Blessed Birtday Daddy Part 2

Today is my dad’s birthday. If he is still around, we will be celebrating his 68^th birthday at his favourite nasi Indian shop, banana curry rice at Jalan Bendahara, Malacca or some nasi kandar at the alley somewhere in Malacca. If you ask me who taught me to eat Indian food, it must be my dad. I was very young when he first brought me to Indian Shop and we eat and eat until our belly went round. But it was satisfying.

Just a little about my dad. He is a gentle and sweet person. Everybody loves him because of his nature. He rarely scolds or raises his temper to his children and I bet readers here that he will be the first to spoilt my son J. Simply put HE IS NICE.

I had the opportunity to work with him in a particular legal firm. He was handling the office account of the firm and I was doing my chambering. We sat on a tank every day to work. My dad loves continental cars. So this tank was a MP6226 Opel Gemini. It was an old tank. We work together four for months before he went to the Lord.

His all time favourite verse in the book of Matthew, “In my Father’s house there are many mansion”. That was the hope he had for heaven in believing in Jesus. He is always a believer of the faith and who trust God on everything. I know at times when we were in dire strait of money, he will just put his trust in the GREAT I AM. He may not have the gift of healing and miracles or a preacher but he has the great gift of faith in his Maker. He is one who loves God and have taught me everything I need to know about the reverent fear of God and respecting the Word of God such as, when you sleep, your leg should not face the Bible or that the Bible should not be on the floor. It has to be treated with a lot of respect, says dad. He may have nothing to give but he left a legacy in me to love and fear my God.

Well that is my dad, a man of few words, and again Blessed Birthday

Happy Birthday Daddy

Dad, if you are watching this, blessed 68th birthday. Oh dear, I miss you so much, so very much. Like you I'm now a daddy. Like you I love my son, your grand son. Thank you for loving me and having faith in me. I love you. dad.

"GEMUK" dangerous word...dun play play

Two incident when the "GEMUK" was uttered that cause lives of people. The first incident was the stabbing and murdered of a young girl who had playfully uttered the sensitive word and got stabbed 20 times. The second incident was reported in today the Star newspaper titled "Beaten up, stripped and photographed". It was described by the report as a Mafia-style "nine versus one".

As I said, words like this is hell sensitive among school growing children. So moral of the story is, for parents, NEVER TEACH YOUR CHILD THE WORD GEMUK or your child will received a mafia-style treatment.

Ooops will talk about it later....got to finish some work (BRB)

Is it getting worst?

I seriously don't know what is the problem with people these days. A month ago we had little Sherway Ong murdered. She was about 4. Then yesterday Malaysians were shocked again with the abuse and murder of another very young child of only 17 months, Chin Shyan Ping. The post-mortem of suspected abuse victim showed that she died of head injuries sustained from a blunt object. Meaning she was beaten. She died as a result of being abused. What a parent? Now they cry for the death of their loved ones. How unfortunate. But whose fault are these?

It's so easy being a parent. Simply, you had sex with your lover in experimenting what adulthood is and there you go, a new life emerge. Immediately after that young couples in their teens get married and experience life as an adult even though they are still children. Where is the sense of responsibility? Sometimes we have more children by accident but without giving them the proper education and a proper place to live, as parents we became irresponsible. Our greatest responsibility is to see our children be successful. If the child fails to be what he suppose to be, that is the failure of the parent. The parent is to be blamed at the outset.

In the Christian world, my belief, sex is wonderful an beautiful consummate between man and wife. A holy matrimony. Where God created man and woman that they may be fruitful and multiply. That was a command by God to Adam and Eve. It creates responsibility and accountability between one another and the offspring. We are commanded to live and to see our generation and the generation to come. As parents we owe a duty to our children that they have good home to live, good education, good meal, good learning experience and the list goes on. Family is stress free and it all surrounded by love and understanding between children and parent.

Poor Teacher

Good that it is settled. But then again will the students ever learn this mistake. Well, I bet you that the students will continue to do it again. It is a culture within themselves. AND Culture are at times difficult to break away. Disciplining school children can be a very difficult task. Worst still when the parents get themselves very involved when their children gets disciplined. Teachers should be given some leeway in disciplining school children of course within the ambit of the given law. My personal view YES for strong discipline. School children needs it. I remember the days of my father, school discipline is paramount. Why not now?
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Taken from the Star below:

KUCHING: The dust has settled on the “pond squat” issue and SMK Bawang Assan school warden Wee Yim Pien has been forgiven.

She has also apologised to the families for forcing some 170 girl boarders into a fish pond last week.

Wee, 27, who is also the school's English teacher, had meted out the punishment after repeated dumping of sanitary pads in the school's toilet bowls.

The school’s parent-teacher association chairman Jimmy Kiu said: “Everybody has forgiven her.”

He added that the parents and the students want the teacher to stay.

“We do not want the students to suffer as the PMR examination is coming. The incident has been settled in good faith.

“It is hoped that it will not be repeated,” added Kiu in a telephone interview from Sibu yesterday.

The PTA arranged a goodwill meeting on Wednesday to mend fences between Wee and the students and parents.

Present at the gathering were school principal Kandon Ngadi, Sibu, division education officer Charles Tion and Education Ministry representative Shashim Shah.

There were hugs and handshakes, which indicated that the episode was over for Wee and her students.

However, Kiu said that the education department would still have to decide if any action would be taken against the teacher.

Shashim said the education department has submitted a report on its investigations to the ministry.

The school has more than 500 students, including 300 boarders.

Like Father Like Son

Me and Paul when he is like 4 months

I must say he is the love of my life. Paul Elijah Yeo Shean Yeaw that is his name. Long? Just like his Daddy. Born 23.1.2005 he is now two and a half years old. Small size but tall. We have many things in common and we share many things together. We love drinking cold water with an ice which of course is ain't good for him and we enjoy RICE... from chicken rice to nasi lemak to indian rice. Yummy.

Be that as it may, it is always in my prayer and hope, one day, he will be somebody truly better and greater than I.

What is Malaysia becoming to?

Something is seriously wrong with Malaysia. Why is this happening? Rape and other serious crimes are on the rise. Within 6 hours two incident of rape took place in JB where the victims are teenagers. My heart cries with the victims and their family. One was gang raped by form 'animals' and the other by a bogus policeman. This is making Malaysian fuming mad. Looking at it, Malaysia is no more a safe place for people to live. Something has to be done. Things like this cannot be swept under the carpet and telling the whole world that we are ok. The government, police and the public must work together to fight crime. Parents must check on the whereabout of their children and be more responsible to see to the safety of their children.

I lived in a Taman where all races live in harmony. But there is a difference between the Chinese and the Malay families. The Chinese for example will make sure that everybody is in the house by 7.30pm whereas the Malay children in my Taman would be playing sometimes right to 11.00pm. If they are not in the field playing football, they would be in the drain playing hide and sick or seeing these young vulnerable running from house to house as though as they are living in their kampongs regardless of their safety. I was wondering where are their parents. Why aren't the parents be more responsible over the children. Whilst the Chinese parents will be screaming to their children "finish your homework or not".

The newspaper reported about the girl that quarreled with her boyfriend and went to the lake to calm her feelings were there probably at very late evening or at wee hours at night, as the news reported also that another rape took place at about 6.30am. A 6 hours apart that means why and how on earth a teenager girl crying there. Whereas she should be at home STUDYING. Where is her parents? What happen to responsibility? The parents of the girl are to be blamed for such attitude. Something is seriously wrong.