Religion and Spirituality
5) Stairway to Office!
A company enforces a rule for employees reporting late for work. For that reason, they have to climb flight of steps to their office on the 19th floor. This takes them for about 15mins to reach ‘heaven’.
This is happening in a country in Asia. Employee, Jessica told the press that her office enforces a new rule for latecomers. Instead of fining them for reporting late at work, they would have to climb stairs!
After a month after the rule takes place, no employee report work late!
“For those who report late, please report to the counter!” This is a daily pop-out message on their PC screen. If you happened to be the one, please help yourself to the counter at 1st floor and greet morning to the flight of stairs within 15mins! Someone will be on the 19th floor counter to erase your bad record!
On Oct 22, Jessica happened to be the late one. She lamented that there was no chance to cheat, there will always be someone guarding over the stairway at every alternate floor. Instead of paying a fine of about S$20/=, after a few practices, they managed to finish the test in a joyful way. After all, no fine are fine to them.
One month after the rule has been set, there is tremendous improvement.
The numbers of latecomers has decreased from 3 to 1. And till now, not a single staff turned up late at all!
10) Breakfast at our Tiffany
Bread and Butter
My daily breakfast consists of bread and peanut butter, If I look for changes, it’ll be peanut butter and bread, or oak with banana, else will be banana with oak!
Bread and butter are also one of the basic nutritional meal for kids growing up.
Toast Bread with Half Boiled Eggs
It is common to get them in our local coffee shop. It’s grassroots breakfast indeed. A piece or two toasted bread come with one or two half boiled eggs.
The eggs taste superb with soy sauce and pepper, it’s provide you with the energy charge you need for the day! And of course, you have to monitor your own cholesterol level.
Roti Prata
A traditional Indian meal, an ideal breakfast. It is a pan-fried pancake made from flour dough and it is commonly served with curry gravy or sugar. This is famously one of the most reasonable priced meals among the local.
Porridge with ‘You Tiao’
A typical Chinese authentic meal, a popular meal well-liked here. ‘You Tiao’ (known as ‘Oil Stick’) is a long, golden-brown, deep fried strip of dough that taste slightly salty. Dipping ‘You Tiao’ in a bowl of hot porridge is one of the original way to enjoy the meal!
Nasi Lemak
Commonly a Malay breakfast dish, though it is possible for the dish to be eaten all day as it is sold in most eateries here. Nasi Lemak is a fragrant rice dish cooked in coconut milk and ‘pandan’ leaf, comes with small fried anchovies, fried peanuts, scrambled or hard boiled egg, cucumber slices, wrapped with banana leaf. Last but not least, is the remarkable hot spicy sauce (sambal) with a sweet under taste that spice up the whole dish and make you wanting to go back for more!
Macdonald’s Breakfast
And finally, this world famous meal may end up in front of me, once in a ‘purple’ moon.
I would love to share so much more Breakfast at Tiffany with you….Hey, what about you? Shall I see you at Tiffany?
20) Song of Haircut
Cut, cut, cut…cut away the fuzz
Cutting your hair
Cutting your butt
Cutting your toe nail
Cutting your heart
Listen to the groomer
Your time is up
You wanna look dumb or charm?
Cut, cut, cut…cut away the fuzz
Cutting my hair
Cutting my fringe
Cutting my side burn
Cutting my heart
Listen to the barber
My time is up
I need to go school
And I wanna look charm
Cut, cut, cut…cut away the fuzz
Cutting your hair
Cutting your hand
Cutting your body
Cutting your palm
Listen to the pruning buzz
Open up your new arms
Open up a brand new sky
And dance in your dreams with rhyme
5) Do you know your Flag well?
Our National Flag consists of two equal horizontal sections, the red above white. On the left canton is a white crescent moon beside five white stars within a circle.
Each feature has its own distinctive meaning and significance:
Red symbolizes Universal Brotherhood and Equality of man;
White signifies pervading and everlasting purity and virtue;
The Crescent Moon represents a young nation on the ascendant;
and the five stars stand for the nation’s ideals of democracy, peace, progress, justice and equality.
It’s significant to know the meaning of our National Flag, we will grow to understand how much hardship, country warriors fight for the flagpole and make it stands upright under the blue sky.
Personally, I favor our flag standing firmly on the ground, blowing in the wind and facing the storm fearlessly.
A National flag belongs to every nation and it is uphold by each individual hand in hand.
9) Husband and Liquor
Wife to drunk husband: From now on, if your lips touch liquor, you will never touch mine. What are you thinking?
Husband: Deciding: 18 year old scotch or 36 year old lips….
4) Shall we go for a stroll?
Extracted from a free download website from ‘imgur’, it’s been passing around widely since.
This is an article about a dog waiting for his feline friend at the same time, same spot daily without fail to go for a stroll together.
The source of the place is unknown, but according to “imgur’, they are friends without talking, isn’t it amazing?
3) Stairway to Heaven
A true story of 1950s happened in Chongqing, China. A 20-year old villager Liu Guojiang fell in love for a widow, Xu ZhaoQing who is 10years older than him. In order to avoid gossips from other villagers, they eloped to Jiangjin, a town 1500metres above sea level, deep in the woods, build a home of their own.
Liu Guojiang spent 50 years alone, chipping over 20 over chisels to carve 6000 over steps of stairway for his wife. This extra ordinary kind gesture of love is to facilitate his wife daily ascending and descending from their mountain habitat.
They live off their life in the forest by picking wild walnuts, dates and have a few vegetable farms. The couple raise 7 children with whatever they have and spent half a century living in the mountains.
In 2006, media make a shooting of the 6000 steps and couldn’t find a single moss on the stairway. They discovered that Liu Guojiang clean up the moss daily so that his wife will not slip and fall along the steps.
Unfortunately, in 2007, the 72-year old Liu Guojiang died of cerebrovascular disease. The sudden death left his wife, Xu Zhaoqing devastated and despondent. Due to her failing health, one of her son relocated her from the mountains. She remained forlorn and passed on few days ago at the age of 87.
Xu Zhaoqing left a note before her death that she wanted to be buried next to her beloved husband, as she wish to continue walking hand in hand with her husband on their Love Ladder in another world.
Well, I guess the loving couple wouldn’t mind though the Stairways in Heaven are now clogged with moss.
Friend (22) – Small vegetation / 朋友- 小植物
We often stop by the road, and notice small little plants piercing their way out from crack line or slit of wall.
The small vegetation can operate in a small corner of the sky, with a feeble body, in a harsh environment. The struggling spirit is respectable.
We feel this resilient power in countless people. As there is no overnight success, just like swaying from a bumpy sea, the myth of achievement often emerged from diligence and spirit of hard work.
While we look around in all places, we see people, especially the blue collar workers; day in, day out, they are able to work under harsh environment, at long hauls. This proves that the small plant is not diminutive at all, as it has an attitude that is bigger than life itself!
我们在路边,墙缝或台阶都时常看到那些从细缝里钻出来的小植物。
小植物能够在小角落经营自己的天空，用柔弱的身体在恶劣的环境中以柔制刚，打造出一番事业，这种精神令人可敬。
我们可以在无数的人身上感受这种力量，勤奋以及一步一脚印的打拼精神。他们不是一夜成名的神话，而是在颠簸飘摇的海上走出来。
举目环顾周围的小人物，尤其是蓝领工人，能在这么恶劣的环境里工作，不就印证小植物那令人敬佩的生活态度吗？
Friend (14) –Car Park Entrance Gate (Barriers) / 朋友（14）- 闸门
这个闸门在外人看来象个傻瓜似的,车来举臂，车走放下。工作毫无意义，毫无乐趣，在虚度人生。
In the eyes of others, this barrier looks like a fool, it jiggles its arm up and down whenever a vehicle comes up or goes down. Its job is no fun at all and to some is wasting life after-all.
这小人物坚守一份小工作, 任劳任怨, 做起事来不闻不问,不问付出,不求收获，一整天只会抬头点头，举臂放下。它的唯一工作就是听从指示，不可以有意见，不可以有投诉。
Still, this little guy stick to his insignifficant work. He is hard working, never ask for much, never ask for returns and is able to get things done in a different. Day in day out, he jiggles his head and waggle his arms. His only job is to follow directions. He doesn’t own his opinions or have his own grievances.
试问，除了它有谁做得到？
How can anyone do this, other than him?
答案是有的；就是那些没有感情的机器。举凡桌上的电脑，厨房的冰箱，24小时开放的手机还有那令人舒服的空调等等。它们就是那一群任劳任怨的傻瓜。
Certainly there is! These are machines without feelings. Whether it is a computer on the table, the kitchen refrigerator, our 24/7 mobile phone, the comfort providing air-conditioner and so on. Again, these are groups of hard working fools.
但有谁会跟这些傻瓜说声谢谢？那他岂不是也变成傻瓜？
However, who will thank these fools? Perhaps only fools will appreciate what these fools had done?
我们真的不需要跟它们说谢谢，唯一可做的是心里多一分感激，两分珍惜，三分欢喜，这样就行了。
Indeed we need not thank them for what they done, the things we can do is to show a little gratefulness, a little cherishing and a little delighting.
这样一来，当它们罢工时，你就会多一分包容，少一分埋怨，青春永驻。
By demonstrating, you feel more accommodating, less awful and that’s helpful way to stay youthful.
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