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		<title>Things that make me go stir crazy</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Apr 2012 14:11:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Motherhood.
Writing.
Work.
Spouse.
People.
Idiots.
Sometimes, I feel like throwing in the blardy effing towel, tell every single idiot in this world to blardy eff off, pack up and leave. 
And then I just plod on. Suffering. Stressing. Wishing I&#8217;m dead.
SIGH.
I am now the sole breadwinner of the family. (Who says breadwinner anymore? ) oh heck, whatever it is, I [...]]]></description>
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<p>Writing.</p>
<p>Work.</p>
<p>Spouse.</p>
<p>People.</p>
<p>Idiots.</p>
<p>Sometimes, I feel like throwing in the blardy effing towel, tell every single idiot in this world to blardy eff off, pack up and leave. </p>
<p>And then I just plod on. Suffering. Stressing. Wishing I&#8217;m dead.</p>
<p>SIGH.</p>
<p>I am now the sole breadwinner of the family. (Who says breadwinner anymore? ) oh heck, whatever it is, I am the one with the sole steady income right now while my husband is still searching for a job.</p>
<p>AND </p>
<p>I am still the main one to take care of the kids after work.</p>
<p>I am still the one to make sure their school bags are packed, their tumblers washed and filled, etc,etc.</p>
<p>I am still the one to make sure laundry is in the wash.</p>
<p>I am still the one to put my kids to bed and sit with them till they fall asleep.</p>
<p>I am still the one to make sure they eat, to make sure they bathe, change, brush teeth,etc,etc.</p>
<p>I am still the one to do the part time work at night as a freelance writer and ghostwriter to some people. Till 2am every night.</p>
<p>I am still the one to think of ways for more income and took up a webmaster course so we could also offer web design to some of our clients.</p>
<p>And I. Am. Tired.</p>
<p>Sick and tired.</p>
<p>I feel so shackled to this whole draggy sucky life.</p>
<p>I know I am a mother of two so I should not be whining but counting my blessings, bla,bla,bla&#8230;well, I don&#8217;t donkey hairy balls&#8217; care what you think.<br />
This is my blog so I can whine, grunt, grumble, mumble, bitch all I want. You don&#8217;t like it, get lost.</p>
<p>A few days ago, another mother was complaining about the unfairness of how her husband gets to go off to some cycling event for hours while she don&#8217;t even get to go off anywhere for 10 minutes, much less hours! </p>
<p>Yes, life sucks hairy donkey balls. It sucks so bad, it never is fair. If life is fair, women would not be the ones solely responsible for a child since inception while the father is merely the sperm donor. And all that crap about the sperm donor supporting the whole family is bullshit. Many families are now double income families. So if the wife also brings home the bacon, why is it that she gets to do everything else at home too? </p>
<p>Like in my case. I go to work, I have an income to support the family. I pay the bills. And still, I have to do every thing that a homemaker has to do. </p>
<p>Or that woman whose husband went off cycling for 7 hours. She&#8217;s an entrepreneur and she runs a pretty successful business and her income is higher than her husband&#8217;s BUT this means she&#8217;s always busy AND yes, she also still has to do all the housework and child care. The husband? He gets to come back, relax, wait for dinner to be served, watch football and yes, go cycling for hours if he feels like it. </p>
<p>See? Life is NEVER fair to a woman. NEVER.</p>
<p>Sometimes I wonder what&#8217;s the point of all this. We work ourselves to the bone caring for the family, earning a decent income, and in the end, our kids may decide to dump us at the old folks home and we just die a lonely death amongst other abandoned old folks.</p>
<p>Seriously. </p>
<p>What is the point?</p>
<p></p>
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		<title>Oh my poor, poor cobwebby blog</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 23 Feb 2012 16:02:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Foong</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I have not touched this blog for so long, I swear it&#8217;s got cobwebs everywhere&#8230;.
See&#8230;

Oh well, no point crying over cobwebs. Anyways, things have changed, I have moved on to other pursuits and yes, life still goes on. What am I doing now? Perhaps this explains everything&#8230;

Lolz&#8230;I created that collage when I was bored shitless [...]]]></description>
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<p><a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/24UyMGrg9dDvx9oYRVViMmvZALM/0/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/24UyMGrg9dDvx9oYRVViMmvZALM/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a><br/>
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<p>See&#8230;</p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://foongsite.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/cobweb-3-770364.jpg"><img class="size-medium wp-image-1732 aligncenter" title="cobweb-3-770364" src="http://foongsite.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/cobweb-3-770364-300x225.jpg" alt="cobweb 3 770364 300x225 Oh my poor, poor cobwebby blog " width="300" height="225" /></a></p>
<p>Oh well, no point crying over cobwebs. Anyways, things have changed, I have moved on to other pursuits and yes, life still goes on. What am I doing now? Perhaps this explains everything&#8230;</p>
<p><a href="http://foongsite.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/photo.jpg"><img class="size-full wp-image-1733 alignnone" title="Writers" src="http://foongsite.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/photo.jpg" alt="photo Oh my poor, poor cobwebby blog " width="640" height="467" /></a></p>
<p>Lolz&#8230;I created that collage when I was bored shitless yesterday and all of it is true.</p>
<p>Sigh.</p>
<p>I wanted back in the writing world so I am back.</p>
<p>It&#8217;s not all hunky dory, happily ever after though. Still. At least I get paid every month. It pays the bills and feed the family. Well, sort of, since my current job doesn&#8217;t pay me as high as my previous writing job.</p>
<p>SIGH.</p>
<p>Oh well. I believe there is a purpose to everything and perhaps I am being made to eat humble pie for a reason.</p>
<p>Anyways, I am back to my office hour job and I am back to my sarky, snarky self. YAY!!!</p>
<p>&nbsp;</p>
<p>&nbsp;</p>
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		<title>Yeah, yeah, Happy New Year and all that crap…</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Jan 2012 09:45:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Foong</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Another year has ended and another year has started. It is getting harder for me to even remember this year, I am turning 30? 40? 50? Seriously. After 30, I somehow stopped counting and for the life of me, I can&#8217;t really remember my age most of the time. Really. I swear upon my mother&#8217;s [...]]]></description>
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<p><a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/I24SE4z69dg1OBBDGt32_BhINeE/0/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/I24SE4z69dg1OBBDGt32_BhINeE/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a><br/>
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<p>I mean each time someone mentions age, I&#8217;d have to think of my year of birth (which I will NOT tell you) and then calculate how old I am on that particular year. Strange I know. But I am sure a lot of others, women and men alike, are just like me. They probably avoid mentioning age after a certain age. Maybe after 40 or for some, like me, after 30.</p>
<p>WTF. I am in my 30s already!!!!</p>
<p><a href="http://foongsite.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/Birthday-age-is-number-PG34.jpg"><img class="size-full wp-image-1728 alignnone" title="Birthday age is number PG34" src="http://foongsite.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/Birthday-age-is-number-PG34.jpg" alt="Birthday age is number PG34 Yeah, yeah, Happy New Year and all that crap..." width="400" height="373" /></a></p>
<p>Shit. How could time pass me by without me realizing it? I still have dreams unfulfilled, things incomplete, life on hold, etc, etc, etc&#8230;</p>
<p>Oh well.</p>
<p>I shall have to plod along as usual and get on with it to&#8230;</p>
<p>grab my dreams, maybe?</p>
<p>complete the things I am supposed to do but did not do yet?</p>
<p>travel round the world like I&#8217;ve always wanted?</p>
<p>fulfill my wanderlust spirit?</p>
<p>Whatever.</p>
<p>And this is yet another year where I get to add 1 to my age. Oh YAY. See how delirious with joy I am at such a prospect?</p>
<p>So, this year 2012, the Mayans have predicted that the world&#8217;s gonna end by Dec 21.</p>
<p><a href="http://foongsite.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/IceAge2Wallpaper800.jpg"><img class="size-full wp-image-1727 alignnone" title="really?" src="http://foongsite.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/IceAge2Wallpaper800.jpg" alt="IceAge2Wallpaper800 Yeah, yeah, Happy New Year and all that crap..." width="800" height="600" /></a></p>
<p>Hands up those who are panicking like the squirrel above?</p>
<p>My friend, 5xmom (yeah, yeah, the famous blogger who is now working for the Penang chief minister) used to say why worry when we can&#8217;t stop the inevitable.</p>
<p>She&#8217;s right. Why worry eh?</p>
<p>I&#8217;m more worried about the wrinkles that are surfacing, the extra inches that refused to budge and the state of my underwear since I don&#8217;t want to be found dead wearing a worn, torn, ratty, granny underwear.</p>
<p>Just sayin&#8217;. ;)</p>
<p>But then if the world were to end, then nobody would be around to check what underwear I am wearing. Or that my bra is equally old, worn and ratty and *gasp* does not match the ratty underwear at all.</p>
<p>So, just in case.</p>
<p>I better add in to my list of things to do (and buy) to get a new wardrobe of nice, pretty lingerie sets. I mean, nobody wants to die wearing old, worn ugly lingerie right? It&#8217;s just SO pathetic.</p>
<p>Oh yeah. As for the new year and new resolutions and whatnots.</p>
<p>No.</p>
<p>No I am not gonna pledge new resolutions.</p>
<p>2012, 2011, 20whatever is just a number. Like our age. So, it does not effing matter.</p>
<p>So, happy whatever. And while everyone is going back to work tomorrow after a long weekend, I am not working. Bwahaahahahahaha&#8230;</p>
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		<title>An anniversary, another major decision and life goes on</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Dec 2011 18:59:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s been a full year since we strike out on our own to run our own bridal shop business. There has been good times, there has been bad times, and definitely, there has been loads of new experiences.
However, the stress, pressure and total change in careers took a toll on us. My husband, who&#8217;s a [...]]]></description>
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<p><a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/QtWqW6gI1fZ1Lc7mjeyd8SrMrBQ/0/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/QtWqW6gI1fZ1Lc7mjeyd8SrMrBQ/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a><br/>
<a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/QtWqW6gI1fZ1Lc7mjeyd8SrMrBQ/1/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/QtWqW6gI1fZ1Lc7mjeyd8SrMrBQ/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a></p><p>It&#8217;s been a full year since we strike out on our own to run our own <a title="Sors Bridal" href="http://sorsbridalstudio.com">bridal shop business</a>. There has been good times, there has been bad times, and definitely, there has been loads of new experiences.</p>
<p>However, the stress, pressure and total change in careers took a toll on us. My husband, who&#8217;s a free spirit and could not be confined to a desk for long, has reached the end of his tether. I have also reached the end of my barely controlled temper. The business has taken over our lives, our time, our peace and even our sanity.</p>
<p>To run a business is never easy. But to run a business where I was forced to pick up skills I have no interest in, to practice things I don&#8217;t like and to continue doing it endlessly is a complete waste of my time and my life. There is a limit to everything and this is it.</p>
<p>So, this time, I am really quitting. For good.</p>
<p>The late Steve Jobs&#8217; words could not ring even more true.</p>
<blockquote>
<div>You&#8217;ve got to find what you love. And that is as true for your work as it is for your lovers. Your work is going to fill a large part of your life, and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. And the only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven&#8217;t found it yet, keep looking. Don&#8217;t settle. As with all matters of the heart, you&#8217;ll know when you find it. And, like any great relationship, it just gets better and better as the years roll on. So keep looking until you find it. Don&#8217;t settle.</div>
</blockquote>
<div>So, I am ditching doing things I hate for a living. Perhaps it is because I do not like what I am doing, thats why I am not excelling in it. Just imagine, I hated makeup and yet, I had to learn to be a makeup artist. Yes, I took a course, I learnt the steps and I am even able to do professional makeup now. But it&#8217;s not exceptional. It&#8217;s not something I absolutely love. It&#8217;s just an obligation. A duty.</div>
<div><a href="http://foongsite.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/followyourdreams.jpg"><img class="alignleft size-full wp-image-1723" title="followyourdreams" src="http://foongsite.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/followyourdreams.jpg" alt="followyourdreams An anniversary, another major decision and life goes on" width="400" height="301" /></a></div>
<div>Then these words further spur me on to make this decision:</div>
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<blockquote>
<div>Your time is limited, so don&#8217;t waste it living someone else&#8217;s life. Don&#8217;t be trapped by dogma &#8211; which is living with the results of other people&#8217;s thinking. Don&#8217;t let the noise of others&#8217; opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.</div>
</blockquote>
<div>Yes, we have been living some one else&#8217;s life for the past year. It took us this one year of absolute unhappiness, stress and countless quarrels to realise that we had forgotten to follow our heart and intuition.</div>
<div>So, we are selling our business now. We have finally gathered enough courage to quit even though it is earning us good income. What is the point of good income if it means unhappiness, extreme stress and most of all, regrets that we did not follow our hearts and dreams?</div>
<div>Some people would say that we are foolish to give up the opportunity to become exceedingly rich. Well, all I can say is what is the point of money if it could mean our marriage failing, our family falling apart, our health failing and our peace of mind gone?</div>
<div>So, no, money can&#8217;t buy everything and money is not everything. Success is relative. It is not about how much money we earn. It is not about how big a business we manage to run and profit from.</div>
<div><a href="http://foongsite.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/92-Follow-Your-Dreams.jpg"><img class="alignleft size-full wp-image-1724" title="92-Follow Your Dreams" src="http://foongsite.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/92-Follow-Your-Dreams.jpg" alt="92 Follow Your Dreams An anniversary, another major decision and life goes on" width="750" height="600" /></a></div>
<div>Success to me is about listening to my heart and reaching for my dreams. Success is about realising my dreams and doing what I love best. Ever since I was 10 years old, I wanted to be a writer. And true enough, I did end up as a writer for the past decade or so. Of course, after so many years in it, I became bored. I craved something different, that&#8217;s why I agreed to leave and help out in the business.</div>
<div>Big. Effing. Mistake.</div>
<div>After another huge cold war type of &#8216;quarrel&#8217;, we decided that it is just not worth it. Yes, busybodies will say we gave up too easily, that we are failures, that we are foolish but heck, it IS our life and how we want to live it is our business.</div>
<div>It is our 8th anniversary today and we want at least another 40 years (if either of us don&#8217;t drop dead in between). So, yeah, for our sanity, our marriage, our family, we are selling the business and going back to work as mere employees.</div>
<div>At the very least, we learnt a lesson.</div>
<div>That we should always do what we love and not what we thought could make us more money.</div>
<div>That we can never take our jobs that we love for granted.</div>
<div>And that not everyone are meant to be business owners.</div>
<div>Most important of all, you can&#8217;t change what your heart and intuition tells you what your calling in life is.</div>
<div>I am born a writer. I will always be a writer. I thrive being a writer. So, a writer I shall be. I will also take this lesson to buck up and finish my novel draft. Who knows? I may finally achieve my lifelong dream of becoming a bestselling author!</div>
<div>So, here&#8217;s to our journey into territory well-known and well-loved. It is time that we go back to what we love doing and even if it means we will be salaried employees till we retire, so be it.</div>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Nov 2011 16:00:59 +0000</pubDate>
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<p>Today is Black Friday and there&#8217;s this extra special deal that you should grab RIGHT NOW!!! What deal?</p>
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<p>It says hosting is for $4.95 only each month but today, the price has been slashed! It is ONLY $2.95!!! Yep, that&#8217;s barely $3 and you can host your own domain.</p>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Nov 2011 18:19:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Sometimes I feel that we learn more through our children rather than they learn from us. Here are the lessons I&#8217;ve learnt ever since I had my two lil rascals:
1. Never, ever swear in front of children and no, not because they will repeat it in front of you but because they will DEFINITELY repeat [...]]]></description>
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<p><a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/BNQ78AMHdxkkVzy4uCTXlOfaLSY/0/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/BNQ78AMHdxkkVzy4uCTXlOfaLSY/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a><br/>
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<p>1. Never, ever swear in front of children and no, not because they will repeat it in front of you but because they will DEFINITELY repeat it in front of your bosses/ customers/ relatives and not in a cute kinda way but in a &#8216;ohmygodIwillwashyourmouthoutwithsoap&#8217; kinda way.</p>
<p>2. Never buy too many toys for them and no, not because this will spoil them rotten but because they will play with those darn effing toys and leave it strewn all over the house so that you will either trip and break your neck, poke a hole in your foot after stepping into one too many or spend hours trying to clean up all the mess.</p>
<p>3. Do not threaten or even try to buy your kid into doing something and no, not because this is the wrong way to bring up a kid but because the said kid will threaten you right back or worse, pretend to be bought and once he get what he wants, he promptly forgets his side of the bargain.</p>
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<p>4. Do not try to outsmart a kid and no, you may think you are older and wiser but trust me, your decades-old brains and physique is no match to a fresh, full of ideas and energetic five-year-old (or any kid of young age).</p>
<p>5.Do not try to outrun your kid (unless you are an annual marathon champion) because it is time that you accept that you will never ever have the energy and stamina that your kid has so you will definitely be left huffing, puffing and too outofbreath to send your kid to his room.</p>
<p>6. Do not spank your kid and no, not because it is wrong to resort to physical punishment but because no caning or spanking or any kinda physical punishment will get through to a kid who will probably only challenge you back or take off running which will lead to situation number 5.</p>
<p>7. Do not compare your children against each other and no, not because it will create sibling rivalry but because they will compare you with some other parent or worse, they will compare you with your worst enemy whoever that may be.</p>
<p>8. Do not dream of having a good night&#8217;s sleep ever again because from baby to toddler to even as a teenager, your kid will forever make you stay up late into the night either due to crying (when baby/toddler) or due to disappearance with some questionable characters (when a teenager).</p>
<p>9. Do not dream of having your own privacy at least for the next 10 to 13 years because your kid will haunt you, stick to you, pester you, make darn sure they are into every aspect of your life from your job to your time in the bathroom until they become a teenager and prefer not to be seen with you.</p>
<p>10. Do not dream of saving up for anything at all, not even that expensive Coach handbag you&#8217;ve been eyeing simply because your kids will bleed you dry and then some.</p>
<p>11. The nine-months pregnancy and even the hours of labor is NOTHING compared to the years, years and years of suffering you had to go through to bring them up.</p>
<p>12. You are now responsible for everything that happened to your kid or that your kid did and there is no escape. Ever.</p>
<p>What other lessons have <strong><em>you</em></strong> learned from motherhood?</p>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Nov 2011 10:06:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Foong</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Not that I am highly successful now, mind you.
After my bitching in the last post, I have finally seen the light. Well, sort of. Just so you know, I am no longer suicidal (or were actually suicidal at all). But the stress and pressure of running our own business, taking care of a young household, [...]]]></description>
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<p>After my bitching in the last post, I have finally seen the light. Well, sort of. Just so you know, I am no longer suicidal (or were actually suicidal at all). But the stress and pressure of running our own business, taking care of a young household, doing part-time work, blogging for money and basically doing everything for survival can be rather daunting. In fact, I felt like I was encased in a high tension bubble that felt like bursting any second. The pressure was so high I just had to let off steam and that leads to my previous insane post.</p>
<p>Now that the bubble has sorta deflated without bursting, I suddenly realised that if we had not undergone all these pressure, all these stress, all these tests, how are we to survive when times are really bad? So, it is true what they say. It is when you fail that you can really succeed. For if you don&#8217;t fail, how are you going to learn from your failure to improve and then head on to success? Without failure, we would not have known how to fight for success. Without failure, we would not have known whether we are on the right path or the wrong path. Without failure, we would not have grown and matured and become wiser. Without failure, we would not have learnt to make better decisions, to come up with creative ideas, to think out of the box.</p>
<p>After going through our financials (which are not looking all the great) and our options, we found a way to improve our chances. We think out of the box and come up with new ways to improve our business. So, yes, perhaps we need to fall, to fail, to face so much adversity so that we could get out of the rut we have fallen in and start climbing again. Not that we were complacent all these months, mind you. We were fighting hard to keep the business alive but we were not doing anything different.</p>
<p>This month marks the first anniversary of starting our own <a title="Sors Bridal" href="http://sorsbridalstudio.com">bridal photography studio</a> business. While we are not wildly successful or earning millions, we are getting by. We are paying the bills (well, most of it anyway). We are not starving and importantly, we still have each other. Perhaps it is time we take this business to a higher level of success. We do not aim to become millionaires but at the very least, we want to be able to pay all our bills, all our debts, everything and still have some leftover for retirement. That&#8217;s all we ask for.</p>
<p>So, wish me luck and perhaps next, I will share with you our formula for success.</p>
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		<title>My suicide notes</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Nov 2011 08:20:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Foong</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[If I were to kill myself today, or tomorrow, or the day after&#8230;this is probably what I&#8217;d write in my suicide notes (of course, I would write more than one note! Who only writes ONE miserable note if they plan to die? It&#8217;s preposterous!):
Note Number One:
To my dearest firstborn:
Do not blame yourself that your weird, [...]]]></description>
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<p><a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/FAEOoFS1GpgGkkez2Aouy4H3nbE/0/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/FAEOoFS1GpgGkkez2Aouy4H3nbE/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a><br/>
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<p>Note Number One:</p>
<p><em>To my dearest firstborn:</em></p>
<p><em>Do not blame yourself that your weird, cooky mother decides to off herself. Although I scream at you, get angry at you &amp;  punish you at times, this only means I love you and all that scolding was for your own good. Having a child with ADHD and dyslexia may be a challenge but it&#8217;s not what pushed me over the edge. There are bigger things in life than you. Trust me. You may think the whole world revolved around you but you will someday realise that it DOESN&#8217;T! Not everything that happens is because of you or what you did. You are just a child, nothing you did could have damaged anything or anyone else&#8217;s spirit to the point of them wanting to shoot themselves in their heads or jump off the nearest high building.</em></p>
<p><em>You are a wonderful, inquisitive and highly intelligent child. My only hope for you is that you do well in whatever line you choose in future and perhaps, do like what Steve Jobs did, put a &#8216;ding in the universe&#8217;. It doesn&#8217;t matter if you don&#8217;t get 10 As in whatever stupid public examination. It doesn&#8217;t matter if you finished last in your class. What matters is when you are out in the real world, you succeed in whatever line you choose. I am certain that you are able to do that if you put your mind and determination to it. </em></p>
<p><em>Do take good care of your little sister for me. I do so dearly love you both. Goodbye!</em></p>
<p><em>Your dead mother</em></p>
<p>Note number two:</p>
<p><em>To my dearest baby girl,</em></p>
<p><em>My baby girl, I do hope you too do not blame yourself for what your crazy mother did. You are the light of my life and your bubbly laughter never failed to bring happiness into my life. However, there are some things in life that is beyond my control so no matter how much joy I have whenever I see you, it isn&#8217;t enough. I am slowly sinking into an abyss of depression. It is not your fault at all.</em></p>
<p><em>I can see that you are going to be a bright and intelligent girl. Do pursue your dreams and never let it out of your sight. Do not let others confuse you or turn you away from achieving your dreams. You can be whatever you want to be as long as you pursue it relentlessly. </em></p>
<p><em>Do take good care of your brother as he is all you have now. He may be a big bully sometimes, but he loves you dearly too and dotes on you. I do so love you two dearly. Goodbye!</em></p>
<p><em>Your dead mother</em></p>
<p>Note number three:</p>
<p><em>To my hubby, </em></p>
<p><em>We&#8217;ve been married for so many years, sometimes I lost count of how long we&#8217;ve been together. After so many years together, I&#8217;d thought you&#8217;d know how I feel about most things but sadly that&#8217;s not the case. I am slowly sinking into depression and yet instead of helping me, you push me away. I know running this business together may not be a good idea as we argued and quarreled a lot over minor things in the business. </em></p>
<p><em>I do still love you but I feel as if you are so far away from me. I feel as if we had grown apart in these past months. I don&#8217;t know what to do to mend it. I tried talking but you clam up a lot. I tried asking you, again you clam up. Finally, I got so mad I stopped talking to you and again, you are not bothered. Instead, you decide to stop talking to me too. I am not blaming you for my death. Nobody is responsible except myself. I just want you to know why I feel what I felt and why I need to take such a drastic step. Here&#8217;s a list of what I am feeling right now:</em></p>
<ul>
<li><em>I am tired of being the SOLE parent for the kids &#8211; their wellbeing, their health, everything about them lies heavily on my shoulder with no help from anyone. </em></li>
<li><em>I am tired of being in charge of almost everything in the household </em></li>
<li><em>I am tired of being in charge of almost everything in the business except for the photography and some of the photo editing</em></li>
<li><em>I am tired of being expected to pick up new skills which I have no interest in</em></li>
<li><em>I am tired of being expected to do ALL things for the family, for the business, for you</em></li>
<li><em>I am tired of being expected to do it all quietly with no complains</em></li>
<li><em>I am tired of being worried about our finances day in day out and not being able to tell you for fear of you worrying too</em></li>
<li><em>I am tired of being shouted at, being scolded and worst of all, being ignored and unappreciated day in day out</em></li>
<li><em>I am tired of being expected to take care of the kids, to manage the business AND also do part-time work </em></li>
<li><em>I am tired of going to bed at 2am every night trying to complete all my work including the part-time work</em></li>
<li><em>I am tired</em></li>
<li><em>I am tired</em></li>
<li><em>I AM TIRED OF IT ALL</em></li>
</ul>
<div><em>So, farewell. I just want to rest now. </em></div>
<div><em>Your dead wife</em></div>
<div>Oh well. So, if I do die by my own hands or accidentally, maybe they will see these notes.</div>
<div>*By the way, I am NOT going to kill myself. So, no need to give me Befrienders&#8217; number or whatever hotline number. I am just bitching here. I am just too much of a coward to end my own life. Crazy, meh? After go to hell and the gu mo ong punish me for taking my own life how? Siao ah. There are better ways to get over depression, like go shop till I drop, max out my credit card, go eat at fancy restaurant, etc. Shopping is much less painful and much more fun, no?*</div>
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		<title>Who doesn’t need some side income?</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 13 Aug 2011 09:03:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Foong</dc:creator>
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Almost everyone who&#8217;s anyone doesn&#8217;t mind some side income. So, if you already blog, why the heck not earn some side income from it? Well, that&#8217;s what I thought when I started blogging back in 2008. Then,I blogged a lot. As in almost everyday! My food blog, The Food Site, is updated daily while this [...]]]></description>
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<p>Almost everyone who&#8217;s anyone doesn&#8217;t mind some side income. So, if you already blog, why the heck not earn some side income from it? Well, that&#8217;s what I thought when I started blogging back in 2008. Then,I blogged a lot. As in almost everyday! My food blog, <a title="The Food Site" href="http://thefoodsite.net">The Food Site</a>, is updated daily while this blog also saw lots of regular updates. Over the years, of course, I do get some traffic to this blog but my food blog has the most traffic. Till today, it is still drawing loads of traffic from the search engines. That&#8217;s why, it is now a real great asset for me. I keep getting emails from advertisers interested to place ads in that blog. That&#8217;s not all, I am earning adsense income from it too! Now, if that&#8217;s not a wonderful way to get some side income, I don&#8217;t know what is!</p>
<p>What about this blog? Well, this is actually my ranting blog so I didn&#8217;t actually use it to earn money online&#8230;still, I do add some earn money online links here, some affiliate links here, adsense and a few ads. So far, no requests from advertisers to place ads here. This may be because this site is not focused on any topic. It has several topics and if you were to ask me to place it in a specific category, I&#8217;d be lost! It&#8217;s what I would call a mixed interest blog with a wide range of topics. Still, sometimes, I do earn a few dollars here or there from this blog.</p>
<p>Other than this two blogs, I have other earn money online blogs that are raking in more than this blog. Yep, those are set up purely to earn me some side income. How are those performing? Quite good but not as good as I wanted to. Not putting in enough time in those blogs (like I did for my food blog), those blogs are merely scraping by only. Of course I could have earned more from those blogs but to do this, I need time and lots of effort to do it. There are steps to it and if I had followed all those steps (as taught by these two <a title="TKA" href="http://thekeywordacademy.com/coaching/502.html">keyword gurus</a>, I&#8217;d probably be earning thousands each month now.</p>
<p>Sigh.</p>
<p>If only I am not so effing lazy.</p>
<p>And short of time.</p>
<p>And a master of procrastination.</p>
<p>Oh well.</p>
<p>I made resolve after resolve to really do the work needed (and then I&#8217;d be free to really rake in the money everyday!) but somehow something would turn up.</p>
<p>Things like my kids falling sick, me falling sick, urgent work to be completed at my <a title="Sors Bridal" href="http://sorsbridalstudio.com">studio</a>, a sudden urge NOT to do anything&#8230;excuses and disruptions a plenty! A case in point, it took me two hours to complete this post because every 10 minutes or so, my daughter will want a glass of water, some snacks, need to go to the toilet, need to change her nappy, wants to play, wants a snuggle&#8230;*sigh* that&#8217;s the thing with toddlers, they still don&#8217;t understand the concept of &#8216;wait, mommy is busy&#8217;.</p>
<p>So, I am not gonna resolve to do anything this time. Instead, I will just take one day at a time and do what I can when I can.</p>
<p>GTG right now because demanding, drama queen toddler is complaining of a stomach ache. :)</p>
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s the Hungry Ghost Month where spirits and ghosts roam free. Not a believer? Think it&#8217;s all hogwash and make-believe? Well then, maybe you need to do all these below to experience the supernatural yourself. Beware though, it may cause you more harm than good. Consider yourself warned!
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<p><a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/1npvOeYto3o9M6qF4aJHHofGP5Q/0/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/1npvOeYto3o9M6qF4aJHHofGP5Q/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a><br/>
<a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/1npvOeYto3o9M6qF4aJHHofGP5Q/1/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/1npvOeYto3o9M6qF4aJHHofGP5Q/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a></p><p>It&#8217;s the Hungry Ghost Month where spirits and ghosts roam free. Not a believer? Think it&#8217;s all hogwash and make-believe? Well then, maybe you need to do all these below to experience the supernatural yourself. Beware though, it may cause you more harm than good. Consider yourself warned!</p>
<p><center></center>*This blogger will not be held liable if you were haunted or possessed for the rest of your life for doing any of these things below*</p>
<p><strong>1.Stomp, step and walk all over the roadside offerings for the hungry ghost</strong></p>
<p>All the ashes of the burnt hell money and the food that many Taoists place on the roadside are offerings for the wandering spirits. And this means these ashes and food are usually surrounded by wandering, hungry ghosts. Now, you want to be haunted, just stomp on the ashes and kick the offerings.</p>
<p>Don&#8217;t believe? I know of a fella who accidentally stepped on some of the ashes. He didn&#8217;t know that he offended several spirits. The spirits followed him home and even possessed him. He began acting real weird and that&#8217;s not all, he could even turn his head all around without moving his body. This freaked his wife out and she immediately tried to get help.</p>
<p>She found a &#8216;ghostbuster&#8217; who managed to catch all the spirits who possessed him. The ghostbuster told her that her husband was lucky that they had immediately sought help otherwise the spirits may have caused him to be killed!</p>
<p><strong>2. Go stay in a vacant building that is known as haunted and pee on the walls</strong></p>
<p>Some vacant buildings have a reputation of being haunted and this is often true. Some are occupied by hundreds of spirits and most of these spirits are dangerous.</p>
<p>There is one well known haunted building in Relau here. One day this guy happen to go through the building as a short cut. He also needed to pee really bad. So, without thinking, he went to the corner of the vacant building and relieved himself. Of course, this angered the spirits there. The next day, when he rode his bike pass that area, he suddenly lost control and crashed. Fortunately, he was not seriously injured but that&#8217;s not the last of it. When he got home, he suddenly fell very ill with high fever and chills. It lasted for a week and no medication seems to work. His mother, as a last resort, went to seek help at a temple and ask the deities what&#8217;s wrong with her son. She was told that he had offended several malicious spirits and they now wanted him dead. The same ghostbuster as above went to &#8216;talk&#8217; to the spirits. After the negotiation (more like threats by the ghostbuster), the spirits agreed to let him go.</p>
<p><strong>3. Wear red and walk around where offerings are being made after 7pm</strong></p>
<p>While the spirits are not afraid of sunlight, they are more active and powerful after dusk. They also hate red so they are prone to attack people wearing red clothes.</p>
<p>My friend wore a red blouse and actually went to a haunted house to look around in the daytime. Needless to say, she was attacked by the spirits in the house as she could actually feel someone push her from her back until she fell. Luckily she was wearing a talisman so they could not possess her. She left in a hurry after muttering some prayers and that&#8217;s the last time she ever wore a red shirt especially during the hungry ghost month.</p>
<p><strong>4.Tell ghost stories, say bad things about them, swear at them after dark during this month</strong></p>
<p>Ghosts and wandering spirits are like us,they feel offended easily and they usually like to gather around when people start talking about them. So if you are telling ghost stories and then you are swearing at them, they will be offended and will want to attack you.</p>
<p>We were on holiday at Cameron Highlands a few years back when my son was still very small. My clothes were crumpled so without an iron, I did the next best thing. I turned on hot water and hang the clothes in the bathroom to steam it with the door closed. So when my godbrother wanted to use the bathroom, he saw the door closed and heard the water running so he thought someone was in there. But then he saw all of us sitting outside so he asked us who&#8217;s in the bathroom. My husband teased him and tried to frighten him by saying there&#8217;s a few of his &#8216;unseen friends&#8217; taking a shower in there.</p>
<p>That night, my son couldn&#8217;t sleep and was very restless. My husband also could not sleep and could feel as if someone was standing next to him staring at him. In the middle of the night, I startled awake and actually saw a shadow standing over our bed! I begin muttering prayers and soon after, the shadow was gone.</p>
<p><strong>5. Place wind chimes at your home, as many as possible and also ring the bell and all sorts of bell-like sound as often as you like especially at night</strong></p>
<p>Somehow, ghosts seem to like the sound of bells, wind chimes and anything with this jingly sounds. So the more bell you ring( the actual bell, not the electronic doorbell!) the more will come.</p>
<p>My friend loves wind chimes. She has so many wind chimes in her home, you can hear it from afar. It was after she started collecting wind chimes a few years back that she started experiencing strange things. She&#8217;d hear someone running back and forth upstairs even though she&#8217;s alone at home. She&#8217;d hear banging sounds, like someone rapping on the walls, in the middle of the night. She also can&#8217;t sleep and was restless. it went on for months until she decided to seek help from a medium and was told that her house is surrounded by spirits because of her wind chimes. She immediately got rid of her collection and the disturbances stopped.</p>
<p><strong>6. Let ferns grow on your walls</strong></p>
<p>Some spirits like to hide inside plants, especially in light wavy plants like ferns.</p>
<p>Outside my children&#8217;s bedroom, there&#8217;s a tiny little crack on the corner of the wall and somehow it started growing ferns. The ferns was so long that it was brushing against the window. I never bothered about it although the waving ferns did give me a scare a few times at night.</p>
<p>Well,my baby girl was having restless nights and crying a lot. But I though she was just being a fussy baby. Until one day, my &#8216;sixth sense&#8217; friend visited me. She could see supernatural things and when she went into the room, she jumped in shock and ran out. She told me that there were three ferocious monsters outside the window. I went to look and only saw the ferns. She then explained that the monsters were hiding in the ferns! (She said monsters because the spirits do not look like humans but like something you&#8217;d see only in movies)</p>
<p>Fortunately, my house has a Lord Buddha to guard it so these monsters could not get in but they were nevertheless disturbing my baby! So, the next day, after getting my ghostbuster friend to get rid of the monsters, we got rid of the ferns. Now I check the walls often to ensure that there are no wild ferns growing there!</p>
<p><strong>7. Pick up amulets and talismans from public places or from unknown strangers</strong></p>
<p>Amulets and talismans are usually used for protection but there are some parties who used these in their dark arts. There are also fake amulets and talismans and spirits often like to hide in these.</p>
<p>My husband used to like collecting talismans wherever he went and then he&#8217;d hang it everywhere at home. There were close to a hundred of it! Then when my son was about 9 months old, he started crying around 11pm until 1am every night. Non-stop. It was like he was in pain. We tried everything, from colic medicine to feeding him. Nothing worked. Then someone told us to seek help from a medium as it could be supernatural related.</p>
<p>We sought help from a several mediums and nothing works! Until we met this &#8216;ghostbuster&#8217; who late became our friend. The problem was solved and it seemed that our whole house was filled with spirits from the talismans my husband took home! This was before we had the Lord Buddha altar at home. We threw away all the talismans and never simply pick it up from unknown sources again.</p>
<p><strong>8. Keep and the eat the food offerings you made for the hungry ghosts or even to Tai Su Yeah (King of Hades)</strong></p>
<p>Many people tend to do this, they&#8217;d offer fruits and kuih and then keep it and eat it later.</p>
<p>The logic is simple, I give up you food and then I take it back. Would you like that? So, you want to anger some spirits, do exactly that!</p>
<p>My ghostbuster friend has exorcised quite a few spirits that had possessed those who ate offerings they took back to eat.</p>
<p><strong>9. Go to the concerts and opera shows held during the hungry ghost month and be rude/spit everywhere/ talk about ghosts and scoff that ghosts exists</strong></p>
<p>These shows are literally meant to entertain the wandering spirits so yeah, there will be plenty of unseen audience. It&#8217;s the best place for you to scare up a possession!</p>
<p>My husband once got it into his head to take photos of one of those opera shows. After two or three shots, his camera jammed and could not shoot anymore! So he stopped and came home. When he checked the camera, it was ok and could function as normal. When he looked at the pictures, it was blur and out of focus. Camera malfunction or something else? Why don&#8217;t you try?</p>
<p><strong>10. Go hiking, pee and defecate wherever you want, spit everywhere also or go to fatal accident scenes and step on the blood </strong></p>
<p>There are often a lot of spirits in the hills and jungles. It&#8217;s their home so if you pee/defecate or spit in their home, they won&#8217;t be pleased. Years ago, a man went hiking and was lost. Nobody could find him for days that dragged on to a week.</p>
<p>Then one of the searchers found his body just a few feet from the trail. It seemed that he had defecated and angered a spirit. The spirit hid the path so he could not get out and hid him so rescuers couldn&#8217;t find him.</p>
<p>As for accident scenes, my husband passed by a horrific accident scene that killed several people a few years ago. Three of the spirits followed him home! We found out from my son because he was restless and crying like when he was disturbed by spirits. Of course the spirits could not enter our home but they stood outside calling to him to help them! I called our ghostbuster friend and they were sent on their way.</p>
<p>She told us that often spirits of accident victims are confused and do not know what to do or where to go so they may just follow a human home in hopes of getting help!</p>
<p>And that concludes my top 10 ways to get in touch wit ghosts and spirits and the sorts. Don&#8217;t believe any of these stories? Then try them out!</p>
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