Rojak
Starting The Year Right
People greet the coming of the New Year in so many ways. Fireworks is one of them — probably inherited from the Chinese superstition that the noise will chase away evil spirits — but now practiced more because of their aesthetic value. Filipinos greet the New Year with some money in their pockets in the … Continue reading
An Unexpected Award
Whew! How time flies! A well-worn cliché but oh-so-true. It seems like only yesterday that the whole world was scrambling to fix the Y2K bug. Instead, it’s been a good 9 years already! It’s hard to believe more than 11 months have passed since I registered my own domain name, partly out of whim, partly … Continue reading
Welcome, 2009!
DH, the kids (except the twins, who were fast asleep) and I drove to KL-Ampang Elevated Highway just a few minutes before midnight last night to watch from a distance the fireworks at KLCC (Kuala Lumpur City Centre). As expected, the entire highway was packed with people, with hundreds of cars lined up bumper-to-bumper…literally. We … Continue reading
Awal Muharram (Maal Hijrah)
Today is a public holiday in Malaysia because it is Awal Muharram (a.k.a. Maal Hijrah), the first day of the Muslim calendar and is the New Year for all Muslims. As I may have previously mentioned in one of my posts, Muslims follow a lunar calendar, known as the Hijrah calendar. It is called Hijrah, … Continue reading
After-Christmas Bargains
Christmas may be over but if you’re on a lookout for a sale, there are still a lot of irresistible bargains that can be found on the internet. Buy.Com is one such site. It offers a lot of great after-Christmas deals… Such as the Sony VAIO Laptop that comes with a free Sony Wireless Stereo … Continue reading
