it's been how long?

The last two months have been so crazy...

Can't believe my last entry was nearly two months ago. So many things happened since. I have a new son.. well actually a "host" son. From Germany. But before that happened, lets see... I've just been very busy. I haven't had the time to sit and organise my thoughts to wirte them all down. Well, that, and procrastination. You know how you keep telling yourself "if I write tomorrow, I will have more to write and it'll be more interesting. " But we fail to see that when too many tomorrows are involved, we actually tend to forget what it is we wanted to write in the first place.

Anyway, sorry for that show-cause letter. I always feel like I have to explain myself when I procrastinate.

Okay... lets start with merdeka celebrations!!!

Early August (see? i can't even remember the date!) There was the Kuching City Day Parade. Boy were we excited. David's first parade. Well all he ever wanted.. to see a marching band!!! He got his wish a few times that night. So many marching bands. It was great. All that excitement in his face. I've never seen him so captivated by something for so long a period. More of that in Andee's blog. Even got pictures.

After that it was Merdeka Day. Country celebrated its 50th independence day. I must say that I really respect the sarawakians for their display of loyalty to their state. It was a political thing... the whole Malaysiabeing formed and how Sarawak only joind Malaya to for Malaysia in 1963 or something like that. Forgive me. I'm bad with dates and I'm bad with names. That's why I teach English so I can change the names whenever I like because it's only the grammar that counts. But the Sarawakian teachers' fury boiled over that day whenever they heard the Happy 50th Birthday Malaysia cheer (or even saw it in the papers)"Like as if we are pendatang haram and had nothing to do with the formation of Malaysia", Says Magdalan who almost sounds like mighty mouse..(and maybe even resembles him a little...the size I mean..)But really, Hats off to the whole lot of you.

Then there was Nurin. The girl who got lost when she went to the night market running a little errand her mother sent her on.. at night!! She was found, weeks later, brutally harmed and murdered, in a sportsbag. Now while the rest of th nation is asking the murderer "What were you thinking?!" I would like to ask the PARENTS "What were you thinking?!" You have a daughter, she's yours. She's pretty, she's innocent, she's small, she's defenceless, she's weak and she's 8 years old. How stupid can you be sending her out alone!!!????? Woe to you, parents. Woe to you!
I really personally hope that parents will learn from this. Please.Maybe Nurin's parents did not heed sounding alarms set by previous reports... Maybe they were just dumb and ignorant. Or maybe just stupidly optimistic by thinking "it'll never happen to us" . Maybe. But Maybe, not all parents have to be that stupid. No parent should be allowed to be that stupid. If they are stupid, don't have kids. Maybe just like our driving table test, we should have IQ tests for couples thinking of getting married. And just in case marriage altered their brain, another test just before they decide to have kids will be a good idea. What's the world coming to?

Now let me tell you about my new German son. But I don't think I will be doing this fine young man any justice by putting him in the same entry together with all my other frustrations. So, I will save a nice entry for him.