This morning, I had a good breakfast with a nun(sister). She is a some 70 year old sister but she doesn't look like one as she is very contented with life thus most of her words are not only encouraging, she said, we all have to let go of many things in this earthly world.
Later, we shared a lot about those missionaries that we both knew and at one part of her conversation, she said this:-"One priest told the parishioners - we all should have a little corner of our heart for the poor!"
She told me, even though the priest had since passed away for many years, in her reflection, she always remembered that statement what the priest had said.How often we have our that little corner for the poor?
Some rich or those or even myself at times, questioned, do I need to as I have slogged so hard for a living and yet I have to give out for others? If we often do so, will we help those lazy ones to get advantage over us? Do all poor are real poor to be considered POOR?
It always lies a big ? in my mind. Over the years of my life journey, at times of being so naive to those so called poor, I was ended up as a victim as once I fully trusted a kampong lady to come over to my house-keeping. Slowly and by bits, she took many of my clothes back without my knowledge until I realised it one day, but it was too late, as I have no evidence to corner her.
Should I curse or being angry to her or myself then? Slowly, over the time, the hurt was healed as I kept telling myself that at least not other valuables were lost. For that matter of things, it wont made her richer either!
It is still very skeptical of me at times to have that little corner in my heart for such poor!
(excuse me, if I ever pierce your heart, if you happen to read my words. But it is only reality that bites, many people are like that without gratitude.)
Tuesday, September 27, 2011
Sunday, September 25, 2011
Life is a dream.
Have you reflected back over the years when you were just 3, 4, 5 or 10 years old?
Could you recall? What did you do then? Did you run like a wild horse?
Did you fight like a fierce lion? Did you cry like a meek sheep or a silly cow?
Were you just a naive kampong boy, girl not knowing much about the outside world beyond your horizon at that time? Did you go swimming?
Next, in your secondary life, did you join your friends to do photography shooting?
Developing films in the dark rooms? Join any society or uniform groups? Were you a leader in your class or in the school prefect team? Did you volunteer to do something in your school or any where then? Were you rewarded? Did you feel bad if you were lost? Did you feel good?
Post secondary, where were you then? Went to university? What did you do there? Just played as hard, lost your credits in your results or you were damn hard working and yet you didnt enjoy much of your life? Or you were straight into the working line?
If you are working for someone, every year, you expect to climb up the ladder to expect higher salary? Expect to have grasped the higher post and at the same time
being honoured by your boss but over the years, you didnt see it at all that it should have happened, instead, you were actually sliding down the ladder like the slide and still got your meagre salary, right?
Not only that, your boss will seldom honour you with big rewards. Some are rewarded with pewter plates and only to be collecting dusts in your sitting room. Some could have got some bonus which not even enough to have a good dinner for your family members. Worst of all, may be with over 20 years of service, they even didnt bother to say a good "good bye" on your last day with them.
Now, at the end of the 2nd quarter of the life, most people will say, "ah, it's enough, I think I better start my own little space for little business which called my own." Do you?
Could you recall? What did you do then? Did you run like a wild horse?
Did you fight like a fierce lion? Did you cry like a meek sheep or a silly cow?
Were you just a naive kampong boy, girl not knowing much about the outside world beyond your horizon at that time? Did you go swimming?
Next, in your secondary life, did you join your friends to do photography shooting?
Developing films in the dark rooms? Join any society or uniform groups? Were you a leader in your class or in the school prefect team? Did you volunteer to do something in your school or any where then? Were you rewarded? Did you feel bad if you were lost? Did you feel good?
Post secondary, where were you then? Went to university? What did you do there? Just played as hard, lost your credits in your results or you were damn hard working and yet you didnt enjoy much of your life? Or you were straight into the working line?
If you are working for someone, every year, you expect to climb up the ladder to expect higher salary? Expect to have grasped the higher post and at the same time
being honoured by your boss but over the years, you didnt see it at all that it should have happened, instead, you were actually sliding down the ladder like the slide and still got your meagre salary, right?
Not only that, your boss will seldom honour you with big rewards. Some are rewarded with pewter plates and only to be collecting dusts in your sitting room. Some could have got some bonus which not even enough to have a good dinner for your family members. Worst of all, may be with over 20 years of service, they even didnt bother to say a good "good bye" on your last day with them.
Now, at the end of the 2nd quarter of the life, most people will say, "ah, it's enough, I think I better start my own little space for little business which called my own." Do you?
Life is wonderful.. (continue)..
(Firstly, I apologize for not continuing earlier and yet, it has a year passed.)
When we were first exposed to NATURE STUDY, we were taught with living things and non living things. Living things are things that grow, need water, air, sunlight and food. Those living things are like human beings, fishes, animals, trees, flowers and plants. While the non livings are with no feelings, such as tables, chairs, cars and those which won't tell you it is hurt "aiyok"!!!.
Now, if the human embryo deposits in a proper position in the womb, it will grow up quite fast and in the nine(9) months, it grows to some 45cm or so and usually a normal baby will be born around with 2.5Kg or above (considering Asian size) depending on the many factors that a mother has. Some babies are born with smaller sizes due to food intake by the mothers or other factors, may be the mother is a very young one or rather immature enough to have babies yet esp. those around or below 22 of age is considered not mature to have strong babies. Usually, cases of these are that, the mortality rate is very high. Those embryos that didnt deposit in the proper positions such as transverse and breech babies that need casearean or those embryos that deposit near the tip of the vagina with the womb, then casearean is needed too. But for most cephalic position babies, they are usually born normally thro the birth canal unless the big babies, then the casearean are recommended.
Even those with older age, some women do have problematic babies may be due to the medicines taken, radioactive exposure etc during the pregnancies or improper care. Those over 38 years of age usually will be triply informed by gynaecologist that at times, the babies will be born with down syndrome. Thus, those mothers to be, do visit the gynae more often to have better advices either thro scan and other informations.
Whatsoever it is, there is always a life after each embryo lives or even germinates as in the plants colony. Have you ever tried to plant a lime seed? a lemon seed? a mango seed, a pea flower seed and some longan seeds? You will notice that after a few days or even weeks, it start to ripe open and then, you can see the little greenish thingy coming out of the seed. Thus a life is thriving soon.
Now it comes to question is that who can make such living thing grows? It is God.
He who makes heaven and earth. After that, he makes lots of living things around us.
I will only write generally what life is dealing mostly on human lifes, plants, fishes or some animals around me.
When we were first exposed to NATURE STUDY, we were taught with living things and non living things. Living things are things that grow, need water, air, sunlight and food. Those living things are like human beings, fishes, animals, trees, flowers and plants. While the non livings are with no feelings, such as tables, chairs, cars and those which won't tell you it is hurt "aiyok"!!!.
Now, if the human embryo deposits in a proper position in the womb, it will grow up quite fast and in the nine(9) months, it grows to some 45cm or so and usually a normal baby will be born around with 2.5Kg or above (considering Asian size) depending on the many factors that a mother has. Some babies are born with smaller sizes due to food intake by the mothers or other factors, may be the mother is a very young one or rather immature enough to have babies yet esp. those around or below 22 of age is considered not mature to have strong babies. Usually, cases of these are that, the mortality rate is very high. Those embryos that didnt deposit in the proper positions such as transverse and breech babies that need casearean or those embryos that deposit near the tip of the vagina with the womb, then casearean is needed too. But for most cephalic position babies, they are usually born normally thro the birth canal unless the big babies, then the casearean are recommended.
Even those with older age, some women do have problematic babies may be due to the medicines taken, radioactive exposure etc during the pregnancies or improper care. Those over 38 years of age usually will be triply informed by gynaecologist that at times, the babies will be born with down syndrome. Thus, those mothers to be, do visit the gynae more often to have better advices either thro scan and other informations.
Whatsoever it is, there is always a life after each embryo lives or even germinates as in the plants colony. Have you ever tried to plant a lime seed? a lemon seed? a mango seed, a pea flower seed and some longan seeds? You will notice that after a few days or even weeks, it start to ripe open and then, you can see the little greenish thingy coming out of the seed. Thus a life is thriving soon.
Now it comes to question is that who can make such living thing grows? It is God.
He who makes heaven and earth. After that, he makes lots of living things around us.
I will only write generally what life is dealing mostly on human lifes, plants, fishes or some animals around me.
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