Hope for Haiti Now – Do your part now!

Just finished watching Hope for Haiti Now, a telethon organised by George Clooney to raise funds for the victims of Haiti. If you don’t already know, a massive 7.0 magnitude earth quake struck Haiti on 12th January 2009.

To donate, go to https://www.hopeforhaitinow.org/Default.asp

I was touched by Beyonce’s performance..

Coldplay

Taylor Swift

Jay-Z, Rihanna and Bono

Christina Aguilera

Madonna’s performance with the choir is very touching too!

And, Justin Timberlake

The superstars have done their part, what about you?

I am going to do my part now!

PLEASE HELP HAITI!

 

Real Good News and Lil Things in Life thats keeping me happy

Hi everyone! Again thanks for all the concern over my grandma's illness.

I went back to BP last Friday and the first thing I did when I arrived was to go to the hospital.

One look at her I almost wanted to cry as she has lost so much weight and she looked so different. It is very disheartening to see your beloved one suffered so much pain. Luckily she could recognise me and she was happy to see me.

Had a quick chat with doctor there. He informed us that grandma is recovering and actually she can be discharged if there is an oxygen machine at home and someone to care for her constantly. PHEW............Mom did not lie to me and I was indeed worrying too much previously!

The hospital bills costs so much as it is a private hospital. One night averagely about RM1300. Gosh...but then I was touched to see the doctor and nurses there were very caring and attentive towards the patient's need. I admire their patience and professionalism.

I wanna say thank you to all of them..from the bottom of my heart..truly..

So grandma was discharged the other day. But we couldn't find a maid for grandma so we have no choice to send her to a old folks care center temporarily.I was a bit reluctant at first but after seeing how the workers in the centre took care of grandma I left BP worries free.


where Grandma is at currently...

As soon as we get a maid for grandma, she will be home again...

Now my emotions are back to normal and these things helped to keep me happy..

my new pink leather Ipod Nano cover, been looking to get one for ages, so glad to find it in Midvalley


nice?


THIS! food I miss from HK


YUM!


new Floral top from one of the shop in Bugis Junction


another floral top!


Purple wedge shoe from Vincci and my purple nail pedicure


pink stationery set from Naraya Bangkok


sweet pyjamas short from FOS


Kyonichi Ramen, Far East Square, this is good!

Simple stuff in life that keeps me happy for sometime...

Again, I pray that grandma will be fully recovered in no time!

My 外婆is recovering!

Thanks everyone for your comments for my previous post. I was dead worry. Although I still go to work everyday, my mind is so occupied!

Good News! My Mah Mah is slowly recovering! She was transferred to another hospital and there were signs of recovery.

I am happy but at the same time I am still worry as some people would become very normal when they are about to leave this world!回光返照 you know?

AM i just being PARANOID?

PLEASE, please let there be real sign of recovery........stay strong Mah Mah!

I will be returning on Friday......see you soon Mah Mah!

Praying hard for 外婆

My Mah Mah is hospitalised now in Batu Pahat…

Doctor asked us to be prepared….

I really feel like rushing to the hospital now…

I will try to go back on Wed…hopefully its not too late…..

Mah Mah used to take care of me when I was young…as my parents need to take care of my brother..who is one year younger than me..

I remembered Mah Mah always buy me tibits everyday, I will watch Malay shows with her in the afternoon while drinking coffee that she made for me.

Ah Gong passed away when Mah Mah was 30something…She worked hard to raise mommy and the rest of her kids…

She really sayang me when I was young.Yet there is nothing much I can do for her now.

To see her suffer yet we can’t do anything.

I pray hard inside my heart…she will be strong again!

外婆，希望你听到我心里的话。。。

Couldn’t really sleep last night as well….

me and Mah Mah, taken in Wuxi, China, 2007

Maybe miracle will happen again..I wanna have faith…

梁文音: 最幸福的事

Fell in love with this song recently...

Watched the mtv...it's very touching!

Sorry, no translation provided but the song is about losing someone that you loved but still you feel very fortunate about the things that you both have gone through..and remembering the details of it..

Would you rather experienced this kind of pain or you rather not love someone so much to protect yourself?

I think I would rather choose the former as not everyone would be able to experience a passionate love relationship with another person. Therefore, if anything happened later on, I would have no regrets whatsoever. What about you?

Simple Minded People Are Happy People

Don't you think so?

Over the weekend I was in Batu Pahat (BP). Went to a saloon in Summit to perm and colour my hair. At first, I was in a quiet mood as I was tired from travelling from Singapore to BP. Sat down, read magazine, wait for my turn to shampoo, after shampoo, back to reading magazine. Suddenly a very young girl sat down beside me. She is an assistant in the Saloon. Still I continue to read my magazine, knowing that she might wanna chat with me. Don't blame me because as I said, I was in a quiet, or rather, tired mood. Out of sudden, she started talking " Why you ignore me???" True enough, she really wanted to speak to me. She told me she is afaid that I am bored, so she decided to come and chit chat with me. I started to feel bad and although I was quite tired, I begun talking to her.

Turned out that she is a really nice and genuine girl. SEriously, her sincerity touched me in a way. You don't find this kind of sincerity in those saloon in KL and Singapore. We talked about everything under the sun. This girl is only 15yrs old and she stopped studying. I know that nowadays its very common to quit studying in BP and get married (usually because of shot-gun marriage!).

Me: Why you don't want to study?

Girl: I don't have interests in studying.

Me: What did your parents say about this?

Girl: My mom is the one who encourage me to stop studying

WAT! why would parents encourage their kids to stop studying? I WONDER. However, through our conversation later, I realised that the girl is actually very happy with her life now. She likes her job and she also put in effort into developing her skils in hairstyling. She loves her colleagues and basically I can see that she is very happy with her current life. Some may say she will regret it in the future but to certain people, future is just too far away. As of now, she made a correct decision.

Then I thought about my own situation. Yes I am highly educated but am I truly happy with my life? Not necessarily so. My mom was saying,"If we did not move to KL and we did not study that much, maybe we would have been happily married and well settled in BP already." That is a statement that bothers me for a while. I know my mom's reason for saying this. She just want to see my sister and I settle down. Does it mean that the more knowledge you gained, the more things you would think about before making a decision? Truth is yes, I have to consider so much when making decisions and sometimes I wasn't even happy with the decision that I've made after careaful considerations.

Then why the * I think so much before making decisions?

sigh... so ya.....Simple minded People Are Happy People!

or is it because I don't see their worries? Enlighten me!

Tribute to Ms. Lo Hwei Yen

Ms. Lo Hwei Yen, a young and promising Singaporean lawyer killed in the recent Mumbai terrorism.

She is only 28 years old and she has just gotten married last year in Bali. This is someone whom I might have an opportunity of knowing and who knows, we might also become friends but unfortunately due to some crazy acts of those terrorists, she was sacrified and we will never have such opportunity anymore.

Her husband broke his silence yesterday and told the reporters that ' SHE WAS MY ENTIRE LIFE'. It is indeed very disheartening to hear Ms. Lo's husband describing her last moments when she was held hostage by the terrorists.

This is such a sad news. I strongly condemn those terrorist who killed the innocent people in Mumbai.

May Ms Lo rest in peace...

For more info, please go to http://www.straitstimes.com/Breaking%2BNews/Singapore/Story/STIStory_310166.html

Life is so fragile, lets live life to the fullest!

What is happiness to you?

Recently, this question keep on coming to my mind.

Whenever I feel lost in this neighbour country, I wonder If I have made the correct decision.

I think it all started after I've watch the movie Money Not Enough II. For those of you who haven't watch the movie, I think you guys should catch it. Not only because this movie is funny ( I mean funny if you understand hokkien) but there is also an important signal this movie is sending to everyone, everyone who is other's daughter or son. The mother in the movie dedicated her whole life for the upbringing of her three precious sons. But when she is sick, they cannot put up with her behaviour and her illness. Then they started to rotate her from one house to another, one of them even put her to sleep in the kitchen next to the toilet so that she can go to toilet when she wants to. True enough that they each have their own life to go through, but they have forgotten about how their mother care for them when they were in troubled.

There is a saying from this movie:A mother does not feel poor when she emptied her savings for children, but she is the poorest when she was sick, she was abandoned by her children.

As for me, since I am working in Singapore, I can't always be there for my family. Whenever I feel lost or emotional, they are not here as well. So I started to think, does happiness means earning more money or being together with the guy you love? Money is important undeniably because without money you can't support your family probably as well. If you don't even earn enough to support yourself and you in turn requires support from your family, would that it hard on them even though you are always with them? I am sure that the answer is positive because afterall we are living in a realistic world. The best of the both word is of course earn enough money to support your family as well as spending most time you have with them. However, usually if your job pays you really well, you will lose your personal time as well. This is a vicious cycle ain't it?

Parents are getting old by each and every single days, if you do not spend enough time with them now because you are always at work , then by the time you have the ability to support them and shower them with all the gifts and luxurious items they want, they might not be able to enjoy it. That's why I need to remind myself to bear in mind that if a job takes up all the time I have, then probably I should consider losing this job. Life is short, why do I want to spend all the time working? Would it be too late when I am at the position that I want to be? Would I still be able to live my life to the fullest when I am unable to take care of my parents?

Of course I understand life is not just Black or White, there are grey zones, many of us stucked inside.

Pardon me but I just don't want to live my life with regrets.I want to spend time with my family, whenever possible. How about you all?

Trailer from Money Not Enough II for you:


catch it and you will understand why it affects me so much..

Hello From Singapore + traumatizing experience in Cambodia!

Hi all,

Sorry for dissappearing for so long~!!!

It's my first day at work today~! and...nothing much to do yet so...I BLOG!

anyway I have so much things to update...my cambodia pictures and my new home pictures!

I still have to wait for the people from Singtel to come and install my broadband, the appointment has been fixed on two weeks later! It's so slow, I know...which shouldn't be the case because Singapore supposed to be an efficient country?

Finally I have settled in and finished buying furnitures, electric appliances etc for my new home! I shall show you guys the pictures once I have my broadband installed at home!

For now, I wanna share with you guys my traumatizing experience in Phnom Pehn due to the cruel behaviour of Pol Pot! Mass Murderer!!!

Tuol Sleng Museum -this used to be the school where they imprisoned highly educated citizens and government officials before they were transported to the killing field

they tortured some of these people in bed

photo taken by the rescue army when they got to the school


all kinds of tools they used

We then went to the Killing Field itself.

a hole where hundreds are buried

they killed childrens too!GOSH

bones of those victims..

How can anyone do this kind of thing to others?! Even Hilter didn't kill Germans, this leader killed Cambodian childrens and women too!

May the victims rest in peace.........

Greetings from Siem Reap, Cambodia!!!

Hie all, I am at Siem Reap now. Spent two days in Phomn Pehn.


The bus ride from Phomn Pehn to Siem Reap was VERY SCARY!!! We were put on the public coach. Can you imagine the whole bus is full of Cambodian and only two of us as the only foreigners? Those teenagers on the bus was real noisy and the six hours ride to me seems like 12 hours!And those rest stop...SIGH..Upon arrival at the Siem Reap bus station, we were surrounded by more than 6 tuk tuk drivers,lpestering us to take their tuk tuk while in fact we we are supposed to wait for our local tour guide!

Sigh, I am actually kind of depress now and I don't even know why?

Could it be the killing field yesterday or the bus ride today? Or I am just depress to see the living condition of the general public here in Cambodia! Well it could be the fact that I am losing touch with the outside world without internet access!

I wanna say I am really grateful that I am born in Malaysia, where the living standard is much higher! Now I appreciate my country much more!

Anyway, I am going to Angkor Wat tomorrow, which is the whole purpose of this entire trip!

Hopefully all is worth it!!!

My 1.5 years journey with SLB

It's 1.45 am and I still can't quite believe that I am still sitting in front of my computer surfing, chatting and blogging!

Last Friday marked my official last day in Shook Lin & Bok ("SLB") , one of Malaysia 's oldest and most prestigious firm. I joined the firm in November 2006 after chambering in other law firm. It can be say to be my first ever permanent job after chambering. I am grateful and indeed feel very fortunate that I chose SLB as the law firm to start out my legal career.

From here, I enhance my legal knowledge and most importantly, I learn the people skill. Overall, I think that I have improved my personality as whole as well.

This post is dedicated to my boss and all my colleagues in SLB. You guys have been great!


when I first joined the firm, my first room


To my boss, thank you for your patience in teaching me.

To Maddy, thank you for always being there for me, whether I am sick, feeling down or frustrated. I am glad to have you walking this journey with me. You are more than a colleague to me!

To Sarah, thank you for being such a good listener,being such a good friend and always allow me to tumpang your car to go home!

To Andrea, thanks for being such a good senior that always guide me whenever I am lost in my work

And to all these lovely colleagues....


To all the clerks that helped me on my job..


To my secretary, who is always so efficient

To Audrey, Hui Yun and Jo Yan, whom I met in SLB but has since left. I miss you guys dearly!

Renny, Sarah, Kim and Me


Jerry, Choo Hoe , Leonard and Samuel

To all the fun we had


One last photo in my room

This post is dedicated to you all, Goodbye and til our path crossed again........

Injustice by Nuffnang and It's all about F.O.O.D

Before I start those food review, I wanna say that I am really upset right now. Fellow blogger who won invitations for the Malaysian Dreamgirl Grand Finale and can't make therefore he intended to give his invitations to me. Who knows Timothy Tiah said no, he can't give these invitations to me?!

I really don't get it! Would Nuffnang rather let those seats be empty? Why can't these invitations be given to me instead? I am a vivid follower of MDG since it was aired online and why must I be deprived from getting these tickets from those who can't even make it to the event? I even won the blogging contest twice...sigh

AIKS, I know my slogan sucks that's why i probably did not win the contest but why is it so unfair? People who win it can't go and others can't go as well?!

COOL DOWN COOL DOWN.........I am still upset but I still wanna do my food review.

Waroeng Penyet, the Curve - Indonesian Food



their food is freshly made!


Avocado drink, it's very thick so depending on your preference, some people might not like it.


Their famous Crispy chicken, very crispy - the only nice food there


chicken satay- the meat is tough and not tender, Malaysia one is better!


Taufu goreng- nothing special

Conclusion: Don't think i will visit this store again. I think the fried chicken from mamak is equally good as well.

Delicious, Bangsar Village II - I just been told by my friend that Delicious' food are not freshly made, it is ready packed and they just heat it up for you, can anyone verify this?


Guava with Sour Plum- Very special drink, refreshing to drink


Spicy Seafood spaghetti-- too oily and the noodles are not cooked long enough, doesn't really have seafood taste, very bland. Definitely will not try their pasta next time again.


Chicken Avocado sandwich- This is good. the salad are fresh,although the chicken cube is a bit tough, the bread is really tasty. They are generous with the chicken and the avocado slices.


Heavenly brownie - The best I've tasted so far!

Next post, more food coming up!!!

I also can't believe that I have been eating this much!