Church in India under persecution

One piece of news that is not getting much attention in secular newspapers is the persecution of Christians in India by militant Hindus in India. While Hindraf (in Malaysia) is fighting for the rights and justice for the Indians in Malaysia, their fellow Hindu brothers and sisters in India, especially in Orissa, India, are hacking Christians to death, possibly forcing them to convert to Hinduism.

Pray for the Indian christians especially in the state of Orissa.

See the following:

http://www.spiritflowtv.com/videos/id_19?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=08101101

May God strengthen and increase the faith of christians in India.

Apt got burgled

My apt got burgled yesterday. Came home after receiving calls from two banks stating two of my credit cards had suspicious transactions. Things in the bedroom were all strewn in the room. Turned out the the neighbour's unit also got burgled....aiyah...lots of inconvenience now.....have to go to bank to have my cards replaced, replace my dad's ic too which was taken from the room....:-(((....May the burglers be brought to justice.....:-))))

Selamat Hari Raya Aidil Fitri

Selamat Hari Raya Aidil Fitri to all . Long holidays (two days, plus one day leave, plus weekend), so a bit boring---lots of work, yet do not know where to start or end...heheheh...know what i mean? Have you ever got work and work on your mind and just don't know where to start? Start on one, worry on another, start the one, the first one gets stalled...aiyah...must go for a holiday and get my mind relaxed.....but going for holiday during Hari Raya is *&^$# expensive....:-(...so back to square one....boring holiday.

Latest from Malaysiakini today, 23 Sept 9 a.m.

Raja Petra to be sent to Kamunting
Sep 23, 08 9:34am
Malaysia Today editor Raja Petra Kamarudin will be sent to Kamunting Detention Centre in Taiping, Perak today to begin his two-year detention under the Internal Security Act, said his lawyer.

The home minister has signed his detention order last night to be held without trial under section 8 of the tough security law. Under the Act, the government can renew his detention indefinitely.

Lawyers said that the police had informed them this morning that they would be taking Raja Petra to the detention centre.

The Kuala Lumpur High Court is to hear a habeas corpus bid by Raja Petra's lawyers to overturn the detention of the controversial blogger today.Habeas corpus is a writ ordering prisoners to be brought before a judge to ascertain if there are any procedural defects which could render their detention unlawful.

the above pictures were taken in Phuket recently. I enjoyed the round the island trip, where we went to a lagoon...beautiful...(the second photo). can't remember where exactly in phuket the third photo was taken....the first photo...i believe it was in Phuket Funtasea....

Oh well....actually the actual photos are bigger, can see the background....i guess you have to be satisified with these photos which focus on me...hehehehe...for the background, just google for Phuket or go there to see for yourselves.....hehehe

Another blogger arrested

Today, Malaysiakini reports another blogger arrested..Syed Azidi. I remember him, he taught in my uni once, in my faculty, in fact.
It is sad that the state of the country has to come to this stage. I pray that all will be well.
In fact, all of us should start praying...(if you don't believe in prayers, well, then....start meditating and trasfer positive ya-ba, da-ba positive waves).....

Peace to all Malaysians.

Moving on....to Kampar

Oh well, the time has come for me to step down as dean of FCI in PJ, and move on to Kampar. Looking forward to this, and with sadness too that i will be "leaving" PJ. I put "leaving" in quotation marks, because i will not be away for good. I will still be around, in the university. But as one of my staff puts it, 'things will be different'...whatever the case, looking forward to my 'new' posting in Kampar....a really beautiful campus, and I wish the new dean (whoever is going to take over) the best, and I know (s)he will do a good, if not a better job, at leading the faculty.

Cheerio....