wHen A profEssOr MeeT wItH a BoaTmaN...

I was walking in my university compound while heading towards class,
feel that my daily University life is quite pack,
then think is it from this busy life,
i make my life busy for nothing?
or from the busy, i learn many things?

suddenly pop!!!
a story which i heard b4 came out suddenly in my mind,
it is a story between a very high educated man and a very low educated man..

this high educated man is a professor who holds many high certificate in many educational fields, such as science, mathematics, physiology, and many more..
one day,
he wants to cross a river to the other bank,
so he go and find the boatman,
asking the boatman whether can take him across the river,
the boatman says yes...

so,
happily and gratefully the professor sits on the boatman's boat
n the boatman start to row his boat,
sitting facing the boatman,
the professor sees the boatman working hard to row his boat,
he then ask the boatman,
"dear boatman, how high is ur educational level?"
the boatman feel shock about his question,
but he answered him,
"only until standard 3,sir"
the professor 'geleng-geleng' his 'kepala'..
he said,
"ai yo..onli until standard 3 ka?
tak boleh ini macam...'mou chin tou' (no future)
u c me...
i got a PHD in science n Math, degree in Physiology, business, bla..bla..bla...
in the society now,
u nid 2 have at least 1 high educational certificate d...if not, u onli can become a boatman 4 d rest of ur life.."

the boatman din answer anything,
his head looking downward, feel sad and shy about d professor's comment,
suddenly, his boat accidentally hit a big stone in the middle of the river,
like in titanic,
his boat breaks into half and start sinking...(but dont have d titanic romantic scene la)
the professor stunned about wat had happen..
actually he does not know how 2 swim..
the boatman jumps into the river and swims away...
left the professor alone sinking along the boat..
the professor start yelling for help and asking the boatman 2 save him...
the boatman yell back at him
" actually i already have a PHD!!!
the PHD in SWIMMING!!!"
professor drown into his egoness and his ignorance...

this story is telling us that
watever we do and learn
think back why we need 2 learn that
is it juz for knowledge?
or for our life?
learn how 2 save our life is much more important to learn how 2 fill our life..
we live for once,
there is no two 21 years old...
so, why waste our life for nothing?
build life in the more meaningful ways...
u wont regret when u are closing ur eyes for the LAST TIME...

my first sketch (part 2)

yesterday juz end my sketch...feel very proud of it...really..haha
b4 i start my feeling about it..
i would like 2 write down wat is part 2 all about....

Continues from part 1, when Johny is being tied to five horses..suddenly, a hero appears. He run towards Johny and try to save Johny.The hero cuts all of the ropes by his sword and grabs Johny. The guards of the punishment place rush towards the hero to prevent him save Johny. The hero fights with the guards as he takes Johny running away. The hero got chance to stab one of the guards but he chooses not to do so because he does not want to hurt anybody. The hero manages to escape with Johny. He and Johny run as fast as they could until the guards could not catch up.

Then they stop at a place. Johny with teary and thankful eyes, thanks the hero for saving him from the dead sentence. When Johny’s emotion becoming stable, he ask the hero why come to save him eventhough he deserved to have the dead sentence. The hero told him that he is one of the group which singing hymn and be together. Although Johny runs away from him, he always cares of the news of Johny. When he heard about the capture of Johny, he feels that he needs to help him. He feels that Johny has learnt his lessons and he should be given another chance. The hero tells Johny that the lifestyle and the actions he did are in the wrong path. There are many meaningful and right ways of painting our life. The hero shares that during the times he be with his group, he learnt many thing about himself and how to become a happy and true human. So he wants to share the feeling and the thinking to others. Johny ask him what if that time he joins the group, is that a university student should be?? What is a true University student be like? The hero said to him, ‘come, I bring you to a place to find out the answer’

(talk starts)

Johny know realize the meaning of the true university student. He is very happy that he finally knows that there are such kind of things that teaches him on how to live happily and healthily. The hero said to him that he hope that Johny know has learnt some about the meaning of life. And now the hero let him decides what he feel he need to do. Johny smile back to him and thanks him for saving him and show him such precious things. He later said to hero that he knows what to do already.

Johny later go and give up himself to the police. He determined that he needs to be responsible of his wrong doings. As the punishment going on, the ropes become tighter and tighter, Johny closes his eyes and stands the pain. As the pain become more and more stronger, he cant stand thus he shout out loud…..

(powerpoint comes in)
in the powerpoint,
i take "choices" as my theme..
choices is life
life is choices
as long as we are breathing, we will meet many choices
then we need to choose
each choices will lead to different destinations
sometimes we do not know we are the one who makes choices

life is juz like a river
know why we dont have a straight river from mountain to its final destination?
because during its flow,
it will meet many obstacles and need 2 overcome them in order 2 move forward.

so, there are so many choices in front of our eyes..
look back 2 ourselves and think
which 1 would be d best 4 me?

then i bring to introduction of UBF
firstly i show all the activities pic
then intro DSG n Meditation class
then give them a word from the Buddha

“ We are what we think.
All that we are
Arises with our thoughts.
With our thoughts,
we make the world. ”


the whole part 1 and part 2 finally wrapped up already
i personally feel satisfied
although during part 2, there are many unavoidable technical problems arises
if not, the sketch can be performed better
actually the quality of part 2 slightly lower than part 1,
may b can blamed 2 d little downfall of attitude for each actors and actress and also me
sometime takes things too easily
takes thing not seriously
i noticed that
but i cant do anything
i cant be too hard
nor be too soft
but i really hope that each people who participate in this could learn something
i personally had learn many thing
i learned to be patient, and i can see many kind of behavior of people
i played with my own feeling
sometimes i feel stressed, disappointed, happy, pity, nervous etc..
i managed to keep clam and keep believe in myself

ok ok
turn back 2 d part 2..
i that indeed feel shocked when what i tried to show in my sketch
fit perfectly to Uncle Vijaya's talk
even Uncle Vijaya ask whether we actually know what he going to talk about
tell d truth..
i really never thought that i want to link d sketch with what Uncle Vijaya goin to talk about
i juz too focus on the whole story and how to bring the storyline to the talk..
haha..
anyway, it is another success la...

the highlight i put on that day is the hero came down from d audience enterence and fighting with 2 guards accompanying by the theme song of Star Wars..i managed to get the attention from audiences at that scene..haha
another highlight is the powerpoint slide show
by let audience know about their life then throw a question
then let them see the pictures of activities so that they know what UBF is doing
the come the advertisment of DSG and Meditation class
wrapped up all of UBF in package to introduce to the newcomers..
but all of these are just technical things, they juz live for a short period..
the most effective of promoting is keep a human interaction relationship. The warmer the relationship, the better for our family...
so, think wat need to do
then do it...dont juz stop at thinking and saying..
ACTIONS ARE THE ANSWERS OF OUR THOUGHT...
jia you, senz and UBF family...

tHe Blind SpOt

nothing is perfect in this world...
the perfection is when we fully understand that there is nothing is perfect..
many things when we see from our own view,
looks like they are perfect
but it is not the same when others sees from their view

the blind spot is the spot we missed to look at
it is the spot where we need others to remind us
if we still keep to ourself
we will learn nothing
we need to learn to put ourself aside
hear what others' opinion
we can choose not to accept first
and
we shall not blindly accept those opinion

we need to learn how to think and analysis
give the reason why we need to accept or reject
sometime multiple opinions can be combined into one more perfect opinion

although sometime there might be some hard feeling when hearing others' opinion
we need to come back to ourself
the enemy will not be the people who is giving the hard opinions
the enemy is ourself
if we defeated ourself's ignorance and ego
there is no such things as enemy
everything will be our teacher....
we will learning many interesting things everyday
doesn't it great????

tHe FirSt SkEtCh....

Wednesday,9/7/2009
The welcoming nite
has ended...
remarked my first directed sketch has reach its middle of its plot..
to tell the truth..
my ownself actually

couldnt believe i can reach so far...
couldnt believe i can write out the story
couldnt believe i can think the plot
couldnt believe i can choose the actors and actress
couldnt believe i can work out so good with them
couldnt believe i can think out and do those costumes and props
couldnt believe i can direct the situation so smoothly
so so many...i couldnt believe...
but i believe that my direction is correct
and what i need to do is play freely within the rules of my direction
as long that i still within the boundaries of my direction
i am safe to go crazy and high...haha

may be the time in the future i look back here,
i might lost the memories about the first sketch which i turn it from the words on the paper to the drama on the stage..
now i plan to write the story here

the story begins with...

A high ranked government officer,Johny who is rich and quite powerful. During his work, he is very greedy and dishonest officer. He usually likes to receive and gives bribes to make his work easier and have additional income. But, he managed to do all of his dishonest actions without being caught and is able to clean the ‘dirt’ of his actions. Besides that, he also enjoy himself by going clubbing and playing games. He always busy on his own schedule until forgot to arrange time for his family. As a result, he always quarrel with his family and he feels that both of his parents are burdens for him. when his parents trying to advise him, he will feel that his parents are nagging at him, so he will fiercely fight back and scold at them.

As time goes by, Johny still does not want to stop doing the dishonest and evil actions. But, one day, his day turned into one of his worst day. As he is trying to asking and receiving for bribes, he did not know that his actions being watch by BPR. As he is going to leave after receiving the bribes, BPR sprang out and catch him. He is stunned and cant do anything.

As a high rank government officer, it is very serious if one being caught dishonest in doing his responsibilities. So, for Johny, he took to the magistrate court and then he is found guilty. Because he did many dishonest acts while doing his responsibilities, he is being slapped by a death penalty which is “body tear up by 5 horses”. He will stay in jail while waiting for his deadly sentence.

While waiting for his death, he lives in fear and sorrow. He feels very regret of his past evil actions. His parents visit him everyday and always encourage him to be more brave to face the greatest challenge ahead. He saw his parent still take care of him eventhough he always treat them ill. The tears of regret flow from the inner heart of Johny. From his mouth, came out the words, “mama, papa, I love you”. All three of the family hugged together and cried together.

One night, Johny suddenly reflect back during the time when he was in university. He remembers that he walking into a class where there are a group of people. There is a committee named Go Ask Him approached him and persuade him to join the hand expression dance.
( hand expression starts…)

A friend of Johny introduces Johny to play computer games. Johny starts to become more and more addicted to those games. When UBF committee try to persuade him to come. He start to make the committee life hard. But he at last attend the games session but reaches late because of playing computer games.

(games session starts..)

The other friend takes Johny go clubs for clubbing. Johny become more and more enjoying his life. After try once, he becomes obsessed with the feeling and wants to go there some more. The UBF committee need to be more hard to persuade him to attend. Johny tried to brush away the committee and scold the committee.

Johny cries as he feels regret for missed the chance to join and enjoy with the group. In his life, he has never met such a sincere group before. Additionally he does not believe there have such a group in the society today. He also feel regret because he mistakenly follows the wrong way which lead him to what he becoming now.


The day of death sentence reaches. Johny with very disturbed emotions ( scared, sad, etc) while being taken to the punishment place. When the Penalty officer throws the punishment stick to indicate the start of punishment, Johny screams, shouts, cries and 'meronta-ronta' while the process of the punishment is going on.
- His head is being tied to horse 1 “ Entertainments ” .
- His left hand is tied to horse 2 “ Educations”
- His right hand is tied to horse 3 “ Personal love gf/bf ”
- His left leg is tied to horse 4 “ Families ”
- His right leg is tied to horse 5 “ Job ”

As the horses begin to walk and the ropes becoming more and more tight, Johny becomes more and more scared. He really hopes that there will be a people come and save him. He closes his eyes and shouts painfully…

(to be continued)
the end of part 1


in this very part 1,
i try to bring out the real university environments to show the new comers
from my way, i try to get closer to my audience
people likes what they likes
people likes to have funny things so i added the funny elements
people might ask why i put DOTA and Clubbing in my sketch
they might be thinking y a buddhist club become like promoting people to those unhealthy lifestyle

my personal reasons are we DO NOT promote those lifestyle, we SHOW OUT that happen around us during our U life here.. PROMOTE and SHOW both are very different things.
after i show out, i bring them to see what will happen when they chooses to against activities which can develope the qualities of innerself. What will happen when they gone extreme inside those unhealthy lifestyle.. Yes, those computer games and clubbing are definitely fun than Buddhist fellowships' hand expression dance and hymns..that is when we see it in 'short sighted' and ignorance. When we wear our 'glasses' and 'telescope' to see more clearly, the different things came out... the realness between these two groups shown very clearly..the real cetak rompak shown very clearly..one is show us about the meaning of life while the other show us the fake happiness of life..what would u choose??

"body tear out with five horses"
may be you might want to know y i choose this so called death penalty..
the reasons are
1. easy to act...lol
2. many people couldnt guess this death penalty..many would guess hang to death, shoot to death and etc..haha..purposely make u all 'za dao'
3. actually, the main reason behind it is in our life, there are 5 most important things in our life. JoB, Family, Entertainment, Personal Love and Education.. these five groups i classified them as the death sentence horses..if we couldnt take care well of those horses, it is very same like being killed by the death sentences..it served as a warning to us to take care our life well...

before i end my sharing here 2day,
i shall not forget the most funny element i added in my sketch
the 'gardenia roti' which the mother brings for johny when she visited him in the jail..the scene is a sad scene but i added an unpredictable bomb to make my audience become 'za dao' along the sad but heart tickling music..haha..

k la...until here la my sharing 2day..very fun very fun...i really feel like i become Director Zhang YiMou who directed the unpredictable opening ceremony of Beijing Olympics.haha..not bad not bad,senz...jia you..yeah!!!

turn over the new leaf...

huh..time time time...
time waits for no man...
time flies...
wa!! so fast ar??!!!
that's all i can describe for time...

tomorrow,
the new sem start for me to become a third year student...

tomorrow,
i will have a look of my new intake juniors...

tomorrow,
i will become people's senior

tomorrow,
i will meet new lecturers

tomorrow,
i will get to know my new subjects

tomorrow,
i will try 2 work more hard for my studies

tomorrow,
i will try 2 work more hard for UBF

tomorrow,
i will try hard to let more people to know the truth

there is when tomorrow become today,
today becomes present moment,
those 'i will' shall become 'i am ***ing'

for this sem,
i got do some thinking about some changes which can be applied in UBF and myself..
hope my plans can be succeed..

senior's words for me " once a UBF committee, always the UBF committee",
this words really touched me...

these days in UBF really taught me many kinds of things...
thanks to my commitment, my courage and my patience to stay here...
without them, i think i cant be where i am now...
when seeing other friends scared of UBF activities,
a feeling rised up inside of me...
the feeling was like i am afraid of myself...
juz like past myself
din understand that actually UBF is part of myself
and myself is part of UBF
so make me separate both myself..
'like man but not a man,
ghost but not a ghost.'
"nang bo di nang
gui bo di gui" (hainanese)


but after i understand that UBF is part of me..
my life turn into the new arena
Rev Ji Chern got said before
our life is juz like a game
this game have its rule
if we play this game without understand and master its rule,
we will end up suffering and fed up of playing this game
if we play this game when we understood and master its rule,
we can play happily and freely
in the same time, we can freely show out our potential and talent when playing the game without worrying about the rules...
it is juz like the game of chess...


so guys...make sure u noes the "rule" before playing the "games"..
if dunno, go dharma study class la..haha ^.^