Gift of Communication Fund (GCF) Application period 18 Apr-31 May 2026 GCF is an annual financial aid program for Malaysians who need hearing and/or speech-language therapy. MARCHES Application details and form: https://forms.gle/1b7t5S3gJwZ Z4XDy46

Need financial support for speech and/or hearing therapy? The Malaysian Resource Centre of Hearing & Speech-language (MARCHES) can help 🌷

Link for application here:
forms.gle/1b7t5S3gJwZ4XD…

Updated my profile pic because I am a year older 🥳

Blessed to be surrounded by people who:
- celebrates my success
- embraces my mistakes
- holds spaces for me to grief and grow

May I never forget to have clean hands, a pure heart, and grace to love imperfections.

Nephew: can I have baobao (pick up)?
Me: yes of course.
Nephew: am I too heavy?
Me: nope, that’s why I workout so I can always pick you up if you want me to.

Realised that my nephew is only little for a little 🥲I love that I can bench + do weighted squats for 25kg easily now.

The husband and I holding up calligraphy work with wishes for the new year. His face is not visible.

Celebrated all the horses in our family (there’s so many of them it’s a derby lol) and continued our tradition of taking a photo with the bestie’s award-winning calligraphy.

Happy Horsie Year from ours to yours 🍊🧧✨

Basically I pray that we will never ever see each other again within the hospital walls and if we really do, it’s when you are here for social visits (come say hellooo) or here to talk about your rehab journey and how you’ve advocated for yourself ✨

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My personal favourite raya gifts from my patients/family (in order of preference & prayers):
1) Discharge
2) Achieve rehab goals & discharge
3) Improve functional skills & discharge
4) Maintenance of skills & discharge
5) Take breaks & continue our goals
6) Care for yourself

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Japanese-Language Proficiency Test Results, December 2025 印刷/Print ※出装な結業あなたの受験地の実施機関を通じて受付されます。 *Formal score reports will be issued through local host institutions. レベル Level N1 じゅけんばんごう しけんけっか 試験結果 Result こうかく 合格 Passed

Found out about a week ago but I took JLPT N1 with my sister for fun last December as her sighted partner and passed 😂

(Insert long lore of how I’ve known this language since young)

突然ですが、N1合格しました✨

Drawing of stick figure lying down with one leg folded, one leg extended, and both hands on the top. The text says: everything hurts

Curiously googling to see how pigeons sit, sleep, recline, what’s a King pigeon etc after yoga class because who the heck designed all these poses? 🤨

Also, how are pigeons sleeping like this?

It’s me, hi 👋🏻

Also, mixed consistencies are dangerous 😂

This list is now unapologetically honest with all the spicy books that I've read included (unlike previous years) because those have been good/fun reads too.

Read a lot on disabilities, deaths, dying, and learning to live and love. May 2026 be full of wonderful reads too 📚

And with my personal goal to read more in Mandarin:
49. 洄天 – 淮上
50. 犯罪心理 – 长洱
51. 无双 – 梦溪石
52. 藏南晚星 – 境风
53. 一级律师 – 木苏里
54. 判官 – 木苏里
55. 默读 – priest
56. 杀破狼 – priest
57. 奇洛李维斯回信 – 清明谷雨
58. 谁说老二次元不能结婚 – 鳄人行山

(These are all BLs lol)

44. The Will of The Many – James Islington
45. We Free the Stars – Hafsal Faizal
46. We Hunt the Flame – Hafsal Faizal
47. We’ll Prescribe You a Cat – Syou Ishida
48. With the End in Mind – Kathryn Mannix

38. The Mousedeer and the Crocodiles in 100 Languages – Stefanie Pillai (editor)
39. The Serviceberry – Robin Wall Kimmerer
40. The South – Tash Aw
41. The Tea Dragon Festival – K. O’Neill
42. The Tea Dragon Society – K. O’Neill
43. The Tea Dragon Tapestry – K. O’Neill

32. The Collected Regrets of Clover – Mikki Brammer
33. The Convenience Store by the Sea – Sonoko Machida
34. The Empire of Gold – S.A. Chakraborty
35. The Goodbye Cat – Hiro Arikawa
36. The Kingdom of Copper – S.A. Chakraborty
37. The Last Love Note – Emma Grey

25. Power – Kathy Lockheart
26. Ruthless Vows – Rebecca Ross
27. Sunrise on the Reaping – Suzanne Collins
28. The Accidental Malay – Karina Robles Bahrin
29. The Bell Jar – Sylvia Plath
30. The Cat Who Saved Books – Sosuke Natsukawa
31. The City of Brass – S.A. Chakraborty

19. It’s Different This Time – Joss Richard
20. Katabasis – RF Kuang
21. Letters from the Ginza Shihodo Stationery Shop – Kenji Ueda
22. Like Water for Chocolate – Laura Esquivel
23. Lost Souls Meet Under a Full Moon – Mizuki Tsujimura
24. One Hundred Flowers – Genki Kawamura

12. Flowers for Algernon – Daniel Keyes
13. From Here to Eternity – Caitlin Doughty
14. Furysong – Rosaria Munda
15. Goodnight Tokyo – Atushiro Yoshida
16. Great Big Beautiful Life – Emily Henry
17. Human Acts – Han Kang
18. I Hope This Finds You Well – Natalie Sue

4. Bound – Kathy Lockheart
5. Convenience Store Woman – Sayaka Murata
6. Crash – Kathy Lockheart
7. Divine Rivals – Rebecca Ross
8. Dubliners – James Joyce
9. Everything is Tuberculosis – John Green
10. Fireborne – Rosaria Munda
11. Flamefall – Rosaria Munda

Hello 2026 ✨
With 2 hours of reading time now (thanks to my commute to work on the trains) here's everything I've read + where my money went:
1. A Song to Drown Rivers – Ann Liang
2. Among the Beasts & Briars – Ashley Poston
3. Before We Forget Kindness – Toshikazu Kawaguchi

Screenshot from the game “Tiny Bookshop” featuring a Malaysian book. The text reads: THE WEIGHT OF OUR SKY In this historical YA novel, follow Melati, a Malaysian girl with OCD, as she embarks on a journey to reunite with her mother during the brutal 1969 racial riots that engulfed the city of Kuala Lumpur. Difficulty: 5 star Hanna Alkaf Published 2019 277 Pages The speech bubble is someone looking for a book recommendation. It says: This might be a bit odd, but... I'm a huge sci-fi nerd, I'm ready for a 700-page commitment, and bonus points if it's EPIC.

Spent my day off living my best retirement fantasy running a bookshop on wheels (and escaping my IRL responsibilities) when someone waltzed in for book recs!

Yes, of course I’d be ever happy to recommend @hannaalkaf.bsky.social ‘s book in @tinybookshopgame.com 😍🇲🇾

Pope Leo, on Christmas Eve, says denying help to poor is rejecting God Pope Leo said in a Christmas Eve sermon on Wednesday that the story of Jesus being born in a stable because there was no room at an inn should remind Christians that refusing to help the poor and stra...

Pope Leo said in a Christmas Eve sermon that the story of Jesus being born in a stable because there was no room at an inn should remind Christians that refusing to help the poor and strangers today is tantamount to rejecting God himself. For @reuters.com

Thankiuuu have a restful day too!

Thank youuuuu! Happy holidays 🐱

White Christmas tree with ornaments made with toilet paper rolls. There’s a santa, bunny, hedgehog, polar bear and many more

We’ve added many more ornaments to our tree (mostly gifted & from our travels) since our homemade-toilet-paper ones when we got our first tree in Sabah.

Thank you to everyone working today (the husband too lol)

Blessed Christmas filled with God’s love from ours to yours 🎄❤️

This ends my #24WaysToSupportSafeSwallowing advent countdown on Christmas eve today ✨ festivities can be extra stressful with changes in mealtime routines.

May this help support someone you love to enjoy safer mealtimes! Blessed Christmas and happy holidays 🎄

24/ Try again, fail again, fail better
If the food texture isn’t right, we can improve it; if food presentation isn’t high contrast enough, we can change it. The aim is to try, fail, and make improvements.

We can’t all get it right the first time.
Be graceful to making mistakes.

23/ Give Time & Space
If you’ve tried all 22 strategies and nothing seems to work, take a step back and wait. Eating/drinking is a very private and personal matter; please remember to wait, give space, and respect someone’s dignity.

Force-feeding increases risks of choking 🚨

22/ Visual Scanning
If you’re caring for someone who needs cognitive support, giving a visual menu of what meals are offered might be easier than just asking “what do you want to eat?”

Try compiling photos of their favourite food and support their decision-making process.

21/ Consistency
If someone isn’t eating well in one meal, that doesn’t mean they won’t eat well in the next.

Offer meals/drinks/snacks consistently throughout the day to help understand their personal preferences for mealtimes. Assume capacity ✨

Masih kat Act I lagi ni 😭