To All those Born in the 50's , 60's & early '70s.. (by Patrick Teoh)

Got this emailed to me....true enough! :D

To All those Born in the 50's , 60's & early '70s.. The article below was written by Patrick Teoh in his blog "Niamah!!". First, we survived with mothers who had no maids. They cooked /cleaned while taking care of us at the same time. They took aspirin, candies floss,fizzy drinks, shaved ice with syrups and diabetes were rare. Salt added to Pepsi or Coke was remedy for fever. We had no childproof lids on medicine bottles, doors or cabinets and when we rode our bikes, we had no helmets. As children, we would ride with our parents on bicycles/ motorcycles for 2 or 3. Richer ones in cars with no seat belts or air bags. Riding in the back of a private taxi was a special treat. We drank water from the tap and NOT from a bottle. We would spend hours on the fields under bright sunlight flying our kites, without worrying about the UV ray which never seem to affect us. We go to jungle to catch spiders without worries of Aedes mosquitoes. With mere 5 pebbles (stones) would be a endless game. With a ball (tennis ball best) we boys would ran like crazy for hours. We catch guppy in drains / canals and when it rain we swim there. We shared one soft drink with four friends, from one bottle and NO ONE actually worry about being unhygenic. We ate salty, very sweet & oily food, candies,bread and real butter and drank very sweet soft sweet coffee/ tea, ice kacang, but we weren't overweight because...... WE WERE ALWAYS OUTSIDE PLAYING!! We would leave home in the morning and play all day, till streetlights came on. No one was able to reach us all day. AND WE DONT HAVE HANDPHONE S TO BUG US. And we were O.K. AND WE ARE SAFE. We would spend hours repairing our old bicycles and wooden scooters out of scraps and then ride down the hill, only to find out we forgot the brakes. After running into the bushes a few times, we learned to solve the problem . We did no t have Playstations, X-boxes, Nintendo's, multiple channels on cable TV, DVD movies, no surround sound, no phones, no personal computers, no Internet. WE HAD FRIENDS and we went outside and found them! We fell out of trees, got cut, broke bones and teeth and we still continued the stunts. We never had birthdays parties till we are 21 We rode bikes or walked to a friend's house and just yelled for them! The idea of a parent bailing us out if we broke the law was unheard of. They actually sided with the law! Yet this generation has produced some of the best risk-takers, problem solvers and inventors ever! The past 40 years have been an explosion of innovation and new ideas. We had freedom, failure, success and responsibility, and we learned HOW TO DEAL WITH IT ALL! And YOU are one of them! CONGRATULATIONS! You might want to share this with others who have had the luck to grow up as kids, before the government regulated our lives for our own good. And while you are at it, forward it to your kids so they will know how brave their parents were. PS: -The big type is because Long-sightedness or hyperopia at your age . he... he...

Awesome Foursome

p.s. gamba Emmil nie kena 'potong' skit atas sebab2 yg akan memalukan... hehe
and Nia looks as big as the rest here, kan?

Tagged - "Blogger Friendship Award"

1. Copy badge "2009 Cute's Blogger Award" di atas untuk diletakkan di blog anda.

2. Link/ceritakan kembali siapa yang memberikan award ini kepada anda.

Award nih dapat from thebiglollipop yang talkative dan stylo mylo aka adek ipar i...

3. Setiap blogger mesti menyatakan 10 fakta/hobi diri sendiri sebelum memilih penerima award seterusnya
(anda di-tag)

1. Loves the family (a family person)

2. Loves cooking and baking

3. Loves shopping

4. Loves to practice LOA

5. Loves shushi,shushi and more shushi

6. A patient and loving boss to my staff .

7. Loves masakan ibu dan ibu mertua
(heheheeheee)

8. Loves to read to my toddling Dina

9. Loves dark chocolate

10. Loves to be made-up or dolled-up!


4. Anda perlu memilih 6 7 penerima award seterusnya dan menyatakan nama mereka di blog anda.
The Blogger Award Friendship goes to :

(alamak, i tahu 3 orang jer dlm link blog i..camner ekkk?)
Neer
Nana
Nadia


5. Jangan lupa untuk melawat blog mereka dan meninggalkan komen yang menyatakan
"anda telah di tag - sila layari blog saye untuk mendapatkan award anda". Terima kasih!





ps. Neer, apa award i ????

Happy Mother's Day

To all moms....


Someday when my children are old enough to understand the logic that
motivates a parent, I will tell them, as my Mean Mum told me:

I loved you enough . . . to ask where you were going, with whom, and
what time you would be home.

I loved you enough to be silent and let you discover that you're new
Best friend was a creep.

I loved you enough to stand over you for two hours while you cleaned
your room, a job that should have taken 15 minutes.

I loved you enough to let you see anger, disappointment, and tears in
my eyes. Children must learn that their parents aren't perfect.

I loved you enough to let you assume the responsibility for your
actions even when the penalties were so harsh they almost broke my heart.

But most of all, I loved you enough. . to say NO when I knew you would
Hate me for it. Those were the most difficult battles of all.

I'm glad I won them, because in the end you won, too. And someday when
your children are old enough to understand the logic that motivates
parents, you will tell them.

Was your Mum mean? I know mine was. We had the meanest mother in the
whole world! While other kids ate candy for breakfast, we had to have
cereal, eggs, and toast. When others had a Pepsi and a Twinkie for lunch, we
had to eat sandwiches.

And you can guess our mother fixed us a dinner that was different from
what other kids had, too.

Mother insisted on knowing where we were at all times. You'd think we
were convicts in a prison. She had to know who our friends were, and what
we were doing with them. She insisted that if we said we would be gone for an
hour, we would be gone for an hour or less.

We were ashamed to admit it, but she had the nerve to break the Child
Labor Laws by making us work. We had to wash the dishes, make the beds, and
learn to cook, vacuum the floor, do laundry, and empty the trash and all
sorts of cruel jobs. I think she would lie awake at night thinking of more
things for us to do.

She always insisted on us telling the truth, the whole truth, and
nothing but the truth. By the time we were teenagers, she could read our minds
and had eyes in the back of her head. Then, life was really tough!

Mother wouldn't let our friend's just honk the horn when they drove
up. They had to come up to the door so she could meet them. While everyone else could date when they were 12 or 13, we had to wait until we were 18.

Because of our mother we missed out on lots of things other kids
experienced. None of us have ever been caught shoplifting, vandalizing
other's property or ever arrested for any crime. It was all her fault.
Now that we have left home, we are all educated honest adults.. We are
doing our best to be mean parents just like Mum was.

I think that is what's wrong with the world today. It just doesn't
have enough mean mums!


HAPPY MOM' S DAY!!!

ps. Thanks to 'Tok' Daddy who emailed this to me :)

Picnic lalalalaa ...at Lake Gardens

I have long forgotten how it feels like to go on picnics. :O

i think the last time was when i did my PhD in Lancaster, UK. and that was 4 years ago! the picnics then were usually with fellow PhD friends and families... here are some pics during one of the picnics at Kirkby Lonsdale, near Lancaster... on one cold summer's day.

well one thing that is great about picnics is the FOOD! usually we chip in to bring different kinds of dishes...


not forgetting our usual fav choc cake or mee hoon goreng or pulut kelapa... masa kat lancaster laa hehehe...

those were the Lancaster days.... SIGH!!!

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Anyways, we had a lovely picnic day at the Lake Gardens recently. it was one of the Saturdays evenings... around 5-7pm. remarkably, the picnic ground was shaded and it was really a nice and fun outing even it was just in Lake Gardens. (for more info and pics, and thanks to Aunty Neer, pls go here.)








it was relaxing and fun, fun and fun.... Let's do this again, y'all! :D.

next time, kita main volleyball and badminton etc... boleh peluh2 skit and exercise ;)

ps. maybe im gonna suggest this to my staff...we'll have a yearly , simple outing like this... hmmm....

A pool for myself!

one of the things i've been meaning to get for Dina and her 'adek-beradek' is a wading pool to swim swim in.... so we managed to get one at ToysrUs for RM30. looked good too...

Anyways, dina was so excited upon seeing the pic of the pool on the packaging box... and tak sabar2 to use it ...

as soon as we came home, i got Nor to inflate the pool and the rest was history lah... pics below tell it all for Dina.... (of course Dina gets to use it for herself first laa kan... hehehe)

Mine...all mine!

Aaahh...this is life!

Kuak dada yang tak menjadi...

weee! im havin so much fun!!!

Thank You mama,papa...for buying me this pool!

Trip to Aquaria, KLCC

Took a trip to Aquaria, KLCC. It was fun for me especially cos ive been meaning to go but took it for granted everytime... :P

Dina was a bit surprised by the fish and suff but later curiosity was written all over her face..

sampai terdongak2 haaa.... :)

Dina a bit mengantuk here...






sigh... all in a day's work to entertain lil Dina Alicia....
Besttt!

Geng botol susu

Emmil, Dina and Ian - in one of their most contented moments....