archive of April, 2009
I walk the streets of old George Town to see the sights and to look for photo opportunities. I wish that I could get good photos of people working or playing, but I’m never in the right place at the right time. I can’t find people doing interesting jobs or playing Sepak Takraw or practicing a martial art or fishing or anything. In the cradle of Sepak Takraw, I’ve seen no one playing it. I’ve seen soccer and cricket from a distance, from buses. »→
In the Philippines, I read, in the book Ghost Soldiers and elsewhere, that Manila is the “Pearl of the Orient.” In Malaysia I have read that this island, Pulau Penang is the Pearl of the Orient and references to Shanghai, Hong Kong, Singapore, and Macau city-states as “The Pearl of the Orient.” Will the real Pearl of the Orient please stand up?
The more we sacrifice, the more we find ourselves. ~ Brother Renante, M.O.P.
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Mankind must remember that peace is not God’s gift to his creatures; peace is our gift to each other. ~ Elie Wiesel
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Always be yourself, express yourself, have faith in yourself; do not go out and look for a successful personality and duplicate it. ~ Bruce Lee
Each hour 400 children die from preventable water-borne diseases.
I found a place to get chocolate chip cookies in Malaysia. I don’t know when I last ate ‘home style’ chocolate chip cookies. Today I felt like getting a Subway sandwich after seeing more than one Subway on Penang. And Subway has in a display case cookies! They’re rolled thinner and wider than those in Subway stores in the U.S., so they’re entirely crunchy, rather than crisp on the outside and chewy inside as Mom would make them or Subways in the U.S. would bake them. Oh, well, they taste good. Better than nothing.
Human beings can attain a worthy and harmonious life only if they are able to rid themselves, within the limits of human nature, of the striving for the wish fulfillment of material kinds.
The goal is to raise the spiritual values of society. – Albert Einstein
Which movies have featured actor Sean Connery in San Francisco?
Think about it … think about it … »→
Children are made readers on the laps of their parents. ~ Emilie Buchwald
Today I swam from the rocky shore near Queensbay Mall to a neighboring island, Pulau Jerejak. I’d intended to do so for a while, but I wanted to be sure that I was fit enough to swim to the island and return, and Queensbay Mall and the island aren’t near home. »→
It is chiefly in your actions that your faith should shine forth. ~ Saint John Baptist de LaSalle
The first day I owned my cheap, 100cc Malaysian motorbike, I discovered a deflated rear tire a while after I had brought it home and parked it. A too-small inner tube had been fitted before I rode the bike home from the dealer. I had been pleased that the bike shop had replaced the oil and had installed a new battery and two new tires. I didn’t know that not all the tires here are tubeless. And I certainly didn’t know that a slightly too-narrow one was in the 17″ rear tire (which is wider than the 17″ front tire). »→
I came that they may have life and have it abundantly. ~ Jesus the Christ, in the Gospel according to Saint John, chapter 10, verse 10
Love begins at home, and it is not how much we do … but how much love we put in that action. ~ Blessed Teresa of Calcutta
For just as a body without a spirit is dead, so also faith without works is dead. ~ James 2:26 (N.A.B.)
Patience is the root and guardian of all the virtues. ~ Pope Saint Gregory
If you judge people, you have no time to love them. ~ Blessed Teresa of Calcutta