Akhand Path from 4th June 2023 (Sunday), starting at 11am, to 6th June (Tuesday), followed by Path Da Bhog on 6th June (Tuesday) from 10am to 12pm at Gurdwara Sahib Pusing, Perak
Navin 012 447 7919 Dinesh 011 2323 1596
| Entry: 27 May 2023; Updated: 1 June 2023 | Source: Family
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Bobybuilder Tripat Singh who is almost 80 years old started his fitness journey just a decade ago after battling weight gain and depression, he has revealed.
Tripat Singh, 77, from Chandigarh, India, shared how the loss of his wife, Manjeet, in 1999 left him grief-stricken, unable to do much of anything.
“I was heartbroken without Manjeet,” he said in a video on the Instagram account Humans of Bombay in 2021. “I was depressed for years.
“Our business dissolved. I became a couch potato,” he said.
Not only was Singh gaining weight, but his family’s health issues made him reflect on what type of lifestyle he wanted to have in his later years.
“My father was a diabetic and my wife, herself, suffered from heart complications. It felt like I knew I had to be fit and healthy since the start,” Singh told the Times of India in 2020.
So, Singh joined the gym in 2013 and hasn’t looked back since.
Singh believes it’s never too late to start your fitness journey.
He said the “mind is the most powerful thing you have.
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With profound grief this is to inform the demise of Sdr. Manjeet Singh Gill of M.S. Star Travel Agency son of Late Sdr. Gurmail Singh and Late Sdrn. Mukhtiar Kaur passed away peacefully on 26.5.2023 leaving behind his beloved
Wife: Kiran Gill Daughter: Natisha Gill Son: Nikhael Gill Brothers, sisters, relatives, friends and the entire staff of MS Star Travel Agency.
Sehaj Path Da Bhog: 4th June 2023 (Sunday) at Gurdwara Sahib Petaling Jaya between 6pm to 7.30pm followed by Guru Ka Langgar.
| Entry: 27 May 2023; Updated: 31 May2023 | Source: Family
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Path Da Bhog on 5th June 2023 (Monday) from 9.30 a.m. at Gurdwara Sahib Klang followed by Guru Ka Langgar
Contact: Manin (012 392 0595) or Roopi (014 718 1510) for further details.
| Entry: 27 May 2023 | Source: Family
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What goes on behind an election campaign? Wave Maker, a Taiwanese drama series recently released on Netflix, provides some answers. The 8-episode drama brings to live the people, many of them faceless, hard at work for the candidates.
The plot centers around Wen-Fang Weng who lost an earlier election bid to become a councilor. Now, she has taken the role as her political party’s deputy director of the publicity department and spokesperson.
The fast-moving scenes attempts to instruct viewers as to how issues are managed or manipulated as the publicity teams attempt to score points for their candidates. You get to see discussions on how to manufacture news, and the role of the media.
The series have avoided controversy by not including current issues that Taiwanese people are concerned about, such as housing prices, power shortages, inflation, and cross-strait relations, remarked one reviewer. The reviewer noted that this was a pity as it missed the opportunity to show the real situation in Taiwan to overseas audiences.
But if you have been intrigued by elections, you may enjoy this series
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Kuldip Singh (third from left) with some team members from the Subang Sikh Youth Club. In the background, new year eve fireworks at Subang gurdwara
By Asia Samachar | Malaysia |
A plan is underway to form the Subang Sikh Youth Club (SSYC). And the people behind the idea have some big plans for the youth from the city in the state of Selangor.
For a start, they are going full swing to organise a fundraising dinner on June 24. The team has started selling tickets for the event themed ‘Fundraising Bollywood Dinner’, with table of 10 priced at RM5,000, RM3,000 and RM700.
“Every little contribution will be channeled to the Subang Sikh Youth for Community development. The donation will be used to conduct youth games, study workshops and many other beneficial activities for the Subang Youth,” Kuldip Singh, an advisor to SSYC, told Asia Samachar in a message. Kuldip is also a committee member of the Gurdwara Sahib Subang.
A table of 10 are going for RM5,000, RM3,000 and RM700.
Ramkarpal Singh, the Deputy Minister in the Prime Minister’s Department (JPM) (Law and Institutional Reform), is scheduled to attend the dinner.
For tickets, call Keerat (013-2176326) or Ameesha (010-3675066).
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We would like to kindly inform, the Sehaj Path da Bhog for Lian Endin Pring @ Manjit Kaurwife of Late Sardar Pritam Singh, formerly from Seberang Jaya, Penang will be held on Sunday, 4th June 2023, between 10am to 12pm at the Gurdwara Sahib Petaling Jaya.
Please accept this as a personal invitation.
She is survived by her seven children, fourteen grandchildren, and two great-grandchildren. She held a special place in our hearts and her absence will be deeply missed by all her family and friends.
For any enquiries please contact: Suniljeet Singh 010 5187910 Ranjit Kaur 012 4025746 Jagdish Singh 0122459700
| Entry: 26 May 2023 | Source: Family
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What should young people know about money? Is it too early for those in the 20s to start investing?
Here are some thoughts shared by Jaspreet Singh, a personal finance YouTuber, entrepreneur and CEO of Minority Mindset. Click here to go to his YouTube page.
Best thing to do in your 20s is to invest aggressively.
Warren Buffer became unbelievable rich after 50.
Investing isn’t something you just do once.
Best thing to do, create a financial plan for yourself.
Investing is the key to building wealth. He talks about investing in stocks for dividends. He also briefly touched on property.
He talks about how much to spend, how to save and how much to invest.
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Mother was only seven when she lost her mother. Mother, her older brother and a younger sister were then cared for by their paternal grandmother whilst their father went out into the fields harvesting wheat in a small plot of land they owned. Both father and grandmother were very tender-in their love for the three siblings but due to circumstances, Mother and her sister had to dropout in primary in order for their brother to continue.
Mother was 16 when her grandmother passed away. Grandmother meant the world to Mother and her demise left Mother with a deep void. Grandmother already had the younger sister wedded. As was the norm back then, girls were wedded at a very young age. Grandmother, however, had greater plans for Mother which unfortunately were left unfulfilled due to her demise.
Mother and her siblings were endowed with beauty, inherited from beautiful parents, but Mother had something extraordinary and grandmother saw that from the very beginning. Mother possessed-a pure heart and grandmother was all the more concerned. Upon completion of his education in Sikh theology in Delhi, the brother took the responsibility of finding Mother a suitable match.The plan was for Mother to be married and reside in Delhi but somehow with the twist of fate, the brother was approached by matchmakers who were looking for a bride for someone from Malaysia.
Mother was 19 years old when she arrived on the shores of Penang on her own by ship. Mother was met by the local matchmaker who incidentally was her future sister-in-law. She took Mother to stay in her house till the wedding. Mother was feeling terribly homesick, lost, frightened and fatigued.
Mother soon learnt that she was betrothed to a widower with six children who ranged from six months to 12 years (five girls and a boy). Mother felt betrayed and cheated but was too afraid to question anyone and instead kept her sorrow to herself. As the days went by, Mother regained her strength and with that strength came perseverance and grit. Mother decided to make the best of the situation she was in.
After the wedding, the first task Mother assigned to herself was to take the older children out from boarding. The boarding was in a convent school close to the house. Mother wasted no time in putting her skills into good use. Mother was raised in Punjab, trained to be skillful in cooking, knitting, cleaning and even plastering walls. The children’s heads were infested with lice and Mother got rid of them. They were looking famished and Mother churned out Punjabi desi mouth-watering dishes. Mother even made time to knit cardigans for her step-children to shield them from the cold.
Mother’s food was indeed the talk of the town. Her chapatti’s and parathas were just so different. Her saag, kheer, bhaji and shola were out of this world. Best of all Mother was so clean and hygienic, scrubbing pots and pans till they shone and endlessly toiling doing household chores.
A decade later, Mother bore her own children, two boys and two girls (Manmeet, Partap, late Jaswant and me, Gurdeep) after three miscarriages.
Years of slogging and toiling eventually took its toll on Mother’s health. The sacrifices Mother made in providing a safe, clean and loving home for her step-children at the expanse of her youth, beauty and health is astounding and best of all Mother did all of these ever so graciously.
Everywhere Mother went, she spread love and generosity. Mother gave-alms to the needy secretly and chose to alight from the rickshaw when riding along a slope and even bought drinks for the rickshaw puller along the way. Mother never turned a beggar away and always insisted in feeding the ones that turn up at her doorstep with nutritious meals and also providing them with cardigans to shield them from the cold. Mother treated everyone with love and compassion and showed no discrimination.
Mother was in her late forties when she lost both her sister and father within a span of two years. Mother was broken hearted and mourned for months. Just when Mother began to accept her loss, tragedy strikes again!
A year later Mother loses another loved one, her precious younger son. Jaswant was 20. For 10 years despite struggling to live with his loss, Mother persevered for us three and continued being a devoted Mother till her end. Mother never waivered in her prayers and regularly spent most weekday afternoons in the Gurdwara Sahib Melaka praying and doing sewa despite her frail health. Mother had fallen critically ill all of a sudden and two days later breathed her last. It was the eve of Jaswant’s birthday.
It’s been 37 years since Mother’s passing. Mother was 60. Today, I at 64 years of age still hold unshakeable, undying love, admiration and reverence towards Mother. Mother has and will always remain everything to me. The selfless acts of Mother are indeed a force to be reckoned with. To Mother with LOVE.
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Bibi Bachan Kaur passed away on 22 May 2023. Our beloved mother, grandmother and great grandmother, will forever be remembered and cherished in our hearts, for her unwavering faith, utmost humility and selfless dedication to her family and community.
Husband: Late Sagar Singh (Police Pensioner 2173 Ipoh)
Mata Bachan made her way from India with her beloved husband, Sardar Sagar Singh, and started making their homes in Perak. They started out in Taiping, then onto the Police Baracks in Ipoh to Sungei Siput and then back to Ipoh (Buntong) for the retirement days.
Mata Bachan Kaur recited fluently Banis daily till her last breath with so much love for the Guru’s charan. Literacy was never a barrier for this amazing woman. Every step she took was with Guruji’s permission and her faith was unwavering.
Mata Ji was a very hardworking lady where there was no job too big for her to handle. Everything she did was to perfection and only using traditional methods in performing tasks. She never took any shortcuts. The town of Buntong will fondly remember her strong commanding voice and strong personality. She was abreast with the daily 8pm news and lovingly shared the updates with family.
Seva at the gurudwara with her neighbourhood friends was a norm. She often brought along her grandchildren and insisted that they learn and continue the legacy of her and her beloved husband, Late Sardar Sagar Singh, of seva, bani, selflessness, generosity and service to the community. They were often the ‘go-to’ people for advise on all worldly affairs, something they both shared an enthusiasm for.
Mata Bachan Kaur will be sorely missed by family, friends and the community. We love you Maji.
| Entry: 24 May 2023 | Source: Family
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