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Hi npsdian,

Thanks for taking the initaitive to inject some fresh life into our blog. I really had very high expectations of this blog. Maybe, i will just like to take this post to express some of my thoughts and share about how this blog was found.

This blog was actually one of an idea belonging to a cic, happened during the blog craze where everything on earth seems to have a related blog. I supported the idea not because it is cool or hip but because i just simply wanted to make this blog a place for people to

1) Find out more about NPSD
2) A training platform to the successors of NPSD
3) A place to keep our graduates and seniors relevant to the progression of NPSD
and if
3) When anybody have a major obstacles in his/her's life where it just so happen to be in the wee hours of the night and there is just no one to talk to , he or she can just come to this blog to find some inspiration.

Being young and "childlish" , i believed real guys or real YMD don't dip their toes in the water. They jump right in.

I thought it was a splendid idea and sensei always wanted the YMDs to carry through ideas that will benefit the members into reality. Immediately, i ask some cic, together with weilun, to come out with a blog and finally, our NPSD blog was born.

During this one year of blogging, numerous people help out and i sincerely thanked each and everyone of them from the bottom of my heart.

Prior to this blog, we had actualy web pages for NPSD and as Layleng mentioned in the comments box, we too are "listed" in Wikipedia. All this are the unseen efforts being done by our seniors in NPSD. I like to thank them too.

The world we live in today is not a simple society. Problems arise everyday and our life conditions fluctuate. We certainly need more listening ears and more encouraging words in our daily life. Most blog that i visit, are ones that talk about their own daily lives or are filled with lots of self-posing pictures. In fact, many of them are in their youth. While some are encouraging, most fall short into just daily updating of the author's life.

Immersed in material concerns, clamor and bustle, have comtemporary soceity forces us to sturggle with feelings of isolations and conformation?

Sensei says: "It is one of the sad ways of the world that when things are going well, people gather around you, but as soon as you find yourself in difficulty, they abandon you. They will even slander and criticise you, making a bad situtaion worse.But the way of life of those of us who practise the Daishonin's Buddhism is the exact opposite. We are committed to warmly supporting and protecting those who are suffering, those who are earnestly, struggling to overcome hardship and adversity. We encourage them so they can feel hope for the future and triumph over their present situation. We advance together in a spirit of unity."

As disciples of Ikeda sensei and youth of Soka Gakkai International, we cannot afford to be a bystander of all this negative culutre in society

This blog represent the spirit of npsd. Everyweek, i remind myself to post at least somethings into this blog for i know, if this blog remain inactive, it just reflect the state of my life and my commitment towards NPSD. I will not, and must not allow that to happen. Though we may not see results immediately, the "flame" of "2gether we win" must not be extinguished. We need to adhere to the conviction of wanting to warmly encourage those who are suffering silently.

Sensei wrote this message to the student division held in March 11, 1973 where he stated," A thorny path lies ahead of us. I may fall by the wayside, but tens of thousands of you will take up the torch of the philosophy of life and continue the struggle. If i do not entrust you with this mission, my life is meaningless. Here today, i give the future of Soka Gakkai and the attainment of kosen-rufu into your hands."

With our palms firmly gripping onto the baton of kosen-rufu, how can we fail our mentor's expectations. Sensei is always fighting alone, shouldering everything. We need to do something. It doesn't have to be grand. Do not ask yourselves what can you do for sensei but rather ask yourselves, what you can do for sensei.

For me, as long as i am in npsd, i will uphold this blog till i graduate.

Please pardon me for having such a long post. If you are reading it , and you feel something about it, let us create something for our mentor together. I just like to end off with this words i read from an interview between interpress serivce and sensei (http://www.ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=41775)

"I have a very deep faith in the capacities of young people. I believe there is nothing young people cannot do -- no reality they cannot change -- if they set their minds to it. In writing these proposals, my greatest hope, my determination and commitment is to sow the seeds of change in young people's hearts"

Yours, sincerely
wL
2gether we win!!