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Over the past couple of weekends, myself & my wife have gone shopping frenzy. Why? one may ask...... Well coz we are going for our 'HONEYMOOOOON'. We have both decided to go to SPAIN. We are going with our friends Jannie Tan & her Family. All together, there will be 8 of us, and we are hoping that more will join us. The trip will cost RM6981.00 each. Which I think is a fair price, but will re-confirm on that on our return.

We have engage Reliance Tour & Travel to be our tour company, as they offered the best deal at current timehttp://http//www.reliancetravel.com/contact_us.html. After a couple of meetings with the tour company representatives, we have actually state some of the spots that we would like to see & visit. So, one can say that the trip was plan by us. HAHAHA!!!!

But back to our shopping spree, my wife & I went to 1 Utama shopping mall to purchase our travelling bag. Luckily, the staff at Travel for All was a friend of mind, so we each bought a bag. Elayne bought a trolley bag, whereas I bought a big knapsack ( very mat salleh).

Then after the long search & bargaining brawl to get the best out of our money. We walk next door to Waffle World to have a drink & light snack. Coincidentally, the F&B outlet is operated by my sister & my bro-in-law. The drinks were very refreshing & the Belgian waffles were crispy on the outside, yet soft & moist inside.

It was a quick spree for us, as we spent about Rm2000.00 within 2 hours over there. Next is to Sungei Wang Plaza.

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Over is the 'New Year' celebration. This year nothing special happened. Myself & my wife had a small gathering with our friends over some food & drinks. Had charade to past time & my wife had lots of GOSIIIIPSSS!!!!

BUT something did happen to my family. Us the children finally got up our courage & had a Family Meeting, serious. I recently lost my mom due to an accident and my dad got injured badly. till today he still have problem walking on his own. This is a very bad incident that scared both his life & ours the children too.

Also due to this , we have grown more maturely physically & emotionally. Frankly speaking, I personally still can't get over it. It was too sudden. My parents were on their usual holiday trips to China, when their tour bus lost its breaks and ran out of control downhill. My dad broke 14 pieces of his vertebrae bones, punctured his right lung, smashed his left shoulder blade and other bruises all over his body.

I had to stop everything on that day the tour company called us. Took the next available flight the very same day to Hong Kong, then a van to ShenZhen & later a run down van all 10 hours to Hezhou. The trip was horrible, all I can think of is 'how am i gonna tell dad?'. When i finally reach the hospital, the sight was devastating. My dad had tubes, wires, bandages & stuffs in & out of his body. When I know he was strong enough to take in my mom's fate, he suddenly turn & say 'your mom has passed away, be strong', this statement coming from my dad at his state of condition broke me down.

That night, SOS..... an insurance company..... came & talk to me about evacuating my dad to a better hospital of our choice. After a long discussion with my other siblings & my dad, we decided to come back to Malaysia for further treatment. UMMC was our choice & it was a wise one. DR. Deepak, Dr. Kwan & their team were great at rescuing of what was left to fix. After a 10 hour long surgery, the doctors came out to say they did their best but somethings were too severely damaged to be fix.

Well now, my dad is back home, with constant physiotherapy sessions to go to. I will have to deal with losing my mom, so as my dad have to deal with losing his wife of 39 years................

WE LOVE YOU MOM...........