Open to the Public again...

Dear folks, I have decided to reopen this blog for those who want to read my past posting. All my new posting would be in my other blog here. Thanks and have a nice day.

A New Blog...

Folks this Blog ends here. I am starting a new Blog with the same Heading. The link to the New Blog is here.  Thanks. Have a nice day.

Just Rambling...

It has been an eventful months; first the news of the plane missing. Well it happened and I did not want to get deeply involved with it. Then the starting of water rationing where we get water supply only every two days. I have written about this and happy that the authority are doing their best to get the water supply going on as usual when the water at the reservoir is back to normal. It has start raining since the last one week and it is cool here in Ampang Jaya this morning. With the daily rain I do hope we would get our regular water supply and life would be much easier. Then I got new that a Blogger friend of mine who blog here had just passed away. Read this write-up about the late Bernard Khoo in the Blog Shanghai Fish. It is sad indeed but then that is the way it is with every living species on this planet. When the time comes we go, just like when we first arrived on the beautiful planet call earth. The say when we arrived we cry and that when we go others cry; how true! He was sort of a fighter for democracy and justice using the social media Blog as his mean. Well folks life is like that and his fight would surely be taken over by the young. There would be no end in the fight for equality among man for that is the nature of our world. Well folks that is life and living.

On the left is an image at the Serambi [patio] near my little garden; it the colour, the aroma and the little items of art that does enlighten our lives. So let move on and enjoy life. 

Have a nice day.

From Facebook to the real World...

It was on Facebook that I first met most of the people seen in the image above. And at a wedding reception held at a hotel in town recently we all met in person; completing the friendship made in cyberspace and now strangers no more. I am selective in welcoming member onto my Facebook wall. I would only accept those who put their personal profile image and their real name although at time I do accept folks who use user-name only. The personal profile image of oneself is a must otherwise I would not accept anyone as friend on Facebook.  I want to see who my friends are and it would be easy to recognise when we eventually meet in person, like what happened at the wedding reception recently. It was really nice to get to meet all these people whom I had banter from time to time on posting that they had posted on their wall or at my wall. So this is actually a story of friendships made in cyberspace. Had it not been for cyberspace especially the social media like Blogging and Facebook I do not believe we all would have become friends. The meeting in person did complete that journey of friendship. 

Have a nice day.

10 years of Blogging....

Friday, September 12, 2003

" I am a Malaysian, a grandparent, live in Ampang jaya, near the capital city of Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, love to write and hope that my writing would contribute in enriching the lives of everyone that I came in contact in cyberspace. "

Above is my first posting in my Blog.  To date I have posted not less than one thousand and three hundreds articles in my blog and I am enjoying it. Blogging give me the space to share my thoughts with the world and at the same time it gives me the opportunity to keep my thinking faculty healthy as ever. Through blogging I made friends from near and afar. I flew all the way from Boston to Seattle in the US in the summer of 2008 to meet two bloggers there. While there met their spouse as well. In the country I met many strangers who are now my friends. Before Facebook many blogger interact in the comment column of the posting and at time we met for tea or lunch. Now with Facebook not many folks left comments any more. Anyway I am continuing to blog since I found that I could share my thoughts better in blog than in Facebook. Posting in Blog last forever whereas in Facebook it is just a passing posting and folks no longer read it after that. So here I am continuing to blog and enjoying doing it. I found that many visitors still read my posting and that in a way kept all those articles I had posted as relevant as ever. 

Have a nice day.

In the Star newspaper...

I would like to thank the Star newspaper especially the journalist Majorie Chiew for this posting of me which in a way help to give more exposure to senior bloggers in this country. Here is the link folks...

http://thestar.com.my/lifestyle/story.asp?file=%2F2013%2F5%2F29%2Flifefocus%2F13079965&sec=lifefoc

BTW folks, here is the story about Jatoq and here on The Blue House of Love. Click on it to read.

Have a nice day.

Xplorer the Blogger...

Yes folks this Blogger name is xplorer and he blog here SUKA JALAN-JALAN; an active blogger indeed. He is indeed an explorer of sorts. He would take his family on an exploration trips all over the country and share the adventure in his Blog. He is an avid photographer and takes picture of his trip and shares that too. I have been following his Blog from the time I saw his first comment on my blog. Then I put a link on my blog so that I do not miss any of his posting. He is from the generation of my kids and writes well indeed. After reading his blog for years as usual with me I wanted to see the person in real life. I have done that even with stranger bloggers from the other part of the world too and met a few in real life when overseas.  So I wrote to him for a meeting and he give me a quick respond to my request. With that we met on Saturday May 4, 2013 a day before the 13th General Election. After a few exchange of email we decided that we could meet at the KL Sentral mall where both of us could get to with ease using the LRT. So on that day at 10.30AM we met. I had just arrived at the Sentral Station and went to the reception counter to ask where Starbucks is. And just as I was about to walk to it a stranger spoke to me saying he is the xplorer Blogger and that his name is Wan Hazizi. We shake hand and move to our destination the Starbucks. There ordered our coffee and found a nice table to sit and get acquaintance. This is the first time I know his name. All the time he is known as the xplorer to me. Since we both have time to while away we chat on many subjects that comes to minds. Among it I wanted to know of his trip to neighbouring Thailand where he took the train to places as far as Bangkok. He say that he had travelled to many places in Thailand using the Thai Railway which start its service from Penang in Malaysia. He says it is a good train to travel and the service is great as well. That it is safe to travel alone or with family using the Thai Railway. I had planned to do the same so this information became valuable so that whenever I do that trip I would be at ease and could enjoy that train ride. As usual with blogger we talk and talk as we move on while enjoying our coffee. Then we ask a youth who was sitting nearby to take a picture of both of us. Above is the image of our meeting at the Sentral Station that fine day. 

Have a nice day.

One of those days...

I have not blog for almost two weeks. It has been rather hectic weeks with happening here and there but then life has been good. Last week I went to meet a few friends who I have not met personally for a long time. It has been years and month that I have met them. It looks like time passes by fast indeed when we are busy with our affair. In the age of the Internet it not that bad since we still could meet in cyberspace and kept in touch all the time. But it still not the same like meeting in person. So the last two weeks I decided to go out and meet them. First I decided to meet two friends in one day, one happened to be sick and recuperating at his house in Bukit Kerinch. I took the LRT and stopover at the Sentral Station and there I met Aurelia a friend whom I had not met for years. The last time we met was at a barbeque at the Australian Embassy in 2007. We had lunch and talk. It was really nice to meet her again. She is from Sabah and now works in Kuala Lumpur. Her office is at Bangsar so it was easy for her to meet me at the Sentral Station, it just a one stop by the LRT.  After that lunch I call Pokku the friend who is sick and told him I would be there in a while. Then he calls me if I am coming by car, if it is so we can go for lunch together. I told him that I already had lunch and not driving. I am taking the LRT. In that case he says what about buying lunch for him. I told him it would be OK. I then went to get KFC for him and since it was at lunch time the place was crowded. With that lunch pack I took the LRT to the University Station and then walk to his apartment nearby at Bukit Kerinci. The guard took me to his place up above the Apartment. There I met him looking good. The doctor told him that he should not go around without the oxygen tank to enable him to breathe easily. I give him his lunch pack and sat down to enjoy the Root Beer that he offered. I than went to the balcony and took a snap of the view outside. The view on the left is what I saw, a magnificence sight indeed. While he enjoys his lunch I sat to watch the Unifi TV program while surfing the Net using my iPad. 

To digress a bid, just a few days ago I chance met a FB friend Shakirah at the Coffee Club at Kino. I was at KLCC at that time and saw her posting saying that she is now at the Coffee Club. So after I had finished lunch I went to meet her for the first time. She was there doing her work on the laptop. We chat a while and I took leave happy that at last I get to meet this single mother of seven kids. Another happening in KLCC is a few days later at the corridor of the Kino bookstore where I met Zai, a FB friend who had wanted to meet me but was in a rush that day for a doctor appointment. So we just stood at the corridor in front of Kino and get acquaintance and chat. Among other things she asks me how to gets her two teenage boys to read books. Well I told her to start with books that they are interested and work from there. Once they get into the reading habit everything else would be a piece of cake. With that I now have personally met these two wonderful FB friends in person. With parted with a hope to bump on each other again here. 

And then last week at round 6.30PM I got a call from a relative who wanted to meet at 8PM that night for a man to man talk. He suggested that we met at a Lebanese restaurant at Ampang Point for dinner and talk. I sense some urgency is his request and told him that I would be there. At just before eight it rain with strong winds I decided to go early to Ampang Point. With the downpour I look for a parking space and found one. As  I was about to parked my car he call saying he is already at the restaurant. I told him I am parking my car and would be there soon. With the umbrella I walk to the mall and went straight to the restaurant and sure enough he is there already drinking the Arab Tea. I too love Arab Tea and took it as well. We then ask for the menu and ordered our dinner. While waiting for the food he told me why he wanted this man to man meeting.  It seems that his only daughter just told him and his spouse that she wanted to get married. She is still single and in her mid-thirty. It sort of complicated and worrisome so it jolted them for a while and has yet to make a decision and that is why he wanted to talk  to me. As usual in a case like this parents seek other parents’ advice before making a final decision. Well folks no one really have an easy formula in marriage but I told him what wise man often said. If you think it is good, do it quickly but if you think it going to be a problem delay that decision. As for me I just share my thoughts the best I could thus lighten his depression a bit. As we all know too well that parenting is not that easy. If we had play the role of parenting well all the years of the kids growing up period in most cases thing would come out alright but if we had failed in our parenting than we can expect things would not be that easy. Well life is like that and we all must accept for the fact that parenting is not that easy. We had a good chat and I believe he wanted to get it out of his chest that has been boiling and this talk tonight over dinner I think had in a way does him good. It was indeed a good dinner and we had a very fruitful chat on parenting especially when it is about a marriage in  the family. Well life is like that; colourful at time. 

Have a nice day.