vote wisely

Our Malaysian 13th General Election is here. I’ll vote wisely for the right candidates. I pray this for every one of us. God bless us all and Malaysia!

being grateful

I count my blessings. I remember a quote by a wise man; “Life can be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.” I agree with it. Only when I reflect on how I got through my life challenges and difficulties that I know I have been blessed beyond words and my imagination.

When troubles come, stick with it. It is like a teacher and only when the lesson is learnt, it will leave our lives. And if we are slow in correcting ourselves or learnt from it, it’ll still trouble us…again and again.

When it comes, assess its root cause, seek the counsel of the wise, set their advice into our action, set our action into motion, persevere until it is overcome.

There is a story of a great Teacher, who walked on the sea towards His disciples who were in a boat. A disciple of His named Peter was called to walk on water towards him. Peter obeyed and walked on the raging sea towards Him. Peter was amazed. But he looked at the raging waves and started to doubt. He then began to sinking. The Teacher saved him and asked, “Peter, why did you doubt?’ The lesson is when we are going through the raging situations created by our life challenges, focus on the goal and the resources we had put in place to overcome them instead of focusing on the challenges itself.

So, in conclusion…be focus and persevere. And all of these troubles will come to past. Cheers!

my light bulb moment

I had a “light bulb” moment recently. It’s like a switch had been turned on and the light was shining on an area that has come into sharper focus and stronger scrutiny; the coming thirteenth general election of Malaysia.

I have heard and watch campaigns on both sides and I have discussed and heard many opinions. One biggest thing and the surest one, is that we have been ‘controlled’ to perceive all policies in certain ways. In fact, the word government comes from two root words; ‘govern’ which means to control and ‘men’ which means the mind. Hence the word government means to control the mind. I love Abe Lincoln’s Gettysburg address which ends with “government of the people, by the people and for the people so that the government shall not perished…”.

My point is this. There will be somethings we are passionately brewing within our subconscious minds awaiting for the right timing to manifest and brought to light and impact us, our lives, the people with us and maybe, in accordance to our calling, the community and/or our country…

We are all created for a meaningful, personal and deep purpose. And only when we have taken action on our purpose that we experience fulfillment; we find our place in our living or we realize what and why we are here for.

Never cease to discover this for ourselves. Always serve, freely give and explore continuously. And in the end, we’d know that our lives mattered. We’d acknowledged we lived to the fullest. We’d be comforted that we did our best. We’d know we are leaving our legacy.