Archive for October, 2009

My To Do List from 15 years ago….

• invite chairman for conference
• have lunch with hotel sales staff
• speak to sponsors about gifts for event
• have drink with girl friend
• have meeting with staff (again!)
• buy that must have high heels
• blah blah blah

My To Do List today……..

• fix that broken shower stall door
• call the contractor about the leaking roof
• help the girl with her revision
• help the boy with his concert practise
• remind the man to buy bread
• replace the must have high heels with runners (all the better to chase the kids with)
• etc etc etc

Whats on your To Do List? (I think it says a lot about your age and status. Hahaha.)

Its coming to the end of the year now as we are almost halfway through the first month of the last quarter of the year.

When I was a young single lady, I knew that the end of the year is approaching when I was busy planning for year end parties and company gatherings and trips and thinking about what party dresses to wear for those occassions.

Now, that I am a mother of two, I know that the end of the year is approaching, when I am busy helping the little ones prepare for their year-end tests and concerts and after that school holidays.

How do you know that the end of the year is approaching?

When I was a young single girl, I knew that the New Year is coming when, I wind down from my partying, make resolutions and get ready to start my year afresh at work.

Now that I am a mother of two, I know that the New Year is coming when, I start shopping for back to school stuff and I try to wind down the little ones from their school holiday activities and pep them up to get ready for the new school year.

How do you know that the New Year is coming?

Not a paid post. I just love to share a good thing.

I love my personalised iGoogle homepage. Its like my personalised online magazine and newspaper. So far, I have created 3 pages. I am using the iGoogle Beach theme. I love it. It is fantastic because the sun rises and sets on the page. Another theme which I love which has a changing night and day scene is the Winter Village. 

On my homepage are news articles from all over the world plus a widget from Google News which displays updated news from the Google News site. I have motivational posters and sayings plus a clock and a countdown timer there. I have an easy link to the various google services I use like blogger, adsense, etc. I have a YouTube search box plus a link to my Gmail. I also love Google Maps which is right there on my homepage too.

The second page is my entertainment page. It looks very much like a women’s magazine. I stuff it with pictures of beautiful women (hoping that by looking at beautiful people daily, I will become beautiful too. Haha. Just kidding, maybe its just to inspire and remind myself not to let myself go and look like an old aunty). I included pictures of shoes, handbags and beautiful gowns, all very lovely to look at but no money to own and no reason to have because there is no occassion to wear them to. (sob. sob.). The pictures are updated whenever I refresh the page so I don’t get bored looking at them. On that page, I have rss to fashion articles plus those tabloid style celebrity gossip. (which only shallow people read. Its ok to be shallow once in a while so….. I read them occassionally. haha.)

The third page is my Parenting page. There I have pictures of children, parenting jokes, inspirational posters and sayings plus parenting articles of course.

I’m thinking of starting a health tab as well.

Its really like having an online magazine with personalised content that is updated regularly with the latest news and articles on the subject matter of your interest.

If you haven’t got an iGoogle personalised page, you should think of starting one. You can use themes to create the look you want, then pull in the rss to content you want plus add in cool gadgets too. You can see how some iGoogle homepages created by world-renowned celebrities and thought leaders look like on the iGoogle Showcase.

I use lots of Google Gadgets on my iGoogle pages. Do you know that  you can put some of these Google Gadgets on  your webpage or blog too? – Google Gadgets for your blog.

I have used MSN and Yahoo personalised homepages before but I find iGoogle the best. What about you? Do you have any personalised pages? What sort of theme do you like?

Last night I was stirring a glass of honey and suddenly I was small again, in my mother’s kitchen, drinking the same smelling honey which I had drunk often as a child. Its funny how certain smells can invoke childhood memories almost instantaneously transporting us back through time.

I know many smells remind me of my mother. Smells of peeling or chopping onion reminds me of helping her in the kitchen. Smells of cakes being baked reminds me of mum too. Smells of half boiled eggs reminds me of my dad who took it daily when we were young. Smells of Fish Oil reminds me of, well of Fish Oil taken as a child. Smells of plain white porridge or plain bread dipped in Milo reminds me of being sick as a child etc etc.

Most of my olfactory memories relate to childhood events. So I guess, if I want my children to remember me when they are older, I better go and whip up some good regular cooking of the same foods they love often. A pity, I don’t bake. That would make some good childhood memories.

Better don’t step on my tail today. As a matter of fact, better not be anywhere near me today.

It must be all that rushing around I have been doing lately. Rush. Rush. Rush. Yell. Yell. Yell.

As usual, the girl pesters me and does things so sloooooowly, so I yell at her.

When I bathe the boy and he accidentally sprays water all over my clothes I say “Look at what you’ve done!”

As usual, I’ve got a dozen things that needs to be done but I don’t feel like doing any of them.

So I sit here and sulk and nothing gets done and then I feel even worse because it means more rushing later on.

I gotta break this spell somehow…….