Heard of Scrap-booking anyone? Hey this is a growing hobby and now there are lots of people into scrap-booking. If you are into this great hobby you will need some resources and I come across this website Fontwerks.com which is Canadian based and they have quite an interesting range of products to offer to scrap-bookers! I happen to know the owner of Fontwerks.com! Well, she's a pretty girl from Kuala Lumpur, now married and a work from home mom with three children in British Columbia. She has a team of very creative artists with her and the fonts and patterns on her rubber stamps, acrylic stamps are pretty impressive.
Displayed here are are few samples of their beautiful stamps. Other products are Mini-Mounteds, Stamps on Sentiments and Doodles, Alpha Numeric Stamps, Papers etc. If you are into scrap-booking that's one great site to visit. Cheers!
I am feeling upset since yesterday after learning about the teenager whose mom died in a private hospital where she was brought in after an accident on the road. It was not her passing away that upsets me most although I am not numbed in my senses because these cases happened everyday but rather the circumstances how his mom died.
From local newspapers report, this boy is going to take legal action against the hospital for refusing to treat his mom until he pays a fee or deposit of ten thousand dollars! Obviously this poor boy could not raise the funds and in the course of raising the money? Or perhaps begging the medical personnel, his mom passed away. I really do not know what to say. I can understand why private hospital insists on payment first before treatment because there are quite a few cases where after treatment, the patient cannot pay.
What I feel upset is to see this trend happening in my life time. Back in the 60’s 70’s or even 80’s most people go to the Government Hospital and receive cheap and even free medical treatment. Especially in cases like accidents, emergencies, no one demands payment upfront. They just do their job and that is try to save a life. I can also understand why hospitals are privatized and so there was a surge of private hospitals mushrooming in my country. Health Insurance become a neccesity due to the high cost of medical treatment. For whatever the reason, I empathize with this boy having to see his mom slipped into death and totally helpless to do anything. I just wonder how the medical people there felt. I remembered a movie titled John Q, where John had a similar experience and he held-up the hospital to demand treatment for his son!
How will this incident affect this boy? A hatred or should I say rebel against Society, Government, Hospital or maybe Authorities. Perhaps to him money becomes so very very important and he become obsessed with it and obtain money by whatever means, telling himself that he will never be caught in such a situation again? I don’t know. Hopefully his hurting soul receives healing from a Gracious God.
Today, I see this happening in real life and in my country. I do not want to dig into the pro’s and con’s, the rights and the wrongs of this issue! I understand there are many. What I want to know is morally, can we allow such things to happen? Because of money? For being right? I don’t have an answer and I can only feel very sad in my conscience. So God please help me.
On 30th May 2007, our highest court decision on Lina Joy's case will be announced. Many Malaysians are very keen to know what the outcome will be. In Malaysia there are two sets of Law, one is the Islamic Syariah Law and the other our Constitutional Law.
Lina Joy's case started in 1998 where as an ex-Muslim, she wanted her National Identity Card to reflect her new Faith which is Christianity. Lina was previously a Muslim. Her application for that changed was denied and hence the court case which went on for several years now.
If you want to have more details on this please visit Eileen Ng at Associated Press.
To me the outcome on Wednesday is more of our Malaysian Constitution being on Trial because according to our Constitution, freedom of worship is granted to each and every citizen of Malaysia.
We grew up in the 60’s and 70’s before the advent of computers. Words then had a totally different meaning as compared to present times. If you use Word-Tracker back then, do you wonder what turns out on your search? I must say I got this from someone, not my own concoction but I want to re-produce here for your enjoyment.
Memory was something you lose with age.
An Application was for employment.
A Program was a Radio or TV Show.
A Cursor was one who speak profanities.
A Keyboard was a piano.
A Web was a spider’s home.
A Hard Drive was a long trip on the road.
A Mouse Pad was where a mouse live.
And finally if you had a 3 inch Floppy……………….you just hoped nobody finds out!
Today is a very long day for both of us. Rock's physio-sessions are on Monday, Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday. Today is unusually long for me because her physio-session extended for another 45 minutes! After her routine exercises, she wants to push her strength more. It is a good sign, and she is now not only doing the bicycle machine but also doing a 15 minutes brisk walk on the treadmill!
It is a bit of a rush for me since I am also supervising the renovation works of my sister-in-law's house. My gosh! one day I must share with you one particularly nasty neighbour who drives me, the contractors and workers up the wall with his various demands. We had been bending backwards to accommodate him and his wife. I do understand that any renovation works really inconvenient your neighbours but their demands are getting really unreasonable. Well I am still thinking about whether to blog about this.
After her physio-exercises, Rock wanted to make some cookies, so off we dashed to the supermarts for the ingredients. It took us about 2 hours to make those cookies and after that followed by preparing and cooking for our dinner. Have been on my feet since 9 am this morning and am really feeling tired.
The thing that brightens my day, is this newly opened restaurant where we had lunch today. The owner is really creative for she designed her own automated, fly-swatter that requires no electrical or battery operation. According to her it works fine! Hey! maybe you should try this out.
So you learn something new today? A creative way of using all your old CD Roms! I just hope no one burst the water bags there!
