Give the Gift of Future

Boys & Girls Clubs of America (BGCA), with its supporters, keeps youth on the path to a great future by helping them achieve academic success, good character and citizenship, and healthy lifestyles. It is their hope that with average holiday sales topping 500 billion dollars each year, a small slice of purchases being reallocated for a cause could drive major changes in the lives of all these youth.

Help Open Four Million Doors to Four Million Children at Risk This Holiday Season by checking out here and participating in whatever way you can to help nearly 16 million children in America who are living in poverty and facing challenges like never before.

Boys & Girls Clubs of America (BGCA), teaming up with Mario Lopez , who benefited from the club when he was growing up, are trying to encourage Americans to give the gift of a great future to young people in need this holiday season. BGCA is calling holiday shoppers to make a difference by allocating some of their purchases to help those kids most in need. Simple task like checking in at Best Buy on your Foursquare apps, liking merchant’s facebook account will contribute in a big way to the club. Check out the video below and understand why this is something all Americans should do.

 

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Random Thoughts at Midnight

• Yeay!.. I’ve finished my challenging project yesterday and will post about it shortly on LadyJava Creations. The other project  one is coming along nicely too. I just need to cross check the site with cross-browsers and while that is easy with Firefox and Internet Explorer, I still need to make sure the display would run smoothly on an iPad. Unfortunately I don’t have an iPad handy with me  and thus got to wait for my partner to lend me his so that I can finish the job. I don’t think I will buying any gadgets (though really salivating at the thought of HTC Flyer)  in the near future as I think a vacation is what I really need right now. I’ve been sourcing around to find cheap holidays nearby but with the rainy season and Aggie’s recent eye surgery, I don’t think that would materialized this year at all  though the sound of just not doing anything sounds pretty good to me right now. lol!  Oh well, perhaps I can just dream about it for now while planning for a nice one next year so at least that is something to be looking forward to.

• I’m experiencing very bad indigestion these few days which makes sitting no fun. Been taking Ginger Eno, and that seems to help.. I don’t think it’s what I eat but rather how much I eat. Sometimes being a night person has it’s disadvantage. I mean I wake up at noon but since it’s morning for me, I just take cereal or oats, then there is no lunch and basically dinner is whatever time A comes home… the funny thing.. I don’t seem to lose weight which is real bummer 🙁

• I’ve not been playing Cityville very much but when I do, there is so much to do!  My crops are dead, my cargo overboard and my goals are all expiring.. hahah.. do I really need all this stress?

• Someone dear to me is experiencing heartpain right now coz his cat might have ingested poisoned food meant to trap mouse. My prayers and thoughts goes out to him.

• I’ve not called mommy as often as I used to since she started a new stall. She said I can call her around 10pm when she’s home but I know by that time she will be too tired to talk.. I miss mommy 🙁

• I don’t celebrate Thanksgiving but I love the idea of giving thanks for all the blessings. So Thank You God and may there be more blessing the coming years for all of  us! Ameen!

 

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Mariuca

I Love A Challege

I took up a challenge recently when a client requested me to do work that I’ve never done before and I must say it is coming along nicely and I am quite happy with the result. I won’t bring out the cigar just yet as the work is not completed but once it is, I will feature it on my LadyJava Creations soon.

In the meantime.. to all my friends who celebrates Thanksgiving… Have a good one with the loved ones ya!

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Music Monday :Ku Tak Sanggup (Kris Dayanti)

Another lovely song from Kris Dayanti… Happy Music Monday all!

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Just the Hired Help

I’m currently co-working with a partner on a website design for a local company here in KL (me doing the front-end and his doing the back-end) and it is really testing my Malay language. Although technically I’m just supposed to use the words that they used for menu bar and content and what not, it sets me thinking what some of the terms that they use really mean. I mean it’s not bombastic Malay or whatever but “BEBAN KERJA” is “Responsibilities”?.. Seriously?.. and I can’t even change anything because the fields are all in those terms and one error, the whole database may not load.

Oh well, I think someone from that company may need to get London translation services before starting to translate words him or herself but then again it’s their company right? I’m just the hired help.. lol!

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Bella

Island Hopping in Langkawi (2000)

Two months before our wedding, my then future father-in-law decided to bring the whole family (me included) for a vacation in Langkawi. Basically it was sort of a destressing session before we all get stressed from the wedding preparation in March. Since it was my first time visiting Langkawi and I had recently resigned from my work back home, I decided it was a good idea to relax before the preparation hit us.

Langkawi has beautiful beaches and one look you might even think you are on some  maldives holidays instead of Malaysia and we didn’t waste any time checking out the beaches and even going jet skiing.  We also went island hoping. My father in-law chartered a little boat that will fit 9 of us and set sail to visit the surrounding smaller islands namely Pulau Singa, Pulau Dayang Bunting and Pantai Cinta Kasih. As you can from the smiles on our faces, it was a fantastic day!

 

And Off We Go!

 

Me and the then Mr Fiance

 

Pulau Dayang Bunting: Check out the water behind me.. Awesome!

 

Pantai Cinta Kasih: Abah and Mama

 

Azwaj feeding the deer on one of the island. Animals love him

 

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Meet the Parents at Lumut, Ipoh

I met Azwaj’s parents six months after our first date and it wasn’t just a one or even a two hour meet and greet session but it was for a weekend of all inclusive holidays trip to Lumut, Ipoh. .. lol.. talk about scary right? I mean I only knew the chap for six months and all of sudden he invited me to go on a holiday with his whole family and the scarier part was that I accepted..hahah..

Anyway I thought if this relationship was going to go somewhere, anywhere, I might as know his background as soon as possible and what better way to get to know him and his family better than spending time with them. Lucky for me, my future in-laws were an awesome lot and we got along fabulously. The place was great and I even got a glimpse of my first “ghost”.. haha.

This was taken before the era of smart phone and digital camera so all these were in the form of print. I managed to dig out some of them but since I was too lazy to scan them, I just used my camera and snap pictures of the photos hence that blob of white light from the flash.

This chalet area, up on the hill, no longer exist so I was glad we got a nice picture of it

 

Me with then future mother-in-law -This was taken on Pulau Sembilan, an island one hour away from Lumut. Rest in peace Mama.

 

From this window at the chalet, I saw a “ghost” on the shoreline walking into the sea

 

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Frustrated

I’m spring cleaning in hopes of finding one photo album that I’ve misplaced somewhere. I swear I have it in my home because I’ve seen it a few times but now for the life of me I can’t figure out where it is. I found some other photographs of my life once upon a time, even found a picture of some  rose plants that my late dad grew but still the one album that I’m looking for nowhere in sight. Arghhh…defintely no fun.

Oh well, I’m sure it will turn up somewhere but for now I’m just purely frustrated!

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Meeting Up with Besties

As usual I always have a blast whenever the CNC ladies meet. We’ve been friends for more than a 15years and we try to meet up as often as we can whenever I come back home to Singapore.

Hard to imagine that Lilian has a son that just enlisted in national service, Shanti’s boy is 11years old and Li-Ming’s first born is already 9! Where did the time go?

We talked a lot of what’s going on in our life and work. We even talked about going on a weekend of cheap holidays abroad some day so much so that I suggested the ladies come over to KL for weekend. We could stay in some hotel, order room service and have a slumber party of mocktails and dancing and if loud music is a factor, we can all put the same song in our phone, plugin in the headphone into our respective ears, hit the play button and dance away.. lol!

The 3 hours that we spent today passed by too fast too. Before we knew it, our handphone was all ringing from calls from either child or husband signify that it was time to go home.

Sigh.. gonna miss my ladies and hope that weekend trip become a reality one day! Oh no picture as these ladies are all camera shy.. lol!

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Bill

Hot Singapore

Sometimes when I stand at the corridor of my apartment here in Singapore, I feel like I’m on a beach on one of those Carribbean holidays or something. The cool breeze makes me forget how hot Singapore can get sometimes. Sad to say however, the breeze does not pass through the apartment at all. It just sort of pass in front of of the door and move onwards. That is also why the fan in the living room is NEVER off and I have this cute USB fan next to me while I’m working.

Anyway, I’m still thankful for the heat because I’m sure somewhere out there people are hoping the rain would stop in their area so that the flood would subside. As they say, the grass is always greener on the other side so am trying hard to remember that so that I am thankful for all the blessings that I have 🙂

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Walking in Singapore

Raya Shoes

For the first time since I started the Music Monday meme 163 times ago, I actually forgot to publish my post at midnight this morning. Blame it on Raya, blame it on being sleepy, blame it on me.. lol! Anyway I only got the post out at noon, talk about late..haha…

Anyway, I walked so much yesterday that I was glad I had my comfy shoes on. It might be easyspirit shoes but it does the job. Yeap, there is a lot of walking for me whenever I go back. I think my “exercise” only happens while I’m back in my homeland.. hehe..

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Back Home

It’s the same routine each time I come home from KL.

I will spend the first few hours catching up with mom.. and how she is, what she’s been up to, local goss.. lol.. This time around, that session is cut short as I had to go to Parkway Parade to get my new internet prepaid card because my existing one has expired. I went alone though as mom was too tired to accompany me.

Anyway, back home, mom was not asleep yet as she was waiting for me to have dinner together. Luckily I didn’t spend too long a time at the shopping center. We spend the rest of remaining evening still catching up on the memory foam toppers mattress but by midnight mom was too sleepy to continue. I also slept early seeing how I am to be on “normal people” mode for the duration of stay in Singapore. lol..

Good to be back!

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