大河剧 一

花了一年半，终于把我的第一部大河剧看完了。共48集的【龙马传】，看完时有感慨，即振奋，又沮丧之感。好像每次看完电视剧都有这种无奈的感觉。=/

（剧照一：坂本龍馬，福山雅治饰）

龙马传，讲述幕末时代一位土佐藩下士-坂本龍馬一生33年的事迹。他生性好奇，有着别人没有的思绪，没有着一般武士的蛮悍，反而珍惜生命，主张和平。江户时期，黑船来袭，西方人迫使日本开国贸易。龙马受黑船影响，渐渐开拓视野，虽然加入挚友武市半平太所组，以尊皇攘夷为主要的“土佐勤王党”，但仍对其保持怀疑态度。日后脱藩，成为一介浪人，并拜胜麟太郎为师，极力拓展自己的知识，接受反战，建立海军的想法。其后土佐勤王党被强力瓦解，海军操练所被关闭，促使龙马进一步的成长。龙马等浪人到萨摩替西乡吉之助开船，搬货。到了长崎，被纵横商场的日本与各国商人激发了新的视野，后结成了“龟山社中”，促成萨摩与长洲结盟，成功倒幕，推动大政奉还。最后龙马被刺杀，可谓壮志未酬身先死。

龙马跨时代的创新思想，改变了日本的历史，影响了日本的发展，从一个闭门封建的幕府制度，到明治维新运动，至现在民主的政府，成为了亚洲领先的发展国。

从另一个角度来看，如果他没有因年早逝，日本会有怎样一个情景呢？日本会不会走上军国主义的道路呢？二战的悲剧会不会发生呢？

Kampung Baru Tiram Setia

Back again we were in Kampung Baru Tiram Setia, Tanjong Karang, Kuala Selangor.

A few new food stalls have been set up behind JKKK (our camp venue), one selling nice 雪花冰, one cooking tasty food.

Kids and kampung people are still the same, riding bicycles and motorbikes everywhere, every time.

We had 48 kids this time, most of them old kids who came for the last camp and there were also some new faces.

The kids' behavior is a lot better this time. The girl who was used to be so rude was no longer 'that' rude, she listened and learnt. The boy, little bumble bee, who could not sit for a second in the class can now sit more than a second, still not paying attention but paid a little, at least.

Parents' were more participative this time, judging from the number of parents attending our opening and closing ceremony.

My group won the best group this time, the kids were so happy, so did i.

The hardest kid in my group, 伟嘉, who did not care much on what was going on throughout the camp and liked to disturb others, was in tears when we were going to leave the kampung, to another teacher who were so closed to him, we cried too. I did not expect him to.

Pray that God will bless the kids. What they learnt during the camp will be planted deep into their heart and will not be moved by the temptations and bad influences that they are doing to encounter. Pray that they will continue being a good child in the family and good student in school. Pray that they will be loved enough, so that their heart will be softened.

Pray also God will bless the families there, especially the adults--parents and grandparents to take care and teach their children well, not having gender bias and too engrossed in their own business.

Pray for Siew Ching who travels from Subang to the Kampung every Saturday to teach English there. Pray for the revival in the kampung by bringing more Christian teachers in.

Thank you Lord for everything, especially throughout the organizing period and the camp--from the fund needed, people, transport, all were settled beautifully in the end. We can't thank you enough =D


(on the road)

(me teaching)

(us performing during the opening ceremony)

(lanterns!)

(Group photo in front of JKKK)

(me and my group)

(cutie bumble bee)


(last morning breakfast with the kids)

(our host family)

NO Monkey allowed!

Monkey oh Monkeys

You!

Mess around with my table
Give me no good rest when i am alone in the room with windows open
Sneak around outside my window early in every morning
Send an older experienced of your kind to do the attacks

Stole away

My craft benang
My apple
My justea
My peach
My biscuit

and

My precious Chinese stamp given to me by a dearest friend!!!

I HATE you!!!

Bear in mind, this is

Don't mess around with me, i'm not afraid of you!

And don't come when i'm sleeping! Fight one to one like a MAN!!! [except you are not one =( ]

(This is now forever a memory...never took photo of the stamp...sigh...)

Stress

Never experienced gastric before entering university and didn't believe it has anything to do with stress, always doubted the doctor's opinion, until recently i see the connection...

First time it was the very first week i entered uni... stress la leaving home and came to the crappy lousy college and stupid university and senior pm around you just keep shouting and scolding (my thought that time)

Then a few time more in the previous two years, on and off, when i'm thinking too much and i guess all the negative particles went to my stomach and created trouble.

This time, again, when all the assignments, research, Shakespeare reading are pending and require a lot of time and energy to do...

Restless, stomachache, nausea, bloated stomach, loose cake...

Why, stress, leave me alone!

Prayer

Praying is not a rule
not something you are obliged to do
not for you to find words to talk to God

but

an attitude
a natural, spirit-filled conversation with God
He doesn't need fancy words
only those from the bottom of your heart counts.

Think.

Quotes to share:

1. Some people talk a lot but meaningless; some speak a single sentence but full of meaning and insight. Most of us speak hundreds and thousands of words in our whole life, but some people, like Lao Zi, Confucius, Jesus, talked less, perhaps thousands only, but their words are being passed through generations and still being quoted today.

2. Many pray and worship for objects, not God. Are we praying to want God understand and accomplish our will; or are we praying to understand and accomplish God's will? Understand God, not fulfill only our lust!

3. The spirit of LIE is working around the world. Politics, religion, business, education, science and so many fields are full of lies. Some use the name of God to start a war; some fake their research work; some cheated for power. Are we blinded by the lies around us, ignoring the whisper of truth from the spirit of God?

Semester 5

Being in the third year is really like what seniors told us, not easy. I've never had my mind full of stuffs and worries in the very first week of the semester. Academics, emotions, all came about and haunt my dreams. What should i do?

Four weeks have gone with the speed of light and things are still piling up. Keeping a daily schedule is a good way to remind me of my to-do stuffs but i hardly follow it. Procrastination is a big question here.

Ten more weeks to go, short and compressed.

But if i were to put aside headache stuffs i still have some things to remember and smile at, bits of enlightenment at this period of time. Some are shown in pictures below, more in facebook.


(NVC dinner, last event in my batch.)

(Convocation week, a time when UM is crazily crowded, it's very hard to have fresh air down there with the people)

(woan zhao bi ye le!)