God didn't promise days without pain, laughter without sorrow, sun without rain, but He did promise strength for the day, comfort for the tears, and light for the way. And ME to share all the pain, laughter, tears, sorrow,happiness, sun and rain with you! Let us endure all the 暴风雨 and 彩虹 together!

Monday, September 29, 2008

It is all worth it.....

... ... to walk 1 bus stop distance more to watch the following clip in the bus 'sTV Mobile after we came back from lunch at the central today:






I am so proud of Yip Pin Xiu! A lot of people will think that being a disabled, she cannot do this, cannot do that. But from an Occupational Therapist perspective, we would often ENLARGE their ABILITIES and MINUTE their disabilities.

I can't help but feel a sense of pride of being a Singaporean because of Pin Xiu and also the sense of achievement and happiness. I guess she has made the first step that allows the public to look at people with disabilities from another perspective.

An interview with Pin Xiu in the airport:





In another interview of Pin Xiu with CNA:




They are the voices for the people of disabilites and they should be heard. We should empower them! =D

Saturday, September 27, 2008

Bias

How to reduce Bias:

  1. Look at all sides of a story
  2. Like what we call in qualitative research, do a triangulation, i.e. comparing infomation gathered from different sources and see if it has different results

(more points to be covered when I'm more free.)

Friday, September 26, 2008

Run

My next run is in a month's time and yet I haven't been running religiously. Last weekends, I was busy doing assignment. This weekends, I am having lesson. I guess I must start next week. But then again. It might be the wrong timing. If it is the wrong timing now...... it might be so in a month's time when I run. Hopefully not.

This coming 10km run shall prepare for my 21km run which is in December 2008. Hopefully I can be able to make it.

Gonna start training soon. How can I lose out to someone who don't participate in runs but has went to like at least 2 runs the last week? lolx....

Anyway, this watch is cool isn't it? But all good thing come with a price.

Hardwork pays off!

I just received my lecturer's email on the results and comments of my previous assignment. Remember the one that I have been burning mid-night oil for just that 5%?

Anyway I got my results back. Overall was ..........

EXCELLENT!!!!!

For the marking criteria, I scored 1 good and 3 excellents! Coolz.... Thus, I got 82/100!!!! But then again.... convert to 5%.... it is just pathetically 4.1 marks.

Oh.... did I also mention that I got my quiz result 1-2 weeks ago? I got 182.5/200! And converted to 3%... it is only 2.7 marks.

This is just the beginning.... I just wonder how long I will be able to put in that same amount of effort for the next 17 months to go..... but well... this is not a bad start..... Cause I think it seems like I am doing better than I was a student in NYP... lol.... I just need more motivation to carry on!!!

Anyway, I know what you gonna say..... this is not "Hao lian" okay.... I just wanna share the good news..... =p

I'm feeling better!!!!

Yes..... I'm feeling better after talking to you. You know who you are. =P

I know you will read this. Don't ask me how I know.... I just know it. ;P

Anyway, thanks for asking "Who you are angry with?" Are you thinking I am angry with you? haha.... just wondering.... anyway.....

I am not really angry... just confused..... disturbed.... and disappointed.... and few others indescribable feelings.....

But after that short talk..... I slept much much better last night till I almost overslept as I am too good in my sleep that I off my alarm without myself knowing it. My colleague even said I have good hair day today! lolx.....

Anyway, it's great to be talking it out to you! ;)

Thanks!

Thursday, September 25, 2008

I am who I am!

What doesn't kills me makes me stronger!

Wednesday, September 24, 2008

DMX - Where'd you go my lord





In the name of Jesus
no weapon formed against me shall prosper (preach)
and every tongue that rises against me in judgment thou shall condemn (preach)
For this is the heritage of the servant of the lord (preach)
And that righteousness is of me says the lord (preach)
Amen
Lord give me a sign

Verse 1
I really need to talk to you lord
since the last time we talked the walk has been hard
now I know you haven't left me but I feel like I'm alone
I'm a big boy now but I'm still not grown
and Im still goin thru it the pain and the hurt
soaking up trouble like rain and the dirt
and I know only I could stop the rain
with just the mention of my saviors name
in the name of Jesus
devil I rebuke you for what I go through
and trying to make me do what I used to
but all that stops right here
as long as the lord's in my life I will have no fear
I will know no pain from the light to the dark
Imma show no shame spit it right from the heart
This is life from the start cause you held me down
and ain't nothing they can tell me know
Lord give me a sign

Hook (x1)
let me know what's on your mind let me know what I'm gonna find
it's all in time show me how to teach the mind show me how to reach the blind
lord give me a sign show me what I gots to do to bring me closer to you cause Imma go through whatever you want me to just let me know what to do lord give me a sign

Verse 2
Please show me something
I'm tired of talking to him knowing he frontin
Crying bout life ain't nothing
Cause you either be the one mad cause you trapped or the one huntin
Trapped in your own mind waiting on the lord
Or huntin with the word that cuts like a saw
the spoken word is stronger than the strongest man
carries the whole world like the strongest hand
with the trial and tribulations you never let us down
Jesus I know you here with us now Jesus I know you still with us now
keep it real with us now I wanna feel show me how please let me take your hand
guide me or walk slow but stay right beside me devils tryin to find me hide me
hold up I take that back protect me and give me the strength to fight back
Lord give me a sign

Hook (x2)
let me know what's on your mind let me know what I'm gonna find
it's all in time show me how to teach the mind show me how to reach the blind
lord give me a sign show me what I gots to do to bring me closer to you cause Imma go through whatever you want me to just let me know what to do lord give me a sign

In the name of Jesus
no weapon formed against me shall prosper (preach)

Where'd you go?
I miss you so
Seems like it's been forever
that you've been gone
Where'd you go?
I miss you so
Seems like it's been forever
that you've been gone
Please
Come back home

Don't step on my tail

Why do people always think that other people are in the wrong without even knowing what was behind certain actions?

There are always different side of a story. Yours is just a part of it and that is your perspectives and your assumptions. How much of what you know in life is actually 100% truth? How much truth is there when a person tells you something? It might be his/her perspective and his/her assumptions which what you think might be the truth. Why do one end up "listening" to someone who is not even "recognised" as reliable person to be the truth? People... ... rather believe these unreliable sources

Why do I even though of protecting others feelings and end up getting affected and hurt? Maybe I shouldn't even have those considerations and let you all get hurt on your own....

People always make too much assumptions.... NOW I really understand by that statement.

老虎不发挥, 把我当病猫。 Don't be surprise of what I can do... ... if you really going to step on my tail again.

Tuesday, September 23, 2008

TEAM SIngapore - Paralympians

One of my colleages went to support our 6 Paralympians on last Saturaday at Cineleisure there. A pity that I wasn't about to go due to the mad rush in my assignment. They really made us Singaporeans proud. Though not all of them has achive a medal, to me, being able to participate is already a great achievement and satisfaction for people with disabilities.

My colleague brought to office a TEAM Singapore Poster with 6 of their photos and autographs. She even gave them a hug each. It was so sweet of her.

Let me present to you.... TEAM Singapore!

道不同 不相为谋

The title says it all... ...

Assigment done

After burning so many days of mid-night oil... ... my assignment is finally done!

Sent to my lecturer only like 10 mins ago? Did so much for just a 5%-weightage assignment. More to come I tell you.

1st week of Oct we still need to submit a non-graded assignment. How great? But glad one assignment is down now. =)

Special gadgets for their special needs

I guess the title says it all... ...

Read the article in Today, with the news delivered to my email. Seldom check the news, don't know what got into me to check. But I guess it is GOD's will for me to tumble into this article to be share with you all. As a gadget gal, how can I miss it?

There it is... ...

Monday, September 22, 2008

《爱在你左右》

Heard the following quotes from the last episode of 《爱在你左右》:

“ 我们不应该因为害怕失去而不敢去拥有;

不应因为害怕跌倒而不敢去学走路。”

Studies... ...

Sometimes I really wonder..... why am I spending S$20,000+ of my savings (don't have that much yet thou) on my studies and get myself so frustrated and "tortured".....

.... and spend or going to spend weekends after weekends for classes or to do assignments.....

Does spending S$20,000+ gives me my quality of life?

Will spending S$20,000+ be worth it for my future?

Will that piece of certificate be of use?

Just some grumbling..... It has been so long since I am able to save that much of money... soon... it will be all gone.... argh.....

and where is my life?!?!?! Quality of life!!!!

Assignments due dates

The following is the amount of work I have to do for just 2 modules..... and among these... 3 and 5 is not graded. And the 20 mins on-line quizzes is actually 2 hr!!! So many things to do..... And this is for a part-time course!!!

No.

Module

Requirement

Due Date

1

Critical Review in OT

20-minute on-line quizzes. 10% [total], ~3% each

13-14/09/2008

2

Critical Review in OT

One 1,000-word Search Strategy report. 5%

21/09/2008

3

Critical Review in OT

Hurdles: One 1,500-word McMaster Critiques of a research report

05/10/2008

4

Critical Review in OT

20-minute on-line quizzes. 10% [total], ~3% each

11-12/10/2008

5

Critical Review in OT

Hurdles: One 1,500-word McMaster Critiques of a research report

26/10/2008

6

Occupation and contemporary OT practice

PRESENTATION (20% of total mark for this unit)

27 October 2008 [TBC].

7

Critical Review in OT

20-minute on-line quizzes. 10% [total], ~3% each

01-02/11/2008

8

Critical Review in OT

One 2,000-word critiques of research reports. 25% [total], 5% each

09/11/2008

9

Occupation and contemporary OT practice

2,500 WORD ESSAY (60% of total mark for this unit)

10/11/2008

10

Critical Review in OT

Four 2,000-word critiques of research reports 25% [total], 5% each

14/12/2008 (Critique 2-5 / Summary Table)

11

Critical Review in OT

Hurdle: One 500-word abstract of the evidence review.

TBC [2009]

12

Critical Review in OT

Hurdle: One 2,000-word methodological logbook

TBC [2009]

13

Critical Review in OT

One 1,500-word critically appraised paper. 20%

TBC [2009]

14

Critical Review in OT

One 4,000-word synthesized evidence review. 30%

TBC [2009]

15

Critical Review in OT

One 30-minute seminar presentation of evidence review.10%

TBC [2009]

16

Occupation and contemporary OT practice

CONTRIBUTION TO ONLINE DISCUSSIONS (20% of total mark for the unit)

On - going

Sunday, September 21, 2008

《今晚谁来谈情说爱?》

女士:“有时我们只需要一个人在旁边聆听。。。 ”


素芳: “当女人开口说话的时候,我们不是唠叨,我们只是想和你分享。”


The above is so familar.... Like I always tell someone that "I'm not haolian-ing..... I just wanna share the good news."

Saturday, September 20, 2008

Sleepless in Seattle

I LOVE this tagline in this particular movie.....

"What if someone you never met, someone you never saw, someone you never knew was the only someone for you?"

Friday, September 19, 2008

What kind of smile do I have?

Man of Few Words

Before I go off to take my dinner, I must comment that my dad is a man of few words but his care for us is always there. He's always there to cook for us when he is not out for his mahjong sessions, just like today... ... maybe someone like him, who don't express much, he'll show it through his actions. Sometimes we just have to see beyond what was done. =)


My dad helped to mop the floor today too!!! =)


Hmm... Someone is just like him too.... Man of few words.... =P
But well, I always thought and feel that actions always speak louder than words...
Like I told someone before....maybe that's why I don't really like guys who sweet talk... unless they really mean it... Cos sometimes it is just so confusing and so hard to differentiate whether he meant what he says.... or he is just filirting.....

Well... I think it applies to both genders bah.... like a guy can be confused by gals as well....

That's life....

至少還有你, 当你孤单你会想起谁

至少還有你 - 林憶蓮 Sandy Lam




我怕來不及 我要抱著你
直到感覺你的皺紋 有了歲月的痕跡
直到肯定你是真的 直到失去力氣
為了你 我願意


動也不能動 也要看著你
直到感覺你的髮線 有了白雪的痕跡
直到視線變得模糊 直到不能呼吸
讓我們 形影不離

如果 全世界我也可以放棄
至少還有你 值得我去珍惜
而你在這裡 就是生命的奇蹟
也許 全世界我也可以忘記
就是不願意 失去你的消息

你掌心的痣 我總記得在那裡

我怕來不及 我要抱著你
直到感覺你的髮線 有了白雪的痕跡
直到視線變得模糊 直到不能呼吸
讓我們 形影不離


我們好不容易 我們身不由己
我怕時間太快 不夠將你看仔細
我怕時間太慢 日夜擔心失去你
恨不得一夜之間白頭 永不分離


***********************************************
当你孤单你会想起谁 -张栋梁




你的心情总在飞
什么事都要去追

想抓住一点安慰
你总是喜欢在人群中徘徊
你最害怕孤单的滋味
你的心那么脆
一碰就会碎
经不起一点风吹
你的身边总是要许多人陪
你最害怕每天的天黑
但是天总会黑
人总要离别
谁也不能永远陪谁
而孤单的滋味
谁都要面对
不只是你我
会感觉到疲惫


当你孤单你会想起谁
你想不想找个人来陪
你的快乐伤悲
只有我能体会
让我再陪你走一回


你的心情总在飞
什么事都要去追
想抓住一点安慰
你总是喜欢在人群中徘徊
你最害怕孤单的滋味
你的心那么脆
一碰就会碎
经不起一点风吹
你的身边总是要许多人陪
你最害怕每天的天黑
但是天总会黑
人总要离别
谁也不能永远陪谁,
而孤单的滋味
谁都要面对
不只是你我
会感觉到疲惫


当你孤单你会想起谁
你想不想找个人来陪
你的快乐伤悲
只有我能体会
让我再陪你走一回
当你孤单你会想起谁
你想不想找个人来陪
你的快乐伤悲
只有我能体会
让我再陪你走一回
你的快乐伤悲
只有我能体会
让我再陪你走一回

Thursday, September 18, 2008

Happy Day

Today is a VERY HAPPY day!!!!

Though the meet up was abit short..... I am still VERY HAPPY.... lolx....

haha.... this time round, I met at the wrong place again.... whahaha.....

Last time was at wrong CHEERS(vivo vs habour front)..... now was at the wrong MOS BURGER (AMK hub vs Jubilee)..... lolx... blurr me.... but not my fault what..... "amk mos burger" I can only think of AMK Hub... lolx... =P

Well.... and almost got lost when walking to Jubilee... haha.... not so familar in AMK... been there a few times only.... and well.... from MRT to Jubilee I know how.... but from AMK Hub a bit disorientated.... luckily I saw this security guard and I asked him....

But the correct MOS Burger also closed down liao lor..... and YOU ARE LATE AGAIN!!! lolx....
just kidding la.... I WAS EARLY LA..... LOLX....
haha... in the end..... we had mac....

Is it me or is the McSpicy getting spicer? lolx.... regretted not ordering medium-sized drinks.... haha... but it's okay.... =P I survived! haha....

Happy.... Happy... Happy..... Thanks for the meet-up! ;)

Tuesday, September 16, 2008

I'm tired

Dunno why.... been feeling rather tired recently.... fatigue and laziness just took over me.

I think I seriously need some retreat... ...

To a place where I can really RELAX..... away from WORK..... away from STUDIES....

A place where I can sit down and just let the day go by... ... listen to the waves crashing to the shores....

Seeing the rays.... reflecting on the sea.....

At a place of total stranger to me... ...

For me to explore and to see the world....

How great would it be... ... to just relax and enjoy a day or half.... at a spa.... suana.... or even jacuzzi....

And hopefully after a day or two, I will be fully charge... to face the battle again, of what life has for me.

Sunday, September 14, 2008

我呼吸你 - 周渝民

那么透明一阵心悸
那是你遗忘在镜子前的香水瓶
像故意给了我想念你的温柔陷阱
滴一滴在枕头上面安静的呼吸
香气再次让我与清醒为敌
闭上眼睛回想从前你总会
靠着我沉沉睡去我呼吸你呼吸空气呼吸你淡淡香气
一点痕迹
证明我对你不能切割干净的感情
明明没过去的爱情还活在那里
我又如何能够置之不理
我呼吸你呼吸回忆呼吸
你坚持要离开的决定
你的气息忘不掉飞散不去
霸占我的呼吸
小心翼翼收拾起玻璃瓶随时温习
我会笑因为空气有你和回忆是玫瑰吗还是茉莉
我怎么从不曾想过要去问问你
原来有那么多地方不曾了解你
闻一闻熟悉的气息却变得神秘
突然了解你离开我的原因
关于生活你我之间的差异
总以为不是问题

Friday, September 12, 2008

Love Quote of the Day

"Love is passion, obesession, someone you can't live without. If you don't start with that, what are you going to end up with? Fall head over heels. I say find someone you can love like crazy and who'll love you the same way back. And how do you find him? Forget your head and listen to your heart. I'm not hearing any heart. Run the risk, if you get hurt, you'll come back. Because the truth is there is no sense living your life without this. To make the journey and not fall deeply in love - well, you haven't lived a life at all. You have to try. Because if you haven't tried, you haven't lived. "

- William Parrish from the Movie, Meet Joe Black (1998)

Against all Odds - 2nd medal for Singapore!


Congrats to Laurentia Tan for helping Singapore clench a bronze medal in the 2008 Beijing Paralympic Games.

She is the first and only paralympic medalist so far.

I feel that people with disabilities should be given more recognitions than abled bodies when participating in such event. The difficulties that people with disabilities faced is something that abled bodies cannot imagine. The hardwork that they put in is at least few times more than that of the abled bodies.

Nevertheless, it is such a great achievement! I am very proud of Laurentia to be the TRULY SINGAPOREAN to help Singapore clench a medal!

You'll never be alone

Meaningful and nice song when I chance upon it in facebook....someone posted it in my funwall....





- Anastacia Lyrics

Thursday, September 11, 2008

Terribly Sick

I'm feeling damn terrible now......

Cough worsen..... and it cause some pain at the Xiphoid process of the sternum when I cough.... Maybe my thoracic diaphragm has "overstrectch" after all the coughing....

Flu got worse.... when I blow my nose, apparently I noticed abit of blood. Guess too much blowing of my nose.

Fever is currently playing roller coaster with me..... it goes up as high as 38.70 and back to normal..... yet now it is back at 37.70.

Teary eyes..... sometimes tears just rolled down.... argh.... I just HATE to BE SICK!!!

Time to sleep.... long work day tml.... still have to attend therapy hub meeting after work..... maybe I'll skip that tml.... see how....

nite all....

Wednesday, September 10, 2008

Sick

I went to see doctor yesterday. Been coughing and sneezing since sunday. BTW, I always sneeze 3 times each time I sneeze..... does it mean that someone is thinking of me? lolx....

Well, joke aside....

I wanted to go to work in the morning, at least to see my 1st client, then come back to rest but when I wake up@ard 6 as I wanted to give someone "morning sms".... I felt very tired and my body felt warm. Took my temperature, it was 37.6/7 0. Thus, I decided not to go to work already and smsed my colleagues to ask them to help me to call the clients' parents. Thanks ladies!!!

I was drifting on and off when I was sending these smses in the morning. But get back to sleep when all the neccessary arrangements were done. That was around 7.30am. I was sleeping till 10+ and I took my temperature, it was 38.60. Then decided to go to the doctor to retrieve some fever medication.

After that, I was just resting - drifting in and out of my sleep and occasionally checking on my handphone (under my pillow).


I guess, when someone is sick...... they tends to miss their loved ones more..... So do I!
=)

Haha.... suddenly remembers a phrase that someone said something like this few months back:

"You sick you come my house, I take care of you lor, your house has no space for me."

So Sweet..... but....

Monday, September 08, 2008

This I Promise You

I was "blog-hopping" and I saw part of this lyrics. This song sounded very nice and meaningful to me. Decided to google it and there it is.


This I Promise You.





- NSync Lyrics


This I promise you... ...

Saturday, September 06, 2008

Waking up @ the wrong side of the bed

Today, the day started with all the WRONGS.

First, I woke up late. I overslept. Suppose to wake up at 6.30am and leave my house at 7.15am so that I can meet wT for breakfast at Tampines Mall YaKun. Instead, I wake up at 7am. Just imagine how panic I was. To add on to that, as usual, I only pack bag and iron clothes before I left house (that is a habit). I did none of those the night before (and I slept early remember?). Thus, I have to start packing my bag - looking for my pencil case..... realised that I don't have any usable pens in it, thus didn't bother to bring it along. As last night the lecture room was cold.... it is better that I bring along my jacket.... to my dismay.... I couldn't find it!!!! Mood su*ks to the max.... well... but still managed to keep my cool.... and left my house by 7.20am.

Luckily wT was kind enough to help me order my cup of coffee, 2 pieces of bread and 2 eggs. Managed to leave the place at 8am and we took the train to Outram Park. Things was almost in place till I got diarhea! Sianz..... but glad that I managed to "finish" before 9am.

Lesson starts...... today's module is on "Critical Review in Occupational Therapy". Well... this meant that most of my time in the coming months.... will be spent reading journal articles and journal articles.... assignments..... critics..... assignment..... critics..... how wonderful....

maybe I will be spending lesser time blogging...... lesser updates on myself..... maybe lesser time in the virtual world too. Maybe.... that might be good for some time too....

Anyway..... nothing else to blog about..... but just 1 last thing....

I bought some "comfort food" from Tampines Mall NTUC just now. Got myself 3-packet Kinder Bueno and 6 packets of Milo drinks (as usual) and another packet of sour gummy bears to keep me awake tomorrow. Long day to go....

Well..... got to wash up..... have dinner..... and do my on-line discussion for my another module which I have not done yet... ... ciao.....

Anyone wants to meet up for coffee or dinner or movie tml? I'll be free after 5pm.... (time to relax alittle before I grasp for oxygen soon....)

Friday, September 05, 2008

Tiring Week

This week has been a long week. Been sleeping rather late, (esp. sunday and monday.... was helping someone important with some stuff) and waking up early to work. It was till today that I endured.... forcing myself to stay awake during work was the hardest today after lunch. It was so difficult to keep myself awake while waiting for my client to turn up. But TGIF... I thought I got time to rest. NOT for this week.

After work, I went over to SGH PGAHI..... for a welcome dinner. Didn't get to really eat because we arrived at closed to 7pm when the dinner supposed to be 6 -7 pm. wT and I only managed to grab a few finger food before the introduction starts.

We were introduced to 1 of the 2 core modules that I will be taking this semster. I think I'm gonna have a hell of 6-7 assignments(ranging from 1500 - 5000 words) to do, exlucing 3 on-line quizzes and presentations.

After that, wT and I we went to some prata shop when we arrived at century square. We were all too hungry. lolx....

Anyway, this morning one of my colleagues brought this adidas jacket that we all find it so nice that we all tried wearing it... and I even take photo. We all looked nice in it. My colleagues said I looked nice in it too. I NEVER SAY HOR..... lolx....


Haha.... my colleagues say I take photo with "V" is youthful - I'm the youngest in my whole centre. ;)

I am dozing off while typing this. My dad just came back with chicken wings. Last week, I am unable to eat because of my cheeks. Today, because I was just having no energy to eat them and have to wake up early tomorrow.

Nite all.

Thursday, September 04, 2008

The Eiffel Tower

Finally attached the Eiffel Tower Handphone Chain to my G900 (after so many weeks). Thanks H2O for the souvenirs from Paris. She has brought a few and I was to choose 1. And I chose this:


And when I accidently flip to the back of the Eiffel Tower, I saw this:


This so reminded me of someone with initial his name starting with the letter A. =)

Wednesday, September 03, 2008

Belated Teachers' Day

I made 2 bouquets of Carnation and roses for our 2 lovely Special Education Teachers for Teacher's Day today. It came a little late due to busy schedule at work. But I'm glad that they like it.

Happy Belated Teachers' Day.


Money Not Enough 2


Yesterday, my colleagues and I went to watch "Money Not Enough 2". I got the tickets at $6.50 each because Golden Village Club Member has this privilege on every Tuesdays. It has been 10 years since it's Money Not Enough 1 in 1998. One of my colleague and I was thinking that it should not be called "Money Not Enough 2" but it should be called "Money STILL Not Enough".

I got to agree that all of us enjoyed the show alot. Other than the laughter it brought us most of the time, we also teared. It was so close to our hearts, the hearts of fellow Singaporeans. They brought the thoughts and the feelings of common people into the cinemas. That includes things like, ERPs, increasing cost of living but not our salaries, giving money before rise of something/election, etc.

From the movie, we also saw the social side of society, where people have to fend for themselves. Something that I was getting emotional with, is the greatness of Mother's Love. I remembered that there was a part when the elder son, acted by Hui Ge, who got into problem because of the product that he is MLM-ing.....

He asked the mother,

"If I am no longer the manager, will you look down on me."

The mother replied,

"No matter what happens, you are still my son."

In another scene, the mother was rather upset. Her friends asked her what happened.... she said she is very upset. Her children is borrowing money from her. She added that she is upset not because her children is borrowing money from her but because she cannot help them as much as she wanted as she has no more money. Thus, the friends taught her to go to beg. And she did. She was caught and send to the Police. The children came and pick her and they were all scolding her..... telling her off.... and asking her not to "throw" their "faces"... ... little did they know that she is doing all for their sake.

Next, is the cruelty of life that I am going to talk about. When one grows old and get married, one has to take care of their "new family" - the spouse and the children. Often than not, we forgotten that we were once a child and taken care of by our parents. We try to give the best to our children and yet we forgotten that we were given the best by our parents too. Yet again, this is the cruelty of our society - the sandwich generation. We can see that the mother is willing to sleep next to the toilet and EVEN inside the toilet, to whichever is convenient to her children.

The scene that affecting me the most is when Jack Neo's daughter is involved in an accident and require O- blood type. The only 2 bags were to be used on Jack Neo's mother. Upon knowing, Jack's wife went to the mother-in-law's ICU and wanted to snatch away the blood. Jack's mother upon seeing and hearing, she decided to end her life by removing the ventilator, so that the blood can be used to save her granddaughter.

THIS IS WHAT I CALL GREAT MOTHER LOVE.


Next, I want to talk about how GOOD Vivian Lai is in the movie. I believe that such wife does exist.



This wife of Mark Lee, takes the SHIT of Mark Lee. Vivian Lai helped to cover for Mark when he was caught speeding. And when she was arrested, this UNFAITHFUL husband still yet go and enjoy himself in GEYLANG. Whether he has sex with prostitute or not, it was not shown but I think he did. He went home drunk, with lipstick on his shirt, and perfume smell. A condom fell of from his pants.

To add on to that, Mark threw up on Vivian. He scolded her and told her off, saying that if he comes back, she should consider it good already. He even said she is smelly and asked her to go and bathe before she go and sleep. WTH.....

I remembered 2 scenes very clearly... ...

One scene is outside the subordinate court. Vivian said,

"You know I no need to depend on you. I just want you to care for me."

This line just struck me on what some women wants. They do not need their husband to give them alot of gifts. They just want the care and concern from the husband. That is what all they ask for.


The other scene is when the wife embezzle the company fund for Mark's sake. Yet again, Mark scolded her for being "kaypo", poking her nose into "Man's Business". And asked them to put her into jail. He scolded her for "throwing his face". Mark said that Vivian don't even dare to kill ants or something. How would her have the gut to embezzle money.

Sometimes, guys fail to understand that some gals will go all out to help the one that they love. From Mark, we can also see that sometimes guys do not know how to show their emotions and does not want to show their weakness to the people that they love. To them, they feel that they should be the strong power, to protect the people that they love. And when the loved ones helped them and get into trouble, they feel that they are not protecting the loved ones and got them into trouble. They scold the loved ones..... not because they want to..... but because they do not know to say "sorry" in a better way.

This is what I call GOOD WIFE that GUYS often take for granted.


What I like to highlight here is also the power of family. From Hui Ge's family, we can see that when 1 family working hard together, towards a common goal. One does not need to be rich to be happy. Being together during good and bad times, is already a happiness.

This show, to some, maybe just something to laugh about and forgotten. To me, this will be something for me to ponder for while sometime. Even now, I am still quite effected by the show. Die..... getting more and more emotional nowadays. You all may say this is just a movie. But this protrays the voice of people and the life of people in Singapore today.

Tuesday, September 02, 2008

Teacher's Day Celebration

Woke up early yesterday to prepare orange wedges, aka orange agar-agar yesterday... ...