Needing Your Help!

The post below is taken from an email sent to me by a friend. This is no joke and I sincerely hope that every reader of this blog will offer his/her help one way or another. Thanks.

Dear Friends!
The girl you see is the two-year-old daughter of the physiotherapist Mr. Moe. He is working in the center for people with handicap, where Benedikt and I are volunteering.
The girl’s name is Pandora.
Mr. Moe is from Myanmar and works in Malaysia because here, he is able to earn a bit more money for his work.
Reason for that is that his daughter has Thalassaemia, what is a sickness of the blood. It means that less hemoglobin is produced and / or too much is being degraded.

For saving her life, a bone marrow transplant is absolutely necessary.
A surgery like that costs about 300.000 RM to 400.000 RM. This is a very high amount that no ordinary working man is able to pay. Mr. Moe will have to sell all his properties in Myanmar and even that will only be a small part of the financial effort.

Because of that, Benedikt and I have written to different organizations like
”MC Donald’s”, ”TDH”, “ ”Ein Herz Fuer Kinder”, “Myanmar Kinderhilfe DE” and many other. The only good response came from the German newspaper “BILD”, that is willing to give financial help as soon as one third of the whole cost for the surgery is arranged.

For donations in financial form, Benedikt and I have opened an account here in Malaysia. The account will be given to Mr. Moe as our voluntary work ends on august 17th 2009.

We are also looking forwards to information about organizations that we maybe have forgotten.

Name: Benedikt Bau & Alexander Maass
Accountnumber: 0918 – 0007239 – 525
SWIFT CODE: CIBBMYKL
Bank: CIMB Bank / Simpang Empat / Hutan Melintang / Malaysia

p/s: Sorry for not being able to post up a picture of the little girl said. For more information, please feel free to inquire me. Thanks!

Leaving Singlehood?

Love is in the air. Do you smell the chocolate and flower scent? Or rather, do you hear your wallet screaming in pain as more cash is being poured out? This Saturday is Valentine's Day. In other words, it's the time of the year again where couples around the world celebrate this special day of love. Hm, ever wondered the origin of Valentine's Day? Well, let me give you a brief introduction into this special occasion. =)

" Valentine's Day or Saint Valentine's Day is a holiday celebrated on February 14 by many people throughout the world. In the West, it is the traditional day on which lovers express their love for each other by sending Valentine's cards, presenting flowers, or offering confectionery. The holiday is named after two among the numerous Early Christian martyrs named Valentine. The day became associated with romantic love in the circle of Geoffrey Chaucer in the High Middle Ages, when the tradition of courtly love flourished. An alternative theory from Belarus states that the holiday originates from the story of Saint Valentine, who upon rejection by his mistress was so heartbroken that he took a knife to his chest and sent her his still-beating heart as a token of his undying love for her. Hence, heart-shaped cards are now sent as a tribute to his overwhelming passion and suffering."

There is actually more than 1 type of Valentine's Day available and I believe many, if not most of us would love and enjoy celebrating this year, or at least us whose hormones are still very much raging. Then, again, is all this really true love? Hm, how do we even define what true love is? There's a verse in the bible that writes "there's no greater love than one who's willing to lay down his life for another ". And somebody did exactly just this. Who's the guy? He's none other than Christ Jesus. 2009 years ago, he was sent to earth by our Father in heaven to die on the cross for our sins and to suffer for our wrongdoings. What other love can be compared to someone who's willing to die, for our sake and faults. I will leave that for you to think. I know for one, I wouldnt be able to do such task, or at least would choose to be like Peter, cheat my way out of troubles.

It's of course not wrong to get yourself a girlfriend but unless you are serious and ready to commit then it's really pointless to do so. Talk is cheap. I aint trying to judge anybody here but all the talks of undying love and certain people being your reason of living is really hypocritical unless you really mean it! I remembered Jit once said that the heart is just like a ping pong ball. When it's crushed, just putting it in hot water and it will return to its original shape. No doubt if we have been hurt in relationship, we could move on but the scar will always remain there. Like it or not, things will never be the same again.

I read of an interesting analogy before where before a guy got married, all his ex-girlfriends came up at him and he felt ashamed in front of his future wife because he had given a part of his heart away and it was not whole for her. How sad but this is the reality of today. If we start a relationship just as a try out or driven by emotions, we will be like going on the road with a gas tank half-filled. It will start out smoothly but it will die down halfway through. The results, hurt for both parties. Ouch! I am pretty sure some, if not most of you have such experience, or experiences ( which I hope not ) before.

So, being in love is more than just telling I Love You. It's to actually mean it. Being in love is more than just celebrating Valentine's Day together once a year but to make everyday as significant as Valentine's Day. Being in love is not finding the perfect guy/girl, it's to see perfection in the other party. Being in love means more than just being around each other everyday but to feel and know of one another's presence despite the fact you both are as far as two different ends of the world. Being in love means commiting your life to one another.

L.O.V.E means Loving One another V Everything? Haha. I came up with that. Lame, I know.

As for the title, I aint leaving singlehood..just yet. I don't know when my time will come but well, who's rushing? I know I always say about getting a girlfriend but before I learn to love God, my parents and people around me whole heartedly, I am not qualified to say I really love someone or to deserve the other person's love. Well, I take this opportunity to wish every couples HAPPY VALENTINE"S DAY and for those who are still single, let's enjoy every moment of it.

p/s: This post is not meant to condemn or judge anybody. Just a piece of the writer's mind. Any

events mentioned is purely coincidental.

Happy Chinese New Year & Happy Birthday!

Happy Chinese NIU Year to all of you. Today is also Human Day, the 7th day of Chinese New Year, which to the Chinese means everybody's birthday so there you go, Happy Birthday! I have been having some sort of writer's block earlier without anything in my mind to blog but well, not many people do read this blog anyway, right? Well, Chinese New Year this time round has been rather slow. To begin with, most of my relatives did not come back this year and we are not visiting them too. Then, both my sisters have only a two days break from work and university respectively. It was a quite time at home throughout this one week, with some visitations to brighten up the dull moment. Surprisingly ang paos this year were not very much affected by the economy crisis. Now who says everything is undergoing recession? Haha.

I am currently on a job hunt. Have to find something to do, learn and fill up my time I guess. Don't want to be regarded as an idler who is living off his parents. Haha. So, anybody who has any job offer, feel free to tell me. As long as I get paid, I am happy =)

I just got my memory card back so I will post some pictures of my mission trip and probably update a little about it soon. For now, I am tired both physically and emotionally. It's rather true when you walk closer with God, the devil certainly disturb you and people around you. Argh! Learning to walk closer with Him. I certainly need to sort out couple of things in my life and make it correct again.. hm..