How Did You Spend the First Day of New Year?

A New Beginning 2013

Judging by the slow thin traffic, it could possibly be a couple of things.

The holiday crowd may just come back in the late afternoon from outstation.

Closer to home, I guess the revelry of welcoming the New Year in the wee hours of the budding year has many in bed and so may account for fewer drivers on the road.

For me and family, after spending the early part of the morning doing household chores, we went out for a good lunch at the Pizza Hut Restaurant at Kelana Mall and subsequently shopped at Giant Supermarket to take advantage of the special offers particularly Milo and rice.

Afternoon saw me and the missus visiting a friend in Damansara Perdana who just had an operation for fibroids.

After having dinner on curry chicken and nan roti, we headed back for home.

Fair way-I suppose to spend the beginning of the year this way.

Hart of Dixie-Rustic Banter

A Pixie in Dixie

If you love those bygone times you had with the earlier tv series displaying rustic background and attitudes, you have come to the right tv series-Hart of Dixie.

The slight banter of rural heartland of America and the slow pace of the Andy Griffith Show is what you get here.

Simply Beautiful

There are twists and turns in the First Episode with Zoey Hart relocating to Bluebell from the Big Apple and finding her true father.

Spontaneous Attraction

I think the forthcoming episodes should be interesting.

Dolly Dame

Meanwhile enjoy the effervescent beauty of Rachel Bilson as she shows the punky side of youthful exuberance.

2013-A New Year With New Promises

The New Year is here!

In the final minutes of 2012, as the clock ticks off on Father Time, we will be at the threshold of a new year.

The new year that peeks out to us will not only be one that is brand new but is also hiding in its bosom, the blossoms of fresh new promises.

My family and I had a walk in Tropicana Mall and we watch the goings-on there before the count-down. Then we doubled home to greet the new year.

The fireworks I heard and saw from my daughter's bedroom was wondrous indicating that  the new year is now with us.

I wish every one of my readers again the best of 2013!

Praise the Lord!

Amen.

2012-Milestones and What's Left of It

Ticking Minutes as we welcome 2013

Another a little more than 24 hours and a new year dawns.

So, what have we got to show for the going year?

Fortune-some here, some there and God has been kind.

Sickness- had my share of it;from sleep apnea, a long bout with flu to low white cell blood count.

Family issues-misfortune as my father and mother fell during the same week or so.

While my father is now restricted to a wheel-chair and need care-provision for his waking hours;my mother is being brought to the hospital for imaging and other diagnostics according to a schedule of appointments.

Then we have Jo Yee, my grand-niece who had to go for an open heart sternum operation to correct a co-genital heart defect.

Marriage-my nephew William got married to Jo Ann his long-time school-day sweetheart.

Robert, my other nephew got a son  as well as an overseas posting to the Netherlands.

My son entered college to take the challenge of ACCA.

For me, tutoring seems to be ebbing. Thought I will stop this year but looks like I am soldiering well in English teaching well into 2013.

And I also did not get through my Commissioner of Oath appointment. Sad but true. So, I am appealing once more- not that it matters that much.

One thing I know for sure is that God is looking out for me and my family.

As one door closes on me, He opens so many new doors!

My cup runneth over!

The end of the year did not come.

Praise the Lord!

Politics-wise, the general elections has yet to be called.

I am also fortunate that I still have got all my friends with me and all in good health.

As we await the new year, the best to all my readers.

Turned, Traitor and Homeland

Michael Cuesta may have directed a good plot line for a movie based on the Israeli stories of Prisoners of Wars.

However, there is much down-side.

Casting-wise I think they have a great line-up of stars from Claire Danes to Damien Lewis as Nicholas Brody the POW, Morena Baccarin and Mandy Patinkin.

However, they got drown in information overload especially the background to get the show going.

I do hope that Season 2 will be better edited and faster moving to get the excitement  onto the edge of our seats.

Damien acted well but I do have my misgivings of the Claire Danes-Carrie character as too over-dramatic for a bipolar character. Mandy was well paced and so was David Harewood as Estee, Head of the CIA.

Let us see whether Season 2 will be cast in a more solid mould.

No Gangnam Style for Francis Yeoh and YTL Corp

Turning into a dull warrior

If ever there is a moribund counter on the Bursa KL, of late it must be YTL Corp.

Reason-it is family-centric failing its minority shareholders every which way but win.

Throughout 2012, it swapped papers with a big swap in YTL Cement, converting bonds into paper and ESOS programmes.

Like the perennial East Coast floods, YTL Corp can hardly move an inch.

Lately, EPF has been selling YTL Corp down the river as the company plays catch-up with Treasury buys.

The dividend of 1 sen is also unconvincing to lure in strong volume holders.

Maverick without marvels?

Now, the news is coming from the woodwork that Francis is likely to take YTL Power private.

No cash deal-another paper swap flooding more YTL Corp shares into the market.

Unless magic happens, I do not see any forward march on the counter.

Delightful Anecdotes on Daughters

These surely are well thought anecdotes of  father and daughter relationships.

So much truth.