Thought and Motion

Structure and Direction

Don’t lose either.

Signs of Sanity: Bersih: The Purpose

We can fight for Bersih, but if we have not love, we are nothing

Made to be Bersih

Here I am, in the United states, watching my people and my country work hard to voice out who they are—Freed people. And I cannot be more inspired and touched by the fervent chants of people who want out, out of this nonsense. 

Participation in the Bersih Rally signifies something deeper than merely acknowledging we need reforms and change. Rather, it shows understanding of who they are made to be—moral beings. Therefore, our spirits are not tied back by fear or dampened by threats any longer. We know we are human. We know we are not made to be oppressed, cheated upon, lied, bribed, falsely accused, stripped of rights. We know that each of us has a story to tell, and how we tell this story, is not dictated by any human authority. 

We all know that at the end of the day, what we really want is to be—bersih.

I guess the quote, good artists copy, great artists steal hasn’t come to me yet. For now, screw originality.

a prayer

Dear God,

I thank you for the awesome schedule laid down ahead of me this coming weekend. It’s the last few days of school and I’m excited to get done and over with it. However, there are some things that are beyond my control. Some things I am just so worried about. But despite all that’s running through my head, I want to choose you. I want to rest in you.

Completion of this preliminary model might satisfy me, and tire me out at the same time. But all because I did not have my eyes fixed on you, the things I were doing were messed up, not syncopated, and just plain wrong. I instead focused on finishing tis model quickly, giving myself deadlines rather than enjoy pleasure that you’ve allowed me to posses just because of who you are.

I am a person made to enjoy doing these things so let me do so! Let every stroke of my pencil resonate with my body. Let every slice I make with the knife simply be pleasurable and good to you. For I know I was made to enjoy these things so let me enjoy them Lord! May your grace too be with me so that it not only can be done with pleasure but according to your goodness.

I thank you for this reality, that I work because you intend it for me, and by doing what I am made to do, I experience your pleasure. Let me rest in you, these last two weeks of the semester. May you carry us though with your grace. Holy Spirit, speak loudly to my heart to remind me of the realities I have in you.

Each breath is not of our making or something we can control.

Restoration of Education?

So, there are is an ideal education system that would perfectly fit the laws of God, no? How about this? Agree with this system 100%

Of Malaysian [Student] Unions

Currently in UPenn, with Petra Phang (:

You just wouldn’t know how much a student union would mean for your University experience until you were in one. Today was the first day in a long time that I entered a building that had almost everyone speaking in the same tongue as I did. It was really bizarre as I just didn’t expect there to be people to speak just like me. Even more bizarre, I found it hard at first to speak back in a normal fashion. Whatever the case, having a collective group of people to fall back to from your country, while studying overseas, is surely something that I have been missing out while in Kent State University.

Two, there is definitely a difference in thought in UPenn and KSU. Maybe it’s because UPenn is a city University and Kent State is a small town. Maybe, it’s cause people are smarter. Maybe because they’re Asian. I don’t really know, but I feel way more connected with people here than back home. Really, what drives relationships between people?

Why do I feel like I’m missing out on so much of college life?