Carpe Diem

Friday, May 23, 2008

Nice words....

Another gem by KL aunty....:)

Do u get the feeling....

that someone is thinking about u

in a special way...

U're right...it's me sending

happy thoughts your way to wish

u a great day and have a happy weekend:...Cheers...:)

Saturday, May 17, 2008

What have i read lately...

For the past month, i have been reading these books. "Every breath you take by Ann Rule", "Inside Laci Peterson murder by Michael Freeman" and "First to die by James Patterson.

Loan from my aunty. Very interesting books, two are based on real stories and the other are fiction.

Start off with Ann Rule's "Every Breath you take".

ISBN: 0743224000
A True Story of Erotic Obsession, Revenge, and Murder

http://www.highlandco.org/BookReviews/Staffrev2.html

Every breath you take
Every move you make
Every bond you break
Every step you take
I'll be watching you
Every single day
Every word you say
Every game you play
Every night you stay
I'll be watching you

The true story of the murder of Sheila Bellush takes its title from the 1983 Police song "Every Breath You Take," and the lyrics quoted above chillingly illustrate the obsession that led to the crime. Allen Blackthorne never forgot that his ex-wife Sheila had defeated him in court, so he hired someone to murder her almost ten years after they divorced. This book is as much about the making of a sociopath as it is the narrative of a woman's life cut short as her children watched helplessly.
Allen Blackthorne was a sadist from the time he was a child who intentionally caused the death of a family pet.

Author Ann Rule traces the history of violence, neglect, and sexual abuse that were Allen's heritage from generations past. Sheila Bellush, his ex-wife, feared for her life even after escaping Allen, remarrying, giving much-publicized birth in Texas to quadruplets, and moving to Florida. What makes this book unique is that it may well be the first book ever to be written at the request of the crime victim. According to Sheila Bellush's sister, Sheila had read several of Ann Rule's books, and during a televised version of Rule's best-selling book Dead by Sunset, she made the request, "If anything should happen to me, find Ann Rule and ask her to write my story." Every Breath You Take is the fulfillment of that tragic request.

Rule helpfully includes a "Cast of Characters" section, a necessary addition to help the reader sort out family members, friends, neighbors, multiple ex-spouses, and law enforcement officials in two states. The "Author's Note" details how the case finally came to the attention of Ann Rule, and the book is very appropriately dedicated to Sheila Bellush and her children, with Rule saying, "I hope I got it right." Twenty-four pages of photos chronicle happier times in the lives of the victim and her family, the crime scene, and courtroom shots of those involved in the conspiracy to kill. In an afterword, Rule speculates on what could cause an intelligent, attractive millionaire like Allen Blackthorne to detach from human feeling to the point that he was able to have the mother of his children murdered in cold blood. Unfortunately, the answers remain murky.

Every Breath You Take is also available abridged on audio cassette and CD, with the author's note and afterward read by Ann Rule herself. Although this book is not as compelling as Rule's The Stranger Beside Me, in which she chronicles the crimes of serial killer Ted Bundy (another case in which she was personally involved), Every Breath You Take is a recommended book for those interested in true crime and its psychology.

My take on this book; as the author gives the historical background on the people involve...it shows a series of broken marriages and the lost of family value. I.e Allen blackthorne(the master mind behind the murder of his ex wife), his own father married 3 times. He himself married 3 times too.

This book is intersting to read because the victim herself was the one who contacted the author and had also told her own sister that should anything happend to her...must investigate her death. It was as if the victim knew something bad will happend. It is a sad case for all involved.

Check out this news link if want to know more.

http://www.sptimes.com/News/webspecials/ongoing/bellush.murder/default.html

Friday, May 16, 2008

Japanese Name- tag

Thank you Monica for the tag!!!

For the instructions, add your name on the list and simply spell out your name using the given Japanese letter- translations below. Tag six of your friends and inform them of the tag. Have fun.

TRANSLATION:
A - ka
F - lu
K - me
P - no
U - do
Z - zi
B - tu
G - ji
L - ta
Q - ke
V - ru
C - mi
H - ri
M - rin
R - shi
W - mei
D - te
I - ki
N - to
S - ari
X - na
E - ku
J - zu
O - mo
T - chi
Y - fu

1. OSWALD - moarimeikatate (sounds like america and states. har…. har… har…)

2. CHLOE - Miritamoku — Um…think I still prefer my given name, ha ha

3. GENG – Jikutoji — Actually, I think its cute sounding. Arigato gozaimasu!

4. CONSTANCE - Mimoto arichi katomiku — WOW! Does it sound like an authentic Japanese cuisine? YIKES! I broke it up cos it was quite a mouthful!

5. DORA - Temoshika – Sounds pretty good huh?! Does it mean beautiful woman?

6. Sting - Arichi Kitoji - Sounds like a guy's name but at least it rhymes! LOL!!

7. Amidrin - Karinki Teshikito (I was deciding between Karinki Teshikito or Karinkites Hikito. LOL... still the english name sounds much better.)

8. Osindak - Moari Kitotekame (I sound very Japanese! LOL)

9. Monica - Rinmotokimika (lol, it sounds so funny)

10. Nightwing - Tokijirichi Meikitoji.....:)

Feel free to join in...:)

Thursday, May 15, 2008

Strong winds...

My city has been hit by strong wind and rain since Saturday nite, Sunday evening, Tuesday nite was the strongest by far. It seems the strong wind and rain are tail end of a typhoon from Philipines.

The strong wind on Sunday...quite a number of trees was down. Even cause one of the high way traffic jam cause of fallen trees.

The weather in the world is really something. Cyclone in Myanmar, volcanoe eruptions in Chile, earthquake in China....what's next?

Thursday, May 8, 2008

"Mama"....Happy Mother's Day.

This post is dedicated to all mothers and my fellow blogging friends. I post this early in case i forget or busy this weekend.

Borrow from KL Aunty...

"LIFE comes only once,

Enjoy it to the fullest,

Try not to be 'Angry or Sad',

Because every minute of your anger and sadness,

U lose 60 seconds of Happiness.

Have a good..:) Happy..:) and Smilling day..:)"

HAPPY MOTHER's DAY!!!!

God bless always.

Hope you all will like this song.

Tuesday, May 6, 2008

Monday, May 5, 2008

Follow up....

This is total BS...Insane? An insane guy can fly to Thailand for holidays?

From CNN.

Lawyer prepares insanity defense for incest captor

AMSTETTEN, Austria (CNN) -- The Austrian who reportedly admitted holding his daughter captive for 24 years and fathering seven children with her will plead insanity, his lawyer said.

Attorney Rudolf Mayer said he believed 73-year-old Josef Fritzl had a mental disorder, The Associated Press reported. Mayer said someone who was mentally ill "didn't choose" to do what police allege he did.

Mayer said Fritzl would be confined to a psychiatric institution rather than a prison if he was certified as insane and convicted, AP reported.

Police said last week that Fritzl had confessed to imprisoning his daughter in a secret cellar dungeon in his home, fathering seven children with her and burning the body of one who died in infancy in a furnace.

Meanwhile, Fritzl's sister-in-law has said his wife did not know her daughter was held captive in their basement for decades because she had been trained not to ask questions under her husband's tyrannical rule of the household, .

He was such a tyrant," said the woman identified only as Christine R. in a Saturday interview conducted and translated by AP.

"He tolerated no dissent," Christine R. added.

"Listen, if I was scared myself -- I was scared of him at a family party and I did not feel confident to say anything in any form that could possibly offend him -- then you can imagine how it was for a woman who spent so many years with him."
In the televised interview, Christine R. added detail to the bizarre story of 73-year-old Fritzl who was recently arrested and confessed to holding his daughter captive in a dungeon under the home for decades, repeatedly raping her and fathering seven kids -- with six of them surviving.

Christine R. also said Fritzl committed an unrelated rape in 1967, served 18 months in prison for that crime and that her sister continued to stay married to him in a desperate attempt to keep their family together.

Recent media reports also claimed Fritzl had been convicted of rape. Austrian police have said they are looking into the claims.

The horrifying story has shocked many locally and across the world. On Sunday, members of the Amstetten religious community held a Mass to remember Fritzl's family. After the Mass, members of the church signed a banner outside a church in support of the victims.

The story of the family's imprisonment began to unravel two weeks ago, when Fritzl's daughter, Kerstin Fritzl, fell seriously ill with convulsions and was hospitalized.

The 19-year-old girl, who had been locked in the basement her entire life along with her mother and two brothers, was in an artificially induced coma in an Amstetten clinic. She was suffering from a kidney ailment that worsened because she did not receive medial treatment sooner, authorities said.

Fritzl told his wife that their daughter Elisabeth, who is now 42, ran away from home at age 18.

The couple adopted three of the children who Josef said were left on their doorstep as infants by his runaway daughter.

In the interview Christine R. said her sister, Rosemarie, truly thought that her daughter had ran away to join a cult.

"She never believed him being capable of it," said Christine R. "We were all taken in by him and believed that she (referring to Elizabeth), was in a cult and that she wouldn't come out."

It may have been Fritzl's strict rule over the household that made it possible for him to keep his gruesome secret hidden for so long, Christine R. said.

The unspeakable ordeal has taken a toll on the whole family, Christine R. said, stating that she spoke to her sister on the phone recently.

"Five or six days after Kerstin went to the hospital I called my sister and asked her how the girl was doing," Christine R. said. "She said that she herself was doing badly, and the girl herself was doing badly and she wished with all of her heart that the girl would pull through."

Fritzl is being held in police custody. He has yet to be charged, but he can be held by police for 14 days without formal charges while the investigation is under way. That amount of time can be extended by a judge.

Copyright 2008 CNN. All rights reserved.

Thursday, May 1, 2008

Follow up on 'this is madness'...

Really hope the effected family can lead a normal life and continue to live a fruitful life. I think her will to survive and care for the children helped her all these years.

From CNN.

Incest family 'faces years in therapy'

(CNN) -- The woman and children held captive in a cellar for years by their incestuous father will take years to recover from their disturbing ordeal, doctors warned Wednesday as the family at the center of the case remained in psychiatric care.

Members of the Fritzl family will also be offered the chance to adopt new identities in an effort to help them lead normal lives, officials said.

Hans-Heinz Lenze, the head of local social services said the family was "doing as well as can be expected in the circumstances" and said any change of identity would be the family's decision.

Elizabeth Fritzl -- now 42 -- spent more than two decades in the windowless basement after being drugged, handcuffed and locked up by her father, Josef Fritzl, as an 18-year-old. Repeatedly raped, she gave birth to seven children by Fritzl, one of whom died as an infant.

Three of the children -- Kerstin, 19; Stefan, 18; and Felix, 5 -- remained imprisoned underground with their mother. The other three lived in an apartment upstairs with Fritzl and his wife who believed Elizabeth had abandoned them after running away from home.

Elizabeth and five of the children were continuing to receive treatment at a local clinic near Amstetten after being reunited on Sunday. Kerstin, whose hospitalization at the weekend finally brought the family's plight to the attention of authorities, remained in a coma at a nearby hospital.

"It is astonishing how easy it worked that the children came together, and also it was astonishing how easy it happened that the grandmother and the mother came together," clinic director Berthold Kepplinger said. But Kepplinger warned that the family would require extensive counseling.

"We're talking of 20 years of darkness, incest and its effects and other illnesses they might have suffered from."

Kepplinger said the two sets of children were tentatively getting to know one another, adding that the two boys who had lived underground had an unusual way of communicating with each other.

A policeman who had accompanied the boys to hospital after their discovery on Sunday said the pair had "screamed with excitement" during the car journey as they experienced the outside world for the first time.

"The two boys appeared overawed by the daylight they had never experienced before," said Chief Inspector Leopold Etz. "The real world was completely alien to them... We had to drive very slowly with them because they cringed at every car light and every bump. It was as if we had just landed on the moon."

In an interview with the Austrian newspaper, Oesterreich, psychiatrist Max Friedrich, who treated the abducted teenager Natascha Kampusch, estimated it would take "between five and eight years" for the children to recover from their experiences.

Another psychologist, Bernd Prosser, told Austrian television that it would be impossible for the four held prisoner underground to lead normal lives. "I am afraid it is too late for that."

Kampusch, the Austrian girl abducted as a 10-year-old and held captive in a basement for more than eight years until she escaped in 2007, also offered her help to the family on Tuesday, but questioned the decision to move them from the cellar into psychiatric care.

"Pulling them abruptly out of this situation, without transition, to hold them and isolating them to some extent, it can't be good for them," said Kampusch, now 20, in an interview with Austrian TV station Puls 4.

"I believe it might have been even better to leave them where they were, but that was probably impossible. This case is not like mine, where that was not my environment. They were born there and I can imagine that there is a strong attachment to that place."

Tuesday, April 29, 2008

This is madness....

I read the newspaper this morning and was shocked about an Austrian guy who 'imprisoned and fathered children' from his own daughter since 1984. I told my GF about it, she is also disgusted about the $#%$%^#% father.

From CNN.

'House of horror' children never saw daylight

AMSTETTEN, Austria (CNN) -- Three children freed from a cellar in which their mother had been imprisoned and raped by her own father for 24 years had never seen daylight, police in Austria have confirmed.

Police spokesman Franz Polzer told CNN that 73-year-old Josef Fritzl admitted holding his daughter, Elisabeth Fritzl, 42, hostage in the windowless cell and fathering seven children by her.

"The mother had memories [of the outside world] and got used to the situation," Polzer told a press conference Monday afternoon. "The others knew nothing else."

The main question reverberating from the small Austrian town: How could a man keep his daughter locked in his basement for 24 years, where she gave birth to seven of his children while her mother and three of those children lived upstairs without an inkling of the horrors in the cellar?

Fritzl explained Elisabeth's disappearance by saying she had run away from home, a story backed up by letters he forced Elisabeth to write, including one that begged her parents not to look for her.

Other letters made it seem the missing daughter had left the three children on the parents' doorstep -- when in fact they had been born in captivity in the family's basement.

Elisabeth told police that she and her three children Kerstin, 19; Stefan, 18; and Felix, 5, did not see the light of day during their entire time in captivity underneath the building in Amstetten, a rural town about 150 km (93 miles) west of Vienna.

Elisabeth is described as "very disturbed" and having trouble talking to police about her ordeal, reports CNN correspondent Fred Pleitgen. She went missing in 1984, when she was 18 years old, police have said.

More details also emerged at the news conference about the basement dungeon in which the daughter and her children were kept -- and how her father managed to keep them captive for more than two decades. See inside the cellar prison »

The authorities have revealed that the prison, constructed in the basement of the 1960s building, ran underneath both the building itself and the garden outside.

The entrance was via a small door, hidden behind cupboards in the basement, controlled by an electronic keyless-entry system. Polzer said that the prison was hard to find, even if someone was looking for it, and had been soundproofed.

"Even though they shouted and called they were not in a position to let anyone hear them," Polzer told the press conference.

Polzer said that Fritzl made clear to his wife and other children that the area was out of bounds and they were not to go into the basement. He bought food and took it to his captives in the evening. Watch a report on details of the case »

Detectives made the grim discovery about the cellar earlier this month after Kerstin was hospitalized in Amstetten after falling unconscious and taken to a hospital in Amstetten by her grandfather with a SOS note from her mother hidden on her.

A DNA test was later carried out which revealed her grandfather, Josef Fritzl, was also her father, according to ORF, Austria's state-run news agency.

That sparked a police investigation, which revealed that Fritzl fathered at least six children with his daughter, forcing her and three of the surviving children to live in the cellar of his house, according to ORF's Peter Schmitzberger.

On Sunday, police searched the hidden rooms where Fritzl admitted he kept his daughter and their children, including sleeping quarters, a kitchen and a bathroom, which Fritzl told police he built, Polzer said.

Amstetten police say they were put on Fritzl's trail following an anonymous tip off. They apprehended the pair on Saturday near the hospital and once police assured the daughter that she would never have contact with her father again, "she was able to tell the whole story," Schmitzberger said.

Elisabeth said her father began sexually abusing her at age 11. On August 8, 1984 -- weeks before she was reported missing -- her father enticed her into the basement, where he drugged her, put her in handcuffs and locked her in a room, she told police.

For the next 24 years, she was constantly raped by her father, resulting in the six surviving children, she said, according to the police statement.

She also told police she gave birth to twins in 1996, but one of the babies died a few days later as a result of neglect, and Fritzl removed the infant's body and burned it in an oven.

She told police that only her father supplied her and her children with food and clothing, and that she did not think his wife knew anything about their situation

Fritzl lived upstairs with his wife, Rosemarie, who police said had no idea about her husband's other family living in the cellar. The couple adopted three of the children that Fritzl had with his daughter, according to police. He told his wife that his missing daughter had dropped the unwanted children off at the house because she could not take care of them, police said.

When Kerstin fell ill, Fritzl apparently told his wife and the hospital that his "missing" daughter had dropped off the sick girl on his doorstep.

In an effort to find out about Kerstin's condition, the hospital and police asked the media to put out a bulletin requesting any information about the girl or her missing mother, attorney general Gerhard Sedlacek told NTV.

Sometime later, Fritzl brought Elisabeth out of the cellar, telling his wife that she had returned home with her two children after a 24-year absence, police said.

He took Elisabeth to the hospital to talk with doctors about Kerstin's condition, and at that point, authorities became aware of her situation, Sedlacek said.

CNN's Fred Pleitgen, Ben Brumfield and Nadine Schmidt contributed to this report

Copyright 2008 CNN. All rights reserved.

This is not what a father supposed to do to their own children. May this %#%#%# die a horrible death....if law of man can;t get him...may he be judge accordingly during judgement day.

To those of you who have children...please give them an extra hug and say you love them....cause the above news...should not have happend in this day and age.

Friday, April 25, 2008

Please Do Not Forget...

MURDERED. 9 YEARS OLD. WHY? ARE WE HUMAN?

TO AVOID SUCH A TRAGEDY HAPPENING AGAIN, AND FOR THE SALVATION OF OUR CHILDREN, WE ARE DOING A WORLDWIDE CAMPAIGN, DISPLAYING THE IMAGE OF NURIN JAZLIN JAZIMIN IN BLOGS ALL OVER THE WORLD ON 25TH APRIL 2008. LET'S NOT FORGET NURIN JAZLIN.

UNTUK MENGELAK TRAGEDI SAMA BERULANG KEMBALI, DAN DEMI KESELAMATAN ANAK-ANAK KITA, KAMI SEDANG MENGANJURKAN KEMPEN KE SELURUH DUNIA, MEMAPARKAN GAMBAR NURIN JAZLIN JAZIMIN DI BLOG-BLOG DI SELURUH DUNIA PADA 25 APRIL 2008. JANGANLAH KITA MELUPAKAN NURIN JAZLIN.

Got this from Mr David Santos, who few weeks ago have requested bloggers to display the above message on our blogs on this day.

Thursday, April 24, 2008

Strangers in the Night

Dedicated to the fans of Frank Sinatra.

SMS..

From KL Aunty....:)

As the SKY breaks into A beautiful sunrise,

may God open the HEAVEN to shower you with

Lots of Love & Happiness to make your day a "BLESSED" one.

Good day.....

Monday, April 21, 2008

Weird dream/nightmare.

On Saturday nite...had a weird dream or nightmare. This one is quite something.

I was at a campus or school...and one pregnant lady was missing. Everyone was searching for her. I kept on telling people to always know where ur friends are.

The search went on for awhile..from top to bottom. Police came but did not enter the place to help search. Then someone found the lady...she was in a dumpster and the baby was taken out. Only then the police came in to do their thing.

I do not know what it meant but i woke up around 4 am. And try to go back to sleep.

I did not watch any horror movies or CSI. So not sure what trigger this dream.

Tuesday, April 15, 2008

Without you...

Without You....Air Supply version.

Hope it is ok....:)

Monday, April 14, 2008

Sms from KL Aunty

Another lovely gem.

CARING is a gift that no one can buy.

It's made up of love that roots in out heart

& creates memories not just for a while but

for LIFE!! Have a great day :)

Cheers...:)

Friday, April 11, 2008

Please visit this site...

I am sure most of u have heard the story about the young child prodigy (now an adult) who becames famous for the wrong reason in the past few weeks.

Please visit my fellow blogger's blog, Tembam

At her blog, there is a blog that was set up by the family of the lady....in setting the record straight abt certain info on their lives.

Hope this lady will find it in her heart to go back to her family.

Thursday, April 10, 2008

Sad email.....

Yesterday received a sms from my ex colleague asking me to check my email...said it was urgent. When i reached home and check the email another ex colleague called to inform me of the news (connected with the email). I told her i was just checking the email.

It seems one of our friend (also ex colleague), was diagnosed of a fatal liver illness, Hepatocellular Cancer. Doctor has indicated a very short survival life span. The only way out is through Liver Transplant.

I was shocked to read the mail. He is a very good person and lecturer...all the students he ever taught have high regards of him. Very active in church too.

He is only 48 years old and children (3 of them) is still young.

I pray that he and his family will pull through.

http://www.medicinenet.com/liver_cancer/article.htm

http://www.medicinenet.com/script/main/art.asp?articlekey=57326

Tuesday, April 8, 2008

In Love with you..

Sunday, April 6, 2008

Hachi-ko

Yesterday i bought this movie, about an Akita Dog of Japan...who was so loyal to his master that he 'waited' for him at the train station for 10 years (even though the master has already passed on). The movie is in Japanese with English Sub.

This is based on a true story, where if u ever get to visit Japan, ask people there if they ever heard of the Dog statue at Shibuya train station.

The dog was born in 1923, he and his master was inseparable. Every day he will follow his master to the train station (when the master go to work) and evening time he will go back to the station to wait for him. Sadly though in 1925, during that fateful morning, as if he knew something was wrong, he was not himself and probably did not want the master to go to work.

He followed the master to the train station and half way through the day, the master passed on. He went to the station to wait for him that same evening. And was doing so for the next 10 years. He himself passed on in 1935.

Its a tear-jerker and it is really a story about royalty.

And good on the Japanese people for remembering him by putting up a statue at the train station and his 'skin' is display at the National Museum of Nature and Science.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hachi-Ko

Tuesday, April 1, 2008

U make me feel brand new by Stylistics....

Hello,

Hope this is ok. I love this song. It is from the 'oldies'. Hard to find this song in karaoke.

Sorry first, i think i mess up a bit in some parts.