This inaugural Peninsular Malaysian Conference is mooted by the Archdiocese Ministry of Ecumenical and Interreligious Affairs. This Conference hopes to be a common platform bringing together organizations and individuals who are already engaged in or are interested to start interreligious and ecumenical programmes. It was held at the Archdiocese Pastoral Centre, Kuala Lumpur from 10 - 11 October 2009 with a capacity of about 100 delegates from Peninsular Malaysia, Sabah and Sarawak.
This event was officiated by His Grace, Murphy Pakiam of K L Archdiocese and I was part of the organizing team.
Tuesday, October 13, 2009
Monday, October 12, 2009
Dependency On Foreign Maids
Nowadays, many people have become too dependent on fulltime foreign maids.
I come from a very large family of thirteen and I wonder how did my mother manage without a maid?
Every year about a month to Chinese New Year we would all be busy preparing goodies, spring cleaning, decorating, etc and we all worked as a team. We didn’t have a washing machine but we had plenty of free spring water. My mother would scrub and scrub and we would help her rinse.
We have a big garden and with many types of herbs and vegetables for consumption and we also produced our own cooking oil. We were already enjoying organic food without realization and today you have to pay hefty price for it.
When it came to cooking, everyone had their part to play one would be whisking a big bowl of eggs, another chopping, pounding, grinding and so forth. My father, the “fireman” would control the heat from the burning firewood.
Though I was a career woman I was determined to cook at least a meal for my family each day. Thanks to my husband’s paternal grandmother who had helped us look after the kids while we were at work.
When our youngest was about six she passed away and we had to send him to a babysitter and when he was eight we taught him how to be home alone whilst his two elder brothers were at school. I was lucky that my office was near my home and during my lunch break, I would go home to prepare his lunch.
If every member of the family is willing to sacrifice a little of their time for some housework then those in real need for a fulltime foreign maid would not be grossly deprived.
Enjoy your housework and do not forget to praise yourself for a job well done!
I come from a very large family of thirteen and I wonder how did my mother manage without a maid?
Every year about a month to Chinese New Year we would all be busy preparing goodies, spring cleaning, decorating, etc and we all worked as a team. We didn’t have a washing machine but we had plenty of free spring water. My mother would scrub and scrub and we would help her rinse.
We have a big garden and with many types of herbs and vegetables for consumption and we also produced our own cooking oil. We were already enjoying organic food without realization and today you have to pay hefty price for it.
When it came to cooking, everyone had their part to play one would be whisking a big bowl of eggs, another chopping, pounding, grinding and so forth. My father, the “fireman” would control the heat from the burning firewood.Though I was a career woman I was determined to cook at least a meal for my family each day. Thanks to my husband’s paternal grandmother who had helped us look after the kids while we were at work.
When our youngest was about six she passed away and we had to send him to a babysitter and when he was eight we taught him how to be home alone whilst his two elder brothers were at school. I was lucky that my office was near my home and during my lunch break, I would go home to prepare his lunch.
If every member of the family is willing to sacrifice a little of their time for some housework then those in real need for a fulltime foreign maid would not be grossly deprived.
Enjoy your housework and do not forget to praise yourself for a job well done!
Thursday, October 1, 2009
Terence And Julia
My second son got registered on 11 September 2009 at Maju Junction Registrar, Jalan Tuanku Abdul Rahman, Kuala Lumpur.
Europe Trip
An ex colleague, Angie and myself decided to take a pilgrimage tour that wasn't to Europe from 17-29 Sept 09 organized by Tom Fernandes from Johore Bahru.
Tom, 79 years old was definitely not fit to be a tour guide anymore. During the tour someone was lost at some point of time due to poor instructions by our guide and the local guide and she had to fork out 65 euro for taxi fare to the hotel and another 40 euro for enquiry service and our tour guide didn't even have the courtesy enquire about her wellbeing.
In my opinion, our tour guide was incompetent and insensitive but he was very boastful about himself. Declaring how successful his career and business were and a big fat acccount in the bank but he failed to refund us the portage tip of 1 euro which was not provided and he pocketed the refund from the hotel. What a dishonest man.
Airfare RM10,148 with meals and lodging minus some lunches while on the road. Boarded Air Asia to Singapore. Spent a few hours with my son and his family. Flew to Amsterdam later that night and connect to Rome to arrive at about 9.30am. It was autum. Rome was warm like Malaysia, La Spezia was a bit cold in the night. Lourdes was very nice. Spain, Burgos, Portugal, Lisbon, Amsterdam cold at night but the day can be cool to warm.
No jet lag because slept most of the time in the plane and arrive at 3.30pm at Singapore and connect back to KL to arrive about 8pm.
Tom, 79 years old was definitely not fit to be a tour guide anymore. During the tour someone was lost at some point of time due to poor instructions by our guide and the local guide and she had to fork out 65 euro for taxi fare to the hotel and another 40 euro for enquiry service and our tour guide didn't even have the courtesy enquire about her wellbeing.
In my opinion, our tour guide was incompetent and insensitive but he was very boastful about himself. Declaring how successful his career and business were and a big fat acccount in the bank but he failed to refund us the portage tip of 1 euro which was not provided and he pocketed the refund from the hotel. What a dishonest man.
Airfare RM10,148 with meals and lodging minus some lunches while on the road. Boarded Air Asia to Singapore. Spent a few hours with my son and his family. Flew to Amsterdam later that night and connect to Rome to arrive at about 9.30am. It was autum. Rome was warm like Malaysia, La Spezia was a bit cold in the night. Lourdes was very nice. Spain, Burgos, Portugal, Lisbon, Amsterdam cold at night but the day can be cool to warm.
No jet lag because slept most of the time in the plane and arrive at 3.30pm at Singapore and connect back to KL to arrive about 8pm.
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