My July 2012 Wrap-up

This post will be similar to my supposed weekly blessings posts which I have........ er, er........ infamously failed to produce one for each & every week. :P  My attempt to create a fix intervals for scheduling & updating myself failed tremendously.  Not only did I not blog at least once a week, I have also broke my 2012 resolution to deliver what's pledged. I cry..... Wahhh, WHAAHHH!!, wahhhhh  :'(  (Yup, i just wailed :-PPP)  Okaylah, stop with this pathetic attention seeking wailing!!

The truth is, there are blessings every month.  Each and every month everyone is showered with blessings.  Some may come in the form of spiritual, others may come as satisfaction or even material sake.  Even when I face grunges and disappointments, I take them as opportunities in learning something new and strength by strength, I build up my wisdom and confident.

Opportunity often comes in disguised in the form 

of misfortune, or temporary defeat - Napoleon Hill 

A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist 

sees the opportunity in every difficulty - Winston Churchill

The month of July has always been special to me.  Full of excitement, nonetheless, before I appreciate it, it breezes through before my very eyes.  This time, I'm going to make sure its being broadcast and with it, me expressing my gratitude.  Hence, here I list my top 3 blessings for July 2012:

1) Meeting and Getting to Know Peers of Common Interest

The path is often lonely when travel alone. But when in group/s, this traveling becomes more meaningful and interesting.  I am glad my scope of friends is getting wider.  Having friends of common interest is a plus bonus.  This interest I'm talking about is non-other than blogging.  Yes, we are fabulous!! ♥ 

2) My Surprise Party

Never have I thought this would happen to me.  I treated this day the same as everyday.  At times, I disregard myself as a unique individual with a special day dedicated to me every year.  I thank my colleague for thinking otherwise.  And with her initiative, cooked up a surprise birthday gathering in my office.  Thank you Siti! ♥

3) Supporting My Homegrown Local Talent

I MET HIM AGAIN!  I don't always get to know or to even come close to any entertainment industry artists. They seem so far away and vague to my comprehension. But this guy is warm, friendly, and cheerful. His talent is more than just singing, he composes music and writes lyrics too. His performance is beyond just good. He is worthy to be notice. And being a thriving Sabahan, I am all to support our local talent. He is Appy!

Sabah is a land of beautiful wonders, and he is no exception.  I support!  Thank you for the music ♥.

That's my top 3.  Have you count your blessings? 

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** RM49,955.28  I almost did not make it. Phew!

** To know my last balance, click here.

Weekly Blessings Wk 20, 2012

♥ This is a weekly post on the many mini encounters I experienced for the past week.  It may be blessings, or at times, applying the singular adjective.  Though maybe insignificant, yet they are capable of staging some vibrancy to this kitty's life.  Counting my blessings every day ♥ ♥ ♥. 

Its been awhile since my last post on blessings.  My commitment to blog weekly for this topic has now drowned in one of the seven seas.  Not that there's no blessings, just time is not at my luxury to spend away.  Hence the limited opportunity to record my gratitude that has been taken and taking place everyday.  Nevertheless, here's what I have to express my gratitude for this week.  Its all on purchasing beauty products ♥ ♥  

(Guys may get bored with this post 'coz I declare my love for skin beauty today :-D)

MASK! MASK! MASK!  

Ha ha ha...... I bet those who follow me on twitter would know that I have a tendency to apply H2O masks as my regular beauty routine.  And these masks usually costs at average RM5 and above.  But what if you can get it at RM1 per piece?  That's a steal!!!  So I bought not just some, but 3 boxes of 10 pcs each.  Waaaahhhh!!  Me so happeeeeee!!

Have not tried them yet and have no idea whether they are good.  And to risk in buying that many without knowing its quality???..... well, I just found out they carry the quality assurance logo.  Sigh of relief :-)....... and, and, and....... (psst, the saleslady said they supply to spa operators).  She said one, not me!!!  To be specific, she commented on the yellow coloured box item only.

Nevertheless, I have my own quality standards which the mask sheet itself should be thick, with lots of moisture and fragrantly relaxing.  I once bought those thin sheets......... Dang!!, regret max!!  Here's to crossing my fingers and legs, hoping these would be not just good, but Good-Goooood ;-)

CONFRONTING BLEMISHES 

Ever since young, I have been put under the deep spell of facing off with pimples.  And it has left much scar to my physical appearance and emotional confident.  The quest in search for quality and reasonably price solutions have been nonstop.  There are many beauty products, many many to help, so this kitty is trying to test what's available in the market and finding out its effectiveness.  And these are her new found love for this week:

Both bottles are for blemish control.  Maybe one of these days I'll do a review on these.  Being in late 30s' with blemishes is not funny...... and having cow pox (adult chick pox) is horrific.  On top of blemish control, I need scar repair. Sigh, the pox left some souvenir on me :-(. 

The pink package is from In2It.  Its sheer shimmer blush.  Never tried too. Very-very excited to test new stuff ♥ ♥.  No amount of make-up & skincare products is enough for this kitty ;-). 

That's all for my exploration this week.  Retail therapy has been ultra satisfactory.  Smooch!! ♥ ♥

Weekly Blessings Wk 10, 2012

♥ This is a weekly post on the many mini encounters I experienced for the past week.  It may be blessings, or at times, applying the singular adjective.  Though maybe insignificant, yet they are capable of staging some vibrancy to this kitty's life.  Counting my blessings every day ♥ ♥ ♥. 

LOVELY TOTE 

Is this a beautiful tote or what?

A gift from Hannie, my dear SIL (hubby side) who just came back from her trip to India.  Allow me to describe how I feel about the gift........ I LUV it!!  I definitely adore the gift, or else I would not have shown it here, right??  Besides her talent in searching great gifts, she actually applies hands on on scrap-booking and crafts making.  She features her creation in her blog, fonmee.com.  And thanks to her hubby i.e. my BIL, I had a great family weekend escape at one of the new hotels in town.  My entire family and theirs, and not forgetting my parents in law ♥ ♥ ♥.  

PROUD PARENT

All parents worry of their children's future, and I am not immune to that worrisome gruesome.  Cheeky's 1st academic exam of his life.  Though its only a minor semester examination, yet it tells his progress on whether he is able to cope with his studies.  If you had known my kid, you would not have expect this kind of results from him.  

Ermmm??.... How should I describe my feeling now?  Total ♥ ♥ ♥.

LOL!

If you do not know the story behind this electricity bill of mine, you can refer to here.  And this month marks the end of the unpaid portion (tunggakan) of this bill as I will officially and fully settle this "nasty bastard" that has been haunting me since my financial whirlwind.  

And to heighten my spirit, I am also officially 1 less credit card to settle.  OFFICIALLY settled last month!!  Woo hoo!!  1 down and 99 more to go. LOL, joking ya!!

I feel truly blessed this week.  How about you? ♥ ♥ ♥

Weekly Blessings Wk 6, 2012

♥ This is a weekly post on the many mini encounters I experienced for the past week.  It may be blessings, or at times, applying the singular adjective.  Though maybe insignificant, yet they are capable of staging some vibrancy to this kitty's life.  Counting my blessings every day ♥ ♥ ♥. 

I FEEL GOOD

Can it be?  That I'm the next lucky one?  The one who will soon walk out of her uncertainties? That all my concerns will soon be blown away?  That there's someone up above is now shining a light upon me?

Or maybe its just the monthly hormonal cycle? :P

Whatever it is, I absolutely luv this positive feeling.  I have not had such feel good sensation for a very long time now.  The last time I felt the same way was many many moons ago...... probably +/- 7 years to count.  I can't really pinpoint what this feeling is about or referring to. But somehow, it gave me the confident of a person with the ability to overcome any obstacles that what may be confronting or soon to confront me.  Not that I have many mega, gigantic & humongous obstacles though, as most of the time, I like to keep my life simple.  Sooooo simple that at times, others may mis-interpret me as a lazy mutt.

LOL, yes, I know I laze around, 'coz behind my laze.......... I work dang hard!!! 

Double rainbow!!  The after effect of a brief rainy afternoon.  

Since this feel good mood is still strongly intact, I may as well leverage on it.  Went through my once prized but now neglected possessions, I refreshed  my mind and updated my stuff.  Its actually my self-help homework which I have not done since November last year.  Can I say I am a avid learner and that learning has no age boundary?  See, I told you people do not know me well.  How can I be as lazy as a dog?

This working week ended with a view of not only one, but 2 rainbows, side by side..... just outside of my house, right upon myself arriving home from work.  Okay-la, I can now die satisfied :P

And as I end this entry, I will resume my lazy mode so I may avoid some tasks just because of the mis-interpretation.  LMFAO!!  

 signing off.........

** Yes I know, the last bit of this entry sounded weird and quite confusing.  Can't help it.  The feel good buddy invaded my brain and is controlling how this entry is structured. *Hands on face with mouth open wide just like Macaulay Culkin in the movie "Home Alone"*

** Actually, I think it may be the lazy mode. 

** Confuse yet? Or not confusing enough? 

Weekly Blessings Wk 5, 2012

♥ This is a weekly post on the many mini encounters I experienced for the past week.  It may be blessings, or at times, applying the singular adjective.  Though maybe insignificant, yet they are capable of staging some vibrancy to this kitty's life.  Counting my blessings every day ♥ ♥ ♥. 

HUAT AH!

I think by now you may find it peculiar that I use the "Huat" term alot.  What's more, I am not even a Hokkien.  But the term rings to me like a bee loving its honey.  It means prosperous and rich.  Maybe besides being fabulous, I should say I want more "huat" too? ;D

And since its the beginning of February, I'll show you my 1st "huat" for the month:

Introducing the arrival of  my electricity bill for last month's usage.

The bill doesn't tell much until after I reveal that its lesser by RM50 when compared with last month's bill.  With an extra RM50, I could start splurging ♥..... or settle an extra RM50 on my credit card bills.  Nah......, I'll just divide it and be prepared to engross on 10 'free' meals of economy rice.  ;D. I kid you only!! *grinning.

I will settle my outstanding electricity bill, since its showing a tunggakan (outstanding)..... or maybe???

HUAT HUAT AH!!

Say no more, allow the Tsai Shen Yeh (Chinese God of Wealth) does his job:

Are those ang pows for me?  ♥ ♥ ♥

I was at the Foh Sang CNY 2012 celebration arranged by our government and my fav guy (sorry Beary ;)) appeared before me.... posed somemore!  This was on the 2 February, the same day as commemorating the state capital's 12th city status anniversary.  I love Kota Kinabalu, Sabah ♥.

To know more about this place once famously known as Jesselton town, follow Bonding with Gaya Street facebook fanpage.

Weekly Blessings

♥ This is a weekly post on the many mini encounters I experienced for the past week.  It may be blessings, or at times, applying the singular adjective.  Though maybe insignificant, yet they are capable of staging some vibrancy to this kitty's life.  Counting my blessings every day ♥ ♥ ♥. 

This week's blessings are all about me and my CNY fit.

FORGING A NEW BEGINNING WITH 2 CHANGES

Like my new hair colour?  As tweeted, I went to the hair salon 2 weeks before CNY.  Totally out of my expectation as the colour is really bright.  Though as bright as it is, I'll just have to make the best out of it.  And I totally struck my luck today i.e. being the 1st day of CNY.  Praises, praises, praises.  What was somewhat unfortunate turned into an attention grabbing day with compliments.  What's my secret in receiving such luck?  Its all in the make up.    Talking about make-ups, all my recent blah sensation was blessed as I managed to conceal my blemishes..... *grin.

So much for the 1st change,  now to the 2nd one.  Look closely to the pics 'coz, I've just changed my lens.  The usual brown is now in purple.  Okay, I did not take reeeaaaaaallllyyy close portrait to show the lens as I am all duh when using camera.  Anyway, this is the first time I'm using a colour out of the ordinary brown and black.  Didn't expect it to turn out to be quite natural.   I would have thought with this hair colour and a not so asian looking eye colour, I may be totally out of place.  All the unexpected came back positively.

Happeeeeeee me and feel all lucky, ready in forging a great lunar year ahead.  Yipeee!!  See, I started off positively with me blogging on the 1st day of CNY le..... *double grin.

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And to help you from "squinch'ing" your eyes any further, here's a bigger picture of myself which was taken in my bathroom, the only place in the entire house with better lighting :P

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 Gong Xi Fa Cai

I felt somewhat playful today.  Hope you are too........ *triple grin.

Weekly Blessings

♥ This is a weekly post on the many mini encounters I experienced for the past week.  It may be blessings, or at times, applying the singular adjective.  Though maybe insignificant, yet they are capable of staging some vibrancy to this kitty's life.  Counting my blessings every day ♥ ♥ ♥. 

This week's blessings are influenced by Cheeky as he advances himself from a kindergarten pupil to a primary school student.

TIMETABLE MEALS

This year sets a another milestone for both Cheeky and I. Besides him commencing his education years in primary school, it also means myself having to prepare recess meals for him.  This is a tough job especially when there's a need to use some brain power.  Hence, instead of cracking my head on every evenings, I came up with a timetable.  This was inspired and adopted from Cheeky's kindergarten days where his previous school displayed a meal timetable.  As the timetable was recyclable every 2 weeks, I just followed as per.  

So 2 weeks passed, and the timetable seems acceptable.  How do I know?  He takes his meals diligently.  Loving my timetable.  Yes, its scribbled and that's my handwriting.  One of these days, I'm going to properly print it out from my computer and replace the scribbled one that is sitting nicely on my fridge.

POUCH OF GOLD

Besides preparing recess meals for Cheeky, I was determine to start the financial education for him early.  Irregardless of the feedbacks I got from other mothers, because of my current situation, I really feel there is no harm in teaching him the power of saving now. Several pre-runs were made during the holidays which saw great changes to his attitude on this subject.  Hence I am more confident in him handling money now as compared to last year.

I did not want to restrict nor stop him from visiting the school canteen, more so to feel the emptiness of not able to get things he may need or whenever he gets bored with my timetable meals.  And so, he finally bought something from the canteen.  It was a packet of noodles..... for Beary!  Lucky father!  Yes, he took his timetable meal!  Yes, that was the only thing he bought by far!  Yes, I am jealous!

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Weekly Blessings

♥ This is a weekly post on the many mini encounters I experienced for the past week.  It may be blessings, or at times, applying the singular adjective.  Though maybe insignificant, yet they are capable of staging some vibrancy to this kitty's life.  Counting my blessings every day ♥ ♥ ♥. 

MY VERY USEFUL BOX

I have been yearning for a make-up tool box for quite sometime, but at the same time was not keen in hunting for one due to the obvious financial reason.  In fact, nowadays everything under my want list are shifted to the back of my mind WTF.  The other reason is when its a want, I have strict criteria on its features and designs.  Duh, FYI, the "it" refers to goods as in products, and not on human, ya.  So, everything falls onto faith, WTF!, I sounded like an innocent girl waiting for her prince charming to appear and sweeps her feet away on a white stallion.

And so, during the holidays, WHAT COINCIDENT!  My prince charming.... er wait!,....  its FAITH brought us together!  Between the peach, blue and pink, I chose the obvious.  Duh, again FYI, I have no preference of colours, just as long as it looks nice and I feel comfortable with.  The other obvious decision criteria was the transparent casing, which looks simple and practical for finding smaller sized stuff.

He found me and made me happy ♥ ♥ ♥ 

SCRUMPTIOUS SUPPER

My sinful Penang Fried Kueh Teow from Bornion, Luyang 

Yummeeeeee! I do not usually take supper 'coz its my enemy.  It upsets my usual routine on managing this slender physique.  Though I have shed off some kilos, there are still some stubborn ones which had stayed put since post pregnancy.  If only they would leave and I will be at peace.  Nonetheless, when cravings set in, all rational thoughts are thrown out of the window.  I'm happier to see some bonding time with my family.  It may be sinful to me, but a worthwhile sacrifice just seeing the vkitty family members wearing their smiles.

MR. INDEPENDENT 

Aiyer!!??.......... why so messy?  That's the view of my kitchen counter top.  Who did this mess?  It was Cheeky, my eldest son.  This was my first encounter of him preparing his own drinking bottle.  Both Beary and myself did not know about this until he showed us of himself drinking from his bottle and briefly felt proud when mentioned.  Awwww, my son is growing up, being independent.  Still need to refine your motor skill, my luv.

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