I'll be there for you...

All of us will grow old someday. This is a reality that none of us can dispute and run away from. It lurks in the future reminding us that it’s there and its happening whether we like it or not. That our body will grow weak, we will not be as strong as before and we will be dependent on the children to do the things that we once were able to do. Just like what we are doing now for our parents.

Somehow sometimes that is not the case. A lot of kids nowadays are “washing” their hands off their parents the moment they get married or are too busy to care for them. Their parents are considered a burden that needed to be looked after until their last breath. That is why in certain places of the world, parents are given the opportunity to claim “parents support” from their kids. Yet, because these parents are so understanding, they refuse to even take advantage of the system that was designed to give them a better old age. Such is a parent love.

Although I would never consider sending my mom to any nursing homes, I believe it is the better alternative than leaving an aged and sickly parent home alone to take care of themselves. At least there, they would be taken care of professionals that is especially trained to take care of the aged.

What do you think? Is it the better choice?

My CyberSpace Love

How did you meet your other half? Was it through a mutual friend, did you meet randomly or was it a blind date? Did cupid strike his arrow and you fell at first sight?

Mine? It could be called “new age love”. Nope, we did not meet via free online dating site or the internet personals if that is what you think. However, it was close enough because we dated Online!

We met via Yahoo! chat room…heheh.. yeap… you heard me… Yahoo! chat. After all love and romance have no boundaries right? Our mode of dating was the famous Yahoo! messenger only back then it was called pager. It was still the caveman version – no webcam and no “I’m on sms”- speaking of which – there was even no SMS yet so can you imagine our massive telephone bill.

I remembered hubby telling me the first time we exchanged photos that he did not even put 100% trust on the picture of me. He told me, for all he knows, I could very well be a man impersonating a woman on the other line just to pull his legs. It was not till 1999 when we met that we really hit it off. After that there was no turning back. My body was in Singapore but my soul was already in KL. Sigh ;-)

How did you guys meet??

Cheerio…

The secret to a happy marriage

Listen up women, I may just have found the secret to a happy marriage or so according to this email I got this morning..

A man and woman had been married for more than 60 years. They shared everything. They had talked about everything. They had kept no secrets from each other except that the little old woman had a shoe box in the top of her closet that she had cautioned her husband never to open or ask her about.

For all of these years, he had never thought about the box, but one day the little old woman got very sick and the doctor said she would not recover. In trying to sort out their affairs, the little old man took down the shoe box and took it to his wife’s bedside.

She agreed that it was time that he should know what was in the box. When he opened it, he found two crocheted dolls and a stack of money totaling $95,000. He asked her about the contents. “When we were to be married,”she said, “my grandmother told me the secret of a happy marriage was to never argue. She told me that if I ever got angry with you, I should just keep quiet and crochet a doll.”

The little old man was so moved; he had to fight back tears. Only two precious dolls were in the box. She had only been angry with him two times in all those years of living and loving. He almost burst with happiness. “Honey,” he said, “that explains the doll, but what about all of this money? Where did it come from?”

“Oh,” she said, “that’s the money I made from selling the dolls.”

Do you agree folks?? hehehe…. i would die of stomach ulcers first… i think… lolzzz..

Seriously though, open communications has always been important to me and my hubby. Confrontation is sometimes the best way to get rid of unwanted feelings harboring in our hearts and poisoning the mind…So talk your heart out to your significant other and you’ll have a happier marriage… that’s our formula :-)

To a happier marriage… cheers!

Do you know:
There has been more skype download and voip phone sales than ever in the past 1 year. This is because voip fax and voip buster is somethign everyoe is aware of now, and wants to use it. The ip phones are all in rage now.