Brother Paul, I Salute You!

The retirement of Brother Paul Ho brought to a close the 157-year presence of the La Salle Brothers in Malaysia.

I salute you, Brother Paul!

Brother Paul has done much especially to help the “academically challenged” students, by setting up the Bakery Section, teaching these special students some living skills. My son was specially transferred from MBS to SXI solely to enroll him in the Bakery class. He is now a very happy chef earning an honest living with his skilful hands.

It is with tears in my eyes to see the last of such dedicated educationist. SXI will face the same problem as what its sister Convent Light Street (CLS) is facing now, following the retirement of its previous principal. If you listen carefully in the You Tube, Brother Paul appeared very apprehensive for the future of SXI.

For those who are not aware of CLS problem, the Department that is supposed to handle education policies is the culprit. It is this sickening attitude that we are served with mediocre replacements, mostly done on purpose to stifle the progress of the school(s). I just cannot understand the mindset of these people with little minds. What have they to gain by creating problems to the “Christian Missionary” schools?

Guan Eng in HK TVB Special Programme.

Hong Kong TVB Special Programme on Penang Chief Minister Lim Guan Eng 香港无线电视节目- [檳城在望] Please help to share this with as many people as possible, especially those who don't understand Chinese.

It's a series of 3 parts. You can follow up the other two parts over You Tube after viewing the first part here.

If you can't find parts 2 and 3, then click HERE and HERE.

Don't celebrate on Father's Day !

Mommy and the baby, the day of joy;
or was it the day "pay-back" time began?
(Picture taken on 17 Nov 1982)

Today is supposed to be Father's Day. The title of this post is for you to ponder and to share your views. Why celebrate only on Father's Day? This day, today, if you bring your father to a restaurant for lunch or dinner, you'll give your father a headache. First you'll complain when you arrive finding no place to park your car. Then when you get to the restaurant, it's full and you didn't make any prior reservation. But don't despair, since they are in the business of making money, they'll squeeze you in one corner of the corridor or walkway! That doesn't make Dad happy. Then the long wait for the food, and the hefty bill for the lousy food. AAAh...now can take Dad home. He should feel happy!!

If you want to make your father happy, celebrate the day or the week before the actual day, and tell your father that the actual day is not worth "celebrating", but will call in to have quality time with him in the park. Then tell him the day or the week after the actual Father's Day, you'll give him another lunch/dinner.

How's that??

Incidentally, I received a comment from my daughter in one of my posting about my Mother. This was what she wrote:

Joyce Chu said...

There are many things that most people fail to share with the people they love. We take them forgranted at times and tend to think that they will always be there.

Sometimes we don't say the things we could have, should have and would have and by the time we realize it, it's far too late.

A simple act of telling your father and mother that you love them is sometimes almost impossible, because you just cannot find the right words that sum up or even compare to the immeasurable love that they have for you.

So for this "Father's Day" I would like to say to both of my parents that they do indeed mean the world to me. For the innumerable times I have disappointed them, hurt them and failed to say "I love you" when it mattered most, their love has never faltered.

At times, we say things that hurt each other, but we only do it because we care and we hurt inside to see that the person we love is not doing things right or hurting others around them.

So, dad, this Father's Day I just wanted to remind you that I do love you and mom very much and that you are always the "man of the hour" to me. :)

Your daughter, Joyce.

For those who know me, this daughter has been a big problem. My wife and I are now taking care of her daughter full time. Each day when I give my granddaughter the shower, my heart aches. This is Father's Day for me.


Happy Father's Day!!

A brief break to learn new tricks!

For those of you who are my regulars, you would notice a slight slack in my postings in terms of content and regularity. I am not running out of steam, but has been very busy learning new tricks in the internet world. My good blogger friend, "A true Malaysian", knows what I'm into nowadays.

Please give me some time and I hope I shall catch up with my postings again in due course.

In the meantime , please enjoy this interlude from You Tube:

Where is the password?

Birds have feelings too.

Tragedy of a pair of loving swallows:

The female bird was injured and the condition was fatal.

She was hit by a car as she swooped low across the road.

The male partner brought her food and attended to her

with love and compassion.

He brought her food again but was shocked to find her dead.

He tried to move her....a rarely-seen effort for swallows!

Realizing that his sweetheart was dead and would never

come back to him again, he shrieked with adoring love.

He stood beside her, saddened by her death.

Still calling for her.

Finally regaining his composure, he stood helplessly

beside her body with sadness and sorrow.

Millions o f people cried after seeing these pictures in America and Europe and even in India . It was said that the photographer sold these pictures for a nominal fee to the most famous newspaper in France . All copies of that newspaper were sold out on that day these pictures were published. And many people think animals don't have a brain or feelings?????

Blessings!