Saturday, May 30, 2009

A Glimpse of Heaven





I came across a blog and have since always enjoyed her very insightful postings.

Here I reproduce one of her posting :


" I would urge all my readers to try to be at peace with themselves.
Do not let unkind remarks affect your joy or confidence, for always remember that people's condemnation and unfair judgement of you do not send you to hell; neither do their praises skyrocket you to heaven!!
Hence, before we detect the speck in others' eyes, let us remove the grime and dirt from our own eyes.



A GLIMPSE OF HEAVEN

I was shocked, confused, bewildered

As I entered Heaven's door,


Not by the beauty of it all,


Nor the lights or its decor.


But it was the folks in Heaven


Who made me sputter and gasp ---



The thieves, the liars, the sinners,


The alcoholics and the trash.



There stood the kid from 7th grade


Who swiped my lunch money twice.


Next to him was my old neighbor


Who never said anything nice.



Herb, who I always thought


Was rotting away in hell,


Was sitting pretty on cloud nine,


Looking incredibly well.



I nudged Jesus, 'What's the deal?



I would love to hear Your Take


How'd all these sinners get up here?

God must've made a mistake.



'And why's everyone so quiet,


So somber - give me a clue.'


'Hush, child,' He said, 'they're all in shock.


No one thought they'd be seeing you.'




JUDGE NOT.

Remember...Just going to church doesn't make you a Christian any more than standing in your garage makes you a mechanic.

Every saint has a PAST...


Every sinner has a FUTURE "


“Just so, I tell you,
there will be more joy in heaven over one sinner who repents
than over ninety-nine righteous persons who need no repentance.”

- Jesus to the Pharisees “The Lost Sheep” (Luke 15:7)


Wednesday, May 27, 2009

Dissolving Anger




Taking care of baby Eugene can be very stressful sometimes especially when he 'acts' up - being naughty refusing to eat his food or spitting out his food into your face.

A couple of times I lost my cool and scolded him and also smack his leg - and always felt so guilty later.

I'm glad that I had taken meditation classes before as it helps me to bring me back to being more aware of situations and not be sucked into it and also to quickly centre myself so that I can get to being more calm quickly.

And so now, if Eugene gets to be very 'trying' - I will breathe calmly and meditate and ask his and my angels for help.

Here's a very good passage from a Buddhist article :


How Mindfulness Of Breathing Can Dissolve Anger

The Buddha taught that the fire of anger can burn up everything we have done to bring happiness to ourselves and others. There is not one of us who has not sown seeds of anger in one's heart, and if those seeds are watered, they will grow rapidly and choke us and those around us.

When we are angry, we should come back to ourselves by means of our conscious breathing. We should not look at or listen to the one we feel is making us angry and causing us to suffer.

The other person may have said or done something unskilful or unmindful. But his unskilful words or actions arise from his own suffering. He may just be seeking some relief, hoping to survive. The excessive suffering of one person will often overflow to others. A person who is suffering needs our help, not our anger. We come to see this when we examine our anger through our breathing.

The Buddha says that anger makes us look ugly. If we are able to breathe [mindfully] when we are angry and recognise the ugliness anger brings with it, that recognition acts as a bell of mindfulness. We breathe and smile mindfully in order to bring some evenness back into our hearts, at the same time relaxing the nervous system and the tense muscles of the face. We must keep on with our conscious breathing as we practise walking meditation in the open air, looking deeply at what has happened.

Mindfulness and conscious breathing are sources of energy and can calm the storm of anger, which itself is also a source of energy. If we keep practising mindfulness in order to take care of our anger with the affection of a mother when she takes a small child in her arms, then not only shall we calm the storm but we shall also be able to find out where our anger really comes from.


Our practice, carefully executed, will thus be able to transform the seeds of anger in us.


Tuesday, May 26, 2009

Eugene's Birth Certificate

26 May 2009

We went to the immigration today to get Eugene's birth certificate and to apply for his Singapore Citizenship.

We thought that we will get his Singapore Citizenship together with his birth cert but it seems that the Singapore Citizenship document will take another 2-3 months.

And guess what? Today is also our Chinese Wedding anniversary - this date where we had our Chinese Wedding Tea Ceremony and Wedding Dinner.

Wah, I take this as a good sign and more blessings ahead.

Monday, May 25, 2009

Aunt A's Birthday Party

23 May 2009


Welcome to my birthday party !


A mahjong tile cake!


























Nice pic taken by sis-in-law.



















Delicious food and nice wine and beautiful house.

One of the uncles made the buah keluak dish and the roast pork - both are so delicious.
Sorry no pic, was busy eating and forgot - ha ha.

Sunday, May 24, 2009

Parallel Dimensions




I was channel surfing TV (as usual) and came across this documentary on other dimensions which led me to read more about it from the internet.

The below paragraph was taken from the net :


"When we talk about parallel dimensions we are not speaking of an exact duplicate, but of near duplicate dimensions. For example, I have brown hair in this dimension so in other parallel dimensions my hair might be tan, black, blond. If I am right handed here, other dimensions I may be left handed. Near duplicate, but not exactly the same.

Scientists have now confirmed the existence of at least eleven other dimensions. We have taught that the spirits of the dead exist within their own dimension that is the nearest to ours. Accounts of spirits or ghosts walking through walls instead of the doorway perhaps is because in their dimension, the wall is a hallway or doorway, but in our dimension it is a wall. Spirits tend to create the reality they live within which often overlaps into our dimension."


You might think that this is all hogwash but there is some element of truth in it as someone close and I, had experienced it.

There were 2 incidents that I had experienced that I can still remember so clearly to this day like it had just happened yesterday :

(1) When I was, I think, about 6-7 years old. My parents brought me to the Farrer Park swimming pool. I do not know how to swim and this young girl put me on her shoulder and started wading into the pool.

She fell and the next thing I knew, I was under the water. Now it was very crowded that day, but when I went under, it was all blue and empty - nobody, the whole pool was empty! - I couldn't see anybody's body, legs, arms under the water - it's like another place. A voice (I now know it's my guardian angel/angels) told me not to be scared but to just hold my breath.

So there I was under the water and I remember that it was so peaceful and quiet. Then suddenly, a light burst above me and I saw this non-chinese man with moustache and a hairy chest swimmed towards me and carried me up to the surface.

When I came up to the surface, I can hear my mom being kind of hysterical, shouting if I'm ok and whether I was coughing or choking...... oh, I thought to myself, I'm expected to cough har..... so, I pretended to cough - actually I was fine. I remembered later being given a curry puff to eat.


2) My mom just had an operation and she was hospitalised at the Toa Payoh hospital. I was around maybe 11-12 years old.

So every afternoon, I will walk from home to the hospital to visit my mom. And being young and energetic, I do not talk the elevator but take the stairs.

One day, after visiting my mom, as usual I walk down the stairs. Usually, when i go down two rounds of the stairs, I should be on the ground floor. But on that day, I kept going round and down and down and down......... there's no sight of the ground floor. And on the landing of the commom corridors that leads to the wards, it was EMPTY - now, this is during lunch time and there should be plenty of people walking around. There were nobody, the whole corridor was empty.......

The thought that came to me was "oh no, not again. ok, if I can't go down, then I should go up."

I went up and up until I came upon the common corridor and there were people milling and walking - ok, I should be back to the present - so I ran along this corridor and went down the stairs at the other end of the corridor making sure that there are other people going down the stairs too.

On both encounters, it was devoid of people.



Now, for the real proof that there are other dimensions.

Someone young and close to me have a special gift. Let's call him, DD.

DD have a special gift where he can see the ghosts/spirits. And after talking to him, I realise that sometimes he sees the parallel dimension.

Let me explain.

Once I was at my parent's home :
Me : ok, do you see any 'special person'?
DD : ya
Me : what lah
DD : I see you...
Me : ????? har?? what do you mean
DD: I see 2 of you....
Me : (my hair already standing on ends) you see 2 of me ? then how you know which one is the real me?
DD : the other one looks like you, not an exact replica of you. She is not wearing any spectacles.
Me : what is she doing now?
DD : just walking around the house and sometimes making funny faces like what you do sometimes.
Me : do you see any other family members?
DD : the other day, GP(a family member) was out in the hall talking but I see the 'other GP' sleeping in the room.

So, I think this really proves that there is a parallel dimension out there.

Saturday, May 23, 2009

Walker Walk Walk

I was using the diaper trolley for Eugene to hang onto to walk.

Ya, guess what happens? There will be a trail of diapers on the floor while he walks as he will pull out the diapers one by one and throw it onto the floor.

So now I got a "Little Tikes Walker" today for Eugene for him to learn to walk.

Think it's better than the Fisher-Price because you can adjust the wheel's speed so that it's not too smooth so that the baby will not fall face down.



Thursday, May 21, 2009

Sea-Shell

20 May 2009


Eugene staying very still to listen......


What's this ?



Ooooh....... I like the sound in the sea-shell........









Ok mommy, I can hold it myself.......

Wednesday, May 20, 2009

The Taster

20 May 2009


Hmmm..... this does not taste that exciting......




Let me try this one.......







Hello up there!

Monday, May 11, 2009

10 Month Watermelon Boy



Daddy bought a big watermelon today.




Daddy, this is all for me right ?



ok Daddy, let's negotiate - I'll let you have a piece of it......




By the way, I am 10 months old today !

Sunday, May 03, 2009

With Mommy






Eugene likes crawling under tables.

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