Archive for November, 2007
Filed Under Family, Thoughts
I haven’t been saying much on this blog lately.
Firstly, time definitely has not been on my side of late. Secondly, I have been spending too much time on my other blog. This is testament of the fact that all mothers do not have any ME time. I have more daughter stories than of my own. A friend is going for a movie and some shopping tonight. All I can say is I wish I could be watching a movie and do some shopping. I also wish for someone to buy me something. Like a personal assistant who picks out what I want to wear tonight for dinner and what I want to eat tonight. I wish I was Kimora living my life on the Fab Lane. The only thing Fab about me after delivering is actually acquiring a cleavage.
Today has been a mixed feeling day. In fact, this whole week hasn’t been great. Just too many unsettled things. I feel as though my life is moving, moving super fast. I haven’t had a chance to sit back and smell the roses. Smell what roses? The only smell I smell everyday are smelly poo and urine. All courtesy of my daughter. At times, I find that she’s an absolute angel, god’s creation, a miracle and on the same breath, I wonder why there is such a thing called “pro-creation”. Its not pro at all.
Ok, I shall stop whining and whinging cos it will never end until they reach 21 and move away. Lets not waste an already beautiful day. The good news for our family is that this morning, our loan is fully paid. Yipee..Not this house, our mini apartment which we bought many years ago. We rented it out the day we got the keys. For some reason, I feel really sentimental about the apartment. Its our first property. And we had worked hard in our savings to own it and now finally, we can truly say, its ours. Its the best feeling. Very liberating. Its not only the relief. Sure I feel much relieved but its more of the achievement. Its not a huge sum for many but for us, its a burden nonetheless. One less burden is definitely something anyone can do without. Not an attempt to compare but just that I feel blessed. Blessed and thankful for everything that I have and achieved up till now. It may not be much by certain standards but for me, it is enough. Enough to feel contented with my life. Anything else that comes will be some sort of a bonus.
Filed Under Women
If that didn’t get your attention, I don’t know what will!!
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Filed Under Family
I am not talking about your sex partner. I am talking about food. Which was the best that you’ve ever had? I have had a lot but unfortunately, it is difficult for me to explain or even describe to most people the kind of dishes that I like because they are mainly home-cooked food by my mom and grandmother.
The women from my paternal grandmother’s side are extremely good cooks. Possibly due to the fact that my grandparents were poor and didn’t have much money to afford luxuries like going out to eat. Everything was home-made and home-cooked. My grandmother would cook meals from her family recipes that were with her family for generations. Soon after she got married, she learned new recipes from her multi-racial neighbours and incorporated them into her everyday cooking. Her daughters and daughter-in-laws learned from her.
Even when I was a kid, my family hardly ever ate out. Even processed food were not encouraged. I would always jump for joy whenever my dad says that we were going out for a meal. Ah..a respite from home-cooked food for a change. I used to think that the food outside at a restaurant for instance was far tastier than what my mom has on the table everyday. My mom would say that my naive view will change when I grow up. How true and accurate she was. When I started working and ate out almost everyday for lunch, I hated it. Even more so when I got married. Eating someone else’s cooking just doesn’t measure up to my mom’s or my grandmother’s. I would look forward to the weekends, Sundays to be more exact cos that is when I get to savour my mom’s food. They are simply heavenly.
I tend to think that my grandmother’s recipes have gone almost extinct with my generation. For one, I hardly cook nowadays. Even if I did cook, the meals are usually from the various cookbooks that I bought every now and then when I go shopping. Of course, there are certain dishes which I personally love and learned how to cook them. Am I going to share the recipes with you? No way, Jose. I don’t kiss and tell *wink*.
Filed Under Thoughts
I am sitting next to my hubby. Today is a Saturday and the start of the weekend. No guesses as to what he is doing. Yup, checking out the latest online casinos to look for an online casino that he can place his football bets and play a game of blackjack all at the same time. He has his notebook open and found his casino online. I guess I am not going to get a my back rub tonight (again!).
Filed Under Luv it, Hate it, Women
When the hubs was on leave a couple of weeks back, we managed to redeem some goodies from MAS with his Enrich frequent flyer points. You must be wondering why didn’t we just redeem some free tickets? Unfortunately, the points he accumulated wasn’t enough for the destination of our choice. Seeing as how MAS charges quite a hefty sum to have the points rolled-over, we decided to exchange them for gift vouchers instead to do some in-flight shopping. I narrowed down the items I fancied and gave the vouchers to hubs’ colleague who was flying at that time. When he came back, he mentioned that only one item was available and for the rest, we would have to get the goods from the administration centre at Subang terminal. OK, so to Subang Airport we went.
It was a Friday afternoon. So naturally you’d expect a lot of inactivity which was exactly what happened as we walked in. 99% of the cubicles were empty. You would immediately think that it was a holiday of some sort. Thank God one kind soul saved us. She was quite helpful and we managed to get everything we wanted pretty quick. Needless to say, the happy one was none other than me. I’ll show you one of the items I got which I really like.
Misaki Necklace, Juliette collection
My jewellery collection are, you would never believe this, far and few. In fact, the largest number came from my wedding, which were mostly gold jewellery. I come from a very traditional Chinese family so it had to be gold, not silver and certainly not white gold. This, however, I consider as my very own designer jewellery collection. Why? Well, I have none the same. That is a reason enough, isn’t it?
Filed Under Goss
This is the latest Paris Hilton look. She was in Shanghai. Probably on probation before she gets scooped back to the jailhouse. Her room-mates probably missed her. Would you? Miss her? Nay, I wouldn’t. Then again, she could be a source for inspiration or a source for entertainment or both for some, if not all of the inmates.
Filed Under Thoughts
I know how difficult it is to get jobs and don’t even mention about getting the jobs you want. I find that the feeling is especially relevant when supply exceeds demand i.e more people seeking employment than there are jobs available. Then the filtering comes into effect since employers can afford to be picky.
To even get the first interview is hard at times. This is especially so when you are fresh out of school. You can be sending hundreds of application out but yet, none will be replied. Having tons of resumes stacked up against the wall in an employer’s room and after a hard day’s work with the bosses, the last thing you want to do is go through the stack.
The fundamental mistake most people make is by sending out run-of-the-mill resumes. You need an impressive resume to get your potential employer’s attention because getting that first, is ensuring that half the battle is won. Then, you will have to work on the other half to land yourself the job but that is another story by itself. For the moment, you need to learn how to make a resume stand out among the hundreds of thousands. You need to rise above the rest in order to succeed in this competitive employer’s market.
