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Jesion Meding of Kampung Selampit graduated with distinction from University of Medan, Indonesia

He wrote: “Yesterday was my graduation day. It was a historical moment in my life and a gift from the Blessed Beauty. I was awarded “Best Student of the Year”. After the ceremony, I was interviewed by a news reporter… and I told him the source of my motivation is the Word of God and Bahá’í principles like truthfulness is the foundation of all virtues, peace and sincerity and the meaning of true education. It was a special time for me…as I was able to share some of the teachings with the reporter.

Leaders of six major religions yesterday collectively vowed to fight graft through their respective congregations, a historical first given Malaysia’s often testy inter-faith gatherings.

The six, from the Baha’i faith, Islam, Hinduism, Christianity, Buddhism and Sikhism, have drawn up short, medium and long-term action plans to convey the message that corruption is essentially a ‘sin’. The action plan was the outcome of a brainstorming session involving 40 people of different faiths who also wanted the Anti-Corruption Agency to hold short training courses.

My trip was arranged by friends in Macau with the main purpose to facilitate institute study cycles for Book 6 and Book 7. On arrival at Guangzhou, I tried to call Ai Takaki a Japanese lady from the airport. But she was not back from picking her children from school. So I took the bus 6 (actually I should take bus 2) to Ai’s house. Luckily I met two local girls they accompany me to Ai’s place by taxi.

From airport on the way to Ai’s house, I entered a city of many sky tall building, hotel with very big garden, big shopping mall with very big compound, alot of people sitting there for taking rest. There were people and vehicle everywhere. City life is very busy. The building are tall, places are big, road also wide with 4-8 lane. Only most of the local people are short. So I didn’t feel so short there!

It is with a heart saddened with grief and sorrow that the Spiritual Assembly of the Baha’is of Sarawak formally informed the friends about the passing of a valiant and exemplary Baha’i, Mdm Kong Swee Fen, aged 48, in a fatal car accident on 3 Oct 2005 afternoon in a place near to Serian Town, Sarawak, and that her remain was interred 2 days later before noon at the Baha’i Cemetery, Kuching. More than 100 friends and relatives from various parts of Sarawak as well as overseas came to Kuching to attend the funeral of this dedicated follower of Baha’u’llah.

At the time of her passing, Madam Kong was the National Coordinator of the Sarawak Baha’i Institute, an institution which she had been instrumental in nurturing to the present stage of being able to play its vital role in revitalizing and keeping in momentum the highly successful institute process presently going on in various parts of Sarawak.