Spate of bad news

I've stopped watching news on TV and I do not really read newspapers as well. The most I do is browse through headlines in the papers. The reason for this is not to affect my baby with negative news and emotions. With the global recession, all we see and hear is bad news each and every day. Even without the TV and radio news, I have been exposed to bad news recently. Just last month, there was a memo from my company saying that one of our employee committed suicide opposite the workplace during working hours. He was only 26 years old, engineer with first class honors. News has it that he was suffering from depression. Just 1 and a half weeks ago, I lost 2 girls from my dept. One of them has been working for more than 15 yrs. Micron has announced that we are going to cut 2000 jobs, but we did not expect any from Singapore. Boy am I glad I was not the one to break the news to them. I was crying like mad when my boss announced the news. 2 days ago, while I was baking cookies and hubby doing the laundry in the kitchen, we heard a loud thump. JQ looked out and immediately turned to me and told me to stay away from the windows and not to look down. A successful suicide attempt by our neighbor. JQ called the police and the police arrived within minutes to cover the body.

Homemade cookies

Charmaine passed me a pack of Betty Crockers cookie mix when she was back for LNY. For some reason, I was inspired on Sunday to bake them. So I did! And it turned out well at my first attempt! And it's really easy! If only I had a bigger oven... I could only bake 6 cookies at one time, so I ended up baking 4 rounds! Shall search for more yummy cookie mix. =)