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...

The Shan + Rozz Show: EP9 - The Boomz Girl

Ok, I know. this is so yesterday's news. But i just don't get it? Whats with this girl?

Does she know that she is being poked fun of...and than doing her hokkein #$#$@#%@ on TV.

Like she said it, this is so Shingz (??????)

I hope we see the last of her

Shopping! Shopping! Shopping!

I always always love a good excuse to shop!

And what better excuse to shop would be for our upcoming trip to the US. I am pretty excited about The trip. Its the first time going to the States, and i just can't wait. We are heading to San Francisco, Las Vegas, Grand Canyon and Disneyland and Universal Studios at Orange County. Its going to be winter there, and the temperature is going to be in the range of 7 to 15 degrees. We have been checking out some places for winter clothing, and they are pretty expensive. And so, I have been busy shopping online!

Oh my, the options are endless! I got this for Nic. Cute, isn't it? I got this brand new Gymboree jacket from ebay for about $50+ with postage. Something similar would have cost $199 at ColdWear!!

I just got myself a pair of boots today - a perfect pair without heels. Sigh...I really do miss wearing heels, but oh well, its a small price to pay. I am currently looking for some warm leggings, long sleeve tees, beanies, scarves and gloves for Nic.

Sigh...I wish I could still fit into those winter clothing that I had worn when I visited my friends studying in London then. I was in my youthful twenties than, and had bought myself a tweed trench coat from Mango, a faux leather trench coat from some Indie brand, knee length boots, etc. Unfortunately the faux leather trench and boots have become mouldy and gross and have since been disposed. And as for the tweed trench coat, it doesn't fit anymore. Too fat, cannot button, and so cannot keep myself warm :( And whats left of them are just photo memories...

Anyway, I guess I will be snooping around Ebay for some more deals.

Well...counting down the days till it happen

Exam Fever

Its been the longest time since i last blogged. Been busy preparing Nic for her exams

Nic's exams are FINALLY over. And i thought my mugging days are over. No, you can imagine me harressing the little one to hit the books at 8 pm every weekday night, and practically a good portion of the weekends doing exam papers after another. My efforts are definitely not appreciated, and were met with grouses, protest, tears and whining...lots of whining.

Though I am beginning to see a little more of myself each day in Nic, she kind of lack the kiasu streak in me when it came to my studies. I admit, I had this kiasu streak in me, when i was in school. i was afraid to be at the bottom. Even if i am terrible in a subject, i cannot be the worst. I had to be at least better than the worst student. Well, Nic is just simply bo-chup...

And so we are now waiting for her results. Her optimism about the papers being really easy, hasn't exactly ease my mind, as her complacency had often resulted in careless mistakes.

Anyway, its Children's Day today. So gonna go easy on her today. Its her day today

Happy Children's day!

same ol' same ol'

Haven't been updating much ... nothing much happening... its the same ol' same ol'.

Had my monthly shot last thursday, and my quarterly blood test. Alls well except for the low calcium level and slightly high uric level. Calcium level has edged up a wee bit from the previous test by 0.01 at 2.09 from 2.08. So gotta down the calcium pills religiously and cut back on my kacang.

We had been pretty busy the past 2 weeks or so, preparing Nic for her year-end exams, which is happening really early, starting on the 25 Sep. From the looks of things, I am the one who is more kancheong than the One taking the exams, who is more concerned about the TV schedule and her pets on Pet Society... sigh...

I am actually pretty glad that her exams are ending early. That leaves us with more time to prepare for the final quarter of the year. Yes, our year end trip has been booked, and we are heading to the USA. Thats something on my bucket list which i can finally scratch off. Though it will be no where close to the Niagara Falls, at least its still the US. Well, maybe another trip if health, time and finances permit :)