Today is usually busy as it is the eve of Gawai, a big celebration in Sarawak and subsequent to it, long holiday pursues beside it is my office monthend closing (still chasing figure). Indeed almost everyone is looking forward for this break and many had already started their holiday, going back kampong or over sungai or overseas.
This time, I am still considering on where to go as budget is tight and hope for better spending of money though I have been promising my family to bring them to good holidays, a break from my usual routine.
Well, 4 days of resting from 1/6/2007 till 4/6/2007...what should I do ?..May be the following ?
a) Spent quality time with my wife and kids...doing household chores, watching Power rangers or ultraman
b) Reading my favourite management book
c) Playing squash all day long...burning my extra kilos
d) Window shopping...moving one complex to another...
e) Having coffee with my best friends...blowing canon..
f) Going back to Sibu..spending time with my parents/in law
g) Blogging ?
h) Reviewing and charting my success path...
g) Site seeing..
What would you do during holidays ? doing your usual favourite things or try something new ?
I believe, as long as we are spending quality time with our loved ones, that would be the best spending of time and it is worthwhile to have the deserving break...
Have a nice weekend and happy holiday..Cheers
Thursday, 31 May 2007
Saturday, 26 May 2007
A Great Helper coming
Tommorow is another great feast, we shall be celebrating...Jesus sending helper to us, Holy Spirit..the spirit God, the third person in the Trinity. We called the feast "Pentecost", the descend of the Holy Spirit...which on the day itself, two thousand years ago...the apostles and Mother Mary were strengthened to go out preaching and sharing the Good News without fear.
Today, as we journey our life, we need the same Spirit to strengthen our faith, our objective to live on and serving with love. The challenges in perfecting our faith is ever there and we need him to come to us to fill us our empty vessel with its 9 gifts.
The Holy Spirit, a great helper, a great buddy given to us by our Lord and Brother Jesus who knows each of our weaknesses.
May we be strengthened on our faith and unselfishly share this seed of love with everyone whereever we go as we pass the love on.
Happy Feast Day.
Today, as we journey our life, we need the same Spirit to strengthen our faith, our objective to live on and serving with love. The challenges in perfecting our faith is ever there and we need him to come to us to fill us our empty vessel with its 9 gifts.
The Holy Spirit, a great helper, a great buddy given to us by our Lord and Brother Jesus who knows each of our weaknesses.
May we be strengthened on our faith and unselfishly share this seed of love with everyone whereever we go as we pass the love on.
Happy Feast Day.
Tuesday, 8 May 2007
Life is so fragile...
I have just learnt yesterday that one of my classmates had gone back to the Lord on 2nd May 2007 around 9.30 a.m after complaining chest pain. It was an acute heart attack that cost him his life. At the age of 35 years old, he is still very young, energetic, a lot of actitivites awaiting for him as I could see when surfing his blogs some 2 weeks ago..and I felt sad as I unable to comprehend as to why a person at such young stage, non-smoker, with comfortable working life in Labuan could suffer a stroke !
This is a wake up call for me and many of us especially those closer to him as we need to value our loved ones and our special time in this world. Everyday given by the Lord is a blessing indeed for each one as we live through the day. We can never now when is the time for us to go as like my classmate whom I am believe also do not have any indication over his case but we could always prepare as to live our life to the fullest, to live according to our Lord's will, loving one another among our family, support and help the less fortunate and the needy or whatever things we wish to do at will.
This reminds me of;
Do not wait for the time as you will never know when is the last time, go for it and decide the best to shower your love and commitment. Do not keep the best for the last, but give at every opportunity the best you can to deliver the highest statisfaction.
Frankie, my classmate, thank you for your friendship, the time that we have spent together during our school times, a memorable for me.
As today is your funeral, I will lift up my daily prayer to our Lord Jesus & Mother Mary for the repose of your soul, may the perpetual light shine upon you and may you rest in peace. Amen.
This is a wake up call for me and many of us especially those closer to him as we need to value our loved ones and our special time in this world. Everyday given by the Lord is a blessing indeed for each one as we live through the day. We can never now when is the time for us to go as like my classmate whom I am believe also do not have any indication over his case but we could always prepare as to live our life to the fullest, to live according to our Lord's will, loving one another among our family, support and help the less fortunate and the needy or whatever things we wish to do at will.
This reminds me of;
Do not wait for the time as you will never know when is the last time, go for it and decide the best to shower your love and commitment. Do not keep the best for the last, but give at every opportunity the best you can to deliver the highest statisfaction.
Frankie, my classmate, thank you for your friendship, the time that we have spent together during our school times, a memorable for me.
As today is your funeral, I will lift up my daily prayer to our Lord Jesus & Mother Mary for the repose of your soul, may the perpetual light shine upon you and may you rest in peace. Amen.
Monday, 23 April 2007
When A Friend Needs An Affirmation
When a friend is in need of our affirmation, what should we do ?
Normally we would need to evaluate all angles to ensure we are providing the right support and understanding as we would not want our friend to make the wrong move, at least if it is in our own shoes, we will decide on a calculated move.
Depending on the sensitivity of the decision to be made, and if it is a life and death situation, more thinking, evaluation and opinions need to be in place before we could make any decision. Time is also a factor as definitely we need more time to make some more critical decision.
When suggesting an option to a friend to help them, we are also extending our support and confidence towards the eventual decision. Thus, many times, the friend would rely heavily on our support/trust and therefore we need to be extra careful in making suggestions or giving advices.
When an advice is made on good faith, as friends, we all know that we need to trust one another and there will be no accusing of each other when things go wrong. If the advice is made on evil approach, then it is not from a friend anymore but an adversary who is planning for their own benefits.
Therefore, before seeking or giving an affirmation to a friend or from a friend, we must understand the responsibility of a giving and receiving end. A clarity to this stand must be made clear but at times still very grey..
What do you think ?
Normally we would need to evaluate all angles to ensure we are providing the right support and understanding as we would not want our friend to make the wrong move, at least if it is in our own shoes, we will decide on a calculated move.
Depending on the sensitivity of the decision to be made, and if it is a life and death situation, more thinking, evaluation and opinions need to be in place before we could make any decision. Time is also a factor as definitely we need more time to make some more critical decision.
When suggesting an option to a friend to help them, we are also extending our support and confidence towards the eventual decision. Thus, many times, the friend would rely heavily on our support/trust and therefore we need to be extra careful in making suggestions or giving advices.
When an advice is made on good faith, as friends, we all know that we need to trust one another and there will be no accusing of each other when things go wrong. If the advice is made on evil approach, then it is not from a friend anymore but an adversary who is planning for their own benefits.
Therefore, before seeking or giving an affirmation to a friend or from a friend, we must understand the responsibility of a giving and receiving end. A clarity to this stand must be made clear but at times still very grey..
What do you think ?
Friday, 6 April 2007
A Good Friday
This Friday is a very special Friday as we remembered our true friend whom had lay down his life for our salvation. A special meaning to the word "Good" as Christian we fully entrust God's love for us as he had his only Son going through the peak of agony of humiliation, suffering and rejection as he is tried in front of the Pharisees and Roman 2000 years ago today. Good means salvation, a hope, act of love, reconciliation and the mission of Christ bridging us back to our Father in Heaven is accomplished.
Christians all over the world today shall be mourning on the loss though temporary as Jesus shall return in glory on Easter Sunday, the highlight of Christianity. The love of Jesus for us is so enormous that he had suffered more than 5,000 blows on his body not in his own accord but for each and everyone of us. We could imagine as his utmost bodily pains and humiliation as shown in Mel Gibson's Passion of Christ and also the inner sufferings by his own mother wiping each and every drop of blood in the punishment chamber. The crown that the Roman put on Jesus is the symbol of Christ the Suffering as we shall remember, suffering for us leading us to salvation.
As Christian, all of us are carrying our crosses and as we journey down on our road to salvation, we shall experience, tempted and humiliated like Jesus whose sufferings are much more that us as we are suffering because of our own actions and he is suffering for us. Therefore, at any moment of the suffering, we could rely on Jesus' compassion and love for us and His spirit shall rest with us to walk together to Glory @ His Glorious Ressurection on Easter...a victory against death, suffering, etc...
Have a good reflection and reconciliation and Happy Easter 2007.
Christians all over the world today shall be mourning on the loss though temporary as Jesus shall return in glory on Easter Sunday, the highlight of Christianity. The love of Jesus for us is so enormous that he had suffered more than 5,000 blows on his body not in his own accord but for each and everyone of us. We could imagine as his utmost bodily pains and humiliation as shown in Mel Gibson's Passion of Christ and also the inner sufferings by his own mother wiping each and every drop of blood in the punishment chamber. The crown that the Roman put on Jesus is the symbol of Christ the Suffering as we shall remember, suffering for us leading us to salvation.
As Christian, all of us are carrying our crosses and as we journey down on our road to salvation, we shall experience, tempted and humiliated like Jesus whose sufferings are much more that us as we are suffering because of our own actions and he is suffering for us. Therefore, at any moment of the suffering, we could rely on Jesus' compassion and love for us and His spirit shall rest with us to walk together to Glory @ His Glorious Ressurection on Easter...a victory against death, suffering, etc...
Have a good reflection and reconciliation and Happy Easter 2007.
Saturday, 17 March 2007
My Great Buds
Over the years, we have been making friends as we grow along from the day we are born, step out from our home to the streets, child care centre, kindi, school, universities, clubs, workplace...etc etc..
What is a real friend ? A friend must be sincere, willing to listen, provide emotional support, provide real comments on our weaknesses and strengths, forgive and firm on principle not to mislead or cheat to gain or ride on one's weaknesses. A long list of expectation. However, in my personal view, we must first be able to a real friend to the other and our real friend will also be true to us. We cannot be expecting evertything perfect from the friend as it takes two to clap.
Time will surely help to test and mould out real friends but for the real one to come along, we need to be patience and not too be too choosy but be always alert on the manipulators.
In my life journey, I have known few thousands @ 10,000 ?? person that could be friends but there is only handful of them can be really considered as my true friends @ may I can list down the category as follow;
a) Friends known when I am 12 years and below - none could be remembered except my parents and brothers/sister whom have been my closest friends.
b) Friends during my primary school - still remembered a bunch of them but had not been contacting since primary 6.
c) Friends during my secondary school - this is the best of life as I still have at least 10 real friends which including my best of friends.
d) Friends during my U time - only my wife and few ladies, the rest hardly in contacts since graduation.
e) Friends in my career - less than 5 real friends other we considered colleagues.
f) Friends from the church - Jesus & his brothers/sisters...I really appreciate their love & support.
g) Friends from the streets - so far none could be seriously remembered...
As I have said, I have known many people throughout my journey...we may always commercially proclaim them as friends..but it is true ? Probably we could list as few category of friend;
a) Colleagues
b) Customers
c) Suppliers
d) Neighbours
e) Classmates
f) Relatives
g) GROs
I realised that we need to appreciate true and real friend, a real precious gem as they could help us to lift up our spirit during the time in need....as the saying goes, "A friend in need is a friend indeed."
But out of these categories, how many can be considered your true friends, the few that you are really comfortable and able to talk your heart out ?
So, what fo you think ?
What is a real friend ? A friend must be sincere, willing to listen, provide emotional support, provide real comments on our weaknesses and strengths, forgive and firm on principle not to mislead or cheat to gain or ride on one's weaknesses. A long list of expectation. However, in my personal view, we must first be able to a real friend to the other and our real friend will also be true to us. We cannot be expecting evertything perfect from the friend as it takes two to clap.
Time will surely help to test and mould out real friends but for the real one to come along, we need to be patience and not too be too choosy but be always alert on the manipulators.
In my life journey, I have known few thousands @ 10,000 ?? person that could be friends but there is only handful of them can be really considered as my true friends @ may I can list down the category as follow;
a) Friends known when I am 12 years and below - none could be remembered except my parents and brothers/sister whom have been my closest friends.
b) Friends during my primary school - still remembered a bunch of them but had not been contacting since primary 6.
c) Friends during my secondary school - this is the best of life as I still have at least 10 real friends which including my best of friends.
d) Friends during my U time - only my wife and few ladies, the rest hardly in contacts since graduation.
e) Friends in my career - less than 5 real friends other we considered colleagues.
f) Friends from the church - Jesus & his brothers/sisters...I really appreciate their love & support.
g) Friends from the streets - so far none could be seriously remembered...
As I have said, I have known many people throughout my journey...we may always commercially proclaim them as friends..but it is true ? Probably we could list as few category of friend;
a) Colleagues
b) Customers
c) Suppliers
d) Neighbours
e) Classmates
f) Relatives
g) GROs
I realised that we need to appreciate true and real friend, a real precious gem as they could help us to lift up our spirit during the time in need....as the saying goes, "A friend in need is a friend indeed."
But out of these categories, how many can be considered your true friends, the few that you are really comfortable and able to talk your heart out ?
So, what fo you think ?
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