Singing at Brickfields temple- 28June 2009
KKBC’s choir has been invited again by the Brickfields temple to perform during their 9am puja session.
20 minutes was allocated for them whereby they sang songs composed by Wai Leng and other famous Buddhist songs like “Brahma of my Heart”.
We all went early to the Temple so that the kids could practice first.
Having just learnt about qi and the fact that the Bodhi tree is full of qi, i went around the 2 Bodhi trees at the temple. the atmosphere was so cooling and calm.
One of the trees was fruiting and picking up the fruits from the floor, realised that the bodhi tree is actually from the fig family. Only the size of the fruits are so small like our local cherries.
Below is the photo of the small fig fruits as compared to the bigger figs from my place
Figs, called ‘moh fah khor’ in Cantonese literally means “‘no flower fruit” as this tree does not bear flowers, like other fruit trees.
Kota Kemuning Buddhist Centre (KKBC)
Since January this year, my family has been attending the Sunday Puja at KKBC due to the fact that my daughter likes to sing and KKBC is a smaller knitted centre.
She is part of the KKBC’s choir, which is led by my friend Wai Leng, a music teacher. Wai Leng and the KKBC group released a CD last December titled “True Friends” which has very Soothing Songs, with songs composed by Wai Leng.
My daughter is lucky to be guided by Wai Leng and is enjoying every moment of ‘stardom’ singing with Wai Leng and her 2 girls weekly during the Sunday Pujas. Besides the weekly Sunday singing, KKBC’s choir has been invited to attend functions at Kajang, Malacca and the latest invite is to sing for 30 minutes at the forthcoming Wesak International Film Festival this Saturday June 21, 2008 at 2pm
On Wesak day, 19th May, the 3 girls (they call themelves “Just Girls”) sang as usual and Wai Leng produced a play whereby all the children in the Sunday Dhamma class were given a chance to act. My son was given the role of Buddha and he enjoyed acting the part of Buddha whereby the audience enoyed his ‘ added antics’ which were not part of the Play.
No doubt this centre is not big like the other temples but nevertheless this centre is unique in that the members are closely knitted. Parents and children have their weekly Pujas together in the same Shrine Hall and are not separated in separate halls hence fostering closer ties.
About
My name is Suet, a happily married lady with a very supportive husband staying in Petaling Jaya, Malaysia. We have 2 school-going children.
We have an Indonesian maid who has been with us for 6 years, 2 dogs, birds, chickens, Koi and goldfishes. No more of the punky guinea pigs anymore (All died of old age). Photo below of maid washing figs (moh fah khor) to be made into fig jam. I planted 3 fig trees outside my garden.
We are surrounded by numerous luscious organic plants and trees. More than 20 fruit trees, vegetables and herbal plants are found in my garden.
Photos of fruits & flowers from my garden
In 1998, I volunteered to write the Minutes for one of CETDEM’s 2 days’ Organic Conference. From that meeting, I was ‘initiated’ into the world of organic farming – meeting and chatting with the farmers, retailers, Ministry and MARDI participants. After this conference, I signed up for CETDEM’s 2 days’ weekend organic course at Rimbun Dahan and never looked back.
I believe I am one of the very few organic kitchen gardeners in the city that does her own composting. I have 2 large compost bins (courtesy from my ever supportive husband – his machine crates from Italy) and all my kitchen waste and leaves from my garden and surroundings are used to make the compost. 
On top of using the chicken dung as fertilisers for my plants, I also make my own liquid fertilisers like fish amino acids and fruit and vegetable peelings.
I am a great supporter of the organic movement and will help Ms Tan(well-known as the mother of Organic Farming here) wherever I can in promoting the organic movement.
In 2001, I found out that my son has a learning disorder. STAR published my article titled “Children with reading problems” in March 2003 .
When my article was published, there were so many phone calls for the following 2 weeks that I had to take my phone off the hook for a few hours each day otherwise I would not have any rest. I am glad that my article has created lots of awareness amongst parents on dyslexia as there were not many articles written by parents then.
My son is presently in the Dyslexia Programme which was launched in June 2004. There are currently 30 schools earmarked with this Dyslexia Programme.
I am also the Secretary for my Residents Association and a Volunteer Librarian at a neighbouring temple.
All these activities keep me busy besides having to take care of hubby and the kids, not forgetting the 3 dogs, the birds, chickens and fishes. Then having to shoo away uninvited guests like the squirrels, iguanas, rats, etc…… not forgetting the humans who will conveniently take the fruits of my labour outside my garden. Sigh! that’s life….
Well, at least I am helping to green the earth and reduce waste through my organic ways.
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Recent
- “Friends” and “foes” in my organic garden
- Session with Dato’ Lat – 1 Nov 2009
- Fruits of my labour
- Pot of herbs and flowers
- bouquet of organic flowers
- line dancing – Bandar Sunway
- herb and flower basket
- Mien Kum – thai appetizer
- Foo Shearn’s drawings
- Bio dynamic farming (Qi farming)- 20 June 2009
- Singing at Brickfields temple- 28June 2009
- New Subang Centre – 15 April 2009
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Living with Dyslexia in Malaysia 