My family and I visited the book fest in KLCC yesterday. We started our journey early and reached there at 10.00 am. We managed to get a nice parking bay and spent a few hours there browsing in assortment of books. My kids love the books there and bought quite a few. As for me, I find the books there quite okay for most people but it fell short of my expectation i.e I expected something better with more books of other genre as well. Most important, my children enjoyed themselves very much.
Other than that, we got to see our previous Prime Minister of 22 years, Tun Dr. Mahathir Mohamad with his wife there. He was there to launch his book,"A Doctor In The House". He fielded a few questions brilliantly with a sense of humour. He was indeed smooth in answering them. At his age, he did look good. At the end of the day, we are all still human.
Prescription : Read something everyday and keep our mind going.
Try fixing a filter pump that gush out lots of strong water bubbles into your aquarium at one spot. Observe your arowana. You'll see it playing with them, enjoying itself with the flow of water current. It's simply wonderful to see its graceful movements while playing. Don't know whether all arowanas are like this but its definitely true for mine.
Prescription : Enjoy yourself everyday no matter what
I wish I were a bird, soaring high and free in the sky,
I wish I were the star, still twinkling brightly in the dark,
I wish I could hold the moon in my hands, basking in mere miracle,
I wish I could stand on the highest mountain, to embrace the feeling so sublime,
I wish, I wish, I wish.....forever only a wish.
Prescription : Wishes fill a corner of our heart.
Well, I like eating my bread with this concoction. Don't know about you but you could try because it's full of goodness. Taste better for me if the salad is cool.
Ingredients
1. Julienned 1 young cucumber (could add carrots,parsley etc to taste)
2. Juice of 2-3 limes (up to you)
3. 1-2 tsp of honey(more healthy) or sugar (more or less if you like)
4. chopped red chilies (depend on how hot you like it)
5. a pinch of salt (may omit)
6. a dash of pepper
7. bread to make sandwich
8. low fat margarine (your favourite type)
Mix well 1-5 together. Spread a thin layer of margerine on a piece of bread and put some of the salad on it.Then sprinkle some pepper on it. Cover with another piece of bread. Cut to whatever shape or size, triangle or rectangle.Repeat.
(If it's for myself, I won't bother cutting).
Prescription : Sometimes you just need a little bit of imagination to enjoy.
Felt real great to be in touch again with my ex-classmate through facebook. It's been 26 years since we last saw each other. We lost contact after furthering our studies. Funny about fate is that he's actually living quite near and we didn't know, especially we are now more than 200 km from our hometown due to our jobs. Should thank FB to reunite us.
Well, my friend is desperate to look for his other half. He had attended blind dates but to no avail. When we met last Sunday to have lunch together, he told me that he's willing to try all ways to find a life partner. Wow real determine. At 46 , looking okay , lean , a good guy with fine manners and an engineer, I couldn't believe that he's still single after all these years. I still remember that he's the one preaching in class to all the guys the ways to chase after girls.....he's ways talkative back then and playful. He'd mature a lot from the boy back then. He told me that after graduating from high school, his main focus was in furthering his studies and later to build his career. As everything has stabilized, he realized that he has difficulty to find his soul mate to build a home together. Well, when the time is ripe, his soul mate will pop out in front of him and even if he wants to escape, he will not be able to do so...that's what I told him.
I'm trying to play cupid to match him with a teacher who is still single at 37. I had arranged a time for them to meet this coming Sunday. Wish me luck at my first attempt to play matchmaker. Who knows it will hit jackpot! Then maybe I could contemplate to change my job playing cupid. LOL
Prescription : At times, a lot of things are sort of fated no matter how much we would like to deny.
What is your budget and why do you buy an arowana instead of other pets? There are many reasons like for 'feng shui', its shining scales, its haughtiness, to show classiness or so forth. Anyway, the most important thing is when you walk into the shop, at one look at a particular arowana, you simply sort of fall in love with it and must have it. I call this kind of feeling, 'our soul pet'.
Actually, when buying arowana, the prized ones are in fact in the farms and some are not for sale.The good grades or lower grades are sold in shops or to traders.The sex, type of arowana, colour , size, shape, the eyes,'whiskers', the arrangement of scales, fins, tails, broadness, its activeness and gracefulness.....all these determine the quality of an arowana.
When buying one, you must have at least a good size aquarium of 2' x 5' in order for it to grow and swim. Of course, the bigger, the better. Then , the aquarium must have all the necessary equipment. Also, it is important that you are mentally and physically prepared to take care of one. Another thing which is also quite important is, whether you purchase one that is easy to take care.Just like children, some are easy to care for and some need extra care and understanding. As I had mention in my earlier post, I consider arowana under 'headache fish'. So good luck and enjoy having one. Welcome to arowana gang!!!
Prescription : Patience conquers all
Do you have a religion? Or are you a free thinker? No matter what, I believe the most important thing is the person in you. Only you yourself know what are you made of. Meaning you could be as pious as can be to other people but only you yourself know the real you, whether you are as good as you try to show people or just a hypocrite.
If you have faith in what you believe, then you will not be afraid that other people could wash your mind. If you are afraid, then you are not having faith in whatever you believe. So, just respect whatever other people believe and don't ever try to smear other people's faith because the action of smearing itself is not upright and I believe that none of us are 100% upright. If not, we won't be here. Take good care of your own actions before trying to take care of other people's actions and conduct. It'll do you a lot more good then. So long that you are not perfect, then you could only show people by your actions which mean much more than words.
Prescription : Listen to your heart
Why I just couldn't resist the lure of food beats me.....So better don't look. That's exactly the problem. I love food and being in this country makes food irresistible. Everywhere I go, there'll be a corner famous for some kind of gastronomic delight. Help !!! I want to eat my heart out !!! There were those days when I could eat whatever I like without needing me to keep an eye on the weighing machine. I didn't need to care a bit whether I exercise or not. Those days had gone by and I am facing the reality of having to watch my weight ! Sigh.....
I'm facing the crisis of to eat or not. When I eat extra, I felt sort of guilty afterwards and regrets. I got to do more exercise to burn off all the calories which is actually torturing to me. I know...I know....Exercise doesn't need to be a burden, I should find ways to enjoy them. But again, I'm the kind that need to drag my own self to do exercise and have short live enthusiasm for such thing. Sad eh? LOL.
Why must food taste so nice? Just speaking of ice-cream, roasted chicken in imperial sauce, double cheese mushroom chicken pie, rendang, and the list just go on.....makes me craving for more. Really testing my self discipline !!! How long could I resist ? Maybe just a bite should be okay...maybe another bite? Never mind, just eat a bit more today and eat less tomorrow.....only one more time....wouldn't make much difference...this inner fighting really makes me mad. Eat or not to eat...really challenge dear me !!!
Prescription : Practicing self discipline is challenging and an achievement.
Everybody dream to have a wonderful boss. Understanding, don't overwork us and of course, give us a good salary. Not everybody will get to realize this dream. Most bosses will try to get their money's worth out of their employees. If possible, an employee could do a few people's work. This will cut operation costs and help the company to save as much as possible.
Hence, you are not alone if you feel that you are all stress out and overwork by the piles of work given by your domineering, slave-driving boss. You'll feel like punching your boss to a pulp and imagine scolding him/her to your heart's contend, then resign right in his/her face.....But too bad, you need that salary and have that dream of yours go crashing back to reality. So, must grit your teeth and tolerate no matter what until you can find a better job to go to and say 'bye-bye' to present job. No more answering all the 'why here' and 'why there' being 'shoot' at you by your boss. Well, GOOD LUCK THEN & MAY YOU FIND YOUR DREAM JOB !!!
Prescription : Keep on looking and upgrade yourself
