Happy birthday to lele...

"Who sank the boat?" This is one of the book we would read. Cute right, the picture...

Every night before bedtime, (If there is time), we would read a book to lele. Soon he noes the story and he will know how to read it too. In my time, why aren't my parents reading to me?

Credit Card fish ad

I really like this ad esp the 2 fishes.

Oh... spare their lives please....

 

Testing with my new xpress music

What's up for dinner tonight?

Actually I am not a great cook.

 

I can't cook until I have to look after myself, I have to cook. Then I got married and I have to cook for my family. Even now, my mum eat what I cook, not because my cooking is good, but because she don't bother to cook anymore, haha..

 

Let me show case my cooking for tonight.

 

We had cauliflower tomato with mushroom, meat and shaved meatball porridge for the kids.

 

For us, we had stir fried curry cauliflower. I cooked the cauliflower in salt water to give it a salty shot, haha, also good for killing dirts bah.

 

Next dish, I cook stir fried prawns with tomatoes in chilli and tomato sauces. The gravy is made from the water I boiled the tomatoes. I starts to love tomatoes coz they are really tasty, and I like tomato soup with dong-fen. I should have taken pix of my yesterday's cooking, I cook a big pot of that!

 

Lastly, stir fried shaved potato with meat and mushroom. It should turn out soupy, but today I purposely add a little bit of water only since we already have the gravy from the prawn dish.

 

 

Message from Lama Zopa Rinpoche

This is really terrible... Please let us chant and pray in our own faith to save the 500,000 animals, please everyone, TQ..

 

I also know in Nepal, some Hindu are offering live chicken and lamb to what they adore as "Goddess who love red", but why must the live of living stocks like chicken and lamb be sacrified by one slash, cutting down their heads, soaking the whole floor with bloody red? Red Paint can equally do a great job.

 

It's IGNORANCE.

 

eMAIL (11 Nov 2009)

Message from Lama Zopa Rinpoche:

 

Dear Center Directors, students and friends,

You might have heard the Nepal news about the 500,000 animals that are going to be sacrificed over two days on 24th November (Ghaddimai animal sacrifice festival, happens every five years in the terrai).

The Buddha boy wrote to the organizers asking them not to do it but his request was rejected. It is a big Hindu festival and now the Buddha boy is thinking to go there and try to stop it. I think unless one has special powers to show, people will not listen. It is a big religion with not 100 or 1000 followers but millions. Now it seems to have become a problem in Nepal like the problem with shoes and the Hindus in Pashupati. Now probably no matter what the reality is they will think it is the Buddhists who are making problems.

 

My observation shows that the Buddha boy won't be able to stop it. Possibly some animal rights organisations might be able to help, but it's not sure. If western organisations and people like Nobel Peace (laureates) ask, maybe could help, but it would need many.

 

It came out good to read the Golden Light Sutra 100 times so i have asked Kopan gompa to send some monks to read it at the stupa and make strong prayers for the sacrifice not to happen, to dedicate like that and of course dedicate for world peace. You can find the Sutra in various languages here: http://www.fpmt.org/teacherszopa/advice/goldenlight.asp

 

I would like to request the centers and students to read the Golden Light Sutra and recite the Padmasambhava prayer for removing obstacles and for quick success, for the sacrifice not to happen. This needs to be done quickly as the sacrifice is happening on 24th November. You can find the Padmasambhava prayer here: http://www.fpmt.org/teachers/zopa/advice/pdf/Padmasambava%20prayer%20to%20clear%20obstacles%20feb05km.pdf

 

Please recite any number of the Golden Light Sutra and the Padmasambhava prayer for removing obstacles and for quick success.

 

With much love and prayers,
 Lama Zopa

Spotlight

I took these pic at my work place.

 

Actually the pic are much bigger but I had crop those away and remain the "spotlight" - The insect.

 

 

21 Oct - A day my birthday

Ya today is my birthday!

 

Duno what kind of birthday I am celebrating this year, sigh...

 

First, today I was on medical leave due to sore throat infection, also I was having giddy head, so I was given MC for today. Surely the colleagues would think that I "gen" MC on my birthday!

 

Then today I gotta things to do. I plan to first prepare the food for tonight steamboat dinner since i) my birthday, ii) mum and metta is back home iii) yh is going for reservist, i plan to clean up the house, suck and mop, then I plan to go for massage and then finally cruise back to collect the cake and final preparation of the soup etc...

 

Things juz doesn't work out well today :-(

 

I open the cabinet to take out some container when a metal baking tray drop from top and hit right onto my big toe. For that instant I almost had no tear cause it's too painful to say anything. I thought I had lost my toe like the feeling of a chopper falling off... I had a blue black toe now and it's still painful.

 

Then I start defrosting and cutting up all the food. My boss called, I missed the call cause I was hurrying washing my hand as I was peeling prawns shell then, how to take the call without washing hand? But still I miss it.

 

I started to vacuum the floor, it was hardwork cause it was too dirty, I can taste my sweat dripping from my head and emerging from my face, it was salty!

 

Then I started to mop, almost fell coz the floor was slippery.

 

I had an appointment for massage at 1.30pm, but I couldn't make it coz it was already 1pm after I finished everything and was about to leave. So I decided to call to change time to 2pm instead. I was lucky, I could get my 2pm slot.

 

I cruised back by bus, a lady sitting next to me keep sleeping on me coz she is too tired already, she dozed off from the moment she board. I gotta "lend her my shoulder" for free for the whole journey and she din even thanks. She got up and alight the bus as soon as the bus drive out of the highway and stop at the first bus stop after PIE.

 

I collected my half kg cake. Why do that man came to collect at the same time? His was a 2 kg cream cake. I lose to the cake, but I am still excited to see Le Le and Metta's faces fill with excitement if they see a cake, even though it's only half kg.

 

It was around 6pm, I started to bring out the marinated wing, spread them on the baking tray so that I could grill them, but... at this moment my oven gone into shock! Electric shocked 3x and I had to switch on the main board 3x, I gave up and had to fried the wing which I am most reluctant to.

 

After so much work, I am so angry that all people were still not back, it was 8pm already.

 

The relief part was when Lele & Metta press the doorbell and come running in to say : "Happy Birthday Mama". It was so heart-warming. Lele was holding on to a bottle of candy, even though he said it was for me, but he is holding on forever ^_^

 

Dinner starts after 8pm, cake cutting at 9.30pm. yh open my champhagne (sparkling juice) without even letting me take photo, somemore I thought I should be the one opening since I bought it myself and it's my birthday!

 

I gotta clean up everything and mop again with 2 chicks around, I don't want to invite ants. I am really tired already.

 

It's 11.30pm now. I hope to share some joyous pix of my birthday even thought today doesn't seems to turn out smoothly for me...

 

What a "memorable" birthday.

 

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