Books i've read and bought...
Suddenly after seeing rujj's list i was wondering that maybe i should come up with a list of my own. Well you can say that I am copying but i bet he wont mind...:p
Recently i've been buying more books and paying more visits to MPH and Borders and of course i dont go alone.. so i tag along rujj to come. At first I thought he may not be interested, but to much of my amazement he is cought into this walls of knowledge as I am too, and now this has become one of our latest get together activities with much excitement..
So here is a list of books i have read, and i am going to start cracking my head to see if i can recall the books i have read since god knows when. So if someone passes by this site coincidently and think they have read the same book as i did ... then please do drop me a note :-) cause there is nothing than the feeling of knowing that someone had shared the same experience of reading a book as another person had.. so lets share the experience...
The list of book I've read... in random..
1. The magic Brush
2. Preety star the Pony
3. Lat the Kampung Boy
4. Lat & Lot
5. Cinderella
6. 20,000 leagues under the sea
7. Planet, Stars and the Universe
8. The Da Vinci Code
9. Lost Girls
10. Atic
11. Doraemon
12. The Mahabaratha
13. Vedantha Treatise
14. Hinduism and Rituals
15. The tale of ramayana
16. Bhagavat Gita
17. Eat, Pray Love
18. Huckle Berry Fin
19. Wizard of Oz
20. Carry me home
21. The Empire of the Peocock Throne
22. The GOD of small things
23. The monk who sold his ferrari
24. 7 habits of highly effective people
25. Men are from Mars and Women are from Venus
26. Rich dad... Poor dad
27. The Fall of the Human Intellect
28. Childhood ryhmes - no specific title
29. Prabupada
30. Buddha
31. The Lost Boy - hmmm... weired i have the Lost Girl at 9
32. The Child called it.
33. King Arthur
34. The Anderson fairy Tales
35. Umber to Eco
36. Who moved the cheese
37. The magic safe
38. The inheritance of loss
39. Black Lane
40. The swans
41. To kill a mocking bird
42. The 5 people you meet in heaven
43. The knights of Bushido
44. Beyond coincidence
45. The life of Mahatma Ghandi
46. Living the 7 habits
47. Tun Perak
48. The Bandersnatch
49. Shockwave
50. Rumah
I hope i can continue this.. ofcourse it all depends on my memory.. yaiks...
Sunday, March 16, 2008
Thursday, March 13, 2008
The first signboard in Tamil in Malaysia.
Ahhh.. after a long long time... some changes are making its way....
Thanks to YB Teresa Kok
Thanks to YB Teresa Kok
Thursday, March 6, 2008
Ink chat...
Gov : mai kita beli ink
SPR : kenapa pulak Pak?
Gov : nak saje je ambik sikit duit dari rakyat sebelum di tendang pulak..
SPR :ooo.. cam tu.. boleh boleh.. berapa nak charge.. kita 50 50 yeh
Gov : 2.5 milllion cukup la
SPR : ok - mari kita announce kat TV.. sebelum tu kena check dengan tok dulu..
Tok Masjid : oh sah ink ni takde minyak babi.. boleh kita proceed...
SPR : semua rakyat kena sapu ni ye.. ni warning ni..
Gov : Alamak.. kalau ada ink.. cam mana nak buat "Vote - hantu" tu.. alah lupa la. Suruh SPR kata taknak pakai la
SPR : Ye ke.. ok la.. kita buat je apa you cakap Pak
Gov : Bagui.. sekarang kita ada duit ada vote jugak
SPR : Rakyat tidak akan mengunakan ink. Ini kerana semua akan gaduh.. kita tak mau gaduh. kita nak aman dan damai
SPR dan GOV : Baguilah sekarang.. semua settle... mari kita jual balik ink tu dan bikin lagi 2 juta...
P/S Apologies for the bad malay :p
Our goverment can't even make a simple decision on the usage of INK!! Just think about how they are using our money.. our tax and our expertism for their own gain all this while and possibly after this too!!
SPR : kenapa pulak Pak?
Gov : nak saje je ambik sikit duit dari rakyat sebelum di tendang pulak..
SPR :ooo.. cam tu.. boleh boleh.. berapa nak charge.. kita 50 50 yeh
Gov : 2.5 milllion cukup la
SPR : ok - mari kita announce kat TV.. sebelum tu kena check dengan tok dulu..
Tok Masjid : oh sah ink ni takde minyak babi.. boleh kita proceed...
SPR : semua rakyat kena sapu ni ye.. ni warning ni..
Gov : Alamak.. kalau ada ink.. cam mana nak buat "Vote - hantu" tu.. alah lupa la. Suruh SPR kata taknak pakai la
SPR : Ye ke.. ok la.. kita buat je apa you cakap Pak
Gov : Bagui.. sekarang kita ada duit ada vote jugak
SPR : Rakyat tidak akan mengunakan ink. Ini kerana semua akan gaduh.. kita tak mau gaduh. kita nak aman dan damai
SPR dan GOV : Baguilah sekarang.. semua settle... mari kita jual balik ink tu dan bikin lagi 2 juta...
P/S Apologies for the bad malay :p
Our goverment can't even make a simple decision on the usage of INK!! Just think about how they are using our money.. our tax and our expertism for their own gain all this while and possibly after this too!!
Wednesday, February 6, 2008
EAT PRAY LOVE
I read this book call “EAT PRAY LOVE” by Elizabeth Gilbert a few days ago and I was profound to buy it after she was interviewed by Oprah on how amazingly her life had changed and how good the book was (as recommended by Oprah) .
I have only read the book halfway but something made me to think that I should summarize this book as I read along and put them in the blog as a part of a research. Yes, the research part of it is that her story and her thoughts are almost alike to me.. ( I feel)
Well the book,
The book is about her life and her journey to the 3”I’s” Italy for EAT, India for PRAY and Indonesia for LOVE. She talks about her marriage dispute’s and how she ended up coming to and idea of traveling to this 3 countries with 4 months in each and how the travel had shaped her live and that she found “LOVE” at the end.. or so can say at the beginning of her new life now.
Coming to the point, I only read a few chapters actually and what really captured me is the part from the book where she say’s,
“Saving for later the argument about whether God exist at all (no-here’s a better idea: Let’s skip that argument completely), let me first explain why I use the word God, when I could just as easily use the word Jehovah, Allah, Shiva, Brahma, Vishnu or Zeus. Alternatively, I could call GOD “That”,” which is how the ancient Sanskrit scriptures say it, and which I think comes close to the all inclusive and unspeakable entity I have sometimes experienced. But that “That” feel impersonal to me-a thing, not a being-and I myself cannot pray to That. I need a proper name, in order to fully sense a personal attendance. For this same reason, when I pray, I do not address my prayers to The Universe, The Great Void, The Force.. or even the most poetic manifestation of God’s name, taken, I believe, from the Gnostic gospels: “The Shadow of Turning.”
I have nothing against any of these terms. I feel they are all equal because they are all equally adequate and inadequate descriptions of the indescribable.
Another para of her has attracted me as well, which was amazingly described as below,
“I was born a Protestant of the white Anglo-Saxon persuasion. And while I do love the great teacher of peace who was called Jesus, and while I indeed He would do, I can’t swallow that one fixed rule of Christianity insisting that Christ is the only path to God. Strictly speaking, then, I cannot call myself a Christian. Most of the Christians I know accept my feelings on this with grace and open mindedness. Then again, most of the Christians I know don’t speak very strictly. To those who do speak (and think) strictly, all I can do here is offer my regrets for any hurt feelings and now excuse myself from their business”
Ref :- Eat Pray Love by Elizabeth Gilbert
Well this is what my next Para is going to be about ...
“GOD”
As some of all of us would say… “The divine”, “The one” and so on, well this is surely not the same to one and for all, as there any so many god’s and goddess out there that causes confusion to some on which to believe and which is to not.
Before I go on I would want to clarify here that this topic is of my own personal thoughts, which I don’t want any one who think,they have better or less knowledge about this topic to comment on. I don’t want any opinion about your version of “GOD” because it will surely be different than mine which will be less important to me.
This matter has always been running in my mind. What are rituals? How do they change a person’s lifestyle, till some live and die for it. Some just can’t pass a day without it. Why? Why cage yourself for it? Is it because you’re walking on your 1 leg and need all the other support to walk? What happened to other one? It’s still with you right?
The rituals that I am talking about are not just about a particular religion but also in general. For example; what we are doing at home or at our current country will not be the same when you travel to another country. Which means the rituals do not have a global effect.
I would like to talk about the Hindu rituals here to quote as an example as this is the religion I was born into (not chosen). I am a devoted Hindu but I disagree to most of the Hindu rituals. Rituals are they to guide but not to decide on how your life will be. Belief’s and superstitions such as breaking a coconut and lighting the oil lamp and buying fruits and flowers for the goddess and over spending lots of money unnecessarily for items to the fire is purely a blind folded way of spending money which at the end of the day goes to waste.
Don’t get me wrong here, but let's say you are so used to doing this rituals with the assurance from the priest that your life will be better (with payment) and one day you move to another country where there is no temple or priest. Here is my question “WILL YOU SURVIVE?” or sit and complain each day that you can’t go to the temple to spend your money and to bribe GOD for all the good you need. What would you do?
Well let me guess, you will probably make an alter at home and pray or plan to build a temple somewhere there? Perhaps rite, well so where is GOD? Did you just decided to tell GOD” Dear LORD, there is no temple in this country so would you mind coming to my house, if you can’t it’s ok, I will try to build a temple for you”. What just happened there? You bend the rules of the rituals to allow your self centered self to mould your very own GOD!
Okey… now I dint say temple’s are not necessary. They were built for a community purpose thousands of years ago to gather people with the idea of, “With the presence of GOD” all will act obediently and respectfully, and magically that idea is still well maintained in most temple’s but other than then where did the rituals come from and why did they? To run a temple you will need people to manage and to clean. To do that, no government will pay the priest like a day job, so the temple survives thru donation. Donations come thru the donation box and of course (RITUALS!). Now, if we are visiting a temple and gaining knowledge and utilizing the temple then we should provide a certain amount of token for acknowledgement or to thank the temple and the priest for their service (Isn’t that what they teach us in all the religion – to be thankful) but instead some say “don’t have to give them any money cause they are misusing it” well to bad some don’t know how to appreciate what’s given, but the worst kind’s are some who are the total opposite's. They spend so so much recklessly with their eyes blinded thinking they will attain perfection in life with the more rituals they attend and the big money given to the temple and priest! But, well that’s your loss cause no GOD who created you wants your money for you to learn and live your life properly. The money or ”archanai’s” you are buying is a part of a donation to the temple, and the temple thanks you for your donation by providing you a “coconut with flower and more as a token of appreciation to your kindness”. You can’t just go to the counter at a temple and buy a note for 2.00 to get blessed. You can’t get blessing from 2.00 or thousands or what so ever.. Rituals are there to help the temple and the priest and member of a temple NOT to bring you to GOD!!
HE gave you to this world to do your duty not search and find for HIM back!! Why must he create you to find HIM?
So please decide and think wisely before spending unnecessarily for lame rituals that most temple’s and priest these days mistreat. They are over empowering your weaknesses and so-called giving you the strength and confidence which you already have been gifted by GOD since birth.
What's above is not only for Hindu's.. but its happening for all, everywhere..
More about God..
To be continued…
I have only read the book halfway but something made me to think that I should summarize this book as I read along and put them in the blog as a part of a research. Yes, the research part of it is that her story and her thoughts are almost alike to me.. ( I feel)
Well the book,
The book is about her life and her journey to the 3”I’s” Italy for EAT, India for PRAY and Indonesia for LOVE. She talks about her marriage dispute’s and how she ended up coming to and idea of traveling to this 3 countries with 4 months in each and how the travel had shaped her live and that she found “LOVE” at the end.. or so can say at the beginning of her new life now.
Coming to the point, I only read a few chapters actually and what really captured me is the part from the book where she say’s,
“Saving for later the argument about whether God exist at all (no-here’s a better idea: Let’s skip that argument completely), let me first explain why I use the word God, when I could just as easily use the word Jehovah, Allah, Shiva, Brahma, Vishnu or Zeus. Alternatively, I could call GOD “That”,” which is how the ancient Sanskrit scriptures say it, and which I think comes close to the all inclusive and unspeakable entity I have sometimes experienced. But that “That” feel impersonal to me-a thing, not a being-and I myself cannot pray to That. I need a proper name, in order to fully sense a personal attendance. For this same reason, when I pray, I do not address my prayers to The Universe, The Great Void, The Force.. or even the most poetic manifestation of God’s name, taken, I believe, from the Gnostic gospels: “The Shadow of Turning.”
I have nothing against any of these terms. I feel they are all equal because they are all equally adequate and inadequate descriptions of the indescribable.
Another para of her has attracted me as well, which was amazingly described as below,
“I was born a Protestant of the white Anglo-Saxon persuasion. And while I do love the great teacher of peace who was called Jesus, and while I indeed He would do, I can’t swallow that one fixed rule of Christianity insisting that Christ is the only path to God. Strictly speaking, then, I cannot call myself a Christian. Most of the Christians I know accept my feelings on this with grace and open mindedness. Then again, most of the Christians I know don’t speak very strictly. To those who do speak (and think) strictly, all I can do here is offer my regrets for any hurt feelings and now excuse myself from their business”
Ref :- Eat Pray Love by Elizabeth Gilbert
Well this is what my next Para is going to be about ...
“GOD”
As some of all of us would say… “The divine”, “The one” and so on, well this is surely not the same to one and for all, as there any so many god’s and goddess out there that causes confusion to some on which to believe and which is to not.
Before I go on I would want to clarify here that this topic is of my own personal thoughts, which I don’t want any one who think,they have better or less knowledge about this topic to comment on. I don’t want any opinion about your version of “GOD” because it will surely be different than mine which will be less important to me.
This matter has always been running in my mind. What are rituals? How do they change a person’s lifestyle, till some live and die for it. Some just can’t pass a day without it. Why? Why cage yourself for it? Is it because you’re walking on your 1 leg and need all the other support to walk? What happened to other one? It’s still with you right?
The rituals that I am talking about are not just about a particular religion but also in general. For example; what we are doing at home or at our current country will not be the same when you travel to another country. Which means the rituals do not have a global effect.
I would like to talk about the Hindu rituals here to quote as an example as this is the religion I was born into (not chosen). I am a devoted Hindu but I disagree to most of the Hindu rituals. Rituals are they to guide but not to decide on how your life will be. Belief’s and superstitions such as breaking a coconut and lighting the oil lamp and buying fruits and flowers for the goddess and over spending lots of money unnecessarily for items to the fire is purely a blind folded way of spending money which at the end of the day goes to waste.
Don’t get me wrong here, but let's say you are so used to doing this rituals with the assurance from the priest that your life will be better (with payment) and one day you move to another country where there is no temple or priest. Here is my question “WILL YOU SURVIVE?” or sit and complain each day that you can’t go to the temple to spend your money and to bribe GOD for all the good you need. What would you do?
Well let me guess, you will probably make an alter at home and pray or plan to build a temple somewhere there? Perhaps rite, well so where is GOD? Did you just decided to tell GOD” Dear LORD, there is no temple in this country so would you mind coming to my house, if you can’t it’s ok, I will try to build a temple for you”. What just happened there? You bend the rules of the rituals to allow your self centered self to mould your very own GOD!
Okey… now I dint say temple’s are not necessary. They were built for a community purpose thousands of years ago to gather people with the idea of, “With the presence of GOD” all will act obediently and respectfully, and magically that idea is still well maintained in most temple’s but other than then where did the rituals come from and why did they? To run a temple you will need people to manage and to clean. To do that, no government will pay the priest like a day job, so the temple survives thru donation. Donations come thru the donation box and of course (RITUALS!). Now, if we are visiting a temple and gaining knowledge and utilizing the temple then we should provide a certain amount of token for acknowledgement or to thank the temple and the priest for their service (Isn’t that what they teach us in all the religion – to be thankful) but instead some say “don’t have to give them any money cause they are misusing it” well to bad some don’t know how to appreciate what’s given, but the worst kind’s are some who are the total opposite's. They spend so so much recklessly with their eyes blinded thinking they will attain perfection in life with the more rituals they attend and the big money given to the temple and priest! But, well that’s your loss cause no GOD who created you wants your money for you to learn and live your life properly. The money or ”archanai’s” you are buying is a part of a donation to the temple, and the temple thanks you for your donation by providing you a “coconut with flower and more as a token of appreciation to your kindness”. You can’t just go to the counter at a temple and buy a note for 2.00 to get blessed. You can’t get blessing from 2.00 or thousands or what so ever.. Rituals are there to help the temple and the priest and member of a temple NOT to bring you to GOD!!
HE gave you to this world to do your duty not search and find for HIM back!! Why must he create you to find HIM?
So please decide and think wisely before spending unnecessarily for lame rituals that most temple’s and priest these days mistreat. They are over empowering your weaknesses and so-called giving you the strength and confidence which you already have been gifted by GOD since birth.
What's above is not only for Hindu's.. but its happening for all, everywhere..
More about God..
To be continued…
Things to complain….
It’s Chinese new year and I am stuck at work with nothing to do!! This is really bad.. I don’t like getting paid with no work done it’s like just “makan gaji” for the next 2 days and I feel bad to do that to my company.. hmm.. ok to much rite.. ehem well I think I will take that back.. ;-)
Well, So many things to share and all, but now days I am a bit clueless on how and what to start on. My so call writing skills has seriously gone down the drain. Sometimes my ideas and thoughts move too fast that I can’t capture and put them to words. Like trying to catch a train moving so fast and then you give up to get on it.
Actually I would like to write something.. let see how it goes.. (My next entry)
Well, So many things to share and all, but now days I am a bit clueless on how and what to start on. My so call writing skills has seriously gone down the drain. Sometimes my ideas and thoughts move too fast that I can’t capture and put them to words. Like trying to catch a train moving so fast and then you give up to get on it.
Actually I would like to write something.. let see how it goes.. (My next entry)
Monday, January 7, 2008
I AM LEGEND - not me ler
I AM LEGEND by Will Smith
Have to say one of the best movie i have seen for now. What a brilliant acting it was. Fantastic setup, simple yet was taken so creatively taken that I am wondering now "is sky the limit"... nah.. not anymore.. perhaps the moon is the limit.. since that’s the furthers someone has been too...
Anyway... no one else.. i mean seriously.. no one else could have acted in that role other than smith himself.. he proved all actors right.. not just American actors but Indian actors as well!
Honestly I am running out of words to tell about this movie. It was something so different, mind-blowingly unacceptable but logical, brilliantly challenging yet simple with a human touch.
You know he was the only guy who acted in the movie.. besides the other people who just added a bit of a dash.. He was all alone in this movie and he just nailed man. Strong to the wall.. The directory surely did know that no one else could have played this role better than him..
Will did a role where he had to show all human emotions when you are the only person alive in this world!! I mean.. who would have thought of that. Even with billions of people around us each day we do sometimes say that we have no one this world.. but just image if that is really true.. if there is really no other single soul than you yourself.. how would you be? Well that’s the unthinkable rite.. and WILL acted that. He showed all emotions so well.. that most of the shots we taken once (1 single shot), not multiple shots for one emotional scene. His acting was out of the mind.. he proved.. from the time he started as the all loving "Fresh prince of Bell-Air" till I AM LEGEND.. that he is truly a LEGEND.. that I will always cherish....
I would really want to write more about this movie.. but what i write here is not gonna be close to the experience of you watching it...
Please watch this movie.. if you would like to experience real, not fake but real human emotions and expressions..
He is the legend…
Thursday, January 3, 2008
Something..
Yesterday, I was walking down by the lake of cyberjaya which was just beside my office. It was so lonely and beautiful, that the scenary made me to ponder upon so many things. Maybe it was just not the scenary.. but the silence.. the silence that can take our minds to so many places.. to where ever we want..
The beauty of nature can't be spoken... its bliss... something that we all should once in a while just quitely listen.. as we listen it will tell us thousands of secrets.. Secrets and questions that will open our heart to ourselves... Nature... close to God....
As i was sitting and listening to the waves of the lake.. i was wondering about "what i like".. and then a whole bunch of list came by..
I Like to hear the sound of water...
beauty of the blue sea
the birds chirping
the soft wind...
children...
colorful home
good food.. even mamak is counted...
watch good movies...
read books till i cant stop..
being at home.. with everyone.. including.. rujjy..
going out with rujjy...his sis.. and the family..
cooking ... baking chocolate cakess..he loves it..
dancing.. singing... watching tv...
listenin to songs.. so loud when i drive...
seeing my father smile..
so so much.. that iam a lil blur now.. will continue soon... :p
....The beginning.....
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