Being 1 Malaysia

Recently been reading about nationality and race surfacing in the media and a lot of individuals coming forth and giving out their best comments and ideas on how to strengthen the idea and unify all people of different races and culture all around Malaysia.

Looking back of my 23 years of life...i was surrounded with DIFFERENT people all around me...different races and culture and i am guessing i was being blessed being around DIFFERENT people all around me....Malay, Chinese, Indians

Since my schooling days i was with different friends....for sports and other activities..different in sizes and races but 1 under classroom

-Class photo 2004, St Joseph Kuching-

Serving under the same organisation and working with different people all around...we may be small in numbers but we are united to make a better place

-Prefect photo 2006, St Joseph Kuching-

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May be different in race and culture but able to serve and lead on a single purpose as one....

-St Joseph Cathedral Kuching Altar Servers 2004-

One way of meeting new people for me in my younger days-by going for camps yearly....and surprisingly we could just bond together easily..i remembered the committee members were from different schools and backgrounds....but it was a successful camp...

-YCS camp Bunan Gega 2004-

National Service at one point of the program brings me further in knowing more about people and how people act and accept us from different parts of the country. I had to flew all across the South China Sea just to complete my National Service....and live with them for 3 long months...

-Malacca, National Service 2nd batch classmates 2004-

I always look back into my own state @ Sarawak...is not about bragging rights and telling other how superior ones state is..but is all about accepting and understanding each and everyone of us...imagine 40 sub ethnic groups all on an island, living in harmony until today....

-International Young Christian Student Meet (IYCS) 2005 local committee members-

Even my years in university for almost 3 years, is all about how me myself adapting and understanding to cultures and religion without forgetting my own roots. If you were to look at the picture above, you never guessed that i would be the only Bidayuh in class...:) but it doesn't matter one bit...is all about us how we bring ourself in society

-MC223 A, Green Box 2010-

And even staying and living with friends of different perspectives of life....it may sound hard but i guessed is the upbringing and experiences that teaches me on how to adapt and acknowledge others in their own unique way..6 of us in a house 5 lawyers and 1 broadcaster...a Bidayuh broadcaster :)

-Housemates, open house 2009- 

Unity and harmony does not come easy...it comes a long way....is not about how ones culture, religion, race or in any other way is superior to the rest. Everything starts from the basics and from a very young age..is all about US @ YOU @ ME @OURSELVES to accept, understand, acknowledge others in our journey of life...we we just open our mind and hearts to small things that could be the key to unity...

I guess i had done my part being 1 Malaysia :)

P/S: Is not wrong to embrace and understand different people..is all about us our attitude and our upbringing.....

Back from the holidays...

Back from the long Raya holidays....now in the office.....5 more long weeks to go before finishing up my last semester @ 6th semester...what awaits me at the finishing line no one knows...so i pray it would be a good promising finishing race....

P/S: Some did not make it to the finish line.....

Happy Raya....

To all my Muslim friends, far and near, where ever you are right now, Selamat Hari Raya Aidilfitri to you and you whole family members. Enjoy the holiday celebration with you love ones. Dont drink and eat to much and drive...:) safety first...

P/S: Green packets and cakes around plus firecrackers...

6 foot boxes

2 weeks ago went out with my house mate to the National museum...it was my first time there even though i had been in KL for almost 2 years plus...coincidently there was this exhibition on coffins of different cultures and exhibits on those 6 foot boxes. the the opportunity even though my friend was reluctant ( he thinks its creepy and hes not used to it having all sorts of coffin being displayed around)

The banner seems to be outdated @ dates

For me im fine with it...guess my background serving funeral masses in church during my younger days helps me A LOT :)

The exhibition overall was CREEPY ...for the coffin for exhibitions HAD BEING USED BEFORE....so i guess thats why my friend had goosebumps all over him over this exhibition..

This is part of the Malay ceremonial essentials for the dead

This is the Indian style of burying the dead

They had all sorts of coffins to go around with in the exhibition..

From....

Normal coffin

Different shapes and sizes...

Or trying to safe space ? get buried in the pot...

Long long time ago coffins crafted out of a single log,notice the buffalo behind in the picture, its a COFFIN...not a

 pet...

Being buried while sitting down..once done...bones are being placed inside th basket..yes a CHAIR COFFIN from the Philippines 

Or planning to leave this world in style and luxury.. going down 6 feet underground with this half a million Ringgit coffin...14 carat GOLD if i was not mistaken

Or being buried rich in culture and respect ( in a big pot @ clay jar or a piece of decorated log )

Going for abstract deco and complicated paintings for the dead ( coffins of one of the tribes in Sarawak :) )

Or go Indonesian with gold decorations on the coffin

One of the ways to move you around to the next world (literally)

Or go creepy with the burial...bodies are put on it

To some this may be a tool to catch fish @ bubu in the local context...to others is a coffin...

You see what i see INSIDE ?

Some see death being highly regard in  society and culture...they put their dead on the trees on special platforms...

Or being simple...put stones on the dead body and get on with life....

P/S: Death is not the end of a journey  but is the beginning of a new life

The B&W contest

I am trying out for this contest introduced by my house-mate, a fellow blogger @ Fyzal on this online contest for blogs, the Black and White contest. the contest is easy enough to participate:

-Submit and post a picture of YOURSELF and it has to be in BLACK & WHITE ( post it in your blog posting )
-Put the following banner on the right side of your sidebar and be the follower of this blogger @ Syam (example in my sidebar)
-Dont forget to put the link of your post in the comment area for viewing in Syam 's blog  (click link to follow)


Easy isnt it? I was looking for a good picture for the contest and i decided to try out with this picture...NO laughing or anything...:) just wana try my luck..who knows? early duit raya for me to go around with :)

And so the picture i pin my hope for the contest:

Rock Star wannabe...

And  tag at least one person to spread the news of this contest and so i had chosen Annyss :)

P/S: Picture taken during my trip with my classmates :)

The K-Team

Today im at home for it is holiday today...was browsing around old pictures when some of the pictures reminded me of the good old days when i was still young at heart mind and body * still young until now * , when i used to be active in church activities and camps...would go for days for camps in most of the parts of Kuching and the outskirts...

YCS Mid Year Camp 2004 ( Gawai mode at the longhouse )

I was in charged of that camp and i was assigned to the kitchen ministry.Those days were the time i was enjoying my life serving camps and church activities especially with the youth programs..IN THE KITCHEN..most of programs i will be there with my team @ the kitchen ministry who are mostly my close circle of friends from school. We will be in charge from planning, budgeting, buying, and cooking for participants and programs..at the very age of 17-18 we were handed down big responsibilities and i was in charged...God help me through those time..

What makes the kitchen team a memorable good one for me is that it the group members * including myself * are students..secondary school students without any experiences handling the kitchen at a large scale especially for programs. What we know is that God put us all together...different people different unique abilities to form the kitchen group..from chopping to cutting..

 

One of my pictures in action cooking..antique old picture of my former self in 2004

Besides cooking, dancing is our second name @ ngajat without professional help and skills..:P

My experience with the team ~ PRICELESS ..the ups and downs of the team, drama, tension..from un-cook rice to burning rice, weird recipes, new recipes,cooking for 250 plus participants, marketing and bargaining,  working and hanging out at the kitchen from the early hours to dawn till late at night right down to the activities we did in the kitchen..i would always put it close to my heart 

IYCS-SEA session meet 2005 committees

This is one of my best peaks of life serving the kitchen team as i was co-in charged serving international south east Asian delegates coming over for a session right back in Kuching for two weeks. I work with one of the best teams ever and we made surprises towards the group coming over.serving delegates 6 meals a day while trying to figured out what to be served for meals, observing strict diets and demands of delegates what and what should not be served, getting up early as 5 am to start the kitchen rumbling and going to sleep around 3 am after a whole day event...with the team

The K-Team *individuals in the pictures above*

Broderick ~ Sitting down, 1st from the left

Me ~Sitting down, 2nd from left

Desmond Aaron ~ Sitting down, 1st from right

Josephine ~ 1st row, 2nd from left

Harilyn ~ 1st row, 4th from left

Gabriel ~ 1st row 5th from left

Ritia ~ 1st row 2nd from right

Not in picture~ Desmond Chang 

Thank you to all of you..how i miss those good days of ours...

P/S: The K-Team..we were the best cos we were among the best ourselves..:)

Fasting with a purpose

Is now the month of Ramadhan and the month to fast..and im fasting too *beaming* is been 15 days of Ramadhan and thank God is been a good wonderful fasting month for me. Not missing a day fasting...* i may not be a Muslim but i respect this holy month exactly like the month of Lent *

Reason for fasting? just wana give it a try ...a new enriching experience for me this month and also one way to appreciate things that we have around us. I feel great by fasting * not hoping that would slim me down* but as part of respect to my friends who are Muslims in majority around me now observing the holy month of puasa....saves money too :)

Ramadhan also reminded me of reconciliation... reminiscence of my past :)...how could i ever forget those things...every inch of happiness and sadness... no matter how hard you try to forget it...one day it will come back just to remind you a bit of the past...but that does not stop us from moving forward to the future...using the past as examples of life.

I am happy with what i had so far...family and friends around me..Thank God for those gifts..thank you for the past and the present...and hoping for the best in the future...

P/S: Still in the office trying to preview tapes...part of my internship training....

1 West Malaysia..

Is been a while...and im currently moving around almost the whole of west malaysia...busy with my internship @ travelling....

So will be updating soon AFTER im back from my trip...just came back from Thailand...:)

P/S : how i miss Shah Alam...:)

Willam's

Last night i was out for dinner with the rest of the production crew...we went to William's....i thought it was something fancy and expansive, with air-conditioning and well maintained facility @ McD and KFC....to my surprise is just some NORMAL stall by the roadside....could be by the drain?? im not sure...

But THE BEST part is when we had seated down and i look up the board to read the menu....

YES!!! THAT'S WHAT THEY ARE SERVING AND THE PRICE...NO KIDDING....

The price are beyond your wildest imagination for food....RM20-RM25 for could be simple meals, out of the ordinary..

The price justified the whole concept of the shop..LARGE LARGE...i took this...

Soursop juice...(and it tasted REALLY BAD...)

The meals are served and im not sure of the name...

This is " TRIPLE H"..dont ask why cos im not sure myself....

Basically the dishes are served in LARGE plates and LARGE portion..a plate could be shared for 3-4 people at one time...

What i know is that the shop is owned by a Chinese...their workers are from Thailand and majority of their customers are Malays...

P/S: 1 Asia

Different perspective

For two days i had seen and went through a different perspective of life....there are no words to describe the reality of life hidden among the concrete walls and tall skyscrapers of the fast pace of modern society.....even these pictures are part of what i felt and seen....

Sadness & loneliness....individuals & family..being left out in the cold all alone...

Poverty....

I guess it was the right thing for me to be in a different perspective of life.....

P/S: Be thankful for what i had....this pictures are example..i bet reality is harder....