I got a call yesterday from my faithful blog visitor Uma to find out how i am doing as she did not see any post by me recently. I told her i am fine..it just that too many issues to deal with recently. Thank you Uma for checking on me and in way you act as a reminder...ha..ha!

When i saw my blog this morning, i realised i have not blogged for for more that 2 weeks. Ooops!

I have volunteered to be the Master fo ceremonies for the Hospice Klang treasure hunt over the weekend. I have been a master of ceremonies for many corporate events such as convention, MOU signing ceremony, award presentation for my company but this is the first time where a motor treasure hunt programme is involved.

I have been a volunteer with Hospice Klang since 1998. But after i had cancer myself, i was not much interest and did not do any voluntary work. So when i recently went to meet the new committee members including the President Dr Micheal Yoong, i found a lot of new faces.

When i became a cancer survivor, my focus of doing voluntary work changed. I rather talk to people about cancer and create awareness to larger group of people than having to meet cancer patients often and to be reminded of the past. Even i have stopped becoming a hospital vounteer now. I just want to live out of fear of cancer and sickness.

Of course there are survivors who now volunteer so eagerly to do voluntary work including dealing with patients and my hats off to them.

Hope my first attempt as emcee for a treasure hunt turns out to be success.

eHomemakers

At a spur of a moment, I joined the ehomakers as a member recently. I received their first newsletter for 2009 yesterday which was informative. I just wanted to discover the various opportunities available working from home.

After all, because of work, I cannot be leaving home at 6.30 and coming back at 7.30pm and traveling by public transport for the rest of my life. Eventually I was to find something closely to home so that I do not spend half my time of the day traveling.

March was an interesting month. Lastly year during my birthday I was arriving from New Delhi and this year on my birthday, the whole family was on our way back from Cherating after a short holiday. Because of the heat, I had bad stomach pain in the morning then as we reached home after several hours of traveling, I came down with a severe headache. What a way to celebrate a birthday…ha..ha. But still I had lots of presents and well wishes from so many good souls…to me these are priceless.

And now I have been suffering from a bad cough since last week, of course it is much better but still I have been missing a lot of sleep. Even with this cough I was able to take part in a speech contest but was unlucky as I did not win any awards. This is the first time actually I have entered the final round and did not win anything. It was definitely a disappointment.

I am currently reading the book The White Tiger by Aravind Adiga which was given to me as a birthday present. I am really quite pleased with myself as I have been able to read a number of books lately. I also have several books I have not read yet.