Showing posts with label Celebration. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Celebration. Show all posts

Mar 9, 2011

Ash Wednesday

Today is Ash Wednesday. Ash Wednesday marks the beginning of Season of Lent.

Today Gospel 
Mt 6:1-6, 16-18

We begin a new liturgical time-the season of Lent. The readings tell us to live faithfully and propose three attitudes or practices that will help us in our spiritual journey: fasting, prayer, and compassion to one another. All of these must come from the depth of our hearts because God sees what is secret and he will reward us accordingly. 



Feb 14, 2011

Valentine's Day @ Hari Valentine

Hari Santo ValentineHari Valentine atau Hari Memperingati Kekasih ialah satu hari santo yang memperingati Santo Valentinepada 14 Februari sebagai hari tradisi yang mana para kekasih meluahkan rasa cinta sesama sendiri; menghantar kad Valentine, menderma atau menghadiahkan gula-gula. Adalah satu kebiasaan juga untuk menghadiahkan bunga pada Hari Valentine. Perayaan ini dinamakan sempena dua orang lelaki, kedua-duanya syahid Kristian Awal yang berkongsi nama Valentine. Perayaan ini kini dikaitkan dengan asmara dalam lingkungan pengaruh Geoffrey Chaucer pada Zaman Pertengahan Tinggi, apabila mekarnya tradisi cinta asmara.
Hari istimewa ini paling rapat dikaitkan dengan pertukaran surat cinta dalam bentuk "valentine." Lambang-lambang Valentine moden termasuk garis berbentuk hati dan potret Cupid bersayap. Sejak abad ke-19, surat-surat bertulus telah banyak memberi laluan kepadakad ucapan keluaran besar-besaran.[1] Perdagangan Hari Valentine pertengahan abad ke-19 merupakan petanda akan datangnya pengkomersialan perayaan di Amerika Syarikat.[2] Persatuan kad Ucapan A.S. menganggarkan bahawa kira-kira sebilion kad Valentine dikirim di merata dunia setiap tahun, menjadikan Hari Valentine perayaan yang kedua paling banyak pengiriman kad mengekori Krismas. Persautan ini menganggarkan bahawa kira-kira 85% semua kad Valentine dibeli oleh kaum wanita.[3] 
Dipetik daripada  ~ Wikipedia



Hari Valentine ini sebenarnya tidak diwajibkan pun untuk diraikan oleh orang ramai, tapi ramai juga yang sibuk dan teruja meraikannya apalagi kepada pasangan-pasangan kekasih. Bagi saya sambutan Hari Valentine ini tidak semestinya diraikan oleh pasangan kekasih sahaja tetapi hari ini juga boleh diraikan dengan keluarga di mana kita menunjukkan cinta dan sayang kita terhadap mereka. Kita juga boleh meraikannya dengan rakan dan sahabat handai untuk menunjukkan kita mengambil berat tentang mereka. 
Tapi mesti ada yang tertanya-tanya kan, kenapa mesti kita menunjukkan kasih sayang dan mengambil berat pada orang yang kita sayang pada Hari Valentine, hari-hari lain tidak boleh kah? Boleh, sudah tentunya boleh. Tiada siapa pun yang melarang kita untuk tunjukkan betapa kita cinta, sayang dan mengambil berat terhadap orang yang kita sayang. Tapi adakah kita menunjukkannya setiap hari, pasti tidak kan. Mungkin kita kadang-kadang leka melakukan kerja-kerja seharian kita sampai lupa pada mereka yang sentiasa mengingati kita. Mungkin juga masa kita sibuk dengan tugasan-tugasan penting hingga kita leka seseorang sedang menantikan pesanan mahupun ucapan daripada kita.
Jadi, itulah saya katakan Hari Valentine ini boleh kita gunakan untuk menunjukkan betapa kita menyayangi pasangan, keluarga, sahabat handai, dan rakan-rakan kita yang telah lama tidak berjumpa. Bagi saya, tidak semestinya hari ini disambut tapi hari ini merupakan hari seperti tarikh kelahiran kita, tarikh ulang tahun perkahwinan, mahupun tarikh penting yang kita boleh gunakan untuk mengingati orang yang kita sayangi.


Happy Valentine’s Day

1 Corinthians 13: 4-7
4 Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. 5 It does not dishonor others, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. 6 Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. 7 It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres.


Feb 2, 2011

Balik Kampung!!!

Yeay!!! I'll going back to mumy kampung for Chinese New Year celebration today. So, will only working half day today. Tdak tau la kenapa my feeling so excited. Hopefully spending a few days there will be very enjoy and fun. 


Hurm... can i still get this... please... (muka kesian) huhu...

p/s: teringat pula masa time kecik2 dlu, always balik kampung 2 days before CNY with mom n help ama n akong prepare food for chinese prayer(1 day before CNY) and bakar all the duit kertas untuk orang mati. Really missed the moment :) 

Jan 31, 2011

Happy Chinese New Year (恭喜发财)

Nah, Chinese New Year is round the corner so everybody should be so happy cause it's HOLIDAY!!!

So I just wanna wish everybody out there 恭喜发财 (Gong Xi Fa Cai). One more thing that I really happy with this coming Chinese New Year is because it is the year of Rabbit, and it's my Chinese horoscope year. YEAY!!! 


So for this Chinese New Year, wish all of you (including me) have a good health. More "ong" huhu... which is more luck actually. Ok. Chiao..

Nov 29, 2010

Advent Week..

Preparation for Christmas is an important theme for Advent, but more is involved. Advent gives us a vision of our lives as Christians and shows us the possibilities of life. The vision of life that Advent gives us is twofold; it looks back to the first coming of Christ at Bethlehem, and it looks to the future when Christ will come again. In the interval between these two events we find meaning for our life as a Christian. First we celebrate Christ-become-human. We view his life and experience his presence as a human being in our history. Christ came to show us what life can and should be. He gave us true and valid principles by which we can live true and valid lives. But Jesus knew that the human heart could not live in isolation. He formed the Church around the concept of a people held together by love. In that community we discover unlimited possibilities and meaning. Alone we can do nothing. Together we find real meaning.

When Christ left this earth, he did not abandon us. He remains with us in his Spirit, the Church, the sacraments, the Scriptures and each other. He lives in community with us and keeps his vision of life before us.

When Christ comes again, his presence will no longer be hidden behind the signs and symbols of the liturgy or the words of the Scriptures. His presence among us will be revealed in all its fullness, a presence that will never end, a presence that will perfect and complete our community.

This is the "greater significance" of Advent. In these few short weeks we take in the sweeping panorama of time - from Christ's birth to his Second Coming. The season of Advent brings us the magnificent vision of life and hope for the future given to us by Christ.

Advent is our time to become more involved, more caught up in the meaning and the possibilities of life as a Christian community. Thus we are preparing not only for Christmas but also for Christ's Second Coming. This means that when he comes again, we will be awake and watchful. He will not find us asleep.



Nov 25, 2010

Happy Birthday My Love...

Saya tau memang sdah terlambat untuk bagi wish kpada someone special to me. So saya cma mau berkongsi sedikit cerita & mau promote blog someone yang tlah membantu saya.

His birthday is actually fall on 16th Nov, disebabkan kami ni berjauhan and saya tetap juga mau sambut birthday dia wlaupun sbenarnya tidak dapat. So, saya planning to give him something special. He got mention to me that he would like to have a picture of both of us being frame, but he still didn't have the time to do it. So, saya gunakan idea itu sebagai surprise birthday present untuk dia.

Dalam masa yang sama, secara kebetulan slepas saya baca blog Kath, dan ternampak photo frame for her birthday present. So, i decided to ask the same person yang buatkan photo frame Kath to do it for me. So thanks to Kath for sharing your photo and the link.

So saya carilah tuan punya blog iHaveADream Creations untuk tlong saya buat tu give. After a few email of sample picture edited by Nc, the owner of iHaveADream Creations akhirnya jadilah sekeping gambar yang sangat-sangat cantik dan menarik. Thanks Nc. Nc also help me untuk bungkuskan dengan sangat2 baik and help me to post it to him. So thanks once again Nc. Credit to Nc. "two tumbs up" 

So here I share the photo edited yang masih belum diframekan. I only have this, saya sendiri belum tengok lagi tu photo frame but i trust Nc, and he also said the frame is really2 nice & sweet. 
Picture edited by iHaveADream Creations
Picture of him with the frame. (His surprise birthday present)
So kepada siapa2 yang berminat boleh lah pergi ke blog iHaveADream Creations. U all also can see all her wall inspirations and frame. 


From Labuan to Sarawak with LoVe: Amellia & Ruddy - Post By Nc


Nov 5, 2010

Happy Diwali

http://www.deepavali.net/


Deepavali (also: Depawali, Dipavali, Dewali, Diwali, Divali, Dipotsavi, Dipapratipad ) marks the beginning of the Hindu New Year according to the Lunar Calendar. It literally translated means 'Row of Lights' (from Sanskrit: dipa = lamp / awali = row, line). It celebrates the victory of goodness over evil, light over darkness, and ushers in the new year. 


Happy Deepavali to all...