On Going A Jounery To Mountain Kinabalu

School holiday is star tomorrow; I will going to conquer Mountain Kinabalu tomorrow until 18 of March 2009. Within this few days, I can’t continue to write my blog regularly. I will be continuing after return back from Sabah.

The pleasantest thing in the world is going a journey like this; but I prefer to go by myself. I can enjoy society in a class room; but out of doors, nature is company enough for me. I am then never less alone than when alone.

“The fields his study, nature was his book”.

I can’t see the wit of walking and talking at the same time. When I am the country I wish to vegetate like the country. I am not for criticizing hedge-rows and black cattle. I go out of town in order to forget the town and all that is in it. There are those who for this purpose go to mountaineering-places and carry the metropolis with them. I like more elbowroom and fewer encumbrances.

The soul of a journey is liberty, perfect liberty, to think, feel, feel, do, just as one pleases. We go a journey chiefly to be free of all impediments and of all inconveniences; to leave ourselves behind, much more to get rid of others. It is because I want a little breathing-space to muse on indifferent matters. That I absent myself from the town for a while, without feeling at a loss the moment I am left by myself.

求于人,即多苦

亲爱的母亲：

爸爸非圣人，圣人都会有过错，何况爸爸是凡夫俗子。他生性急躁，除非自己能力所办不到的事，要不然他决不会冒冒然求助他人。有求于他人即多苦，如一味的要求人，只会自己招来无穷的苦恼。所以爸爸那急躁的个性及不求人的态度造成了这次的交通事故。 一个缺口的杯子，如果换一个角度看它，它仍然是圆的。所以我们须从另一个角度来对待爸爸，爸爸永远还是我们亲爱的父亲。祝：太阳光大，父母恩大

Learn To Live In The Present Moment –- At Moscow

This is the magnified version of IKEA. Higher resolution as well, so that you can see the вход beneath, which means enter... the meaning of here is the Entrance. -- Yi Jun

Yi Jun write in his blog “Days In Moskva” on 8 March 2009 about “Auchan Session”. He feels that is always the hard time in Moscow when he is going to shopping. He spends around 2400 Rubles to buy stuff -- about RM240. I can imagine what a difficult time if he buy so much of thing, and he have to carry all the way back with public transport to his dome without any aid of others. The shopping there is not as nice as what we have in Malaysia, where we can drive the car into the basement parking lot which then later takes the escalator right into the shopping mall with trolley. Over Russia life more like suffering all the time. Thinking back in Malaysia, he realizes how lucky he was. But those were the nice old days.

To a large degree, the measure of our peace of mind is determined by how much we are able to live in the present moment. Irrespective of what happened yesterday or last year and what may not happen tomorrow, the present moment is where you are – always!

Without question, many of us have mastered the neurotic art of spending much of our lives worrying about a variety of things – all at once. We allow past problems and future concerns to dominate our present moments, so much so that we end up anxious, frustrated, depressed and hopeless. On the flip side, we also postpone our gratification, our stated priorities and our happiness, often convincing ourselves that “someday” will be better than today. Unfortunately, the same mental dynamics that tell us to look toward the future will only repeat themselves so that “someday” never actually arrives. John Lennon once said, “Life is what’s happening while we’re busy growing up and people we love are moving away and dying, our bodies are getting out of shape and our dreams are slipping away. In short, we miss out on life.

Many people live as if life were a dress rehearsal for some later date. It isn’t. In fact, no one has a guarantee that he or she will be here tomorrow. Now is the only time we have and the only time that we have any control over. When our attention is in the present moment, we push fear from our minds. Fear is the concern over events that might happen in the future – we won’t have enough money, our children will get into trouble, we will get old and die whatever.

To combat fear, the best strategy is to learn to bring your attention back to the present. Mark Twain said, “I have been through some terrible things in my life, some of which actually happened.” I don’t think I can say it any better. Practice keeping your attention on the here and now. Your efforts will pay great dividends.

真正的好人从尽孝开始

亲爱的母亲：

父亲在痛苦中不告而别，他的离别让我深深感触到父亲的伟大。从回忆中我把他生平的点点滴滴用文字记录下来，然后恳求伊浚把它打成电脑放进部落格内；让子孙追思父亲生平的事迹。
父亲可算是尽了做爸爸的责任。虽然他自幼失其父；但夜半会为孩子扑被。虽然他受教育不深；但曾督导孩子读书写字。虽然他童年无温饱；但他工作半夜回家不忘打包夜宵。虽然他会打骂妻儿；但从未遗弃这个家庭。他养活了我们一家人；所以我们做子女的须懂得尽孝道，能孝才有善，真正的好人从尽孝开始。祝：安心有福。

Our New Neighbor

There was a funny family with two young kids’ just moves in opposite our house. This new neighbor lived in the house number 8. The husband and wife were same character as the old house owner who wouldn’t let everyone park a single car in front their house. They even chase away anyone with scold even we did not block their gate door. Sometime they also simply throw rubbish in front their own house. What a nasty neighbor. The wife even throws a pair of her slipper to our dog. Look at the picture as a prove. I feel it’s funny. For me, all of this just a small matter, I not bother so much!

It is not enough for us to say, “I love God”; but I also have to love my neighbor. St. John says that you are a liar if you say you love god and you don’t love your neighbor. How can you love God whom you do not see, if you do not love your neighbor whom you see, whom you touch, with whom you live? And so it is very important for us to realize that love, to be true, has to hurt. We must be willing to give whatever it does not to harm other people and in fact to do well to them. This requires that we be willing to give until it hurts. Otherwise, there is no true love in us and we bring injustice, not peace to those around us.

It hurts Jesus to love us. We have been created in his image for greater things, to love and to be loved. We must “put on Christ”, as Scripture tells us. And so we have been created to love as he loves us. Jesus makes himself the hungry one, the naked one, the homeless one, the unwanted one and he says, “You did it to me.” On the last day he will say to those on his right, “whatever you did to the least of these, you did to me,” and he will also say to those on his left, “whatever you neglected to do for the least of these, you neglected to do it for me.”

When he was dying on the Cross, Jesus said, “I thirst.” Jesus is thirsting for our love, and this is the thirst for everyone, poor and rich alike. We all thirst for the love of others that they go out of their way to avoid harming us and to do good to us. This is the meaning of true love, to give until it hurts.