Today is the day. It’s CHRISTMAS. Well, where we are concerned anyways. We’ve been invited to said daughter’s friend’s performance at her church. We don’t want to disappoint so we are going, in a couple of hours. And then, lunch after. Normally, we’re not that adventurous but well, given that Christmas is a once-in-a-year affair, it’s ok to over stuff ourselves with a heavy schedule once in a while.

We have extremely busy the past couple of weeks leading up to the year end. FOr one thing, we plan on renovating our house a little bit. We’ve never done much to our house ever since we moved in more than 6 years ago, and we figured  now is probably a good time to be doing something. As a result, we have been busy firstly, deciding what we want to do. Not easy because of space constraints. Besides, we don’t plan to do too much seeing as how we want to live in a home and not in a show-house. Plus the fact that the hubby and I, we’re both sentimental freaks — there are just way too many stuff we want to keep. But, no we don’t want to go down the hoarder road so we have been careful.

Apart from that – I say this every year – I have a personal goal I intend on achieving. It’s funny for someone who doesn’t work to have a ‘goal’ but yeah, I do. It’s weird I know but in all fairness, my intentions are good. I will have to make sure that it happens next year. At least, I want it to happen.

2012 will no doubt be another crazy busy year for us. Not only for me, but for the rest of us in the family. We don’t know where the road will take us but we are hopeful that the path will be filled with adventure.

SO, have a great and fabulous Christmas in the meantime. An exciting new year awaits..:-D

Christmas is coming puh-retty soon. And, sadly, we do not have much plans until Christmas day itself. Other than that, Christmas eve is pretty much a quiet evening for the 4 of us.

What shall we do?

I had originally planned to buy some Christmas-type videos to watch. One of it which came to mind was Home Alone (to watch with the kids) and Bridget Jones’ Diary. It’s actually the best romantic Christmas movie ever. I was thinking perhaps I could download video from youtube but unfortunately, I couldn’t find any. I don’t want the sequel; I much prefer the original.

I probably need to get it from kickass or something. Youtube is only good for Photoshop tutorials…even then, the quality is dwindling…*sigh*

The internet-verse is stil buzzing over the whole entire Demi Moor-Ashton Kutcher split. The twitter-verse jumped on the bandwagon as well asking why she’s still keeping her twit name MrsKutcher. They will NOT leave you alone, will they?

You know when she started dating Ashton Kutcher and how she was dating this guy 20 odd years her junior, everyone gawked. When they got married, they had a heart attack. I mean, this age thing, no matter what they tell you that age don’t matter? Well, honey, it does. Plenty much. For some unknown reason people are still obsessed with age factor, gender issues, racial compatibility..the list goes on and on.

So, when they got together, and were together for a while, people weren’t digging it. I never really gave much thought actually. Probably except the fact she got herself a squeeze to keep. Or so I thought. And to sort of not alllow herself to look older than him, she made it a point to camouflage her age. It must’ve taken her alot of effort to do what she did. I mean, she probably kept to a very strict diet, worked out tirelessly, and truth be told, she honestly did dress immaculately. I for one, wouldn’t have given a damn but not her – she made sure she looked the part. To me, she looked better than she did 20 years ago.

Sadly, her efforts have all gone to the dumps as after 6 years of marriage, they’ve split up. Tragedy if you must. I bet she truly loved him and thought the union would last. She should know better innit? Celebrity marriages rarely lasts. Well, maybe some do but mostly don’t. Not especially when you have a man like Ashton Kutcher. Not that he’s a hunk..but, he’s popular. Popular to warrant some kind of marriage safety net.

Anyway, she’s 49. Still have a few more years before she’ll grow into an old spinster…hehehe .

When you are tired of routine work, tired of traveling, tired of demanding bosses, and more importantly, tired of the pittance that your multi-billion dollar company pays you, what do you do? Some would just ship out and start their own company, while many would just trudge along. Why is that? Why would you continue to slave and inconvenience yourself and subject yourself with all these hardship? Didn’t our parents suffer enough to send us overseas to get the best education and shouldn’t we be getting some ROIs back to our parents?

Well, the answer is simple : we are still only human after all. We always think that the grass is greener on the other side. But what we don’t realise is that having your own business, we merely place ourselves on the flip side of the frying pan. No?

Trust me, having your own business isn’t what it’s all cracked up to be. It may be great the first couple of days but when reality starts sinking in, you’ll find that owning your business entails more work than simply being an employee. You have to consider budgeting, recruitment, marketing, forecast, business planning, business development, financials, legal framework, taxation, risk management, people management, business management, client relationship — just to name a few.

It is no wonder why SME’s don’t thrive and some even don’t survive. Of course, nothing ventured, nothing gained. To be a successful business person, you first need to have a strong positive character because it’s a jungle out there. If you cannot take the wild and the torns, chances are you will not make it out alive.

Which brings me to this — many people invest in ach payments. Don’t ask me what it is. Just check them out yourself. .

When I am done with this full-time mama business, I am going to take a long long and very LONG vacation. I am going back to work. Huh?

Yes, take a vacation away from my kids. A very long one. Preferably one that will not send me back down to earth. I am pretty sure the moon still has some more exploring to do. Don’t they still have parts of transformers lying beneath some rocks? If they don’t intend on sending a 40-something mama to space, can I consider a career in the medical industry? I am all for helping people. I can be the janitor since I would have loads of experience. I doubt they’d consider me for any of the Diagnostic Medical Sonographer Jobs opening out there, would they?

Well, whatever it is, work away from the kids is what I will be looking forward to in the coming years..or, my golden years..LOL

Hehhe. I am trying to be smart and put on a smart ass title to this post. Bad thing is, no one’ll know what heck it means!!

So, allow me to explain : I am doing a post-mortem on Halloween. Like for instance : what did you go as for the past Halloween? As for me…I went as me. Which can be translated as “I had no party to go to”..boo hoo..I can tell you now that if I did have a party to go to, I would have dressed up in a nurse uniform -NOT. So not me. I won’t attend a Halloween party if you ask me. I find it a little sillly. But, for those who need to network and make some business friends or simply to keep in the loop with the industry, then yes. My industry is at home. So no need for all the fancy schmancy stuff. Totally not me.

Yes to all you employers out there. You now can now have what they would call a secret weapon that your employees won’t know what hit them. They are called gps vehicle tracking!!

Cool eh? You will know where they are at any given time, any given minute. Even if they are at your home, shacking up your wife, you will know. Forget about privacy issues and all that jazz. It’s about time bosses take some stern action on their employees because sometimes these people moonlight and they only give you 5% of what they are capable of. Isn’t that a huge rip-off? I am sure every employer wants to get their money’s worth when hiring guys. And guys – come on??!! You should know better than to try to cheat your boss. They always, will always have the upper hand on you. One false move and you’re out the front door!

Well, worry no more because now, you’ve got a secret weapon you can count on .