Archive for December, 2007

I haven’t been anywhere near my blogs for two weeks now. Too busy enjoying the holidays. Hehe. No, I haven’t gone anywhere for a holiday. Just pottering round the house doing small things for the house like repairing the doorbell, painting old patches etc and playing silly games with the kids and their dad like making paper boats and watching them sail in our back drain in the rain.

Thank you to those blog friends who dropped by my blogs with your Christmas and New Year wishes. I had a very good Christmas indeed, stuffing myself with the turkey stuffing. Hahaha. There goes my diet! Now I’ve only got about a month left to Chinese New Year and I haven’t lost an inch!!! Malu nya!

Anyway, I just wanted to wish you all a very Happy New Year 2008. May all your wishes come true and I would like to leave you with this wonderful holiday images. December is really the most wonderful time of the year isn’t it?

Here’s a beautiful fairyland to greet shoppers at Mid Valley Megamall.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

You could even get to meet fairies a dancing…..

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

But if fairies are not your thing, perhaps you could watch the soldiers a drumming….

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Or you could simply stop to admire the Christmas tree made entirely of bread and buns!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Or stop under the toadstools to rest…

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Or just take a photo or two with close friends and family. You’ll have lovely backdrops to add to your photo album.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

I only managed to take some of these images at One Utama and Mid Valley Megamall because thats all the time I have for. There’s still the Pavillion, The KLCC, Sunway Pyramid etc to make shopping in KL extremely fun and enjoyable during this year end season.

 

HAPPY NEW YEAR 2008 TO EVERYONE!

Its the time of the year to look for holiday gifts. Is your man a racing fan? Have you run out of ideas for gifts for him? If you have, here’s a novel idea for the best holiday gift for a racing fan. Send him for a nascar racing school package at Dale Jarrett Racing School.

It’ll be the best gift ever and something he can proudly talk about to all  his other racing fan buddies. It’ll certainly be a lot more interesting than that office stationery set or that grooming set you’ve been buying year after year. It’ll even be better than some of the latest gadgets like cellphones, digicams etc because it will the experience of his lifetime.

Imagine that. He’ll get to experience the actual thrills and spills to be on the track itself. He’ll feel the exhilaration, the excitement of racing, the heat and the pulse. And the next time he watches a race, it will be even be more exciting to him having gone through the experience before.

One on One Instruction is available and the programs are varied. Starting from 3 Laps up to 80 Laps. Better still, purchase a gift certificate and let your man decide on the date and time to visit the racing school and the program he would like to enrol for.

There are two options for the racing school gift certificates. You could purchase from a list of packages starting from $150 for a 3-lap ride at Talladega SuperSpeedway up to a 60-lap ride. For your information, the Dale Jarrett Racing school is the first EVER racing school at the Talladega SuperSpeedway. It is also the first EVER racing shool at Speedways like the the DARLINGTON Speedway and  BRISTOL MotorSpeedway.

Alternatively you could choose gift certificates for other tracks like the LOWE’s MotorSpeedway, KANSAS Speedway, KENTUCKY Speedway, ATLANTA MotorSpeedway etc. The track schedules are ready for the whole of next year 2008 so the racing fan can have fun all year round!

The other option for the racing school gift certificate would be of course be to let your man decide. If you are not sure whether he would like it, you could start off with a 3 laps Qualifier Ride before going all out for the Rookie Adventure or the Championship Challenge. One thing is for sure though. If he likes to watch racing, he’d love to be behind the wheel of a racing car!

So what are you waiting for? This will definitely be a gift he will remember for years to come, years after he has finished using another fragrance set or years after his new gadget has become old fashioned. Racing will never go out of fashion and sending him to racing school is such a novel idea for a holiday gift don’t you think?

Gynae’s office has called up a few months ago to remind me to do my pap smear. Alamak! Still outstanding. One of the things I have to do before the year end.

Another dreaded appointment I have to meet before the year end is the, the, the, the, DENTIST! Ok. I’m chicken! I’m scared shitless. I hate the sound of the dentist drill. Help! But my daughter needs a check up and I’ve got to show her how brave I am by example. Hahaha.

So wish me luck as I make my appointment. Once I get those dreaded appointments out of the way, perhaps I will have more pleasant ones like appointment with the hairdresser, with Santa Clause etc. Now, if only I had more time. These things take up so much time. Sigh!

Sexy shoes are out for me ever since the kids came along. I’d probably sprain an ankle or two trying to walk in those high stiletto heels. Now its just plain workable, comfy women shoes for me. I won’t go as far as to don flip flops, slippers or beach shoes or whatever it is that you want to call them. I’m still vain enough to go for sandals with some heels but I have to be practical and make sure they are not too high.

One thing is clear though. No more strutting along in strappy, gorgeous, classy, pretty shoes. Sob. Sob. So what is sexy shoes? I guess the answer depends on taste. To me, they are high, strappy (showing some skin) and even nicer if they have some pretty coloured stones. Platform shoes, wedge heels, boots (which could be sexy if worn with the right outfit), clogs and pumps do not fall in the category of sexy in my opinion.

Women shoes these days can cost a bomb but the right pair can really bring out your outfit. I haven’t invested in any nice one for so long I cannot remember it. Maybe its time to get one. However, I’d have to leave it for an occassion which requires me to sit all night like a wedding dinner perhaps but what good would my lovely shoes be hidden under the table all night. Lol! 

Dear Blogger Friends,

Thank you very much for your support and ideas about what to do when someone copies and tries to make a carbon copy of your site. I just checked and it looks like my posts have been removed from the site. Yippee!

Special thanks to Klaw for his tips. Mr BengBeng, maybe you’d like to try it too for the carbon copy of your My Longkang blog.

Now, I wish someone would tell me what to do with a stalker. I have had someone who arrives on my blog by searching for the term “mumsgather”. This person is from Singapore and has been doing it for the past 2 years.

I see it on my statcounter referrals and it really gives me the creeps to see this person on my blog everyday for a few hours each day for the past 2 years. Sometimes the entry is every minute. Even I don’t monitor my own blogs that frequently. Creepy! Creepy! Creepy!

Check out this link to my stats (sorry if this link is not working for you please refer to the paragraph below) for my Parenting Times blog. Can you see that there is someone entering my blog via the search term “mumsgather” every few minutes? This has been happening every day for the past 2 years now. It happens on all my blogs but mostly the Parenting one. Creepy? What to do?

I’m sorry I couldn’t do a screenshot well and my link didn’t work. You’d have to first go to my Parenting Times blog, wait for the page to fully load, then scroll right down right to the very bottom. After the bottom border you’ll see a “View my stats” (on grey blackground). Then look for the “Recent Keyword Activity” on the blue sidebar located on the left and click on that and you will be able to see what I am talking about. (I hope!)