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Nowadays, most will agree that world depreciation rates are going faster and faster. Bad and weird people are everywhere. But is it us who tend to see negative thing instead of searching for positive things?

Optimists look for the light at the end of the tunnel. If you’ve always had a pessimistic worldview, it can be difficult to shift your focus, but it is possible to start seeing the glass as half full, not half empty.

In fact you may come to realise that glasses are in general all full - it’s just that gravity tends to attract the more dense liquid material towards the bottom.

Thaipusam (Tamil: தைபூசம்) 2012
Lord Murugan Temple, Batu Caves, Kuala Lumpur.

(C) 2012 MACR

The goal isn’t to live forever, the goal is to create something that will.

MACR
(C) 2012

Many of us familiar with chinese new year. However, do we realize that on 31 Jan 2012 there tons of fireworks all over Kuala Lumpur. Its all over the place and most of us wondering why.

Majority chinese celebrate Chinese New Year on the first day of the lunar calendar. But Hokkien Chinese choose to celebrate on the ninth day.

Hokkien community here in Kuala Lumpur or all over the world makes sure their presence and their traditions are remembered with raucous celebrations including pleasingly cheesy dance shows, a barrage of firecrackers, and city-wide fireworks displays.

This unique Hokkien tradition of celebrating on the ninth day goes back to a period in China when an enemy army was determined to wipe out the Hokkien people. As the army massacred the Hokkien, survivors took refuge in fields of sugarcane.

Divine intervention caused the army to leave ending the bloodshed. The Hokkien emerged from the sugarcane fields on the ninth day of the New Year, which coincided with the birthday of the Jade Emperor of Heaven (Thni Kong She).

For this reason, the Hokkien people celebrate on the ninth day and show their thanks to the Jade Emperor by making generous offerings.

Source taken from www.contemporarynomad.com

Now you know.

MACR
(C) 2012