My Birthday Present

My mother agrees with the cat above but I love them!

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Mariah Carey - Bye Bye

When I first heard a snippet of this song, I was shocked. It expressed the thoughts that I was afraid to put into words or somehow could not put into words. And Mariah Carey did it. I think because she lost her dad to cancer and the song really has those feelings that I feel [...]

Happy Birthday to the Greatest!

So I dug out a performance of Mariah singing Happy Birthday to Muhammad Ali. It’s one of my favourite performances ever ‘cos Mariah sounded like a stone groove smash hit wonder! Whatever that means… hahaha… just means she was excellent. Her voice was in top form and the arrangement of Happy Birthday was just to [...]

In Loving Memory: 7 Months

Today is 7 months.
Last year, on the 2nd of May, I had gone to watch a movie with a colleague and my little sister. I was sick that day and came home. Papa was also not feeling well at all but he could still ask me if I was feeling better or ok. He is [...]

In Loving Memory: 6 Months

2 weeks ago, I picked out a book to read called, “My Best Friend’s Girl“. It’s about a girl who takes legal guardianship of her best friend’s daughter after her best friend dies.
Now, I didn’t know that this book had someone dying of leukaemia. All I knew from reading the back cover was that this girl’s best [...]

In Loving Memory: Where is God When it Hurts?

Last year, when we’d first found out my dad’s diagnosis, my youth leader passed me Philip Yancey’s ”Where is God When It Hurts?” book. I chucked it aside and didn’t think of reading it. Who had time to read amidst everything that was going on at the time?
When my dad was first admitted into ICU, I sat [...]

In Loving Memory: 5 Months and 22 Days

We had a memorial service for Papa and the grandparents yesterday (March 22, 2008) in our house. It was beautiful and very meaningful. We sang 5 songs - “Give Thanks”, “What a Friend we Have in Jesus”, “Blessed Assurance”, “In the Sweet by and by” and “Still”. Some of Papa’s friends came too and we got to share our memories of Papa [...]

In Loving Memory - 3 Months and 14 Days

If you’ve been following the news, you would have read that former Indonesian President, Suharto, is in grave condition.
He’s been fighting for his life for the past week and a half. He’s been in intensive care with multiple organ failure receiving dialysis and medications for his heart and lungs. He’s also on a ventilator and getting blood [...]

In Loving Memory - 3 Months

It’s been 3 months since my father passed away. I was thinking this morning how it’s only been 3 months. Quick but still feels like forever… and life just carries on. Very strange.
I still think of my father’s last moments on earth and I wonder what happened after he left his body? What did he see? [...]

In Loving Memory - 2 Months 29 Days

I dreamt of my father last night talking to his brother who was taunting him. In my dream, my father was dead… and he was talking to his brother and telling him that he shouldn’t be so silly to think that just because he was dead, things would be different business wise. My father was [...]