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December 01 Happy Birthday, Carrie1-December. 07:00pm. Windy.
It's been a year since I last blogged, now have to learn how to blog again...
Anyway, I just want to take this opportunity to wish a local female artist - Carrie Yeo : Happy Birthday & have a blessed year ahead.
Guess what?! My "puppy love" (during my school days), her birthday also fall on 1-Dec.
 Just a simple blog entry for now.
Cheers. September 30 Demonstrations in Myanmar30-September. 11:05am. Sunny.
Thought of continue to blog about some case studies, but I guess all you readers out there would be more concern about the situation there in Myanmar. Hence, I will blog about it today, and will share with you guys some related photos/videos found on the internet. This may be a short write up though, but there will be many videos and photos in this entry. Just read on, folks...
Frankly speaking, I don't know much about Myanmar's politics & history, but I do know there're two meaningful terms "Freedom" & "Human Rights". Where there's any demonstration, something must have gone wrong, otherwise people will not waste their time just to show their face on the street for nothing!
Couple of days back, I saw a video on TV news, showing a group of monks were marching peacefully in Yangon city. I thought it was merely a simple yet peaceful demonstration, requesting the current Myanmese Government to release Daw Aung San Suu Kyi - recipient of the 1991 Nobel Peace Prize (shown below), who has been under house arrest for more than a decade.
Aung San Suu Kyi In case you don't know or not too sure who is she, perhaps you may find out more about her family and herself through the following website & a video clip posted on YouTube :
As I was searching for some related video clips posted in YouTube, surprisingly I found an appeal from a famous comedian - Jim Carrey, he sounds and looks serious in the video. Link HERE (Jim Carrey - Call to Action on Burma and Aung San Suu Kyi).
Demonstration by a group of monks, by right it should be a peaceful walk/action (it was a peaceful one in the beginning), as every Buddhist (even non-Buddhists) would respect them (monks) and won't be hurting them for any reason. Unfortunately, the demonstration there turned out to be a sad crisis which became a turmoil.
For the past few days, when you switch on the TV to watch TV news, when you read any daily newspaper, when you browse through any website which is reporting news around the world, you will definitely see those news about the current situation in Myanmar on the headline!
Reports shown there have been people died from the turmoil, some of the victims were monks and reporters. One of the victims who died in the military junta's crackdown, is a Japanese reporter. Mr Kenji Nagai (shown below), a 50-year-old journalist who worked for the Tokyo-based APF News, had years of experience covering danger zones, was shoot death by the Myanmese troops.
Mr Kenji Nagai Mr Kenji Nagai who lied down on floor (bottom right) after shoot by Myanmese troop. Now that Japan is demanding punishment for the Japanese journalist's death in Myanmar. Read this piece of news from the following link HERE.
The demonstration in Myanmar which turned into turmoil and military crackdown, has created a great impact, so much so that the whole world is observing the incident very closely. Although the Myanmese government has cut off the internet access, but people from all around the world still able to gain the latest updates from Myanmar, thanks to the media journalists who are currently reporting in Myanmar & neighbouring countries.
China, Myanmar military's closest ally, helped to urge Myanmar to seek stability in a peaceful manner and work towards democracy and development. The call was made by the Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao yesterday (29-Sept-07). Link HERE.
Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao Another good news for Myanmar is that, UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has dispatched UN special envoy Ibrahim Gambari, to meet Myanmese government leaders. United States has called on Myanmar's generals to also allow Ibrahim Gambari to meet with opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi, the democracy icon who has been held under house arrest for most of the past 18 years.
UN Special Envoy Mr Ibrahim Gambari With the urge from China and aids/talks from UN & ASEAN, I really hope there will be a peaceful yet fruitful solution for Myanmar as soon as possible.
As I was searching for those videos/photos/reports related to Myanmar, I found this piece of interesting write up about the name changing for Myanmar (previously known as Burma) : A look at Myanmar's name change. Link HERE.
I managed to download some photos taken in Myanmar for the past one week or so, there're countless photos which contributed by journalists/tourists as well as Myanmese from Myanmar, but I just copied about 30++. Let me show you some of them here, and more photos can be found in my new photo album (Myanmar September2007 - Fight for human rights) here in Windows Live Spaces.
Demonstration in Japan Demonstration in Malaysia Demonstration in Thailand Voices from the Myanmese Voices from the Myanmese *sigh* ... Today's human beings are extremely sinful, awaiting for the Creator to clense this sinful world.
September 25 Case study 2 - To leave or to take the challange ?25-September. 4:00pm. Cloudy.
Couple of years back, there was a Malaysian movie "Sepet", it was about one 19 years old Chinese guy (Ah Loong - casted by Ng Choo Seong) who fall in love with a Malay girl (Orked - casted by Sharifah Amani). As a matter of fact, they have been met since young, but they just couldn't recognise each other after one of them move to another place.
About 10 years later, they met each other again on a beautiful morning when Orked approaches Ah Loong to buy a movie DVD. Both of them were being attracted by each other at first sight (after 10 over years), and eventually they went steady.
There wasn't too much pressures from both side family members, but they did gone through some tests. Unfortunately, Ah Loong did something wrong (unfaithful to Orked), his ex-girl got pregnant after a returned affair with him secretly behind Orked. After the incident was exposed, she decided to leave him, and flying abroad to further her studies in UK. On the other hand, Ah Loong is trying hard to seek for her forgiveness, as Orked is actually the one whom he loves and not his ex-gf!
On the day Orked leaving Malaysia, her mum advised her to reconsider again if she really wants to leave him or to give him another chance. Their fate at the end, turned up to be a sad story - Ah Loong died in a road accident when he was rushing to see her @ airport.
To find out more about this Malaysian movie - Sepet, you may search it from the web, or refer to this Wikipedia website to read more about Sepet :
 Going steady or to marry a person who is totally different from yours, in terms of religion / culture / language / way of life...etc., it's really an HUGE CHALLANGE ! Both sides need to sacrifice a lot, be it their religion or whatever, they may need to make a complete change so as to suit each other!
Got to know a pair of couples who just started their courtship less than 6 months, although they're in love, but knowing that they came from a totally different environment, it's really hard for them to love each other. They're now considering to stop the relationship, and revert back to normal friendship. But on the other hand, they wish if they could continue their loves! They're in a very serious yet difficult situation now, as they really don't know what should they do!
The guy (we shall address him as Mr O - Oumloom) who is in his 30s, still single and have a steady job. The lady (we shall Ms R - Rini) who is in her late 20s, divorced with a beautiful 3 years old daughter. Both met each other in a restaurant when she was working as a waitress in that restaurant, Mr O was one of their regular customers who claimed that he loves the food there (I wonder if he likes the food there or he loves the waitress there
 )!Mr O ever met her family once, but Ms R has yet to meet his family. As per Mr O, as far as her family members are concerned, so far there's no any issue (at least for the time being). Her lovely daughter likes him too, although sometimes she (her daughter) jealous of him when she saw them closed to each other.
Sometime back Mr O visited and stayed at her parents home at their village for a couple of days (of course they slept seperately), he enjoyed the few days of stay as well as the village life there, and her family members did welcomed him without showing any "color" to him at all. During his few days of stay there, he managed to build up a good rapo with Ms R's eldest brother & her younger sister. Her eldest brother even invited him to re-visit them again, Mr O is now planning to visit her family again in few months time.
Sometimes we really difficult to know our fate, don't you agree? Or even if we know it, we tend to ignore it as we just want to follow our own feeling rather than to follow God's will.
Someone we love may not be the one who will be our life partner; while someone who loves us (but we don't have feeling at all) could be our life partner one fine day.
Back to the main topic here... Now that if they're to continue, one of the major sacrifices will be their religion, either side need to convert his/her religion. Mind you, I'm not going to mention what religion they believe, as I don't want to create any unnecessary misunderstandings here. I believe every religion teaches us to be good, be it Buddhism / Christianity / Islamic / Hinduism... etc.
Mr O doesn't want to convert his religion; while Ms R is willing to convert to his religion, but again... Mr O doesn't wish to see her sacrificing her religion just to love him. How beautiful or how easy would it be, if both Mr O & Ms R having the same religion!
Eventhough Ms R was divorced with a daughter, Mr O wouldn't mind. In Mr O's mind, whatever have been happened in the past for both sides are no longer important to him, what he cares about is their future life ahead. Among all the issues/differences they're having now, mostly can be adjusted / changed or compromised eventhough it's not an easy task, except for the religion which can't be given up just like that!!
So the question for today's case study is, if you're either Mr O or Ms R, how would you deal with this love affair? Would you be able to take up the challange and to sacrifice your religion? Or you will revert the courtship back to be normal friendship only?!
In the next coming blog entry, I will share with you a common problem which will usually happened to married ladies - their husband got an affair with others! Stay tuned ya...
September 20 Case study 1 - Should she change her current job ?20-September. 3:40pm. Cloudy.
It's been a while since I last blogged, sorry to disappoint you guys who were waiting for my new blog entries. As a matter of fact, I've been encountering some problems lately, both my friends & myself. But my problems are consider small if compare to my friends' issues, their issues are really problematic.
Anyway, I will resume blogging now, and will start with few problem sharings. I'm going to share with you some of the problems I came across lately, and I'm hoping to find some solutions or at least to seek for your advice.
Couple of weeks ago, I met one of my female colleagues whom I've been knowing for about 9 years plus, she shared with me some problems/issues she've been facing for the past few months. Let me address her as Ms Y in this blog.
Ms Y is a young local lady who just got married last year, she's a responsible lady. Her first few months of marriage life was consider normal, no problem/issue was found. But things changed when her jobs getting more heavier than ever, worst still... her marriage life was somehow or rather being effected by her current job.
She requested to transfer to another department last year (before married), and she thought it was good decision. With an office hours job, she doesn't need to work shift, so there should be more time for her and her hubby.
Few months after her marriage, she found that her work load getting more heavier, until she needs to sacrifice most of her precious time for work. Not only she needs to stay back late to complete her daily tasks, she also needs to handle calls & going back to office on public holidays and weekends. Even if she were to go on leaves, there will be NOBODY to cover her, and she will needs to clear all shits left over while she's on leaves.
She started to feel the pressure, she knows something has gone wrong out there! Since she can't spend enough time for hubby, her hubby started to spend more time with his buddies, worst still... going back home late almost everyday.
She ever asked her hubby if he would be mind to let her spent more time on work rather than for their personal life, his answer was pretty positive though, telling her that it's ok for her to work late. She even asked her hubby if he's doing something "funny" behind her, and he was pretty sad that she would asked him this silly question.
Although I don't really know her hubby well, but he did gave me a good impression, and I believe he just merely hanging around with his buddies without doing any unfaithful things to her.
She thought of quitting this job, but before she quits, she must make sure that she's able to find another suitable yet stable job. And she's also considering to transfer to another department (inclusive of her previous department), but the thing is... it's not as easy as in the past. It's relatively impossible for us to request for a transfer without any good valid reasons, as the management's policies have been changed for the past one year or so.
Although I have not married yet, but I always believe that, both husband and wife should understand & trust each other. It's not easy though, especially for those newly wed couples.
The question now is, should she quits her current job? Or should they (she and her hubby) sit down and discuss their issues seriously yet calmly and throw out ALL their feelings to let each other knows the actual situation more clearly?
In my humble opinion, I suggested her to discuss with her immediate boss and request for a transfer, although it's not easy but it's better than joinning another company which she's not familiar with. What say you then? Any better suggestion for her? I would love to share with her what you've suggested.
By the way, have you came across any mixed racial couples, both husband and wife from two different places with different religion / culture / language & way of life? In the next coming blog entry, I will share with you another challanging problem, where a pair of couples who just started their love life less than 6 months. They came from two different places, their religions / culture / mother tongues & way of life are TOTALLY DIFFERENT !!! Sounds challanging isn't it !?
So do stay tuned ya, more Case Studies will be coming out here, and I hope to hear some serious feedbacks from you guys out there... Till then, do take care!
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