Kind Offer - part 2

Last sunday , talked about the kind offer....this sunday morning, it happened again, so as promised...this morning, when another kind gentleman asked to help , I almost wanted to say 'No' , BUT managed to stop on time ....I kindly said 'yes , please'. So the kind gentleman learnt to wheeled my fatso to the class, looked like his first time pushing a wheel chair, I was glad that he helped and he learned about one of the way to use wheelchair :) , it's not a bad experience after all. I am so used to doing most of the things by myself, the good term is called 'independent' , the bad term is called 'san fu'....I'm going to learn to let go more and let others help as and when I can la ....enjoy their company, PTL !

teddy bear is away for 5 days ....

As I am writing my post here, I am missing my teddy bear :( . I sent him to a home care last night, spent 1 night with him at the center, left the home this morning at 11 am, teddy bear looked sad when I said bye-bye to him. I know the owner of the center, met her at one of the special children center. She bought a spacious corner house, her family stayed upper level, and down stairs is for school. She takes care of any kind of special children from 9 am to 5pm. Her husband leaves the house at 7 am, drive around town to pick up the special children from Ara Damansara, Puchong, Old Klang Road and Subang. I like this idea, at least this will free the parent's or guardian's time. Teddy bear is her FIRST day-care 'business'. Teddy bear is staying in a small room downstairs. He sleeps by himself at night. Bahija have asked many people to pray for him since last week, we hope he is doing well at the center. This is a testing programme, there will be times where my mum and myself needed some break, and we need someone to take care of him. So, we hope this home care is good for him and things work out well for all of us. The good part about this place is that it is not the miserable old folks home, it is a center for the special children, the teacher will teach him some fine and cross motor activities. I hope he enjoys his stay there, missing him so much liow, sort of feeling 'kelian' for him, to send him away at a home care lor ..aiii, he's so kuay, I told him days ago about the plan, and he seem to understand the arrangement, kuay-kuay obliged padahal deep in his heart, perhaps he wish he could be cared for at his own sweet home .....

kind offer ....

Every sunday morning, Bahija brings teddy bear to church, to attend the special children ministry aka special kids training. I am a co-teacher as well as a helper, and teddy bear is one of the student. This morning, as usual, we arrived at church around 8:45 am, I parked my car at the handicapped spot, then brought down the wheel-chair, then settled teddy bear. While doing this, a kind hearted gentleman purposely walked to me, and asked 'Do you need any help ?' ...he knew I was parking at a handicapped area with wheel chair, thus he came to offer his help....BUT BUT BUT this dumb Bahija , I was fast to reply 'no need, it's ok, thank you very much ....'. While I was walking to the class, I started to analyze...I think I should have accepted his kind offer, and let him help wheeled my teddy bear, since he was kind to ask ma ....but I didn't give face and quickly turned down his offer. See, situation like this, I should have enjoy the kind offer, macam la delegate the work a bit ...aiii - I told myself - in future, if I ever get an offer from a trustworthy person, I will be more than happy to say 'Yes, please ....' :)

tonite's dinner

Tonight managed to make a quick stop at YaYa's house, to say Bye to her before she fly back to US besok....Aii, Bahija been relatively busy lately, rushing for a new project and due next week. I didn't spend much time with YaYa and little K. Anyway, I am sure they have had a great mini vacation back home :) ....After visited her , I rushed home arrived at 6:40 pm. Went to kitchen - pin pin bla bla ....viola - our dinner was sesame udon with grilled salmon. All set in 30 mins. While boiling the udon noodles, I applied miso paste on the salmon, then grilled it in the oven for 20 mins. Then put 2 teaspoon of sesame oil , 1 teaspoon of soy sauce on a plate , when udon was ready, drained and mix together with the oil and sauce. Very easy and healthy...sesame oil is cholesterol free and good for our health... Salmon is full of calcium and omega-3, noodles can use udon or soba ( buck wheat ) - japanese and korean noodles are better choice for us than our local mee hoon or yellow noodle or kuay teow ( all these high carbo ). I banned all the local noodles at home. Readers, next time, if u are in a rush, try this recipe la ...

new starbie coffee

My friend YaYa visiting from US. She brought me a few packets of Starbie coffee....this is new, starbie decides to be like 'Lama-Town-Kopi', where we can get all the 3 in 1, 2 in 1 kopi from supermarkets. Starbie is also following this step. I got to try some of them :) ...Thanks YaYa !!

friday dec 31 .....

Hippie , tomorow is a public holiday :) ....PM announced it after Msia won the AFF suzuki cup. If I remembered correctly, the last time we had such holiday was from the Thomas cup many many years ago. Anyway, this come super handy , last day of the year, getting ready to wind up things and welcome the new year....I looking forward to the days.

Happy Blessed New Year !

new projects ....

Bahija tried to source for more contracts / projects ..... one of them tendered, should know the result very soon. Tomorrow 2:30pm , Bahija will be meeting a new customer and business partners, I have to do a sales pitch to convince customer and partners why they should hire me. Luckily dah 'rejuvenated' a bit with some retail therapy treatment in Singapore last weekend, had a short getaway to the Sin-island, buang some duit, got some motivation to work harder now .... Hopefully I could do well in my presentation tomorrow, able to secure a short term contract on my table. gementar a bit juga , hope the customer and partners appreciate my little expertise here ...wish me luck !!!

my first contra

Bahija's sister works in a security firm, this firm has friends and family package ...thus we are enjoying slightly cheaper brokerage rate (when we perform an online e-trading). I started to learn how to 'play' this game last year .... not an expert, not an active player, not interested to read the market reseach, not keen to study company's profile etc etc , basically, I am just a casual player , like casual drinker , hahaha.... Today, marked the day where I performed my first contra .... at 9:30am, I bought a share, at 2:30 pm, I sold it .... untung hanya $46 sahaja, very happy liow, sound good , but indeed a very risky business, entah-entah contra life pula .....play it for small fun once a while, suppose it is ok, don't get hook to it deeply !

past is past ....

A friend of mine said that his wife doesn't korek the old stories, if something happened in the past, she doesn't like to dig back and argue or talk about it , because what is past is past, can't do anything and not good to keep harping on it. I find that thinking or behaviour very good....today, I also told my mother that things / decisions we made in the past, let's just let go and no points of looking back and brought them out again.... we shall move forward and hope for the best ma :)

durian cheesecake

Tonight Bahija ter-met a friend at Lot 10. She walked with me to Ferenheit, then she insisted I must try the durian cheesecake from Su's bakery. I tried, for those who love durian, this is indeed a very yummy cheesecake....it's $8 per piece, it is an online srore, and now having a booth at Ferenheit ....next time if you are around that corner, give a try !

Contented Living

• Health enough to make work a pleasure
• Wealth enough to support your needs
• Strength enough to battle with difficulties and overcome them
• Grace enough to confess your sins and forsake them
• Patience enough to toil until some good is accomplished
• Charity enough to see some good in your neighbour
• Love enough to move you to be useful and helpful to others
• Faith enough to make real the things of God
• Hope enough to remove all anxious fears concerning the future

~ Goethe ~

freebie..

Bahija went for Starbie today... after the payment, the cashier gave me a receipt and asked me to logon and do a survey, for that effort, I received a code , next time can go starbie and claim one complimentary tall beverage .....HaHaHa...I get to enjoy the christmas flavour for 3 times FOC .... I hope my readers will also get this survey offer ....

last week, 3 banks engaged a marketing company to conduct survey for them, they called me and I was so super kind to them, did the survey for them for 15 minutes using my handphone ( while hands working on my notebook , not ergo at all) , came to a point, I was so fed up and irritated, as I dislike talking on the handphone for so long....then they quickly rapped up and said thank you, hang up.... ALAMAK, at least give me some goodie la. Next time , I think I'll say not free and my turn to hang up .... one of the survey asked me 'does the bank give me better rate for being their loyal good customer ? ' - I straight away rated LOUSY , coz so far , none of the banks call me and offer me a better interest rates....

Dec 4 .....

Counting down , 5 more days :) ...Dec 4 is my last day of class ( it's my exam day ) and the day to submit the last assignment. As of now, I am still sitting in front of my computer, brain dead, no ideas how to analyze my 'client' , don't know how to councel the 'client' and present them in my paper...it's kind of tuff. But thinking of ending the class, really motivate me A LOT. I suppose I'm not fit to study liow la , so sien doing homework, doing paper and preparing for exam , hahaha. Nevertheless, it's 5 more days nia .... Jia Yu !

2011 First Lepak Destination ....

Oct 29, Bahija attended her first AGM ( as a shareholder lah ) ...Nov 30 - I reached home opened a registered letter, opened it and viola ....as promised by the big boss - whoever who attended the AGM , gets complimentary 3D2N stay with breakfast for 2 at : Tioman or Langkawi or Bkt Tinggi or Penang .... offer expire April 2011. For Bahija , I still think that is a good deal and not a bad 'investment' for me leh , I only bought such a small amount of shares ( main aim was to get starbie vouchers ma ) ...and now got this free stay. I choose Tioman - that is an island I always wanted to explore.

TSN

Bahija had a wonderful weekend with some good old friends. We missed the fun time that we used to have back in the old days :) .... One of the 'influencer' asked us to watch 'so cial net work' , and we blindly went for midnight movie at 11:50 pm ( betul-betul kena 'jampi' by this influencer )... well, we enjoyed it. After the movie, some of us went home wikipedia la, image googled la - trying to find out more, and to verify which part is fiction and which part is true story etc etc ....today, I am still 'kek-poying'. I wonder if this is the human nature of suka 'kekpoh' ? why am I so interested to find out about their real faces, their true story etc etc ? I reckon these are 'healthy behaviours' , to find out how those smart genious can be so successful, as well to find out how the deals went sour .... macam learning from history la. I salute fb, started 2004, within such a short time, it is so 'in' and almost everyone is in this network, it change the history of networking.. so that is the trigger point motivating me to want to know more ( healthy punya ) ....Anyway, those of you who haven't seen this wayang gambar, go check it out. I think whoever who ada fb account will find it interesting lor...

a real life issue for counseling .....

Bahija is actively googling, reading, reseaching on the various counseling techniques - namely Person-centered theory, Gestalt theory, Cognitive Behaviour theory etc etc etc .... Yea- DEC 4- that's the FreeDom Day ( the end of my class !! ) - I happily plan for celebration activities :) - can't wait ,haha. Till then, I have to suffer a little bit now , to get my paper and to sit for the oral counseling exam. The truth is, we are using these different techniques in our lives, for example, according to Cognitive Behaviour theory, human nature has both rational and irrational thoughts, our own thoughts and the way we interpret the thoughts determined our behaviour and emotions. The technique here is to change the irrational thoughts into positive rational thoughts, for example, "when my colleague got her promotion", if my thought is irrational, I would be jealous, then my behaviour could be 'saying harsh words about her' ... Likewise, if I am rational, I should congratulate her and go enjoy a free meal - muahaha. I believe most of us are applying these 'self' thingy on our daily life , self-acceptance, self-awareness, self-improvement etc etc ..... My exam is on Dec 4, I need to think of a topic or scenario for my counseling.....hmmm - i am thinking 'Why am I not exercising to reduce my weight issues ? why why why ? ( this is real issue la , Bahija is so MALAS , expanded to XL size already , still MALAS to exercise, how la ) .... what's my underlying issue ? lack of discipline ? lack of motivation ? lack of time - this is a BS though I love to say it .... why why why ?

banks being 'bad'

Thesesay, I always received letters from bank , when I opened the envelopes, I'll be getting cheques with my name and IC no , and the amounts were $5000, $10000, yesterday was $32500, scary nya .... all I need to do is just cash in the cheques, then I'll have the huge amount of money, and owe the bank lots of money too ... Aiyuh , I dislike this technique.... I hate the banks pushing the cheques to me, rather I dislike banks sending things to me when I myself didn't ask or apply for it. That is not right. Doing this, a lot of consumers may not understand the consequenses of using the cheques, super high interests......these action could 'kill' a lot of consumers and got them into debts leh. Should I report to Bank Negara ?

AGM..

Bahija purposely bought share B, with the goal to attend the AGM, and to receive all the goodies....come year end, it's a tradition for me to enjoy starbie coffee...muahaha, this year, I have 2 vouchers liow. It's lots of hard work la -woke up 7:30am, left house at 8:30 am, reached the AGM place at 9:20 am, queued for registration at 9:30 am, collected freebies at 10am. Here's my vouchers , hehe... My first experience attending an AGM, hmm, wasn't that bad, I got to know how the companies are progressing in future, their plans as well as insider tips.... the sad part was that many old folks rushed, pushed at the registration queue, some of them fell, some very kat cheong , while walking up the stairs, they hurt themselves. aiiii - why la , it's just registration only, plus only getting some food vouchers, not getting gold or cash, even so - does it worth to sacrifice the safety of oneself ? I really no 'eye see' , aiiiiiiii.....on the brighter side, a lot of the elders are very market savy, they questioned the company portpolio, profits etc.... The chairman was kind enough to announce 'bonus' for all those who attended the AGM - a free 2D1N with breakfast package at all their hotels or resorts - WOW, now that made my days :) , I hope to receive the goody in mail soon ....Perhaps next year, I may consider attend again , hehe

updates....

Halo !!! some friends sudah marah Bahija for not updating this blog ...sorry eh :) ...

Bahija is good, as posted in my previous post, Bahija also a part-time housewife now .... cooking takes a lot of time, and I don't have a domestic helper to assist me. Anyway, Bahija passed the previous exam - Child Psychology, now taking the last module which is Counseling, this December, when I sit for the exam, I have to be 'the counselor', pretend to be an authentic counselor, all these new terms making me crazy - hahaha. Time flies , it's 20102010 today. Good numbers. 2010 almost done , aiyuh, so fast, and the same old things still apply - for me, there are still many things or tasks to be completed, but belum habis. Theseday, I spend a lot of time at home, besides work, I usually go back home and prepare dinner ( average 3 hours leh ) , then wash up and relax or work a bit, then tidur lor....Note to you guys out there, please don't stop calling me, emailing me or updating me, K. We must make effort to keep in touch with each other. I'm happy that I'll start to meet with friends soon ....and those long distance, please drop me emails or notes about yourselves. tata .....

a housewife lifestyle .....

Bahija is promoted to be the 'woman' of the house. I go to bed early, wake up early....prepare breakfast, get things ready , then wake up Teddy Bear, measure his glucose level using the glucose test kit, then gives him breakfast, then get him to exercise for 5 mins ( hopefully ), then prepare to go to work , then get off from work earlier, go home , prepare dinner , dinner at 6:30 pm or 7pm...again pre dinner - do glucose test, repeat the test 2 hours after the meal, exercise 5 mins again, wash up , get ready for next day , watch a bit of TV, read newspaper - then time to sleep. That is my typical day schedule now , this will continue for a while until I master the diet plan. Teddy Bear is diagnosed with diabetes ( beginning stage). He's on medication, yea - besides his dozen of epilepsy medication, now adding diabetes as well. A few log books for him, tracking : his weigh , his blood pressure , his glucose level before and after meal, his fits frequency, his abnormal observation. Bahija is learning to buy, prepare heathier food at home, have to share with my mummy, and encourage her to cook the same. Mum only know the traditional chinese cooking, now I am introducing simplier, easier , healther way of preparing the food. It's a lot of work, I dozed off easily by 11 pm :). I am learning to grill 2 dishes in an oven, cook rice plus steam another dish in the rice cooker , so in total , I have 3 dishes with brown rice. Yesteday started to use the glucose test kit , scared to poke the sharp needle, yeeeeee... but then, I have done 6 times liow - sudah immuned, so practice makes perfect. My take is, once I get the process in placed, when I know what diet works for Teddy Bear, when mum can help to monitor and learn to prepare healthier food, when things settling down a bit, it's time to get a domestic helper. Hope I can employ a good helper :)