Sketches of Life

Stickers or some call it labels are very important in business as a form of advertisement besides providing information about the product. It is the first thing that will attract you to pick it up besides the bottle design. Next it comes to the quality of the stickers. Since I am working in a lubricating oil manufacturing company, the stickers that we bought must be of high quality in terms of the stickiness and oil proof. It is because we buy stickers in thousand and some of it we keep for months. The low quality ones will loose it stickiness after a few month and some, their colour will fade or even after sticking onto the bottle, it will bubble up. Besides that it will take at least 2 weeks or more to get our stickers from our current supplier. I wonder why it took them so long.

Maybe they are not using digital printing like Frontier Label that can print and ship the highest quality custom labels and custom stickers in 1 business day. To me, another great advantage if we order from Frontier Label is we can combine multiple stickers or labels (as long as they are the same size and material) on one order and get the combined volume pricing. At present, our minimum order is 4k per product and to get cheaper price we have to order 8k above. So in order to save, we have to keep a lot of stocks. It will really be cost saving if we have company like Frontier Label here.

Something happened in the office just now and I decided to take half day leave to cool down and followed hubby to the computer shop to fix our 19″ CRT monitor. We bought it secondhand and only used it for 5 months then it decided to make us spend more! To fix it, it cost more than a hundred ringgit and no warranty how long it can last. We bought it for only RM240.

So we decided to get the LCD monitor since our children uses our PC quite frequent. The price is RM610 after discount. We also bought the LCD protector for RM20. All this are paid by credit card, of course because we don’t have so much cash in our wallet/purse or in the bank. So many cheap credit card nowadays so we take advantage of it for emergency spending like this one.

Oh ya…This is really emergency spending. If we don’t buy the monitor, I won’t have my laptop to blog. I guess some of you know the reason.

I really had a very weird dream a few nights ago, a day after I realized that I have put on inches.

In my dream my lady boss showed me how to get rid of the stubborn fats on our tummy and thigh without any lipo or even using diet patch. She took a few worms; those white, small worm where we can find in the garbage bin and place it on her tummy. The worms “dive” into the tummy through her skin. It is either her pores are big or the worms can just squeeze themselves through. Euuuuu…Gross! Geli!

The worm eats all the fat in her tummy. After a while I can see, her tummy shrinks, like kedut-kedut (wrinkled) like that proving that the fat is gone.

I asked, what will happen to the worms, will it get out. She told me that the worm will just die under her skin when there is no more fat to eat!

Anyone want to try this type of liposuction???

Whenever I am free in the office and no mood to blog, I will blog hop besides that if I see any interesting quizzes, I will spend some time on it. It is very interesting to know what kind of person you are, whether you are addicted to blogging, or how fierce you are or what kind of lover you are etc. Even if it is not 100% accurate, it is fun to wonder how these people behind the quiz generator can predict your personality.

And sometimes when we really can’t find anything to blog about and really need interim, more of us will go for quizzes. It’s fun and it’s personal.

Have you ever generate your own set of quiz? It is fun to find out how well your readers know you through quizzes. Want to give it a try? I found a website Quiz My Mates that lets you create quizzes! If you have MySpace, Xanga, Hi5 and Friendster profile, you can pimp them by adding hot quizzes and Myspace Surveys. Find out how well you friends know you.

I am thinking to create one too. I wanna know how well my chat buddies know me since we have been chatting the first moment we open our eyes and before we close our eyes for the day.

The temporary maid is here. Because after one and a half month of waiting, the one that we applied went MIA. So, we were given a temporary while we apply for another new ones.

Actually we didn’t want a temporary. We are not in a rush and we can wait but the maid agent told us to take and try the maid out. I hope she is not from any alcohol rehab centre coz we was not given any of her biodata. If we like her, we can take her as permanent if not we can pick another temporary and try her out. If we still not satisfied, then we wait for the one we applied. Since there is nothing to loose we took one.

Since MIL is away, the maid will be at my mom’s until I come back from work. In a way, it is quite a good arrangement coz I requested my mom to teach her to cook my children’s favorite food. If MIL is around, I just can’t take her away and put her at my mom’s. It won’t be appropriate right?

Actually a doctor applied for her but he returned her just because she couldn’t cook or to be more precise don’t how to cook Chinese dishes. We have no problem with that because we can teach her. Doctor where got time to teach.

Unfortunately, my son don’t want her which makes life tougher for my mom coz he is more sticky to her. He don’t allow the maid to touch him. Feed him rice he also don’t want. Well, this takes time.

So far, she is good. Every though she is not the good looking type, she is quite hardworking and smart (not bodoh bodoh type). So far, I just tell her what to do and she did it well without needing much instruction how to go about it.

If she is good, we will just take her, instead of a new one.

Just imagine this. You are typing away on your computer. Writing your masterpiece for your blog. Your little ones are playing around you. “Mommy, look at this” “Mommy she bite me!” “Mommy I am hungry” Turn around to give them some of my attention. “Please don’t disturb Mommy. Mommy is VERY busy.” As usual, they won’t listen, one. Turn back to continue typing. “Eh, why Mommy’s, monitor is black now??? “Oh No! Where is your brother?” “Under the chair Mommy” the girls replied.

He must be the culprit, pressing the power button and shut down my computer. “Oh No!!! Mommy has not save Mommy’s work! Arrgghhhh!!!” “Barnabas, can Mommy squeeze you?” hehe…don’t get me wrong, I am not a child abuser.

At that moment of time, I wish I have the hideaway computer workstation like the above. As for me I will keep it close when the children are around. It not only prevents my CPU and printer from collecting dust. It also prevents little rascal that is obsess with pressing buttons.

So far I have not seen this kind of Office Furniture in the furniture shop here. I found the above from Saxen Business Solution. It is only available in UK plus free shipping to UK Mainland. Hmm…maybe Malaysian kids are not as rascal as theirs eh. Hehe.

It’s like only yesterday I was carrying her in my arm and swaying her to sleep and last Saturday, I saw her walking up the stage to receive her awards.

I was like “Wow! My girls are in school already!!! I have not done anything yet. Even that she got 1st in class.” I felt kinda sad because I am not part of her success besides passing the good genes to her. hehe She did it ALL BY HERSELF!

Last night, she took out a book, “The Boy Who Cried Wolf” and asks me to read to her. She did not want me to read to her, she wanted me to guide her to read it. I was so surprise that she is able to recognize some of the words. She can read! Where was I when all this happened?

I was left to excel in school all by myself because my parent was not educated. My dad studied until Std 6 only and my mom only went to sewing school. My children has parent who are graduates. They should not be left on their own. I can’t impose on them what my parent did to me. They deserve our time.

Where is our time? Working, blogging, house chores and minding the smaller ones. I am going to remove one of it to be able to have more time for them. Yup, I am 100% decided to resign from work. Not end of this year. I wanna get my bonus first. Latest by middle of next year. I hope. We still have business loan to settle.

Look! It is only 32/70B. It used to be 34/75B. They have shrunk! Mwahahahaha

I have not gone any slimmer. I even put on weight. Hmmm…I wonder what happened? Could it be lack of exercise that cause it to shrink? Jess told me that massaging helps. Just take a look at hers!

I told hubby about it. His response, “Go for breast enlargement lar. A few thousand only right?” Wah…he prefers bigger and artificial breast rather than his wife’s original! Sop Sop Sop

I scared my breast to be cut again and I don’t like it to be massage; pain. Any other tips for natural breast enlargement?

When I was in campus one of my lecturers had polio when he was young that crippled his right leg. However he can drive even though his right leg is like that. I notice that he has a stick in his car. At first I thought that it is his walking stick but he never brings it out from the car.

Only today I realised that it is the portable Car Hand Controls for the disable who wants to drive. It is made for use on automatic transmission vehicles for drivers who don’t have the use of their legs but do possess a high degree of hand control and function.

There are many ways to decorate your house. Some decorates with just wallpapers, some with nice pictures in photo frames, some decorate it with souvenirs they bought when they went for their holidays and some decorate it with animals head. They are definitely a hunter then or animal lover. Hmmm…do you actually call them lover? Since they kill those animals and preserved them. Oh well, that is not I want to talk about here.

Have you seen people decorate their home with wine? Especially in their kitchen. They will buy those unique Wine Rack and hang them from the ceiling.

Look at the above wine racks, aren’t their just beautiful and unique. If I have a lot of wine at home, I think I would do the same too. It saves so much of my cupboard space. Hmm. I wonder whether it will accumulate more spider web instead. Oh well, that is one of the reason why those people with lots of decoration in their house are either SAHM or the have maid to help them to clean. If you are working like me and have 3 children to mind after work, dust on the floor also no time to sweep unless there are asleep.

Since MIL is away, I have started cooking again. This time I did not wake up at 5am to cook. I only cook for dinner. As for lunch, I pack for hubby from my mom’s. Don’t feel nice packing dinner from my mom’s for hubby too. Due to my shortcoming in cooking delicious food, I have to depend on cookbooks to come up with good and yummilicious food.

And the good news is, in time of desperate I found a websites that has a list of good family recipes prepared by everyday people like us. Not top chef in famous restaurants or hotels. Plus, you think your dishes is good enough and you want to share them with the rest of the world, you could too. Just sign up and submit your recipes. You can even start your own cookbook in the website. It’s at MyDish.co.uk.

I am a practical person. If the item serves the same purpose, like the LV wallet, I will pick the cheaper ones. You need to use it to keep your cards and cash. Nobody is going to ask you, “Hey, is your LV genuine or imitation?” Even if you spend so much on the genuine LV, does that come with life-time warranty? Even if it does, One Thousand Ringgit is too much for just a wallet.

I would rather spend that money to invest in gold or silver bullion. At the end of the day, I get more returns.

The moment I arrived home from our night out (Today is Thursday, remember. ), I turn on my laptop and sign in my MSN and got a message from this rich lady, showing off her RM1k LV Wallet which she bought from UK. I will never spend so much for just a wallet. I think she wants her hubby to keep all her duly signed cash check and her platinum credit cards in it.

This is the first time I see a wallet so expensive, so I asked hubby to take a look. “Dear I love you very much but I will never spend that much for you for just a wallet, hospital bill, maybe.” kekekeke. To my surprise he told me that he has one too! “What??? You have a LV wallet and you didn’t tell me??? How much Riels is that?” I asked, assuming he bought it during his last Cambodia trip. Lots of imitation stuff there mah.

His replied, “Not from Cambodia. An African guy came to the shop to sell it. Very cheap only RM10.” That’s 1k minus 2 zeros!

So can you guess which one is RM1k and which is RM1k minus 2 Zeros? It is very obvious right? They are sure not good in producing imitation goods.

Klebang beach is our favorite meeting place when hubby and I first dated. We meet there early in the morning to jog, pray and chat. We meet there after work watching the vessels sail by, listening to sound of the waves, watching fish hopping on the rocks (I can’t remember the name of that fish) and just be with each other.

In the signboard, that’s the beach that we used to jog on. Nice beach eh?

Due to “greediness”, sea is being reclaim and it has caused damage to this part of the beach. There are so much empty land in Malacca, and yet their still want the sea. God has given us dry land to plant and to build. There is a purpose why God put the sea there. Look at the consequences of man’s greediness.

No more beach for the future generation. No more telling my children and my grandchildren. “Look at the beautiful beach, this is where Daddy and Mommy used to date.”

Last week, I went shopping with my sister. She wanted to buy some new clothes for her baby girl and I was looking for a gift for a blogger mommy who just gave birth. We went to a few baby stores. Even though there are so many brands of baby clothing, I can’t find any that I like and affordable ones. Most that I like are extremely expensive. Why must they make baby clothes so expensive? Some are even more expensive than adult clothing. So I ended buying only a pair of baby dress for her baby. However I still have not post the gift to her, no time to find a nice card for the mommy.

I was given this tag by LiLi on what animal I would like to be. I do not wanna be an animal. I am happy being a human. I rule over the animals.

Well, for just the fun of it, I choose to be an Eagle. Why? I wanna soar high in the sky, above the clouds.

Am going to pass this tag to Michelle, Chooi Peng and Jess, my chat buddy.

I am having a backache and one of the ways to cure backache is to walk. Well, I have been sitting too much and too long. So I took this opportunity to go shopping last night. Go shopping must walk right.

In the beginning it was ok, the backache reduces but after half an hour, it came back! The air-cond in the shopping complex is too cold. This makes my bone ache. This is one of the consequences of not following strictly the confinement dos and don’ts like bathing and sleeping in an air-cond room.

I have been on flat since I had my miscarriage before I have Belle. Since then I can’t wear high heels because it will strain my legs and it causes my right abdomen feel pain. I can’t even carry heavy stuff using my right hand. In other words, I can put pressure on the right side of my body.

Anyway, to cut the long story short, I gave away all my heels. No point keeping them since I can’t wear it. I also gave away my Foot Care Product like blister prevention patches. When wearing high heels, I can’t go without the blister prevent patch. I think my skin is too thin.

1. I hate Belle the Dog and dogs that barks in the middle of the night beside my room when they are mating!

2. I hate people who accuse me for something that is not my wrongdoing.

3. I hate sin.

4. I hate watching DVD that stuck half way and you can’t forward it but to watch all over again.

5. I hate when relatives look down on my family because we are not well off like them.

6. I hate gossipers. A lot of them in my kampong!

7. I hate falling sick when you have so much to do. Who doesn’t right?

8. I hate the feeling of jealousy.

9. I hate to feel hatred.

10. I hate doing tags that requires so much thinking.

Thanks to MummyInVain, you people know what I hate.

Time for me to tie my tummy (direct translation from Ikat Perut! haha). No that ikat perut because I do not have money to spend but ikat perut because I have put on inches due to the supper dating with hubby.

I felt fat these few days and I weighed myself yesterday. I am 50kg!!! 2kg increased. Besides supper, I think it is due to blogging too. Most of the time sit down only. Only the fingers and brain doing the exercise. Macam ni tak boleh jadi.

Come lets diet together; more fun that doing it alone. I am sure lotsa of you out there fatter than me.

We have 2 in 1 shampoo, 3 in 1 coffee. Hmmm…what else NN in 1? All in one job like what I am holding now. hehe. Have you heard about 4 in 1 Security Software? It is called NOD32 that contains Anti Virus, Anti Spyware, Exploits, and Firewalls.

Nowadays, anti virus is not sufficient to keep your computer safe from threats. You will need all the above to have peace of mind when you are online. I wonder when can we get the above for free. We can get free anti virus but for new technology there is always a price attached to it.

A week ago, on Friday, when hubby called the maid agency, she told him that the maid did not report to the agency in Indonesia. Told us to wait for another week. If there is still no news she suggests that we pick a new one.

Today is Tuesday already, the maid agency did not even bother to call us to inform about the status. Deposit taken from us. I really hate this kind of service.

Told hubby to call,

me: call d maid agency lar
David: for what?

Well, we are not really keen to have the maid around. More of privacy reason but we need someone to clean the house, accompany MIL and help me out with my children so that hubby can go cari makan. As for now, he is stuck at home, minding our children. He is SAHD for few months already.

Yes! I am the Queen of the house now…for two weeks only.

MIL is not in Phuket yet. She will only be there coming weekend with her two sons and family. It is good that she wanted to join them. Since she can walk, let her see the world.

Belle the dog is at my mercy now! Mwahahahaha. No more eating good food. It will only be plain rice and our left over with lotsa water. His fur has been dropping a lot and he is real smelly now due to salty food. I think MIL did not add water to his rice to dilute the saltiness. No more coming into the house to sleep.

I got a fright that day. I left the door open to pick up my laundry and the next thing I notice, Belle looking for place to snuggle in my children’s tent. Just for that few seconds, the tent stinks.

My MIL pampered him by allowing him into the house from time to time. To me, a dog is a dog; you stay out of the house. I just hate the fur that falls on the floor.

You may think that I am cruel. Well which one you will choose. The dog welfare or your children’s health?

I have always wanted to be a beautician or hair dresser. One of my aunt went to one of the hair schools to learn about hair dressing but she never practice it. I still remembered she came home to mannequin without the body. The head only with bushy thick black hair and she will start snipping away.

It looks fun and at that time I told myself that I want to do the same too but my dad wanted me to further my studies in the universities because none of his family members step foot in university before.

Since I am on my own now and planning to resign, this will be a good excuse for me to learn some skill that can really make money now.

When I first started blogging I look forward to receiving comments. Comments make my day. Now because of too much paid post, I have to admit that I hardly get any comments but I made a lot of friends and we are chatting on MSN now!

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