Sketches of Life

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.

Not ‘Michelle’.

Someone didn’t believe that my name is Michelle!

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.

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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.

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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.