Mums and Dads

Just finished Mitch Albom's "For One More Day".

Both his "Five people you meet in heaven" and "For one more day" are easy to read because he tells life from simple stories. Although the "Five people you meet in heaven" is more well-known compared with the latter, the latter moved me more.

I guess it's because this book is about the love between mother and child. In the last few pages I could not hold the tears anymore. My tears kept streaming down my cheek when the man had to depart with his mother.

There's an invisible connection between every mother and child even before they have physical contacts

I wouldn't know which one I will choose if there's a choice given between losing my mum or die.

How about you?

After losing your mum for so long and missing her so dearly years after she was buried under the ground, you are given the chance to be with your mum in heaven forever if you die. Would you choose to die?


Alright. Back to Mitch Albom.

Was planning to write about my curiosity on the influence of his father on him. In both the books, he sketched the eagerness of a child to be assured by his father. Both the characters in the two books (Eddie and Charles) he described wanted approvals from their fathers since they were kids. They respected their fathers but at the same time feared them. And in the end both the characters followed what their fathers want them to be.

Either following what daddy does happily

Or reluctantly

Whether or not the child shows it on his/her face. Either way a child will always seek for approval and attention from father.

Just like the song by Simple Plan-- Perfect. Every child seeks approval from dad.

Hey Dad look at me
Think back and talk to me
Did I grow up according
To plan?
Do you think I’m wasting
My time doing things I
Wanna do?
But it hurts when you
Disapprove all along


And now I try hard to make it
I just want to make you proud
I’m never gonna be good
Enough for you
I can’t pretend that
I’m alright
And you can’t change me

When dad disapprove with what the child is doing, the child gets really hurt.

Imagine you really enjoy to be a break-dancer and your dad shakes head every time he sees you coming back from a dance battle with friends. Imagine you really want to take up a degree on journalism but your dad wants you to study engineering and although he paid for the journalism fees he shakes head whenever he sees you writing an assignment. Imagine you went for a back pack traveling and your dad says it is just a waste of time.


Imagine I told my dad about my passion in blogging last night and all he said was "Cut it. Nobody would want to read your blog." It really hurts. Very much.

Can't wait for my parent's visit

Mum and dad are coming to KL tomorrow morning!!

I’m thrilled. =D

I haven’t seen my parents for more than two months ever since I got my job. This is actually not the longest record. Last time when I was still in uni I went back home only twice a year, in the July one month break and December-February 3 months summer holiday.

For the 3 months breaks, I had industrial training in my second year in Gribbles for 2 months. I rented a room near the place I work. So, I didn’t meet my parents as frequent (although I still went home during the weekends). Then, third year summer holiday was even worse. I went back to my hometown for 2 weeks and started to work as research assistant on temporary basis in my uni back in KL. And I then continued staying there for my next semester. So it was like about 6 months without seeing my parents.

I think my parents missed me more than the reverse way back then. Cuz I didn’t feel any homesickness and seldom miss my parents during the stay in my uni.

And now. 2 months for not seeing my parents make me miss my parents so much. Something is really wrong. I still hang out with friends, although not as frequent. I even climb hills, very healthy indeed. lol. I went shopping with my cousins and aunt. But, somehow, I miss my parents. A lot.

These few days the peninsular had been raining almost everyday. The road surface got really wet and slippery. Recently there are news on cases and cases of accidents on the highway because of slippery roads.

Today’s news in Star online: Mum and daughter killed on way home after holiday and Lorry mishap, so no papers.

I sincerely hoped that there will be no rain tomorrow so that the road will be safer to drive. But the weather forecast at http://www.kjc.gov.my/english/weather/forecast/town.html shows 'rain whole day' everywhere (including Johor, Malacca, Seremban, Putrajaya) on Wednesday. =(

Praying for them.

Am having a flu

I was chased by a demon.

She was a very adorable little girl in her 7 or 8 but with enormous strength when she tried to stab me with a knife. She wanted to kill me. I tried to run fast but I could not. For several times she caught hold of me and tried to stab me with the knife. I loose her grip and ran again.

The chasing scene changed from school to train station and then inside the train and then back to the school hall again. She tried to kill her fellow classmates in the graduation ceremony in the school hall. Then in the end with the help of the principal of the school and some police troops we managed to trick and capture the demon girl and prevent her from killing more innocent people.

This was my nightmare last night.

Damn scary. This nightmare gave me a stiff shoulder the next morning. It's a very horrible nightmare after for so long. I remember the last nightmare I had about these ghost thingy was like 2 years ago. I was in a big university campus. It was gloomy and the walls of the buildings were made of moulded bricks. I was walking up the stairs when I saw several semi-transparent ghosts floating around the corridor in the building.


Ok, back to the demon girl I dreamed about last night. I went to google what this dream indicates. Then I found one interpretation:

''If one dreamt was fighting a demon and he won means his belief is true and strong.''

Oh. That's great. At least I know I'm not obsessed. Guess it's my flu that was giving me this dream.

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Got a forwarded email from Zihui about special watches two days ago. Wanted to post it but was sick then.

1

Showing 1.20 or 3.05??




So it's 3.05 then...

2

Showing 12.07??



Showing 12.11??






3



Totally no idea what time it shows. But it says 12.03 in the picture.

In order to know the time you would have to count the items in the watch one by one.
I pity the owner.

4

5

I would need some calculations to know what 22.46 on a normal digital clock means. lol. That's why I always set my handphone clock to 12 hours basis instead of 24.

So, if I get any one of these watches I am so sure I won't know how to read the time.

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Please let me recover before tomorrow cuz I wanna watch Enchanted tomorrow.
Cough cough.. Plee.. Cough... eease... cough cough cough

I love Christmas

Had been counting down to Christmas since my birthday which was back in the beginning of October. lol. This is no joke though. I really love Christmas even though I'm not a Christian. There was one year when I was a kid my parents encouraged me and bro to put socks beside our beds on Christmas Eve. We just hang the socks we wore to school beside the bed and the next morning the stockings were stuffed with a badminton racket each. That explain why our school stockings were always loose. lol.

This didn't add much to my liking to badminton and neither to Christmas. I knew the Santa Claus who gave us the rackets were my parents because I remember them buying badminton rackets on the Christmas Eve night in the mall (they brought us along too. lol)

It was this memorable Christmas Eve party at Kampar with my mother-side grandparents that increased my interests towards Christmas. All my uncles and aunties were there. No one was absent. Everyone brought a present and we started exchanging present in the party. I remember grandma played a Christmas song (I think it's silent night) with Organ. Everyone was laughing and had a great time talking and singing.

Since then, I waited for Christmas parties with grandparents which had never happened again. That was our first and last family reunion Christmas party. =(

The subsequent Christmas parties were with Zhuang's neighbours. The feelings were never the same again. =( And I miss my popo and gonggong. Hope there's Christmas party in Heaven. And hope they will be enjoying it there. =)

Ok... Get back to the bright side.

Although I miss Christmas party with my grandparents and relatives very much, Christmas left something sweet in my heart. Something really sweet. It's those memories and the warmth. So it's been my habit to start counting down to Christmas from my birthday which was way before Christmas. lol.

Happy Christmas everyone!

A memorable Sunday morning

Was watching a Korean drama called "Air City". There's this guy who likes the main character in the drama told the girl "From now on I can be your rubbish bin, you can throw anything to me. Do you have any problem with you now?" When I saw this scene I was like... Whoa.. If the guy I look into my eyes and tell me this, plus a bit of soft music I will be so touched! =P

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Went to climb the same hill again Sunday morning with only Keen and Adam.

I like this pic because everyone was not ready. So natural. Especially Adam. lol..

We did not make early plan. Adam requested to go for a climb at Bukit Tabur on Friday and there we were climbing up the hill and panting our lungs out.

Luckily we still remember the route to climb up and down (although at times we were confused). With less people to climb with we took many rests. We rested at any windy spot and took picture, had some water and a lot more chatting and gazing down at the Klang Gates Dam and the trees below and the hills around the hill. The day was bright and very windy, no trace of dark cloud at all. Such a nice day to climb.

Keen already tired at the beginning of the climb. lol


I didn't saw the Klang Gates Dam in the previous climb with Raleigh. We just saw the lake only, not the dam. Finally we saw the dam this time.


Not yet reach abseiling part, resting at the windy place looking down at the trees. =)


Adam and his uni UIA (finally got a better view of UIA when we get higher)


Before second abseiling
(skipped first abseiling pictures because I took the picture from above which is not a very good angle.. cant see clearly)

Keen took the picture of Adam abseiling. I was watching from above.

Adam constipation face. lol

The last person to climb down.


The rock was cold! It was really comfortable to stick my face on it especially when it was almost noon.

Just now didn't take good picture of me abseiling, so went back to pose. hehe..

Another windy spot. Adam lying on the warm rock, relaxing or acting like he was. =P


I also found a spot to lie down. Half-lying though. But the sun was glaring. I felt like a piece of raw meat roasted under the sun although there was strong wind. It was about 12.30pm.

Keen couldn't find a place to lie down so he sat.

Then we turned on timer mode and take some pictures. Still at the same windy spot where we lied down to relax.

Kena kiap. lol


Superman Adam wanna fly back to the previous peak. lol

We then moved on and going down again. Keen got down after me.

And then Adam

Stool-like rocks. All square square one. Very artistic.

Try to sit nice nice cause wanna show like I'm sitting on a chair.

I really had fun during this climb because there's wind today (no wind previous climb last month) and the companion was cool. =) And we had fun taking pictures too. Too bad didn't make much face during the photo taking part. Next time I'll make funny faces. lol.

The climb was not very fast. We took 4 hours to climb up and down. 3 and half hours up and half an hour down the hill. I think we took so long because we rested quite long at those windy place. Was a nice rest though. And fun ones. lol. =)

Can't wait to go to the next climb with Keen and Adam if there's any. =)

p/s: Adam said next time wanna go there picnic, bring nice food and drinks up. Haha. If only we have enough energy to carry them up. =P