I have met many friends through online chatting, the earliest was ICQ, then AIM, now MSN. But, I’ve never tried phone chat. It seems there are so many free chat services available this days. Nowadays, you can just pick up a phone and meet people through the chat lines. If I’m still single, perhaps I would probably turn to the many online dating sites to meet somebody.
Going up to PJ tomorrow, will stay until Sat. I will try to finish up all the assignments tonight before leaving tomorrow morning. They are about 20 of them, whether reserved or assigned.
I have been slacking in completing the assignments in the past two weeks, have waited for the deadline approaching then only rushed like hell. That’s bad, I know. I often complained about the big boy being last minuter who procrastinates and takes forever to do things that I want him to do. Think about it, I am not any better in that. He, he…..
The week goes by so fast, I hardly blink and the weekend is here. well, it’s been pouring rain all day since 1 am so maybe the rain has something to do with my generally sour mood today?
Hubby has the day off work and he is supposed to fill up the form for him to start filing the immigrant visa petition (I-130). The form has been emailed to him two weeks ago. He is yet to fill up his part and email back to me, so that I can print out, fill my name in my native language and send it back to him by snail mail together with photos and other supporting documents.
Uh huh. I’m really pleased with that (sarcastic), he needs to put a rush on it if we ever going to be reunited. Anyway, I am not going to nag him, I am going to go out and get my hair wash and cut. I also wanted to do a little more shopping, but I’m just not feeling like battling the weekend crowds.
My friend called me from her office last week, I noticed the number was displayed as “unknown”. So, I asked her why was that happened. She wasn’t sure what happened, but suspected that it has to do with the VoIP Call Center Phone Systems that her company subscribed recently.
Many businesses are switching from the traditional call center phone system to VoIP call center phone system for money saving. Furthermore VoIP call center phone systems do not require a large upfront capital investment nor long time to wait for the installation to be done. It doesn’t even require as much site maintenance and labor.
I had a lot of fun joining all the activities while I was in college. One of the most memorable experience was a fund raising event that we organized to help to setup a community library. We did many things to raise the money, one of them was to sell flowers on Valentine’s Day and Christmas season!
We would first advertised on the campus bulletin about our flower delivery service, then ordered the fresh flowers from this place that wholesale flowers. We do the packaging and delivery, the profit margin was very good, we raised enough money to kick start the library project.
Our plan is for me to reunite with hubby in IL next spring. We would start looking for an apartment once I am there. We would first start with renting an apartment, until we have saved enough down payment for a house or a condo. We do not know much about real estate market in IL, but luckily hubby’s uncle is a real estate agent, I am sure we can get some advice from him.
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Almost every colleges and schools are equipped with computer labs. The university that I used to work for have computers in the lecture halls and classrooms, these computers are connected with the projectors and audio visual equipment, the instructors just have to bring the CD that contains the presentation, slot into the Cd drive, and start to present the lectures.
We even have computers in the preschool and tutoring business that we used to run. Since we have folded up the business two months ago. We are in the process of liquidating the business, selling all the teaching materials, computers and furniture. We do not have too many pieces of school computer furniture for sale, since we have moved some of the computer furniture back home for me to setup the home office. However, we have a lot of Montessori materials and low shelves for sale.
Since I do work from home most of the time now, it would be nice to have a proper place where I can put my computer and do my work at home. I am rather happy with the work station, with a space for working at the computer, and a separate space where I can write or organize my bills to pay.
Have you ever wonder, when you see bad manners or rude behaviors in children or young adults, do we blame the parents, or do we just assume that’s the norm of this age and time?
When I was at this house warming party of a relative last night, met my ex-teacher who also happened to be the daughter-in-law of my relative. Technically, she is my cousin-in-law, which make her children my second cousins.
I think it’s pretty rude for my teacher’s adult daughters to treat us as invisible at their grandmother’s house. It’s true that we have not seen each other for years and they may not recognize us. But, the way they pretend they didn’t hear my mother, (and the look on their face that clearly say, I don’t even know you, why should I answer you?)., it’s totally stuck-up and lack of basic courtesy and manners, IMHO.
I also think it was their mother partly to be blamed for not introducing us or clearly show these young adults the acceptable social behavior since they were young. My mother always taught us to greet people at a family gathering like that, even if you don’t know who they are, you just greet them or ask how you should address them if you are not sure.
Hispanic is the largest second language group of people in America, in some cities, they are the majority ethnic group. It’s only smart for businesses to cater for their preferences and needs in order to capture the market share.
It’s not very uncommon to find businesses start to offer their service in Spanish like this hotel booking site, it is specially designed to provide Hoteles booking service for Spanish speaking people. We know for most people finding the right hotel room at the best price is the top concern. But if the booking can be done in the language they are familiar, that would be making the task easier. It’s only a matter of time other businesses catch up and start to design their businesses specifically to meet the needs and interests of Spanish-speaking individuals in the United States.
I was reading a book on the JFK family the other day, was pretty surprised to find out so many members in the JFK family have died in plane crashes. I thought that was because they flew more often and therefore the probability of encountering plane crashes was higher.
Though plane and helicopter crashes may not happen everyday, it seems they happened frequent enough to have lawyers who specialize in aviation law. Statistical report by the National Transportation Board actually showed that there are more than one thousand of aviation accidents and hundreds of fatalities in the US every year.
I am sure most of the survivors or next-of-kin of the victims would be seeking compensation from parties that are potentially liable for the crashes. Most lay person would properly need to engage an aviation lawyer to identify the party or parties liable for the accident and therefore determining all possible claims. Tragedy of any kind will be heart wrenching, a good lawyer who takes care of the nitty-gritty would have made a lot of grieving parties a little less burdened.
Though English is my second language, I speak and write English well enough for people not to have any problem understanding me. However, I do have an accent!
I taught in a college back in my home country, if I would like to get back to teach in a college, I would have to go through an accent reduction course. I think speaking English fluently with very little accent creates a better impression and students may not have an excuse to blame my English when they do not do well. LOL In fact, some of my ex-students like to complain about the foreign teachers’ accents when they don’t do well academically. So that they can hide the fact that they never put effort into their work or partying too much.
If you are in a sales career or a job which requires you to deal with a lot of people then going through a course that helps you with accent reduction may just be the thing for you. It would certainly boost your confidence when you can the language without an accent and command the respect of those who hear.
It’s so nice to sleep until you wait up. I am enjoying my holiday break right now. Go to sleep late and get up when I am awake, usually around 9.00 a.m. I went shopping last night and bought two blouses and some inner wears.
The shopping malls are all geared up for Christmas, with all the decorations and carols singing at the background. The businesses are all capitalized on Christmas because it’s a season of shopping and consuming for a lot people. From November onwards, it is impossible to forget that Christmas is coming. Coloured lights decorate many town centers and shops, along with shiny decorations, and artificial snow painted on shop windows. In streets and shops, ‘Christmas trees’ (real or plastic evergreen ‘conifer’ trees) will also be decorated with lights and Christmas ornaments.
I don’t do much of Christmas shopping, not really in the mood to decorate up the house, it would be just quiet celebrations at the Church or with friends in the bible study group. Christmas indeed is a time of celebration, to celebrate god’s goodness and love for us.
I have not gotten out of the door since yesterday. I cook whatever leftover in the fridge for lunch and ate the same for dinner. I read all the blog entries in the Google reader but didn’t jump out to comment. Not in a very social mode, that’s for sure !
When I first arrived in America, I used to live in Connecticut. My kind friends Heidi and John always eager to introduce me the American’s way of life and culture. They were the ones that invited me to celebrate Thanksgiving with their family and brought me along tor Bluegrass concert in Virginia and baseball game in New York.
I remembered it was not easy for them to get the tickets for New York Yankees Spring Training and they were was not really good seatings. However, it was my first time attending a baseball game, all the hotdog and sauerkraut were exciting and memorable experience for me. :-)
With the availability of online brokers, I am sure it’s easier for people to get their Yankee Spring Training tickets at their respective cities now. If you are a fan of New York Yankee, you may want to check out the http://www.teamonetickets.com/ for Yankees Spring Training Schedule to find out when do they play in your city so you can book the tickets!
Have you ever wonder why you ended up marrying one guy and not with another? Do you believe someone up there pre-destined and have fixed whom we are supposed to be with? Well, I think it is that way. Nevertheless, unless we go out and put in some effort to meet people and start looking around, our big boss cannot just drop someone onto our lap, can he? LOL
We certainly want to look back one day and see that the one we married is the RIGHT one for us. But, unless we have many choices, we may just end up marrying the only person that ever ask us for a date, whether he is the right one or the wrong one! You gotta start looking around for a partner that will last you for years and years and not just anyone you meet randomly.
As Internet access becomes more common and more people have high speed Internet service, more people are spending more time on the net socializing. It has become quite a popular way to meet people and finding love. Free Online Dating site opens up many opportunities and give you more choices to find someone right for you. In fact, I greatly endorse this convenience way of finding love because it is very economic and low maintenance and has virtually no pressure. Unless of course you’re doing something nasty with it :-).
Though it’s convenient way to meet people at the comfort of your home, common precaution and common sense still prevailed. But this is not to say that meeting someone online is dangerous. However, you would certainly appreciate being able to socialize in your pajamas at four in the morning. After all, many of us will appreciate the fact that we don’t have to get all dolled up everyday and sit at a bar just to have some company. And how lucky or successful have you been, trying to strike up an intelligent conversation at a bar or a lounge? :-)
Isn’t dating so much more fun these days, without all the ceremony? Albeit, the mind games and heart ache are all still there but everything can be over in just one night without you spending a cent or even met the person!!
So, what are you waiting for? Join online dating for free today, you’ve got nothing to lose and everything to gain! Start create a profile, provide some information about yourself, upload your best photo and write up an introduction about yourself. Members who are interested can then email you directly. Or alternatively, you can search the site, there are millions of single members registered with the database. You can search by location, age, interest and other criteria. Of course, you can pay a small fee for a premium membership, which entitle you to some privileges that non-paying members don’t.
Have been wanting to go to the hair dresser to “straighten” my hair since last week. But, because the re-bonding process takes quite long, I have to make sure I have big chunk of time to spare.
Thought after hooking up the computer with Internet and getting the expiring paid posts done, I would be able to leave the house to go to the hairdresser. But, it’s raining cats and dogs outside for the past two hours. I hate to go out when it’s raining. If it doesn’t stop in another hour, I can forget about going to the hair dresser today. Let the bush grows another day. :-)
Early in the morning, I packed up the car with the desktop and the peripherals, moved them from the center to our house. I have setup the work station at a corner of the living hall on the 3′ x 6′ wooden table that I brought back from the center.
Initially wanted to setup the work space in one of the spare bedrooms, but after consideration, thought this arrangement would be more convenient. I can watch what’s cooking in the kitchen from here, thus can avoid burning another pot. :-)
I was at the gynecologist’s office yesterday. The doctor is quite old, so he had accumulated a lot of patients and paper files that contained their medical history and records. There were two rooms he used for examination. You could see file cabinets and things piled up at the corner of the rooms. There was a huge and tall built in cabinet that took up half of the reception area. There was hardly any space for patients to sit at the reception area. In fact, they have extended the reception area to the corridor!
All this clutters were screaming out loud for an electronic medical records software that can turn them into electronic form. The paper files may take up half of the room, electronic data will probably only need a PC and some storage gadgets. However, I doubt his equally old receptionist and nurse could do the data entry. They still hand written everything!
No matter who you’re trying to reach, you’ll find TV commercials are the best ways to reach the widest target groups. No matter what demographic your audience falls into, you can find appropriate programming on any one of the networks. Every station reaches every audience daily, with schedules that include cartoons, celebrity, talk, sports, soaps, news, movies, reality and prime time programs. Just take your pick!
Like all forms of advertising, the production cost can vary greatly, so before setting a budget, contact a production house for advice. There are also different price ranges within the TV medium. Prime-time commercials are going to be pricey even locally, but audiences can be huge for popular shows. If you’re in a situation to be able to buy nationally, find a media buying service or an ad agency that will do your buying for you on a commission basis.
Monday November 12th 2007 is Veterans Day in the States. You may notice things get a little slower online on holiday like this. Since it’s both a federal holiday and a state holiday in all states, most businesses will be closed.
Veterans Day is an American holiday honoring military veterans, it’s largely intended to thank veterans for their service and to acknowledge and appreciate their contributions to the national security of their country. It’s mean to remember the sacrifices of all those who served - not only those who died.
Traditionally, hubby’s family will visit the graveyard, presenting flowers to their deceased family members who fought in the wars before i.e. Korean war, World War I, World War II and Vietnam War. You can say it’s almost like the Chinese version of Ching Min festival, minus the burning of papers.:-)
For the Spell to Write and Read classes that I am teaching, it comes with companion CDs. I would burn the audio files of the week’s lesson on blank CDs. That allows the children to practice dictations by following the audio recording at home.
I bought the blank CDs from a wholesale store, so they come in a dime a dozen. But, the CD burner of my desktop is rather slow speed, it takes time to do the burning. So sometimes I sent out to a media store to do the burning, they have CD duplicators that work much faster. I have been thinking may be I should invest in a CD duplicator since I need to do the duplication so often?
My sister would buy some Japanese food or souvenirs every time they traveled to Japan on business trips. One thing about this Japanese stuffs is, they are so excessively packaged. It’s true that they look pretty, but not very friendly to the environment when the so much decorative wrapping get discarded for one small item.
Nowadays the modern grocery stores or super markets also package the produce excessively. It’s actually become a burden to the consumer and to the environment. Even recyclable packaging wastes energy and resources in manufacture, transport and processing.
Do you notice how much of this excessive packaging end up in the bin in a week? My mother collects a month’s worth of rubbish before she sent the recyclable to the recycling center and the not recyclable to the dump site. She collects somewhere between 40-60 lbs of them weekly. That’s for a household of two with occasionally more people during the weekends!
You should have drawn up your Thanksgiving and Christmas gift lists by now and at least have started buying some of them? Well, if you have not yet started, you better hurry up. Thanksgiving is just around the corner, you really don’t want to rush like a mad woman the very last minute.
I thought buying a New York CityPass is quite a cool gift idea. (Can you buy me one, please?) If your loved one is planning to go visit NYC, this will be the prefect gift. If they have no plan to visit NYC, with the booklet, they may start planning one. :-)
The booklet of tickets is quite affordable. For less than $100, you can get tickets to six of the major attractions in NYC. The best thing about this CityPass is, it allows visitors to jump ahead the line at most main entrance ticket lines thus it saves time and time is money..
Currently there is a Winter Special runs for CityPass, the special rate is valid from December 15 to March 15. The booklet is valid until march 15, which give people up to three months to begin using the CityPass booklet. So, if you are interested to get some of this tickets, you can check out the links provided above . Please don’t forget to let me know if you purchase the tickets. May be we can work out a fun plan to visit NYC.
My parents in law attend a very old United Methodist church. I mean old as in the church’s history and their members.:-) They have a new pastor few years ago and it seems god is doing some revival in the church. The membership has grown quite a bit and they are out growing their premises. I heard from hubby that they are starting a church building fund soon.
You will be surprised many churches got torn apart during the fund raising process. Getting into debt to build a new premises and fill it with church pews can be a very stressful task to the pastor and leaders of the church. In my humble opinion, church leaders can learn to manage church finances through careful cash flow planning by creating healthy budgets and strive to fund the building project debt free.
The bible says, the borrower is the slave to the lender. (Proverbs 22:7). Debt burdens people and it prevents the churches from realizing their full potential and maximizing their impact for God’s Kingdom. The church can teach the members about managing their personal finances instead of keep preaching about giving and tithing. Members who can manage their personal finances will be able to beat debt, build wealth, and give with generous heart and make a deeper commitment to live their faith.
Two men from the phone company finally came to install the phone, two weeks after I first contacted the sales office! That’s why monopoly is so bad, it takes 2 weeks, countless phone calls and two trips to the sales office to finally get the phone installed!
The next is to get connected to the world.:-) It’s funny that both the phone and Internet services are offered by the same service provider, but we can’t apply for the internet service until the land line is fixed and activated. Doesn’t it make more sense to apply for both at the same time and they go figure out the installation dates instead of making their clients go to the sales office umpteen times. Don’t you think this people can use some tips and advices from the business coaches instead of going around pissing their clients off.
Saturday is my busy day as I teach a few classes on Saturday. As much as I enjoy teaching, it can get really exhausted having classes back to back.
If I have a choice, I would have scheduled the classes on weekdays. But, nowadays, the school keep the children until quite late and the children have multiple classes to attend in a week. It’s a headache trying to accommodate everyone.
In the past two years, parents who want teaching to the tests were weeded out, the present students in the class are quite nice and pleasant to teach. They don’t feel the pressure and they like the multi-sensorial kind of learning environment. They do not just sit there listening, they get to participate and play games.
We have decided to do a little renovation at our house and remodel the kitchen. We are going to add a wet kitchen, replace the broken kitchen cabinet and add a drying area. The workers should be here to start work next week. Until then, the house will be in total mess with dining table, refrigerator and appliances lying in the living hall.
I went to pick the tiles yesterday. For some reason, the guy who is supposed to give me a price quote hasn’t called yet. Though I am not worried of being overcharged as he works for my uncle who owned the tile dealership. My cousin always gives me good discount for the tiles and get his best man to do the job. But, I would like to know whether the total cost comes out to be within our budget or we can change the tiles if the price exceeds the budget. I must call to find out today.
I have been running around town most of yesterday and today. Yesterday, I went down to the tiles shop to pick and order the tiles for the renovation. On the way there, I noticed that the temperature indicator of my good ‘ol Sunny is pointing closer to ‘H’ than to ‘C’. Past experiences told me that the engine might be over-heated. On the way home, I quickly stopped by the workshop to check.
It was an air condition repair shop that I could trust, I passed the key to the boss and went to the next door’s Indian Restaurant for lunch. I could see 2-3 workers working on my car from the restaurant. By the time I finished lunch, they were about to complete the job. They told me the fan of the air condition was malfunction due to a faulty time relay.( Or something like that? I don’t really understand what they said.:-)) However, I am glad it costs less than 20 bucks to fix that.
I have recently discovered this workshop, the workers and the boss there are honest people. Few months ago, another place told me that I needed to pay 300-400 bucks to get my car’s air condition fixed. In fact, all it needed was a refill of gas and it only costs less than 20 bucks at this place. I would never go back to the first workshop that tried to cheat me. But, this one had a loyal customer now.
The mover was supposed to come on Saturday at 5.00 p.m to move the rest of the stuffs. When I called at 4.30 p.m, they were still 50 miles away and was on their way to rush back. They said they were going to be late. Pengsan! I was going to meet the Malaccan super mummies at 6.30p.m. There was no way I was going to make it if I waited for the mover to arrive. So, I told the mover to reschedule it to Sunday. I am glad I did, else I wouldn’t be able to meet the super mummies.
I was so exhausted unpacking stuffs, reorganizing the closets, clearing the messes, no energy to blog about the meeting yet. I took a long nap this afternoon and sort of recovered from the exhaustion.
And, these are corners that still waiting to be cleared.
I brought back the metal cabinet to set up a home office.
Just in case you are curious why I am moving and where to. I am moving the stuffs back to our house. In the past two years, we (more like I have been, since hubby hasn’t been around for almost a year) have been staying on the second floor of the premises that housed the preschool. I am moving the stuffs back to our house that has been vacant and neglected for two years. I will be working from home mostly and teach part time at the ground floor of the same premises since we have sold the first floor.
Chinnee is getting us to meet downtown Malacca this Saturday, if you happened to be in town and would like to meet us, do drop me a note. I would let you know the venue and time once it’s confirmed.
I would join the gathering but may run late as the movers are coming over to finish up the other half of the moving . If they come on time, I should be able to leave on time, but you never know!
