God does work in mysterious ways. As soon as I complited high school, I had wanted the religious life. Being educated in the Infant Jesus Convent School,that was the only congregation of sisters I knew of. The superior had an eye on me and I was sure I was going to join them. Due to the tears and pleadings of my non Catholic siblings, I gave in to their pleadings to give up religious life.
I signed up for a Teachers’ Training Course of 3 years and I gave myself wholeheartedly to the works of the Legion of Mary. In the meantime, I went shopping secretly to study life of other congregation….was not attracted to any of them. Towards the end of my 3rd year in Teachers’ Training in 1954, many MEP priests and some FMM sisters who were expelled from China came to Malaysia. An MEP priest, the Spiritual Director of my Legion of Mary Presidium learnt of my interest of the religious life. He recommended me to visit the FMM newly founded Convent about 40 miles away from my home in Petaling Jaya.
It was love at first sight; down to the earth simplicity of the sisters ( from China, Ireland, Canada, France and Australia ), made a very strong impresion on me. A sister on duty adoring the Blessed Sacrament every half hour, their friendliness and their strict rule. I was told of not taking ever a holy picture not saying a goodbye, showed me the seriousness of their commitment.
Taking time to discern while preparing for my final exams, I decided this was the congragation for me. My spiritual director gently helped my family to accept my call to religious life. He also told the IJ Superior of my change of congregation to her great dissapointment. Three months later in December 1955 I entered the postulancy, the 1st FMM Vocation in Malaysia.

We celebrate Environment’s Day every 5th June. We are so lucky to get the air, water, earth and the sunshine without cost. The environment doesn’t need us but as a human being we need the environment in order to survive.  Our duty is to take good care of what God has entrusted to us. We are sharing the common gifts.
 
During this time of pandemic, many activities has been temporary terminated and in this time too we can see the creatures of God coming out freely and the colour of the flowers getting brighter each day. Perhaps this is the time for us to renew our relationship with our environment. Once we have destroyed our nature it is hard to heal and even though we can heal the nature but it will not be the same anymore because what we use to see with our eyes before and now we only can hear it by our ears.

​While we are still receiving the four basic needs let us also contribute our gratitude to thank the mother earth. Be friend to the nature then only we will discover the precious gifts that nobody can give you. In our community we begin to create our hobbies, one of these hobbies is gardening. Let us put our hands on the soil and discover the joy of gardening and we too will discover the small creatures of God.
 Conversion of humanity necessary to heal the earth … Pope Francis, Vatican News
 
Let us answer the invitation from our Pope ‘to heal our earth’ to live, to care and to pass it on to the next generations. Our mission is to be one with nature because wherever we go, we cannot run away from nature.