Birth and Death

After midnight, it will be the birthday of Tiangong!

A neighbour auntie on our right passed away on the 5th day of the Chinese New Year, and the funeral will only be held on the birthday of Tiangong.
When the neighbour auntie on our left knew about the decease of her neighbour, she never even expressed a word of sorrow but just grumbled, " I have to pray to Tiangong leh!" as if the mournful family will cause the Tiangong refuses to visit to her place tonight …...

If I were there to hear that auntie’s grumble, I would have told her that Tiangong would surely understand that if there is birth, there will definitely be death too!

Let us wish Tiangong and that auntie a happy "天公诞"! May Tiangong bring lots of luck and happiness to that auntie throughout the year…….

What? Who is Tiangong?

God of the heaven!

Farewell....

How sad it was to leave the school that she had been serving for years....
Our senior colleague, Madam Tan left all of us today after completing her service as a teacher……

Sad indeed to see her off too, we had been having a really good time working together for years. We used to discuss and solve various problems faced in the subjects taught together, we used to go for courses together, travel in the same car, stay in the same room.......we used to respect each other, and we really got along very well!

It's sad to see all the senior teachers retiring one after one, as most of them are really good teachers who used to be working really hard, sacrificing a lot in educating numerous students, responsible and loyal to their career!! They are teachers that very much worthy of respect!

May Madam Tan live a peaceful and restful life after her retirement, with a most contented soul that leads to genuine happiness as well as a life time of beautiful memory! May she be well and be healthy!

Strengths

Moral conducts such as well-behaved, well-disciplined, obedient, hardworking, responsible, honest, compassionate, helpful, filial, thoughtful, friendly, loving, kind-hearted, persevering and many others more are commonly recognized in our society. One who possesses these strengths will be greatly admired and highly honored. However, these strong points would turn into weaknesses if we attach to them too much........

Being too much attached to one's strong points will become a threat to one's life and might even bring lots of troubles or disasters into one's life. It will gradually blind one's mind too, and eventually, one will get lost and become such confused and ignorant in identifying between the right and wrong, and those strengths will then be exploited by others as a tool to deceive, to harm and even to ruin one’s life.

The moral conduct standards established by mankind and religions, or derived from the societies and traditions are not absolutely practicable in all situations, for instance, being obedient doesn't mean that we are always doing the right things. If we insist in doing some things which are against our will or some things that do not seemed quite reasonable or applicable just because we want to be obedient, then we will be placed in a dilemmatic position, and we will have to struggle and suffer for the decision to be made!

Thus, we should make use of our strengths wisely but not being tied down by them!

Perfectionism

Craving for perfections in this imperfect world will just put one into a disappointing, frustrating and desperate situation, as a perfectionist will pursue his perfect way of life endlessly, and it will cease the enthusiasm or passion of one to live a beautiful life but pushes one into the abyss of misery! Perfectionists will always live a reclusive life that divorces from reality, they do not seemed to belong to this imperfect world though most of them would used to contribute some thrilling heritages to this imperfect world that doesn’t seemed to belong to them too!

So, live naturally and moderately, and life will be such beautiful!