I am tired

This saturday, I will go to Kuala Lumpur and take HSK exam.. I don't have enough confident for that... I feel my Mandarin is bad than before...

I really tired to study.. Everyday study, from morning until evening... I try to do my best... However, it makes me suffer. I really want the time go faster... and next year I will learn to be a Chef... WKK....

Oh God... Help me to do all of this...

I want to study but i don't want an exam.... huhuhuhu....

Korean Lover

This year, I prefer to listen korean's song...I also like the singer group likeSuper Junior
and
Tohoshinki


They are cool ,funny, cute and also popular guy.
I always laugh when i watched their show in Youtube...

I think Super junior is a funny group and tohoshinki is a cool group.But i like both of them. They all make me happy. I love them... I feel like i want to go to Korea....

In Tohoshinki I like
Hero jaejoong

He is a beautiful man... he really like a girl and also cute... hmm... I was crazy of him beauce of his looking and funny attitude... He like kidding and give us the innocent face.... ^3^... Cute......

However Suju's

Kimbun

Kyuhyun

Si woneeteuk

They're also cute.. and they have different characteristic that make me become one of their fans..... wow......

how can i waste my time to wacth and listen all their mv and show....
Because of them this year I become korean lover..

I also like to check the new korean song from
http://world.kbs.co.kr/english/entertainment/enter_top10_detail.htm

I also like to watch some Tv show like star king, super junior Exploring human Body, X-man, Family outing, etc....

When i wacthed them, I will laugh and forget my stress. Not only that, i also forget to do my homework... how can i be like this... I can stop to watch them.... huhhuhuhuhu..... R u also same with me if u like some actress/actors????

Vesak Day

Today Viriya,Wei Chye,Wei Lin, Yusak, Hanjoyo, Jesen, Jermin and me go to Kek Lok Si temple to celebrate the Wesak day. We go there by bus from 9.30 am from home.On the way, Jesen is late and we wait for him at Kopi tiam...
Some of us take the breakfast.. Today, all of us try to become vegetarian, not including Hanjoyo.Because of he already taken the meat food....We wait at the Kopi tiam near by the Kek LOk Si... After Jesen arrived, we continued our journey to each part of that big temple in Penang... However it was raining and only Wei Chye and me bring the umbrellas....

We prayed to the Buddha and take some water from there... That time I brought my camera, and i take a lot of picture in that famous temple in Penang.... It's fun......

After go the temple, we also take our lunch at Evergreen,Cantomen Road... I felt really full after take the lunch.... Huh..... Jessi also join us... Before we are going back to our home, we go to Looking good because Jesen and Jessi want to buy some things.... After that, we take bus and go home... I am really tired today.. and aslo will miss this day... ^^ Happy waisak Day fo all the Buddhis.....

Happy Waisak Day...

History

The decision to agree to celebrate Vesak as the Buddha’s birthday was formalized at the first Conference of the World Fellowship of Buddhists held in Sri Lanka in 1950, although festivals at this time in the Buddhist world are a centuries-old tradition. The Resolution that was adopted at the World Conference reads as follows:

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That this Conference of the World Fellowship of Buddhists, while recording its appreciation of the gracious act of His Majesty, the Maharaja of Nepal in making the full-moon day of Vesak a Public Holiday in Nepal, earnestly requests the Heads of Governments of all countries in which large or small number of Buddhists are to be found, to take steps to make the full-moon day in the month of May a Public Holiday in honour of the Buddha, who is universally acclaimed as one of the greatest benefactors of Humanity.

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On Vesak Day, Buddhists all over the world commemorate events of significance to Buddhists of all traditions: The birth, enlightenment and the passing away of Gautama Buddha. As Buddhism spread from India it was assimilated into many foreign cultures, and consequently Vesak is celebrated in many different ways all over the world.

The celebration of Vesak

Vesak is on May 8, 2009 in Thailand. (See column 2.) It is not May 9.

May 2007 had two full moon days, the 1st and the 31st. Some countries (including Sri Lanka, Cambodia and Malaysia) celebrated Vesak on the 1st, while others (Thailand, Singapore) celebrated the holiday on the 31st due to different local lunar observance. This difference also manifests in the observance of other Buddhist holidays, which are traditionally observed at the local full moon.

On Vesak day, devout Buddhists and followers alike are expected and requested to assemble in their various temples before dawn for the ceremonial, and honorable, hoisting of the Buddhist flag and the singing of hymns in praise of the holy triple gem: The Buddha, The Dharma (his teachings), and The Sangha (his disciples). Devotees may bring simple offerings of flowers, candles and joss-sticks to lay at the feet of their teacher. These symbolic offerings are to remind followers that just as the beautiful flowers would wither away after a short while and the candles and joss-sticks would soon burn out, so too is life subject to decay and destruction. Devotees are enjoined to make a special effort to refrain from killing of any kind. They are encouraged to partake of vegetarian food for the day. In some countries, notably Sri Lanka, two days are set aside for the celebration of Vesak and all liquor shops and slaughter houses are closed by government decree during the two days. Also birds, insects and animals are released by the thousands in what is known as a 'symbolic act to liberation'; of giving freedom to those who are in captivity, imprisoned, or tortured against their will. Some devout Buddhists will wear a simple white dress and spend the whole day in temples with renewed determination to observe the Ten Precepts.

Young novice on Vesak Day Parade

Devout Buddhists undertake to lead a noble life according to the teaching by making daily affirmations to observe the Five Precepts. However, on special days, notably new moon and full moon days, they observe the Ten Percepts to train themselves to practice morality, simplicity and humility.

Some temples also display a small image of the baby Buddha in front of the altar in a small basin filled with water and decorated with flowers, allowing devotees to pour water over the statue; it is symbolic of the cleansing of a practitioners bad karma, and to reenact the events following the Buddha's birth, when devas and spirits made heavenly offerings to him.

Devotees are expected to listen to talks given by monks. On this day monks will recite verses uttered by the Buddha twenty-five centuries ago, to invoke peace and happiness for the Government and the people. Buddhists are reminded to live in harmony with people of other faiths and to respect the beliefs of other people as the Buddha had taught.

[edit] Bringing happiness to others

Celebrating Vesak also means making special efforts to bring happiness to the unfortunate like the aged, the handicapped and the sick. To this day, Buddhists will distribute gifts in cash and kind to various charitable homes throughout the country. Vesak is also a time for great joy and happiness, expressed not by pandering to one’s appetites but by concentrating on useful activities such as decorating and illuminating temples, painting and creating exquisite scenes from the life of the Buddha for public dissemination. Devout Buddhists also vie with one another to provide refreshments and vegetarian food to followers who visit the temple to pay homage to the Enlightened One.

[edit] Paying homage to the Buddha

Tradition ascribes to the Buddha himself instruction on how to pay him homage. Just before he died, he saw his faithful attendant Ananda, weeping. The Buddha advised him not to weep, but to understand the universal law that all compounded things (including even his own body) must disintegrate. He advised everyone not to cry over the disintegration of the physical body but to regard his teachings (The Dhamma) as their teacher from then on, because only the Dhamma truth is eternal and not subject to the law of change. He also stressed that the way to pay homage to him was not merely by offering flowers, incense, and lights, but by truly and sincerely striving to follow his teachings. This is how devotees are expected to celebrate Vesak: to use the opportunity to reiterate their determination to lead noble lives, to develop their minds, to practise loving-kindness and to bring peace and harmony to humanity.

[edit] Vesak in Japan

In Japan, Vesak or hanamatsuri (花祭) is also known as: Kanbutsu-e (灌仏会), Goutan-e (降誕会), Busshou-e (仏生会), Yokubutsu-e (浴仏会), Ryuge-e (龍華会), Hana-eshiki (花会式). It is not a public holiday. It is based on a legend that a dragon appeared in the sky on his birthday and poured soma over him.

It used to be celebrated on the 8th day of the fourth month in the Chinese Lunar Calendar, based on one of the legends that proclaims the day as Buddha's birthday. At present, the celebration is observed on April 8 of the Solar Calendar since the Meiji government adopted the western solar calendar as the official calendar. Since the 8th day of the fourth month in the lunar calendar commonly falls in May of the current solar calendar, it is now celebrated about a month earlier.

In Japan, the general populace are not practicing Buddhists (and may be called casual Buddhists), so most Buddhist temples provide a way to allow the general public to celebrate and participate in only the aspect of the day being Buddha's birthday, providing the statue of baby Buddha and allowing the populace to worship or pay respect by pouring ama cha, a tea made of Hydrangea. In Buddhist temples, monasteries and nunneries, more involved ceremonies are conducted for practicing Buddhists, priests, monks and nuns. Also, there are public festivals made out of the day in some areas.

[edit] Vesak in Sri Lanka

A Vesak pandol or torana in Colombo, Sri Lanka

Vesak is celebrated as a religious and a cultural festival in Sri Lanka on the full moon of the month of May, for a duration of one week.^{[citation needed]} During this week, the selling of alcohol and flesh is usually prohibited.^{[citation needed]} Prisoners who are eligible for parole are often released.^{[citation needed]} Celebrations include various religious and alms giving activities. Electrically lit pandols called toranas are erected in various locations in Colombo and elsewhere, most sponsored by donors, religious societies and welfare groups. Each pandol illustrates a story from the 550 Jataka Katha or the 550 Past Life Stories of the Buddha. In addition, colourful lanterns called Vesak koodu are hung along streets and in front of homes. They signify the light of the Buddha, Dharma and the Sangha. Food stalls set up by Buddhist devotees called dansälas provide free food and drinks to passersby. Groups of people from various community organisations, businesses and government departments sing bhakti gee or Buddhist devotional songs. Colombo experiences a massive influx of public from all parts of the country during this week.