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...

Sida Manuk belajar terbai ari Menaul

Lemai hari, sida manuk tegal ti nadai pengawa alu bekerais ka tanah begiga ka belut ke dempa. Dalam sida ti ngaga pengawa nya, tepeda meh tah manuk siku tadi deh ba langit biru siku menaul. Dia sida alu ranggap-ranggap meda penau menaul terbai din di langit. Tenguk meh ati sida ka belajar terbai baka tah menaul.





Manuk A alu bejaku:"Apu neh, uji tak ulih terbai kitai..rindu endar pelaba aku."
Manuk B pen setuju:"Amat nya kih, baka ni enda gamal menua dipalik ari atas nyin kini?"

Dia meh sida manuk bukai pen nyau ngemansut ka angan sida ti bukai. Paduhal nyau sebala meh sida tu ti ka ngembuan penemu terbai.

Baum meh sida manuk tu tadi. Nyau ngemandak ka jerita tu, sida pen bela setuju nganggau Menaul ngajar sida cara kena terbai.

Tuai Manuk:"Tuan Menaul, tak rindu meh kami meda nuan tak baka gudi neh terbai mansa remang. Ulih nuan tuan turun ngagai kami di tanah ditu dulu?"

Menaul;"Ui, auk..ulih. Tang nama pengawa kita bekanggau ka aku tu deh?"

Udah Menaul terengkah ba tanah, dia Tuai Manuk alu nyerita ngagai Menaul tegal pengingin ati sida ya ti ka minta ajar terbai.

Tuai Manuk:"Pia meh Tuan, kati setuju nuan ngajar kami?"

Menaul:"Owh..nadai tusah nya. Lemai tu ulih meh aku."

Tuai Manuk:"Bah, diatu meh. Ditu tau meh jangka ku nuan nunjuk cara ya."

Menaul:"Enda ulih ditu tuai. Kin kitai, nuju Bukit Jangkau kia kitai."

Dia meh sida manuk alu bejalai sama-sama nuju Bukit Jangkau din. Pama penyauh alai nyau, tah Menaul nama meh agi, ga ya nemu terbai deh, enda entu tak lelak baka sida manuk.

Datai meh sida sebuat ba tuchung Bukit Jangkau. Menaul tu tadi nang udah datai dia tumu agi ari sida. Dia Menaul tadi alu ngajar ngagai sida cara-cara terbai alu. Nya baru 'theory' ke dipelajar sida, Menaul pen alu terus ngasuh sida dalam 'Practical'. Diasuh Menaul ngerembai ka sayap meh siku-siku sida tu alu terjun meh siku-siku ari tuchung bukit nya.

Nama penyadi sida?
Alu ulih terbai magang sida, bisi ke tuchum tegal ti rindu, bisi nya nyabak gaga. Pun-pun agi rawan ati, tang nyau makin lama nyau majak landik sida. Alah bala sida burung Achang,burung Lelayang, Burung Ensing.

Nyau majak lemai, nyau majak petang hari. Udah puas ke terbai alu begelumu baru sida ba atas palan di Bukit Jangkau tadi. Siku-siku enggau gaga ati, nabi Menaul meri basa enggau terima kasih. Udah sida meri 'lovegift enggau cenderamata' ngagai Menaul, mupuk meh Menaul pulai ke rumah.

Udah tembu pengawa ti belajar terbai ba Bukit Jangkau nya, alu pulai meh sida manuk tu tadi BEJALAI baru nurun Bukit Jangkau nengah jalai sida datai tadi.

The ENd.

Is something wrong with this story?
The Chickens LEARNT a new knowledge,a new skill from the Eagle. However, soon after acquiring the knowledge..they didn't use that particular skill.

Bersusah-payah daki bukit itu,punyalah jauh perjalanan.Sampai di puncak, diajar si Helang hikmat untuk terbang. Berjaya membuktikan pada diri yang mereka dapat terbang. Tetapi selesai sahaja sesi pembelajaran, balik pula berjalan kaki. Kenapalah tak terbang saja pulang??

The same goes to us, human in general and Christian specifically.
We want to learn a new skill or knowledge. Yet after acquiring it, we didn't use it.

Don't just be a listener but be a DOER!


Tikai Bemban: Auk lah sida Manok ya. Menaul ya Cikgu/Lecturer atau Father/Pastor?

What Will I Do?

READ: James 1:21-25
Be doers of the Word, and not hearers only, deceiving yourselves. —James 1:22

A man who has been my mentor and friend for many years often says that his goal in studying the Bible is always personal application. I appreciate his emphasis on putting learning into practice, because it’s too easy for those of us who study, discuss, teach, and write about the Bible to take a merely intellectual approach to the Word.

Oswald Chambers said: “There is a danger with the children of God of getting too familiar with sublime things. We talk so much about these wonderful realities, and forget that we have to exhibit them in our lives. It is perilously possible to mistake the exposition of the truth for the truth; to run away with the idea that because we are able to expound these things, we are living them too.”

James reminds us that the person “who looks into the perfect law of liberty and continues in it, and is not a forgetful hearer but a doer of the work, this one will be blessed in what he does” (1:25). The key issue is not what is preached or written, but what is done.
When I study God’s Word, my first question should not be, “What am I going to say about this?” but “What am I going to do about this?”

We take delight to teach God’s Word,We say, “Amen, it’s true!”But it’s of little use to us
Unless His will we do. —D. De Haan

One step forward in obedience is worth years of study about it. —Chambers

On Friendship

Persahabatan merupakan salah satu daripada pengalaman utama manusia. Sebuah karya puisi Babylonia, iaitu Epic of Gilgamesh ialah antara karya kesusasteraan terawal dalam sejarah. Ia mencatatkan dengan penuh dalam berkenaan persahabatan antara Gilgamesh dan Enkidu. Greco-Roman pula dengan persahabatan di antara Orestes dan Phylades. Manakala karya Virgil bertajuk Aeneid berkisar tentang persahabatan antara Euryalus dan Nisus.


Di dalam Bible pula, antara persahabatan yang ditonjolkan ialah antara David dengan Jonathan.

Adakah anda tahu yang nilai persahabatan memainkan peranan penting dalam Romanticism Jerman? Sebagai contoh iaitu karya Schiller yang bertajuk Die Bürgschaft.


Dalam Gospel John, Yesus Kristus berkata,"Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends. Ye are my friends, if ye do whatsoever I command you."(John 15:13-14).

Erti persahabatan mungkin berbeza bergantung pada tempat, jantina dan berapa kuat sesebuah persahabatan tersebut.


Antara ahli falsafah yang saya respek ialah Marcus Tullius Cicero(3 Jan 106 BC-7 Dis 43 BC). Beliau berasal dari Arpinum, Italy. Cicero mempunyai kepercayaannya yang tersendiri berkaitan persahabatan.


Beliau percaya untuk memperoleh persahabatan yang sebenar (true friendship) dengan seseorang, maka haruslah mempunyai kejujuran, kebenaran dan kepercayaan yang jitu(complete honesty, truth and trust).





Kawan juga melakukan sesuatu antara satu sama lain tanpa mengharapkan balasan. Sekiranya seorang kawan hampir terjebak untuk melakukan sesuatu kesalahan, maka haruslah dinasihati dan ditunjukkan apa yang buruk tentang perbuatan yang bakal dilakukan nya itu. Seorang kawan sejati akan membantu sahabatnya untuk memahami apa yang murni dan baik. Cicero mengungkapkan nya sedemikian kerana beliau percaya yang kedegilan lah punca kejahatan.


Akhir sekali, sesebuah persahabatan tamat apabila seseorang itu menjadi jahat. (Bolehkah macam ini?)





Thurston say:"Bakih ko kami Iban."