A good one... have a go...

An Atheist Professor of Philosophy was speaking to his Class on the Problem Science has with GOD, the ALMIGHTY. He asked one of his New Christian Students to stand and . . .

Professor : You are a Christian, aren't you, son ?
Student : Yes, sir.
Professor : So, you Believe in GOD ?
Student : Absolutely, sir.
Professor : Is GOD Good ?
Student : Sure.
Professor : Is GOD ALL - POWERFUL ?
Student : Yes.
Professor : My Brother died of Cancer even though he Prayed to GOD to Heal him. Most of us would attempt to help others who are ill. But GOD didn't. How is this GOD good then? Hmm?

(Student was silent )

Professor : You can't answer, can you ? Let's start again, Young Fella. Is GOD Good?
Student : Yes.
Professor : Is Satan good ?
Student : No.
Professor : Where does Satan come from ?
Student : From . . . GOD . . .
Professor : That's right. Tell me son, is there evil in this World?
Student : Yes.
Professor : Evil is everywhere, isn't it ? And GOD did make everything. Correct?
Student : Yes.
Professor : So who created evil ?

(Student did not answer)

Professor : Is there Sickness? Immorality? Hatred? Ugliness? All these terrible things exist in the World, don't they?
Student : Yes, sir.
Professor : So, who Created them ?

(Student had no answer)

Professor : Science says you have 5 Senses you use to Identify and Observe the World around you. Tell me, son . . . Have you ever Seen GOD?
Student : No, sir.
Professor : Tell us if you have ever Heard your GOD?
Student : No , sir.
Professor : Have you ever Felt your GOD, Tasted your GOD, Smelt your GOD? Have you ever had any Sensory Perception of GOD for that matter?
Student : No, sir. I'm afraid I haven't.
Professor : Yet you still Believe in HIM?
Student : Yes.
Professor : According to Empirical, Testable, Demonstrable Protocol, Science says your GOD doesn't exist. What do you say to that, son?
Student : Nothing. I only have my Faith.
Professor : Yes,Faith. And that is the Problem Science has.
Student : Professor, is there such a thing as Heat?
Professor : Yes.
Student : And is there such a thing as Cold?
Professor : Yes.
Student : No, sir. There isn't.

(The Lecture Theatre became very quiet with this turn of events )

Student : Sir, you can have Lots of Heat, even More Heat, Superheat, Mega Heat, White Heat, a Little Heat or No Heat. But we don't have anything called Cold. We can hit 458 Degrees below Zero which is No Heat, but we can't go any further after that. There is no such thing as Cold. Cold is only a Word we use to describe the Absence of Heat. We cannot Measure Cold. Heat is Energy. Cold is Not the Opposite of Heat, sir, just the Absence of it.

(There was Pin-Drop Silence in the Lecture Theatre )

Student : What about Darkness, Professor? Is there such a thing as Darkness?
Professor : Yes. What is Night if there isn't Darkness?
Student : You're wrong again, sir. Darkness is the Absence of Something You can have Low Light, Normal Light, Bright Light, Flashing Light . . . But if you have No Light constantly, you have nothing and its called Darkness, isn't it? In reality, Darkness isn't. If it is, were you would be able to make Darkness Darker, wouldn't you?
Professor : So what is the point you are making, Young Man ?
Student : Sir, my point is your Philosophical Premise is flawed.
Professor : Flawed ? Can you explain how?
Student : Sir, you are working on the Premise of Duality. You argue there is Life and then there is Death, a Good GOD and a Bad GOD. You are viewing the Concept of GOD as something finite, something we can measure. Sir, Science can't even explain a Thought. It uses Electricity and Magnetism, but has never seen, much less fully understood either one. To view Death as the Opposite of Life is to be ignorant of the fact that Death cannot exist as a Substantile Thing. Death is Not the Opposite of Life: just the Absence of it. Now tell me, Professor, do you teach your Students that they evolved from a Monkey?
Professor : If you are referring to the Natural Evolutionary Process, yes, of course, I do.
Student : Have you ever observed Evolution with your own eyes, sir?

(The Professor shook his head with a Smile, beginning to realize where the Argument was going )

Student : Since no one has ever observed the Process of Evolution at work and Cannot even prove that this Process is an On-Going Endeavor, Are you not teaching your Opinion, sir? Are you not a Scientist but a Preacher?

(The Class was in Uproar )

Student : Is there anyone in the Class who has ever seen the Professor's Brain?

(The Class broke out into Laughter )

Student : Is there anyone here who has ever heard the Professor's Brain, Felt it, touched or Smelt it? . . . No one appears to have done so. So, according to the Established Rules of Empirical, Stable, Demonstrable Protocol, Science says that You have No Brain, sir. With all due respect, sir, how do we then Trust your Lectures, sir?

(The Room was Silent. The Professor stared at the Student, his face unfathomable)

Professor : I guess you'll have to take them on Faith, son.
Student : That is it sir . . . Exactly ! The Link between Man & GOD is FAITH. That is all that Keeps Things Alive and Moving.

That student was Albert Einstein.

Well, hope u all enjoy it... have a great day ahead!

^^

Decision...

Reading this post will be my 101 posts since the start of my blog. Kudos! I had reached to a century of post reckon since 2 years back. That’s not a big amount though, if you see how gazillions of people had outnumbered me so easily in their blogs. Anyway, it’s still my personal history. *winks*


Alright, back to my dilemma. I had already made up my mind after contemplating thoroughly for the past 2 weeks. I won’t continue the Agilent application or applying for any other companies. [How I will miss applying for ABB or Alstom…] Since YTN had honoured me with the scholarships and 4.5k allowance per semester, it’s wise for me to just play by the rules. They had taken a huge burden away from my parents and I should payback them with my loyalty. After all, working at TNB isn’t that bad after all right? ^^ Though I will be working there for the next 7 years, it won’t hurt also to work for an extra 3-months internship; without any pay…


The reason I made up with that decision is due to the fact that I don’t want to screw up myself for future sake. Just imagine, if I had applied and got for few companies, this will mean that I might reject them if my sponsor [suddenly their policies changed vastly…] enforced that the internship must be done in TNB, compulsorily. I don’t want to have a bad record or being listed in their ban list. After my 7 years of bond, I might be jumping ship to better companies depending on the situation. The mistakes that I had created now might affect me in the near future. Therefore, I realized that it’s better for me to have a new, clean record with the companies. Come to think of it, this is just an industrial training. No big deal actually. I am not going to work there [if the place of my intern is somewhere else excluding TNB] after all. The global economic crisis faced at the moment will hardly see a company willing to buy over a sponsored student; which means they are taking over my sponsors place by repaying them the total amount being sponsored for me, though there are very very very few cases in my varsity. [That person must be superbly good…who am I after all right?] As for now, since I got the interview from Shell, I shall try my utmost best for it. If I failed for that, then I will just do my training in TNB. [Wish me luck ya for the interview next week] ^^


So dear readers, this is the bottom line I had decided. I am not sure if you had faced the problem that I had but if you do, just want to wish you the utmost best in your decision. Think further ahead and make a wise one. =)

=.=!

Hurmpz...

Last year: aunty this, aunty that, aunty, aunty....

This year: captain this, captain that, captain, captain....

Next year: ???

Dilemma...

I am awake right now, having bad coughs that prevented me from my lovely sleep. Sigh! What a tiring day from the badminton tournament, though I didn't participate. Tomorrow will be the same as well to help out Joseph organizing the competition. At the same time, must also go to support both our dear friends, Yee Siong & May Peng participating the competition. [I felt that it's tough to see girls that can really play badminton very well these days, though there's abundant of them out there] ^^


Checking through my emails, I am pretty surprised to receive an email notification from Shell regarding my Industrial Training application. To be honest, I only started applying to various companies just the beginning of this week. We were provided with 200++ list of companies around Malaysia and I had only listed out a few companies initially. Why few? You will understand as you read along. I am very interested to work in power related fields, which in this case will be at the power plant because I felt that my interest lies more on power rather than electronics or communication. By this, the only 2 companies that came across my mind initially were Alstom & ABB. Just to try my luck, I had also decided to apply for Agilent and Shell. I am supposed to be happy when I managed to receive the reply from both Agilent and Shell, which were the only 2 companies I had applied so far. [Gosh, is it too late to apply for Alstom & ABB? January already still haven’t applied…] Though, that’s not the case right now….


Being a scholar from Yayasan Tenaga Nasional (TNB), this is where the dilemma starts. My last resort for this training application will be at TNB, if I didn’t get any feedback from outside. Initially, I’ve been told that I must apply my internship at TNB. There won’t be any allowance paid for that 3 month and I have to apply for that training all by myself. Goodness! They don’t even give me any allowance, which I felt it’s not fair because scholars from previous years got. Well, who am I to demand for such rights? The worst thing is, they don’t even assist any of us the very fundamentals things for the application; e.g. giving details or cover letter. What were the people inside that building very busy of? My allowance for this semester also havn’t received. Pokkai liao! How to survive? They said after Chinese New Year only give. Give ang pao meh? That’s what leads me even more to find my training out of TNB; somewhere else...


This is where the dilemma begins. Few days back, I had a chat with my lecturer, Mr SS. He’s an ex-YTN overseas scholar. After being sponsored for 5 years, he went for PEPS training in TNB for half a year before being placed on where to work. At that time, he was interviewed and asked if he would like to be a lecturer. His response was being a field engineer in transmission line initially and maybe after some lengthy period of time only would he work as a lecturer. Weeks after that interview, he was sent a letter to his home, stated that he’s being ‘offered’ a job to be a lecturer. If he rejects, he must pay the entire sponsored amount for his course, which lead him to no choice but to accept what’s given; a job which is not what he wanted. That’s a whooping 100k++ debts to be settled! Alright, he had worked since then for the job not of his choice till the bond of 7 years ended. After that, he tried applied for field engineer back (transmission) but to no avail, there’s no response till date. By the end of the chat, I started to have this thought, will they put me in a job or position which isn’t my interest if I didn’t had my training with them?


My brother’s friend’s brother was also the ex-scholar. He didn’t go through the training in TNB and ended up being in Human Resource Department for about 5 years, the limit of his bond. ZzzZzz. HR department for an enginner? If that’s so, then would it be better if I just stick to the last resort without having to waste my time applying for others? My seniors told me before that though they said that the internship must be at TNB, it’s not compulsory. Most of them did their internships out of TNB. How about me? I still haven’t send in the resume that Agilent requested through emails and what am I supposed to do with the Shell’s interview? Take it as a normal interview or screw it? How about applying for ABB or Alstom? Should I make a bold move of doing my internships out of TNB? I guess I will just have to make my decision, real fast…

C'est la vie, 2008; Willkommen 2009!

the standing pride of Malaysia...

'That's the life', 2008 and welcome to the brand new 2009! Everyone in this global planet is anticipating much on what a brand new year can be. For all that we had strived in the past, that’s what future lies ahead of us. One thing for sure, 2009 is synonymous to the year 1997, whereby everyone called it ‘recession’ year. Speaking about 2009, the mind will endlessly tell that it will be a hard year considering the world economic downfall is a very big crisis to most of us. I guess this is the year where we should spend our money wisely enough to not let the crisis comes above us, unless if you are financially able enough, then by all means.

Will 2009 be a good year for me? I am not quite sure about that. Let me begin my story; I was supposed to join Keat, Li Chiat, Jason and etc for the countdown at the Curve after my family dinner, 10pm. Towards then, I suddenly felt feverish and went to get some rest. After those sms-es to all my friends, I then fell asleep till the next day’s noon. That’s how my New Year begins. Ah Mak, I didn’t go to the Curve as I am busy countdown-ing with ‘Chau Kung’ that moment. =( As for the New Year day itself, I spent most of the time sleeping also to get the sufficient rest for the next day. What do you think? It’s not a good start but I do hope for a good ending… ^^

Well, people used to make their New Year resolution every year. It’s more like a list of targets to be achieved by the end of the year. I would say it’s a good planning though; it gives you a great direction to where you are going. My resolution? It’s a secret! Hehe! Actually, it’s not that secretive after all. I shall share it with any of you if you are interested to know. =)

gunnar shoot em' down... go Arsenal, da champs! ^^