Around the corner...

Yes! Here it is. Halloween is just around the corner! Or another name for it, Samhain. Samhain is an annual Celtic celebration also known as the "festival of the dead". It is a celebration to celebrate the circle of life, celebrate the elements of life and death, celebrate the beginning and ending of a year. It is believed that the border between this world and the other world become thin on Samhain.

For this years Halloween celebration, I initially planned to go crazy! Dress up as a sexy vampire and go club hopping! First club Zouk KL then a few clubs next. Already had a group of friends willing to go crazy with me and enjoy the night of Halloween. But after a week of consideration, I suddenly felt like I do not want to go through the trouble. Maybe it's because I've been having fever these few days so it made me feel old and lazy. Instead, I remember that my little sister's birthday was coming and she's always wanted a costume party. So currently, Leo and I are planning a Halloween birthday for my little sis!! All her friends will be dressed up in cute little costumes and we'll be decorating the house. We want to make it as scary as possible for Shenz and her friends Ahhh... for all the time, money and trouble we go through for her party, I hope she enjoys it. Plus, one of her best friends are baking a special secret Halloween birthday cake for her. Hmmm... I wonder what it'll be?

Au Pair

Yes, I have done it! I signed up with a program which makes me an Au Pair. What is an Au Pair you ask? An Au Pair is defined as a foreign-national domestic assistant working for, and living as part of, a host family. Typically, Au Pairs take on a share of the family's responsibility for childcare as well as some housework, and receive a small monetary allowance for personal use. This is what they call work and travel. When you register, they ask you a load of questions about childcare. I thought it was suitable for me, as I absolutely love children at the age of 1 to 5 years old and I love to travel. Working as an Au Pair allows me to travel, take children under my care AND earn money! I registered USA, UK, Italy, France, and Japan as my preferred country to work in. They allow you to choose the age of the children you would like to care for and for how long you will be in service to the family. I chose from 2 months to 9 months. Being an Au Pair, the family that hosts you does not treat you like a servant or maid. Instead they treat you like apart of their family. Just that you have to take care of their child.

I just register 2 nights ago and I have already received offers from families which live in Los Angeles, Miami, New York, and Orlando. And that's just from the USA. I have received offers from UK and Italy as well. This is actually going really smoothly as I planned. I'm extremely excited to live with a family in a foreign country. It will expand my knowledge of lifestyles and cultures. The only problem for me is that I'll have to leave my Leo here for a huge amount of time. I'll miss him like crazy. He'll be in my mind all day, everyday. Not just him. I'll miss my family too!! Especially my adorable little sister, Shenz. She makes me smile every single day. One day without her would be torture. Well, I'll just have to make sacrifices to grab onto opportunities. There will never be success without sacrifice. I'm just worried about my future with Leo. I wonder what would happen. I guess we'll see how everything goes. See how fate brings me into the future and how strong our relationship is. I can see a very bright future for Leo and I, but I'm still afraid. I mean... who isn't?!?!

Back to Au Pair families. When Au Pairs stay and care for a family, the family gives the Au Pair an allowance. So far, I've been offered around 1,500 sterling pounds a month. That's like RM7,200 a month!! Doing what I love and getting an allowance as a bonus. I know from the start I would love this job. Getting paid for doing what you love, now THAT'S what I call a job. At least, I would wake up everyday and start work with a huge smile on my face.

Au Pair's are usually aged between 18 and 25 years old. So if you're interested, visit: Easy Au Pair at http://www.easyaupair.com/

Workout in disguise

Tonight we had it all planned. Leo and I were going out for a nice, peaceful and casual dinner. Had a great time eating. We chatted a whole lot mostly, asking each other about their day and wondering how was work. As our table was facing this huge flat screen TV mounted on the restaurant's wall, most of the time we were watching this program called "Riot Chase" or something like that. So while we ate, we watched numerous videos of people starting riots all over the world. Some of it were pretty violent and so not right for dinner time. I do not want to see a woman in a female jail get beaten up by 50 other women when I'm eating. Would you call that appetizing?

So anyway, after the extremely peaceful dinner, we made our way back. Just around 500 more meters to Leo's house, his car broke down. We tried to figure what happened as the car suddenly over heated and we couldn't start it. So I thought, "Hey! It's so near your place. Let's push!". So we started pushing with high spirits and with me controlling the wheel. After half of our journey, we collapsed. Two people with no constant exercise pushing a Honda 500 meters. Now it seemed pretty ridiculous. So in the end, a black car stopped and a malay guy got out of the car and helped us push. His wife and little daughter in the car were giving us encouragement. We did it! All 500 meters of it. I think it was a workout in disguise or maybe just someone, somewhere hinting that we have to work out more. It seems that the family that helped us were staying very near by and were on the way home when they saw us in trouble.

**For now, note to self: remember to buy gift basket for family who helped us push car!!

Thank you helpful citizens of Malaysia. Now looking back, an extremely ray of hope for the possibility of 1Malaysia!

A peek of happiness

Haven't been home for awhile as I've been crazy with work. When I got home a few days ago, I saw this innocent brown envelope with the plastic-covered Pos Laju thingy on it. Like a natural online shopper, I went crazy. Remember the blog shop I mentioned in my past post? The one about MiniBites? Well my item has arrived. I opened the package with care and I was faced with more wrappers. Until I reached bubble wrap! Beneath it was the most adorable thing I have ever seen in my life! As you know, I absolutely love miniature food items. A week ago I ordered a Chocolate Pie Ring. I wore it to Leo's cousin's birthday and I got a huge response. I was the belle of the ball. Everyone was trying to get a glimpse of that pie on my ring. Naturally I embraced being in the spot light.

The genius behind all the handmade crafts is a girl named Esther. We're planning to meet up to get to know each other better. I've been dying to meet her. By the way, she updated her blog shop with a whole new product. Adorable heart-shaped waffle ear studs! There are 3 types which are:-

~Strawberry Yoghurt Waffle Studs, which are heart-shaped waffles covered in vanilla yoghurt and topped with a slice of strawberry.

~Berry Smoothie Waffle Studs, which are heart-shaped waffles covered in vanilla yoghurt and topped with a cherry and 3 blueberries.

~Maple Story Waffle Studs, which are heart-shaped waffles covered in the basic maple syrup and topped with a pat of butter.

These waffles are the most adorable items and they look good enough to eat! So I made a custom order of a waffles ring. My waffles ring would be a basic square waffle covered in maple syrup and topped with a pat of butter and 2 slices of strawberry. Now that I can't wait to get. I'd be hungry all day looking at the rings on my fingers *giggles* When I got my Chocolate Pie ring, I took a few photos to send to her to show my appreciation for her hard work and creativity. So here are the pictures of me and the delectable ring!

The finer things in life

Honestly... It's been ages. I don't understand how all the other bloggers or my friends fill they're blogs up everyday. I do respect them for that though. I simply enjoy reading about their lifes and mostly I love shopping online. I'm so busy nowadays with life that I have no time to blog anymore. I think me, myself and I, would agree to write in this blog once in awhile. Just for the sake of releasing stress. I heard it's good for the soul.

Currently, Leo's in China on business. He's so busy with visits to clients and reports that everytime we Skype we talk a little and after awhile he has to get back to his reports. Although, I have to admit that this makes us appreciate each other more. I appreciate every single time I get to see him online. Unfortunately for him, it isn't really a holiday as he has to visit clients from 8am till 12am midnight. Right now on the opposite side of the internet, I see him look so tired and he's like that close to falling asleep. He's been gone for 10 days already. 2 more days and he'll be back. I honestly miss him so much. I hope he gets lotsa prezzies for me from China though... He better!! *sniggers*

On another note, as I was just surfing the web, I found the most amazing blog shop EVER!! Since forever, I've been in love with miniatures. Miniature food stuff especially. I've adored those people doing tutorials on YouTube. For me it would be quite difficult for me as it requires the right materials and steady hands. And those are exactly my problems. I do not have any idea to find polymer clay (plus it's very expensive), and I have thyroid, which is a condition I had since 2005. My active thyroid makes me weak, breathless, weakens my muscles, and it makes my hands shiver and shake. Exactly what I don't need to make those adorable miniature things. I love mini waffles, donuts, cake slices, pies... Everything! So I found this blog shop which is heaven for me called MiniBites. The owner of this blog, Esther, does everything handmade! I'd have to say she's extremely talented. I've ordered a few of the most adorable items she has on sale. What I would like now, would be a charm bracelet full of her amazing creations. I would recommend anyone to check it out! The next time you see me, I'll be wearing one of those mini food that you would die to take a bite from.



What I'm trying to do now is advance in life. I have agreed to myself that I will not settle for one job until I truely love it. So for now I have been through 5 extremely different jobs which have no connection to each other. My goal? To experience all kinds of jobs the world has to offer. Or more specifically, ALL experience jobs which interest me! And I don't mean things like janitor... or garbage woman... You understand. So the next job I'm aiming for and will get it is to be a flight attendant. It doesn't matter what company. As long as I get to experience it. Plus I always score every interview I go to. So wish me luck!!

New Job

Been such a long while since I've let it all out into this blog. Right now I'm sitting at my desk in my new office. What do we do? We're are an event company with other businesses on the side. We do events as well as organize samplings at various shopping malls for many different well known brands. As a newbie (been working for a month), it's been pretty confusing and hectic for me. Which means I gotta learn and pick up stuff real fast. One thing: thank god my boss is not from hell or an assistant of Hades. she's really nice and we have a lot in common. I understand her more than anyone else because I talk like her. She's absolutely hard working and always striving to be the best. The thing is that she's constantly busy and works 7 days a week. She needs a vacation. This company is built on all her hard work. So far I've witnessed 2 of her events and I think they're amazing. It's very nice to be able to see all your hard work paid off when the event is a success.

Anyway, the only thing I'm not a fan of in my job, are the sampling. What we have to do is compile up a long job list and then start calling tons and tons of people and ask if they're interested to work. Thank god I do not have to do it that much. I just type up random sales reports. So that is fine with me. The only problem is that sometimes I get a little bit confuse and mix stuff up. And another problem? I have the worst memory ever. So I have to carry a tiny notebook around writing everything I need to do. Sometimes the job get so crazy that I just go home, take a warm bath n go straight to sleep. I don't even remember the last time I watched TV!!!

Another I enjoy at the office is dressing up my cubicle. The office is all decked in red and white, just like our corporate logo. so went to IKEA to buy a few red stuff to put on my white table. Got a cork board, a red pillow for my chair, and a red and white pot with a pretty plant in it. In my desk drawer I have 2 boxes of Quakers Chewy Cookies & Cream granola bars and Chunky Chocolate granola bars. They taste amazing and with all my work they keep me full and happy. I'm happy with where I am now. I just have to keep improving myself so i can do perform better and get better results. My colleagues are absolutely fun people. Very eccentric and crazy. Except on guy, who's leaving. When I first joined he had this thing for me. When I say 'thing' I don't mean a crush. He hated my guts. Jealous that my boss treats me better. Oh well... office politics. I'm better off with out it.

Anyway back to work. Lots to do. Hope to write in more often.

XOXO

Pool or pool?

He leaned forward. His body against and above the pool table. He closes an eye as he aims his pool cue towards the white ball. There I was right opposite of him. All the way across the pool table. I was just standing there watching him, hoping he'll score. And then suddenly he raised his head slightly and I thought he wanted a better look. But he raised his head, looked at me with those adorable eyes and... wink! My heart melted so much I could just faint on the ground smiling *laughs* All my inside were warm and fuzzy. Best ever!

i love you, Leo! *muaks*

21 yr old mother?!?!

After 2 days and a night of taking care of my adorable little 2 year old nephew, Aidan, I'm so exhausted. It might be pretty difficult to take care of a child. It's a huge responsibility but my aunt asked me if I've had enough and given up. I said no I have not given up because everything I do and all the trouble I go through, It is all worth it when I see him happy and his cute little smile.

Now he's back with his mummy, Irene, in Sunway. When he was here at my house. I played with him and took care of him making him so attached with me till he calls me mummy LOL.. Kinda weird but it's so cute when he says that when I change his diaper. He knows if someone bullies him he'll just run to me with his arms wide open saying "pao-pao!!" and I would carry him. The night he slept over he didn't want to sleep with his Mi-ma, his grandma, but came to squeeze with me on my bed. So the whole night I was a very light sleeper. Making sure he's comfortable and won't have any nightmares. He moves alot on bed so I wasn't able to sleep. Tonight I'll make sure to sleep super early. Will add photos of Aidan as soon as I upload them.

Leo's coming back tomorrow from Johor Baharu. Miss him so much. During this CNY I haven't been spending enough time with him. i love you , Leo!! but at least I had Aidan to keep me company and busy. So the weekend went pass pretty fast for me. I hope he can come stay over again but I hope he remembers me.

I love little babies and toddlers!!

Complaints & lightning...

I'm personally a huge fan of Subway.

Most of the time I have it in Sunway Pyramid or SS15. I usually order the sub-of-the-day with my fave honey oat, extra cheese and crazy alot of olives. Today Leo and I went to the one in Leisure Mall, Cheras. I went to the counter to order what I always order. Then the guy said, "Honey Oat is sold out and for extra cheese we charge RM1.20". So yea.. kinda pissed because in any other outlet having extra cheese is free! I'm a regular Subway customer and you want to piss me off like that? So there I was ordering my vegetables and sauces. When I got to the cashier, I had to wait 10 mins to be able to pay for my food! There were 4 staff there but they were just sitting around and one guy was even sleeping!! I kept looking aroung for a complain or suggestion box but nope, there were none. Thank god having a Subway sandwich calms me down and gives me satisfaction or else I would've gone crazy... I still love Subway!


After Subway, Leo and I went to the arcade to vent some anger by playing.... the Photo Hunt game! Haven't played that in ages and realized I sucked at it. When we finished that, he still had 2 more tokens with him so he went to punch the sh*t outta some punching machine. That machine is to see how hard is the impact of the punch. When we got there, there were a few young boys playing with it and hell... they were not doing well. So after that, Leo went up to it and slid the tokens into the token slot. He got three punches. Didn't do as well as last time first one was 103, then 109 then the last punch he got 119!! So his total points were 331 points which got the number one spot of the week *laughs* So proud of my baby! Muaks!

Percy Jackson & The Lightning Thief
That's what we watched in GSC today. Leo found it very un-interesting and dull. Yet I found it amazing. Maybe it's because of my knowledge and interest in Greek myths and legends. For me, the storyline is very amazing and they did a good job in casting. Fresh new actors and actresses which did their job well in portraying their character. There was one part which disappointed me. That part is the part where Percy first gets introduced to the demi-god camp. Evertyhing about that part seemed... how should I say this? Messy, cheap and amateur. Love how greek gods and goddesses are placed in this story. 8.5/10 is what I would give. Watch it and see if you agree with me.


Now Leo's at home. With some friends over for CNY. They're there doing minor gambles by playing blackjack or poker or that 3 card thingy... *laughs* Don't know what it's called. Leo's been winning quite alot but I left early. Hope you're winning more now baby!! Muaks! Love you!

Cheerleading tomorrow. Finally. Miss them so much!!

Gong Xi Fa Cai & Happy Valentine's Day

Yeap! It is the 14th of February 2010. Sadly 2 events or celebrations fall on today. Valentine's day and Chinese New Year. Which means chinese couples don't get to be together as Chinese New Year is going back to one's family. So I would like to wish everyone:

GONG XI FA CAI

&

HAPPY VALENTINES DAY

Sadly, I might not be able to celebrate either one with my Leo as he will be busy with his family as well. These few days I've been missing him more than ever.

Anyway, for new year's eve, I cleaned up my room and some other parts of the house. Got dressed and head on to my relative's place for a new year's eve reunion dinner. It was fun as I got to spend so much time with little Aidan, my nephew. I could enjoy as many cans of Anglia Shandy as I want *giggle* What do I love about Chinese New Year?? I love Yee Sang, which is a dish we eat every year for CNY and who wouldn't love a reason to collect red packets with money in them? *laughs* It's like Christmas, but instead of exchanging presents, we give or collect red packets called 'ang pau' in Chinese.

I hope I get lots of red packets this year! *wink*