Anderson has arrived....

This is the Fourth Day..... Anderson is off the oxygen tonight and he is breathing on his own. However, oxygen is always ready just in case he needs it.

He is drinking mommy's milk, yes, mommy's milk, both orally as well as through the feeding tube. We were all pleasantly shocked that Miranda has breast milk and she is pumping them religiously every three hours for Anderson. We really don't know how long she can provide milk because once he is back to her regular medication, her milk may not be consumable. Anderson is now drinking close to an ounce every three hours.

The nurses in the NICU like his progress so far... He pees and poops normally and he can digest the food normally as well....

Miranda is doing well and should be discharged tomorrow....

Also, tomorrow Amanda is ready to meet her little brother. We submitted the immunization papers today because they will not like children under the age of 12 in the NICU without proof of immunization....

More Day 4 Pictures..

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Day Three. They have reduced the extra oxygen for Anderson because he has managed to breath on his own some of the time... They also started feeding him through the tube.... starting at 5cc every six hours this morning.. and now he is at 8cc every three hours.... tonight the nurse told me that he pooped, which is a very good thing... Mommy is doing very well, up and running already... Amanda is anxiously waiting to see her brother on Saturday..

More pictures from Day Three...

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This is Day Two. Miranda is feeling better today and she visited with Anderson the first time this morning in the NICU. She held him for the whole time while she was there. Anderson is also doing better today, and the nurse said they will probably start feeding him tomorrow.

More Day Two Pictures..

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Anderson's First Night in the NICU...

More Pictures from the First Night.. ... courtesy of Llanet

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Anderson has arrived via Express Delivery this afternoon at 1:43PM :) He weighs in at 5 pounds 9 ounces and measures 18 inches. He is only 36 weeks and is a little premature. His lungs are not fully developed yet and the doctor had put him on the incubator for a week to 10 days. So far the mother and the baby are doing well. Thank you for your prayers and please continue to keep us in your prayers...

Anderson right after delivery..

Miranda is having her C-Section today

We went to Miranda's doctor for a routine check up this morning and her doctor said that her fluid is low and recommend that she does her C-Section today (12:30pm). I am home getting the camera and a few stuff and I am on my way back to the hospital... Please keep us in your prayers...

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A Big Thank You!

We want to say "a big thank you" for your presence and especially your gifts :) at the baby shower for Miranda last week.

We want to especially express our gratitude to those who made it happened. Trudy for organizing it, Tina & Sophie for helping with the luncheon and Pastor Tom and Richard for their blessings.... You are the greatest!!!

Above all, we want to thank you for your prayers. Please continue to keep us in your prayers....

Thank you very much!

Robert, Miranda & Amanda

Bodoh punya India dan Melayu!

Friday, 27 March 2009 05:25

Some Chinese feel I have unfairly whacked the Chinese in my article Bodoh punya Cina! Okay, I may be a racist, but I am an equal opportunity racist. I whack all races without exception. I suppose that still makes me a racist but a fair racist at that. To balance off, why not I now whack the Indians and Malays as well? Later, I will get to the ‘lain-lain’.

NO HOLDS BARRED

Raja Petra Kamarudin

Okay, first the Malays.

They are saying that Najib Tun Razak is sure to become the next Prime Minister, Malaysia’s sixth, because of the RAHMAN Theory. Aiyah! Why so bodoh one? The First Prime Minister was Tunku Abdul Rahman. Should he not have been ‘A’? Why take his second name, Rahman, which is ‘R’?

Okay, let’s say we take Tunku Abdul Rahman as ‘R’ instead of ‘A’. The second Prime Minister was Tun Abdul Razak. So that too should be ‘R’. Instead, we take his first name, Abdul, which is ‘A’.

Can you see how we twist things around just to satisfy the theory? For the First Prime Minister we take his second name while for the Second Prime Minister we take his first name. So we get R.A. instead of A.A. or R.R.

We must be consistent. If Abdul Rahman is Rahman, and therefore ‘R’, then Abdul Razak should also be Razak, which is, again, ‘R’.

That kills off the so-called RAHMAN Theory. Bodoh punya Melayu!

Anyway, it is not known yet whether Najib can take over as Prime Minister on April Fool Day, or a day or two after that. Over the last two weeks or so, the international media has been featuring the Altantuya Shaariibuu murder and Najib’s name has popped up all over the place.

Liberation, The New York Times, International Herald Tribune, Times Online, The Times of India, The Australian, Kompas, The Nation, NineMSN, etc., have all featured the issue. The Altantuya murder and the possible link to Najib, or at least to his office or someone in his office, has been analysed at length. No longer can the Prime Minister, Abdullah Ahmad Badawi, ignore the issue.

Abdullah Badawi has been advised to set up a Royal Commission of Enquiry so that Najib’s name can be cleared. Now hold on a minute! Set up a Royal Commission to clear Najib? In the Lingam tape issue, they set up the Commission to investigate whether any crime has been committed. Of course, the Commission eventually ruled that none had been committed and it cleared Lingam of any wrongdoing. But at least the intention of setting up the Commission was to investigate whether a crime had been committed and not to clear Lingam, although that is what eventually happened in the end, sort of.

Okay, let’s say this is true and that they will set up a Royal Commission with the intention to clear Najib so that he can take over the job of Prime Minister with a clean bill of health. This would mean Najib would not able to become Prime Minister on or around April Fool Day. The Commission would need at least until the end of the year to finish its business and come out with its report. That means Abdullah Badawi would have to stay on awhile longer until the Commission clears Najib, whereby he can then take over without the issue hanging around his neck like an albatross.

It would be good, if the Royal Commission is really going to be set up, that someone like an ex-judge or one of the ex-Bar Council Presidents heads it. And the man or woman chosen must be a ‘tough nut’ who takes no shit from anyone. I can think of a few names that would fit that bill.

Okay, let’s say the Commission rushes through the whole thing and within a few months comes out with its report. But what will happen if the Commission’s report says that there is no evidence that Najib or his office or someone in his office is involved in the murder, however, the Commission has also not found enough evidence to confirm that Najib or his office or someone in his office is NOT involved in the murder? In short, the Commission comes out with an open verdict. There is just not enough evidence either way to say whether Najib is clean or not.

If that happens would Abdullah Badawi still be able to hand over the job of Prime Minister to Najib? Yes, a most interesting question would you not agree?

Okay, now over to the Indians. There are three by-elections coming soon -- one each in Perak, Kedah and Sarawak.

While there appears to be no problems thus far in Perak and Sarawak, it looks like Kedah is going to face problems even before Nomination Day. And the problem is as follows. The Indians are not happy with Pakatan Rakyat’s choice of candidate and they will probably boycott or sabotage the by-election if they don’t get their way.

Okay, I have no problems with that. After all, most of the Indians, the majority of them, are all ex-MIC supporters anyway. This means they have kepala otak MIC. They think like MIC and throw tantrums like MIC and demand this and that like MIC. That is to be expected.

But what is unsettling is the way the Indians constantly talk about Indian this and Indian that. Every time these ex-MIC Indians open their mouths it must be about Indian rights, Indian interests, hak India, kepentingan India, and whatnot. These Indians are just like the Umno chaps, minus the little rusted curved knives. These ex-MIC Indians and the Umno chaps are like pinang dibelah dua, or, as the English would say, like two peas in a pod.

I know that people from Italy are called Italians, people from Germany are called Germans, people from Russia are called Russians, people from China are called Chinese, people from India are called Indians, and so on and so forth. Therefore, it goes without saying that people from Malaysia are called Malaysians. But those Malaysians whose forefathers came to Malaysia from India in the 1850s to around 1920 or so still want to be known as Indians even though they and their parents were all born in Malaysia.

Read my lips, very slowly. Those born in Malaysia are Malaysians while those born in India are Indians. You can’t be born in Malaysia and yet still be Indians. Get it? Or must I repeat that?

Enough of all this Indian this and Indian that! Who the shit cares about Indian rights and Indian interests? We are fighting for Malaysian rights and Malaysian interests. It is Ketuanan Rakyat. Not Ketuanan India just like Ketuanan Melayu a la Umno.

I once had an argument with a Hindraf supporter and he tried to impress upon me that the Indians need to be represented and they need an Indian to represent them. I asked this chap whether he is Indian and he replied that he is. Then go back to India, I told him. Indians live in India. Malaysians live in Malaysia. He then corrected himself and said that he is a Malaysian.

In that case, I replied, why do you want an Indian to represent you? Can’t I, a Malay, be your representative? Why must it be an Indian? I too can represent the Indians and serve the Indians.

This Hindraf chap then asked me how I would feel if an Indian represented me. Considering I am Malay, can I accept an Indian Prime Minister? Of course I can, I replied. In fact, I accepted an Indian Prime Minister for 22 years. The only thing is I never saw him as an Indian or even addressed him as an Indian. I just addressed him as Datuk Seri (now Tun) Dr Mahathir Mohamad.

I am not the problem, I told this chap. You are. You look at things from an Indian perspective. I look at it from a Malaysian perspective. Anwar Ibrahim is half-Indian. Wan Azizah, according to Umno, is half-Chinese. I am half-Malay. Many of my very close friends and relatives are half this or half that. But we never, I repeat never, address each other or look at each other through coloured lenses. We are absolutely and thoroughly colour-blind.

I would like to pack all those who shout and scream that they are Indians into a tongkang and send them back to India where they belong. Bodoh punya India!

Bodoh punya Cina!

Friday, 27 March 2009 00:00

Look at that picture again. The keris has been drawn and the faggot is kissing it. That, my dear Cina bodoh, is an act of aggression. No need to wave one! Take out enough mah!

NO HOLDS BARRED

Raja Petra Kamarudin

MCA Youth glad there’s no more waving of the keris

MCA Youth is relieved that Umno Youth has handed over the keris that was the centre of the keris-waving controversy to its outgoing chief Datuk Seri Hishammuddin Tun Hussein for personal safekeeping.

MCA Youth national chairman Datuk Dr Wee Ka Siong said that Hishammuddin’s kissing of the keris yesterday at the Umno general assembly could not be likened to his brandishing of it at the 2006 assembly.

“Although Umno Youth could not omit the keris ceremony during their assembly, Hishammuddin understood the consequences of waving the keris and had conducted it in a more understated manner to express his love for his culture.”

“He has shown that he is concerned about the feelings of all Malaysians,” Dr Wee said in a statement yesterday. (The Star, 26 March 2009)

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Apa ni Cina bodoh sangat? Hey, MCA, take a look at this:



Can you see the TWO keris on the Umno logo above? Yes, two. The keris is not only a symbol of the dominant party in Barisan Nasional; it is also a symbol of Malay pride and dignity. Have you ever seen an official photograph of any Ruler without a keris either in hand or tucked in his waist? And what would a Malay wedding be without the traditional tanjak and keris (unless you ran away to Thailand to secretly marry the Sultan’s daughter)?

For your information, Cina bodoh, Malays DO NOT wave the keris. I mean, it is just so un-Malay to wave anything -- unless it is an envelope with RM1,000 in it just before the Umno General Assembly. So why are you so ecstatic that Hishammuddin did not wave the keris?

When you see an enemy you are supposed to just un-sheath the keris. That is why, in the old days, when you had an audience with the Sultan, you tied a ribbon around the keris. This was a sign you would not draw the keris -- which means you do not intend to harm the Sultan.

Drawing or un-sheathing the keris is an act of aggression. It is just like the Ghurkhas un-sheathing the Kukri. Once they un-sheath it then it must draw blood. And if they can’t bathe the Kukri in their enemy’s blood then they are supposed to cut their finger and allow the blood to touch the Kukri before sheathing it again.

It’s like what my horny old friend used to tell me. “Once I take out my weapon then I must stab something before putting it back into my pants.” Hey, I did say he was a horny old friend. And what’s worse than a D.O.M., if you know what I mean?

Look at that picture again. The keris has been drawn and the faggot is kissing it. That, my dear Cina bodoh, is an act of aggression. No need to wave one! Take out enough mah! And here we have these MCA idiots happy that Umno Youth just took out the keris and kissed it but did not wave it.



Aiyah, MCA, who are you trying to kid? You bloody Umno running dog. I know you are trying to do damage control here. You are trying to make it appear like Umno Youth has mellowed and is no longer a threat to the Chinese because they did not WAVE the keris. Okay, they drew their keris. They even kissed it. But they did not wave it. So all is peachy and honky dory.

Hah! Bodoh punya Cina MCA. You think the Chinese buy this damage control spin or what? You should have just kept quiet. No need to say anything. Diam saja cukup. Now that you open you mouth and lick Umno’s balls how do you think that makes you look? It makes you look like a ball-licking Umno running dog.



At least, in the previous years, you made some noise -- okay, a very small noise -- whenever Umno Youth took out their keris. Now you open your mouth and say, “Hooray! Umno Youth did not wave the keris this year.”

Do you know there are millions more keris all over the country? I myself own more than ten. My grandfather used to own more than 1,000. Okay, so Hishammuddin is taking that one stupid keris home as a keepsake. But there are a million more from where that came from. And how do you know that one or more of those one million will not emerge and be waved around if the Chinese ‘kurang ajar’?

It is time MCA stopped playing the role of ball-licker and running dog to Umno. Hey, I am not even Chinese. Okay, I may not be ‘proper’ Malay as well. But I am certainly not Chinese. Yet even I dah menyampah with MCA. And why do the Chinese still support MCA? Bodoh punya Cina. MCA is Umno’s running dog and Umno tells the Chinese to go back to China and the Chinese support MCA.

Bodoh punya Cina!

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Rockcliffe ‘palace’ Ottawa’s No. 2 home

New house valued at $9,609,000, 2nd only to Cowpland mansion
BY MICHAEL PRENTICE, THE OTTAWA CITIZEN JANUARY 18, 2009

The traditionally-styled Rockcliffe Park home of Sean Murray and Jamilah Taib,

below, has impressed their well-heeled neighbours and earned a $9,609,000

assessment from the Municipal Property Assessment Corp.

Photograph by: Chris Mikula,, The Ottawa Citizen

OTTAWA — The handsome new home of Ottawa developer Sean Murray and his wife, Jamilah Taib, has shot to No. 2 among Ottawa’s most expensive private residences, as measured by the Municipal Property Assessment Corp. (MPAC).

The couple’s house at 688 Manor Ave. in Rockcliffe Park, completed late last year, is worth $9,609,000, assessors have decided. That puts it second only to that of neighbours Marlen and Michael Cowpland. The Cowplands’ modern mansion at 234 Perley Crt. has an updated assessment value of $12,535,000.

The Cowpland residence has been controversial because of its ultra-modern look, which some traditionalists have grumbled is out of place in Rockcliffe Park, where many of Ottawa’s most expensive homes are located.

The new home of Mr. Murray and Ms. Taib has a more traditional look, which blends in with older, and much smaller, houses nearby. Its construction has been the talk of Rockcliffe for months.

Well-heeled neighbours were impressed when the couple showed off their new home at a recent house-warming and Christmas party.

“It’s incredible,” one guest said. “It is not so much a house as a mansion. A lot of the guests were likening it to an old English manor. But it is a very new English manor.”

The guest, who asked not to be identified, added: “There is marble and the colour of gold everywhere, and there must be 20 chandeliers on the ground floor. It’s like a palace, really.”

The home’s proud owners also offered dinner for 14 at their residence in a recent auction in aid of nearby Ashbury College. The catalogue described the house as a “magnificent home gleaming with marble and gold.” The prize went for $3,000.

The Murray-Taib home has cathedral ceilings throughout the ground floor, and about 12,500 square feet of living space. It takes up much of the lot size of less than one acre. It was designed by the architectural firm of Nicholas Caragianis.

MPAC’s assessments are used to determine property taxes, meaning Mr. Murray and Ms. Taib will have a property tax bill of about $100,000. The Cowplands will pay about $130,000.

Like many home owners, both couples will get a bit of a break on their property taxes this year and the next two because the new assessments are being phased in over four years.

Assessors decided a home like that of Mr. Murray and Ms. Taib would have increased in value by about 14 per cent between January 2005, when assessments were last done, and January 2008, when the latest assessments took effect.

The Murray-Taib home took over the No. 2 spot from the home of Beata and Philip Garel-Jones at 120 Lansdowne Rd., also in Rockcliffe Park. Their home was assessed

at $9,325,000. The couple bought it from technology multimillionaire Antoine Paquin for $8.25 million several years ago.

Michael Potter and Terence Matthews, two other technology multimillionaires, are fourth and fifth on the list, compiled by the Citizen from property rolls. Mr. Potter’s property was assessed to be worth $8,443,000, about $3 million of which was in the value of land he acquired from his back-fence neighbour, the U.S. ambassador.

Mr. Matthews’ home in Kanata was one of only four from outside Rockcliffe in the top 25 assessments.

The most valuable homes in Ottawa are owned by either property developers or high-tech moguls. The sole exception is Daniel Bellemare, one of the owners of Farm Boy fruit and vegetable stores. His renovation and expansion of a traditional Rockcliffe home has earned praise from residents who deplore a trend to demolish old homes in the village and replace them with much larger new houses.

Ottawa Senators hockey star Jason Spezza’s new home did not make the top 25 on assessed value, even though he paid $3.75 million for the modern house on Mayfair Avenue, off Island Park Drive. The house had been listed for $6 million. The house’s assessed value for 2008 is $2,316,000. That means Mr. Spezza will be getting a good deal on his property taxes, or the purchase price was high, or a combination of the two.

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Sarawak CM's daughter has RM28 million 'palace'

Sarawak CM Abdul Taib Mahmud’s daughter and her husband are proud owners of Ottawa’s second-most expensive house, worth RM28.3m

砂首长女儿花近三千万令吉入住渥太华第二贵私人豪宅
砂拉越首席部长泰益玛目家族富可敌国的消息再添一笔，他的女儿和女婿不久前入主加拿大渥太华（Ottawa）第二昂贵，总值将近3,000万令吉的独立洋房。

渥太华当地报章《渥太华公民报》（Ottawa Citizen）在1月19日报导了这项消息。

该报道指，根据市镇物业评估公司（MPAC），嘉米拉哈米达（Jamilah Hamidah Taib）和其从事建筑发展业的夫婿西恩莫瑞（Sean Murray）买下这栋富丽堂皇的洋房。它的价格位居渥太华私人豪宅的第二位。

每年产业税近卅万令吉

“这对夫妻位于石崖公园（Rockcliffe Park）庄园大道第688号的房子在去年全部完工，估价师认为，其价值是960万9,000加币（2830万令吉）。”

此外，他们每年必须交缴的产业税就已高达10万加币，或29万3,000令吉。

第一豪宅属于软体钜子

根据《渥太华公民报》报道，当地最昂贵的洋房则属于加拿大软体钜子迈克考普兰（Michael Cowpland）夫妇所拥有，其价值在1,253万5,000加币，或3,680万令吉。

迈克考普兰在1985年创立Corel公司，是加拿大最大的软体公司，也是个人应用软体、绘图及桌面排版软件的第二大销售商。

嘉米拉和西恩对商业雄心勃勃，拥有渥太华重要的产业公司之一，即萨多企业（Sakto Corporation）。

洋房仿佛旧式英国庄园

这对夫妻的新家以大理石装潢，其中拥有20盏水晶吊灯。它所坐落的石崖公园，其中有24栋房子名列渥太华顶级住宅的前25名。

“通过最近举行入伙和圣诞宴会的炫耀之后，讲究的邻居对这对夫妻的房子留下深刻印象。”

一名当时受邀的嘉宾表示，这栋洋房仿佛一座旧式的英国庄园。

“这对夫妻的房子一楼都是拱形的天花板，并且拥有1万2,500平方公尺的空间。房子几乎占据整片的一英亩地。”

泰益玛目家族商业王国

嘉米拉是泰益玛目的长女，她底下还有一个妹妹。嘉米拉在砂拉越长久涉入的商界，拥有数家重要的公司。

嘉米拉和其他家属共同掌握砂拉越最重要的一些企业，包括砂州日光集团（Cahaya Mata Sarawak）。

泰益玛目的两个儿子蘇萊曼泰益（Sulaiman Abdul Rahman）和瑪目泰益（Mahmud Abu Bekir Taib）这个集团主控砂州日光集团。而泰益玛目的妻子莱拉（Leila Taib）也是该集团的重要股东之一。

半岛电视揭其官商联系

在本周四（19日），半岛电视台播出一项特别报道，揭露泰益玛目家族获得砂州政府丰厚合约的情况。

泰益玛目已经担任砂拉越首席部长长达27年。两年前，他因为一篇揭露日本船运者给香港一家跟他家族有关联的公司给付木桐回佣的新闻，而起诉《当今大马》。这宗起诉案将在今年底在高庭进行审讯。

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