Today was Mum’s 76th birthday and it was too bad that I was only going back next week. So, instead of sending her flowers, I ordered a pot of Phalaenopsis orchid. It will still be there when I arrive next week and if its watered and fed regularly, it is set to last a long, [...]
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The dreaded midnight call
If, like me, you live abroad and you have loved ones far, far away somewhere else, we will have something in common. Not that we are pessimists and expect bad things to happen. We’re just realistic. So we never switch off our mobile phones when we go to sleep. Wherever we are. In case a [...]
Blast from the past!
Everyone was posting photos of the snow on Facebook recently and here in Kuwait, although its winter, it doesn’t snow. One year the temperature went down as far as zero degrees Celcius and we thought it might snow. But it didn’t. I miss the snow! I remember the first (and only) winter we spent in [...]
2009…the year that was
Time flies, as always. This is the time of year when everyone wonders…where did the year go? It never fails. It seems like only yesterday that we welcomed 2009 and soon its time to say goodbye. We were on board the Crystal Symphony on 1st January 2009 – cruising the Palmer Archipelago – a group [...]
Celebrating Eid a.k.a. Raya
Hari Raya Aidil Fitri or Eid al-Fitr is the festival that follows the completion of Ramadan observance and its celebrated quite differently depending on where we are. While living in Malaysia, we would traditionally hold our “Raya open house” on the second or third day of Eid. Many of our Muslim friends would usually be [...]
Goodbye, Dad
More than 2 weeks have passed since my last post and we’re now on the way back to Kuwait. It’s been a sad time for all of us. Dad didn’t make it. He passed away on the morning of 20th April, eighteen days after he was admitted to the hospital for a lung infection. Not [...]
Everything’s gonna be OK…
Its been a weird trip back to Kuala Lumpur this time with both my parents being ill at the same time. Mum was discharged from hospital after 6 days and we were all relieved that she would be well again. Two days after she went home, Dad got what we all (and him) thought was [...]
Sleepless in Kuala Lumpur
I arrived in KL on a humid afternoon – it was Saturday 21st March. It was a good flight and pretty uneventful. The food was good and I ate all the way! Not much, but I ate. And as usual, I hardly slept. I don’t know what it is about planes but I never manage [...]
Thanks Tim!
My husband left on a business trip to Bahrain this morning. A monthly trip for a Group level meeting. A short trip – he comes back tomorrow. So right this moment, me, my husband and my son are in three different countries! And starting this weekend, I’ll be in Kuala Lumpur, where my son should [...]
