Nathan : Terrible Two and counting!

It's the time again to share some updates on my lovely cute son Nathan. Here are a series of photos of him in his antics and charming my Silly Bean and myself. :-) It is always a pleasure to spend time with Nathan and Silly Bean...just loving it! Here...Enjoy!

Who are you, exactly?

A few days back, I read in an article about the performance of Liverpool Football Club thus far for the 2010/2011 season. Being a die hard Liverpool fans, it was very hard to digest but in a sense agreeable to every details said and commented about my Liverpool. Due to dismay performance for the 2009/2010 season we finished 7th in the league and missed out on Champions League spot. The bad trend continued to the new 2010/2011 season where a clueless manager was appointed to a club with two greedy good for nothing but broke as hell Yankee owner; the dreaded Tom Hicks and the awful George Gillette.

Belated Happy 2011 post!

Wow, with a blink of an eye 2010 is consigned to the history bin and we welcome the new year of 2011. How did I celebrate the coming of 2011? Sick as a dog and staying on bed almost the whole day. ol'Jon has been sick for 3 weeks leading to the new year. Constant high fever will be followed by fits of cold shivers, ol'Jon faced one of the lengthiest sick period I've experienced so far. The never say die attitude made sure ol'Jon work during this sick period and pretend the sickness wasn't there. I've done this before, using the mind to cheat the body during my younger days. Bottom line was that I was sick as a dog and still work long hard hours to finalize a couple of projects on hand.

Things was getting out of hand and before long, my sickness worsened and after constant barraging from my Silly Bean, Soon Aik, parents and so on, I decided to see a Chinese Traditional Doctor instead, recommended by my good friend Soon Aik. It turns out I've got a very serious sickness, 'chut tan' was the name and it can be fatal if not handled properly. Western doctors has given me paracetamol to control the fever and nothing else. But this Chinese Traditional Doctor gave some prescription and immediately tasked his assistant to 'kau sua' a painful traditional method to release 'excess heat' by scrubbing hard on your back until it turns reddish black. Then using two vacuum cups, the assistant move it up and down my back(one of the most painful experience I've been through) to release more heat. Lastly, using 3 fine needles he poke it somewhere near my neck(back) and vacuum cup it. This releases the toxic blood and is said to help to cleanse my blood. All in all a very painful experience but the result was immediate. I felt lively, the headaches are gone and my fever subsided even before I take them medications. So as per the advise of the Chinese Traditional Doctor, ol'Jon took 4 days off and only return to work today.