I’m already been thinking about my retirement plan although I’m not yet 40. Well, an early plan is better than a no plan scheme ‘cos retire early is really my hope. That means I’ll need to be financially free, i.e. no dept and can support myself when I’m not on a daily job. I don’t rule out part-time or working on my own.. but to really retire, I would think of no need to work but just to enjoy life, it doesn’t matter if I have to work out my budget or to cut down on buying things so that I don’t need to work and still can survive, with a house to stay in, with a hobby to cling onto, with love ones that care for me (not hoping financially though), and of course with my children or friends that I can go out with.

Retirement plan in financial term might not be a problem for most people, but the caring part might be. As we grow older, we might be facing with mobility problem, health problem and of course financial crisis will come along if we fall sick or need extra care. A care home might be a good option then. A place whereby you have the right kind of people taking care of you, once in awhile check up on you, giving you advice on your daily life, giving you suggestion on dealing with things and even providing a space for you to connect with others that are in the same situation with you. As we all know, being old also means being lonely sometimes.. so care do needed. Our love ones might be busy away with their daily routine and sometime might neglect us.. so it would be good to know of some place that you can connect to at that time. Bettercaring is one site that provide all these professional assistance and it would be good if we can have something like this in Malaysia.

I hope my retirement is a joyful one and I will still be doing my scrapbooking..

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Yupe, got back and started to work. Got to send the two boys to school, surprisingly today, they didn’t cry, no show of separation anxiety.. probably later.. this mother is nuts, who in the world would hope that their kids will cry on first day at school? But.. hey, that show how much they miss their mommy ma.. anyway, it is also a good thing, it shows that they know how to control their emotion..

About the photos.. I guess I won’t be able to show any photo from now on till Chinese New Year, cos that is when hubby is getting home and that is when he can bring back the camera that I left in China.. [double :(( from me.. ]
Yes, that is really the dumbest thing that I did, how could I have forgotten my camera!! All the photos are there.. all those that I wanted to use in my scrapbook, for my Christmas pages, my Disney pages, my travel pages, my daily pages.. OMG!! I HAVE FORGOTTEN MY CAMERA! Yes, those were the first things that I thought of when I discovered that the camera is not in my bag. It get worst when hubby called saying that he can’t find the camera at home, which means.. OH NO!!! I can’t even scrap them? I haven’t even develop them! I can’t show to my friends? What if people use my photos to do silly thing? what if…?
I’m ok in loosing the camera, I can buy a new one, but the photos?!? Loosing them is like loosing some of my memory.. those one in a million photo shot that I’ve got, those never gonna have it again moment?
Then when I call hubby again, he said he found it in his wind breaker.. buoy am I glad, but I was mad with him, cos that really given me some head-ache and heart-ache.
Fui, u better think of something to compensate those cells that died in me..

Just got back from Hong Kong Disneyland. Yupe, been there, done that and loved it. Hoping to go back again someday after they have new “land” being built up.
Thought we’ve been there, but we didn’t spend counting down there, instead we are back in China and me and hubby didn’t really do our count down. The boys are flat and need to put them to bed soonest when we arrived, and I had my late nite shower after that, can u imagine, whole day in the same clothes without shower.. buoy.. that was a nicest shower I ever had. Oh and the boys.. well.. Cal can sleep standing in the MTR, that’s how tired he got after the whole day visiting the zebra, darzan, elephants, hippo, Mickey, Donald, Santa, and oh the parade and snow.
Sorry.. no photos for now, will do that once I have them. At the mean time, it is bed time for me.. I’ll get panda eyes in the morning, that is definite.

Yay!! Ever heard of Smorty? Ever heard of get paid for blogging ? I suppose most of us are familiar with blog advertising or advertise on blogs, I didn’t know about posting also can earn money till I saw it in my friend’s blog and thought to myself.. hmm.. what is this? Smorty.. then I got an update from her telling me that I can actually earn by posting. So here I am. Well, it will also depends on my traffic, the popularity of the blog. Smorty is actually one that connect advertisers with bloggers and you can write about your opinion and post them on your blog according to assignment. This is actually one way in helping bloggers to get to the right information that they needed daily.
Ya, I suppose you can blog for money while you are sharing your stories with your fellow bloggers or friends that choose to read on your blog. No harm in trying and who knows one of your posting is a helping tips for someone else that doesn’t seems to know about it. Smorty actually give you a choice on things that you wanted to write about, or familiar with instead of just putting an advertisement there which need users to click on them. I haven’t came across any other “get paid for blogging” services yet, and Smorty is the first and I think I’m hooked.

Took the nite HK train then transfer by bus to the China border, it took us 1.5 hours from HK including the train and bus ride, immigration and taxi ride. Not many people at nite, thus it took us faster to get through the immigration and got ourself a taxi.
Before that nite, we went to join in the BBQ fun in the fire department which is being organised for family members. The boys had great fun there seeing the real fire engine up close and sure enough taken lots of photos. The boys love it.
Last nite was a family take-out day which we order Japanese food, but that is strickly for adults and as for kids, we got them spegetti, chicken wings and sausages, and lots of toys.
It is not a public holiday yesterday in China, they don’t celebrate Christmas over here.. so hubby still had to work, today as well.
Christmas over here is more to the advantage of business people, Christmas theme but not knowing the true meaning of the birth of Christ.

well.. today is the 1st day of staying home with the boys… frustrating and nerve cracking as Cal always do things purposely opposite my request.. not easy to be a stay home mom.. I miss my normal working day routine… but enjoying some me and my boys time as well.. despite the nerve cracking part.

Touched down after a trip full of anticipation. Kids’ timing on food and sleep was just nice, Mer slept while Cal having his lunch on board, then mine came in and Mer woke up for his lunch. Thank God that they feel fine all through the trip, no air-sick and stomach ached.
We straight went for a walk around town after getting all our things settle. Went for a walk in the “Star Avenue” seeing all the nice decoration for Christmas in town, went for a boat ride to Central.
Cal is still excited about getting his own Octopus card (for the subway train), so whenever he saw a gate with the octopus sign, he’ll run to get and get access. My little boy is growing up..
As for Mer, he got so tired that he slept through the walk on the Star Avenue, guess he is not up to being a star yet.
Well.. this might be my last chance to blog while I’m still in Hong Kong.. pity that I didn’t bring my digita camera cable over.. maybe will load them afterwards when I got home.

Sad and not sad.. mix feelings as I’ll be away for a week to be with my family over the festive season and might not be able to access to my blog, and definitely can’t do my scrapbook during those time. Happy is I’ll be spending time with my kids and hubby and we’ll be going to Disneyland!! yay!! sure gonna post up lots of photos here later.. but first of all, I’ll need to take nice pictures. And so gonna use them for scrapbooking. I’m actually reserving my November and December kit to do with all those unseen photos.

Another happy news for me is to see my card posted in Leah’s site. Though the card is an alteration from Paperwishes, but hey, I got the idea of dry embossing the snowman and star 😉

Merry Christmas and an early Happy new year in case I can’t blog…