it started with a small meeting of seemingly random ppl and personalities...1 small fateful mmsg that led to a meaningful mamak session...full of hope...the birth of a "dream team"...this was more than a year ago...
then there was elections...n the uncertainty of the outcome...a sleepover at an apartment...all cracking their heads and helping each other out get ready for the next days interviews...all waiting for him to gv us sum good news..
he walked through the apt door wet...or at least we knew he had been soaked cz he changed his tshirt...it was a good sign..the leader had passed
the interviews came and went...we all passed...
the dream team had become a reality...not jst mere mamak table discussion...
then came planning....in the midst of exams...
exams ended with a booze party...which was d nite before we became the interviewers for the ppl that were to work with us...stoned...wired on all the things that cud keep us awake...we made it through...with loads of laughter...
the bond was growing stronger...
the team was expanded to those that would join us in our journey...a bonding session at a home...
then came a fair...n wrapping roses at a house...again...laughter and good times...the bond kept growing stronger...
then a camp...a camp with drama...the 1st test.....
the bond was shaky but still strong...the roles of each was decided...
then another camp...with a lot of tears...and the group was strongly bonded....all ready to face the coming year...
but not without its own drama that threatened the bonds between...
the 1st blow...1 left our ranks...
more planning...looong loooooooooong nights extending for almost 2 weeks...our 1st fall...
but the bonding in the 2 weeks was stronger...so we survived...
things went well...
then another left our ranks...
then another....
and another....
and 2 more....
crippled...but we crawled on....things were getting shaky...
another drama....things were staring to fall apart...
a weekend retreat...a glimmer of hope...we mite still make it through...
another camp...revived hopes....recharged....the half way mark...."only 6 months to go"..
why the change in mentality?
we came bk....looking forward...an jst when we thought we could do it with the ppl that helped us make the decisions...
another left our ranks...
then a booze party that spelt good news for some...but not so good news for the dream team...
things jst weren't the same...
ppl kept silent for many months now....wut happened to the openness from the first fall?
disrespect...
and 1 called for a break...
then another...
the 1st came bk...to finish the job...
the 2nd came bk...but not quite...
then the new team that would replace us was selected...
and after a long transition....they are in power...
our journey has ended...
the dream team has had its run...
wut happens now as they stand at the crossroads...
will there be meet ups and drinks and laughter again?
something tells me its not so ideal a happy ending for this dream team...
Friday, May 23, 2008
Sunday, May 18, 2008
MAFU
yes...its been a really long time since i blogged cause i've been busy with exams and my internship...came across this in facebook....it struck a cord in me...i've linked them at the side here...placed even before my picture n profile which has always been 1st in my blog side bar...
u noe why it struck a cord with me?
simple...
i was BORN in malaysia
i was RAISED in malaysia
i have traveled across the world
but malaysia will always be my HOME
I AM A MALAYSIAN
i m not an indian or a melayu or a chinese.
no other country in the world can be my home...no other country in the world i would die for...
yes...we're a young and imperfect nation compared to the other superpowers in the world...
but we ARE a NATION nonetheless.
here is a bigger version of the link and the video...
u noe why it struck a cord with me?
simple...
i was BORN in malaysia
i was RAISED in malaysia
i have traveled across the world
but malaysia will always be my HOME
I AM A MALAYSIAN
i m not an indian or a melayu or a chinese.
no other country in the world can be my home...no other country in the world i would die for...
yes...we're a young and imperfect nation compared to the other superpowers in the world...
but we ARE a NATION nonetheless.
Tuesday, April 22, 2008
Just a Thought
"When the whole world is against you,
when all your enemies are coming down on you,
and you find yourself backed up against the wall,
and you find you have buckled,
and you find yourself on your knees,
just remember one thing,
you are in the perfect position to PRAY,
you are in the perfect position to SPEAK TO GOD,
and remember that GOD answers ALL prayers,
just not always in the way we expect it"
-Unknown
"If you ask God for courage,
does he give you courage?
or an opportunity to be courageous?"
-Morgan Freeman in Evan Almighty
just a few thoughts :D
when all your enemies are coming down on you,
and you find yourself backed up against the wall,
and you find you have buckled,
and you find yourself on your knees,
just remember one thing,
you are in the perfect position to PRAY,
you are in the perfect position to SPEAK TO GOD,
and remember that GOD answers ALL prayers,
just not always in the way we expect it"
-Unknown
"If you ask God for courage,
does he give you courage?
or an opportunity to be courageous?"
-Morgan Freeman in Evan Almighty
just a few thoughts :D
Saturday, April 19, 2008
Religion
disclaimer : again...these are my views...u do not have to agree with them n if u post nasty comments i don't have to approve them...so be nice...if u hv nth nice to say, dont say nething at all..
religion...its such a precarious subject...so fragile...so sensitive...its the only thing in d world dat people will actually kill for...nothing in the world can divide human beings in a more clear cut n serious manner...not even racial ethnicities or gender for that matter...
religion divides human beings while spirituality unites them.
bold statement i noe...but its a fact...lets take a look at how religion divides human beings...1stly the world is divided into mainly the eastern n the western religions...the eastern religions have many deities and gods...theses include hindhuism, buddhism, the japanese believe structure (not sure wut its called...n no,its not bushido, dats a code of ethics so to speak)...then u have sikhism which believes there is only 1 true god...which is d same as the believe of the modern western religions whose followers are known as people of the book...the jews,the muslims and the christians....
lets jst for arguments sake bring in the ancient western religions as well...the greek and roman gods....the egyptian believe structure...the whole lot...now the biggest bone of contention is this :
"the old religions say there are many gods but the newer religions say there is only 1"
lets take a short look at the older religions statement...wut makes a god?to them (both ancient western and eastern religions), a god is sum1 who is immortal...who has special abilities that can affect the world and the people living in it...so they say there are many gods based on this definition...but even among their gods, there is always 1 that stands higher above the rest...the so called king of the gods...like zues for example...
now lets review the newer religions statement...there is only one god...one who created the heavens n the earth n hell n everything in between...but...he (for the context of this entry, god is a he..but a black he :P) had help creating n running the world....ok mayb not creating...but definitely running...wut do u think angels are there for?
now wut are angels in the new religions?
immortals who live forever with special abilities that can affect the world and the people living in it...each given powers by god to do certain tasks...
think of hades, the god of the underworld, and lucifer,the fallen angel that rules over hell...is there really that big a difference?thats jst one example...but u do see where im heading rite?
bingo...the many deities and gods of the olden religions merely got their ranks reclassified when they moved into the new religions...kinda like calling a data entry clerk a manager of information systems...jst a different name but the job scope n everything is the same...
now if u really look at the religions...old and new...they all speak a similar msg...yes the language and wordings are slightly different (n its these small differences that people kill each other over) but the message is the same...n that is how to live ur life as a good decent human being...n wut will happen should u choose to be a horrible excuse for a human being...kinda like a guideline...like a guidebook to life...
so now u have all the religions fighting each other for supreme control...the muslims say that u must be muslim to go to heaven...the christians say that christ is d only way to heaven...the jews im not so sure...the hindhus, buddhists, sikhs and the rest r just sitting there quietly...we dont care if u join our believe...jst dun force us to join urs...n mind u...u cant convert into a sikh...cz if u read the Guru Granth Sahib it clearly states that u r not to change ur religion...that if god put u on earth as a christian,muslim,sikh etc....then that is exactly wut he meant u to be...
now before u go out there n kill for ur religion that u believe to be completely and undeniably the one only truth...here a small fact to ponder upon...
u r fully aware that god kept sending down people to deliver the msg he wanted to humans rite?there was abraham,moses,jesus,muahamad,buddha,dalai lama,guru nanak till guru gobind...thats a lot of people he sent down...u noe y?
BECAUSE PEOPLE KEPT FUCKING THE MESSAGE UP!!!
bingo!!!god spoke...but god didnt write...humans did that...n we all noe how communication works...sum idiot along the line who thinks wut he is hearing doesnt sound rite will edit it to make it sound rite and then pass it along...n the process continues throughout the entire production line...
i been writing a lot havent i?well...jst one last short story i came across while i was studying german literature in switzerland....this is a translated and shortened version...but i've tried to maintain as much of the message as i could...
so there was this wise christian named alexander the wise (literal translation from alexander der wiess)...he was called to entertain the sultan in the province he was traveling in one day...the sultan obviously being a muslim...so he went...n the sultan asked him "whose religion is better?urs or mine?"
now alex (im too lazy to type out the full name) knew that if he said it was his religion,the sultan would be offended n it mite not bode well for him...n also knew if he sed that the sultans religion was better, the sultan would ask him to convert n he would not be able to say no after agreeing that islam is better than christianity...so he replied the sultan with a story of a family...the story goes smth like this..
there was once a man who owned a gold ring...it was a flawless gold ring like no other...when he passed away he gave it to his only son...his son kept it till the day he died and gave it to his only son in turn....n this succession continued for many generations...until one father had 3 sons...
now the father loved all 3 sons equally...n he cud not decide which of the 3 sons to gv the ring to...so he went to gold smith and asked the gold smith to create 2 identical rings so that there would be 3 in total and all his sons could get one...n it worked...the father passed away n all 3 sons got a ring...
soon the sons found out what the father had done...they were angry and they fought each other because all of them believed that they had the real original ring that had been passed down from generation to generation...so they finally went to a gold smith to find out which was the real ring...but the gold smith could not tell them apart...so they went to another gold smith n even he could not tell them apart...
no one..not the brothers themselves nor any gold smith or person could tell the 3 rings apart...but the brothers were obsessed about being the holder of the true ring, or what they believed to be the true ring, that they continued to fight and bicker and in the end they ended up dying at each others hands...bitter n angry....
none of them could see that what their father was really trying to tell them by doing that was that he loved them all equally and that they should love each other and their children all equally...the message was misread and it ended in catastrophe and tragedy...
the father was god and the rings were the religions....
religion...its such a precarious subject...so fragile...so sensitive...its the only thing in d world dat people will actually kill for...nothing in the world can divide human beings in a more clear cut n serious manner...not even racial ethnicities or gender for that matter...
religion divides human beings while spirituality unites them.
bold statement i noe...but its a fact...lets take a look at how religion divides human beings...1stly the world is divided into mainly the eastern n the western religions...the eastern religions have many deities and gods...theses include hindhuism, buddhism, the japanese believe structure (not sure wut its called...n no,its not bushido, dats a code of ethics so to speak)...then u have sikhism which believes there is only 1 true god...which is d same as the believe of the modern western religions whose followers are known as people of the book...the jews,the muslims and the christians....
lets jst for arguments sake bring in the ancient western religions as well...the greek and roman gods....the egyptian believe structure...the whole lot...now the biggest bone of contention is this :
"the old religions say there are many gods but the newer religions say there is only 1"
lets take a short look at the older religions statement...wut makes a god?to them (both ancient western and eastern religions), a god is sum1 who is immortal...who has special abilities that can affect the world and the people living in it...so they say there are many gods based on this definition...but even among their gods, there is always 1 that stands higher above the rest...the so called king of the gods...like zues for example...
now lets review the newer religions statement...there is only one god...one who created the heavens n the earth n hell n everything in between...but...he (for the context of this entry, god is a he..but a black he :P) had help creating n running the world....ok mayb not creating...but definitely running...wut do u think angels are there for?
now wut are angels in the new religions?
immortals who live forever with special abilities that can affect the world and the people living in it...each given powers by god to do certain tasks...
think of hades, the god of the underworld, and lucifer,the fallen angel that rules over hell...is there really that big a difference?thats jst one example...but u do see where im heading rite?
bingo...the many deities and gods of the olden religions merely got their ranks reclassified when they moved into the new religions...kinda like calling a data entry clerk a manager of information systems...jst a different name but the job scope n everything is the same...
now if u really look at the religions...old and new...they all speak a similar msg...yes the language and wordings are slightly different (n its these small differences that people kill each other over) but the message is the same...n that is how to live ur life as a good decent human being...n wut will happen should u choose to be a horrible excuse for a human being...kinda like a guideline...like a guidebook to life...
so now u have all the religions fighting each other for supreme control...the muslims say that u must be muslim to go to heaven...the christians say that christ is d only way to heaven...the jews im not so sure...the hindhus, buddhists, sikhs and the rest r just sitting there quietly...we dont care if u join our believe...jst dun force us to join urs...n mind u...u cant convert into a sikh...cz if u read the Guru Granth Sahib it clearly states that u r not to change ur religion...that if god put u on earth as a christian,muslim,sikh etc....then that is exactly wut he meant u to be...
now before u go out there n kill for ur religion that u believe to be completely and undeniably the one only truth...here a small fact to ponder upon...
u r fully aware that god kept sending down people to deliver the msg he wanted to humans rite?there was abraham,moses,jesus,muahamad,buddha,dalai lama,guru nanak till guru gobind...thats a lot of people he sent down...u noe y?
BECAUSE PEOPLE KEPT FUCKING THE MESSAGE UP!!!
bingo!!!god spoke...but god didnt write...humans did that...n we all noe how communication works...sum idiot along the line who thinks wut he is hearing doesnt sound rite will edit it to make it sound rite and then pass it along...n the process continues throughout the entire production line...
i been writing a lot havent i?well...jst one last short story i came across while i was studying german literature in switzerland....this is a translated and shortened version...but i've tried to maintain as much of the message as i could...
so there was this wise christian named alexander the wise (literal translation from alexander der wiess)...he was called to entertain the sultan in the province he was traveling in one day...the sultan obviously being a muslim...so he went...n the sultan asked him "whose religion is better?urs or mine?"
now alex (im too lazy to type out the full name) knew that if he said it was his religion,the sultan would be offended n it mite not bode well for him...n also knew if he sed that the sultans religion was better, the sultan would ask him to convert n he would not be able to say no after agreeing that islam is better than christianity...so he replied the sultan with a story of a family...the story goes smth like this..
there was once a man who owned a gold ring...it was a flawless gold ring like no other...when he passed away he gave it to his only son...his son kept it till the day he died and gave it to his only son in turn....n this succession continued for many generations...until one father had 3 sons...
now the father loved all 3 sons equally...n he cud not decide which of the 3 sons to gv the ring to...so he went to gold smith and asked the gold smith to create 2 identical rings so that there would be 3 in total and all his sons could get one...n it worked...the father passed away n all 3 sons got a ring...
soon the sons found out what the father had done...they were angry and they fought each other because all of them believed that they had the real original ring that had been passed down from generation to generation...so they finally went to a gold smith to find out which was the real ring...but the gold smith could not tell them apart...so they went to another gold smith n even he could not tell them apart...
no one..not the brothers themselves nor any gold smith or person could tell the 3 rings apart...but the brothers were obsessed about being the holder of the true ring, or what they believed to be the true ring, that they continued to fight and bicker and in the end they ended up dying at each others hands...bitter n angry....
none of them could see that what their father was really trying to tell them by doing that was that he loved them all equally and that they should love each other and their children all equally...the message was misread and it ended in catastrophe and tragedy...
the father was god and the rings were the religions....
Sunday, April 13, 2008
Back Home
i have made a few drafts on how i feel rite now...n a few drafts over the past week or so abt the things going on in my life...however due to privacy issues, i cant publish those entries...
lets see...2 weeks ago i went to get my 2nd tattoo...finally...n im already thinking of my 3rd...will post up a pic of my 2nd piece as soon as i can get it uploaded....other than that...everything else that has happened has to be kept private...n hence i cant blog abt it...suffice to say that sum of it was good...n sum of it was bad....but all i can say is that its over...u live n u learn...shall stay away from those kinda situations in d future...
n now im back home in ipoh....for d 1st timein like 2 months plus...came bk yest...jst chilled....then today went to the waterfalls with my mum, dad n sis...it was really great...we started off d morning by going to temple (yes...i went to temple) cz tmr is vasakhi n they were raising the nishan sahib today...so we were there for that...
then we came home...cooked nasi lemak with chicken sambal and taufu sambal (my mum is a vegetarian)...then packed the car n drove up to the waterfalls at meru...it was the 1st time we went there....its a natural waterfall in the golf club compound...so only members can get there...it was quite exclusive...we were the only ones there...the water was so clear n beautiful...but cold...
it was really nice spending time together with my family...too bad my bro couldnt make it down...n its really really nice to see how my parents interact with eact other...almost 30 years n 3 kids later n they still like a teen lovers...its so cute really...=D
well..thats abt all for now...tmr is off day for me...shall be heading bk to kl...n then on tues its bk to the craziness....oh well...
ciaoz
lets see...2 weeks ago i went to get my 2nd tattoo...finally...n im already thinking of my 3rd...will post up a pic of my 2nd piece as soon as i can get it uploaded....other than that...everything else that has happened has to be kept private...n hence i cant blog abt it...suffice to say that sum of it was good...n sum of it was bad....but all i can say is that its over...u live n u learn...shall stay away from those kinda situations in d future...
n now im back home in ipoh....for d 1st timein like 2 months plus...came bk yest...jst chilled....then today went to the waterfalls with my mum, dad n sis...it was really great...we started off d morning by going to temple (yes...i went to temple) cz tmr is vasakhi n they were raising the nishan sahib today...so we were there for that...
then we came home...cooked nasi lemak with chicken sambal and taufu sambal (my mum is a vegetarian)...then packed the car n drove up to the waterfalls at meru...it was the 1st time we went there....its a natural waterfall in the golf club compound...so only members can get there...it was quite exclusive...we were the only ones there...the water was so clear n beautiful...but cold...
it was really nice spending time together with my family...too bad my bro couldnt make it down...n its really really nice to see how my parents interact with eact other...almost 30 years n 3 kids later n they still like a teen lovers...its so cute really...=D
well..thats abt all for now...tmr is off day for me...shall be heading bk to kl...n then on tues its bk to the craziness....oh well...
ciaoz
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