The Diary Of Terminally Ill Woman Who Chose Euthanasia - She Decided When She Wanna Die
Sep 9, 2008 Around the Word, Life, Science
This diary records the final few weeks of a woman, Mrs Weide from Netherland, who was diagnosed to be terminally ill. Mrs Weide chose not to take up Chemotherapy, but euthanasia instead. After making decision, her lived as usual, busy preparing her funeral, from the coffin that she liked, to the restaurant the family should go after funeral, to the kind of flowers to be used.
‘I’m going to die on Monday at 6.15pm’
It is kind of sad to read such thing. Not those extreme sadness those, but… I don;t know how to express the kind of feeling. To me, it is absolutely her right to choose euthanasia, and it should be a kind of relief, to her and the family in a way. But, if I were the family members, I don’t know how I would react. Stop her? How could I let her go without fighting?
I don’t know. Do you?
Tags: euthanasia, Netherland
British Teacher Lives On £1 A Day For 365 Days
Sep 8, 2008 Life
And she is still going strong! I really admire Kath Kelly. It is definitely not easy. Other than the rising living cost, the much more difficult problem nowadays is the temptation that we are facing. I can eat cheap, transport cheap, dress cheap, stay cheap, but I always cannot resist to upgrade/replace my laptop, handphones, mp3 players, DSLR, overseas holidays, ect……
To be able to achieve what Kath is doing, it takes not only hardworks, calculation, but also self discipline. Can we live on just $10 a day in Singapore?
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From Cancer Survivor To Olympic Gold Medalist
Aug 22, 2008 Around the Word, Life
Maarten van der Weijden won gold medal in menmen’s 10km open water marathon in Beijing Olympic 2008. On top of that, he is also a multi world champion for all events up to 25km. But surprisingly, 7 years ago, Maarten van der Weijden was dignosed with leukaemia. It took him 2 years to fight the battle with cancer of the bone marrow and white blood cells, and he came back.
Bravo to you, Maarten!
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Tags: Beijign Olympic 2008, Dutch, Holland, leukaemia, Maarten van der Weijden, Netherland, Olympic
Maternity Leave Unfair To Bosses And Colleagues
Aug 21, 2008 Life, Ranting, Singapore
In this “political right” society, very few people dare to tell their true/real feeling regarding government policies, openly. It is politically right to think that the increase maternity leave and incentives will help and encourage more couples to have babies. But, what do business owners, management people and the colleagues think?
I applaud Ms Laura Ng Lai Sun for telling her us what she thinks in MyPaper. I do agree to what she said in the article. What do you think if you are having colleagues who are pregnant? Do you feel it is fair to you? I think the maternity leave, incentives are just secondary. The main reason for low birth rate is the cost and responsibility involved. Having kids is not just a 1 year, 2 years “activity”. It is a life long commitment. What for having 4 months maternity leave but after that the parents maybe will suffer/struggle for maybe 10, 20 years? This is the part that is frightening.
Anyway, someone ever recommend to me that teaching is the most “pro pregnancy” job around. After finding out more details from my teacher friends, I have to agree with this. So, people, why don’t join the teaching line?
Her Son Died, But She Just Can’t Let Go…
Aug 20, 2008 Around the Word, Life
It is not just human who knows what “love” is, animals know it as well……
Taken from Telegraph
Gana is a female gorilla living in a zoo in Muenster, north of Germany. Her three-month-old son Claudio is dead, but she doesn’t seem to understand it.
She has been staring at the corpse in shock and bewilderment, unable to accept that he is dead.
Initially puzzled, Gana stared at the body, bewildered, then started stroking the baby to try and bring it back to life.
She tried gently placing him on her back and slowly walking around the compound, stopping to look if he had returned to life every few paces.
Yesterday, zookeepers were still unable to get to the body of Claudio, because Gana is fiercely guarding over him.
Gana, I feel for you.
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$100 Wedding Angpow Not Enough Anymore……
Aug 15, 2008 Gossips, Life, Ranting, Singapore, Stupid Stuffs
There is an article from MyPaper today talking about the inflation has caused local wedding gift to increase as well.
Thank god that for a long time I haven’t been attending any wedding in Singapore. I had a few in Malaysia, and I gave Malaysian rate of cause, keke.
But this is seriously a sign of jialat-ness of life in Singapore man. Think about it, just a dinner, OK a wedding dinner, and $100 gone. That is ridicurious. I can enjoy very good, delicious durians at Geylang, or very good seafoods at some famous seafood restaurants (of cause 1 person lah). Seriously, I feel that I am a little bit anti-social, so I don’t really like attending wedding dinner/lunch/buffet, whatever it is. It is still OK if the couples are my long time friends and I have a whole group of friends attending. But sometimes, I hardly know that couple or we haven’t been contacting each others for a long long time, Then 1 day, the pink bomb is at my door step. This is crap……
By the way, I find “going overseas” is a very good excuse to avoid wedding dinner……
Do you attend wedding dinner often? What is your excuse to avoid then?
Tags: angpow, Malaysia, Singapore, wedding, wedding dinner, wedding gift
