Humble Beginnings

After a long and busy study week, finally I managed to finished my first paper of exam which was held on  last Wednesday. After exam, probably you will here someone beside you saying 'I should have read the questions properly before addressing it', or some of the highly confident people/students might give you a hint that they did well in this exam paper. Some of you might think that it might sound a bit boastful or highly confident for this particular student.

It reminds me about a friend of mine who told me that She hates to become a loser and she wants to be a winner for every single things(exam,sports games etc.) that she participate in her life. Well, sometimes it will be good that we have confident in something, but excess of it will create hatred or sores to people when somebody heard it. Sometimes people might think that you're boastful.

In this context, it reminds me the word of humbleness. God teaches us to be humble in each of every circumstances that we are dealing or facing. Some of the high position people in the cooperate sector, you might be wondering even I am sitting on a high position in the cooperate ladder, I need to be humble as well? Isn't that I need to show the power that I have to my down people then only I can gain the respect from them? This thinking will cause you a bomb in future. In every situation, we must know that we need to work in a team, or a group. A team or a group is more than 2 or many people which every one in the team must cooperate with each other. Even you are the main host in the team, we should have listen to various opinion to get things done easily. A leader shouldn't be acting or have an attitude that everything they know and they shouldn't be listening to anyone else opinion, or even for their guidance.

In my life, I'm still learning to be a humble person as I could. Learning Curve doesn't end until we can achieve the most humble people on earth.

Celebration of the Immaculate Conception

It is often noted that pregnant mothers have a certain radiance and 'glow' about them, physically attributed to the extra flow of blood around their bodies. But of course, it is well to think that this is a beautiful external sign of the inner joy that an expectant mother experiences in her spirit as new life grows and develops within her womb. During Advent, the Church focuses her attention on several persons, and one of these is a pregnant mother, who is not just aglow with joy and her pregnancy, but also beautiful and radiant with divine grace. This person, of course, is the Blessed Virgin Mary.

During this advent season, this coming Saturday we will be celebrating the feast of the Immaculate Conception. The Immaculate Conception is a dogma of the Catholic Church maintaining that from the moment when she was conceived the Blessed Virgin Mary was kept free of original sin and was filled with the sanctifying grace normally conferred during baptism.

The Feast of the Immaculate Conception celebrates belief in the Immaculate Conception of the Blessed Virgin Mary. It is universally celebrated on December 8, nine months before the feast of the Nativity of Mary, which is celebrated on September 8. We will be celebrating this wonderful feast day tomorrow during Mass as well as other Catholic Church around the world.

As you can see the top part of my church,Our Lady of Lourdes, which written : 

'I am the Immaculate Conception'

My Church, which name as Our Lady of Lourdes, is a title of the Blessed Virgin Mary invoke by Roman Catholic in honor of the Marian Apparition in Lourdes, France. 

Most prominently among these is the apparition of February 11, 1858, when Saint Bernadette Soubirous, a 14-year-old peasant girl admitted to her mother that a "lady" spoke to her in the cave of Massabielle, (a mile from the town) while gathering firewood with her sister and a friend. Bernadette Soubirous was later canonized as a Saint.

On 11 February 1858, Bernadette Soubirous went with her sisters Toinette and Jeanne Abadie to collect some firewood and bones in order to buy some bread. After taking off her shoes and stockings to wade through the water near the Grotto of Massabielle, she said she heard the sound of two gusts of wind (coups de vent) but the trees and bushes nearby did not move. A wild rose in a natural niche in the grotto, however, did move. From the niche, or rather the dark alcove behind it, "came a dazzling light, and a white figure." She was dressed all in white, apart from the blue belt fastened around her waist and the golden yellow roses, one on each foot, the colour of her rosary. Bernadette, knowing the local area well, managed to visit the barricaded grotto under cover of darkness. There, on 25 March, she said she was told: "I am the Immaculate Conception"

On Easter Sunday, 7 April, her examining doctor stated that Bernadette, in ecstasy, was observed to have held her hands over a lit candle without sustaining harm. On 16 July, Bernadette went for the last time to the Grotto. I have never seen her so beautiful before, she reported. 

St.Bernadette in-corrupt body. 

 Our Lady of Lourdes with St.Bernadette.

Hail Mary, full of grace.

the Lord is with thee.

Blessed art thou among women,

and blessed is the fruit of thy womb,

Jesus.

Holy Mary, Mother of God,

pray for us sinners,

now and at the hour of our death.

Amen.

This is the sharing of me today. I hope it benefited those(particularly some of my friends )who  keen to know about the Catholic Faith. 

Sources: Wikipedia, Catholic Resources (many thanks )

Gathering GE Young

Time just passed like the water flowing in the stream. Split second, I'm in Year 3 now in university.

I'm glad that throughout these few years, I manage to know some of the good friends (perhaps 5-6) throughout this period.

All of us, including me, will be soon completing our studies and gone to the working life. 

We might have difficulties in arranging our time to meet up in future.

Since we have the time now, we should spend our time more to gather!!!

Singing Karaoke at Neway, Cheras.

 Together with Son Hui Lan, We know each other since secondary school. People always mistaken that we are couple!!!haha...

 Together with Chia Huia(JJ). She looks like want to sleep in this picture. I'm glad to know her. 

Together with Dai lou(Elder brother) Mr.Kent. He is really funny and a good guy in our team.

Together with Mr.Low Boon Chung. Both of us are from the same hometown.

Have a great time with all of them. Hope to have more gathering in future.