Seven pounds

Earlier almost midnight I watch an English movie "Seven Pounds" by Will Smith.

Basically the movie is about a guy who wants to atone for his mistakes in the past. He then set out to make amends by helping seven strangers.

The movie starts off showing he called for ambulance for his suicide from the motel he stayed.

This guy - Ben Thomas was an IRS agent who went around to collect tax. He will only help those who are truthful and sincere. There was this lady who has heart condition and having problems paying the tax. This guy falls in love with her and tries to help her.

The movie went on with him meeting up some old friends and how the lady also has this liking in him.

In between there were some patients that had he had helped.

Only after Ben committed suicide the whole picture surfaced. His brother got a kidney transplant from him and another lady from the Family service dept had his other kidney.

He also donated his bone marrow to a little boy, gave his beach house away to a lady who was ill-treat by her boyfriend.

Back at the motel he stayed, he kill himself by getting the poisonous jellyfish to bite him. After his death, he donated his heart to the woman that he loved deeply and his pair of eyes to a blind pianist.

This 2-hour movie is very touching. He almost give up his body to the needy.

Well in real life, how many people is able to do such a good deed. If the society is so wonderful there will great then.

One job done

Yesterday we went out for a swim at CCK swimming complex. Then we went to the Yew Tee point nearby for dinner.

Since it was still not too late, we took MRT from Yew Tee to Bt. Batok station. Then a quick run at the Popular bookshop we bought some stationery.

After which we proceed to Harvey Norman to get the fan for our hall and a router for our lap top.

Upon reaching home, we fixed the fan first as that was an easy task. Finally we need not suffer the heat when watching tv in the hall.

Next the tough job was to set up the router to connect the laptop and pc for internet surfing.

I am a pc nerd. Ajit was helping but we just cant get it done.

Today as we do not have plan to go out, I intend to tidy up the pc corner as it was very messy.

Discard the unnecessary stuff, I tried to get the connection.
Guess what, I managed to get both the laptop and desktop connected to internet.

Wow! That is a job complete. Now the corner looked neat and tidy.

Well, a satisfactory job done on a beautiful sunday!

Mother's day

Today is mother's day. A week ago, Yuva bought me a rose. They kids actually wanted to bring me out for a meal. I prefer to be at home.


Few days back, the kids + our niece Thulasi shared to buy us a cake. They even went to one of shopping mall to get the mothers a gift each.

Last night, just to add fun to it, I was asked to play a simple word game so to lead me where the present was kept. It was found in the kitchen.

The present was a flexi massager together with a hand-made card.
Though a simple gift, it was always the thought that counts.



Remember years back when Yuva was in lower primary, I remembered scolded her for borrowing money from her classmate.
After knowing the reason that she just wanted to get a flower, I was so touched.



Today we have a feast at home. We order KFC for lunch.


During the afternoon tea time, we have pizza plus some pastries and forgetting the cake the children buy for us.


My sister, Jane with her husband came over around 6 to fix our laptop.
Then after 8.30, we decide and go out for dinner.



Unable to decide where to go, we finally settle down at one of the steamboat restaurant along Novena road.



We sat and have a good time till after 11. Ajit, as usual, wanted to go West Coast Park. But got rejected again and feel frustrated. So we were home around midnight.



I have a good talk to Yuva and end up with an agrument over some matters.



Ghosh, that is how well it started and how bad it ended.



Time to go to bed. Shall stop here.

Ajit Kumar

About a month ago, the Tamil teacher at school called me and need to meet up with me.

The teacher had commented that Ajit was not able to perform well in Tamil.
So she intends to get him stay back everyday in school and coached him.

The boy's results were not good since Pri 5 onwards. And Tamil is the killing subject of all.
He does not take a interest in the subject. I have always get feedback that he does not do his homework or did not hand in his work.

About a month ago, we engaged a Tamil tutor for him as suggested by the teacher in school.
After 2 weeks of tuition, this boy managed to score not only passed but did well in his composition writing.

Last week, I meet up with tutor for the first time.
He promised that he is able to guide him to the level of passing but may not score high.
That is already a comfort to me.

Today, I got a call from the teacher again. She says the boy was not listening to her instructions and came home after school instead of staying back.
But Ajit has a different set of words when confronted.
He was even told by the teacher to give up his CCA without me knowing.

I feel very upset over the whole issue. I am not sure whether the teacher is twisting her words or the boy is lying.

As such, to solve the problem, I wrote to the teacher and get her to stop the extra lessons except for the compulsory day.

The email was written in quite a harsh manner but I felt that my kid need to be look after. He always feel that the teacher and me does not trust him. So I decided to take this step.
Also, he is comfortable with the tutor's coaching. I believe he probably can do better under his guidance.

Well, a lot of pressure and stress recently that I basically can't cope with it.

Writing the blog had been a release of this stress off my mind for a while.

Hope tomorrow is a better day.

Busy life

It had been one and a half months since I update my blog.
A lot of things had been happening lately.

I took the exam in Mar. Guess what I flunked again marginally.
Still thinking whether should I resit for the exam or give up totally.

Of course there is a cost involved.
If resit - pay $250+ for the paper ( I have to 2 papers to take)
If give up - pay $3K+
OMG it is hard to decide.

At work, it had been non stop.
Tonnes of paper piling up and does not seemed to go down.
I am almost buried among the sheets.

At home, we just bought a new laptop.
It is suppose for more Yuva's usage so that they can both a pc each to work on.
But the boy as usual happily use it for his games. Sigh.....

Each day after work, I will leave office around 2 am.
Back home, no time to rest cos' need to clear the recordings of the TV dramas being HongKong or local. So I will at least spend 2 hours watching them and only get into bed almost 4 or 5 am.
Thank God, after last week, I am left with 1 serial to follow only.

Not only that, I am almost crazy over the bejeweled game on facebook.
Hours were spent playing the game and trying to be the top each week.

Phwee... as you can see 24 hours each day do not seemed to be sufficient.
Guess need a proper timetable to schedule the tasks and jobs.