Key to Heaven

Once, someone asked Jesus

"Lord, is it true that few people will be saved?"

Jesus answered "Do your best to enter by the narow door, for many, I tell you, will try to enter and will not be able. When once the master of the house had got up and locked the door, you will stand outside; then you will knock at the door calling: 'Lord, open to us."

Luke 13: 23-25

This was part of the Gospel reading for today and the priest's sermon was very good.. so i thought of sharing it with whoever is reading it now.. hehe..

Do your best to enter by the narrow door, for many will try and will not succeed.

Now Jesus said that the door to Heaven is narrow.. Why is that so? Why does God wants to make us suffer by going through the hard way?Isn't God all loving and kind?

What God wants to tell us today is that although He is loving and kind, He only permits those who deserves it. So what qualifies us to enter His Kingdom then??

Is it by being a priest? By holding position in the church? By going to Sunday mass and listening to the Word of God?

NO!!!!!

The only thing that qualifies us to go to Heaven is this

LIVING OUR FAITH..

If we were to treat the people around us in kindness, in giving alms and self sacrifice, that would qualify us to enter the Kingdom of God. It definitely is not bad to hold position in church, to come every Sunday and listen to the Word of God.. but the thing is..

Do we live our faith OUTSIDE of the church, or are we only faithful in a confinement of the church compound?

that is the challenge, to live our Christian faith outside of the church.

If our faith is only confined inside the church, we might find ourselves outside, knocking and knocking at the door, but the door will not be opened..

I will end with a short story..

A dying sewer asked his brothers to come together before he dies.. when they are all gathered, the dying brother said to his brothers

"Bring me my key to Heaven"

all the other brothers were puzzled at their eldest brother request. Again their eldest brother said

"Bring me my key to Heaven"

this time, they realized what their eldest brother wanted.. and they brought to him a needle.
the dying brother said

"with this small needle, i worked day and night to build the Kingdom of God."

What is your key to Heaven my brothers and sisters in Christ?

So what if you are a poor sewer? as long as you do good, it doesn't matter what your position in the world is..

God Bless~

Malaysian

It's been a long time since i last blogged.. part of it is because i have nothing much to blog, and another part of it is attributed to... no mood to blog.. hurmm..

today i was in Giant doing some shopping and there is a long queue at the counter. in front of me is this indian guy, holding a pair of shoes.. he only has one item which is the shoe..

in front of him is 2 malay women who have tons of things on their trolly. so u know what they did? they gave way to the indian guy to pay for his shoes first..

wow.. now that's WOW.. in this world where we live in now, to see that act of kindness, it really showed me that our world is not lost of hope.. in a world where human bite human, it's refreshing to see people treating other people so kind, eventhough they are of different religion and race..

Malaysian Spirit? haha.. maybe.. as we celebrate our 50th Merdeka, let us not forget the people around us who share the same land and sky..

Happy Independance Day..

MERDEKA!!

Of front brain and mid brain

Poor shyuan.. hahaha.. these few days i always tell her that her front brain is not working and her mid brain is taking control.. she has no idea what i am talking about i suppose.. hehe.. so i am going to explain a bit on what i am all talking about

Last sunday, in The Star (Fit for Life) there is an article on how our brain works when we are in love.. so all information i got is from that paper..

to start, our brain is divided into three parts which are the hind brain, the mid brain and the front brain..

the hind brain controls all our coordination and balancing, the front brain controls all our thinking and reasoning.. that is where all our logic comes from.. whereas the mid brain.. jeng jeng jeng.. controls our primitive instinct like LOVE(cough shyuan cough), sex and hunger.

so the article says that during lovey-dovey period, the front brain gives way to the mid brain to do the thinking.. which u might already know now that mid brain isn't really thinking.. that is why people who are in love do really dumb things.

for example.. you in your right mind won't drive from perak to johor in a single night.. but for a loved one, you will..

the front brain might be saying :oh come on.. you are tired, u need some rest or else u might have an accident

but the mid brain will say something like: shut up.. my love is in trouble.. and i will be there..

so generally when people are in love, they really sometimes do dumb things no matter how smart they are, because their mid brain is in control.. not really the person's fault but it's just biological.. hehehe

God Bless~

The Good in Hurting

Newspapers are great source of reading material aren't they? I love it most when they have some articles that i can really relate to.. haha like today's The Star (StarMag)

The title of the article is 'The Good in Hurting' and it is written by A. Asohan..

in his article, he gave a few prominent names (which i have never heard of.. XD) and relate how their failure and hurts builds their lives.. to quote the article

"It is through pain that we define ourselves, it is through hardship that we rise higher"

I agree with that statement, but another statement struck me more.. and it got me thinking because i never realised it until like... i read it.. Homer(from the Simpsons) must have been 'D'oh-ing me for not realizing that.. but lets see whether or not u realise it ok.. hehe..

the fact is

"We do less thinking when we are happy. Joy is experiential, sorrow is cognition."

now wait a minute.. sorrow?? that is cognition?? u realise that?? only after reading that and starting to think, yeah.. it does make sense.. we always think about the bad things and "why me" when things go wrong.. but when things go right, we are just happy and rarely we will think "why me? why am i happy?" so true ya..

to continue the article:

"We feel more when we're happy, we think more when depressed. When we are happy, we don't think about it. But there's a powerful need in us want to explain our pain, to dwell on it, to examine it meticulously. We are more creative in expressing our sorrows than we are in expressing our joys."

that got me thinking of another question.. why so? why do humans only think when in their sad times and not think when in their good times? is it because hurts are associated with failure and thus we tend to look at why we fail rather than why we succeed? hmm.. i don't have an answer to that.. maybe i will take this question to Dr. Goh.. mwehehe..

oh and by the way, i haven't watch The Simpsons yet

God Bless~

Memories

yesterday night when i was on the verge of sleeping, tons of past memories came flooding into my mind... memories of my primary school friends, how we played police and thief, how we played lastik-lastik, catch tadpoles, catching spiders and fighting with it.. how life was so worry-less.. haha

then came memories of my secondary school.. how we used to sit behind and talked about all the funny and 'yam' things.. hahaha.. how i loved my add maths tuition teacher.. Ah Seng..

then came to my foundation year.. how much have i learnt about work that year.. mainly from Student Council ler.. miss Mel's bimbo-ism and her sheepish laughter.. haha.. and yes.. how can i forget last year's ball.. C'est Magnifique..

It really was a great experience.. words can't discribe it...

How could i forget all the wonderful friends i found there?? haha.. we have gone through thick and thin and have lots of trips together for holidays.. like PD, Bukit Tinggi, River and Barbeque night..

sad.. sad to say this holiday didn't go anywhere.. before holiday begun, we got plans on where to go.. but time passes and we didn't go anywhere..

but all of those are very sweet memories.. thank God for blessing me so much

God Bless~

Growing up and racial unity?

Today i was soooooooooooo bored that i went out to take a ride on my bicycle.. i took a few rounds around my taman and i was cycling beside my primary school(it's a kebangsaan school by the way).. as the field of the school is beside the road, i can see clearly what is going on in the field of the school..

and i saw something really magnificent.. a lot of boys are playing football together and the girls are playing with their skipping rope.. but that is not the awesome part.. haha

a stone's throw away, a chinese boy is playing alone.. he is playing with sands and apparently he is building his own sand kingdom..

i stopped cycling and performed my NATURALLISTIC OBSERVATION.. muahaha.. u guys didn't think that was coming right?? XD XD

not long after that, a malay boy joined in to play with the chinese boy, and he started to build sand castles too.... by using a con.. then came in another malay boy and finally an indian boy joined them..

they all played together without any ristrictions among them, as if they were from the same backgrounds... and it got me pondering, does growing up have a negative effect towards racial unity?

as far as i remember, i WAS once very close with my malay and indian counterparts. i do have lots of good malay friends when i was in primary school like badiuz, yasir, faidi, and aiman. but over the course of time, we drifted apart..

i wonder how people from chinese schools get along with malay and indians.. and how tamil schools get along with chinese and malay in the future...hurmm.....

i believe that racial unity can be achieved

"if only we can see the world through the eyes of our young ones."

God Bless~

Beautiful Girl

You're way too beautiful girl
Thats why it'll never work
You'll have me suicidal, suicidal
When you say it's over
Damn, all these beautiful girls
They only want to do you dirt
They'll have you suicidal, suicidal
When they say its over

See it started at the park
used to chill after dark
Oh when you took my heart
Thats when we fell apart
cause we both thought, that love lasts forever (lasts forever)
They say we're too young, to get ourselves sprung
Ooh we didn't care we made it very clear
And they also said that we couldn't last together (last together)
See it's very devine, you're one of a kind
But you mash up my mind, you haffi get declined
Oh lord, my baby is driving me crazy

(Chorus)
You're way too beautiful girl
Thats why it'll never work
You'll have me suicidal, suicidal
When you say it's over
Damn all these beautiful girls
They only want to do you dirt
They'll have you suicidal, suicidal
When they say its over

It was back in 99
Watching movies all the time
Oh, when I went away for doing my first crime
And I never thought that we was gonna see each other (see each other)
And then I came out
Mami moved me down south
Oh I'm with my girl
Who I thought was my world
It came out to be that she wasn't the girl for me (girl for me)
See it's very devine, you're one of a kind
But you mash up my mind, you haffi get declined
Oh lord, my baby is driving me crazy

(Chorus)
You're way too beautiful girl
Thats why it'll never work
You'll have me suicidal, suicidal
When you say its over
Damn all these beautiful girls
They only want to do you dirt
They'll have you suicidal, suicidal
When they say its over

Now were fussing and now were fighting
Please tell me why I'm feeling slighted
And I don't know how to make it better (make it better)
You're dating other guys, you're telling me lies
Oh I can't believe what I'm seeing with my eyes
I'm losing my mind and I don't think its clever (think its clever)

You're way too beautiful girl
Thats why it'll never work
You'll have me suicidal, suicidal, suicidal

Work

Quite a number of days didn't update my blog already.. haha.. busy with my work.. as a telemarketer.. and that work is... not so suitable for me la..

it's very tiring too.. and because of that, i got flu and cough.. hahaha.. the good thing that i derived from this job though is talking as politely as possible to people.. a test of patience and endurance..

a brief explanation of my day.. get up 6.15 then off to work at around 7.00. reach office at 8.00 and start work.. lunch at around 12.. and then continue working until 5 something.. *they say work until 5, but normally they will hold us back for another few minutes* go eat dinner and sleep.. yeah.. that's about how my one week passed..

initially wanted to take photos with my so called superiors like Glenda and Adrian, but then see them so busy.. didn't take with them.. haha..

got take a few photos though with friends.. but i haven't got the photos yet.. will upload them once i got it.. eehehehe