All About Your Child

Many of you know that I used to be with Blogger before I’m with Wordpress now. That blog has been idle for sometime, ever since the shift. Feel the pinch whenever I think of deleting it, afterall, it was where my blogging-life started. So I decided to bring it back to life yesterday!

I’ve changed the title to ‘Anything Under the Sun’ and like the title suggests, I’ll be blogging about anything under the sun OTHER THAN kids.

There are so many things that happen in my life that are NOT kids-related too and many events are worth recording. Hence that’s the place where I’ll be scribbling down every now and then….but here is still where my heart belongs *wink*

(Let me know if you have added my ‘re-vamped’ Blog on your blogroll and I’m more than happy to add yours)

That’s the blog you should visit. Toni is the proud owner of It Is Nap Time. She is a wonderful person, and I believe I’ll truly enjoy going to all her gatherings. She started ‘Meet My Friends Monday’ just last week and you can play along too. Basically you need to introduce a blog you like to visit. This is a way to show off your blogging friends every Monday.

I’m her ‘featured blogger friend’ for this 2nd Edition. So hop over there right now to visit her and read about me (if you haven’t get enough of me yet) *laugh* Click Here Now

Christmas is often packaged with lots of dazzling decorations with glittering rainbow lightings. Everyone is so encompassed by the beauty and fun, few remember that there are people, especially young children suffering in other parts of the world; away from all these Jingle Bells and Santa Claus.

Children in Payatas, Philippines have always been wishing for the appearance of Santa or an Angel, to come to their rescue. All they need is a decent meal, clean water and a shelter without holes in it.

My cousin, Esther had been there many years back on a missionary trip. When she came back, the whole experience changed her life. She used to be one who believed that once a person is full, he/she should stop eating. But after she saw how the children run towards the garbage truck, like little kids running towards Santa hoping to get one gift from his big red bag of presents, just to dive in to what most people would run away from…. they dig for food. Tiny pieces of what seemed decomposed food to put into their mouth. And ‘THAT‘ could be their only meal for the day. Now, the ‘changed‘ Esther finishes everything on her plate.

Totedaddy and Lighthouse Center for Children Foundation are their Santa Claus and their Angel for Christmas this year. Praise God for them. Support them over here, all you need to do is sacrifice the amount for that extra can of coke or that packet of potato chips and with that little, you can actually help thousands of Children in Payatas….. If you had donated….Myself and many prominent supporters for the good cause, from footballers (from both Manchester United & Arsenal!), politicians, celebrities …..Thank you from the bottom of our hearts….

Here’s the extract from the main site: -

The landfill in Payatas, The Philippines, is notoriously known the world over as Smokey Mountain. For over 35 years, the smoking dump site has grown to become a stark and heart-tugging reminder of the desperate conditions of humanity.

On a daily basis, children pick through newly arrived garbage to collect material to sell. The earnings made by one child are not
enough to even buy food for the day. Hence, entire families are forced to climb the mountain each day, hoping to earn enough to feed everyone. Children as young as four years old are forced to work in this daily struggle for survival.

In response to the plight of these children, Totedaddy is working with Lighthouse Center For Children Foundation to bring a little cheer to the children this Christmas.

Totedaddy has kicked off with a cash sponsorship of USD 10,000 to enable the children to celebrate Christmas. FusionExcel International has also pitched in a USD 5,000 in cash sponsorship. The money raised will help fund the projects already in place, and help fund additional projects aimed at providing better housing, and a means of livelihood for the Payatas community.

It is hoped that by creating better awareness to the plight of these children, more support can be garnered towards their betterment. Together we can bury poverty!

Today, I’m dishing out a different plate of goodies. A little ‘out of the ordinary’ stuff which you usually digest from this blog…. this is for all the wives and wives-to-be…. *wink* Got this email from a really close friend.

After 40 years of marriage a married couple in their early 60’s were
celebrating their 40th wedding anniversary in a quiet, romantic little
restaurant. Suddenly, a tiny yet beautiful fairy appeared on their
table.

She said, ‘For being such an exemplary married couple and for being
loving  to each other for all this time, I will grant you each a wish.

The Wife answered,’Oh, I want to travel around the world with my darling
husband.’  The fairy waved her magic wand and - POOF! Two tickets for a
private jet to take them anywhere in the world, Passports and and
Reservations to the world’s most lavish hotels in the world and the
number  of a Swiss Bank account with millions of dollars listed,
appeared in her hands.

The husband thought for a moment and said, ‘Well, this is all very
romantic, but an opportunity like this will never come again. I’m sorry
my  love, but my wish is to have a wife 30 years younger than me.’

The wife and the fairy were both deeply disappointed, but a wish is a
wish. So the fairy waved her magic wand and POOF!  The husband became
92 years old.

The moral of this story: Men who are ungrateful, should remember fairies
are female!!

HAVE A FANTASTIC WEEKEND GIRLS!!!

Hey friends, you know I love all of you so much. I have said that so many times and I meant it. The last thing I want to do is make you nice people puke or lose appetite….but I just had to share this !@#$%^&%$# with you. I can’t even find a word to describe this!

Ok here goes…My friend emailed this to me:-

A reporter was the writer of the email. It was written in Mandarin, so here’s the summary of what I read.

There is a restaurant in GuangZhou, China, which served a tonic soup cooked with foetus!!! They call it “Pai Gu” (’Ribs’ in Mandarin).

Normally, the foetus served on the table is usually 6 to 7 months old. It is cooked or rather brewed with many chinese tonics (which I’m not interested to state here cos’ I don’t know the English names for all those tonics) for 8 long hours.

The soup is believed to boost fertility. A 62 years old man was ‘promoting’ how incredible the effect of the soup was on his sexual life, that even at this old age, he was able to ‘perform’ daily!

The soup is ‘most beneficial’ when its boiled with fresh foetus. They had already been informed by a foreign couple working in China, who are blessed with 2 daughters, that if their 3rd child (in the tummy) is still a girl, after the ultra-scan had confirmed it, then they would sell it to the restaurant. They are hoping for a boy…..

The foetus in the photos (below) was from a village friend of the chef. The price paid for this foetus was not disclosed.

The midwife gets paid for this inhumane act too. The price varies with the age of the foetus. For a 5month old foetus, the midwife is given a few hundred RMB. For foetus carried to Full Term, an award of 2000RMB is given to the parents.

The soup is served for a price of 3500-4000 RMB in the restaurant. Use the Currency Converter to find out how much is that in your own currency. Choose ‘Chinese Yuan’

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According to the chef, up to date, only female foetus is available. The guess of the reporter was, “Could it be due to the one-child policy in China, which resulted to this? Chinese being traditional would want to have a son to carry on their family’s surname…..so girls are ‘not welcomed’….”

Warning!

The following photos are NOT recommended for the weak-hearted to see and definitely NOT for people who have just finished a sumptuous meal.

As I look at the photos. I was thinking: We are no longer in the ‘cave-men’ age, yet man-eating-man is still happening. I’m not talking about situation where a man is stranded on a mountain after a plane crash and had no choice but ate his fellow (dead) passengers bodies in order to survive. This is NOT about survivor. This is about inhumanity, isn’t it?

Eating is one thing. The parents who sold their ‘babies’ away for that miserable $$$. Do their guilty conscience eat them alive by the minute, day by day?

And is this approved by the law over there? Shouldn’t the police be involved?

The 2nd Last photo where the chef used the spoon to scoop up the head was too much for me to handle……My heart feels so heavy now….

The 3rd picture looks like a boy right? But the article says “5month old-female foetus” … hmmm… *scratch head*

I hope more people will get to see this…. Not that I’m a sadist, but this is too shocking to be kept in silence… I just hope to share with people how insane China Delicacies can be… Do Digg this story using my top left icon or you could just link this post from your blog…. whichever way, I thank you if you do….

Today was a treat for my eyes. Friends in Facebook would know that I had been having a swollen left eye for the past 3 days with pus and all.

It recovered today, in time to enjoy this movie treat from my sister.

Today’s post is not about my kids, its about my sis and I ‘re-living’ our younger days again. Sing to the Dawn was a book which my sis and I read for our literature lessons when we were in our teens.

The movie was based on the award-winning novel by Minfong Ho in 1975. It won the first prize in the Council of Interracial Books for Children.

This was the cover of the book which my sis and I had. If I’m not wrong, its still standing on my shelf leaning against my storeroom wall.

Dawan was a young village girl in Thailand, who won a scholarship to study in a school in the city. Her brother, Kai,was initially jealous, causing a rift between the two previously-close siblings. To make things worse, Dawan’s father, who feels that the city is no place for a girl, refused to allow Dawan to accept the scholarship. Dawan faces many obstacles, but eventually through many events, she proved that she is worthy of the scholarship.

I remembered crying at the end of the book. But it was so different when the story was put on the big screen. It was funny! I was practically laughing most of the time. But then again, I guess I’m a kid in an adult’s body, cos’ all the other adults in the ‘dark-room‘ didn’t react the way which I did *embarrassed*. The story was not funny (of cos’), but the ‘additional characters’ in the animated movie was! The main storyline is still intact.

Allan was the nanny for that 1plus hour, allowing the kids to roam around Toys R Us and the open-air playground in Vivo City, while waiting for the show to end and fetch all of us home. So my sis and I had great fun, because its been a ‘hundred‘ years since we last went for a movie together; and the kids had tremendous fun too! So it was YEAH for 4 and not so yeah for the man *laugh*….

Hey, I’m was very sick (and am STILL sick) after Keatkeat’s birthday party. Gastric attack PLUS menstruation cramps. I’m not handling the latter very well because I NEVER HAD cramps ever since the ‘Red Alert’ came some 18years back. It started only 6 months ago, since then, I have been having cramps every time ‘Red Sea’ comes flooding down. Wonder why… Maybe getting older now…. Hmmmm…

So just wanna do a short post today to say that I’m still alive and kicking somehow…

Thank you everyone for reading Keatkeat’s victory over his worst (as of now) sickness ever. *Choi choi choi* Hope there’ll be NO MORE coming.

Thank you everyone for giving him all the well wishes on his 5th Birthday.

And a HUGE thank you to all of you who loved me so much and voted for me on TopMomma! Unbelievable! Most people lasted for a day or two.

But lucky me, BECAUSE OF YOU, I lasted for 10days!!!! Woo-hoo! Though its just for the fun of it, no prizes nor awards, but it goes to show how kind you people are towards me! Heart-felt thanks!

All good things must come to an end….and unfortunately my time on TopMomma.com has come and gone, but I’m one Happy Blogger for sure with all these love!

Ok, gonna go popped in another tablet now….have fun all you Wonderful People!

Hey hey! What a surprise after celebrating my 1st blogoversary!

Just received this email, 2mins ago, that SHOUTED, “You are now on the front page of TopMomma.com!!!!”

In order for me to stay there, please click here!

Just for the fun of it….Awww…I know you won’t be that stingy right? Just a click, wouldn’t you do it for me? *HUGE LAUGH*

and lets see how long can I stay on that FRONT PAGE *wink*

*Muack* Love All of You Lots and Lots *Muack*

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