Sketches of Life

The ladies have been telling me about the positions in Lust Caution. What movie is that? Rupa-rupanya, Cantonese movie staring Tony Leung and dunno what is the heroine name. They have been bugging me to search for the picture. Oi, you think I am good at this meh? Some more it is in Chinese. You got the wrong person.

Finally the lady that bug me found the picture and told me to try it out? Why me? Ask Amy lar, she dances ballet and does yoga. I am sure she is very flexible. kekeke.

I am not allowed to give the link here. Email me if you want the URL.

I am sure some of you don’t see me online at 5am anymore because I have company to blog till 3am everyday now! Hubby has another assistant to take over his night shift so I have someone to chat and go out for supper whenever hunger strikes while blogging.

But then, living in a kampung, food stall hardly open after 1am. It took us almost half an hour yesterday hunting for Roti Canai. We ended up eating Fried Kuay Teow at Klebang Beach. I think I can easily write two post with the time spent looking for food.

I wanna stock up candy at home now. Maybe I will buy it from bulk candy store which of course the price will be cheaper and we don’t need to leave the house to look for food unless I really crave for Roti Canai and Teh Tarik.

Yes, now we can buy bulk candy from eSnacks.com from the comfort of our home and enjoy premium sweets at discount prices if you are living in US.

Nowadays ah, even you have bad credit you still can apply for loan. It is called bad credit loans. I am sure the interest rate would be high. But what to do, if you need the money desperately. Nevertheless, you can actually repair your bad credit if you pay on tie every month with this new loan in hand. Suffer for a few months for better credit in the future.

I spotted the frog on Friday night and he is still there on Saturday morning. Thank God I have another bathroom and 2 more toilets in the house if not, tak mandi and tak berak lar gua!

On Saturday evening and Sunday the frog was not insight anymore so we use the bathroom again.

This morning, I happily sit at the toilet bowl to pee and I got a shock of my life when I notice the same frog staring at me from a small blue stool on the bathroom floor right in front of me.

I did not move a muscle scared he would jump at me and told him, “Please let me use the toilet a lil while, ok?” Once I am done, I quickly run for my life!!!

Eeww, I don’t like frog…so slimy and cold.

Before the blogger meet, Leah emailed to inform us that she might be late for the meet up. It seems that she is moving house and having problem with the mover; came 2 hours later than scheduled and after moving one truck load, they took a break for dinner and will only resume work the next day! So unprofessional.

I did ask her to she check out the website about Moving Home where it offers Move Planner to ensure that her moving goes on smoothly for instance hiring a reliable and professional mover or best of all hiring leading Removals company to minimize the headache of moving and planner all by yourself.

If you too plan to move, do check out MoveMe.com. There are good moving tips there too.

Hear ye! Hear ye! Civil servants. The government loves you so much and appreciated all you hard work and has given you salary raise some where middle of this year. I am sure you can save enough by now, if you save, to afford a stay in one of Kona vacation rentals beach front property. Due to so much money that has been channeled out to you, they will be no bonus for you this year. Aww…don’t be sad. Pay raise is better than one time one month bonus.

Talking about Hawaii, Kona is one of the islands in Hawaii. Have you visited Kona Travel Blog? Do you know that Kona is home to the Hawaiian International Billfish Tournament? Do you also know that Hawaiian International Billfish Tournament has earned its iconic status in big-game fishing tournaments and is known as the grandfather of all big game fishing tournaments. Not everybody can enter the tournament as it is only by invitation. This invitational tournament is built upon honor, prestige and strict adherence to International Game Fish Association rules for world records.

No invited to fish never mind, can see those big fishes that are being caught is good enough. Not everyday we can see huge fishes around. Don’t forget to stay at Kauai Vacation Rentals if you were to go there.

During the recent bloggers meet, we exchanged MSN email address so that we can ping each other when there are offer popping out. We, mommies must support other mah. We should not be selfish to keep the opportunity to make money blogging all to ourselves.

So this afternoon I login to one of the networks and found out there is a grab bag there and ping one of them coz the rest are not online. She told me that she is going to Genting Highland tomorrow to visit Lim Goh Tong’s grave and have no time to blog.

Wah! Life is wonderful for her eh? Weekend in Malacca and tomorrow up at Genting Highland for another holiday. I wish one day I can say the same too. “Sorry, I can take anymore offer, I have already made booking with Kauai vacation rentals and I will be leaving for Hawaii tomorrow.”

When I am there, I can tell them, “Hey, look up for my post in Kauai Travel Blog! Read my review there. Please take the next flight and come join me. You don’t have to worry about What to Do in Kauai. I have got that all covered.”

Look, me among the Women of Today!

Since this lady did not give intro in her blog, let me have the pleasure to do so.

From left to right…Chinnee with her QiQi, next to her is Leah, she is a lecturer! don’t play play ah, beside her is yours truly and the cute lil mommy with her cute lil girl is Jess who’s blog recently blessed by Google with PR4!

We had 3 hours of sharing tips about blogging and boy, do I learn a lot from them even though I started blogging way in 2004.

Btw, the world is so small! Hubby met Leah before! and Leah recognized my hubby too. Hmm…what were they doing behind my back ah??? hehehe…Leah actually attended our cell group at my brother in law’s house in Alor Gajah before. That’s how we met.

The daddies were great, looking after the children and feeding them ice cream which we mommies won’t, because when they messed up their hands, they come to us to clean them up!

Wait! My girls are with their daddy, where’s my son ah?

Here his is, under the table, playing peek-a-boo me with.

I want to meet again!!! Next meet, everyone bring laptop ah.

When it comes to owning money, big some of course which you cannot pay which may bring you to declare bankruptcy, there is a way to avoid this. If you owe more than £15,000, you owe more than 3 creditors, you have still have income to pay for minimal payment and you or your spouse has steady income then you might be eligible to IVA.

However you need to get IVA advice to help determine whether this is the best solution for you. IVAZone.com can help you with this. If you need IVA help, they will tell you how to go about it and advice to change your life style so that you can pay your IVA payment every month because failing to do so, and you will go into bankruptcy.

I can’t wait for tomorrow. After meeting my Lenglui and Cute Lil Jess two weeks ago, I am going to meet more bloggers tomorrow at Burger King, Mahkota Parade.

Actually a few of them, I don’t know they existed. I only know Chinnee, Leah and Yenny.

Must bring along souvenir ah? The first time when I met Jess, I came empty handed and she gave me a bag of clothes for my girls. Malu! Malu!

I am very bad in getting souvenirs. Tahi ayam can ah? mwahahahaha.

I learn something new today.

Miche says: i speak to her on d phone, i know she siu jie one
chooi peng says: aiyoh, miche u know “siu jie” ????
msau says: …attractive ler
Jess says: cannot call siu jie in china
Jess says: later ppl kick u
chooi peng says: siu jie = ayam?
Jess says: siu jie mean prostitute to them
Jess says: yaya
msau says: LOL
msau says: got quality to be siu jie not bad wat
Jess says: yalor

I thought that word means someone who is lady like. Mana tau! Wrong pronounciation can lead to that word pulak.

So you better don’t simply call people in China “Siu Jie” unless you like to be kicked. Oh before that be sure you got your family covered with family insurance, in case your whole family kena kicked by the Siu Jies in China.

If you were to live in UK and your employer did not give you any advance payday loan before the actual payday at the end of the month and you desperately need some cash in hand but you do not have credit card to swipe, don’t worry. I know who you can look for; Mr Wong…a.

You can find him at this address, http://www.wonga.com. You don’t even have to dress smartly to get his money. You can even go naked, he wouldn’t know because all transaction is done online.

This is really fast cash, I tell you. Within an hour you will see the cash in your bank account. The interest, not to worry. Much lower than credit card. Only 1% per month. If you go see him, tell him I recommend you okay? Maybe I can get some referral commission from this generous man.

A review has been ordered to be placed on your blog In His Time. You have three business days to accept!

So happy to receive the above message from ReviewMe in my email. My first offer after almost a year with them. When that blog has PR4, no offer. Now it drops to PR2 then only got offer.

I am not upset about my PR dropped again because I am not the only one. I noticed that I got more traffic compared to when I have PR4.

I think that is more important to Advertiser for our blog to have more traffic rather than high PR.

So, please come visit me more often ya.

We can only make plan but God is the one who determine whether it will be viable or not. My holiday plan during the Hari Raya holiday is canceled because all my children are not well. My plan to resign might be postponed to after CNY, reason to be disclosed later and my plan to own a Naza Ria has to be postponed or even cancel due to financial constraint.

Meantime, I just make do with my old junk. I am thinking of change the colour of my car, to my girl favorite colour; half Pink and half Purple! The steering wheel also needs to be changed, and maybe add some nice auto accessories to make it look new. Oh ya! Must add a player in the car. If not I will be thinking about what to blog ALL the time! Hehe.

Is the person who plucks apple call Apple Plucker? Please correct me if I am wrong.

I told my mom about our neighbour who went to Australia to pluck apples, she knew all along about it. That boy is actually trying to get away from being caught by the police. He sold drugs!

All I know that he was a bouncer in one night club and later operate snooker center before he left for Australia.

Well, if you are in this line, I am sure mixing with the wrong group of people cannot be avoidable. I am sad that he made the wrong choice.

That’s why as parents, we have to instill good value and teaching to my children. And if possible be there all the time for them. It makes a lot of difference. This boy’s mom passed away when he was in his primary school and his dad is the “softy” type; give in to every demand from his children.

Please don’t ever spare the rod.

Do you know that you can get paid AUD13 an hour for just plucking apple is Australia? That’s a lot of money for Malaysian who goes there to work.

I met my childhood friend on Monday at Pasar Malam, she told me that her brother is working there. I heard about it too and my own brother wanted to leave his wife and baby to pluck apples but my dad did not allowed it. Life is sure very tough working in the field.

According to my friend, her brother has to work 12 hours a day. I think ah, pluck until don’t want to pluck and eat apple until jelak. I would rather sit behind my PC and blog in the comfort of my home. But then, not every one can write and menceceh.

Hubby can’t wait for me to lift my butt from here. “Are you done with your blogging yet?” he asked impatiently. Told him I want to buy a laptop, but he “donated” my money to his brother. So he has to wait until I am done here.

In Malaysia we don’t have Low APR Credit Cards. Our credit cards come in either 0% on Purchase for the 1st year, 0% Balance Transfer for the first 6 months or Annual Fee waived for lifetime if we use the card 12 times a year every year.

Maybe I will use my credit card to buy a laptop and take advantage of the 0% on Purchase and 0% Balance Transfer to save on the interest.

Or maybe I shall wait for another month, my paid post income would be sufficient for me to get a cheap laptop.

Msau wants to know about my first post when I started blogging. My first post is not in this blog. I started blogging way back in 2004 after I gave birth to my eldest daughter.

Here’s my first post in Blogspot:

Saturday, July 10, 2004
Pray for your children’s spouse

My husband prayed for our 14 months old daughter’s future husband! Good also lar, when she’s old enough, i’m sure we will see boys knocking at the door and we will know which one is going to be her future husband because we prayed for him…but we have to be very specific in this “prayer-made” husband of hers. How much older or younger? His parents? His vocation? His ministry? His character? His personality? His physical appearance? His financial? …

Basically in His time in Blogspot has been my personal blog and later in the same month I started another blog In His Time, a subdomain from Liquidblade.com using Wordpress courtesy of a Singaporean blogger friend who I know from my varsity junior.

As it is now, this blog is a journal of my pregnancy, child birth, and my children’s development. Basically, all about parenting.

Wanna share me your first post in blogging? Leave your comment and I will add your link in this post. Not gonna tag anyone here.

My mom is very upset with my brother and sister in law. You know lar, MIL and DIL where can ngam one. She would complaint to me about her but I just listen, I won’t add any salt or pepper to it because I am a DIL too!

She was very angry till the extend that she wanted to leave the house and stay with my 2nd sister who is staying in Kuching. She even packs some of her things in her Samsonite luggage bag and told me to resign and mind my own children so that she can be free to go anytime she like.

It seems that the older you get, the more sensitive you become. I am still figuring out why is this so.

Here’s another tips to de-stress. Go for vacation. However it can be very expensive but if you smoke, I believe the money spent to buy those cigarettes that you are puffing away can even afford to bring you for Mexico Vacations.

But then not all vacation offers remedy to stress. If it is not you day, you might come back to work with more stress. I was reading the FEMALE magazine when I was doing rebonding at the salon recently about haunted hotel. 2 ladies booked a hotel to get away with work, to relax and do all the girlie stuff but they received an unpleasant visit “someone” that loves to mess up their cosmetic when they were sleeping.

They went back to work with more stress instead!

DragonMummy you are so sweet. Thank you so much for this award. Btw, when is Halloween?

To the 3 important ladies in my blogging world now. They use to be just a virtual friend but recently, one of them proved to me that they are for real. That will be my Lenglui Msau. Really she is a LengLui, don’t believe, take a look at her daughter, pretty or not?

The first blogger that I met since I started blogging would be my Cute Little Jesslyn. And the one that is yet to reveal her real self is Chooi Peng. I don’t how to describe her yet. Maybe after I meet her.

This treat is for you too. Thank You so much for being there for me when I need someone to chat with.

I got another great tips to de-stress. Go to a concert of your favorite artist. Be sure to drag a friend along. No fun dancing, singing and screaming with strangers unless that stranger is a tall handsome hunk.

Btw, to those who is a fan of Celine Dion, I love her voice, I have Celine Dion tickets to give away. Oh! Correction…I have the URL of where you can get Celine Dion tickets and her show schedule. Just click the link in this post.

I can afford the ticket but I can’t afford the flight to Las Vegas.

There are so many things that can cause someone to feel stress. I normally feel stress up when I can’t perform up to my expectation or others expectation on me. What do people normally do when they are stress up? Some will eat till they drop! Some will sleep. Some will cry; I sometimes do this too. Some will scream on top of their lung. Some will smoke; this is so not healthy and many are doing this.

In order to suppress their conscience they will opt for herbal smoking instead. Even though it’s reportedly safer than smoking a cigarette, smoking anything can be harmful to your health. And to your spouse and children too. So when you feel stress up, don’t smoke. Do like what I usually do. Put on your running shoe and run. I am sure you will be too tired to think and feel stress after running. Don’t believe me, you try lar.

We all know that eating fruit is extremely beneficial to our health and well-being. However, finding the time to eat enough fruit per day can be difficult due to busy lifestyles. So the quickest was to get those fruits into our system is by drinking its juice or best of all if you know how to make smoothies.

I have found a site that has hundreds of smoothie recipes to help with this. I am going to give it a try. My favorite recipes are the strawberry smoothies.

If you have good fruit smoothies recipe why not share it with the rest and submit it to the site.

My hubby doesn’t favor those who have fair skin. He always comments that they look lifeless. He said that the skin will only look alive when it is slightly tan. But most of us love to have fair skin, myself included. Some of the ways to achieve that for us Asian are staying indoor during the day to avoid the sunlight and using the whitening cream. Actually if your skin is not exposed to sunlight, you will be prone to get skin cancer. If you look around, you will notice that those who got skin cancers are the white people. Have you heard of the African, Indian or even Asian having skin cancer? Hardly right?

Well God is Good; He provides remedy for every sickness on earth if we human are smart enough to seek for it. For instance, have you heard of “flesh-eating herbal paste”? This flesh eating paste is called bloodroot paste. Bloodroot is indigenous to the Eastern region of US and Canada. It was used by the Native Americans for treatment of cancer as well as to remove ordinary moles (non-cancerous), warts, and skin tags. Beside bloodroot, there is also the black salve and cansema for skin cancer treatment. If you are looking for alternatives in treating skin cancer, please visit AltCancerCream.com to purchase the skin cancer treatment creams.

Now I must work harder to blog to earn enough to buy a laptop. Last week, I really have no motivation to blog due to my children’s health and mine too. Now since all my savings are gone, I am motivated again to blog and blog and blog. Opps where are you??? hehe.

Let’s dream a while…if I have a laptop, I would love to blog outdoor and breath fresh air as I type away. My house compound would be the perfect place but the only place that I can sit would be the swing. That would not be comfortable. I think I will be dizzy after one post.

It would be nice if I can afford a teak garden furniture. Blogging with style on their teak benches and teak tables. I worry I will nap on the bench instead with the cool evening breeze!

My hubby is generous man. He loves to give especially in monetary term. He cannot see there is some money in the savings account, he will sure think of someone to give or put that money to better use rather than just let it lie around in the savings account. That is why he does not have much savings in his bank account and don’t ask him whether he has silver dollars, silver coins also don’t have.

Don’t start calling my hubby now ok. He will only give to the poor and needy. I am also the victim of his generosity. Since he has no more money in his savings, he goes digging into mine. Now both of us are back to square one. No more savings.

I really wanted to get a laptop. Even asked hubby to go buy it this Wednesday but after a phone call last night from one of hubby’s brother, I don’t think I have enough cash to buy one. It is because that brother wanted to borrow us some money to pay his newly bought house down payment. And my generous hubby offered ALL the money that we have in our account. Now, where got money to buy laptop ah???

There is a new sports complex at Klebang Besar, Malacca. It seems that many sports complexes are emerging every where because people are more becoming health conscious these days.

I did not go to peep what are the facilities offered in the sports complex but I am sure there must be a badminton hall there. Reason being, I can’t do sports that requires me to run and break/sudden stop due to my health condition. So my favorite in-door sport, Squash is out of the picture.

Since January this year, my mom has been babysitting my children for half a day only. She complaints that she is getting old and she always experience joint pain. Could it be Osteoarthritis? With my boy that is very clingy and always wants to be carried, it does not help the situation. So, hubby has no choice but to mind the children in the afternoon.

I read that NMS Neuromuscular Support™ is effect for osteoarthritis relief. Published scientific studies of each of the nutrients in the NMS formula have demonstrated an ability to reduce inflammation and pain.

I think I will request for a free sample pack for my mom. I wonder whether they can send here.