Tuesday, April 30, 2013

14 Ways to have fun while learning


14 Ways to have fun while learning

I have a preschooler and this is how we have fun while learning:

1. Playing word games using magnetic letters of the alphabet. She learns three and four letter words with the colourful magnets.

2. Using colour chalks and black boards for writing and drawing. Holding the chalk and writing improves their motor skills.

3. Doing collage crafts using newspapers. Tearing and cutting newspaper improves the motor skills and kids will get to know about the colour combinations and try their best to be creative.

4. Reading books for at least 20 minutes a day. Kids get attracted to the colourful early reader books and try reading by themselves.

5. Learning about nature by playing/strolling in the play parks and visiting gardens, bird parks, zoos, insect parks and aquariums. Buying them flower pots and seeds and make them grow a plant by themselves is also a great and fun way to learn.

6. Taking my daughter grocery shopping and teaching her the basics of nutrition and involving her in making the salad dressing or mixing the fruits for salad can be great fun. Kids love to eat what they prepare.

7. While travelling, I ask her to read the number plates and sum up the numbers.

8. I teach her the value of money by buying things using her piggy bank savings.

9. Bed time stories are a great avenue to teach moral values.

10. Jumping, hopping and running around with the kids to promote physical activity. Play time is also good for parents' health and will strengthen the parent-child bond.

11. Watching a children's movie together and discussing it afterwards is a good way to teach kids about values and what is good or bad.

12. Take the kids to an orphange or old folks' home to teach them kindness and sharing.

13. Make them create and maintain a journal. It will reflect their thoughts and parents can get to know how and what the children think.

14. Listen to music together. Introduce them to different kinds of music. Music is therapeutic and will relax the mind.

Each kid is different and unique. As a parent,we need to nurture them and grow them into great citizens and individuals.

Happy parenting!

Vinodhini Rajendran

Saturday, April 27, 2013

卖火柴的小女孩

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天冷极了,下着雪,又快黑了。这是一年的最后一天—大年夜。在这又冷又黑的晚上,一个光着头赤着脚的小女孩在街上走着。她从家里出来的时候还穿着一双拖鞋,但是有什么用呢?那是一双很大的拖鞋—那么大,一向是她妈妈穿的。她穿过马路的时候,两辆马车飞快地冲过来,吓得她把鞋都跑掉了。一只怎么也找不着,另一只叫一个男孩捡起来拿着跑了。他说,将来他有了孩子可以拿它当摇篮。
  小女孩只好赤着脚走,一双小脚冻得红一块青一块的。她的旧围裙里兜着许多火柴,手里还拿着一把。这一整天,谁也没买过她一根火柴,谁也没给过她一个钱。
  可怜的小女孩!她又冷又饿,哆哆嗦嗦地向前走。雪花落在她的金黄的长头发上,那头发打成卷儿披在肩上,看上去很美丽,不过她没注意这些。每个窗子里都透出灯光来,街上飘着一股烤鹅的香味,因为这是大年夜—她可忘不了这个。
  她在一座房子的墙角里坐下来,蜷着腿缩成一团。她觉得更冷了。她不敢回家,因为她没卖掉一根火柴,没挣到一个钱,爸爸一定会打她的。再说,家里跟街上一样冷。他们头上只有个房顶,虽然最大的裂缝已经用草和破布堵住了,风还是可以灌进来。
  她的一双小手几乎冻僵了。啊,哪怕一根小小的火柴,对她也是有好处的!她敢从成把的火柴里抽出一根,在墙上擦燃了,来暖和暖和自己的小手吗?她终于抽出了一根。哧!火柴燃起来了,冒出火焰来了!她把小手拢在火焰上。多么温暖多么明亮的火焰啊,简直像一支小小的蜡烛。这是一道奇异的火光!小女孩觉得自己好像坐在一个大火炉前面,火炉装着闪亮的铜脚和铜把手,烧得旺旺的,暖烘烘的,多么舒服啊!哎,这是怎么回事呢?她刚把脚伸出去,想让脚也暖和一下,火柴灭了,火炉不见了。她坐在那儿,手里只有一根烧过了的火柴梗。
  她又擦了一根。火柴燃起来了,发出亮光来了。亮光落在墙上,那儿忽然变得像薄纱那么透明,她可以一直看到屋里。桌上铺着雪白的台布,摆着精致的盘子和碗,肚子里填满了苹果和梅子的烤鹅正冒着香气。更妙的是这只鹅从盘子里跳下来,背上插着刀和叉,摇摇摆摆地在地板上走着,一直向这个穷苦的小女孩走来。这时候,火柴又灭了,她面前只有一堵又厚又冷的墙。
  她又擦着了一根火柴。这一回,她坐在美丽的圣诞树下。这棵圣诞树,比她去年圣诞节透过富商家的玻璃门看到的还要大,还要美。翠绿的树枝上点着几千支明晃晃的蜡烛,许多幅美丽的彩色画片,跟挂在商店橱窗里的一个样,在向她眨眼睛。小女孩向画片伸出手去。这时候,火柴又灭了。只见圣诞树上的烛光越升越高,最后成了在天空中闪烁的星星。有一颗星星落下来了,在天空中划出了一道细长的红光。
  “有一个什么人快要死了。”小女孩说。唯一疼她的奶奶活着的时候告诉过她∶一颗星星落下来,就有一个灵魂要到上帝那儿去了。
  她在墙上又擦着了一根火柴。这一回,火柴把周围全照亮了。奶奶出现在亮光里,是那么温和,那么慈爱。
  “奶奶!”小女孩叫起来,“啊!请把我带走吧!我知道,火柴一灭,您就会不见的,像那暖和的火炉,喷香的烤鹅,美丽的圣诞树一个样,就会不见的!”
  她赶紧擦着了一大把火柴,要把奶奶留住。一大把火柴发出强烈的光,照得跟白天一样明亮。奶奶从来没有像现在这样高大,这样美丽。奶奶把小女孩抱起来,搂在怀里。她们俩在光明和快乐中飞走了,越飞越高,飞到那没有寒冷,没有饥饿,也没有痛苦的地方去了。
  第二天清晨,这个小女孩坐在墙角里,两腮通红,嘴上带着微笑。她死了,在旧年的大年夜冻死了。新年的太阳升起来了,照在她小小的尸体上。小女孩坐在那儿,手里还捏着一把烧过了的火柴梗。
  “她想给自己暖和一下……”人们说。谁也不知道她曾经看到过多么美丽的东西,她曾经多么幸福,跟着她奶奶一起走向新年的幸福中去。
  


Wednesday, April 24, 2013

游子吟


游子吟
(唐)孟郊   
慈母手中线,游子身上衣。   
临行密密缝,意恐⑷迟迟归。   
谁言寸草心,报得三春晖!

白话译文

慈祥的母亲用手中的针线,为儿子赶制身上的衣衫。
临行前一针针密密地缝缀,怕的是影响儿子出行。
谁敢说子女没有小草那样的孝心,不能够报答慈母恩情呢?[1][

Monday, April 22, 2013

Doctors can only do so much!- Dr Chew Weng Chee


Doctors can only do so much!- Dr Chew Weng Chee


April 12 2013 by Natasha Kim CM -

Senior Pastor Dr. Chew, 66 years old, is the lead pastor of Sidang Injil Borneo K.L (SIBKL).  He was an Obstetrician and Gynecologist (O&G) before he gave up his medical career to serve the Lord full time. He never thought that he would give up being a medical practitioner. His career was at its all time high but little did he know the Lord had big plans for him. Blinded by the riches of the world, it wasn’t until he stumbled upon a horrific yet confusing experience that he was finally able to finally open his eyes to see that God was calling him back to Him.


Reaching out to God
Chew was born and raised in K.L, he grew up in a Christian background but never knew the Lord in a personal way. During his first year as a medical student at University Malaya, he was asked to dissect and study a human body. In front of his eyes laid several corpses. An interesting fact he mentioned is that all the bodies the students had to dissect came from India, in fact India’s biggest export is of human bodies. Many just lay in the streets with no identity.
Continuing the story, he shared, “I remembered cutting up this Indian man and it struck me that at one time this man walked the streets, and here I am cutting up his body and studying him bit by bit” It was then that it hit him that the difference between him and this man that laid there is that something has left him. This started him thinking and searching. There must be something more to life than just living and then dying. That year itself in 1966 through the influence of his peers Chew found the Lord and accepted Him as his personal saviour. He was a brethren and attended Jalan Imbi Chapel. Chew shared that, “I appreciate my brethren roots and my time at the chapel because it taught me to love the Word of God.”

God is with us when we are Faithful
A couple of years later he was faced with a huge family crisis. He recalls the incident very well, he promised God that if the crisis was solved, that he would one day serve Him full time. Sure enough, soon his prayers were answered and the crisis went away. However, Chew being just a normal human being like you and I, he became so busy and forgot the promise he had made. “Over the years I may have forgotten but God hasn’t forgotten” he said.


After he became a doctor he continued on with a specialist course in O&G at Edinburgh. During this period of time he also got closer to his wife Lee Choo who was studying to become a Pediatrician. They got married at Edinburgh.

When all he could see was Blood, Light slowly crept in
Not long later in 1977, they moved to Sabah. Together they opened up a private maternity hospital and pioneered the SIB English Church in Kota Kinabalu. Chew became very successful indeed and was very busy earning money.


One day, a lady came to see him. He found that she had a condition where the placenta was lying very low. This meant that she needed to have a C-section performed in order to get the baby out. Knowing this, they made an appointment for the surgery. She wanted it to be performed at 12 midnight on the dot. “It never crossed my mind why she wanted it at 12 midnight sharp but all I told her was, “It’s going to cost you more” because all I was worried about was money” he said. The lady agreed!
On the appointed date, he started to perform surgery. “As I cut layer by layer, the placenta was not only lying very low, it was eating into the abdominal wall. A very rare condition called placenta accreta where the placenta is stuck to the abdominal wall” he said. So as he continued cutting, he the knife cut into the placenta wall (made up of blood vessels). Within minutes there was so much blood that he couldn’t even see his hand!
The patient died on the table. Her heart had stopped beating. He reacted quickly! Trying his best to revive and jumpstart her heart. “By the time I got the baby out, the patient’s heart stopped three times!” he said. Chew’s wife was also working with him in the surgery room. By the time he had passed the baby to his wife, the baby’s heart flat lined as well and she had to try to revive the baby as fast as possible.


That very day, Chew had to battle for seven hours in order to save that mothers and her baby’s life. It resulted in him having to remove the mother’s uterus so she could survive. When the shock was over and the situation had calmed down, he went to speak to the lady’s husband asking, “Why did you want the baby out at 12 midnight?”
The man answered, “Oh doctor, this baby is dedicated to the idols. They wanted the baby, that’s why they told me on such and such a date the baby must come out on 12 midnight” Chew only then knew that the baby was supposed to be sacrificed to their “Gods.”
After that horrific experience he said, “God is good. He helped me to save that baby.” But he regretted not asking the question why. “I never saw it. I should’ve prayed over it” he said. Thank God no life was taken that day. It was a wakeup call for him as he realized he had drifted away from God. “If the mother and baby had died, it would’ve come out in all the newspapers in Sabah the next day. I would’ve been closed down. In one stroke the devil wanted to kill me off together with the mother and the baby.” he said.
This incident reminded of the promise he had made to God many years ago to serve Him full time. This following verse spoke to him,
Isaiah 43:4-7Since you are precious and honored in my sight,and because I love you, I will give people in exchange for you, nations in exchange for your life. Do not be afraid, for I am with you; I will bring your children from the east and gather you from the west. I will say to the north, ‘Give them up!’ and to the south, ‘Do not hold them back.’ Bring my sons from afar and my daughters from the ends of the earth everyone who is called by my name, whom I created for my glory, whom I formed and made.”

A Fool for God
In 1991, together with his wife he went on to do his masters degree in theology at a Bible college in Vancouver. Both of them wanted to prepare themselves for full time ministry. In 1993 he came back to K.L. and stayed on until now.
“I left Sabah physically but my heart is still there. I love the natives there, my heart goes out to them because they are poor but they love the Lord” he said.
“SIBKL will be an oasis, a refreshing for the spiritually dry. Not a Church but a movement.”- A prophecy given to SIBKL in 1994


In 1994, he started SIBKL with only 15 people. When he started the Church he continued his love for God’s word. While in K.L he was a doctor and a Medical Director at Tung Shin Hospital, his calling was strong and so in 1999 he gave up everything and started serving the Lord full time. The whole board tried to convince him to stay. They thought it was a ridiculous idea to leave and become a pastor. Chew said, “I remember the chairman of the board came to me during that meeting, put his arms around me and called me a fool!” but Chew answered, “I don’t mind being a fool for God.”
John 21: 15 – 18: 15 When they had finished eating, Jesus said to Simon Peter, “Simon son of John, do you love me more than these?” “Yes, Lord,” he said, “you know that I love you.” Jesus said, “Feed my lambs.” 16 Again Jesus said, “Simon son of John, do you love me?” He answered, “Yes, Lord, you know that I love you.” Jesus said, “Take care of my sheep.” 17 The third time he said to him, “Simon son of John, do you love me?” Peter was hurt because Jesus asked him the third time, “Do you love me?” He said, “Lord, you know all things; you know that I love you.” Jesus said, “Feed my sheep. 18 Very truly I tell you, when you were younger you dressed yourself and went where you wanted; but when you are old you will stretch out your hands, and someone else will dress you and lead you where you do not want to go.”
When asked what is the difference between a doctors healing and God's healing? He answered “I believe that God works and does healing directly or God can also heal indirectly through medicine. I believe that being a doctor is a calling for me so God will use the skill that I have to heal people but I depend on God. However, there’s a limit to medicine that’s why we pray because I believe God can work miracles.”


As a pastor he has managed to touch the lives of many. Now SIBKL is one of the fastest growing Churches in K.L. Chew utterly believes that everything the church does has to be Christ-centered, Bible-based and Spirit-powered. “I believe that SIBKL is birthed by God, that what I am doing is a calling. God has affirmed me and assured me through the growing of the Church. Many people have come to know the Lord, many families reconciled, many broken lives restored and many have come back to God. I feel very affirmed that God is here.”

Sunday, April 21, 2013

甲骨文字典

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Sunday, April 14, 2013

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9 USEFUL HOME REMEDIES FOR COUGH !!

9 USEFUL HOME REMEDIES FOR COUGH !!
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Symptoms of cough usually subside on their own with 7-10 days. However, lot of simple home remedies are there which provide relief from the discomfort associated with it.

1) Take three peppercorns, and add a pinch of black cumin seeds and rock salt and consume it.
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2) Drink hot milk with honey at bedtime for cough relief.

3) Make a decoction by boiling 50 grams fresh ginger with 5 tablespoon sugar in 2 glasses water for 30 minutes. Drink it hot, twice a day, in one day as this is very effective Home Remedy for Cough.

4) Mix powdered cinnamon, lemon juice and honey. Take two teaspoon twice daily.

5) In one cup of warm milk, add a pinch of turmeric powder (Haldi) and drink twice a day.

6) Mix half a teaspoon of tulsi juice with half a teaspoon of ginger juice. Add 1 teaspoon of honey. Take the above mixture 2-3 times a day. This is also useful Home Remedy for Cough

7) Prepare a mixture by adding 1/2 teaspoon honey with 1/2 teaspoon lemon juice and take it every 12 hours. Honey relieves the itchiness by moistening the throat passage.

8) Mix 8 - 10 tablespoon of coconut milk with 1 tablespoon poppy seed (powdered) and 1 tablespoon of pure honey. Take this every night before going to bed. This remedy is very good Home Remedy for Cough

9) Garlic-onion-chicken soup is an effective remedy for cough. Take it steaming hot, to give relief to irritation in throat.

Tuesday, April 09, 2013

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