Updates here & there… |
- Updates here & there…
- Port Wine Cellars in Porto
- Syahidah Ishak and her Acoustic Neuroma surgery at HEI
- Personal Data Act next year
- Beyond Beauty, the science behind beauty
- Eat to live or live to eat?
- Imagined Stupor
- Beyond Beauty, the science behind beauty
- Beyond Beauty, the science behind beauty
- Beyond Beauty, the science behind beauty
- The Story Behind The Story of Lovers and Strangers Revisited: “Teh-O in K.L.”
- Uncivil Behaviour
- hear the roar?
- Glasses
- Sugar Glider : Video Masa Outstation.
- Indulgently Gold with DJ Jesse Marco
- Win iPad 2 With Discover U @ KLMU
- Tekan Minyak Laju-Laju !
- Cuti SPM Takde.
- Life Can Begin at 50/60 or 70/80
| Posted: 22 Nov 2011 04:03 AM PST While I was visiting Nasya at her home last Friday, a call came in from a number not registered in my handphone. From the number, I figured it could be from one of the government agencies. True enough, the call from an officer of the Welfare Department. He asked me to confirm if Buddies would be sending anyone for the welfare grant cheque presentation in Batu Gajah the next day. Huh? He thought I would have at least heard about it. I had no clue whatsoever since we didn't get any letter. Anyway, he asked if we could send 2 reps, but since it was such short notice I could only confirm that I'd be representing Buddies. And so yes, on Saturday I went over for the function officiated by the deputy minister for Kementerian Pembangunan Wanita, Keluarga & Masyarakat; and alhamdulillah additional funds for Buddies. The year 2011 had definitely been a good year for Buddies in terms of fundings. ------------------------------------------------ On Sunday, a text message came in from an unfamiliar number - "Salam. Anak saya dpt 5A. Klu dpt masuk asrama penuh camne?" No names mentioned in the message and I didn't have a clue who it was from. I wasn't about to answer the question without even knowing who I was responding to, and so I had to ask first who that person was. Apparently the message was from Maya but the number was not listed in my handphone because she was using her husband's phone. Remember Maya? The lady who, after her iddah was over, married her late husband's younger brother, knowing pretty well she was HIV positive. Her late husband's family thought it was their responsibility to take care of Maya's well being since it was their family member who infected Maya with HIV. And since the younger brother was single and willing, he agreed to marry Maya. Good to know that her daughter did well for her UPSR. Maya was worried that if the daughter gets offered to go to a residential school, they may not be able to fork out the expenses involved. The girl is under our sponsorship programme, so I told Maya not to worry about it. I personally really love to help out in cases involving children's education, especially when I see the children themselves showing an interest in their education. ------------------------------------------------ On Monday morning, after my usual gardening routine, I realised there was another text message on my handphone, from another unfamiliar number. It started off with "Buat kehadapan mama fizah yg diingati…" Huh?? Mama Fizah?? Couldn't recall anyone ever calling me mama! I read on and finally I figured out that the sender of the message was Anita. As far as I could recall she used to call me Kak. It was the lady at the temporary shelter home that she called mama. Of course, age-wise she's young enough to be my daughter but she never did call me mama before. Anita now stays with her sister. Am not sure if she has already managed to get an identity card for herself or a birth cert for her son. We tried to help her before but she always came out with all sorts of excuses when we asked her to get her sisters to help get some supporting documents. She's back with her own sisters now, I do hope they will do something (if they haven't already) about her IC and her son's birth cert. ------------------------------------------------ Last night Mrs K sent a text message asking if her children will be getting any help for next year's schooling. I told her that we still help out when it comes to children education. As always, Mrs K would always come up with even more questions – will they get bus fares, can she send the 2nd daughter for this, can she send the youngest daughter for that. This time I didn't bother to reply. If I replied, she'd probably think of something else to ask and may even ask for additional help which has nothing to do with her children's education. I will get to her when her turn comes. ------------------------------------------------ Tomorrow I will be on clinic duty again. This time I won't be alone. A new trainee volunteer, a PLHIV himself, has agreed to join me for tomorrow's clinic… 
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| Posted: 22 Nov 2011 03:54 AM PST or called Oporto. Unsurprisingly the second largest city in the country, inspite of the size of the country with an even humbler population (~ 10 mil).   With a averagely pleasant weather throughout the year, Portugal never exceed 35 degree celcius in the summer nor drop below 0 degree celcius during the coldest winter, usually averaging at 10-15 degree celcius; after visits to the much colder counterparts in the region, Portugal climate was a delight. 
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| Syahidah Ishak and her Acoustic Neuroma surgery at HEI Posted: 22 Nov 2011 02:00 AM PST Syahidah has been back in Malaysia since two Mondays ago and resting. Read her latest update. I am glad that Syahidah finally had her life-saving surgery at HEI with excellent outcome. Syahidah's experience speak for itself. Those of us who spent time with her before the HEI surgery could see the difference in her physical condition then and now. Although I often talked and wrote about the good quality of care at HEI and SVMC, I think most could only hear and read but not exactly imagine it possible. During Syahidah's fundraising, an ENT surgeon asked me where she was going for her suegery and said that Malaysia has excellent Acoustic Neuroma surgery. I was tired of this delusion and fantasy of some of our medical practitioners, so I simply told her Syahidah's surgery outcome at HUKM as it was. To my relief, the ENT surgeon then conceded that it was very sad indeed.
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| Beyond Beauty, the science behind beauty Posted: 22 Nov 2011 01:52 AM PST **YAY! There's huge giveaway in this post! Never take your beauty for granted. I was delusional for quite awhile, hoping that it would go away. Apparently, my negligence of my skin and improper removal of makeup have caused terrible clogging of my pores!
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| Posted: 22 Nov 2011 01:28 AM PST This entry is dedicated to kampong boys and girls. My blog don't talk a lot about foods because I'm kind of a guy who eats to live and not lives to eat. Given a choice, between going to a hawker center or a fine dining restaurant, I'll choose hawker center anytime. It's not about money or class but it's about personal preference and a place that I can feel at ease — to be myself. It's a place that nobody will give you satu macam kind of stares when you're screaming while making a bullish or bearish arguments, jeers or cheers for friends. At times, I'm required to be completely civilized, a complete gentleman. I can't really remember when my first time of doing fine dining was. All I remembered was my b**** shrunk by half. It was much more complicated than solving this equation If 1/2x +1/2(1/2x + 1/2(1/2x +1/2(1/2x + ... = y, then x = ? No, perhaps it's more difficult to solve a problem like how to prevent an European debts contagion. Or do I bet whether ECB will print infinite amount of money to bailout all the guys? Just kidding. :) Back to the topic, I kept staring at the silverware. SOB, a fork is a fork, a spoon is a spoon, a glass is a glass but why so many???? Boy, I tell yea --- that dinner made me felt like trapped in an eternal hell. I hope some of my young "friends" who read this blog may find this survivor tips handy in the future. The general sequence is starter, main course and end with dessert. That makes perfect sense, you will have to use your tools from farthest first for starter, slowly coming to inside for main course and end with desert. Hope this picture helps you.  Red wine or white wine? A wine is a wine but why ask me red or white. Most Asians will only care or heard so much about drinking red wine will help you to cut down their heart attack risks. Damn it, if we sit on our fat asses, red wine or coffee will not be able to save us. I later found out it's rather intuitive actually. Red meats like steak or lamb are heavier should match better with red wine which tastes heavier. As an Asian, I find that the smell of beef or lamb is stronger and red wine helps me during the meal. If I pair red wine with "lighter" food like seafood, cheese, fruits and etc…..it will overpower the food and just kill the taste. That's why white wine works better. Read more here if you want to know more about "civilized dining". Good luck. http://www.etiquettescholar.com/index.html 
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| Posted: 22 Nov 2011 01:29 AM PST  Should I care That the moon shuns a cloudless night sky Should the sun cools a breezy afternoon When a river trickles through a land parched If the wind skips a sail held limp Do I dare Mouth words written silently in my mind Capture images floating in a imagined album Deny a memoir sketch from memory Cast gloom on a dreamy fantasy Don't we fear When children are adults too fast Where rulers and peasants crowd the market selling (Who's buying we say as we turn away) Of trusts treated like a private cask Since liars masquerade as heralds born Are we to enjoy A hearty laughter from a stomach empty At salesmen selling imagination for a fee The measured trusts of dueling racial rapiers When piled the land's riches on barges (Traversing the sea to destinations unknown) My frame slouches As the mind doubts Of feigned interests And caring, hyped So we leave things be Figuring somebody else Will carry the burden of ascendency A life in a stupor of faked serenity…  
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| Beyond Beauty, the science behind beauty Posted: 22 Nov 2011 03:45 AM PST **YAY! There's huge giveaway in this post! Never take your beauty for granted. I was delusional for quite awhile, hoping that it would go away. Apparently, my negligence of my skin and improper removal of makeup have caused terrible clogging of my pores!
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| Beyond Beauty, the science behind beauty Posted: 22 Nov 2011 01:03 AM PST **YAY! There's huge giveaway in this post! Never take your beauty for granted. I was delusional for quite awhile, hoping that it would go away. Apparently, my negligence of my skin and improper removal of makeup have caused terrible clogging of my pores!
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| Beyond Beauty, the science behind beauty Posted: 22 Nov 2011 12:45 AM PST **YAY! There's huge giveaway in this post! Never take your beauty for granted. I was delusional for quite awhile, hoping that it would go away. Apparently, my negligence of my skin and improper removal of makeup have caused terrible clogging of my pores!
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| The Story Behind The Story of Lovers and Strangers Revisited: “Teh-O in K.L.” Posted: 21 Nov 2011 11:57 PM PST  "Teh-O in K.L." was my first piece of writing (to my knowledge) that had an impact on someone's life when it first came out in Her World (Oct 1992), six months before the publication of the original Lovers and Strangers. The British woman who had read the story, unaware that I was a writer since we had just met, told me that she insisted that her Malay husband read it, too, so he would understand what she had been going through as a Western woman married to a Malaysian living in Malaysia. Then she told me what the story was about, and I had this strong feeling of déjà vu."I wrote that," I said, and she gave me this look: No-way! The teh-o in the title is tea without condensed milk and K.L., of course, is Kuala Lumpur. The story, which is more of a vignette, is based on a true incident. I was trying to capture what I had been feeling as a Westerner in Malaysia, this fish-out-of-water experience, whereby opposites do attract, yet there is this sense of longing, a yearning, as an expat, to be with someone from your own culture. Too often we try to deny this, or even go out of our way to avoid other expats, especially those of us married to Malaysians, who (rightly or wrongly) see ourselves outside the typical expat community. I wrote this story in the present tense, one of three in the original collection, and chose to use Jeya's actual name (with her permission, I believe). Either way, she was quite thrilled! At the time that I met her, she was in an unhappy marriage to a much-older Indian national, whom she later divorced and then married a Brit named Robert and moved to the UK where she now happily lives with four children. "Do you miss being around whites?" This was Jeya's real-life blunt question about race that prompted me to think that there's a story here, especially after the entrance of two Western women, backpackers, "wearing sleeveless loose tops, short shorts and no bras" that suddenly attracted every male's attention, including my own. Jeya quickly noted this, thus catching me in a white lie about my missing being around "whites", or white women in particular. Despite "Teh-O in K.L." being published six times in five countries and translated into Japanese, the editor for Silverfish didn't think I should include it. Then I remembered that encounter with the Brit and other expats, particularly women, who often cited this story as one of their favorites. It was even published in The Expat (Feb. 2004), so I argued for its inclusion. I also agreed to do another overhaul of the story (while on vacation in the US), whereby I flushed out more of the details and heightened some of the contrasts that I was going after. For the MPH version I toned down some of the excesses since they had been written in a rush. An editor in the US, who had read an early version of the story, mentioned that they all really liked the line "…stir the thick white milk into her dark tea until the opposing colors become one." From the beginning this was story of opposites, and that was reflected in the opening paragraph, which didn't change other than deleting one needless fragment. "Call it a black and white thing, though Jeya isn't black. Not African black. She's Ceylonese, but born in Malaysia. Yet her skin in blacker than the night." What did change the most was the ending. The original version focused on Jeya and me, on our new friendship, and on our respective spouses. This seemed to drag out over several paragraphs and away from the story itself. When I revisited the story in 2005, I opted to focus on the two women who had just left, on the race issue, on this sense of longing, and on the tea itself, all compacted into one paragraph. "As I look down at my tea, I'm wishing they're still here, so I'm not the only white person left. Jeya is saying something, but I'm no longer listening. For a long moment, I'm wishing I were back in my own country with someone from my own race. But then the moment passes, and I finish my tea." Last week, Annie, a French expat living in Sarawak, emailed me and said that "Teh-O in KL" was one of her favorite stories "because it touches me personally and because it tells me that we both feel the same beyond the gender 'thing'." So I'm glad I left the story in the collection. For more information about Lovers and Strangers Revisited, please go to: http://www.mph.com.my/search/nsearch.cfm?do=detail&pcode=9833698816 If you wish to read the full reviews: http://www.borneoexpatwriter.com/media.php ***Here the link to my website, to MPH online for orders for all three of my books, including my latest, Spirit of Malaysia and for Trois autres Malaisie. 
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| Posted: 21 Nov 2011 11:46 PM PST The following article by KJ John is from Malaysiakini HERE. I always enjoy the views of a few of their columnists, including KJ John, Dean John, Mariam Mokhtar and Josh Hong. Uncivil Behaviour by Dean John Three incidents last week caught my attention. One was the clear, definite and unruly behaviour of our neighbours against our teams at the SEA Games. Second was the "behaviour of the Sarawak Islamic Affairs Department" in relation to the beauty contestants in Sarawak. The third is the capture of Saif Gadaffi and the potential trial process in Libya. Allow me to comment on each of them and give an opinion. In my field of Organisation Behaviour and Development studies, we have been seriously influenced by two fields of science; one is the study of rats and dogs by Professors BF Skinner and Ivan Pavlov. The other is the field of humanities, which arose from a fundamental and radical review of the history of the philosophy of science, especially in terms of modern science. My teacher of this field of knowledge is SH Nasr and his "Knowledge and the Sacred" thesis delivered at the Gifford lectures at the University of Edinburgh in 1980-81; the framework for 100 years of lectures on natural theology. All these findings and extrapolations wherefrom form much of the literature of the field of behavioural science, or what was called in my school as "human systems." The field of human systems has now transcended the traditional field of "behavioural science" in that it has recognised and acknowledged the nature of human nature or the theory of man and made this a problematic issue or concern. Such a fundamental and radical review arose since the establishment of the Heisenberg principle, that the very act of measurement distorts the measure under observation and thereby established the uncertainty principle. Since then, the so-called "objective science worldview of "behavioural science" was discarded for a more nuanced and value-laden view of all human system studies from the original field of material science worldview, with some circumspection. All scientific observations are today viewed as an extension of worldviews and belief systems of the beholder! Therefore, today in human systems, we take worldviews and values that influence researchers and scientists as part and parcel of their "framing logic' and only needs to be acknowledged as such, instead of suffering to live and breathe the so-called fact-value dichotomy. My teacher Nasr was intellectual saviour for my definition of a "dignity in the workplace thesis." At an American social science academy where I studied, so-called "values" and "facts" could not be mixed or intertwined! I almost became a victim of such a worldview and hypothesis development. Nasr helped me graduate when he joined my doctoral committee. Can I therefore apply the human dignity in the workplace thesis for a new, different and more developmental worldview to understand civility of good behaviour of human beings in the world place? Jeering and abusing unacceptable in sports The Indonesian fans' behaviour of jeering and abusing Malaysian teams is clearly unacceptable by any normal standards of sportsmanship worldwide. Therefore the SEA Games organisers must "severely reprimand" their Indonesian counterparts and state clearly that no more sports tournaments will be held in Indonesia if such unruly behaviour continues. The complainant must be the sports fraternity of Malaysia. The second incident and behaviour of both the team of contestants and their religious body is not as clear an issue though. I have always asked the rhetorical question about Malaysia as a nation-state: Is the air we breathe in the federation green in colour? This question is designed to review and reconsider some false assumptions some people make that the air we breathe is "only Islamic air!" Therefore, their conclusion is that we must not breathe "non-Islamic air" of any sort, especially for the Muslims. The beauty queen contestants were victims of this false thesis or hypothesis! For a fact, the New Straits Times carried the severe words, "In DEFIANCE" on its front page headline on the Sunday issue. Really, but, to whom, or to what, were they defiant to or of? At the age range of 20 to 25 years, who are these younger citizens responsible to and for? If not their parents and community, I cannot think of anyone else, other than their own conscience. Surely they are not directly responsible to the self-appointed Islamic religious body! Therefore, to me, it was even wrong of the Sarawak Islamic Affairs Department to call them up. If it were my children, I would sue the Sarawak Islamic Affairs Department for trespassing into my family jurisdiction! Obviously the parents and the immediate community of these contestants and citizens had no qualms and worries about the nature of these contests and were sure they would not sow sin and evil behaviour into their children! The third incident is equally important for this worldview hypothesis. When the Libyan freedom fighters captured the late Col Muammar Gaddafi, they murdered him on sight with a bullet in his head! But, fortunately, this group of NTC soldiers were more humane and allowed him "minimum personal regard" or recognised his human dignity that he is innocent until proven guilty! Give basic respect to all human beings In any civilised society, all human beings must be accorded minimum personal regard. This principle was established at the Nuremberg trials when Gen Adolf Eichmann, Hitler's right hand man, was tried for the murder of millions of Jews during the Holocaust. His only claim in self-defence was "he was ONLY following orders!" The jury ruled that he was guilty of manslaughter because "killing innocent civilians under any condition is still second degree murder!" The consequential debate is "whether the Libyans are objective and professional enough to give Saif al Islam Gaddafi a fair trial? These are valid and real questions, especially for me as an organisational theorist who looks at group and individual behaviours in differing contexts to make sense of them. To me, the core issue is whether Libyans under the NTC worldview that "Gaddafi did no right" can differentiate his personal behaviour from his institutional behaviour! When this is extrapolated to his son, can we then simply hold him guilty for all actions of his father? Moreover, how many sons or children can, with full audacity, say that their own father is wrong in certain things or actions taken? The answer to these issues, from my field of study, is that we have to distinguish "intentional action" from "instinctive behaviour." Human behaviour is observable actions but only when one can question and understand the actor's reasoning and real reasons for the particular action. All actions are defined by intentions of the actor; never by the motives assigned by the observer of that behaviour. Our civil courts system, therefore always gives the reasonable opportunity for explanation to the actors and never only to imputed motives of the observers; whether they are called Indonesians, or Jakim, or the national transitional council. In all cases, the actors are innocent of any presumed crimes until you can prove that they are personally responsible for their intended actions! May God bless the world! KJ JOHN was in public service for 29 years. The views expressed here are his personal views and not those of any institution he is involved with. 
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| Posted: 21 Nov 2011 11:11 PM PST Tigers pounce. Unsuspectingly. I bet last night hundreds, maybe even thousands, young Malaysian across the country are aspired to be a footballer. Just like Baddrol Bakhtiar. Just like Khairul Fahmi Che Mat. Or Mohd Muslim Ahmad. Or Gurusamy Kandasamy. These are the Malaysian heroes. The heroes that silenced Gelora Bung Karno Stadium. The heroes that, despite all the taunts, insults, threats and boos came out triumphant in front of the people who preferred to call all Malaysians as "Maling". Well, seems like us malings stole the medal right under your nose. People may or may not remember the amount of medals you took (either fairly or otherwise), but people, especially us malings will always, always remember the day our Harimau pounced on Garuda. Congratulations to the Harimau Muda squad. And thank you for silencing the Gelora Bung Karno Stadium. You guys made them weep, yo! Priceless.  And Mr. F put it ever so aptly at the end of the match. "Ambik upah tak hormat lagu kebangsaan orang." 
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| Posted: 21 Nov 2011 09:27 PM PST
"Glasses" is slow in pace; therefore, it allows your mind to journey into a 100-minute getaway to a Japanese island, setting you into relaxation mode. A modern fable with one simple message - 'slow down and enjoy life once in a while'. Ogigami manages to convey the message effectively through her slow approach to storytelling, as well as the brilliant and charming characters, breathtakingly beautiful locations and top-notch production values. A perfect movie for a Saturday afternoon. 'Glasses' will be shown with English subtitles. For more information, please log on to the Japan Foundation, Kuala Lumpur's official website here.
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| Sugar Glider : Video Masa Outstation. Posted: 21 Nov 2011 09:48 PM PST
Hehehe...dah lama tak kongsi video sugar glider kan ? Sesungguhnya diorang ni sangat mencuit hati...dan menyakitkan badan..(sebab kuku diorang tajam giler okayh)...Enjoy this video yah ! Babai ! Shemie dengan ninja aktif dalam bilik air hotel. Memanjat badan dengan penuh rakus....Huhuhu =) Love you ! pengsan sekejap !  Jumpa lagi ! Daftar Percuma Terima RM10 Modal RM10 Pendapatan Berterusan Jana Pendapatan Cara Mudah & Terbaru Portal Iklan & Bisnes Online No. 1 Malaysia http://www.silampuneon.com/feeds/posts/default?alt=rss 
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| Indulgently Gold with DJ Jesse Marco Posted: 21 Nov 2011 01:12 AM PST A New York born, Jesse Marco, has proven that age really, does not matter. He has established himself as a globally recognized DJ that has obtained a status as one of America's finest deejays at by age of 22 years old.
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| Win iPad 2 With Discover U @ KLMU Posted: 21 Nov 2011 05:42 PM PST Just graduated or about to graduate but don't know which university to go to? Well I used to have problems like this when I graduated from high school last time. It was really tough as I didn't know what course suits me and what I want to do in the future.
http://discoveru.com.my/ is a great website to help you understand youself more and also helps you discover what courses and topics suits your interest needs. Now check out the personality test in the site.
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| Posted: 21 Nov 2011 04:22 PM PST
Sesekali dapat tekan minyak macam ni sedap gak ek...selama ni saya bawak 60-80km/jam jer...sejak akhir akhir ni kegilaan membawa kereta di highway membuat kan saya rasa macam nak melenjan kereta viva ku ini...dari 80...ke 90...dari 90...ke 100...dari 100 ke 105...kemudian terus 120km/jam.... Tak ku sangka kesedapan dan kegembiraan menekan minyak sebegini rupa...dalam kepala otak, kalau mati ni sia sia hidup. Al maklumlah, kereta viva ni ringan...melayang layang je rasa bila bawa laju....Huhuhu...kalau eksiden kebabom ade orang nak kisah tak ? ade ke ? huhuhu... aummmmmmmmmmmmmm  aummmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm  sayangnye meter kereta viva ni tak sampai 320km/jam.... kalau tak bleh try test...bawak atas langit ~ hehehe..  what ever ~ sesuka hati saya la saya nak g mana kan ? saya nak g jalan jalan atas pelangi...sapa nak ikut ? Daftar Percuma Terima RM10 Modal RM10 Pendapatan Berterusan Jana Pendapatan Cara Mudah & Terbaru Portal Iklan & Bisnes Online No. 1 Malaysia http://www.silampuneon.com/feeds/posts/default?alt=rss 
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| Posted: 21 Nov 2011 04:20 PM PST Salam... Holiday yang tak terasa macam holiday beb...hari ini SPM ditangguhkan sebab esok ada paper hardcore punya.Additional Maths tu esok...All the best la budak budak SPM yang bakal menghadapi paper add math esok yer...hari ni SPM takde, jadi kita cuti !!! Yahoooo... Daftar Percuma Terima RM10 Modal RM10 Pendapatan Berterusan Jana Pendapatan Cara Mudah & Terbaru Portal Iklan & Bisnes Online No. 1 Malaysia http://www.silampuneon.com/feeds/posts/default?alt=rss 
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| Life Can Begin at 50/60 or 70/80 Posted: 21 Nov 2011 02:30 PM PST Thanks to reader SKT who sent me the following post which came at the right time, just when I feel quite blue about life, especially with the recent demise of my 28 year old niece, my friend Elizabeth's father and also my friend who is now undergoing chemotherapy treatment for Stage 4B cancer that has spread to the pancreas, intestines, liver, bile duct and lymph nodes. :-( Life is so short, dear readers. Let's seize the day and live each day to the fullest! _____________________________ Many people feel unhappy, health-wise and security-wise, after 50/60 70/80 years of age owing to the diminishing importance given to them and their opinions. But, it need not be so, if only we understand the basic principles of life and follow them scrupulously. Here are ten mantras to age gracefully, make life after retirement pleasant, enjoy and treasure the elder years of wisdom and intelligence at its best. 1. Never say 'I am aged': There are three ages, chronological, biological, and psychological. The first is calculated based on our date of birth; the second is determined by the health conditions and the third is how old you feel you are. While we don't have control over the first, we can take care of our health with good diet, exercise and a cheerful attitude. A positive attitude and optimistic thinking can reverse the third age. 2. Health is wealth: If you really love your kids and kin, taking care of yourself and your health should be your priority. Thus, you will not be a burden to them. Have an annual health check-up and take the prescribed medicines regularly. Take out a health care insurance coverage. 3. Money is important: Money is essential for meeting the basic necessities of life, keeping good health and earning family respect and security. Don't spend beyond your means even for your children. You have lived for them throughout and it is time you enjoyed a harmonious life with your spouse. If your children are grateful they should take care of you. But never take it for granted. 4. Relaxation and recreation: The most relaxing and recreating forces are healthy and religious attitudes, good sleep, music and laughter. Have faith in God, to sleep well, love learn good music, and see the fun side of life. 5. Time is precious: It is almost like holding a horse's reins. When they are in your hands, you can control them. Imagine that every day you are born again. Yesterday is a paid cheque. Tomorrow is a promissory note. Today is ready cash; use it wisely. Live this moment. 6. Change is the only permanent thing: We should accept change; it is inevitable. The only way to make sense out of change is to join the dance. Change has brought about many pleasant things. We should be happy that our children are blessed. 7. Enlightened selfishness: Human beings are basically selfish. Whatever they do, they expect something in return. We should definitely be grateful to those who stood by us. But, our focus should be on the internal satisfaction and happiness we derive by doing good to others, without expecting anything in return. 8. Forget and forgive: Don't be bothered too much about others' mistakes. We are not spiritual enough to show our other cheek when we are slapped on one cheek. But, for the sake of our own health and happiness, let us forgive and forget them. Otherwise, we will only be increasing our blood pressure. 9. Everything has a reason; a purpose: Take life as it comes. Accept yourself as you are and also accept others for what they are. Everybody is unique and right in their own ways. 10. Overcome the fear of death: We all know that one day we have to leave this world. Still we are afraid of death. We think that our spouse and children will be unable to withstand our loss. But, the truth is that no one is going to die for you; they may be depressed for some time. Time heals everything and they will carry on. NOBODY GETS OUT OF THIS WORLD ALIVE! Regardless How Far The Journey Is OR How Capable We Are, We Do Our Best To Reach Our Goal. This Is Perseverance At Its Best! -Author Unknown- 
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As part of the monthly Weekend Japanese Film Show series, The Japan Foundation presents you another film screening, come this December. Directed by Naoko Ogigami, the film "Glasses" speaks about how a busy urbanite does not necessarily have to leave the country to learn how to appreciate the simple life.
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