Life's a joke!

Life sometimes loves to play cruel jokes and test a person's level of endurance and tolerance for pain. Sometimes, we can cope with it but other times, we need some divine intervention! My hubby and I had planned to leave for our journey to Penang with stopovers in Ipoh and Bukit Mertajam early on Sunday morning. As usual, whatever has been planned sometimes do not work out the way you want it. We left later than planned and arrived in Bukit Mertajam around 2 pm after stopping in Ipoh to say hello and show off my baby girl to my maternal aunt in Ipoh.

While at the shrine of St Anne's Church, I saw an Indian man walking barefooted up towards the statue. When he reached the altar he knelt down to pray and started crying so pitifully. He was so earnest in prayer and kept hugging the feet of the statue of St Anne. He was in so much pain and looked so lost.

My heart went out to him and I approached him asking him if I could help in anyway. He told me that his son had been wrongly medicated by some doctor and was critically ill after that. He was worried that his son would not pull through and that the doctor has washed his hands off the case. He had come to the shrine to seek St Anne's help for his son. I asked if he minded my praying for his son too and he looked a little relieved. I gave him an empty mineral water bottle and asked him to take the water from the church grounds (tap water from the hillock lah!) and to wipe his son's face with it. I also gave him a holy picture of St Anne and the Brown Scapular of Mary to place under his son's pillow. He was so happy that a total stranger took some time out to speak with him and listen to his sorrows. I had told him about the miracle St Anne had worked for me. As we left the shrine together, I casually asked him if he was a Christian, he said that he was a Hindu.

It sure shows that St Anne's fame and generousity in helping others is well documented in and out of Bukit Mertajam. I wonder how the little boy Sugran is doing and how his father Chandramoorthy is doing. Please pray for this young boy and his family. I pray that he has recovered.

God bless and Happy Merdeka.

The Joys of Motherhood?????

There are many times the above captioned has crossed my mind, it frustrates, boggles and at times entertains as well. Watching Angeline grow and seeing her learn things so fast enchants but yet at times scary too! Angeline is 1 year 1 month and 22 days old and already fast growing taller each day. She has a cheeky smile and mischevious minx just loves to give me a cardiac arrest!!

Yesterday, she crawled so fast after her daddy and stopped at the altar of one of the 'god' that her daddy prays to (he's Chinese and Buddhist) and started to play with the oil lamp. Her dad promptly yelled at her and carried her over to me so that I could clean her hands. I was so mad at her dad for allowing her to get away with it that I smacked her hands and caned her (6 strokes! OUCH!) soundly! My heart broke when she cried but I had to be strong or she won't know what she did wrong! On Tuesday night she got smacked by her dad for playing with the electric sockets! Poor baby!

Each day when she wakes up (sleeps round 11.30 pm) at 11 am or 12 noon depending on her mood, she will call Mama and smile at me if I am in the room. If she wakes up and I am not there, you can hear her wailing even from the car park! After having her milk, she will promptly give me the empty bottle (oh yes! she holds her own bottle and feeds herself now!) and ask me to carry her ("Mama, poh poh" which means "Mama, carry") out of her cot. She is now learning to stand on her own and has taken her first small baby step today! Her face was full of glee and she was crowing about her achievements! Kept calling her dad to look at her and screaming when he didn't!

I wonder how she will react to the feel of grass or sand on her toes? Maybe she will enjoy the sand more than the grass! Yup, no doubt about it.....there is joy in being a mother but there is also the sad part, like when she is sick or when I have to cane her. I love my Angeline and I'd like to think that she loves me too. She is closer to me now. She used to favour her dad but now it's more to Mama! Best part is each time we ask her, "Angel, who is naughty?" she will answer with a cheeky smile, "DADDY!" She loves to play with any kind of ball. She has a beach ball, a smiley face soft ball, a pink plain bouncy plastic ball and a small 5 ins purple butterfly ball. She now likes to play with the butterfly motif ball and will scream in glee when she manages to catch the ball, roll it or even throw it.

The joys of motherhood? You figure it out for yourself....I already have. God bless you all!

Contests and winning them!

Yesterday evening round 6 pm, I was tired out and grumpy after having cooked and run after an over active 1 year old who insisted in climbing the chairs and coffee table; standing and shaking her little tush even when she can't walk and whiney like mad, a call came on my cell. Needless to say, I was grumpy and irritated thinking it was just another one of those telemarketeers trying to talk me into buying something! I am so ashamed to say that I was RUDE to the poor young lady who had called to inform me that I was one of the winners in the BEWITCHED contest run by Hallmark and Astro!

First contest I had won this year and I had to go and be rude to the bearer of good news! To the young lady I apologised over the phone. She was real understanding about it. Needless to say my darling better half 'pooh poohed' my win.....sigh! That is one hard jock to please!

Anyway, have a good weekend and God bless!

Another day, another insight

Seems like each day something new crops up. Changes are abound in one's life. How we deal with this is another matter. After all, life has a funny way of slapping you upside down when you least expect it! Here I am at 44, a wife and a mother, thinking about what I have done in this life to deserve all the good I have in my life. Some tell me not to look the gift horse in the mouth and just to enjoy what I have. Yeah I can live with that.

Well, mega sales again and there are 1001 things to buy but moneywise, can afford totally nothing! I would love to buy a notebook so that I can surf the net anytime, anywhere. Then there is the diamond stud earrings and cross that I've been eyeing, the LEVI'S jeans that makes me look good, the NIKE trainers I want, the new swimming costume I need, etc....etc....sigh!

Oh yeah, the new series, Desparate Housewives.......funny enough, I enjoy it. I watched the first episode and I am hooked. Then there is the other show, The Collector.....interesting to think that the horned one would need an 'assistant' to help him collect the corrupted souls. Today CSI Miami Season 3 is back! Yay! Overdose of good shows!