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August 1st 1969. My wife was born on that Day and that makes this her special day. Happy Birthday,dear !

The mother to my 3 kids; my companion in life and my constant guide, Michelle has been rather happy to just spend the day lazing around and taking time off to relax and rejuvenate. The year has not been very pleasant  on her side of the Family in terms of some personal family losses; what with her aunties passing on, an uncle fighting diabetes and amputation; and yet another close friend having the same worries, being in and out of hospitals due to diabetes and blood pressure. Yesterday, Vincent Low called and said he heard another of our friends was also admitted to the G.H. for gangrene and most probably might have his big toe amputated.Knowing all these and hearing from Kong Hoe(Pantai  Hosp.CEO) that Melaka is now in red alert  due to extremely high cases of Denggi and Malaria just makes the idea of celebrating anything rather depressing.Luckily the home and house provides her with the stability that is required  to face such depressing news. In light of that the kids and I celebrated her day with a rather subdued dinner celebration though for Lunch, mom did cook for her a rather nice meal of her favorite chili dish with prawns and a steamed siakap. The weather today was slightly hot and that became a good excuse to just peter potter around the house in air condition comfort rather that go traipsing around town in the heat and now almost constant traffic jams,especially during the week ends.The house pet, coffee is trailing blood droplets every where though,probably because it's time for her 3 months once period. Shoryn is in charge of cleaning up the mess and she tried fitting the dog with a towel as diapers but gave up after a few rounds of chasing after coffee and trying to get the dog to use the diapered towel !

Wifey selected to have Dinner at The WOK & PAN in Melaka Raya, a usual haunt of hers.

As a special meal for her, i selected Grilled Pork Ribs; minced meat and tauhu in vinigrated vegetables; Curried pork and Omelette's with cincaluk with Baby Kailan for her to enjoy. We had the dinner in the patio of the restaurant as the mild and still slightly warm breeze from the nearby sea blew ever so seemingly all around us.

After dinner, we decided to walk over to the Hash House Hotel for some drinks and friendly banter but found it closed as the staff notified us that the bar is closed for the day due to a water cut around the melaka raya area ! Too Bad . As we walked back to the car, we stopped by the Nadeje Cake House and Bar for the kids to see what was on offer there.

With nothing much happening, we called it a day,soon enough and returned home where every one immediately perked up and looked forward to doing their own stuff - mostly PS 3; computers and TV !

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Here's a message from a former client of mine:

Sent: Sun, 1 August, 2010 21:28:37
Subject: Trip to Krabi

Hi All,

I spoke to my friend Mark Loh about the trip to Krabi and given him the intended date 26^th to 28^thNovember.

He himself is going there this Friday with a group of 7, which he initially asked me to join, so he may not be going with us in November again, but he will inform his friend who also owe the hotel to give us discount. It seems that this place has beautiful sea front bungalow. According to him Nov is considered high peak as European are running away from their winter. He advise us to book early as quoted example of the Tiger Airlines budget fare which he paid in his previous trip costing him S$100+ return, this time because of the National Day holidays, he is paying S$400+. If we want to save cost on the air fare, it is better to confirm earlier. Also if we feel that the quoted price for the bungalow is too high, we could select other cheaper alternative.

I will be talking to him after his return to update you all. Hopefully by then we have a fixed number of people for me to work on.

Regards

John

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