"Yummy dinner"

Looks yummy isn't it? It's chicken cooked with ginger.

Upclose and personal..are you drooling?

Not me.

The dread

Well, I supposed it happens...yesterday night, I dreamt that I would fail CLP. I dreamt that I will be collecting my results tomorrow. So my juniors wrote me cards consoling me about the exam...about not passing and it's ok.

Today at this point of time, I'm so depressed knowing that the nightmare is drawing near and it's very near now. It's already less than 40 days to 'death sentence'. At the same time, I'm struggling at Land Law. Evidence is not too bad already.

Ok I'm not going to indulge in saying which college is better because at the end of the day, all we want is to pass our exams and the college just want to make money. BUT, having lecturers who don't prepare their class is BAD. Purely wasting our already limited time.

Breaking news....(it will break) Fuel hike RM0.78 less than 24 hours notice

So petrol price will increase to RM2.70 per littre with effect from 12am today. RM2.70!!! Crazy meh...

After this, not only petrol price will increase but everything else except salary.

Just now, I bought one packet of nasi lemak near college with a price of RM2.30. Last month (barely few days ago) was RM2 per packet.

Today's double boil soup at the shop cost RM4 per bowl while last month was RM3.80. I heard a bag of 10kg rice now cost about RM58! Hey....I think i'll have to reduce portion of my meal (my current portion is small enough), and probably 2 meals a day. Nevermind going hungry.

Just when I thought of switching to induction cooker and other electrical appliance, another jolt came when Tenaga Nasional will increase price of electricity by 18%. So brace up people! Start eating raw food people.....at least salad is not too bad, add some mayo for carbs!

It's good to start your own mini farm at home by planting vege and fruits. I wonder if a small plot at home to plant paddy will work. But rearing chickens at home is no-no:-

(1) the chicken shit smells

(2) Tedious for working adults

(3) Can you eat your own 'pet'?

Perhaps the government should spend more to invest on solar power. Afterall, Malaysia is blessed with ample sunlight throughout the year (except when it thunderstorms). So, I plead for government to put aside the astronout programme for a while.

Encourage citizens to cycle is not too bad. But Prime Minister and his Deputy should take the lead. But THANKS LAH PRIME MINISTER TO ANNOUNCE THE PETROL HIKE AT THE 11th HOUR! It was so much fun being stuck at the jam.

At around 8.30pm, petrol is sold out in most KL stations.

When to speak and when to be silent

Yesterday I came accross this passage in the bible which I'd like to share with you all.

Book of Sirach 8:5-17

One who revels in pleasure will be condemned,
hating gossip save one from evil.

Never repeat what you are told and you will come to no harm.

Report nothing to friend or foe and, unless silence is sinful,
reveal it to no one.
They will listen, distrust you and you will end up being hated.

Have you heard something? Let it die with you,
remain calm; you will not burst with it.

A fool suffers like a woman in childbirth over something he is told.

Like an arrow stuck in his thigh, such is a secret inside a fool.

Speak with your friend: perhaps he has done nothing and,
if he has, he will not do it again.

Speak with your friend: perhaps he has not said anything and,
if he has, he will not say it again.

Speak with your friend for there is much slander;
do not believe all that you hear.

Often, unintentional slips are made;
for who has never sinned by evil tongues?

Speak with your neighbour before you heap accusations
on him; then leave room for the Law of the Almighty.

Have you shown compassion?

In Malaysia, we always said that we're so blessed because our country is situated out of the disaster zone, be it volcanoes, typhoon, eathquake etc., although sometimes we get to feel tremors, haze from volcanic regions and the 'tail' of the typhoon. And that is enough to scare us - and cause havoc. What more a real disaster.

As we know, the Asian region was struck with cyclone in Myanmar and earthquake in Sichuan, China recently. Apart from lending a hand with what you have to help, many of us failed to even realise how lucky we are to be alive and grateful that disasters spared us.

I stumbled upon this video in Youtube..

If we can be compasionate with disaster victims, surely we can be compasionate with those next to us.

Note: The Book of Sirach 8:7 said, "Do not rejoice at the death of any man, remember that we shall all die".