All of a sudden I felt a huge yoke was placed on my shoulder. Can I stand up? I can but for how long I am not sure but I am trusting that God will lift that yoke soon. How soon, only He knows.
Have to live life to the simplest now.
I can forget about going for holidays.
No more dining out.
No more supper.
No more buying our wants.
Come to think of it, stress and no supper will help me slim down!
Always think positive. 
Look what has become of the bench that the men made. It has evolved into a small low table!
In order not to waste the other half of the trunk and also the left over trunk, the men make use of them and built a table with the other trunk as benches!
MIL and the maid weaved the young coconut leaves into the Ketupat casing. We are going to have Ketupat and Kuah Kacang soon, minus the Satay.
And the best part of the coconut tree is the shoots. We ate it raw; sorry, I dunno how to describe the taste.
Our neighbour told MIL that we are not to eat the coconut shoots because the coconut tree was truck by lightning. I do not know what’s the rational behind it. The tree looks fine to us…no sign of it being struck by lightning. It is it, sure die already. 
Anyway, I hope I won’t be needing any medigap when I grow old. You’ll never know the side effects that will emerge once our body grew old.
Today is really a fruitful Sunday. We had fruit feast and some work are done around the house.
The men cut down a coconut tree because it was too near to the durian tree; a bridge for the squirrel to cross over. Then they made a bench using the coconut trunk. Now we have a bench under a rambutan tree for us to sit to enjoy our rambutans in a month time.
The fruit feast started with Watermelon while the men were busy making the bench. Then we had some fresh young coconut from the tree that has just been chopped down.
After some hard labor, their stomach started to growl and we had our durian right under the rambutan tree. While enjoying our durians, one durian dropped. Yay! Fresh from the tree!!! No pix though coz I was busy eating durians too!
In the kitchen, the maid was busy cooking Pengat Durian; durian cooked in coconut milk and gula melaka. We are too full to eat that. We shall savor it before dinner.
The children was not left out…they had so much fun playing with the sawdust!
If you are looking for jobs in Boston, be ready to bid farewell to this kinda life.
After 3 years I finally managed to get my blackheads thoroughly pressed out (almost), my face massaged, cleansed and masked. Yes! I went for a facial with my last pay! My face was itching (literally) to get the facial done as soon as possible. For the past one week, my face really itches even after I cleaned it, especially near the nose area. Now, no more itches and the face can breathe again!
As the beautician was torturing me (pressing out the blackheads…hehe), we had small talk. About art class; her son also attended art class, about taking supplements; supplement can cause temporary breakouts and about business; how everything is very slow now. Well, women can still make do with DIY facial when money is hard to come by.
I was suggesting to her to buy some wholesale cosmetics to sell. They are cheaper than those beauty products that she is selling. If she is good in “sweet talking” (closing sales), I don’t think it would be a problem selling lips gloss, lipstick, nail polish etc. Maybe the profit is not much but in time like this, every single cent counts.
Haiya, after giving her those tips, I thought she will give me discount; a single cent also doesn’t have. Well, like I said, “Every single cent counts.” 
In a few days the above Rambutan will rest in peace in my tummy! It is juciy, crunchy and the flesh does not get stuck in between your teeth. That is why I only eat the Yellow rambutan from this tree! We have Red Rambutan too but they are not red yet, till green.
The fruit season is back! We are seeing lotsa of Durians, Rambutans, Binjai, Langsat, Mangosteen, Longan etc. The sore-throat season will also follow after that! Be sure to drink lots and lots of water.
Don’t like durian so put small pix. 
As for my house, we only have Durians and Rambutans. So far I have not eaten any of the Durians yet. This year, I don’t crave for durian at all. Fiona, come eat on my behalf.
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Nervous, Scare, Worried, Uncertain and very stressful too.
My gastric juice is oozing out now. It normally does when I am in stress!
Manage to de-stress for a lil while just now, watched Hancock at GSC, Mahkota Parade.
My heart beats so fast when I open my email.
I received yet another bad news…my whole body felt so lifeless.
Looking forward to Monday night though and hope that everything will be back as usual or even better.
I am telling God that if you are going to stop blessing me financially, you better start blessing my husband!
I love wearing high heels because it makes my legs look longer and slender and of course to make me taller too because I am only 5’2”.
Unfortunately due to health reason, I can’t wear high heels anymore. Sometimes I still wear them but I will suffer pain on my right abdomen after that. I am all for flats now.
When I started to open my eyes to see sandals and wear them, they are very comfortable actually. That should be the main reason we wear shoe right? For comfort! =P
Just take a look at Blowfish Shoes. I love their collection of Blowfish Women’s Shoes especially this sandal.
It looks for comfy and the price is very affordable too, if you earn in USD. They do have some Blowfish Men’s Shoes but not as many as women shoes. That is obvious right? Women love to have many pairs of shoes unlike men. If possible they want to own a shoe that can last their lifetime!
We named our internet cafe “Starhawk” because it was hubby online nickname. To us it is a very unique name. Unfortunately because our shop is opposite a hypermarket, our customers do not refer to our shop’s name. Hubby overhead their tele-conversation with their friend when asking for their whereabout. They will tell them that they are in the “Internet Cafe near ABC Hypermarket”. I wonder whether they know that our internet cafe’s name is Starhawk! I think hubby really needs to add spotlights to the signboard.
Since I need to TT the maid’s salary, and never done that by myself before, I left home at 9.45am and make sure I reach the bank by 10am! I also helped hubby by doing his banking too. All those are done within half and hour. Well, at least I utilised the coupon, so don’t feel that it is a waste.
Later I realised…”Hey…only 60 cents lar!”
To comfort myself, “You learned something new today…How to TT money.”
I am in awe every time I see the paintings on the wall of the art & drawing class that my eldest attends. They are really creative bunch of people. How I wish I am like them. Once a upon a time I love to draw and to paint. I did well with sceneries but I didn’t get any proper guidance so the new found skill slowly diminishes.
Well, now when I see that my eldest shows interest in drawing, I quickly enroll her to the drawing class so that she won’t regret not be given the opportunity like her mommy. As for me now, my art goes to especially my baking skill. I make sure that my cookies are pretty! Hahaha.
Sometimes I wonder those artists who always participate in exhibitions, how do they transport their paintings from one gallery to another gallery. Art Moving must be quite a tedious job packing and unpacking, wrapping and unwrapping. Due to it, many of them will invest in good and reliable moving company and also hire movers that know the value of their artwork. Well, if one of their paintings is sold, I guess paying for the services is only minimal to them.
Take a look at the date on the cheque. I wrote that this morning to pay my girls kindy fee and half yearly books. At that time, I thought I only got the month wrong. Today is July already; not June!
Then later at 10am, I brought my maid for a hair cut. That’s my parking coupon. Noticed the date again? I got the month correct this time but I mati-mati thought that today is 2nd! Thank God the enforcer didn’t come to check; if not sure kena saman already! :S
I only realised that I got my date wrong when I started to do my blogging assignment! See lar…only one day jobless, I don’t know my dates already. 
Now I am thinking…where to go at 10am tomorrow since the parking coupon is still valid.
Those days I don’t hear about wedding favors during wedding. Now, this western culture has slowly creeps into our wedding culture; which add more cost the already expensive wedding. Anyway, the marrying couple will still spend with the rational that it is only one in a lifetime; if you don’t divorce and re-marry lar. =P
If you don’t have high budget for your wedding, either scrap the wedding favor ideas or get those cheap wedding favor. If you were to surf the net. They do have lots of unique and cheap wedding favor. You just have to be more diligent in looking for good bargain. =)
Running your own business is very challenging. You have to be prepared not earning a single cent. That is much better and facing a lost. Praise God for His blessings that since we started our business, we did not face any losses; just no take home income for hubby. Yes! I was the sole bread winner for that whole year. Many that we met think otherwise. To most of us when we hear that so and so owns his own business, we will think that he is rich. That is terribly wrong especially for those that start their business from scratch.
Our business is slowly picking up. There are good months and bad months. We started with 15 computers and to date we have 20 already. By God’s grace we hope to add more which also means that we are praying that God will bring more customers to our shop.
My hope, my dream, my wish and my prayer that the internet cafe will be filled with computers and all computers will be occupied most of the time or ALL the time during our opening hours. Sounds like impossible right?
Well, I believe that God will do wonders. He is a miracle working God remember? Maybe one fine day someone from the Marketing Company who is an expert in this field, pops up at our door step offering free service to market our services. We’ll never know how God works.
For the first time in my life, I saw so many live crabs in my kitchen sink, thanks to The Chef. Not only I had crabs for lunch, dinner and breakfast, I learned a new skill on how to take the life of a crab! I killed so many crabs on that day!
To kill a crab, turn the crab over, place the knife right in the middle of the body, I think the heart is there then stab it hard. The crab will die within seconds. Then only you start taking off the shell and clean the crabs over your Danze faucets or whatever faucets that is in your kitchen.
I felt like a murderer that day! Never take so many lives at one time; ants excluded.
Before I resigned, I was thinking that I might have free time at home to continue my studies. As I was going through the online college courses, I was thinking whether to pursue a master degree, another 2nd degree or just get a TESL diploma.
Now that I am at home, jobless without any fixed income, I am thinking more about getting money. The US economy is bad and I just hope I don’t loose my online job come next week. I am very worried now. I am thinking about starting a few more niche blog and earn from adsense. Then when I see the income coming again, I might consider studying again.
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Today marks the beginning of a new chapter in my life. I am officially a Stay At Home Mom (SAHM). Well, not just stay, I work at home too as long as there is opportunity to do so.
Well, I am feeling a lil bit scare and worried actually seeing this month’s income (online) which is only half of last month! But I am trusting that God will continue to provide which He never fail too. As a prove; hubby was without income for a whole year when he just started his business. We survived.
I started my day as a SAHM by waking up early to do marketing; bought fish, chicken, fishball and frozen Dim Sum for my children’s breakfast. Oh ya…I did not serve them frozen…I steamed it first. =P
Since my children are occupied with Kung Fu Panda while enjoying their hot steamy Dim Sum, I helped the maid clean the chicken. I can just leave it to her but I just wanna make sure that the skin and the fats are really removed!
Then did assist my children with some colouring in the afternoon. This is a tough one. I have 3 different type of artist. One will follow my instruction; that’s my eldest. My 2nd will colour as she wishes. My 3rd; one time scribble, one colour!
By 5pm, they started to scream, “Mommy!!! I am hungry! I want Fried Rice.” While cooking, “Faster! I am sooooo hungry.” While they are filling their tummy, I decided to cook something special for myself to celebrate this special day. Would love if I could go for Disney cruises but now is not the time to spend on vacation.
Black Pepper Beef Steak with Steam Baby Carrot.
How does it taste like? Ok lar…I prefer the one made by The Chef. Oh ya, have not blog about it also!
Gonna make a proper daily schedule now!
Have been silence from this blog for 3 days again. Sign that I am upset again!
Nothing to do with family issue. I can’t wash dirty linen in the public. =P
It has something to do with my previous post. Have you heard of internet bully? We all know about road bully right. Well, I came to know that there are many internet bullies too!
No matter how honest you are, they are still suspicious about you. Bukan tu saja, dia orang blog pasal lu dan kutuk lu habis habis. Bila ada orang tinggalkan komen yang mengatakan yang baik baik pasal orang itu, dia orang cakap kita tipu and kita berpura-pura. Not only that, they refused to see the good in you but only highlights the negative things which are trivial.
I can feel the pressures in the office just now. The ISO auditor gave the final warning to my boss about the various non-conforming factors that the company has failed to rectify especially in the area of QC and Production. Well, that is expected because they are so used to doing things the old way. And these are not just for last year but for many years. And because of that final warning, the boss put extra pressures on the employees to ensure that the company conforms to the standards required or else we would lose our ISO accreditation.
I thank God that I would not be long there in the company. Yup, leaving in 2 days time. From the beginning, ISO audit also caused me unnecessary stress and pressure. I am sure that with pressures coming up in the office, I might have to go for values based counseling just to ensure that I do not meltdown. Okay, the work is not as bad as you might think. I had fun working there all these time. But we are human beings and we do feel the pressures at work. Pressures accumulated and unattended to can bring great harm to you.
Even though we have a few durian trees, only one bears fruit. The rest are still younglings. That is why we try to save as many durian possible from being attack by the squirrel.
After witnessing the killings of pest. I noticed one of the durian tree has only ONE durian.
The durian tree is very tall and old if I am not mistaken. I thought it has stopped bearing fruits.
So few leaves!
All this while I thought the cost of car insurance is fixed like road tax. Last month I tagged along hubby when he went to renew his road tax and car insurance. I was surprised to know that some insurance company offers a cheaper rate. So, of course we pick the cheap car insurance since it is only a third party insurance.
Here is another pest that lives with us and eat our chicken and fishes in the pond.
The same BIL that shot the squirrel caught him near the pond. When I took the picture, he has not died yet. Just in fainted.
Wondering who is The Chef? The biawak is longer than him!
And NO, we don’t eat Biawak. We used to, long time ago but now, it is too gross for food.
Dead, beheaded and slaughtered.
Eldest BIL came with the shotgun and managed to shoot one squirrel down. I hope the rest of his gang will be terrified and not touch our durians anymore. We only have one tree that bears fruit.
We had Biology class too. BIL took out all the inner parts and telling his nieces which part is which. That’s the beauty of living in a kampung. No need to go to school also can learn Biology.
Oh ya, this poor fellow is going into the frying pan soon.
I received the Gloves In A Bottle shielding lotion more than a month ago. I didn’t really use it because I did not have any problem with my skin then. To know whether this shielding lotion works wonders too, it has to be tested on extreme condition. Not long after that I got skin allergy after going for the fish spa. Both my legs got so itchy. Then I remembered Gloves In A Bottle. I applied it generously on my legs. After 3 days, no more itch! It works!!!
I have a very sensitive facial skin and most moisturizers that I tried will cause breakouts even though they claim it is made for sensitive skin, perfumeless and oil free. Two days ago, my cheek started to itch; reason not known. So I took the risk and apply the Gloves In A Bottle shielding lotion on my face. It felt so nice like there is a light thin layer of mask placed on my face. Within 10 minutes, the itches disappeared! Amazing isn’t it?
Now Gloves In A Bottle will be my trusted moisturizer.
This is how Gloves In A Bottle shielding lotion work:-
It bonds with the outer layer of your skin and helps lock in your natural oils and moisture. Many dermatologists recommend Gloves as an effective dry skin treatment.
Instead of attempting to replace natural oils, Gloves In A Bottle forms a web or bond with the dead skin cells that works like an invisible pair of gloves. This invisible pair of gloves helps reduce the natural oil and moisture loss allowing the skin to heal itself. Gloves In A Bottle helps the outer layer of skin to keep its natural oils and moisturizers that protect the deeper layers of skin, leaving the skin soft and supple.
Gloves In A Bottle keeps the outer layer of skin functioning so well so it can breathe and perspire naturally. Because Gloves In A Bottle becomes part of the outer layer of skin itself, it doesn’t wash off like conventional lotions. It comes off naturally with exfoliating skin cells.
Someone pinch me, please. “Ouch!” I am still here. I think I am in heaven! Look at what I had for lunch and dinner.
The Chef came back for a short holiday, bought 5 kilo of live crabs. Cooked them into 2 different dishes; Curry Crabs and Sweet & Sour Crabs. Well, I didn’t get the recipe from him as I was out buying birthday cakes for his eldest daughter and his wife (SIL). But I helped to clean the crabs and also learn how to kill live crab! I think that was the first time I kill something alive besides insects.
This is also the first time I ate so much crabs; fresh crabs. When I was young, my family couldn’t afford to buy them. Until today, my parent still didn’t buy them to cook because it is very costly.
So when I took a look at my plate of rice with the crabs on it, I really thank God for His blessings in my life. This is a glimpse of Heaven to me; the dining part.
My face felt so itchy for a few days already. I wonder whether it is the water or my hair that keeps poking my face that caused the itchiness. I so wanted to visit the beauty salon to get a quick facial to really clean my face from all impurities. I shall do it as soon as I have the time for it
Talking about beauty salon, anyone looking for beauty jobs? I am not hiring; come to think of it, it would be nice if I can afford to hire a personal beautician to come to my house to do the facial for me. Save me a lot of time!
Anyway, if you are looking for a salon job, BeautyJobs recently launched a brand-new online job search engine, www.beautyjobs.com. It is created exclusively for the beauty industry. The website will connect qualified job seekers with salon and spa owners and others who have beauty, salon, spa, or cosmetology jobs to fill.
When I was young, while playing in my parent’s room, I found a small bottle with some kind of dried meat nicely wrapped with cotton. I asked my mom about it. She told me that it is my umbilical cord. I asked the purpose of her keeping it. She told me that it might be useful one day if I fall terminally ill. Anyway, I still do not know how is that dried umbilical cord is going to save my life.
Recently thru blogging I heard about Cord Blood Bank where parent will keep the stem cells extracted from their baby umbilical cord which can be used to treat over 70 diseases such as Leukemia, Lymphoma and Immune system disorders.
Instead of Proton Persona, we terPersona with the LeRun Mountian Bike which does not need petrol to move. Besides saving on petrol we will have nicer butt and legs.
We bought the LeRun Avatar front suspension mountain bike with the petrol rebate that hubby claimed yesterday.
So, follow our footstep. Don’t go joli (spend) the RM625 Petrol Rebate. Go buy bicycle.
Thank God after a few months using the new radiator, I didn’t face any problem of heating up. It was really scary driving with the children then seeing the temperature rising up. The thought that my car might explode with my children in it is super scary.
If I were to have a choice that day, I would have chosen the Toyota Radiator. Unfortunately, the radiator shop near my place does not sell Toyota brand and we did not have the time to drive all the way to town to search for one.
It would be nice if Malaysia would have radiator online shop like Radiators.com.
miche | 
07 8th, 2008| 
