Tomorrow will be the first day of the lunar calendar, meaning the first day of Chinese New Year, meaning holidays!! Yay!! We get two days holidays here in Malaysia. One thing for sure that lot of people will do is to stay awake in welcoming in the New Year. What do we do normally to stay awake? You can’t just eat your way till mid-night, or watch TV till mid-night. So one of the sure activities that we lot do is to play cards. Money doesn’t have to be involved, but is sure is a good way to stay alert and get our brains working all through because you’ll need to count your points to win. Well.. if you prefer, you can call it gambling. And this is believed to help Parkinson’s patient, yupe.. just to get them to use their brain more. There are different games that the Chinese play during this festive seasons, one is mah jong. Which to me is a noisy game, because you’ll need to shuffle all the blocks and it does create lots of noise. However, if you prefer to have a quiet game, try online casino, which give you the comfort of staying at home without getting out and it involves more people in the game, i.e. internationally. In this online casino link, it reviews all the sites that are available in the net and even show you the Best Online Casino!
I personally would prefer to play with those that I know, just to look at their expression when they win or loose.
So, have fun during this festive holiday!
At the mean time, let me grab some Chinese mandarin to quench my thirst 😉
The Secret
I’m trying to listen to an Audiobook while doing other things in my PC. It is actually part of my work, cataloguing audiobooks without having to write the review. This audiobook came into my list: The Secret by Rhonda Byrne. Normally I would just get the summary from the jacket or disc cover. But this time, out of curiosity I started to play it in my PC after reading about its summary. “.. In this audiobook you will discover The Secret … and you will learn how to have, do, or be anything you want. You will learn how to use The Secret in every single area of your life.” Now that caught my attention, I’ve been wondering what is it about. Well.. I’m half way into it now, not sure if I’ve catch all of it.
Here are some snapshots of what caught my ears are:
“You can change things around you by your thoughts
The power of gratitude stand above everything else, use it until it becomes a way of your life.
Think positively and you’ll get positive results. Focus on what you want like if you want to loose weight, focus on your perfect weight instead of “I need to loose weight”.
It is about frequency of thoughts. Maintain a good mood and happy thoughts, good things will come your way. Your visualization becomes real..
Start your day with good thoughts like I’m going to have good things happening to me today, or simply, I’m going to get a parking today, or there is always parking for me, I’m always lucky. And you will!
When you make believe, the result comes by.”
Here are some snapshots of what caught my ears are:
“You can change things around you by your thoughts
The power of gratitude stand above everything else, use it until it becomes a way of your life.
Think positively and you’ll get positive results. Focus on what you want like if you want to loose weight, focus on your perfect weight instead of “I need to loose weight”.
It is about frequency of thoughts. Maintain a good mood and happy thoughts, good things will come your way. Your visualization becomes real..
Start your day with good thoughts like I’m going to have good things happening to me today, or simply, I’m going to get a parking today, or there is always parking for me, I’m always lucky. And you will!
When you make believe, the result comes by.”
This audiobook claim that these people had used this method: Plato, Galileo, Beethoven, Edison, Carnegie and Einstein. Surprisingly this book is being catalogue under “Parapsychological and occult methods of achieving well-being, happiness, success” by the Library of Congress online catalogue. What? occult methods? I hope this is not denying the existence of God.
It is also available in Amazon with 1,968 reviews so far!! Its list price is US$23.95 but selling at US$14.37. When I look at some of the reviews, there are positive and negative ones.
Well, you’ll have to judge it by listening to it. To me, it does really help in getting myself a parking 😀
My grandpa
Grandpa is a person who tried out new things, who foresee things way before us all, even in the global issue. He loves reading, gardening, herbs and the politics. He tells great stories about WWII. One thing he told us that he never stop doing is reading. Maybe that’s why in his late 90s, he is still strong and has a clear mind. He is an adventurous person; he tried out herbal medicine himself. Doctors were surprise to see him when we brought him over, they just couldn’t believe their eyes that they are looking at a 99 year old standing there in front of them, with a well build body and in good posture some more. He is a man who loves God, who is witty and humorous. He past away on 30 August 2006, a day before our National Day. I was still in China with mom and my family. I took my unpaid leave to spend some times with my hubby and our two boys. Though we had expected it, but it was still a shock for us to learn that he has past away, in fact, peacefully. Thank God. He passed away at the age of 99. We had started to plan for his 100th birthday celebration the year after; unfortunately, God’s call is faster than we thought. Here is to my grandpa, i.e. Cal’s Great-grandpa.
This layout is by Susan Cobb of Hot off the press personal shopper. I used everything from the January kit of theirs. Thank you Susan.Journaling: “Great-grandpa who loves gardening and had maintain an nursery in front of the house. He did all the planting, watering and introducing his produce to whomever came to visit. This is a rare picture of him with Calvin at age 2. Calvin like usual, loves to join in the gardening part even though he’ll be beaten by the mosquito. This sort of photo will not ever be seen again ever since great-grandpa passed away.
This layout is by Susan Cobb of Hot off the press personal shopper. I used everything from the January kit of theirs. Thank you Susan.Journaling: “Great-grandpa who loves gardening and had maintain an nursery in front of the house. He did all the planting, watering and introducing his produce to whomever came to visit. This is a rare picture of him with Calvin at age 2. Calvin like usual, loves to join in the gardening part even though he’ll be beaten by the mosquito. This sort of photo will not ever be seen again ever since great-grandpa passed away.
Love layout and last year Christmas photos
As I was going throuh my photos from last year visit to Hong Kong and China, I discovered that I’ve so many photos to scrap about, especially on Disneyland. Gonna show some in my other blog – Glad to be here.
I’ll post up my LO here instead. 😉
So, people, Valentines day is near, get in the mood for love and check out those layout in Itti Bitty Scrap Shack challenge, some are available in the following blogs!!
At the mean time, I’m getting ready for the Chinese New Year celebration. Gong Xi Fa Cai!!
I’ve got them uploaded!
Yay!! I’ve finally got my phone to work again, I mean in loading photos into my PC. So I can show my LO here again.. yippiee!! I’ve also sent in my LO for Get in the mood for love challenge in Itty Bitty Scrap Shack, can’t be happier than this. Another happy news is that I’ve just got my order from Scrap-n-Crop, though a bit bended on the papers, but overall they are in good condition and I just can’t wait to use them, especially the Bazzill itty Bitty Blossoms and American Craft play and sixth avenue pattern papers.
Now let me show what I’ve sent in for Itty Bitty’s Challenge.
The love of my life.. other than my hubby .. of course are my two boys! And since I don’t have any recent photos of my hubby and I hardly can find hubby’s solo photo.. I might as well snap photos of my boys and do this LO. So I did and fortunately when I wanted to develop the photos which was taken using my phone, it allows me to upload files. Thank God.
So, here it is..
Jornaling:
The love of my life –
Cal and Mer.
2 years apart and yet so much different on their characters and physical built.
Calvin is much taller and active.
Mervin seems like getting his dad’s height. But boys will be
boys, naughty and active as always, still…
Both are sweet in my eyes and precious in my heart.
I’ve used the swirl template from Hot off the press which came in together in the January Personal Shopper kit. The paper flower embelishement are actually free paper-piecing pattern from Scrapbook.etc. Black and white flowers are from Prima Got Flowers, round mini brads are from HOTP too, and finally the white heart shape brad is from Queen & Co. Oh.. and the alphabet stickers, they are from a dear friend who came back for visit from Aussie.. you know who you are.. 😉
Thanks for watching.
Ribbon will not fray if…
Yupe.. I’ve a little tips here.. share without any photo.. too bad 😦
I use ribbons in my scrapbook projects and I always here people said you’ll need to either wrap it around the corner of the photos or the page in order not to let it fray, or another way is to cut it slightly angled.
Well.. I have a little tips for having the ribbon and not fray, so you can actually cut it straight and just adhere it anywhere you want. You ready?
Here goes.. all you need to do is to burn it a little bit, or should I say melt it a little bit on the end by using lighter. Yupe, once the ribbon is melted, they will stick together and not fray.. that simple, try it.
Happy scrapbooking!
I use ribbons in my scrapbook projects and I always here people said you’ll need to either wrap it around the corner of the photos or the page in order not to let it fray, or another way is to cut it slightly angled.
Well.. I have a little tips for having the ribbon and not fray, so you can actually cut it straight and just adhere it anywhere you want. You ready?
Here goes.. all you need to do is to burn it a little bit, or should I say melt it a little bit on the end by using lighter. Yupe, once the ribbon is melted, they will stick together and not fray.. that simple, try it.
Happy scrapbooking!
No photo can be uploaded again
I’m so sad.. I’ve done some pages and yet I can’t show them here. My phone is not cooperating with me again. I’ve actually done a two page layout of Cal having his first flight to Sri Lanka years ago. I was even more worried than him. Afraid that he’ll cry all along the journey, disturbing other passengers on board, run away from my sight.. etc.. just like a normal mom would worried over their kids on a long distance journey, if you know what I mean.
However, despite all these worries that I had in mind, we went through the flight in a bliss.. well.. not totally a bliss, but at least he didn’t cry, at least he didn’t complaint about air pressure in his ear, at least we made it through and landed in Sri Lanka safely. oh.. you might be asking why Sri Lanka. Well.. simply because hubby used to work there before and we went over to visit him.
As for last night, I’ve started scrap lift a layout from scrapbook.etc on paper piercing, will use this for the Itty Bitty Scrap Shack challenge for “Love of my life”. I wanted so much to show them here, a preview maybe.. just too bad.. I hope the crazy phone is back to normal working mode again for me to upload my photo. I really need a new digicam.
Good news is, by Friday, I’ll have the digicam with me again… yay!!
Have to run twice
My mistakes really.. I need to go back to the same place again today just because I thought they said they can get the specs ready by yesterday. To my mom, it is a matter of life and death (not really :D) situation since she is cleaning up the house for Chinese New Year, she needed her glasses badly. What happened was that since she went to the farm often and sweat a lot, her glasses actually look like being sand ‘cos she rub them using her clothes! Can you imagine that? With the sweat that she has and the dust that stick to her shirt and yet she is using that to rub on her glasses, tyring to make it clear again? Oh well.. it didn’t make it clearer but the other way round. Another thing is that since she wear her glasses to the farm, the sweat basically ruin the glasses faster than anyone of us who sits in the office with air-con. I’m not saying that you can rub your glasses with any clothes, that would really damage it. So her old glasses really in a bad condition, that’s why she is getting a new one.
When I step in to the store.. I was eyeing for promotion or those with a reasonable price but I don’t think it can be compared to this.. Zenni Optical: Sell Rx Glasses $8 with case! That is like RM26 for a pair of glasses! Even if it is only the frame, it would worth it already, where can you get in Kota Kinabalu?
The thing is, this Zenni optical provide or sell only their own manufactured frames directly to the customer! Which means they don’t have middlemen. How great it that!? That’s why the price is so low.
Well, anyway, I only found out today about Zenni and my mom already got her glasses proscribed on last Saturday. But she specifically stated that she doesn’t want plastic frame cos she is afraid that they would touched on her chin and she’ll be irritated by that. Something like this one: (I like this one actully.. ‘cos I have glassed like this before :D)
Come to think of it, I don’t think I have a photo that my mom is wearing her glasses ‘cos she only does that when she is reading or really needed to see things clearly like watching her 6 o’clock Taiwanese series.
So scrap my mom in her glasses will be another project for me 😀
Want to use these photos
I’ve just loaded some old photos from my phone to my PC, so I discovered some cute photos, although they are not so clear, but I love them and I haven’t scrap about them yet, so maybe I’ll use them for my next project.
As for my previous project that I’ve set out to do, i.e. to transfer all my Australian trip photos from the magnetic album to photo safe album, which I’ve just finished last night, double yay for that. Since I’m using Creative Memories album with black pages, I kind of limiting myself for using pattern paper as the background and also limiting myself to use too much of embellishment which will bulge the page, so that was a fast project to finish. Well.. I was kind of lazy too as I’ve already arrange that album in my magnetic before.. so nothing new. Will show some snapshot here in my future posting.
As for my previous project that I’ve set out to do, i.e. to transfer all my Australian trip photos from the magnetic album to photo safe album, which I’ve just finished last night, double yay for that. Since I’m using Creative Memories album with black pages, I kind of limiting myself for using pattern paper as the background and also limiting myself to use too much of embellishment which will bulge the page, so that was a fast project to finish. Well.. I was kind of lazy too as I’ve already arrange that album in my magnetic before.. so nothing new. Will show some snapshot here in my future posting.
As for now.. let me show you those photos that I would really love to scrap.
Wish me luck
New opportunity
Well.. since I’m still consider myself a newbie in scrapbooking, I consider myself a newbie in blogging too, especially when coming down to talk about earning by blogging. I have no clue at all when I first started this blog. It was just out of fun and also to use it as a tool to remind myself about my daily life with my kids and hoping to improve as a mother, you know the kind that is loving enough not to spank them 😀 but I guess I’ll still need to work on that.
Talking about earning by blogging, I just recently signed up with payperpost after finding it out from a an ex-colleague who had been very helpful in guiding me.
I’m already start dreaming on what will I do with all the money that I earn!! Yupe.. day dreaming now.. let me see.. first.. I’ll get myself more scrapbooking things of course!! Secondly.. will get myself a spa or massage treatment .. well the list can go on.
Let’s talk about what I want to get for my scrapbooking. What I’m lacking now is more papers, include cardstock and pattern papers, next is album, the next are the tools in cutting such as oval shape, paper puncher, paper trimmer, again the list can go on..
I’m already telling friends and family about blogging same like I’m telling them about scrapbooking and the fun that I’m having. I’m getting my niece to be interested in blogging just so that it can help her out in her study, ya.. study.. I mean, if she can earn by blogging, this would help her out in paying her school fees and in a way will improve her writing skills. At the same time, asking her help to introduce my site to her friends.
So, folks, get into the mood of scrapping and also blogging!
Hannie Craft - Finding Joy 