Occasion : Work Freak Out!!
Location : Guess where?? ;P
Time : 23rd Oct 2010
Camera : Canon EOS 400D
Lens : Canon EF-s 10-22mm F3.5-4.5 USM

Going back to campus was an emotional time for me personally. Yes you heard me say emotionally! It brought back memories some good and some not so good so to speak. But the amazing thing is that He turn it into something that works for his purpose for His people. Time just pass by so fast and people grow in the process! This kidoos, during their young age were really active but with the LOVE and care and God's grace on the family, they are now obedient (well as kids not all the time but still..)

This picture was one of the most touching onces that God allow me to capture it! I never notice how personal it become to me as I review my picture taken for the past week! Kiss composition and all the photography stuff goodbye!

On a different note, a friend told me "this you have to asked yourself!" when I told him working is not easy and I'm facing human issues. It just suddenly hit me that I'm too out spoken! Some people might like it but others, not into it! Well another stage has just started, may be will try golf! YES golf! Hahhaa...

Title : Presentation

Picture time!

Subject : Julius

Title : "Don't picture me"

This is the best GLEE Cast song!! It is just superb!!

I was asked to go back to KL to be posted there, and this time I'm not really sure what are the motive that the management have for me. The -ve may due to the way things are and feedbacks that are from me. But yet there are bright site of things where it is also a possibilities!

Lord please give me the wisdom and strength. I'm not sure where I'm at and some time I just really don't think you are able to handle this problem, but yet you created all things. Why can't I just trust you?

Let not my flash and body be the one who drives me but let your spirit empower me to greater hight to worship you!

Some thing is happening to me.. On Thursday, I just show middle finger to motorist when he honked at me! What is wrong with that? The reaction is so natural that I did't get the time to think and it just came out! It is like a subconscious motor reaction from my brain!

Something is surly wrong with me!

I went for futsal yesterday, I was so obsess and so rude and emotional non the less! Hay I know myself then and I'm really sure something is going wrong within me!

For this week, it was the most messiest week in my life! I dont know what am I working for as I dont find any purpose in doing things and it is draining me away..

Need to start from square one again!

I'm really frustrated with how the world conduct itself! My boss!! Just want to tell you that you are such a 2 face boss! Why everything I was being placed the blame with?

Going back because as to make the plant batter don't count? When i make a small mistake, does it consider that i fail all? Why cant you just look at the good things (in this case MORE!!)??

When I say, i'm wrong. When i silent, I'm wrong! Oh man! such a double standard!

Oh GOD, PLEASE HELP ME. Teach me to be like you to forgive and to have the heart of yours in such a situation! Do teach me LORD!

Just finish watch a documentary film directed Robert Kenner. It talks about corporate farming and concluding that agribusiness produces food that is unhealthy in a way that is abusive of animals and environmentally harmful. This includes Mc Donald, KFC and others.

Do you know that Ayamas actually supply all the chickens for KFC??

So the next time you go to Tesco or any other hypermarket, you get to choose what you eat! READ THE LABELS!!

Seriously, Life's a stage! At the stage, every character compliment each other. There are good guys and the bad guys, the reach and the poor, whose who are happy and those who are weight down, those who are just born and those who just pass away.

How are you going to act out your role in this stage?

Just got my new toy last Saturday, the Canon EOS 10D. Yes for those of you who know, it is a 8 years old camera that was introduce at the year 2003! The reason is for my backup body for my Canon EOS 400D. Technologically it might be few years behind but for the price i got it, it is worth some thing. Here are the picture shots with it.

Canon EOS 400D

Flower

Below are the picture of the toy itself!

Wow.. They manage to play it wing conventional instrument..

I heard this song through the radio on the way to work, just could see how much effort people put into their national day! Great lyric and its meaningful! Would we be as grateful to fly and sing our nation a song?

We were once 'Malaysians'

Razaleigh Hamzah

Jul 31, 10

MalaysiaKini.com

**The following keynote speech was given by Gua Musang parliamentarian and former finance minister Tengku Razaleigh Hamzah at the 4th Annual Malaysian Student Leaders Summit (MSLS) today.

Click here for to watch the 24 Min video

I have played some small role in the life of this nation, but having been on the wrong side of one or two political fights with the powers-that-be, I am not as close to the young people of this country as I would hope to be.

History and the 8 o'clock news are written by the victors. In recent years, the government's monopoly of the media has been destroyed by the technology revolution.

You could say I was also a member of the United Kingdom and Eire Council for Malaysian Students (UKEC). Well I was, except that I belonged to the predecessor of the UKEC, by more than 50 years, the Malayan Students Union of the UK and Eire. I led this organisation in 1958/59.

I was then a student of Queen's University at Belfast, as well as at Lincoln's Inn. In a rather cooler climate than Kota Bharu's, we campaigned for decolonisation. We demonstrated in Trafalgar Square and even in Paris. We made posters and participated in British elections.

Your invitation to participate in the MSLS was prefaced by an essay that calls for an intellectually informed activism. I congratulate you on this. The youth of today, you note, “will chart the future of Malaysia.” You say you “no longer want to be ignored and leave the future of our Malaysia at the hands of the current generation.” You “want to grab the bull by the horns... and have a say in where we go as a society and as a nation.”

I feel the same, actually. A lot of Malaysians feel the same. They are tired of being ignored and talked down to.

You are right. The present generation in power has let Malaysia down. But also you cite two things as testimony of the importance of youth and of student activism to this country, the election results of 2008 and “the prime minister's acknowledgement of the role of youth in the development of the country.”

So perhaps you are a little way yet from thinking for yourselves. The first step in “grabbing the bull by the horns” is not to require the endorsement of the prime minister, or any minister, for your activism. Politicians are not your parents. They are your servants. You don't need a government slogan coined by a foreign PR agency to wrap your project in. You just go ahead and do it.

At ease with himself

When I was a student, our newly independent country was already a leader in the post-colonial world. We were sought out as a leader in the Afro-Asian Conference that inaugurated the Non-Aligned Movement and the G-77.

The Afro-Asian movement was led by such luminaries as Zhou En Lai, Nehru, Kwame Nkrumah and Soekarno. Malaysians were seen as moderate leaders capable of mediating between the more radical leaders and the West. We were known for our moderation, good sense and reliability.

We were a leader in the Islamic world, as ourselves and as we were, without our leaders having to put up false displays of piety. His memory has been scrubbed out quite systematically from our national consciousness, so you might not know this or much else about him, but it was Tunku Abdul Rahman who established our leadership in the Islamic world by coming up with the idea of the OIC (Organisation of Islamic Conference) and making it happen.

Under his leadership, Malaysia led the way in taking up the anti-apartheid cause in the Commonwealth and in the United Nations, resulting in South Africa's expulsion from these bodies.

Here was a man at ease with himself, made it a policy goal that Malaysia be “a happy country”. He loved sport and encouraged sporting achievement among Malaysians. He was owner of many a fine race horses. He called a press conference with his stewards when his horse won at the Melbourne Cup.

He had nothing to hide because his great integrity in service was clear to all. Now we have religious and moral hypocrites who cheat, lie and steal in office, who propagate an ideology that shackled the education system for all Malaysians, while they send their own kids to elite academies in the West.

Days when we were on top

Speaking of football - you're too young to have experienced the Merdeka Cuphe 60s and 70s. Teams from across Asia would come to play in Kuala Lumpur: teams such as South Korea and Japan, whom we defeated routinely.

We were one of the better sides in Asia. We won the bronze medal at the Asian Games in 1974 and qualified for the Moscow Olympics in 1980. Today our FIFA ranking is 157 out of 203 countries.

That puts us in the lowest quartile, below Maldives (149), the smallest country in Asia, with just 400,000 people living about 1.5 metres above sea level who have to worry that their country may soon be swallowed up by climate change. Here in Asean we are behind Indonesia, Thailand, Singapore, whom we used to dominate, and now only one spot above basketball-playing Philippines.

The captain of our illustrious 1970's side was Soh Chin Aun, R Arumugam, Isa Bakar, Santokh Singh, James Wong and Mokhtar Dahari. They were heroes whose names rolled off the tongues of our schoolchildren as they copied them on the school field. It wasn't about being the best in the world, but about being passionate and united and devoted to the game.

It was the same in badminton, except at one time we were the best in the world. I remember Wong Peng Soon, the first Asian to win the All-England Championship, and then just dominated it throughout the 1950. Back home every kid who played badminton in every little kampung wanted to call himself Wong Peng Soon.

There was no tinge of anybody identifying themselves exclusively as Chinese, Malays or Indian. Peng Soon was a Malayan hero. Just like each of our football heroes. Now we do not have an iota of that feeling. Where has it all gone?

Capital flight troubling

I don't think it's mere nostalgia that makes us think there was a time when the sun shone more brightly upon Malaysia. I bring up sport because it has been a mirror of our more general performance as a nation.

When we were at ease with who we were and didn't need slogans to do our best together, we did well. When race and money entered our game, we declined. The same applies to our political and economic life.

Soon after independence, we were already a highly successful developing country. We had begun the infrastructure building and diversification of our economy that would be the foundation for further growth. We carried out an import-substitution programme that stimulated local productive capacity.

From there, we started an infrastructure build-up that enabled a diversification of the economy leading to rapid industrialisation. We carried out effective programmes to raise rural income and help the landless with programmes such as Felda.

Our achievements in achieving growth with equity were recognised around the world. Our peer group in economic development were South Korea, Hong Kong, Singapore and Taiwan, and we led the pack. I remember we used to send technical consultants to advise the South Koreans.

By the late 90s, however, we had fallen far behind this group and were competing with Thailand and Indonesia. Today, according to the latest World Investment Report, FDI into Malaysia is at a 20-year low.

We are entering the peer group of Cambodia, Burma and the Philippines as an investment destination. Thailand, despite a month-long siege of the capital, attracted more FDI than we did last year. Indonesia and Vietnam far outperform us, not as a statistical blip but consistently. Soon we shall have difficulty keeping up with the Philippines.

This, I believe, is called relegation. If we take into account FDI outflow, the picture is even more depressing. Last year, we received US$1.38 billion in investments but US$8.04 billion flowed out. We are the only country in Southeast Asia that has suffered net FDI outflow.

I am not against outward investment. It can be a good thing for the country. But an imbalance on this scale indicates capital flight, not mere investment overseas.

Time to wake up

Without a doubt, Malaysia is slipping. Billions have been looted from this country, and billions more are being siphoned out as our entire political structure crumbles. Yet we are gathered here in comfort, in a country that still seems to 'work' - most of the time. This is due less to good management than to the extraordinary wealth of this country.

You were born into a country of immense resources, both natural, cultural and social. We have been wearing down this advantage with mismanagement and corruption. With lies, tall tales and theft. We have a political class unwilling or unable to address the central issue of the day because they have grown fat and comfortable with a system built on lies and theft.

It is time to wake up. That waking up can begin here, right here, at this conference. Not tomorrow or the day after but today. So let me, as I have the honour of opening this conference, suggest the following:

1) Overcome the urge to have our hopes for the future endorsed by the prime minister. He will have retired, and I'll be long gone, when your future arrives. The shape of your future is being determined now.

2) Resist the temptation to say “in line with” when we do something. Your projects, believe it or not, don't have to be in line with any government campaign for them to be meaningful. You don't need to polish anyone's apple. Just get on with what you plan to do.

3) Do not put a lid on certain issues as 'sensitive' just because someone said they are. Or it is against the 'social contract'. Or it is 'politicisation'.

You don't need to have your conversation delimited by the hyper-sensitive among us. Sensitivity is often a club people use to hit each other with. Reasoned discussion of contentious issues builds understanding and trust. Stress test your ideas.

4) It's not 'conservative' or 'liberal' to ask for an end to having politics, economic policy, education policy and everything and the kitchen sink determined by race. It's called growing up.

5) Don't let the politicians you have invited here talk down to you.

Don't let them

Don't let them tell you how bright and 'exuberant' you are, that you are the future of the nation, etc. If you close your eyes and flow with their flattery, you have safely joined the caravan, a caravan taking the nation down a sink hole.

If they tell you the future is in your hands, kindly request that they hand that future over first. Ask them how come the youngest member of our cabinet is 45? Our Merdeka cabinet had an average age below 30.

You're not the first generation to be bright. Mine wasn't too stupid. But you could be the first generation of students and young graduates in 50 years to push this nation through a major transformation. And it is a transformation we need desperately.

You will be told that much is expected of you, much has been given to you and so forth. This is all true. Actually much has also been stolen from you. Over the last twenty five years, much of the immense wealth generated by our productive people and our vast resources has been looted. This was supposed to have been your patrimony.

The uncomplicated sense of belonging fully, wholeheartedly, unreservedly, to this country, in all its diversity, that has been taken from you. Our sense of ourselves as Malaysians, a free and united people, has been replaced by a tale of racial strife and resentment that continues to haunt us. The thing is, this tale is false.

Reclaim your history

The most precious thing you have been deprived of has been your history. Someone of my generation finds it hard to describe what must seem like a completely different country to you now.

Malaysia was not born in strife but in unity. Our independence was achieved through a demonstration of unity by the people in supporting a multiracial government led by Tunku Abdul Rahman.

That show of unity, demonstrated first through the municipal elections of 1952 and then through the Alliance's landslide victory in the elections of 1955, showed that the people of Malaya were united in wanting their freedom. We surprised the British, who thought we could not do this.

Today we are no longer as united as we were then. We are also less free. I don't think this is a coincidence. It takes free people to have the psychological strength to overcome the confines of a racialised worldview. It takes free people to overcome those politicians bent on hanging on to power gained by racialising every feature of our life including our football teams.

Hence while you are at this conference, let me argue, that as an absolute minimum, we should call for the repeal of unjust and much abused Acts of Parliament which are reversals of freedoms that we won at Merdeka.

I ask you in joining me in calling for the repeal of the ISA (Internal Security Act) and the OSA (Official Secrets Act). These draconian laws have been used, more often than not, as political tools rather than instruments of national security. They create a climate of fear.

I ask you to join me in calling for the repeal of the Printing and Publications Act, and above all, the Universities and University Colleges Act (UUCA). I don't see how you can pursue your student activism with such freedom and support in the UK and Eire while forgetting that your brethren at home are deprived of their basic rights of association and expression by the UUCA. The UUCA has done immense harm in dumbing down our universities.

We must have freedom as guaranteed under our constitution. Freedom to assemble, associate, speak, write, move. This is basic. Even on matters of race and even on religious matters we should be able to speak freely, and we shall educate each other.

Make BN multiracial

It is time to realise the dream of Hussein Onn and the spirit of the Alliance and of Tunku Abdul Rahman. That dream was one of unity and a single Malaysian people. They went as far as they could with it in their time. Instead of taking on the torch, we have reversed course. The next step for us as a country is to move beyond the infancy of race-based parties to a non-racial party system.

Our race-based party system is the key political reason why we are a sick country, declining before our own eyes, with money fleeing and people telling their children not to come home after their studies.

So let us try to take 1Malaysia seriously. Millions have been spent putting up billboards and adding the term to every conceivable thing. We even have 'Cuti-cuti 1Malaysia'. Can't take a normal holiday anymore. This is all fine.

Now let us see if it means anything. Let us see the government of the day lead by example. 1Malaysia is empty because it is propagated by a government supported by a racially-based party system that is the chief cause of our inability to grow up in our race relations.

Our inability to grow up in our race relations is the chief reason why investors, and we ourselves, no longer have confidence in our economy. The reasons why we are behind Maldives in football, and behind the Philippines in FDI, are linked.

So let us take 1Malaysia seriously, and convert Barisan Nasional into a party open to all citizens. Let it be a multiracial party open to direct membership. Pakatan Rakyat will be forced to do the same or be left behind the times. Then we shall have the vehicles for a two party, non-race-based system.

If Umno, MIC or MCA are afraid of losing supporters, let them get their members to join this new multiracial party. Pakatan Rakyat should do the same. Nobody need feel left out. Umno members can join en masse. The Hainanese Kopitiam Owners' Association can join whichever party they want, or both parties en masse if they like.

We can maintain our cherished civil associations, however we choose to associate. But we drop all communalism when we compete for the ballot. When our candidates stand for elections, let them ever after stand only as Malaysians, for better or worse.

Eminem : Love the Way You Lie

"Just gonna stand there and watch me burn

Well that's alright because I like the way it hurts

Just gonna stand there and hear me cry

Well that's alright because I love the way you lie

I love the way you lie"

Apart from the superb music, the lyric of this song give some powerful message regarding the the world we live in. Most of the time, when historian try to understand a civilization, whey will concentrate on the literature of that time. This song actually portrays all the broken relationship that is base on pure feelings and worldly logic which is sinking sand which will have no lasting value.

Some time we as Christians will jump into relationship just because we are so into it and never look to Him for guidance. It is true that one of human need is the urge of SEX, and that is even more that He intend SEX to be experience in its fullness.

Lets us Seek Him.

Remember those days when you write an essay in school? Point in these essay are divided into few parts to name a few are Points, Language and Presentation. All this go hand in hand. But when we have a good command of language, we don't always get good marks when we don't answer the question. Some time we might get be failed.

In life often time people would want to get a batter end of an argument by giving answer other than THE QUESTION asked to them. Yet the simplest answer of "YES" or "NO" can't be answered.

Just got in a talk with "You know who" and all they give is just otherwise that of the question.

If you are reading this Ong KW from Q2, you know you have fail in the first step of the whole point of the discussion which is to answer a simple yes or no question.

Life is really cruel be it in work or personal struggles, but one thing still stand is that if you got Jesus Christ in ones life, He will sure guide.

1 If I speak with human eloquence and angelic ecstasy but don't love, I'm nothing but the creaking of a rusty gate. 2If I speak God's Word with power, revealing all his mysteries and making everything plain as day, and if I have faith that says to a mountain, "Jump," and it jumps, but I don't love, I'm nothing. 3-7If I give everything I own to the poor and even go to the stake to be burned as a martyr, but I don't love, I've gotten nowhere. So, no matter what I say, what I believe, and what I do, I'm bankrupt without love.

Love never gives up.

Love cares more for others than for self.

Love doesn't want what it doesn't have.

Love doesn't strut,

Doesn't have a swelled head,

Doesn't force itself on others,

Isn't always "me first,"

Doesn't fly off the handle,

Doesn't keep score of the sins of others,

Doesn't revel when others grovel,

Takes pleasure in the flowering of truth,

Puts up with anything,

Trusts God always,

Always looks for the best,

Never looks back,

But keeps going to the end.

8-10Love never dies. Inspired speech will be over some day; praying in tongues will end; understanding will reach its limit. We know only a portion of the truth, and what we say about God is always incomplete. But when the Complete arrives, our incompletes will be canceled.

11When I was an infant at my mother's breast, I gurgled and cooed like any infant. When I grew up, I left those infant ways for good.

12We don't yet see things clearly. We're squinting in a fog, peering through a mist. But it won't be long before the weather clears and the sun shines bright! We'll see it all then, see it all as clearly as God sees us, knowing him directly just as he knows us!

13But for right now, until that completeness, we have three things to do to lead us toward that consummation: Trust steadily in God, hope unswervingly, love extravagantly. And the best of the three is love.

Life is short to hate or kill, it is even sad to see that it goes to do worthless things!

Hear us singing!!

“it has been some time now since I’ve blog…” are the common words that one will use after long time of not blogging!! I’ve use this line as well. I really miss writing down how I feel online, I guess I’ve lost few things after my real work started last January! Some of the stuff I miss are, photography, blogging and odd enough reading! The reality is that I've not manage my time well!

I’ve shifted to Johor Bahru to work as a project engineer in a sanitary landfill. Well just a short intro it is where all your rubbish will end up after the lorry pick up from your house! So you basically will get to see everyday household waste! Not speaking about the smell that comes from it!

The working world is something really different form my student days! So for those people who went through their industrial training, maybe you wont feel the full force of office politics and others as we are just student. But if you do, it’s a look into reality!

Reality is what we need to face every day in this fast changing world. But remember, noting is new under the sun (Ecclesiastes 1:9). Reality to me is that I’ve to face my boss and the reality is that I must be sure with the decisions that I say and must be able to give a good reason to back it all up!

I’ve been facing reality and not every can take and suck it all up and I’m no exception! True is hard and often I felt like giving up! But I know where my strength come from, its not by my power or my might but it is by the spirit of the Lord! The joy of the Lord is my strength!

Praying for my fellow technicians and my managers are not a simple task. But if I, as a Christian give up on this people, how will they know true LOVE? Why God would not just take us away once we are save? The Reality is that we need to say die to self! But life to the spirit!

The reality is that Jesus Is Lord! You are forever! You are Lord over all!

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