William and Kate on the Procession Route - The Royal Wedding - BBC

Kate Middleton's Wedding Dress Revealed - The Royal Wedding - BBC

William and Kate Kiss on the Balcony - The Royal Wedding - BBC

The Royal Wedding-Joining the Sentimental World in Celebrations

Westminster Abbey on 29 April 2011

Feeling good about things and feeling happy for people who are happy are good for your own psychic health. I believe people who are interested in others in the most positive way are in the "normal spectrum" and these are the people who make up a healthy and caring society. I am thus transported into the world of "feel-good" moment.

The wedding today of Prince William, the grandson of Queen Elizabeth of Great Britain to his fiancee, Catherine Middleton is indeed a memorable occasion watched by two billion and celebrated by millions of  British and tourists in London today 29 April 2011. 

I spoke on the phone to a colleague just before 5pm today and before we ended our conversation, she reminded me to watch the wedding live on ASTRO Channel 700. The excitement is palpable. 

I am happy for the couple and wish them well though I cannot forget the sad and tragic end of William's mother, Princess Diana in 1997 ( I remember hearing her death when I was on a flight back from London in late August and just a week before she was having a holiday with her two sons, William and Harry! All splashed up in the local papers).

I want to record this day in my blog as millions join in to celebrate the Happy Occasion of Diana's son and his beloved Kate, the future King  and Queen of England, at Westminster Abbey today, 29 April 2011. The Abbey was also where his mother's funeral was held.

Prince William and Kate announced engagement and wedding date in Nov 2010

THE wedding Dress by Kate Burton of Alexander McQueen

The wedding vow

The wedding ring

Duke and Duchess of Cambridge

The Prayer

Queen Elizabeth the Grandmother (wearing canary yellow at the wedding) 

The late and lovely Princess Diana, Prince William's mother

 

Sealed with the traditional KISS on the balcony of Buckingham Palace

The adoring crowd

I can go on and on with the pictures but these are my chosen memories of the Royal Wedding on 29 April 2011, my way of joining the sentimental world to celebrate a beautiful LOVE STORY. 

May God bless the marriage of William and Catherine and may they emulate William's  paternal grandparents, Queen Elizabeth and Prince Phillip who have been married for 64 years!

Elton John - Circle Of Life

The Lung - A Man's Pain and a Woman's Instinct - AN UPDATE

This morning I received a text from CLK that her husband's lung biopsy was positive for tuberculosis (TB)! And they are all praising the Lord for that result. Why are they praising the Lord? As TB is a chronic infectious disease which requires prolonged daily medications. Some of the drugs used are really distasteful. The daily injection can be rather daunting.

Still they praise the Lord because the pleural effusion is not caused by cancer. The therapy for cancer carries much more risks and morbidity and the outcome is usually uncertain depending on the level of spread. At least those TB germs, if not the resistant type, will be amenable to anti-TB treatment regime. The intensive treatment will go on for three months following which a chest X-ray will be taken to evaluate its effects.

On reflection, it is not common for a rather wealthy person to have come down with this infection unless he got it much earlier when his socio-economic situation was not so good. TB is generally a poor man's disease.  However if there are infected people around you, you may be easily infected yourself especially when your immune status is compromised. This makes me think about FK's continuous use of steroid for his sinus!

AHB- Amanah Hartanah Bumiputera's First Dividend

For those who are eligible to subscribe to this Reit, AHB, you would be pleasantly surprised that an early first dividend has been declared and paid on 19 April. I happened to come across this information when I visited Maybank, the manager of  this Reit recently. The dividend is at 2.17 sen  for 123 days since it was first launched in November 2010. For those who bought the maximum units of 200K, you all would be laughing all the way to the bank.

Apparently at that rate, it would work out to be about 6.20 sen per annum, slightly lower than PNB's unit trusts and much lower than the market-quoted Reits which by the way is subject to price variation unlike AHB. And another special investment for Bumi is Bank Rakyat new units which, by the way, according to my friends are hard to get as the waiting list is very long. At an annual dividend of 15 sen, who would want to miss out on this?

Anyway I am sticking to my PNB unit trusts and Credit Pacific and of course occasional forays into the stock market. Currently the market is rather deserted after the short rally in early April. Managed to offload my Uemland at 3.16 while my purchased price was at 2.29. Not always lucky though.

Happy investing and Happy Easter!