~Birthday Wishes~

DEAR SARA!!!

I've never written a poem to anyone before,

and this is the poem is the first I have written for anyone! haha, Hope you like it!

Dear Sarah,

God gave a gift to the world when you were born—

a person who loves, someone who cares,

who sees a person’s need and fills it,

who encourages and lifts people up,

who brings joy to someone who had a bad day,

Your jokes, I remember always made my day.

I’m in awe of this spoilt friend I first knew,

To this cheerful princess I now know.

Another year has come and gone;

The sands of time keep trickling along.

Your now one year younger to heaven,

And I must say, you’re now hot like an oven.

I wish you the happiest of birthdays,

And I hope this day will be your happiest yet.

-Big Jon-

Have you ever come across an event like this?

Airport security event

Customs Official : 'May I know your name?'
Passenger : 'Batman'
Customs Official : 'What's your name!?'
Passenger : 'My name is Bat-man'
Customs Official : 'Trying to be funny? What's your surname?'
Passenger : 'Super-man'
Customs Official : 'So you're telling me your name is Batman Superman?'
Passenger : 'Yes'
Customs Official : 'Arrest this guy'

When they had him in custody, he was asked to show his identification card:

What a name... :)

My Nephew - Emanuel

Have you ever had the excitement to see a new life born in your family? Well, i had the opportunity to have one today. I'm in Singapore at my sisters place and she just gave birth to a child called Emanuel (with the single m)

Matthew 1:23 23 "Look! The virgin will conceive a child! She will give birth to a son, and they will call him Immanuel, which means 'God is with us.' "

I feel its really a joy, to see a new life grow up. Emanuel, you will grow up to become a fine young man! Just looking at your pictures make me smile :)

The most beautiful country ever!

I was once told... That theres always a sunny day after a storm. This a pic taken from my trip in Nepal. I was thinking over the things that happened in May this year. And seriously I think i miss Nepal.

Malaysia's Political Tsunami

Unable to sleep in the wee hours in the morning, I decided to do something which i always wanted to do. I started to flip to Malaysiakini, and started the read post by post in detail.

I came upon Lim Kit Siangs Blog, about him writing a letter to our Malaysian PM & Cabinet which was a very good read. First thing on the list was the remarks of that infamous Ahmad Ismail. He called us Chinese migrants, and untrustworthy Malaysians. In my point of view, as a chinese, it does hurt! But never in my 24 years of life had i ever imagined that I was a migrant in this country. For him to mention that statement and still unwanting to appologize really scares me. Do the Malay people actually think the same way as Ahmad Ismail do? Or was he hurt by chinese in the past which triggered him to say that?

LKS, also mentioned about the way UMNO will be dealing with his case. Last year, many of us did flip to youtube to watch the video of Wee Meng Chee rapping "Negarakuku". I did watch it, and to be honest, i really did enjoy that song as it was very catchy and did portray the current situation in Malaysia. The Malaysian government did not like it at all and made it such a big issue whereby his citizenship was taken away from him (even though he appologized). I'm quite eager to find out what will happen to this Ahmad Ismail. I pity our PM Abdullah as he is right now stuck in the middle. Every decision he makes will be a crucial move to his political career.

Racism... Will this always be an issue in Malaysia? Whereby the chinese and indians become 2nd class citizens and see all our top talents migrating to other coutries? Or will we one day, beat Singapore, Taiwan, Hong Kong and Korea towards a Nation which strives to succeed. I do hope we achieve that some day.

To be honest, sometimes at work I really get disappointed by the malay clients I meet. Most of them ask me for some money if they were to give me the contract. But of course as a Christian I will never give. Its confusing sometimes, you love them, but you don't love them. You hate them, but yet, you also don't hate them. I may be racist at times, and this genuine love seems to be just an act. I'm in no position to judge anyone, as me myself is racist. But God is the eternal judge, and he does judge fairly ;)

btw, here's the link for the articles i read
Part 1 & Part 2

Our Colour!

Was thinking about this today... It was really meaningful.

By this all will know that you are My disciples, if you have love for one another. —John 13:35

In Thailand, the people greatly love and admire King Bhumibol (Rama IX), who has led them for over 60 years. To display their respect for the king, the Thai people wear bright yellow shirts every Monday, because yellow is the official color of the king.

As we seek to live for our King, the Lord Jesus Christ, we should also show our colors of allegiance and appreciation for all He has done for us. But how? What are the “colors” that declare to the world that we serve the King of kings and Lord of lords?

The night before His crucifixion, King Jesus told us what our “colors” should be when He said, “By this all will know that you are My disciples, if you have love for one another” (John 13:35). His disciple John echoed this when he wrote, “Beloved, if God so loved us, we also ought to love one another” (1 John 4:11).

When we display Christ’s love for our fellow believers, it is more than just kindness or care. It is one of the most tangible ways we can show our love and devotion for the Savior.

As we interact with fellow Christ-followers, let’s be sure to show our colors. That will honor our King before a watching world. — Bill Crowder

The dark knight

THE DARK KNIGHT
This movie is a hit! I've already watched it twice, and the storyline is still fresh inside my brain!!!
To me this movie was class, as the story was perfect and the casting was perfect. This movie consisted of a crusading hero (Christian Bale) and a sneering villain of Joker (Heath Ledger), but what surprised me most was the role of Harvey Dent (Aaron Eckhart) , a prestigious district attorney who played the hero of locking every villain in jail in becom.



THE TWO FACED HERO/VILLAIN
His fall at the end of the story reminded me about a two-faced heart. He quoted saying that "You either die being a hero or you live long enough to see yourself become the villain." He lived long enough to see himself become the villain. Harvey Dent and Two-face
is a big contrast of Chance and freewill, good and evil, hero and villain, justice and chaos, sacrifice and suffering. Two face would rather put his faith in "unbiased chance" than our human freewill. He even quoted saying "You thought we could be decent men in an undecent world. But you were wrong; the world is cruel, and the only morality of this world is chance"


The people involved involved in Jokers two ship experiment showed great humanism by showing that we humans do have a freewill, and from that freewill comes something good.
One ship consisted of prisoners, and the other consisted to normal passengers. Both had their chances to blow each other up. Both ships came to a conclusion that they should blow up the other ship to save their own lives. But yet as the clock struck twelve, nothing happened. They left their lives to chance, that the other ship would not blow them up. This reminds me of the chinese proverb, whereby it says that 人之初,性本善.
Are we really born with something uncorruptable? whereby we do have some good inside all of us?
Joker showed exactly, how to show the worst face of humanity, but yet forgetting that good always triumphs over evil.

And lastly, the movie ends with the unconvincing hero, the main character of the movie, the dark knight. I felt that he transends this superhero to become an everyman, conflicted and troubled by pain and brokenness in life. He is like us, everyday trying to find his identity while trying to maintain some morality.

His bat symbol was even broken due to his sacrifice. Gotham had rejected their only surviving hero. Batman quotes "Sometimes, truth isn't good enough, sometimes people deserve more. sometimes people deserve to have their faith rewarded." Truth isn't good enough?Many of us prefer to build our lives, our significance on things that are not true; we place our faith in the goodness of humanity (when humanity has not been good to us). We insist on believing that being successful and family-oriented will bring us true happiness (while money corrupts and families divorce). We place our faith in a lie, a lie that temporarily rewards our faith, only to crumble seconds later under the weight of truth-sized hope. The truth isn’t good enough because we have been believing lies.


The Savior of Gotham
This bat becomes the savior of Gotham. A scapegoat. This dark knight, not one in shining armor, shows a truth, a truth that we all need someone to bear our sin, and also our refusal to stand on this truth, choosing to believe what movies and magazines portray life. We ourselves are in need of a savior, a hero who can identify with our humanity and bear our burden. Someone who will take our sin into his own hands, that we might be known as righteous. Contrary to the dark knight, we need a faith greater than what we can manufacture, to find a God greater than man-made philosophy. We need a God-man...