NOT ....MY BEAUTY QUEENS

Ouch... I think I have 'pissed' off a few people outside there.
Beaty is one of them. She left me a comment which infact left me feeling a little uncomfortable.
This goes to show that there are still  people who would read whatever 'crap' I put down here.
I apologised for not telling 'the world' of her work so to say.
I understand any credits should be given when due.
So... thank you Beaty for letting me use your pictures.

Just to make things clearer, I have really no intention of using hers or anyone's beauty queen pictures for any purpose other than for my own personal collection.
I would have use the newspaper cuttings if I had know they would see it in a negative way.
Anyways....I really have no use for them other than for the purpose mentioned above.

 I kept these'treasure' on folders before there were files on computers......

photographs and cuttings dated way back to 1974

My cuttings and photos are not limited to local beauty queens only

As with all the pictures of beauty queens that I have in my collections, none of them are ever mine.
Meaning to say, none are personally taken by me.(except ones of my sister as unduk ngadau )

I have been collecting these 'scraps' of beauty queens ever since I was a teenager , a long time since a lot of you were even born. Throughout the years I have now lost count of how many to be exact.

I have limited  myself with the folders but still continue with the online files for now.
Everything is easier with just a 'click' as we all know.
Maybe I should have limited my collections to just worlwide queens.
Then again there are some really beautiful women amongs us locals :)

I used the word 'earned' because, I have seen thousands....it's 'a thousand to one chances' that I chose a picture I like to be tangled with the emotions in my writing :)
Thanks again!

NEW ADDITION

Today I received a new addition to the 'family'.
Baby Tay gave birth to one brown dapple female pup.
Yessssssssssssssssssss!!!!!!!!!! ONE

I'm already up to my head thinking how to dwendle down the colony and yet these bitches (she and Sugar)  kept on adding them up.

For any breeder, Baby Tay would have been one good investment.
She has not missed any single 'heat' without bringing a new life into my life... ???
I had her for four years and with every year she gets into that  'heat'  mode twice.
Aaarrr...... she had had nineteen including this.
( 4 + 3 + 3 + 1 + 2 + 2 + 3 + 1 = 19)
Out of these  I had given away eleven  while eight are still remaining with me .
That's not including Sugar's... she had so far given birth to two surviving  pups.
Sugar is Baby Tay's daughter who is also Blink Blink's mom.

It's like a 'mad' house here when they all starts to bark at the same time.
Although the situation looks chaotic but  it won't be for long.
I'm just waiting for the 'right' people who can give them more love and attention than I could ever give,  to come along.

With difficulties in getting the females dogs neutered at both the private and goverment 's dept , I have decided to 'do' the male instead.
I have yet to get a booking date with the local vet.

                                  Being a single pup, she so much bigger .

Owwhh....they are so cute .Looking at one you wonder why not two or more?

But reality struck......nooooooooo!  one is good

                                                      In the comfort of a basin with mommy

TERESA OH TERESA..

Ouch....this song just seem to touch me at the right spot.
I'm posting it here because my neighbour Bernard is blasting it out so loud now.
I'm not complaining ...infact just enjoying it 'aloud'.

Yes... you just look at her and will  like her.
At least the people from 'my era'  did :)

With Teresa Ting, there don't seem to be any song she sung that I don't like.
She has this kind of  sweet vocal  (and face to match)  that I find soothing... full of goodness and... sadness actually.
Sadness was more associate to me with remembering that she was someone from the past.
She will always be remembered through her songs that still lingers and enjoyed by so many people around the world .

This song, 'the moon represents my heart'  was infact the first ever chinese song that I'm able to sing...hahaha
Practiced so much to get my mandarin 'right'.. and yet Yona still laugh at the way I pronounced the words.

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 .