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joelloi s blog joelloi s blog joelloi s blog skip navigation about creatives july 6 2009 8 29 am posted in two cents tagged beggar choice lazy leave a comment saw this comic strip just the other day and it totally reminded me of an incident back in my parents hometown sitiawan long live the foochows it was right after dinner when my dad decided to go to the supermarket and my grandfather decided to come along too so there we were three generations of the loi family heading to town right at the entrance of the supermarket was a beggar sitting by the side begging duh and guess what my grandfather did he scolded the beggar in front of everyone at the entrance of a supermarket not the kind of evening that i was expecting the conversation went kinda like this grandfather what are you doing sitting here begging you re not even as old as i am beggar grandfather you should be ashamed of yourself people at your age should be taking up proper jobs and making an honest living and here you are disgracing yourself you ve got hands and feet that are not even disabled or injured beggar grandfather stop being such a useless person and go get yourself a proper job the money yr scavenging from people is just a huge disgrace your mom did not give birth to a person raised to be a beggar at this point my dad and i gently pulled grandfather away from the little scene that he has created as funny and embarrassing as it may be my grandfather did bring out some truths there we all do have a choice and just like that comic strip in reflection to the real life incident i was in sometimes people read we are just plain lazy we re lazy to pick ourselves up after a fall put our feet down after making stands choose p s sorry for the long absence in the posts have been caught up with different things absolutes may 14 2009 6 36 am posted in uncategorized tagged absolutes christian living reflection leave a comment nope not talking about the beverage i ve actually been thinking of this word for awhile now and have made a fresh realization what it all means i m looking at my life right now and have observed the need more and more now than before to have absolutes moral absolutes emotional absolutes mental absolutes spiritual absolutes the list goes on and in the times that we re in both economical and political isn t it about time that people wake up mind you i m still learning and i m not there i ve made loads of mistakes and am ashamed by it but i ve learned to in my best ability put this word into practice more and more in my everyday living we ve been taught that okay is okay but it s not in fact i think that is totally ridiculous absolutes don t agree with okays or it s alright there s only a yes or a no and here we are facing a generation of people that are living lives that are simply okay and i ve been having conversations with different people and just hearing them talk about the way they re leading their lives is just sorry to say this disappointing they re getting more disillusioned and settling with just okay in the way they get into relationships handle stress study work lead their lives etc sorry to say this but okay is really not okay absolute s the new okay the thought april 15 2009 8 12 am posted in uncategorized leave a comment a friend sent me the link to that video just today and i thought that it was both nice to the ear and to the heart check it out and because of that video i went on a rampage checking out other youtube videos bad i know one particular video that i bumped into just really stayed on my mind it was a proposal in the middle of a basketball game the guy went down on his knees and the whole nine yards the girl rejected his proposal yikes also heard that a brother of mine didn t get his appeal accepted for the second time to come back to kl i think it s just absolutely mind boggling how when we re in dire need of doctors in our country yet we re still have the nerve to stop doctors from coming back are the people in power absolutely awake i pray so life s little joys april 10 2009 3 05 am posted in two cents leave a comment i find myself not having lots of free time lately either i m perpetually occupied with work or i m just not good in managing my time nonetheless the work doesn t magically disappear so work work work at least it keeps me on my toes i had the privilege to speak to about 100 students at sunway college recently about pursuing a career in design and advertising surprisingly i thoroughly enjoyed myself more than i anticipated truth be told i ve always had the thought of teaching lecturing tutoring lingering in my mind and i ve left it at that state lingering part of my talk was telling them why i pursued design advertising and it was a good eye opener of how far i ve come and how god has continuously opened doors in my favor never would i expect to come this far or even have opportunities to go into colleges to speak about designing it s just awesome and since i m on this self reflecting mode i realised that some things as subtle as it could be really makes my day seeing a despatch motorcycle rider with a nicholas sparks book seeing a taxi driver dash through the heavy rain to run into 7 11 get an ice cream dash back into his taxi just to enjoy it never realising how nice purple and orange go together till i saw the sunset looking at how cool clouds can be from the skies it s mind blowing seeing you happy life s definitely much richer when you start noticing the details such a shame if we miss out on it everyday god in blatant mode april 2 2009 4 40 pm posted in uncategorized leave a comment sometimes when there s no other way it just comes as blatant as possible last night i was at a 10pm to 12am prayer and i was led to a portion of scripture that i would ve read it at least at least once if not twice in my lifetime but when i read it again last night it just blew my mind 3 my voice you shall hear in the morning o lord in the morning i will direct it to you and i will look up psalm 5 3 and the bit that really threw me off was and i will look up maybe it s just me with the different thoughts and decisions that i m surrounded with but that one line really hit me the word will represents a choice a decision a point of consideration and the words look up basically means the direction that my eyes spiritually should be focusing on so to put all those thoughts on that verse down it basically said to me make a choice son look up cause anywhere else you re looking at is just cutting it short divinely blatant epiphany march 27 2009 3 22 am posted in two cents leave a comment i just realized recently like within the past week that i m not good with goodbyes i guess for the ones that know me well enough they d probably realized it by now cause when someone close to me friend family leaves i catch myself being too cool about the entire situation crack jokes that are un funny at the farewells behave as if the person s really not leaving definitely an addition to the fix it list fyi when you re away it hurts but i m just good at not showing it lose my soul march 6 2009 6 13 pm posted in faith two cents leave a comment what good will it be for a man if he gains the whole world yet forfeits loses his soul matt 16 26 incidentally a song written after that verse has been playing on my itunes lately and i was just reminded of this verse as simple as the verse may come it s probably one of the toughest decisions one would have to make think about it if you had an opportunity to gain everything you wanted in this world fame fortune females yeah i placed them in fs to let it go and let god would be hard your parents might think you re crazy your friends will probably leave you the world would make a mockery out of you but here s the thing we re not made to live the way the world tells us to in fact we re not even defined by the things of this world it is tough i know i count myself blessed to be able to enjoy small luxuries from time to time but if i were to compare the magnitude of what i can enjoy and achieve here on earth to what i can enjoy in my time off the earth i d pick heaven any day it ll be great it gravitee takes off and becomes a huge success it ll be cool to be famous and have people knowing about you it ll be fantastic to have all of our heart s content but if that compromises in me losing my faith i d rather not have it many years ago i saw an interview of ray romano in one of the late shows this was when his show everybody loves raymond became a hit sitcom and it reached a point in the interview where the host asked him what keeps him steady with all the fame and fortune going his way ray romano told the host that after he won his emmy and gained his fortunes it was at one of the family gatherings that his brother came up to him smiled hugged him and gave him a note he read the note out in the show but the only lines i remembered was ray i m really proud you remember that it doesn t profit a man to gain the whole world and lose his soul i believe as much as struggles are a testing to man so is success may we find god not only in our failures but also our successes not lose our soul despite the things that are thrown at us both good and bad at least that s my prayer quick bit february 4 2009 4 59 am posted in uncategorized leave a comment my house compound got broke into on sunday night the thief took 7 pairs of shoes and 3 of em were mine sigh i guess he she had one nice gong xi fa cai xin nian kuai le february 2 2009 3 58 pm posted in uncategorized tagged chinese new year sitiawan leave a comment that s happy chinese new year in mandarin yup it s not always about oranges only this time it was a pretty short cny break not that i m complaining but maybe another night s stay would be a bonus anyways i aimed at taking as many pictures as possibly so that this would be the most visually documented chinese new year for me i tried the thing is you can t really take lots of pictures when you re in charge of driving the whole way back i like driving so just try picturing a boot full of luggage new year cookies baked by my sis awesome boxes of dialysis solution dad s and shoes traffic was bumper to bumper and we had to get into the coastal road halfway which was really cool cause it s definitely more scenic than the plus highway first stop bak kut teh lunch with old friends aunty tan and dad next stop sitiawan again i was driving so my sis was the one happily snapping pics away the journey was scenic rice padi fields kampungs and a clear view of the horizon i remembered that an uncle of mine brought me to one of these padi fields for eel fishing an experience it was 45 minutes later we hit swiss garden damai laut nice resort probably the best choice in sitiawan town here s the view from the room the next 3 days were just filled reunions good food red packets firecrackers warm conversations and late supper laughs at grandpa s house ah gung s pad i guess with all the comfort of city life you really miss how simple life can be everything s around the corner kedai runcit kedai ubat kedai kopi everyone knows one another and i mean everyone joyous occasions are celebrated and tough times are faced as a family most of all i ll miss hearing rubber seeds landing on roof after being launched from the tree being woken up by the chickens at 5am walking opposite for a plate of kanpua noodles for only rm1 50 this one is about rm2 20 and it s near the main town market sitting at the side of the house and just looking at the many faces waiting at the only bus stop of the village to town having to hold my nose everytime i passed by the rubber sheet processing house 5 doors away playing firecrackers awesome riding motorcycle around the kampung without helmet or license sssshhhhh and most of all this chinese new year i miss my grandma i missed having her call me to the dining table for my mee suah she still makes the best ones hearing her sing as she laze in the living room during the afternoon seeing her put weird white powder on her face and of course i miss talking to her may the coming chinese new years help us remember the simple joys of life fragility of lives and the friend that holds it all together dear mr president no january 22 2009 11 17 am posted in uncategorized tagged change joel obama leave a comment what did i get the wrong picture ooops a change we all can believe in older posts pages about creatives flickr photos more photos twitter updates tweets by joelloi search blogroll ellie chua eunice pui vinod laxmikanth rss feeds all posts all comments meta create account log in blog at wordpress com subscribe subscribed joelloi s blog sign me up already have a wordpress com account log in now privacy joelloi s blog subscribe subscribed sign up log in report this content view site in reader manage subscriptions collapse this bar loading comments write a comment email required name required website design a site like this with wordpress com get started