ENOUGH IS ENOUGH!

 As a loyal citizen of this country, I would strongly urge the perpetrators and those masterminds behind the several attacks on religious places in our country, to immediately stop their nasty and demonic actions.

The latest incident of the dumping of severed heads of wild boars at two mosques in Petaling Jaya is truly disgusting, shameful and should be condemned in the highest manner.  

This evildoers are simply hurting the feelings of the peaceful citizens and trying their level best to create disunity and chaos in our nation.

I regard this as an act of terrorism that should be curbed immediately before it could stir the racial fire. This blatant action of irresponsibility and disrespect shown to the multi-cultural people of various religious backgrounds is intolerable.

“Repent and stop provoking the peace loving Malaysians! Your evil ambitions and attempts will come to nothing because the country has a tract record of peace and harmony for more than 50 years even though there were incidents long ago and some minor hiccups here and there.”

I call upon my fellow citizens to stand united and stay calm. However, with all your heart and mind reject the work of the enemy of peace within our country by promoting love and tolerance in your own respectable way.

We have to stop pointing fingers to one another despite of the fact whether we are a member of a political party or a normal citizen. Think for a moment about your family and the future of this country.

We need to work hand in a hand with one another and trust God to maintain peace and harmony in the country, so that our next generation will continue to enjoy peaceful life. 

Blessed are those who pray for the peace of his or her country. 

“In this life we cannot always do great things. We can only do small things with great love.” - Mother Teresa.

Posted by: kumarathevan 

Published in Star online Citizen Blog on Friday, January 29, 2010

 

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Comments

Yeah. This is the time to use the ISA! Threat to national peace.

By peteronghl, 29-Jan-2010 

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Yes kumarathevan,

Enough is enough. It is never ending for quite sometime, one after another like these incidents have been preplanned to provoke various races and religious people.

Malaysians are 52 years old democrats and do not they think that Malaysians are matured enough to decide what is good and bad.

Stop all these non sense deeds immediately.

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By lakshmiregu, 29-Jan-2010

No peter, the ISA is not the solution. It is never a solution. You should not support laws that circumnavigate the proper judicial process.
Innocent until proven guilty does not apply with preventative detention, it is simply a law that makes problems dissappear for those who wield it.

By engleberthumpadink, 29-Jan-2010 

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LOVE & FORGIVENESS

Posted on The Star - Citizen Blog on Monday, January 11, 2010

 

   In this past few days, our nation that was always looked up as a peaceful, multi-racial and multi-cultural country was slapped with one of the worst religiously motivated attack on churches in our country’s history.

 

   The arson attack on eight churches in Klang Valley and other parts of the country have been condemned by our Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak as well as political leaders of both the ruling and opposition parties.

   Some call this the black day and some others say that this is truly a sad day for Malaysia. This is an act of extremism, which could dampen the government’s effort in promoting 1Malaysia concept.

   Never the less, the beauty of these scenario is that the leaders of the Metro Tabernacle Church - that was badly effected in these incident - said that they do not harbour any ill-feelings against the culprits but choose to forgive those responsible.

   The senior pastor of the church, Rev Ong Sek Leang was quoted saying: “We have a congregation of about 1,700 who are Godly and forgiving.” 

   That is a peaceful and Christ-like remark. I salute them for their stand. This shows their true Christian spirit of love and forgiveness. We should love our enemies and pray for those who persecute us.

   Jesus Christ told His disciples: “If someone slaps you on your left cheek, give also the right side.” – This shows that we should forgive ‘on the spot’ anyone who hurts us. Easy to say but it takes courage to practice. 

   The other beautiful part is, many non government organizations including the Muslim brothers condemn the unlawful and unIslamic action and some NGO's even offered to make security rounds around churches to make sure it's safety.

   I believe, we should continue to be kind and tender hearted to one another and forgive one another.

  Let us together do everything possible on our part to leave in peace with everybody and  not revenge anyone.

SALAM 1MALAYSIA!

by: Kumarathevan Balakrishnan

Comments

The phrase "If someone slaps you on your left cheek, give also the right side" has been widely misused and misunderstood. There is no recorded incident in the Bible that Jesus actually did that, even when he was persecuted. The whole moral of that phrase is simply not to retaliate. And I applaud the Christians for doing just that.

By klyong2502, 11-Jan-2010 

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For the pastor to say "I forgive" is not as easy as reported. It takes a lot of soul searching and prayers, I am sure to be able to say what he said! I praise the Lord for giving him the strength to say what he said. Not all professing Christians can say what he said, that is for sure! However, by saying it, he has given strength to many others, not only in his congregation but other Christians and I hope non-Christians, too, that our God, a God of love and therefore forgiving in nature, will always give us the Strength to do the near impossible if we pray to Him and trust in Him and be guided by Him. This is our strength and I am sure many true Muslims share this with us, because we believe in the same almighty and powerful God/Allah!

By victorchew46, 12-Jan-2010

Thumbs-up

With its rather peculiar shape, I bet the brinjal would add extra zing to my curry!

by B. Kumarathevan
Published in The Star - thumbnails column on Thursday, 28-January-2010

(The eggplant and I wish to give thumbs-up to my wife's cooking.)

The LOOK

Look or lock? Someone better look into his or her English.

by S. Josephine

(Published on Star Tumbnails: Wednesday, 20-January-2010)

I guess the house owner believes in the power of the eye...just one LOOK, is possible to LOCK the gate. - Kumar.

Lifelong passion

Can you guess what is the favourite toy of future construction workers?
(Published on Star Tumbnails on 22.1.10 – Friday)

Dangerous game: Is this a new game equipment? Children may think it is challenging to play with a cement mixer but hope parents and the machine owner take quick action before any unwanted incident occurs.

by Kumarathevan Balakrishnan

KJ GENERATION NEWSLETTER

THE
1 MALAYSIA concept that has been introduced by our Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak since he took office and highly promoted by the government is not in vain.

  This concept, which is to bring a greater unity among Malaysians of different races and cultural background become reality when nine friends from various ethnic group decided to travel all the way from Kuala Lumpur for about five hours to conduct program in Gua Musang, Kelantan.

   In these two days of Character Building Program called “Towards Destiny” organized by KJ Generation Resources on the 15^th and 16^th December, ten youngsters age between nine and 19 years old, also from various races participated.

  Even though the participants were not many but they truly enjoyed the program as well as the benefit of fellowshipping among different cultured people. In fact, the whole event was like a cultural program. There were Malays, Indians, Chinese, Indigenous people (Orang Asli), a Caucasian and a person of Bapa Nyonya origin.

  To make this event a memorable one, the facilitating team age between 13 and 31 years old decided to sing the 1 Malaysia theme song “Satu Suara”. The participants had the privilege to learn the song and perform together.

  Besides singing and teaching some motivational songs, the team also led some sessions on setting goals and dreams including ways to achieve it and appreciating different cultures.

  One of the interesting sessions was the “talent time” where both the facilitators and the participants join hands to perform two sketches. One of it was about a group of residence of different culture get together to be involved in a ‘gotong royong’ to clean up their residential area while another group showed how various races united themselves to fight for the independents of our country.

  The facilitators also played games with the participants including ‘blanket game’, ‘fill me - stretch your potential’ and ‘spider web - you are not alone’ to instill unity and trust among different races. Through these, the participants also learned conflict management.

  At the end of the program, the participants were given certificates and gifts. The participants enjoyed the whole program and wanted more events such as this.

  The facilitators, who enjoyed the nature of Gua Musang, wanted to come back here again to explore this tourism destination and conduct other nation building events in the future.

  KJ Generation Resources wants to personally thank the facilitating team comprising of five male and four female led by Jacqueline Hoe Min Yi. Among others were V.Barnabas Ganesan, Collin Singam, Michael Lean Chien Er, Almer Anjang Harun, Ivan Lim Ai Vern, Lydia Bah Ngah, Rebecca Yong Keng Shen and Chelsea Ashley Bee Cen Wells.

A BIG THANK YOU!!

"Team work always produces success" - Kumar.

  

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Cave House

  Do cave men still exist? Don’t you think a family house up in the cave is an ideal place? There are no worries about evacuation even if the state faces flood. 

  I manage to capture this photos in Gua Musang, Kelantan.

Suspense-sion bridge

It’s 4pm – do you know where your children are? They’re up to fishy business, hanging precariously off the edge.
by Kumarathevan Balakrishnan

Published in THE STAR  
http://thestar.com.my/

TUMBNAILS

Sunday, 6-December-2009

(Fishing from this suspension bridge in Gua Musang, Kelantan can be enjoyable but do these children know that their life is at stake?)

Suspense, suspense

                                                    
Is this bridge in Gua Musang   safe to use?
by Kumarathevan Balakrishnan
Published in The Star on Friday, 4-December-2009
Thumbnails  

Junk market

Thumbnails

Frequent customers at this market might want to reconsider doing their marketing here

(This picture was taken in front of Gua Musang market, Kelantan)

by Kumarathevan Balakrishnan

Published on The Star on: Tuesday, 1-December-2009

"Log block!!"

Skillful dodger

Ramli has always known that one of these days, his swerving talent will come in handy. (Picture was taken somewhere near Cameron Highlands, Pahang)
by B. Kumarathevan

Published in Tumbnails STAR on Friday, 20-November-2009

Melting pot

  Here we can see the true spirit of ‘muhibbah’ at work.
Different races helping each other and cooking for 1Malaysia.
(Picture was taken in Gua Musang, Kelantan. These people were preparing for a Deepavali event.)
by Kumarathevan
Thumbnails

22-November-2009