Scenic Sunday: Gold Coast Australia

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Summer's round the corner. Last night, the Australia rugby team beat the South Africa Spring boks to qualify for the semi final.

Sunday scans/scenic Sunday: National Men's health week

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LOS ANGELES--(BUSINESS WIRE)--June 13 marks the start of National Men’s Health Week which, appropriately, ends on Father’s Day. In support of Men's Health Week – which is coordinated by the Men’s Health Network (http://www.menshealthnetwork.org) and is designed to increase awareness of preventable health problems and encourage early detection and treatment of disease among men – Health Net, Inc. (NYSE:HNT) is sharing information about screening tests that men shouldn’t ignore.

“and health screenings often help to serve as a bridge to early detection.”

“There are still significant statistical gaps between men and women in relation to health issues,” notes Jonathan Scheff, M.D., chief medical officer for Health Net, Inc. For example, according to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, men die at higher rates than women from the top 10 causes of death. Additionally, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reports that men, on average, die almost six years earlier than women.

In New Zealand, it is not fathers' day, but we are also getting people be aware of their health. Men are generally known not to go to the doctors even when they are very sick. The man I married for 32 years belong to the same category.

Scenic Sunday: A wedding

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Sarawakiana posted this photo and I asked her permission to post it here. She is on holiday in Australia and probably didn't read my request. I hope she doesn't mind as I really wanted to do this story. ( Sarawakiana was a senior in my school, and I always admired her.)

This wedding photo showed a wedding during the flooding of my Sibu town in Borneo.

The story I want to tell you is my parents' wedding.. Dad went up the Rejang River (350 miles long) He and his cousin Uncle Kok Fei probably paddled in a tiny dug up about 80-90 miles up the river. They had to do it in the early morning so that the Japanese Soldiers and the natives would not spot them.

They brought Mum down in that little boat in the dark. Uncle Kok Fei mischievously played the drum. Dad had to shush him as they didn't want to attract the Japanese. They never had a wedding photo during the war.

We used to tease them if they eloped. Mum did have a white wedding dress. It belong to dad's best friend. Mum was 15, Dad was 20. Do go to my story link to read their story especially why they were wed at such a young age.

scenic sunday: tracking

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The weather is hotting up. Time to take out your tracking boots.

Scenic Sunday" Friends

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My granddad taught us especially when he said we should treat everyone well, you never know if we were entertaining angels. Today, I made a new friend from Zimbabwe.

I remember how my brother Henry and his wife Elley made two friends from Zimbabwe. I am proud of Henry that he practised what Grand Dad preached.

When Elley and I were traveling into Los Angeles, we met an old man who started chatting with us. Little did we know that he was the father of a celebrity.

That night at the premier, we happened to be at the corner of the Kodak Theatre which featured the Blood Diamond, and we then hung out at the entrance of the Roosevelt Hotel where the stars were celebrating after the show.

As we were gazing at the stars with the paparazzi snapping photos away, this man came out of the hotel and talked with me and my wife. He talked to us like buddies. We were surprised with his friendly gesture and I told him he must have mistaken us for someone else. He kept on saying he knew us. My wife insisted that this couldn't be because we came from an Island of Borneo in the country of Malaysia. When he reminded us that he met us on our arrival at Los Angeles, we then remembered talking with this friendly guy. He told us that, had he known we were not attending the premier, he would have invited us to join him. This was because he had movie passes with his daughter acting in the movie!

When his daughter appeared, he proudly asked her to take the photos with us, so that's how a paparazzi took our photos together. To our surprise, she was Benu Mabhena.

Benu's father's friendly presence during the premier of the movie Blood Diamond on December 6, 2006 made our holiday in Hollywood so memorable and their holiday in the United States so very special.