Provoked?

Don and David have been encouraging me to update a new post (“Update you blog lar, Pat.”) and leaving me ideas on my chat box and yet I still couldn’t think about what to blog until I read Don’s blog.

Well, what I’m posting is completely different from Don’s latest post on ciggys, drugs and Jack Daniels / Carlsberg / Smirnoff aka alcohol.

Provoke, I name it…. Simply put it, is there anyone who’s been provoking you lately or all the time? If yes, what did you do? Do you keep quiet about it? Do you approach the person and tell him/her off? Do you gossip about it? And then, what happens? Do you let it go? Do you forgive? Do you still talk about it and get all upset even after forgiving and trying to let it go?

We’re not all perfect but we ought to try to be perfect because Jesus called us to. The bible says in Matthew, Jesus instructed his disciple to forgive seventy times seven times. Come on ya’ll… are you gonna start counting how many times you’re gonna be forgiving others?

Trust me, by the time you reach the fifth, you’ll completely forget how times you’ve forgiven.

How about speaking ill of the one you dislike (or who you deemed has provoked you dislike aka hate him/her)? Does that account to back-stabbing?

You see, the reason I’m asking these questions are because I’ve encountered two similar incidents, same gender but different age.

Firstly, at my workplace – a discussion about another colleague (negative of course) by older men.

Second, another discussion about another brother in cell (duh… negative again) by younger boys.

Gee… time sure have change. Women are usually stereotyped to be gossipers and rumour mongler (whatever or however you spell it). But now…. men and boys too! What horror!

In church we speak of unity among brothers and sisters in Christ. The bible teaches to love your neighbour as yourself but this objective will sure be hard to achieve if we can’t control our tongue. Mother use to tell me as I was growing up, “If you have nothing good to say, DON’T say it.”

Home Sweet Home

Here are the photos guys... for those who have not been to my house

My house from the front

Where all the fun comes from in cell group

Where the feasting is.....

My lovely messy kitchen.... my favourite place in the house

You know, the kitchen cabinet is so high! Need a chair lah...

Tempat cuci baju...


This is what you take to go upstairs ya'll...

Bean bags are missing here....

I LOVE MY NEW HOME!

CSI

I was watching CSI on AXN last night and as usual, the storyline is always good.

Last night’s episode is about a group of teenagers headed by an adult to go “fannysmacking” another term for beating up tourist just for the fun of it. It’s like a party to these “kids” to bash up any tourist they come across.

And of course they did kill one person (he’s not a tourist but he became a practice tool before they go for the real “fannysmacking”). But inevitably, they can’t escape law and the law caught up with them and nabs them.

What intrigues me the most, which resulted in my first post for the month of November was the closing statement made by Grissom regarding the children of today.

I can’t exactly make it out word for word but it has this meaning… The law of the current state provides a principle where they can do and explore whatever they want and have no conscience and get away with it. Soon, it becomes something that they do not feel guilty of.

I had this discussion with KY after the drama because in the US the law protect children under the age of 18 or 16 depending which state. So much so that even if the parent would want to discipline the child for something wrong that he/she did, the parent cannot spank or lay their hands on their child, or else they can be jailed for child abuse.

They have too much of freedom and protection that children become wild and out of control and thereafter go on the rampage. Sometimes, we question the parent’s ability to bring up good children. Sometimes, we question the children themselves (teenagers especially) because at this age, they should already know how to distinguish right and wrong.

But the statement that Grissom made, questions the constitution and the government. He hit the nail right at the head.