Local version of the bitches?

I got to know of this when I saw its ping at PPS.  The first thing came to my mind was- the bitches has come to Malaysia ar?  And I read on, I laughed.  Because I was wrong, so dead wrong.

It seems like Bolehland is pretty desperate to make its mark, to gain fame in the blogosphere.  I never investigate though, how popular is that site now, but I would place my bet that the blog won’t reach cult status.  Please prove me wrong.

Why am I betting the way I’m betting?

One.  The site is booorrriiinnngggg…… Just compare the bitches and bolehland, and you can see which ‘review’ blog is more vibrant in terms of layout.  No need to talk about the review approach lar… One is short and direct to the point.  The other is long and dares to write on all that is nitty gritty.  One makes you wanna read on, the other is tiring to read on.  Which is which, go figure…  And Bolehland is also too polite.  Is that the ’spirit’ of being Malaysian, mesti bersopan santun, dan bertata susila?  Don’t make me vomit please…

Two. The bitches were easy: you submit your blog, and they will review (at least that’s what it’s used to).  Bolehland however, seems tedious:

“If you would like to get your blog reviewed, kindly send an e-mail to Nix (nix [at] bolehland [dot] org) complete with information about you, your blog and a link to your blog.”

Good lar… what’s written will be at least 50% part of the review liao.

And now, bolehland ask for ppl to join in the reviewer team.  And summore have to write an essay of 100 words.  And there are only two available positions.  What you think?  A job interview mer?  and summore no pay wan.  You think what?  Try to employ and work ppl up for free ar?  There’s no such thing as free lunch dear…

Three.  The bitches are like… a good stage show that lets the audience laugh and have a good time and leave the show smiling.  Bolehland is like theatre which require audience participants, where it’s just tiring to be part of the program.  Actually, come to think of it, bolehland is like some direct-selling scam… must do this, must do that.  And bolehland summmore dare to ask ppl to write on topics that they give…  Wahhhh!  A newbie blog and start demanding liao?  Can go fark yourself upside down lar.

Four. One has a macro vision, the other, pea-sized vision.  I mean, come on, if you gonna review Malaysian blogs, how long can you last ar?  In the long run, you will end up reviewing all those small unnoticable Malaysian blogs, and they will in turn post an entry in their blog, saying that they kena reviewed… and that’s it!  End of story.  How many times can this cycle be repeated?  A few hundred times perhaps before the whole thing got worn out.  I mean, even now, Bolehland has already broken its rule by reviewing blog from Minyakland.

I shall end at four, because four means die in Cantonese, and that’s what I think of Bolehland at the moment.  Again, let me say this: Prove me wrong!

p.s. You know what, bolehland… you just got reviewed?

DYK

just gonna put up a DYK this time, which I haven’t done for quite some times.

DYK: I’ve drooled before while dozing off travelling in buses.

Gas inside palm trick

How many of you have done this trick with the lighter?

You know, you close up your palm to create an enclosed space, then using lighter, you release gas into your palm.  After the enclosed space is filled with gas, you strike the lighter to burn off the gas inside your palm and you quickly open up your palm, and you’ll create this sudden burst of blue flame.

It’s an impressive trick, but not so when you are drunk; I tried the trick just now, instead of just releasing the gas, I actually light up and I actually burnt my fingers.  My response was so slow that it took me a good few seconds before I realized that I’m actually burning my own flesh!

Whatthehell…

It’s true, good tricks become terrible tricks once you are drunk.  But also, once you are drunk, there’s a sense of bravery heightened too.

Gayle’s out, but should have been Jasmine

Some people really have alot of money to SMS to vote for their idols, to make sure they stay… unnecessarily.

I’m talking about Singapore Idol which is currently being aired on the local TV.

The theme was ‘No. 1 hits’, and most of the contestants gave only so-so performances.  The worst in my opinion is Jasmine rendering of Pearl Harbour’s theme song.  It was horrible horrible horrible.  She was out of tune and very much like what one of the judges mentioned, she’s too small to carry such big song.  Actually, the song is not a powerhouse one, like those by Whitney or Mariah, for God’s sake, it’s just Faith, and at the end of her performance, I lost faith in her…

But whatthehell… it was Gayle who kena kicked out.  I do admit that Gayle’s performance is bad.  But I would prefer to see her back next week as I believe she’s able to deliver.  It was a bad song choice, and it was a pity that Gayle got the boot.

I was smirking away when I see Paul standing there, presumably being in the three-lowest-number-of-votes-gathered group.  You were fun, but right now, you were just irritating.  With your hair and your eyeliner… oh come on, your i-consider-fake-and-surface rock image just won’t carry you far if it’s so 1-dimensional.  So Paul, buck up, and sing…

Here.

About a month

That’s how long I’ve started on my new job, and I’m already looking through Classifieds for new job.

I can’t believe it myself either, but this new job is really taking a toll on my social life.  Having a lack of it, my new job reduces that even further.

Considering the salary I’m getting, I don’t think it’s worth it.  Yes, the experience is pretty interesting, as almost everyday is a learning day, and my collegues are pretty nice bunch of people.  But considering it at personal level, i.e. salary and time spent, I don’t think I should take it much longer.

So again, wish me luck.

Here’s a 101 guide to… walking.

What prompted me write this post is, I’ve encountered too many pedestrians who are just dumbass fool.

I can’t understand one thing: why the hell you need to swing your hands so damn far and high when you walk ar?  This I encounter most with girls and all the aunties and all the ah lians.  I just don’t understand why you have to swing your hand like some sotong being caught by fisherman, in fact, such sotongs do not flap and flip their tentacles that way.  You basically take up more space and gonna hit guys on their guts, kids on their eyes, and grandmas on their sagging breasts.

Then of couse, there are those who do not look in front.  You should know this every basic construction of yourselves: your eyes are place in the front, so that you look in front.  You don’t have predators, thus your eyes are not by the side of your head.  You should look in front, and not down, and not at your handphone as you sms, or while you reading newspaper, or keep on looking to your side as you drool over that gorgeous/ handsome/ sexy/ weird/ funny/ person at your side, or your friend, or whoever.  You should look in front.  When you look to your side, you apparently cannot see in front, even though your penumbra vision should be working.  But no lor… I don’t know why lor.  Apparently, you are retarded.

Then there are those groups of ppl, who like to occupy the whole walkway.  You all should be blinded, and thus can hold on to each others’ tails and walk in a line instead.  Know this, the world’s gonna get more crowded and thus, space gonna get smaller.  Walkway should serve two ways, so u group of ppl, don’t make it a one-way only walkway.  I don’t care for one, if I encounter a on-coming group who’s occupying the whole walkway, I’m just gonna butthead into you people.  This is especially for couples.  They just love to hold hands and what the fucking shit, you both just love to walk thousands of miles apart each other.  I’ve many times decided to walk right in between you two, and knock into your locktight hands.  Mind you, it hurts me okay, but the same time, I hope it hurts your hands as well.

Then, there’s those idiot who likes to walk slowly, and doesn’t allow others to overtake you.  What the hell!??!  It’s like driving, if you gonna drive slow, be on the slow lane.  But no, this kind of ppl would occupy not just the fast lane, but in between the fast and slow lane, thus blocking everyone.  I think we should come up with some kind of invention that’s similar to the carhorn,  maybe call it ‘people horn’.

What’s worse, there’s this group of people who like- of all things- stop suddenly while walking.  Assholes.  This people will be walking and walking and then suddenly stop.  Most of this group of people are surely talking on the phone.  This is equivalent to people who brakes suddenly while driving.  You are asking for trouble okay?!?!

So know this, I’m going to be rude to all you rude walkers.  If you gonna be funny and try to occupy the whole walkway unnecessarily, I’m not gonna move aside.  If you are walking with your vision somewhere else but in front, i’m gonna bump into you, and in fact, you have to say you are sorry whne that happens.  And If you gonna flap your arms, I’m gonna hold up a concrete piece and place it strategically as I walk pass you or ‘overtake’ you for you to hit it.  I don’t care if you went ‘ouch’ or you break a nail or two, I’m not sorry.

So people, please learn to walk, for I’m not someone who likes to inflict pain on others.

perhaps this door is the answer that i’ve been seeking all my life?

i should consider hacking the lock off and open that faithful door one day.

Slammed!

Wah lao.  I can’t believe what you ppl are requesting sometimes.  WTF!  I wanna fuck some bloggers and some ppl are inviting me to fuck them up.  Go and be a prostitute or gigolo instead lar, at least you get some real hard cash in return.  Get it? Hard, as in hard rod up your ass (Shit! I’m becoming like the fruit-salad-with-oriental-sauce fella, cracking lame jokes that I  would laugh at myself, and I can’t forgive myself since I’m not a dad…)

Okay… I’m going to slam 1 1/2 blog here.  And no… it’s not going to be those who invite me to do so, for you ppl are beautiful enough as bloggers for not getting the swing of the bottle on your head from me.  Take it as a good compliment, that I generally like u ppl’s postings ok?!  If not, go die.

Now, let’s take a look at this.  Yes, that furball is no longer updating its blog.  Only two reasons: either it has gained enough fans to chat on MSN or something, or it has lost its ‘creativity’ juice to continue on.  whatever the case, i don’t care.  This fella is just both lazy and hardworking.  He has something to say, but he can only express it through images.  It takes certain effort to montage all those images up, but surely, it takes just miliseconds to t-y-p-e your kinda of post.

I mean, it’s WTF indeed.  Come on, personally, I think you are a retard, who actually doesn’t like that furball, but trying to impersonate the furball, to make other Star Wars retards excited.  You know, when I first saw your link somewhere, I thought it’s some scam link.  And it takes a lot of faith clicking on it, and it took a lot more guts to continue on clicking on your blog.  Damnit.

Though I somewhat like the idea of those created images, I thought they are quite lame as well.  So let’s see:

Lame images + lazy w-r-i-t-e-u-p-s + serving Star Wars nincompoop = stupid blog.

Good thing you are not continuing anymore, at least that what I think.  (I feel myself wasted my time going through your unorgasmic uuurrrrgghhhs and aarrrrggghhhhhs, and writing bout your blog.  damnit asshole…)

So how’s the 1/2 blog?  Ok, I’m going to blogosphere hell for putting this fella up: here.

I’ve met him in person (oh yea! oh yea! I did I did, and yes, oh yes… he seems like a fun person) But hor, his blog hor… like not that excited wan ler.  Especially now ar, he has become a full time food critic.  Each and every post, he only post about wat he makan and makan and makan.  But WTF, he just won’t get fat!  Not like the rest of his friends (siapa makan cili siapa rasa pedas… hahaha)

And talking bout his friends- okay, this get a bit personal- he seems like he only hang out with this same group of pppl.  Makes me wonder, if he has a girlfriend ar?  If yes, I can’t tell from his blog.  If not, oh boo whooo!  But don’t worry, I also don’t have a girlfriend…yet.  But at least you got your koi fishes.  Will you ever cook them and blog about that ar?  That will be the day, that will be the fuckingly day.

Back to his food posts, I like the fact he writes about all those good food, but hor… can you give a better description of the location ar since you are at that?  Your drawn maps a bit the… not good ler.  Especially for ppl who doesn’t know the place that well.  It’s also like the the uuurrrrgghhhh-aaarrrrggghhhh blogger case: good effort, but can consider lame, at times…

So you got 2 spankings from the bitches, and I got none.  Hahaha… good for you.  But for me, I hell care (whooops. I certaining going to hell).

But I do agree with them lar, that your blog hor, can be informative.  I like that aspect.  But being informative hor, can be boring wan you know.  You are not that sell-chicken-ooi or that scary-cat-doctor.  So maybe you’ll need to improve on your ‘humour’ side, or your ‘fun’ side, or maybe you’ll just need to find a girlfriend lar, then no need to be so sad watching TV with another guy under umbrellas (Whooops. i’m assuming.  damn me)

See? I’m half slamming the speaking-ky-jelly.  so will i just be at halfway to bloghell?

p.s. Oh! I accidentally stepped on the fruit-salad-with-oriental-sauce fella’s tail, does it mean i’ll stop 3/4th to hell?

i feel like slamming a blog or two

I’m in my evil mood right now, and I feel like slamming blogs.  So please submit your nominees.

Firstly, it’s because I’m bored.  So, please give me something to read and criticize.

And then, I just feel plain evil.  Shoot me.  Blah!

If you don’t wanna leave the link to the blog in your comment, you can always email me.  Don’t worry, I won’t reveal your nomination wan lar.  Even if you nominate your friends’ your enemies’, even your own blog, I don’t care, and I’ll read, and the one that I have most issue with, I’ll blast that blog.

If I don’t receive any nominee, I’ll just go ahead and bad-mouth one that I pick randomly off PPS.  Who will kena?  The last one that kena was pretty sour about it. (Yes, I’m still talking about you the so-called cute-acting CHIQ, yup, you CHIQ… hahahaha… so damn sour, and also bitter… )

Girl fight?

Okay… so I’m a bit late to some across this girl-fighting video.  But let me shamelessly post it here: http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=8868044461676863939

Now, let me reveal a deep dark secret, which has long forgotten.  (Note first, this post is subjected to deletion or password-protection)

I have been a victim of bully before.

I’ve to first say, I’m not sure what did that accused girl did or said.  But in my case, this fella got hold of some chalks one day and decided to use it on me instead of the blackboard (I wonder if there’s such a thing as blackboard now…)  I don’t remember how it all started, or how I knew this fella before he incident.  But I remember, one day, on the ride back on the bus, he decided to use the chalk on me- on my back of my shirt, on my pants and so on.  You see, I was this chubby li’l cute fella, whom I suppose could be viewed as someone easily bullied.

But as he kept on doing it, my anger kept building up.  I don’t remember if I let him to keep on ‘drawing’ me using chalk, not did I tell him to stop, nor did I tell him anything.  I don’t remember anything, except that I actually fought back. I got angry and shouted at him that that’s enough, and I used my bag to hit him.  I was crying, and at the end, he was crying too.  We had to be seperated by the bus driver.  You see, we were just primary school kids, and the rest of the kids were just dumbfolded to respond.

My anger, I could not explain, I don’t know where I found such ‘courage’ to stand up.  It was tucked away at some forgotten end of my mind until I saw that Miri Girl fight clip.  I really wonder what I could have done if I was in the Miri ‘victim’ girl position.  As I watch the clip, what runs to my mind was that I would fight back, and in a extremely violent way.  I would have grabbed her long hair, and smashed her head against something hard.  Seriously, I would have.

In all my life, I’ve never allowed anyone to hurt me physically, except perhaps my mom who would use the cane on me.  Anyone who would dare to push my head, be it fellow friends, or even teachers, I can quite certainly say it would be a grave result.  I would say, any physical action on me, which intention to hurt me, to bully me, I’ll go berserk and I can safely say, I won’t have any logical control over myself anymore.  I’ll be an animal.

And that’s what happen during that incident of mine.  I suppose what I did was mild by today’s standard, and the fact that I was still a primary school kid then, my ‘animal instinct’ hasn’t all developed yet.

I consider myself lucky, for I’ve never gotten myself in serious fights before.  And I’m thankful for that.

But if I’m in the Miri ‘victim’ girl, I might just have picked up the knife.  No, seriously…  So, I’m telling you, and begging you… never to bully me in such physical manner.  I’ll for sure to go crazy and everyone will pay the price, and everyone will lose at the end of the day.

Right now, as an adult, I don’t think I’ll ever encounter anyone pushing my head, except if it’s for safety reason when I did not see a beam and someone quickly push my head down to avoid, which to that, I’ll be thankful.

p.s. the kid that I fought back back then?  I never see him again after that, except once I think a many years later.  (God knows, I remember his face till now…)

Islam, as I see it

I should start this post by apologizing to my fellow Muslim friends, but I can’t tell lies based on my experience and what I’ve been told.

In all summary, the impression I got of the religion Islam, is that it’s a pretty conservative and outdated religion.  What brings upon its survival in the world, is the fact that most people think of some of the thing that happen in current world is sinful but unexplanable.  For example,  being gay is seen wrongful in Islam.  Historically, homosexuality has been practised all over the world, but somehow, there’s a guilty feeling for the gay ones.  And also, homosexuality is something view uncomfortable by majority socially.  This is where Islam comes it, where it provides comfort for the hetero and the guilt feeling for gays.  Let’s look at gambling.  Gambling is generally preceived as a ‘get-rich-FAST’ scheme.  It seems wrong, for both gamblers and non-gamblers.  Islam provide the easy answer: Yes! It’s sinful.  I can go on with cohibition, alcoholism, and so on.

But you see, the current world, all that is happening, including abortion, pre-marital sex and so on.  Islam, as I see it, prohibits all that is considered sin.  And that, I consider that as conservative.  Conservative view, as far I see it, is enforcing what’s not right, and not offering solutions.  For example, I view as condom as somewhat a solution, to matters pertaining to abortion and STD & illness.  But Islam, as I see it, view condom as something that encourages pre-marital sex.  As far as I can see it, all those Islamic teaching is not preventing pre-marital sex; some if not most if not all Muslim friends of mine who had preached me on what’s haram had engaged in pre-marital sex.  (My question here is, does Islam consider french kissing, or heavy-petting, or anything like that, but at the end of the day did not lead to penetration, haram?)

So… from what I see, it’s a religion that’s being preached, but not being practised well.  Now, I’ve Muslim friends who really follow the Islamic teaching fully.  Some, sadly become pretty fanatic… whereas some have become ppl that I respect.  These friends, are who I consider modern Islam.

And what I consider as modern Islam?  From the way I see it,  I consider someone as a modern Islam as someone who recognise what’s happening in the world.  This modern Islam does not impose the rules of Islam on others, except himself or herself.  He/ She will not discriminate others who are non-Islam, or Islam who are not practising the Islamic ways of life.  However, this modern Islam will provide the choice to others to follow the Islamic ways, without forcing and pushing.  If others decided to follow, this modern Islam will provide more, but if the others decided to shut Islam out, this modern Islam will back off gracefully.

Now, I have some questions which I certainly like to see respond from fellow Islams, be it what I considered modern Muslim or not.

1) I’ve seen Muslim friends who drink alcohol.  Most if not all, cited the temptation of alcohol.  Some live lives terribly, while some live pretty noble lives by my standard with good principles ( other than resisting the temptation to drinking alcohol lar….)  Let’s focus on those who are living lives good.  My question: What’s the Islamic perception of ppl who drink alcohol but still lead a very good and true Islamic lives whereby they have never engaged in premarital sex or anything similar.  They basically drink for the high effect and that’s all. 

2)  What’s Islamic perception of rape cases?  Or girls who are forced to have sex by their dominating boyfriend?

3)  LEt’s talk about food.  What if the kangkung injected with animal DNA (which is possible now) especially with pig DNA or any other haram animal DNA, which in the eyes of science can be beneficial to human kind, being allowed to the market?  Is that gonna be haram or halal?  I’ve not encountered any article on this, so I certainly appreciate someone enlightening me on this…

4) I’ve many many other questions, but I can’t think of them right now :p

Again, sorry for being frank.

(p.s. this is the very very very very first post, that i would consider not allowing/ deleting comments accordingly though i have a pretty high tolerance.  Like I’ve said before, I view Islam as pretty conservative as compared to other religions, and thus, and comments that I deem not suitable, i might just delete… so please give your open-mind comments….)

Babies and kids

It’s strange how toddlers like to stare at me.

I don’t think it’s because they think that I’m well, strange-looking, as I’m not getting that kinda vibe.

Neither is that they think I’m the most beautiful thing that they ever see in their world, coz I’m not getting that kinda vibe either.

So I simply cannot explain why, why the hell are babies and kids staring at me. >.<

When I’m in the lift, some stranger kid will just stare at me.  When I’m in the bus, some kids will stare at me.  When I’m standing in a corner, some kid will stare, yes, at me.

I really dunno why.  Do I have gooi stuff on my face?  Did I got myself a milk moustache unknowingly?  Is one of my pimple going to pop soon? What?!

One way to stop those stares, I discovered, is to make a facial twitch, be it a quick wink, or a slip of tongue out, or a forced blink of both eyes.  The kid either turn away or be taken aback by such move.

But they are some kids who keep on staring.  Even when their parents carrying them try to talk to them, they kept on staring on me.  “What’s wrong with this kid?!”  At such early stage, this being has already ignored his parents.  WTF

Now, don’t get me wrong.  I love kids.  I love them to pieces, except for their crying and their inability to control their pooping.  But their drooling is ok.  Their running about and falling is fine.  I love their look with their big round eyes.  I love their botak-ness.  I like kids with half-opened mouth as they concentrate.  I like their confused faces, their true laughs and smiles, their little sausage-like fingers, their most peaceful look when they sleep.  They got the cutest allergy marks, and redness on their neck due to sweat or heat.  It’s amazing how they can start crying and then laugh again in just a matter of seconds.  I like the way they remind me to appreciate the small things in life, some that snail, to the grass flower, from that tadpole to clouds.

Kids…

Now, stop staring.

DYK: I rarely get stares from adults though.  I would certainly appreciate if more girls stare at me, better still, approach me and exchange introduction.

WordPress invite?

Okay… it’s pretty dumb.  The fact that wordpress is now free for everyone to register, I find the invitation to blog with wordpress is pretty lame now.  That idea first started when you had to put ur email on queue, and when you are selected to blog with wordpress.com, you’ll be given an invite to get someone else into wordpress.  It’s quite an elite thing, but right now, it’s no longer so.

Thus, the ONE Invite thing, it’s very annoying.  So I decided to give it away.  And the person I wanna send to is this blog owner.  Yup, this is another blogwhore session.

That bugger’s blog, is one that I visit once a while.  He doesn’t really update his blog all that often, but I like the way he writes.  What can I say?  And it’s okay if he doesn’t accept my WordPress invite, doesn’t matter to me… Coz for me, I just wanna get rid of the invite, but still I wanna preserve some sort of integraty of that invite

Part two on religion

a short post here…

I think some very educational information can be obtained from those Astro programmes off National Geographic on some of the latest discovery (or is it Discovery channel) related to Christianity, such as Gospel of gasp* Judas, ‘magicians’ during Jesus Christ times and so on.  Fine, the motivation is due to the release of the film Da Vinci Code, but that does not deny the fact and the opinions in those programmes.

Christians versus me as a Buddhist

Some times, I simply don’t have high regards for Christians.

I’m not sure what’s the exact whole depth of Christianity, but time and again, I get some disturbing comments from my fellow Christian friends with regard to other religions, and ppl who believes in other religions.

Someone told me before, besides Christianity, other religions are simply nonsense.  This somehow really annoys me.  For all the popular religions to survive til today, something has to be right about each and every religions.  It’s simply the approach that is different.  That’s what I believe.  For a Christian to make such remark, I think it’s just the case of classes, discrimination and all unfair.  I’m a Buddhist and I don’t think Christianity is nonsense, neither is Islam or Hinduism.

Perhaps I shall just mention a bit on my exposure on religions.  I’m a born Buddhist, and am still one today.  As a child, however, I’ve attended Sunday school.  Though my parents motivation to send me to Sunday school was not entirely right, but me being at such classes had exposed me to the teaching of Jesus Christ.  And as I grew older, my parents sent me to another Sunday school as well, Buddist version.  So at one period of time, I was going to the church in the morning, and then to the temple in the afternoon on Sundays. (Yeah yeah! Criticized me of what I have becomed right now after all those religious school…).  And then, I began reading Hinduism and Buddhism to further understand these two religions, and my friend will invite me to their churches for all sorts of programmes and events.  And for my secondary school time, I went to one with about 80-90% Malay occupancy.  Want it or not, having so many Malays, Islamic teaching and exposure were there…  My experience include things like, having syukur prayers before and after major examination in halls, sitting through Islamic ceramah, having the school surau blasting the 5-time-a-day prayers, having the principal telling me about Adam and Hawa, and I’ve learnt Jawi, and I can go on and on.  I wouldn’t say I have the full depth of all the religions, but I believe I’ve been exposed to them.

Now back to the the topic.

I’ve another friend who told me about ‘the good news’ through Christianity point-of-view.  My respond was to provide my opinion on that, as well as what I understand from a Buddhist point of view.  He stopped me and told me he doesn’t want to start some kind of debates on religion.  WTF.  it wasn’t me who started it, okay?!?

I believe that, some or most people confused what’s between Buddhism and what’s Chinese customs.  Ching Ming celebration and all kinds of praying and asking for 4D numbers and all the Chinese New Year practices and others, they are Chinese customs.  Vesak day and meditation and some other practices, that’s Buddhism.  (Okay, my question is, does Christianity prohibits Chinese customs?)  Some times, I wonder, if Christians have tried understanding Buddhism before making remarks.  I’ve read the Bible, and of course, I have questions in my mind, especially when I compared to what I understand about Buddhism (THIS, i shall not mention here…)

So here’s what I offer as to what I understand about Buddhism.  I believe the popular ‘worshipped’ Buddha is a teacher.  He’s not a God.  He’s just a teacher, who offers certain teaching about life.  And that’s what makes him so-called ‘divine’.  It’s his teaching which is equivalent to Buddhism.  I believe that they are sets of ‘rules’ from Buddhism, which are meant to do good to mankind.  I believe all those Buddha statues, they are not what I pray to, they are not what I worship.  They serves to remind me of the Buddha’s teaching.  And all those different poses, they are meant to remind me of all the different teaching in Buddhism.  (Again, I wonder if Christians see it that way…)

I’ve an aunt who’s a Buddhist, and her husband is a Christian.  Their kids had grown up with a bent minds, thinking that one day, they will be with only their dad in heaven, whereas their mom will be bound for hell, for sure, for certain.  Now, let me remind you…  Chinese believes that they will go to hell for sure, but that is actually a Chinese belief.  A Buddhist believes that life is in a cycle, where you’ll get reincarnated.  The only way to get out of that cycle is to do good deeds, until you can free yourself from this cycle.  Christians, however, believe that by believing in Jesus (the person or the God), you’ve found your ticket to heaven.  A teacher once posted a puzzling question to the class: If a full-time robber, on his dying bed, say this: I believe in you Jesus, will he go to heaven?  I’m not saying that that’s what Christianity is, but I can safely say that most Christians had conveyed such message to me.

So what now?

I think my Christian friends need to find out more about Buddhism before making all kinds of remarks.  My Islam friends don’t even make all the kinds of remarks I get from my Christian friends you know, and the fact that they got branded at one point of time as a violent religion, it makes me sick… I’ve once read somewhere, that a Christian priest actually remarked something along the line that, if Christian die, and at Judgement Day, realized that the one he’s facing is in fact the Buddha, what then? (Anyone can help me find the exact quote? PLEASSSEEEEEEE…..)

DYK: I wear this string-thingy bracelet which I got during Vesak Day from a Buddhis monk.  Some ppl think that that’s meant to protect from evil, but for me, that ‘bracelet’ is meant to remind me of my actions, on what I need to do good…