my niece greeted her guest with a warm welcome - prepared a big feast on her table
both my niece & nephew playing Music?! on the 'laptop'
mom's crops
Vinashini Home. this home caters for 54 people (out of which 34 are mentally retarded and the rest are orphans). the age of the folks here range from as young as 2 year old to adults. http://saisamaj.blogspot.com/2007/05/charity-event-at-vinashini-home.html
the kid on the far right is blind. all he ever does is sit in the same position. the one in the middle has both her legs braced. and the boy on the left is mentally ill. he was attempting to eat a candy wrapper when i was there.
some other kids. there's one young indian girl - 17 - who works there as a caretaker.. she cleans and makes sure that the kids here do not harm themselves.. i saw a boy playing with the fire extinguisher hung on a wall.. it looked dangerous to me and the caretaker quickly stopped the boy.. one cannot take their eyes off the children.. not even for a minute..the caretaker has to be alert and attentive at all time, i find this challenging coz there are 54 children altogether.. there are a few other caretakers too.. 
the Makan place.. apparently the owner is a chef in some hotel in PJ.. and he cooks for the Home.. imagine.. 3 BIG meals (enough for about 60 ppl) a day!!
kitty chatting
the bedrooms. there are 5 bedrooms altogether.
kitty, garf & gang
my hometown friends - sooky & weiyee were there too. they bought things for everyone.
kitty chatting
sooky chatting. i chatted with this lady too. she was telling me that everyone in the Home went on a chartered bus to Sunway Pyramid and the Lagoon for a visit during Xmas week.. she said got Pool of water.. got food to eat.. it was fun.. =)
after visiting the Vinashini Home, we went for seremban beef noodles and moved on to a second home - the Sejahtera Home, at Sikamat. there are 18 old folks here. my kl friend brought his mini compo and put in a Chinese New Year CD in and cheered up the whole environment right away.. one of the aunties said "WOW! VERY CHINESE NEW YEAR MOOD! VERY HAPPY!" hehe.. all of them seem very happy as they just went out on a trip in those funky classic cars.
some of us with some of the old folks..
One of the first few things I did once I got back to KL was to visit my dogs who are now living with Andrew's aunt in Seremban 3. Actually, I don't have the rights to call them my dogs anymore; I have not been their caretaker since quite some time back - they have been living with Andrew until his parents recently decided that the dogs aren't coming to his new fancy schmancy apartment.
And now that they aren't even living with Andrew, technically speaking they're not really our dogs anymore. Right? Anyway, if I have a wise piece of advice to tell others, especially young people 'in love', it would be never ever take the decision of getting a pet together lightly.
Seriously, I don't think I have much regrets but having to accept the fact that neither of us could provide shelter to them - I'm still coming and going, god knows to where, and Andrew having no say at all in this matter when it comes to keeping them makes me ponder what sort of an idiot I was. I feel like kicking myself. The feeling of abandoning them is just pure shit.
Elvis. Somehow I think he is way happier in Seremban 3 than in Andrew's previous apartment. After all, Elvis is a true blue Ozzy dog - he's got a love affair with the outdoors and at least now he's got a backyard to run around in.
AJ is still such a prince, doesn't like getting his paws too dirty. He's getting better now in the sense that he isn't just a couch potato anymore. I heard he's even willing to walk on grass now.
My only consolation comes from Andrew's aunt who is one of the nicest person I've met and that she adores them.
I think you guys can gather by now that none of us are really in the mood for words. Just make do with photos lah.
Shiny happy people waiting to receive their Xmas pressies.
Santa Klaus
I decided that Laika should be a present too.
The mess that was our backyard.
Posers at the Glebe market.
View of CBD from Watsons Bay.
Cheryl visited
Bay near our place in Birchgrove.
the prettiness of domesticity