4th Quarter 2017

2 Oct 2017

4 Oct 2017

Happy Birthday Su 

Father and Son goes bike riding in the night to have dinner on Dad's birthday

8 Oct 2017

10 Oct 2017

15 Oct 2017

Near Kuantan Pahang

16 Oct 2017

18 Oct 2017

Deepavali

19 Oct 2017
Penang

Happy Birthday Han in Singapore

22 Oct 2017
Penang Church

24 Oct 2017

28 Oct 2017
Penang Festival

30 Oct 2017

2 Nov 2017

6 Nov 2017
5th Anniversary of Mom's passing

7 Nov 2017

Choir Performance at Yale-NUS with Han's Overtime Project barbershop group.
With Ray on the night before his enlistment to the Singapore army.

Ray not used to his army haircut while waiting for the bus to Yale-NUS campus for the Choir Performance 

 With Han his oldest brother after the evening's performance

Watch Ray's enlistment program and Han's performance in the videos below :

8 Nov 2017

Ray's enlistment day for National Service at Tekong Island

12 Nov 2017

At Church in the Bukit Timah Ward in Singapore

Catching up with family in Singapore after Church 

16 Nov 2017

19 Nov 2017
At Church with Han and later to visit the Story Telling activities at the National Library, invited by Mom's Story telling friends. Click the blue F icon to view videos in the comments section.

Met up with Lily Fu who is a Toastmasters Club friend in Kuala Lumpur who is doing a 1 year course in IT in Singapore.


20 Nov 2017
Face to Face with Elder Oaks and Elder Ballard
Live broadcast to YSA Singapore with Ray

Video has been set to start in the 35th sec from the beginning showing the Singapore YSA group waving their hands with Ray in the centre with both hands up.

The full broadcast can be viewed in the Newsroom page of the Church found here.

27 Nov 2017
Back in Kuala Lumpur
Mingling activity with recent converts at Church

1 Dec 2017
On assignment for Media Coverage:

Young Single Adults Convention starts in Semenyih for 3 days duration. (Click the comments icon or the blue F icon to view more photos or videos.)

Day 1

 

2 Dec 2017

Day 2

Afternoon, visit of Elder Meredith, Area Seventy for a talk, President Tolman of the District for Haka dance instructions and President Well of Cheras branch for Cha Cha instructions

Day 3
Morning, Visit of Elder Woo, Area Seventy 

Mixed 70 photos covering the 3 days events in one Album :

11 Nov 2017

KL branch Christmas party

19 Dec 2017

Rushing to complete all report journals 

Shared in my facebook page a touching story of a returned missionary who had a drug gang leader in his mission area who was making fun of the missionaries....

After watching the video and sharing it, I was inspired to share my personal testimony and story of my conversion as a comment below the video:

22 Dec 2017

Remembering our 35th wedding anniversary:

Looking back 35 years to the time we got married, I couldn't have imagined then of what I know now, that we can store precious memories of our lives even in the Clouds so that our posterity can enjoy them long after we are gone!


24 Dec 2017
Just before midnight on the Eve of Christmas

25 Dec 2017

1am on Christmas Morning for a Google Hangout online with the family and Elder Chong:

His experience from opening his mission call letter to going to the MTC and then to his mission field can be read from here.

29 Dec 2017

Sharing a video that shows the simple activities that kept me positive all year round

31st Dec 2017
Last Sunday of the year to share a video expressing my yearend feelings of appreciation of my family members and friends.

A Countdown post made just before midnight to the New Year of 2018

In Memory of Albert Michael Jack being father of one of the many Expat families of Kuala Lumpur

We had a visit to Kuala Lumpur from Tony and Susan King, formerly branch members in Kuala Lumpur Church in years 1982 to July 1984. We met for dinner with a few other older local members shared in a facebook post embedded below :

Meeting the Kings and our discussions of pioneer expats in KL brought me prompted me to recall that due to my old outlook email being inundated with junk mail and my incomplete migration to Gmail , I had failed to follow up on a notification email I had received on the passing away of one of the prominent expat members of Kuala Lumpur whom I first met when I came back from Australia in 1980 for Chinese New Year celebrations. This was Mike Jack, the branch President of our Church in KL. Clearing up my email account quickly, I found the email I was looking for and replied it to ask for my information so that I could create this post in Memory of Mike Jack who passed away on 29 May 2016 :

Here are some photos of Mike Jack that I can retrieve from my old photo collections :

He was called as group leader in Nov 1977 of the members of the Church in KL who were meeting at the YMCA. (Photo source - Courtesy of Jackie Ho)

I came home to Kuala Lumpur for the Chinese New Year celebration in Feb 1980 prior to receiving my mission call. There was already a KL branch meeting in a church owned building in PJ where Mike Jack was the Branch President. In the photo is my mother, directly behind the baby rocker with Mike Jack behind her at the last row in the back.

This is the only family photo of the Jack family that I have. Missing is the new baby they adopted from Malaysia before they left the country when his work tenure had ended.

This post in memory of Mike Jack is now posted to a special Easter post made in memory of people I know who have left us which can be viewed by Clicking Here.

3rd Quarter 2017

1 July 2017

3 July 2017

Michael de Jager sharing about the original Von Trapp Family that brings back memories of our family naming ourselves the Von Trapp Family in our Church Talent Night performances.

Development of online Family Home Evening during Elder Shuan Chong's mission :

Memories of the last online get-together with baby Leah : Click here to view the online recording.

This video is recorded in 1995 and Elder Shuan Chong (in red shirt) has grown up today to serve as a volunteer missionary in London :

6 July 2017

LRT ride from PJ to KL Sentral

7 July 2017

Monorail ride to KL Sentral :

At KL Sentral :

9 July 2017

10 July 2017

Unique Family Home Morning  in KL

11 July 2017

16 July 2017

17 July 2017

First MRT ride from Kuala Lumpur to Kajang :

18 July 2017

20 July 2017

21 July 2017

22 July 2017

24 July 2017

25 July 2017

27 July 2017

28 July 2017

30 July 2017

31 July 2017

At Petalz Condo with ex SJI students hosted by Liew Thim Mun and wife Judy

1 Aug 2017

3 Aug 2017

7 Aug 2017

11 Aug 2017

13 Aug 2017

15 Aug 2017

16 Aug 2017

Tragic accident of Cevin Ormon's father and his wife

17 Aug 2017

Celebrating the 77th birthday of our Form 1/4 teacher Mr Stanley Van Dort

22 Aug 2017

Riding the MRT train to Sungei Buluh 

Ern moves to KL from Singapore for a year:

He starts to register at ATC college in a business course. He took a photo with the top student of the Law program whom I had interviewed in a video below.

He gets to join the Young Single Adults at Church at an activity to watch the fireworks at midnight on pre Merdeka or Independence day day

He joins a Self-Reliance 2 day conference at the YMCA

Videos related to Ern are found below in the next few days till 1st Sept:

27 Aug 2017

Interview with Mr Stanley Van Dort (click the blue Facebook icon below to view the video

or Click Here to watch the video.

28 Aug 2017

30 Aug 2017

Fireworks on the Eve of Malaysia's 60th Independence Day

31 Aug 2017

Self Reliance Convention at the YMCA Kuala Lumpur

1 Sep 2017

3 Sep 2017

6 Sep 2017

7 Sep 2017

Playing Superman with Ern on the exercise floor. Click the comment section below to watch the video :

8 Sep 2017

Reuniting with Tony and Susan King, former expat family living in Kuala Lumpur in the 80s

The visit of the Kings inspired me to remember the Jack family who were in KL branch at that time of our lives together as members of our Church.

I therefore took time to create a blog post in remembrance of our Branch President Michael Jack who passed away on 29 May 2016. His name is also added in an Easter blog post in memory of family members and friends who have left us.

10 Sep 2017

11 Sep 2017

13 Sep 2017

14 Sep 2017

16 Sep 2017

18 Sep 2017

22 Sep 2017

24 Sep 2017

25 Sep 2017

26 Sep 2017

27 Sep 2017

Father's day 5.58am 6/18/2017 and my Story of 7

The significance of the time I woke up early on Sunday morning on Father's Day in Malaysia?

Time : 5+5+8 = 18, 1+8 = 9  

Date : 6+1+8+2+0+1+7 = 25, 2+5 = 7   

Time + Date : 9+7 = 16, 1+6 = 7

Time + Date : 5+5+8+6+1+8+2+0+1+7 = 43,  4+3 = 7

The significance isn't so much that the numbers all add up to 7 but the spirituality behind the stories I share on this day. The stories are not mine but from my oldest child in the family and daughter Fei, whom I first emulated to begin blogging, following her latest teen interest. Why have her stories on this Father's day post one might ask? The answer may soon be made apparent when I begin to share more of my thoughts in this same blog post based on the links of my Body Mind Spirit experience explained here. Today I have further related the Body Mind Spirit domains to the 3 important domains of Interpersonal, Cognitive and Intrapersonal for the 21st century that have been named by the US Academy of Sciences Engineering Medicine.

Well besides the time and date of the start of this blog post that was coincidentally significant, shared above,  Father's Day this year turned out to have other coincidental events squeezed in one day. I'm spiritually uplifted by this coincidence of events, unaware of it when this baptism date was fixed by the missionaries who chose it based on when the people they were teaching would be ready to be baptized. At Sacrament Meeting, we witnessed a father giving a baby's blessing to his first child. In the afternoon we witnessed another father who baptized his youngest child. We also witnessed another convert baptism in KL branch all captured in the facebook post below:

In the night of this Father's day June 18, (night in Asia, morning in USA) we had a family google hangout together, missing only Shuan who is serving as a missionary in London.  This hangout ended up to be a wishing of Happy Birthday to Fei and Ern that could not happen on the day of their birthdays on June 14 and 16 respectively as the timing just couldn't work out for everyone. Interesting that when it all works out, the play of numbers of the time and date above for me in KL adds up to number 7 as computed up above at the start of the post! How wonderfully coincidental and smooth flowing everything turned out,

The star of the online gathering, of course, was Baby Leah who entertained us actively with her presence. Watch the excerpts of the video below:

Next morning I woke up on a Monday while it is still Sunday or Father's day in the US to read Jay's facebook wishes to his father for Father's day and to Su, for their Wedding Aniversary screen captured below :

It was then that I realized that I had left out noting this Wedding Anniversary as also one of the coincidental events occurring on this year's Father's Day of June 18. The wedding activities of Su & Jay in June 18, 2011 where all our family members made it there is still vivid in my mind and treasured in this journal post.

On this same Monday, I also wrote our family email to Shuan on his mission in London with the following excerpts :

"Dear Elder Chong,

I received another email from your Mission President assuring everyone that you and all missionaries in London are safe due to a bombing of a mosque there. On checking the news, it occurred near a mosque at Finsbury Park, I am glad you are safe and other missionaries too but sad for those who died. It is indeed a tumultuous world we are living in and reminds me of Elder Russell M. Nelson 's talk entitled "Men's Hearts Shall Fail Them" during troubled times prophesied in the world towards the End.

Well a lot happens to me each week and more so this week with a culmination on Father's Day on Sunday June 18, 2017

Much earlier a couple of weeks ago, I had changed my facebook profile pic to a ridiculous one below:

It kind of ties in with the photo I first posted of Leah in facebook last summer below with the 'Who' question as well seen below :

Little did I know what I did then quickly while at the Liu's home to create the photo above would be relevant today with the terrorist activities England is having!

But the reason for the toilet seat around my neck photo was captured for a different reason. It was a new toilet bowl cover btw that I had bought to replace the one that was broken in our Spore home. It is symbolic for me, maybe not to others haha, of my life's achievements. I have learned in life to fix almost anything due to my Head's ability to have ideas, have the Heart to connect people to work with me plus the Hand to really do it. (Action)

You see, the new fb photo profile of mine was symbolic that I have reached a level in life where I have little fear or embarrassment for my weaknesses or whatever negative things about me that people may want to gossip about. As the down-to-earth person from young, my CSF initials in my journal writings explained that I began to understand myself to be one who seeks to Connect, Synergize and Futurize with others."   End of the excerpt from the week's letter to Elder Chong, cc. to family.

(This Head, Heart & Hand metaphor was learned recently from my TalkLane video interview with an old friend seen here.) Of course, I would give due credit to my God the Savior for his Spirit that filled my Heart and Mind to help me do the noteworthy things in my lifetime.

Here is his reply, 

Happy Fathers Day Dad!

Thanks for all that you do! The house would be falling apart if you're

not there haha! Thank you for always trying your best to be there for

us whenever we needed you. Perhaps we don't say it much and on the

contrary grumble a lot. But whenever I think back, I'm grateful you're

always there. I'm glad to hear how many things are working out for

you. Love hearing about it every week! Take care!

Love,

Elder Chong

Being active in the beginning to blog in familylane, fastlane  and spiritlane, later qualifying to be in Social Media by joining facebook, I am surprised some senior extended family members who are out of touch with what social media really is about, but could access some of my publications, questioned me if I was boasting of how successful or rich I was!!!  I guess my toilet seat profile picture should paint a thousand words to help them realize the 'systematic errors' in their thinking.

The above excerpts of my writings to our Elder without mention of the "30 days of Vulnerability" initiated by Fei explains why I chose to include her facebook posts on this blog post. She was the one who showed me how honest and open she was to share things to the public and so I followed her style. Fei was actually in my Creative Support Centre office in Kuala Lumpur in 2004 involved in a team to help me start off an on-going research focused on Optimal Performance and Thinking with the objective of helping Organizations to become more effective. (See this journal post.)

My following comments shared with her in some of her vulnerability posts further reflects the connection we have to each other:

The ancient domains of Body Mind Spirit or the Interpersonal Cognitive Intrapersonal domains named by science today come to play in my perception of her communication below :

Sharing her Vulnerability for 30 days

My comments shared below :

To be continued....