Jokes of the day

HERE and HERE.

Ok, enough of jokes.

HERE is something that I agree very much with, and very well written too. Please try to take a look.

HERE is also an interesting read, pretty long-winded though.

Ketara sekali DEB telah dijadikan alat untuk meraih pendapatan tanpa perlu berkerja. Kelompok tertentu mendapat pendapatan secara percuma daripada hubungan mereka dengan kerajaan. Akibat dari gejala ini, perbelanjaan kerajaan dibazirkan dan pembayar cukai tidak mendapat nilai dari perbelajaan yang dibuat itu.

The above quote is from HERE. Warning: Extremely long-winded. Read only if you really have nothing better to do.

While you are reading these, don't forget to read the Book.

A new member

I mean this...

Panasonic 7.0 kg, fully automatic. Came with a set of 5 air-tight containers, so-called Hari Raya promotional gifts. Went to the hardware shop to get some stuffs to modify a bit so that the hose is long enough to connect to the tap, without having to cut the nice white-original hose. And now it sits beautifully in my bedroom (huh?).

I can almost hear you scream... "now only you buy ah?! How on earth have you been surviving without a washing machine?"

Well, first of all I am very kiam-siap and lazy to maintain such a big piece of machine for one person's clothings. And yes I have been surviving without a washing machine for the past, say, seven years or so living out of hometown. God gave us hands, remember? I recall my student elective-posting days in Kathmandu, where the lady-folks bring their families' laundry to the public tap or river, and hand-washed them in full view of everybody... the line "do not wash your dirty linen in public" does not apply in a poor country like Nepal.

Well, I was actually doing quite well accumulating my cloths for one week, then washing them at one go on weekends. Emmm... do you know that a shirt or pants can be worn up to 2 or 3 days a week, provided if you don't wear them continuosly so that nobody will notice. Then, my very very kind neighbour auntie (God bless her) interupted my schedule by taking my clothes to wash in her washing machine and drying them and folding them and putting them back on my cupboard... before I get to complete my collection for one week. Then my schedule was again interupted when my girlfriend, then my loupo said aiya bring those clothes to her house to wash la, got washing machine there ma. I wanted to buy a machine in March after getting angpows from generous guests (God bless them) to our wedding. But then my house got broken in and the thieves (God bless them? why!) stole my angpow containing money for the washing machine.

Now that school holidays is coming and my loupo is coming to stay in Keningau, finally arrives the new member.

One pic was taken by me, the other by my loupo. Guess which is which.

Have you played this before?

Put a row of stuffs on the floor. Whatever. Ooops, wrong... must follow the list in mummy's childcare book. Then see which stuffs attact me first, second, third, and so on...

I chose the blue-balloon-filled-with-water first. So, maybe I'll be doing something related to water... hmmm... a marine scientist? Or maybe a yatch-club owner... or an offshore oil-rig boss?

Pleeeaaaasse... can i be a wrestler? I am macho like those guys on WWF. Nope, I am more macho than all those guys.

Kid's birthday

My neighbour's son Darren had his 1st birthday party on Deepavali day. I was "appointed" on the spot to be the photographer. So, here they are, the photos. My loupo and I got him some kiddie clothes from the local shopping center.

The party started with singing of hymms and songs.

Birthday boy with mummy and grandparents.

Pastor saying a prayer of blessing for the birthday boy. Obviously the kid was not paying attention. "Hey why are you taking my picture?"

Then he think's it's an arm-wrestling game!

I think I had this too when I was one-year-old. I am quite sure I remember seeing a party like this complete with a tray of red eggs in one of those ooooo..old photo albums at home.

"Look mummy I got a new hat... hey why aren't you guys looking?".

"OK, I am hungry and tired. Bring on the food for the new siew-yeh (little master)!"

My son got less

Remember the story about "Everyone is doing it, my house is small."?

This time it reads like "Everyone is doing it, my son got less.".

His son also had a contract... and the project his son got was bigger than the one Scomi got.

"Great" minds think alike huh?

Read feedbacks from tech-savvy Malaysian public HERE, if you are interested.

I remember a proverb learned during primary school days. In Mandarin it translates into "Fifty steps laughing at a hundred steps." The story is about two soldiers who went to war, got frightened, deserted their post and ran away. The soldier who ran 50 steps laughed at the one who ran 100 steps, saying that guy's such a timid coward, ran so fast. He forgot that he himself is guilty of the same misdoing.

And another proverb I recall... "If the upper beam is not properly positioned, the lower beams will be crooked." I am not an architect la, so don't know if it is true or not. The proverb means, if the leader himself is corrupt, so will be expected of his men.

Hey, I am amazed that I still remember those school-day Chinese proverbs!

TV3's Believe It Or Not

Read HERE if you are interested.

Don't feel like commenting la. Read it and make your own comments.

Lesson: don't bulat-bulat believe what people say / show nowadays. Evaluate.

I shall always remember the "small house".

Labour, for what?

The message from yesterday's church preaching...

Except the LORD build the house, they labor in vain that build it: except the LORD keep the city, the watchman waketh but in vain.

Psalm 127:1

I am the vine, ye are the branches: He that abideth in me, and I in him, the same bringeth forth much fruit: for without me ye can do nothing.

John 15:5

Each day we labour for many things in life, and get ourselves occupied with many things big or small. I admit, I am one of such people.

How about taking a little break to evaluate our labours in the light of the verses above. They're in old English, KJV style.

My house is small

Quote of the day...

Everyone is doing it, but my house is small.

Part of my tax money (probably yours too) goes towards sponsoring this small house through the Never Ending Policy and Never Enough Policy because he is considered the "marginalised" people group. He never even say thank you.

I wonder who are the "everyone" he's talking about. Everyone is breaking the law, I am just a small fry la.

A Bible for your computer and PDA

I just came over from Uncle Tony's blog posting about the Word.

Are you looking for a digital Bible for your computer or PDA? Or maybe your high-tech handphone can handle a digital Bible?

Check out this site: E-Sword

It's FREE. It's WONDERFUL. You can download not just one Bible, but also Bibles in Mandarin, Bahasa Indon, and many other languages, if you can understand that is. Moreover, you get Commentaries, Daily Devotional readings, Topical write-ups, Dictionaries, Maps, e-Books, and many more goodies.

Well if you don't have a broadband to download all those good stuffs, send Rick a little donation and he will mail you an E-Sword CD with more goodies than you probably need. I tried, it worked! If you need more stuffs, just download the extras (there're too many goodies, he couldn't pack everything in one CD).

Just do it, like Nike said.

Values

I never quite got to learn about economics during my school days. Nowadays there are so much talk about par value and market value in the news, I thought I could learn a bit. However, those things still sound quite complicated. I find this illustration particularly helpful...

My parents own two cars... a Proton Wira for dad to use, a Perodua Kancil for mum to use. The old Honda 100cc kapchai doesn't count la, it's a vehicle but not a car.

So, let's say my rich nextdoor neighbor owns a shiny Mercedes Big-Small-Eye for the driver to bring Datuk to office and functions, while Datin sits at home and summons the driver whenever she wants to go somewhere.

According to my limited understanding, by par value calculation, my family is richer than our neighbour... we own 2 cars, they only 1! Gosh, they need help! And I guess we're even richer coz we own 3 vehicles, they only 1. Those poor folks.

So, according to policies that are in place, we need to help our poor neighbours.

We should therefore
... give them a big discount on buying properties, including their million-ringgit bungalow,
... sponsor their children to study in college and then scholarships for overseas universities, using our hard-earned tax money,
... give the poor Datuk a directorship in the company, even though everybody knows he knows nuts,
... give him easy contracts, tenders etc even if it means turning down better offers from people who can do the job well,
... the rest you know I know la

Malaysian economics, true and amazing. I got my lessons HERE.