RIP TALIB

This early morn brought sad news.Our friend Talib Omar passed away after a massive heart attack.He was in a coma for 2 days.We visited him on Tuesday and though his eyes were closed he knew it was us.I'm glad!Rest in peace.Though you leave behind your loved ones,you'll be united with your mother.Al-Fatihah.

Its a wedding!

Yesterday was Hui's wedding day.Congrats Hui.The wedding ceremony itself was at. a church followed by cocktails.The dinner was at Shangrila Hotel Singapore.However two important people were missing...the late Phee Aik and M.I'm sure there was a fleeting moment for Hui when she thought of them on her day.But we cannot always get what we want!I hope M and Phee Aik watched that momentous moment from whereever they were.

An untimely death

Last Saturday,saw the passing of Malaysia's most creative film director Alllahyarhamah Yasmin Ahmad.She died of a very sudden clogging of blood in her brain and it took many of us by surprise.I feel greatly for her and her mother Inom as we all lived in the hospital quarters in Batu Pahat.Yasmin's grandfather,Pak Yon and my late father were good friends ,all in one gang...the tennis gang!Inom taught in my alma mater TIGS and she and my sisters were friends.That is why when I watched Yasmin's 'Mukhsin" it was so 'deja vu' for me for it brought back memories of my childhhood in Batu Pahat.
Yasmin was 51 when she died and 15 years younger than I but she was able to see life like me...no sense of bigotry and racism.During my childhood days my sisters and I w ere never taught to choose our friends according to their skin colour.Anyone nice and fun to be with was our friend and until today,I do not harbour any form of racial segregation at all!Yasmin's parents taught her well!Her 'Tan Hong Ming'ad was one kind. Children are colour-blind and they should stay that way. they are colour-blind until the parents spoil the whole thing and the parents should be spanked.
One thing that I fail to understand was how a certain periodical could publish facts about Yasmin's background after she was gone .Why were they not brave enough to do so when she was around?And as Muslims do they not know that the dead should be respected!As "writers" don't they know that you do not speak evil of one who is gone?What happened to their ethics?No ethics??..that's the reason why they are called 'low down'writers!We people from Batu Pahat know about this and none of have ever gone to the papers to tell them about it.It is something very personal and not for the whole world to know about.I think all of us are entitled to some kind of privacy no matter how famous(Yasmin) and unknown(yours truly) that we are!For you Yasmin I offer Fatihah and may you rest well.

A wise saying

*A PERSON WHO GRADUATES TODAY AND STOPS LEARNING TOMORROW IS UNEDUCATED THE DAY AFTER*..MARTIN KHIEL BAKER..
I've never heard of you but you hit the nail on the head.I'm glad I'm NOT one of those people you refer to.

BLUE BAYOU BY LINDA RONSTADT

Linda sang this favourite of mine in 1977.I was only 33 and a mother of three.She longs for her kampung in this song.So sad.

EVIAN BABY ROLLERS

This video is sure to bring a smile to the most grouchy person in the world!

Michael Jackson is gone!!

MJ left us on Friday 24th June at 1.32pm Malaysian time.I heard it on the car radio and I felt a wave of sadness overcome me.He died of a cardiac arrest so they say.What can I say about him that others have not said?Though I was not one of his crazy fans,I liked certain songs of his like 'Black and White' and 'Save the world'.
I would like to think that the song 'Black and White' was written from the heart.He had trouble with the colour of his skin when fame touched him.So the bleaching started.Then he did not like his cute fleshy nose!(Note here that,to the Chinese,a fleshy nose is the sign of a rich man ie,if you are into business!)And so the snipping and tucking started.I guess all the liquids injected into him took a toll of his life.
He had a successful life and yet he was hardly happy .He became eccentric.If only he had had someone to talk to and to confide in!
So MJ,this is goodbye and RIP.