Wednesday, November 27, 2013

Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS)

Last night my good friend Nicole Verghese held an intimate get-together music session with herself and another band on the mics, with friends, family and colleagues surrounding her. We were all there for one purpose, to give support to her family in this trying time. Her father has been diagnosed with Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, also known as ALS, or Motor Neurone Disease.

It sounds like a mouthful, but it actually means that your brain has stopped communicating with your muscles and nerves. Any voluntary movement on your part will become harder and harder, including simple acts like making a fist, swallowing food, and even breathing. A person diagnosed with ALS will slowly deteriorate as his muscles get smaller and weaker, and eventually pass on due to respiratory failure.

When I told my mum about this, she said that my paternal grandfather had also suffered from the same disease. He passed away after 5 years of being bed-ridden. That was almost 25 years ago, when medical technology was no where near the stage it is now. And yet even today, there is no cure for ALS, and no way to slow down the progression of the disease.

Nicole has an indiegogo page up until the end of the month to raise funds for her dad's medical bills. As December approaches, the season of giving and receiving, please feel free to contribute to this or any other ALS/ ALS research fund-raising initiative.
 

Monday, November 25, 2013

Sunday Dreamin'

If you're following me on Instagram (@marilyny), you'd know we recently went crazy with our hair colours. It's the end of the year, holidays are starting, I guess in all sense of the word we are really starting to feel as free as a bumble bee!!

As we start to pack for our uber long (and cold) holiday in December, here's some pictures in the meantime of sunny Singapore! Took a stroll along the river with my parents over the weekend, and got some fun snaps!

Tuesday, November 19, 2013

Rainbows & Rilakkuma

Over the weekend, we celebrated Lay Kiang's birthday at Shuffle (Clarke Quay). It was a surprise planned by her 2 best girlfriends (awwwww) and I think she was 70% surprised (because she saw her friends near the bar before coming up lol..sharp eyes!) and 200% touched! Overall SUCCESS!!
So the first surprise was us being there. And the next surprise was the giant Rilakkuma cake we got for her, lovingly baked by our ex-colleague Emma :P It had the rainbow layers and sprinkles like my Hello Kitty cake and was equally cute!!
By the way this was happening behind the scenes...
And it was photo time all over again!!
And finally we get to cut into the cake! Mm mm Mmmm~

Friday, November 15, 2013

Singapore Town

Last weekend, trying to get inspiration. Obviously, the new has nothing on the old.