Post 13th General Elections of Malaysia : Fight for democracy continues on...

There are overwhelming issues raised regarding the final outcome of the just ended Malaysian's 13th General Elections.

The fight for democracy, justice and freedom from oppression and corrupt practices continues.

The majority of genuine Malaysians have spoken and stand up together.

and beware that any "democratic" government that comes into power through deceit and fraud in the elections is indeed a very fragile government because it does not have the support of the majority of genuine rightful citizens.

Please follow news update on major news portal.

May God bless this beloved nation of ours.

Joshua

My Final Appeal , this 13th Malaysian General Elections / Rayuan Saya untuk Pilihanraya Umum Ke-13 Malaysia (Part 5 / 5)

Rakyat Malaysia yang dikasihi, ketibaan 5 Mei 2013 adalah lebih kurang 24 jam dari sekarang. Setelah meneliti isu-isu yang dibincangkan pada ke-empat empat blog saya. Sekarang, saya telah sampai isu terakhir yang saya ingin bincangkan sebelum Pilihanraya pada 5 Mei. Dalam pendek kata, apabila kita mengundi pada 5 Mei 2013, kita perlu undi dengan kesedaran dan nurani dari hati kita.

Bahagian 4: Kebebasan daripada kezaliman dan menuntut keadilan

Seorang pemimpin pernah berkata “Apabila kita memilih untuk berdiam diri terhadap situasi yang tidak adil, we telah pun memilih untuk berpihak dengan orang yang melakukan kezaliman”.

Banyak rakyat Malaysia telah mati tanpa pembelaan dan keadilan yang dikembalikan kepada mereka dan keluarga mereka. Contohnya, Aminulrasyid, Teoh Beng Hock, Kugan and Altantuya Sharribu. Tiada seorang pun diantara mereka dibuktikan atau disabitkan dengan jenayah yang boleh dijatuhkan hukuman mati tetapi mereka telah mati dan tiada lagi di dunia ni.

Bagaimanakah mereka mati? Siapa bunuh mereka? Dimanakah pembunuh? Dimanakah keadilan? Siapa dapat member kehidupan kepada mereka? Siapakah boleh pulangkan mereka kepada keluarga dan kawan mereka?

Apabila kita mengundi pada 5 Mei 2013, kita sebagai manusia yang berhati nurani dan beragama, kita perlu dan mesti mengundi untuk menuntut keadilan kepada semua yang ditindas dan dizalimi.

Dari nurani hati kamu, memberitahu Aminulrasyid bahawa kamu akan mengundi untuk menuntut keadilan untuk dia.

Dari nurani hati kamu, memberitahu Teoh Beng Hock bahawa kamu akan mengundi untuk menuntut keadilan untuk dia.

Dari nurani hati kamu, memberitahu Kugan bahawa kamu akan mengundi untuk menuntut keadilan untuk dia.

Undi untuk semua yang telah dizalimi atau ditindas di bawah rejim korup yang angkuh dan zalim.

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My fellow Malaysians, the dawn of 5th May 2013 is just slightly over 24 hours away. After pondering about the issues I raised and discussed in the previous four blog posts. Now I have come to the last issue that I would like create awareness about. At the end of the day, when we cast our vote on 5th May 2013 we should cast our vote with our conscience deep within our heart.

Part 4: Freedom from oppression and fight for justice

Desmond Tutu once said “When we choose to be silent in situations of injustice, we have already chosen the side of the oppressors”

Many Malaysians have died with justice to them. Just to name a few, Aminulrasyid, Teoh Beng Hock, Kugan, Altantuya Sharibuu. None of them were proven guilty or convicted for any offences that demand mandatory death sentence but yet they are dead now.

How did they die? Who kill them? Where are murderers? Where is justice? Who can give back their lives? Who can return them to the loved ones?

We as people of conscience and faith, when we cast our vote this 5th of May, we should and must vote to seek justice for all that are oppressed and down-trodden. 

Tell Aminulrasyid with your heart that you will vote to seek justice for him

Tell Teoh Beng Hock with your conscience that you will vote to seek justice for him

Tell Kugan with your mind that you will vote to seek justice for him

Vote for all who are oppressed and abused under the corrupt regime of tyranny and arrogance.

Vote for Justice

Vote for Change

Joshua

Documentary into the grand "corruption" of the Sarawak CM Taib Mahmud's ruling family

Corruption, abuse of power, oppression of the indigenous...and this leader comes from no other than the ruling coalition of Barisan Nasional.




A vote for Barisan Nasional
...is a vote for corrupt leaders
... is a vote for the oppression of the people

Sleepless villagers long to return to bombed homes

By Boo Su-Lyn

March 07, 2013

Media are barred from entering Embara Budi community hall. — Pictures by Saw Siow Feng

LAHAD DATU, March 7 — Tired of being squeezed with some 650 people into a community hall here with only four toilets, some villagers want to return to their flattened homes in Kampung Tanduo, which was taken over by Sulu gunmen last month.

The Kampung Tanduo residents said that they fled their village on February 12 to Kampung Tanjung Labian with just the clothes on their backs after some 200 Sulu gunmen arrived, but were forced to flee again to the Embara Budi community hall here last Monday as they feared the intrusion of the southern Filipino militants.

“We sleep on the cement floor; no blankets, mattresses or pillows,” Ben Harun told The Malaysian Insider yesterday.

“It is uncomfortable. I can’t sleep well. There are too many people,” added the fisherman who was born in Kampung Tanduo, which is a seaside village in eastern Sabah.

People waiting for rations at the Embara Budi community hall.

 

Erlinda Hamid says no sanitary pads are provided.

Ben, 48, said that most of the villagers staying in the Embara Budi community hall are women and children, who are not placed separately from the men. Families sleep together in the blue-roofed hall.

Despite losing all his property and livestock — including 100 goats, 38 cows and 100 chickens — after Kampung Tanduo was pounded by air strikes last Tuesday, Ben longed to go home.

"I hope to return to Tanduo... we are suffering here,” said Ben, who was wearing a black T-shirt and checked trousers.

He pointed out that he has been wearing the same clothes for days and that he would just don a sarong after he washes those clothes.

The villagers at the hall yesterday received family rations including two bags of rice, two packs of chocolate biscuits, 10 tines of sardines, two tins of condensed milk, one bag of oil, one pack of fine salt and one bag of sugar.

“We cook food once or twice a day. We must save, if not it’ll be difficult,” said Ben.

The Embara Budi hall that houses 650.

Ben Harun says that people sleep on the cement floor without mattresses, pillows or blankets.

Children ran about outside the hall and in a nearby playground with rusty swings as The Malaysian Insider interviewed Ben through the fence. The police prohibited media from entering the hall that was mostly filled with villagers from Kampung Tanjung Labian.

It is understood that several hundred villagers have also been placed at a small town called Fajar Harapan, which is similarly off-limits to the press.

Clothes were hung to dry on the barbed fence surrounding the Embara Budi hall, and even on bushes outside the building.

I hope to return to Tanduo... we are suffering here. — Ben

The hall, which is located at a Felda Sahabat plantation, is surrounded by oil palm trees. Felda Sahabat has 57 plantations and is twice the size of Singapore. It is spread out across a hilly terrain with straight, narrow roads that the occasional egret crosses.

Embara Budi is located some 5km from Kampung Tanjung Labian. Gunfire could be heard yesterday afternoon from a checkpoint near the village.

Several military and police vehicles zoomed past the hall yesterday, even as the authorities announced that the search operations have been expanded from Kampung Tanduo to Kampung Tanjung Batu.

Armed Forces chief Gen Tan Sri Zulkifeli Mohd Zin admitted yesterday that the nine bodies found were of Filipino militants killed during last Friday’s shootout. Three more bodies have yet to be discovered. One Sulu militant was shot dead yesterday morning, bringing the total Sulu casualties here to 13.

Self-proclaimed princess Jacel Kiram reportedly said yesterday that Sulu militant leader Agbimuddin Kiram and his group of Sulu sultanate followers survived last Tuesday’s aerial assault since invading Kampung Tanduo on February 9.

Kampung Tanduo resident Erlinda Hamid, 22, said sanitary pads were not provided at the hall.

“I really wish to go home,” she said, as she breastfed her one-year-old daughter at a nearby cousin’s house that was filled with flies.

Kampung Tanjung Labian community leader Assaffal Alian, who is a Dusun, said that the rations were supplied by the National Security Council.

“Of course we want to go back as soon as possible. Life is not as normal as it’s supposed to be,” said Assaffal, 48, adding that he arrived at the Embara Budi hall last Monday.

Many southern Filipinos fled to Sabah in the 1970s to escape the civil war in Mindanao.

The sultanate of Sulu, which is a province in the southern Philippines, claims Sabah as its ancestral land and insists that it has done no wrong in intruding into the Borneo state.

Factory worker Farizan Bayah, 23, said that people have stopped harvesting palm oil, pointing to the dense oil palm plantations along the way to the Embara Budi hall.

“People are scared of getting kidnapped,” he said.

A silly comment from an opposition MP about Sabah crisis

A silly comment made by the opposition MP Tian Chua recently about the Sulu militants intrusion into Sabah has been blown into a huge issue no matter how you may want to intepret it.

 

There should not be any doubt on the heroic sincerity and passion to defend the sovereignty of country among our country's security forces and defense personnel in dealing with the armed militants in Sabah.

 

I urged MP Tian Chua to apologize and retract his remarks/ comments as it does hurt the feelings of the loved ones of those whom had died in the operation so far.

 

I would also like to urge those whose anger continue to burn against the MP that made the silly remark that Tunku Abdul Rahman- our Bapa Kemerdekaan Malaysia (Father of Independence) is also accused of being "worse than" and defamed and we should also stand up/ speak up against those who defamed our Bapa Kemerdekaan.

 

However, I believe that Malaysia's mainstream media have given far too much attention on this remark by the MP eventhough how silly it may be. Patriotic and peace loving Malaysians should instead divert their energy to pray and to contribute in support of the affected families and Sabahans. Not to forget that we should also analyze the intrusion issue as how we could help to secure a better future, more prosperous and a more secured Sabah for all Malaysians in general and Sabahans in particular in the up coming 13th Generel Elections.

 

Blessed are the peace-makers. May the peace of God be with everyone. I pray that a peaceful solution without further bloodshed can be reached sooner.

 

Joshua

 

 

10 rare pygmy elephants found dead in Borneo

10 rare pygmy elephants found dead in Borneo

This is a poignant picture of a rare asiatic Borneo pygmy elephant calf nudging its' dead mother, who believed to poisoned along with the 13 other dead elephants found in the Malaysian's state of Sabah (Northeastern Borneo)

This distinctive asiatic sub-species pygmy elephant  is recognised in 2003 and is only found in the north-east of Borneo with the majority of concentration in the Malaysian state of Sabah. It is estimated that the wild population stands between 1,500 to 2,000.

Calling and urging the authorities and government to launch full investigations into the dead elephants and the cause of death without fear or favour. Government must act to protect the national treasure and asset by allocating more fund, investing in expertise, supporting research, development policies, gazzets national forests and eventually laws and enforcement.

If the government can spend RM30 Million on the initial setting up a giant panda enclosure to house a pair of giant pandas loaned from China for 10 years. The government should no longer wait for further action to protect its national treasure of flora and fauna.

Joshua

Israelis & Palestinians' right to live peacefully...

The Israel-Gaza conflict is escalating towards an outbreak of full-scale war in the Middle East.

Both Israeli-Government and Hamas-led Government in Gaza are democratically elected by their people to fulfill the aspiration and the welfare of its people. Therefore, both governments have their responsibilities to carry out the governing responsibilites to SAFEGUARD and PROTECT its citizens' interest and well-being in long term.

• Launching rockets and threatening military ground offensive ARE NOT THE SOLUTION!
• Israelis and Palestinians both have EQUAL RIGHT to live peacefully and properously without being under constant fear and threat of violence and bloodshed.
• There is NO OTHER SOLUTION other than a TWO-STATES SOLUTION for a secured state of Israel and an independant state of Palestine living peacefully side-by-side.

Every nation and every individual has the right to defend itself but it seems that the RIGHT has abused by poor strategies in the long run.

• Ever since Israel managed to assasinate Hamas-Militant Leader in Gaza recently, hundred more of rockets have been launched from Gaza towards Israel, targetting cities like Tel Aviv and Jerusalem.
• Since Hamas launched hundreds more of rockets into Israel in retaliation, Israel's offensive campaign only intensifies and only contribute more to civillian deaths.

If both the Israeli and Hamas Governments continue its short-sighted campaign of violence and bloodshed now leading to greater civillian casualties, then both governments have FAIL to SAFEGUARD and PROTECT its citizens' interest and well-being in LONG TERM.

I suggest that:

• Both governments agree to an IMMEDIATE cease-fire as brokered by Egypt and sanctioned by UN.
• Both governments agree to the ONLY diplomatic solution with a secured Israel and independant Palestine living side by side peacefully.
• Both goverments conduct a nation-wide EDUCATION & AWARNESS campaigns for its citizen to be informed of the diplomatic solution.
• Both governments convene a parliament sanctioned NATIONAL REFEREDUM on the Two-State diplomatic solution simultaneously
• Israel ACCEPTS the indenpendence of Palestine and the right of the Palestinians and STOPS all provocative unilateral decision on developing controversial lands...etc.
• Palestine RESPECTS the existence of Israel and the safety of the Israelis and STOPS all provocative militant activities against Israel. Hamas must weed out its militants' wing and establishes a Palestinian Parliament sanctioned defense army along-side with West-Bank. Hamas MUST work along with Palestinian Leader Mahmoud Abbas of West-Bank.

If every nation and individual only acts in the name of  "the right of self-defense", who then will acts in the name of "the right to live peacefully''?

So, Israel and Gaza must act in the name of "the right of its citizens to live peacefully" and not to hijack the nation's interest for self-serving purpose.

May God-Almighty bring peace to everyone's home and the love of God be felt in every heart He loved.

Joshua

Israel-Gaza escalating conflict

Reuters/Reuters - An explosion and smoke are seen after Israeli strikes in Gaza City November 18, 2012. REUTERS/Ahmed Zakot

GAZA/JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Israel bombed militant targets in Gaza for a fifth straight day on Sunday, launching aerial and naval attacks as its military prepared for a possible ground invasion, though Egypt saw "some indications" of a truce ahead.

Forty-seven Palestinians, about half of them civilians, including 12 children, have been killed in Israel's raids, Palestinian officials said. More than 500 rockets fired from Gaza have hit Israel, killing three people and injuring dozens.

Israel unleashed its massive air campaign on Wednesday, killing a leading militant of the Hamas Islamist group that controls Gaza and rejects Israel's existence, with the declared goal of deterring gunmen in the coastal enclave from launching rockets that have plagued its southern communities for years.

The Jewish state has since launched more than 950 air strikes on the coastal Palestinian territory, targeting weaponry and flattening militant homes and headquarters.

The raids continued past midnight on Sunday, with warships bombarding targets from the sea. And an air raid targeted a building in Gaza City housing the offices of local Arab media, wounding three journalists from al Quds television, a station Israel sees as pro-Hamas, witnesses said.

Two other predawn attacks on houses in the Jebalya refugee camp killed one child and wounded 12 other people, medical officials said.

These attacks followed a defiant statement by Hamas military spokesman Abu Ubaida, who told a televised news conference.

"This round of confrontation will not be the last against the Zionist enemy and it is only the beginning."

The masked gunman dressed in military fatigues insisted that despite Israel's blows Hamas "is still strong enough to destroy the enemy."

An Israeli attack on Saturday destroyed the house of a Hamas commander near the Egyptian border.

Casualties there were averted however, because Israel had fired non-exploding missiles at the building beforehand from a drone, which the militant's family understood as a warning to flee, and thus their lives were spared, witnesses said.

Israeli aircraft also bombed Hamas government buildings in Gaza on Saturday, including the offices of Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh and a police headquarters.

Among those killed in air strikes on Gaza on Saturday were at least four suspected militants riding motorcycles, and several civilians including a 30-year-old woman.

ISRAELI SCHOOLS SHUT

Israel said it would keep schools in its southern region shut on Sunday as a precaution to avoid casualties from rocket strikes reaching as far as Tel Aviv and Jerusalem in the past few days.

Israel's "Iron Dome" missile interceptor system destroyed in mid-air a rocket fired by Gaza militants at Tel Aviv on Saturday, where volleyball games on the beach front came to an abrupt halt as air-raid sirens sounded.

Hamas' armed wing claimed responsibility for the attack on Tel Aviv, the third against the city since Wednesday. It said it had fired an Iranian-designed Fajr-5 at the coastal metropolis, some 70 km (43 miles) north of Gaza.

In the Israeli Mediterranean port of Ashdod, a rocket ripped into several balconies. Police said five people were hurt.

Israel's operation has drawn Western support for what U.S. and European leaders have called Israel's right to self-defense, but there was also a growing number of calls from world leaders to seek an end to the violence.

British Prime Minister David Cameron "expressed concern over the risk of the conflict escalating further and the danger of further civilian casualties on both sides," in a conversation with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, a spokesperson for Cameron said.

The United Kingdom was "putting pressure on both sides to de-escalate," the spokesman said, adding that Cameron had urged Netanyahu "to do everything possible to bring the conflict to an end."

Ben Rhodes, a deputy national security adviser to President Barack Obama, said the United States would like to see the conflict resolved through "de-escalation" and diplomacy, but also believes Israel has a right to self-defense.

Egyptian President Mohamed Mursi said in Cairo as his security deputies sought to broker a truce with Hamas leaders, that "there are some indications that there is a possibility of a ceasefire soon, but we do not yet have firm guarantees."

Egypt has mediated previous ceasefire deals between Israel and Hamas, the latest of which unraveled with recent violence.

A Palestinian official told Reuters the truce discussions would continue in Cairo on Sunday, saying "there is hope," but it was too early to say whether the efforts would succeed.

In Jerusalem, an Israeli official declined to comment on the negotiations. Military commanders said Israel was prepared to fight on to achieve a goal of halting rocket fire from Gaza, which has plagued Israeli towns since late 2000, when failed peace talks led to the outbreak of a Palestinian uprising.

Diplomats at the United Nations said Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon is expected to visit Israel and Egypt in the coming week to push for an end to the fighting.

POSSIBLE GROUND OFFENSIVE

Israel, though, with tanks and artillery positioned along the frontier, signaled it was still weighing a possible ground offensive into Gaza.

Israeli cabinet ministers decided on Friday to more than double the current reserve troop quota set for the Gaza offensive to 75,000 and around 16,000 reservists have already been called up.

Asked by reporters whether a ground operation was possible, Major-General Tal Russo, commander of the Israeli forces on the Gaza frontier, said: "Definitely."

"We have a plan. ... It will take time. We need to have patience. It won't be a day or two," he added.

Another senior commander briefing reporters on condition of anonymity said Israel had scored "good achievements" in striking at nearly 1,000 targets, with the aim of ridding Hamas of firepower imported from Libya, Sudan and Iran.

A possible move into the densely populated Gaza Strip and the risk of major casualties it brings would be a significant gamble for Netanyahu, favorite to win a January national election.

Hamas fighters are no match for the Israeli military. The last Gaza war, involving a three-week Israeli air blitz and ground invasion over the New Year's period of 2008-09, killed over 1,400 Palestinians, mostly civilians. Thirteen Israelis died in the conflict.

But the Gaza conflagration has stirred the pot of a Middle East already boiling from two years of Arab revolution and a civil war in Syria that threatens to spread beyond its borders.

One major change has been the election of an Islamist government in Cairo that is allied with Hamas, potentially narrowing Israel's maneuvering room in confronting the Palestinian group. Israel and Egypt made peace in 1979.

(Writing by Allyn Fisher-Ilan; Editing by Todd Eastham)

Good Friday, Easter Sunday

I hope everyone had a meaningful Good Friday where we reflect on the love of Christ till the extent of extreme suffering, shame and even to a horrible death on the cross. There is no greater Love than the Love of Christ.

I also hope everyone had a joyful and hopeful Easter Sunday, where we celebrate the resurrection of Christ. As a quote from Aslan from the Chornicles of Narnia : The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe "... if a righteous is willing to die in the place of a condemned, even Death itself will be reversed..."

It's always a right time to remember our dear Lord's love for us...

Minimum wage law? YES or NO?

The previous article presents the minimum wage dilemma. Eventhough many middle-class and low-income group may favour a minimum wage policies, goverments of emerging economies (a.k.a. developing countries) may delay introducing a minimum wage policies due to the fact "As an emerging country, the pressure to maintain low wage policies has been considered as an unfortunate – but necessary — outcome in order to achieve low unemployment rates and steady job growth. Overseas manufacturing-based industries will automatically seek out the most efficient labour market for their plant locations. Thus, we should not misguide and sacrifice workers’ wages in a “race to the bottom” and compensate with foreign direct investment inflow. "

Goverments with no minimum wage policies (low wages policies) are often seen good on the record with low unemployment rates and up-to-expected foreign direct investment inflow. The author of the previous article posted on this blog calls for "improving infrastructure, enhancing labour productivity and labour movements, establishing better vocational training, eliminating political influence over the minimum wage avoiding drastic increases, and implementing good governance policies."

 

In my opinion, minimum wage should be implemented with the objective of eradicating hardcore poverty and cushion the effect of stagnant wages and rising cost of living. There should be a general minimum wage policy, followed by fine-tuned conditions under it. For example, a labourer may have a lower minimum wage if lodging/ accomodation and/or meals/ and/or transportation are provided by the employer, reflecting the current rising cost of living.

 

Minimum wage policy should be determined by the purchasing power of the residents of the country/ state. (United States has a federal minimum wage, and state minimum wage which the higher wage is enforced). For example, a day's minimum wage (8 to 12 working hours) must exceed the ability of the employee to pay for three descent meals and other basic cost of livings. In a more detailed manner, for a month's minimum wage, an employee is able to pay for 5kg of rice, 2kg of flour, 500gm of sugar, 20 eggs, 2 chickens, 500gm of oil, 200 liter of crude oil and have at least 70% of the wages left for access to healthcare, education, family, savings, and accomodation.

 

It would be undeniable that by enacting a minimum wage policy (in a country without that policy) will lead to a higher unemployment rate because it means a higher production cost for the employers. By setting a minimum wage policy, a goverment may provide options for employers to implement the policy or face a higher corporate tax rate, which it's higher tax revenue will be used to improve workers' skills, vocational training, productivity and quality of education.

 

Remember, enacting a minimum wage policy is not a one-off solution to hardcore poverty and curb inflation but one of the crucial steps to prevent the poor getting poorer and offer an opportunity for hard-working people to improve their standard of living.

 

In the end,

 

1) a good government must serve its people!

2) if the government cannot serve its people, then it should be changed!

3) if a government said that a minimum wage will lead to higher unemployment permanently, then it is not thinking enough! Because the growing population of a country and the world will means a higher demand for food! clothes! education! healthcare! services! Don't tell me you cannot create job opportunities on these sectors, then it should be changed!

 

In Malaysia (year of 2012), I would said an employee without food, accomodation and logistic provided by the employer must get at least RM 1000 or USD$ 320 per month (Federal mimimum wage):,

 

1) RM 300 (Food, RM 10 a day for 30 days)

2) RM 200 (Accomodation, an average room rent-rate per month)

3) RM 90 (Healthcare, insurance)

4) RM 90  (Utility bills, communication bills)

5) RM 90 (Transportation: fuel, maintenance, tickets..etc)

6) RM 120 (Clothing, shoes, savings)

7) RM 110 (Deduction for Employee's Provident Fund for retirement)

 

+ Goverment must strengthen Welfare Insituitions/ Agencies to help poor families with dependent children or elderly, after all RM 1000 is only barely liveable for a single person with no debts or family responsibilities and would still be tough for those who lives in urban areas.

 

States/ Territories (year of 2012) like Penang, Selangor, Kuala Lumpur should have a State/ Council minimum wage of RM 1200 or USD$ 385 per month.

 

MINIMUM WAGE POLICY = OBJECTIVE TO ERADICATE POVERTY + CURB THE BURDEN OF RISING COST OF LIVING

 

That's all I have to say for now :)

 

God bless us all

 

Joshua

 

Syria Crisis

I have not been following the crisis in Syria closely but the crisis is far too disturbing and long. I believe that Dictator Assad of Syria fear of ending up like former Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak if he gives up power now.

One life lost is too much to lose!

Here's a link to follow on the latest news:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-16769156

Dictators and oppressive rulers have no place in leaderships neither in public or private offices.

Joshua

Floods in Thailand & Earthquake in Turkey

Natural disasters of epic proportions are happening on a weekly basis while violence and oppresion continue to take place across the Arab world. Continue on with countless unreported or undocumented cases of injustice, human trafficking, slavery or sexual assaults happening everyday dampens our spirit.

While keeping our hopes alive, we must not slide into ignorance and heartlessness.





Our thoughts and prayers are with the victims, we prayed that our hearts are willing to give generously.

Joshua

Heartless society

The incident and video footage pierced not only my heart but soul as well...A chinese toddler was hit, ran-over twice and 18 passerbys offered no assistance whatsoever...





A second video showed (recently happened) remarkable display of compassion and instinct by a dog saving another dog after it was hit. How people can be so heartless these days?...




Lord, forgive us.

Joshua

Malaysia: Police must bear full responsibility!

The Malaysian government led by Prime Minister Najib Tun Razak and the police must bear full responsibility of the death of its citizen, hand-cuffed by police and denied its fundamental right as a living being who required immediate medical assistance (Video began at 8 minit 48 seconds). The failure for the government and the police to bear responsibility will result in an immediate of loss of the government's moral authority and credibility to continue to rule the nation.

Those who watch this video, whether you're a supporter of the government or not which does not touch your heart and pierce your soul, I will pray to God Almighty to open your eyes and ears to the truth.

May God bless the soul of this freedom fighter and all the brave men and women, including people that I know personally.

Joshua

Natural Disasters in Japan, Myanmar

In a very short period of several months into the year of 2011, scores of natural disasters and socio-political unrests in the middle east have tainted the hope of a peaceful and a good year for humanity.

Japan's earthquake has killed more than 10,000 and the death toll is expected to reach beyond 20,000. Hundreds of billions dollars are lost due to the quake. Nuclear reactor woe in Fukushima plant has only further worsen the properous nation of Japan. While kind and generous individuals and charitable organizations across the globe raise funds and provide aides, what kind of aide / help have we heard from huge profit-making multinational giant company like Toyota, Honda, Sony...etc? The only news I heard from the profit giants were only delays of reopening manucfacturing plants in Japan and minimizes loses due to the quake.

These corporate companies making billions of dollars a year have not pledge publicly how they would contribute to the disaster, while leaving the task of humanitarian aide and help of a leading role to charitable organisations struggling to raise a million or two dollars from ordinary and kind individuals in response to this much bigger than expected disaster in Japan.

All of us should not give up hope, live daily by thanking God, treasuring the blessings He bestowed on us daily as well as the friends and family that love us dearly. Make beautiful memories and build genuine relationships as we put selfishness, greed, wealth and power in a lesser priority in our life.

After what use if a person gain the entire world and lost his soul? as mentioned in the Bible. Therefore, live a fruitful life, a life for God and others. For those who doesnt believe in the existence of God, live a life for others...

That's all I have to say this time.

Joshua

Christchurch holds prayers for quake victims

Christchurch holds prayers for quake victims

As the residents of Christchurch and the citizens of New Zealand continue to mourn the loss and the path of destruction that the recent earthquake has brought, the people around the world must realize that life is so fragile and unpredictable. Therefore, we are reminded once again to live life to the fullest and treasure today because it is a gift, the reason why it is also called the present.

Let us live each day as our last, to love and to be loved. Remember God and those who are less fortunate than us. Christchurch as its' name will rise again.

Know that God loves you today and always...

Joshua

In Everlasting Loving Memory of Terry Gallagher

Terry Gallagher, 48 years was called home to be with the Lord on 27th January 2011. He was a great husband, a great father, a great son, a great coach, a great friend who has fought the good fight, kept the faith and finished the race. Now what is in store for him is a crown of righteousness. He has inspired thousands throughout his life and many many more to come...

Disease, suffering and cancer seem to have win the battle but it has lost war because Terry is now in a perfect place where love, life and good reigns forever and ever.

Terry left behind a great family wife (Mimi), Meghan and Rose (Daugthers) and Tommy (Son), brothers, sisters, nieces, nephews, friends...

Visit the following websites for updates and his incredible journey and battle for the past 3 years...and be inspired.

http://www.caringbridge.org/visit/terrygallagher/journal

As Terry's wife, Mimi always end:

"Hug your loved ones today and everyday. Let those you love know how you feel about them. Count your blessings. Know that God loves you today and always no matter what."

Joshua

The predicament unwanted pregnancies

This recent article posted online "The trials of teen mothers" has bring a rather different perspective for reasons leading to child/baby dumping. The mistake might be the same elsewhere but the journey is still much different from the western societies. Traditional asian values still hold unmarried pregnant ladies as disgraced group.

However, the family must realize the universal value of support and love for any family member that has made a mistake, in the case an unwanted pregnancy.

Western values might differ with Eastern values of treating unmarried pregnant family members but it is time for the families in the East to adopt a culture of receptivity and forgiveness and support for a member that fell into the mistake of unwanted pregnancies.

Parents who were too busy in building material wealth have forgone the importance of building a relationship with their children.

Education policies and educators continue to shun the importance sex education.

Society's continue emphasis of the "feel good" factor rather than the "do good" factor is mainly be blamed. Profit-minded culture in business rather than charitable-minded culture. The ever greed for more money and physical pleasure has brought cast a shadow over the good spirit of human nature.

In the end of the day, the ever increasing cases of baby dumping holds everyone in the society accountable that includes myself. Let us all change our heart and minds for society that is caring, loving and charitable.

Joshua

Baby/ Fetus dumping getting rampant these days in Malaysia

I am disgusted and appalled by such disgrace act, even more when the child is left to die in the trash..etc. Some news link by clicking here.

These babies may be the result of unplanned or unwanted pregnancies by large. But how could some one with so little respect for life! Social illness of rampant wild living without sense of responsibility and regard for life and morality.

Baby dumping is a good indicator of plunging moral values in ones society to the bottom.

I support the call of various NGOs, to criminalize baby dumping and prosecute the offenders for murder if post-mortem reveals that the baby/infant was born alive.

In addition, I support the call for prominent lawyer and opposition leader YB Karpal Singh (Democratic Action Party National Chairman) for capital punishment for the offence of child raping. If not, a life-time imprisonment!

May the Lord have mercies on the soul of these poor innocent children and I am sure He does and loves them dearly in heaven at the very moment.

Joshua

Sexual abuses in the Catholic Church

The revelation by sexually abused individuals have cast a shadow over Christianity's most holy week. These horrendous acts by "men" of God on children and individuals must be condemned and punished according to the law.

There should be no cover up by any authority in the Church. As "men" of God, they must and should be subjected to the court of law if not more severely dealt with. People come to God through Christ not priest. It is better for the sheep without an immediate shepherd rather than putting a wolf among the sheep.

These sexual offenders must be expelled from priesthood and must be prosecuted by the civil law, lest they taint the image of Christ.

Christ has such a deep hatred and anger towards the acts of people who mislead the little ones (children) that he said : "If anyone causes one of these little ones who believe in me to sin, it would be better for him to have a large millstone hung around his neck and to be drowned in the depths of the sea." ~Matthew 18:6

If a shepherd sees a wolf among his sheep, wouldn't he drive the wolf away? and keep the wolf away?

The Catholic Church headed by the pope (shepherd) must not tolerate the presence of wolves among the sheep! especially the One that the pope served has such a deep disgust for sin against the little ones!

Joshua