Special Dedication To My Mum On Yat Yan....

::::my beautiful mum in light blue:::::

Yesterday 13/2/08 was Yan Yat... Human's day in direct translation... Havent really find the true meaning of it yet, as far as I know, each year on the 7th day of CNY, we eat fried meehoon, mee, koay teow and special chicken fish porridge, all my mum's specialities.... I dont hv any pics taken, too bad, but I can tell u that its very yummy and sumptious...Thanks Mum....each year, u take the effort to cook all these for yr kids and grandchildren and never once complained....She cooks abundantly, never once there wont be enough food to cater all of us....its always more than enough, enough to last for the next meal too.... Once again, I want to honour my mum, words would never be able to describe how much she has done for us, how much she has endured throughout her life, how much ordeals she has undergone....

But now ever since she accepted the Lord, everything has changed for the best... She is illiterate, she doesnt know how to read the Bible, but nevertheless, her faith and trust in the Lord is amazingly strong....it is so overwhelming to hear her talk about the Lord to her own siblings and they have beginning to see the new light in her and some of them have accepted the Lord through her change in life...Isnt that wonderful and great??? Our Lord doesnt use only learned scholars or professionals to preach the salvation, He uses all kinds of people and I m honoured and proud to say, He uses my mum who is so simple and yet with strong faith, to spread His love to our loved ones......

Food And Sembang

Today is the day when leng gugu, mei mei and mui mui chai came back to work, its been almost a week since we last seen each other and we had lots to catch up with... i was looking forward to our kopithiam time in the morning as usual, when my bossie called me at 8.30am to say I hv to go for a meeting with her, do minutes.. .quickly and naturally, i told her my malay is half past six, i wont be able to understand and put them in words ......but she wouldnt want to listen to me..sigh..of all days, normally i dont hv to go for meetings with her, something must be fishy..... later, i found out why... hehe...

So I miss going out for sembang-sembang with my 3 'relatives' and only got to see them during lunch time...1.15pm..it was pretty late too, by the time we came back, it was 2.30pm..we had a good meal...fish head meehoon with salted vegetables in First Garden, the best in Ipoh...(I think)
A piece of papaya to start off before the fish head went into our stomachs....

Tomorrow is batik day and also free makan in the morning, fully sponsored by my Big Boss...thanks Boss... as usual, all will be invited to the cafetaria, get a nice table and eat our hearts out... nasi lemak as usual..sigh....anyway, must thank our boss one...Even one YB will be attending, as usual, he will crack a few jokes before eating our hearts out...nasi lemak, sigh....

Just joking...dont sigh about food, its food all the same....
We are so blessed with food that we always seem to be comparing this and that.....what is nice, what is not....and choosing the best places to go for food....someone told me this before...
WE LIVE TO EAT .... that is not surprising anymore.....right..

Festive Time Of Togetherness

:: Thank You Lord for the food glorious food on the table....Amen.....::

Back to work after a 4 1/2 days of CNY celebration..time passed doubly fast when holidaying..
Briefly about my cny, as usual reunion dinner was at my in laws place..now that our kids hv grown up, the used-to-be big table couldnt fit in all, we were tightly squeezed and one of them just couldnt even hv space to hold the chopsticks..imagine..i guess next year, we need to put an extra small table by the side..all are big hunks now, by the way.. After dinner, stroll to my mum's place to join my siblings..the atmostphere naturally is better there..someone prepared a session for ginrummy..great..i miss that..but after an hour or so, my eyes were blur blur already.. i guess age is catching up and mind deactivates quicker than before...

On the first day, makan at in-law's house again..see how blessed i m ? i dont hv to cook..hehe.. most are left over dishes from the previous nite, nevertheless, they were still as yummy...but i realise that my appetite was not really good, i ended up taking vegetables only instead of meat, meat and meat... maybe my digestion has slow down year after year..

Oh, not forgetting, my 2nd precious came down with a fever, rashes all over, i suspect it was measles, true enough, when i took him to see 24hr doc at 11.45pm, it is really confirmed measles.. too many late nites and taking too much heaty food prior to cny.. He felt sore, asking himself why of all days, he must get sick during this festive season??haha..i guess there is always a reason behind it...anyway, sick or healthy, continue to be thankful that we r still healthy and normal, that is what i always be thankful for...in all circumstances...one day, we will know the real reason...just be patient and live each day feeling blessed..

Had a reunion with my old former classmates on the 2nd day nite, i wasnt expecting many, in fact just a 3 or 4...but to my amaze, a total of 12 turned up..wow... long lost frens we havent seen for decades came to my doorstep, one mouth to another...all were looking forward to seeing each other's face after umpteen years..haha...some aged, some looked more robust than ever, some still sexy looking and one used-to-be 'hot stuff' turned out to be a typical mum of 4 kids...haha..my goodness... Well, i guess this is the cycle of life...unexpected things happens...

Sent my 1st precious back to his campus on Sunday...looking at his face as he waved goodbye, I felt a pang of sadness from him...he will miss this wonderful festive season but i hope he will have a wonderful time partying with his hostel mates, after all, he brought a lot of food stuff that will remind them of this special occassion.... Son, if u r reading this, just wanna u to know we r looking forward to seeing u in another 2 weeks time...

Despite all the good and bad times, chinese new year is a time where families should gather together..a time to share memories, a time to be fellowship with one another.. this festive season will continue to come and go and families should take this opportunity to treasure moments of togetherness with one another... a time to share, to care and to love..................................

Stages of Gowing up..

3rd precious words...When she got into my car this evening, the first thing she said was.."mum, my teacher scolded me today" then she kept quiet...her mum has to prompt and made many guesses before she could finally relate what happened..Its all bec of the cheerleading event again, this time one of her girls went to Parkson Grand alone at 11something in the morning wearing school uniform. Seems she got caught by a teacher and upon questioning, she blamed my daughter for being the one who instructed her to go parkson to buy some pom pom stuff... and my quiet precious was summoned into the staff room to be interrogated, she being a girl of few words, kept mum about the whole incident, never explaining to the teacher that the girl went on her own, not upon instructions as she lied.... after all, I m the one who bought all the stuff for them...
So as not to be reprimanded by the teacher, she put the blame on my blur blur girl who was too shocked to say anything when being scolded...
Well, i told her, this is a good lesson to learn as we go thru our lives, so many kinds of people we will come across in life, some honest, some shrewd, some smart, some blur blur, some cunning and some are loyal till the end...A time to analyse characters of a person as we go thru phases of life..regardless of what age we are now, there is always something to grasp and to hold or to let go...who the faithful ones are and whom we should trust....
She is feeling kind of down now...besides relating to her that not everyone is what she expect to be, she also has One whom she can depend on...ie our Jesus, son of God Almighty..He will always be with us, in us and for us no matter what happens...

Waking Up To Our Senses

Last nite attended a wake in church, one member fell backwards while playing tennis and his skull broke..its so terrifying..just like that..he was in his early 60s..When it came to eulogy time, it was a tear jerking testimony.. that makes me think and i wonder... then i whispered to my cell leader...I said.."If next time we were the ones lying there, do u think anyone will go out there to say a few kind words of us? What would our eulogy be like?".....She smiled......Another thing came to my mind again...I have seen many couples squabbling whenever they are free, irritating each other and eventually giving a silent treatment to one another, its very common nowadays..I really feel sad for them cos they dont know how it feels if one of their love one goes off......For couples who are still together, please dont waste time irritating each other or giving each other hard times...time is so precious... we dont know when we will go one day... the unexpectable can happen anytime... why not spend time saying more appreciative words to each other instead of thinking how to torment one another at times??
Oh dear, why did i say all this at this time? sorry sorry...its cny mood...sorry....
spit the saliva and say over once again...
well, anyway, fact is fact...
we got to face it someday...regardless when...

chinese new year mania...

My..my...chinese new year is just a few days away la..have i got everything that is needed?? by the way, i m not cooking, am i? pity my sister in law though, each year she has to sweat, really sweat to cook for 3 families including hers and we two the "sum poes" just goyang kaki at home.. eh...sound likes we r cinderella's stepsisters instead..haha..nola, each year, she is used to doing it alone with her parents..we only will step in her way if we help, but washing up is no joke...we the stepsisters hv to do that after the hefty meals..yum yum.. worth doing the piles of plates/bowls..
Oh, today my bossie is not in leh..yeh!!!! and that reminds me, last nite my 3rd precious told me if possible, get her an off-shoulder red blouse..huh? say again?? off shoulder pulak? wow..she is only 14 and she wants to show off her shoulders already..sigh..anyway, i might not be following her wants, just wait and see first, i will go survey and get her something RED and more suitable instead...off-shouder blouse..where did she get that fashion in her head..hmmmm..
So, today will be a clothing day, maybe i will 'sneak' out early to get the 'wants' for the precious, after all, once a year, let them be happy and merry and RED...remember must buy RED... its cute to see all yr precious wearing RED on the first day..just keep the trend going..huh.. oh, heard the rats undies are for sale and a must-wear thing this year..but no la, not for me, i dont believe the rats are going to give us a good time if we wear...what i believe is, each day is a very blessed day for us, we r still healthy and we r still activating our minds writing silly blogs each day..how blessed we r, as it is written, in our circumstances, whether it be good or bad, we should still be thankful for what we have, what we are....I always remember this verse...
Romans 8-28...In all ways, God works for good for those who love Him, and who are called according to His purpose... so...just keep on loving Him, having faith in Him, walk His ways...and what lies ahead, we just have to trust Him...

Dogsitter

For the last few days, me and kids hv been dogsitting a terrier.. Christine, the owner, left for phuket with her whole family.. leaving me with this task..frankly, i hv tried to avoid being one, i know it will need special treatment, really dont hv the time and patience for dogsitting, firstly, need to put inside the house, need to change newspaper inside its cage, need to make sausages for him, needs to wipe her buttocks and her urine each time..(no joke, that was what the owner said) my goodness, where and when i hv time to do all that... she told me easy task..i can only say... its easy being said than done..haha.
I dread the day she brought me the 'duchness'.. anyway, she came during the nite..she was so skinny, my first impression..no dinner yet, the owner said..she forgot to bring her sausages, fortunately i hv mine..one sausage for dinner? is that all? no rice? how to be full.. my goodness..
ok, first nite, doggy safe and sound in my dining hall...the tough days began on the 2nd day...my maid made a mistake and put it out in the porch cos too noisy, she complained..and aha..the ticks 'invaded' this duchness.. really invaded, u know..whole body my goodness, just in one day.. 3rd day, my nephew bathed him with dog shampoo and ticks medicine..the ticks were pretty stubborn, still sticking on..then 4th day, owner called from KL..said she will send a vet over to my place..wow..how important this duchness is..he came, gave her an injection and now just wait and see..i wait and see, i see only a lot of ticks..i cannot tahan, i squeezed them and quashed them with my nails..ouch ouch..one by one got thumbed by me..
surely wont end .. still have..but what to do..this is most tedious task..takes time, right? owner is coming to collect at 10pm tonite..now only 8.15pm..haiyah..anyway, this dogsitter has fed her, now she looks more rounded and nice..shhh...i fed her with rice and chicken..and she walloped till none appeared in her bowl..
the duchness is still singing outside, talking to her fella mates, i guess..when will she ever stop howling and her gossiping???? maybe she needs some attention..ok, i guess this dogsitter hv to work till 10pm..to keep her silent, maybe i feed her with something again..hehehee......shhh....