Hammer & Screw... You CAN be PERFECT!

We always hear this...

Nobody's perfect...
Only GOD is perfect...
While we are still on earth, we are all not perfect...

Well, today I'll say YOU CAN BE PERFECT!

My perception of being perfect is like this...
When you need to get a nail into the wall,
a hammer is the perfect tool...

Then the hammer is PERFECT no matter how ulgy or stained it is.
It doesn't matter if it is a $2.00 hammer, old hammer or a $1,000/- state of the art NASA hammer.

On the other hand, if you use a screwdriver to whack it in,
it may work but that's just NOT perfect.

Need another example?

A philip head screwdriver is PERFECT when you need to fasten a cross head screw.
And now if you use a hammer, even though you may force the screw in, it's just NOT perfect!

Hey, let me tell you a story...

Malathi is a school teacher in a suburb...
She teaches Biology...
It is not every year that Malathi gets to be a class teacher for the better classes...

Sometimes she gets students who are from the poorer background...
students who are academically challenged...
and all the sorts that a normal teacher would just give up as hopeless...

Malathi would call the parents, talk and counsel them...
offers solutions that would not necessary be that from a teacher...

She goes beyond her normal call of duty,
so that her students who have no hope to do well academically,
would find a place to do well in society...
She has recommended many to vocational studies,
helped solved their problems at home, etc...

Just recently, Malathi shared this with me...

There was a boy in her class many years ago...
To protect his identity, let's call him Roy.

Roy has difficulty passing most of his subjects in class...
One day, Malathi took him aside...
she asked Roy what he wants to do, what does he wants to be when he finishes school...
Roy replied " I want to be a policeman"
Malathi said " Why don't you find out what does it takes to be a policeman. What are the subjects that you need to pass in order to be a policeman"
Roy went to the career counsellor, and came back with the information.
Malathi advised "Now just concentrate to pass these few subjects, forget about the rest."

Just recently, (a few years later) Malathi met Roy again...
This time it is police constable Roy...

Malathi, not just teach... she reaches out and INSPIRES her students...
I know of many other stories about Malathi that could be compiled into a book...

Malathi, YOU ARE PERFECT!
Just as what God has called you to be...

I believe if we just do what we are suppose to be doing...
doing it right...
doing what we are called to do...

then we can be PERFECT!

I salute you ... PERFECT mothers...
I salute you ... PERFECT fathers...
I salute you... PERFECT clerks, teachers, waiters, managers, pastors,
Most of all, I salute you... PERFECT children...
Just be who you are, and do right whatever it is you doing...

YOU are just PERFECT, my friends!

How do you put an elephant into a refrigerator? Reality Check

You are a hunter in an African jungle.
But you don't kill animals...
One day, you caught an elephant. Now...
How do you put the elephant into a refrigerator? Answer : Easy, open the door, put elephant in, close the door.
It's a simple and uncomplicated way of solving a problem.

Then you caught a giraffe...
How do you put the giraffe into the refrigerator?


Since this is a well known riddle...
You would probably answer: Open the door, take the elephant out, put the giraffe in & close the door.

Sorry... You just can't do that
I don't think you can put the elephant into the refrigerator in the first place...
Life is not that simple... You just cannot fit the elephant into the refrigerator...
Now you've got a second problem... the giraffe...

OK... OK...
Let's move on...
There is an animal conference in the jungle. All the animals attend... except one.
Which animal does not attend?

The well known answer is : The giraffe... Ha! Ha! everybody knows that... The giraffe is in the refrigerator...

Think again... in the first place... you can't fit the elephant into the refrigerator...
Now what about the giraffe... It's much taller... and I don't really think it'll fit into the refrigerator either...
So you would probably have to let them go... (Remember you don't kill animals)

So, all the animals would be there... Ha! Ha! LOL!

Fourth question... No not the river with crocodiles...

Now fourth question...
During the conference, at tea break... did they have cold or hot drinks?

Think.... think....
and think again...

COLD? with ice...

HOT? ....

The answer... the answer is...

They have neither cold nor hot drinks...

THEY DID NOT HAVE A TEA BREAK!

What??? cut budget... you may say...

NO! NO!

WAKE UP...
Stop dreaming...

There is no such thing as a conference in the jungle...
You are not a hunter in Africa...

Ring!!! Ring!!!

The alarm clock sounded!
I woke up...
got out of bed...
and wrote this in the blog!!!

Freedom vs Well Fed

Tiger in the Wild
vs Tiger in the Zoo.

"It's so unfair, why must they have a quota system" says Jeremy."Are we not just as deserving?After all we fulfill all the other criteria, just that we are not mmmmm"

This happened about a year and a half ago...
that was when I came up with to this explanation to my love ones.

Imagine a tiger in the zoo...
Well fed... No need to hunt...
Well taken care of... No worries...
All that seem well may NOT be all well...

It becomes dependent...
It loses its predatory instinct... unable to hunt...
It grows complacent... unable to compete...

Worse still ... it is caged...
It loses it's FREEDOM!!!

That is how I see it...
Don't be bitter, just because they are given all the privileges...
Do feel pity for them, for they have became like animals kept in cages in a zoo.

For us man, apart from food and shelter...
it is the FREEDOM to think...
it is the FREEDOM to profess our faith...
that separates us from being just a human being(a biological entity) to being a civilised man.

Even God has given us the FREEDOM to choose whether to believe in Him...

To enjoy these "privileges", our friends have to give up this FREEDOM!
What a pity... What a pity...
In getting what seems to be their "rightful" benefits
they would have to give up their rights to choose to believe in whatever they feel is RIGHT!

So next time, think of them as being the victims...
They did not make us less... but make us MORE...

We have inadvertently became better,
more diligent, more competitive,
more capable, more resilient,
We have became stronger...
in spite of the disadvantages being heap on us.

Reach out to them, our friends...
many do not know that they have been victimised...by their political feudal masters...
LOVE them... as GOD has love them...

I LOVE my friends..., do you?