SYTs and SOTs

5 decades ago as SYTs these 2 friends and I had often spent lunch times together, most of the time in the MGS Kuala Lumpur school canteen and sometimes at roadside stalls. 5 decades later, we are still close friends and still having meals together occasionally. The only differences are, the bowl of noodles does not cost 50 cents anymore but $18 and we are now SOTs, not SYTs. He..heh..heh..

你是哪一种人?

您知道這世界上只有哪兩種人嗎？答案: 好人, 壞人!

你是哪一种?

Wish it was just a bad dream

Glued to CNN an BBC till late into the night. The images were just horrific. We are used to seeing images of death and destruction in movies but this time the death and destruction were real. I cannot even begin to imagine how terrifying it must have been for those who were directly affected in Japan.

The earthquake yesterday is said to have moved Japan's main island by 8 feet and shifted the world at its axis!

This is such a sad day not only for Japan, but for the entire world. I wish it was just a bad dream.

My silent friends

Flowers are our greatest silent friends. ~ Jim Brown

The maid paradox

I have an elderly father who is no longer able to look after his everyday needs. We need a maid to look after him. With his "idiosyncracies" and his strong preferences, a nursing home is out of the question.

He has 5 children, two being overseas and therefore are spared the responsibility of looking after the father's everyday needs and spared the everyday worries. Three of his children including me are still in the country but inviting him to stay with us (which we have tried) is a non-starter as he would never leave his house.

So, we depend on a live-in maid. Herein lies the paradox: we cannot do without a maid, but we also wish we do not have to have a maid. Changing the maid may result in other problems. Well, you know the English proverb 'Better the devil you know than the devil you don't know'. So to solve the problem we allow the problem to be.