A simple Hello..

It's weird that these days
We have tonnes of ways to greet one another..
HI, Hello, Dei!, Pai! Bro.. and etc..

But, how many of you actually said hello to a stranger?
Yes we all grew up in a manner that we shouldn't talk to strangers..
True enough with the world these days can't be trusted..
But if we don't talk... we won't have friends..
For a kid point of view... every adult is good cuz they teaches things to them...
Even you point a gun as well... they will say Holding gun is good..

So as parents.. they must know how to let the child mingle around.. as these days you know..
The brains is on the finger..
"Smartphones." "IPad's" and etc etc...
ASk them to think for a bit and their fingers does the magic instantly..

We try to look at another perspective view of it..

As for adults.. just a simple question to be asked here..
Have you said a hello to a stranger?

Stranger in terms of Road sweepers..
Stall workers..
Janitor staff in ur office place..
Anyone lower rank than you...

Have you?
=)

Bet you wouldn't have a chat with a prostitute before i say...

You would be wondering what went wrong with the writer..
Aiight aiight people say  that no one is perfect nor the writer also but did you know by doing these simple things..
You gain respect...
You create a friendliness atmosphere
Most important thing..
You create a smile for them...

You may say it's nonsense and stuff like that..
Cuz the writer has been doing that for years..
A simple chat with a petrol bunker assistant...(Who is a Bangladeshi) 
Today... even he sees the writer from far away.. he always make time to have a lil chat with him...
Cleans his windows eventhough being forced by the writer not to do so...
Y??? The impression that you will make if you talk and a lil bit of caring feeling..
Makes the person so happy at times like he's been listen by someone else...

Not only the foreiners
But also to local people...
Even today the writer just was walking up the staircase to see his another property..
And then he just bumped into a cleaner..
Which she feels that "oh there's someone superior than me.."
You could eventually see the fear in her...
So the writer just said...
"Tumpang lalu kak.. Minta maaf ya"

The cleaner was stunned...
And she smiled..
After checking the premises..
He bumped into her again..and asked
"Sudah makan ya kak"
She just replied : "Belum adik"
Writer.. "Kak diet ke??? sudah pukal 3 dah... Makan lah sikit kak.. nanti gastik pulak"

All she could do is.. giggled and nod her head...

Now.. do you see the whole picture??
The next time she sees you..
She might smile and think about the time you made her smile...
Eventhough it was a small conversation..

Have a great week folks...

Taken in Brickfields...

Taken in Bali Indonesia...

Right here waiting for you...
Photography by Silent Saint

Birthday...

It always been fun waiting for birthdays..
Ever since a kid i say..
But..
Have you recall those moments..
Before Facebook or even friendster..
People calling you late night via house phone just to wish you

It's nice over the years you think about your birthday being celebrated..
And
There was a year i should have celebrated..
the 21st!
Somehow i just felt that year was a bitch to me..
Yeah you can say that again if you want to..

It was a year i broke off with my gf..
Actually no.. i didn't.. SHE CHEATED ON ME!
I Flunked few subject due to lack of concentration in classes due to Love failure
It just wasn't right at all in that yearr...
Brother went off to UK.. Which is kinda good i think...
Oh yeah i forgot... He went a day before mom's bday!

Some how it just haunts me of why didn't i celebrated it grand...

But for my mistake for not celebrating it..
I don't want others to go through shit like i been through...
For Instance... My cousin
He was eventually doubting to celebrate his 21st bday



Somehow,we manage to just brain washed him 
And explained why he has to do one huge celebrations
Ended up... He really had time of his life..
And he thanked us, cousin and friends..
Whom created the day as his memorable one

Other than celebrating it...
Sometimes... Don't you get fed up of people texting saying "Hey Happy birthday"
Come on.. Be honest...
I'm sure you will get fed up...

So.. How unique can you do a birthday wishes??
Poem??? A song??
Or some internet wordings which you just decorate your name there =P

For me...
I always wanted my special people to be there with me...
The Pai's inc of course...
Then.. sometimes i would like some surprises..
Maybe the person that i love..
Or crush??
Or even the people that i love to hang out with...
Family!!! How can i miss thatt... but ada timing sikit lahh =P

Somehow,
I really wished i could celebrate with a GF at times...
The moments gets sweeter you know...
Especially you have not seen a person for a long time and
ta daaa!!! I'm here!!!

That would just blow my mind away =)

Religion..

It may seems as a ordinary thing
But however, There are tonnes of people who are actually back stabbing one another's religion..
You think i'm joking?
Just look at your surroundings...
Don't blame the religion if people does it in wrong ways...

For instance..
People in the government are majority muslims..
So what people do?? Curse them via religion
Come on seriously... U wanna evaluate people based on religion..

I grew up as a person who always respect of other religion..
No matter they are right or not..
But somehow i just respect their believes...

A religion is a guide!
A guide which we people follow in our daily lives other than laws..
It's the people who portrays about  the teachings...
Observe each and every one...
And you will know what am i explaining...

Sometimes i really hate when people talk bad about religions...
Some of my friends do..
I'm just so stunned at times..
How can you talk bad about others when u it self not right..
I even had own relatives talking bad about the rosary..
Eventhough i was mad...
But i somehow explain to them cause they are different denomination
They don't know the value of the rosary...
After explaining then they knew the meaning of it...

Sometimes we just can't condemn others for their believes..
Maybe it's nonsense but it has a strong meaning..
If u feel it's weird..
ASK!!!!
Nothing harm..
Maybe someday they might ask u about ur religion and you will explain to them..
I have tonnes of friends who asked me about the religion...

Worst case scenario??
The Allah Issue
It was too huge till certain muslim guys went to extreme that saying that allah is their word..
Who created it??? The one and only Barisan National Group... " Janji Dicapati"
Somehow things happened...
Molotov being thrown into churches
Church being burnt down...
Just that the majority muslims can't accept the fact that Allah is used in various religions..
For Example.. The Sikh uses the term allah.. and it's in their bible as well...
We christian don't need to use it.. But how ever who created the bible in malay??
Indonesians??? East Malaysia??? no one knows!!
But it has been goin on for centuries!

Even some malay friends of mine admit that ALLAH is not their word
Just imagine myself being in Malaysia..
surrounded by the muslims..
And i used to have this huge cross bling which i fear to wear it...

Today even tho it's settle but somehow some minority hates the christians...
For Wat??
I dunno!!!

And recently when Anwar ibrahim's daughter gave a statement of people should choose their own religion freely.. and Many said that she is being a BITCH and so fort..
I mean.. what she said is true...
Everyone has own right to choose and believe..
No point being a muslim but not practice it...
Isn't that a hypocrite????
 
I have known people from the Hinduism praying to Mother mary for help...
I have seen it my own eyes..
And even asked a guy whom was sitting at the bench of the church..
Why do you pray to her...
He answered..
"Mother mary has been my saviour all this time"
I asked why?
"She came into my dreams.. She answered my prayers.. My wife was not pregnant for 10 years... I went so many temples... i did so many prayers.... But none was being answered...Eventhough i may a strong hindhu believer, but somehow mother mary has blessed me with a baby girl" " Every year during my baby's birthday, i will come and pray to her and thank her for the blessing she has given me. I even make a point to travel to Pray St Anne's at Bukit Mertajam.

After hearing this... I just couldn't believe that Mother Mary does miracles...
At SJMC, there was another miracle at the 7th Floor where the Mother Mary image was being there on the window paint.. not sure how it happened.. but it did!...

A diwali

It was a year go
When he was still working in a small organization..
He was getting ready to work
Thinking it would not affect him
As he wouldn't be celebrating diwali...

True enough..
He was all smiling going to work
No traffics occurred..
When he arrived in the office..
He was well prepared to set himself to work..

However,
The time stuck at 12am..
There is when he was upset..
Watching kids bursting out the crackers..
Playing with some kiddy type of crackers..

He somehow felt that..
Why he chose this particular line 
He has to forgone all his happiness to work...

Usually every year on the eve of diwali,
He goes to this place called
"Kampung Pandan"
A very small village in Kuala Lumpur where lots of hindu people lives..
Somehow, every year without fail, he drinks, he parties, he burst off some huge ass rockets,
Admiring other kids how they dressed up for this occasion..
Their priceless smile.. Of them counting down the minutes to midnight

But when came to last year,
He was just all alone
He teared for a moment, thinking about the events that might take place at there
He felt so sad that he immediately walked into a convenient store just to get couple of vodka's
Just to keep him happy through out the night

A housekeeper approaches to him and asked him in tamil

" Anna, Why are you being so sad "

All he could do is just pour out his sadness towards him and told him the good moments...

The housekeeper knew what he was going through as he was in the same situation last year but he was somewhere at different place in Sri Lanka...

As then it was at 1am,
Where he decided to do his auditing...
All he could do is to put some tamil songs which only could brighten his night

Festival of Lights

The festival is back!!!
Deepavali or some of em call it Diwali
Time of people to break their diets if they are on one...

I used to remember as a kid.. i used to travel to my friends house
Neighbors houses and so on..
Till a point, i know where are a must places visiting house

It starts off at Kampung Pandan on the eve!
Where fire works display is much better than the New year celebrations
Or i rather say.. the people there willing to spend on crackers and also
Huge ass crackers!
Cuz these guys always had competition tho
Massive drink session!
That's how i start off the diwali!

On the day,
I normally head to my two neighbors houses
Used to spend alot of time there tho...
till noon..
Then.. comes to my Tamil teacher's house..
One thing about her is that... she no need to invite us..
We it self know what time to come and so fort..
We(myself and brother) used to go for her classes since std3
So there was a year i thought.. i should buy her a saree
and i saved up money to buy it
She was touched tho.. and she used to tell it to other students

Will have massive lunch tho..
Then after,  i normally head down to my family friends house
Which is quite near by to my tamil teacher's house
At there, i just chill out with my cousins,
Even tho we are just family friend... i always considered him as my own  cousin

That's for Cheras side...
Oh well.. comes to diwali.. got tonnes of houses to go at times..
The houses which i listed, is the one i usually go..
Sometimes i got friends calling me over to their crib and so fort...
MORE FOODDDD!!!!

next stop.. normally it's klang
Where my uncle's mother in law house...
She don't have much relatives
But somehow she always treated us as OHANA(Family)

Then after.. we will try to hit to banting.. But you know..
On the way to banting it self got few more houses...
It's my mom's side...
Some of them are hindus
But these places are happening ones..
As they do performance and stuff like that
THEY WEAR THEIR COSTUME!!!!!
I was like...O.O

Then after, used to head to a new friend house in Telok panglima garang
Where my so called electrician lives..
Y i call him that??
Cuz he advises me about the car audio sound system
And he has repaired my amps!

Then after hit to banting... there would be around 3-5 houses
In total... every year i would do visiting at the average of 10 houses

Just imagine your self eating mutton and chicken the whole dayy!
Makan sampai muakk!!!