Heartlessness of certain human

May I relate an incident which happenned last evening. It was seen a Mat Rempit of a young age intentionally ran over a one-month puppy for reason known to him, breaking both hind legs of the stray puppy. Luckily a bystander was looking and rescued the poor helpless animal before the motorcyclist made his U-turn probably to end the puppy's life by running over it again. I wonder his religion teaches him to kill mercilessily in order to achieve complete salvation. Where is the love, pity and compassion in his young heart of this Mat Rempit?
Though the stray puppy was rescued from certain death, it suffered two fractured hind legs.
It was later taken to the veterinary surgeon the next morning in order to mend the two fractured legs. However, sad to say its spinal cord had been ruptured and thus this poor one-month old puppy has to be permanently handicapped without the use of the two hind legs.
The next question is debateable - shall we put the poor thing to sleep or continue nurturing it back to health?
Your answer?

SP Lim
Mat Rempit - local motorcyclist who usually causes trouble to the authorities but seldom punished for unknown reason/s. Have photo of puppy but unable to upload as blospot do not allow.

Trip to Wat Sariang Nakhon Si Thammarat, Thailand Part 2

After freshening up we rushed across the road to go to the most important and oldest Buddhist Temple in southern Thailand - The Wat Phra Mahathat Woromaha Vihan
of Nakhon Si Thammarat. The Temple compound was indeed very big with the elegant stupa rocketing upwards with its golden tip of pure gold.

Trip to Wat Sariang Nakhon Si Thammarat, Thailand

Gim Hin was kind enough to take us to Farlim to board our bus - a 44 seater one. Next destination was to Rifle Range Flats and onwards to Wat Nai next to Malaysian Mediation Centre and to Island Glades where more devotees were picked up until the bus was full. Gurun was the next stop for breakfast and toilet break. finally at 8.00 am we are at Changloon - the border town. Another stop was made for exchange of Malaysian Ringgit to Thai Bahts - yes our exchange rate has shrank further as we could only exchange RM100.00 for 9700 Bahts. It used to be RM100.00 to 11,200 Bahts some years back. Probably poor financial management or more like mismanagement by the Federal Government as rampant corruption is the order of the day. No time to be wasted on this issue as we were going for a Kathina to do good and wish for better things for the future of the nation.
After passing through the two immigartion check-points, we are on Thai soil. Onwards to Hadyai the tourist town some 40 minutes way. Next stop was the place to buy local Thai tid-bits but was too busy photographing than buying. Lunch was next with Thai authentic cuisine. It was delicious with the usual Tomyam, roasted pork trotter, Barbecued pork ribs, fried omellette with vegetables.
From the restaurant we were to Nakhon Si Thammarat vide the Phattalung highway. Another 3 buses were headed to this town for Kathina too. They were from Mahindrama Buddhist Temple in Penang. After 3 hours or so we had finally arrived at Wat Sariang Nakhon Si Thammarat.

SP Lim
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Kathina Trip to Nakhon Si Thammarat, Southern Thailand

Early Saturday morning at 3.00 am I woke up and started preparing for the trip to this oldest town or more like a city in Southern Thailand. I googled the place and the history of this place dated back to 1,600 years with the mention of the Srivijaya Empire which had some trade connection with the Bujang Valley chendies ( now in ruins ) of Kedah State, Malaysia.
The next important step is to wake up my "better half" - my spouse who is currently unwell. The question is will she go or flatly refuse. However with Buddha blessings it was simple enough process and she was ready in no time or perhaps slighter longer than 30 minutes.
We drove to Gim Hin's house at Kampung Melayu to park our car there and he fetched us to Farlim to board the Ah Teck's bus as usual. As seats were already allocated we were seated 3 rows away from the driver. At 6.0 am we started off the first part of the journey.

To be continued...

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Wat Phra Mahathat Woromaha Vihan and City Wall of Nakhon Si Thammarat, Southern Thailand

Facts extracted from Wikipedia:
The Wat Phra Mahathat Woromaha Vihan
Chedi Phra BaromathatWat Phra Mahathat (Thai วัดพระมหาธาตุวรมหาวิหาร) is the most important temple of Nakhon Si Thammarat and southern Thailand. It was constructed at the time of the founding of the town, and contains a tooth relic of Buddha. The 78 m high chedi is surrounded by 173 smaller ones. While the chedi is now in Sri Lankan style, it is said to be built on top of an earlier Srivijaya style chedi.
At the base of the chedi is a gallery named Viharn Tap Kaset, decorated with many Buddha statues and elephant heads emerging from the chedi. Viharn Phra Song Ma is the buildings which contains the staircase which leads to a walkway around the chedi above the gallery. At the bottom of the staircase are demon giants (yak) as guardians. Adjoining to the north is the Viharn Kien, which contains a small temple museum.
South of the chedi is the large ubosot building, the Viharn Luang. The monk living quarters are located across the street in a separate temple, Wat Na Phra Boromathat.
The chedi is the symbol of the Nakhon Si Thammarat province, present in the seal of the province. It is also displayed on the 25 satang coin.

City wall
Northern GateThe city chronicle already mentions a fortification when the town was refounded in 1278. Restorations were recorded at the time of King Ramesuan (14th century), as well as King Narai (1686). The latter one was supported by the French engineer M. de la Mare.
The walls spread 456 m from East to West, and 2238 m North to South, thus enclosing an area of about one square kilometre. The northern wall had only one gate, called Prathu Chai Nua or Prathu Chai Sak, also the southern wall had only one gate. To the east there were three gates, which connected the town with the sea. To the west were five gates. Today only the northern gate still exists, together with a short stretch of the northern city wall