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Read this news last week that a young man was so broke that he throw himself off the MRT track and killed himself.  The shocking part was his wife could not affort to take public to see his body in hospital.  As such, after the news was published, many good-hearted people started to send in donation for the victim family.

The donation flown in and within a week, she have gotten over $500,000.  So, she have enough for the funeral and for her son’s studies.  She mentioned that she will donate $100,000 to charity and save the rest of the money.  Again, people begin to questions how could she have such a large sum of money.  Some fund-manager mentioned that she should hand over her money for ‘experienced’ fund-manager.

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Today, Marina seemed pretty happy. 

She came and hug me when I came back from work and spoke softly into my ear….”I tell you a secret…Joshua said he will marry me when we grow up.”

I though I only read this on books or seen it on movies, but my 5 years old daughter is telling me that now.  I was amused, but trying to feel how i will feel like, in due time, when she really got married.

i asked if she is happy and she shying said, yes!

I am not sure if I look forward to the day.  But for now, she is my daring daughter!

I love her!

Just came back from Pataiya, Thailand with Andrew, John, BB and Anthony.

It’s been almost 20 years since we, boys, went overseas tour together.

The first day was hosted by Andrew’s business partner, Ked and Anthony’s good friend Mr Niti Phume.  We have good meal and went for traditional Thai massage.  It was indeed a solid good one, no hanky-panky type.  When Niti sent us back to hotel, we did not rest immediately.  We headed down to Popome (I hope I got the name correct) and went into a go-go bar. 

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Was in Novena today and the priest preach about anger and forgive…

“A soilder was shot at his leg during Gulf war and needed to be cut off.  He was interviewed and was asked if he was angry about his enemy.

He replied, he was and found out that been angry and not fogiving make himself feel worst and it did not mean anything to his enemy.  In the end, he realised that once he stop angry and forgave, he felt relief and better.

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In my last post about how we ended out in deep debt, I mentioned about our money stucked in a house…here is what happened:

In Year 2004, Kent came to our  family in January.  We were most delight and celebrated, however, we need to solve one problem…who to look after him when CW done with her maternity.  My mom will definitly be out as she is staying with us and she is already helping us to look after Marina while we were working.  We do not want to hire a maid nor engage a nanny as well as child-care.  Thus, logically we turned to CW’s mom for help.  Then, the next question is, where will she be staying?  She will definitly not staying with us, due to prior conflict between our 2 families (Well, another long story will be account in future), and no way any Singaporean family will rent out a room for her to look after our son.  Thus, we came out a wise idea…why don’t we get a condo?

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Indonesia is buring again!

After 10 years, not much improvment!

My Ashma is back due to the haze and smoke.  PSI went up to 150 on Sat night and we were having our first St Anne Mid-Autumn Festival!

The festival is pretty success, though, we have 100+ no show, we believe due to the bad whether, but the mood was there and everyone enjoy the event.

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