WHY?

I am disgusted.

Disgusted with Straits Times for being such a tabloid.

Doubly disgusted with the way the ST & Newpaper delivered the news of this poor zoo cleaner, who, for some reasons, decided to kill himself by jumping into the lions’ den.

“More Exclusive photos in the Newpaper” screamed ST.

Is that the way to treat a fellow human being? What’s the point of showing so many photos if not for the sake of selling more papers?

I am disgusted. This is not the first time non will it be the last.

Hola! Como esta?

i actually wrote my Chilean friends a Christmas card in my very bad Spanish with the help of a phrase book i got for the trip.

since i will never see the card again, thot it will be nice to keep it here.

yah la very early for x'mas but South America very farrrrraway u know.

what's next?

Our investments are being poisoned by the Americans

Our food contaminated by the Chinese

What's next? Some nuclear power to poison our air????

Sigh.

Spy threw away my M&Ms chocolate (sob!) but this is nothing compared to the poor children suffering from kidney stones problem

Double sigh.

mission accomplished

i have just returned from Kunming delivering about 80kg of winter wear to the needy in the mountainous area.

it will be mission impossible or mission-very-expensive if not for the help of our taiji students.

the group of 13 of us packed all of the winter wear which i have collected into our luggage for our taiji training trip.

this is the painting given to me by one of the kids staying in the kunming mountain village.

my 1st cushion

wow, finally.
i have completed sewing my cushion cover!

see the cute dog bone button?

my first sewing lesson

i got bitten by the sewing bug when i chanced upon a beautiful piece of fabric in a little shop @ Queen street.

"i must make a dress out of this!" with this thought, i bought the fabric and asked my mum-in-law for help who used to own a small school teaching people how to sew.

last sunday was my first lesson! i wanted to sew a cushion cover with a cross stitch design.

three & a half hours of drafting, cutting and ironing, this is what i have achieved :
(yes, u are right, the 2 bigger pcs aren't ironed)

this sunday i will borrow j's sewing machine (my mum-i-l's is too professional a machine for me) and start sewing!

Mum's 71st in Colour

Mum's 71st BD

hee hee i know uncle Aloysius & some of u have been checking this space for my Chile trip update.

sorry it's taking such a long time........ being yixiunai does not mean i have all the time in the world tho i sometimes have :P

i have been busy with planning my mum's 71st birthday party and it went really well.
thanks to gusty relatives & friends who made the dinner really fun & memorable.

then i am also busy with collecting winter wear for the orphans in Kunming mountains.

i sent some emails out and received really good responds! my poor little 3-room flat is so full i have to put some of the bags in Chia Yu's extra room.

i am still sorting & writing captions for my Chile photos.
uncle Aloysius i promise very fast........

see my gorgeous mum's photos 1st la

Vancouver!

tomorrow is too late

If you're mad with someone , and nobody's there to fix the situation... You fix it . Maybe today, that person still wants to be your friend . And if u don't, tomorrow can be too late .



If you're in love with somebody , but that person doesn't know...
tell her/him. Maybe today, that person is also in love with you . And if you don't say it, tomorrow can be too late .



If you still love a person that you think has forgotten you...
tell her/him. Maybe that person has always loved you. And if you don't tell her/him today , tomorrow can be too late.



If you need a hug of a friend... ask her/him for it.
Maybe they need it more than you do. And if you don't ask for it today, tomorrow can be too late.



If you really have friends who you appreciate... tell them. Maybe they appreciate you as well. That if you don't and they leave or go far away today , tomorrow can be too late.





If you love your parents, and never had the chance to show them... do it . Maybe you have them there to show them how you feel. That if you don't and they leave today , and then tomorrow can be too late.

Cheap laugh

Somewhere in the universe:

A pastor entered his donkey in a race and it won. The pastor was so pleased with the donkey that he entered it in the race again, and itwon again.

The local newspaper read: PASTOR'S ASS OUT FRONT.

The Bishop was so upset with this kind of publicity that he ordered the pastor not to enter the donkey in another race.

The next day, the local newspaper headline read: BISHOP SCRATCHES PASTOR'S ASS.

This was too much for the bishop, so he ordered the pastor to get rid of the donkey. The pastor decided to give it to a nun in a nearby convent.

The local paper, hearing of the news, posted the following headline the next day: NUN HAS BEST ASS IN TOWN.

The bishop fainted. He informed the nun that she would have to get rid of the donkey, so she sold it to a farmer for $10.

The next day the paper read: NUN SELLS ASS FOR $10.

This was too much for the bishop, so he ordered the nun to buy back the donkey and lead it to the plains where it could run wild.

The next day the headlines read: NUN ANNOUNCES...HER ASS IS WILD AND FREE.
The bishop was buried the next day....

The moral of the story is.... Being concerned about public opinion can bring you much grief and misery ... and even shorten your life.

So be yourself and enjoy life..... Only worry about your own ASS not someone else's.....You'll be a lot happier and live longer!

these are my friends!

it is not easy to say that we are still friends since we first said 'hi' 20 years ago.

these are really precious photos and hopefully, we are still friends 20 years later.............

long live friendship!