This is "Kampong Senaling" taken in 2006. Has not changed since the 50s - gateway to Sri Menanti
'Kampong Senaling is approximately 5 kilometres from Kuala Pilah - on the Tampin trunk road'
" MAY PEACE BE UPON YOU "

24 July 2008

Thought 25JUL2008

LOVE LETTERS
When eight-year-old Andy Bremner needed hospital care to treat his cancer, get-well greetings poured in from school chums, cousins and neighbours. He Scotch-taped them on the walls and pasted them in scrapbooks. He read them over and over again. But when Andy left the Chicago hospital, the mail stopped. Day after day his mother, Linda, watched her little boy searched the mailbox for mail he could open, even fliers addressed to "occupant." It broke her heart. Suddenly she realized there were many things in Andy's life she couldn't control - radiation treatments, chemotherapy, his getting better. But there was one things she could control : the mail. From that moment on she started writing to him, carefully signing the letters, "Your secret pal."
Andy was thrilled to get these mysterious letters of support. One afternoon as he sat at the dinning-room table where he loved to draw pictures for his mom, he noticed her watching him and waiting. "No, Mom," he said softly. "This is different. This one isn't for you." He rolled the paper into a scroll and laid it on the table top. "It's for my secret pal." That night after she had tucked him in bed, Linda unrolled her little boy's picture. In a corner, Andy had left a message : "P.S.: Mom. I love you." The correspondence between Andy and his secret pal continued until he passed away (in 1984). Andy and his mom never spoke about their game.
While sorting through her son's closet after his death, Linda Bremner found an address book with the names of friends Andy had met at a summer camp for kids with cancer. That's when the idea hit her. She sent a note to each child and it wasn't long before she began receiving responses. "Thank you," wrote one youngster. "I didn't know anyone knew I was still alive." Over the next ten years Linda continued writing to kids with cancer and other illnesses. At the same time she established a volunteer organization called Love Letters, Inc. based in Lombard, Illinois. On a modest budget dependent on donations, the group mails over 7,000 cards and packages to children every month, as well as 1,100 Christmas toys and goodies. Numbers increase each year.
"We must keep mailing," Linda urges. "These children need to know they are not forgotten and we must send them all the love and encouragement we can." Then, with eyes misting, she adds, "I'll never leave one standing at the mailbox."
Kevin Lumsdon - extracted from 'a 5th portion of Chicken Soup for the Soul', Jack Canfield and Mark Victor Hansen, Health Communications, Inc., 1998
He that once deceives is ever suspected - Chinese Proverb

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Percussion Band (1964) - Kuala Pilah Padang

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Standard 4 (1966) - Tunku Munawir School, Kuala Pilah

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Standard 5 (1967) - Tunku Munawir School, Kuala Pilah

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Form 3 (1971) - Ampang Road Boys School, Kuala Lumpur

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THE WISE WAY - Parodoxical Commandments

  • People are often unreasonable, illogical and self-centred; Forgive them anyway
  • If you are kind, people may accuse you of selfish, ulterior motives; Be kind anyway.
  • If you are successful, you will win some false friends and true enemies; Succeed anyway.
  • If you are honest and frank, people may cheat you; Be honest and frank anyway.
  • What you spend years building, someone may destroy overnight; Build anyway.
  • If you find serenity and happiness, others may be jealous; Be happy anyway.
  • The good you do today, people may often forget tomorrow; Do good anyway.
  • Give the world the best you have, and it may never be enough; Give the world the best you got anyway.
  • You see, in the final analysis, it is all between you and GOD; It was never between you and them anyway.
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  • Written by Kent M Keith when he was 19, first published by the Harvard Student Agencies in 1968.