When it comes to memorable goal celebrations, Roger Milla’s corner flag hip-shaking immediately comes to mind. But the effort from Icelandic side Stjarnan blows Roger’s feat out of the water. Taken hook, line and sinker – there’s no doubt that this is the best goal celebration we’ve ever seen.

During a match between Stjarnan and Fylkir in Iceland at the end of last month, the goal celebration after a game-winning kick ended up being better than the actual winning goal. After striker Halldor Orri Bjornsson scored on a penalty kick in extra time to take a 2-1 lead, he pulled out an imaginary fishing rod and casted his line out.  Then he proceeded to reel in a huge catch – defender Johann Laxdal. Displaying wonderful technique the ‘catch’ flapped his way across the turf and was hauled up by Bjornsson and a number of his team mates. The players then posed with their big catch for a photo take.

Millions have watched the YouTube video of the Icelandic “The Angler” goal celebration and the Stjarnan FC has achieved a newfound stardom. But the club now admits that they are now under pressure to make fans laugh.  They have to keep trying to stay fresh and brainstorm for more novel goal celebration routines. It was hard to do better than “The Angler” but since then the team has come up with “The Bicycle” and “The Birth”.  “The Angler” was the brainchild of Bjornsson who thought that one up when he was on a fishing trip with his father. Watch the video and be amused  at the Icelanders’ fishing routine.

The bar has now been set very high just before the start of the new season for professional footballers everywhere.  No longer will the one arm held aloft, or shirt over head routines suffice. Creativity is the name of the game now and it will be hard to beat this elaborate Icelandic fishy routine.

Kudos to the club for taking the art of goal celebration to a whole new level.

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Jackie Evancho

Jackie Evancho, a cute 10-year-old young blond girl from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, gave an amazing performance on America’s Got Talent, singing the aria “O Mio Babbino Caro” (Oh my dear papa) from the opera Gianni Schicchi. The judges loved her and she got a standing ovation. Jackie said that she wanted to prove to America that the best things come in small packages. And she has done just that!

I am a fan of  Charlotte Church and watching Jackie Evancho sing immediately reminds me of Charlotte Church. Jackie said that she started singing when she was  eight years old. Seriously, this little girl has immense talent.

The August 10 show featured acts that auditioned on You Tube for the opportunity to perform on the America’s Got Talent show with a chance to advance to the semi-finals. In fact, Jackie was the contestant who actually received the most votes on the You Tube competition, winning a trip to Orlando for her family. She was truly the gem of the show.

She may look like an average kid, but she has an amazing set of pipes. She is one of those weird children who sound like they’re 40 years old. Watching Jackie sing felt surreal. How could such an amazing, deep opera voice come out of a 10-year-old.

Will she win America’s Got Talent? Is she the next Charlotte Church? Hmmm….I think she’s got a good chance.  Enjoy her rendition of “O Mio Babbino Caro.”

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Since its nationwide premiere on July 22 and playing on an unprecedented 4,000-plus screens in China, Feng Xiaogang’s disaster drama “Aftershock” has taken just two weeks to become the most profitable Chinese-language film ever, setting the all-time domestic box office record for a Chinese film with RMB 532 million ($79 million) in ticket sales. By taking the number one spot, “Aftershock” has unseated the 2009 star-studded propaganda movie “The Founding of a Republic,” a movie marking the 60th anniversary of the founding of the People’s Republic of China, which earned RMB 420 million ($62 million).

The film is a tearjerker, about a mother’s three-decade-long struggle with the emotional repercussions of the 1976, 7.8-magnitude devastating Tangshan earthquake, which killed more than 250,000 people, and then the same, now broken family, reuniting in the aftermath of the 2008 Sichuan earthquake that left more than 85,000 dead or missing. The movie examines the aftermath of the earthquake through the story of a present-day mother’s three-decade journey to an emotional reunion with the daughter she thought she had lost to the disaster.

“Aftershock” also set a new box office record when it earned RMB 36.2 million on its first day, the most ever made by a locally made movie on opening day. “Aftershock”, with a budget of more than US$20 million, quite hefty by Chinese standards, is also the first Chinese-directed movie to be screened in IMAX theaters. About half of the budget was provided by the Tangshan city government.

As the first Chinese film to be seen on IMAX screens, “Aftershock” represents the company’s investment in China. With the film’s success, IMAX Corp. expects to have 57 screens in operation in China by 2012.

China’s all-time box office champion is James Cameron’s sci-fi epic “Avatar,” which raked in $204 million this year, smashing the previous record held by disaster film “2012.”

Although little known in the West, Feng has directed a string of Chinese hits, including the comedies “If You Are the One” and “Big Shot’s Funeral,” along with the Chinese Civil War saga “Assembly.”

Feng Xiaogang

Also released in IMAX format, the movie was a technical breakthrough for the Chinese film industry, drawing on help from visual effects experts from South Korea and the post-production division of French media company Technicolor.

New Zealand’s Weta Workshop — the Oscar-winning design company behind the “Lord of the Rings” trilogy — advised on miniature models that doubled for 1976 Tangshan.

This is the second crown for Feng, whose 2008 romantic comedy “If You Are the One” earned RMB 350 million, a new record for Chinese cinema before it was outdone by the all-star epic “The Founding of a Republic” in 2009 with RMB 420 million.

I seldom watch movies made in China but “Aftershock” is one movie that I look forward to watching!

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MU wins the Community Shield

Did you read the CNN news “United defeat Chelsea in season opener“? Oh my, I am really shocked…. CNN really goofed badly in the report! I reproduce below the first part of the CNN report:

Manchester United got their revenge on double winners Chelsea with a thrilling 3-1 victory in Sunday’s Community Shield, the traditional opener to the English Premier League season.

United only had the League Cup to show for their efforts last season and had to watch as Chelsea plundered the Premier League and FA Cup to secure the first ‘double’ in their history.

But Carlo Ancelotti’s side have had a series of poor results in pre-season and United were full value for their victory on a warm afternoon at Wembley.

United took the lead five minutes before half time when man-of-the-match Paul Scholes played a superb diagonal ball to Wayne Rooney on the right.

The England striker saw Antonio Valencia running into space in the center and he found his teammate with a perfect ball — the unmarked Colombian doing the rest by firing past goalkeeper Edwin van der Sar.

First of all, Antonio Valencia is not Colombian but Ecuadorian.  And if Antonio Valencia had fired past Edwin van der Sar, it would have been an own goal! The Chelsea goalkeeper is Henrique Hilario, NOT Edwin van der Sar. Edwin is the Manchester United goalkeeper. I still find it hard to believe CNN can goof up so badly!

I have printed a screen shot of the CNN report in case CNN discovered their errors and have made amendments to it.  Just click on the screen shot:

CNN Goofed

Oh my, what a joke!

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I listen to a wide range of music ranging from rock, jazz, pop, new age, easy-listening, alternative music, gospel to some classical. But in my teens and early adult, my favorite music was rock and I was hooked on to music by Led Zeppelin, the Beatles, The Who, Rolling Stones, Queen, Eagles, Deep Purple, Scorpions, Rod Stewart,  AC/DC, Pink Floyd, Fleetwood Mac, Styx,  Supertramp, Heart, Bob Dylan, Tina Turner, Jackson Browne and a whole lot of others.

Rock music is a genre of popular music that entered the mainstream in the 1950s. It has its roots in 1940s and 1950s rock and roll, rhythm and blues, country music and also drew on folk music, jazz and classical music. The sound of rock often revolves around the electric guitar, a back beat  laid down by a rhythm section of electric bass guitar and drums, and keyboard instruments such as Hammond organ, piano, or since the 1970s, synthesizers. Along with the guitar or keyboards,  saxophone and blues-style harmonica  are sometimes used as soloing instruments. In its “purest form”, it “has three chords, a strong, insistent back beat, and a catchy melody.”

Rock music

It is not easy to pick my favorite top 10 greatest rock songs but after a couple of hours’ search on the internet to refresh my memory, the following 10 songs are my choices:

Stairway to Heaven” is a song by the English rock band Led Zeppelin, released in late 1971. It was composed by guitarist Jimmy Page and vocalist Robert Plant for the band’s untitled fourth studio album (dubbed Led Zeppelin IV). The song, which runs almost eight minutes, is composed of several sections, which increase in tempo and volume as the song progresses. One of the highlights  of the song is the intricate guitar solo by Jimmy Page. This song is about a woman who accumulates money, but finds out the hard way her life had no meaning and will not get her into heaven.

(I Can’t Get No) Satisfaction” is a song by English rock band The Rolling Stones released in 1965. It was written by Mick Jagger and Keith Richards. The number is noted for Richards’Bohemian  three-note guitar riff which opens and drives the song, and for the lyrics, which include references to sexual intercourse and a theme of anti-commercialism. The latter in particular caused the song to be “perceived as an attack on the status quo”. Mick Jagger wrote all the lyrics except the line “Can’t get no satisfaction.” The lyrics deal with what Jagger saw as the two sides of America, the real and phony. He sang about a man looking for authenticity but not being able to find it. Jagger experienced the vast commercialism of America in a big way on their tours, and later learned to exploit it, as The Rolling Stones made truckloads of money through sponsorships and merchandising in the US.

“Bohemian Rhapsody” is a song by the British rock band Queen. It was written by Freddie Mercury for the band’s 1975 album A Night At The Opera. “Bohemian Rhapsody” is in the style of a stream-of-consciousness nightmare that has an unusual song structure, more akin to a classical rhapsody than popular music. The song has no chorus, instead consisting of three main parts – a ballad segment ending with a guitar solo, an operatic passage, and a heavy rock section. Because of its ambiguous style and arrangement, the song is rarely classified by the band or critics under a particular genre of music. It is usually described as a rock opera piece. When it was released as a single, “Bohemian Rhapsody” became a huge commercial success, staying at the top of the UK Singles Chart for nine weeks and selling more than a million copies by the end of January 1976. It reached number one again in 1991 for five weeks following Mercury’s death, eventually becoming the UK’s third best selling single of all time.

Imagine” is a song written and performed by English rock musician John Lennon. It is the opening track on his album Imagine, released in 1971. It was also Lennon’s only post-Beatle Australian Number one single, spending five weeks at the summit. When asked about the song in one of his last interviews, Lennon declared “Imagine” to be as good as anything he had written with the Beatles. The song is one of three Lennon solo songs, along with “Instant Karma” and “Give Peace A Chance”, in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame’s 500 Songs That Shaped Rock and Roll. Rolling Stone ranked “Imagine” the 3rd greatest song of all time in their editorial The 500 Greatest Songs Of All Time. John Lennon’ s widow, Yoko Ono, indicated that the lyrical content of “Imagine” was “just what John believed — that we are all one country, one world, one people. He wanted to get that idea out.

Won’t Get Fooled Again” is a song by the rock band The Who. Written by Pete Townshend, it combines guitar power chords with heavily processed organ and synthesizer sounds to create a textured, atmospheric introduction that explodes into the verse. It is based upon the idea of revolution, somewhat cynically portraying the hope surrounding the concept – “I tip my hat to the new constitution/Take a bow for the new revolution” – and the disappointment that the new regime is the same as the old one – “Meet the new boss/Same as the old boss”. Pete Townshend wrote this song about a revolution. In the first verse, there is an uprising. In the middle, they overthrow those in power, but in the end, the new regime becomes just like the old one (“Meet the new boss, same as the old boss”). Townshend felt revolution was pointless because whoever takes over is destined to become corrupt. Roger Daltrey’s scream is considered one of the best on any rock song.

Hotel California” is the title song from the Eagles’album of the same name and was released as a single in early 1977. It is one of the best-known songs of the album-orientated rock era. Writing credits for the song are shared by Don Felder, Don Henley and Glenn Frey. The song’s lyrics describe the title establishment as a luxury resort where “you can check out anytime you like, but you can never leave.” On the surface, the song tells the tale of a weary traveler who becomes trapped in a nightmarish luxury hotel that at first appeared inviting and tempting. The song is an allegory about hedonism and self-destruction in the Southern California music industry of the late 1970s; Don Henley called it “our interpretation of the high life in Los Angeles” and later reiterated “it’s basically a song about the dark underbelly of the American dream and about excess in America, which is something we knew a lot about.”

American Pie” is a folk rock song by singer-songwriter Don McLean. Recorded and released on the American Pie album in 1971, the single was a number-one U.S. hit for four weeks in 1972. The song is a recounting of “The Day the Music Died” – the 1959 plane crash that killed Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens and the Big Bopper. The importance of “American Pie” to America’s musical and cultural heritage was recognized by the Songs of the Century education project which listed the song as the number five song of the twentieth century. The song is well known for its cryptic lyrics that have long been the subject of curiosity and speculation.

Hey Jude” is a song by the English rock band The Beatles. Credited to John Lennon/Paul McCartney, the ballad evolved from “Hey Jules,” a song Paul McCartney wrote to comfort John’s son Julian during his parents’ divorce. The change to “Jude” was inspired by the character “Jud” in the musical Oklahoma This was the Beatles longest single, running 7:11, and at the time was the longest song ever released as a single.

A Whiter Shade of Pale” is the debut song by the British band Procol Harum, released 12 May 1967. The single reached number one in the UK Singles Chart on 8 June 1967, and stayed there for six weeks. With its haunting Bach-flavored instrumental melody, soulful vocals, and unusual lyrics—by the song’s co-authors Matthew Fisher, Gary Brooker, and Keith –”A Whiter Shade of Pale” reached #1 in several countries when released in 1967. In the years since, it has become an enduring classic. It was the most played song in the last 75 years in public places in the UK (as of 2009), and the United Kingdom performing rights group Phonographic Performance Limited in 2004 recognized it as the most-played record by British broadcasting of the past 70 years. Also in 2004, Rolling Stone placed “A Whiter Shade of Pale” #57 on its list of the 500 Greatest Songs Of All Time.

Smoke on the Water” is a song by the British hard rock band Deep Purple. It was first released on their 1972 album Machine Head. In 2004, the song was ranked number 426 on Rolling Stone magazine’s list of the 500 Greatest Songs of All Time, and in March 2005, Q Magazine placed “Smoke on the Water” at number twelve in its list of the 100 Greatest Guitar Tracks. The song  is about a fire in the Casino at Montreux, Switzerland. The band was going to record Machine Head there right after a Frank Zappa concert, but someone fired a flare gun at the ceiling which set the place on fire. The band was relocated to another hotel and recorded the album in the Rolling Stones mobile studio.

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Dance is the hidden language of the soul. It  is also an international language. Dancing is the ability to speak volumes to hundreds of people without using any words. To dance takes strength, artistry and passion. You can express any emotion possible in the most beautiful form. Dance is your pulse, your heartbeat, your breathing. It’s the rhythm of your life. Its the expression in time and movement, in happiness, joy, sadness and envy.

The genius of Alvin Ailey changed forever the perception of American dance. Over 50 years later, the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater has come to be known as a cultural ambassador to the world.  Do visit their website at www.alvinailey.org.

Alvin Ailey ((January 5, 1931 – December 1, 1989), an African-American from a small rural town in Texas, founded the all-black company in 1958. He wanted to give voice to a population all-too-often unheard from, and to reflect the joy – and sadness – of the American black community. Until his death in 1989, not only did he choreograph 79 ballets and run an incredibly successful international dance company, he worked tirelessly to include the public – to “break the wall between performer and public”, for, as he put it, “dance is for everybody.”  Ailey is credited with popularizing modern dance and revolutionizing African-American participation in 20th century concert dance.

Alvin Ailey

Ailey’s choreographic masterpiece “Revelations,”  a stylized, elegant combination of ballet and modern dance set to the music of Negro spirituals, is believed to be the best-known and most often seen modern dance performance. For this signature work, Ailey drew upon his “blood memories” of Texas, the blues, spirituals, and gospel, resulting in the creation of his most popular and critically acclaimed work.


Though Ailey created 79 works for his dancers, he maintained that his company was not merely a showcase for his own work. Today, the company continues Ailey’s vision by performing important works from the past and commissioning new additions to the repertoire. In all, more than 200 works by over 70 choreographers have been performed by the company.

Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater performer

Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater dancers

Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater performers

Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater performers

Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater performers

Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater performers

Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater performers

Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater performers

Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater performers

Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater performers

Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater performers

Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater performers

Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater performers

Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater performers

Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater performer

Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater performers

Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater performers

Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater performers

Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater performers

Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater performers

Ailey was proud that his company was multi-racial. While he wanted to give opportunities to black dancers, who were frequently excluded from performances by racist attitudes at the time, he also wanted to rise above issues of negritude. His company always employed artists based solely on artistic talent and integrity regardless of their race

Cry (1971), was one of Ailey’s greatest successes. He dedicated it to his mother and black women everywhere. It became a signature piece for Judith Jamison who has been leading the company as its Artistic Director since Ailey’s death.

Jamison  says she wants audiences to be “touched in their hearts, in their spirits, and in their minds – I want them to feel lifted when they leave the theatre, to feel changed – and to feel as if the experience belongs to them – and that they want to share it”.

Judith Jamison - Artistic Director of Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater

A rhythm begins in your soul

Your body moves

The music flows

Into your veins

A throbbing pulse of

A drumbeat primeval

Voices hypnotizing

Melody and rhyme

Beat of bass and drummer

Feet that move in time to

Guitar, sax and keyboards

The wail of clarinet

A song’s intoxication

Lovers’ silhouette

Senses play the music

Feet and hearts and hands

Romance and dreams transforming

In the alchemy of dance

~ Winsome

Are you touched? Shall we dance?

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In everything I did, I showed you that by this kind of hard work we must help the weak, remembering the words the Lord Jesus himself said: ‘It is more blessed to give than to receive.’ – Acts 20:35

As for the rich in the present age, charge them not to be haughty, nor to set their hopes on the uncertainty of riches, but on God, who richly provides us with everything to enjoy. They are to do good, to be rich in good works, to be generous and ready to share. – 1 Timothy 6:17, 18

But when thou makest a feast, call the poor, the maimed, the lame, the blind - Luke 14:13

Warren Buffet - The Oracle of Omaha

Warren Edward Buffet is one of my most admired persons. Born on 30th August 1930,  he is one of the most successful investors in the world. The legendary investor, often called the “Oracle of Omaha” or the “Sage of Omaha”, is one of the richest persons in the world. He is the primary shareholder, chairman and CEO of Berkshire Hathaway. Despite his immense wealth, he is known for his adherence to the value investing philosophy and for his personal frugality.

Warren Buffet's modest house

On June 26, 2006, Buffet announced that he would give away eighty-five percent of his Berkshire Hathaway stock – worth $37 billion at that time – to a group of foundations over a number of years. No gift of this size had ever been made in the history of philanthropy. Five out of every six shares would go to the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, already the largest charity in the world, in a historic marriage of two fortunes for the betterment of the world.

Buffet With Bill & Melinda Gates

Buffet would establish no Buffet hospital, no college or university endowment or building with his name on it. By donating the money without naming something after himself, without controlling personally how it would be spent – to put money in the coffers of another foundation that he had selected for its competence and efficiency, rather than creating a whole new empire – upended every convention of giving. Such a thing had never been done by any major donor before. “It was a historic moment in the field of philanthropy globally,” said Doug Bauer of Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors.  “It ‘s set a bar, a touchstone, for others.”

The Gates Foundation adhered to a basic creed that Buffet shared: Guided by the belief that every life has equal value, it worked to reduce inequities and improve lives around the world in the areas of global health and education.

More than 99% of his wealth will go to philanthropy during his lifetime or at death. He and his family will give up nothing they need or want by just retaining 1% of his wealth. But fulfilling this 99% pledge will have a huge effect on the health and welfare of others.

The effects of Buffet’s pledge were sizable. Jackie Chan announced that he would give away half his wealth. Li Ka-Shing, Asia’s richest man, pledged a third of his wealth to his own charitable foundation.  Carlos Slim, the Mexican communications monopolist, ridiculed Buffet and Gates for their philanthropy but  did a turnabout a few months later and announced that he, too, would be giving money away.

Buffet said 70 to 80 people on the Forbes magazine list of the world’s richest were contacted as part of his drive to boost giving. Forty individuals or families signed on, leaving about half that need convincing.  Buffet said he’ll keep pressing the billionaires who rebuffed his request that they pledge at least half of their fortunes to charity.

“We don’t give up on them,” Buffet said. “Every saint has a past, every sinner has a future, so we’ll keep working.”

In a landmark moment for philanthropy, Bill Gates and Warren Buffet are advocating that all billionaires commit to giving at least half of their wealth to charitable groups within their lifetimes or after their deaths.

Dubbed The Giving Pledge, the initiative is the result of a series of dinners the two men held over the past year to discuss the effects of the recession on philanthropy with some of the nation’s richest people, including New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg, Revlon owner Ronald Perelman and David Rockefeller, his family’s patriarch.

Michael Bloomberg, New York City Mayor

Ronald Perelman - Revlon Owner

David Rockefeller is the current patriarch of the Rockefeller family

The Giving Pledge does not accept money or tell people how to donate their money, but asks billionaires to make a moral commitment to give their fortunes to charity and to publicly state their intention with a letter explaining their decision.  The Giving Pledge aims to reverse the recession’s trend of declining donations. In all, (if successful) the initiative would transfer $600 billion — a figure calculated by dividing the amount of wealth represented in Forbes magazine’s billionaires list in half — to charitable causes.

The Giving Pledge

Bill & Melinda Gates & Warren Buffet - The Giving Pledge

The initiative could place pressure on prominent families like the Duncans of Houston to dispense more of the family’s trust. Duncan gifted more than $250 million to Baylor College of Medicine, M.D. Anderson Cancer Center, Texas Children’s Hospital and other Houston institutions during his life.

Gates and Buffets’ goal is to instill the expectation that the rich should give away their wealth while creating a peer group of wealthy people that can offer advice on philanthropy, said Melinda Gates,  Bill’s wife and the co-chair of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.

Mr. Rockefeller has pledged to give at his death more than $1 billion to charitable causes, including gifts of more than $100 million to the Museum of Modern Art, Rockefeller University, Harvard University and the Rockefeller Brothers Fund.

For his part, Bloomberg said he gave $254 million to nearly 1,400 nonprofit organizations in 2009, adding, “I am a big believer in giving it all away and have always said that the best financial planning ends with bouncing the check to the undertaker.”

Among the rich joining The Giving Pledge campaign are New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg, media moguls Barry Diller and Ted Turner, Oracle co-founder Larry Ellison, “Star Wars” movie maker George Lucas, energy tycoon T. Boone Pickens, Revlon owner Ronald Perelman, Oracle CEO Larry Ellison,  former CEO & Chairman 0f Citigroup Inc. Sanford Weill,  real estate and construction billionaire Eli Broad, venture capitalist , media entrepreneur Gerry Lenfest and former Cisco Systems Chairman John Morgridge. The full list of billionaires and their letters can be seen at www.thegivingpledge.org.

“We took about 70 to 80 names, a fair number were people I didn’t know at all,” Buffet said. “We had reason to believe in most cases that the people already had an interest in philanthropy.”

Larry Ellison - CEO of Oracle

Sanford Weill - Former CEO & Chairman 0f Citigroup, Inc.

Media mogul Barry Diller

Media mogul Ted Turner

Star Wars movie maker George Lucas

Energy tycoon T.Boone Pickens

Real estate & construction billionaire Eli Broad

Venture capitalist John Doerr

Media entrepreneur Gerry Lenfest

Former Cisco Systems Chairman John Morgridge

Buffet said he will hold more dinners in the U.S. to encourage additional promises. Buffet and Gates  are due to meet with some of the wealthiest people in China in September and India in March.

The world has become a much better place because of Buffet, Bill Gates and the billionaires who have made their commitments to The Giving Pledge. The Giving Pledge is really an awesome idea and based on Forbes magazine’s estimates of the billionaires’ wealth, at least $150 billion could be given away. I salute these billionaires!

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Little babies and kids can be so adorable and funny. Their innocence can be so endearing that you can’t help breaking out in laughter. Even when they are angry, they can still bring a smile to your face.

I am in a foul mood so keep your distance, ok?

Grrrrrrrrr! Don't piss me off!

When life is getting you down and you feel disheartened, just watch the following videos. I love these kids!

Do you wanna fight? This baby is ready to take you on!

I say “Don’t touch me!”.

Ouch! Charlie bit me!


This is a baby version of ROFL!

Oh boy, blood!

Kids say the darnest things. C’mon, say truck!

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Today is a sad day. At about 8.00am this morning, my father-in-law passed away. Last night we were all at the house of one of my sister-in-laws to celebrate the birthday of her son. My father-in-law was there though he did not eat much.  We went home at about 10.15 pm and after taking our bathe, we were thinking of calling it a day when we received news that my father-in-law had been rushed to Columbia Specialist Centre as he was feeling very unwell.

We rushed to Columbia and was told that my father-in-law would be sent to Miri General Hospital as his condition was very serious. About half an hour after our arrival, my father-in-law was rushed to Miri General Hospital in an ambulance. He was already unconscious.

We spent the whole night at the hospital and only went home at about 7.30 am this morning to take our bathe and a rest. But shortly after taking our bathe, we received news that our father-in-law had passed away. So without any chance for rest, we rushed to my father-in-law’s house.  We have been  there for the whole day and only canme back a short while ago to take our bathe. We will going to my father-in-law’s house after this so this blog post of mine seems a bit rushed.

Life is so unpredictable at times.  I hope my father-in-law will rest in peace. He is with the Lord now!

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