A LUCKY DEAD SNAKE?

My belief in lucky and unlucky signs is almost subconscious, so much so that I constantly interpret the most commonplace things that happen  as a suggestion to either good or bad luck. .

I was in the house when mum came over and asked me why I had leave a dead snake in the compound.
WHAT??... the last time I went outside of the house, THERE WAS NO DEAD SNAKE AROUND!!!!

Of course when something remotely out of the ordinary like this happened , my mind instantly wondered  to the good or bad luck thingy.
I quickly went online to see what my encounter would mean.

*****Meeting Up With A SnakeIs a sign of good fortune. Whether in your garden, inside the home, or out trekking, if you meet up with a snake, it means something or someone important is coming into your life. Never ever try to harm or kill a snake when confronted with one. The more poisonous the snake, the better is the good fortune. The king cobra is described as a snake of extreme good fortune. Whatever you do, never kill a snake as they are also associated with some spiritual presence. They usually slither away themselves when they sense human presence.

Hhmm....... As always, I'm just going to believe on  the good part of it  :)
Hey...I didn't kill that snake.

With no witnese around , the truth of the event will never be known. But....  for sure, it was either  the dogs or the cats.
Namely.....Blink Blink, Black Jack, AC, Kai Kai or Pokoyo... then again it could extend to Uku, Nay Nay, Girlgirl or Brown Brown..
AS I have said....it will never be  known......unless of course one of them can talk

Coming back to reality....I now urgently need to clear up the overgrown weeds around the house. I think there was where it came from....or could it be from the neighbour's backyard? :)

SERI MUKA

Fat chance that I was going for jogging after sleeping at almost two in the morning yesterday.
It has never crossed my mind to go for jogging in the first place but the girls were so determine.
I just went along with the whole idea so to say.
Then again knowing them and knowing that it's still school holidays, I kind of knew they would never make it.
Nevertheless, just incase... I set my alarm at six.
It rang..... and rang....and rang....and rang  :)
Nobody came into my room  eagerly  for that jog, so I just switched it off and try to sleep again.
Tossing and turning without really getting back to sleep,I got out of bed .
It was just around seven.

When Lydia woke up asking me if it was time to jog...( hahaha )...It was already ten oclock and the sun was already  shining so bright.
So definitely the answer was ...NO jogging.


I managed to prepare one of my favourite malay kuih....seri muka  while getting lunch ready.
It turned out very well although I felt it was a little on the sweet side.

Just out of the steamer....I have this 'bad' habbit of cutting them while they are still warm.
I somehow find every dish taste better right after they're done.

Earlier on,  I had wanted to further clear the back portion of  the house's compound but my mood was more  set on clearing out my clothing from the cupboard.

Happy to say that I did.....(although as of now I am still not done yet) managed to make myself put away most of the clothing the girls outgrew and ones that I don't want to use anymore.

Looking at what the girls used to wear brought many of their chilhood  memories.
Awh....they were that small then.

Most of the dresses I have kept  hold sentimental values to me.
BUT.... they don't need them anymore so I might as well give to someone who can still  'enjoy' them.

Dissapointed thou that while doing all that, I accidentally got my toe nail broken.....again!
Aaaaaaaaaarrrrrrrrrr...it took me months to let it grow back  and now it's back to square one.

That actually didn't hurt as much as my hati...

Life

I went through an article online  about life and liked this quote by Mother Terese

Life is everything we make it out to be....a choice.

     

   Life is an opportunity, benefit from it.

            Life is beauty, admire it.

            Life is bliss, taste it.

            Life is a dream, realise it.

            Life is a challenge, meet it.

            Life is a duty, complete it.

            Life is a game, play it.
            Life is costly, care for it.
            Life is wealth, keep it.
            Life is love, enjoy it.
            Life is mystery, know it.
            Life is a promise, fulfil it.
            Life is sorrow, overcome it.
            Life is a song, sing it.
            Life is a struggle, accept it.
            Life is tragedy, confront it.
            Life is an adventure, dare it.
            Life is luck, make it.
            Life is too precious, do not destroy it.
            Life is life, fight for it.

 -    Mother Teresa

It is so wonderful to see the greatness of  men who were once so high and mighty, fallen flat to the deepest of 'pits' and yet stilll could speak without blaming anybody....without complaining much.
This is the greatness of people who are spiritually rich even when they are materially poor.

Let us never forget that there are 'angles' walking amongs us.

A FRIEND FROM THE PAST

I was going through the pages of old school friends on facebook and came across this.

Sadness passed me. That obituary could have been mine. Afterall we were in the same 'era'.
It is so 'easy' and 'fast' if you think how we could one minute be here and the next gone.
It's all sorrowful feelings you get going through fond memories of someone who is not in this world anymore.

I first knew Francisca way back when were were in our teens.
I was thirteen and in Form two . Though we were born on the same year,  she was a year behind in grade.

I was actually best friends with her older sister Lola for the whole of my junior years.
I remembered many good times with Lola and her family at their home.
Sadly, I remembered too how time and new friends just made us drift apart.
It has been years  ....many many years since then.
I can 'see' she is still around but the gap we have left behind might be too large to ever be close again.
Maybe it was already written somewhere that our 'path' would only crossed once and branch out forever.

Much of our  friendship  back then were based on the fact that we were all very good at sports.
I was the 'new' addition ( having just moved from Labuan) to the 'clan'.
Back then who wouldn't know the famous Edmunds.  The three sisters from St Cecilia's convent.
Judy and Flo were sprinters like myself while Fran was more to the mid distances events.
She was slighly bigger built  ( and curlier :) )than her order sisters.

We somehow 'ruled' the track at every sports meet. Seems like everyone involves in sports knew who and how good we were.
Those were the good old days... I hope they too remember them fondly as I do.
Memories are all that is left now so it might as well be the good ones that I remember.

I didn't see eye to eye with Fran on most things then but we did shared friends and fun times together.
Importantly I remember her then and now as my friend .

May her soul rest in peace .

NIPPED

The idea was to go for an early jog in the morning.
However another late night and the thought of giving up those few extra hours of sleep kind of get to me....and Yona.
She was the one who has been so 'dying' to go for morning jogs for the past week.
So far...it has only been the mind that was willing, yet the body still refuses to....leave the bed :)

Anyhow, I do have an appointment at eight to get the tom cats neutered today.
Going out for a jog and coming back to get the cats ready might be be a little 'rushing' for me.
After much 'troubles' I went through in to get them this appointment, fat chance I was going to let it slipped away.

Knowing how goverment department works, I gave a ten minutes allowance for the staff to settle in ( to checked in was more like it) before I left for their office.
A normal ten minute dirve away but I was totally  unprepared for the traffic jam getting there.
 It shows how long it's been since I last used the road on 'peak' hours.
Then again, it has always been after two in the afternoon with my other appointments before.

It was almost nine by the time all the paperwork was done.
I left the three babies, Noodles, Pudding and the black cat  there for their utlimate 'nip'.
The new lady doctor, Carol  asked me to to come back for them around eleven.

Compred to the RM80/cat the private vet that I normally went to, It would only cost me RM30/cat here.
..to which I'm well pleased.

Lydia and me went on to replenish the cat's fishes at mile eight wet market.
Had some late breakfast and did some window shopping to pass the time before returning to get them home.

Poor Noodle after the operation.  Lying motionless and with his eyes wide opened. He looked so 'dead'

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AND THE WINNER IS................

Just as I did my picking yesterday, the results came out.

I must say, my statement on  I have 'good' eyes for beauty does stand.

My favourite, Ranau, was infact the favourite with eveyone. It's really unfortunate that she wasn't crowned queen . The 'upset' created a lot of 'fuss' with the crowd as so with people leaving negative comments on facebook.

Facial beauty may be subjective when it comes to giving marks but  based on the IQ marks during the interview?  You can't hide anything when everyone were all ears to how you go about answering the question.

I do feel that these people have reason to question on the final outcome based on that.

It was already reason that she comes from the orginising district and most of  the judges were 'their own people' . 

They add insult to injury by saying that she won because she has got the ideal kampungan kind of beauty compared to the others and  also the 'right' name (Bozita  which mean Pearl in Kadazan) to go with it.
It was oviously so bias.  Everything was seen  as nothing short of preplanned.

 ****Two consecutive years, contestant with Kadazandusun-Murut's name crown to be Unduk Ngadau in state level, from the previous queen Crystel Eve Huminodun to the newly crown queen.

Jo Ann Sue Henly Rampas -State Unduk Ngadau 2007
How could she have won if the  kampungan look was a criteria in the selection.
She oviously look so much more orang putih than dusun .

Crystel Eve Huminodun State Unduk Ngadau 2010-Named one of the most beautiful dusun/kadazan beauty of all time

Out of those I had noted, nine of them made it to the fifteen semi finals list.
Out of that, seven of them made it to the final seven rankings.
Yeaaaaaaaaaaaaa...that means I got every lady 'right'.... just not in the 'right' order I wanted.

Top 15: Keningau, Inanam, Beaufort, Tuaran, Ranau, Paitan, Kota Kinabalu, Klang Valley, Tongod, Likas, Marudu, Tamparuli, Tanjung Aru, Penampang, Sandakan

Top 7: Tuaran, Ranau, KK, Likas, Tamparuli, Sandakan, Penampang.

Top 3 : 1st Penampang, 2nd Tamparuli, 3rd Tuaran


STATE UNDUK NGADAU 2011

Winner - Bo Tiza Arthur S. Disimon (Penampang)

2nd placing - Jovenea Jim Lajim (Tamparuli)

3rd plcing- Caroline Anthonny (Tuaran)

4th placing - Shopie Angela Kutam (Ranau)

                                                  Rachel M Alliun (Kota Kinabalu

                                    6th placing - Alvera Raymond Kisil (Sandakan)

7th Placing -Adelyn Joyce Masida ( Likas)

                                                             The crowd at KDCA

FINAL 7 - You can see and compare their actual size and height here

Photography session with the winner's huge family members...now you know why she can win.

This photo was zoomed up for no other reason than to maximise her facial beauty   

The face of my personal Queen  -Unduk Ngadau Ranau 2011

Sophie Angela Kutam

***All these beautiful Photograps are not mine. They belong to a number of  Sabah's aspring photographers.

They earned their place in my blog because they are amongs the best I randomly found online via google.