My Thoughts…

I do not know if this is a good idea but Maurice going to kill me. It is something to do with him We were at 1 Utama last night for dinner and other stuff. As me, Guoy, Sue Lyn and Louisa were thinking what to eat as we stood in front of the directory, Maurice went to the other side where there were 2 4 X 4 trucks there. He went there for a long time before he came back. Then he say that by counting correctly the amount of bottles in the box on the 4 X 4, he would win one of it home. Other than that he ha to purchase Rexona as proof of purchase.

As we walk to Burger King and ate there, he never stop thinking of the possibility to win the truck. Finally, Guoy ask him for the contest form after everyone was dampering his spirit to win the truck. After Guoy read the contest form. it was written there, the prize is a iPod Nano. Haha… We had a good laugh. Maurice was…I do not know how to explain. Hehehe… He threw the contest form away. Hehehe….

Quotable Quotes from Reader’s Digest March 2006

“There are a lot of things happening that show us that this, right now, is a time to love.” By Stevie Wonder

“You know what they say that we only use 10 percent of our brains? I think we only use 10 percent of our hearts.” By Owen Wilson

“It’s useless to hold a person to anything he says when he’s in love, drunk or running for office.” Shirley Maclaine

“One of the few articles of clothing that a man won’t try to remove from a woman is an apron.” Marilyn Vos Savant

“Sometimes when almost everything is wrong, one thing is so right you would do it all again.” Alice Randall

“There’s no one way to dance. And that’s kind of my philosophy about everything.” Ellen Degeneres

“I know love at first sight can work. It happened to my parents.” George Clooney

“If the marriage needs help, the answer almost always is have more fun. Drop your list of grievances and go ride a roller coaster.” Garrison Keoillor

I do wonder how come there are so many forwarded mails on God and all would say, “If you do not forward this message, you DO NOT BELIEVE IN GOD.” Is this how we measure our believe in God? Does it means that when a person read that part of the message and forward it means that person believe in God?

True, I understand that everyone is busy with their lifes and forget about God very often. But this isn’t a way to do it. We can’t measure it by this. I find it more of a nonsense or a way that people can tell others that I am religious. Say that they have deep faith in God by passing this messages around. Sorry but I don’t agree with that. What I believe is, I am a Christian and I do not have to announce it to the entire world. No one need to know for it is between me and God. There is no point to let others think you are religious but in truth you are not.

Why get involve in church activities when all you have in mind is you would be blessed for helping out in church. Some would make themselves very active in church activities but it doesn’t mean their faith in God is strong. There are some that does that to make people think and look up at them for being so religious. There are some that went to a point pf being too religious and moving backwards. We are moving ahead to a new era where information technology is important. What is thought in the Bibil have to be implement with the new era. It doesn’t mean you have to keep yourself back-dated. That is what I believe.

Other than that, I do wonder why do some Christians force others to convert? I don’t remember anything in the Bible that says you have to force a person to convert. A person have to follow God’s way with his/her own will. No one can force them to follow. I know of people that would go house to house and knock to get people to convert. This is something sad to hear and know. God never ask us to force others to follow us and He never force us to follow Him. For me it is my own will to follow His ways.

It is just very sad to see people forwarding messages to show they believe in God and have faith in Him. It is only our own self that would know better. Don’t have to show others if you believe or not but most importantly, DO YOU BELIEVE IN GOD? Forget bout the messages but ask your own self. I can’t say that God would punish those who lie on it or use His name to forward mails and which to me is something like a chain letter. He would blessed everyone and not circle anyone out for He loves us all. That is what we have to remember. Just spare some time to think of Him is better than nothing. The forwarded messages is a sharing about God’s words but it shouldn’t be used to measure a person’s believe in God.

There are a lot of things we would have to let go but what I want to write about is letting go a club which you either form or helped to form. It wasn’t easy for me but I have to let go of my club. I watched it die in front of me for there wasn’t anyone who wants to manage it and the amount of members are too few and there are a lot of obstacles in arranging an event.

I was part of the committee that form the pingpong club. It was an honour to be included in the committee. We set up the club and plan events. The first year was good then the following years, it was harder for our budget were tight and we need to get approval from the student council to run our events. Most of the time, we have to send in proposal early then wait for their reply. Sometimes the reply never came. We have to ask them. If approve, our budget for the even is from our own pocket money for we need receipts to claim our money back. The money collection takes a long time also. Furthermore, the committee members are mostly in science faculty which have bout 20 over hours of classes a week so it is hard to plan events if there isn’t help from other members.

So far I went through this headache. The club was pass down to me to run and I tried my best but it is hard. I’m busy with my course work and I have to prepare events and activities. I found a coach to train the members but then the student members didn’t approve due to the fees. When I found one FOC coach, they didn’t approve a letter for the coach to enter the premise. So the coaching session was a failure.

Students always like to have tournaments or matches but they suggest but no one is doing anything to make it happen. Most of my committee just wait for me to do the hard work then pass them the easy part. It wasn’t easy as there was once I have to manage 2 events with a week difference. One small and one major event. Luckily it all went smoothly.

I took up the post even I have no time for I can’t let the club die off. I want to keep it alive and with the way I think best but I think I was too selfish. Each new president and previous presidents have their own way of running the club. Even when I wasn’t president but I was always the secretary of the club where I would be the one planning and running the club but someone else hold the president title. I think I overdid my part. Now it is time for me to let go and hope someone would relive the club and manage it well.

I know of a person who is a founder of a club but he/she still take a lot of concern of the club and fear the club would die off. For me, I believe the club won’t die off but the way things are going, I think the founder is killing his/her clun which he/ she set up. Once you let go of the post, have confident on the new president to run the club. I can’t say that everyone is born to be president. Every president makes their own mistakes and learn from them. Other than that, there isn’t anyone who knows how to run and manage a club when we are still students. We have some knowledge but we are not professionals who have the experience and exposure. It isn’t easy to take up the task and no one likes the task.

How can a person who is only the member now and not even in the committee want to take so much concern over it. I know that this club is important to students, but by spreading things on the mailing list isn’t a good way. By making students losing confidence in the president is horrible. Everyone deserve a chance to prove themselves to run a club the best they could. It doesn’t mean that a person who has the most knowledge is the best candidate or the one that put in the most effort is the best candidate to be president. The job of the president doesn’t require a person to sacrifice everything for the club. Why get so emotional when comes to running a club. There are a few people I came across who were emotional when handling with clubs activities.

What is important is cooperation. For pass presidents, you can unite with what you know and help out instead of being a dictator and say a person isn’t fit to be a president. A president also a human where they have good days and bad days so they have the right to take time off when they have personal problems that need to be settle first. During this period, the vice president should give their support and help as much as possible till the president has his problems under control. I may sound unfair but this is how an organisation work if I’m not mistaken. President are the one who do the least paper work but the one that make decision. If they are not around to make the decision, it is the vice president to make the right choice. Those who isn’t part of the committee can voice their opinion but they have no right in taking charge of how the club is run. It is time to trust the new people in handling and let go. I know it is hard but it would make a whole lot of difference and create a harmony between the members. Create an environment where the new students would take interest and join in the club to help manage the activities and events

Was at Asia Cafe Pool Center. Was thinking to have a game of pool for I was bored. Was there with Maurice. We were on the waiting list so we sat and wait. Then there was this guy wearing a yellow strip shirt, green low-cut 3/4 pants and japanese slippers (the wooden type with two heels, one in front and one at the back) who was playing pool. When he bend, he thinks he has a sexy ass of what for his buttline showed. It is so gross. He kept bending at our way but it wasn’t that bad for me for my back was showing him and Maurice has a very clear view all the time

Till a time when we become desperate to play for waiting so long and watching people around us playing. Finally we got our turn and we have a lot of laughs while playing. Haha…Manage to play 15 games in slightly more than a hour and a half. Hehe…

I was leading but then I lost to him 9-6. Haih…It’s ok. We would have a rematch soon enough

I got this article from Reader’s Digest June 2005. It’s about 50 Funniest One-Liners.

Cupid’s Arrow
“A guy knows he’s in love when he loses interest in his car for a couple of days.” Tim Allen

Cupid’s Arrow Sharpened
“When I eventually met Mr Right, I had no idea that his first name was Always.” Rita Rudner
“Women don’t want to hear what you think. Women want to hear what they think, in a deeper voice.” Bill Cosby
“The quickest way to a man’s heart is through his chest.” Roseanne Barr
“I always wanted to be the last guy on earth, just to see if all those women were lying to me.” Ronnie Shakes
“A man in love is incomplete until he hsa married. Then he’s finished.” Zsa Zsa Gabor

Financial Genius
“A bank is a place that will lend you money, if you can prove that you don’t need it.” Bob Hope
“Money won’t buy friends, but you get a better class of enemy.” Spike Milligan

Unfathomable
“Imagine if there were no hypothetical situations.” John Mendoza
“I don’t consider myself bald. I’m simply taller than my hair.” Tom Sharp
“You know the world is going crazy when the best rapper is a white guy, the best golfer is a black guy and that tallest guy in the National Basketball Association is Chinese.” Chris Rock

Odds-On-Favourites
“This is a strange country to live in. When it comes to electing a president, we get two choices. But when we have to select a Miss America, we get 50.” Jay Leno
“I figure you have the same choice of winning the lottery whether you play or not.” Fran Lebowitz

It’s a Zoo
“Outside of a dog, a book is man’s best friend; inside of a dog, it’s too dark to read.” Groucho Marx
“Cats are smarter than dogs. You can’t get eight cats to pull a sled through snow.” Jeff Valdez
“Time’s fun when you’re having flies.” Kermit The Frog
“The trouble with the rat race is that even if you win, you’re still a rat.” Lily Tomlin
“Give a man a fish and he has food for a day; teach him how to fish and you can get rid of him for the entire weekend.” Zenna Schaffer

Deadly Serious
“It’s not that I’mafraid to die; I just don’t want to be there when it happens.” Woody Allen

Miss Manners
“If you haven’t got anything good to say about anyone, come and sit by me.” Alice Roosevelt Longworth
“The first thing I do in the morning is brush teeth and sharpen my tongue.” Dorothy Parker

Speed Traps
“Have you noticed that anyone travel driving slower than you is an idiot and anyone driving faster than you is a maniac?” George Carlin
“Instant gratification takes too long.” Carrie Fisher
“Why do they call it rush hour when nothing moves?” Robin Williams

Health Nuts
“I told my doctor I broke my leg in two places. He told me to quit going to those places.” Henny Youngman
“You know why fish are so thin? They eat fish.” Jerry Seinfeld
“Housework can’t kill you, but why take a chance?” Phyllis Diller

Women on the Edge
“I have my standards. They may be low, but I have them.” Bette Midler
“I used to be Snow White, but I drifted.” Mae West
“Deeper down, I’m pretty superficial.” Ava Gardner
“I’ve been on a calender, but I’ve never been on time.” Marilyn Monroe

Men on the Edge
“I just recently had my Visa card stolen. Now it’s everywhere I want to be.” Scott Wood
“A cynic is a man who, when he smells flowers, looks around for a coffin.” H.L.Mencken
“I drink to make other people interesting.” George Jean Nathan

A Comedy Heirs
“When you’re eight years old, nothing is your business.” Lenny Bruce
“If your parents never had children, chances are you won’t either.” Dick Cavett
“When I was born, I was surprised I couldn’t talk for a year and a half.” Gracie Allen
“Never lend your car to anyone whom you’ve given birth.” Erma Bombeck

Fashion Plates
“Men who have pierced ears are better prepared for marriage. They’ve experienced pain and bought jewellery.” Rita Rudner
“If God meant us to be naked, He would have made our skin fit better.” Maureen Murphy

Keeping Score
“If a woman has to choose between catching baseball and saving an infant’s life, she will choose to save the infant’s life without even considering if there are men on the base.” Dave Barry
“The trouble with jogging is that the ice falls out of your glass.” Martin Mull
“Football combines the two worst features of American life; violence and committee meetings.” George Will
“I went to a fight the other night and a hockey game broke out.” Rodney Dangerfield

Wisdumb
“We’ve all heard that a million monkeys banging on a million typewriters will eventually reproduce the entire works of Shakespeare. Now thanks to the Internet, we know this is not true.” Robert Wilensky
“It’s so simple to be wise. Just think of something stupid to say and then don’t say it.” Sam Levenson

Highly Questionable
“If winning isn’t everything, why do they keep score?” Vince Lombardi
“What’s another word for thesaurus?” Steven Wright
“If convenience stores are open 365 days a year, 24 hours a day and 7 days a week, why do the doors have locks on them?” Gallagher

In Sum…
“I really didn’t say everything I said.” Yogi Berra

There are news bout strong winds around Subang area. Wonder why right? It is said something to do with La Nina. I think everyone remembers bout La Nina. All I remember it hit near the Pacific Ocean with heavy rains and strong wind. If I didn’t remember wrongly, it was a strong typhoon.

What happen last week was scary. It was raining at Sunway but wasn’t really raining in SS2. I was in SS2 while my sister was in Sunway. I was to send my aunt to the airport and my sister would join me. Without knowing how bad the condition was there, I started my journey at 4pm since the flight is at 6.50pm. Unfortunately, we were stuck at our first jam at Sunway medical center. The road heading to LDP was closed and the other lane was made into a two-way lane. It was jam. As I drove pass that area, I saw a lot of fallen trees and just outside Monash Sunway Condo, the lamp post fell on the road and block the road there also. As I turn in to Sunway College University, I saw a tree fell onto the monorail. The monorail rail is supporting the tree so that it won’t fall on the road and hit the cars there.

After picking my sister, it was half pass 4pm. The jam was still bad. There was a lot of trees that fall around the road out of Sunway. The industrial area also have a lot of trees fall onto the road. When I reach the main road to USJ, it was jam. There was a lamp post that fell onto the road. Luckily, there wasn’t any injuries. The jam was so horrible that I panic. I was still at the junction waiting to turn to the highway. I finally turn the other way and make a long U-turn to get out of the jam.

I was lucky that manage to reach the airport on time. This is something that I won’t want to experience ever again.

There are a lot of times when we talk to someone and we think that the person is listening to us. Unfortunately, there are time when they are not listening. When you ask them bout it, some can repeat what we say and some don’t know what was just said. Mostly it isn’t that important if it is normal chat but if it is to solve problems and issues, then it is important to LISTEN.

Many a times a problem or an issue can’t be solved for all would have something to say and no one is LISTENING. It’s important that each is given a chance to talk and listen then solved the problem or issue. But it is never easy. Why? There would be people being offended when there is a sensiteve topic being brought up. Or it could be about an issue which isn’t an issue but created without any solid base but just created to get pity.

For the first one where people can be offended when touch sensitive topic, try to use “I” instead of “You” so that it doesn’t sound like you are pick-pointing on that person or accusing that person. Try more positive approach in sentences where words like “not”, “never”, “didn’t” or etc are used less or never at all. This way we can try not to offend others but at least the problem or issue can be settled.

For those that have issues and no solid base to support it can be ignored at times but if that person want to settle it, be humble and settle it. If you don’t understand what is the issue, ask them to explain with some examples to make it clearer. Then again, listen and talk it out to solve it. Don’t cause any new issues once this settled so just dropped it.

So listening is important. Use less of words that is negative and always refer to your own and not point to others when dealing with an issue. This would make things easier and less complicated. When the person want to solved the issue also, be cooperative and solved it. Don’t drag it on to gain pity for no one would pity a person who want to have issues all the time and not want to settle it.

Haha…It isn’t always that I would pay attention in church. But what Father Mashall says always amaze me. In his sermon, he was talking about how do you know what is good smell and bad smell? Haha…It was funny the example he use.

He told a group of young children to put their hands above their head and smell each other. Then let him know who smell good and who smell bad. Those that put perfume or scent powder smells good but those that don’t and came from sport smell bad. How do we judge this?

Different people judge differently. There isn’t anything that is right and wrong. It is our own perspective. Some might think that the natural smell smell good. Some might say not good. But what is important is our roots. How we are taught by our parents on what is right and wrong. That root that we grow is the most important aspect in our life and it guide us along the way.

I do believe in that. In some people’s eyes what we do might be wrong but follow your heart and trust it if it is for a good cause. If that person don’t understand now, eventually one day she/he would understand. Don’t judge a person too quickly and also don’t think that we are always right pr perfect for all of us make mistakes before. Like a malay proverb, “Bumi mana tidak ditimpa hujan” which means there isn’t anyone who never make mistake before. As long we know and correct it, all is good. ^o^

How would you like your friends to be like? A lot of us don’t really bother bout this. As long you can hang out together and click, there isn’t much of a problem I think. Hehe… But for me, I like friends who are straight forward. I don’t like sneaky type. I rather have a friend to be frank with me and homest. I don’t like those pretend and try to be someone they are not to be liked and to gain my friendship.

I’m the type that take a long while before I take you as a close friend. Very often I would be close and at times I won’t for I’m not so sure bout the person first. It takes time and if I’m being suffocate, I would know that I can take that person as a normal friend. If that person push harder, I would just avoid and go further. I’m the type that need my space.

If a person try to be smart to me, it would be fine but once that person goes overboard, I would stay away from them also. Those that try to be someone they are not to get me to like them, it would work at first but when I see their true color, it is hard for me to accept them but I have to take time to overcome it and build the trust back. There are times when the trust is broken again. I have nothing I can do but either let it go and let it mend on its own.

I prefer my friends to be straight with me. To tell me if there is something they don’t like about me so that I would change for the better. To tell me my weakness. I don’t like those that tell me things and say that it is the same as their past experience. Using past experience as an example is fine but to imply that it is the same case, it is too much for different people have different view. Not all is true but some part. So far not many tell me off but there are some who want to tell me off but what they say don’t make sense to me. For the one that they are to say to is to themself first. I just kept quiet. Not all advise are useful but pick the one that is needed and reflect on ourselves.

The truth is hard to swallow but after reflecting and know that it is true, why deny it and make life miserable? Accept it and move on. Change for the better at the same time. As I say, going away comfort zone isn’t good but after that, you would feel so much better.

I’m happy to have a few friends that I can rely upon. Thank you.