I have recieved the following for a friend of mine, so thought that I should share with you all too!
It is about a simple man tells how his booking an air ticket for his father, his first flight, brought emotions and made him realize that how much we all take for granted when it comes to our parents.
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My parents left for our native place on Thursday and we went to the airport to see them off. In fact, my father had never traveled by air before, so I just took this opportunity to make him experience the same.
In spite of being asked to book tickets by train, I got them tickets on Lufthansa.
The moment I handed over the tickets to him, he was surprised to see that I had booked them by air. The excitement was very apparent on his face, waiting for the time of travel. Just like a school boy, he was preparing himself on that day and we all went to the airport, right from using the trolley for his luggage,the baggage check-in and asking for window seat and waiting restlessly for the security check-in to happen. He was thoroughly enjoying himself and I, too, was overcome with joy watching him experience all these things.
As they were about to go in for the security check-in, he walked up to me with tears in his eyes and thanked me. He became very emotional and it was not as if I had done something great but the fact that this meant a great deal to him.
When he said thanks, I told him there was no need to thank me.But later, thinking about the entire incident, I looked back at my life.
As a child how many dreams our parents have made come true. Without understanding the financial situation, we ask for football, dresses, toys, outings, etc. Irrespective of their affordability, they have satisfied to all our needs.Did we ever think about the sacrifices they had to make to accommodate many of our wishes?
Did we ever say thanks for all that they have done for us?
Same way, today when it comes to our children, we always think that we should put them in a good school. Regardless of the amount of donation, we will ensure that we will have to give the child the best, theme parks, toys, etc. But we tend to forget that our parents have sacrificed a lot for our sake to see us happy, so it is our responsibility to ensure that their dreams are realized and what they failed to see when they were young, it is our responsibility to ensure that they experience all those and their life is complete.
Many times, when my parents had asked me some questions, I have actually answered back without patience. When my daughter asks me something, I have been very polite in answering. Now I realize how they would have felt at those moments.
Let us realize that old age is a second childhood and just as we take care of our children, the same attention and same care need to be given to our parents and elders. Rather than my dad saying thank you to me, I would want to say sorry for making him wait so long for this small dream. I do realize how much he has sacrificed for my sake and I will do my best to give the best possible attention to all their wishes. Just because they are old does not mean that they will have to give up everything and keep sacrificing for their grandchildren also. They have wishes, too.
Hi hi,
Me into baking again. Today busy day too but luckily still able to nap for 2 hours in the afternoon. :P
My son challenged me to cook "Cereal Prawn" tonight and I of course PASS the test. Almost there just that I didn't have the green colour leaves and the chillie fry with the cereal. Will cook again next time to surprise my parents. He wanted it beacuse we had a great dinner last night at JUMBO resturant@ the Changi SAFRA. We ordered Cereal Prawn, Scallop with OX sauce and Fried Rice for dinner last night. I ordered Fried Rice because a few of my collegues recommended me. Anyway, I do not have the capability to cook that hard to master fried rice thought it sounded so simple.
So much talk about dinner, then we went off to bake a bread for supper tonight. If have any remain shall have it for breakfast. :)
Here the picture,
P/S: Must give some credit to my son who had helped me to mould the bread using his personal roller that I got for him from IKEA - children baking set.
Yeah. My first time there together with my family of course.
And my son wanted to take this DUCK TOUR, ended up have to queue for 1 hours for it. So you can see the popularity of it.
Other pictures at the Navy Open House:
As you can see there is lots of ships available for visiting. However I didn't manage to have chance to step into any at all due to the duck tour queue. :(
Taught my mum yesterday and she made it with little instructions. :P
Brought some over for my collegues to eat..love it. Guess if one day I am not working think selling pop corn to those children can earn some $$.
Plain PopCorn
Ingredients:
2 tablespoons vegetable oil
1/3 cup popcorn kernels
Directions:
Mix the ingredients in a microwavable bowl with lid and stir well.
Place microwavable bowl with lid in the microwave and cook on high power for 2 to 3 minutes, or until the pops are 5 seconds apart. (Note duration depend on your microwave power).
Remove the microwavable bowl with lid the oven and open it carefully, avoiding the steam. Pour the popcorn into a bowl and drizzle it with butter, then toss with salt and cheese, or honey, if desired.
This recipe for Plain Popcorn serves/makes 8 cups
Today is a day declared by the government to dine with your family. See how pathetic we were these days that we do not even have time to dine with our family members.
Primary school today also release at 5pm in order for the children to go back home on time to dine with their family. However, working parents are not allowed to knock off early today so how is this going to work *puzzled*. Maybe only the affected ministry and the government sector able to meet the goals, for the rest of us who are in 1/2 govt agency or private, as usual this type of good practise was never ever been followed based on the GREAT history records.
One of my collegue's sister actually suggested to her nieces to write letter to my collegue's boss to indicate for early release so that her mummy can dine with her.
See the scenario now?!? Luckily my child is still young else he would be very disappointed if I am unable to make it for dinner. Can say that it is a blessing in disguise.
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Extract from the Net
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Eat with your family today, Singaporeans told
SINGAPORE, May 25 (Reuters Life!) - Singaporeans, please eat with your families. The Singapore government has designated Friday, May 25, as Eat With Your Family Day, urging people on a Web site to strengthen family ties through the "simple act of sitting down and taking a meal together more frequently".
The annual "Eat With Your Family Day", which always falls on a Friday before the start of the mid-year school break for students, is organised by the "Centre for Fathering", according to the National Family Week campaign Web site.
Singaporean families are generally small and quite close-knit but busy life styles and long working hours often mean members eat out often or rarely sit at the same table.
The Singapore government has for years been trying to boost the city-state's birth rate -- one of the lowest in the world. For example, the government sends dating tips to local graduates soon after they leave universities.
I think a colleague of mine needs some mental help.
Personally I think she had some problem in her altitude.
Let me name a few and you be the judge:
1) Come in only after 0900am at times 0930am when office work hours only begins at 0830am.
2) Never join us for lunch, must be thinking we are like "aliens" that she is so scared to lunch with us. Maybe she do not like to lunch with us also different tpoics maybe. But she only lunch with that 3-4 guys from a different department or 1-1. Once I saw them going for lunch together all the guys walk in front chatting while she follow like 1 meter away almost behaves like the japanese woman in older days to walk behind the husband. Funny right, I thought they are a group seems like not also.
3) When she do not lunch with her "lunch kakis" she would just walk out any hours for her lunch and only return 1 hours later. Once she just turn around and tell me that she not joining me for lunch. I was so "puzzled" as I didn't even mentioned that we are to lunch together.
4) She do not seems like a team player at all. Sit at her own comfort sit like a princess and shout across her discussion when she feel like to as if her peers owe her $$ like that.
5) When she do not OPEN her GOLDEN mouth, she would be writing emails to the rest of us who are just sitting right behind her. I do no see standing up and walk over to discuss problem is such a GREAT hurdler to her.
6) She especially likes to send out funny emails to us and CC our bosses when we are ON LEAVE. So much so we cannot reply the emails.
7) When dicussions fails to meet her objective or get her way, she would comment this to the rest of us " Let's bring it up and let our boss decide". She thinks my boss is really free to listen to such small matter especially on colourings.
8) One last thing, she likes to have this type of "Kua Kua jiao" attitude when boss assign her to help out. She would comment this and that out loud makes the other party like so incapable and she is the better one. What i feel is that, if she do not wan to help say so why want to make such a BIG "woo ah" about the whole issue.
So you see she having problem or we are the ones.
Anyway, in all work of lifes, I believe we are to encounter lotsa of funny people aorund us. If do not like it just ignore and carry on with our lives.
This is what I have found out, sharing with all of you.
There are 5 basic food groups and a healthy diet consists of eating a variety of foods from all of the groups but in the correct proportions.
1. Bread, potatoes, pasta, rice, noodles and breakfast cereals.
These foods mostly contain starch and should be the main part of all your meals. If possible try to choose high fibre varieties. This group of foods are an excellent source of fibre and are rich in vitamins from the B complex.
2. Fruit and vegetables.
This includes all frozen, fresh and canned fruit/vegetables as well as salad vegetables. These are all excellent sources of vitamins, minerals and fibre and are naturally low in fat and calories. You should try to eat at least 5 portions of fruit and vegetables every day.
The following is a guide as to how much equals 1 portion:
2 serving spoons of small vegetables, e.g. sweetcorn, peas or mixed frozen vegetables.
1 whole fruit, e.g. like an apple or banana.
1 medium slice of large fruits e.g. melon or pineapple.
2 medium fruits e.g. satsuma’s, plums or kiwi fruit.
1 small bowl of small fruits e.g. strawberries or grapes.
1 medium bowl of salad
2 tomatoes
Half a cucumber
2 serving spoons of green and root vegetables e.g. cabbage, broccoli, carrots or parsnip.
1 glass of fruit juice.
3. Milk and dairy foods.
Milk and dairy products include cheese, yoghurt, milk and fromage-frais. They are rich in protein, calcium, vitamins and minerals. Eat or drink a moderate amount of these foods - about 2 to 3 servings per day. These foods contain a good source of calcium, which is essential to our diet, but as these foods can also be high in saturated fats try to choose reduced fat versions when possible.
4. Meat, fish, poultry and pulses.
Eating fish 1-2 times a week is good for you, especially if you eat oily fish (sardines, mackerel and salmon). All types of meats are included in this category and red meat is an excellent source of iron and vitamin B12, but try to choose the leaner cuts and trim off all visible fat before cooking. Lentils, nuts, peas and beans are also in this food group. Try to use lower fat versions of all these foods whenever possible. You should eat approximately 2 servings from this category each day.
5. Foods containing fats and sugars.
This last group contains butter, margarine, cream, ice-cream, low fat spreads, cooking oils, mayonnaise, salad dressings, cakes, biscuits, chocolate, sugary drinks, sweets, pastry foods and crisps. All of these foods tend to be high in fat and calories. Try not to eat these foods too often and when you do only have them in small amounts. If possible try to go for the healthier varieties for example sugar free sweets and low fat crisps.
