Category: Amusing/Musing

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Christmas Comes Early

Guess who is so lucky?  Christmas came early for someone this year.  Someone must be very good this year ! hehe!  No need to be envious, I’m sure you will get one too if you let the spouse knows what you like all year round or if he knows you as well as mine does.  Yes, I’m truly blessed – I cannot ask for a better spouse, not only because he buys me anything i want or I like but because he listens to me and he talks with me and we plan everything together.  We are not spendthrift but when we do buy something, we know that it’s of good value and it wouldn’t go to waste.

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Blessings

Thank God for wonderful neighbors in the neighborhood and a friend who moved down the road from us recently.  It’s wonderful to be surrounded by good people and good children in the neighborhood.  Chloe gets many play dates with our new neighbor/friend and I cannot thank God enough for them. They come over often too and I see us doing more things together in the near future.   I’m very happy that a friend move nearby to us.  But of course my long time neighbor on my right are awesome too – so double blessings now and down the road, the Uptons are wonderful people as well. Their children are so good (they really taught their children well) and of course the Uptons themselves are friendly, warm and sincere folks.  Life is too short not to be surrounded by good ppl.

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Property Prices Back Home

This was where I used to live back home and I bought this before I met PB.  Back then I bought this apartment at less than half a million with my CPF but the property prices has been going up every year.  The apartment is currently rented out for about $3.5 K a month and my cousins who are currently still living in Singapore are taking care of everything for me.  My apartment is fully furnished and my cousins tells me that I should be raising my rent at the end of the year.

I knew that it would be a good investment because property prices never goes down back home and I was right.  My cousins of course had wanted me to get a landed property back then but I wasn’t married, and didn’t think I needed a huge place plus I was always flying because of work.  Anyhow, I have been informed that the property that we owned now is worth a lot more and if I’m willing to sell, my cousins can get a good price for me.

But I’m thinking that this is a good investment for Chloe’s future and collecting rent on a monthly basis is so much more fun – don’t you think?  unless, I can sell it for the price I want, so my cousins are currently negotiating with a few potential buyers.  While I don’t need money at all here, I am not in a hurry to let my apartment go at all.  I’m just so lucky because PB pays for everything I need, from food, to anything I buy.  I’m totally blessed! what more can I ask for ?  so i rather keep the apartment for Chloe’s future.

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Oh My God!

OH MY GOD!  This is so ME!  when i saw this picture !  nothing in life ever puts me down – no matter what happens – I see things with optimism and anything that I come across in my life – I take it as something new that I’ve learned.  I hope to teach Chloe the same optimism and hope that she will also learn to not sweat the small stuff in life.

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70″ 3D TV

Yes, we have a new 70″ – 3D tv – and when PB asked me if I’m alright with him buying a 3D tv – I told him as long as we pay it in full, not with credit card nor having to dip into our savings – power to him.  So yes, we don’t believe in spending money that we don’t have and yes, the tv is paid in full and we don’t owe anyone for anything not even the stock in the store.

He ordered it online from future shop and it only took a few days to arrived.  Chloe and PB are enjoying their 3 D movies tremendously, as for me – a tv is a tv – as long as I can watch my shows on it – I’m good.  I’m so low-tech I know hahahaha!

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Visiting Japan

My cousin is a sushi chef, he was trained in Japan for 15 years before he went home to Singapore to open his own Japanese restaurant.  But now that all their kids are grown up, they’ve decided to move back to Japan and bought a small restaurant in the prefecture of Osaka.  They are all settled in already and the restaurant is also doing well  and since both of my nephews are pilots, they can fly anytime to Japan to visit them.  My cousin had invited us to visit them in Japan and he offered to  pay for all lodging as well as air-tickets for the entire family.    We are of course, very excited and planning for a visit soon – I do miss my cousin and his wife and if we are lucky, I might get to meet my nephews as well when we are in Japan.  And of course, I can’t wait to eat some real sushi !

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A Round Up Of The Summer 2013

Yes, a little round up of what we did this summer.  We had planned to go to PEI but because of the closing of the cottage that we had bought only 2 minutes away from the beach, we had to change our plans but it was all worth it.

We loved the cottage and since its a 2 mins walk from the beach only, I forsee many, many more wonderful summers here with lots of BBQ and gatherings with friends and family.

PB bought me a new phone, because I told him my iPhone wasn’t big enough – so I’m using a Samsung Galaxy instead now.  No i’m not on contract, we bought the phone outright.

1ST bbq at Grampie’s this summer

Followed by a charity auction for this painting by local artist Andre Haines in support for the Hebron Art Center, I won the auction for $200 – really a steal.

We of course visited the farmer’s market.

Went to Cape Fochu for lunch one Sunday

And had a second BBQ at Port Maitland beach because Godma Lynn from Toronto came to visit.

We also hired someone to build Chloe a playhouse in our backyard

And headed up to Halifax for the Basker’s Festival.  Stayed for several nights and had more authentic Asian and Japanese food.

We also drove an hour to Digby to try out the new Japanese restaurant because the one in town wasn’t open yet at that time.

We headed out to the clay shop in Quinn pool for Chloe to do some clay art.

This year we went to Upper Clements Park with friends and family.

Bought a garden art piece for almost $200 from a local artist in town.

And went bowling.  All in all it was a pretty good summer.  Now to welcome the fall.

Oopsie !  and I forgot the wonderful airshow that we went to as a family but met plenty of friends there.

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I Feel Bad For You Mom !

My ! my !!  I have a really good kid !  why?  yesterday was anti-bullying day and usually the school will take the kids out for a walk with their pink clothing.  Usually, they take the route to downtown but this year they took another route.  Yesterday morning, Chloe had asked if I was giving out candies in which I had replied – nope.  And Chloe said to me “Ohhhhh ! i wished you were”  and I didn’t reply at all.

So happily we sent her to school and before sending her lunch to school, we had gone to Bulk Barn to see if I can find any pink candies but there were none to be found that are individually wrapped.  So we bought these rockets to give out to the entire school, if they were to take their walk downtown.  But the school took a different route, so we still have the candies and when Chloe came back from school, she explained to me that they had walked a different route but she was thinking of me – and said to herself :  ” Oh ! I feel so bad for my mom now!” hahahhahaha!!  so cute right?  and of course, I asked her – “how did you know I was giving out candies? because I had already said no ??”  And her reply?  I know you Mom!  you always try to do nice things for the everyone!  lol !  oh my!  she is truly my daughter!  She just cracked me up!

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Corporate Branding

I’ve just finished working on a corporate branding for a company in the States and this job was a referral job from a company that I had worked with last year.  Corporate branding are so fun and they actually makes the most money.  Sure it’s a lot of work but the caliber of the people that I worked with are highly professional and simply enjoyable.  The going back and forth is always challenging and the conference calls that I make and take can be at all hours of the day but I don’t mind it at all.  Plus, I’m very blessed because both PB and Chloe understands when I am working and they try not to interrupt.

My corporate branding jobs comes very often and word of mouth in our industry is so important, of course a good page rank from Lord Google is always good. Not many people around here knows what I do and when I try to teach them what I do, they usually, don’t want to do it because so much is involved from getting the right gadget for logos to HTML coding and different platforms to learn before you can get a good referral.  I’m very lucky and blessed because some 6 yrs ago, the industry wasn’t so competitive and some companies I’ve worked with have continued working with me and as the economy picks up in different parts of the world, the more jobs I get.

A professional corporate branding specialist can easily command a 5 figure payout and I have to say that the companies I’ve worked for are very generous.  I’ve never once had my work rejected nor not get paid for by any company. Companies pay me 50% upfront before I start work and after my first draft, I get paid the rest of it.  Upon finishing my work for them, I get paid another 10 % as a bonus when they are very satisfied with my work and I always get the 10 %  extra.  So if you see me up all night till wee hours in the morning, it’s gotta be that I’m working on a Corporate branding.  I love my online job!