Burning sky

This is view of burning sky from my window where I type this blog.

Burn what?

Somewhere SE direction from the view of my window, thus possibily Jurong Island, Burning away waste gas bah?

Handmade bag bag

This weekends, I had made these crafts out of scrap cloths.

All these bag bag have no zip coz I still have not master the skill of sewing zip. (But I am good at using Winzip ok)

I like the Yoga mat bag, colour is striking and outstanding. Juz a very ordinary blue cloth, but I add a few strips of old fashion pattern, then it become something quite different.

I also made a bag to keep thermometer since the orignal bag already torn. It's made by placing 2 layers of cloth. The outer layer is made of lacey flower.

My netbook and its battery had a bag too. I used green cloth, but add "army" pattern cloth to make some enhancement.

Check out the bag bag I made today out from batik cloth. Do you like it?

Vesak Celebration 2554

This year Vesak 2554 (2010), we went to the following places for celebration...

Lele school at Hai Inn Temple had 传灯on Vesak Eve, so we went to Hai Inn Temple for the lamp offering procession. It was so fun coz after a very long time, I again attended a 八十八佛忏in mandarin again. It was so many years back when I last join a 八十八佛忏 in a chinese temple!

In the morning of Vesak day, we visited ABC tentage at Aljunied and attended Blessing ceremony by Khen Rinpoche. As usual, we went for Blessing, have our vegetarian lunch and drink the most yummy Soya bean, sponsored by kind centre members.

In the noon time, we visited SBYM which is located at Clementi, OMG, it had been so long time I last visited SBYM, really miss the place so much! Saw 广品师 giving a Dharma Talk inside.

Then in the afternoon, we went to Suntec City Level 2 to attend a Vesak Exhibition organised by Kalyanamitta Centre. It was a joyful session as we were greeted by wonderful Dharma brothers and sisters with lotus in their hands, we got the chance to offer pink lotus to Buddha in the most comfortable way. We see exhibition on Buddha's Life and we circumbulate Buddha Relic. We received Blessing from monks and also we offered gold leaves to Buddha (paste them on Buddha's body).

That is our Vesak celebration so far.

Still yet to visit:
Temple at St Michael
The reclining Buddha at Man Ga Ka
居士林
Drophen Ling
Phor Kar See

Jiayou and I hope that we could do more merits during this sakadawa month!

* Om Mani Padme Hum *

PC giving trouble

Juznow my pc was having trouble after I tear it out, trying to replace a new RAM card.

It can't log onto XP anymore :-(

sob...

Alas, i think the slot itself died, no respond totally coz whatever I add the total is still 782...

After much attempts I finally got back my setting and my XP is alive again.

Let's keep fingers cross that the next log in will be successful.

Sleepy eyes... Good night and wish every a Happy Vesk!

Arrival of uncle

This morning is so unusual.

Le Le went to receive the arrival of uncle before going to school.

We left home at 5.30am with sleepy head and tiny eyes. Sleep is precious but it's fun to go all the way to airport early in the morning too. Though it's like a mock feeling of "yeah we are going on a holiday ", but indeed it's juz something to do in the unusual hours, gee...

Everything went on fine, we had Mc Donald for breakfast, we check people in the airport, we kpo around seeing which flights going to where and we waited. Then we received uncle and then everything is back to normal. We were dropped at Le Le's school and after sending him for cc, I went to work.

如果你一夜之间变成了pauper。。。

如果你一夜之间变成了pauper, 你会怎么样？

难受，真的好难受.

当你还能为大家撑起一些些时,没人会感激你.
当你一夜之间变成了pauper之后,没人会理你的.

这是现今社会, 除非环境社会不变, 要不然, 你别想有个雪中送炭的人,就是一句关心的话,再也很难听到了. 富裕的人多,有多少是能体会贫忿的? 也不是他们不关心,他们未曾体会,又怎么能给与发至内心的关怀?

有钱的人,你们是幸运的.我会加油, 努力不为没钱而烦. 不是我吝舎孤含, 而是我不能像你们那样,有爸爸妈妈（留）给你的。 我会让我的小孩也能像你们一样，至少不必为钱而烦，让人认为是吝舎的。

我走来这一步， 一路不好走， 那我就得铺路，让后人更好走！
也希望大家体谅，不要再糟蹋了好吗？让我的路更好走！

Agar Agar

以前的人很喜欢做 agar agar， 为什么现在的人不喜欢做了呢？大概大家都怕甜，都不太爱吃了吧？

其实如果用比较健康的糖来做，再加上不要用太多糖，agar agar 还是可以做得很健康的！

这个做 agar agar 的模型是以前我妈妈买的， 她不用了，我就拿来用了！

以前妈妈做给我们吃，现在我做给小孩子们吃。

如果这个模型还不会毁在我手上的话，希望以后小孩能再用它做 agar agar 给他们的小孩吃。

让我们大家再来做一做，吃一吃 agar agar， 从温一下以前的生活吧！

六字大明咒

Extract from ABC News:

OM MANI PADME HUM, the most popular of mantras, is the heart mantra of the Buddha of Compassion whom we call Chenrezig, Avalokiteshvara, or Kuan Yin. Reciting this simple six-syllable mantra brings profound blessings to the one who recites,  and any sentient beings that person encounters.

Our Guru, Lama Zopa Rinpoche says:

"The benefits of reciting the Compassion Buddha mantra are infinite, like the limitless sky."

When one recites ten malas of OM MANI PADME HUM, "Such a person becomes meaningful to behold; being seen and touched becomes a means of liberating other sentient beings. This means that even the person's breath touching the bodies of other sentient beings purifies their negative karma. Anybody who drinks the water in which such a person has swum gets purified."

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So friends, please start to chant OM MANI PADME HUM from now on!
Wishing all friends a Happy Vesak 2010!

Raining Evening

Today around 4.30 pm, the sky suddenly turn very dark grey and begin to rain heavily.

The sky went clear again around 5.30 pm but still continue to rain.

The good thing is, we will be able to enjoy a breezy and cool night!

zzz good night!

Morning after a night drizzling

It was after drizzling in the morning. Sky still dark and the weather was cool.

Best time for... 
1) going to work? Chey!
2) continue to sleep? Yeah!

But I have no option, I have to do with no. 1...

:-(

Sou san's wedding pix

这是驻在日本-富士通天的中国同事， 曹凯，传来的结婚照。

祝曹凯与太太"新婚吉祥"！

恭喜恭喜！！