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The Day I was Born

8 June 1989

 

Hello everybody!!! I am Calvin Lim Fung Jin and I was born on 8th June 1989. Hey, 8 is a lucky number, and in Chinese it means prosperity too. Aha, don’t envy me! 

From: Thursday June 8, 1989 at 09:30:30
to: Saturday September 30, 2000 at 09:12:20 
I am 4131 days, 23 hours, 41 minutes and 50 seconds old between those dates! 
Or 357003710 seconds or 5950061 minutes or 99167
hours
old!!.

 

This was how the moon looked like on my birthday:

The Moon for June 8, 1989 
(At Midnight, US Central time, as viewed from the Northern Hemisphere) 

The price of the postage stamp then was 15 cents but now the price has increased to 30 cents per stamp for sending letters
within Malaysia.
In the year 1989 the Prime Minister of Malaysia was Dato’ Seri Dr. Mahathir Mohd. and still is today.The deputy prime
minister then was Ghafar Baba but now is Datuk Seri Abdullah Badawi. 

 

Bette Midler hit number 1 this week in 1989 with Wind Beneath My Wings. The song was featured in the Beaches movie from that year, in which Midler starred. She had been absent from the top 10 for most of the decade.
The Doobie Brothers reformed in 1989 with original leader, Tom Johnston, and played the first of many U.S. concerts promoting the newly released, Cycles album. A single from the album, The Doctor, made it into the top 10, while the follow-up, Need a Little
Taste of Love, stalled at number 45. The saxophone player performed live vocals on songs previously sung by Michael McDonald, who wasn’t in the reunited group.

 

Suspect in Assassination of Dr. King Is Seized in London

Ray Found Armed

Arrested at the Airport by Scotland Yard on Way From Lisbon 

By Fred P. GRAHAM

Special to the New York Times

Washington, June 8--James Earl Ray, accused of the assassination of the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., was arrested this morning at London Airport, Attorney General Ramsey Clark announced here today.Officers of Scotland Yard, acting on information supplied by the Federal Bureau of Investigation, arrested Ray, who the bureau said was masquerading under the name of Eric Starvo Galt at the time of the assassination in Memphis on April 4.

The 40-year-old Ray was apprehended as he disembarked from an airliner bound from Lisbon, Portugal, to Brussels, Belgium.
He was traveling on a Canadian passport, obtained under the name of Ramon George Sneyd. The name is that of a Toronto
police constable and was used without his knowledge.

 

In 1989 Harrison Ford and Sean Connery starred in the thriller movie ‘Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade’ went on air .

The movies ‘Honey I Shrunk the Kids’, and ‘Back to the Future IIwent on air too in that particular year.

Publishers Weekly says of Sara Paretsky's fictional detective V I Warshawski, "Among today's P.I.'s, nobody comes close to Warshawski;" Entertainment Weekly adds that "she clearly leads the field" of private investigators. With almost 6 million of her New York Times best-selling novels in print, the reading public clearly agrees.

 

In the late sixties, Paretsky moved from her native Kansas to Chicago to do community work in the neighborhood where Martin Luther King was organizing for social change. Like fellow Chicagoan Nelson Algren she is a meticulous chronicler of the lives of people on society's margins. Her mainstream novel, Ghost Country, stays with those themes -- but takes a detour away from V I. Hailed as "rich, astonishing and affecting", Ghost Country blends comedy, magic, and a gritty urban realism in a breathtaking ride along Chicago's mean streets.

 

 

That’s my name. Of course that’s my name. What am I talking about? GUESS what…it has an interesting meaning behind it .

 

Here it goes…….

In Latin:

Calvin – BALD (Pheww, luckily I am not, at least for the time being)

In Chinese:

Lim –forest

Fung –global

Jin – progress

God has His own unique timing for us to be born into this world. That is why we are all unique in our own special ways.

No two persons born on the same day, same hour ,same minute or even the same second are alike.

Perhaps that is part of God’s plan to make the world more interesting and special . 

“ There is only one you and there is only one me.

I can’t be you neither can you be me!

So, don’t worry and be happy,

The world is for EVERYBODY! ”