I received a phone call from a stranger purportedly based in China, trying to interest me into investing in fuel oil futures.
He claims that fuel oil prices in the USA is bound to rise given the higher and bigger demand for winter heating because of the anticipated colder winter, low stock levels and higher crude oil prices.
I protested to him that with people like him speculating in the fuel oil futures and with no viable alternatives in sight, fuel oil prices will have no other way but to go up, unless of course the US government releases it stockpile to drive down market prices.
Heating oil to keep alive in the winters in countries is a necessity. It is like water in desert climates. Withholding or profiteering in basic commodities to can mean life or death to people is the greatest crime anyone can commit.
If I make money at the expense of someone else suffering, is this humane?
What is the root objection to usury, precisely because it enslaves the poor to poverty when to the contrary, we ought to help the poor to feed, clothe and keep themselves warm when they are not able to.
If fuel oil prices become unaffordable to many in the cold countries, be prepared to see a rise in the number of deaths and all thanks to the hike in oil prices exacerbated by speculators in commodities.
We all know that fossil fuel is not sustainable but the harsh reality that in the short run there is no real alternatives to it but to gain at someone else losses is to me, adding another misery on suffering people.
Wednesday, November 14, 2007
Wednesday, August 8, 2007
Sin & the Sinner
I received an appeal from one Pastor Allen Tan urging Christians in Malaysia to "nib the problem of starting a gay church in Malaysia at its bud".
Apparently there is one Pastor Oyoung Wen Feng commissioned by strong American support is tasked to starting a gay church in Malaysia.
Pastor Allen Tan is urging Christians from various denominations to unite to stop it from happening, even to the extent of urging the government of Malaysia to intervene on the basis that homosexual activities subvert the government's efforts and millions of ringgits investment in stemming out the HIV-AIDS problem because, according to Rev Tan, AIDS-HIV is caused by homosexual acts.
Pastor Tan seems to have taken it upon himself with crusading fervor to eradicate the budding of any gay church in Malaysia to the extent of using any ways and means to achieve his end believing he had a mandate from God to eradicate the ungodly from the face of the earth, phew, with fervor reminiscing those of the infamous Taliban!
While I am in agreement with the Bible that homosexual acts like other sexual sins e.g. bestiality, fornication and adultery is forbidden to all, Christians or non-Christians alike, we ought to be realistic and acknowledge the fact that as redeemed sinners, we are still on the way towards holiness and are still continuing to struggle with sin, whether we confess it to our other fellow brethren or not.
Do we grant church fellowship to people only if they are "good enough" to be associated with us, or do we accept people in good faith and based on face value that they have, like us, have taken a step of faith in following Jesus Christ though confession, repentance, desiring and working diligently on becoming a disciple of Christ even though we by faith are already Christ's disciples?
What if one day, someone we know as a brother or sister, with whom we have fellowship approach us with a confession of a sexual sin that he or she is struggling with and seeking our help to overcome it?
Do we push him/her away like lepers or do we weep with them and extend that hand of support to carry our brother through because he is our brother that we ought not to abandon in his hour of need?
There would not have been a place for any gay church had the conventional churches provide a place in their congregation to rehabilitate people who repents and are working towards overcoming their specific areas of weaknesses in their lives.
People like Oyoung may have the agenda to establish some kind of a church that runs contrary to the basic teachings and values of the Bible, maybe like a Jewish sect that advocates the eating of pork, but to then pressure a secular government to intervene in what is precisely a religious matter is inviting a "kick-me" ridicule.
What ought to be our response then?
The criminal laws of Malaysia, inherited from the British, which relied upon the values of the Church of England provides for the specific punishment of homosexual acts (acts of carnal knowledge).
This is the same law that Dr. Mahathir, the retired Prime Minister of Malaysia used to get the courts to convict and fire his deputy, Anwar Ibrahim.
But this is a matter of the law and their are sufficient provisions in the Penal Code to punish people who practices homosexual acts in Malaysia, be it committed privately or publicly.
Even if Oyoung or some others manage to get his gay church established, ought we be ashamed because he claim it to be a Christian Church?
Labels ought not trouble us, decent people know what decency is and rubbish smells like and the substance of garbage no matter how it is masked or disguised.
People will be able to discern the truth from falsehood by reasoning.
If truth cannot be established by reasoning; then truth it ought not be.
We cannot forbid religious freedom (no matter how contrary it is to our own liking) in Malaysia because it is enshrined in our secular Constitution that protects all, us included.
We can only attempt to enlighten people on the love of God that desires us to lead happy, healthy and fulfilling lives and for that, He guides us through His wisdom, precepts upon precepts, a little here, a little there.
Let us build our communities to be strong and true to our Lord.
An abundant life in Christ Jesus experienced needs no other distraction, even of the strange kind like same sex acts.
Below is my reply to a concerned brother:
Dear Bro. Lim,
Thank you for forwarding the two emails regarding the same issue.
My first reaction is "Wow"! Seems like the "vernacular" Chinese newspapers are more current than the mainstream English and Bahasa Malaysia newspapers in Malaysia in covering such "hot issues" like "gay churches" that will help sell their newspapers and benefit their shareholders and employees!
I think the attempt to stop or ban people from discussing or establishing churches, temples or any other institutions of religious or moral persuasion other than ours is utmost condescending at best and bigotry at worst.
I am not acquainted with one Rev. Allen Tan, but I could literally smell that blood thirsty sword of judgment in his hands to mete out "God's justice" like the famous Justice Pow of Kaifeng of old and ala maybe the Taliban of modern day Afghanistan trapped in their 7thCentury archaic time frozen mindset.
Malaysia's Constitution is secular and thank God it is.
This same Constitution that guarantees religious freedom for all is like a double edged sword that cuts both ways, it is impartial and a respecter of no persons, this is the essence of the Rule of Law, a tenet of modern civilization so sacred that without which the foundation of justice cannot stand.
If we start to poke the government to ban what we think is "unchristian", we are writing a blank cheque of precedence for our own persecution.
Ponder for a moment, do we forbid churches that preaches a different gospel other than ours, even one that denies the deity of Christ?
Churches that teach us to abstain from eating and drinking certain kinds of food and drinks because the Bible (Old Testament) records for the Jews that those are forbidden but the New Testament clearly records for us in the Council of Jerusalem that we Gentiles need no further yoke for what Jesus Christ has emancipated us from?
Churches that still believe in the Apostolic Succession and the continuous practice of the speaking in tongues when it ought to have ceased as a feature of God's intended dispensation for such a phenomenon tagged with an expiry date?
I could go on and on, but I think we ought to have got the point by now.
Leave these people alone but educate our own people on the ways of the Lord.
If we know that homosexual acts is wrong before the sight of God just like any other sexual sins like adultery, fornication and masturbation (?), talk and walk our personal life to match our talk.
By the way, HIV and AIDS is caused by a virus spread by the transfer of body fluids, not necessary exclusive to homosexual acts. It can be transmitted by blood transfusion, sharing of needles, toothbrushes, razor blades and even heterosexual sex.
Recent medical discoveries seem to indicate that HIV transmission amongst circumcised males is less vis-a-vis uncircumcised, so does it mean that we all ought to be circumcised to help slow down the spread of HIV-AIDS and be wanton with our sexual appetite?
No! ABC is still the message: Abstain, Be Faithful to your Spouse and if you cannot be either, wear a Condom!
The beauty of the Christian Church is in its diversity and the tolerance within the ecclesia that had allowed the diversity to blossom.
My take of the situation is simple.
If we are Christ's disciples first and church members second, it does not matter which church I go to or if I go to any church at all.
Church as an organization is supposed to serve society, touch lives and points people to Jesus Christ to also be their Lord and Savior through their own free will.
But alas, look around us and we see the ubiquitous self serving ends of the people with power running the churches and the unbelievable dirt and abuses of pastors and yes man and yes woman leaders lead by their noses.
My own life is a tragic story of church abuse.
I was ex-communicated by a Charismatic Church because I asked:
1. For the church accounts to b externally audited and also published.
2. For open membership to be practiced as stipulated in the church's constitution and
3. For the election of the pastors and office bearers, all these stipulated in the church's constitution but never practiced and forever denied to the "church members".
The biggest joke to silent me was the senior pastor, with help from his cronies, hastily set up a kangaroo court, made up of an equally hastily set up "Elders Board" and "Discipline Committee Board" to hear and judge me in absentia and finally excommunicated me and my family, even though we were not members in the first place!
Not members even after attending the church as pioneers and for more than 20 years.
Not members not because we did not want to, but because the senior pastor deceived us into believing that there is no need for "paper membership", so long as you attend the church, you automatically are members.
How romantic and naive we all were!
How cunningly deceptive this "man of god" is!
I can go on and on about the shameful cover-up, way up the church hierarchy, even way up to Springsfield, Missouri, USA, but I think this should suffice.
Those who knows the truth, will be set free by the truth, although it first has to hurt.
My two sen advise on the matter: the gays and lesbians may not be people we like to associate with, but they are people who Christ died for too.
If we are not prepared to minister to them because we would not touch the uncleaned, let those who have a heart to reach out to these special people do so without our inhibitions.
If Jesus Christ were to be here today, how would he had treat the gays and the lesbians caught in the act and brought by the modern day Pharisees for His judgment?
Would He command them to be condemned with decapitation or would he challenge us (you and me, the onlookers): Let those without sin cast the first stone?
Would you cast the first stone when the He Who knew no sin simply says, "Go and sin no more".
Grace, Amazing Grace that saved a wretch like me, freely we receive, let us also freely give.
Shalom,
Alex Kee
Apparently there is one Pastor Oyoung Wen Feng commissioned by strong American support is tasked to starting a gay church in Malaysia.
Pastor Allen Tan is urging Christians from various denominations to unite to stop it from happening, even to the extent of urging the government of Malaysia to intervene on the basis that homosexual activities subvert the government's efforts and millions of ringgits investment in stemming out the HIV-AIDS problem because, according to Rev Tan, AIDS-HIV is caused by homosexual acts.
Pastor Tan seems to have taken it upon himself with crusading fervor to eradicate the budding of any gay church in Malaysia to the extent of using any ways and means to achieve his end believing he had a mandate from God to eradicate the ungodly from the face of the earth, phew, with fervor reminiscing those of the infamous Taliban!
While I am in agreement with the Bible that homosexual acts like other sexual sins e.g. bestiality, fornication and adultery is forbidden to all, Christians or non-Christians alike, we ought to be realistic and acknowledge the fact that as redeemed sinners, we are still on the way towards holiness and are still continuing to struggle with sin, whether we confess it to our other fellow brethren or not.
Do we grant church fellowship to people only if they are "good enough" to be associated with us, or do we accept people in good faith and based on face value that they have, like us, have taken a step of faith in following Jesus Christ though confession, repentance, desiring and working diligently on becoming a disciple of Christ even though we by faith are already Christ's disciples?
What if one day, someone we know as a brother or sister, with whom we have fellowship approach us with a confession of a sexual sin that he or she is struggling with and seeking our help to overcome it?
Do we push him/her away like lepers or do we weep with them and extend that hand of support to carry our brother through because he is our brother that we ought not to abandon in his hour of need?
There would not have been a place for any gay church had the conventional churches provide a place in their congregation to rehabilitate people who repents and are working towards overcoming their specific areas of weaknesses in their lives.
People like Oyoung may have the agenda to establish some kind of a church that runs contrary to the basic teachings and values of the Bible, maybe like a Jewish sect that advocates the eating of pork, but to then pressure a secular government to intervene in what is precisely a religious matter is inviting a "kick-me" ridicule.
What ought to be our response then?
The criminal laws of Malaysia, inherited from the British, which relied upon the values of the Church of England provides for the specific punishment of homosexual acts (acts of carnal knowledge).
This is the same law that Dr. Mahathir, the retired Prime Minister of Malaysia used to get the courts to convict and fire his deputy, Anwar Ibrahim.
But this is a matter of the law and their are sufficient provisions in the Penal Code to punish people who practices homosexual acts in Malaysia, be it committed privately or publicly.
Even if Oyoung or some others manage to get his gay church established, ought we be ashamed because he claim it to be a Christian Church?
Labels ought not trouble us, decent people know what decency is and rubbish smells like and the substance of garbage no matter how it is masked or disguised.
People will be able to discern the truth from falsehood by reasoning.
If truth cannot be established by reasoning; then truth it ought not be.
We cannot forbid religious freedom (no matter how contrary it is to our own liking) in Malaysia because it is enshrined in our secular Constitution that protects all, us included.
We can only attempt to enlighten people on the love of God that desires us to lead happy, healthy and fulfilling lives and for that, He guides us through His wisdom, precepts upon precepts, a little here, a little there.
Let us build our communities to be strong and true to our Lord.
An abundant life in Christ Jesus experienced needs no other distraction, even of the strange kind like same sex acts.
Below is my reply to a concerned brother:
Dear Bro. Lim,
Thank you for forwarding the two emails regarding the same issue.
My first reaction is "Wow"! Seems like the "vernacular" Chinese newspapers are more current than the mainstream English and Bahasa Malaysia newspapers in Malaysia in covering such "hot issues" like "gay churches" that will help sell their newspapers and benefit their shareholders and employees!
I think the attempt to stop or ban people from discussing or establishing churches, temples or any other institutions of religious or moral persuasion other than ours is utmost condescending at best and bigotry at worst.
I am not acquainted with one Rev. Allen Tan, but I could literally smell that blood thirsty sword of judgment in his hands to mete out "God's justice" like the famous Justice Pow of Kaifeng of old and ala maybe the Taliban of modern day Afghanistan trapped in their 7thCentury archaic time frozen mindset.
Malaysia's Constitution is secular and thank God it is.
This same Constitution that guarantees religious freedom for all is like a double edged sword that cuts both ways, it is impartial and a respecter of no persons, this is the essence of the Rule of Law, a tenet of modern civilization so sacred that without which the foundation of justice cannot stand.
If we start to poke the government to ban what we think is "unchristian", we are writing a blank cheque of precedence for our own persecution.
Ponder for a moment, do we forbid churches that preaches a different gospel other than ours, even one that denies the deity of Christ?
Churches that teach us to abstain from eating and drinking certain kinds of food and drinks because the Bible (Old Testament) records for the Jews that those are forbidden but the New Testament clearly records for us in the Council of Jerusalem that we Gentiles need no further yoke for what Jesus Christ has emancipated us from?
Churches that still believe in the Apostolic Succession and the continuous practice of the speaking in tongues when it ought to have ceased as a feature of God's intended dispensation for such a phenomenon tagged with an expiry date?
I could go on and on, but I think we ought to have got the point by now.
Leave these people alone but educate our own people on the ways of the Lord.
If we know that homosexual acts is wrong before the sight of God just like any other sexual sins like adultery, fornication and masturbation (?), talk and walk our personal life to match our talk.
By the way, HIV and AIDS is caused by a virus spread by the transfer of body fluids, not necessary exclusive to homosexual acts. It can be transmitted by blood transfusion, sharing of needles, toothbrushes, razor blades and even heterosexual sex.
Recent medical discoveries seem to indicate that HIV transmission amongst circumcised males is less vis-a-vis uncircumcised, so does it mean that we all ought to be circumcised to help slow down the spread of HIV-AIDS and be wanton with our sexual appetite?
No! ABC is still the message: Abstain, Be Faithful to your Spouse and if you cannot be either, wear a Condom!
The beauty of the Christian Church is in its diversity and the tolerance within the ecclesia that had allowed the diversity to blossom.
My take of the situation is simple.
If we are Christ's disciples first and church members second, it does not matter which church I go to or if I go to any church at all.
Church as an organization is supposed to serve society, touch lives and points people to Jesus Christ to also be their Lord and Savior through their own free will.
But alas, look around us and we see the ubiquitous self serving ends of the people with power running the churches and the unbelievable dirt and abuses of pastors and yes man and yes woman leaders lead by their noses.
My own life is a tragic story of church abuse.
I was ex-communicated by a Charismatic Church because I asked:
1. For the church accounts to b externally audited and also published.
2. For open membership to be practiced as stipulated in the church's constitution and
3. For the election of the pastors and office bearers, all these stipulated in the church's constitution but never practiced and forever denied to the "church members".
The biggest joke to silent me was the senior pastor, with help from his cronies, hastily set up a kangaroo court, made up of an equally hastily set up "Elders Board" and "Discipline Committee Board" to hear and judge me in absentia and finally excommunicated me and my family, even though we were not members in the first place!
Not members even after attending the church as pioneers and for more than 20 years.
Not members not because we did not want to, but because the senior pastor deceived us into believing that there is no need for "paper membership", so long as you attend the church, you automatically are members.
How romantic and naive we all were!
How cunningly deceptive this "man of god" is!
I can go on and on about the shameful cover-up, way up the church hierarchy, even way up to Springsfield, Missouri, USA, but I think this should suffice.
Those who knows the truth, will be set free by the truth, although it first has to hurt.
My two sen advise on the matter: the gays and lesbians may not be people we like to associate with, but they are people who Christ died for too.
If we are not prepared to minister to them because we would not touch the uncleaned, let those who have a heart to reach out to these special people do so without our inhibitions.
If Jesus Christ were to be here today, how would he had treat the gays and the lesbians caught in the act and brought by the modern day Pharisees for His judgment?
Would He command them to be condemned with decapitation or would he challenge us (you and me, the onlookers): Let those without sin cast the first stone?
Would you cast the first stone when the He Who knew no sin simply says, "Go and sin no more".
Grace, Amazing Grace that saved a wretch like me, freely we receive, let us also freely give.
Shalom,
Alex Kee
On 8/6/07, SER SHING LIM < lifatt@gmail.com> wrote:
---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Bene Toon < benetoon@gmail.com>
Date: Aug 6, 2007 5:44 PM
Subject: Fwd: Gay church issue
To: chian.chomfon@taylors.edu.my, chom_elle@hotmail.com, fuat.sadewa@yahoo.co.id, joseph_thana2001@yahoo.com, kennyltc@yahoo.com, kingjamesmy@yahoo.com , mark_kwan@hotmail.com, mingfei_tan@yahoo.com, nancy@skklog.com.my, pl-sanko@ntti.net.sg, poonpc@yahoo.com, set_success@yahoo.com, yinghui0925@hotmail.com, zephaniahpee@calvary.com.my, zephptk@yahoo.com, Aaron & Vivian ONG < arong@streamyx.com>, Afred Ng < arcpro@tm.net.my>, amos lee <amos_ltc@yahoo.com>, Amy Ding < amyding@a-freight.com>, "Andri DO (Rica Jkt)" < andrido-mkt@ricakusuma.co.id>, andy chua < jb_andychua@yahoo.com.sg>, annabelle chian < annabelle0205@hotmail.com>, Anthony Ong <ong188@gmail.com>, Ban Huat < limbanhuat@yahoo.com>, BK < boonkeat21@yahoo.com>, Bro Dav <jayadev@mmhe.com.my>, Bro Ken < ah_naige@yahoo.com>, Bro Soong Kok Tiong < soongkt@yahoo.com>, Bro Tony <ar9311@hotmail.com>, Bruce & cathie < cathie1@tm.net.my>, Cha Yong < uchayong@tm.net.my>, Chen Long <tansl@miracle.com.my>, Chloe Teo < chloeteo112@yahoo.com>, CqLeong < brightimber@gmail.com>, Daniel Sin <danielsinhf@gmail.com>, Danny Eng < dannyengseetian@yahoo.com.tw>, davidson lawrence < kingjamesmy@gmail.com>, desmiond leong < desmond@flexitrans.com.my>, Doulos Tan <iamdoulos@gmail.com >, Eileen Chee <eileen.chee@csflogistics.com>, en cheng < tiffanym@streamyx.com>, forrestgump forrestgump < ahnaige@hotmail.com>, heo ty < centia40@yahoo.com>, irene Ang <cccjohor@tm.net.my>, Jimmy Chan < jabez.marketing@gmail.com>, joseph dowd < joseph.dowd@gmail.com>, Joshua Lim <arthome@pd.jaring.my >, Joshua Lim <thteokk@streamyx.com>, Kelvin Ng < kelngtop1@gmail.com>, LARRY < larrylms@pd.jaring.my>, Lau Kui Min Usana <dssmin@yahoo.com.sg>, Mark Kwan < sojournm@gmail.com>, matthew soon < wecare777@yahoo.com.sg>, nelson peter <nelson.shalom@gmail.com>, nelson peter < shalomnps@yahoo.com>, Ninan < cninan@gmail.com>, Paul Rajan <apexrecycle@yahoo.com.my>, "Ps. Shi Shin" < kennethchwa@yahoo.com.sg>, " Ps.Daniel Chow" <ccctampoi@yahoo.com>, "Ps. Ernie" < ernie_4jc@hotmail.com>, "Ps. PeiSan" < cccsuria@time.net.my>, "ps.Thomas fang" <ysfang@tm.net.my>, "Rev. Allen TAN" < yhjohn@streamyx.com>, Ricky Lim < ksljulie@hotmail.com>, Rudi Senjaya < senjaya@telkom.net>, Rui Fu <jleedavid@yahoo.com>, samuel Tan < samuel17@tm.net.my>, sathis nair < superb_sn2003@yahoo.com>, simon ho <hermerz@streamyx.com >, sis malini <mr9311@hotmail.com>, SSLim < lifatt@gmail.com>, Tan Boon Joo <bjtan_jb5@yahoo.com.sg >, Tan Guan <tg@ecoprint.com.my>, Timothy Siow < ica2000@tm.net.my>, victor eng < xxlgreenpower@gmail.com>, vincentia <yyan63@yahoo.com>, Vivian Ai fen < aifen_tng@yahoo.com.sg>, Wee Yong Fook < livingstone@pd.jaring.my>, wenchi <kohboonchee@gmail.com>, wenshiong < mhyap@dailyfresh.com.my>, wong et yong < etyong2002@yahoo.com.sg>, yap choon ping <yapfrance@yahoo.com>
---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Allen Tan <yhjohn@streamyx.com>
Date: Aug 6, 2007 2:50 PM
Subject: Gay church issue
To: NECF <editor@necf.org.my>, Wong Kim Kong < necf@po.jaring.my>
Cc: Ding Mee Heyong < gracedmh@hotmail.com>, Nancy Lai <nancy_seowkian@hotmail.com>, "Amy Lee (Antioch)" < amamy@tm.net.my>, Andrew Wong < holisticteam@yahoo.com>, Christopher Mun < chrismun@pd.jaring.my>, Edward Chui < rev.edward.chui@gmail.com>, elizabeth <elizabeth@hktt.com>, Lum Chee Wah < cheewah_l@bursamalaysia.com>, Joshua Lee < fct@po.jaring.my>, Susan Tang < admin@station-of-life.org>, Tryphena Law <trylaw@hotmail.com >, Tracy Ng <tracynkc8@yahoo.com>, Bene Chian < benetoon@gmail.com>
Aug 6 2007
Dear Rev Wong Kim Kong,
Thank you for replying me through Sister Sandy via a sms. Since you are not taking actions, I will work with some others to pursue the matter. Many churches and ministers are looking up to NECF for help. They still think the best party is NECF. What for NECF organizes praying and fasting for 40 days for the nation, and now when this crucial issue propped up which required your prompt action, you are not willing to do anything? I am sure that such gay-agenda being propped up was the result of our Christians' prayers. You know God chose to expose them right in the period of your 40-day fast so that you can take a prompt action! As such, Pastors are disappointed with your reply.
Though the gays in the talk do not practice the act, don't you see that this is the budding time? And soon it will come out with the fruits. If we could foresee that they are bad fruits, should not we do something now? Which way is easier, to nip the buds now, or to tend to sick people who consumed the fruits later?
Yes, it is good to see the Muslims taking action against homosexuality. But I feel that we Christians should be the first person to be aware of the deadly sting of it. We should be the first to take initiative to work with government. I am sure the government is very pleased with us to alert them of the vice being taking place in the country. The government is spending billions of Ringgits in treating the HIV and sex-related diseases! They are definitely not willing to see youths involved in all these perversions. I hope that you are not upset with me over my opinion. I only see that upholding the principles of the Bible is important when the society needs us.
Thank you. God bless you.
P.S. Aug 7 at noon, some pastors would meet up and see what to do next.
Rev. Allen Tan
Aug 5 2007
Dear Pastors, Bro & Sis,
Updates on Gay Church in Malaysia
Shalom!
Thank you for your concern about the gay church. Prior to his two meetings on Aug 11 & 12 at Grand Olympic Hotel (near Merdeka Stadium KL), Oyoung Wen Feng is having a road-show for 5 days from Aug 5 to 9 at Penang, Johor Baru, KL & Singapore. Again Sin Chew Jit Poh made the publicity on Aug 5. This shows that Oyoung is aggressive in pushing through the Gay-agenda in Malaysia.
If we do not stop him now, pretty soon Malaysia will have many gay churches. A pastor told me that Rev. Troy Perry has planted 200 gay churches in America. Is it true? Could anyone give us the answer especially those who are in America? Their church is Metropolitan Community Church – New York. By the way, Troy is not the senior pastor, but the founder of MCCNY. The senior pastor is Rev Bumgardner. Please check Oyoung's website about his road-shows:
http://www.o-young.com/html/activity.htm
Very soon, our friends and relatives would be invited to attend the weddings of their members. Alamak, their spouse is of the same sex! Very soon, all our true churches will have real struggles with youth ministry. We pray that youth pastors would work harder because we are fighting for souls with gay churches.
Some of you asked me about two things: 1. Who Joseph was. 2. Getting NECF to help. Here are the answers:
1. I called Joseph and he is a Christian. When asked which church he attends, he was evasive. This shows that he has no confidence to face the public about his church membership. I exchanged sms with him asking him to repent. But he was upset with me, and he said that we Christians have no guts to do something to the unjust in our country, and instead we all prevent sinners to build relationship with God. It is obvious that he was misled by Oyoung.
When Christians spoke against homosexuality, Oyoung will accuse the church for persecuting them. The church welcomes all gays and lesbians, but we don't condone their actions. These people do not face the reality to have their lifestyle changed. Instead they set up gay churches because they have the wrong ideas that churches as whole persecuted them.
2. I sent a letter to NECF, Rev Wong KK, he replied through sms: 'Rev Allen Tan, this is Sandy from NECF, Rev Wong KK has read and understood your letter. His response is that NECF will help churches to educate their members but is unable to push the govt to ban the talk. The reason is that NECF's stand to the govt is in support of religious liberty. Asking for a ban based on our own beliefs goes against this and may have other repercussions. However, the homosexual act is a criminal offence in Malaysia so you may want to report the matter to the police. (Only that no actual act is committed during the talk, so it may not work.) Rev Wong hopes that you understand the situation and thank you for your concern for the Body of Christ. Thank you.'
I want to thank those who responded to me through calls and emails expressing their supports. And at the same time they are forwarding my mail to some Christian groups which practiced justice. Some gave me some suggestions. I hope we will come out with some solutions. Stopping gay-ministry is a long-term wrestling with Oyoung and his group. Though we may not be on-time to stop his two meetings now, we hope that his work would not be established in Malaysia.
Thank you and God bless you.
Rev. Allen Tan
Friday, August 3, 2007
Affirmative Action, Sustainable?
The STAR on 03Aug2007, reported UMNO Youth deputy chief Khairy Jamaludin accusing Anwar Ibrahim, "A traitor to the Malay cause":
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Anwar a traitor to Malay cause, says Khairy
KUALA KANGSAR: Umno Youth has labelled Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim – who was once head of the movement – a traitor to the Malay cause.
In making the declaration, Umno Youth deputy chief Khairy Jamaludin said: “The (coming) general elections is not about politics but the future of the Malays.”
Among the 5,000 people present were the wing’s former chief Datuk Ahmad Zahid Hamidi, who is also Deputy Information Minister, and Mentri Besar Datuk Seri Mohd Tajol Rosli Ghazali.
Khairy said the movement was angered by Anwar’s persistence in wanting to do away with the New Economic Policy, a cause close to the hearts of the Malays.
“He wanted to abolish it simply because he wanted to win the support of the non-Malays,” he said.
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While we all know how dirty real politics can be and let it be known on the onset that I side nobody politically, my business is in sustainable development, I am deeply perturbed by the intellectual caliber of a purported Oxford U graduate.
The context of the NEP (New Economic Policy) was a time sensitive affirmative action program to eradicate (Malay) poverty and restructure (Malaysian) society, an aftermath of the racial riots of 1969, and not a subject of the social contract negotiated at the promulgation of the Malayan-Malaysian Constitution at the founding of independent Malaya in1957.
The NEP which sets out to help the poor as classified by race (exclusively the Malays) was supposed to be for a limited period of 20 years i.e. 1970 to 1990. It was never intended to be for eternity, but it now looks like the people who benefits directly from this convenient conduit of financial wealth are bent on perpetuating it.
When Anwar Ibrahim insisted NEP to be abolished, it presumable caused such a stir, at least on one UMNO member Khairy Jamaludin, the son-in-law of PM Ahmad Badawi.Well, it did not moved me a bit.
I am more interested in what Anwar Ibrahim propose the NEP be replaced with.
Affirmative action has its place in every nation and at anytime, because abject poverty is a respecter of no color but of class and the station of life.
Technically, anyone is a candidate for abject poverty, so affirmative action ought not be bias towards race but class: if you are poor enough and qualify to receive aid, you ought to be helped, not because you are poor AND belong to a certain color, but because you are poor, period.
By insisting the NEP be abolished (and hopefully be replaced with a EOEP: Equal Opportunity Economic Policy?), Anwar Ibrahim, in my humble opinion is not fishing for non-Malay votes.
He instead is being true and honest, walking his talk as an authentic Malay Warrior: Keeping his word: "Kata Mesti Di Kota".
Lest we forget, UMNO, through PM Tun Razak had promised that the NEP is for a fixed time period of 20 years and ought to have lapsed by 1990.
Alas, Tun Razak has passed away long ago, otherwise it will be interesting to know what he thinks about extending the NEP forever, when it has matured.
By renegading on its words, UMNO not only dishonors the honesty of the Bangsa, it also implicates the integrity of what the Ugama preaches versus what is practiced by its Ummah and therefore the Negara as the other citizens watches the leaders of that Bangsa in the way they walk their talk.
It is already difficult under normal circumstances for one to do the right thing, and to do the right thing even when it hurts, that is the mark of a Hero, peers of great leaders like Mahatma Gandhi and Abraham Lincoln.
Anwar Ibrahim is taking a big gamble by insisting on abolishing the NEP, because he will certainly lose the affection of most bumiputras without even the slightest assured support from the non bumiputras.
Afterall, the non-bumiputras in Malaysia have got so used to relying only on themselves and thanks to self-reliance, they need no clutches to stand or walk.
Anwar Ibrahim is a Visionary.
He knows, the very aid that is supposed to help can turn out to be that very bait that entraps.
Imagine for a moment, if your one year old child could only babble, crawl and need to be fed and cleaned, well, that is normal.
But this very child of yours, who is not an invalid still expects you to feed and clean him like a one year old child when he is already 37 years old, is that still cute especially when he still crawls and not walk? When is he going to grow up and be independent?
Affirmative Action, to be sustainable in the long run, needs justification and justification on helping the poor regardless of color, religion or creed.
Anwar Ibrahim knows what it is like to have dignity (maruah).
Even if today Anwar Ibrahim is a pauper, poor in money; he is rich in dignity.
Anwar Ibrahim, you have done your ancestors proud and I hope many of us will emulate you.
I salute you!
Monday, July 30, 2007
Blind Men Versus One Eye Man
In the land of the blind, the one eye man is King!
This old but wise adage still rings true today because sight and insight to problems even in this day and age is still lacking as the masses are still trapped in their mindset, incapacitated by their own paradigm paralysis.
Today, most of us ought to be aware as well as be concerned about human caused global warming and climate change, yet only a few of us are taking positive and practical actions to walk our talk because we are not prepared to be inconvenienced.
We love our energy guzzling and waste creating lifestyle and while we pay great lip service to the cause of tackling climate change and global warming, we, if anything at all, do very little to match our words with deeds.
We are, generally, blind and being blind, we perceive the whole picture of the dire state of the environment only in parts; not the whole.
Just like as in the famous Sufi story of the blind men and the elephant, every blind man perceive the unfamiliar animal according to their own "feelings", the one who felt the elephant's trunk insisted that the elephant is like a snake; the tail, a snake; the belly, a wall and the leg, a tree.
Even if we combined the collective intelligence of the blind men towards the attempted deciphering of an unfamiliar animal (problem), we will never get any wiser or further.
What is needed is a sighted person, even half a sighted person will do: with just one eye or a pair of partially sighted eyes, to see the whole picture.
Today's problems call for new solutions, not those of yesterdays but of visionary caliber.
The vision that the whole Cosmos is built upon the twin foundation of sustainability and renewal-ability, without which, the system will self implode and collapse
The Earth sustains and renews itself, with or without human beings and really, human beings are redundant to the Earth in so far as the long term viability of the Earth is concerned.
Imagine planet Earth devoid of homa sapiens, plants will continue to thrive, animals will continue to survive on the thriving plants and other animals that feed on plants.
Take away the plants and there will be no animals and humans.
We need just one, not, two eyes to see the dire state of the environment we are in, but the good news is that, we still have hope to turn the environment around, if we act very tough and act now.
This old but wise adage still rings true today because sight and insight to problems even in this day and age is still lacking as the masses are still trapped in their mindset, incapacitated by their own paradigm paralysis.
Today, most of us ought to be aware as well as be concerned about human caused global warming and climate change, yet only a few of us are taking positive and practical actions to walk our talk because we are not prepared to be inconvenienced.
We love our energy guzzling and waste creating lifestyle and while we pay great lip service to the cause of tackling climate change and global warming, we, if anything at all, do very little to match our words with deeds.
We are, generally, blind and being blind, we perceive the whole picture of the dire state of the environment only in parts; not the whole.
Just like as in the famous Sufi story of the blind men and the elephant, every blind man perceive the unfamiliar animal according to their own "feelings", the one who felt the elephant's trunk insisted that the elephant is like a snake; the tail, a snake; the belly, a wall and the leg, a tree.
Even if we combined the collective intelligence of the blind men towards the attempted deciphering of an unfamiliar animal (problem), we will never get any wiser or further.
What is needed is a sighted person, even half a sighted person will do: with just one eye or a pair of partially sighted eyes, to see the whole picture.
Today's problems call for new solutions, not those of yesterdays but of visionary caliber.
The vision that the whole Cosmos is built upon the twin foundation of sustainability and renewal-ability, without which, the system will self implode and collapse
The Earth sustains and renews itself, with or without human beings and really, human beings are redundant to the Earth in so far as the long term viability of the Earth is concerned.
Imagine planet Earth devoid of homa sapiens, plants will continue to thrive, animals will continue to survive on the thriving plants and other animals that feed on plants.
Take away the plants and there will be no animals and humans.
We need just one, not, two eyes to see the dire state of the environment we are in, but the good news is that, we still have hope to turn the environment around, if we act very tough and act now.
Saturday, July 14, 2007
Broga Incinerator is Off: Good News or Bad News?
The Broga Incinerator project is now officially, "Burnt", thanks to unsustainable cost, that's the official reason from the Malaysian government.
While the people, especially those in the vicinity of the proposed project cheered and breathed a sigh of relief, ought others follow suit?
The problem of waste disposal is faced by every community and nation globally and the more "modernized" and "industrialized", the bigger and more complex the problem.
While incinerating waste is one of the many alternatives in waste disposal, it has it's very serious residual waste and gas emission problems.
It is a fact that burning common plastics like PVC releases toxic and carcinogenic substances like Dioxin and the concentrated residue at the end of the incineration process needs disposal too, and more often that not, these are concentrated toxic waste.
My take of the situation is that the Malaysian government finally woke up to the fact that they themselves may not be able to meet the strict environmental standards they have legislated, so better to abort now then face the inevitable embarrassment down the road.
However, if we look at the solid waste disposal problem in Malaysia, we cannot escape from the fact that continue the "business as usual" basis is going to bury us all in waste.
If we continue to generate and landfill waste at the rate we are doing now, sooner or later, we are going to ran out of land.
Looking across the Causeway, in land scarce Singapore, they are even running out of land to bury the dead, let alone rubbish!
Singapore had gone the incineration route for more than two decades already and had it not been so, she would have another hill, Bukit Sampah, besides Bukit Timah.
It is true that incineration always cost more, ton for ton of rubbish, but buried rubbish is not something that will go away within a generation or two; it will come back to haunt our future generations.
The only long term viable and sustainable way out seems to lie in the 4Rs: Review, Reduce, Reuse and Recycle.
If the net total of necessary waste can be reduced to its absolute minimum, whether it is incineration or burying, either one will be equally viable.
Waste sorted at source is the way to go.
Organic waste ought to be composted and returned to the land as food for other organism. Reducing, reusing and recycling will help but the best of all is for all of us to review our consumption habits: Do I really need to consume this, in this wasteful manner?
Eventually, when we waste not, we want not!
While the people, especially those in the vicinity of the proposed project cheered and breathed a sigh of relief, ought others follow suit?
The problem of waste disposal is faced by every community and nation globally and the more "modernized" and "industrialized", the bigger and more complex the problem.
While incinerating waste is one of the many alternatives in waste disposal, it has it's very serious residual waste and gas emission problems.
It is a fact that burning common plastics like PVC releases toxic and carcinogenic substances like Dioxin and the concentrated residue at the end of the incineration process needs disposal too, and more often that not, these are concentrated toxic waste.
My take of the situation is that the Malaysian government finally woke up to the fact that they themselves may not be able to meet the strict environmental standards they have legislated, so better to abort now then face the inevitable embarrassment down the road.
However, if we look at the solid waste disposal problem in Malaysia, we cannot escape from the fact that continue the "business as usual" basis is going to bury us all in waste.
If we continue to generate and landfill waste at the rate we are doing now, sooner or later, we are going to ran out of land.
Looking across the Causeway, in land scarce Singapore, they are even running out of land to bury the dead, let alone rubbish!
Singapore had gone the incineration route for more than two decades already and had it not been so, she would have another hill, Bukit Sampah, besides Bukit Timah.
It is true that incineration always cost more, ton for ton of rubbish, but buried rubbish is not something that will go away within a generation or two; it will come back to haunt our future generations.
The only long term viable and sustainable way out seems to lie in the 4Rs: Review, Reduce, Reuse and Recycle.
If the net total of necessary waste can be reduced to its absolute minimum, whether it is incineration or burying, either one will be equally viable.
Waste sorted at source is the way to go.
Organic waste ought to be composted and returned to the land as food for other organism. Reducing, reusing and recycling will help but the best of all is for all of us to review our consumption habits: Do I really need to consume this, in this wasteful manner?
Eventually, when we waste not, we want not!
Friday, May 11, 2007
A Bridge Too Far?
PM Ahmad Badawi believes that in the future, there will be many bridges built to link Malaysia and Singapore just as there are more than 2000 over bridges in New York and over 20 over the Han River in Seoul, Korea, the STAR (May12, 2007).
While we can only speculate the basis to the PM's belief (since beliefs need no factual foundation), I would beg to differ if bridges per se are the solutions to the actual problem of process bottle necks arising from he necessary and unnecessary CIQ (Customs, Immigration and Quarantine) processes and procedures, given the sovereignty and pride of both nations to symbolize it through their separate CIQ processes: Peninsular Malaysia and Singapore are TWO different countries, they used to be together as ONE, albeit for a brief moment in history in the 1960s.
One of the common basis on the need for another bridge is the perennial traffic congestion, but the question is what causes the congestion on the Causeway in the first place and what is it that a bridge can solve that a causeway could not?
Is there magic in a Bridge that a Causeway has not?
The so called "Second Link", a bridge built more than 15 years ago as the answer to the traffic congestion problem on the Causeway hardly even ever solve an iota of the problem on the Causeway; it only solve the problem on the Bridge because commuters found Bridge's toll too expensive and also too out of the way for most people on either side of the Straits.
The Second Link remains under utilized, even up till today, no surprises though. But what baffles me is that certain people see Bridges as the solution to traffic congestion: build a bridge and there will be no congestion on it; build a causeway and it will be a sure way to ensure congestion!
What logic!
Sigh! On the other hand, in Bolehland, even the absurd is plausible!
The Second Link costs more than 10 times more, is inaccessible unless you are prepared to drive.
The congestion on the Causeway is in juxtaposition to the Second Link Bridge because of economics and convenience, nothing magical in that a bridge will somewhat chase all the congestion away!
The other causes to the congestion is the necessary CIQ clearance on both sides of the Causeway, a problem inherent in linking two countries together, because each country wants to stamp their sovereignty through at least some form of rudimentary CIQ clearance.
Therefore, unlike New York or Seoul where the bridges are within the same domain and need no CIQ clearance, the bridges that are believed by the PM to be built in the future, can only be pipe dreams, unless of course, he is not saying that Singapore will in the future be part of Malaysia again.
It sometime baffles me as to what material or the lack of it that politicians are made up of.
They get elected to office not because they are people of substance and integrity, but because they know how to play the political game well and be popular rather than effective.
Where are the JFKs and Indira Ghandis of Malaysia?
Alas, I hope there is still hope for Malaysia, for if our leaders could not even see the clear black and white issues about a simple logistics problem over two domains but continue to hallucinate and dream in fancy rainbow vividness, will Malaysia ever be able to be lead out of its current murkiness?
God, have mercy on the people of Malaysia!
While we can only speculate the basis to the PM's belief (since beliefs need no factual foundation), I would beg to differ if bridges per se are the solutions to the actual problem of process bottle necks arising from he necessary and unnecessary CIQ (Customs, Immigration and Quarantine) processes and procedures, given the sovereignty and pride of both nations to symbolize it through their separate CIQ processes: Peninsular Malaysia and Singapore are TWO different countries, they used to be together as ONE, albeit for a brief moment in history in the 1960s.
One of the common basis on the need for another bridge is the perennial traffic congestion, but the question is what causes the congestion on the Causeway in the first place and what is it that a bridge can solve that a causeway could not?
Is there magic in a Bridge that a Causeway has not?
The so called "Second Link", a bridge built more than 15 years ago as the answer to the traffic congestion problem on the Causeway hardly even ever solve an iota of the problem on the Causeway; it only solve the problem on the Bridge because commuters found Bridge's toll too expensive and also too out of the way for most people on either side of the Straits.
The Second Link remains under utilized, even up till today, no surprises though. But what baffles me is that certain people see Bridges as the solution to traffic congestion: build a bridge and there will be no congestion on it; build a causeway and it will be a sure way to ensure congestion!
What logic!
Sigh! On the other hand, in Bolehland, even the absurd is plausible!
The Second Link costs more than 10 times more, is inaccessible unless you are prepared to drive.
The congestion on the Causeway is in juxtaposition to the Second Link Bridge because of economics and convenience, nothing magical in that a bridge will somewhat chase all the congestion away!
The other causes to the congestion is the necessary CIQ clearance on both sides of the Causeway, a problem inherent in linking two countries together, because each country wants to stamp their sovereignty through at least some form of rudimentary CIQ clearance.
Therefore, unlike New York or Seoul where the bridges are within the same domain and need no CIQ clearance, the bridges that are believed by the PM to be built in the future, can only be pipe dreams, unless of course, he is not saying that Singapore will in the future be part of Malaysia again.
It sometime baffles me as to what material or the lack of it that politicians are made up of.
They get elected to office not because they are people of substance and integrity, but because they know how to play the political game well and be popular rather than effective.
Where are the JFKs and Indira Ghandis of Malaysia?
Alas, I hope there is still hope for Malaysia, for if our leaders could not even see the clear black and white issues about a simple logistics problem over two domains but continue to hallucinate and dream in fancy rainbow vividness, will Malaysia ever be able to be lead out of its current murkiness?
God, have mercy on the people of Malaysia!
Monday, May 7, 2007
Pipeline PipeDream?
I have just heard on Channel News Asia (07May2007) that the Prime Minister of Malaysia, Ahmad Badawi has just announced that Malaysia will be building a couple of billion Ringgit worth pipeline to channel crude oil carried on ships from the Middle East at a point on the western side of northern Peninsular Malaysia to another point on the north eastern side to be processed into refined petroleum for export to the Far East (China, Japan, Indo-China, Taiwan etc).
News had it that this is in response to the increasing unease about security in the Straits of Malacca, ranging from piracy, terrorism and treats to the environment in the event of an accidental of man made oil spillage.
If and when the project materialises, the implications are major for member ASEAN countries bordering the Straits of Malacca, chiefly Singapore, who in one way of another benefit from ships transiting at en route to the Far East.
We may recall that way back in the late 1800's, there was already a plan proposed by one English gentleman R.W. Duff to build a canal ala the Suez and Panama to cut shipping time by omitting the Straits of Malacca: the Isthmus of Kra Canal.
Three years back, while searching on the Internet for information about the Isthmus of Kra, I was pleasantly surprised that the idea of a canal is not new, it even predates that of Duff's.
It was in fact promulgated by a King of Siam (King Narai the Great, 1677) long before King Mongkut. (see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kra_Isthmus)
The Kra Canal never got off the ground because the British were dead against it, for it will spell the death of Singapore, their revenue center at the tip of Asia where all sea traffic sailing West to East and vice-versa has to pass through it and pay toll.
The death of the Kra Canal was sealed when the British got the Siamese to sign a treaty in 1897, agreeing never to build a canal that could threathen the survival of Singapore.
Once in a while, the idea of a Kra Canal will pop up but somehow, the Thais show no passion about it though it was first mooted by a Thai King long ago.
The Isthmus of Kra is actually a very narrow strip of land, no more than 50km at its widest and given the technology we have today, building a canal to handle even the biggest of the super tankers will take no more than 1 year.
Of course cutting the Kra is like cutting the umbilical cord that connects Bangkok to the restive south, not a good idea when Bangkok is at wits ends on how to win back the breaking away southern territories.
But on the other hand, making a cut is also tantamount to containment, sending a message that Bangkok is containing the south so that it can be better controlled.
Rationally, the Kra Canal is better idea, economically, logistically, strategically etc as not only oil tankers can use it, but all kinds of sea going vessels.
With an area less than 50km long, it is also easier to secure.
It will be interesting what will conspire these coming weeks.
Will Singapore gang up with Thailand to build the Kra Canal with US blessings, since if you are going to lose business, you may as well mitigate potential losses by sharing future profits?
From the point of conservation, sustainable and renewable development, the Kra Canal is long overdue. Everyday, needless travel have to be done by thousands of ships sailing from the West to the East or to the South by passing through the narrow and pirate infested Straits of Malacca and if traffic continues to increase, it is a matter of when, not if a major oil spill will occur, impacting on the environment and life here in at least three countries: Indonesia, Malaysia and Singapore.
Well, for all we know, the PipeLine Project could well be just a PipeDream Project but we can be certain that Singapore will not be sitting pretty...something is in the pipeline...and will be happening soon.
News had it that this is in response to the increasing unease about security in the Straits of Malacca, ranging from piracy, terrorism and treats to the environment in the event of an accidental of man made oil spillage.
If and when the project materialises, the implications are major for member ASEAN countries bordering the Straits of Malacca, chiefly Singapore, who in one way of another benefit from ships transiting at en route to the Far East.
We may recall that way back in the late 1800's, there was already a plan proposed by one English gentleman R.W. Duff to build a canal ala the Suez and Panama to cut shipping time by omitting the Straits of Malacca: the Isthmus of Kra Canal.
Three years back, while searching on the Internet for information about the Isthmus of Kra, I was pleasantly surprised that the idea of a canal is not new, it even predates that of Duff's.
It was in fact promulgated by a King of Siam (King Narai the Great, 1677) long before King Mongkut. (see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kra_Isthmus)
The Kra Canal never got off the ground because the British were dead against it, for it will spell the death of Singapore, their revenue center at the tip of Asia where all sea traffic sailing West to East and vice-versa has to pass through it and pay toll.
The death of the Kra Canal was sealed when the British got the Siamese to sign a treaty in 1897, agreeing never to build a canal that could threathen the survival of Singapore.
Once in a while, the idea of a Kra Canal will pop up but somehow, the Thais show no passion about it though it was first mooted by a Thai King long ago.
The Isthmus of Kra is actually a very narrow strip of land, no more than 50km at its widest and given the technology we have today, building a canal to handle even the biggest of the super tankers will take no more than 1 year.
Of course cutting the Kra is like cutting the umbilical cord that connects Bangkok to the restive south, not a good idea when Bangkok is at wits ends on how to win back the breaking away southern territories.
But on the other hand, making a cut is also tantamount to containment, sending a message that Bangkok is containing the south so that it can be better controlled.
Rationally, the Kra Canal is better idea, economically, logistically, strategically etc as not only oil tankers can use it, but all kinds of sea going vessels.
With an area less than 50km long, it is also easier to secure.
It will be interesting what will conspire these coming weeks.
Will Singapore gang up with Thailand to build the Kra Canal with US blessings, since if you are going to lose business, you may as well mitigate potential losses by sharing future profits?
From the point of conservation, sustainable and renewable development, the Kra Canal is long overdue. Everyday, needless travel have to be done by thousands of ships sailing from the West to the East or to the South by passing through the narrow and pirate infested Straits of Malacca and if traffic continues to increase, it is a matter of when, not if a major oil spill will occur, impacting on the environment and life here in at least three countries: Indonesia, Malaysia and Singapore.
Well, for all we know, the PipeLine Project could well be just a PipeDream Project but we can be certain that Singapore will not be sitting pretty...something is in the pipeline...and will be happening soon.
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