2014 Was a Good (and Bad) Year

It was a good year, it was a bad year. On all fronts. On this last day of 2014, I will attempt a very brief summary of a year that was.

For Malaysia, I guess it was a fairly good year mostly, till our aeroplanes started dropping off the sky. It is still a very great mystery where our Flight MH370 is. Our hearts go out to the families involved in the three plane disasters. Then at the close of the year the worst ever floods in a long time occurred in several states, hitting Kelantan, Trengganu, and Pahang badly. Sabah, Sarawak, Johor, Perlis, Perak, even Selangor were affected. May flood victims find relief soonest possible.

For the family, it was mostly a good year. Personally, there were many 'firsts' for me, and a few items got ticked off my bucket list. But we don't all live in a perfect world, and there was some bad that happened in the year. So we will be stoic about things and carry on with hope for a better new year. May 2015 be a blessed year all round.

In Progress*. 

*If you see these two words at the end of any of my blog posts, it means that I am not fully satisfied with the write-up or accompanying pictures, if any and I need to do more; to rethink/research,reference. And this may take a long, long time...

Memorial to MH370 & MH17

We were at Subang Parade today and saw this appropriately beautiful memorial to the tragedies of flights MH370 & MH17. It is a reminder that our time on earth is not permanent.

Peace to the World

Yesterday was the International Day of Peace (unofficially 'World Peace Day', but not to be confused with 'World Day of Peace', which is another story altogether!) ... so I say "Peace to all Mankind".

But these days, watching or reading the daily news about what is happening around the world, is rather depressing - there are the man-made disasters of senseless wars and killings, etc., and there are the serious ravages inflicted by mother nature because we humans have over-exploited the good Earth.

On the personal front, a rather unfortunate incident happened on this very day. The picture below tells the story. It all happened in a split second - a window smashed, a handbag grabbed! So ... we've become a statistic in the KL crime scenario.

GE 13

Did you vote today? We did. We think the 'star' of the General Elections 2013 must be the indigo blue indelible ink! So much publicity ... and controversy ...

Mind Our English ...

I saw this at the cafeteria of an institute of higher learning!
(CNB 2012)