Dear All,
Finally am able to update you that my mum is on the mend and hopefully will be discharged soon. She is able to eat a bland diet and shows no sign of internal bleeding. Her grouchiness meter has a high reading, a definite sign of getting better. She complains about everything now and after [...]
Archive for April, 2008
Mum on the mend. Thank you for your prayers.
Posted in Close to home on April 24, 2008 | 5 Comments »
Mum in hospital
Posted in Close to home on April 17, 2008 | 7 Comments »
Dear Friends,
I had to rush my mum to Emergency on Tuesday morning. She was later discovered to have bleeding ulcer in stomach (possibly due to taking painkillers on an empty stomach) and had lost much blood. Was admitted to ICU Wednesday evening and being closely monitored. Have improved much and on the mend. Popped back home [...]
Whose that fat lady in the mirror?
Posted in Ample-tude on April 13, 2008 | 10 Comments »
I can’t recognise that person staring back at me when I look in the mirror these days! And to think that years ago when mourning my dad who died when I was taking my finals as a student in the US, I was so skinny that I was borderline aneroxic. But then, that was a long time ago. [...]
Yusof Family Blog on media misconceptions
Posted in Major Big Deal on April 10, 2008 | 6 Comments »
My own little brother sent me the link to the blog simply entitled “Yusof Family”, the official blog of Sufiah Yusof’s heartbroken family. I visited this blog ( http://hyusof.com/ ) managed by younger brother Iskander and was intrigued. The blog showed family photos of a normal family growing up in a normal way doing the normal, mundane, everyday family [...]
A mother’s anguish – who to blame?
Posted in Major Big Deal on April 6, 2008 | 19 Comments »
Mother’s and what constitutes good mothering have come into focus lately in the UK following the highly publicised cases of Shannon Matthews and Sufiah Yusof. In Shannon’s case, the nine-year old went missing for more than three weeks and was recovered safe after a massive search. This led to questions about the living arrangements of her mother [...]
Self hate reason for Sufiah’s self-destruction?
Posted in Major Big Deal on April 2, 2008 | 16 Comments »
When I read the recent story of Sufiah Yusof, I could not help but recall another lovely little girl named Sophia who was the daughter of former NST Crime Editor Sabry Shariff. I remember in the year that Sufiah and her family visited Malaysia (in 1997 I think) and the newspapers were awash with stories about this child math [...]
