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Tan Guat Gnoh: Angel of mercy

Mon, 2010-02-22 03:42 — Robyn

THE late Tan Guat Gnoh’s life was characterised by her passion for helping the needy, the handicapped and even the Untouchables of India. The 54-year-old former accountant turned jewellery shop proprietor had been to India seven times for humanitarian work.

But her trip to Ladakh on Aug 25 last year, proved to be her last. Tan and three others (Julie Ang Ee Lee, Jennie Cheong and Lee Ah Yem) lost their lives in a road accident.

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Fri, 2010-02-26 12:53 — shozen1

Buddhist Monk

Buddhist Monk
Buddhism has become woven into the texture of social life of Buddhist countries. In Burma, for example, every Buddhist boy becomes a monk for some period in his life ; it may be for a year or two, for a rainy season, for a few days or perhaps a lifetime. There are reckoned to be 60,000 monks in Burma, out of a population of nineteen million. The land is dotted with white pagodas ; in every big village there is a monastery, and perhaps, still, a monastery school for the boys. You see the yellow robe everywhere. Buddhist Monk