CNY Approaching

CNY 2010 is approaching!!! just 4 more days to go excluding today.....well seems like pple around me are having Tiger babies...
Myself for one, my sis, my 2 cousins (on mum side), 2 of hubby's friends and also my friend.... geez... Tiger year is a popular year? I cannot imagine the dragon year.... i think it will be worse... more births.

But for me I would like to have another Rabbit baby which is the zodiac sign after the Tiger hee hee.....

oh well and am so excited cos I'll be seeing baby again this Sat - going for the detailed scan. afterwhich i will be able to answer the most common question asked "what is the gender of your baby".

jsut last weekend, we did spring cleaning of our place and there are still some things that has not been completed. this year, we are having a change in the reunion dinner and house visiting plans.... cutting down on house visiting and not going over to my grandpa place for reunion dinner.

this year, i will have it at my own place on CNY eve with my parents in law, James and Gabriel. oh well...CNY.... here we come....

Family Ties

What exactly are family ties???? the bond in blood or the feelings and relationship between the relatives and family. what defines a family???

is it almost always true that rich families or just slightly better than the average families have more family disputes???? Does the number of disputes as well as intensity increases with the number of kids one have?

Somehow some things that happen within my extended family now strengthen this belief that Money is the root of all Evils. Power is also just another factor.... perhas having too much money is not a good thing as well....

sigh.... i really hope things will look up within the family at least within my cousins, i mean this generation os us are kinda like innocent when it is just the generation of our parents fighting....for the power for the money for survival....

random thots

It's been 2 weeks liao... and i have not come up with my new year resolutions haha... i think it will never materalise...haha..

i have long finished the stained plastic jigsaw puzzle on 6 Jan. yippee.. nw am waiting to get the frame for the 500pcs puzzle so that i can get started on it. in approx another 3.5 wks, we will be welcoming the Year of the Tiger... and on the eve of it, I will be doing my detailed scan. In which I will be able to see Baby No 2 more clearly and also have the answer to the question i believe most pple will ask - "What is the gender of your baby". For one, i know both baby's grandmas are very eager to know.

next is the monies issue... have to start putting aside $$ for the hospital bill, post natal massage, confinement food, tonic and token to MIL who will be helping me with the confinement. Afterwhich still have to think abt the baby shower. come to think of it, only now do i realise that it is really a huge sum of money and I am so thankful that hubby made it monies worries free for me when i had gabriel. he took care of everything. yet this time round, he has yet to fork out a single cent hee.... well perhaps he will from the time bb is born since i will be too exhausted to take care of the bills.. haha.

then comes the issue of breastfeeding. hopefully i can do it this time round. i really wish to be able to let bb latch on and feed. i will perserve!!! yes this shall be one of my new year resolution.

Next resolution will be to start the online store running. to register it or not is another issue. but i think i should just start selling first and then see if this is for me.... see if i can make ir work. why is it that pple can create those websites and why i cannot.... there must be something i can do... explore and research....

Laptop or Netbook to manage a webstore

ok so i am contemplating to open a shop.... a virtual shop aka webstore. I would like to start a business....but then i would need certain things wouldn't I?

things like a computer or laptop to link me to the virtual space. and then supplier for my goods and then publicity... i mean the rest of the things will kinda fall into place right? so the very 1st thing is to decide on the pdt i want to sell and then locate the supplier, set pricing and set up the webstore. that should not be too difficult right???

so right now, i need to know if i should get myself a netbook or a laptop to help me manage the webstore. i really have no idea. think think think......

something random, i started on a 266pcs of stained glass puzzle. had already completed close to 90% in 1 abt 2 - 3 hrs. so happy....... haha.. it has been so long since i last attempt to work on a puzzle. anyway i will be working on more puzzles that's for sure..... it is so therapeutic. i really like to work on puzzles. can this be a business????? as in help pple to complete the puzzle??? will there be business? i mean the joy in buying a puzzle is to work on it, to solve and piece the jumbled pieces back to 1 complete picture. ok will work the rest of the puzzle tonight..... to the puzzle completion tonight...

2010 is coming......

Welcoming 2010.... it is yet another year...
2009 has gone and left with many certain memories of difficulties (for some). Due to all the gloom looming all over the world with the news of poor economy or crashing economy and blah blah...

but then what have i done in 2009??? Reflection time.
it semms like i have not really accomplish anything really concrete as in things i set out to do.
Things like mastering a foreign language or perhaps setting out what I wan to do in future blah blah.. i mean i would really want to do something that I can do at home (something like work from home) or operate a business in which i oversee at home. In this case, I can actually stay at home and look after / play with my kids and also earn a reasonable income. So had explored various options (ok not all) but was contemplating to sign up for Early childhood education diploma / degree.... this was something i had wanted to do for quite sometime cos I wan to know how to communicate better and develop my kids... this is something we can learn from the books or we should do it like how our parents did... trial and error??? afterall, my parents and my parents in law brought up their kids quite ok.
though of cos i can definately be better hee hee..


ok so Baby No 2 is expected to arrive into the Lui family in Jun 2010. Am so looking forward to baby's arrival. so am gonna sit down and then start thinking of my goals for 2010 and think about what i wan to do. This time round, i should be able to set more realistic and achievable goals...

what about you? have you reviewed your resolutions for 2009 and set the new ones for 2010? All the best and hope you fare better than me in 2009.

last few days of 2009

wow, christmas seems to have just fly past me....without even realising it, New Year is approaching and I am kinda reminscing abt the days when I went down to Orchard Rd for the New Year Countdown with my friends....Those were the days..... it was fun... was lucky that I went with my male buddies cos like that they can 'protect' me against those pple who are at the countdown with other motives oither than to join in the countdown....

it was really crowded I guess it is still nowadays perhaps even more since Orchard Road has got the new shopping centres...

Well well..... this year's christmas party at my place was fun as usual and not as tiring as last year cos we din have to really cook much. but then i do find it more satisfying to cook hee hee..... like it is more fun preparing the yummy food for your guest.... Cleaning up was fast this year as well and we had 1 party instead of 2 this year, so i guess this is a right change to make.

every year around this time, it seems like the year has slowed down to a pace whereby everyone is not exactly working.... now I am like thinking and reviewing my life at this moment. Where should I move on from here. What do I want to achieve in 2010? It is also time to review my resolutions for 2009.

Gotta review ans set new resolutions by 31 Dec.....that is like in another 4 days....

what i am reading now....

The Twilight Saga.....

well i guess i am kinda slow to catch up on this only on. Previously I was caught up with the Dan Brown various books.

Now is this vampire - human love story. I always have a liking towards such stories : mystery, supernatural - vampires / dragons etc -, problem solving (detective?)

Anyway this is one excellent website in which it was dedicated to the Twilight saga has many many info you can find in here.....

http://twilightsaga.wikia.com/wiki/Twilight_Saga_Wiki