the baru year and me

well it's the new year once again ... and so we have just completed 12 months of wonderful times ,with memories, friends and families . now it's 2011 and Monday is a working day and some of us do work on Sundays too ...


i was telling a friend of mine that the most wonderful gift that i could ever receive is the gift of friendship ... well, we met friends along the way .. we lost some too , some got back in touch with us and these friendships grew ... and talking about growing together with friends .. i am reminded of some of the friends that i have met along the way through college ...


by nature i am quite shy ... so when i first got into college , i did not have any friends . i started with one , and then there was two and three came along and before i knew it or before we knew it , we had more than a dozen ....


it's quite funny how from one , we expanded our circle of friends ... then came the most important event of our lives .. we graduated , went our separate ways .. got on with life .. kept busy with work ... got married and some did not and finally we lost touch with everyone and then you are back to square one with just a friend.


and that friend and i kept constantly in touch .... and now after twenty years we are still friends .. however we were missing a friend and for these past 20 years we were wondering what happened to this friends of ours .....

until one day .... just 4 days ago .. yes we were still in 2010 , i logged into face book and there he was ..... he got my name wrong as usual .. but actually he was just teasing me !!!

wonderful the missing friend has found us ... we had a wonderful gift that day .. the gift of friends and friendship ... it is amazing how connected we are .. even through the next day .. we were just smiling away .. even driving , i was smiling , i just could not believe it . i was wondering how this tiga sekawan got in touch with each other after so long ....


i should thank face book though .. but all the same .. we spoke to each other and it was truly amazing ..

so i hope that this year 2011 , would bring all of us not only closer but many , many more friends to come .... it does not matter , as long as we stay in touch with one another ..

happy new year ....

today .. again after so long

we woke early today and today being today was/is the day we started out to deliver our cookies .... so all the way went up and down the hill and finally we reached our destination ...

it was all in good fun when i know at the back of my mind, that we were having a gotong royong session in church .. to which they need people to go and help and there i was in the car delivering cookies .


but the angel told me not to worry .. they have a lot of help so sitting this one out will not make any difference to everyone ... okay guilt free now ..


we had so much fun .. talking to old friends and wishing them merry Christmas and all ..peck on the cheek off we went to the next house ....



the next house is another dear friend of ours and they had a little cute looking dog named Jojo .. oh , the previous house also has a dog named Dougie ... cute and the cuter .. we sat down for a chat .. not me and the dog of course !!!!!

after 10 mins we made our move to another house , they also had a dog .. a beagle .. so cute .... and its name .. butch .....

today has brought us much joy ... not only we delivered our cookies , we brought joy along to our old friends .. we wished that we could stay longer but we still have more cookie orders to fill in ....


and now at home , a batch has gone into the oven .... and definitely tomorrow more to make ...

clap for the LORD

today after my afternoon nap , i woke up to watch the telly and when i switched it on , i noticed that the color has lost it .. i mean lost it big time ... the actor in the show was in rainbow color . i was so sad because with Christmas on the way and everything is timing ...you know when you think that everything is almost in perfect order , your toaster goes bust or your telly or your oven .. it could be anything ....


the handy man of the house said not to worry , he will take a walk down to the shops and get more info for troubleshooting ..... my mum was like , 'aiya , Christmas next week and now the t.v.'


well it was one of those things .. handy man had an idea .. he went to korek for the booklet and lo and behold, he found out how to figure it out ... handy man switched off the telly for 10 mins and after 10 mins our telly was in tip top shape , color beautiful , the actors beautiful ... so what more could we ask for ?
in the end this is what i have to say ...'Let's give a clap to the Lord'

time to detox

well since i have been suffering from urinal infection and there is nothing else that i could do .. yes there is a solution ... get a letter from the doctor and make an appointment at the hospital and go for a few tests her and there ... might as as get those kidneys scanned too...


thing is i am not afraid to go . that was so last year and the year before that ...

so it all began with baby corns .. yup you heard right ..i am to boil those baby corns and drink .. its juice and discard the baby corns ..hm mm 2 days straight OK done ... so what's next ? apple juice .. blended green apples okay that i can do ..


then once upon a time , i came across an article about how and why do we detox our body ... fine ..reading on , i found out that when we detox our body , we get rid of all those unwanted toxins .. see our body is like our car and our body needs servicing too .. it's like you get rid of the black oil from your car and they replace it with a new one ...

forget the car, back to the story .. i found the perfect detoxing product for my body ... and its tea mixed with natural herbs from switzerland ...... now , hold on a minute .. I DON"T DRINK TEA ... so what will it be , Audra ... suffer in silence or drink the damn tea and detox your body ?



fine , okay ... i went to the pharmacy and got myself a trudtox kit ... it say at the back that i am allowed to detox 3 x a week ... ooh .. that's too much tea and shitting .. OK ,OK ,


i got the detoxing kit ... believe me my aim is not to loose weight here .. i just want to get rid of all the bad toxin in my body ..... oh by the way ...the detox works gently ... so i thought why not ... it cost me about RM 25.00 special promotion ..... for 5 tea bags ....



yesterday was my first tea bag in a long time ...... how did it taste ? like tea with herbs and i drank it all up ...


............ and today i went to the toilet ... it was like 5 times in a day, but not frequently ... i even went to the shops .. had a nice walk and all .. so far i feel nice and my stomach does not feel bloated ... i am smiling and hope for the best ....

what is in store for the coming year

for starters school will soon start let's say in 2 weeks time and yes once again , we are going to hear screams , kicks , shouting , snoring , crying and more crying ... we will be tired after the first day and i must remind my teachers . it will be round one again for us............. and we are looking forward to it .... yes and no ... in a good way !!!!


calls have been made for parents to come on over .... the lists goes on and on .. and it's my job to contact each transporter to confirm who is taking which and what transport ....


so far it has been a good year for us and i really do hope that 2011 would bring us loads of magical moments with out students ..

quit

quit .. nope i did not ..today my friend calls me up from school to inform me that one of the new teacher quit her job ... today was suppose to be her second day. to be very honest i would really like to have her on board however some issue came in between her work ....


all hope is not lost actually ,i hired here because of the way she carried herself throughout the interview and she spoke well .. responsible even though she did mention that she has a special needs child at home who requires attention from time to time .... we got that part , we understood .. but when it's crunch time , if we have to let go , we let go ..


i guess we win some and loose some .. i just want to wish her all the best , no hard feelings .. when you are ready our doors are always open ....

let go

today was quite interesting .. i went to the hairdressers . i told her .. that i would like to do re bonding for my hair .... so there it went my few hours but it was worth it .. i felt sleepy along the way but i managed to stay awake ..

so it has come to my attention that i should let go and enjoy myself with family and friends ... stay positive .. get a good detox programme for me , stay healthy and with all the love in the whole wide world , i am going to be happy just for me ..