
Whilst I draw a long sigh of endless sorrows
Life sorrow regret how to avoid
Overwhelm sorrow, what's the limit

Submerged into turbulent water
Incubus that simply won't fade away
Two eyes although not dry
This body rather period complete

The sky is like the torn tent of a poor
I forgot to buy the insurance in this life
Because of ignorance how to go about it 
Gauze window, ecstasy dream in.  


Saturday, October 23, 2010

Four Great Inventions Of Ancient China

The Four Great Inventions of ancient China are:

COMPASS
GUNPOWDER
PAPERMAKING
PRINTING

These four discoveries had an enormous impact on the development of Chinese Civilization. Four Greats Inventions serve merely to highlight the technological interaction between East and West.

Source: Wikipedia.

Sunday, October 17, 2010

International Day for the Eradication of Poverty



" Whenever men or women are condemned to live in extreme poverty, human rights are violated. To come together to ensure that these rights be respected is our solemn duty " - Joseph Wresinski (1917-1988), founder of ATD Fourth World. Poverty has no religion, race or nationality. We should be thankful to be blessed with six senses, instead of bellyaching with what others have. How we should appreciating others. Charity begins at home. Help the needy is part of our responsibility as a human kind and at same we don't want them to feel indebted to us. The theme for 2010


From Poverty to Decent Work : bridging the gap 

Monday, October 11, 2010

Method To My Madness

Thoughts are the shadows of our feelings, as an orifice
Poverty could be easily cured by a large siblings bonding
The warmest cornucopia loves from siblings, is life's greatest blessing.
Immeasurable, that no words could ever delineate the sublime

A woman obtain her PhD, when a man lost his Bachelor Degree
People love others for not what they are, but how they make them feel
Between a rock and a hard place, you are thrown into a predicament
Life actually begin at forty or mayhem punctually begin at thirty ?

To a fuddy-duddy, sky and earth, parents are the greatest
A tree can't grow without its roots, blood is thicker than water
A tough row to hoe, if it's not one thing, it's another, out of the blue
All Greek to me, with cock and bull story, every cloud has a silver lining

A picture paints a thousand words, with eyes that know the darkness in my soul
Swirling clouds in violet haze, reflecting Vincent's eyes of China blue
A silver thorn on a bloody rose, lie crushed and broken on the virgin snow
Carrying the load in one hand is worth doing to all his loving and filial siblings.

Curiosity killed the cat, up a blind alley just to kill the selected memories
The tears fall are easy to wipe, but how to erase the stains in a melancholy heart
He lives the poetry that he can't write, have no right to ask when sorrow comes
I love walking in the rain, cause no-one know I'm crying in my lullaby

When you hit the hay, you can close your eyes to the things you do not want to see
But you can't close your heart to the spontaneous things you do not want to feel
The hardest thing is to untie the barrier knots, that keep lingering for years
Run your finger through my soul, for once
Just once feel exactly what I feel, believe what I believe, think what I think
Methods to my neurosis and for once, just once, to try to understand.

Tuesday, October 5, 2010

Different Strokes For Different Folks

Every human being will go through a diverse life cycle. Everyone has their own destiny. Universe move around, is because of echo of our actions and thoughts. Pursuing for different kind of wealths. Not a single unerring living soul in this universe . To err is human. Talk is cheap and to walk the talk will be an uphill tasks.

Life chronology from a childhood into transcribing an epitaph, synchronize with a landscape that will forever etched in one's memories. An unfathomable in one inner self that no one could be able to peruse to comprehend, especially when one's spent all his entire life with his beloved parents with tears in their eyes.

Life most pleasurable journey begins at childhood. A normalcy for playing pranks and truancy. When siblings could get along, the harmony is entrancing. Discovering a full of the joys of spring in a teenage wonderland. Not everyone is born a prodigy or a numpty. Some may be a mischievous elephant in the room, that gave the teachers a field day cracking their head. After all the camaraderies in school life, everyone will go their separate ways to live and work to make a living.

Jump into a wedding is a padlock with an enormous responsibility to shoulder on. Some lucky soul may have the key to unlock it, with an understanding, caring, committed spouse even if you are a pauper. But to some unlucky soul, the key had been thrown into the South China Sea. Facing with plenty of obscurity. A storm in the teacup like a bat out of hell. Unforeseeable weather with a bolt out of the blues.

All these is game and a dream in one's destiny.            

        

Wednesday, September 29, 2010

Mission Accomplish

A very big thank you for your rejoinder compliment. 

Freedom of speech is our desire. Yes, I'm a very selfish egomaniac creature, that even a psychiatrist don't have a cure. All the friends around are slow-witted flatterers. A school dropout with zero intelligence quotient IQ always babbling with nonsensical writing. What to expect from a small peasant with limited education ?

Thank you for wasting your time, referring to the dictionary to understand the very hard, hard, beautiful words that were rarely in used today. Left inertia. Thanks again for pinpointing the wrong grammars and the distorted usage of the hard, hard wording in the articles using high Emotional Quotient EQ.

Why don't an idiotic useless writer used the grammar checker to write an almost flawless article to impress ? Without any catchy phrases with beautiful distorted hard wording, there's no fun for an estupido to write, for it will only defeat my objective.

Every languages have their own beautiful ways in expression. No one is perfect in this world. One is only perfect when one is six feet underground and the writing could become a memoir for their loved ones.

Time will be the witness with what an estupido wrote.    

      

Saturday, September 25, 2010

Culture's That Being Distorted

The Hungry Ghost Festival is celebrated by the Chinese Buddhist throughout the world on the seventh month of the Chinese Lunar Calendar. A myth and a folklore, where the Hell Gate will be open for the whole month to allow the hungry spirits to roam the Earth looking for foods. All the wandering souls must return before the Gate was closed at the end of the seventh month.

As a Buddhist myself, I took it as a teaching of good values should be the essence, not religion per se. I find it kinda funny how the Buddhist celebrate it nowadays. An observance prayer, offering plenty of foods, fruits and money to appease the lost wandering Souls, in order not to wreak havoc on Earth to have a better world.

Celebrated with such an epicurean heterogeneous au naturel showgirls, extol with erotic obsequious languages. Inviting plenty of who's are who's to show who are mightier and transmogrify this festival as a mafioso fiefdom. An observance to appease the Hungry Souls or to the Frisky Hungry audiences ?

Broooom!! Broooom !!, "Zhao Gongming @ Cai Shen" or "God of Prosperity" arriving in a gold plated Lamborghini to be put up to the highest bidders at Cristie's Auctions House. Rich Kawan kawan, brother, heng tai, it's leeeloooonnnng  time for "Cai Shen". ANYMORE BIDDER'S ? IssssssH, SORRY AHHH, the Poor, Unfortunate, God Fearing Peasants, don't have a "God of Prosperity" to pray  AH ?

Don't you think it's funny, desecrating the true values in the Hungry Ghost Festival ?       

Wednesday, September 22, 2010

Apakah Maksudnya Tanggungjawab ?

Beras yang di makan berbillion orang, akan melahirkan berbagai karenah dan pendapat yang berbeza. Banyak yang keliru tentang perkataan TANGGUNGJAWAB ini. Banyak definasi yang boleh di tafsirkan. Berikut adalah definasi saya, khasnya di tujukan kepada anak serta guru mengenai perkataan ini.

Pada hari ini, demi mencari kemewahan, kita lupa tanggungjawab kita sebagai anak kepada ibubapa. Banyak orang tua yang hidup bersendirian dan penuh kesunyian walaupun ada anak dan cucu yang kaya raya. Memiliki banglo dan kereta yang berjuta juta. Begitu juga pusat orang tua yang tumbuh pesat macam cendawan pada hari ini.

Berbagai huraian alasan akan di berikan, yang di klasifasikan oleh mereka sebagai amat taat dan tanggungjawab mereka sebagai seorang anak kepada ibubapa. Kebanyakkan memberi perkerjaan sebagai alasan. Ada yang kata isteri tidak mahu duduk dengan orang tua kerana banyak mengumpat. Mungkin ada kebenaran di sini. Ini kebanyakkanya berlaku kepada keluarga yang mempunyai adik beradik yang ramai. Ibubapa akan di tendang macam bola, ke sana, ke sini terutamanya bila mereka sudah tua, uzur dan mermerlukan rawatan doktor yang kerap.

Tandatanya tanggungjawab timbul dalam situasi sebegini. Wang ringgit serta isteri dapat di cari dan di tukar ganti tetapi ibubapa tidak dapat di jual beli. Ada yang kata, saya bagi makan dan minum serta segala kemewahan dengan menggunakan banyak wang. Begitu juga lembu dan kuda. Binatang ini juga di beri makan dan minum serta bangsal tinggal dengan menggunakan wang !!! Cuba kita tanya sendiri, ada apakah perbezaan ibubapa kita kalau di bandingkan dengan binatang ini ?

Bagi orang tua yang uzur dan sakit, wang ringgit tiada bermakna bagi mereka. Apa yang mereka perlukan ialah salah seoerang anak berada di samping mereka serta dapat mendengar gelak ketawa dan teriakan dan melihat gelagat kebudakan cucu kesayangan mereka. Kasih sayang saja yang mereka pinta.

Di harap yang masih mempunyai ibubapa, curahkan kasih sayang kita semasa mereka masih ada. Jangan hanya kesal dan menangis bila di perkuburan mereka.            
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Sistem pelajaran kita pada masa kini seakan sebuah kapal yang tanpa nahkoda. Polisi yang berputar belit, di luluskan dan tidak di luluskan pada masa yang sama. Macam loyar buruk cakap, quod approbo non reprobo. Mengambil se langkah ke hadapan dan dua langkah ke belakang.

Pendidikan tidak boleh diperjudikan walaupun ada berlainan pendapat di dalam politik. Janganlah biarkan generasi yang berikutnya menanggung hutang kita hanya kerana ketamakkan kuasa, kekayaan serta ego. Tidak ada kemegahanya hanya dengan jumlah angka yang besar dan di gelar sebagai graduan yang setengah masak.

Kerjaya seorang guru adalah sangat mulia dan satu tanggungjawab yang amat berat. Tujuanya adalah untuk memulangkan balik segala pengetahuan yang di miliki kepada anak murid mereka. Menggangap anak murid sebagai anak sendiri dengan penuh kasih sayang. Benih yang kita tanam hari, kenalah di jaga dengan betul agar kita dapat meraihkan titik peluh kejayaannya di kemudian hari.

Ada segelintir guru hanya menganggap tugas yang amat berat ini "sebagai satu kerjaya untuk mencari nafkah".   Kalau guru yang berfikiran sedemikian, saya cadangkan cari lah kerjaya lain. Tidak sesuai sebagai guru yang tidak melengkapkan diri, seperti dalam pengetahuan am. Mengajar dengan fakta yang di petik di atas angin dan anak didikannya pasti akan menjadi kuda kayu.

Kita hanya menanam herba pahit dan mengharapkannya membuahkan oren ?      

You only plant a bitter herb, and do you expect an orange tree to spring forth ? 

Tuesday, September 21, 2010

Mid- Autumn Festival

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Mid-Autumn Festival or Harvest Festival is celebrated worldwide on the 15th. day of eight month according to the Gregorian Calender by the Chinese and Vietnamese. It's the same cultural celebration as Ponggal, Gawai, Keamatan, Maras Taun (celebrated by the Malays in Belitung Island, Indonesia) Festival.

A folklore, this festival is a way of saying appreciation for the year bountiful harvest. For providing their families foods on the table. In a cultural way, it teach us how we should appreciate with what we have today instead of whining, grumbling, moaning, bellyaching and not by equating with what other people have.

Showing our appreciations by saying Thank You and not Assimilating The Unfortunate With Ignominious.