Holiday rambles

It's a long weekend holiday because of Hari Raya. Good for hubby, as he can really get a good rest after being busy traveling for the past week. Good for me too, as I can ask hubby to help me with some vacuuming, haha!

Actually, a long break like this is also good for people who do detox or colon cleansing. I'm not in to this, but who knows I may consider it one day, as I think more and more toxins are accumulating in my body because I just love to eat. :P

I also love to drink coffee, because of that I think my teeth also need some cleaning and teeth whitening too, hehe. Beverages like coffee, tea and red wine can stain our teeth if we drink them regularly and do not brush our teeth immediately after consuming. Of course, there are other reasons that can cause teeth to stain or turn yellowish. Actually, it's and inevitable part of aging. Just that the lifestyle can determine how much and how fast your teeth turn yellow.

May be I should go get one of those special toothpaste and do my teeth whitening at home...

Visiting my 'old' blog

This blog is like an old home of mine, which I previously stayed in. I had moved to a new place and now is back to pay a visit. :P

Perhaps this blog will remain the channel where I share interesting gossips or secrets that I don't want people to know... or the other way round? Haha!

Okay, so an update while I'm visiting this old neighborhood of mine. I was so utterly busy with work over the past few months. I'm getting quite a regular number of freelance writing jobs this year, some paid just several hundreds bucks, but some up to 2K for may be less than 7 days of work. In general, the average income is not considered stable yet. However, I now do have some 'shopping funds' to use, hehe. Oh how I missed shopping sprees! :P

Still want to make money from home




So tired! Have been waking up at 7 am and sleeping way past midnight for two days. And there's another day to go!

I am attending a internet business event - the Global Internet Seminar - held in Wisma MCA. You see, I am still not giving up the make money at home idea, because I truly believe that we can all make money from home.

If there are already people making money using the internet by just doing it at home, I don't see why I can't, right? I think it is crucial that one must BELIEVE in himself or herself that he or she can make lots of money from home, without having to work a conventional 9-to-5 job. :)

This event lasts for three days and tomorrow will be the last. There several top internet marketing gurus participating in this event, and they gave an overview and provide some basic tips and techniques on how to make money from home, either through selling your own product, affiliate marketing or on eBay.

I signed up to this event because I received a huge discount - I only paid RM8 to attend. Hehe...

Of course, each of the Guru has a program or workshop to sell at the end of their presentation. And of course, I signed up for one of those today.... :P More accurately, hubby signed up and the workshop allows its participants to bring one family member along! How cool is that! :)

Oh, forgot to mention this, the Gurus include Ewen Chia, Andrew Ginsberg (eBay Guy), Stephen Pierce, Patric Chan, Vincent Tan, etc.

Now, I need to go to bed. Have to wake up 7 am tomorrow!

Where to find money for home improvement?

We are going to do some remodeling to our house front yard - switch the position of the gate and the post box plus garbage compartment, install a new gate, set it up with automatic gate system, build brick fence on both sides, fill up the floor with tiles. Simply put - our money will soon be gone with the wind!

We still have another home improvement project to be done after this, which is supposedly to be the indoor courtyard, where we would want to set up a water feature that we can appreciate while having dinner, haha!

Hubby said he could become addicted to home improving 'hobby'. Too bad he is not a rich guy and does not have the kind of money to spend on this luxurious hobby. This actually triggered him to consider collecting paintings, antiques or rare coins from now onwards, so that in the future he can sell of these valuables for money, haha!

Well, I don't think we can afford antiques or paintings of famous artist at the moment, but gold coins or rare coins may be something closer to our budget in the near future. Of course, nothing beats becoming a rare coin expert - I could then be a collector, investor and dealer all at the same time. I would then have all the means to renovate and improve my home in whatever lavish style I want! :P

Muffins and cupcakes. Help!

Muffins and cupcakes... I've been eating those for weeks! No wonder my weight suddenly shot up 2 kgs in a month! :P

Thanks to my brother in law! He's so into making muffins and cupcakes recently. I think there must be some homemade muffins and cupcakes business plan brewing in his head.

And my mother in law always urged me to take a few home, for breakfast, for tea time, for supper. I wanted to say 'no', but obviously it's not polite to decline her offer. So...

Are his muffins and cupcakes nice? Hmmm, well, actually.... no comment! :P

Or let me put it this way - the quality is still far from those in Coffee Bean or the long gone (?) Puffin Muffin (used to be in One Utama), haha! I'm not particularly fond of cupcakes or muffins, but if you force me to eat one, then from Coffee Bean I will get. ;)

You see, my BIL's problem is - he just keep baking and making cupcakes and muffins using different recipes he sourced from all places, but he has never gone out and tried how other people's muffins and cupcakes taste like! How would you know if your muffins and cupcakes are good enough if you don't know how the REALLY GOOD muffins and cupcakes taste like? Even the world's famous chefs sample dishes and cookings prepared by other renowned chefs. Know your competition, improve on yourself. Otherwise, it will be forever just that.

I have thought of buying some muffins from Coffee Bean or other cafes to let my BIL try out and compare for himself, but I didn't. Afraid that he will take this as an insult. Haha! :P

Are you feeling hot?

Oh man, is it me or is the weather getting super hot?? Can't stop sweating even just after I wash my face in the morning!

We were shocked when we received the electricity bill for usage in the past 6 weeks - RM101!!! Our average usage for the past 6 months was around RM40 per month. Then it shot up to RM70 during CNY period due to all the baking. And now, it's the most expensive electricity bill we've ever received! :(

Why? Because we have been letting the air-conditioner on every night for more than a month. We used to switch off the air-conditioner after the air in our bedroom became cool just before we sleep. But recently the weather just got too unbearable. I tried switching it off at 1.30 am. At 3.30 am, I woke up sweating. Just had to have it on again in order to sleep well.

So, this is global warming ...

A quick update - my 'poor' financial status

Hubby has been hinting to me that I should get a full-time job now. I figured that, too, as I have just withdrawn my FD money for the second time this year! If I had a couple of silver coins in my safe box, I think I would have sold them, too, haha!

Have not been getting any writing jobs for the past few months, and I can't stop my spending habit, so I'm left with no option - if I want to be able to spoil myself with shopping and spending, I've gotta find the money first. And find it myself! :P

Will it be difficult to get a job at this time of slow economic situation? I don't know. I see there are still quite a lot of job openings posted in online job directories.

Well, even if I manage to get a job and start working 9-to-5 again, I can't really indulge in shopping anymore. I have a bigger mission - that is to re-build my already collapsed personal financial security, haha! Save, save, then invest, and save again, then invest... And when I have the money to invest, this time I would probably look into investing in gold, or perhaps some other types of rare coins (like what the Monaco Rare Coin is offering).

Will see how...

A new 'home' for this blog

Just a short post to let you all know that the new 'home' for my blogs that I was talking about earlier is ready for visits. :P

From now onwards, all good stuffs will be posted there, including my cooking recipes (which I usually post on my other blogger blog). In fact, the only 3 posts I have there currently are all cookie recipes, haha! Chinese New Year ma...

So hop on over to the new home of my blogs now => What's The Time Now?

And remember to subscribe to the new blog! :)

What will happen to this blog? I don't know... perhaps once in a while I will post some quick updates here, to give links to the interesting posts I have over the other side. This way, new readers (or perhaps some old ones) who bump into this blog will know where to look for the real good stuffs, hehe.

Again, here's the link to my blog => What's The Time Now?

See you there!

Streamyx AND wireless at home now, yeah!

Finally! No more painfully slow internet connection!

Got my Streamyx activated yesterday evening. Hehe, even had the guy set up the router for me, so I have wireless internet access now! Woohoo, cool!

Glad this is settled before CNY, otherwise I would be so depressed throughout the holidays. I tell you, life just didn't feel right when I couldn't get online. Everything just didn't go well for me, such as I had to run the washing machine twice for the SAME pile of clothes in one day! Because some weird strong wind blew down my hanging clothes rail and the clothes got dirtied with soil!

More - my washing machine kept beeping for attention that I have to manually fill it with water few times during each run; the DVD player remote control was not (and is still not!) working and I couldn't choose the episode of the Hong Kong series I wanted to watch; even my laptop refused to play the DVD!

Not that the machines are all working today, but since I have a 'normal' internet connection now, other things no longer bother me anymore, hahaha!

Hmm, should get hubby to cancel Maxis broadbandand return the dxxn Maxis USB modem ASAP...

Blog while the line is fast

Okay, I'm now at my mom's place so I'd better make use of the F-A-S-T Maxis broadband connection here to make a quick update post. :P

Applied for a home telephone line last Friday! Yoohoo! Not sure when the phone line will be installed though. The Telekom people are supposed to call me before coming to fix the line. Firstly, they haven't called yet. Secondly, there won't be anyone at home anyway, since I'm out here at my mom's until Friday. Hopefully we can have the phone line up next week before CNY. But don't think we are able to have Streamyx line set up for another week thereafter. Looks like I still have to endure the painfully slow internet connection for another 2-3 weeks...

Anyway, I may not even be using the internet during CNY. Speaking of CNY, I have made some peanut butter cookies last week using the best, easiest peanut cookie recipe ever! :D It's the very original recipe my grandmother used, my mother used, and now this aunty's turn to use. It's so yummy, so traditionally delicious! (What kind of description is that? Haha!) Am gonna bake some more cookies this weekend--butter cookies, anyone?

Well, I'm not going to post the recipe or show the photo of my world's no.1 peanut cookies in this or the other blog of mine yet. Have other plans for that, which is... I've finally decided to give this blog and my travel and food blog a new home, a home of their own! Both blogs will soon be living under one roof, under one domain name. So I'm sort of combining everything--from my daily rants to traveling photos and cooking experiments, plus some handy tips and how-to's on how to make a home a better place to live in. Hey, that's what a housewife knows best, haha! So might as well share the secrets with the world, right? :D

I haven't set up the new blog yet. Once it's ready for opening, I will make an announcement here. So stay tuned yah? (I hope I won't have to keep you all waiting for another 2 weeks... haha!)