A Song..
Do you still remember a song, starting with..”Allah, peliharakan Sultan….”. (It is more or less “Allah, I beg your blessing to our Sultan…”. )
You may not, if you are not from Johore. That song that I mention is the state song of Johore. We sang this song often enough, almost every week during school assemblies.
Well, if you did ever sang this song, what was Allah meant to you?
For me, I had never thought about it during school time. What I felt was, no matter what Allah (God) to be referred to, as long as our Sultan was blessed, we as people of the state were blessed.
However, maybe my understanding was wrong in totality. The ‘Allah’ can only be referring to one, not any others. So I prayed to the wrong target for all this while. What was in my mind while singing the song, was some other rather than the one. What about you? The answer is up to your own believe.
Take the discussion back to the track, not burning buildings. After all, we will be all loser, what for?
What’s So Wrong with the Word?
People are organizing demonstration for the usage of one word? Isn’t that something not so right? Are we a country that still respect to court ruling or we think that we can do anything to against it? Well, if the logic is we can demonstrate if we don’t agree with the outcome, then why a lot more public demonstration against un-reasonable court decision got categorized as illegal?
Just for a word, people burning other peoples’ holy place. If religion still make it’s sense, we should love each other no matter what believe we have. When it went so wrong, what’s the rational behind which the police never take harsh action against the people?
Are we still a country that is rational and relevant in this world which people are more and more open minded, willing to accept different? What’s wrong with the people?
End up Malaysia has been eyed as “.. still struggling to uphold basic freedoms.”. Do still have a hope so far? 1Malaysia? 1-Funny-Malaysia?
张集强硕士主讲的"人文课程系列14：建筑、都市与文化遗产保存"
I am sorry if you can not read below, you are most likely won’t be interested in it. This is notice about a course about Preserving National Heritage Buildings. Anyway I will be attending it and shall share with fellow friends what is it all about. For those interested, come and join us.
各位同学朋友，由张集强硕士主讲的"人文课程系列14：建筑、都市与文化遗产保存"将在14/01/2010 (星期四)，7.30pm开课。
课程为期12周，于每周四的晚上七点半至九点半在隆雪陈氏书院讲堂上课，授课媒介语为中文。课程导师张集强硕士现是UCSI大学建筑系讲师，台湾中原大学建筑硕士；张集强是个积极参与本土古迹修复暨文化保存教育工作者，也是抢救希望之谷支援小组协调员。
询问 / 报名处： 陈氏书院人文图书馆 ;
Tel : 03-2078 1461; Fax : 03-2031 0586 ; HP: 016-2265 330 (廖国华);
E-mail: humanitylibrary@yahoo.com
有兴趣者请报名从速， 以免向隅。
希望大家帮忙广转与宣传。谢谢！
人文图书馆理事会秘书
陈慧君上
附上：《人文课程》系列14之宣传单 , 报名表格
http://humanitylibrary.wordpress. com
Happy New Year – Belated
Hi today is 03 Jan 2010, already. However, still having the brand-new-year mood? Wish all friends happy new year. There should be a bad year ahead looking at announcements made by our government recently. Anyway, life is too short to worry about all that. Wish all friends enjoy the fresh air for the new year.
MERCY Emergency Message… Help to Pass Around
From MERCY Malaysian, an sms sent to me looking for volunteers for relief to Sumatra.
“MERCY Malaysia needs Ortho surgeons and MOs, Gen Surgeons, Anaesthetists, OT nurses and Emergency Physician/GPs to volunteer for immediate deployment to earthquake struck Padang Indonesia. Interested, please call Hayat at 0193116196.”
Thank you.
Want to know more about MERCY? You may check out this website: http://www.mercy.org.my.
