Finished or Completed

Complete or Finished !!!!! 

No dictionary has ever been able to define the difference between "Complete" and "Finished". 

However, during a recent linguistic conference, held in London, England, 
Samsundar Balgobin, a Guyanese linguistic expert, was asked to make that very distinction. 

The question by a colleague in the erudite audience was this: Please explain the difference in a way that is easy to understand. 

Mr. Balgobin's response: "When you marry the right woman, you are ‘Complete’. If you marry the wrong woman, you are ‘Finished’. 
And, if the right one catches you with the wrong one, you are ‘Completely Finished’.” 

His answer received a five minute standing ovation.!!!!

Gangnam KL style

Have people no freewill at all ?

The Perfect Job

1.  My first job was working in an Orange Juice factory, but I got canned.   Couldn't concentrate.

2.   Then I worked in the woods as a Lumberjack, but just couldn't hack it, so they gave me the ax.

3.  After that, I tried being a Tailor, but wasn't suited for it--mainly because it was a  sew-sew job, and people liked to hem and haw about the price.

4.   Next, I tried working in a Muffler Factory, but that was too exhausting.

5.  Then, I tried being a Chef - figured it would add a little spice to my life, but just didn't have the thyme.

6.  Next, I attempted being a Deli Worker, but any way I sliced it...couldn't cut the mustard.

7.  My best job was a Musician, but eventually found I wasn't noteworthy.

8.  I studied a long time to become a Doctor, but didn't have any patience.

9.  Next, was a job in a Shoe Factory.  Tried hard, but just didn't fit in.

10.  I became a Professional Fisherman, but discovered I couldn't live on my net income.

11.  Managed to get a good job working for a Pool Maintenance Company, but the work was just too draining.

12. So then I got a job in a Workout Center, but they said I wasn't fit for the job.

13.  After many years of trying to find steady work, I finally got a job as a Historian - until I realized there was no future in it.

14.   My last job was working in Starbucks, but had to quit because it was the same old grind.

15.   SO, I TRIED RETIREMENT.

I FOUND I'M PERFECT FOR THE JOB - LOVE IT!

Great use of English Alphabet

THIS IS ONE OF THE NICEST AND MOST BEAUTIFUL USE OF THE ENGLISH ALPHABET THAT I HAVE EVER SEEN. 

I HOPE YOU ENJOY IT AS MUCH AS I DID.   



Although things are not perfect 
because of trial or pain 
continue in thanksgiving 
do not begin to blame 
even when the times are hard 
fierce winds are bound to blow 
God is forever able 
hold on to what you know 
imagine life without His love 
joy would cease to be 
keep thanking Him for all the things 
love imparts to thee 
move out of "Camp Complaining" 
no weapon that is known 
on earth can yield the power 
praise can do alone 
quit looking at the future 
redeem the time at hand 
start every day with worship 
to "thank" is a command 
until we see Him coming 
victorious in the sky 
we'll run the race with gratitude 
‘xalting God most high 
yes, there’ll be good times & yes some will be bad, but... 
Zion waits in glory...where none are ever sad! 

"I AM Too blessed to be stressed!" 

"The shortest distance between a problem and a solution is the distance between your knees and the floor." 

"The one who kneels to our Lord can stand up to anything!"

REMEMBER! HE has promised that He will not leave or forsake us who belongs to Him! (Heb 13:5)

The Universe ....God's Handiwork

The heavens declare the glory of the Lord, and the Earth shows forth His handiwork.

How to prepare a Pineapple to eat

Many of us like eating Pineapples but dislike the cutting away of the skin. See how an Asian woman does it.

Ten coincidences

Marvellous VW backing vehicle

Some colorful slang

                Abuden

    The short form of "Ah, but then?" to

 indicate, "What else did you expect?" or 

"Wasn't that obvious?

    A: I told her I would keep her cat while she

 went on vacation, but didn't realise I would 

have to feed the cat. 

    B: Abuden? Did you expect the cat to go 

look for food on its own?

            

          Achcherlee =  actually

           Alrite    =   all right

           Macam macam = it takes all sorts of people

           Blimey = God blind me! Exclamation 

of shock from low class Cockney English.

Retired US Admiral becomes Walmart greeter

You just have to appreciate this one. Young people forget that we old people had a career before we retired.

 Charley, a new retiree-greeter at Wal-Mart, just couldn't seem to get to work on time. Every day he was 5, 10, 15 minutes late. But he was a good worker, really tidy, clean-shaven, sharp-minded and a real credit to the company and obviously demonstrating their "Older Person Friendly" policies.

 One day the boss called him into the office for a talk.

 "Charley, I have to tell you, I like your work ethic, you do a bang-up job when you finally get here; but your being late so often is quite bothersome."

 "Yes, I know boss, and I am working on it."

 "Well good, you are a team player. That's what I like to hear”.

 “Yes sir, I understand your concern and I will try harder”.

 Seeming puzzled, the manager went on to comment, “I know you're retired from the Armed Forces. What did they say to you there if you showed up in the morning late so often?"

 The old man looked down at the floor, then smiled. He chuckled quietly, then said with a grin,

"They usually saluted and said, Good morning, Admiral, can I get your coffee, sir”?

Israel sells weapons to India

Comical Conversation with Dad

Fake eggs, fake cooking oil ....from China

Since the 1990s fake chicken eggs have been made in China, said to cost half the price of the genuine ones. Also thrown-away cooking oil is being used in some eateries and restaurants in China. All these in the quest for a fast buck. And false eggs are found in South-East Asia. I have bought a few from the supermarts and sundry goods shops. Even salted eggs are no longer what they claim to be - the york is clearly fake when cooked, and so is the white. Chemicals and other toxic stuff are masqueraded as foods. Terrible world we are living in today.

Typical Asian Drivers

Parking and some mannerisms of our car drivers. Surprisingly overtaking and cutting into your lanes are left out, which are outstanding daily feats on our roads. So this sketch is not typical but comical.

It is Well with my soul

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2016 CNY Riot Hong Kong Mongkok

There was an all-night riot on 8th February 2016 when Hong Kong authorities disallowed unlicenced hawkers from selling their goods in the Kowloon area of Mong Kok. The police fired a few shots into the air and this started the riot in which some police officers were injured. The rioters started a fire on the street and hurled bricked and bottles at the police. The police withstood the riot and the streets were cleared of debris.

Don't mess with the Hong Kongers.

If the short video does not play, please complain to Google Blogger - I have sent them several complaints to no avail.

Maybe they want me to stop blogging on their blogspot. But they have not officially told me to stop.

Hollywood Cemetery is not in Hollywood

Hollywood Cemetery is a large, sprawling cemetery located

 next to Richmond, Virginia's Oregon Hill neighborhood at 

412 South Cherry Street. Characterized by rolling hills and

 winding paths overlooking the James River, it is the resting

 place of two United States Presidents, James 

Monroe and John Tyler, as well as the only Confederate 

States President, Jefferson Davis. It is also the resting place

 of 28 Confederate generals, more than any other cemetery 

in the country; these include George Pickett and J.E.B. Stuart. 

Smart Art

Sir Martin Gilbert British Historian

        Sir Martin Gilbert, shown with the bust of Winston Churchill, whose biography he wrote.

Some of us may know about Benjamin Disraeli as the one British Prime Minister who was a Jew serving during the days of Queen Victoria.

I have recently discovered a British Jewish historian who wrote numerous books, is recognised as one of Britain's great historians, and wrote the biography of Sir Winston Churchill.

He is Sir Martin Gilbert/ His parents were Russian Jews who escaped to Britain, where Martin obtained his brilliant University degrees and later became an acknowledged historian academician.

He was a practising Jew and has given public lectures in Britain, America and in Israel. He has spoken on the Europeans who helped the Jews escape the Holocaust during the Nazi occupation of the countries concerned.

He passed away in 2015.

If North Korea and South Korea were at war

Sing a hymn of praise amidst tragedy

A Very Funny Sketch about Money

Don't travel in China during Chinese New Year

The 2016 Spring Festival Travel rush is from Jan.24 to Mar. 3. It is predicted that about 320 million passengers will travel by rail during the period, 8.2% more than last year. The railway tickets will be under great demand. TravelChinaGuide recommends you to book tickets as early as possible, or avoid traveling during the period.

The Spring Festival Travel Rush, also known as Chunyun in Chinese, or Chinese New Year Travel Rush, Lunar New Year Travel Rush is considered to be the largest annual migration. It is the special period when China faces an extremely high traffic load, which results in great transportation problems, especially on the railway services.

Millions of people working or studying out of their hometowns will be hurrying home to reunite with families as the Chinese Spring Festival approaches. This long-held tradition is the main reason for the rush. The other is that the holiday is one of the two week-long holidays of the year, a perfect travel time for many people. The rush usually begins 15 days ahead of the Chinese Lunar New Year and 25 days after that.
  

During the 40 days of Chunyun period, the inter-city 

transportation faces great challenges. The demand

 for tickets far exceeds the supply. Various measures 

are adopted to alleviate the problem by opening 

many temporary trains,  extending the working 

hours of booking office and opening up more booths. 

More policemen are deployed to insure the public security. The application of real name system is taken to relieve the difficulty in buying tickets and effectively stop scalpers who profit a lot during this period.

If China and Japan went to war

Names of Jehovah

An Arab Happy to be in Israel

Life on the River Thames

Jewish boy Nathan's visions of coming World War III against Israel.

On 9 Dec 2015 Nathan a 15 yr old Jewish boy  died, went to heaven and saw the near future of Israel and the coming World War III. The Lord revived him and sent him back to earth to testify of what he saw.

He has been a non-observing Jewish boy who does not know the Torah, nor attends the synagogue services.

See the Youtube videos about him and his visions.

Europe's changing borders through hisory

Muslims in Moscow

The Russian capital Moscow is growing increasingly Islamic, as the number of Muslims in the city has increased to over 1.5 million in the past decade, according to Russia’s chief imams.

There are hundreds of mosques in Moscow, but not enough to accommodate the huge number of worshippers, forcing many to pray on the streets.

In 2015, more than 160,000 Muslims attended prayers marking the Eid holiday, according to the Moscow police.

“A large number of labor migrants come to our mosques and during holidays our mosques -- there are only four of them in Moscow now -- of course they are overcrowded and most of our believers pray outside, in the rain, in the sleet,” said Iman Rushan Abbyasov, deputy head of the Council of Muftis.

When the Soviet Union collapsed in 1991, Russia had only 100 mosques left. Some 8,000 were built in the past 24 years – but not in Moscow. The official census data from 2010 suggests there are over 400,000 Muslims living in the Russian capital.

According to experts the number of Muslims in the city has grown dramatically in the past two decades due to increased migration from predominantly Muslim Central Asia, Azerbaijan and Russia's North Caucasus.

“The real number is definitely higher,” said Alexei Malashenko, an expert at the Carnegie Endowment. “This includes both Muslims who live here as well as registered migrants. We simply do not have exact statistics.”

Muftis put the number of Muslims in Moscow at 1.5 million. If they are right, the Russian capital has the second-largest Muslim population after Paris which, with 1.7 million Muslims, hosts the largest population of any European city.

Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin has ruled out building more mosques, saying would be "over the top." He added that Muscovites are becoming irritated by people who speak a different language and have different customs.

The statement provoked anger among Muslims.

The opening in September of the Cathedral Mosque, which was Moscow’s main mosque before it closed for renovations a decade ago, is not expected to solve the shortage of prayer space, Muslims say. They explain that, like the other mosques, it can accommodate no more than 10,000 worshippers at a time.

In contrast to mosques, churches in Moscow have flourished in recent years.

There are currently 383 active Russian Orthodox churches in the capital. Five years ago, the city launched a "200 churches" program, aimed at building churches in every district of the city.

Many of these new buildings often remain empty, while more and more Muslims are seen praying in the streets outside mosques.

Malacca Reminiscences

Published by Partridge/Penguin

Dec 2015

Author: Andrew Loh

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Chapters                                                                  Pages

1                                  JONKER STREET                                          3

2                                  BORN & BRED HERE                                  11

3                                  TAMPIN                                                         19

4                                  KUBU                                                             23

5                                  AYER KEROH                                               29

6                                  CHAN KOON CHENG                                  36

7                                  MALACCA BRIDGES                                   45

8                                  CHINA HILL                                                  51

9                                  MALACCA MILLIONAIRES                        55

10                                MALACCA FOODS                                       61

11                                MEDICAL SERVICES                                   71

12                                MALACCA POLITICIANS                            78

13                                TRISHAWS & CARS                                      82

14                                PEOPLE OF MALACCA                                89

15                                MY TRAVELS                                                 92

16                                MY FAMILY                                                    97

17                                MEMORABLE TRIPS                                   104

18                                MALACCA BUCCANEERS                         109

19                                PEOPLE WHO STOOD OUT                        110

20                                SMALL TRADES MALACCA                      119

21                                MALACCA DIASPORA                                124

22                                MALACCA PROFESSIONALS                     128

23                                MALACCA LEGENDS                                  131

24                                MALACCA PHILANTHROPISTS                 133

25                                MALACCA FOREIGN WORKERS               136

26                                MALACCA CHURCHES                               140

27                                MALACCA DURIANS                                  147

28                                MALACCA HOTELS                                     150

29                                MALACCA SUBURBS                                  152

30                                SUPERMARTS & SHOPS                             154

31                                BOOKS AND I                                                157

32                                BABIES, OLDIES & FATTIES                      162

Prologue Cambridge Seven

Christian Law Association USA

Since 1969, CLA has been providing free legal assistance to Bible-believing churches and Christians who are experiencing difficulty in practicing their religious faith because of governmental regulation, intrusion, or prohibition in one form or another.

The Christian Law Association exists to preserve Christian liberty for your children and grandchildren.

CLA received in excess of 100,000 phone calls annually, not counting the thousands of pieces of correspondence from those who are in some way facing legal difficulties for doing what the Bible commands. These cases involve Christians arrested for witnessing to others in public, public school students being told they do not have the right to read their Bibles at school, churches being excluded from communities, Christians being fired for sharing their faith at work, and thousands of other shocking assaults on our precious religious freedoms. CLA provides free legal services based in part on the generosity of God's people. Your contribution to CLA is 501(c)(3) tax deductible.

More than 40 years ago, the ministry of the Christian Law Association effectively began with a phone call from a pastor in Ohio.

As a young attorney, David C. Gibbs, Jr. could hardly believe his ears as the pastor relayed how his church was being sued by the state for operating its ministry. As he reviewed the legal documents, Dr. Gibbs was astonished that such a thing could happen in modern America. From that very first case through the present day, God has blessed Dr. Gibbs' commitment to legally help churches, pastors, and Christians free of charge. The ministry has grown substantially through God's blessing over the last 40 years as attorneys, legal assistants, and other ministry workers have joined our team of "legal missionaries." 

Accents of English Language

East End of London