Forever 28~

Our next charity visit to orphanage is fixed on 7th February 2010, Sunday. This is the second charity event that organized by a friend of mine after Taman Sinar Harapan visit. Since there are some remaining funds from last visit, hence, they decided to have the second visit before Chinese New Year. This time, the beneficial home is at Ti-Ratana Welfare Home which is located in Salak South Bahru (Desa Petaling).

I get to know a friend from other charity event that I attended last time, we chatted through MSN and I informed her about this event. She is still thinking to join but she said she knows nobody there except me (honestly, I don’t know most of the people that I tagged along last visit :p). But, she decided to donate RM50. Then, she transferred the money to my bank account immediately. I think she really trust me, Haha.

Hence, I decided to post this event on my blog to see whether I can help in raising the fund. If you would like to donate money, clothes, or even foods, do leave me a message. I will try my best to arrange on goods pick up. If you trust me as my friend did, you can choose to transfer money to my account as well. Anyway, that would be better if you can join the event, the more the merrier~! See you there~

I woke up in the early morning on Sunday. Chinese New Year is just around the corner, hence I was volunteering to participate the “spring cleaning” at the monastery in USJ. I was expecting things could be done within half day but I only got back at 6pm.

I was stink after cleanup the kitchen and the drain. You wouldn’t want to know what I’d done to clear the drain. That was the first time I did that as well. Since I decided to do, then I have to do the best for them. At the same time, I get to know few friends as well.

After a tiring work, I was wondering whether my family has done the spring cleaning or not… Perhaps I should go back next week and help up my own family too. Have you done house spring cleaning yet?

A group of kind-hearted youth went for a charity event at Taman Sinar Harapan, Kuala Kubu Bahru last Sunday. I tagged along for the trip although I don’t know most of them. We donated quite a number of old clothes and diapers. These are the items that they need the most. They are really unfortunate.

The second home that we visited was an old folk home nearby. I talked to a few of residents there. I found that most of them keep a cat. The cat accompanies them most of the time and even shares the same bed. Perhaps the cat is the closest ‘partner’ for them. I can understand that because I see they love their own cat very much. What pet will I keep as my “companion” in my elderly life? Haha!

There is another old lady who has three children. Her children sent her to this home due to busy work schedule. They will only come to visit their mum once in a year, which is during Hari Raya.

Anyway, I will say don’t so worry about our future. Keeping kind heart, saying good words, plant good deeds, then you will be blessed. Appreciate whatever you have now. Always remember that you are a lucky one because you are normal and have good health.

There are two major changes in my life in 2009: break-up and my short-term monk experience. Yes, you can say the former incident leads to the latter incident to be happened. Everything has two sides, depends on how you look at it. This is life.

All these time, I claimed myself is a Buddhist but I didn’t really know much about Buddhism until I really “study” on it. After little exposure, I would say Buddhism is a good teaching, at least for me it is. Then, it makes me believes more about Karma.

On 24 December 2009, I went to Dharma University (大马第一从林) located in Bentong, Pahang for a short-term monkhood experience. I think many of us don’t know the existence of this place. It is a nice place.

A total of 82 people were participated in this program, including male and female. All the ‘monks’ have to shave off their hair but ‘nun’ are not required to do so. Honestly speaking, I felt pressure while waiting for my turn to shave off, Haha! But, I feel great when I am bald. I can save a lot of time with bald!

The program was great. I learned a lot of things in the Dharma talks and I love it. This monastery is based on Mahayana division, so there are a lot of protocol during chanting, Haha! But if people asked what I had learned, I would tell them: I learned eat, walk, sit, sleep, and live in the right methods. Sounds easy? That’s Dharma, Haha~

It was a great experience. I’ve another name called 玄鹏 now. Haha~ I definitely will go for the level-2 if time allowed!

After came back from the carnival, I think it would be better if it is held in the country which has four season. Then, this carnival should held in spring or autumn. I don’t think organizing carnival in Malaysia is a good idea because of the weather. Many people just don’t enjoy running and playing under the hot sun.

Luckily, our carnival is held at indoor arena, and it was a raining day. Hence, it wasn’t that stuffy that I expected. The carnival was began at 5pm, and I arrived there on time. For those who came earlier, they would entitled a lucky dip. I won a DVD micro system in this lucky dip. It gave me hopes to win great prize in the lucky draw. But of course at the end I didn’t.

There are a lot of station games around. I played almost all the games, but I still preferred Wii game. Because this was the easiest way to collect tickets. With the tickets collected, we could redeem soft toys. At the end, I managed to redeem three soft toys. I wanted a medium bear, but by the time I collected enough tickets, all bears were redeemed by other colleagues.

If I were on the dress as I planned before, I would walk away that RM1000 prize. Sadly, I had no mood to dress up. My colleague sent me back around 11:30pm, I was totally drunk, totally. However, I managed to show him the way to get back to my house. Then, I collapsed… haha…