A dance to welcome in Sarawak!
The students showed their welcoming talents during graduation ceremony in Sarawak!
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Quote:-
“Dance is the hidden language of the soul.”
Martha Graham
A dance to welcome in Sarawak!
The most popular pose today…
The most popular pose today…
Today on social media, the most popular pose with a poster is
“I have been vaccinated!”
It’s like announcing to the world.
Hey, now I am safe!
Come join the herd community effort!
Get your appointment fast!
Well, it is not like you can walk into any clinic for a vaccination like our kids do with triple antigen and booster dose immunizations! 😐☹️🙄😟
We wait for our covid-19 vaccination appointments according to the government schedule! Then I saw a Facebook sitting-on-a-rock pose by a senior aunt!
I have NOT been vaccinated! 😞😟☹️
There must be some mistakes with the official scheduler as younger people have already gone for the jab!
I hope the process would buck up!💪💪💪
October 2021 updates:-
I am so glad most people have been vaccinated. The posing after vaccination craze is waning off nowadays.
I doubt the ‘booster dose’ pose will pick up with equal enthusiasm!
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Missing Togetherness on a Thursday!
Missing Togetherness on a Thursday! -Poem
I miss the closeness,
togetherness of playing,
thrilling outdoor games.
How Covid affects,
alters our growing years
restricting spaces!
Of course, boys can cry!
Of course, boys can cry!
Face flushed as blood gushed,
watery saltiness felt,
behind nose and eyes.
"Are you OK, dear?"
No, please don't make me cry more!
But thanks, for being here!
"It's OK to cry!"
"That's because you are a girl!
They say boys don't cry!"
"I have seen dad cry.
In history, great men cried.
Of course, boys, can cry!"
This Haiku tells why boys and men can and should cry, as great men did, too, in history! God makes tears for a reason! So, it’s OK to cry!
Quotes:-
- Tears are God’s gift to us. Our holy water. They heal us as they flow. – Rita Schiano
My body needs laughter as much as it needs tears. Both are cleansers of stress.
Mahogany SilverRain
Kerana lelaki tidak pakai coli, ke?
Kerana lelaki tidak pakai coli, ke?
(Google translated from English to Malay)
“Atuk, kenapa kamu tidak memakai coli?”
“Kerana saya lelaki. Lelaki tidak memakai coli.”
“Kenapa lelaki tak payah pakai coli?”
“Kerana masyarakat menentukan demikian.”
“Adakah sebab itu ramai wanita dapat kanser payudara? Dan lelaki tidak dapat kanser payudara? “
“…er… Lelaki juga, tapi jarang sekali.
” Kalau begitu, wanita tidak patut pakai coli lah!”
“..!!!”
Pada tahun 2018, dianggarkan 627,000 wanita meninggal dunia akibat barah payudara di seluruh dunia – itu adalah sekitar 15% daripada semua kematian akibat barah di kalangan wanita … dan ia masih meningkat. Ia jarang berlaku pada lelaki, sekitar 1% sahaja.
Rujukan
Breast Cancer Worldwide.
https://www.abcglobalalliance.org/articles/breast-cancer-worldwide accessed on the 26, Sep, 2020
WHO Breast cancer.
https://www.who.int/cancer/prevention/diagnosis-screening/breast-cancer/en/
accessed on the 26, Sep, 2020
Si-anak kecil itu
Google translated from English to Malay with minimal editing by author.
A White Lie- about an ostomy
A White Lie- about an ostomy
Don’t tell lies, ever. No matter what – not even little white lies. –Margaret Keane-mom
(Bahasa Malaysia translation
Mr. Ponusamy was accompanied by his daughter
to see a stomaltherapist.
Although the care of his stoma
and the skin around it was excellent,
he made many complaints about them.
It must have been difficult for him to accept
having a bag on his tummy to collect his faeces.
The surgeon would not reconnect his intestines
nor close the stoma as proposed six months earlier.
“They said that it was a barium sulphate blockage in my colon.
But it has been removed already. They should be able to re-attach
the intestines and close this ‘thing’, this stoma,
so I can defecate naturally from my anus!
But they cannot give me a good reason
on why they won’t operate to revert my condition!”
The daughter called the stomaltherapist aside.
“All his children agreed and told the surgeon
not to tell him that he has cancer of the colon.
He is 88 years old and had two heart operations before!
We are afraid that he may have another attack!”
“I’m retired, but I’m a well-read man.
My fatigue or feeling tired all the times;
alternating bowel habits of diarrhoea and constipation;
sudden weight loss; blood in my stools;
all point out the signs and symptoms of cancer, aren’t they?”
“…you have just said it, yourself!
This is the report of your biopsy.
Yes, it’s true… “
Mr. Ponusamy kept quiet.
The two ladies glanced at each other, worriedly.
“Do keep an eye on your father at home!
Call me or your surgeon whenever necessary!”
During the following months,
Mr. Ponusamy would drop by the ward
whenever there were patients scheduled for ostomy surgeries.
His daughter would standby dutifully, from a distant,
as her father went on to explain systematically to a new patient
about how to care for a stoma.
We found a prolific speaker in him, too.
Mr. Ponusamy shared his experiences
at seminars for healthcare professionals
and patients with intestinal cancer and stomas.
“I have a successful career, loving children and grandchildren.
But, I would be happier if I was told the truth from the beginning
so that I can make plans and do the best I can, with the time I have left.”
A white lie, no matter how well intended it was meant to be,
should one tell or not tell, a white lie?
– Serena Chen S.P. @ TPTan –
26, October 2020
Tourists’ Miss Is Our Gain!
Tourists’ Miss Is Our Gain!
Tourists’ miss is our gain! – courtesy of Toh HL 
Tourist’ miss is our gain! -courtesy of Toh HL
Tourists fly thousands of kilometers to see exotic places.
The pristine corners of Port Dickson are ignored.
We have them all to ourselves.
We are not complaining, but feel it’s ironic. – Co-author Toh HL
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Travelling does not have to be expensive
if one cares to appreciate the treasures
around and near us!
Soak one’s self
in the serenity of nature’s beauty,
sounds of rhythmic rolling of waves,
and the distant cries of birds in the forest! – Chen S.P. @ TPTan
Baby goats in a row
Baby goats in a row ( a haiku)
This is a poem (Haiku), about baby goats on bottle milk feeding.
Quotes:-
- “A newborn has only three demands. They are warmth in the arms of its mother, food from her breasts, and security in the knowledge of her presence. Breastfeeding satisfies all three.” -Dr. Grantly Dick-Read
- There must be reasons why we men are so hipped on breasts as if we’d all been weaned too soon. ~Gunter Grass
When A Nurse Looks For A Nanny
When A Nurse Looks For A Nanny
My nurse friends and I had our fair share of rejections when looking for a babysitter in the city.
“When you go to do night shifts, who will look after your baby? Me?”
“No way! The last nurse I worked for was a ‘sterility freak’! I had to boil the milk bottles. I must pick up the bottles and teats with chopsticks… cannot touch the milk bottle teat with my bare hands!… You find someone else!”*************************************
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Quotes:
“The nurse is temporarily the consciousness of the unconscious, the love of life of the suicidal, the leg of the amputee, the eyes of the newly blind, a means of locomotion for the newborn, knowledge and confidence for the young mother, a voice for those too weak to speak, and so on.”–Virginia Henderson, RN
Chen Song Ping 