Tagged for a good cause

Tagged by Ruby, eons ago but been busy. It's long overdue but not past the deadline!

Ruby was tagged by Raden Galoh who was tagged by the initiator, Idham who has pledged to contribute RM127 to an orphanage, Rumah Anak Yatim Darul 'Izzah for each meme contributed by any blogger before 26th August 2007. His goal is to collect RM10,000 worth of meme/tags by bloggers! Ain't that a noble effort!

The rules:-

1.Please leave a comment on Idham's blog to inform him that you have done the tag

2.If you are tagged, you need to write an entry related to the meme. At the end of your entry you just need to tag as many bloggers as you like.

3.You will then leave a comment in their blogs to let them know they have been tagged. And to include this message, "By doing this meme you are contributing rm127 to the Darul Izzah Orphanage".Then please copy and paste this rule somewhere in your entry.

The meme is about completing at least seventeen out of the following twenty seven sentences.*These can be copied and pasted to your entry*


I'm all or nothing guy. So here goes my completed 27 sentences!


1. A person is only as good as ...his heart

2. Friendship is always ... a two way street

3. To love is to... love lor!

4. Money makes me...D I Z Z Y (LOL)

5. I miss ... my black hair...now that grey hairs are sprouting like mad... (talk about vanity)

6. My way of saying I care is by ... putting the rubber to the road....through ACTION baby...!

7. I try to spread love and happiness by... not whining, moping and complaining about anything AND having a positive outlook all the time and at all costs.

8. Pick the flowers when... your heart says so!

9. To love someone is to... be always selfless and love that person unconditionally

10. Beauty is... what comes from within

11. When I was thirteen, what I remember the most was... being felt not loved by my parents coz they refused to take me back after I decided to enter a boarding school and changed my mind later. Upon reflecting, they were teaching me to be responsible of my own decision which I thank them for, NOW. I always tell my kids that they'll appreciate later in life for all the "dos" and "donts" which we impose on them now.

12. When I was twenty one, I remember... that I was the coolest dude on earth, but looking back at old photos..., GAWD what the....?

13. I am most happy when ... my loved ones are happy.

14. Nothing makes me happier than ... to see my loved ones happy.

15. If I can change one thing, I will change... nothing. (the phlegmatic me....)

16. If smiles were... abundant ...then I... am sure the world would be a better place to live in.

17. Wouldn't it be nice if we could... just help others and impact their lives all the time?

18. If you want to ...succeed ...then you have to ... work it, baby!

19. Money is not everything but...everyone needs it......

20. The most touching moment I have experienced is... listening to the sound of each of my children bursting his/her lungs upon entry to this world.

21. I smile when...I feel like!

22. When I am happy, I...clap my hands, snap my fingers, stomp my feet, say hurrah..But seriously..I tend to be not too strict with the kids.

23. If only I don't have to ...work and still earn loads of dosh (so that my kids are taken care of on their education expenses), then... my wife and I will retire and reside in the Holy Land.

24. The best thing I did yesterday was... not give my staff a hard time...(it was work work work yesterday).

25. If I ever write a book, I will give it this title, "Stop blabbing, start doing"

26. One thing I must do before I die is... to repent

27. Doing this meme, I feel like ... I've done the least I can do for a good cause





Okay....I'm tagging:

Superwomanwannabe
Pato&Pearl
Xis
Helena
Adam
Sherrina
Minah Celoteh
Mak Andeh
Wan
Bola2Api
Thusha

7 7 7

IT'S 7TH JULY 2007 today.....Translated 07 07 07...

What tickled me yesterday was when wifey told me, after her monthly check-up (27th week of gestation) that her gynae has to work extra hard today because of scheduled deliveries in the form of C-sections and induced-deliveries as it is 07 07 07 today. Believe it or not!

He had to cancel all his clinics today in anticipation of those scheduled deliveries so that he doesn't need to rush between his clinic and delivery room/OT. There was one lady, apparently, who was scheduled to be admitted on Monday for the birth of her child - scooted back home after the check up but came back to see the gynae after realizing that today is 07 07 07 and re-scheduled her admission to today...

Mmm...... would you disturb the workings of Mother nature? I know wifey and I wouldn't!

Friends. The relatives of today

Ruby Ahmad's recent entry lives to each and every word of it in my life today. Well, not just today....It happens a lot of times in my almost 40 years of living. It happened again a day after I read her entry on "friends". NOTE : The title of this entry is verabatim of her said entry! Sorry Ruby in lifting word for word!

A blogger friend, Xis, whom I have never met before but with whom I communicate with through my and his blogs as well as via sms, texted me today to say that he wanted to drop by and meet me to give me some home-cooked goodies whipped by none other than his mom, who I gathered via his writings, an accomplished "cook"! I'm a number one fan of Kelantanese delicacies and of course I was thrilled to the hilt! He gave me a whole carrier bag of murtaba', akok and piana. That's a lot of food, I must say! It's my first time eating piana and I love it!

Well Xis - THANKS a million!

My Room

Sneak preview of my room which is not fully furnished yet...The timber blinds (decided against I**a as I have odd sized windows) have not been installed....My cupboard has not been purchased..Thinking of buying an old colonial one but space is the issue!

My wall badly needs a piece of art...The "asma'ul husna" (99 names of Allah)art piece I saw in Bali last year came to mind..I would have bought it but to hand carry it???Mind you this piece is very unique...99 pieces of individual frames framed together....Price was a steal.....! next time may be...I also love verses from al-Quran done the chinese calligraphy-style. I have one at home bought by my parents when they were in Beijing complete with the seal of the artist to top it up. And interestingly his name's Yusof! The ones I find here are mostly without the seal of the artist.

The rest of the furniture's coming tomorrow and the day after....More piccies to come your way....

New Office - Piccies

The entrance with a single glass door. My office is almost fully automated and hence no receptionist is required!

I thought I just share with you the part of my office which is presentable at the moment...None other than the reception/waiting area!

The rest, sadly, still looks like an aftermath of a tornado....

The waiting area with old court documents (Supreme Court of Straits Settlement, Singapore) framed (eight of them) dating back to 1890s

The entrance with an original painting on canvas purchased circa 1995/6

New Office - First Day

Well like other things in life....first days don't normally go without glitches -

Settled down quite nicely for me....despite the boxes and files still lying all over the floor! The call divert from my old office did not work and still isn't working just yet...Waiting for the business relations manager to ring me and tell me what's wrong with it!

The glass door is still not fixed after the move (they had to take it out because my old conference table could not go in to this office!) which they were supposed to do it first thing today...Now it's postponed to 4.30...

Apart from that, nothing eventful worth noting!

Update.....

Finally....moved stuff over to the new office Friday and yesterday...I didnt ealize how much we have until the move.....

We had about 8 tonnes of stuff (files and books!!). My contractor cum mover made the remark if he had gone to the paper lama ("paper recycling") place he would have made RM20K! Hey...that's my periuk nasi (rice bowl) he's talking about! LOL

Finally, yesterday it was my first time in two weeks that I reached home early...i.e. 730 pm..It has been midnight last week and about 10 the week before! It's Ib's and Umar's sports day today...themed Flintstones and Dinosaurs....Told wifey to get materials yesterday to make them the costumes....I had to do it (my mum trained me when I was 13....LOL- she couldn't use her feet that time and mum was frantic coz it was almost eid/raya and her curtains were not done yet....I had to be dragged in with much objection on my part. I told her "sewing are for girls". Looking back, I thank her for that since I can do what others can't in time of emetgencies like this! BTW I can only sew straight lines.......) since there's no way wifey could actually sew with her bump! It turned out okay thank God! (will post piccies).

Khadijah went to Sekolah Sultan Alam Shah's Malam Juara & Bakat (Talent night) last night upon my cousin's invite..I think she bought the whole table and sent her kids, Khadijah and another niece for it. Wifey got a bit worried as she was not back at 1 am.....They finished close to 12 andl the driver had to send one of the entourage to Shah Alam from Cyberjaya, then our place...She came back at 1.30 eventually!