Monday, April 12, 2010
Day in Malacca - 10 April 2010
It was a sunny day when we go to Malacca. It was one and a half hour journey probably because I drove fast. Haha. When we reached there, we went to eat the chicken rice...
To my astonishment, Andrew ordered ten small rice... I was like 'OMG...' Then when I have a look at the small little rice then only I realised that the rice cannot even fill my stomache... Haha... We have a nice lunch and it was extremely cheap. If we were to have this whole chicken in KL, sure it will cost me a bomb... Haha...
Then, we went to MITC PC Fair where my sister finally bought her beloved favourite laptop. There were lots of people over there and we have to walk a long way to get our parking.
She bought Dell Inspiron laptop using my credit card. And that is the usefulness of having a credit card with you... Hehe... She was so happy... And I wish I can have that too... Haha... After that, while we were walking, my darling and I went to have a look at the camera. We went to the Olympus booth to check out the digital camera.
I feel that the camera was quite cheap actually. And I fell in love with one of the Olympus and the price was considered reasonable. My heart starting to wana own that little smart thing. Hehe...
The Olympus FE 4030 was priced at RM599... It has 14 mega pixel, 4x optical zoom and wide angle too... When one shake it still can capture the picture... Fantastic...
I love it... Haha... I was so happy because this is the first time i own a camera... So damn proud of me... But I have to sacrifice my wallet lo... Haha...
My wallet will have a huge hole... But nevermind la... I will save another RM600... Hehe... The camera was purposely bought for the Bangkok trip... But actually I was still in doubt whether I can go and have my holiday cause of the chaos in Bangkok...
Stupid red rebel... Hopefully by the time I go, the rebellion has already subsided... Haha...
What I can do is just pray to the God...
After the PC fair, we went to play badminton with my sis and her bf... Wahh... my sis so keng keep on wana smash me... Hehe... But I got the competitive advantage cause I am tall... Yeah... Damn tired...
while I was driving, I was so damn bloody tired and when I reached home I can almost fall asleep... Haha... But overall we have a wonderful day in Malacca although it was just a one day trip... And not to forget to thank my sis for her lovely layer cake... Taste nice though it is pricey... Hehe...
Sunday, April 4, 2010
Law of Karma
Learn the Law of Karma expounded as follows:
‘To be able to hold office in the Government is a reward for your building Buddha’s statues in previous lives. For building Buddha’s statues is likened to molding yourself, and to protect the Tathagata is protecting yourself. To be a public officer cannot be taken for granted, for without practicing Buddhism it will not befall you. Having helped in the construction of bridges and roads in your past life is conducive to your present enjoyment of various transportation facilities which prevent you from getting foot-worn.
To donate clothing to monks will ensure you to be well provided with clothing in future or in your next life.
To be free from want in food is the result of your providing food to the poor in your previous life.
To be miserly and unwilling to help the needy gives rise to future starvation and clothlessness.
To have ample housing is a reward for donating food to monastries in your past life.
To build temples and public shelters will give you future prosperity and happiness.
To be pretty and handsome is the reward for your respecting and offering flowers to Buddha’s altar in the past.
To abstain from eating meat and to pray constantly to Buddha wil assure you to be born a very intelligent child in your next incarnation.
To have a good wife and son is reward for your disseminating Buddha’s teaching in your past life.
Furnishing Buddhist temples with hangings and tapestries will enable you to have a good marriage in your next rebirth.
To have good parents is a reward for your respecting and helping those who were lonely and desolate in your past life.
Being a bird hunter in your previous life has resulted in your being an orphan now.
To have plenty of children is attributable to your setting free birds in your previous life.
To have destroyed flowers habitually in your previous life has caused you to be heirless now.
Your longevity is due to your setting free sentient beings in your past life.
Being short-lived is the result of your committing too many killings in your previous life.
To steal the wife of another man will cause you to have no spouse in your next reincarnation.
To be a widow now is due to your disrespecting your husband in your previous life.
Being ungrateful in your previous life has caused you to be a serf at present.
To covet another man’s wife will cause you to have no spouse in your next reincarnation.
To distort truths habitually will cause you to suffer blindness in your next life.
To have wry mouth is due to your intentionally blowing out candles before Buddha’s altar in your past life.
To vituperate (abuse) your parents will cause you to be reborn a deaf mute in your next incarnation.
Being a hunchback is punishment for jeering at the Buddha’s followers in your previous life.
To have committed evil with your hands in your past life is the cause for you having disabled hands now.
Your being lame is imputable to your being a robber in your previous life.
To be reborn a horse or an ox is the result of your denying your debts in your previous life.
To be reborn a pig or a dog is the punishment for your deceiving and hurting others in your previous life.
Offering flesh to monks in your past life has given rise to your constant illness now.
To be healthy is a reward for your offering drugs and medications to save the sick and wounded in your past life.
Relentlessly perpetrating evil in your previous life is the cause for your present imprisonment.
Plugging snake-pit and mouse holds habitually will cause you to starve to death in your next incarnation.
To intentionally poison a river or water-source will cause you to die of poison in your next life.
Being forlorn and friendless is the punishment for being unfaithful and deceitful to others in your past life.
Disrespecting the Buddha’s teaching will bring you constant starvation in your next rebirth.
To spew blood is the punishment for eating meat while praying to Buddha.
To have attended Buddhist instruction with levity in your previous life is the cause for your present deafness.
To be afflicted with ulcers is the punishment for offering flesh before the Buddha’s altar in your past life.
To have bad bodily odour is the punishment for selling incense with dishonesty in your previous life.
To hunt animals with rope and net will predestine your death by hanging in your next incarnation.
Being unduly envious and jealous in your past life is the cause for being so lonely or being refect of spouse at present.
To be struck by lightning or burned by fire will be the punishment for dishonest trade dealings.
Being wounded by beasts or snakes tells you that those creatures were your enemies in your previous life.
Whatever you do will come back to you, so accept whatever justice and retribution that befalls you.
Be not mistaken that karma is fallicious.
You will live to bear its consequences, either in this lifetime or in your future life.
Past karma determine your present destiny.
Present karmas are to mold your next life.
Whoever slanders this Sutra will not be reborn again a human being.
Whoever accepts this Sutra will witness the truth.
Whoever writes this Sutra will prosper in successful lives.
Whoever carries this Sutra will be free from mishaps.
Whoever preaches this Sutra will become a very intelligent person in successive lives.
Whoever recites this Sutra will be well-respected by people in his next incarnation.
Whoever distributes this Sutra free to all will become a leader to humanity in his next life.
心
「心」是什麼？要想明白「心」是什麼？要先明白「眾生」是什麼？「眾生」是什麼？眾生是「幻」，心佛眾生三無差別，那麼「心」是什麼？「心」也是「幻」。「心」要怎麼平？「心」要如何去清淨？要如何去執著？要怎麼修？要修不住心，心不住於萬物，就不被萬物所綁，才能夠清淨，才能去執。
不被萬物所綁，就不會執著了，有住心，心就被綁。如果心有所住的話，要怎麼平呢？執著要如何去除呢？人的所有意識皆來自於「心」的作用，「心」如果不作用的話，就不受外境所染，不住心就不受萬物所迷，住心是有生滅，「心」是「幻」。
如果住幻有，生幻相，就在夢中流轉，如果不住心，種子就不會生起，緣份也不會出來，就可以斷煩惱，也能夠斷生死緣。事實上萬物雖有但要行萬事，心不住萬物之上才是真正的清淨，無執著。
心住在名上就被名綁，住在利上就被利綁，心住在色上就被色綁，住在房子就被房子綁，心住在孩子身上就被孩子綁；是誰綁了你？都是自己綁自己。被什麼綁就煩惱什麼，煩惱是因被綁才滋生的。當你看這個人不順眼，聽這個人講話就不順耳，你的心已經住在這之上，就是被綁，煩惱就來了。反過來，愛也是一樣的道理，恨也是如此。
心動緣就起，緣起但也有緣滅的時候，這就是無常，起心動念非常重要，善念就有善緣，惡念就有惡緣，萬緣生萬法，無緣法不生，無念也就無緣了，念念不去執著，謂無念，念由心生，心不住於念，心才能平，煩惱才能了，執著也才能夠去，不住心才能如如而來，如如而去。人要往生的時候，大家都知道，如果還念著世間一件東西的話，念著不放，結果是什麼？六道輪迴。
不談是非 心無愛染
六祖說：「若見他人非，自非卻是左，他非我不非，我非自有過。但自卻非心，打除煩惱破，憎愛不關心，長伸兩腳臥。」
最主要這一句話是這樣子講的：「不要去看這個世間人的過錯，不要看人家過錯，不要去理會別人的過錯，他人有過錯，那麼我就是不講，也不看，不看也不講；如果我有過錯，如果自己有過錯，那就要改，改了就沒有過錯。」「要把這個是非的心給他統統排除掉，如果排除掉是非的心，你自己的煩惱就破，就是破掉你自己的煩惱，怨恨跟愛染都不要放在你的心上。這樣子你晚上睡覺，伸了兩隻腳，躺著，你就睡得著。」
一，不談是非，不要去談是非，也不要去講是非。第二，要避開是非，不做是非。第三，完全沒有是非，就完全沒有煩惱。第四，你沒有怨恨的心，也沒有愛染的心，這個時候你晚上睡覺，就一覺到天明。你沒有憎恨的心，沒有去怨恨哪一個人，你也不說特別愛染，愛染的意思就是說你特別疼惜哪一個人，這個時候你在睡覺的時候，就一覺到天明。
其實男生跟女生結婚，有時候是錯的。人生最可怕的一本書，最恐怖的一本書，就是「結婚證書」。男的結婚，真的需要靠他的勇氣；女的結婚真的是要靠運氣。
人生的時間也不是很長，不是生離就是死別，很快。
所以少看是非，不要去計較是非，不要去談是非，也不要去有什麼怨恨，有什麼愛染，怨恨、愛染也是看得很淡，沒什麼。不是生離就是死別嘛！將來生離都會沒有了，死別倒是統統都出來了。
It has been quite a long time since I last posted something on the blog. Well, it is year 2010 now and a new year will have a new resolution. Of course it will be passing exam and have a proper income nonetheless...
It is April 2010 now. And I still not yet prepare for my coming exam. Study while working seem to be tough though but I am determined to pass it at first attempt... Time flies and i wish I could have finished ACCA earlier.
I am quite happy when my darling manage to get into one of the top ten audit firm in Malaysia, Baker Tilly Monteiro Heng but somehow I feel sad for myself because I was still stuck in a small firm which I have quite a relaxing time working. I wish I could enter one of the Big 4... Anyway it will only be a matter of time for me to try to enter PWC hopefully... Haha...
Hope that my darling will not be stressful working there but it will be a good experience working in such a firm. It is a learning process for a person to grow and gain knowledge about the working world. From my experience, dealing with people particularly is not easy and it's the most difficult job to handle as there are different types of people in this world. If you are lucky you will find a good colleague. If not, you have to face a 'black' face colleague everyday... Haha...
Today I decided to express my little thought since I realized I haven't been updating my blog for a long time. Maybe I was quite busy...
I still have 2 more months to go to face the usual exam. Sometimes I really feel so tiring to sit for the exam. It took me quite some time for me to finish 11 papers and a lot of sacrifices have to be made. Failure is not option for me. I hate it!!! A failure in exam has cause me to ponder and look where I have gone wrong... Luckily I pass the next time. My relative may compare me with her daughter who has gone a long way to almost complete it. Maybe she is 'smarter' than me??? I guess so... Haha... I still think that I of course was much more better than her... So what if she finish so early??? So what??? It's just a paper so please don't talk c*** in front of me... Sometimes my mum will call and talk to me about her bragging about the so called 'success' of her daughter... And I will tell her no need to come compare with me. She is still 1 million km behind me... Haha... Apparently she is still sucking milk out of her mother's nipples when my sis and I already venture into the working world...
Working in TYC is actually quite relaxing because I have nice colleagues but too bad I have to face an admin staff called Mdm. Wong who cut my mileage claim of 1 km (RM0.70). And now my senior manager wants to cut my study leave somemore... Bloody hell! But who cares...
I will just take MC and I don't care...
I will not have much time to prepare for the exam. Therefore I will prepare now and make a timetable for my studies. Anyhow, I will include the dating time in the timetable so that I will not neglect my darling. Sometimes my darling may find that I neglect her but deep down in my heart I do not wish to do that. I will try to allocate time for her no matter what. I still believe that a successful man will be able to perform well in career, studies and love life. And I always think that I can do that. Hopefully my darling too will have enough time to study. Certainly I will not want her to fail because of me. I want to pass together with her and soon we can fly to Singapore and start our future there... Then I can come back to Malaysia to visit my parents and sis more often... Family is still much more important than anything else...
One can find money anywhere but not family... Thats why I love my family so much! And my darling too... Hehe... :P
Wow... Looks like I have written quite a lot... Haha... Hopefully I will be able to accomplish my mission in life. And I really hope that I can finish my ACCA this year. Yeah!!!
Sunday, December 6, 2009
This Haagen Daaz Ice Cream was extremely nice with 6 different flavour.. Wow!! Really fantastic!! It was the best ice cream ever tasted... Haha... And the design was nice.. Guess what!! The price is particularly 'nice' too... Cost about RM34.00 ... But indeed a good experience to try it out.
We went to a Mexican Restaurant called Las Carrestas in Subang Jaya for the great celebration. We have a wonderful dinner there. We ordered something special and they were really delicious.
There is Nachos which taste like keropok but different kind cause it is Mexican type. That was quite a high class restaurant and we did not regret having our dinner there. Marvellous!!
This Haagen Daaz Ice Cream was extremely nice with 6 different flavour.. Wow!! Really fantastic!! It was the best ice cream ever tasted... Haha... And the design was nice.. Guess what!! The price is particularly 'nice' too... Cost about RM34.00 ... But indeed a good experience to try it out.
