i was chatting with my aunties a couple of weekends ago and upon learning that i'm going to have twins, they shared with me a brilliant idea (well, the idea is brilliant according to them, not for me though) on how i should go about handling the twins; as in who to baby-sit them after i finish my maternity leave.
they suggested that i should hire an Indon maid, it's definitely much more cheaper than sending the twins to the baby-sitter. the current baby-sitter market rate that i know from my colleagues are ranging from rm550-650 for daycare only and rm750-850 for day & nite care, per month, per baby. baby-sitter only takes care of the baby and that's it. we still gotta supply them the babies' daily neccesities and after adding all the cost up, all that would cost a bomb to an ordinary employee like myself & cl. so there they are, bringing me the maid-hiring suggestion. not only the fee is cheaper, a maid also takes care of the babies and helps around with the housework and probably cooks too. that would help ease my burden a lot. if i'm concern about having the maid alone at home with the 2 kids, i can always send her to my mum's house which is just across the road from mine. she can be stationed there from morning till evening and i could fetch 3 of them back to my house again after work. this routine will be repeated daily.
as convenient as it might sounds, the idea doesn't sound a bit compelling to me and my mum at all! why, my mum has gone through her days with the maid and she has vowed never to have maid anymore for the rest of her live. that maid would be our first and last one we'd hire. thus, we both are not even considering what my 2 aunties were suggesting. interesting stories about this maid of ours will be in another post.
both aunties of mine even did a calculation on how much i could save up if i get a maid for 3 consecutive years; renewing her contract for another 2 years after the first. money is one thing...never-ending headaches & problems are another thing. after hearing horror stories from those who've maid at homes and encountering one myself, it's a big no no. i can't imagine while you hope to ease your burden from hiring a maid, in the end, you end up solving problems created by her. i would rather send my twins to the baby-sitter, i haven't decided whether to send for day care only or day & nite care (day & nite care would be my choice, if only my financial situation allows it). or may be i can be a full time stay at home mum..who knows. i have about 6 more months to decide what's best.
by the way, i found one confinement centre that provides child care too. day care for rm500 and day & nite care for rm900. probably i can do some bargaining with the boss and get some cheaper rate for sending 2 babies. i'm going to visit the home again next month and place my booking if everything goes well.
Thursday, November 13, 2008
Monday, November 10, 2008
long lunch break
lunch with my dear friend was a long one. i left from my office at 11.35am, reached the mall around 11.50am (thanks for tailing behind 2 cars which were hogging the road), had lunch till 1.45pm and finally back to work at 2.15pm. even so, we didn't get to finish our chat as both of us have lots of stories to tell! imagine we haven't updated each other for >2 months now :P
we didn't go to sakae sushi. my friend suggested wong kok restaurant when i called her before leaving the office. i had seafood cheese baked rice with plain water :( simply because the set that i ordered came with only 2 choices of drinks; coffee & milk tea. i can't take both at this time, and i didn't want to order other drinks which are normally too sweet to my liking. plain water was a right choice as it helped washed down the generous amount of cheese from the baked rice.
my friend has gone back to her normal shape, just a little extra fat here & there but i guess that's normal considering she's not a small frame person. she told me she's got 10kg more to lose. her baby will be taken care by her sister who is a full-time housewife, so i'm waiting to see how long does one who doesn't take care of the baby herself take to go back to her normal pre-pregnancy weight. :P
i can't wait for her to go back to work so that i have one more person to chat with during work. hopefully i can get helpful baby tips from her *wink*
gosh...my life is gonna be all about pregnancy & baby now. but i'm loving it!
we didn't go to sakae sushi. my friend suggested wong kok restaurant when i called her before leaving the office. i had seafood cheese baked rice with plain water :( simply because the set that i ordered came with only 2 choices of drinks; coffee & milk tea. i can't take both at this time, and i didn't want to order other drinks which are normally too sweet to my liking. plain water was a right choice as it helped washed down the generous amount of cheese from the baked rice.
my friend has gone back to her normal shape, just a little extra fat here & there but i guess that's normal considering she's not a small frame person. she told me she's got 10kg more to lose. her baby will be taken care by her sister who is a full-time housewife, so i'm waiting to see how long does one who doesn't take care of the baby herself take to go back to her normal pre-pregnancy weight. :P
i can't wait for her to go back to work so that i have one more person to chat with during work. hopefully i can get helpful baby tips from her *wink*
gosh...my life is gonna be all about pregnancy & baby now. but i'm loving it!
my dear friend is back!
last nite one of my friends sms-ed me asking whether i wanted to go lunch with her. she's my dear friend who's going to finish her maternity leave soon and will be back to the reality a.k.a working world again next week. i quickly replied her yes! i haven't seen her for months now, even before she went to deliver, i really wonder how she looks like now. she told me she needs to groom herself thoroughly before going back to work. she's just trimmed her eye brow, has an appointment with the hair dresser on thursday and now the most important thing is to look for new clothes to wear! that's really a lot of shopping to be done...women just love it (only when they have nice figure to fit into easily).
i've seen many ladies still spotting big tummy after coming back from their maternity leave. i dread that moment myself, but don't think i could help it, could i? i do not have a big frame, thank god for that, but that doesn't mean that i don't put on weight easily. eventhough my tummy is still not that visible at 4 months, i guess my butt expands faster than my tummy!!! that's the first thing people around me notice when i was confirmed pregnant. sigh...
back to my lunch date later on, i'm still thinking what to eat. my friend has asked me to think about it, oh, i'm craving for japanese food as usual :P been eating sakae sushi for 2 consecutive weeks now...but i'm still not sick of it yet! another week of sakae sushi....whee!!!
i've seen many ladies still spotting big tummy after coming back from their maternity leave. i dread that moment myself, but don't think i could help it, could i? i do not have a big frame, thank god for that, but that doesn't mean that i don't put on weight easily. eventhough my tummy is still not that visible at 4 months, i guess my butt expands faster than my tummy!!! that's the first thing people around me notice when i was confirmed pregnant. sigh...
back to my lunch date later on, i'm still thinking what to eat. my friend has asked me to think about it, oh, i'm craving for japanese food as usual :P been eating sakae sushi for 2 consecutive weeks now...but i'm still not sick of it yet! another week of sakae sushi....whee!!!
Thursday, November 6, 2008
the shocking good news
i still remember the day i went for my routine pregnancy checkup at week 7. it was just another normal checkup and as usual, i prayed for my baby to be growing healthily. that would be the only words that i would want to hear from the gynae. never would i thought another good news was in store for me on that fateful day! i had always hope for a pair of twins; so that i could kill 2 birds with one stone :) but it was just merely a wish, nothing more.
was i shocked? i definitely was! my heart was jumping with joy. when i regain my composure, the thought of bringing two babies into the world at one time does give me a little scare though. the diapers, the bottles, the sleepless nights, etc...and i begin to wonder, how on earth are we going to cope with 2 babies? i had no idea how it would be like but hearing my sister's daily rant, i know that whatever she faces; i would face it double. little did i know at the time that the most stressful part of having twins was already upon us...the pregnancy.
this is my first pregnancy and it's going to be one very exciting journey!! i'm all geared up to enjoy this long 9 months journey already. whee!!!
was i shocked? i definitely was! my heart was jumping with joy. when i regain my composure, the thought of bringing two babies into the world at one time does give me a little scare though. the diapers, the bottles, the sleepless nights, etc...and i begin to wonder, how on earth are we going to cope with 2 babies? i had no idea how it would be like but hearing my sister's daily rant, i know that whatever she faces; i would face it double. little did i know at the time that the most stressful part of having twins was already upon us...the pregnancy.
this is my first pregnancy and it's going to be one very exciting journey!! i'm all geared up to enjoy this long 9 months journey already. whee!!!
Wednesday, November 5, 2008
just some casual rants
lately i've been feeling rather tired. is it due to pregnancy or am i mentally exhausted from looking at the pc too long a period; both at work and off work? i guess both factors do contribute a lot.
i've been feeling rather nausea too. this is definitely one the pregnancy symptoms. my colleague told me that this feeling would last until i deliver. godness gracious! it's making me very uncomfortable!!!
do other mothers experience this too?
i've been feeling rather nausea too. this is definitely one the pregnancy symptoms. my colleague told me that this feeling would last until i deliver. godness gracious! it's making me very uncomfortable!!!
do other mothers experience this too?
Thursday, October 30, 2008
still the sick me
i went to the doctor the previous night; actually it was never my intention to visit a doctor despite what i've mentioned in my previous post. i kept on thinking that the sore throat would go away soon and bring all its friends along. normally, it always goes away very fast even without any visit to the doctor or taking any medication; just a couple tablets of vitamin C + panadol would ease the discomfort away. this time i thought no exception.
but after work, cl told me that he wanted to see the doctor. he's down with cough and since he could make use of my medical benefit meant for dependant, why not take advantage of it?
so there we went hand in hand to the same doctor. i went into the consultation room first. told the doctor that i've been having sore throat & blocked nose and it irritates me a lot when i couldn't breathe properly especially at nite. he checked my tongue and told me it was just a mild sore throat, nothing to be worried about. then he checked my nose with a torch light. he exclaimed 'wow! so congested!' i was taken aback by what he said, congested? did he mean that i didn't clean my nose properly and it's full of nose shit that he couldn't see what's inside??? oh my god! so embarassing! he added, 'your nose is swollen inside'. ahhh...swollen, that's why it's congested. phew! i have a swollen nose, how weird! luckily it's only swollen inside, not visible outside.
the doctor then took my body temperature. i had slight fever. hmm...i didn't feel that i was having fever. i mean you could feel it right if you have fever. but nothing of that sort. he asked me if i needed a medical leave the next day. surely i grabbed at the opportunity. i didn't ask for it, he's the one who asked me if i wanted it. *grinning from ear to ear*
so there i was, having a good day rest at home yesterday. i slept till 12 noon, it was the most soundly sleep i had since ages. after waking up and did some house chores & had lunch, i went back to sleep for another 2 hours till 6pm, waking up just in time for dinner.
life is a bliss if only i could just sit at home resting until i deliver...*day-dreaming again*
but after work, cl told me that he wanted to see the doctor. he's down with cough and since he could make use of my medical benefit meant for dependant, why not take advantage of it?
so there we went hand in hand to the same doctor. i went into the consultation room first. told the doctor that i've been having sore throat & blocked nose and it irritates me a lot when i couldn't breathe properly especially at nite. he checked my tongue and told me it was just a mild sore throat, nothing to be worried about. then he checked my nose with a torch light. he exclaimed 'wow! so congested!' i was taken aback by what he said, congested? did he mean that i didn't clean my nose properly and it's full of nose shit that he couldn't see what's inside??? oh my god! so embarassing! he added, 'your nose is swollen inside'. ahhh...swollen, that's why it's congested. phew! i have a swollen nose, how weird! luckily it's only swollen inside, not visible outside.
the doctor then took my body temperature. i had slight fever. hmm...i didn't feel that i was having fever. i mean you could feel it right if you have fever. but nothing of that sort. he asked me if i needed a medical leave the next day. surely i grabbed at the opportunity. i didn't ask for it, he's the one who asked me if i wanted it. *grinning from ear to ear*
so there i was, having a good day rest at home yesterday. i slept till 12 noon, it was the most soundly sleep i had since ages. after waking up and did some house chores & had lunch, i went back to sleep for another 2 hours till 6pm, waking up just in time for dinner.
life is a bliss if only i could just sit at home resting until i deliver...*day-dreaming again*
Tuesday, October 28, 2008
the sick me
it started with a mild sore throat, and then the sore throat got worse. that was just the beginning, i just knew it. after that, other friends came along...blocked nose, cough, flu. arrgghh!!!
i'm having difficulty to sleep at night due to blocked nose. i think i'm going to the doctor tomorrow and get a mc. looking forward to sleep late tomorrow morning. it soothes my mind thinking of not having to work tomorrow :) ...yea, i know, the lazy girl thought, as always.
i'm having difficulty to sleep at night due to blocked nose. i think i'm going to the doctor tomorrow and get a mc. looking forward to sleep late tomorrow morning. it soothes my mind thinking of not having to work tomorrow :) ...yea, i know, the lazy girl thought, as always.
Friday, October 24, 2008
the lazy girl workout
i was flipping through jaya jusco's bi-monthly PEARL magazine (may 2008, issue 42) and came across a very interesting article titled "lazy girl workout".
the below extract caught my attention:
"vacuuming, tidying up and getting through a pile of dishes will burn up around 100 calories in just 20 minutes!"
with such a busy schedule, who could blame you for not wanting to slog a few hours at the gym?
learn how to get a great body without spending hours on the treadmill!
exercising and getting fit doesn't have to involve hours at the gym but do realise you have to do some form of exercise! writer Deborah English puts in aptly when she says, "don't believe in the old saying: there's no gain without pain. lazy girls can get fit too." our body can thrive on a little of the right type of exercise, a healthy dollop of recreation and plenty of rest. apply the following suggestions to your life and before you know it, you'll be fit, healthy and raring to go!
do housework if the last thing you want to do is go to the gym on the weekend, get stuck into the housework before you have breakfast. vacuuming, tidying up and getting through a pile of dishes will burn up around 100 calories in just 20 minutes! don't underestimate the workout you get while cleaning and tidying up the house. your arms get worked as you clean the windows and mopping the floor works your waist as you move your mop from side to side to get all corners after a hot shower and looking around clean, guilt-free house. so, you will be killing two birds with one stone - getting a workout while getting a spotless home!
when i was about to get married, i had an extremely vigorious workout at the gym almost everyday! i could burn up to 800 calorie per workout! that's a freaking half of the total calorie needed by a girl in a day. i had a very fit body then, all parts & curve were nicely shapped & toned. i was getting so slim that my colleagues commented that i looked too skinny already and that i should stop working out and eat more instead. wow! that was the best compliment that i had and what more, a very strong reason to indulge myself. life was a paradise then.
of course i didn't indulge myself crazy as my wedding was just around the corner. i really didn't want to end up looking like a coprse bride either so i worked-out & had normal portion of meals everyday. i had to have rice during lunch; well, i tried staying away from rice and just had some noodles for lunch for sometime and guess what, i couldn't even bring myself to burn 300 calories. i just didn't have the energy to brisk walk on the tread mill. finally i learnt the tricks - consume carbohydrate during the day and eat a smaller portion for dinner. and most importantly, no food intake after 8pm.
after i got married, the mission to maintain my body figure did not sound so compelling anymore, thus i stopped doing workout altogether. people were saying that for those regular gym goer, once they stop doing workout, they will bloat like nobody's business. thank godness it didn't happen to me. i did not officially go to gym for workout anymore but i did what the article above indicated. i did lots of housework to keep my home spotlessly clean. whilst doing that, i was burning calorie unknowingly. the only difference is that i couldn't keep track of the amount of calorie i burn and i don't sweat as much anymore. nevertheless, i still feel great & satisfied especially when my house is squeeky clean after all the cleaning.
the below extract caught my attention:
"vacuuming, tidying up and getting through a pile of dishes will burn up around 100 calories in just 20 minutes!"
with such a busy schedule, who could blame you for not wanting to slog a few hours at the gym?
learn how to get a great body without spending hours on the treadmill!
exercising and getting fit doesn't have to involve hours at the gym but do realise you have to do some form of exercise! writer Deborah English puts in aptly when she says, "don't believe in the old saying: there's no gain without pain. lazy girls can get fit too." our body can thrive on a little of the right type of exercise, a healthy dollop of recreation and plenty of rest. apply the following suggestions to your life and before you know it, you'll be fit, healthy and raring to go!
do housework if the last thing you want to do is go to the gym on the weekend, get stuck into the housework before you have breakfast. vacuuming, tidying up and getting through a pile of dishes will burn up around 100 calories in just 20 minutes! don't underestimate the workout you get while cleaning and tidying up the house. your arms get worked as you clean the windows and mopping the floor works your waist as you move your mop from side to side to get all corners after a hot shower and looking around clean, guilt-free house. so, you will be killing two birds with one stone - getting a workout while getting a spotless home!
when i was about to get married, i had an extremely vigorious workout at the gym almost everyday! i could burn up to 800 calorie per workout! that's a freaking half of the total calorie needed by a girl in a day. i had a very fit body then, all parts & curve were nicely shapped & toned. i was getting so slim that my colleagues commented that i looked too skinny already and that i should stop working out and eat more instead. wow! that was the best compliment that i had and what more, a very strong reason to indulge myself. life was a paradise then.
of course i didn't indulge myself crazy as my wedding was just around the corner. i really didn't want to end up looking like a coprse bride either so i worked-out & had normal portion of meals everyday. i had to have rice during lunch; well, i tried staying away from rice and just had some noodles for lunch for sometime and guess what, i couldn't even bring myself to burn 300 calories. i just didn't have the energy to brisk walk on the tread mill. finally i learnt the tricks - consume carbohydrate during the day and eat a smaller portion for dinner. and most importantly, no food intake after 8pm.
after i got married, the mission to maintain my body figure did not sound so compelling anymore, thus i stopped doing workout altogether. people were saying that for those regular gym goer, once they stop doing workout, they will bloat like nobody's business. thank godness it didn't happen to me. i did not officially go to gym for workout anymore but i did what the article above indicated. i did lots of housework to keep my home spotlessly clean. whilst doing that, i was burning calorie unknowingly. the only difference is that i couldn't keep track of the amount of calorie i burn and i don't sweat as much anymore. nevertheless, i still feel great & satisfied especially when my house is squeeky clean after all the cleaning.
Monday, October 20, 2008
home alone 3
i'll be alone at home for 2 days from 21-22oct08. why, cl is attending a very prestigious forex course organized by the forex academy where we attended the previous fundamental forex course.
we had been thinking hard whether or not to take up this course as it's not cheap at all; a 2-day course costs a whooping rm11,888 per person! i know, it's a sum of an apartment downpayment for some. of course, what we had in mind was to send only one of us there, we really can't afford to go together! finally after a long long thought, we decided to just go for it. it might be tough to finance such a costly course at this time, with the babies coming and all but if it would give us a good investment return, why not? a little sacrifice made for the long run. alas, we made the hardest decision of the year and prayed for the best.
it seems that the minimum investment profit that we could reap after attending the course would be 30%! wow!! isn't that great? i shall wait for cl to come back tomorrow and tell me how great the course goes.
i'm very very excited to reap our very first 30% ROI - the minimum :) well, i've managed to reap >20% ROI last month after opening my first live account... but didn't do quite well this month due to sheer greediness. oh i really regret my action and hope that i could turn back the clock. however, what's done can't be undone anymore; perhaps a story for another time.
would cl help me to gain back my losses? *fingers crossed*
we had been thinking hard whether or not to take up this course as it's not cheap at all; a 2-day course costs a whooping rm11,888 per person! i know, it's a sum of an apartment downpayment for some. of course, what we had in mind was to send only one of us there, we really can't afford to go together! finally after a long long thought, we decided to just go for it. it might be tough to finance such a costly course at this time, with the babies coming and all but if it would give us a good investment return, why not? a little sacrifice made for the long run. alas, we made the hardest decision of the year and prayed for the best.
it seems that the minimum investment profit that we could reap after attending the course would be 30%! wow!! isn't that great? i shall wait for cl to come back tomorrow and tell me how great the course goes.
i'm very very excited to reap our very first 30% ROI - the minimum :) well, i've managed to reap >20% ROI last month after opening my first live account... but didn't do quite well this month due to sheer greediness. oh i really regret my action and hope that i could turn back the clock. however, what's done can't be undone anymore; perhaps a story for another time.
would cl help me to gain back my losses? *fingers crossed*
Wednesday, October 15, 2008
my company annual dinner
i’ve been working in this company for 5 years now and tonight, the company is going to reward me for being such a loyal chap for 5 unbroken years of service. HR has just sent out an e-mail a couple of days ago informing that we could go home at 4pm to prepare ourselves for the function; namely Axxxx’s (company’s name) Nite … Axxxx’s Million Smiles. i like the name given. sounds creative, isn’t it?
just about a couple of weeks ago when i first saw the e-mail invitation, i didn’t have any mood to attend at all. in fact, i wasn’t in the mood to attend all the wedding invitations as well; i received invitation from a long distance cousin’s & another 2 colleagues’ oncoming weddings (though i haven’t received their invitations, i had already thought of a few excuses to give them when the time comes :P)
now, a couple of weeks later, i found myself looking forward to attend these functions again. weird… i know i’m a fickle-minded gal, i could change my mind within seconds the fastest! probably at that time, i was always having stomach discomfort & loss of appetite due to pregnancy. i was at week 10 then.
i’ll be heading to the hotel (where the banquet is held) right after work. nay, no time to wash up but i did brought my facial traveling pack & makeup set along. let’s see if i have the mood to touch up myself later today.
more posts & hopefully pictures of the annual dinner to come soon.
just about a couple of weeks ago when i first saw the e-mail invitation, i didn’t have any mood to attend at all. in fact, i wasn’t in the mood to attend all the wedding invitations as well; i received invitation from a long distance cousin’s & another 2 colleagues’ oncoming weddings (though i haven’t received their invitations, i had already thought of a few excuses to give them when the time comes :P)
now, a couple of weeks later, i found myself looking forward to attend these functions again. weird… i know i’m a fickle-minded gal, i could change my mind within seconds the fastest! probably at that time, i was always having stomach discomfort & loss of appetite due to pregnancy. i was at week 10 then.
i’ll be heading to the hotel (where the banquet is held) right after work. nay, no time to wash up but i did brought my facial traveling pack & makeup set along. let’s see if i have the mood to touch up myself later today.
more posts & hopefully pictures of the annual dinner to come soon.
Monday, October 13, 2008
lunch
i'm beginning to get sick of my workplace canteen food. for few months in a row, i've been eating in.
the reasons?
1) blame it on the weather - it's so freaking hot in the noon these days that i rather eat in to avoid myself from mr. sunshine. i don't like the feeling of feeling sticky & sweaty after coming back from outside lunch; it's hot one minute and cool another minute; i get headache & the idea of going home for a snooze would grow stronger then. no thanks
2) unless there's a special occasion to be celebrated, we would end up in the food court. it's always the same food court from a limited choice. eventually, i would end up eating the same food as i normally have for weekends (weekends are when i don't get proper home-cooked food; it's my mum's rest days). sigh...
3) if it's me who suggest to go out for lunch, most probably i'll be the one driving. the idea of not getting a good parking spot when i come back doesn't sound so appealing. more often than not, i gotta park far far away from the office entrance and walk all the way under the freaking hot sun to reach the entrance. by then, i would be drenched in sweat and my face, oh, don't mention it. the amount of oil coming out is enough to fry an egg. yucks!
4) eating out is so expensive nowadays, that a simple meal from the hawker centre easily costs rm5 the least, drinks included. whereas all i need to fork out eating in is just a mere rm1 the least as my company is so kind to give us a daily food subsidy of rm1.50 per head. isn't that nice? (fyi, the food subsidy has not increased since how many donkey years ago. only the food price increases over time...duhhh). how pathetic is that?
there are so many disadvantages of eating out. but still, why do i still want to eat out???
the reasons?
1) blame it on the weather - it's so freaking hot in the noon these days that i rather eat in to avoid myself from mr. sunshine. i don't like the feeling of feeling sticky & sweaty after coming back from outside lunch; it's hot one minute and cool another minute; i get headache & the idea of going home for a snooze would grow stronger then. no thanks
2) unless there's a special occasion to be celebrated, we would end up in the food court. it's always the same food court from a limited choice. eventually, i would end up eating the same food as i normally have for weekends (weekends are when i don't get proper home-cooked food; it's my mum's rest days). sigh...
3) if it's me who suggest to go out for lunch, most probably i'll be the one driving. the idea of not getting a good parking spot when i come back doesn't sound so appealing. more often than not, i gotta park far far away from the office entrance and walk all the way under the freaking hot sun to reach the entrance. by then, i would be drenched in sweat and my face, oh, don't mention it. the amount of oil coming out is enough to fry an egg. yucks!
4) eating out is so expensive nowadays, that a simple meal from the hawker centre easily costs rm5 the least, drinks included. whereas all i need to fork out eating in is just a mere rm1 the least as my company is so kind to give us a daily food subsidy of rm1.50 per head. isn't that nice? (fyi, the food subsidy has not increased since how many donkey years ago. only the food price increases over time...duhhh). how pathetic is that?
there are so many disadvantages of eating out. but still, why do i still want to eat out???
some 'cute' people i met
have you come across someone whom after explaining something to her uncountable times, she still comes back to you asking the same old silly questions? i ain't no teacher and i ain't no trainer in this case. i was just trying to explain something to this friend of mine since July (now it's mid Oct) and i could hear myself repeating the same words for a few months now, everytime she asks me the same thing. either she's dumb or she just couldn't comprehend what i was telling about. or did i mumble something alien to her?
how pathetic and she's getting on my nerves! the worst thing is i couldn't just tell her to get out of my sight as i'm a civilised person; i handle things with high EQ. oh my god...everytime i hear her voice, it makes me wanna box her right on the face.
*chanting endlessly in my mind -- i have high EQ ... i have high EQ ... i have high EQ ...(scratches head profusely)
how pathetic and she's getting on my nerves! the worst thing is i couldn't just tell her to get out of my sight as i'm a civilised person; i handle things with high EQ. oh my god...everytime i hear her voice, it makes me wanna box her right on the face.
*chanting endlessly in my mind -- i have high EQ ... i have high EQ ... i have high EQ ...(scratches head profusely)
Sunday, October 5, 2008
we hit the jackpot!! it's TWINS!!!
a day after i was discharged from the hospital, i had an appointment with my gynae (this was supposed to be the next appointment that i had with him before my sudden admission into the hospital). guess what! my gynae said he's seeing another featus inside my womb! i wasn't very surprised indeed as i had suspected that my bleeding wasn't the normal bleeding, it was similar to that of implantation bleeding. however, i wasn't too confident when my stomach had a severe period cramp and the bleeding came later. did the second featus just implanted himself (use of noun does not indicate any gender bias here)? was that the cause of all the huh hah that got me admitted into the hospital? i was certainly very very glad that it turned out to be a happy ending afterall. well, at least at that point of time.
my gynae, being a very straight forward person, told me that the second featus might be the main cause of the bleeding that i had. he wasn't too positive that it will last, looking at my condition, but all we could do was just to pray for the best. it hadn't shown any heartbeat yet, so i was still keeping my fingers crossed. hopefully in my next visit, both will be doing good. they just have to be progressing well. because mama said so :)
my gynae, being a very straight forward person, told me that the second featus might be the main cause of the bleeding that i had. he wasn't too positive that it will last, looking at my condition, but all we could do was just to pray for the best. it hadn't shown any heartbeat yet, so i was still keeping my fingers crossed. hopefully in my next visit, both will be doing good. they just have to be progressing well. because mama said so :)
Tuesday, September 30, 2008
2 days raya break! it's a holiday!!!
the last break we had, if i'm not mistaken was the merdeka replacement holiday on monday which gave us one extra day break prolonged from the ever short weekend. i've been waiting for another break and was eager to take a day's leave or two just to relax at home, away from the hustle bustle of the morning traffic. but, why waste my leave unnecessarily?
finally, after a long wait, the raya holiday is here. i had intended to do a little spring cleaning today but as i woke up in the morning, i had a much better idea. why not go unwind in the shopping mall. i haven't gone shopping for a long long time, and now it's a good time to hunt for discounted clothes, i'm sure the shopping malls would try to lure their patrons by doing a raya promotion, won't they? moreover, most of my clothes can't fit now, my belly is showing a little bulge now that i'm in 10 weeks. 10 long weeks and it's just the beginning. and my pants, oh boy! i can't button them now. even my mini skirt looks like bak chang when i wore them. it made me felt very very uncomfortable. i can't breathe properly in it! it's a good excuse to change my wardrobe now. yippie!!!
finally, after a long wait, the raya holiday is here. i had intended to do a little spring cleaning today but as i woke up in the morning, i had a much better idea. why not go unwind in the shopping mall. i haven't gone shopping for a long long time, and now it's a good time to hunt for discounted clothes, i'm sure the shopping malls would try to lure their patrons by doing a raya promotion, won't they? moreover, most of my clothes can't fit now, my belly is showing a little bulge now that i'm in 10 weeks. 10 long weeks and it's just the beginning. and my pants, oh boy! i can't button them now. even my mini skirt looks like bak chang when i wore them. it made me felt very very uncomfortable. i can't breathe properly in it! it's a good excuse to change my wardrobe now. yippie!!!
Thursday, September 25, 2008
follow my conscience
i was certainly glad that i did not enter the tues, 23sep08 daily bread. it took 3 days to close the trade and it was a LOSS! a clean loss of 108 pips. duhh...thank god i followed my instinct. so i shall never enter any trade when i don't feel like it. *do not trade emotionally*, so adviced my trainer.
on the other hand, there was another daily bread on thurs 24sep08 and i felt good to take it. pop! i won 38 pips or usd35.73! nay, it didn't increase my previous ROI of 8.7% to a higher rate, coz in between, i lost 3 trades totalling to a whooping 132pips! my profit is now at 5.96% only ...sob...sob...sob...i lost 2.74% overnight. i know, this is no big deal and it can be earned back in no time.
i have another 2 more days to hit my target of 10% ROI for the month of sept. wish me luck!
on the other hand, there was another daily bread on thurs 24sep08 and i felt good to take it. pop! i won 38 pips or usd35.73! nay, it didn't increase my previous ROI of 8.7% to a higher rate, coz in between, i lost 3 trades totalling to a whooping 132pips! my profit is now at 5.96% only ...sob...sob...sob...i lost 2.74% overnight. i know, this is no big deal and it can be earned back in no time.
i have another 2 more days to hit my target of 10% ROI for the month of sept. wish me luck!
Tuesday, September 23, 2008
first lost in daily bread
i entered a daily bread on 22sep08 and lost it for the first time in my live account. it costs me 119 pips of loss in total, amounting to usd88.79. however, thank godness i entered 2 lots using the downtrend abc (abc is the name of the stategy) and profitted before the daily bread loss. hence, i made a total net loss of 83 pips, amounting to usd54.87. not too bad, it's all part & parcel of forex trading... yesterday, 23sep08, there was a daily bread too but i didn't feel like trading it. it still hasn't profitted yet at the time i'm typing this post. i see that it's still a long way to go.
anyway, as of 24sep08, exactly one month into trading live, i've made a nice profit of 8.73% (usd172.78). my target is 10% monthly but this is definitely waaayyyy better than all other investment tools in the market, don't you think so?
*reminder: please go for proper forex trading classes before you start to trade. it is very very crucial*
anyway, as of 24sep08, exactly one month into trading live, i've made a nice profit of 8.73% (usd172.78). my target is 10% monthly but this is definitely waaayyyy better than all other investment tools in the market, don't you think so?
*reminder: please go for proper forex trading classes before you start to trade. it is very very crucial*
Thursday, September 18, 2008
another superb profit!
i just have to record this down! yesterday, thurs 18sep08, i won a total of 174 pips per day!!! i used only 2 strategies on 3 trades and i won all of them! this is not by sheer luck i tell you. this has proven that the strategies work! it really really works and i can't believe that me & cl, 2 investment idiots before this, could actually do this well in forex. i know it's still too early to tell as we're just less than two months into trading live account. but, with our solid trading plan and consistent quality trading, i'm sure we're one step nearer to our goal.
forex rocks!!!
forex rocks!!!
Wednesday, September 17, 2008
Tuesday, September 16, 2008
shocking news!
i am utterly shocked! Lehman Brothers just filed for bankruptcy protection on 15sep08, making it the largest bankruptcy in U.S. history. Merrill Lynch was bought out of trouble by Bank of America. AIG is at risk of following Lehman Brothers...oh my god!
banks & airlines are going bankrupt. what about us the small flies? can we survive the coming recession? have we prepared ourselves?
banks & airlines are going bankrupt. what about us the small flies? can we survive the coming recession? have we prepared ourselves?
Monday, September 15, 2008
sept 16, 08
today is 16sept08, or more famously known as 916. almost all malaysians have been eagerly waiting for today.
is it going to be D' day?
is it going to be D' day?
Sunday, September 14, 2008
5 years service award
i used to work as a part-time casual worker in a well-known MNC during my secondary school holiday. i made a lot of new friends who were permanent employees. some had started working for this company since after finishing form 5, or right after form 3. they were a bunch of a very loyal employees whom will only leave the company after they've retired and not earlier. this company has become their retirement place, hence the name; Axxxx Retirement Home....just kidding :)
after i have graduated, i worked elsewhere for a year and re-joined this company as a permanent staff. that's a long 5 years since after i left this company to continue my studies. i met up with my old friends again, many of whom who've spotted gray hair already, married and have a bunch of kids. some have become grandparents and some of them couldn't even remember if they've known me before. i was very curious then, how could they survive working in the same old company for so many years; from a very young chap to an old lady or man now. how can one be so super loyal to serve the same company for more than a decade and spend almost three quarter of their life & soul here? i shudder at the thought of me ending up in the same position as them.
this year, i'm going to receive my 5 years service award. time really flies like nobody's business, isn't it? i don't feel proud for serving 5 unbroken years here and my thoughts on how my dear old friends survive such a long year of service came back to my mind. i have joined the crowd unintentionally! life's too comfortable here to make a change i suppose. my brain is dead and has been in the idle mode for 5 years now.
this morning i received an e-mail from my U.S. boss congratulating me for the long service. i didn't feel good about this. this is not something to be proud of at all. something must be done to change my current situation. otherwise, i'll succumbed myself to this retirement home. *shudder again*
after i have graduated, i worked elsewhere for a year and re-joined this company as a permanent staff. that's a long 5 years since after i left this company to continue my studies. i met up with my old friends again, many of whom who've spotted gray hair already, married and have a bunch of kids. some have become grandparents and some of them couldn't even remember if they've known me before. i was very curious then, how could they survive working in the same old company for so many years; from a very young chap to an old lady or man now. how can one be so super loyal to serve the same company for more than a decade and spend almost three quarter of their life & soul here? i shudder at the thought of me ending up in the same position as them.
this year, i'm going to receive my 5 years service award. time really flies like nobody's business, isn't it? i don't feel proud for serving 5 unbroken years here and my thoughts on how my dear old friends survive such a long year of service came back to my mind. i have joined the crowd unintentionally! life's too comfortable here to make a change i suppose. my brain is dead and has been in the idle mode for 5 years now.
this morning i received an e-mail from my U.S. boss congratulating me for the long service. i didn't feel good about this. this is not something to be proud of at all. something must be done to change my current situation. otherwise, i'll succumbed myself to this retirement home. *shudder again*
a nite at the hospital again
i was in my 6th week of pregnancy when one fine day during a working day, i had an abdomen cramp! it started after i had my lunch and boy! how it scared me out of my wits when the pain didn't subside after that. i went to the loo numerous time to check for the fearful red sign - blood, but thankfully there wasn't any. however, just before i left the office and went to the loo for the last time, to my horror, there was some red discharge! although it was some slight bleeding only, i was quite worried as that was the second time i had bleeding already. i was battling whether or not to head straight to the hospital while driving home. my watch was showing 5 something, i supposed if i headed straight to the hospital, i could still catch my gynae in time. and so i did.
my gynae did a vagina ultrasound and saw an amazing heartbeat. my last trip was just a week ago and i wasn't supposed to see him until next week. last week's scan showed only one featus with no heartbeat yet. within a week, the heartbeat shows!!! how amazing!!!
anyway, my gynae said it's quite alarming to have bleeding at this stage as i might be facing the possibility of miscarriage since the featus is not that stable yet. he suggested that i admit myself to the hospital for monitoring purposes. not again! i didn't want to admit and asked him for another alternative, like taking whatever pills that could stop the pain & the bleeding or even asked for a jab from him! he said the risk if with me if i refused to admit. such words sent shivers down my spine. in the end, i agreed but asked to be allowed home to pack.
and so i got admitted to the hospital for the second time. gosh! i'm so sick of frequenting the hospital already.
my gynae did a vagina ultrasound and saw an amazing heartbeat. my last trip was just a week ago and i wasn't supposed to see him until next week. last week's scan showed only one featus with no heartbeat yet. within a week, the heartbeat shows!!! how amazing!!!
anyway, my gynae said it's quite alarming to have bleeding at this stage as i might be facing the possibility of miscarriage since the featus is not that stable yet. he suggested that i admit myself to the hospital for monitoring purposes. not again! i didn't want to admit and asked him for another alternative, like taking whatever pills that could stop the pain & the bleeding or even asked for a jab from him! he said the risk if with me if i refused to admit. such words sent shivers down my spine. in the end, i agreed but asked to be allowed home to pack.
and so i got admitted to the hospital for the second time. gosh! i'm so sick of frequenting the hospital already.
210808
my gynae just blurted the words that i've longed to hear for so long.
YOU ARE PREGNANT!!!
and those three words are making a twist in my life already!
YOU ARE PREGNANT!!!
and those three words are making a twist in my life already!
Thursday, September 11, 2008
home alone 2
i'm at home, all alone again. cl has called to tell that he'll be having a meeting after work today. no idea what time the meeting ends. his job sucks. typical chinese taukeh who never fails to squeeze all his might to get till the very last juice he can get and to torture the most out of his employees. i hate his job and he hates it too. wait till our trading skill is strong enough, then he'll bid goodbye to this hell company. i just can't wait when the time comes. like i've said before, we're paving the road now, giving ourselves sufficient time to get ready. wish us luck *wink*
on a non-related note, this morning i woke up 10 minutes later than usual!!! i got a big shock when i suddenly jerk from my sweet dream and the clock was showing 7.25am!!! i jumped out of the bed and got myself ready. cl was already up by the time i was ready to leave the house and i told him to open the door for me. i didn't notice i had forgotten to take my house keys until i reached the office and tidied up my little key purse (the purse which i keep all my keys lar). then i quickly ym him and he brought them to work. so after work, i dropped by his workplace and got the keys from him. thank godness i purposely made a trip to get the keys, otherwise, i'll be stuck at my mum's house till god knows what time.
gotta go do laundry and watch the 9.45pm local chinese show now.
on a non-related note, this morning i woke up 10 minutes later than usual!!! i got a big shock when i suddenly jerk from my sweet dream and the clock was showing 7.25am!!! i jumped out of the bed and got myself ready. cl was already up by the time i was ready to leave the house and i told him to open the door for me. i didn't notice i had forgotten to take my house keys until i reached the office and tidied up my little key purse (the purse which i keep all my keys lar). then i quickly ym him and he brought them to work. so after work, i dropped by his workplace and got the keys from him. thank godness i purposely made a trip to get the keys, otherwise, i'll be stuck at my mum's house till god knows what time.
gotta go do laundry and watch the 9.45pm local chinese show now.
Wednesday, September 10, 2008
second profit from daily bread
after waiting for 2 days, finally on wednesday, there's another daily bread again. whee!! this time i profitted only half of what i made last friday, usd54.37. nevertheless, it made me a happy happy girl!
**twirls and dances away gleefully**
**twirls and dances away gleefully**
Monday, September 8, 2008
the nasi lemak that always goes wrong
the canteen in my workplace sells nasi lemak and other varieties of delicacies every morning. before this, i seldom buy any breakfast from the canteen and just do away with the free snacks provided for employees. save money ma. however, recently, i've been eating nasi lemak and fried noodles a lot. i know these are very unhealthy food but temptation is really hard to resist at times.
thus, this morning i indulged in a packet of nasi lemak. the taste is always not consistent, sometimes the rice being too soggy; the sambal being too spicy until you can't feel the nasi lemak taste at all except the feeling that your tongue is burning with the spicyness; not enough santan being used and all other things that can go wrong with cooking a simple nasi lemak. i wonder if the cook is aware of her variety taste of nasi lemak - daily-!!!
today's nasi lemak is ... tasteless!!! when the taste is not right, i always feel cheated for paying rm1 for something that is not up to my expectation. it's like paying rm1 for a bowl of white rice with some miserable amount of ikan bilis and a miserable tiny piece of egg. proabably they cut an egg into 12 pieces!!! nevertheless, sometimes it does feel good, with everything just right. despite all these inconsistencies, i still crave for it every now & then. i guess i have a very easy tastebud.
i'm too full to think about lunch now. probably will have something light during lunch, like noodles. i wonder what kind of noodles do they sell today.
it's only tuesday. arrggghhh!!! *start counting down to weekends*...
as you can see, i'm not in the mood of working today. i can't remember when was the last time i had the mood to work. heheheee....
thus, this morning i indulged in a packet of nasi lemak. the taste is always not consistent, sometimes the rice being too soggy; the sambal being too spicy until you can't feel the nasi lemak taste at all except the feeling that your tongue is burning with the spicyness; not enough santan being used and all other things that can go wrong with cooking a simple nasi lemak. i wonder if the cook is aware of her variety taste of nasi lemak - daily-!!!
today's nasi lemak is ... tasteless!!! when the taste is not right, i always feel cheated for paying rm1 for something that is not up to my expectation. it's like paying rm1 for a bowl of white rice with some miserable amount of ikan bilis and a miserable tiny piece of egg. proabably they cut an egg into 12 pieces!!! nevertheless, sometimes it does feel good, with everything just right. despite all these inconsistencies, i still crave for it every now & then. i guess i have a very easy tastebud.
i'm too full to think about lunch now. probably will have something light during lunch, like noodles. i wonder what kind of noodles do they sell today.
it's only tuesday. arrggghhh!!! *start counting down to weekends*...
as you can see, i'm not in the mood of working today. i can't remember when was the last time i had the mood to work. heheheee....
Saturday, September 6, 2008
my silly little secret...sshhh...
i was reading sweatlee's blog and she was telling that when she was 6, she got canned by her grandma because she didn't wear panty to school. muahhhaaahhaaaaa....suddenly i thought of a funny incident of such that happened to myself.
when my sisters & i were still small, we were very close to our paternal grandma. my grandma was a very adventurous old lady. everytime before school holidays, she would have already planned ahead her trips to visit all the yee mah ku cheh a.k.a her siblings & other relatives. if my mum allowed, we would be able to tag along with her. yippie!!! no need to stay at home and do revision or do housework. my mum was a teacher, so can you imagine, we cannot escape from books even during school holidays.
i was around 5-6 yrs old when i followed grandma to go back alor setar after a trip to a grandaunt's house. we were boarding a train at that time. i wasn't used to wearing panty with pants, but grandma told me that i was a big girl already, so i needed to get used to wearing panty before my pants. and so i obeyed her and felt very uncomfortable throughout the whole journey!
when i went to pee, i forgot that i was wearing panty inside, i only took down my pants and peed! oh my god! my whole panty was drenched with urine! i quickly took it off and wore back my pants and told my grandma about it. i couldn't remember what happened after that but i was quite alert after that incident and made sure that i didn't have any panty on before doing small or big business!!
what a silly lesson learnt...hahahaaaa...
when my sisters & i were still small, we were very close to our paternal grandma. my grandma was a very adventurous old lady. everytime before school holidays, she would have already planned ahead her trips to visit all the yee mah ku cheh a.k.a her siblings & other relatives. if my mum allowed, we would be able to tag along with her. yippie!!! no need to stay at home and do revision or do housework. my mum was a teacher, so can you imagine, we cannot escape from books even during school holidays.
i was around 5-6 yrs old when i followed grandma to go back alor setar after a trip to a grandaunt's house. we were boarding a train at that time. i wasn't used to wearing panty with pants, but grandma told me that i was a big girl already, so i needed to get used to wearing panty before my pants. and so i obeyed her and felt very uncomfortable throughout the whole journey!
when i went to pee, i forgot that i was wearing panty inside, i only took down my pants and peed! oh my god! my whole panty was drenched with urine! i quickly took it off and wore back my pants and told my grandma about it. i couldn't remember what happened after that but i was quite alert after that incident and made sure that i didn't have any panty on before doing small or big business!!
what a silly lesson learnt...hahahaaaa...
The One Minute Millionaire
recently, i'm reading a book called The One Minute Millionaire, a best selling book by Mark Victor Hansen & Robert Allen. Mark Victor Hansen is the author of the famous Internationally Bestselling Chicken Soup series. I came to know about this book after joining the forex investment classes and was strongly recommend to read it. for those who are interested, this is the website: http://www.blogger.com/www.oneminutemillionaire.com
there are some very motivational phrases which i like it very much and here's one of my favourite chapters:
"The Ninth Aha: Wealth is Freedom
Life is a seminar. You were enrolled at birth. You can't get out of it, even by dying. So enjoy it. You came into this seminar with no instruction manual. Allow this book to positively change that.
Financially you may be winning or losing just now. We want you to win. We want you to perpetuate your wins. We want you to catch what we call a "win-fection." With a win-fection, you become an unstoppable magnet that wins, and wins, and wins.
To prepare you for the seminar called "Your Life," we want to teach and inspire you to attract money, and lots of it. This is the incredibly important inaugural freedom - called money freedom. You want to have enough money so that all your future days are prepaid. You will work because you want to work, not because you have to work.
You can contribute big-time because you are no longer a wage slave, owned by your job. Because you are free to risk. When this happens, imagine the incredible difference you can make. You can expand your sense of who you really are and become the great server you were meant to be. You can set big goals. You can assemble your Dream Team(s). You can be a fully abundant person, fully functioning. You are a masterpiece in process - becoming ever better, more fulfilled, and totally happy.
Having accomplished your first evolutionary step of money freedom, you can now pass "go" and move on to time freedom. Time freedom doesn't mean you don't work, it means that your work is your play. Your play becomes your work. You savor it. You own it. Work does not own you. You feel comfortable and calm taking time off. You start by taking off an extra day here and there. You build up to taking off a week per month, or equavalently three months per year, when you can forget about work totally and completely. Yet your income continues to expand, increase, and multiply. When you return to work, you are rejuvenated, refreshed, and ready to have breakthrough ideas that will leverage you forward.
With time and money freedoms, you can pursue relationship freedom. You and your loved ones will have one of life's more precious gifts - love and time to explore it. You can go deep into your primary relationship and make it sing, whistle, hum, and dance. You have what others only dream about - the freedom to make your commitment to each other deep, poignant, meaningful, intimate, and lastingly cherishable.
You can now investigate your spiritual beingness. You can work toward achieving spiritual freedom. You can discover who you are in God and who God is in you.
Let's not forget physical freedom. Health is the ultimate wealth. With time to exercise and money to buy the finest nutrition, nutritional supplements, and health care, you can maintain for as long as humanly possible.
These five great freedoms give you Ultimate Freedom - the ability to pursue your real genius. According to groundbreaking research by Dr. Howard Gardner at Havard University, each of us has genius in us. With Ultimate Freedom you have a choice to discover your true genius and how you can uniquely apply it."
there are some very motivational phrases which i like it very much and here's one of my favourite chapters:
"The Ninth Aha: Wealth is Freedom
Life is a seminar. You were enrolled at birth. You can't get out of it, even by dying. So enjoy it. You came into this seminar with no instruction manual. Allow this book to positively change that.
Financially you may be winning or losing just now. We want you to win. We want you to perpetuate your wins. We want you to catch what we call a "win-fection." With a win-fection, you become an unstoppable magnet that wins, and wins, and wins.
To prepare you for the seminar called "Your Life," we want to teach and inspire you to attract money, and lots of it. This is the incredibly important inaugural freedom - called money freedom. You want to have enough money so that all your future days are prepaid. You will work because you want to work, not because you have to work.
You can contribute big-time because you are no longer a wage slave, owned by your job. Because you are free to risk. When this happens, imagine the incredible difference you can make. You can expand your sense of who you really are and become the great server you were meant to be. You can set big goals. You can assemble your Dream Team(s). You can be a fully abundant person, fully functioning. You are a masterpiece in process - becoming ever better, more fulfilled, and totally happy.
Having accomplished your first evolutionary step of money freedom, you can now pass "go" and move on to time freedom. Time freedom doesn't mean you don't work, it means that your work is your play. Your play becomes your work. You savor it. You own it. Work does not own you. You feel comfortable and calm taking time off. You start by taking off an extra day here and there. You build up to taking off a week per month, or equavalently three months per year, when you can forget about work totally and completely. Yet your income continues to expand, increase, and multiply. When you return to work, you are rejuvenated, refreshed, and ready to have breakthrough ideas that will leverage you forward.
With time and money freedoms, you can pursue relationship freedom. You and your loved ones will have one of life's more precious gifts - love and time to explore it. You can go deep into your primary relationship and make it sing, whistle, hum, and dance. You have what others only dream about - the freedom to make your commitment to each other deep, poignant, meaningful, intimate, and lastingly cherishable.
You can now investigate your spiritual beingness. You can work toward achieving spiritual freedom. You can discover who you are in God and who God is in you.
Let's not forget physical freedom. Health is the ultimate wealth. With time to exercise and money to buy the finest nutrition, nutritional supplements, and health care, you can maintain for as long as humanly possible.
These five great freedoms give you Ultimate Freedom - the ability to pursue your real genius. According to groundbreaking research by Dr. Howard Gardner at Havard University, each of us has genius in us. With Ultimate Freedom you have a choice to discover your true genius and how you can uniquely apply it."
i'm paving my way towards achieving these 5 great freedoms and hope that i can achieve them before my 30th birthday. wish me luck :)
Friday, September 5, 2008
my first daily bread profit!!!
daily bread here doesn't mean the bread or roti that we eat. it's one of the terms in forex trading that the forex academy master strategist creatively named his copy-righted strategy. i was hospitalized (again) due to some bleeding and was pc-less (i can't imagine i used to live without internet connection and being unrelated to any online stuff before this), let alone trading. however, the smart me asked cl to keep a close look at the market and to enter this strategy whenever the opportunity arises. we've been waiting for this opportunity for about 2 weeks already but no chance to enter any trade on this. finally, today he did and voila!!!...we profitted! our exact profit was usd108.83! what a wonderful start to my weekends.
my supper
it's raining quite heavily but i was craving for koay teow th'ng from the kopitiam just across the road from my apartment. cl said, whatever i want to eat, he will surely buy it for me :) so out he went in the rain and bought me the long-awaited koay teow th'ng. i just finished the whole bowl by myself and my tummy's bloated now. gotta stay awake for a while for the food to digest before going to bed. can it digest in 10 mins time? yawn...
can you see the cili padi floating in the clear soup? i like my koay teow th'ng that way :)
can you see the cili padi floating in the clear soup? i like my koay teow th'ng that way :)
Wednesday, September 3, 2008
home alone 1
i'm all alone at home now. cl has gone to mil's house for dinner. you must be wondering why am i at home and he went back to mil's house alone.
actually mil cooked dinner; something which she has not done in ages; and called cl on his cellphone to go home for a nice home-cooked dinner. besides that, she has also boiled ginseng chicken soup, the main dish of the night (cl said it's specially for me (or for my baby? or for sil who's expecting too? - killing 2 birds with one stone?)) and wanted cl to go home to take some for me. cl told her he would be driving me home so that i could drink right from the pot, fresh & hot but she insisted that i take a good rest at home as she doesn't want me to move around too much. why am i feeling awkward about this?
so there went cl to his mum's house for dinner and me to my mum's house for dinner. strange isn't it? why didn't mil tell me to go home for dinner too? if i don't move, how am i supposed to even go to my mum's house for dinner? is her definition of not moving too much means that i cannot go out at all? i drive to & fro work, does she also mean that i shouldn't be driving or probably working at all in order to rest more?
sil said my job is to rest & sleep now. i told them in that case my house is going to breed worms for 1 year starting from now.
funny...no?
actually mil cooked dinner; something which she has not done in ages; and called cl on his cellphone to go home for a nice home-cooked dinner. besides that, she has also boiled ginseng chicken soup, the main dish of the night (cl said it's specially for me (or for my baby? or for sil who's expecting too? - killing 2 birds with one stone?)) and wanted cl to go home to take some for me. cl told her he would be driving me home so that i could drink right from the pot, fresh & hot but she insisted that i take a good rest at home as she doesn't want me to move around too much. why am i feeling awkward about this?
so there went cl to his mum's house for dinner and me to my mum's house for dinner. strange isn't it? why didn't mil tell me to go home for dinner too? if i don't move, how am i supposed to even go to my mum's house for dinner? is her definition of not moving too much means that i cannot go out at all? i drive to & fro work, does she also mean that i shouldn't be driving or probably working at all in order to rest more?
sil said my job is to rest & sleep now. i told them in that case my house is going to breed worms for 1 year starting from now.
funny...no?
help...my sore throat is killing me...!!!
i am having a terrible sore throat now, thanks to my inability to reject unhealthy but yummy food few days ago. my tummy has been having a feast since i don't know when. i have been consuming food like char koay teow, fried rice, hokkien char, claypot chicken rice, fried chicken, and all those goody good penang food like nobody's business. as a result, i had constipation for 2 days, all input no output the body sure gets heaty what.
mum came to my rescue when she brought back some bananas from grandpa's house. bananas are my saviour at times like this; my constipation is cured! too bad, it came a bit too late as i've developed slight sore throat already. am drinking lots of water now, hope it helps to cool down my body a bit.
sore throat, sore throat, please go away.
mum came to my rescue when she brought back some bananas from grandpa's house. bananas are my saviour at times like this; my constipation is cured! too bad, it came a bit too late as i've developed slight sore throat already. am drinking lots of water now, hope it helps to cool down my body a bit.
sore throat, sore throat, please go away.
Tuesday, September 2, 2008
a wedding invitation that i dread to attend
my cousin will be getting married this sunday, 7sep08. i have decided not to attend it ever since I heard about the wedding months ago but dad says no way, this is a wedding of my cousin with the same surname (paternal side), so there's no reason for me to not attend it. don’t get me wrong here. i’m not saying that I dislike wedding invitations but this is an exceptional case. it's not that i am disliking this cousin of mine but it's his sister that i really hate. my extended families have more girls than boys, so we used to be very close when we were young; young as in during schooling days. this despite the fact that we only saw dad’s siblings plus their kids a.k.a my cousins few times a year, namely during chinese new year and my late grandparents’ birthdays. however, there’s this one incident that happened few years back during our usual chinese new year gathering that I developed hatred towards this particular cousin of mine. that incident has been kept in the corner of my mind and i doubt it will be erased from my memory…talk about strong hatred feeling!
it’s a custom that we had paternal family gathering on the second day of chinese new year and for few consecutive years, we had buffet lunch at one of the low-profile hotels in sungai petani. you see, i had taken a liking in photography (shame to say that my skills have not improved further :P) ever since i was a young girl. therefore on occasions like this, i would just take random pictures and sometimes, invite some cousins to snap pictures together for remembrance. most of them were ok and waited while i went to get this particular cousin. she was in the midst of taking food when i asked her to join us but she sort of ignored me and didn’t say a word. I didn’t feel anything then and presumed she will come to us when she’s finished taking whatever she wanted from the buffet spread. after waiting for some time, she just proceeded to eat, showing no sign of wanting to join us for our photo sessions. i felt disturbed but dismissed the feeling away as quickly as it came as i was thinking she might want to grab a few bites to suppress her hunger first before joining us. however, she continued to eat as if nothing happened. as a courtesy, i went over to invite her again and was all excited to click my camera away. i gladly said ‘come, let’s go to take photos.’ she didn’t budge a bit and just told me bluntly (without even looking at me!) that she didn’t want to snap any photos. full stop and she continued enjoying her food like nobody’s business. i was stunt at her abrupt response. what a rude girl! what is wrong with taking photos with your cousins? i didn’t remember us provoking her and even if she didn’t want to take photos with us, at least just have some courtesy to tell us off nicely. i got so fed up i walked away with black face and went to join my other cousins. i really can’t tolerate this kind of people who thinks highly of themselves and walk with nose in the air. what makes you feel so superior with i-don’t-know-what-you-feel-superior-with and does it disgust you if you take some moments to pose some pictures with us? what is wrong with this kind of people?!
i know it’s unfair to boycott the brother’s wedding due to such a small child play incident. i am just being childish. moreover, besides this wedding, we’re definitely not going to see them anymore for any celebrations or occasions in years to come. we barely keep in touch nowadays ever since grandpa & grandma passed away. but since this wedding is the first grandson in LIM’s family, dad is the honourable guest (is he?) and he would make sure that all of us attend and occupy a table; my family makes a perfect table of 10 minus 1.
can I escape this wedding?
it’s a custom that we had paternal family gathering on the second day of chinese new year and for few consecutive years, we had buffet lunch at one of the low-profile hotels in sungai petani. you see, i had taken a liking in photography (shame to say that my skills have not improved further :P) ever since i was a young girl. therefore on occasions like this, i would just take random pictures and sometimes, invite some cousins to snap pictures together for remembrance. most of them were ok and waited while i went to get this particular cousin. she was in the midst of taking food when i asked her to join us but she sort of ignored me and didn’t say a word. I didn’t feel anything then and presumed she will come to us when she’s finished taking whatever she wanted from the buffet spread. after waiting for some time, she just proceeded to eat, showing no sign of wanting to join us for our photo sessions. i felt disturbed but dismissed the feeling away as quickly as it came as i was thinking she might want to grab a few bites to suppress her hunger first before joining us. however, she continued to eat as if nothing happened. as a courtesy, i went over to invite her again and was all excited to click my camera away. i gladly said ‘come, let’s go to take photos.’ she didn’t budge a bit and just told me bluntly (without even looking at me!) that she didn’t want to snap any photos. full stop and she continued enjoying her food like nobody’s business. i was stunt at her abrupt response. what a rude girl! what is wrong with taking photos with your cousins? i didn’t remember us provoking her and even if she didn’t want to take photos with us, at least just have some courtesy to tell us off nicely. i got so fed up i walked away with black face and went to join my other cousins. i really can’t tolerate this kind of people who thinks highly of themselves and walk with nose in the air. what makes you feel so superior with i-don’t-know-what-you-feel-superior-with and does it disgust you if you take some moments to pose some pictures with us? what is wrong with this kind of people?!
i know it’s unfair to boycott the brother’s wedding due to such a small child play incident. i am just being childish. moreover, besides this wedding, we’re definitely not going to see them anymore for any celebrations or occasions in years to come. we barely keep in touch nowadays ever since grandpa & grandma passed away. but since this wedding is the first grandson in LIM’s family, dad is the honourable guest (is he?) and he would make sure that all of us attend and occupy a table; my family makes a perfect table of 10 minus 1.
can I escape this wedding?
Tuesday, August 26, 2008
by-election day in permatang pauh -- massive jam in penang island!!!
today i reached my office at exactly 9.26am (that's the precise time shown after i scanned my tag to enter the premise) due to an unexpected massive jam. it was very considerate of my colleague to call me at 8.05am to warn me about the jam, when i was just about to turn into the junction that will lead me to the starting point of the jam. unfortunately, even after trying to use another alternative route, i still could not escape the jam.
it was everywhere!!! arrgghh…!!!
you see, whenever there’s a traffic jam leading to where we work, almost everybody would be receiving the same warning from their friends and colleagues to avoid certain routes. the smart you may have already guessed it, that is why they say smart ass think alike; in order not to join the already known jammed-route, everybody would end up taking the same alternative route, and eventually the supposedly-to-be-free alternative routes would end up having massive jam as well. thus, yours truly was innocently stucked in the jam for an annoying 1.5 hours (normally, i would take about 20-25 mins to reach my workplace). i got really mad because i left my house a little late today since I anticipated that the traffic would be clear as it was supposed to be a public holiday! no school and not many factories/companies were working today! I was hoping that instead of taking 20-25 mins to reach, I would probably only need less than 20mins to reach my office, park at my favourite spot, take my own sweet time to come into the office and enter a good trade or two with much enthusiasm.
whilst in the car, i really felt like turning my steering over and headed back home instead of wasting time getting stuck in that stupid jam. however, heading home would mean that i would need to take a day's off today and taking a day’s off would also mean that i was gonna be taking, nay wasting my precious leave unnecessarily. do i have to sacrifice my precious annual leave simply because I wanted to avoid the jam? moreover, it didn’t sound so practical as I was already wasting 1 hour of my lifetime getting stucked there and my workplace is oh, so near yet so far away. in addition to that i haven't got much annual leaves to spare (i mean carried forward leaves from year 07, I haven’t touched this year’s leave, yippie!!) and now we're only in the month of August. 4 more months before year end and I just cannot afford to simply waste my leave. Finally after some battle of the thoughts, i reached my office, parked far far away from the entrance and had a lots of sun bathing while rushing to get into the premise.
I was feeling sweaty all over…yucks!!!
it was everywhere!!! arrgghh…!!!
you see, whenever there’s a traffic jam leading to where we work, almost everybody would be receiving the same warning from their friends and colleagues to avoid certain routes. the smart you may have already guessed it, that is why they say smart ass think alike; in order not to join the already known jammed-route, everybody would end up taking the same alternative route, and eventually the supposedly-to-be-free alternative routes would end up having massive jam as well. thus, yours truly was innocently stucked in the jam for an annoying 1.5 hours (normally, i would take about 20-25 mins to reach my workplace). i got really mad because i left my house a little late today since I anticipated that the traffic would be clear as it was supposed to be a public holiday! no school and not many factories/companies were working today! I was hoping that instead of taking 20-25 mins to reach, I would probably only need less than 20mins to reach my office, park at my favourite spot, take my own sweet time to come into the office and enter a good trade or two with much enthusiasm.
whilst in the car, i really felt like turning my steering over and headed back home instead of wasting time getting stuck in that stupid jam. however, heading home would mean that i would need to take a day's off today and taking a day’s off would also mean that i was gonna be taking, nay wasting my precious leave unnecessarily. do i have to sacrifice my precious annual leave simply because I wanted to avoid the jam? moreover, it didn’t sound so practical as I was already wasting 1 hour of my lifetime getting stucked there and my workplace is oh, so near yet so far away. in addition to that i haven't got much annual leaves to spare (i mean carried forward leaves from year 07, I haven’t touched this year’s leave, yippie!!) and now we're only in the month of August. 4 more months before year end and I just cannot afford to simply waste my leave. Finally after some battle of the thoughts, i reached my office, parked far far away from the entrance and had a lots of sun bathing while rushing to get into the premise.
I was feeling sweaty all over…yucks!!!
Monday, August 25, 2008
the e-mail that has just killed our mood
finally, after so much anticipation, HR has just killed our mood for the day with this e-mail:
To : All employees
Date : 25/8/08
Subj : Permatang Pauh by-election
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This email is to inform all employees that xxx company will NOT be observing 26/8/08 as Public Holiday.
However, as in the past, the Company will provide our support by giving 4 Hrs PTO to employees who were involved in the by-election.
On behalf of xxx Management
some HR big shots
To : All employees
Date : 25/8/08
Subj : Permatang Pauh by-election
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This email is to inform all employees that xxx company will NOT be observing 26/8/08 as Public Holiday.
However, as in the past, the Company will provide our support by giving 4 Hrs PTO to employees who were involved in the by-election.
On behalf of xxx Management
some HR big shots
now back to work everybody...and remember to come to work tomorrow.
Sunday, August 24, 2008
is 260808 a public holiday at my workplace?
last nite, cl's colleague called him to ask if tues, 26Aug08 is an off day for the company due to permatang pauh's by-election day. i didn't know what was going on, so the first thing that came to my mind was probably his colleague was just pulling his legs. having a sudden day off during a normal working day would be a wish come true to every employee on earth, but it's just too good to be true.
early this morning, upon reaching my office, everybody was talking about tomorrow's public holiday. it seems that everybody came to work today just to find out whether or not are we off the next day. we waited the whole morning...no news from the HR yet. we went to lunch and back, still no news yet. my colleagues were getting restless, after having found out which & which company are going to be off tomorrow and our curiousity grew stronger & stronger with each passing minute. we kept on checking our outlook, hoping to get some good news before we call it a day.
it's 2.54pm now and we're still waiting for some good news before we call it a day.
early this morning, upon reaching my office, everybody was talking about tomorrow's public holiday. it seems that everybody came to work today just to find out whether or not are we off the next day. we waited the whole morning...no news from the HR yet. we went to lunch and back, still no news yet. my colleagues were getting restless, after having found out which & which company are going to be off tomorrow and our curiousity grew stronger & stronger with each passing minute. we kept on checking our outlook, hoping to get some good news before we call it a day.
it's 2.54pm now and we're still waiting for some good news before we call it a day.
Saturday, August 23, 2008
my blog...finally...
i've been wanting to get a blog on my own, especially after being an avid blog reader for almost 2 years. however, the lazy me was just too lazy to start one, you know what people always say about taking the first step is never easy...unfortunately, yours truly live by this phrase - all the time (oh no! this is my first ever post and i'm already revealing the bad side of myself!).
oh wait! i managed to break through this time (please applaud for me...*thank u...thank u...*) okay, enough of craps. :)
the actual reason that i wanted to start a blog on my own is of course because i've heard of some bloggers earning a freaking rm5-FIGURED INCOME by writing paid posts!! (yup, that would be my ultimate goal!!!). ermmm, i'm not that ambitious actually, but i wouldn't mind earning some USD to cover some little expenses here & there (yea, this sounds more realistic and perhaps a little more acceptable, isn't it?). well, besides that, i'm in the process of having a baby soon. This little humble blog of mine would serve as a documentation of my life journey as well as journey to parenthood. wow...i like the word 'parenthood'. **BIG GRIN**
oh wait! i managed to break through this time (please applaud for me...*thank u...thank u...*) okay, enough of craps. :)
the actual reason that i wanted to start a blog on my own is of course because i've heard of some bloggers earning a freaking rm5-FIGURED INCOME by writing paid posts!! (yup, that would be my ultimate goal!!!). ermmm, i'm not that ambitious actually, but i wouldn't mind earning some USD to cover some little expenses here & there (yea, this sounds more realistic and perhaps a little more acceptable, isn't it?). well, besides that, i'm in the process of having a baby soon. This little humble blog of mine would serve as a documentation of my life journey as well as journey to parenthood. wow...i like the word 'parenthood'. **BIG GRIN**
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