I think I’m addicted to online shopping. I like to see what is in my cart, calculated it before I check out and checking back with my credit card to see if they have charged and then waiting for it to come in my mail box.
I like browsing using my PC especially when the connection is fast, I save the hassle of queuing in line when doing payment, I save the hassle of asking about things that I want, I just need to do a quick search in the site concern and wuala!
Remember I’ve mentioned that I got special offer to be the first online customer of a shop in Brunei? (posted in Dec 2007) I paid through TT and it actually cost a lot for doing, the bank charge RM25 just because it is a foreign bank account!
Yupe, the site that I went to doesn’t accept credit card for payment on their website so it actually shows down the payment process and also choosing process when I’m shopping, however, mainly it is because their site is not meant for online shopping. So, how nice if they have a Merchant account with this company call A + merchant services who is a provider of merchant account and also provide Visa & MasterCard payment solutions.
Other than that, I would look for sites that are secure which doesn’t provide my personal information to any other people.
Well… let me see what is in my cart now…

That is how much time I have each day with my kids. Let’s see.. in the morning I need to get them ready to school, after getting them up from bed, brushing, eating, changing and up into the car.. that is within an hour job, no time to realy look at them and say I love them sometimes.. how sad. Maybe I should make it a point and habit to hug them and tell them I love them every morning. Then I’m off to work, 9 hours gone without them. Then when I got home, I’ll need to make sure one of them do their homework, another one take his dinner and then bath, then story time, then off to sleep. That only give me less than 4 hours. I only quiet time which is not so quiet with them cos they always got lots of questions to ask during story time, and after that is lots of request before bed time.
So, out from the 24 hours, I only got maybe up to 4 hours with my kids.. I wish I can have more, but I wish those hours are quality one instead of keep on pushing them to do this and that…

Why? Because my phone is not working again. I mean I can’t get it connected to my PC to upload photos, again! What the heck! I can do that yesterday, that’s why I’ve gone home happily snapping away photos with it thinking that I can share it here, but now it is all back to square one, I’ll still have to wait for my digital camera to come back during CNY :((

Ya.. can u imagine that I get a very old insurance cover note in my late-grandpa’s drawer last Saturday when I was clearing up his room.. I wanted to have a scrap-room space for myself, so what I can do is to convert that room into one that I can work with without the mosquito disturbing me. While I run through those left over things that my Aunts didn’t throw away, I found a cover note dated back to 1971! Sum assured, RM5K. I’m sure at that time, it was a very big amount and I thought to myself.. wow.. grandpa was really modern, ‘cos at those time, there weren’t many that would buy insurance or even know about insurance . And the nominee was my late grandma. It wasn’t the kind of cover note we see now a days, it is folded up into a long slip of maybe 10″x4″. I was also surprise to find that it was in English… now.. my grandpa doesn’t know English, so who could be the one who introduce insurance to him? I think that will be the mystery for my life.
During those time, not only that my grandpa doesn’t know how to read English, there wasn’t even computer available for him. Now we can just go online to get our insurance quotes and get ourselves an online insurance policy! I know one that offer such a service: Advantage term life.
Another mystery for me (maybe will solve it later) is that it is a life insurance that my grandpa bought.. so who could be the one who have claimed it?
Talking about insurance, I myself got my first one ‘cos I’m fed up with the insurance agent who was so persistent for me to get a life insurance from her, and I didn’t regret it and am glad that she persisted that time. I think we all need at least one life insurance just so that when we passed away, our love ones won’t need to worry about funeral money .. ya.. I know.. some people doesn’t like to talk about this. But what about properties, you’ll definitely need insurance cover for that.. just imagine if you are half way paying the property and something happen, if you don’t have insurance cover for it.. non of ur love ones get to inherit that property that you might have been paying for over 20 years!

Ever wonder why we always have to hire foreigners to work in our construction sites? Ya..I always see non-Malaysian in the construction site, is it because of the pay or is it because of the skills? I wonder… The first fly-over in KK involved some Chinese form China to do the construction too, am I save to say that is due to skills? I still wonder. Actually construction workers need a lot of professional skills in handling heavy machinery down to painting. I’m including renovation too. When I was in Hong Kong, I saw the workmanship of the renovation in my sis’ house, and it was awesome, they go down to detail. I can see straight lines of paint in between the wall and ceiling, instead of a blurry line or a not so straight one over here. I saw workers hanging on the wall to put up tiles in one of the building next to ours in Shen Zhen, and that worker is a lady! I don’t see it here. As for constructing a high raised (about 20 floors) building, they can finished and open it in a year time. I wonder if we have that many skillful workers here.
I’m not sure how you can get qualify as a skilled construction workers though. There is this site that offer training and get you certified by 2010 in the related field, give you details of safety and also employment training. It is both useful for employer and whoever interested in getting certified in construction industry. How I wish we have such a site in Malaysia too.
Now I can safe suppose that once you’ve got the right skills, your pay will then be increase according to that, am I right?

“Mommy…! Is that you? What are you doing? Are you doing your “page”?”
Calvin asked when he heard noise and maybe saw the light shine through from the room next door when he is suppose to be sleeping last nite. Ya.. he caught me doing that, ‘cos I told him I’ll be back to watch over him and will be in bed pretty soon together with him, just so that he went to sleep feeling mommy is around. But somehow this little boy of mine isn’t falling asleep yet at 10 ish.. ya.. he hasn’t sleep yet.. and he needs to go to school the next day and I was thinking that I can start my scrapbooking already.
Oh well.. I guess I’ll have to stay there in the room with him till he is asleep.
Yupe.. I always do that, wait till the boys are sleeping then start my scrapbooking thing in the kitchen table. Sometimes during the weekend, I just can’t wait anymore and I got all my things out, hoping that they are busy playing. But they always ended up in the kitchen table or the outside table beside me, poking this and that, going through my stuff in the box, asking about this and that, got excited in seeing themselves in my album and Calvin being demanding that I do those photos with him inside.
So last nite I thought to myself, I hope Calvin will be just like mommy who like scrapbooking, who loves arts and be creative in his life.