My sister's keeper

Sara and Brian Fitzgerald's life with their young son and their two-year-old daughter, Kate, is forever altered when they learn that Kate has leukemia. The parents' only hope is to conceive another child, specifically intended to save Kate's life. For some, such genetic engineering would raise both moral and ethical questions; for the Fitzgeralds, Sara in particular, there is no choice but to do whatever it takes to keep Kate alive. And what it takes is Anna. Kate and Anna share a bond closer than most sisters: though Kate is older, she relies on her little sister--in fact, her life depends on Anna. Throughout their young lives, the sisters endure various medical procedures and hospital stays--just another part of their close-knit family's otherwise normal life. Sara, a loving wife and mother who left her career as an attorney to care for her daughter, is sometimes lost inside the single-minded caregiver she has become in her efforts to save Kate. Her strong, supportive husband, Brian, is often rendered powerless and passive by his wife's strength and determination. And their only son, Jesse, drifts, at times all but forgotten as Kate and Anna take center stage. Until Anna, now 11, says "no." Seeking medical emancipation, she hires her own lawyer initiating a court case that divides the family and that could leave Kate's rapidly failing body in the hands of fate. The judgement goes on, and everybody has to take sides one way or another. Later on, the idea about emancipation was not Anna's, in fact it was Kate, the always-sick one, who asked her to put a stop to her endless suffering.

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This is a best, inspirational, touching movie that I would encourage everybody to have a watch. I went for this movie with a girlfriend last night. She read the book before, and we both were so interested on this movie. It made me cried. If you plan to go for this movie, make sure you bring some tissue with you. I can hear everybody sniffing and crying so obviously in the theater.

Here're some sharing.

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Watching this movie inspirated me, made me recalling both of my elder sisters, those sweet and sour memories. Time really flies, I still remember vividly when my eldest sis leave to US for her studies in 1998. It seems like just happened yesterday, and now it is about 12 years old. And that time my second sis was doing her studies in the local Uni, we barely meet each other as she came home once or twice every weekend. It is funny that, I spent 6 years together with my second sis without my eldest sis, and now I spent another 6 years with my eldest sis in the States without my second sis, PRETTY FAIR huh??? =p And now, 3 of us are apart from each other and I do miss them most of the time. Especially my second sis, everytime we chat online, she asked me when do I want to go back, if we are going back this Dec as I promised her before. I pray and hope that we will have the chance to re-union soon! I love you two =)

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Kate, I really think she is a beautiful and brave girl, the main character in the movie made me cry the most, when I see her suffer from the leukemia. And the strong-tight relationship between her and the whole family, how they supportand love each other. I was thinking that, how fragile of our live as a human being. Kate said in the movie, "She is pain, her entire life is a pain". This really made my heart feel so pain. All in all, I learn from this movie, to appreciate every single person and thing in my life. To always appreciate and be thankful for having a healthy body to do many meaningful things.

This is the link for a short review of the movie,

http://www.mysisterskeepermovie.com/
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Go watch this movie, experience it by youself...I hope you enjoy the movie!.

Appreciation-no more complaining

Yesterday, LKM was watching one of his favorite TV series. There's a episode about a group of doctors and people doing the voluntary job in Kenya, Africa- dealing and helping a group of poor africans with epidemic diseases. In this particular episode, an infectious boy died in his dad's arm, nothing much the doctor can do as the kid was already in a very chronic condition. Right before he die, the main female actor managed to took a photo of this father and son, Okana.
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It was a very touching moment. All in the sudden, something pop out from my mind. I told LKM that, "I wonder how many people in this world will never had the chance to even take just one photo of themselve in their whole life???" My thinking, may be it is an infinity figure!
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This give me an opportunity to reflect myself. Most the time I told my friends that life is not easy, life is suffer. But, compare with people in Africa, and many other poor countries, I really think I do not have the right to say the word of suffering. No more complaining or questioning such as the food is tasteless, the bed is not soft enough, why loads of work with such low pay,...why me???...why do I need to overcome all these problems...etc...
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I told myself that-I need to learn again, the true meaning of appreciation, and no more complaining, but sharing! Let's all add oil together!
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13 days old...

7/15/09 . Wed . 13 days old . Baby Leaves

Keep Going!

Keep Going: The Art of Perseverance by Joseph M. Marshall
Product Details
ISBN: 140273607X
ISBN-13: 9781402736070
Format: Hardcover, 144pp
Publisher: Sterling Publishing
Pub. Date: October 2006
Sales Rank: 42,069

Synopsis
From bestselling Native American writer Joseph M. Marshall III (The Lakota Way, The Journey of Crazy Horse) comes an inspirational guide deeply rooted in Lakota spirituality.

Grandfather says this: “In life there is sadness as well as joy, losing as well as winning, falling as well as standing, hunger as well as plenty, bad as well as good. I do not say this to make you despair, but to teach you…that life is a journey sometimes walked in light and sometimes in shadow.”

Grandfather says this: “Keep going.”When a young man’s father dies, he turns to his sagacious grandfather for comfort. Together they sit underneath the family’s cottonwood tree, and the grandfather shares his perspective on life, the perseverance it requires, and the pleasure and pain of the journey. Filled with dialogue, stories, and recollections, each section focuses on a portion of the prose poem “Keep Going” and provides commentary on the text.

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Hey guys, this is another good book! Recently I have a BIG BIG obsession with reading. YES YES YES i Do!!! I found this great book from Barnes & Noble. Saint Cloud, the place we are staying currently is a small beautiful, peaceful Uni campus town. Meaning, nothing much interesting places or things we can go or do. For this reason, hubby and I used to hang out there, a dating spot in our list. ;p

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To save money, we usually we go there look for good book, then copy down the ISBN and get a cheaper copy from ebay and amazon. I just bought it from ebay last week and it is still on the way to me, can't wait to read it!

July 4th Long Weekend

We didn't go anywhere this 7/4 long weekend. But just a gathering with few friends and picnic at a garden in our neighbourhood.

The beautiful water fountain.

The "Yin Yiong"

Me enjoying the book...

Some of these lily can be as big as our face...

LKM's favorite flower!

The purple lavender...

Barely see this

color of lily...

Nasi Lemak as dinner

with friends...

Last but not least, the homemade pizza!

Just a simple and relax long weekend with my buddies!

I made it!!!!

Given my limited artistic skills, I finally managed to paint the flower pot I mentioned in the previous blog. I spent almost the whole afternoon for the printing. It wasn't the prettiest nor perfect, and my housemate said that combination of the colors seem a bit weird too. But I'm proud of myself that at least I tried, painting doesn't seem to be that hard as I think before. I give myself a B+. ^^

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Today, I was chatting with a friend that I know for more than 20 years. We both shared the life experiences that we had gone through in these years. I thank her for the precious sharing and encouragement.

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Life isn't always a smooth path, but what God wants us to learn from every single moment is the most important. No doubt, action is always harder than saying. But at least we try, we have no regret. Just like what SuPing told me. Life is about learning and trying. Like my little pottery, I will never knew that I can paint if I don't try, right? Now, the original plain ceramic pot has turned to become a colorful painted pottery.

Can you see those little small leaves. It just took 3 days for these baby leaf to "pop-out". I was so happy when seeing this, this is my first time doing the gardening. They do symbolize and carry the special meaning- life is always filled with energy and hopes!

2 Sweetie Pies

Time really flies, it is the beginning of the July already. My two nephews have grown up so much. Ethan just celebrated his 3rd birthday last month and he started to go to pre-K about 2 weeks ago. Yet, I haven't get the chance to see him so far... :( hopefully I'll be seeing this sweetie pie soon! He can sings and posts very well...if not mistaken, he has grown up to 1 meter height.

OK...my 2nd sweetie pie...Ivan is turning 2 next month, just like Ethan gor gor...he is a brave boy! He goes to day care too. I called him almost everyday, to make sure he won't forget me...hehe...I call him at least once a day cause I do miss him alot!!! He can now say "I U" meaning I love you since he can't pronounce probably. My sis told me that he can now reads from A-L by himself...and he EATS alot compare to last time...good job, Ivan!!!

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The 3rd sweetie pie is coming soon...wohOooo, my eldest sis pregnant and Ivan is going to be gor gor next Jan. Boy or girl? Since I already have 2 nephews, and my sis has Ivan, for sure we both wanted a girl, even my brother-in-law aims for a daughter. Somehow, me and my bil have the feeling that...this is gonna be another 'bird bird' again... =p