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28/10/2005
Your sleeping position
It’s no news that research revealed some time ago that your favorite sleeping position reveals your personality and character. Well, I thought I’d highlight it here since I don’t get much sleep most of the time and have to watch my kids and husband sleep all the time. J
51% of women and over 40% of the world population sleep in the ‘fetus’ position.
The fetus position: curled up on either side…like a baby in the womb.
Character: very shy, but sometimes try to appear tough or unbeatable. But inside, they’re really softer than mush.
The starfish position: people who like to sleep spreadeagled on their back. This means that they sleep on their backs with both arms and both legs spread out…pretty much like a starfish
Character: These people actually like to make friends and they make friends easily but then, they would rather not be the center of attention. In fact, they’d rather someone else be under the limelight.
The freefaller position: Opposite from the starfish position. People who likes to sleep on their tummy with their arms and legs relatively spread-out. Only 6.5% of the world population sleeps in this position. Most people like to sleep on their backs.
Character: People who like the freefaller position presents to the world a very active, imaginative, gregarious, optimistic, positive, confident and brash attitude. But inside hides a very nervous person who responds badly to criticisms.
The soldier position: Imagine a soldier standing straight with arms and legs beside them, unmoving. Well, this is the soldier sleeping position.
Character: People who likes sleeping in this position is actually quite quiet, reserved and have very high standards set for themselves BY themselves.
The Logs position: Sleeping on either side
Character: very relaxed people with good social skills. They make and keep friends very easily and will do lots for their friends and family.
The Yearners position: Sleeping on your side but with raised arms, covering or not covering your face.
Character: People who like to sleep in this position are a suspicious and cynical bunch. They won’t often take what you say for the face value of it but will try to find out if there’s a secret agenda behind everything that you say.
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25/10/2005
I got a letter from Ainiwaer
I have this thing about children and their sufferings, therefore, you should understand why my previous post was so ‘passionate’ if not bordering on deranged. I dunno, I never was a lover-of-children before and I don’t recall ever being so passionate about children before this, before I had my own. As they say, motherhood does strange things to people.
Ainiwaer is my sponsored child. I sponsored him through World Vision Malaysia and so far everything’s been smooth flowing. He’s an 11-year-old boy from China who lives in Hotan, Xinjiang, China. Although he lives in a Chinese country, he’s a Muslim, that’s what I gather anyway. He’s got a brother and his parents are fine. The only problem is that where they live, there’s the Gobi desert and consistent sandstorm that disrupts their daily lives. Their living condition is deplorable and they eat nothing but ‘Nang’ (a bread-like substance) day in and day out. Clean water is precious. If not for contributions like mine, they wouldn’t even HAVE clean water. Since they live in a desert, water, as it is, is already hard to come by.
I don’t know what it was I expected from this sponsorship. I wanted to make a difference in someone else’s life. I really want to help someone, anyone. I wanted to sponsor a child because they are the future, they’re our hope. They are helpless and ill-equipped to fend for themselves, and because their parents are not in the position to give them a fulfilling life, in comes good Samaritans like us. They’re innocent.
These children can live a better life with just RM50 (USD13) a month. Like my sister said, “Are you sure they can survive just one RM50? They need more I’ll give RM100 or RM150 a month”. Well, I said the same thing and apparently, this is all they need to meet with their daily needs. The problem is we’re privileged and we’re thinking about a luxurious lifestyle. We have TVs, they don’t. Some have radios, most don’t. I don’t think they have computers, paper and color pencils are scarce, much less the computer!! So, yes, they can live on RM50 a month. I spend more than that on one single Sunday. In fact, I can spend 4 times more than that on any given day…and yet, these children can live on RM50 a month.
Today, I got a letter from Ainiwaer and boy, it sure lightened up my day!! It was probably a very standard letter that World Vision prepares in advance and gets the child to write in his or her own writing (if she can write already). If the child is too young, the parents will write on behalf of the child. But it really lifted my spirits. The letter, was written in Arabic language, I knew was written by someone other than Ainiwaer. He’s only 11 and the writing was so clean and organized. Couldn’t be the writing of a child.
But the picture. This picture is what Ainiwaer drew of himself and THIS is what brightened up my day.
He didn’t have to speak the same language. He didn’t have to know how to write. But with the picture that he drew, it melted my heart. It’s simple, isn’t it, what a picture from a child can do? It’s like when Joshua draws me on a piece of paper with too-short-legs and too-long-necks with a heart across is and he writes, ‘I loov yoo, moom’ and it sends me into hyperspace!!!
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24/10/2005
Yet another baby....DUMPED!!
With the rising number of babies being dumped and left to die, I can’t help but wonder what the world is coming to?? What is all this baby-dumping business that’s been going on? Why?? How??? How can you???
Is humanity digressing so much that we have come to this? Why can’t mothers or fathers or BOTH appreciate the gift of life? Regardless of how much burden a baby can be, it is yours, it’s your blood! How can you anyone leave their babies to die??
Sorry, I feel very strongly about this one. I am going to get foul-mouthed later on, so, be warned. If you don’t like reading rude opinions, click away now.
Anyhow, there are more and more parents who feel that they are not the best people to care for their own children. For one thing, more and more of my friends are leaving their kids to nannies that will care for their babies 24 hours a day, and the parents will only come and VISIT their baby after work. After that, they leave for home. The baby is part of the family, I don’t understand how anyone can just leave their babies in another home, like the baby is not part of their family at all???
I GAVE EVERYTHING UP TO CARE FOR MY OWN KIDS!! I will kill anyone who tries to take over the responsibility of caring for my kids. I loathe the thought of anyone else making the decision of caring for MY children for me and I will fight them with everything that is in me to be the main decision maker because as mother, I am given the instinct to know (most of the time) what is best for my babies.
And yet, many parents these days are leaving their kids to the care of other more adept and more experienced people. Some take the kids home during weekends. Some don’t even do that, visiting only at night and taking them home once a month. And you call yourself a PARENT??? Check out the word parent in a dictionary….
Worse still, there are those who know that the crying bundle is their own flesh and blood and yet they pack the babies in plastic bags, watch the baby struggle for breath and then leave the ‘package’ in a dump site???? Man, what is thing world coming to?
What is the true meaning of a family, this modern world is totally befuddling to me.
Some people make excuses like, “Oh, I am not the best person to care for my baby” and I say “Bull Fucking Shit!!” God gave you the ability to give birth, you’re given the ability to care for the baby. The best, you’re the best. And by handing your baby to another person (it could be your mother, in-law, sister, or neighbor, it doesn’t matter) you’re denying your baby the best that he or she can have. You.
Some people say, “Oh, I am so busy with my work and we come home very late after that and have no time to be with the baby”. Another bullshit!!! You MAKE time if you’re busy. You can make time to play golf, you can make time to take care of your own child, for crissakes!!
Some people say “I give up. I don’t think I can handle it anymore”. Then why have a kid? And if you had the kid by accident, take responsibility. This is what you have done, do something about it. We’re not talking about a broken pencil or a glass of spilt milk, you have the balls to have a baby, you have the balls to raise one up.
We all know it’s a heavy responsibility but this is what human beings are being made to do. So, I know I am going to anger some people out there, but this is MY BLOG, and I can voice my own opinion in every single way I want.
And I don’t like IRRESPONSIBLE PARENTS – SO THERE!!! Parents who can’t be man or woman enough to raise their own kids are making sad excuses and trying very hard to convince themselves that can’t do it right.
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