Sketches of Life

I faced my laptop almost every hour, every day. What to do, I love blogging. I can’t live without the internet. Now I am in KL; supposed to be holidaying but I can’t resist the temptation to check my Gmail. Thanks to my nephew, he sacrificed his game time to let me use his computer.

So, holiday or no holiday, I will be seeing the Google homepage everyday. After seeing the same homepage every day, do ever get bored of it? I think I see my Google Homepage more than I see my hubby’s face. Aiyo! Suddenly I feel so guilty. What to do, hubby work at odd hours due to the nature of our business.

Thank God that, that there is a way to place my hubby’s handsome face on the Google homepage. Instead of the common standard Google homepage, we can now create our own custom homepage with Groovle; Personalize Google. We just need to simply select the file from my computer, be it JPG, GIF or PNG, upload the image and the custom homepage is created.

If you are not married or don’t like seeing your hubby’s face every hour, you can always browse through Groovle custom homepage with favorite celebrities, sports team, cute animals and beautiful and majestic space photos.

We are off to Genting Highland this Sunday. Finally, my dream of a “far away” family vacation is coming true. This is so far the furthers and highest place we are going with my 2 girls.

I am so excited about the trip. The last I went was during my honeymoon; that was almost 7 years ago. Now going there with my 2 daughters.

Before planning for this trip, my eldest kept asking me to bring her to any country that has snow. I can’t afford it yet unless I can really get cheap flights to NZ or Australia. As for now Genting Snow World will do for the time being.

Thanks to Fiona, we got our All Park Theme Park ticket for RM38.88 only and some tips about the stay there, the parking and the food.

These 2 crazy blogger friends of mine always talk about Japan. One of them even managed to persuade the other one to make their talk a reality. I was so surprised that they are actually going to Disney World this June. I thought the earliest would be next year. Too bad, I can’t tag along as I don’t have enough saving and I need to get a new car too. If they would go again in 2-3 years time, I might be able to join them. Hopefully with Discount Walt Disney World Tickets plus other discounts too; we might be able to visit Disney World in Orlando.

Do you know that in Genting Highland movie theater, they have special front row seat?

Besides the theme park, my ex-colleague suggested that I go for a movie there. They have special seat on the front row; massage chair. I think, I will fall asleep on the massage chair rather than enjoying the movie.

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Do you the correct way to file you nails? I do not know how to file my nails until my pastor’s daughter mentioned that when we file our nail, we should file them one way only. And we should never cut our nails but to just file them to get the desired shape.
The only nail file I have is the one attached to the nail clipper.

Today, I discovered that there is a nails bar file that last forever! The grit lasts so much longer than a normal nail file making the file amazing value as we’ll never need to buy a file again. It is the most hygienic file on the market, just rinse and leave to dry and watch the grit return. Sound interesting ya :=) You can get it from Nails.Inc.

While you are there, you can also get their treatment pack 1 for weak and peeling nails. You really need this is you like using the quick dry nail polish.

If your nails have ridges or furrows in them, and no polish can’t do the magic to cover it, then you would need the nail.inc treatment pack 2. The kit contains all you need to combat and prevent mature and ridged nails.

Hubby’s car broke down and until today it is still not fixed. His mechanic is super busy to come to our house; hubby car cannot start you see.

Since Genting trip is nearing we decided to rent a car. After a call to the rent a car company, we decided to rent from hubby’s eldest brother. Since he needed the money, better give it to him rather than to strangers. We got it at a very reasonable price too.

So we will be traveling to Genting Highland in a Waja.

Nya kasi gua tau yang Kor Kor Kim Lee nampak kesan yang ‘Cik Kong balik pada hari ketujuh.

Dia nampak kesan darah dan nana dari tok datuk sampeh bilik Kor Kor Chik.

Sebelum dia mati, kaki dia memang ada nana. Sebab tu Kor Kor Kim Lee tau yang tu ‘Cik Kong punya.

I did ask whether he went to his own room. That is what I heard normally dead people do. So what they will do is make the bed nicely and see whether there is anyone disturb the bed the next day.

My grandaunt told my mom that he did not visit his room because they removed his adjustable beds.

To me, that’s the work of the devil. We, the living wants so much to believe that the dead will come back after certain days. So he makes it that way so that we will continue to believe and worship the ancestor.

A suicide attempt this morning at around 2am at the Pulau Gadong bridge failed due to 2 reasons.

Reason No. 1:
The policemen came in time before she jump down from the bridge.

Reason No. 2:
She is already DEAD!

Have I got your attention now? Is your hair standing now?

Here’s the story…

At around 2am today, motorists saw a lady standing at the bridge facing the river. They thought that she wanted to commit suicide so they called the police.

The police came and when they were about to grab hold of her, SHE FLEW AWAY!!!

They got the fright of their life and CABUT (flee)!!!

This type of ghost is called the Langsuir or Pontianak. I guess there must be someone living nearby there who died of childbirth.

THEN:

I received the above bouquet of roses a day before my birthday and I was on top of the world because no one has given me any flowers for ages. These flowers are even more precious because they are from friends that never meet me before (one of them only actually).

Flowers will wither but I will not let this one “died” on me. I hang it upside down and let it dry. I must preserve this bouquet as how I will try my very best to preserve this special online friendship.

NOW:

I am still waiting for hubby to surprise me with a bouquet of flowers. The last I received from him was on our Marriage Registration Day; 010301.

One of the things I did just now at the internet cafe was lifting up and pushing the computer table. Right after we are done with 4 6′ tables, my breast started to ache and it is still aching now.

If you follow my children’s blog then you will know that I have a minor surgery one of my breasts due to breast infection; it was 20 mths ago. Since then, any stress on that part of the body will cause that breast to ache.

I really thank God that I did not have to go through any C-sec for the delivery of my children. If not, I don’t think I can carry my own children without feeling the pain.

I went to help hubby to install network cables and rearranging it to make it looks neater. His assistant supposed to help him but his grandmother funeral was yesterday.

When I asked hubby how much those cable cost, to my surprise, it is quite expensive. No wonder some company buys used cisco to cut cost for their networking needs.

Anyway, our work at the shop is half done. Hubby needs to continue tomorrow because I was too sleepy and sneezy. Dusty lar the place.

I finally changed my car’s radiator, even though it is expensive, I am glad that I do not have to worry about topping up the water everyday. If I wasn’t rushing to fix it, I might be able to save some cash if I go to look for the radiator repair shop in town. Anyway, what is done is done.

Now, hubby’s car is giving problem. It just refused to start which hardly happen to his car. My old junk, that’s normal but not for him. He is kind of fed up with repairs after repairs. Thank God we do not need Dodge Truck Radiator, just any OEM radiator will do. I think this time we are really going to buy another better car. Not new but a newer used car.

My family has a history of Congestive Heart Failure (CHF). The common term that we always hear is Lemah Jantung; direct translation, Weak Heart. The heart pumps slower compared to a healthy heart.

My grandfather had it and my dad too after he reach 60 years old. Since then he has to go for regular check up to monitor his heart. I hope I won’t inherited this problem.

My FIL died of a heart attack months after I get to know hubby. I think he was only in his 50s.

With both side of the family have “heart” history; I really have to take care of my children’s heart. Two main things that I must do to reduce or avoid them from getting heart problem are to reduce their salt intake and exercise regularly.
I read that oral chelation could help reduce lots of heart problem. It safe, fast and cost effective way to clean our veins and arteries.

Liquid EDTA (Ethylene Diamine Tetra-acetic Acid) is used in the Chelation therapy. What it does after being absorbed into the bloodstream is begins to chelate toxic and heavy metals, along with excessive mineral deposit thus increasing the blood flow. No more blockages.

I love the smell of the durian’s flower. I wish I can say the same about the durian flesh.

Since I can’t escape from smelling them because there are durian trees around the house, I started eating them. The most I can eat is 3 pieces of the durian. If I eat more, the bathroom faucets will see my face the whole day until all the durians are discharged from my system!

Even that, too much of it will make me gag and vomit. Not the flesh but the smell.

Soon, this house will be filled with the foul smell of durian flesh. Foul to me.

I wonder who is going to be my youngest sister’s bridesmaid. Normally for bridesmaid, we will choose the prettiest cousin or niece or our favorite niece. Since she is not a Christian yet, she won’t be having a church wedding which means only one bridesmaid is enough. So she does not have to crack her head to think about bridesmaid gifts. Only give angpow. Then ask her to buy her own gift. I wonder who she will choose.

During my wedding, I only have 1 bridesmaid too; my 2nd sister but I have 5 flowers girls. I can’t remember whether I buy any gift for them!

I got a shocked when I saw this message when I tried to load this blog early this morning.

“This domain name expired on Mar 19, 2008. Click here to renew it.”

Cannot be! I bought this domain for 3 years.

So I sent email to Customer Support and then SMS to the Technical Support. Then I waited. After 2 hours, no reply. So I called him. I don’t really understand what he told me but he got my domain renewed immediately till 2010.

Now let’s wait for next year March 22nd see whether this domain will expire or not.

Gua heran lar…expired on 19th but still can load till 21st.

In my culture, if you don’t get any term life insurance quote and purchase them, your family need not worry so much about burying you when you are dead.

Friends and relatives that come to visit will surely give some cash. That cash will be used for the funeral. From the coffin, the tent to the kuaci, peanuts, mineral water, porridge, nyonya kuih and noodles that is being served to those who came. If you have rich friends and relatives, your grave will also be sponsored by them.

If you have death the family, be sure to guard the “Milo tin” (that’s where we normally keep the cash) with your life! I heard many occasion, the cash in there will go missing. Too many people come and not all are there to give but to take.

I wonder how is my youngest sister’s Wedding Planning going on. To tell you the truth, we hardly chat with each other. Maybe due to the age gap. From small we always do things on our own and never depend on each other. We are very independent. I can’t remember what my dad did to make us this way.

Anyway, I heard from my mom that she is going to buy gold accessories before getting her dowry because the price of gold is getting more expensive each day. By the time she got her dowry, maybe she could only afford a thin necklace.

I love to play baseball. I joined the school team and since then baseball is my favorite sport. It is a fun and thrilling game especially for a young girl who loves to play hard ball. And being a “tomboy” definitely suits me for the game at that time. The sound of the baseball stick hitting the ball always excites me and automatically spontaneously pumps in the adrenaline in me.

In about 10 days the Spring Training is about to begin. Yes, I will be able to watch the great teams and players in action. I do hope that this year’s Spring Training will produce some exciting games. This year the Houston Astros are making another run at the National League’s Central title and I will surely keep a watch on their games. Personally I think they can do it especially with the new addition of Michael Bourn the speedster. Oh, not forgetting also Kaz Matsui. I am sure with these two additions to the team; they have a better chance of giving a good run at the title.

It is sad that I would not be able to watch it live or else I would have already bought the Houston Astros Tickets. Then again there is always the net where I can watch it live online. At least it is better than nothing.

I just came back from my granduncle’s funeral. My sister went around taking pictures of everything, even the corpse in the coffin. My uncle told my sis to take it!

It would be so cool to be able to post the picture in this blog. I can’t do the same for my grandfather because I didn’t have a camera then. But after asking a few bloggers, it seems that the Chinese are quite superstitious about displaying dead man’s photo.

Are you?

I wish that’s mine. The time has not come for me to own that much earthly treasure. Hmmm…not so sure whether the time will come or not. 100g of Gold also cannot afford to buy.

On Monday, lady boss told me that since the gold price is predicted to increase further, she is thinking of buying gold bullion. Today, she told me that she shared with her sister and bought 1kg of Gold. She is asking the goldsmith to split them into 100g gold bar! The price that she got is RM108/g. Current market price is RM118/g. That’s RM108k.

Rich people can lar. Poor people like me can just say, “Fuwah!!!!”

My one and only living granduncle (my late paternal grandfather youngest brother) finally passed away yesterday at around 1pm at home. He has been suffering from Alzheimer’s disease for at least 5 years; bedridden and can’t communicate at all like he is in a world of his own.

The only significant memory about him that affected me was of him calling me “Bayi”. “Bayi” is a Malay word for “Baby” but that was not what he is referring to. He has been calling me by that name since I told him that is my name until he stopped talking due to Alzheimer’s.

My Chinese name is May Lee. I can imagine at 2 years old when I started talking, this granduncle of mine whom I address him as ‘Cik Kong asked me my name; May became Bay and Lee became Yee. Branson hotels can turn into Handsome hotels. hahaha.

As I grew older, even though I corrected him, he will still call me by that name, Bayi. In a way, it makes me feel special. I am always a Baby!

One of my colleagues rare retired horse. Those horse that cannot run anymore for the races. Then I overheard he frequently ask our Bangladeshi foreign worker to collect saw dust for his horse. It was so embarrassing when I thought the saw dust was for the horse’s food. The dust is for their beds! Go on, laugh at me.

I wonder whether he rides the horse or just walk and talk to him when he is lonely. hehe. Should recommend him to get the equestrian clothing, at least got style a lil bit.

My lady boss told me that one of her husband’s friends fell and broke his nose at Tesco (Selangor). He slipped when walking on an oily floor right at the entrance. The local Tesco employee did not want to take the responsibility and told him that it was his fault for not being careful!

I guess he must have made havoc there that the General Manager, an Angmoh came and attend to the matter. The GM brought him to the nearest private hospital to get his nose fixed, all expenses borne by Tesco and the GM also get him to sign a paper saying that he would not engage the Personal Injury Attorney in San Antonio or any other attorney to sue the company. For that he received 10 years of free medical for his face!

Tag along hubby attending an informal meeting with Betty Chew; the new Chief Minister of Penang’s wife.

As I am not interested in politics and this is the first political meeting that I have ever attended and don’t think I would return to such gathering unless they plan a trip to the Parliament, I might wanna tag along. The reason to my boredom? No comment.

Anyway, Betty Chew gave a good rationalization on the reason the Sultan chose the PAS candidate as Menteri Besar. Firstly the Constitution stated that the MB has to be a Muslim. The Sultan has the power to over right it but he did not because the BN has such a great blow in this election. Giving them another blow by appointing a Chinese as the MB is not a wise decision.

Secondly, why PAS not PKR since PKR won more seats than PAS? Well, PAS candidate is more qualified than the PKR candidate. So that should explain it all. Our Sultans are wise leader, they are not boneka as many of us thought they are.

That is not the hotel room number that you might think that I recently visit. My last stay in a hotel room was during the church camp and it was last year. And it is not also my safe box combination number. I do not have any safe box at home. Toy safe box also don’t have.

That is my current digital weight; 51.9kg with clothes on; baby-T, jeans and a jacket! So I guess my gross weight is 51kg. That is much to my surprise. I thought that I am now at least 54kg because I feel so fat and my pants and jeans are tight especially at the tummy area. I have not been taking any Acomplia which is known to reduce the signal to that is transmitted to the brain to tell us that we should eat something.

I guess due to lack of exercise the tummy starts to get flabbier thus making my body looks fatter. Anyway, I am not going to let it be. It is cheaper to start exercising again and eating smaller portion than buy new sets of clothing.

Thanks to hubby, we have a punch bag at home now; hanging under our durian tree. So I did a little bit of kicking and punching just now.

In 15 days time, we will be having our first vacation up on a hill. A real vacation like those All Inclusive Mexico Vacations. We will be going to Genting Highland with our girls only as our son is too young for most rides and there is only the 2 of us. Don’t think we can handle 3 kids at a theme park.

My girls are very excited about it and no more whining when it is time to go to school because I told them, if they do not want to go to school, no Genting Highland. After Genting trip, I wonder what else can I “bribe” them to make sure they want to go to school. Worst come to worst, I just wave the cane.

I never really follow Malaysian Politics; the only time I am “involved” in politic is when I went to cross the ballot slip on the election day. That also out of responsibility of being a Malaysian.

That is the only time I will read post about politics in blogs to educate my shallow knowledge on what’s happening in this country. I was wondering the reason a lot of people hate Lim Kit Siang. Who is he? Least that I know that he was the DAP president. “Was” right?

Now I know why people hate him. He is such an embarrassment to DAP who has won many of our votes in this election by telling the party to boycott the swearing-in ceremony for Perak Mentri Besar who is from PAS. Don’t be childish. This is politic lar brother.

If the Sultan picks rep from DAP or PKR, BN won’t have the chance to get Perak back in next election as we know that not many like PAS. So, you people please work hand in hand and make sure you make a difference. You will sure get your votes again next election if you can prove yourself worthy of our votes.

Maybe you could start by cleaning the streets from the drug addicts and dumb them in the drug rehab centre.

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