Sketches of Life|Life Lived in Simplicity

To the boss: Is it SO difficult to just pick up the phone to call your staff to confirm whether he is working today or not?

To the staff: Is it SO difficult to SMS your boss to inform him that you can work today after all?

Gah!

My Saturday is ALWAYS BUSY. Got floor to mop, got fishes to clean, got shoes to wash, got porch and verandah to sweep on top of the daily house chores.

I will only cook if hubby starts working in the evening. When I cook, all the above chores will be delayed coz I normally wakes up 2 hours later on Saturdays coz no need to send my children to school. And on Saturdays, I will cook more special dishes for my family. So it will take longer time to prepare.

SO, I would really appreciate it if both you guys could lend me a hand. Just pick up the phone; SMS or call, PLEASE.

This morning pulak, I received an email from London!

Hi Michelle,

I live in London, UK and would like to know where I can purchase pineapple tarts?

Aiyoyo! You live in London and you ask me where to buy pineapple tarts? I have never been to UK and never will be unless I strike lottery.

And that is no way I can export my Nyonya Pineapple Tarts to UK unless she doesn’t mind eating Nyonya Pineapple Crumbs.

Hey, you Nyonyas who live in UK, go learn how to make Nyonya Pineapple Tarts and start a home business there. Dunno how? Search in this blog, I got the recipe and even step by step on how to make the pastry in Youtube!

I have a few interesting post to write but I just don’t have the time to sit here to blog about it. Got to wait till hubby is at home during the day or baby decides to give me a break and nap for more than 1 hour.

The day before yesterday, I was at hubby’s shop helping him out while he took about 2 hours nap because he was sick. And this hubby of mine, NEVER visits the doctor when he fall sick. He will just take his USANA supplements, drinks a lot of water and rest as much as he could. He will be fine in a week or so.

On that day, I was up at 7am as usual to cook, wash, and then send my girls to kindy then continue cooking. Around 12noon, hubby called for S.O.S. coz his body cannot take it anymore and he needs his rest. I just came back from fetching my girls from kindy, so I quickly get my girls to eat their lunch and I SWALLOWED mine too. Send my 2nd girl to her grandma’s house coz she loves hanging around with my sister and her newborn. Brought with me, my eldest, 3yo son and baby to the shop.

At the shop, my eldest girl glued herself infront of the PC. MY 3yo son helped me look after his baby brother who is in the walker while hubby took his nap. At one time, baby latched to sleep and I carried baby who was still latching while photostating for a customer! Thanks to the ring sling, we are covered. Then baby naps on the sofa for about an hour.

At 5pm, we left the shop to bank in cheque and to send my eldest girl to her art class then back to the shop. My 3yo son started to get restless, so I brought him over to Giant’s playground. While he plays, baby latches!

To cut the story short, we left the shop at around 7.15pm to fetch my girl from art class then to my mom’s to fetch my 2nd girl home and by 9.30pm, everyone was down! We were truly exhausted.

I was at hubby’s shop again yesterday for about 1.5 hours and he wants me to go there again to let him take a nap for a lil while. If I do that, my laundry is piling up, the house is in a mess and baby is under fed coz he can’t latch as often as he does when he is at the shop. Who is going to help me then? Reward me with a Gold Initial Pendant? I’d rather have a helper than gifts.

One of my uncles has been retrenched from a multinational company a few months ago. Until today, he is still jobless. His wife told me that some of his colleague either got a new job already or being absorbed back into the company but all of them holds a degree. My uncle didn’t even pass his SPM. He started from being a clerk in the company and climbed the ladder until he was earning more than RM3k a month. He is very experienced but due to the company’s policy; degree comes first then experiences, he is still unemployed.

He should consider taking an online degree since he has plenty of time now. I read that the Western Governors University (WGU) is a fully accredited online university offering online bachelor’s and master’s degree programs. They offer Bachelor’s and Master’s program in Business, IT, Teaching, and Health Professions. If ever I want to take another degree, it would be either teaching or http://www.wgu.edu/online_health_professions_degrees/online_healthcare_degree in which they are very practical in the mission field.

WGU is a non-profit online university. So their tuition fee is affordable and lower than other online universities. Oh! How I wish we have the same university here. They are cheap to those who are earning USD not RM.

The beauty salon 2 doors from hubby’s shop was robbed yesterday evening! And there were customers in the salon at the time of robbery! The first robber came in pretending to be a customer. While he was waiting for his turn, his friend came and passed him a parang and the commotion started! The hairdresser lost his wallet and his day sales. Thank God the robbers did not harm him. Do you think lawyers like Seattle personal injury lawyer can help arh? The robbers cabut already, who to sue right? Anyway, according to hubby, the Nasi Kandar Pinang Besar restaurant was robbed too! All we can do know is asking God to protect our shop.

There are a lot of ways to earn money from the internet. Besides blogging for Adsense, there is another way called the internet marketing. All you got to do is market a company’s product and you will be paid commission. Hubby is trying out this avenue of earning some extra income for the family. At first he wanted me to do it but I really have no time to do extras apart from updating my blogs. He is now marketing car accessories and truck accessories. The response is quite good but stocks are insufficient! So far, we have orders but the items ordered are all out of stock! Not easy to earn money eh.

I told hubby that I might want to go back to work next year since my place is still vacant in the company that I left. They can’t find an English educated candidate to take over my place. *ahem* I am so irreplaceable. If they still want me, I might go back for half a day since my 3 older children will be in school next year and I can leave my baby with my mom till 12.30pm. I could use this income to buy a MPV since our family is bigger now.

Anyway, my hubby wants me to try internet marketing. Hearing the word “marketing”, I lost interest already. My own blog also I cannot market, you want me to market product like horse supplies, car accessories and what not. I better stick to what I know best, writing and bossing people around.

I was wondering what is a video card until I Google it and found out another name for it is Graphic Card. Graphic Card I know lar. Often hear hubby mentioned that he needs to change the graphic card in most of the computers in his shop coz gamers are making noise that the display is not so good. Today I learned a new term.

The air around and in my house is sticky! Each time I inhale, chicken dung smell contaminates my nostril. We have 2 lorries load of chicken dung outside my house now. Thank God I only have to bear the smell for today only; provided the workers do their job speedily. “They are mixing it with the soil to make the soil healthy so that the vegetable can have more vitamins to grow.” That is how I explain to my girls. And they went “eeeeeuuuu, I don’t want to eat that vegetables.”

Anyway, I hope that this project will work out and we can gain lots of profit from it and maybe hubby could finally buy the LCD TV that he is eyeing for.

As some of you might have known that I have booked a flight to Kuching next month. Flight ticket paid. As of now, really have no mood to travel because it would mean I need to spend not just ten or twenty ringgit but at least a few hundred ringgit. This month, my income from blogging is super duper low because one of the advertisers did not pay me as promised. Will I ever have premium vacation on the Outer Banks? Maybe if hubby’s planting project work out plus his trading deals go through and more customers print at his shop. Crossing my fingers and praying hard.