the story of gravel stone, gravestone and river stone

This is what I have

This is what I wanted to ask for

And this is what SpellCheck gave me

I experienced a most embarrassing moment this morning as I was preparing to forward an email to a colleague. As I scrolled down I cam across this "ROADSIDE GRAVE VS. RIVER STONE". I was speechless ! I meant to tell my developer that they should have given us nice river stones instead of the present ugly looking gravel. Somehow SpellCheck gave me a substitute without me ever realizing it. My recipients must think I'm MAD to ask for a grave ! I meant gravel !!!! I don't want a roadside GRAVE ! Am very sure there must be a number of people with bellyache from too much laughing !

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What is wrong with me ? I think of food all the time. It's like a disease. I had my breakfast at 8.30 this morning and I should be stuffed but I'm not ! I AM HUNGRY !!! I have been thinking about what to have for lunch an hour ago and now....my mind has fast forward to dinner while still thinking about lunch. At the rate I am racing to feed myself, I'll be rolling everywhere in no time. Either that or I'll be a.k.a. "Michelin Woman". I DON'T WANT ! This is what I want....
* Flabby tummy begone !
* Flabby arms begone !
* Flabby thighs begone !
* To wear clothes I stored away 6 months back !
Yes, there is still hope. I never gave away my clothes. I just stored them away. Aiyo...Hari Raya is just around the corner and there's muruku, pineapple jam tarts, rendang, nasi himpit.....Geez

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a bottomless pit ?

I am a bottomless pit ! I eat and eat and need to eat again ! Just this afternoon, my colleague and I were sitting down and having a simple lunch of 4 pieces of fried pawn dumplings each with a drink. Midway, we looked at each other and discovered that we were thinking the same thought - can still eat more ! We're both getting fatter and feeling heavier and yet we can't seem to control the urge and desire to eat. Of course being a Malaysian doesn't help. This a a land of super good food !!! How ah ? Others get full from drinking water while we get tired from walking to the toilet too many times from all that drinking ! It's now hardly 3 hours since I ate and I'm thinking about what to have for dinner. What do I do lah ?

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R.I.P. Yasmin Ahmad

I must admit that I do not know much about this remarkable woman. What I do know is how her work touched me and how it never failed to bring tears to my eyes. Films and advertisements directed by her were filled with so much honesty and depicted much of our Malaysian life and culture. She was honest about both the good and the bad and many of us found a part of ourselves in these.

July 25th, 2009 was a sad day. Yasmin was pronounced dead after she suffered an earlier stroke and collapsed during a meeting at Sri Pentas. Our local news station aired a special on her life and achievements on 1 August at 9.00pm. For one hour, I sat glued to the TV with a box of Kleenex by my side. I cried as I watched the interview with her parents and how they described her as being "one in a million". It saddened me to watch her mum clinging to her grave while her dad tried to console her through the mist of his own grief. In that interview, Yasmin's dad described her as a soft spoken child who never once raised her voice at either parent. Whenever her voice went up an octave, she would immediate rest her head on the mum's lap and ask for forgiveness. According to her mum, she always reprimanded her siblings and told them "I spent my life making mum happy and I don't want you to make her cry". Her mum recalled that Yasmin had hoped that her mum would die before her so that she could ensure that she could pray for the repose of her mum's soul while in another instance, she wanted them to die together and be buried side by side. This is the relationship she shared with her family. The kind of relationship that even Danielle Steel would find hard to write about.

May you rest in eternal peace Yasmin. Malaysia misses you.

Yasmin, you have done us proud and you make me proud to be a Malaysian.

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