I ♥ ♪♪ . I ♥ Weekends

I love weekends. It means I can sleep all I want and I can stay up real late and watch all the good movies on TV. After work I enjoy closing off the ringer on the phone, locking the door and just relaxing . It feels so good to shut out the world and go into complete silence.

I love weekends. For me, Friday is the end of my work week and the beginning of flex time. Not that weekends are do-nothing days; but the doing is different, and somehow that makes it better.

Saturdays have also become my time to have coffee and maybe even brunch with girlfriends. That’s one of the major reasons they’re such good days. Every woman needs girlfriends, but let’s define the term. A girlfriend is not just any kind of friend. “Close acquaintance” certainly doesn’t qualify. It’s pretty much a sin to even compare the two. And the mere thought of being pretentious, self-protective, or non-vulnerable is justification for excommunication in the real live girlfriend arena. The term is reserved for several really close, free-to-be-me kind of friends. You know, the ones you can be obnoxious with one minute and spiritually profound the next. And they’re perfectly okay with either or both…..even in the same sentence.

We chatted, griped about our newest wrinkles, drank too much coffee, sampled each other’s pastry without permission, and laughed about nothing. We lifted our mugs to celebrate a friend’s breakthrough.

Life is full of mysteries. In fact, I’m finally coming to the place where I’m okay not knowing a lot of things about it. I know enough. I know God is love. I know He loves me. I know He wants me to BE love. I know I love my family, and they love me. And I know I desperately need my girlfriends, and amazingly, they need me, too.

And that’s why I love weekends.

I need to run my own business first, social work second.

The future of our schoolchildren will be compromised with the Government reversing the teaching of Science and Mathematics from English to Bahasa Malaysia, Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad said.

click here.

well, I think its good, because, you don't learn English from doing maths and science at primary and secondary level. I agree that English lessons must be made priority but not as an examination must pass subject. Japanese, Koreans, and Germans don't study maths and science in English, and yet they produce great professionals


its about how we implement and organize our education policy


students who are caught in transition should be allowed to complete it in English, standard one students should start with Bahasa. It will condition them to integrate into the public school system

well, policies, we leave it to the government

I need to run my own business first, social work second.

PS: Don't you think that DM is the devil? He is the one who implemented Bahasa Malaysia policy in education when he was the education minister to gain popular votes, now he is against it.

Hippocrate. no?

Who Are You?

a lot of people say that i'm an open book, but really they only read whatever written on those opened pages. they forget to flip the pages and read the rest of the book. the only definite definition about me is that i always contradict myself and consistently inconsistent.

I know but I figure everyone else should as well
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The Blues, The Blahs and The Blackdog..

I totally agree that we are very prone to depression. As technology advances, and we are easily accessible to media around the world, pressure to "fit in" increases, and thus individuality has been suppressed and we get a lot of peer pressure to "look good", "be at the top", "be the best", "always look beautiful" and so on. The focus is no longer on kindness or spirituality, but on status and beauty and wealth.


Where I come from, depression is still considered a 'taboo' subject, and people are reluctant to talk about it or to accept that it happens to everyone around us, even to ourselves. We wave it away as a "growing up" or "passing" phase. Parents are saying that their children will "grow out of it", peers are saying that their friends will "get over it". It is treated more as something we brought on ourselves that something serious that we cannot always control.


As a result, help is not always readily available or actively seek in our region. We do have professionals who can give guidance and counseling, but people are reluctant to go for fear of being called "crazy".


Our culture is also less "touchy-feely", which can be frustrating. We don't tell each other "I love you", we don't confide in others easily. A person can feel very alone and unloved in this part of the world.


I believe every individual can help, even if it's just by lending an ear to listen, or telling someone that you care. We must be aware of the people around us, be able to empathize and reach out....

I'M GRATEFUL

i know i have a back condition that very often makes everything a pain in the arse but the parts that work are truly blessings beyond compare.

• i can see the brilliant colors of the sunrise and sunset and am able to stand in awe at what the creator has made for me

• i can hold a pencil to draw, to write and my fingers are able to move intricately across a keyboard.
  

• i can hear the song of birds, the laughter of a child, the tears of a friend and i can respond to them all

The List. i could keep this list going since there are so many parts that are blessed with being maintenance-free and it would be so easy to forget them if i didn’t have the reminder that although i do have a difficult back the rest of me is divinely blessed and not everyone is as blessed.

The People. i am grateful for all the joy and sadness everyone has shared. i am grateful for the encouragement and compliments that have been gifted to me. i am terribly blessed to have been touched and been able to touch lives in a positive way.

The Talents I've Been Blessed With. my talents are a blessing because:

• i can make other people have a little joy and some smiles when i use them

• give me an ice-breaker in some socially awkward situations and a way to give gifts from the heart

• make me stand in awe of my Creator since i have been blessed with a little of the creative nature that constructed the world

The Body Parts That Work. i could keep listing blessings since every time i turn around i can see one somewhere peeking at me. the secret is i am learning to see them everywhere in all things. some people call them silver linings, well maybe they are but if they are ‘just’ silver linings, my life is limned in silver… it practically glows argentum. and the more i see the silver the more it glows.

i like that.

i am blessed.

with silver lining all over.

One Night In Palace. :)

Our glorious family dins on Saturday was lovely. very.

♥

Cheese-Baked-Oyster. Hugeee!

My Happy Family.

One BIGGG happy family complete with the boiprens.

me & my ever loving grandma.

deariedoo & moi.

the lovelies.

12:41am

Love & Light.

xx

Here Comes The Sun

Oops - I got caught up in my summer classes - but I rocked them!
To the 1-2 people who read this: Life is good when you are in the groove...

It would be nice to stop time for a bit...

wouldn’t it?

I am tired of this constant feeling of, “I have things to do.” Everyone feels this way, so why is there not an international “do -nothing” week? People can’t even enjoy vacations because they get caught up on house maintenance, or, because they have time off, their boss/teacher has assigned them work to do that has to be finished for when they return.

I just want to experience a small chunk of time where I honestly have nothing to do, where there is no guilt bubbling just below the surface of my brain telling me I should be doing something else instead of something more relaxed/leisurely. I guess there’s a name for this: stress. Wouldn’t it just be great if stress didn’t exist? so that each day was a day unto itself, and didn’t always require stuff to build up over several days?

moi.gary.jone on our way home.


'Let's go mamak... again' was indeed a blast!

PS: I need to get out of the city and find some beautiful scenery from time to time to keep my sanity. A Train Ride Might Be Just the Thing...

"The Climb" ft. Ahmir

YouTube Sensations Cover Miley Cyrus' "The Climb"

This cover of Miley Cyrus' chart topping hit "The Climb"
definitely gets prime placement in the list of the best YouTube covers as of late.

YouTube artist David Sides teamed with the self proclaimed "Most Popular R&B Group on YouTube,"
Ahmir, for the song that's quickly finding its way around the internet.


really really good.

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Lets go Mamak...AGAIN!

"If you wanna make the world a better place, take a look at yourself, then make that change!".

LET'S GO MAMAK @ KLPAC 3-5 JULY, COME!

Who are Inner Voices?
Well, they
- bagged 4 Boh Camronian Arts Award's last year for their feature concert "Let's Go Mamak!" at the Kuala Lumpur Performing Arts Center (KLPAC) for starters :)
- are all about "Unity Through Music" because it is through the appreciation of the performing arts centered around our Malaysian culture and its multi-ethnic group musicians that we can further educate and create more of an awareness of how we live in harmony as a community.

What is this about?
The title says it all - a mixture of every ethnic culture Malaysia has to offer.
In musical metaphors this IS the concept of muhibah often displayed at a 'mamak' stall!!

The music?
6 ethnic musicians and 6 contemporary musicians contribute to the richness of this truly Malaysian concept put together by composer/music director, Ken Hor.
Ken along side co-music director/saxophonist Julian Chan will once again lead the 12 culturally diverse musicians in exploring the 'flavour of contemporary ethnic Malaysian music'.

The style?
The fusing of traditional tunes framed to fit in to western and contemporary music genres such as jazz, pop, and world music! Wow. A mouthful, to be sure!

In the spirit of "muhibah-ness", this concert offers a bit of everything to everyone. Literally. A lil' bit for everyone in the audience.

How so?
Imagine a conversation between a Malay, a Chinese, an Indian and a Mat Salleh taking place on percussion; or a nostalgic Malaysian folk song played on Western instruments.

Need we say more ?
Come and experience the elements of traditional Malaysian music with the richness of our country's main ethnic group.

Will you take this One - Malaysia step and be a part of this multi-racial, multi-lingual and multi-instrumental concert !?

Video of Let's Go Mamak 2008.


VENUE KLPac, Pentas 1
DATE 3 — 4 July,2009
TIME 8.00pm
TICKETS RM47 / RM57 *(Concession Tickets RM10 off)
DRESS CODE Smart Casual


GALA NIGHT 5 July 8.00pm
TICKETS RM72 / RM82
DRESS CODE Formal Attire


SEE YOU THERE!
PS: Fung & Julian, happy boh?! buy me bakutteh before u go back to NYC!!

PPS: I still have 4 tics left. PM me if u wanna come along!

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Happy Tuesday

Happiness, I have discovered, is nearly always a rebound from hard work. -David Grayson-

So simple but so true… If you are searching for happiness/achievement/success… it may not come to you, but you can almost always find it by putting forth an effort… Hard work, sometimes long hours, always a sacrifice of some kind, but it is almost always there for the taking… :)

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Weekend Recap Extravaganza

Friday: Food Review with Timothy, Wilson Ng and other Pro food blogger at Tasty Pot, Sunway.


hotpot, vair nice.

Tim & his wife, vair nice couple.

ketam as big as my face. vair nice.

Saturday: Sushi Zan Mai with cy after Transformer 2 with cy, elle, evo, ego, selina and 94 kawans. Many thanks to Evo & Tk for getting us the tickets.


eVo & me, vair nice.

some maki, vair nice.

sushi galore, vair nice.

hand rolls, vair nice.

me with softshellcrab hand roll, vair nice.

Sunday: Girls Out Loud @ Pasta Zan Mai with Yaya, Elle & Hisham.


4play, vair nice.

unagi, vair nice.

sesami salad, vair nice.

yaya & sham, vair nice.

Sirloin Steak, vair nice.

shabu shabu beef pasta, vair nice.

sirloin beef pasta, vair nice.

monako, vair nice.

green tea pafrait, vair nice.

me & elle, vair nice!


HAHAHAHHAHAHAH.
Reason why i can never be a food critic/food blogger: EVERYTHING IS SO VAIR NICE TO ME!
I'm easily pleased.
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