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Last summer a group of people with a common commitment to empowering
and inspiring others got together to make a movie. Many are experts in
the field of personal and social transformation. Some were like-minded
investors. Others were everyday people, simply wanting to contribute.

All were moved by films like "The Secret," and "What the Bleep" — but
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abundance and creating a world that works for everyone. So, they pooled
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Central to our message is sharing inspiration and wisdom to raise the
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While the title may be "tongue in cheek," the message is profoundly
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including Steve Peifer, CNN’s 2007 Hero Award winner.

Screenings happened around the world within the first few weeks of
release, through a grassroots effort. The film has now been translated
into several languages and distributed internationally. And it
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few weeks — through a "say-it-forward" online initiative we’re calling
THE POWER OF TEN.

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Nov 27, ‘07 7:13 AM
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Answering a call for help from the Selangor Philharmoic Choir (an
organisation I used to sing with), I have joined the group perfoming a
program called "CircleSong".

Attended my first rehearsal Monday
this week and my 2nd one on Thursday. There are only a handful of
rehearsals left before performances commence. Apparently rehearsals
began in July and people have been dropping out of the circle, so to
speak, bit by bit.

There will be free mini performances at The Annex, Central Market at 12 noon on the 20th and 22nd of this month.

Performance proper happens at 8:30pm  Monday 1st October and Tuesday 2nd October at The Actors Studio Bangsar Shopping Centre.

Anyone
interested in joining CircleSong as a performer come to KLPAC (KL
Performing Arts Centre) this coming Monday 10th Sept at 8pm for
rehearsals.

Link  <– See this

This
is not the first time I’ve heard that I look like Malaysian
singer/artist Phing Guan. I don’t even know who Phing Guan is!!! LOL

Lately
people have also been telling me how great I look in the latest Maxis
ads/posters. For the record I do not know what this is about. I never
attended any Maxis photo shoot and I didn’t give them any of my photos.

Questions, questions questions!

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Found answers?

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Spent nearly the entire day at the national library.

It has been ages since I was there.

I’ve lost my library card but I read online that I can get a
replacement for RM5.00. So I went there, filled up a form, paid my
RM5.00. And then waited for my form. The guy at the counter stares at
me as I keep waiting. So I ask him when I can expect to get my new
library card. He says there is no need. All I need to do is to show my
MyKad (national identity card) when I want to borrow anything. I
reported a lost card and paid RM5.00 for nothing! GRRRRRR!

There were two very helpful ladies who told me where I could find the
books I was looking for and helped me to fill in the forms for books
that were in special private collections.

So far I have gone through:

1) The Making of Modern South-East Asia, by Desmond J.M Tate, Published 1979 by Oxford Univ Press

2) A History of the Penisular Malays, with Chapters on Perak &
Selangor By Richard James Wilkinson, Published 1920 by Kelly & Walsh

3) The Protected Malay States, 1874-1895 By Sadka, Emily Published 1968 by University of Malaya Press

4) British Intervention in Malaya, 1867-1877 By Cyril Northcote Parkinson Published 1960 by University of Malaya Press

5) Papers on Malay Subjects By Richard James Wilkinson, Compiled by
Peter L. Burns, Contributor Peter Laurie Burns, Published 1971 by
Oxford University Press (Incorporates minutes of Perak Council Meetings)

Still many more books to go through.

This is so exciting!

Had a wonderful experience this weekend.

Janet
Lee of 95% Training (Ninety Five Percent Sdn Bhd) invited me to serve
as Panelist for a training program for young professionals.

My
fellow panelists were newly arrived M. D. of Ogilvy & Mather, Bill
Ang and Lilian Tan, my ex-colleague from Saatchi & Saatchi days and
now the founder, chair and CEO for Cricket Communications.

I
arrived at Awana on Saturday (24/Mar/07) evening and checked into a
luxurious suite. There was a briefing with Janet at about 6.30pm. She
gave us an idea of what to expect. After a short while participants
filed into the room and sat down in one of four clusters of chairs.
Each panelists sat with a group for 15 minutes, moving from one group
to another to answer questions.

At dinner where participants had
another opporunity to ply panelists with questions. Bill, Lilian, Janet
and I were seated at different tables. I discovered I had inherited a
rather quiet, shy and reserved bunch of people but that’s okay. I’m
used to asking questions anyway.

Woke at 6am as is my usual
habit. Showered, shaved and was down to breakfast at 7am. Major
mistake! EVERYTHING was cold! Hahaha. I suppose by 7.30 they would have
warmed up the food properly. Anyway. Had my breakfast and a couple of
coffees then went out to sit on a bench at the main entrance, read my
morning paper and enjoy a coffin nail.

The doors shut at 9am.
I was in the room at 8.50am. We couldn’t begin. Not everyone had turned
up. Another 5 minutes and the presentations began.The participants who
had separated themselves into four groups had each been asked to decide
a cause to champion and then sell that cause, complete with a
communications proposal, to the panelists sitting in judgement. Our job
as panelists was to listen, ask questions, evaluate and provide
feedback.

There were four lovely ideas and the people were so
passionate about the causes they had chosen to champion that it showed
on their faces, through their words and in the work they presented. I
felt younger than I have felt in a long long time being surrounded by
that bubbling cauldron of youthful energy. One presenter almost had me
in tears.

I may never meet any of them again, all those
wonderful participants, but I owe them a great debt. They reminded me
what it was like for me all those many years ago to be passionate yet
unsure and struggling. And I learnt once again how important it is not
to have any fixed notions about people or the world for things, places,
people and situations are all unique and by not asking, we cease to
gain understanding. To them I offer my thanks.

I’ve
been reading a lot about what went on in those days. Many of the posts
I see today grumble about the outcome. Specifically they grumble about
the signing of the treaty. How would things turn out different if the
treaty was not signed.

It was a country in turmoil. There
appeared to be three main threats to future peace and stability: Siam’s
desire to annex Kedah, Perak etc., the ongoing costly (in money and
lives) war between the Ghee Hin and Hai San and regicide and the
struggle for the Perak throne.

In an act of desperation the
Raja Muda Abdullah (later Sultan Abdullah) aided by Tan Kim Ching of
Singapore, appealed to the British, who were minding their own business
in their Straits Settlements of Penang, Malacca and Singapore.

He
asked the British to give him someone to help him govern the place
better. No one wants to throw good money after bad and I do not think
the British would want to do that either.

Anyway the British
bent their influence to getting agreement of the Malay leaders as to
the rulership of Perak and got the agreement of the leaders of the
warring Ghee Hin and Hai San to cease and desist.

Peace came
again. The British now being formally involved in the State could tell
Siam to "back off" whenever it set it’s roving eye on Perak. And as the
resident system spread to other Malay states the British could do the
same when that eye roved over those as well.

But let’s say that
Perak bit the bullet so to speak. If the treaty had not been signed
what would have happened? Would the Ghee Hin and Hai San have
eventually killed each other and the rest of the Chinese off? Would
Malaysia be a province of Thailand? And what would the financial
implications be?

Isn’t it marvelous what "hind sight" can do for us?

YOU MIGHT FIND THESE ITEMS INTERESTING

The next time you are
washing your hands and complain because the water temperature isn’t
just how you like it, think about how things used to be.

Here are some facts about life in the 1500’s:

Most
people got married in June because they took their yearly bath in May
and still smelled pretty good by June. However, they were starting to
smell, so brides carried a bouquet of flowers to hide the body odor.
Hence the custom today of carrying a bouquet when getting married.

Baths
consisted of a big tub filled with hot water. The man of the house had
the privilege of the nice clean water, then all the other sons and men,
then the women and finally the children. Last of all the babies. By
then the water was s o dirt y you could actually lose someone in it.
Hence the saying, "Don’t throw the baby out with the bath water."

Houses
had thatched roofs-thick straw-piled high, with no wood underneath. It
was the only place for animals to get warm, so all the cats and other
small animals (mice, bugs) lived in the roof. When it rained it became
slippery and sometimes the animals would slip and off the roof. Hence
the saying "It’s raining cats and dogs."

There was nothing to
stop things from falling into the house. This posed a real problem in
the bedroom where bugs and other droppings could mess up your nice
clean bed. Hence, a bed with big posts and a sheet hung over the top
afforded some protection. That’s how canopy beds came into existence.

The floor was dirt. Only the wealthy had something other than dirt. Hence the saying "dirt poor."

The
wealthy had slate floors that would get slippery in the winter when
wet, so they spread thresh (straw) on floor to help keep their footing.
As the winter wore on, they added more thresh until when you opened the
door it would all start slipping outside. A piece of wood was placed in
the entranceway. Hence the saying a "thresh hold."

(Getting quite an education, aren’t you?)

In
those old days, they cooked in the kitchen with a big kettle that
always hung over the fire. Every day they lit the fire and added things
to the pot. They ate mostly vegetables and did not get much meat. They
would eat the stew for dinner, leaving leftovers in the pot to get cold
overnight and then start over the next day. Sometimes stew had food in
it that had been there or quite a while. Hence the rhyme, "Peas
porridge hot, peas porridge cold, peas porridge in the pot nine days
old."

Sometimes they could obtain pork, which made them feel
quite special. When visitors came over, they would hang up their bacon
to show off It was a sign of wealth that a man could "bring home the
bacon."

They would cut off a little to share are with guests and would all sit around and "chew the fat."

Those
with money had plates made of pewter. Food with high acid content
caused some of the lead to leach onto the food, causing lead poisoning
death.. This happened most often with tomatoes, so for the next 400
years or so, tomatoes were considered poisonous.

Bread was
divided according to status. Workers got the burnt bottom of the loaf,
the family got the middle, and guests got the top, or "upper crust."

Lead
cups were used to drink ale or whisky. The combination would sometimes
knock the imbibers out for a couple of days. Someone walking along the
road would take them for dead and prepare them for burial. They were
laid out on the kitchen table for a couple of days and the family would
gather around and eat and drink and wait and see if they would wake up.
Hence the custom of holding a "wake."

England is old and small
and the local folks started running out of places to bury people. So
they would dig up coffins and would take the bones to a bone-house" and
reuse the grave. When re-opening these coffins, 1 out of 25 coffins
were found to have scratch marks on the inside and they realized they
had been burying people alive. So they would tie a string on the wrist
of the corpse, lead it through the coffin and up through the ground and
tie it to a bell. Someone would have to sit out in the graveyard all
night (the"graveyard shift") to listen for the bell; thus, someone
could be "saved by the bell" or was considered a "dead ringer."

And that’s the truth … Now, whoever said that History was boring?

Educate someone … Share these facts with a friend.