Jesus Wants You To Drive 4x4

Jesus wants you to drive 4x4 - that was the sermon being preached at the Universal Church of the Kingdom of God ("UCKG") located at Soweto in South Africa. UCKG is now known as the biggest church in Africa where their new cathedral could fit in 8,000 that comes with a large underground car park. Wow!!

UCKG explicitly teaches their worshippers to dream big and that as a christian you should live in a classy house, use the latest cell phone and wear the snappiest designer clothes. The church told their worshippers to dream up money-making schemes ahead of the 2010 soccer World Cup, which South Africa is due to host.

This UCKG is one of Igreja Universal do Reino de Deus' ("IURD") new branches around the world. IURD originated from Rio de Janeiro in 1977.

How influential is IURD and what do they own?

Their presence are felt in Los Angeles, New York, Manila, Tokyo, Paris, Antwerp, Brussels and Rotterdam. It is also active in the England, Switzerland, Spain, Luxembourg, Portugal, Paraguay, USA, Dominican Republic, El Salvador, Nicaragua, Nigeria, Kenya, Malawi, Congo, Mozambique, Japan, Phillipines and India. Next target - Russia!

The IURD own 2,000 temples, 22 radio stations and 16 television stations around the world. Founded a bank called Banco Credito Metropolitano that has been beset with many financial issues.

What else they do? You have to read the article found in Apologetics Index. Extensive news on IURG's activities throughout the world. The report, in French and Dutch, is available in its entirety online.

What does IURD claims?

That the Kingdom of God is here on earth and that it can offer a solution for all manner of ills, depressions, joblessness, family- and financial problems. Promotes word-faith teachings, with a particular emphasis on the seed-faith doctrine. Since its theology and practices are far outside those of normal, biblical Christianity, this movement is considered to be a cult of Christianity.

Their founder - Edir Macedo, a former lottery worker in Rio de Janeiro, who elected himself bishop and now lives in the United States.

Reading: Jesus wants you to drive 4×4, says South African church - Religion News Blog

Reading: Jesus wants you to drive 4x4, says S.African church - Reuters

Tags: Christianity, Church, Universal Church of the Kingdom of God, UCKG, Soweto, South Africa, Jesus, Nissan Navara, Igreja Universal do Reino de Deus, Brazil, Rio de Janeiro, Banco Credito Metropolitano, Edir Macedo, Cult

Saggy Trousers

The Mayor of Delcambre town council of Louisiana state will sign a law to make wearing saggy trousers a crime......... my my there must be tons of americans adopting that fashion craze in Delcambre itself until it could prompt the town council declaring it a CRIME????

No more showing your underwear when you walk around the town, get it?
Tags: Delcambre, Louisiana, Saggy Trousers, Crime, Fashion

Registration as Voter

Anyone who is 21 years old and above are eligible to vote at any general elections held in Malaysia. In order for you to vote on that particular day, your name has to be registered with the Election Commission ("EC"). Failure to do so, even though you are aged 99, you can't vote at all.

You could register as a voter at computerised post offices. If possible, do it before 30 June 2007 to stand a chance of being included in the electoral roll. The general election may be held in November, and if so, gives the EC around 4-5 months to update the roll because we all know they're not the most efficient of 'government body'.

There have been regular registration booths at SS2 pasar malam (Monday) and Cheow Yang (Thursday). There is one at Bangsar pasar malam this coming Sunday too.

FYI:
1. For those of you whose MyKad address is your hometown or old address, you can register and go back to vote at that voting locality.

2. If you are not planning to go back there to vote, then you have to go update to your current address at the IC department (JPN). Next, you have to go to the post office and register there with your new address. Only then can you vote at your new address.

3. If you are already a registered voter, but your current MyKad address is different to the area you previously voted in, then you also have to go to the post office to update to your preferred voting locality (current MyKad address). Only then can you vote using your current address.

4. For registered voters, check your status at http://daftarj.spr.gov.my/daftarbi.asp. If you can, check it every 2 months until the election. In the event you are a registered voter but can't find your details on the EC site, you should lodge a complaint to the EC or any political party. There have been too many instances where people have been voting for decades but have been booted off the electoral roll.

That's all. Thank you. Remember, try to do it before 30 June 2007 to be on the safe side.

Tags: Voter, Election Commission, Suruhanjaya Pilihan Raya, Malaysia, MyKad, Registered Voter, Electoral Roll, General Election

Palm Inc Spamming?

* Latest update - received an email response from Palm Inc (in Comments section) confirming that it was not from them. Therefore, it's a spam. Do people check the authenticity of such emails before emailing out. What was in their mindset when they saw such email? Getting that Palm Treo??
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Received an email (as below) from a colleague purportedly from Palm Inc. It said that free Palm PDA/Smartphones would be given away free if people would continue to relay the email on their promotion to a minimum number of 15 people. Somehow in their promotion, the Indonesian's Palm's website was quoted instead of Malaysia's website.

Following was extracted from the Palm Malaysian website:-

Special Offers on Palm® Products
current retail promotions

Currently there are no promotions on our range of products and accessories. From time-to-time we run promotions, so bookmark this page and in the near future check again.

Is Palm Inc or Palm Indonesia trying to spam the email system just to have a cheap promotion tactic?

Have emailed to asia.service@palm.com (general email add) and awaiting their response.

-----Original Message-----
From: xxxxxx
Sent: Wednesday, June 13, 2007 3:02 AM
To: xxxxxx
Subject: Fwd: Free PDA+GSM Palm

Dear Friends,
Here is to announce that our company Palm, Inc., headquarter is located in Sunnyvale, California US opens our marketing office in Kuala Lumpur for Asia region.

We are promoting our product and for the detail you can visit:
http://www.palm.com/id/products/smartphones/

For first launching of our product in Malaysia, we will give away for free the new product of PDA+GSM Palm Type Treo 650 and Treo 680 and Treo 750. By giving the product of PDA+GSM , we will get valuable feed back from the customers and get the mouth to mouth advertising.

You only have to forward to 15 people. After 2 weeks you will receive a PDA+GSM Palm Type Treo 650. If you forward to 25 people, you will receive a PDA+GSM Handspring Type Treo 680. And if you forward to 40 people you will get a PDA+GSM Palm Type Treo 750.

The only thing to remember is to send cc (copy) to: louise.jasmine@gmail.com
Only by sending email to this address, we know you have forwarded this massage to your friends.

Good Luck!!
Louise Jasmine
Executive Promotion
Kuala Lumpur Office
Palm, Inc.
Email:
Private : louise.jasmine@gmail.com

Business: louise.jasmine@palm.com

Tags: Palm Inc, PDA, Smartphone, Treo 650, Treo 680, Treo 750, Spam Email, PDA+GSM Palm

Kids & Monkeys

All about Peanuts
3 mischievous boys went to the zoo one day for an outing, since they had been at school all week.
They decided to visit the elephant cage, but soon enough, they were picked up by a cop for causing a commotion.
The officer hauled them off to security for questioning. The supervisor in charge asked them to give their name and tell what they were doing at the elephant cage.
The first boy innocently said, “My name is Gary, and I just throwing Peanuts into the elephant cage.”
The second added,” My name is Larry, and all I do was throwing Peanuts into the elephant cage.”
The third boy was a little shaken up and said, “Well, my name is Peter, but my friends call me Peanuts.”
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Kids at play
A six year old boy called his mother from his friend Charlie’s house and confessed he had broken a lamp when he threw a football in their living room.
“But, Mom,” he said, brightening, “you don’t have to worry about buying another one. Charlie’s mother said it was irreplaceable.”

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Costly Monkeys

Man entered a pet shop, wanting to buy a monkey. The shop owner pointed out three identical monkeys and said, "The monkey to the left costs 500 dollars." Why does that monkey cost so much?" the man wondered. The owner replied, "Well, it knows how to use a computer."

The man asked about the next monkey on the perch. "That one costs 1,000 dollars because it can do everything the other monkey can do, plus it knows how to use the LINUX operating system."

Naturally, the startled customer asked about the third monkey. "That one costs 2,000 dollars." "And what does that one do?" the man asked. The owner replied, "To be honest, I've never seen him doing anything, but the other two calls him boss!"

Tags: Jokes, Funny, Humour, Kids, Peanuts, Zoo, Lamp, Linux Operating System, Monkey, Boss

Relationships

TRUST is a very important factor for all relationships. When trust is broken, it is the end of the relationship. Lack of trust leads to suspicion, suspicion generates anger, anger causes enmity and enmity may result in separation.

A female telephone operator received a phone call one day. She answered,"Public Utilities Board." There was silence. She repeated, "PUB." There was still no answer. When she was going to cut off the line, she heard a lady's voice, "Oh, so this is PUB. Sorry, I got the number from my husband's pocket but I do not know whose number it is."

Without mutual trust, just imagine what will happen to the couple if the telephone operator answered with just "hello" instead of "PUB".

NO POINTING FINGERS
A man asked his father-in-law, "Many people praised you for a successful marriage. Could you please share with me your secret?" The father-in-law answered in a smile, "Never criticize your wife forher shortcomings or when she does something wrong. Always bear in mind that because of her shortcomings and weaknesses, she could not find a better husband than you."

We all look forward to being loved and respected. Many people are afraid of losing face. Generally, when a person makes a mistake, he would look around to find a scapegoat to point the finger at. This is the start of a war. We should always remember that when we point one finger at a person, the other four fingers are pointing at ourselves. If we forgive the others, others will ignore our mistake too.

CREATING PERFECT RELATIONSHIPS?
A person visited the government matchmaker for marriage, SDU, and requested "I am looking for a spouse. Please help me to find a suitable one." The SDU officer said, "Your requirements, please." "Oh, good looking, polite, humorous , sporty, knowledgeable, good in singing and dancing. Willing to accompany me the whole day at home during my leisure hour, if I don't go out. Telling me interesting stories when I need companion for conversation and be silent when I want to rest."

The officer listened carefully and replied, "I understand you need television." There is a saying that a perfect match can only be found between a blind wife and a deaf husband, because the blind wife cannot see the faults of the husband and the deaf husband cannot hear the nagging of the wife. Many couples are blind and deaf at the courting stage and dream of perpetual perfect relationship.

Unfortunately, when the excitement of love wears off, they wake up and discover that marriage is not a bed of roses. The nightmare begins.
Tags: Inspiration, Relationship, Trust, Pointing Finger, Shortcoming, Weakness, Companion

Chinese Likes To Eat?

Talk about food, the chinese friends (in KL) that I have will travel just to taste a particular food. I'm talking about dinner on a Sunday night. Be it in Klang, Port Klang, Kajang, Sungai Buloh, Sri Kembangan and our normal hunting grounds around KL or PJ.

The places we go to were usually fully packed and may have to wait for your table. After getting a table, you may have to order and take turns for your food to be served. Just waiting alone may take 1 hour at times and the food will be finished in 30 minutes.

But I bet we cannot match the scenario in found in a feast held at Xuyi County, East China's Jiangsu Province. Some 15,000 people devoured nearly ten tons of lobster made by about 500 cooks during the feast.

Bearing in mind that Xuyi County is one of the poorest counties in Jiangsu Province with 90% of the population being peasants. Peasants but yet could enjoy such a feast. This is what I call - enjoy life while you can!

Tags: Food, Dinner, Klang, Port Klang, Kajang, Sungai Buloh, Sri Kembangan, KL, PJ, Lobster, Xuyi County, Jiangsu Province, China, Peasants