Just heard from a friend that a mutual friend of ours is feeling kinda mixed within after her son's marriage solemnization. Had also attended another friend's daughter's wedding last week.....yeah, you've got it right - I am at that age where friends' issues are getting married!!

Before I am placed too high on the age pedestal, I should mention that I am also at that age when friends consult me about primary schools and kindergartens to send their children to.... aah....still not that far off!

Not to derail myself from the melancholy track of life's journey when one's children grow up and change their status from "single" (the zone where parents live in the comfort and perception that these children -be they 15 or 45- still belong to them) to "married".......

Does the marriage of your child somehow draws the vision that you have lost him/her? Can it not be envisaged that you have gained a son/daughter in this process? Or is it a time when you feel that part of your responsibility has been lifted and replaced by another? And could it also be another one of those "letting go" lessons in life to be acquired and endured by a parent, particularly the parent who has spent so much time and effort nurturing the child since birth, and more particularly for such a parent with an only child?

Hence, it is not totally unimaginable to understand the difficult struggle in such an instance for a single parent (through widowhood or otherwise), with an only child, feeling a trifle lonely and lost.

Whilst it is easy to tell another to look on the positive side and think of having an additional member in the family, it may well prove difficult to put to practice. I have yet to even appreciate or experience the very first "letting go" lesson which I kept mentally preparing myself...unless crying for the whole first week of sending my first-born to day care (to prepare me to return to the gruesome work world after spending one and a half years with her) counts!!

I read all theses articles about separation woes of the babies, but nothing prepared me for the parent's woes...AT ALL!!! The emptiness, the sadness, the guilt, the worries...... the feeling that others cannot possibly and are not able to care for my baby! Gosh!!! It will be a triple mission impossible for parents to find any other human in this world who meets the standards and expectations required to "look after" their children (whatever age they may be) the same way they did!

BUT....as life journeys on, the children have their own life journeys ahead...it is time to look back, reflect on all you have done to the best of your ability, have the good memories, and move on.........

and I wish my friend - and all other friends who are, may or will be going this path of their journey - all the strength, hope and peace, love and happiness within to move on and enjoy their lives.

peace from ahfun

It is timely now to express my profound gratitude to those who have made this blog a reality:-

Shuf - the creator of this whole massive intelligence: settings, skin, etc etc, without whom it would not have come into existence;

Wens - the provider of his ever-wonderful array of artistic flair to make up the skin to dress up the intelligence conducted by Shuf.

And to both for their persistent encouragement and inspiration to embark on this venture......though, I truly hope I can live up to it and not dwindle as with the other IT adventures which again I was led into with much zest and earnestness...

Mayhaps, one day, I may after all become the author I yearn to be albeit unread and unbeknowst to all except for the most important girl and boy in my life.

Most of all, I am extremely happy to be blessed with my family who I love tremendously =))

***peace from ahfun***

Yo everybody! =D
It's the proud h-t-m-l, photoshopper writing typing this post, no really deeeeep, meaningful words and such that will make you go, "whoaaaaaaaa!" in awe and - uhm - horror?
Why doesn't anyone understand the things she writes? I understand it!!! =D
Hmmm.
Nothing in particular to write about, because I am certain you wouldn't want me to advertise my blog...or something very uncreative.

picture this.....

you are in the motion of such an activity of reserving seats for a movie, a process which any human with normal mental faculty would envisage as a simple act....but this is a classique moment in life that should not escape being recorded.

of course, it is the normal course of events that you be greeted on the phone by Ms Machine (in this mechanical world) instructing you the numbers you have to press for corresponding cinemas, movies, day, time, etc, in relation to the movie that you wish to view.

but this simple little mind here failed to comprehend that after having entered the correct numbers for the cinema (1 Utama - press 2),  movie (Bee Story - press 4),  then the part for the day of viewing, here's the unique announcement from Ms Machine:

for Tuesday, 20 November  -  press 1;
for  TODAY, 21 November   -  press 2;
for Thursday, 22 November - press 3;
for Friday....and so on...

since TODAY is 21 Nov, and the day the call to reserve tickets is being made, how on earth does one make a reservation for tickets of yesterday??  and more interestingly, do they also provide a mode of transport for you to view a movie aired yesterday???

this sure beats a lot of movies and cinemas in town.......perhaps this is the futuristic promotional feature for cinemas to lure patrons who have left a movie or two unwatched yesterday and provide them the opportunity to do so without undue loss of time!!!  hooray to technology!!!

***peace from ahfun***

Wow......finally, I was actively assisted into commencement of something which I know zilch about or have any inkling as to my durability stand on it.......but ah!.. it is a great feeling to join the masses of being "IN" - hey, a blogger, man!

Now...ahem... as I am expected to at the very least say or enter something intelligible, humorous, or make an enviable entrance, it would be undeniable that I end up being known..for ignominity! A definite suicide as I have just gotten up from slumber with a minimal amount of caffeine to boost up my blood stream and esteem.  Not to mention that the brain has been somewhat slacking at this hour of the day...

So I shall just tell the truth....I HAVE ABSOLUTELY NO FRIGGING IDEA WHAT TO WRITE! And sadly, I am ill-equipped, being out of my own mechanical environs of easy computers and keyboards (as I am using the one which belongs to the one who is GREATLY assisting me), I cannot continue anymore....not for the time being, at any rate.  But shall continue at a more conducive environment and time.

Before that, I wish to say a BIG THANK YOU - danke - kepada my great educator in compu-science, greater companion at fun and greatest pal of all.

**peace from ahfun**