Back from My Road Trip

I am back from my road trip.

The holiday to Kuala Lumpur and Malacca was fabulous. We did more, saw more places, ate more and shop a lot more.

Right now, i have just dumped my second load of laundry into washing machine, and while waiting for the washer to complete its cycle, i just downloaded my emails - 148 mails worth of orders and enquiries on Gmail, and 169 mails worthof spam and supplier offers on Yahoo, and not to mention my Ebay account yet. sigh...its going to be a long long night.

Well, i will try to upload some pics and blog more about the short getaway

Thanks for bearing with me

KKH Blunder

This news was covered by the Straits Times a couple of days back, where human error at KK Women's and Children's Hospital (KKH) led to two cancer patients being given more chemotherapy drugs than they were supposed to get. Heres the article if you have not read about it.

http://news.asiaone.com/News/the%2BStraits%2BTimes/Story/A1Story20091112-179378.html

I feel so sorry for both the patients that they have to suffer further due to human error, in spite of their own medical condition. Having to go through chemotheraphy is bad enough torture, but to get an overdose from it, I cannot imagine...

I was appalled when I stumbled upon this blog, which belongs to the relative of one of the cancer patient, which details the real details, not from the media's point of view, but from the patient's relative

http://chunkie84.blogspot.com/

Its amazing how time pass so quickly. And it is always the school holidays that I realised that the 24 hours in a day is never, ever enough to accomplish my tasks. Keeping a restless child entertained during her school holidays is really keeping my hands full. I stopped trusting my memory a long time ago, and keep a diary which lists down the activities, playdates, birthday parties that she is invited for. And its her activities that is keeping me busy. I would need to bring her there, and while she engages in her activites, i am whiling my time away waiting to bring her back or to her next activity. Nothing much on my own social calendar though, haha.

Nic seems to be coming out of her shell these days, and is becoming more extrovated and confident these days. She speaks her mind, though she may sometimes go overboard, especially with the adults. I am glad for her new-found confidence. I also realised that I am beginning to talk to her more as an individual, not so much as a parent-child. She enjoys talking to me about fashion, and loves clothes. Here she is posing in a Gymboree Toga top from my shop

She has also found a good friend in school, and the girls have been chatting quite a bit over the phone and online, and visiting each others home. I do hope that both of them will continue to maintain their friendship, even though they may be in different classes next year.

As an only child, I really do hope that along life's journey, Nic will find friends that will be like the siblings that she do not have. Firm friends who will stand by her and support her during those rocky patches along her life's pathway.

I pray all the time that she will be blessed with great friends like mine, and long lasting friendshsips like mine, one of which started way back when we were just 6 years old. :)

To my dear friends, you know who you are....THANK YOU!

A CLEAN Slate

The unimaginable happened 2 days ago. My hard disk got corrupted and my system is rendered unsavagable - at least for an computer idiot like me.

For a person whose bread and butter is so dependent on the PC to function like it should, all hell broke loose when i could not boot up the PC. I was a nervous wreck - all the months of P & L, inventory list, scripts and loads and loads of photos of past, current and upcoming stocks, all wiped out just like that. I had always been pretty religious about backing up my stuff, but the past 2 months had been so so busy that i had neglected the all too important task of backing up my work. I was really miserable as hell.

Anyway, orders still got packed and sent, emails still got answered, while Mike got a friend of his to help with the situation, and of course, not without first ticking me off.

Thanks to the capable hands of Johnny, my system is now up and unrunning. He even managed to salvage most of my files. I am just so grateful that I do not need to do a stock take, and the P & L for the missing months. And yes, the many photos in my drive has also been salged, including the photos of the many beautiful stocks that will be coming up in the coming weeks.

Whats unsalvagable were the list of websites that I frequent that were in stored in My favourites list. Yes, including the list of blogs maintained by friends long gone. Gonna try googling to find them...