Kuantan needs help too

I've been reading all the wonderful outpouring of love and help to Philippine for the people affected by the typhoon. Then over a conversation during a friend's wedding dinner, realization dawned on me that we have a need here too....

An appeal is going out to help a local NGO in Kuantan to help direct supplies and support to the flood-hit people of Kuantan thru the Komuniti Harapan Kuantan. They need

1. Rice,
2. Sugar
3. Flour
4. Milk powder
5. School supplies - to go back to school
6. Blankets
7. Pillows 
8. Clothes - long sleeve and long pants please 

And for those who would like to contribute please find below details

Pertubuhan Komuniti Harap Kuantan Pahang

MBB A/C 506164205006

Email - Komuniti.harap@gmail.com

Tel - 012 9812828

Add - A-4382, Jalan Teluk Sisek, 25250, Kuantan C/O Kuantan Music Centre.

Attention to Ms Chan

Please consider the appeal and donate generously in the year end spirit of festivities.

If only...

I realized that the star of our country is not in the best place right now. News of entire families committing suicide because of financial dire straits coupled with news of petrol price hikes speaks of the hopelessness of certain quarters of our rakyat who is experiencing hopelessness.

It is said, that without water we can live for 3 days, without air we can live for 3 minutes, without hope, 3 seconds. While all that is falling and crumbling around us, the people, need hope. So that those of us who are fighting will have hope that the people we are fighting for will be around to see the fulfillment of the quest.

The people need hope, hope to hang on to. Hope for survival, hope for a better Malaysia for them and their families. Hope, the cheapest yet priceless intangible commodity, most available but completely elusive. Hope.

There is hope, hope of a better Malaysia in our young people. It is in the young people like the EPIC team, John-son Oei, Loh Jon Ming, Tan Q-Pei, Madeline Ho, Lee Kesam and youth like them, that I have hope for Malaysia. It is young people that hope resides and must be allowed to carry on for the change that we crave for.

http://www.microsoft.com/about/corporatecitizenship/en-us/youthspark/spotlight/john-son/

Keep on keeping on guys...

Legacy in living

It is interesting, most of this year's commercial now has a flavoring of embracing and/or initiating change from the youth's perspective. But the words for the pictures still come from old style poetry. Stumbled on this poem from Charles Bukowski while watching an Eastern European Levi's ad. I believe it speaks to  all of us who are going through the throes of change in our Malaysia.

Indeed it is our life. It is our country and if we do nothing now thinking that it will change for the better by itself, we are mistaken. We are now at a moment in time where our actions will have direct impact on our way of life in this millennia, and resonate into the next millennia.

Will you go forth to live with a difference? I will.
Will you live a life that offers light in darkness? I will definitely try.

The Laughing Heart (Charles Bukowski)

your life is your life
don’t let it be clubbed into dank submission.
be on the watch.
there are ways out.
there is a light somewhere.
it may not be much light but
it beats the darkness.
be on the watch.
the gods will offer you chances.
know them.
take them.
you can’t beat death but
you can beat death in life, sometimes.
and the more often you learn to do it,
the more light there will be.
your life is your life.
know it while you have it.
you are marvelous
the gods wait to delight
in you.