Oct 31 2009
My mother-in-law left for the airport a few hours ago to board a plane that was to take her, with Peter (Phillip’s eldest brother) and his wife, to Kota Kinabalu, Sabah. I did not go with her to the airport because I had sprained my back badly yesterday while attending to her. The pain-killer I [...]
Oct 31 2009
I sprained my back badly and almost broke it yesterday. This happened while I was trying to physically lift my mum-in-law from the bed to her chair and then to her comote chair. Then from the comote chair to the wheelchair to the bathroom for her bath. Next, I had to lift her from the [...]
Oct 29 2009
To many people, an apple is just an ordinary and a not-to-expensive fruit. But to many underprivileged, they cannot afford apples for their families. When I helped my part-time maid Kavitha to buy about 20 big and red tomatoes, she was very happy. As I had bought them at Tesco at the weekend it was [...]
Oct 29 2009
When I showed my part-time maid Kavitha (not her real name) the newspaper article on the death of an abused maid recently, I could see that she was deeply troubled. She stopped what she was doing and sat down. Sensing she was emotionally troubled, I prodded her into sharing with me why she reacted in [...]
Oct 28 2009
My late father used to teach my siblings and me when we were young that we could demand for many things in life but not respect. He taught that in order to get respect we must first show respect. How very true this teaching is. To me it is the same as ‘valued and be [...]