Happiness Comes From The Heart Part 2 快乐 心经

Do Not Envy :- Appreciate.

Look up the Bible on the word envy, it is almost and always ties up with the word love,

International Standard Version (©2008)
Love is always patient; love is always kind; love is never envious or arrogant with pride. Nor is she conceited,

New American Standard Bible (©1995)
Love is patient, love is kind and is not jealous; love does not brag and is not arrogant,

GOD'S WORD® Translation (©1995)
Love is patient. Love is kind. Love isn't jealous. It doesn't sing its own praises. It isn't arrogant.

King James Bible
Charity suffereth long, and is kind; charity envieth not; charity vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up,
American King James Version
Charity suffers long, and is kind; charity envies not; charity braggs not itself, is not puffed up,

American Standard Version
Love suffereth long, and is kind; love envieth not; love vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up,

Bible in Basic English
Love is never tired of waiting; love is kind; love has no envy; love has no high opinion of itself, love has no pride;

Douay-Rheims Bible
Charity is patient, is kind: charity envieth not, dealeth not perversely; is not puffed up

Darby Bible Translation
Love has long patience, is kind; love is not emulous of others; love is not insolent and rash, is not puffed up,

English Revised Version
Love suffereth long, and is kind; love envieth not; love vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up,

Webster's Bible Translation
Charity suffereth long, and is kind; charity envieth not; charity vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up,

Weymouth New Testament
Love is patient and kind. Love knows neither envy nor jealousy. Love is not forward and self-assertive, nor boastful and conceited.

World English Bible
Love is patient and is kind; love doesn't envy. Love doesn't brag, is not proud,

Young's Literal Translation
The love is long-suffering, it is kind, the love doth not envy, the love doth not vaunt itself, is not puffed up

I do not know 已故拿督沈慕羽 personally except from what is written in the newspaper on his contribution to the Chinese Community

However, reading the published Eulogy from his son 沈墨義 先生, it's really not hard to understand how this great community leader, a great patriah in his time, practising the value of love and living the tips of happiness in his own family.

10-2-2009

親愛的爸爸，每一年吃團圓飯前，您一定向團聚的子孫、媳婦及女婿講話，

講述.....

總結家庭的動態，報告自己所為、

曉示做人子孫們做人處事道理，

並勉勵大家學習您為人勤奮的精神。

..........

正月初一早上，.....坐在輪椅上，接受內外子孫、媳婦及女婿的跪拜。

過去，您給壓歲錢的時候，都必定說些勉勵的話，

抱抱孫兒，摸摸他們的独。

.......

Simple gesture of love that most people will appreciate and response to, words of care, words of kindness, words of encouragement, words of love, not only to make others happy, but i believe strongly it will make the person who loves happy.

Love is many a splendid thing, it makes you happy,

Love is more than seasonal greetings on Valentines Day only but all seasons and all days.

Happiness Comes From The Heart part 1 快乐 心经

I was with a supplier, discussing some business. A tattered poster on the door of his office caught my attention, after careful reading, it is none other than the aged old words of wisdom on Tips for Happiness


by Octogenarian Educationist, The late Dato' Shen Muyu 已故拿督沈慕羽





The very first Tip for Happiness listed above all else on the poster is

Do Not Complain :- Be Thankful

Complaints rob us off happiness.


Do not complaint doesn't mean living life like an idiot.....

Common sense tell us that :-

When there is a problem, look for solutions.

When there is a real reason to complain, work out what is required to settle things so you do not need to complain.

Manage expectation, manage stress.
Manage the capacity over what you can or cannot take on your plate.

Manage " The sometimes supersized ego, out of proportion, inflated oversized ego, which place life out of right perspectives. because when life is out of perspective, one tends to complain.

Isn't that doing any of the above, it can make us a little happy in life ?

We sometimes hear that, how to be happy when my husband/wife/mother/father/teacher/brother or sister/friends/others don't make me happy ?

Taking the above for analysis, can we be unhappy when another person do not make you happy ?

Why should another person makes you happy ? when they are unhappy themselves sometimes.

When you are unappreciative and egoistic, chances are, no matter what the other person does to make you happy, you will still be unhappy.

So, there is nothing others can do if you decide to be unhappy at all times.

More so happiness comes from within a person's own heart.


Babies do not complain, or babies have little to complain.

partly babies have very little about life that sucks, it is definately different when one is gaining in age, there are more and more people and things that happened, causing situation and circumstances, some within control and others, beyond their control to handle,

and it sucks.

when life sucks, normally and without fail, any immature person will carry with them an attitude with a aura, liken to the stench from garbage dump.

Carelessness can cause us to pick up the stench that cause us to sucks, directly or indirectly we are influenced, to be unhappy.

Well, complaining is the natural reaction to release the pressure resulted by blaming it on the person who passed you the stench.

Stop passing the stench to others will sometimes make us happier, than passing the same to many more, that will make the world around us unhappy.

and, famous saying that when life taste sour, make lemonade and share with others.

It's best to share not the sourness but the zing of lemonade that can help others, who is, like you and me desiring to be quench in thirst for happiness.

Which is more challenging ? to make yourself happy by being happy

or

let others make you happy and cause the whole world to be unhappy ?


Google up How To Be Thankful ,



there are lots and lots of reading materials.
Nevertheless real happiness lies in individual's desire to be happy.

In another words, each person must see the need to be happy, he must be wanting to be happy...... then only will he be happy, minus out the complaint, small or not so small that will make you unhappy.

There are lots and lots unkind fella/beyond our control situations/circumstances that can make us unhappy.

There is nothing these unkind feela/beyond our control situations/circumstances can do to us if you decide to be happy at all times.

Is it challenging to be happy ? Or is it more challenging to be unhappy.

Thinking Out Of The Box

The Basic Of Plumbing Repairs

The email response i received on my posting Free tips In Plumbing Repairs dated Jan 8, 08 has been overwhelming.

Someone asked, why is it that you do not use any plumbing tools ? like the pipe wrench.

" Oh, I don't have any of those."

" To be true, I don't know what is a pipe wrench. " So I googled and found these wrentches of different shapes & sizes.

Pipe Wrenches



Another mail came to caution me against letting professional plumbers and contractors read my blog.

" Why ? "

" If ever you let the professional plumber see your work, they will chase you with hammer, long enough to hammer you !! "

" Why ? "

" Because the work you did is so ugly !!!

" Oh !! , really ? I am sorry if it caused you eyesores"

" It's because I used different tools and skills as well as expertise trained not by the conventional plumbing school !!"

As I have received an earlier mail on pipe wrench and have learn a thing or two about plumbing repairs from the internet, so I thought, this second mailer couldn't be more knowledge than me about plumber & plumbing repairs.

I emailed him a picture of wrenches and told him normally professional plumbers don't use hammer, they use wrenches, even though wrenches can kill too.



I decided to further search the internet on the kitchen plumbing repair so as not to offend any of the visitors to the blog especially the professional plumbers.

I went on the first box in google on wrenches and found some information in howstuffworks

http:home.howstuffworks.com/plumbingbasic
by Fix it Club

It says plumbing follows the law of nature, gravity, water seeking its own level. Knowing this, you can understand the " mysteries" and make dozen of fixes to your home's plumbing system. You can safe yourself time, trouble & money.

The explaination is so straight forward and scientific.

Firstly it talks about the law of nature and water and gravity, of which i am familiar with some popular and beautiful waterfalls. The smells of splashing waterfalls created so much fresh air with negative ions good to refresh your tired body is just heavenly beyond description.

Not to mentioned how the strong gushed of water over your stressed shoulder massaging away the pain.


My favorite waterfall in Gunung Stong in Kelantan Malaysia
At the based camp, there is a natural swimming pool, when we were there, there were some local kids, sliding down the waterfall like the slides in Sunway Lagoon Waterpark


Gunung Ledang waterfall in Johor Malaysia


And many others around in different parts of Malaysia


The explaination says once you understand the mysteries, you can do a lot of wonders. and the result is, it saves you time and trouble and money.

All my efforts in repairing the kitchen sink is worth matching the above description.

Never mind the repaired sink pipe look like the natural jungle treks.

Perhaps, anytime, when there is no time for outdoors, bending down to look at the cemented jungle trek below the old faithful sink may relieve the impulsive urge for jungle trekking.

May the sight of it beats away any boredom of routine in dish washing & household chores.



Immediately I made myself a clever quote

" Thinking out of the box with creativity is after all an excellent way to explain yourself to others " by Tan agnes ( Kuala Lumpur Malaysia )

It may sound silly to cement kitchen sink, but the result has been impressive.
Since yesterday, the floor beneath the sink has been dry.


Appreciate your comment, Mr. Professional Plumber!

Free Tips on Plumbing Repairs

During spring cleaning, the tendency to see things get done quickly and more urgently is there when compare to any other time that you less bother about it.

So, this is the case of our kitchen sinks.

Suggestions earlier to get the plumber to fix the leaking sink was never taken up seriously.

There was a lot of jungle trekking activities throughout 2008. We were crazy, bugged by the trekking bees, so addicted to trekking that even though the wet floor was a sight to be taken notice of, we had intentionally overlooked and caused the poor faithful sink to suffers choking & suffocation.

To call a plumber at this festive season means you have to wait, not knowing the time they turn up and somehow you have to wait with uncertainty.

And so, I took up the challenge to be a kitchen sink plumbing repairman.

In summary, these are the things needed on kitchen sink plumbing repairs.

1) Cement

Earlier i had use cellophane tape to tape the leaking part, to my bemused husband.
Nevertheless it worked, it really worked,

but.....
....... for a while,
..........just a while.

so now I chose a stronger sticking agent.

Cement as the sticking agent


2) Containers of different sizes.
one to hold the cement, a small one to hold water, to be added to the cement

Add water to the cement

3) Used chopstick for stirring the cement.

Stir slowly to prevent cement dust flying all over


4) Lots and lots and lots of old newspaper


5) Unlimited number of plastic bags.
I have used not less than 5 pairs of disposable gloves trying to stick the gluey yarky stuff, instead the disposable gloves isn't of much help, my fingers were all sticking together.

So improvise is the name.

It is advisable first to put on disposable glove as inner layer, then garden glove, then a layer of long plastic bag to protect the hands.


As shown in this picture


And there were three big garbage bags of plastic waiting to be thrown. Sorry for using so many plastic bags

Ya, a note of reminder on plastic bags, after trekking, do not leave any plastic bags in the jungle or mountains. It is unsightly and they takes hundreds of year to disintegrate.

6) Pails of different sizes
one for cleaning hand : first cleaning,
one for cleaning hands: second cleaning,
one for cleaning hands: third cleaning.


7) most importantly, a camera !!

And the result is a piece of job done by woman's hand



Alternatively, for plumbing repairs need, you can google up & search Plumber.com.

who knows ?

since I have the job experience, I may apply for a job in that field.

Free Tips : Never let any inexperience plumber attempt to repair your kitchen sinks.

Word of Advice & Caution: More so with expensive kitchen sinks.