Appreciated #4

Visit entry Appreciated #5

[Montage: Victor Ong; Photos: Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations]

The following are some items I really like.

020907 Trip to Sarawak: photos

The following is an extract from a song entitled
"NGAJAT TAMPI"
[Lyrics: Noraniza Idris; Suria Records/SRC]

Tampi ngalah tampi
Ngadik tampi ngalah
Padi ngabang
Esok hamba datang

Tumpang makan nak
Tumpang makan

(ramai )
Sentak tangan kanan
Ngalah ngadik peluk tangan kiri
Jangan hamba jangan
Ngalah ngabang lupa dilupakan

Tenung budi anak negeri...

About 7-8 days after I delved into Wicca, I realised that Wiccans most probably celebrate light and darkness, bright and mellow, spring and winter, sun and moon, life and death, soberness and esctasy, simplicity and complexity. And perhaps, even comfort and pain. (I understand that, more often than not, in my life, pain can be therapeutic, and wakes me up to the pleasures of release when I'm finally emancipated from it. There's this contrast, yes. Nevertheless, I fear too much pain, or that pain that is harmful. Or that pain that ends my life.) [Circular logo with inverted triangle, twin crescents and pentagram atop: Covenant of the Goddess www.cog.org/]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wiccan_Rede

More insights into Wicca. Close to the end of the poem, you'll see the words: "Eight words ye Wiccan Rede fulfill - An’ it harm none, Do what ye will." [Wiccan Rede text and variations: Phyllis Thompson (née Healy)/Gwynne/Gwen Thompson; Gerald Gardner; Doreen Valiente; Adriana Porter; etc. The Rede is often used in part as a non-attribution resource, i.e. without reference to the aforementioned authors.]


Her name is Sheron, and she is my Princess, the most exalted of all girls I know.

She's amazing and so very beautiful, but I cannot get her, nor get to her! I need her parents' approval before I can ever be her boyfriend. Her Dad and Mum are honest, candid and forthright people, and I want to respect their wishes for their dear daughter.

I find her a very lovely, loving and lovable girl...she's a fairy! I must admit that I want to be with her very much, and that it's such a pleasure to be in her presence. She make me half-excited, half-exasperated. She looks absolutely attractive in the cheongsam, the Dusun outfit and the attire she donned for that ride on a bicycle. I yearn to have her and to hold her.

Yet it appears I'll have to wait. "What are your parents' expectations of me? What do they want to see in me before I can date you? How old do you have to be before we can be together?" -- These are the questions I ask myself.

Praises abound! Thanks be to the Creator and to Sheron's father and mother!

Soyuz TMA-11 flight to the International Space Station (ISS): commander Yuri Malenchenko (center), flight engineer Peggy Whitson (right) and spaceflight participant Sheikh Muszaphar Shukor (left). Whitson and Malenchenko are Expedition 16 crew members. "Shukor will return to Earth with Expedition 15 crew members Fyodor Yurchikhin and Oleg Kotov after nine days aboard the station." (Whitson and Malenchenko will stay 6 months in space.) [Words in quote: NASA Media Services] [News info: Roscosmos; NASA; Wikipedia; Program Angkasawan Negara, MOSTI] [Photo: NASA Public Affairs]


Stuff on my study room wall. Includes a copy of my Pre-U certificate, an imitation Power Ranger action figure, the words of the Russian national anthem, and a Lois sticker.

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I ruminated over the possiblity of penning 3 essays/booklets:

1. The Principle of Attribution to explain how we can handle intellectual works without opening ourselves to the charge of plagiarism

2. The Sanarian National Ethos to set forth the characteristic spirit of Sanaria.

3. The Council of Princes and Princesses to discuss the potential of the United Nations Organisation in getting people from all walks of life to work together

It may take months, even years, for me to get these proposed works written and published.