Anyone who is familiar with P.Ramlee’s classic comedy, specifically the Bujang Lapok series and Do Re Mi series would also be familiar with the ‘ angin lah deni’ dialogue or ‘angin pus-pus’. For the sake of the clueless, these lines were often in the dialogues when any character displayed an incomprehensible [...]
Entries from April 2009
April 28, 2009
swiny things
Am just thankful the husband is no longer based in Mexico since we learnt of the swine flu outbreak. But I know his friends there who are dear to him and who have beautiful young kids and wonderful families. And the husband is thinking of them now and we pray that they won’t be affected.
You [...]
April 26, 2009
The ultimate fuyooo factor
If I have a daughter, I can imagine her and her father doing this in the morning. I can’t stop watching this aikido little girl in such glee… !
April 25, 2009
The thing is…
I went to there train.
But then, when I sit and comtemplate like right now in the wee hours of the morning about what I have learnt during training, the techniques actually are the the last things which are on my mind. Instead, I learnt more than what I went there for. I learnt to let [...]
April 24, 2009
Wear and tear
I don’t expect to say this as early as now. But I am noticing white hair sprouting here and there. So reality bites. I am no longer a spring chicken as I would like to think myself as. And today I notice I have a kind of pain each time I go up and down [...]
April 22, 2009
Accidental reading
It was 9.40 pm last Friday and the announcement at Kino/kuniya KLCC called for customers to quickly make their final purchases before they close shop. The husband hurried to me, a bunch of books already in his hands with a ‘ Quick I just need just one more book to make the quota!’ He had [...]
April 19, 2009
A mug of cereal and Salonga’s croonings
I am beginning to find that like Maths, Aikido is difficult. But unlike Maths, I like ( am hooked, actually ) to Aikido while I still don’t like Maths. I have learnt a few techniques and yet I still find it difficult to even do kamai correctly, find my central balance and focus on where [...]
April 16, 2009
Zero point
Sometimes when I tell the kids I am teaching on the games I used to play when I was a kid, they look at me as though I came from another planet.
In this era where playstation and other sophiscated computer games rule their world, the games I used to play as a kid have since [...]
April 14, 2009
Like a chapter in the past…
By the 2nd day on the resort, we were quite bored already with the resort and itching to explore the island as it is. So in the trusty signature Pangkor pink cab, ( whose driver, an old Chinese uncle born and bred Pankorian used to live and work in Ang Mo Kio for 6 years [...]
