phew, what a relief..!! the school holidays are finally over and i’m actually very glad to be back to normal routines..!! one activity after another and i never realized just how busy and hectic a year-end holidays could do to me until now.. or is it that my body is no longer able to sustain [...]
01.4.09 | TheCeramicDesigner-upcloser, working-online | TheCeramicDesigner
Thursday, February 06, 2003, 2.33pm..
So this is why, as i turned 39 yesterday, i’m writing down my thoughts and recollecting past failures and successes, trying to recapture the energy and zest that seem to be eluding me the past few years in the midst of personal tribulations and continuously economic slowdowns. I know I can [...]
12.29.08 | TheCeramicDesigner-upcloser | TheCeramicDesigner
tom @puan-tom @puan-tom-abang-saufi @permaisuri @latipah..
pebbles @batu @zubedah..
pumpkin @labu @rokiah..
puteh @abubakar..
scooby-doo @sulaiman..
mojo @mahmud..
mobi @biru @mustapha..
neng-neng @sheila.. & tam-tam @steven..
12.23.08 | TheCeramicDesigner-upcloser | TheCeramicDesigner
Wednesday, February 05, 2003, 2.29pm..
As I turned 36, I started to have all sorts of ailments which were not life-threatening, but managed to drag me down physically and mentally. The various western-trained doctors that I saw dismissed most of my complaints as simply lack of sleep, lack of exercise, lack of this and lack of [...]
12.23.08 | TheCeramicDesigner-upcloser | TheCeramicDesigner
i’m feeling holiday-lagged.. 3 full-days of sunway lagoon, ice-skating, alacarte-dining, fish-spa-ing, some shopping and plenty of kids’ fun-time.. is enough for aging bodies like mine and darling hubby’s..!! by the mid of the final day, we had to argue and persisted with the kids that enough is enough, mama and abah needed to go home [...]
12.12.08 | TheCeramicDesigner-upcloser | TheCeramicDesigner
and 27 years later.. my 5yr old son is a fellow cult-member..!!!
i had been cooped up in my soho the past 5 days finishing off the remnants of my 2008 resolutions when i received a reminder call to attend this ebay-business tutorial seminar that i had registered a week earlier..
i’ve always been soho-based in my [...]
12.5.08 | TheCeramicDesigner-upcloser, working-online | TheCeramicDesigner
i’m now just remembering my early years in my accidental-business.. whereby i spent my days full-time in my small factory.. supervising my 6 pioneer-staff.. expanding our work-area little by little.. increasing our production-machineries bit by bit.. driving around in my proton aeroback looking for suppliers in unfamiliar territories.. in my tattered jeans and overgrown men-shirts [...]
12.4.08 | TheCeramicDesigner-upcloser, ideas-inspirations | TheCeramicDesigner
saturday, february 01, 2003, 11.11pm…
Now thank God, I’m a much, much better wife and mother. Those difficult years have made us grown closer and more sensitive towards one another. I no longer take things for granted in my marriage and children up-bringing. To me, the wife/mother now holds the main key to the overall [...]
11.29.08 | TheCeramicDesigner-upcloser | TheCeramicDesigner
my 16yr old eldest daughter and her study group had chosen my business as their project-topic, so off we went down to my ipoh-factory yesterday all-day, followed by my second 12yr old girl..
i’ve never had the patient and inclination to teach or to impart any kind of knowledge to anybody very well before, hence i [...]
11.26.08 | TheCeramicDesigner-upcloser, ideas-inspirations | TheCeramicDesigner
i’ve decided to pursue it-savviness since 2001/2002, but only decided to put it firmly embedded in my head as my yearly goals since the past 3years.. putting and listing everything down has always worked for me eversince i could remember, and these lists would be my guiding forces for the rest of the year/s.. being [...]
11.22.08 | TheCeramicDesigner-upcloser, working-online | TheCeramicDesigner
