I AM IN GREAT COMPANY FOR YVONNE FOONG

YESTERDAY, I received an email from Crankshaft alerting me to her posting on Yvonne Foong. I also remembered Marina Mahathir recently doing a piece on Yvonne. I was tagged by Ruth and in the process of finding MM's posting I chanced upon her latest posting. I AM IN GREAT COMPANY.....find out HERE and HERE two ladies I like immensely.

Please follow the instructions in both their postings.

I met Yvonne in my probationary blogging days. I came away just ashamed of myself. I did a posting on here and wrote:

Yesterday, 8 July, 2007, I met 21 year-old Yvonne Foong at the MIC Putera Bloggers Buff. I went there primarily to support young Bloggers. It was there that I chanced upon and bought her book "I'm Not Sick, Just A Bit Unwell". I heard her speak in her frail voice about her illness; got her to autograph her book; took a photo with her....and came away ashamed of myself....ashamed that, though healthy, I still grumble about the weather, the haze, the traffic; ashamed that I still get irritated by little things; ashamed that I take so many things for granted; ashamed that I do not spend enough time learning from the disadvantaged; disgustingly ashamed about fussing about little discomforts; shamefully ashamed that I should do more listening when people like Yvonne have lost her hearing because of the multiple tumours that grow on her nerves. (MORE HERE)

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THE THREE THINGS I'D LOVE TO SEE:

A UNITED MALAYSIA

sans

RACISM

and

BIGOTRY

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I AM TAGGING

THE ARTICULATE ONE

THE WHISPERER

SUSAN LOONE

THE DREAMER

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