A message from La Salle Br Anthony Rogers:
Before you forget 2024, recall just three of your most beautiful and joyful memories and try in 2025 to make it SIX.
A happier you is a better Malaysia and more loving world. Your self-care, a kind word, an act of caring and openness to others outside our walls are the bridges to change strangers into God’s friends.
Twenty-five years in the 21st Century can start a smart world with a heart.
Only you, only you can change the world because only God-in-you and God-with-you has the power to make a difference to the lives of others.
Death does not put an end to your life but strangely puts ‘heaven’ in people’s minds and hearts. You don’t go to heaven, you leave behind heaven for them. Some people go to Hell by creating Hell on Earth with no time to live in Love and grow with Joy.
Have a beautiful 2025 and 365 days of self-made memories of loving yourself as YOU ARE!
Some of us believe today that God did not make humanity… God only made Human Beings like you and me and we sculpture humanity.
Strangely, we pray to God to end wars and famines but continue to deform infants and youth in our formative nurseries of family, schools and media.
If adults are comfortable in the “human ecology” we have created, we are totally unaware of the toxic elements that pollute the very sources of our common inner life of passion for God and compassion for fellow human persons, both male and female.
2025 is a year of Hope in the one God of the Universe and the human being and Creation. Unity with God is manifested in our unity as Humanity.
Allow the young in the high-tech world of “mega-digitalisation” to rediscover the joy of high-touch human relationships. The world they build today is the legacy they will give their children.
The year of Hope is the beginning of an era of children and young people.
P.S. For many, God may be the Divine, the Sacred, the Transcendental, etc.
But for the digital millennials, God’s name is not as important as God’s will. They are looking for Truth, often swept under the carpet by political and even religious leaders.
So walk with the young to evoke Truth and extricate the lies and misinformation.
Blessings for 2025
Br Anthony Rogers, Penang
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Don’t just hope, do something.
For start, reduce your carbon footprint, don’t waste food and water.
Your advice applies to little people. The big guns in industry and investment produce and consume increasingly more every year. Governments set up or attend many international conferences and summits, purportedly for the benefit of the masses. Hypocrisy rules.
Dooms Dooms Dooms
World in crisis, raging fire and freezing ice, havoc’s of extreme weather.
Do your part to heed advice, and at same time start realising your bucket to do checklist.
Donate your excesses to needy, and at same indulge n enjoy simple elegance eg Sizzling Mookata with bubble tea or chilling coffee before we ascend to Heaven or descent to Hell.
Are you part of the Big Guns?
Focus on your circle of influence and worry not about others. Do what we can however small our contribution might be. No point talking and complaining about hypocrisy.
… A billionaire couple (Big Gun?) who own around 60% of an important California water resource, have come under intense criticism for using more water than every home in Los Angeles combined, with critics arguing that their actions may be hindering efforts to contain the city’s ongoing wildfires.
California tried to save smelt fish thus no water diverted for fire fighting purpose. Sometimes environmentalists caused more harm with their cause.
Water in California is an old issue. There are much worse things in the Greatest Democracy. The purpose of bringing such news to you is to distract you from the hypocrisy, injustice and plunder right before your eyes and around you.
Hope you can clarify “hypocrisy, injustice and plunder” with specific incidents, to avoid any ambiguity. It is a way to educate readers like me.
A happier Malaysia is when the opposition parties are not continuously harassing the present Madani government with baseless accusations.
Sarawak Premier Tan Sri Abang Johari repeated his call to let Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim complete his five-year term as prime minister.
The Gabungan Parti Sarawak (GPS) chairman noted there were certain quarters that were too pre-occupied with talking about replacing Anwar as the prime minister in the media.
https://www.nst.com.my/amp/news/nation/2025/01/1156753/abang-jo-repeats-call-let-anwar-finish-his-term
Actually, you are making a baseless statement because it lacks specific examples to support the claim that opposition parties are making baseless accusations against the Unity government.
You should inform our Rakyat about the specific baseless accusations made by which opposition parties.
Claims of “threats to Islam” are often weaponised by opposition parties to polarise communities, divert attention from substantive issues, and undermine moderate voices of Madani government.
This divisive rhetoric threatens national unity, exploits religious sensitivities, and stifles progress.
Kuala Lumpur police chief Comm Datuk Rusdi Mohd Isa on Wednesday (Jan 8) said a total of 182 police reports have been lodged against the Youth and Sports Minister, Hannah Yeoh, in connection with her book “Becoming Hannah: A Personal Journey” – a threat to Islam?
https://tinyurl.com/2293sh83
Baseless accusations are racial and religious in nature. We all know about it but cannot point them out specifically because we will perpetuate their wild allegations in the name of ketuanan.
‘Semua Salah DAP’? Loke raps Hadi for linking party to Najib’s house arrest addendum, says Cabinet uninvolved with Pardons Board
https://www.malaymail.com/news/malaysia/2025/01/07/semua-salah-dap-loke-raps-hadi-for-linking-party-to-najibs-house-arrest-addendum-says-cabinet-uninvolved-with-pardons-board/162374
The fact that PAS stood up vocally for convicted criminal Najib Razak shows that PAS is supportive of UMNO and corruption. To PAS, money comes first before religion. PAS supporters need to re-evaluate how they will vote for GE16 because a vote for PAS is akin to a vote for UMNO.
When it comes to Najib’s pardon, house arrest and the GISB scandal, Akmal is silent as a mouse. His main concern is socks and ham sandwich, as if this is the biggest problem in Malaysia.
Praying alone will not help.
We must make the change with action plan.
Today we can contribute to the world by less wastage in resources and food.
Learn to adopt public transportation, take train to other cities and town.
Avoid single use plastics.
A song to cheer you up.
Good Feeling (Lyrics)
https://youtube.com/watch?v=-HgsPEp2E_g
Flo Rida’s song “Good Feeling” is a feel-good celebration of living life to the fullest and being at the top of the world. The song’s message is “it’s good to be the king”.
The unending drama of high profile political court cases are wasting our resources as people are wasting their productive time being drawn to the controversies. Bottom line is our nation cannot advance productively and foreign investors are discouraged from putting their money here!
Wee Kar Siong should also questioned why MCA owed MPH once operated a coperative scheme to collect deposits from the chinese community and finally folded up with only 60% return of the depositors capital. That is 40% reduction of capital not to mentioned the loss of dividends
Using Technological Innovations to Change for Better. Sustainable food source to feed all minus the food cartels long existed in Bolehland.
https://www.facebook.com/share/v/1GAZwDWd6s/
Learn from Sepupu, abang adik di Tanah Besar for Tanah Melayu to prosper.
Pew Research revealed 58% of Malaysians think their children will be financially worse off in the future, reflecting broader pessimism in the Asia-Pacific region.
70% of Malaysians said the gap between the rich and poor is a big problem in the country.
38% of Malaysians said that the Malaysian economic system needs a complete reform, while 48% called for major changes.
https://www.malaymail.com/news/malaysia/2025/01/11/study-malaysians-blame-political-influence-of-the-rich-on-countrys-economic-inequality-six-in-10-think-their-kids-will-be-financially-worse-off/162739
If you want reform then there should be no place for PN-PAS and Umno. Too much emphasis on religious reform but little effort to boost economy with higher productivity (do more with higher wage increase).
Sadly the statistics show that 62% want the status quo of subsidies and no inclination towards economic reform.
I could change the world
I would be the sunlight in your universe
You would think my love was really something good
Baby if I could change the world
Baby if I could change the world
Baby if I could change the world
Clapton’s Tears in Heaven?
You walked into the room
I just had to laugh
The face you wore was cool
You were a photograph
When it’s all too late
It’s all too late
I did not have the time
I did not have the nerve
To ask you how you feel
Is this what you deserve?
When it’s all too late
It’s all too late
Change
You can change
Change
You can change
And something on your mind
Became a point of view
I lost your honesty
You lost the life in you….
Tears for Fear’s Change
https://youtu.be/oAwdIONLaEE?si=CvP6UdfAcA39BZ4x
Most people have high resistance to change. They are happy to live in the comfort zone. Therefore any subsidy removal will annoy them. But the country cannot move forward to new challenges if the people is still living and operating in the old era mentality.
Happy Lunar New Year.
Heng! Ong! Huat!
More wealth for everyone!
Chinese politics has to evolved especially DAP. The confrontational style of old DAP under LGE is no longer effective. Malay politics has dominated and suppressed all minorities right of voice. Anthony loke style of quiet influence is less disruptive. Politics is Malaysia are driven by malay narratives. Until the day malay politicians starts to wake up, there is basically nothing much dap or mca or gerakan can do. The country slides until pain causes malay politics to accept reality of our madness, then maybe we all can come in to rebuild this fractured nation…maybe.
” Hundreds to wed as Thai same-sex marriage law comes into force ”
by AFP dd 23 Jan 2025, 09:52 AM
https://www.freemalaysiatoday.com/category/world/2025/01/23/hundreds-to-wed-as-thai-same-sex-marriage-law-comes-into-force/
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If marriage were solely for the purpose of procreation, I am sure that same-sex marriage would not be sanctioned by the Almighty.
So, can this be considered a sinful act?
These individuals in same-sex relationships have found a … loophole to circumvent this belief.