Thank You Lord For Answering My Prayers

Thank you Lord for answering my prayers. I left Miri at about 9.30 am this morning, arriving at Empire Country Club & Hotel at about 11.15 a.m. As I do not know the way to Jerudong Park Medical Centre (JPMC), I had made arrangement with Ken Cho, my best buddy in Brunei, to pick me up at Empire and send ...

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Goodbye, My Friend And Rest In Peace!

The death of a close friend is a bitter sweet experience. The loss is bitter. Sadness also is sweet because of memories of shared joys and of sticking together in tough times. It is only because our connections with our friends are meaningful that sadness envelops loss. We make attachments and experience sadness when a friend dies. It is part ...

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Year Of The Dragon 2012 – Long Nian Da Ji

The Year of the Dragon will begin on January 23, about 74 hours from now. The Dragon is the fifth sign of the Chinese Zodiac, which consists of 12 Animal signs.  The Dragon is a creature of myth and legend and is the ultimate auspicious symbol signifying success and happiness. Chinese New Year is the longest and the most important ...

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Rack City Grandma YouTube Hit

A video featuring a teen nicknamed Frank Twitchy and her grandma in a webcam tribute to explicit rap Rack City has gone viral, garnering almost 5 million views on YouTube since it was uploaded on YouTube on the 3rd of January 2012. In the clip, the teen gestures with gang signs and wiggles along to rapper Tyga’s profanity-laden lyrics, seemingly ...

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A Tribute To My Ex-Colleague Sophia Tan

I was saddened beyond words when Marissa Cuba, my ex-colleague in Brunei, sent me a SMS informing me that my ex-colleague Sophia Tan’s condition seems to have taken a turn for the worse. I thought she was recovering well as she has so much strength and faith. Her cancer has gone into remissions a few times only to relapse after ...

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Goodbye 2011 Hello 2012

Well folks, 2012 is here. As we usher in 2012 and bid farewell to 2011, we can look back at 2011 and marvel at what a year it has been. 2011 was jam packed: the tsunami and nuclear leak after the shattering earthquake in Japan, turmoil in Western Asia & Northern Africa, the debt crises in Europe and US, China ...

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Auld Lang Syne (aka O Lan Sai)

In less than half an hour, 2011 will end and Auld Land Syne will fill the air all over the world. “Auld Lang Syne” is a Scots poem written by Robert Burns in 1788 and set to the tune of a traditional folk song. It is traditionally used to celebrate the start of the New Year at the stroke of ...

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All I Want For My Christmas Is My Front Teeth

I remember there is a Christmas song by Agnes Chan that goes something like this: All I want for my Christmas is my two front teeth. Oh yeah, I want my front teeth too. I have lost so many of my upper teeth that it reminds me of some of Sarawak’s forests…barren with only a few trees standing. Barren forest ...

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Merry Christmas

It is Christmas so here is wishing each and everyone of you a very happy and blessed Christmas. As you celebrate Christmas, ponder on the true meaning of Christmas. I would like to share with you the following poem:   The True Meaning Of Christmas Jesus Christ was born this day So many years before He came a servant to ...

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Timothy Tiah’s Meme Proposal To Audrey Ooi

Timothy Tiah Ewe Tiam proves that his creativity is not restricted to running the hugely popular ad-blogging site Nuffnang of which he is the co-founder. 27-year-old Timothy, aka Fatty, came with his unique idea of proposing to his Malaysian girlfriend, a fellow blogger by the name of Audrey Ooi Feng Ling, while she was having dinner with her friends at ...

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