May 31, 2009

A Sunday God is not God at all!

Sunday is the only day that we get together in the church to have fellowship with our living God; as well as with our friends. Especially for those of us who are in metropolitan cities or any city, we have no other days to come together in one place , having fellowship with God and our community but only on Sunday. For those of us who have no time, leave or holiday on Sunday here is a wonderful tips for us and I belief we can also glorify God through our own work station.

Church is not the only place where we can worship.

Worshipping our living God can happen wherever we are. Whether we are in church, workstation, market, school, college etc.

Let’s not say that I don’t have time to worship on Sunday at church.

We can make our own workplace as church as we are given a freedom to worship not only at Jerusalem but everywhere.

So let’s start organizing a church with our fellow Christians in our work places.

We don’t need to have a preacher or sermon, but might be just a quite time, fellowship, bible study, group prayer or testimony or cell group.

Once we as a Christian show our faithfulness; what we are call for, then God would definitely increase our group in number.

We have to value or Christianity or no one would value for us.

We don’t need to ashamed of our identity when we know whom we belief, whom we trust.

The Muslim, when times come for them to bow down, they did and no one laugh at them instead we respect their religion.

We Christians we are ashamed of who we are instead of giving glory to God we divert our Christian ways and act like a non believers.

So let’s begin worshipping our living God in our workstation, not only at church.

Let us not blame or say that I don’t have time, leave or holiday on Sunday for church.

You and I can glorify our God through our workstation too.

Remember A sunday God is no God at all. May God bless..

May 27, 2009

Vanramah sungkim in intuok khawm ngei ei tim aw!!( Hmar Version)

By:D.Ralsun

Vanram kai naw hlak chu ei um tawl ngei ngei ding. Kai hlak chu ei nuom tawl vawng bawk. Thangah! Lienah! i lo hung ve ni maw! eh khawm saw a hung ve ka ring naw vei leh. An naw leh khawm thanga? khawm liena? poi de aw an hung ve naw a ni maw! poi de aw ka sunghai ka hmu tawl nawh .iengtin am aw hun ei hmang ding chu! ei ngai ei sunghai ei rulhai leh eiin hmu tawl ding am? hnuoi hi eiin thesawngna a ni el diem chu maw!

Ei hratlai huntha ei nei lai hlak ei ngaituo pei bawk si nawh. kai hlak chu ei chak bawk si! Thuhriltu pakhatin “Pathien rorelna hmaah mitin ei ngir phat chu, hremhmunah fe dinghai khawmin ka lawmeh tiin innui hieuin smiling face deuin hremhmun an pan ve ding a nih” tia a hril hi thil indik tak la ning a tih. Pathien rorelna chu thil indik a la ni awm si a. sawisel thei hrim a ni naw ding a ni chu.

Tuhin 21st cen. ei cheng meka, 22nd cen. Chu nang le kei vawisunnia kum 20 hmang tahai lem hin chu ei hmu phak ring a um ta nawh. Thina ei hmabak elah a umkur ti ei hriet zing khawmin, ei ngaituo pei tawl naw chu a ni hi. Kumkhat sunga Bible khawm keu thak lo dam ei um nuol ta a, chu chu nepte, ei Bible tiempeinaw chu ei la hang chapopui vel nawk nghal. Krista thang lova kristien hi ei ni laihin ei tam taluo tah.

Krista a hung nawk phat hlak chu, ama Krista Thlarau neituhai cho a hung lawr awm bawk sia. Ei lo nei naw vei chun leh ti um hleng a tih. Ringnawtuhai ta ding chun a ngaiin um an ta, amiruokchu ei ni kristien in ti si, Bible inchuktirna hre bawk, rapture chanchin hretuhai ta ding biekin ti a um ding a nih. Ei ruolhai zuk zawng ei ta, ei nuhai zuk phone ei ta, pastorhai zuk melkai ei ta lo um ta bawk si nawng an ta. Thlaphang hang um dan ding chu, hril hi chu nep te a nih. “Lalpa give me one more chance just one more chance” ti chu ei taprawl ding ni tang a tih. Chuong anga tap chu ei um ngei ngei ding nawk nghal, in enfie hun chu a ni ta ie maw!

Vawisun, hi I tiem lai khawmhin I thi thut thei, I tiem zo char khawmin rapture hung tlung thut thei. Lo hung tlung thut ni ta ang sienla, vanah lak kaiin I um ve ding am? Annawleh maksan pawlah I thang ve ding. A right time for you to make right decision. Kei chun hi thil pakhat hi kan fui nuom cheu. Vanram hi pawng a lak thei a ni tah. Pastor le evangelist hai kher kher an ngai ta nawh. Bible Pathienthu hring I nei a, zalen takin inzak lovin Lalpa hmabulah I khat chovin isuolhai inpuong fai la, sandamna la chang lo I ni pal chun Pathien sandamna hi hni mawl rawh. Pathien buon la, Lalpan a lo pawm nuom zing che a nih. He always open his wide arm to receive you. His grace is upon you and Isu’n a kuoma hung ve dingin iengtiklaikhawm a ko zing che anih. I suolhai sima a kuomtieng I pan phat chun chatuon hringna chu I ta ni ve tang a tih. Lalpa’n lo nghatsan naw tawp a ti che. A rukten I ruolhai or I nuhai hriet khawm a tul nawh. Nang le Pathien kar a poimaw. I pindan sungah Lalpa sandamna chang thei dingin Lalpan zalenna a pek che.

Lalpa kuomah inzak lovin open takin hni mawl mawl rawh. Chu sandamna thil tlawnpek chu I chang ve phat chun, in ring zingin um ro ti chu I ta ni ve tang a tih. Nang le kei in ring hranpa tul ta lovin, Isu Krista Thlarau van le inzawm chu nang ah a cheng tak leiin iengtiklaikhawm chu Thlarau chu an ring zing sa a ni tah. Chu Krista Thlarau neitu hai chu lunkimin ei thetah ei ngaihai leh Vanramah tudang ngai lovin sandamtu Lalpa inpakin “thisen hlu thisen hlu” tiin leng tang ei tih. Chu hmun inhoi lalpan a mi buotseipek mawl chu chang ve ngei dingin Unau Lalpa’n nang le kei a mi ko zing a nih.

Vanramah sungkim in intuok khawm ngei ei tim aw!!

May 21, 2009

Pu Rochunga Pudaite Calls For A United Hmar Church


By Lalmalsawm Sungte



Bibles for the World president Pu Dr Rochunga Pudaite and his wife Pi Lalrimawi have jointly issued a call for the "re-unification" of the Hmar people under one church.

This is the third such attempt for re-unification among the Hmar churches in less than a decade. “The two earlier attempts had failed due to differences over how the properties of different churches should be settled,” sources said.

In their appeal published as a booklet, 'Hmar Kohran Inpumkhat Dinga Kona' (Call for unification of Hmar Churches) the US-based missionary couple said, "The Hmars have suffered much being divided... our social life had been the most affected... and to renew the kingdom of God and our tribe we need to remind ourselves the prayer of Christ: ‘So that they can be one again’…”.

Since the late 1950s, the Hmars have been divided strongly into denominational lines due to differences among their leaders. Many versions have come up as to why the Independent Church of India(considered the parent church of the Hmars) broke up. However, recent trends among the youth show that many are in favour of the Hmars being united under one church. As of now, the Independent Church of India and the Evangelical Free Church of India are the two churches having maximum members while there are others like the Evangelical Assembly Church, Assemblies of God, Presbytarian Church, Methodists, Reformed Presbyterian Church, Lutheran, Catholics and others with lesser members but not without strong feelings towards their respective denominations.

The 18-page booklet also traces (in Pu Rochunga’s own words) the events that led to the dismemberment of the Hmar church (Independent Church) and its effect on the Hmar community besides a response form for readers to send their opinions on whether they would like to see a united Hmar church again and how it should be achieved.

It is also learnt that the Hmar Students Association, General Headquarters has been entrusted with task of distributing the booklet to all Hmar inhabited areas, especially among the youth and to collect the response forms thereafter.

Pu Rochunga and his wife are expected to make a trip to India either in February or March 2009. "They will meet diverse sections of the Hmar leadership during their visit," sources close to the family said.

It may be noted that the Hmar tribe of northeast India will be celebrating 100 years of Christianity in 2010. The community received the Gospel of Christ back in 1910 under the patronage of Welsh missionary couple Watkin R Roberts and his wife.

Hmar Mizo Question: Re-figuring Understanding*

[By DAVID BUHRIL, Journalist, Sept, 2008]


The discussions in misual.com and elsewhere that have been beating empty vessel after the two unwanted incidents - the killing of a Lusei-speaking Mizo in Manipur’s Churachandpur and the ambush - that involves the HPC(D) have stirred the Hmar-Mizo question to a disgusting extent. As a human being I loathed bloodshed and violence and if such behaviour could be transferred, one should as a human being exile oneself from such conduct. However, in the course of our discourse, a constructive inculcation of reason is the need of the hour when emotions blindly hit the alarm that are attached to the vessel. It could injure more when the tongue does not wag in accordance with reason. It makes much noise, the odd notes, which I am already tired of, from the very fact of me being a member of Hmar as well as Mizo. From the various comments that also reflect the ignorance of the collectivity, who are again proud members of Mizo, there arises a serious problem of one’s understanding of the Hmar identity and its relation and interrelation with the diverse Mizo identity. Out of these comments, I strongly sensed the omission of the historical construction of Mizo identity and Mizoram, where the significance of the Hmar people is seemingly shelved.

There are also visible unhealthy presumption of some, of Hmar as something outside the Mizo identity. This should end for good. We are suffering a Mizo blindness, which made us poor reactors where we allow ourselves to divorce our reason from all our other senses that eventually paralysed our ability to harmonise the being and identity within ourselves. As much as the need for no insistence to submit Hmar as Mizo, I find no meaning for any Mizo to outside Hmar from Mizo just because an armed group bearing Hmar happens to act within the State boundary of Mizoram. If, supposing, every member of Hmar is counted as member of HPC (D), then, majority of the Mizos in Mizoram would be a potential member of that group from the very fact of them being a Hmar, as the population of Hmar in Mizoram is the highest, if compared to the various other tribes - Ralte, Lai, Paite, Sailo, et al. My point is that collectivising Hmars for any deed of one group or party is a blunder, which should not be digested at any point of time. Moreover it itself is negating Mizo, which means negating oneself to include oneself. And if anyone thinks that exercising Mizo identity would go down well by poking and pricking Hmar, I could not think of any worse design that would fragment the house in shamble. Worst, it is ignorance seeking a sealed valve for an exit by employing the blurry headlight of emotion. The same headlight has been instrumented by the armed MNF in their glorious days, but to include only small sections of the Mizo nation within a boundary called Mizoram; and that resulted in people from Mizoram carrying Mizo tribe certificate, which belittle us as a people; for Mizo is not just a mere tribe.

As I went through the posted comments, I was reminded of Foucault’s mistake to acknowledge about the unequal complementarity of doer and done to in the homoerotic practices that once were occupied their discourse. There are too many amongst us who also committed the same mistake, which is, but, serious. One reason is because our faculties are not rooted to our history. Even if we look at the current history, it is evident that from the first tribal IAS officer, who is a Hmar Mizo to the first Cabinet Minister in undivided Assam (A Thanglura), to the martyrs and heroes of MNF cadres to who’s who in Mizoram today, who would dare to ignore the Hmars from Mizo? The Mizo Union movement that started in 1946 was led by Hmar Mizo like Pachhunga, HK Bawichhuaka, et al. The same movement spreaded to Manipur with the Hmars taking the lead and resulted in the first Manipur Mizo Union General Assembly in Pherzawl, a Hmar village. In the interest of the Mizo Union movement, it was the Hmars who boycotted the first election in Manipur in 1948. But when Mizoram was conceived, self serving Mizo leaders failed to even look beyond Tuivai and Tuiruong (Tipaimukh) rivers. History has a clean record of who the blunders were. Who the blunder would dare to be Brutus again? Forgetting the Hmars or even trying to do that in Mizoram would be as much as a vain attempt to rewrite the New Testament of the Bible without Jesus.

It would be easy to mistake the Hmar people as different or indifferent as they are divided by five state boundaries in the North East itself. Besides, their ability as a people, to preserve and still used Hmar as a spoken/written language seems to have marked them out as different from what is conceived as “Mizo” in Mizoram. Language has acted as a potent marker for identifying identities. This must be one reason why the use of Hmar language was not, to put it softly, encouraged for preaching, composing, teaching, singing, when Christianity was taking its roots in its early phase in the Lushai Hills. It is interesting to note that Hmar composers, pastors, and preachers, then, asserted about the need to worship and praise God in their own language. That was when , when Hmar dialect was finding its place, many of the equally rich Mizo dialects/languages met their early death. Again, it is interesting to know that Thiek/Thiak dialect is still popular and widely used in Assam’s NC Hills. So, to carve a Mizo identity out of the many languages and dialects that it has today, would only end up with othering our own selves. Or are we already witnessing the process of othering ourselves from what is visible with people from Mizoram. But Mizoram is not a village, or is it? I think the imagination of who a Mizo is from the clogged door and window of Mizoram did not leave any space for our diversity to sink in. When we could understand and accept the multiplying and equally diverse Christian denominations/cult in Mizoram, I wonder why we allow to failed our imagination to go beyond the limit that we have set for ourselves.

We ought to understand the existence of a people fragmented by more than four State boundaries and their quest for belongingness. Today those boundaries have come to dictate who an insider and outsider is. This itself tends to act against the Mizo identity, which is in the nation making process. Or should we say a notion in the making process. Whatever it is, reminding ourselves the process that we are inevitably into would enlighten us about the need to inculcate reason as we intervene with our free expression. With our firm attachment to these man-made boundaries, who a Mizo is should not be let too loose to get lost in definition or translation. The sanctity of these boundaries cannot be interpreted when it comes to identifying a Mizo; for a Mizo is not holed up in a village with narrow wall.

Today, it is unfortunate that State boundaries have acted to distance or border us. However strong that forces might be, they should not be given a space to pollute the identity that is undergoing its courses of change.

Did anyone remember that during the HPC movement in the early ’90s, it was the Government of Mizoram who stirred, funded and armed a band of innocent Hmar boys and sent them to Manipur’s Churachandpur district to play the eye for an eye game. The leader of the armed group himself was Lalchung Buhril from the Thiek/Thiak clan. I remember those were bloody days. Did anyone care that it was let loose by the State itself? Who, from Mizoram, at that time, raise a voice to condemn the State government from spreading the fire? Not even the Press or the reverred Church. Today as we celebrate the blame game, the same Leviathan has not yet shed its dirty linen. Everyone knows that it is the same old man at work, which is why we should never overlook the reality that we are already digressing from. While we are a witness to the return of the Frankenstein monster we must not be robbed of our faculties. Conceiving things indifferently from what they really are would not even serve the blown out emotions that we fervently nurse. We are all victims of the unholy design that was set against us.

[Editor's Note: This write-up on Hmar Mizo identity by Tv David Buhril was one of the most debated topic by Mizo bloggers in 2008. Clear and insighful in presentation this outlook continues to generate heated discussions even today]

May 17, 2009

Manchester United clinch their 11th Premier League title !






Manchester United clinch their 11th Premier League title - equalling Liverpool's record of 18 league crowns - after drawing with Arsenal. 0-0.

May 12, 2009

WHAT DO YOU SAY ABOUT MEN AND WOMEN!!

Men are motivated by achievement, women by relationships. Man's feeling good are different from woman. If conflicts arouse man's feels better by solving problems while woman's feels better by talking about problems. So when gender differences emerge in your marriage, don't judge your spouse as evil. He or she did not deceive you; it simply took marriage to reveal your differences. The differences you bring together as woman and man are good and can be celebrated. As one body must have both a calculating head and a feeling heart, so one marriage is blessed with both gifts. We are fearfully and wonderfully made.

May 11, 2009

BALUT OR BALUOT IN PHILIPPINES!!





This is Balut/Baluot. In other word i called "Abortion."
The day i reached Manila, a friend of mine asked me whether i have tested Balut or not! It was so stranged to me when he explain what Balut was! It reminds me of my childhood days where me and my friends we ate the baby pig which just came of her mother's womb! But that was just for fun and it's not part of our culture food. But the Balut here in Philippines is one of their favorite and people often eat it. Well then it was not many weeks ago that i do tasted my new country food "The Balut." Now i have got something to share about.



It is a boiled duck egg, about to be born.



The taste is good; it taste like egg mixed with chicken.



Eat with vinegar, onion, and salt. Like boiled egg!



Close your eyes, and say "Ka thi le ka thi, ka dam le ka dam" and take a deep bite! Wow taste good.



This Balut is available especially in Market where we have KS; Hotel, Mall and beside roads.



It is belief that it increase sexual desire or giving more power to sex drive. Might be 4gb of Ram.hehe



People usually ate before having sex; first night of marriage and con..........



Jokes: There was a man who was going to get married. He decided to eat this Balut in order to welcome his lovely wife with the most he can. He ate 12 balut just before his wedding day. He was well prepared but later after a few hours he died. It seems to be very powerful too. Be careful if you happen to taste it. It is recomended that not to eat more then 3 or 4.. Try it, it's damn good....

A DOG GAVE BIRTH TO HUMAN BABY BOY!!













What on earth is this? Unbelievable!!!