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What's Buzzing? - Patron Saints

All Saints' Day was a few days ago. Here is a list of some patron saints

St Jude -  for impossible cases
St Elmo - stomach problems
St Agnes , St Bernadette - hair loss
St Francis of Assisi - pets
St Gemma Galgani - headache
St Joseph- unemployment

Simon Monjack's passing - grief related?

Simon Monjack - Brittany Murphy 's husband passed away yesterday. This is sad news as it came only a few months after his wife's death. Circumstances leading to his death may need to be investigated.

The thing to note is that we are not meant to live our lives with too much grief if our beloved ones have passed away. The ones that we have loved and gone want to us to live a happy life. Just like night and day, sadness and joy is part of life. If we grief too much we could end up dead ourselves.

Child Geniuses

After the failures of child geniuses, Chiang Ti Ming and Sufiah Yusof, the question now is can child geniuses contribute to society and live successful lives? I believe that they can but the people surrounding them do play a part in their success. It is quite clear that the best institutes of higher learning do not always bring out the best in people. It needs to be actually looked into why it does not do so.

What are the factors that stop these people from progressing?

I was playing this computer game called Silkwood and the main goal of the game is to set up a program to take care of a digital organism. The digital organism would thus follow a routine of eating, sleeping, working etc. If the program was not effective, the digital organism would quite likely end up dead!

I think this is what needs to be looked into - that whether there is an effective program that could bring out the best in people and that this program should be the basic requirement of all institutes of learning.

As I mentioned earlier the people surrounding them also play part in their success. Hence the importance of living in an environment that really cares for them.

Child geniuses need to be constantly reminded that they have a special gift and be encouraged to use that gift for the good of society.

Sufiah Yusof - from the top to the bottom

She was once a Maths prodigy who was accepted into Oxford University at the age of 13. She was the pride of Malaysia as her mother was from Malaysia. Now, Sufiah Yusof is a prostitute.

How could this happen? What went wrong? If she was in Malaysia, would things have been better for her?

There are no definite answers to such a problem but if what I hear is true, then it was due to a lack of commitment to do what is right. Whether she was in Malaysia or UK it did not matter because she had lost her faith in God and was not committed to her faith.

We can only hope and pray that she will realise what is wrong, get back her faith in God and be more committed to do what is right.