It has been a long time since I have written. Now I got a lot of things to write about.
Well, firstly in Singapore and the rest of the world. The time I am writing now would just have became New Year. So, Happy New Year. Now it is already the start of the Year 2010. Make the most of your life in the Year 2010 by doing things that will benefit others.
I should start to type about the first day of my Singapore Holiday trip but I shall tell you some details. This trip was sponsored by the most generous and kindest man and Guru I have ever met, H.E. Tsem Tulku Rinpoche. When you think about your [.....]
Today was a veeeeery fun day. I went to help out in Tsem Ladrang.
I woke up quite late. I went to the kitchen to have a nice bowl of Banana Nut Flavoured Cheerios. Yum! After that, Mama and I was on our way to Tsem Ladrang. Tsem Ladrang is H.E. Tsem Tulku Rinpoche's household. All the Ladrang staff work almost 24 hours. That is alot of hard work.
When we reached the gate, Mama dropped me of at the gate. I waited at the guard house to get in because I am a visitor. The guards at the Ladrang are very good they work like 24 hours a day too!
The first thing I done was i went to the [.....]
Yesterday I went to watch the Legend of the Conch Shell, the Lama Tsongkhapa play, again after watching it for the first time on the premiere night. The show on the premiere night was good but last nights was better in many ways.
The improved sections are :
" The demons who try to attack TsongkhapaUnfo" scene is improved because it was added a flashing picture of a skull in the background meaning that the demons where trying to make Lama Tsongkhapa so scared of death, he would stop doing the Dharma but the demons did not succeed. They used more confetti in the scenes.The characters show up more often."Presents by Kechara" on the title screen is replaced by "Kechara [.....]
Lately I haven't been writing my blog. Sorry to all who were waiting for my next post.Well now I have got quite a long story.
The First Day, Friday
Friday was just like an average day to some people but the truth is it is Lama Tsongkhapa Day !!!!. All the people of the Gelugpa tradition (Yellow Hat tradition). The people are not a hundred but thousands.
On this auspicious day, H.E. Tsem Tulku gave a Dharma talk. I felt so happy. Rinpoche said that even at the Dalai Lama's palace many people do there to offer oil for the butter lamps or the butter lamps itself or together . (well i guess you get my point ( This is my [.....]
Tomorrow is my birthday. But I am going to be in Penang during my birthday.
The story for today will be about my birthday dinner and my trip to my friends house after that.
The day before yesterday, Mama and I went to buy a cake from Alexis. The cake we bought was a bittersweet chocolate cake. I actually asked for a chocolate mousse cake but I was told that a bittersweet chocolate cake is much tastier.
After that, we went back to office. Mama then selected a "Secret Recipe" cake for me.
After that we went to Kechara Oasis. We were thinking that we were the first to arrive. But when I arrived, Uncle Andrew and Uncle Thierry arrived. [.....]
Yesterday, in the morning, Mama and I went to Sunway pyramid because Mama had to volunteer in Kechara Paradise. I decided to have a walk around Sunway pyramid. I think I lost around 60 calories.
At night, I went to a concert of a singer that is even before Mama's time ----- Boney M. ( trust me she is not boney haha). I had a nice dinner at the concert and her singing was so good I danced till my legs were falling apart.
After that I went home to go to sleep at 12 a.m
Now for today, Today I did not do anything because I mostly stayed at home. But today still has a short story.
I went to [.....]
Yesterday, I was helping a little in KMP ( Kechara Media and Publications ( the office that Mama works in ). Other than that, I was continuing to do my assignment. Mama taught me something new. The thing she taught me was : joyous effort. My concept of joyous effort is that I should happily work for the Dharma now and forever.
At night, just as we were about to have dinner at Boathouse ( a very tasty restraunt in TTDI ( Taman Tun Dr. Ismail ( KL, Malaysia ). Mama had to go to Ladrang. So, I also followed. When we arrived, we went upstairs to Aunty Beng Kooi's office and waited for H.E. Tsem Tulku Rinpoche's phone [.....]
Lately I have not been writing my blog because I was lazy and I was having fun. While I was having fun, I now have a lot to write :)
The day before yesterday, I went to the dog party again. This time, after running around in circles I actually was rewarded by Aunty Susan. The reward was a small cup of milo. The main reason for coming today was not only to let Jannic have a nice walk and have a party. There are two main reasons for coming here today. One was to let Jannic "refresh" her memory for commands like : stay, break, heel etc. The other reason was so that Zamkar could be toilet trained [.....]
I am very sorry for all the people who wanted to view my assignment. Why? Because I have to move my assignment to a Microsoft Word just in case the internet in my house suddenly got destroyed.
Today was a fun day. Why? Because my friend came over.
In the morning, after Zachary ( my friend) reached my house. We took Jannic ( my dog ) to a special dog party.
I just went to do some exercises there because it is at a park.
After that we reached home and Mama and Aunty Susan had to go for a book club. So, for lunch we made two pizzas and they both failed. They were not brown enough but tasted like as [.....]
Today is my graduation day from Kuen Cheng (2) Primary school.
The first part were a few speeches that I did not understand because it was in advanced mandarin.
The first person who gave the first speech was a Year 6 student to represent the Year 6 students who are graduating ( all of them ). Her voice was very soft until I could not here a thing she said.
The second person who gave the second speech was a Year 5 student to represent the rest of the students in Kuen Cheng (2) Primary school. Her voice was softer and softer than the first person...
The third and fourth person to give a speech was the headmaster and a representative [.....]
Today was a horrible day. When I received my exam results, the results were not only bad. It was worse! I actually failed an exam that I prepared so much for. I was so sad, I was crying in school. Later, because I was crying so much they actually had to send me to the school counselor.
The school counselor is a very good teacher. She told me that one failed exam is not the end of the world( which I thought was). She convinced me that what everyone expects is not always what they will receive ( I had to learn that the hard way). The way she taught me stuff is by using gems, toys and sand [.....]
Today is a very big day for me. I am so happy today. Why? It is because I managed to pass the Kuen Cheng High School entrance exam. As a reward Mama will take me out for dinner :)
Most of my friends made it, some did not apply and some failed :'(
Today, I came home in my school bus as usual. One of the kids were chanting :" 2 more days of seeing Sean's face " Even though I think the kid is insulting me because I have two days of my current school left, I still think it has a bit of a tune and seems to rhyme. HaHaHa( sarcastically)
Upon reaching home, I had a tasty lunch [.....]
Today, I was beaten up again in school. Resulting in another slightly bruised arm.
At school, all the Year six students had to dance until our arms and legs almost seemed broken as today, there was a big rehearsal for the graduation ceremony. But by as it seems, it is the headmaster's graduation ceremony. Why? Because he is forcing all the innocent Year 6 students who did not apply for the dancing to dance till they drop.Even though I applied for it, I think someone should stand up for the Year 6 students who did not volunteer for suffering. The way they train us is sometimes painful and hard because they scold us a lot when we don't get [.....]
Today, I beaten up by a young kid who I don't know. Resulting it an arm that has a bruise on it and a hurt back from when he hit me to a chair knocking both the chair and me down and hurting my leg to internally.
Later, at the bus, I was laughed at because I'm fatherless and they also laughed at me when I told them what job I do.
Today, I had a very bad headache which still did not heal after two hours of sleep. The headache still hurts horribly :(
Well, in the good side today, the students managed to watch a video about a man with no arms and legs( but he has a small [.....]
I have a new assignment that could help me become hardworking and not lazy.
I shall start with self confession. I have a lot of things I am supposed to do but in the end, I did not do them. I shall list it out :Do my prayers ( Lama Tsongkhapa's Guru Yoga)Feed Jannic, my dogDo my water offeringsWrite my blog oftenDo my work of compiling H.E. Tsem Tulku Rinpoche's Tweets on twitter and correcting the short form words like : d, ppl, hv,u,ur,urself etc.Do my daily exercises I have done many bad things that I am not supposed to do. I shall list them out too:Play computer. I usually do it for 4-5 hoursWatch Television. estimated 3 hoursSitting [.....]
Today, I went together with Kak Umi to the MidValley mall of Kuala Lumpur.Kak Umi had to collect some money from her friend.
After that, we went to buy some groceries. I bought one token for an arcade game. The arcade game I played was " Hit the Crocodile". It is the game were you have to take a baton and whack plastic crocodiles.
After we went grocery shopping, we both sat down and ate some fish balls together. There wasn't much to do at the mall at all.
Other than that, I just was given a new job. My job is to compile H.E. Tsem Tulku Rinpoche's tweets from Twitter and copy and paste it into Microsoft word and edit [.....]
Lately my Internet was fried by a lightning strike. The lightning strike was very scary. The minute it hit, I was screaming horribly loudly.
I shall start where I did not write, the first thing is: the late MJ's new, second and last movie : This is It !
The movie was quite cool. It was like a concert because they just show songs that the late Micheal Jackson sang before he passed away. The songs included : Smooth Criminal, Beat it, Thriller, Earth Song, Billie Jean and many more. Some of the songs were remade and looked different as they were trying to make some new music videos. They actually wanted to make " Thriller 3-D " and they [.....]
I did not manage to write this on the exact day it happened because I was away from the computer. This is it !
On 31st of October, most of students of Year 6 in SJK(C) Kuen Cheng (2) ( including me) went to a small field trip. ( I will be using the term "we" sometimes in this blog because it is not just myself who went to the small field trip).
Early in the morning, Beatrix and I took off from her house to the school where all the students were supposed to meet up.
When we reached the school, I noticed that the school was awfully quiet because the only people there were most of the Year 6 [.....]
Most of the time, I get bullied at either at school or the school bus. I will tell you about today's story.
At school, I was hit by a "cannonball"( A football(soccer) term for a powerfully kicked ball) on my hip. The guy did not say sorry at all.
After school, I had to go to a very small van with a lot of people then be transferred to another bus which also had a lot of people. In the small van, I was bullied by a two 8 [.....]
I woke up quite early this morning to go to Lam Rim class with Mama and Auntie Susan.
My favorite part of today's Lam Rim class was when Teacher Ngeow was talking about who are fans of Setrap ( the Dharma Protector of Gaden Monastery and Kechara House). I said I was a fan of Tsongkhapa (Tsongkhapa is a three-in-one Buddha because it has the wisdom of Manjushri( the Buddha of wisdom), the compassion of Chenrezig ( the Buddha of compassion ) and the power of Vajrapani ( the Buddha who can protect you from evil force and so forth). Where was I? Oh, yes. After that, Teacher Ngeow asked what kind of shoes does Setrap wear. Later, the [.....]
Today, I went to a birthday party at my friend , Thian Zhang Ming, house. She lives in a pent house. It is a very beautiful house.
I shall start at the beginning of the day, I woke up and an hour later me and Mama left to go to a Hyundai Service Center because my other friend , Zachary Lee-Vincent, will pick me up from the Hyundai Service Center and send me to his house whereas later i will going to Zhang Ming's birthday party.
At Zachary's House, I just played with his PSP( Play Station Portable) and played chess with him.
After that we took of to go to Zhang Ming's party.
Upon arriving there, we started to have some [.....]
On 9/10/09 at 11 p.m.(Friday), Mama, Aunty Jamie and I started our car trip to Penang. We reached Penang at 2 or 3 a.m. the next day.
We stayed one night at my Uncle Stuart's apartment. After having a light breakfast (a sandwich), I showered and waited for my Mama to wake up.
After that we went to Ah Kong (my grandfather) and Por Por (my grandmother)'s house to have a very nice lunch.
After lunch, Mama, Aunty Jamie and I went to Kechara Paradise Penang (KP Penang) to have a [.....]
Anger is bad. It is bad because it can hurt oneself and others. That is why parents totally dislike kids who have bad tempers.
When I got angry in school for being lied to and kicked out of the school soccer team by the soccer teammates, I was scolded by the teacher because I acted out of anger and did not think about what i was doing. Later, I understood that anger only leads to trouble. The first thing is thought while i was being scolded was : " but they did not let me in and they put a horribly weak person on the team instead of me." Later after thinking about it, I thought :" well, maybe [.....]
Today, the whole Standard 6 of SJK(C) Kuen Cheng (2) (including me) visited Kuen Cheng High School.
When we arrived, we were greeted warmly by the counseling teacher and was shown a short presentation and a few short clips regarding the 100 years that Kuen Cheng schools existed. Did you know that Kuen Cheng was one of only few schools that were still teaching students during world war II?The presentation also mentioned that if I take part of a certain activity (regarding computers) I could actually receive some sort of Diploma for ICCT.
After That, we were given a small tour around the school. We went into the computer classroom. The computers were "Acer" brand computers. The computer room does [.....]
Permanent Happiness means free from whatever suffering forever. In Buddhist terms it means " enlightenment". Enlightenment is liberation from suffering. Buddha Shakyamuni's enlightenment as stated in wikipedia (the link for Buddha Shakyamuni's life story in wikipedia is : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gautama_Buddha) is the following:
After asceticism and concentrating on meditation and Anapana-sati (awareness of breathing in and out), Siddhartha is said to have discovered what Buddhists call the Middle Way—a path of moderation away from the extremes of self-indulgence and self-mortification. He accepted a little milk and rice pudding from a village girl named Sujata, who wrongly believed him to be the spirit that had granted her a wish, such was his emaciated appearance. Then, sitting under a pipal tree, now [.....]
Happiness is impermanent because when you want to get something that another person has then you get it, you will be happy. The only problem is your happiness will only last for a very short time. Why? It is because you end up knowing : " Oh, somebody else done it, so what is so special about that? "
When a person has a lot of money, the become happy, but later, they become very scared because they are worried that they would lose all their fortune. In short, "HAPPINESS" CAN CAUSE SUFFERING. So called "happiness" is happiness that will end up in sorrow.
So, if you do not want to feel suffering of "happiness" which involves money, you [.....]
Can I Borrow $25?
A man came home from work late, tired and irritated, to find his 5-year old son waiting for him at the door.
SON: 'Daddy, may I ask you a question?'
DAD: 'Yeah sure, what is it?'
SON: 'Daddy, how much do you make an hour?'
DAD: 'That's none of your business. Why do you ask such a thing?' the man said angrily.
SON: 'I just want to know. Please tell me, how much do you make an hour?'
DAD: 'If you must know, I make $50 an hour.'
SON: 'Oh,' the little boy replied, with his head down.
SON: 'Daddy, may I please borrow $25?'
The father was furious, 'If the only reason you asked [.....]
When I was at school, my teacher, Miss Lim Chau, lent me a book that her husband picked out. The book was called "Tuesdays with Morrie". I thought it was a very touching story about an old man, a professor of sociology named Morrie, dying from a terminal illness, a young man, a young man named Mitch(making this story as real as possible as the author is named Mitch Albom) who was at first the friend of the professor but later they separated because the young man had to have a good life but later they rejoined because the professor was dying and he wanted to be together during their last "lesson" in life (death). The book is [.....]
11 a.m. I woke up late and hurried of to Lam Rim Class with Mama ( My mother( i will be mentioning Mama a lot in my blog ) .
11.40 a.m. I reached Kechara House ( my Buddhist center ) to have Lam Rim class. The topic of today's Lam Rim Class is basically "The Preciousness of Life". Teacher Mr. Ngeow talked about the preciousness of life but my favorite part of today's class was these words : "What you do with your life is how you die but HOW YOU DIE IS HOW YOU ARE REBORN. "
I thought these words are very true because if you are very wealthy, you may grow overweight because of luxurious [.....]
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