Kidnapper with Brown Eyes=Real Superhero

Once upon a time, there was a child from Millisle, County Down in North Ireland. Her name was Amy Carmichael who was born on December 16,1867. She had brown eyes but she prayed to God to change it to blue. She was rather disappointed that it never happened. but little did she know what plans God had in store for her.

Her father died in 1885 and she was adopted by Robert Wilson. Mr. Wilson was a co founder of the Keswick Convention, where Amy began to become involved more in ministry. In 1887, she heard an inspiring message by Hudson Taylor, at the Keswick Convention, which sparked her call to missions. Although Carmichael suffered from neuralgia, a disease of the nerves that made her whole body weak and achy and often put her in bed for weeks on end, she continued her endeavor in missions.

Carmichael’s first missionary work began in Japan in 1883, where she discovered sheer disappointment. The Japanese missionaries whom she was working with were not living a pure life honorable before God. As a missionary, Carmichael wanted to associate with others who were truly after God’s own heart, so after fifteen months, she left Japan and returned home to care for a sick friend. Because of Carmichael’s drive to do God’s work, she left home less than a year later and returned to missions work. Commissioned by the Church of England Zezana Mission, she made her way to India.

In India, Carmichael was truly able to get to work for God. Her main focus was rescuing the temple children, girls who were being sold as prostitutes to raise money for priests. Carmichael developed a shelter or orphanage for all of the children she rescued, which became known as the Dohnavur Fellowship. Dohnavur is situated in Tamil Nadu, thirty miles from the southern tip of India. To stay in custom, members of Dohnavur Fellowship wore Indian dress and were given Indian names. Another great sacrifice which Carmichael made to better associate herself with the Indian children was the coloring of her skin with coffee.

While serving in India, Amy received a letter from a young lady who was considering life as a missionary. She asked Amy, "What is missionary life like?" Amy wrote back saying simply,

"Missionary life is simply a chance to die."

On June 23, 1931, Carmichael slipped and fell, breaking a right arm, fracturing a thigh bone, and sustaining other damage to her hip. Still fighting strong, she spent most of her time in bed, but died at the age of eighty-three on January 18, 1951. After she began missions in India, she remained there her whole life, until her death. She asked that no stone be put over her grave; instead, the children she had cared for put a bird bath over it with the single inscription "Amma", which means mother in the Tamil.

Her biography quotes her as saying:

"One can give without loving, but one cannot love without giving."

Tikai: Amy selamatkan bebudak yang dijual untuk tujuan pelacuran. Di Malaysia, bayi banyak pulak dibuang. Untuk membantah keras tindakan mendera kanak-kanak dan pembuangan bayi..teruskan memakai baju hitam dan blue ribbon hari khamis ini.

Kids need someone like us to rescue and defend them!
Be their voice!

List of baby dumping cases in Malaysia

KUCHING 6 Mac- Mayat seorang bayi perempuan ditemui dalam sebatang longkang dalam keadaan menyedihkan kerana masih mempunyai tali pusat serta kesan darah pada badannya.

SEGAMAT 1 Mac- Seorang wanita berusia 22 tahun ditahan polis bagi membantu siasatan kes penemuan mayat bayi yang hampir reput dalam tandas sebuah pusat latihan memandu di Jalan Lapangan Terbang di sini baru-baru ini.

KUALA KRAI 13 Feb. – Seorang bayi lelaki yang dipercayai baru dilahirkan beberapa hari ditemui dalam keadaan rentung dalam sebuah tong sampah di belakang sebuah bank di sini hari ini

IPOH 30 Dis. – Mayat seorang bayi perempuan yang masih bertali pusat ditemui dalam tong sampah di kawasan rumah pangsa Jalan Asby di sini hari ini.

JOHOR BAHRU 25 Jan. - Tiada istilah takut bagi seorang penjaga kubur setiap kali melangkah masuk ke Tanah Perkuburan Islam Bukit Alif di sini, namun semalam, tubuh lelaki berkenaan menggigil sebaik membuka sebuah beg plastik ditemuinya di atas sebuah pusara di kawasan itu.

KUALA LUMPUR 28 Dec.- Masih ada manusia yang tidak berhati perut apabila tergamak mencampakkan janin yang bertali pusat bersama sampah sebelum ia ditemui di atas lantai konkrit berhampiran Sungai Klang, Jalan Jelatek Datuk Keramat, dekat sini, semalam.

KUALA TERENGGANU 12 Nov. - Seorang bayi perempuan berusia dua bulan nyaris bersemadi dalam sebuah perigi selepas dicampakkan ibu kandungnya sendiri ke dalam telaga berkenaan berhampiran rumahnya di Kampung Pengkalan Arang, Batu Enam di sini, kelmarin

MERSING 21 Mac – Seorang bayi lelaki yang baru dilahirkan ditemui dalam keadaan berlumuran darah di kawasan pembuangan sampah di Pantai Air Papan, dekat sini hari ini.

SUNGAI PETANI 14 Mei – Sungguh kejam. Gejala buang bayi kini kembali berulang. Kali ini, mayat bayi yang dilahirkan disembunyikan di bawah katil.

Tikai: mereka dibuang,dibakar ibarat sampah.
As an IPT student, I would like to invite my fellow IPT students to wear BLACK shirt and BLUE ribbon (on wrist) for this coming Thursday (11.03.2010) to show that you're against BABY DUMPING & CHILD ABUSE. We can make a difference.

1MALAYSIA AGAINST CHILD ABUSE AND BABY DUMPING.

BLACK SHIRT&BLUE RIBBON FOR SAYING;"NO TO CHILD ABUSE AND BABY DUMPING!"

"There comes a time
When we head a certain call
When the world must come together as one
There are people dying
And it's time to lend a hand to life
The greatest gift of all

We can't go on
Pretending day by day
That someone, somewhere will soon make a change
We are all a part of
God's great big family
And the truth, you know love is all we need

[Chorus]
We are the world
We are the children
We are the ones who make a brighter day
So let's start giving
There's a choice we're making
We're saving our own lives
It's true we'll make a better day
Just you and me

Send them your heart
So they'll know that someone cares
And their lives will be stronger and free
As God has shown us by turning stone to bread
So we all must lend a helping hand

[Chorus]
We are the world
We are the children
We are the ones who make a brighter day
So let's start giving
There's a choice we're making
We're saving our own lives
It's true we'll make a better day
Just you and me

When you're down and out
There seems no hope at all
But if you just believe
There's no way we can fall
Well, well, well, well, let us realize
That a change will only come
When we stand together as one

[Chorus]
We are the world
We are the children
We are the ones who make a brighter day
So let's start giving
There's a choice we're making
We're saving our own lives
It's true we'll make a better day
Just you and me "

I started my blog today with this song call We Are The World. Don't just sing it, live it.


After reading about CHILD ABUSE and BABY DUMPING issues form sesamamumanusia.blogspot.com and the latest local news. How could certain Malaysians be willing to hurt such an innocent soul. I mean Babies & Toddlers are an adorable divine gifts.

I checked out in the Internet, there are two social problem related websites that caught my attention.

http://www.students.org.nz/index.php?page=thursdaysinblack

Thursday in Black is an international movement to demand a world without rape and violence.

They invite people from around the world to wear black on Every Thursday as a symbol of strength and courage, representing our solidarity with victims of violence, demanding a world without rape and violence.

and

http://blueribbonsonline.wi.gov/

"Since 1989, thousands of people nationwide wear the blue ribbon to create awareness of the need to keep kids safe and families strong. Blue Ribbons for Kids provides easy to use resources and materials to implement a successful child abuse prevention awareness campaign."

Blue Ribbons for Kids is a website that talks about raising awareness to prevent Child Abuse and Neglect.






As a student, to make a stand against Child Abuse and Baby Dumping in Malaysia, I would like to invited every students to wear Black on 11 March 2010 and include also a blue-colored ribbon on your wrist.

By doing so you are making a stand against the following cases in Malaysia:

Child Abuse:

The first case I heard was that of Syafia Humairah Sahari and the second was Hareswarra s/o A. Kari-galam. Both are victims of child abusing.

Baby Dumping:

The first case I heard was the one that is being burned and the second was just a few blocks from where I study nearby a market place.

I know it sounds crazy but guys (Malaysians Youth&Students), Child Abuse and Baby Dumping are serious issues. We need to make a stand to say NO for both.

Share this to your friends via email,Fecebook,Blog etc as our way of saying NO TO CHILD ABUSE AND BABY DUMPING.

1Malaysia against
CHILD ABUSE AND BABY DUMPING!

Tikai: Pakai Baju Hitam dan Riben Biru di tangan.

p/s:

Sat, Mar 06, 2010
The Star/Asia News Network

MALAYSIA, PETALING JAYA: Come April, Melvin Tong will climb a mountain for the first time in his life - with crutches. The 25-year-old, who lost his right leg to a cancerous tumour eight years ago, sees it as doing his part to fight child abuse.

Tu7uh sebab-sebab kenapa para pelajar boleh berKAWAN dengan Pak Guard dan Mak Cik Cleaner.

Sering kali kita melimpasi mereka. Ada yang tidak mengendahkan mereka seumpama udara. Ada yang menyimpan dendam terhadap mereka. Malah ada yang dijadikan musuh no. 1 di kampus. Sungguhpun bakti yang ditabur tidak pernah dihargai.
Siapakah mereka yang di maksudkan?

Pak Guard

Mak Cik Cleaner

Pada sabtu ini, Tikai tidak dapat menghadiri Ops Gegar oleh itu sejurus balik dari kelas Bengkel Machinery,Tikai pun menghadap laptop untuk mengupas isu Pak Guard dan Mak Cik Cleaner.
Antara golongan staff non-akademik yang banyak memberi sumbangan kepada sesebuah kampus.

Baiklah, topik hari ini bertajuk:

Tu7uh sebab-sebab kenapa para pelajar boleh berKAWAN dengan Pak Guard dan Mak Cik Cleaner.

1. Menghargai jasa mereka.

Mak Cik Cleaner:

Tidak kesian ke dengan mereka yang selalu sapu sampah yang kita buang, mengemas ruang legar kolej kediaman, cuci jamban... dah tu ada lagi yang tak bertamadun,langsung tak pandai flush mangkuk tandas lepas berak. Ada ke bagi Mak Cik Cleaner 'hadiah' tu?

Pak Guard:

Rata-rata mereka ini ramai yang berusia lewat 40-an, muda pun ada juga. Setahu Tikai mereka pun ada keluarga juga, sanggup jaga kampus sampai dinihari. Dah tu memang selalu dipandang musuh dek student kerana selalu bagi saman kalau rambut panjang lah,itu lah ini lah..
Sebenarnya untuk disiplin kita juga tu.

So, rajin-rajinlah untuk menyapa mereka andai bertemu.. senyum tu kan sedekah..

2.Menghormati mereka sebagai warga kampus.

Mak Cik Cleaner:

Selain lecturer kita, mereka ni pun selalu kita jumpa. Tak salah rasa nya kalau kita tanya khabar mereka. Perbuatan sebegini lazimnya membuat mereka rasa dihormati sungguhpun bukan bergaji besar tetapi diakui juga sebagai warga sesebuah kampus.

Pak Guard:

Ini yang payah sikit student nak respek, sebab kita berfikiran stereotaip terhadap mereka. Asal jumpa , selalu je nak cari kesalahan kita. Pepatah Melayu mengatakan: Berani kerana benar, takut kerana salah. Kalau rambut tu kemas, baju pun menutup apa yang patut ditutup dan tak melanggar perlembagaan Universiti, buat apa nak fobia-fobia lalu depan mereka kan.

Kalau malu sangat nak sapa, angkat je tangan buat tabik jeneral kat mereka..



3.Mengenali rakan baru.

Mak Cik Cleaner:

Ha, cuba tanya mana tau mereka ada Facebook. Tikai pernah terjumpa dengan seorang budak ni, ingatkan dia lepak dengan mak dia. Rupa-rupanya, dia sembang-sembang dengan seorang cleaner ni.

Pak Guard:

Tikai baru je kawan dengan mereka,taklah semua tapi at least tahu mana satu guard yang sporting dengan yang tegas dan kereta apa mereka pandu. Asal je keluar gate utama pasti ada je gurau senda yang mereka lontarkan.

Eh, tak salah di sisi undang-undang kan kalau kita berkawan dengan mereka.


4.Mengingatkan pelajar akan ibubapa nun jauh di sana.

Tikai tengok mereka ni kan, sebaya dengan Mom&Dad Tikai. Tengok mereka berpeluh, teringat susah payah ibubapa berkorban untuk menyekolahkan anak-anak. So, secara tak langsung wujud semangat untuk keluar dari belenggu hidup susah.



5.Memberi semangat kepada mereka dalam menjalankan tugas.

"Apa? ada student nak ugut kamu malam ni? takpa nanti i pergi bilik you, i pun nak bagi balik cerita Heroes you.."

Secara tak langsung, apabila kita selalu bertegur sapa, bagi senyum murah dekat satu sama lain. Tak mustahil, beban dan stress mereka ringan sikit. Sapa cakap kerja Cleaner dengan jadi Guard tak ada stress, cuba lah berjaga sampai pagi keliling bangunan waktu malam atau pun sapu satu dewan kuliah. Mencabar juga kerja mereka.

6.Berkongsi pengalaman baru.


Kalau ada masa terluang, kita sembang dengan mereka,gerenti ada je cerita sensasi terkini takpun cerita-cerita seram kat kampus yang tidak kita tahu dan sejarah lokasi U tempat kita belajar. Mereka ini pun dari golongan yang dulu merasa garam, kalau Pak Guard yang ex-tentera, sampai pagi pun tak habis cerita dia.

7.Menceriakan suasana kampus.

"Malam nanti geng mak cik pergi tengok wayang Solomon Kane, Adik join sekali lah.."

Akhir sekali, persahabatan dengan mereka ini pasti menimbulkan suasana yang bertambah ceria di kampus kita. Persekitaran yang lebih aman dapat dicapai. Mana tahu satu hari kita di timpa kesusahan, mereka boleh hulurkan bantuan.



Tikai: We always neglect these two categories of non academic staff in our campus, they clean our environment and protect us. Take a simple step to just give them a simple meaningful smile. They too can become your friends. Because friendship transcends religious, ethnic, racial differences and the various components that make up our society.


"Never abandon a friend-either yours or your father's. Then you won'tneed to go to a distant relative for help in your time of need."

-proverbs 27:10

Environmental Jokes

"I think the environment should be put in the category of our national security. Defense of our resources is just as important as defense abroad. Otherwise what is there to defend?"

— Robert Redford

"I know they are all environmentalists. I heard a lot of my speeches recycled."

– Jesse Jackson

"Whenever man comes up with a better mousetrap, nature immediately comes up with a better mouse."

— James Carswell

"Wolves are very resourceful. All they need to survive is for people not to shoot them."

— Bob Ferris

"'Growth' and 'progress' are among the key words in our national vocabulary. But modern man now carries Strontium 90 in his bones ... DDT in his fat, asbestos in his lungs. A little more of this 'progress' and 'growth,' and this man will be dead."

— Morris K. "Mo" Udall

"For 200 years we've been conquering nature. Now we're beating it to death."

— Tom McMillan

"According to a survey in this week's Time magazine, 85% of Americans think global warming is happening. The other 15% work for the White House."

— Jay Leno

"President Bush has a plan [to fight global warming]. He says that if we need to, we can lower the temperature dramatically just by switching from Fahrenheit to Celsius."

— Jimmy Kimmel

"The Union of Concerned Scientists says the Bush administration manipulates and suppresses science. The administration points out that the Union of Bought and Paid for Scientists disagrees."

— Fark.com

"Some folks believe that global warming doesn't exist and that the environment doesn't need any help. I tend not to listen to them."

— Robert Wagner

"We have met the enemy and he is us."

— Walt Kelly (from "Pogo")

Oil Joke Even though it's hard to provide laughs about oil spills! CHECK ONE: HOW DO OIL COMPANIES USUALLY DEAL WITH OIL SPILLS? Containment booms and filtration pumps Slick lawyers

Tikai: Genesis 1;26

26 And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth.

Geng...juh kita donate pegi sitok...

DONATE TO ALLEVIATE THE HUMANITARIAN SUFFERING IN HAITI

In response to the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Socities ( IFRC ) Emergency Appeal to seeks CHF 105.7 mil ( USD 103 mil or EUR 73 mil ), the Malaysian Red Crescent (MRC), appeals to the generous Malaysians to donate to the MRCS International Relief Fund to alleviate the sufferings of the victims of an earthquake that struck the Haitian coast on 12 January at 17:00 hours.

Donors can send cheques or cash to the following address:

National Honorary Secretary
Malaysian Red Crescent Society
National Headquarters
32, Jalan Nipah off Jalan Ampang
55000 Kuala Lumpur

Cheques should be made out to the “MRCS International Relief Fund” written at the back HAITI EARTHQUAKE
or
bank in into MRCS Account Maybank No – 5144 2210 2657.

Donations to the MRCS are entitled to Tax–Exemption.

For further details please contact:

Suhana Mohamed Salleh
Manager, Communications
Malaysian Red Crescent
32, Jalan Nipah off Jalan Ampang
55000 Kuala Lumpur
Tel : 603 – 4257 8122 ext 106
Mobile: 012 – 321 2937
Fax : 603 – 4257 9867 / 4253 3191
e-mail: suhana@redcrescent.org.my

(I purposely bold some are to emphasize calling)

Source:http://www.redcrescent.org.my/drupal/node/2145



Tikai: I don't know if we go to heaven if we do this but 1 thing I'm ABSOLUTELY sure is our donation can reduce@alleviate their suffering. Share about this link to your friends and churches.
There's a Malay proverbs that says: sikit-sikit lama-lama jadi bukit..
little by little, if accumulated can amount to a hill.

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P/s: I read in the latest newspaper, two desperate Haitians bit each others lips in struggle for food ratio. Not it's not a romantic act, it pure desperation..

Akhir sekali Tikai ingin tujukan lagu ini kepada seluruh rakyat Malaysia:

OH BETAPA INDAHNYA HIDUP KITA JALANI
TIADA WAKTU TERLEWAT TANPA BAHAGIA
MARI LIHAT KE LUAR, TERKADANG KITA LUPA
KITA TAK SENDIRI
MENIKMATI INDAHNYA HIDUP YANG DIBERIKAN
OLEH SANG PENCIPTA

BAGAIMANA DENGAN MEREKA YANG MENJERIT KARENA LAPAR
YANG HIDUP DARI BELAS KASIHAN ORANG S’PERTI KITA
BAGAIMANA DENGAN MEREKA YANG TAK PUNYA APA-APA
APA YANG T’LAH KITA BUAT
KAR’NA KITA DICIPTAKAN
UNTUK BERBAGI HIDUP DENGAN MEREKA

-lagu bertajuk Bagaimana dengan mereka nyanyian One Way

Bhagwan Hey Pyaar Hey...

Valentine's Day...A day for love?

Bullshit I say!
EveryDAY is a time to LOVE.

it's a 365 24 7 thing.

I know a pastor who didn't wait for V Day to give his pretty wife roses.


I was very shocked when I read the news about youngsters here in Malaysia caught by the Authority for committing adultery in hotels. Sad to say but a lot of teenage couples used Valentine's Day as special day to "DO IT".

When someone say "I Love You" to you, what's the first thing come into your mind?
A boy stating his emotion to a girl he admired?
A mother conveying her cares for her son?
A non-gay term used by best buddies to appreciate each other?
Or the crucifixion of The Son of God?





Tikai would like to share with fellow readers on the 4 Greek words for love: Eros, Storge, Philia and Agape.

Eros or Romantic Love

This love is associated with Marriage, Sensual Desire and Longing. When you see a girl which makes your pulse go faster than normal or that feeling in your tummy like butterflies are flying inside. This is a common thing and a very special feeling we felt/feel in real life or seen in Holly-Bollywood movies.It promotes appreciation of the beloved. However,if we look back in history, most dreaded tragedies often caused by it.
C.S. Lewis warned:"love begins to be a demon the moment [it] begins to be a god".
When one elevate EROS to the status of a God often means danger!

Storge or Security/Familial Love

This particular love is found among family members or people whom you consider a family.People whom we rely on and the feeling of being taken care for and nurtured.It is the result of fondness because of familiarity. It can transcend most discriminating factors. Ironically, its strength is also its vulnerability point. C. S Lewis says,because this love has the appearance of being "ready made" or "built-in", and as a result people would expect, even to demand, its presence—irrespective of their behavior and its natural consequences.

Philia or Frienship Love

This is a love between you and someone that is totally honest, open and comfortable.

It is a strong bond existing between people who share a common interest or activity.C. S. Lewis explicitly notes that his definition of friendship is narrower than mere companionship: friendship in his sense only exists if there is something for the friendship to be "about".
Take for example, the friendship between King David and Jonathan.

Agape or Sacificial/Charitable/Unconditional Love

This is the love that brings forth caring regardless of circumstance.C. S. Lewis recognizes this as the greatest of loves, and sees it as a specifically Christian virtue. He warns that those who exhibit charity must constantly check themselves that they do not flaunt—and thereby warp—this love ("But when you give to someone, don't tell your left hand what your right hand is doing."—Matthew 6:3), which is its potential threat.

God is Love

God is Love (1 John 4:8). One way He defines Love is found in John 3:16 "For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life."One way God defines love is in the act of giving.

It's Unconditional

God is Love, and His love is rather different from that of human love. It is unconditional, and it's not based on feelings or emotions. He doesn't love us because we're lovable or because we make Him feel good; He loves us because He is love. He created us to have a loving relationship with Him, and He sacrificed His own Son (who also willingly died for us) to restore that relationship.





Tikai: I heard a saying: you can give without loving but you can't love without giving.

apa lagi bantu lah mereka di Haiti sinunnnn...