My Super Woman, My Queen

My Queen on her thrones XD

This is my tribute to the most amazing woman in my life, the one that shaped me to become who I am today. She is the Queen of my life, in the past, the present and the unforeseeable future, and she will always be.

A full time housewife nearing her fifties (remember always, female's age is a secret) with a caring husband and three filial children of her own, she is the envy of many of her neighbors as she look like she's in her thirties :) Many keep trying to ask her for the secret of her youth yet failed because she have none. No heavy use of cosmetics, cream or whatever chemicals the female species applied on their faces nowadays. Maybe her secret is having three good and filial children (me included of course XD).

Furthermore, she has three additional beautiful and lovely daughters of age 2 and 1/2 years old, 1 and 1/2 years old and the youngest is just 3 months old. They are the gems of her life and they are the one that accompany her for most of her days as her other children are out working and studying. The laughters they brought her definitely is the most effective one compared to any other elixir of youth that exist. 

She's born the (err, let me count awhile...okay, got it) seventh child out of eight brothers and sisters in a traditional family where not much emphasis was given to education. Instead, she's required to help the family prepare foods for sale on her father's little stall after she finish her class. Hence, she only studied until SRP (PMR's equivalent on those days) and she start working at that young age to help the family. By chance, she is given the opportunity to work in KL and she grab it immediately. This is where she met her husband and created the rest of her history with him.

From a village girl that knows nothing about cooking and taking care of children, she grows into a first class cook among her children and their friends that are lucky enough to given the chance to tried her cooking. She turns into an excellent babysitter that got many young parents lining up to obtain her limited expertise. Her growth in all these years leave many with envy and amazement, including her own three children. This is one of the countless reasons why she is my Super Woman.

There is a joke that the Husband is the General of the household while the Wife is the Major, as the Husband make all the 'General' decisions while the Wife make all the 'Major' decisions. This is especially true in her household. She is the Finance Minister, Foreign Minister, Education Minister and almost all the portfolios except Prime Minister and Work Minister. She's the one that manage the finances of the household and enables my dad to own what they have now. This is truly an amazing feat, given the limited pays that my dad received for his work. 

When I mentioned earlier that she is the one that shaped me into who I am today, I did not exaggerate at all. For starters, she's the one that allow me to explore my curiosity even if it means to the annoyance my teachers (some did find my curiosity amusing LOL). She fueled my quest to search for the answer to all my questions by asking me to read as she is unable to provide me with the answers herself. Not to mention the fact that I had annoyed most of my teachers with my endless questions XD From there, my loves for books and words grew exponentially, making me the bookworm I am today.

By looking at the way she manage the foreign affairs of my family (with all those uncles, aunts and the endless number of ke poh chi), I learned the fine ways of dealing with peoples around me. As a result, I've become an expert of some sorts in dealing with different types of peoples that I encounter. And it is from her that I learned true friendship means sincerity and honesty to your friends. To this day, I still uphold this value and will continue to do so. To all my friends that cherish my friendship, you have this Super Woman of mine to thank for.

As the Minister of Education for my household, her policy on education is total freedom for me to choose  when I want to do my revisions and what I want to study in the future. The only exception to this policy is regarding Maths, as she still have this traditional opinions that Chinese must excel in Maths. So I have to make sure that I score the best for every Maths exam that I sit for and every careless mistake was 'rewarded' with a knock on my head. Surprisingly this does not impaired my learning capabilities or as I suspect, it might improved it. Nevertheless, the results of this 'reward' is the physical resistance my head developed and I am able to excel in my Maths paper most of the time. 

Lastly, I would like to take this opportunity here to wish my mom and every moms out there "Happy Mother's Day". Words can never expressed the full extent of my gratitude to her so this is just a small token of my appreciation to the Queen of my life, My Super Woman. 

Thank you Mom. You are simply the best.

~Teddie~

(Now I hope Google Translate can translate this piece fairly well so that my mom can read this. Let's keep the finger crossed everybody XD or anyone volunteer to translate this for me?)

Election in Singapore

If you wonder what this have to do with us Malaysians and why I choose to write bout this topic, I can assure you it's not because I am a ke poh chi. There's something different bout this whole election that caught my attention and it prompt me to write this. 

It all started with a simple video post that I saw in my FB two days ago about a 24 years old girl name Nicole Seah. It's a collection of photo of her campaigning in S'pore (if you are thinking that it must be her look that caught my attention then you are very wrong) with the Chinese song "I Believe" as accompanying music. What really prompt me to press play that evening is a description by the uploader that reads "Nicole believes in a better tomorrow. Let's support her vision. It will take a miracle to unseat Goh Chok Tong. I believe in miracles...". This short description sets me back as I wonder what gives this girl the courages to stand up against The SM Goh (SM stands for Senior Minister, don't get the wrong idea peeps ;p). In case you all scratching your head who is this guy which I bet most of you are, SM Goh is the giant in terms of politics in S'pore as he is the ex Prime Minister.

One video leads me to another, and leads to more articles and news. I discovered a few more names along the way such as Pritam Singh, Tony Tan, Michelle Lee, and Lee Li Kian. All these peoples are the candidates for the oppositions, quite young and regardless of their party, every single one of them have the same fiery passions in their eyes to serve and fight the injustice for the Singaporeans. They've  won me over with their fiery passions, their sincerity in their words and actions, the humility they shown, their anger over all the injustices served to ordinary Singaporeans, their courage to stand up and voiced out the dissatisfaction of the grassroots, and most importantly their love for the peoples. They show me all the quality that a politician suppose to possess. In their rally's speeches, they only make fun of the opponent if the chances arise and that also seldom happen. What they really talk there is the issues that is of interest to the peoples,  suggestions that might actually works and their passion to right the wrongs in the government.  How I wish that we Malaysians can be blessed to have all these individuals as our politicians. 

To provide more substances to my opinion, let me tell you about some of the videos I watched. During a rally's speech, Tony Tan almost cry (or did he?Too bad the video's quality is not that good) when he is recounting the sad stories of the citizens that he met during his walkabout. It is so clearly written on his face the sadness he felt when he heard of all these sad cases and his sadness at his own helplessness to assist those citizens, that it's painful to watch even if I'm not a Singaporean. Such love for his own countrymen. 


Another candidates that generated a huge buzz, with her FB page's "Like" surpasses Lee Kuan Yew's FB page in merely a week time, Nicole Seah. She gains so many supporters in such a short time not because of her look, but it is her sincerity in every of her speech and interviews that touched the ordinary Singaporeans. A mere 24 years old girl, as Mr. Lee Hsien Long called her, have the courage to stands up to voice her opinions against the ruling party and to right the wrongs that she sees. As she said it perfectly, "It's not about how young I am, it's not about whether I'm female. I'm just an average Singaporean who wants to make things right for her country". Her sincerity, her courage of steel, her down to earth self and  her iron hard determination left me standing still, converted.

Let me remind you fellow friends, a politician's role is to serve the peoples of his/her constituencies, to listen and to provide solutions to their problem, to voice their opinion and dissatisfaction to the government,  to represent the peoples and to fight for their rights in the Parliament, and last but not least, to make sure that the country's wealth is distributed equally to every citizen. 


Sadly, this is not the case with our country. Our politicians are only good in publicising themselves over the media, promising empty promises, giving threats and later on scrambled to cover theirs or others backside, finger pointing and playing blaming games, name-calling and personal attacks, and the best of all bickering like a small kids in the Parliaments when they are suppose to discuss and debate issues of national interest. The only interest they have is their own pockets and wallets. Sad but true, this is our politics...

These sad pictures of our politicians is the main reason why I still haven't exercise my right as a voter. I don't see anyone that is worthy for me to cast the vote in my hands. Until such person/s show up in Malaysia, I will not cast this vote of mine. This is my pledge.

To our neighbor Singaporeans, you all are blessed with such young and rare talents so appreciate them. They are definitely a group which in my opinion, is an invaluable assets to your country. To politicians in Malaysia, I hope the examples set by Nicole, Tony, Michelle and the groups can serve as a wake up call to you and brings you back to right path as a politician. Remember those that you pledge to serve.

~Teddie~
P/S: edited at 20:28, 5th of May 2011.

Introduction

Thanks to my best buddy, I've decided to listen to him and start writing a blog. He said that I should not keep all my thoughts and opinions to myself and share it with everyone else. I'm still doubting whether my TWO cents opinions are worth reading but still, no harm giving it a try so here I am.

There's one problem though, that is I don't know what I should write about now. Ideas been swimming in my head for years but there's too many that I am seriously clueless on where I should start. So, in the end I've decided to write a short intro bout myself to start it off.

Teddie. This is the nickname that I will use from now on as someone beats me to the name Teddy in blogspot's URL. The idea for this nickname started with the nickname that all my relatives used to call me, which is 'Gou Xiong' or Bear Bear and to top it off, I have a size to complement the name XD When scratching my head for a nick for my online persona, I've decided to use the name Teddy without the Bear and now, I will move on with the nick Teddie.

Next, let's move on to my love life. The gems of my life definitely is the small collection of Books that I have in my cupboard. Yes, you heard me right. It's Books, and this is not some name of a girl that have come into my life. If you think I will disclose the details of all my relationships here, then you can dream on. At least, it won't happen anytime soon. Anyway, back to the love of my life, Books. I can't recall when or which book that got me hooked up in reading but the resulting effect is the birth of a bookworm named Teddie. 

Well, I think that's enough bout myself for now. I shall see which topic will strike a chord with me to get me to start writing.

~Teddie~