Went to Karaoke and chose a very meaningful song by ABBA title - I HAVE A DREAM!!. The lyrics pierce into my heart, and yes I have a dream, a dream that I always want to achieve it and fulfil it. Something I always want to do if I have the avenue.
Everyone has a dream, but not all want to achieve it. And the most common answer is dreaming to become millionaire, some dream of travel around the world, some dream to become CEO, some dream to become Super Star.
I want to become an Influencial & inspire person to the society thru mountain climbing & humanitary work. It may sound silly to many, bcos this dream does not bring any good income in life. Sometimes often time, we focus too much on money and neglect some of the most important value in life.
A good example is our 1st Malaysia Astronaut - Dr Sheik Muszaphar. Thru his voyage to th space he can use his fame to influence the society.
Once there was a TV-reality show "BENSON & HEDGES GOLDEN DREAM" who give public opportunity to fulfil their dream. Some dream of being a postman in USA, some dream to become a Chef in Las Vegas Hotel, some dream to skydive in Himalaya. This programme really inspire many youngster to fulfil their dream. I wish such programme will appear again.
In order for me to fuifil my dream, i have to find sponsor or job that i am able to :-
1. To stay in Nepal for a year
2. To trek to Everest Basecamp & Annarpurna Base Camp
3. To do social work for the poor kids
4. To work with United Nation (UNHCR)
Sound ridiculus to you? Well...... that is call DREAM... it may not make senses to many. But it is definately is my dream....
Sunday, December 13, 2009
Tuesday, September 22, 2009
The Durian
How do you describe durian?
Hard and Thorny outside, but once it's being opened, that's where the aroma !
Wrong perception, misjudgement - Many people will have a wrong perception of what kind of person I am. They have mis-interprete me as someone ferocious, stubborn, hard-hearted, unkind, hard to approach all sort of negative image they can think of. I am not surprise and I dont blame them, bcos this is very usual re-action when they dont know me long enough.
I can be very extreme. Extreme in 2 difference faces. I can be very strong and tough and I can be very soft hearted and kind. I often tell people, my destiny in future will be either I am a successful adventurer or a social worker. 2 different kind of character Hard & Soft.
Only people who spend time long enough with me will understand what kind of character I am. However in current environment, everything is about speed, fast. Therefore people could have just "mark" me as someone difficult.
Well, I think the only way is to carry on my life as it is. Let the nature flows on its own cause. We just cant justify every single things people comment, condemn abt us. But will take it with open heart, and move on. I believe those people who stay on with me, are those who really spend time to know me as a person in deep.
I thank those who are close with me,
Do not judge a durian by it's cover !hehe
Hard and Thorny outside, but once it's being opened, that's where the aroma !
Wrong perception, misjudgement - Many people will have a wrong perception of what kind of person I am. They have mis-interprete me as someone ferocious, stubborn, hard-hearted, unkind, hard to approach all sort of negative image they can think of. I am not surprise and I dont blame them, bcos this is very usual re-action when they dont know me long enough.
I can be very extreme. Extreme in 2 difference faces. I can be very strong and tough and I can be very soft hearted and kind. I often tell people, my destiny in future will be either I am a successful adventurer or a social worker. 2 different kind of character Hard & Soft.
Only people who spend time long enough with me will understand what kind of character I am. However in current environment, everything is about speed, fast. Therefore people could have just "mark" me as someone difficult.
Well, I think the only way is to carry on my life as it is. Let the nature flows on its own cause. We just cant justify every single things people comment, condemn abt us. But will take it with open heart, and move on. I believe those people who stay on with me, are those who really spend time to know me as a person in deep.
I thank those who are close with me,
Do not judge a durian by it's cover !hehe
Sunday, May 10, 2009
PASSION OF CHILREN OF THE WORLD
I have this special passion for children since 2001, my 1st trip return from Nepal and when I 1st accepted christ. I always wanted to do something for the poor children I met -during all my personal trip to Nepal, Cambodia, India, North East Thailand (Surin). The suffering/pain those children have to go thru, some lost their parents, some being abandon, some being abuse and tortured. I have this burden, I wanted to do something for them, but how? I am not millionaire that I can donate large amount of money, I dont have the ability to build school, provide them proper life. What can I do?
I like to share what I have done, what I am doing & what I hope to do.
There are 3 stories on how I involve and been doing for the chilren :-
FOR NEPALESE CHILDREN
In Dec 2005 (winter), in a sudden I make up my mind to have a short trip (10days) to Nepal alone with my own expenses. I contacted one of the orphanage home NAMASTE CHILDREN HOUSE which newly operated about 1yr located in Phokara, Nepal. I shared my passion with a few close friends and collected some donation (money, stationery & old clothes). I carried with my 25kg backpack to Nepal.
I spent about 5-6days in the orphanage, helping them with their daily operation (cleaning, cooking, tuition) and with the donation I collected, I bought for the orphanage home some sports item (soccer ball, racket, table tennis). And each othe them I bought from Malaysia each a pair of socks, it is bcos all the children need warm items during this cold winter. The joy is unmeasureable when you see how the children appreciate this gift. For this poor orphans, the loves and heart that matters not so much on the gift.
I am very touched when I read each children biodata. Their background is truly sad. Some children were being brought to this home from the street, as these children were abandon by their parents, some were too sick to take care, some were too poor to take care. Therefore they left their children loitering in the street trying to survive on their own. One kid name Purna age 8yrs old have to work to survive thanks for the restaurant owner who offer this small kid a job to clean up, help around in kitchen, and luckily he was brought in to this home now and going to school now.
We will never appreciate our life until we really see with our own eyes there are many people out there who need our help. Namaste Children House is still fresh in my mind. I would like to go back to this place again and see how the children grow. I may not be able to offer alot of $$ to help them, but I am sure with my thought & love (intangleble) I have done something for them.
Is will remain in my heart to visit them again one day, and I am sure the day will come
Even I am unable to travel very often to Nepal. But I always receive progress report from this home and browse thru the home website :- http://www.orphanagenepal.org/
FOR INDONESIAN CHILDREN
I have sponsor a child from Pontianak, Indonesia age 6 thru WORLDVISION (http://www.worldvision.com.my/). With just RM50 I contributed each month, it will help this organization to develop this child. The RM50 is not a big amount and of course it cannt help much to the child. But if everyone contributed RM50, it will increase the pool of money and many things can be done. Well, I will not question abt how this organization run and many people will have doubt whether the contribution will go direct to thei child. Bcos the most important is the heart, not the money.
FOR MYANMAR CHILDREN REFUGEE (in Malaysia)
The children from Myanmar mainly follow their parents sneaking out from their country who is now undergoing political instability. Some came thru Malaysia illegally, some were born here holding red MYKAD. These children has no idea what will be their future as being so called refugee. Their future lies to where UNHCR will place them.
While children in Malaysia are so lucky to be able to go to school freely and yet they did not appreciate it at all. These refugee children is just depending on volunteer teacher to teach them the basic english and mathematic. Children mix up from age 5 to 12 sitting in same class.
I am touched, and I just volunteer myself in my community where there are more than 500 Myanmar refugees. I just spend time on Sunday with the children, participating in the bible class, sunday school. Seeing them singing and enjoying the song makes me very joyful.
I just pray that one day I will be able to help these children more, perhaps to start up a children fund.
I like to share what I have done, what I am doing & what I hope to do.
There are 3 stories on how I involve and been doing for the chilren :-
FOR NEPALESE CHILDREN
In Dec 2005 (winter), in a sudden I make up my mind to have a short trip (10days) to Nepal alone with my own expenses. I contacted one of the orphanage home NAMASTE CHILDREN HOUSE which newly operated about 1yr located in Phokara, Nepal. I shared my passion with a few close friends and collected some donation (money, stationery & old clothes). I carried with my 25kg backpack to Nepal.
I spent about 5-6days in the orphanage, helping them with their daily operation (cleaning, cooking, tuition) and with the donation I collected, I bought for the orphanage home some sports item (soccer ball, racket, table tennis). And each othe them I bought from Malaysia each a pair of socks, it is bcos all the children need warm items during this cold winter. The joy is unmeasureable when you see how the children appreciate this gift. For this poor orphans, the loves and heart that matters not so much on the gift.
I am very touched when I read each children biodata. Their background is truly sad. Some children were being brought to this home from the street, as these children were abandon by their parents, some were too sick to take care, some were too poor to take care. Therefore they left their children loitering in the street trying to survive on their own. One kid name Purna age 8yrs old have to work to survive thanks for the restaurant owner who offer this small kid a job to clean up, help around in kitchen, and luckily he was brought in to this home now and going to school now.
We will never appreciate our life until we really see with our own eyes there are many people out there who need our help. Namaste Children House is still fresh in my mind. I would like to go back to this place again and see how the children grow. I may not be able to offer alot of $$ to help them, but I am sure with my thought & love (intangleble) I have done something for them.
Is will remain in my heart to visit them again one day, and I am sure the day will come
Even I am unable to travel very often to Nepal. But I always receive progress report from this home and browse thru the home website :- http://www.orphanagenepal.org/
FOR INDONESIAN CHILDREN
I have sponsor a child from Pontianak, Indonesia age 6 thru WORLDVISION (http://www.worldvision.com.my/). With just RM50 I contributed each month, it will help this organization to develop this child. The RM50 is not a big amount and of course it cannt help much to the child. But if everyone contributed RM50, it will increase the pool of money and many things can be done. Well, I will not question abt how this organization run and many people will have doubt whether the contribution will go direct to thei child. Bcos the most important is the heart, not the money.
FOR MYANMAR CHILDREN REFUGEE (in Malaysia)
The children from Myanmar mainly follow their parents sneaking out from their country who is now undergoing political instability. Some came thru Malaysia illegally, some were born here holding red MYKAD. These children has no idea what will be their future as being so called refugee. Their future lies to where UNHCR will place them.
While children in Malaysia are so lucky to be able to go to school freely and yet they did not appreciate it at all. These refugee children is just depending on volunteer teacher to teach them the basic english and mathematic. Children mix up from age 5 to 12 sitting in same class.
I am touched, and I just volunteer myself in my community where there are more than 500 Myanmar refugees. I just spend time on Sunday with the children, participating in the bible class, sunday school. Seeing them singing and enjoying the song makes me very joyful.
I just pray that one day I will be able to help these children more, perhaps to start up a children fund.
Thursday, April 30, 2009
Sign of Depression affecting life
Everyone goes through period of sadness following death of love ones, broken relationship, financial mishap, business fall..etc. Depression will hit us if we did not get help immediately and it is very very dangerous.
A person is diagnosed as depressed when a significant number or all sympton below occure a two-week period or more
A person is diagnosed as depressed when a significant number or all sympton below occure a two-week period or more
- Poor appetite
- Inability to enjoy activities that one would previously enjoy doing
- Persistent depressed mood, unhappiness & irritability
- Loss of interest in recreational activity and friends
- Loss of energy and concerntration
- Deterioration in work performance
- Drastic weight change
- Disturbed sleep (usually early morning awakening, followed by inability to go back to sleep)
- Thought of worthlessness
- Somatic complaint : headache, abdominal pain
- Erratic mood and behaviour
- Tempting death (by doing risky activities such as standing on edge of window driving through red light)
- Talking abt suicide
Dont' let it affect us, always talk it out, look for close friends share out. Dont keep your feeling to yourself, bcos by keeping it does not solve any better. Seek for counselling, always ensure someone by yourside to help you and listen to you.
I have gone thru this and i know the pain & hurt. This help me to be strong and be able to help anyone who need to have a shoulder to cry on.
Thursday, February 12, 2009
Scolded in Hong Kong 05Feb 09
HongKong one of the destination never in my dream list. Not that I dont like HK. Bcos I feel that HK is a relax place to go when I grow old, cannt climb mountains anymore, cannt be adventurous.
Well, I choose to lead a tour group to HongKong, Shenzhen & Macau during Chinese New Year. True enough why so many people love to come to HK during festive season. The night scene is absolutely fabulous. The whole city is full of Neon lights. A city that is full of "Life". Clean and organized, I feel very comfortable here compared with all the tough trip I went all this years.
I am not sure if I would gradually pull myself out from those adventure destination (Nepal, Tibet, Bhutan, Kashmir...etc) and become lazy look for relax destination like this.
But HongKong give me 2 unforgetable impression.
Incident 1
There is a day of Free & Easy where I got a chance to scroll at the famous night market at "Ladies Road" and taste the real local delicacies. Heard alot abt street food is kinda nice, so wanna try. One of my tour member tag along and we stopped at one of the stall, seeing many people eating. Mmmm..Must be good !! We sat down and waited to order. The menu are all in Chinese, and no picture how and what food they serve. So I asked a waiter, young man but not very tidy looking what kind of food he recommend. He pointed at the menu and responded "Look at the menu yourself". The I said "Sorry I dont read Chinese, can you tell us roughly what you sell". And to my shocked he responded "If you dont understand, then dont eat la" WAAAHHHHH... I was stunned looking at my tourmember. We then said to him" Hey, brother we are tourist and your customer, how can you treat us this way, just tell us what you have.
He was grumbling all the way. We ended up ordered a bowl of plain Wonton noodle but other table has nice pork rib, special wonton... sigh!!... It cost us HKD20/RM10 ...
Incident 2
Then we scroll along the night market and saw a unique stall selling "MAGIC WALLET" You place ur money on the surface, turn in the other round, it is strap onto the wallet. I was standing at the stall trying to figure out how that magic wallet work. But I was being brush off by the stall keeper " No need to understand, just pay you will understand". I asked him whether I can open 1 and see. He said "No not allow, unless you pay". So I paid one and tested in front of the stall. Hehe he keep saying "Hey lady, no need to test la... you wont understand it. The way he says is after business deal, you better move away. Wow.. is this typical HongKong people character?
Anyway, different country has its own uniqueness. Some country really has nice people, and some really nasty depend on their culture. Even our own country has some rude people too. Is all experience ... I've got an enjoyable trip no doubt.
Well, I choose to lead a tour group to HongKong, Shenzhen & Macau during Chinese New Year. True enough why so many people love to come to HK during festive season. The night scene is absolutely fabulous. The whole city is full of Neon lights. A city that is full of "Life". Clean and organized, I feel very comfortable here compared with all the tough trip I went all this years.
I am not sure if I would gradually pull myself out from those adventure destination (Nepal, Tibet, Bhutan, Kashmir...etc) and become lazy look for relax destination like this.
But HongKong give me 2 unforgetable impression.
Incident 1
There is a day of Free & Easy where I got a chance to scroll at the famous night market at "Ladies Road" and taste the real local delicacies. Heard alot abt street food is kinda nice, so wanna try. One of my tour member tag along and we stopped at one of the stall, seeing many people eating. Mmmm..Must be good !! We sat down and waited to order. The menu are all in Chinese, and no picture how and what food they serve. So I asked a waiter, young man but not very tidy looking what kind of food he recommend. He pointed at the menu and responded "Look at the menu yourself". The I said "Sorry I dont read Chinese, can you tell us roughly what you sell". And to my shocked he responded "If you dont understand, then dont eat la" WAAAHHHHH... I was stunned looking at my tourmember. We then said to him" Hey, brother we are tourist and your customer, how can you treat us this way, just tell us what you have.
He was grumbling all the way. We ended up ordered a bowl of plain Wonton noodle but other table has nice pork rib, special wonton... sigh!!... It cost us HKD20/RM10 ...
Incident 2
Then we scroll along the night market and saw a unique stall selling "MAGIC WALLET" You place ur money on the surface, turn in the other round, it is strap onto the wallet. I was standing at the stall trying to figure out how that magic wallet work. But I was being brush off by the stall keeper " No need to understand, just pay you will understand". I asked him whether I can open 1 and see. He said "No not allow, unless you pay". So I paid one and tested in front of the stall. Hehe he keep saying "Hey lady, no need to test la... you wont understand it. The way he says is after business deal, you better move away. Wow.. is this typical HongKong people character?
Anyway, different country has its own uniqueness. Some country really has nice people, and some really nasty depend on their culture. Even our own country has some rude people too. Is all experience ... I've got an enjoyable trip no doubt.
Thursday, January 22, 2009
The Impact of Financial Crisis
The title is already making everyone uncomfortable. Everyone started to feel the impact, everyone's topic today is abt this, everyone is worried what will happen next..
No doubt is pinch deeply for those who have high commitment with family and kids. But for me, I am consider very lucky. I am more prepared and ready to face the crisis. Being single with minimal commitment, the crisis is just to tell me to be more thrifty. There is still ways and means for me to skip through.
The timing was just right, and God is so good to me. God allow me to enjoy life to the fullest and make my dream came thru before the Financial Wave hit us.
Sept 08 - My dream trip - Trekking the Everest Region
Oct 08 - Lead my colleague to Mt Kinabalu - to create unforgetable moment for them
Nov 08 - Complete my car loan & 1st time to Sydney Australia
I can say I achieved whatever I dreamt off. And then the wave hit me end of Nov, some salary adjustment to sail thru this tough moment. Yes, I earn few hundreds less, but at least I have a job to survive. I should be thankful. What can I ask now....
This financial crisis, I am more prepared than in 2001. That was the darkest moment in my life. I was not prepared, still young and naive. Did not have reserves that could help me to sail thru. I was laid-off in a sudden, left with heavy loans (car & house) and debts on credit card. The lesson in 2001 taught me lesson which I keep to myself till now. "TO HAVE ENOUGH, IS ENOUGH" ....
No doubt is pinch deeply for those who have high commitment with family and kids. But for me, I am consider very lucky. I am more prepared and ready to face the crisis. Being single with minimal commitment, the crisis is just to tell me to be more thrifty. There is still ways and means for me to skip through.
The timing was just right, and God is so good to me. God allow me to enjoy life to the fullest and make my dream came thru before the Financial Wave hit us.
Sept 08 - My dream trip - Trekking the Everest Region
Oct 08 - Lead my colleague to Mt Kinabalu - to create unforgetable moment for them
Nov 08 - Complete my car loan & 1st time to Sydney Australia
I can say I achieved whatever I dreamt off. And then the wave hit me end of Nov, some salary adjustment to sail thru this tough moment. Yes, I earn few hundreds less, but at least I have a job to survive. I should be thankful. What can I ask now....
This financial crisis, I am more prepared than in 2001. That was the darkest moment in my life. I was not prepared, still young and naive. Did not have reserves that could help me to sail thru. I was laid-off in a sudden, left with heavy loans (car & house) and debts on credit card. The lesson in 2001 taught me lesson which I keep to myself till now. "TO HAVE ENOUGH, IS ENOUGH" ....
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