More Animal Planet

Papa: How do I know if the fish have already lay its eggs?
Daniah: No not yet, the fishes have not hugged each other yet.

Mama: Huh? How you know they are supposed to hug?
Tasnym: Oh we saw it on a video!

And for a moment I was silent wondering what video they had watched!

Animal planet

The girls were trying to get their fighting fishes to mate:
Tas: why is the girl playing hard to get? (As the male chases after the female around the tank)
Da: come on fishies! We want to see you do it!
Sarah: I want to see I want to see! (As she comes running out of her room!)

I am left thinking that these girls have been watching too much American tv. And it ain't animal planet!

Here's a pic of them being cute animals!

Death comes too soon

Yesterday, I found out that one of our partners has passed away last week after a battle with stomach cancer.  cancer in itself is no longer anything new. What is usually more heart wrenching is how fast the cancer attacked and destroyed the person, and the ones left behind - in his case a 9 year old daughter. He had such a positive outlook and has even asked for people not to grieve at his funeral.

His passing reminded me of my uncle who went thru a similar situation and the cancer is so aggressive that death came so swiftly. He too left behind 2 young children.

Their deaths reminded me so much on the importance of being financially prepared cos we can never know when our last day will be - be it against cancer or other forms of death. And how we should live our life to the fullest each passing day. But it's so hard. So easy to forget when death is not knocking at your door. So easy to just take it for granted that tomorrow will always be there... when actually it may not be.