{"id":229,"date":"2007-12-22T01:23:55","date_gmt":"2007-12-21T17:23:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wp.jiinjoo.com\/?p=229"},"modified":"2007-12-22T01:28:02","modified_gmt":"2007-12-21T17:28:02","slug":"long-way-home-part-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.jiinjoo.com\/?p=229","title":{"rendered":"Long Way Home (Part 2)"},"content":{"rendered":"

Remember my previous post about Tzuo Hann’s trip home<\/a>? Now that I’ve found his charity site too, maybe it’s time to share:<\/p>\n

www.longwayhomefundraiser<\/b>.com<\/a><\/p>\n

The charity is to benefit 3 main org<\/a>, namely: MAA-Medicare Kidney Foundation<\/b>, Malaysia Cancer Society<\/b>, and his high school St George Institution<\/b>. Target sum: RM1,500,000, current donations RM 71,000++ (as of writing) so we’re still a long way home!!<\/p>\n

As of now, he’s going across China. Some pictures I found entertaining:<\/p>\n

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\nBike Part Peddlers<\/p>\n

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\nThe infamous indiscernible English Language of today’s China (it will get better)<\/p>\n

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\nFirst glimpse of Yellow River<\/p>\n

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\nThe man. Looks Burnt – what happened?<\/div>\n

I also suggest that you read the more serious part of the matter, which is found here on this page where TH writes a lot of his thoughts<\/a>. It makes me mad that he’s apologizing for saying the things he say. Although I half expect people to pour in on things like language and racial stuff (this is Malaysia after all), I didn’t expect it to go to the extend of being able to impact the psychological state of a person who has overcame his fear to ride a bicycle half way across the globe.<\/p>\n

Think. You manage to allay feelings that you’ll just fall flat riding, freezing to death, bike to exhaustion, meeting bad people, and all these unknowns, and yet you are emotionally disturbed by the unwillingness to people to help due to petty issues. How profound must that issue be!<\/p>\n

When we take an action, perhaps put yourself in the other person’s shoes. If you don’t want to part with your RM50, fine, don’t make other people’s lives difficult. Yes there’s world peace but that doesn’t mean you can go around giving excuses that you didn’t mean it so as to make others appreciate in awe how petty you can get. If you don’t see Chinese language in the form, help create one, and so on and so forth.<\/p>\n

Or maybe for me, being away from Malaysia for almost 10 year now (come 8 Jan), psychologically, I’m also a Long Way Home…<\/p>\n

Donate – via interbank\/cheque to Public Bank or via Paypal – and spread the word about www.longwayhomefundraiser.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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