Archive for December, 2006

4 Candles

Sunday, December 17th, 2006

This was send from Su Ann. Would like to share it ^_^

Four candles slowly burned. The ambiance was so soft, one could almost hear them talking…

The first candle said, “I am Peace!’ “The world is full of anger and fighting. Nobody can leep me lit.” Then the flame of peace went of completely.

Then the second candle said: “I am Faith!” “I am no longer dispensible. It doesn’t make sense that I stay lit another moment.” Just then a breeze softly blew out Faith’s flame.

Sadly the third candle began to speak: “I am Love!” “People don’t understand my importance so they simple put me aside. They even forget to Love those who are nearest to them. I haven’t the strength to stay lit.” And waiting no longer, Love’s flame went out.

Suddenly…
A child entered the room and saw the three unlit candles.

“Why aren’t you burning? You’re suppose to stay lit till the end.” “Saying this, the child began to cry.”

Then the fourth candle answered, “Don’t be afraid, I am Hope.” “While I’m still burning, we can re-light the other candles.”

With shinning eyes, the child took the candle of Hope and lit the other candles.

The flame of Hope should never go out from your life.
…and with Hope each of us can live a life with Peace, Faith and Love!

You can watch the slide with animations at http://i.euniverse.com/funpages/cms_content/2529/4candles.swf

Sunway ate my RM20

Tuesday, December 12th, 2006

Today was the horrible day. I have my C Programming paper today and there was a person who kept telling me I would fail. Felt very stressful. I went to bed bout 3.30am when my eyes can’t open anymore and my brains can’t absorb anymore. My friend woke me up at 6.50am and I couldn’t go back to sleep. I wake up and continue studying for my paper. I tried to do one question which I was struggling since the day before to no success.

I reach campus bout 8+am and had breakfast with Raveen. After breakfast we went to computer lab and started to do our programming. It was not until 9.20am that I realize I forgot the most important thing to sit for my paper. I forgot my exam docket. -_-” Of all things, how can I forget that? I freak out. I ran to the office to try get another docket. Without it, I’m not allowed to go into the exam hall. I went to see Miss Corrine who was incharge and she told me pay RM20 to get a new docket. Damn…. Exam is at 10am and it was nearing 9.30am and I daren’t risk going back to collect the docket.

If I was to go back just to save the RM20, I might not be able to come back in time for exam. There would be a lot of other possibilities that I might encounter during the trip back home and come back to campus. I have no other choice but to pay the RM20. Then I found out that other school like School of Tourism and Hospitality only pay RM5 for it. How much is it to just print a bladdy docket? It is just one fourth of the size of an A4 paper that only print your name and your subjects. Could that piece of thing cost RM20? That’s too much. Haih…What to do? Who ask me to be careless and forget to bring it? Maybe because I normally go in for exam without one till recently this year.

Love, Relationship…

Saturday, December 9th, 2006

Referring to two of my friends blog, Melanie’s and Su Ann’s, what is love? Hahaha…I know I have ask this question many times and wrote on it many times but there is not one answer to it. Love comes in many forms and in many different ways. We can’t compare it at all and we do not know how it happen. Many people do experiment on it but how true are they? Are the books they write worth it or we are just helping them to make money for telling us things that only work for certain groups.

We are all different individuals. We can’t expect that we would all fall in love the same way? We can’t assume that what might not work for us would work for others. For example, if you know a friend through the internet, how sure are you that even if you have develop the like feelings that it wouldn’t expand to love? I have heard before there are a few who found their spouse there but due to the people who misused the internet to manipulate others to marry them make others think that such things can’t happen. Do we really care what others say bout who you choose as your spouse?

Like what Melanie say, it hit her suddenly that she wants to spend the rest of her life with a special person. Many a times we do not realize that we have fallen in love especially with a close friend. Sometimes it is nothing but there are times it could be something. But mostly, we love to live in denial. Even if we do have feelings, we would come up with a lot of excuses why we shouldn’t be together. If not, you would say since the we are so close, do not risk losing the bond there is already. All these are excuses. To love a person is a risk. It isn’t like other investment where we can calculate and predict for love is unpredictable. If it is yours, no matter how hard you deny, it would stick to you till one day you realize it.

In Su Ann’s blog, she wrote that falling in love is easy but to maintain it is hard. How come many marriages end up in divorce? First we fall in love. Then things go on smoothly with some bumpy roads. Then decide it is time to get marry to make it more stable. First year of marriage was good. After that, things start to be dull and you blame each other for not putting in the effort when both are waiting for each other to put the flame back on. As it drag on, you tend to be irritated with each other over small small matters. In the end, the love dies off and you divorce.

The process of marriage is another level in love where you have to work on also. Marriage just bond the two person and not guranttee that your love won’t die. It is like a flower. From a seed, you take good care of it and make sure it has enough nutrients to grow into a flower. When the flower blooms, you are happy and you continue to take good care of it to have more flowers blooming. One day you realize that you didn’t put that much care into the flowers and it still bloom. You then take it for granted that it needn’t that much care. The flowers continue to bloom but the flower isn’t as beautiful as the first time when effort was put in. After a while, you find that the plan isn’t healthy and you have a busy schedule so decide to throw the plant away. Isn’t it the same with love?

Love is a continuos process where you learn to love your spouse even after marriage. People change but if you want to be with that person, you would try to accpet their good and their bad. The changes that your spouse wouldn’t be much of a difference for who he/she is would always be that and can’t run off much. When you love a person, it is the internal beauty you fall for and not the external. There are times when we mistook like for love. I do not know how but there are times when you like a person’s companionship, you think you have fallen in love with that person but after a while the feeling would die off.

The Bonds That Shapes Two Worlds

Saturday, December 9th, 2006

My 15 years old cousin was named the 2006 Ambassador of Philippines British Friendship. She won the 2006 Philippines - United Kingdom Friendship Day Essay Writting Competition. I’m so proud of her. Below is her winning essay ^_^

The Bonds That Shapes Two Worlds by Janet Leong Yip Cheng (Winner of the 2006 Philippines - United Kingdom Friendship Day Essay Writting Competition.

The Philippines and the U.K. share many similarities - both countries are predominantly Christians (from different churches) with good range of religious diversity, and have a deep-rooted belief in democracy and capitalism. As such, it is no surprise that both countries get along well, but there are opportunities
to further forge stronger ties that would benefit the two countries mutually for years to come.

The first step to accomplishing this would be to increase the level of awareness and education of students in both countries. This could be achieve by the creation of more scholarships for the students in the Philippines, so that they may travel to the U.K. to better gain knowledge and exposure to the latest in technology and the cultural values of the people there. Not only would they gain intellectually, but they will benefit from having experienced a totally different culture to the one they know as they would learn to accept the differences that exist socially in humanity (i.e., different races, customs, etc.). These students could then apply for key roles in the government and seek to better the welfare of the Philippines using technology and by routing out corruption in the Filipino government.

The student from the U.K. can similarly get first-hand experience in living in a poorer economy and learn to respect the different races and cultures that live in harmony in the Philippines.

The second step to building better ties with the Philippines would be the U.K. setting up a preferential trading system with the Philippines so that textiles and fruits can be exported from the Philippines to the U.K. with little or import tariffs. This will allow the Philippines to have a stable trading partner as well as a
higher GDP from making many exports, allowing the Philippines to improve her standard of living for her people.

But so far, the Philippines seems to be the only one benefiting from this union. Allow me to lead you away from that false impression - the U.K. stands to gain economically by aligning itself with the Philippines. It is very likely that the people living in the U.K are itching to go aboard on a holiday and the Philippines with its 7,000 islands shrouded by a warm, tropical climate offers a perfect vacation spot to go to. Not only will the Filipinos benefit from the revenue and be able to build more facilities and amenities that will contribute to the enjoyment of the tourists coming in, but the tourist will enjoy experiencing the warm hospitality of the Filipinos as well as the exotic reefs that lie nearby.

Besides that fun and the beach, tourists from the U.K. can take advantage of the growing medical tourism being developed in the Philippines. Why not get some topnotch cosmetic or minor surgery done by the world class surgeons in the Philippines for the half the price while enjoying the beautiful beaches and reefs of the Philippines?

Additionally, Filipinos who would like a change of place and weather might also choose to visit the U.K., adding even more revenue into the U.K. coffers.

The Philippines can provide a great source of labor for the U.K. It is natural that the U.K., being a more economically developed country, would have a lower birth rate. This, coupled with the older population in the U.K. (16% of the population over 65 years while the Philippines only has 4% of people above 65) will ultimately mean fewer workers for the U.K. But if the Philippines would work together with the U.K., many
unemployed Filipinos could be given jobs in the U.K., which would fill the number of jobs without workers in the U.K. and boost its economic output while providing jobs and salaries to the unemployes Filipinos.

Alternatively, the businesses in the U.K. may look to expand to the Philippines, and a deal with the Philippines means that the U.K. will be able to take full advantage of the Philippines’ hardworking and relatively cheaper labor. (As the Philippines is a developing country, it pays lower to its employees.) Lower
wages would mean lower costs, and lower production costs would mean more profit for the U.K.

In summary, there are many ways to further build on the ties between the U.K. and Philippines. They will require both countries to build mutual trust and look beyond short-term gains. All this for a better world for all of us in the future, and two heads are, indeed, better than one.

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Good Evercise For Your Eyes ^_^

Saturday, December 9th, 2006

Can you find the C?

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Once you’ve found the C……….Find the 6!

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Once you’ve found the 6…Find the N! (it’s hard!!)

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Lucky 100 Bucks! Ya Right?

Friday, December 8th, 2006

This is a story taken from Reena’s e-mail to me. This story shows how heartless we are now a days and how much more money-minded we are. We have no sympathy to others and we do not care that much bout others what more if they are strangers. This shows how society has change and what it might lead to in the near future. We still have time to reflect and change and make the world a better place.

A few weeks ago, I was rushing around trying to do some Valentine’s Day shopping done. I was stressed out and not thinking very fondly of the weather right then.

It was dark, cold, and wet in the parking lot as I was loading my car up. I noticed that I was missing a receipt that I might need later. So mumbling under my breath, I retraced my steps to the mall entrance. As I was searching the wet pavement for
the lost receipt, I heard a quiet sobbing. The crying was coming from a poorly dressed boy of about 12 years old. He was short and thin. He had no coat. He was just wearing a ragged flannel shirt to protect him from the cold night’s chill. Oddly enough, he was holding a hundred dollar bill in his hand. Thinking that he had gotten lost from his parents, I asked him
what was wrong.

He told me his sad story. He said that he came from a large family. He had three brothers and four sisters. His father had died when he was nine years old. His Mother was poorly educated and worked two full time jobs. She made very little to support her large family. Nevertheless, she had managed to skimp and save two hundred dollars to buy her children some Valentine’s Day presents (since she didn’t manage
to get them anything on Christmas).

The young boy had been dropped off, by his mother, on the way to her second job. He was to use the money to buy presents for all his siblings and save just enough to take the bus home. He had not even entered the mall, when an older boy grabbed one of the hundred dollar bills and disappeared into the night.

"Why didn’t you scream for help?" I asked.

The boy said, "I did."
 
"And nobody came to help you?" I queried.
The boy stared at the sidewalk and sadly shook his head.
 
"How loud did you scream?" I inquired.
 
The soft-spoken boy looked up and meekly whispered, "Help me!"
 
I realized that absolutely no one could have heard that poor boy cry for help.
So I grabbed his other hundred and made a run to my car.

*Isn’t this a horrible thing to do? What happen to humanity? Why are we so cold hearted?

Sister’s birthday celebration

Sunday, December 3rd, 2006

The start of my sister birthday which is when the clock strike 12am, I was driving down to KL and I forgot time. I only manage to call my sister at 12.15am just to wish her Happy Birthday and put down the phone. Wahahaha…she can’t talk also for she was driving down to KL from Taiping. I was at Zhi Ren’s place to bug him to burn Kitchen Confidential for me while waiting for Guoy (older brother) to reach the KTM station. When Guoy arrive, we left to pick him up then went for mamak.

I went and pick Louisa up before we went and eat. That was when I had my dinner. It was pass midnight when I eat my supper. Haih…Poor me ^_^ But I’m used to it. My eating time is weird and since exam coming, I eat more =) Anyway, we stayed at the mamak and watch the Asian Games in Doha. It was bout 3am when my parents call to say they have arrive here. So I send everyone back, or should I say I have to ask Louisa to send everyone back ^_^ I was so tired that I was crapping nonsense ^o^ I think I might have scare Zhi Ren a lot -_-” Or he thinks I’m nutty.

When Louisa drop herself at home and I drove home, I do not know how I drive home. I don’t remember looking at my sides before I turn. Oops…but I reach home safely ^_^ I woke up at 12 noon the next day. Had lunch since my mother cook “Mee Sua” soup. Then we went out to buy cake from Secret Recipe. It was a sinful cake. My mother bought the chocolate mud cake. Other than that, my mother bought a slice of chocolate cheese and chocolate indulgence. Damn sinful ^_^ But once a while its ok. We then went back where my aunt and uncle came to cut cake. My cousins love the cake also but little Michelle love the eggs more ^_^

After resting a while we went to church for sunset mass. We were late. We went to SIC for a change since my aunt and uncle want to see how it is like. After church is the big celebration. This is what I have been waiting to tell ^o^ We went to King Crab Restaurant in Kelana Jaya. Yup! We had crab.Yes a crab only for my uncle ordered a Alaska Snow Crab. Yes that huge crab which cost RM23 per 100 grams. I do not know how much was that crab but it was very meaty. Besides that we have the sweet sour pork which my cousins love, steam diamond fish, vegetable, fried mee (compulsory when celebrating birthdays) and prawns. The embarassing part was, I took the largest prawn for my sister but halfway to her plate I drop in on the table in front of her.

The meal was satisfiying and delicious. I was bloated. I ate some crab only for mostly the meaty part goes to my little cousins who are crab freaks. Little Janice had 2 bowls of them. My uncle told her that it cost her RM100 for the first bowl he peel for her and RM50 for the second. She just smile ^_^ I ate the leg part and one small portion of the body. The meat is so delicious. The best part was the gravy. Delicious. There was a lot of mee left and as usual, we do not like to waste. Me and my dad, mum and uncle finish it all. Once done, there wasn’t anything left but we were all bloated. There were a lot of customers still when we left at 9pm.

After dinner, we were bloated and can’t go back for need to exercise to digest the food. We then went to Toy ‘R’ Us for Janice followed us back to stay with us. We park in Carefour since parking is free and walk over to Subang Parade. Subang Parade change a lot and it looks better. There were Christmas decoration which reminds me of when I was young I always visit there and they have this decorations. It brings back a lot of old memories ^_^ When Toy ‘R’ Us close, we walk back to Carefour for need to buy toothbrush. My aunt forgot to pack a toothbrush for my cousin. Hahaha…then carefour is closing at 12am so we went in to shop and walk about. We bought some stuff then we went home.

We bought a TV game. It is on table tennis. Me and my dad wanted to experiment something on it. It is fun. My dad play till he sweat and he had fun. I thought it was dumb but then it was fun. It is a but dumb for the computer won’t allow you to win but you can out smart it by chopping. It is like virtual game. Real cool. After playing that a while, we had durians. We sat and eat durians. Damn delicious. Don’t know where my parents get all these nice durians. It was bout 1+am before we went to bed.

That was how happening my sister’s birthday was. Thanks to my friends who which her birthday wishes ^_^

Daily Dose

Saturday, December 2nd, 2006

HILLARY’S FIRST NIGHT AS PRESIDENT in January 2008

Hillary Clinton gets elected President and is spending her first night in the White House. She has waited so long……….

The ghost of George Washington appears, and Hillary says, “How can I best serve my country?”

Washington says, “Never tell a lie.”

“Ouch!” Says Hillary, “I don’t know about that.”

The next night, the ghost of Thomas Jefferson appears…. Hillary says, “How can I best serve my country?”

Jefferson says, “Listen to the people.”

“Ohhh! I really don’t want to do that.”

On the third night, the ghost of Abe Lincoln appears…. Hillary says, “How can I best serve my country?”

Lincoln says, “Go to the theater.”

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WALMART GREETER

An unattractive, mean-spirited woman barged into Walmart with her two kids. Shoving her way past several customers waiting to get carts, she demanded of the Walmart Greeter, “Go through those carts and find me one that doesn’t need oiling for once!”

“Yes, Ma’am, happy to oblige,” said the Greeter. He chose a cart for her. “Here you are, Ma’am. I hope this one is okay.’

“If you’d move out of the way, I could find out!”, snapped the woman.

“Sorry, Ma’am,” the Greeter said, standing aside. “You and the twins have a nice day.”

The woman halted. “They’re not twins, you moron! They don’t even look alike.”

The greeter agreed. “No they don’t, Ma’am. I just find it hard to believe you got laid twice.”

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Indian Olympics

The Indian Olympics were taking place in Duncan, B.C. and the next competition was the Hammer Toss.

The first Indian up was representing New Brunswick. He grabs the hammer and tosses it 250 yards.

” Holy shit you have broken the worlds record, How’d you do it?” he is asked.

“My grandfather was a fisher, my father is a fisher and I am a fisher,have strong arms, throw hammer far.”

The second Indian is representing BC, grabs the hammer and tosses it 300 yards.

“You just broke the last guys record, How’d you do it?” he is asked.

“My grandfather was a logger, my father is a logger and I am a logger, strong arms, throw hammer far.”

The third Indian is representing Manitoba and he grabs the hammer and throws it 375 yards.

“Holy shit, you just blew everyone away, How’d you do it?”

“My grandfather was on welfare, my father is on welfare and I am on welfare. I was taught that if I ever see a tool, pick it up and throw it as far away as possible.”

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School Answering Machine

(This is hilarious - no wonder some people were offended!) This is the message that the Pacific Palisades High School ( California) staff voted unanimously to record on their school telephone answering machine.

This is reported to be the actual answering machine message for the school. This came about because they implemented a policy requiring students and parents to be responsible for their children’s absences and missing homework. The school and teachers are being sued by parents who want their children’s failing grades changed to passing grades - even though those children were absent 15-30 times during the semester and did not complete enough schoolwork to pass their classes.

The outgoing message:

“Hello! You have reached the automated answering service of your school. In order to assist you in connecting to the right staff member, please listen to all the options before making a selection:

* To lie about why your child is absent - Press 1
* To make excuses for why your child did not do his work- Press 2
* To complain about what we do - Press 3
* To swear at staff members - Press 4
* To ask why you didn’t get information that was already enclosed in your
newsletter and several flyers mailed to you - Press 5
* If you want us to raise your child - Press 6
* If you want to reach out and touch, slap or hit someone - Press 7
* To request another teacher, for the third time this year - Press 8
* To complain about bus transportation - Press 9
* To complain about school lunches - Press 0
* If you realize this is the real world and your child must be accountable and responsible for his/her own behavior, class work, homework and that it’s not the teachers’ fault for your child’s lack of effort: Hang up and have a nice day!

If you can read this - thank a teacher!

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A very self-important college freshman attending a recent football game, took it upon himself to explain to a senior citizen sitting next to him why it was impossible for the older generation to understand his generation.

“You grew up in a different world, actually an almost primitive one,” the student said, loud enough for many of those nearby to hear.

“The young people of today have grown up with television, jet planes, space travel, man walking on the moon, our spaceships have visited Mars. We have nuclear energy, electric and hydrogen cars, computers with light-speed processing ….and,” the younger man paused to take a drink……

The Senior took advantage of the break in the student’s self important litany and said, “You’re right, son. We didn’t have those things when we were young……..so, unfortunately, we had to invent them. Now, tell me young man, what are you doing for the next generation?”