Archive for March, 2008
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Are you a believer? I know its an Asian concept but these days, it has become quite universal even popular with the West. It is hardly surprising since the East emulates the West and now, vice versa.
So why am I bringing this up? Nothing really, just that during my daily blog reads, I came across friends talking about their feng shui experiences recently. I personally have nothing against feng shui except that being a layman, I can’t really tell the real from the fake. For instance, my very first feng shui experience was on new year’s eve last year. He came highly recommended by hubby’s colleague. This particular feng shui master hails from China, very much sought after. So much so that we were actually not on his appointment list for the day and probably, for the preceding months as his schedule was packed to the brim before the CNY. He agreed to see us only after his scheduled appointment canceled at the last minute, leaving an empty slot for us. Oh and he doesn’t do feng shui after 5pm or was it 6pm? Now I can’t remember.
Frankly we didn’t prepare for him either. My hubby’s colleague approached him and asked if we’d like to have someone come look at our place. So, we agreed not knowing what to expect. My first impression of him was “he looked normal”. When I told my hubby that, he laughed and ask “What did you expect him to look like?”. He was very friendly. He wore a normal long sleeve shirt and pants much like modern everyday work clothes. Didn’t have much with him except a briefcase and the only items inside was his “bible” and a feng shui compass. The minute he came, he said “your house, bad”. OK, now thats not a very good sign. Oh I forgot to say that he only spoke mandarin so my hubby’s colleague has to be our interpreter.
The next thing he asked for was my hubby’s birth date and time of birth and then, he proceeded to perform some ritual!! heheh..no. He did some very complicated calculations on a piece of paper, folded the paper in a hexagon-like shape. Thats when the real feng shui interpretation came.
The gist of it was, our house, did not face the right direction for us. Essentially, it means not good. He recommended some stuff for us to balance the chi but he said that this is temporary remedial action not meant for the long term. One of the things he suggested for us was to place bamboo exterior shutters outside our master bedroom window. This is meant as a protection for me as he said that I haven’t been sleeping well in my room. Funny enough, it has some truth in it cos I haven’t especially when I was pregnant. I often sleep downstairs and even now, I still do sometimes.
There are just a few more things that we have not yet done cos hubby has been busy lately. Whether it worked, well, not much of a result as yet so I don’t know. I haven’t yet turn to disbelief but then again, I take most things with a pinch of salt. We all want to have good thing in life don’t we? I mean, as humans, we always want the best and constantly searching for answers towards happiness, contentment and the perfect life. Is feng shui the ultimate solution? For me, its not. I am still searching.
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I need a new wardrobe for my bedroom. I have one small one and a chest drawer and I’m constantly running out of space. If I had shown you my wardrobe, you’d ask me “How can you live with just those tiny ones??”
During the early years of my marriage, I stayed with my in laws. Since we occupied the second room, its relatively small and we had to make sure everything fits and not look over-stuffed. So, we bought our wardrobe to fit the room rather than fitting for us. When we moved out, we were supposed to have some built-ins done in our room and to free up the wardrobe space for my kid’s clothes/stuff. That was over a year ago and none of that seemed to be happening anytime soon what with the hubby’s work schedule and all.
Frankly, I do need one. My daughter needs one. She’s fast accumulating stuff – clothes and all. I was half thinking about Ikea and their 10 year warranty bit. What do you think? Worth it? Or should I just browse through directbuy?
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When I woke up this morning, I had wanted to get up and start exercising. Whether it was to run out in the park or on the treadmill, I was really determined. I opened my eyes, beat my alarm clock (which is one of the rare occasions), sprang out of bed, threw the basket of laundry out to wash. That was when I took a 180° and I started to have flashes of this :
And then this :
I soon became extremely hungry. My desire to stay fit and healthy went flying out the window faster than I could pee. Man!! I am telling you, this is not good. Not good at all. I have such weak will power when it comes to food. As I am typing this, I am waiting for everyone in the house to get up so I can go get my morning fix. Wake up…wake up…wake up!!!
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RICH!! I know who wouldn’t but if I was, I would own one of these :
and probably plenty of similar ones in my 16 room mansion of course. One for the entire family, including my grandma. I would have a butler, a chef, a whole host of people fussing about the house. Oh yes, and a personal assistant to take care of everything, including online car insurance. And I don’t even need to get out of bed *day dreaming at its best*.
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Before I end the night, hubby just confirmed our holiday destination a little while ago. Although its a verbal confirmation and I know that he does want to go for a holiday badly after the hard work he has put in for the past year or so, I still have my doubts. However, I will remain positive and take whatever comes. If we make it, we make it and if we don’t, we don’t. I just have to deal with disappointments a little better. You’d be surprised that I still can’t after having lived for more than 30 years on earth and faced countless disappointments in life. OK, shall not put a damper on a lovely and blessed weekend. Instead, I should focus all my energy to being positive and look for cheap and good hotels..LOL..How does Condo Hotels sound for a family of 3? Gosh! Looks like more work for me. As if I don’t have enough *rolls eyes*
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This is serious me talking now. The client has finally agreed to give them another chance after conducting a fresh round of performance reviews. Although the complaints were verging or in fact, frivolous, clients will always be clients and a client wouldn’t be called a client without a bout of complaint hurled first. So, what does this means? Simply that most likely I get to keep my day job and my night job and sometimes, I still get some dosh even though I’m not working. Nyek!! *snigger* I may even get to go for a holiday, just not the one I want *minor sulk*. All in all, it was good news and keeping my fingers crossed that it will stay that way for the next two weeks!!
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Yup, I think its over too..:-)
I have a confession to make…I still have some chocolate Easter eggs from last year in my fridge *gasp*. I’m really sorry but there’s just too many eggs and we just can’t finish them. My daughter can’t have them cos they are too big for her.
Apart from that, I won’t be doing much this weekend. Probably go shopping (usually) for things that I need and things that I probably don’t need as much but like to have. Besides, I’ve gotta take my precious little one to the doctor for her scheduled jab. I am sane too you know.
As for the hubs, I know what he’d love to be doing - take his dusty ol’ Cobra golf clubs for a swing at the range. Will he get his wish this Easter? Not when I can help it *wink followed by evil laughter*.
Have a great weekend!!
