I personally find it rather distasteful for parents to place special intention prayers for their 11-12 years to pass UPSR exam. I know it is good to teach kids faith and God-ly stuffs but it is a little bit of ‘passing the buck to Jesus if you didn’t do well in your exam’ kinda deal. Normally our church will hold a special mass for these kids. But there are parents who went out of their ways to place a sum of money, put their children’s name in the list to be prayed for during weekend masses. Usually, people pray for their deceased souls or someone going through illness. Serious, we mustn’t treat 11-12 years old like their future depends on God alone.

Posted on September 7th, 2008 by Lilian
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I pick up these photos on some Chinese forum and wonder why only the Chinese papers feature the flood in Penang? Like they say, a picture says a thousand words. The above is my phone’s SMS. It was from one of the CM’s staff. This afternoon, he told me the CM is still at the [...]

Posted on September 7th, 2008 by Lilian
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Thanks for all the birthday wishes on my Facebook, face to face, sms and the earlier comments. I am still too busy to celebrate lah. Hopefully will get around to do it tonight. Anyway, no big deal lah. As you get older, you tend to bother less about birthdays. I woke up since 5.05 am [...]

Posted on September 7th, 2008 by Lilian
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That I won’t be so critical of myself; That I will learn to forgive myself; That I will not lose the vigour to serve Him; That I will always be sincere and truthful; That I will always possess this guts I have till the end; That I will always have the faith to let Him [...]

Posted on September 7th, 2008 by Lilian
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