Echoes Of Buddhism 4

Date of event : 26th April 2008 (saturday)

Time : 8.00pm

Venue : Wisma Seck Kia Eenh, Jalan Gajah Berang , Melaka

ENTRANCE IS FREE!!

Featuring Malaysia leading Buddhist singing group i.e. Wayfarers, M.O.D, I.Gemz. Bodhi Group etc.

Seck Kia Eenh Dhamma School has been the fertile home of yesteryear’s local Buddhist composers and singers in the likes of Datuk Dr. Victor Wee and Bro. Tan Huat Chye. Their works have encouraged and spurred the production of many new compositions and Buddhist singing groups in Malaysia. These new compositions are now an effective tool to reach out to the younger generation as the youth can easily relate to the messages expounded by these songs.

Thus, the Echoes of Buddhism Concert as community outreach programme which are wholly sponsored by various Buddhist organizations and personalities are to promote Buddhism through songs to the masses. It is with great pleasure that for the second time in Malacca, the Buddhist community had the opportunity to witness live on stage the country’s best talents in creative music composition, arrangement and performance. This time around is the showcase of biggest gathering of Buddhist performing and recording groups in the country namely the M.O.D., i-Gemz,, the new comers into the history of EOB namely Bodhi Singing Group, Malacca Buddhist Youth Society (MBYS), Kota Kemuning Buddhist Society and etc. This event was also an inaugural of Echoes of Buddhism#1 first organized by Seck Kia Eenh Dhamma School back in year 2006 which had then became an annual event with its second and third edition being held at Penang which are organized by Friends Of The Dharma.Net.

This time around, we aimed at introducing and promoting the latest local Buddhist composition to Malacca devotees and public. We also intend to expose and update members of Seck Kia Eenh Dhamma School to various current performing local Buddhist performing groups so that the SKEDS youth can improve themselves. In the networking perspectives, we looked forward in strengthening bilateral relationship between Buddhist Sunday Schools and Youth Organisations of Malaysia and Singapore. In conjunction with the upcoming Wesak Day, as part of the preparation atmosphere, this concert has provide a diversity to share our Wesak joy not only within ourselves but also with friends from outstation especially friends from way down south; Kong Meng San Phor Kark See Monastery Singapore, way up north from Friends of The Dhamma Fellowship Penang and also various groups from central Malaysia, Kuala Lumpur.

I would also like to take this opportunity to stress on the importance of music in instilling positive values, discipline and the spiritual direction in the hearts of our young Buddhists in this new age of technology that brings along with it the manifold benefits. I strongly encourage that there is a need for parents to enroll their children in Dhamma Schools to learn, practice and to encourage the propagation of the Buddha-Dharma.

On behalf of my organizing team, we hope that tonight will be a musical night worth “hanging out” with for all of you. Sadhu to all of you who had contributed in one way and another to make tonight’s event happen. Do make it a delightful and entertaining night. May the teaching of peace and the teaching of love as taught by our great teacher spreads and brings awareness to all of us. May all be well and happy always!

Pontianak in video causes a stir

Pontianak is always so scary hearing that it will transform itself from a pretty girl to ugly wicked woman.

“Pontianak” is one of the most famous, scariest and violent ghost in the Malaysian culture. Primarily, the Malays believe that it originates from a still born child, women who dies while giving birth, women who were killed by the pontianak or their spirits captured by them. The phrase “Pontianak” was believed from the acronym of “Perempuan Mati Beranak” in the Malay language, meaning the woman death by childbirth. After such death, precautions are taken to prevent them from rising like

• Putting glass beads in the corpses mouth so that they can’t shriek
• Placing eggs under the corpses armpits so that they can’t fly
• Placing needles in their palms so that they can’t fly also (apparently the palm helps the pontianak to fly)

Pontianak usually announces its presence through baby cries or turn themselves into beautiful lady and frighten or kill the unlucky who enter or pass through their vicinity. It usually disguise itself as a beautiful young lady to attract its victim (usually male). Its presence sometimes can be detected by a nice floral fragrance of the ‘kemboja’ (a type of flower) followed by an awful stench afterwards. The distance of a pontianaks cries are very tricky. The Malays believe that if the cry is soft means that the pontianak is near and if it is loud then it must be far.

Want to know how a pontianak kills? It digs into your stomach with its long sharp fingernails and feed on it to survive. And want to know why we don’t hang our clothes at night outside the house? It’s because people believe that it sniffs your clothes to suck your blood.

It is also believed that the pontianak can be killed by plunging a nail down the back of its neck whereby it will transform the pontianak into a beatiful normal girl.

http://horrorstories.anthonet.com/archives/what-is-pontianak

Harian Metro reported.......

For the past fortnight, droves of people have gathered at a bridge near Jalan Pulau Gadong, Malacca, where the 50-second video-clip was purportedly filmed.

Many stayed up to the wee hours of the morning hoping to catch a glimpse of the spectre.

The video clip, circulated via mobile phone, shows a woman with long black hair and clad in a white cloth floating in midair while whimpering.

A receiver of the video clip told the Malay daily that he had heard many stories about the pontianak.

“Some say she would appear like a damsel in distress but when approached, she would turn into a pontianak.

“I’ve also heard that the police were called in by several men who stumbled upon the apparition, who was asking if they had seen her missing child.

Flood a year back

Though it has been a year, I just want to share this over what happened back in 2006. I'm so sorry for mommy and daddy for not helping over the clearing up. I knew you both did very hard especially daddy who has his leg bruised while the water raised and they have to quickly evacuate as the dawn came.
I remembered very clear this history at home. I was undergoing internship at Ernst & Young Malacca. December 18,19 and 20 marks the heavy downpour in Malacca non-stop day and night. For nowhere the water could flow, the damp in Machap is going to burst. As with no choice the authority let open the damp gate to allow the water to flow and thus residential garden where my house is considered the nearest. December 20th morning, I was at Farmbest Food Industry doing audit. Mom was at JB working while dad is alone left at home. Mom gave me a call telling me that our house has been flooded. Without further elaborating, I thought that it was a minor case as I do not came across the thought that the water level would raise to the very bad level. So I continued with my work. Mom was then on the way rushed home from JB. When we off work at bout 6pm, we got stuck at Cheng as there was a slight landslide. We then diverted into Tmn Merdeka. To my shocked, cars were parking at higher areas along the roadside, and I saw entrance to my kampung has been blocked and that policemen was everywhere. After many of u-turn and diverts, we manage to get out of the flooding zone and I get back to my old house where my parents is. They told me what happened. Daddy got his leg bruised while walking out to the main road as he cant see the road that was already covered up with muddy flood water. Mom and dad managed to drive the car out in the tyred-covered-by-water situation. Duh... Malaysian made car (Proton Wira) not that bad okay.... They seen many better cars got stuck along way. Everyday, dad will fetch mom in a bike to see the flood condition, it took 2 days for the water to subside and that we are allowed to get in. These are few pictures of the flood water subsided and that we are allowed to get into our home.


My home garden.
Saw the water level stain at the wall? That was the maximum raise of the water while we r being evacuated.




My Kampung road. Water subsiding.




Our tong sampah is missing!
It floats to elsewhere....




Derasnya..........


Water subsided and flows to town area that started flooding.... This is Jalan Kilang.

Same Same but Different

Budapest, Castle Hill (taken from www.virtourist.com)

Perdana Putra - Malaysian Prime minister's Office

She needs lots of support

Its not easy for child prodigy, Sufiah Yusof to adjust her lifestyle that she is so used to. Nevertheless, she shouldn't continue to be like this as it will deteriorate her sexual health. The probability of STD is very high and again she will only end up in a misery ending in the final episode of her life. Someone, please help her to a new chapter of life.... Sufiah, if you are reading this, there are many people who are concern. Living life in a wrong way will just make things worse.
This is what the media got to say..... No worries.... Please come back.

Readers express concern for Sufiah

The Star

KUALA LUMPUR: The sad story of Sufiah Yusof, the child prodigy who had reportedly become an adult hooker, has elicited many sympathetic responses from bloggers and Netizens.

British tabloid News of the World had published a report that the Math genius, who had entered Oxford University at the age of 12, was now charging £130 (RM829) for sex through a Manchester-based hookers’ website for “Asian escorts”.

One blogger wrote after reading the story: “You may come to the conclusion that this is a classic example of a child being pushed too hard.

“A child who was forced into ‘education slavery’ far too young without being able to enjoy her childhood.

“I believe that most of what she had done in the past was an act of defiance; a mutinous act against her father to state, ‘Hey, stop pushing me around. I need a life too!’”

An old friend of Sufiah’s responded: “As a human and woman I do really care about her and am also worried about her religion.

“I know it must be some secret of her life that made her lost. How can I contact or e-mail her?”

A blogger from Malaysia wrote: “I am sad with what had happened. Come back to Malaysia, you have many friends here.”

Some said she should be forgiven and guided back to the right path through religious teachings.

News of the World had reported, “Calling herself Shilpa Lee, the former child prodigy still juggles with figures on a hookers’ website, describing herself as a ‘very pretty size 8, 32D bust and 5’5” tall - available for booking every day from 11am to 8pm’.”

The newspaper’s reporter had posed as a potential client and “she laughed and joked as she led him to her small apartment where a bed was already set out in the lounge.”

Several grainy pictures of her in the nude were also published in the tabloid.