Monthly Archives: June 2008
Foster children
On Thursday evening, we have got a phone call from Plan Netherlands, telling us the progress of our foster son in Sri Lanka. Then we have asked for another foster daughter from South America. I am waiting for the details of our new foster child.
Kasun is already 12 years old now. We have been ‘having’ him since the Tsunami tragedy. We know what he gets from our money. At least he has a decent school, has clean clothes and necessities now. His ambition is to be an army or police officer. Wim and I are always happy to hear from him.
Fostering a child is a way to help the poor children or orphans to help their development. This is one way for us to have our dream come true. I know how it is to be poor but I don’t know how it is to be orphan. I hope someday, with God’s will, we will be able to build a home for these unfortunate kids.
Our Favourite Place
Finally I am able to make a pic of our favourite area in the house.
This is the place where Wim and I spend most of our time together when we are home from work (apart from the bed of course). Whatever we do in our home, from preparing dinner, having dinner, watching tele, internetting to gardenning, we see each other almost every second.
In fact both Wim and I have our own rooms on the 2nd level of this house. I have my room for my collections of books, my DVDs, my hobbies and my (office and hobby) desks etc, and also a PC, a TV, a hi-fi set, a DVD player and one of the home-trainers. In Wim’s room, another computer and some technical stuff. Unfortunately for the rooms, we prefer the living room instead.
The reason is simple: since we both work and don’t see each other the whole day, we decided to spend our time together at the living room when we are home. Being married, doesn’t mean we have to stop the romance, does it?
Time flies so fast and unconciously we lost all the valuable moments with our loved ones. So, why not appreciating each other when we can?
Prash Our Indian Friend
Last Wednesday evening, Wim and I had dinner in a Singaporean restaurant in our city with our new Malaysian Indian friend Prash and his mother and aunt. After dinner, we invited them to come to our home.
Last night, Wim and I were invited to Prash’s new appartment. His mother and aunt were there too. It would be their last evening in the Netherlands. They were on holiday to the Netherlands to see the new country her son was sent to by the Malaysian-Singaporean company. This appartment is provided by the company and the company rented 5-appartment in this building for the Malaysian people. Apart from that, they also get housekeeper to clean their home. On top of that, they get free business-class tickets to go home to Malaysia or Singapore 4 times a year.
The building is newly built. So even the smell is still fresh from the cement, paint etc. He has the appartment at the 11th floor, so it’s nice to see the ferries coming in or out from the Spijkenisse river and to see when the bridge is open.
We enjoyed ourselves being with this family. They are quite nice people. It appeared to me that the ladies and I share the same interest: reading. They are coming back next year so I will make sure Prash to let them come when there is the big book fair here. We will also be seeing the mother and aunt in Seremban when we visit Malaysia.
From the left view of Prash’s appartment
From the front view of Prash’s appartment
From the right view of Prash’s appartmentMy New Toy
After a month not able to pick up our new Karaoke set, we finally went to our friends on Friday evening/night.
Here they are: my Filipina girlfriend and her husband and 2-year old very clever daughter.
And on the right is my new toy. It costs us EUR235.00 which is quite a lot of money but it is something to add value in our life so it is more interesting. 
Hi and Bye
Hi there…
I’m so tired but I just thought to come here to say hi to you all. Had a nice time with our Malaysian (Indian) friends earlier this evening: the son, the mother and the aunt. We went to our favourite Singaporean restaurant here in Spijkenisse. The food is great.
Sorry, I’m too exhausted to type more. Gonna hit the sack now.
Ciao…
Met Ann and Family
Yesterday, Shah Rukh Khan and the other Bolliwood beautiful ladies/gents were in Rotterdam. My Indian Sabahan girlfriend, Ann, and I wanted to go but the best sits are too expensive, almost EUR200 per person so we postponed to another year.
So, instead of them coming over to Rotterdam, Wim and I drove to their place. 178km in 1.45 hour. I bought lots of Asian stuff from the Asian supermarket to her (she refunded me the money) such as kangkung, salted fish (from Malaysia), mango, mangosteen, guava, bittergoard, Indian herbs, salted dried prunes, roti paratha (roti canai made in Singapore), soto style instant noodles, chrysantimum, and lots more which she cannot get at her place. (We also can get nangka/jakefruit, rambutan, langsat and durian here.) Her one-year old girl, Gina, is sooo cute and it was nice to see her wanted me to carry her the second she saw me. Her parents were so surprised because Gina normally needs more time to get used to the new people but not with me. 
To shorten the story, we had a great time getting to know each other. We are also aware that we are not going to take each other for granted like other people like to do to someone else.
Dutch team lost
It has been a horrible evening/night. The Dutch had to pack and go home. wuahhhhh… Guus Hiddink, the Russian coach, has won the victory over his homemate Marco van Basten. The Russian played so well and the thing that I feared most with the Orange team came true. They lost concentration, they didn’t played well, they just missed so many goals. Now the Orange team is out, we just hope for the Russian to win the Euro cup. That’s the Dutch Guus Hiddink. He made Korea a proud country when they played the world cup. So, go Guus…
Another Jane Austen’s lover
Have you ever heard a man loves the work of a woman from the 16th century or even from the regency period? And that his best film of all time is Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice?
I have. Only today I heard it from his own mouth. My American colleague. He is big, single and smart. His outlook should be a Star Wars or CSI fan. He is supposed to read science fiction or crime stuff and talk about football or Al Bundy. Instead he is talking about the classic feature of Keira Knightley “… with her neckline so long and her mouth so sensual…”. Can you imagine that? LOL
I thought I was the crazy one to watch Jane Austen’s work on DVD thousand times. Hey, a man can break my record. He has watched Becoming Jane in the Netherlands while I am living here permanently and missed the movie. This sucks. 
I better go and find Dangerous Beauty now.
