Sunday, November 25, 2012
New website http://worshipsongscollection.com
Thursday, July 26, 2012
Adopt this adorable puppy (Malaysia)
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Saturday, July 21, 2012
Sunday, April 01, 2012
April 4, World Stray Animals Day - I love Cesar!!
World Stray Animals Day: Why This Cause is So Important to Me
World Stray Animals Day
By Cesar Millan
I was very honored to be asked to be the ambassador for World Stray Animals Day and I wanted to take a moment to explain why it means so much to me.
People see stray animals going through garbage on the street looking for food and they would just rather not see them. They don’t make the neighborhood look nicer—they just seem like they’re dirty and spread disease. They don’t really care where they these animals go, as long as they’re gone.
But you see, in many ways, I was a stray. I came to America. I had practically nothing. I didn’t know when I was going to eat. I didn’t know where I was going to sleep. I didn’t know what was going to happen to me. I knew I was good inside, but I was here in a strange place away from the family who loved me and I didn’t speak English and couldn’t talk to the people around me. It’s a scary thing to sleep on the streets and not know what the future is going to bring.
I was very lucky, because I was able to improve my situation by educating myself, learning the language, and developing my talents. I was even more lucky because people like Jada Pinkett had faith in me and reached out to help me raise myself up and become who I am. Things were bad, but with the help of good people, they got better for me.
But here’s the big difference between me and strays. I chose to come to America and I knew it would be a rough beginning and I went into it with my eyes open. The 600 million stray animals who live on the streets around the world didn’t make that choice. They were thrown away by their owners, born on the streets, or just simply got lost. They didn’t create their situation. They just have to live with it, or is more often the case, die with it.
Anyone who knows my philosophy, knows I only like to support no-kill animal shelters because I can’t stand the thought of euthanizing a dog simply because it's unwanted. But an even crueler form of euthanasia is what these animals face on the streets. Starving to death. Dying of untreated injury or disease. Dying painful deaths at the hands of cruel humans.
In Los Angeles this week, two dogs were found with their heads cut off and thrown into dumpsters. I’m happy the City Council has offered a reward to find out who did it. But it proves that cruelty to animals can happen in anyone’s backyard, even mine. It’s a problem that needs to be addressed locally and globally.
I think most people look at stray animals and see them as a nuisance. But these are actual living feeling beings that lead incredibly brutal and painful lives. And it’s largely because of things that we humans have done.
When I rescued Argos in Spain he had been abused by hunters who had broken his leg and used electrical tape to bind his mouth shut. He was scared and alone. Now he’s happy and one of the most valued members of my pack. He’s a wonderful companion and you only need to look at him to see the gratitude in his eyes. I know I have a friend for life in Argos.
I needed help, I’m sure each of you has needed help at some time. We all need help. And these animals most definitely need our help.
Wednesday, April 4th is World Stray Animals Day. There are over 600 million stray animals all over the world who suffer lives of misery—starving, cold, sick, and abused. It’s why I wanted to be involved with this day and why I made this video.
You can find out more about what you can do at www.strayanimalsday.org
Click here to see the video I created for World Stray Animals Day.
Sunday, March 25, 2012
Found a nice book!
The author Patric Chan (an internet millionairre in Malaysia) speaks about how he is teaching people to make money using facebook. And it is legal and facebook allows it. It does not spam people's account. Sounds too good to be true, but I think Patric Chan won't lie about this, although I'm pretty sure he's gonna make more money by selling the book.
Look at her excited face~ you should be too. Check out the link below to find out. It will only take you 10 seconds. If you're not interested, well, just close it then.
Check this out: http://showeringcash.info
Tuesday, February 07, 2012
Applying for visa at the Chinese Embassy
Yeah. So few days ago (when the 4 working hour time line was due) - I went to OSK Investment Building, parked my car at the same place, even though somebody on the internet said it's only took him less than 5 minutes. Nevertheless, I remembered seeing so many cars being pulled by the DBKL trucks... and I've definitely no interest not to mention entertaining such thoughts of that happening to my dearie carie.
So after parking my car, I walked straight into the building. This time there were more than 3 times number of people walking around the building - commoners like me. However, the number of guards have reduced significantly - it wasn't like that day. So that's why, I got lost. I tried looking for the OSK Investment entrance, but somehow couldn't find it.
THen I remembered the bronze bull standing outside the building and went in the gate... only to be informed that that was the exit! Oh, all of a sudden my sense of direction came back alive! And I didn't know where the wisdom came from, I immediately found the right entrace to the building.
Anyway, so I got to the 2nd floor, and wow... to my surprise, this time the queue was at least 3 times longer than the previous'! So I lined up, and an elderly lady rudely interceded my queue... as I was practicing patience, gentleness, kindness.. I took no effort to make things straight with her. Let her be. When my turn finally came, I took a number ( I can't remember now) and after waiting for about 10 minutes, my number was called, and so I went to counter 14.. or 15? or 16? I can't remember anymore.
So I showed her my visa aplication receipt, paid RM58, and she told me to go to the next counter. The chinese lady at the next counter passed me back my passport... and of course, the visa was right in my passport. ;-)
So that was a very simple procedure - nothing to be worried of. No trouble - except for the traffic jam trying to get to Jalan Ampang.
Saturday, February 04, 2012
It always breaks my heart when a dog is killed.. just becoz he's a dog. :'(
Soap Star Suicide Shines Light on Pit Bull Prejudice
The entertainment world was shocked this week at the news of the suicide of 47-year-old actor Nick Santino. The actor, who had appeared on All My Children and The Guiding Light, was found in his apartment after overdosing on pills on his birthday. His suicide note revealed the cause of his tragedy. It read, “Today I betrayed my best friend. Rocco trusted me and I failed him. He didn’t deserve this.”
Rocco was Nick’s pet pit bull, who he had rescued from a shelter several years ago. They lived in a condo on New York’s Upper West Side, and had recently been having run-ins with the condo board. In 2010, the condo board instituted a rule expressly forbidding pit bulls to live in the building. The rule did not affect Nick as he had moved into the building before 2010, but neighbors said the building management harassed him constantly about his dog. Nick was not allowed to use the main elevator or leave the dog alone in the apartment for more than nine hours at a time.
Finally, after threats of fines and constant pressure from neighbors and management, Nick had Rocco put to sleep. The next day, wracked with guilt, Nick took his own life.
The condo board has denied any responsibility in the deaths, and other factors were involved. A veterinarian had told Nick that Rocco had become somewhat more aggressive, though no incidents had been reported. Nick also had suffered from depression. He may have felt particularly bonded to his rescued pit, as he himself had been raised in an orphanage and bounced around from foster home to foster home in his youth. Lately, his acting jobs were becoming more infrequent, and the harassment over his dog may have been what put him over the edge.
It’s impossible to pin the tragedy on any one thing, but it’s hard to ignore the pressure the condo board put on Nick Santino building that pushed him into making a terrible decision—when his dog had been guilty of nothing except being a pit bull. On his last day, Nick gave away Rocco’s bed and rawhide bones to another dog owner in the building and gave the doorman a box of treats to distribute to the rest of the building’s dogs.
Both Rocco and Nick were cremated, and Nick’s family has said they will be interred together.
http://www.cesarsway.com/training/socialization/Soap-Star-Suicide-Shines-Light-on-Pit-Prejudice?utm_source=mobilestorm&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feb3BadDogReply
Tuesday, January 31, 2012
Chinese New Year fire crackers
So indeed, as the clock struck midnight yesterday, I could here all the loud bangs. Poor my doggies n kitties, they're trying their best to hide somewhere.. unfortunately.. there's no cave in my house. So I managed to capture a sequence of the fire crackers near my house with my ipad (ipad does a fabulous job at capturing quick pictures).
Wow.. when I look at the pictures, it's a bit scary. It seem like explosions, big explosions, which explodes into meteors of fire which disappear into the darkness of the night as stardusts.
Man's creations... but how much more wonderful is God's creation? ;-)
Praise God in everything... A very happy CHinese New Year to everyone... especially to my dear readers. ;-)
Sunday, January 29, 2012
The trip to Beijing
However, I believe that's just the ugly side. I pray that God will place good angels around me, so that I may enjoy and marvel at His creations in His favour and mercy, as well as the Chinese around me.
Now the negative mood has slowly switched to positive - I'm getting excited! In fact I'm starting to plan this and that, and it's going to be fun (I suppose!) I can even roughly draw the Beijing map to you at anytime... Yes.. That's the way to go...
May God's grace and favour and mercy be upon me, everywhere I go.
=)
Friday, January 27, 2012
Applying for visa at the Chinese Embassy
Prior to this I've googled much to findout the procedure, what to expect... and my.. google is indeed a blessing to many of us out here.
Just a click - and I found all I ever needed. But some of the information I found is a bit outdated.. so today I'll share my little experience.
The Chinese Embassy is located at the 2nd floor of the OSK Plaza, which shares the same building as Bank of China. Bank of CHina on the right, OSK left. You can find the location of the Bank of China or OSK Plaza from google map, but bear in mind to use the "satellite" view instead of "map" coz the "map's" is erronous. WHen you're at JalanAmpang, OSK Plaza will be on your left.
So I turned left and found a big parking lot on my left (as you can see from the above pic), paid RM3 for 1st hour and walked across the street into OSK building. (this is very detailed indeed huh!) Don't be afraid to get lost cozyou'll not be. Once I walked near the building, I think almost 5 security guards turned their eyes on me - and started to enquire where you're going. It's as though this is some VIP's residential building! They're very helpful and polite, I think they looked like preparing for some terrorist attack kind of thing. But very nice experience. So they showed me to the lift, I went to the 2nd floor, and the guards were back to their original positions.
Once I got out of the lift, there was a long queue, slight commotion going on coz somebody couldn't get what he wanted and I only heard him saying, "This is ridiculous.. " sort of thing. Anyway, prior to that I have already printed out my visa applicaiton form which I got online, pasted my pic on it - and the receptionist told me to refil my form - it's outdated!
ouch! There goes... The embassy is quite clean, systematic, we have at least 3-4 form-filling counters, each with 2 pens attached. The new form is more required more details than the old one's. Nevertheless, I passed my forms to the receptionist, he gave me a call number, and immediately my number was called and I went to counter number 17.
The chinese lady was very polite, but her accent was mildly heavy - if you know what i mean. I could understand perhaps 70% of her words, though we're bothe speaking the same language - chinese mandarin. :P
So I passed her a new passport sized photo of mine, she took my passport, and asked me is it ok for me to get my visa after 4 days, I said yes, so she briefed that I shall come back 6 days later (which includes sat n sunday) to get my visa, pay RM58, and get back my passport. Then I left, the whole procedure took me less than half an hour despite filling up the form and the long queue.
So the summary, what yo have to bring to the chinese embassy:
- passport sized photo (without hat, light back ground)
- passport
- details of your travelling itineries, stay, medical insurance, emergency contacts, employers/ family contacts - coz you'll need these in your application forms.
Visa Fees (Ringgit)
Malaysian Citizen
Single Entry: 30
Double Entry: 50
6-Month Multiple Entry: 80
12-Month/24-month Multiple Entry: 120
US Citizen
465
Other Country Citizen
Single Entry: 130
Double Entry: 200
6-Month Multiple Entry: 250
12-Month Multiple Entry: 400
Express Service: 100 (3 working days)
Rush Service: 140 (same day)
Application Service Fees
Regular service: 28 (4 working days)
Express service: 100 (3 working days)
Rush service: 140(same day)
Note:
(1) Visa Fees are collected on behalf of the Chinese Embassy.
(2) Application Service Fees are charged by the Visa Application Service Centre.
(3) The total amount of the fees to be paid by an applicant = visa fees + application service fees.
So next week I'll have to pay RM30 + RM28 = RM58.
For more information, pleas click: http://www.chinese-embassy.info/asia/visa-mys.htm