A Homemaker’s Diary

I was watching the news yesterday when I heard about the girl who was murdered and left in a bag. Looking at the picture shown by the police, I can see that she was a pretty little girl, same like the missing girl Nurin.

I think lately Malaysia is turning into a crime scene place with people killing their own children, kids missing from home, and later when found dead, nobody even notices or comes forward to claim the body.

What is happening to this once peaceful country? I remember when I was around their age to be able to go to school on my own for co-curricular activities and later take a bus home without having so much concern of being kidnapped, sexually assaulted or murdered. And yet now going out to pasar malam alone is dangerous enough.

I always wonder what happen to the missing children? Were they sent abroad to be child prostitutes or sold to foreign countries to be mutilated and forced to be beggars? What happen to humanity in mankind? Are we too greedy looking for more money and world’s riches that we have to sell and kill another soul? This is sad.. 🙁

*This post is written for virmedice.com*

Have you been to a clinic whereby the nurse retrieves your details from electronic patient records? So far I have seen only a few clinics which have that facilities. Most of the common clinics still use the paper system to get details for new patients and retrieve drugs prescriptions for the returning patients.

A friend of mine who have been studying medicine and working as a doctor in UK finally come home for good. I wonder if after her compulsory housemanship with local hospital (as per requirement by our government since she received government scholarship), she will be interested to open up her own practice.

I would be happy to see her own clinic to have all the latest IT breakthrough in term of software usage and definitely it will help her improve productivity among her staffs.

No more long encountering time at the counter waiting for the nurse to check the medical records and patients information. Therefore she will get the chance to see more patients as she will cut down the time to manually manages prescriptions and maintains complete medical records. By using the software she can improves her patient health tracking and clinical alerts.

I will discuss such benefits with her soon and who knows I could be a part of her clinic’s IT consultancy team..haha!

Today is already the fifth day of Ramadhan month. Nothing much exciting things are happening around here except that I have been having good time checking out what to buy at the Pasar Ramadhan. Thank God for all those sellers, I don’t have to crack my head on what to cook everyday.

I usually will buy food for berbuka, supper and sahur as well. Hopefully by early October I will have more leisure time to cook for berbuka. For now I am swamped with orders for hamper and corporate gifts packaging decorations.

Anyway, I have another wedding to attend one week after Hari Raya and I have to complete the order for that wedding’s bunga pahar as well. But I will still try to cook for Hubby the rendang I promised him..hehe!

And the good thing while waiting for the berbuka time, I take some time to tend to my garden. Hopefully my orchids will bloom like the picture above shown during Floria soon..heh!

You must have somehow heard about all these Greek thing. No, I’m not talking about Greek legend and history, it’s the fraternity and sorority you have seen on movie and TV series. Well, if you have been in higher education institutions, being part of the sorority sisterhood and being accepted as a brother in fraternity in your campus would mean something. At least the Greek wear will do.

Why are they called Greeks? Because they use the Greeks letters to name themselves. Take for example, Alpha Delta Pi. This sorority was originally called the Adelphean Society and it was the first sorority in the world founded in 1851 at the first college for women, Wesleyan Female College in Macon, Georgia. The founders thought it would be a good idea to have a secret society that help women advancing in leadership, scholarship, sisterhood, and service to others.

During the pledge to be a member, people in the campus will be wearing Greek gear such as sweatshirt, pins, hats and all sort of the sorority clothing to show their loyalty.

And once accepted into the sorority, there will be induction ceremony and later the new members will be given Greek merchandise like blankets, pins, and other stuffs. Cool, huh!

Now I feel like another legally blonde sorority sister in the making. Pity my campus here did not have such thing as sorority or any of these secret societies…huhu!

I finally managed to do some gardening last two days ago. I have been putting off the plan for quite some time, but this time I know I had to do it. Pity all those plants waiting to be repotted. One even almost dies while waiting for its turn.

Well, while browsing for new stuffs to be added to my home garden, I was thinking will it be possible to buy all those imported bulbs and plants which can survive full light and dry condition, and try to plant them in my garden.

You see this kind of Wand flowers for example, under the Flower Bulbs section, the description says,

“This rugged flower is grown in the warmer regions of the country, especially where summers are dry.”

I am in a country where it is summer all year long and it’s dry and warm. Do you think such flowers will grow if I try to plant them in pots? And there is another one, Brides Flower – Allium neapolitanum which needs full sun. I can give it a try and who knows my garden will be different from all the tropical gardens in this area.

Talking about garden, it reminds me that I need to find a new trimmer. Check out under the hedge trimmers section at ShopWiki.com and you will be amazed to find so many choices with different price range.

Next time you feel like building a home garden of your own, check out what else they have in store. Now, where do I plant the next bulbs? I need more pots and soils..haha!