One of the hardest questions for me to answer, is when people ask how long have I been in Red Crescent Society. The right answer is since standard 4 of non-stop service. But that story is too long so officially it is around 20 years, when I came back from KL and joined back the…
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Movement Control Order 3.0x
It’s 1st June, 2021. this is the third time that we have gone into a serious lockdown due to the COVID-19 pandemic. All started in Mid March 2020, with the various levels of movement control order, lockdown seems to have been stretching for more than a year already. This story really makes a good post-doomsday…
Take a pause before deciding
Never Make Permanent Decisions On Temporary Feelings The world celebrated Covid’s birthday a few days ago, it is a good time to remind ourselves that we are living in unprecedented times. Let that fact sink in a little bit. Life has been challenging BC (Before COVID) but the pandemic response has made life worse. We…
MCO Part 2
For posterity sake, today is the first day of the Conditional Movement Control Order for most states in Malaysia. This is what I called the second #lockdown. 972 new cases in Malaysia, where for the past few weeks it went past 1000 new cases on some days. We went into a tighter control MCO in…
Humility is sometimes needed
I am in Malaysian Red Crescent Society, that’s no secret. I’ve been in the society since primary school if anyone is counting without any breaks in my service. I am proud of that. What people sometimes don’t know is that I was also active in university. We had made good friends with the State committee…
Kilkenny
This is a recap of the first day of power on, the cumulation of a year’s work and preparations that brings us to Ireland. The night before (a Friday), the international team involved in the power on decided that we would have a nice dinner before starting power on the next day. In our previous…
Steno what?
Stenosing tenosynovitis – apparently I got it. About one month ago, I woke up from bed with this stiff middle finger on the left. It curled up and would not straightened. I am sure I can force it to straighten but then I am sure I will be in pain and agony. Being a regular…
Passing down the heritage
Maybe it was just a coincidence. On the same week that I saw the digi sambal belacan Malaysia day ad, my mum dropped by with a tub of her sambal belacan. I ate a lot of sambal belacan when I was young, it goes well especially with fried fish. I have very little of it…
The Reveal..
Inside that mitten, Gabriel is showing me the finger for forcing him out of the mother’s comfortable womb.. You will notice that some time has passed since the Caesarian section the wife has to endure before I posted it up in the blogs. In between, I have told my story to a few close friends….
The Drama..
This would be the first time any of us got admitted into a hospital. We were unsure of the process or what is about to follow but we were going to do it together. The appointment to check into the hospital was at 8.30 am. We walked in a check in just like a hotel….