Mommy & Daddy with cheh & I in the museum
We planned for a day in the city starting with the American Museum of Natural History in the morning followed by lunch in K-Town with my younger sister. Hurricane Danny was expected to bring a down pouring of rain.
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I haven’t seen my parents for more than a year now, since our wedding in KL last summer. So, it was with great excitement and haste that we cleaned the house in anticipation of their arrival. For 4 weekends in a row, we cleaned, scrubbed and dusted the house. But with Jessie around, our 9/10-year-old cocker spaniel, the dust and the fur balls magically reappeared the moment we unsullied the place.
So on Friday night, after work, we scurried home to start the cleaning. It was finally at 9 pm that we were done, and had dinner.
I woke up a little after 6:30 am. Boiled gingko biloba with pearl barley in preparation. Cut up all the vegetables for the week, marinated the chicken to be baked later and then readied a crock-pot for chicken curry. After checking that everything was pristine, clean and put away, I finally sat down around 9:30 am. Their plane was scheduled to arrive at 10 in Newark that morning. We tracked the plane’s flight on-line and it was behind schedule. We left the house 15 minutes later.
We reached the airport albeit a stall vehicle on the road, and a changed arrival entrance at the airport. We thought we were late. My parents were later. They finally came out from US Customs and Border, flustered, around 11:30 am. Their mooncakes with yolk were confiscated. Mommy, however, managed to “smuggle” a piece of fresh ginger!
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I’ve never cried so much and for so long in my life – watching cartoon. My tears just kept flowing for four consecutive episodes (that’s 25 mins x 4) My eyes are shot! I’m going to have swollen eyes tomorrow morning from anime.
Okazaki Ushio
Clannad is a a touching tale of two lives that brought out the best of each other and how their families accepted them.
8/18/09
It’s all a ruse! Fate wasn’t really going throw a double whammy on nice people!!! Wasted my tears, and had to go to work with swollen eyes! WTF!
Fullmetal Alchemist Season 3 began in April 2009 and is ongoing. It replaces Mobile Suit Gundam 00.
Edward & Alphonse Elric are back!
As reported by NY Times and the Associated Press on July 7, 2009
The surviving pages of the world’s oldest Christian Bible, written in Greek, will be published and reunited on the Internet.
Nearly 800 pages from the Codex Sinaiticus, above, a Christian Bible dating from the fourth century, written in Greek and containing the oldest complete copy of the New Testament, were posted on the Web site codexsinaiticus.org, coinciding with a conference on the book at the British Library in London. The original manuscript, about 1,460 pages written on prepared animal skin, was discovered by the German Bible scholar Constantine Tischendorf in 1844 at the Monastery of St. Catherine, a Greek Orthodox shrine in the Sinai Peninsula. Its pages were split among Britain, Egypt, Russia and Germany. Scholars from the four nations worked on the restoration of the Bible, which also includes substantial portions of the Hebrew Bible and apocrypha. Forty-three pages of the manuscript are at the University Library in Leipzig, Germany, and six fragments are at the National Library of Russia in St. Petersburg.
Selected translations will also be available in English and German.
Aug. 4, 2009 – As reported by Market News & Forbes
Anti-TNF (Tumor Necrosis Factor) drug used to treat autoimmune diseases like rheumatoid arthritis and Crohn’s disease will soon be labeled with the “black box” warning. The FDA (Food and Drug Administration) says the drugs increase the risk of cancer in children and adolescents if taken more than 30 months. (Nothing is mention of the side effects these drugs have on adults) The drugs in question include J&J’s Remicade & Simponi, Abbott Lab’s Humira and Amgen & Wyeth’s Enbrel.
While rheumatoid arthritis patients may already be at greater risk for the white blood cell cancer, “there is a possible association between treatment with TNF blockers and the development of leukemia in all patients treated with these drugs,” the FDA said.
Mashiro & Nue
Finished watching 12 episodes of Tayutama yesterday. Sad ending. Is it possible that animes actually have sad endings?
Final scene of Tayutama:
Yuuri preparing the wedding shrine
Yuuri & Mashiro exchange of wedding sake / vows
Yuuri & Mashiro the final goodbye
First installment of our beginnings. I managed to squeeze some heart-wrenching stories out from my father. More than a 100 years of history would have been lost if there was no thought of our past. And this will be passed down to the next generation and the next to reminds us of how lucky we truly are and to be thankful for what we have.
Together with my father, we manage to come up with this – the Chong family history.
My mom doesn’t seem to remember anything. The Phoas will have to wait a while until I get my aunts to spill their guts.
Nagi
Just completed the entire 13 episodes of Kannagi – Crazy Shrine Maiden last night. Now will have to wait for the movie to be released. Read about it and download the opening theme in my post.
Nagi & Jin fight scene
During one of their squabbles, they started decking it out. Some terrific hand eye coordination.
Nagi & Jin
And the final scene…it’s NOT what it looks like. 😀 But VERY cute.
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