Jan 06 2009
Just as I wrote about the fear of facing old age, this morning at 4am, DH received phone call that his grandpa has passed away in the hospital.
He has never woke up since the surgery. I just hope that he didn’t suffer much in the process.
Jan 05 2009
Lately, our family has been facing a few ‘death scares’. It started with my grandma…
She fell down few months ago and broke her leg. After some surgeries, she is still unable to walk due to ‘unbearable pains’. We have been asking her to walk as asked by the doctor (at least to the bathroom!), she became very unhappy and cursed the whole family everyday.
Few weeks ago, she suddenly fell more ill and stopped cursing or scolding. She was half conscious and asked to see each family member. So, we were all summoned home to see her for the ‘last time’. Yup, everyone thought she is dying (like in the drama!)
When I arrivee, situation was gloomy. Then one uncle asked whether they brought a doctor or not. That was the turning point of the whole drama. When finally a doctor arrived, he said that she needed to be hospitalized due to low blood sugar and fever, etc.
After she is discharged, she is now very weak. She sleeps most of the time. Really sad to see her like that.
Another case is with DH’s grandpa. He was like my grandma, a few cases of low blood sugar, in and out of hospital many times. Finally he cannot walk any more. The key issue with him is that he smokes a lot (5-8 PACKS of cigerattes a day if he can afford!).
On New Year Eve, when we were having dinner in KLANG, a phone call - DH’s grandpa threw out and passed out black stuff, and it is believed to be blood clots. So, after dropping me and the kids, they rushed to the hospital.
The whole New Year day DH and his family were at the hospital. Apparently his stomach ‘burst’ and needed operation immediately. The chance of survival is 50:50, so it was a gamble (if no op, 100% die!).
Sigh! Now looking at these, makes me wonder, whether long life is a good or bad thing? I think if I have a lot of money to hire specialist nurses and live in nice old folks home, I don’t mind long life. If I have no money, and to live longer life is a burden to my family, I better die quickly. 
Just wonder how much money is enough for this?
Jan 04 2009
This is my first baking in 2009… a bit too sweet to my liking, but still edible. LOL!
It is very simple with recipe below, but I would suggest to reduce sugar by half if you don’t like it very sweet…
4 ripe bananas
1/4 cup olive oil
1 cup sugar (reduce if you don’t like it too sweet)
2 cups flour
1 tsp. salt
1 tsp. baking powder
1 cup choc chips (or chopped walnuts, or both!)
• Mash bananas. Add oil and sugar. Mix well.
• Add flour, salt, and baking powder together and add to the banana mixture. Mix until the flour is blended (do not beat).
• Pour into muffin pans and bake at 180°C for 20-25 min or until a toothpick comes out clean.
Makes 1 Dozen Muffins
[Source: Veg Cooking]
Jan 03 2009
First of all - HAPPY NEW YEAR to all! Hope everyone have a good holiday and celebration. 
After having my own kids, this was my first new year countdown. We went to the Desa Parkcity’s new year countdown celebration. We guessed most of the participants are non-residents in DPC, coz there aren’t any parking lots around 10pm. People parked on the roadside, and it was so crowded! I don’t believe all of them are residents there.
The best thing about the carnival here is that, everything is free. I think Digi sponsored this, coz every booth and freebies given, are printed with Digi logo.
We didn’t know what was happening in each booth, but we just queued up and joined the crowed. LOL! We played almost every games, but too lazy to squeeze to the front area for whatever clown or magic shows. Ian and Isabel each won something from the games. DH’s cousins squeezed to the front area and queued for the free popcorns. Not sure if it is due to late night and a lil hungry, it was so so so tasty! LOL!
These help a lot to wait till the countdown. My children were so tired but they insisted to wait till th firework.
And the wait was so so so worthy! I have never been so closed to any fireworks before. This one is so long, so colourful, and so CLOSED! It feels like the explosion is coming to us. Up to one point, Ian got scared and hide behind me. LOL!
In the past, we lived in an apartment facing KL center, and we could see so many fireworks until we lost the appreciation of them. But the feeling is different - it was from afar, and this one was so closed. I am glad that we brought our children there and that I didn’t miss this one. Hahahaha!
Jan 02 2009
This comes in later than previous years… Too occupied with other things - things that are more fun than blogging. LOL! Yes, lots of them, I will share later…
These were my 2008 new year resolution:
Let’s see what’s the achievements…
Visit dentist twice - FAILED. Only visited once and finished using my 2008 budget… that is because I went to do whitening. LOLO! Never mind, this year should be okay gua?
Brush Ian’s teeth twice a day - CHECKED. After moving to the new house, this is even easier to achieve!
Cook more often - CHECKED. This year, less travel budgt, more working from home, I managed to cook more, but not regularlly. After moving to the new house, I started to cook ‘normal meals’, like rice and soup, etc. Hehehe, so far, so good.
Work out with kids during weekends - Okay…. Not so much, until we moved in. Hope this is not hangat-hangat tahi ayam. I brought them to pool once a while and then cycling too.
Read (and clear!) at least 15 books I’ve bought - CHECKED. Well, I don’t keep track, so just checked from this blog, and I counted 13 English books, and I remember reading a few Chinese junk books at my mom’s place. Hehehe, ngam-ngam passed!
Teach Ian read time - FAILED. Sigh! Is my problem, I have been lazy. :p
Keep spending within 90% of what is budgetted - FAILED. LOL! I failed this one miserably. I did NOT even have a budget. :p
Get a copy of Women & Money - FAILED. Intentionally. After checking out the detail, decided not to buy it.
That gives me total score of 4 out of 8, worse than last year.
As for 2009, what’s my resolution? I am too lazy to think of, but it is after all a good thing to do, and to do a review every eyar…
Ya, I know buying 1 clothes a month sounds ridiculous. But seriously, I have no clothes to wear. Not the usual one where you think “all women complaint about no clothes but they have lots of pieces in their wardrobe”. In my case, almost everyone noticed that I have no nice clothes. It looks really bad on me, when there is function, or even in the office. I have decided that I need to invest in grooming this year - can you believe that my cosmetics are more than 4 years old? I just threw them away, and have nothing to put on my face if there is a function. LOL! I actually borrowed cosmetics from my young cousin for the last Christmas party! :p
Anyway, a belated HAPPY NEW YEAR to you all who visit my blog. May you have a prosperous and great year ahead!
