Death is not the Tragedy,

It is not Death, The tragedy. But the Life that goes before it.

by E. Paul Newell

All humans have just one thing in common, that is the ultimated and pre-arranged end to the unusual struggles of life. Death.

No one gets out in any other fashion, and no one (in spite of what any reader may think, or believe) dies in any special way. 

In a sea of energy, the human, swims the upstream battle of life against the natural elements put before them. These elements are harsh indeed, however over the last thousands of years humans have managed and maintained presents, faced with these basic elements of nature.

 Overcoming and overwhelming in some cases. In order to live in the elements in a comfortable fashion the human must make compromises, and adaptions.
 Still all in all it is a struggle and a “fight to the bitter end”.
 In the end, (being death), it’s as common and natural as birth.
 As you enter the light from darkness, so shall you return to that darkness, of “ever lasting peace” and “tranquil glory”, for the energy itself can neither be “created nor destroyed”.

Let’s examine the “struggle” . Dr.’s, and other experts say that being born is the most traumatic event any human will ever endure. The ”trauma” they say, is the fact that your big, goofy looking baby head (average 12 inch circumference) while exiting the birthing canal must be pressure fitted through an opening that is just nine centimeters in diameter.
Yes you do the math. In order for it to fit the skull plates must overlap each other and be pressurized in order to make that transition.
 Also the fact of being encased in a protective and warm womb for nine months, only to be ejected outwards into a very cold and sterile world, where everything and everybody wants a piece of you.
 Good Luck.

Today however it is not just the elements that we face it is also the new wave of intentional violence perpetrated on the unknowing and manipulated by other humans.
These new elements induced upon the common human are paid for and concocted up by “the common humans” dime, nickel, what have you.
 But are implemented by just a few freaks, who are leading the freak show.

What can be made of this intentional violence? Human on Human. Only that it is wanton behaviour.
Only that it is needless.

Only that in no way does it serve as any great or advancing cause, noble or creative endeavor.
Only that the nature of this behaviour is the cause of added struggle and hardship heaped upon the most basics of the human population.

The only apparent end to this type of crime is purely entertainment.
As seen in every shape and form through the media re-port. As well as vid/games, where players can kill, maim, and rape at will, in their virtual world.

Humans have a keen curiosity into the morbid aspects of life.

Therefore the supply and demand order ( death, destruction, gore) of the epoch is prevailing.
The talking heads are spinning vertigo to the viewer’s delight.
 The viewer’s heads are spinning so fast that up has become down and down is now up. Sideways is now backwards.
Forward thinking has been rendered redundant. Not necessary. And, not welcomed in the world of intentional violence.

By the way, god is not coming, nor is Jesus not aliens or spirits from the ethers, there will be no outside help to save the pathetic human race.

Tesla was here once with his gifts for all, but humans destroyed him. For malice, greed, and control. He won’t be back.

Did you ever wonder why there were “prophets” way back in the day, but none since and none now, ever wonder why there where saints way back in the day to try and save souls, but none now .
 Is this strange? Or just arranged too?

Ever wonder, where are all the great inventions and advancements that the mind can come up with. Since the last major advancements everything has been suppressed for the sake of malice greed and control.

In the end each person will die, but how they live will determine how they die.

There is a “heaven” and there is a “hell”, however they exist only in your mind’s eye. And you experience these two aspects of life, during your life on earth, not after.

In ”heaven” the brain functions on an even keel , with common, cognitive thinking, therefore smooth transitioning and movement forward through time.

In “hell” the brain is like frying scrambled eggs, or a dog’s breakfast, always in a state of chaos, confusion, dark clouded thoughts, that only give way to morbid, grave and humiliating actions.

In the end religions have, absolutely nothing to do with your place in “heaven” or” hell”. Only you can determine your path of movement. However “religions” do have everything to do with the human death and destruction, chaos, madness, torture, greed, malice, hunger, strife, famine, over population, fear mongering, air, food, water contamination. They and their doctrine have created the living “hell” for so many for far too long.

End the tragic life now by ending man and earths most destructive unnatural element, “RELIGIONS”.

As a matter of pure fact, (read a book… any book) so blatant and obvious to anyone looking, it is all the religions that are responsible over time, for all the negative aspects of the tragedies of a human life. (other than natural elements)
even the so called “natural elements” are now under the guise of neo natural events, controlled to a degree by the “few freaks” running the “freak show”.

Think about it folks.

In the Land of the not so free but definitely the brave!

Not even the US is spared from racial morons who cannot seem to discard their prejudices.Using social media to pummel a talented Mex-American talented kid. Obviously patriotic and passionate of his nationality and proud of his ethnic roots.
  But it is heartening to note that they are the exception and not the norm.
  Why can't we just embrace diversity and chuck out irrational race based prejudices. After all we all bleed red when we get cut.

But i just loved his response when he was asked about it!

What the innocent minds perceive .!

It is so humourous how toddlers perceive their world and what they see. Especially with the quips they make that has that " where did that come from moment". Quips that make you just have a guffaw for the sheer innocence and seriousness of the remark made by the innocent observer's mind

Jack (age 3) was watching his Mom breast-feeding his new baby sister.
After a while he asked: 'Mom why have you got two? Is one for hot and one for cold milk?'

Brittany (age 4) had an earache and wanted a pain killer. She tried in vain to take the lid off the bottle.  Seeing her frustration, her Mom explained it was a child-proof cap and she'd have to open it for her.
Eyes wide with wonder, the little girl asked: 'How does it know it's me?'

Susan (age 4) was drinking juice when she got the hiccups. 'Please don't give me this juice again,' she said, 'It makes my teeth cough.'

DJ (age 4) stepped onto the bathroom scale and asked: 'How much do I cost?'

Clinton (age 5) was in his bedroom looking worried When his Mom asked what was troubling him.
He replied, 'I don't know what'll happen with this bed when I get married.  How will my wife fit in it?'

Marc (age 4) was engrossed in a young couple that were hugging and kissing in a restaurant. Without taking his eyes off them, he asked his dad: 'Why is he whispering in her mouth?'

Steven (age 3) hugged and kissed his Mom good night. 'I love you so much that when you die I'm going to bury you outside my bedroom window.'

Melanie (age 5)  asked her Granny how old she was.. Granny replied she was so old she didn't remember any more.
Melanie said, 'If you don't remember you must look in the back of your panties.  Mine say five to  six.'

Tammy(age 4) was with her mother when they met an elderly, rather wrinkled woman her Mom knew.
Tammy  looked at her for a while and then asked, 'Why doesn't your skin fit your face?'

James (age 4)was listening to a Bible story. His dad read: 'The man named Lot was warned to take his wife and flee out of the city but his wife looked back and was turned to salt.'  Concerned, James asked: 'What happened to the flea?'

Sunday sermon: 'Dear Lord,'  the minister began, with arms extended toward heaven and a rapturous look on his upturned face. 'Without you, we are but dust...'
He would have continued but at that moment my very obedient daughter who was listening leaned over to me and asked quite audibly in her shrill little four year old girl voice, 'Mom, what is butt dust?'

Thought provoking ! Don't you think?Malaysian tax RM at work!

Your Tax ringgit at work , spent by BN






Meantime to ensure they can continue to go on their unchecked  spending spree....





But totally ignore what is decent and dire that needs to be addresed  urgently.....

Banglas are not our Enemies!

Trust Namewee to bring to  light the situation of a misunderstood people , perhaps defuse some animosity of Malaysians towards them  and be cynical at our Goverment at  the same time.
   And it doesn't lose to make a movie out of it either.  Humour may make us more receptive to the reality and not be overly engrossed in our communal and political passions.

  I'd rather laugh or be amused at my own and societal's  shortcomings than to be outraged and start lashing out at the most convenient scapegoat. I ll be in a better balanced state of mind to start effecting a change within my self  and also be more acceptive of those around me, regardless of creed sharing this land we call home. It is Hopeful that  same sentiments can be floated around.  

The Banglas are not our enemies , they are mostly decent hardworking migrants to our country in search of better lives just like many of our own Malaysian forefathers .Lets reach out to them and get them on our good sides.

They were just exploited by the unscrupulous and  who seriously have a crisis in morality . 

                                                                                                       
                                                                                                                                                              Bryan

12 Jun – Actor-director Namewee has started filming his latest movie titled "Banglasia", which will include a multinational cast from Malaysia, Singapore and Bangladesh. The new action comedy is produced by Fred Chong who is noted for "Nasi Lemak 2.0", "Hantu Gangster" and "Kara King".

Yesterday, Executive Producer Fred Chong introduced the line-up of local and foreign talents, which include Nirab (Bangladeshi star), Saiful Apek (Malaysian star). Atikah Suhaime (Singaporean actress), Dato David Arumugam (veteran singer) and Lao Zha Bor (Singapore comedy actress).

According to Nirab, the reason that he accepted the offer to star in "Banglasia" was because he has seen some of Namewee's work and is very touched that Namewee flew all the way to Bangladesh to meet him.

"This will be Nirab's international film debut and he will be speaking Malay with the help of a Bengali translator," said Fred Chong.

When asked about the title of the film, Fred hurriedly explained, "The title of the film may sound very crude and racist, but we flew to Bangladesh to carry out our research beforehand, and we have been given the green light. As such, we are not trying to create any racial stereotyping or hate with the title "Banglasia", because the people there do use the word "bangla", so we have that Malaysians do not jump to conclusions and take it out of context," said Namewee.

Along with Nirab, it will be Singaporean actress Atikah Suhaime's first time starring in an action comedy film. The actress is currently signed under the Malaysian production company Metrowealth.

"Banglasia" will be Namewee's first fully action-packed movie. Currently, all details about the movie are kept under wraps but it has already undergone a month's worth of filming in various districts of Kuala Lumpur. The film is expected to be released during 2014's Chinese New Year.

sourced from: http://my.news.yahoo.com/namewees-next-film-banglasia-091000980.html

Ticking off from a exasperated french man-expat- foreign investor- to Malaysians

As the country continues with the "you poison my dog , i ll strangle your cat game", it must be quite befuddling to the expats in the country. This note may serve to enlighten a little on how they may seem to see us as we continue to bash each other over petty issues just to make a point. It may take a neutral observation from someone, from outside looking in to - without any emotional political baggage- to actually paint a clearer picture of the advantages of  being Malaysians. (with a command of multi lingual skills)
                                  Bryan

Dear all,

As a foreign investor in this country, it puzzles me to no end that Malaysians would fight all-day-long about their ethnicity, religion or the colour of their belly-button.

Foreign investors are not coming here for cheap labour anymore, Vietnam, and further ashore China, are far cheaper and better (little labour department there). The local market is a laugh, small in number and means, Indonesia or even Thailand are way more enticing if you look at quantity. Don't try to bluff me about common law and judiciary, unwritten rules and unpredictable judiciary rule Malaysia far out compared to Singapore. Don't even speak about >infrastructure, try taking a Malaysian taxi from KLCC to Bukit Bintang wearing a tie and sporting a laptop and you'll understand why foreign investors do not need a second trip to Malaysia. Nope, >none of these count favourably.

The very reason Malaysia (still) ends up with large semi-conductor factories, regional shared services and other multinational service >centres is, precisely, the ethnic diversity. I recently had a tax issue in Indonesia. Some obscure rules I could not even start to fathom blocked the conclusion of the yearly audit. Who sorted it out? Our Malaysian accountantwho speaks fluent bahasa flew down and got rid of the fuss in a couple of days. Had it been me, I might be in a Jakarta jail or even dead by now. I am now sourcing materials from China, needless to say I speak and write no Chinese, like most mat salleh, guess who helps me here? A Malaysian. I increasingly require Indian expertise in IT, law and finance. Needless to say, I can never hope to get through the thick accent and neither can my suppliers decipher anything I have to say. Guess who's doing the legwork? A Malaysian. Again. Surprised?

It does not stop there. I can consider myself lucky if my visiting clients from continental Europe can mutter 2 or 3 comprehensible sentences of English. Guess what they tell me once they get back

home? They love the way Malaysians speak English. It being a second language here, Malaysians go the extra mile to make themselves understood to Italian or French speakers who would have come back

from the UK or the US not having understood a thing!

Now rather than capitalise on this, Malaysians prefer to rant about ethnicity day in day out. Good for foreign devils, Malaysians seem bent on keeping us in business. Expensive (and sometimes useless)

expats are still needed in this country because Malaysians would rather have a costly foreigner on top than a plain co-national, due to wrong skin colour, religion or whatever. Thanks to the absurd

(and it pains me to stay polite) local university selection and incredible limitations, expats will be needed forever here. Contrast this with India or China. With their efficient if tough university systems. Chinese and Indian (current or former) nationals are actually taking over many Western companies' executive positions. Meanwhile Malaysian foreign graduates are happy taking up the jobs Westerners won't do at any price (e.g. dreary auditing jobs, low-pay F&B, etc.).

Proposals like DN knights' Satu Sekolah are a gunshot in Malaysia's foot. The day Malaysians shun their diversity under the guise of assimilation, Malaysia will have made sure it become Singapore's official dumping site. For Pete's sake, even the French, who used to champion assimilation all the way, are now teaching Arabic to second-generation French kids, because even they realise the potential loss.

What will make Malaysians feel like a common bangsa again? Shall we petition the British to come back so that Malaysians return to the united days of Hartal and AMCJA-PUTERA's people constitution?

Perhaps the Japanese would want to have a second shot? Or maybe the Dutch or the Portuguese?

If I were to be cynical, and I can tell you a number of my foreign clients are, I should tell you all to go on fighting one another for the crumbs. Please do tell each other "this ethnic community is lazy, that one is a bunch of avid crooks, that other one is just a bunch of miscreants", while foreigners can go on happily signing juicy deals with BN's cronies, hire the best talent for dirt cheap, rape nature (logging, gold mining anyone?), etc. but I won't. Why? I may be a silly idealist, but I still love this country, because I believe you guys can finally overcome your divisions and make this country a model for all to admire. Now, will you prove me right?

Eric

sourced: zorro -unmasked

Why we so desperately need a revival of English proficiency in our  country
http://dumdumtrivia.blogspot.com/2013/07/funny-clown-courtwhy-we-need-revival-of.html

Bangkok Airport Scams , legalized kidnapping and extortion??

 If you think our Malaysian boys in blue are bad enough as it is with “kopi” money for traffic violations or heftier sums for the corresponding breach of law. Have a read at the ingenuity of their Thai counterparts to squeeze tourist at the Bangkok airport. Clever Extortion within the law?
This is a true account and is apparently still going on selectively.

 So if you are travelling to Bangkok and have read this, don’t say you have not been forewarned. Just don’t be susceptible to petty greed when making purchases at the duty free shops inside the airport.

We have heard accounts of jet ski scams in Phuket to Pattaya ,the tuk tuk temple tour scams where you are lead to buy expensive tailor made suits made from cheapo materials  or  precious gems that are not so precious afterall, red light district scams where you are taken to certain bars and charged exorbitant sums for services and drinks and entertainment etc , but these are mainly street scams.

   Whereas this duty free shop scam  is fresh to me and done in the confines of the airport, with the complicity of the sales assistants to the  security guards and the airport cops working hand in hand. And demands for monetary settlements are amounts street scammers can only fantasize about.

Especially more targeted at Malaysians, Singaporeans or Indians who are perceived to be easier pickings because usually of the less fuss they make and just tend to let things slide. And richer perhaps than the western counterparts who will also probably raise a helluva stink if they were victimized.

Dear friends,

To those who like travelling abroad, here is a reminder.

I would like to relate an incident that happened recently. After attending a wedding in Shanghai, my cousin decided to visit Bangkok with his wife and brother in law.

To make a long story short, on the way back to KL with Air Asia, while waiting for the flight at the airport, the couple decided to wander off and do some duty free shopping.

At a duty free shop, they bought chocolates for grandkids and cigarettes for himself. And they were told that making chocolate purchases entitles them for a free gift in the form of chocolates as well.

All their purchases were placed at the cashier’s  counter and as they were about to make payment,they noticed a box of cigarettes placed on top of the 1 carton they bought on the counter , of the same brand. My cousin had paid for the chocolates and for the 1 carton of cigarettes as well and proceeded to put the purchases in a shopping bag, at first ignoring the singular box of cigarettes that was on top of his carton. 

  Then his wife pointed it out because she was under the impression that it also was a buy one free one gift as well. So he just without a second thought grabbed the box and proceeded to the departure hall to catch their flight. While they were waiting to board their flight, a security guard appeared and asked them if they had bought any cigarettes. So they responded sincerely showing the guard the items they had purchased at the duty free shop earlier, including also the box they assumed was a free gift for the cigarette purchase.

 That was when the security guard accused them of theft of the one box of cigarettes and wanted to take them to the police station to be charged for stealing. My cousin offered to pay for the cigarettes because he really thought it was a misunderstanding.

But the security guard refused and was adamant that they be brought to the airport police station. And the wife was advised to board the flight home. She refused and insisted to stay with her husband and go along to the police station. At the station, my cousin was requested to pay compensation of the sum of RM30, 000.00 if he wants to be released. Otherwise he will have to be held in custody till such time the amount is paid. Since they did not have the money and were unable to pay up, my cousin was locked up along with few other tourists that were in the same predicament.
 
And the wife had to go and stay at a friend’s place in Bangkok.

 At the jailhouse, there was actually a tourist of Indian nationality that had been locked up for over a month because his family was unable to come up with a demanded sum of USD $70,000, as he was accused of stealing a pen, when according to the guy, he was on his way to the counter to pay for it but as he was searching for the cashier counter, he mistakenly stepped out of the shop’s boundary and was immediately detained and accused of theft.

When my cousin was detained , his brother in law who was taking another flight with MAS wasn’t aware of his plight, he only found out after a text message was sent to him by the wife but by then he had already boarded the flight so was not allowed to go back to the airport. He immediately flew back to Bangkok soon as he arrived at KL on the same MAS flight. Meanwhile my cousin in KL got in touch with the Malaysian High Commision and few VIPs to inform them of the situation and see what can be done.The Bangkok police department ignored  appeals made by the Malaysian embassy staff and even some ministers from Malaysia.

The following day, as the brother in law arrived at the Bangkok airport police station from KL, he immediately proceeded to make steps to free my cousin at the lock up. The Fee for release was negotiated from Rm30,000 to a discounted sum of Rm20,000 but the brother in law only had Rm11,000 with him . After more haggling over a frustrating period, the cops finally agreed to accept the Rm11,000. And would you know it , my cousin had not even being released from the lock up yet and they were already dividing the loot amongst themselves smugly. And to top it off, they were gleefully showing of all the foreign currency they had accumulated with this scam without any hint of shame or remorse from the ill gotten gains. 

Next day, my cousin was brought to a magistrate court where he was dealt with through a window. He was asked to plead guilty and was fined 2,000 baht (RM200) for the trouble, what happened to the RM11,000? No mention at all.

Fortunately, my cousin remembered an account of another tourist that was charged together with him and had tried to leave the country without asking for documentation verifying absolution for arrest and hence was detained again at the airport. SO my cousin requested them to issue a letter stating that his case had been resolved and he was allowed to return to his country.

To further compound things, as he was about to purchase a flight ticket back, (apparently the flight tickets are managed by the Bangkok immigration department).he was told that Air Asia flight tickets were sold out.Only available were MAS tickets which were more expensive. But when he wanted to use his credit card to purchase the MAS ticket since he was low on cash, and he stated that he had only enough cash to buy Air Asia, mysteriously ,the ticketing officer said that there were seats available on Air Asia after all...... (As if every stage there is a loophole for advantage exploiting)

The immigration dept. stamped on my cousin’s pasport and his wife’s as 'Thief'!  Not only that, he had to endure the humiliation of being handcuffed and brought to the plane. His passport was handed over to the crew of Air Asia and upon arrival at KL , KL immigration was asked to accompany him to their office at LCCT.


And it was there that my cousin was told that incidences like this happen all the time to our citizens but strangely , it has being kept under wraps.

 Our embassy officials also stated the same  and advised my cousin to inform his family and close friends not to go to Thailand for the time being until the political situation there stabilizes a bit. 

If these events had not happened to my kin, I might not have believed it..  seems so much like a movie plot, but believe it, it actually happened!

 Translated from the Malay version here:

http://maemahi.blogspot.com/2013/06/berhati2-ketika-melancong-ke-thailand.html

QUOTES BY THE FAMOUS AND INFAMOUS ON OPPRESSION !

WELL, GRASSHOPPER, LOOKS LIKE THE ANTS HAVE WISED UP AND ARE GATHERING!

                                     GIMME UR VOTE OR I LL SHOOT YOU IN THE FACE!!

Why scuba diving is so darn popular!

It is all about wet fun , underwater


http://scubadiversions.blogspot.com

Texting or FB ing or Twittering while driving..DON'T..! This Graphic video will make you think twice!

EVERY driver should see this, especially teens. It is very graphic and is recommended for 18 and older but if they wait till 18 to see it, they may not reach 18. Stuff like these happen all too often.
  PARENTS: Watch this by yourself first then WITH your kids. Explain to them that if they HAVE TO use their phone apps ,gadgets or text, pull over and stop in a SAFE location first, THEN use it.

This is the video that Rafizi meant by "Gantoi" , Zaid Hamidi.! Judge for yourself!

PKR has accused Ahmad Zahid Hamidi of spending more than 10 times the RM200,000 expense limit for his parliamentary seat campaign in GE13, to the tune of over RM2 million.

It has filed two election petitions against Zahid, accusing him of buying votes and overspending in the May 5 general election campaign.

Both petitions refer to videos posted by Zahid himself on his official website, stating that he had recruited 24,000 Bagan Datoh BN supporters, who are also local voters, as campaign workers in his run for the seat.

He also admitted, on video, to giving them RM100 and 5kg of rice each.

"He thinks he is smart in recruiting them as campaign workers and paying them, but on both counts he kantoi (is busted)," PKR strategy director Rafizi Ramli told a press conference in Petaling Jaya today.

In the first petition, PKR is claiming that what Zahid did, despite the payments to voters camouflaged as benefits to campaign workers, was outright vote buying and therefore an offence under the Election Offences Act.

The second petition accuses Zahid of illegally recruiting too many workers and using more money than he is allowed to under election regulations.

PKR is arguing that the amount of money needed to pay 24,000 'campaign workers' RM100 and 5kg of rice each, works out to more than RM2 million, which is over 10 times the RM200,000 limit imposed for a parliamentary seat campaign.

You can't please everyone all the time, so why bother!

Since ,you can't please everyone, so just gotta please yourself !

Is it possible to imagine how we can Re think and Re invent our schools!!

Imagine all the people sharing all the world.. You may say i am a dreamer..but i am not the only one..i hope some day you will join us,..and the world will think as one.

 Imagination fuels creativity and innovation..A trait we sorely need more of in our nation!

From Dr. Azly Rahman's  blog.
Imagine a scenario in Malaysian classrooms where primary school children learn the meaning of the word ‘peace’ and muhibbah in many different languages: Bahasa Malaysia, Bahasa Jawa, Siamese, Bugis, Bawean, Bangladeshi, Hokkien, Cantonese, Hakka, Tamil, Urdu, Tagalog, Hebrew, Arabic, Senoi, Jakun, Iban, and Kadazan-dusun.

Imagine the children, in weekly language word-study circles, explaining to each other the meaning of the word in their own language.

Imagine the children learning Language Arts and Social Studies exploring the interdisciplinary theme of the language they use at home.

Imagine them translating proverbs from their native language into English, and next illustrating them and next doing class presentations.

Imagine at the end of the year, the children and their parents proudly dressed up in their cultural outfits, singing songs in their native language without being laughed at, sharing food - in a cultural celebration night.

Imagine secondary school students doing their final school project on the meaning of their cultural practices and the relationship to their ethical belief system and how each may teach them to profess universal values of peace and social justice among different races.

Imagine all of them doing a project that analyses the themes of famous cross-cultural movies and using this vehicle to learn the concepts of cultural preservation and continuity.

Imagine, at the community college and university level, when theyhave had enough exposure and appreciation to linguistic and cultural diversity, Malaysians forming cross-cultural dialogue clubs, engaging in multiple literacies and multiple voices fora, interfaith circles of learning, transcultural network of friends and other innovations in multi-cultural social imaginations - so that we may not need communalism anymore as a basis for our national political design. (full text here)

Mortality, why dwell on it?

Doesn't take very much but the passing of a dear one  to remind us just how fleeting and tenuous our individual mortality is!

It has been very unsettling to me ever since a child until even now,fast approaching half a century in age, to view a lifeless body.!

      
 Most  recent being my very own mother, I am not a very religious person,my mind conceives that to believe in the supernatural,although on the verge of  surrendering to the spiritual desires of the heart, but the mind stubbornly resist when it cannot accept what it has problems rationalizing !.

      And there she was,laying peacefully, this lifeless form now, but wasn't that long ago when she was alive and existing and full of  love to give, this woman that had given me life,to whom i owe my existence, nurtured me ,protected me, mainly enabled me to feel that powerful unconditional maternal love! Till the  day she just went to sleep and never woke up!

     Even as my heart wrenches , just observing her lying in her casket,seemingly peaceful,  that very image triggering conflicting emotions and contradicting thoughts  that keep manifesting. A part of me yearns so much to believe that there is a higher realm,another plane of existence or consciousness for those who have exited their physical bodies and my mother is there in soul or spirit now, a thought that calms the restlessness  I feel to the core of my very own state of existence and conscious thought! 

    It bothers my rational mind to reconcile to the fact that the woman you loved and  worshiped like a saint has ceased to exist!    And hard as it is  to ponder, in all frankness, as a Being with a rigid logical mind,you  just cannot help but think that maybe , Thats it ! That body which used to be a vessel for a precious precious life full of love has gone  and it is no more. It is just what it is, a lifeless form devoid of normal human functions and conscious mind!  

              And what dreads me the most is the thought that I eventually, as with every thing that lives and breathes,inexorably will be going the same  way,

                         The consciousness I possess now , which so acutely gives me self awareness that I am an  intelligent entity , a  being who recognizes my place and acknowledges my existence in the universe,  will  cease the self awareness when it is my time ,the conscious state extinguished like a flame of a candle which has used up all the wax, resting for all eternity! Sentient no more! 

       And it makes me look restlessly inward at my own mortality  ! What will happen when i arrive at that threshold and finally leave my physical body? Will I  still be  conscious and intelligent as a being ? Will I be a free drifting disembodied spirit looking at my own body, which used to carry my very self!  Or will I , this is which i feel most uneasy about, just be another lifeless form  of  flesh and bone, having lost the  very essence that makes me human! My awareness and intellect!

  I suppose if thats the case,then it wouldn't really matter to me anymore!

         

               So therefore, a thought lingers,  if we were to  look more in depth at human mortality, actually we really cannot be sure both ways,is there or isn't there a higher realm of consciousness? After departing from the human form, is our personal consciousness still intact? And moves on to the other realm!

  Nobody can agree nor deny for certain, except for church priests, monks or theologians !  I guess you have to die to know for sure! 

      There are so many unexplained mysterious happenings attributed to the spirit world , right here on earth , that strangely,spooky though it may be,actually gives a sense of hope to atheistic or nihilistic believers that there may be something  to this life after death premise, encouraging hope!

      We humans have a long history dating back tens of thousand of  years, since that time till right now and here,how many humans have existed and died,.probably in the bilions, all that conscious energy from them who have lived and passed on. Also,all the creatures of Mother Nature's creation,their bodies may have died off,but the life forces still lingers. 

     ,There is a personal thought I have,(bordering on Science fiction)  I'd like to think that , consciousness doesn't die, because its  a form of energy that lingers and seeks out other similar energies to mesh and then  just continously drifts on forward  through time,ever increasing its core with more and more sentient energy  without hosts bodies  joining in as it permeates our world, becomes stronger and stronger as a force,that somehow , present day people are tapping in to this energy force in their daily lives without realising it! (Just a hyphothesis mind you!)

 Does God exist?    
 Is there an Almighty ? Or is that very force the almighty in which we speak of !
  Being responsible for the creation of everything,?  Or do we owe our existence as humanity to mere chance and chemical reactions and evolution!

            
  What is consciousness and intelligence in the scheme of things in the universe? Is there a reason or purpose that we seem to be the only beings on this earth capable of intelligence. A totally random act of chance? Or the deliberate design of a omnipotent being,?

          But one things is for  sure! No matter what you believe, our physical tenure as existing beings is so very brief in the scale of the universe!  

       Surely there is more to this state of life and consciousness and self awareness!

   Therefore with that realization on just how brief our tenure on the earth is,50 years and 60 years is hardly anything at all in the scale of universal time,so  with what limited time we have in our physical bodies,lets make the most of it! Why dwell on things we are not sure off like life, death and mortality.

 Unless you are a very religious person, or a college professor or theologian or philosopher researching the subject there are just too many questions on life and living and purpose and dying and life after death!

           We cannot change what's inevitable, it will just be counter productive to worry too much about dying and what comes after  and in the process forgetting how to live.!

  I'd rather kick the bucket with a smile and realization that i 've done as much as i can to live life joyful and contented.,and didn't let too many anxious thoughts weigh me down!   

BryanBB

   

Cry baby syndrome!

Lady's Bleeding Ear Blamed On Speeding AirAsia Flight

An AirAsia passenger has claimed that she's been left almost deaf in her right ear because a pilot allegedly increased the speed of a flight from Guangzhou to Kuala Lumpur to make up for lost time.

KL florist Wong Chan told Guang Ming Daily she now has only five percent of her hearing in her right ear and blames it on a bumpy flight on the low-cost carrier, which at one point included flying through turbulence.

She said the turbulence caused the passengers, including her husband and her son, to cover their ears to ease the discomfort from the cabin pressure.

She also said the flight on 8th May was delayed 40 minutes, departing China only at 9:30PM but arriving at the LCCT at its original time of 12:55AM on the 9th, which makes her believe the pilot flew the plane faster to catch up on time.

She said the pain in her ear lasted until she got home, and then her ear started to bleed. She told the paper she went to a clinic where she was given antibiotics, but when her condition stayed the same, she turned to a specialist.

"The doctor said my right eardrum was injured under the air pressure and I have to be treated for half a year, to observe whether it will heal by itself. If not, I would have to undergo a surgery to mend it," she said.

On top of the hearing loss, she said it feels as if her ear is always blocked and that it hurts whenever she coughs. She said because of her condition, she's unable to work and has to rely on painkillers and sleeping pills every night.

She said she was told to avoid flying for six months, meaning her travel plans to Bali, Phuket and Taiwan have been grounded. She said her son had bought her tickets as a Mother's Day gift and estimates the loss at around RM1,300. 

"I hope AirAsia can compensate me, be it for my medical bill or the psychological impact caused by the incident," said Wong, 59, adding that she has sought the help of Teratai state assemblywoman Tiew Way Keng because she didn't have any flight insurance.

AirAsia has reportedly confirmed receiving the complaint, and a spokesperson issued a statement saying the airline "welcomes other passengers who face similar situations in the same flight to provide us with details". 

Source: Guang Ming daily

Published: 3rd June 2013