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During the festive season last month, there were a lot of promotions and offers everywhere, be it shopping malls or in the cyber world.  The festive season carries some discounts from the fixed prices and this is the best time of the year to do some purchasing online.  Why do I prefer online shopping?  For one, I do not have to think of the hassle of parking my car in crowded paces especially when I am into getting one of these man made diamonds solitaire earrings.  I can take my own sweet time to admire one diamond after another, in fact, these eco friendly jewelry are getting more and more popular nowadays.

The market is on a roller coaster ride again. During this time, if you don’t choose your seat carefully, you will be thrown off the roller coaster ride! They say you have to buy low and sell high but how low is low and when or what is high? It is not easy to tell at all. In fact, timing the stock market is not an easy thing to do. Not everyone can be a No. 1 Trader.

The right thing to do is to choose  your stocks carefully. There are many good valued big cap stocks around. If you are good, you can go for penny stock picks too. These are more volatile though but if you research your stocks carefully, you may find some good ones. Whatever it is, don’t be sentimental about the stocks you hold. When it is time to get out, move on. You must be decisive when making buy and sell decisions. If you aren’t the prices will move on ahead of you, up or down depending on which way the market is going.

At the moment it looks like it is heading down as the market gets jittery over the possibility of a banking crisis in Europe and a series of US economic reports that were less than good. But then who knows? It is a crazy time. How do you predict a stock market crash? The Dow is moving down 400 one day and up 500 the next day. I am glad that I am no longer at the stock market with the incessant ringing of the phones. I had 3 phones at the time, 2 fixed lines and 1 cell phone. I seriously prefer to hear my babies crying then the phones ringing but that is just me. Some others may prefer the challenge of the market and may even enjoy this volatile market for its buying and selling opportunities.

There is this little boy that used to sit beside my boy in class. He is quite new, having joined the class sometime in the middle of the school term. My boy tells me that he is very naughty. He would constantly disturb him. Recently at the Parent Teacher’s Conference, the little girl who also sits beside the new boy retorted to me. “He does not sit with us anymore. He keeps on disturbing me. I just can’t stand it anymore!”

My boy had mentioned to me that the new boy had used a scissors and placed another boy’s fingers in between the scissors. We thought that it was important enough to mention to the teacher since this was a dangerous thing to do. The teacher said that she realises that the boy was very naughty and hard to control that is why she has now placed him to sit somewhere else on his own so that he would not disturb anyone else. She said that the headmaster has also called the boy’s parents in for a discussion.

According to the teacher, the boy has family problems. That is why he is so out of control. Sometimes, he would go and cry and hide in the bathroom and she would have to go round the school searching for him. I felt so sorry and bad for the boy when I heard this. I don’t know what family problems he is facing at home but I wish that all parents should realise that one important task they must do for their children is to provide emotional support for them no matter what problems they themselves are facing.

My boy is turning 7 this month. He is all excited about his birthday. He wants his birthday present to be a surprise. “Mummy and daddy, will you sneak out of the house to buy my present?” He wants to celebrate his birthday on a Sunday. He does not want to celebrate it on the actual day because he has to go to school, then he has to do homework in the afternoon and then he has to wait till daddy comes back from work before he can eat his cake and open his presents.

So he chose a Sunday, not Saturday because on Saturday he knows we have to run around to do chores and buy groceries and such. He wants to wake up and rush to the computer to play computer games. *slaps forehead* We have no idea what to buy for him. The kids have too many books and toys. We overindulge. I think we enjoy buying books and toys for them more than they enoy getting them. They have become avid readers as a result but sadly, they have no time to play with their numerous toys.

My girl will be turning 9 next month. That is the age I was when mum passed away. How time flies. Now I am a mum myself to a 9 year old. Amazing. “Mummy, for my birthday, can you give me RM2. I want to buy the star paper from the school bookshop.” Such simplicity. I am glad its not “Mummy, can I have a handphone, a laptop, an iPod” etc…. We shall enjoy this simplicity for a couple of years more after which, I think, peer pressure will set in and with it some unreasonable demands perhaps? We’ll come to that when the time comes.

Even my girl feels that she is  growing up. Just the other day she told me… “Mummy, last time I was in std 1 and I saw all this big big std 3 students, now I am the big big std 3 student.”

Children grow up so fast. You can’t say, I will spend more time with them, after I have earned enough money for their education, get my promotion, bought a house, etc. The time is now, right from the time they are conceived. For if you don’t, you will find that the time has come and gone and it can never be replaced and before you know it, they are teens and young adults. I have a few friends who leave the bringing up of their children entirely to their parents. After work, they go to their parent’s house for dinner and to play with the child for a while, then they go home without the kid (the child stays with the grandparents for “convenience”), then they bring the child home to stay with them during weekends.

I am indeed fortunate not to have to rely on anyone else to bring up the kids. I am fortunate not to miss any of their growing up moments. I hope that I will be able to continue to enjoy every moment with them for many more years.

I think I need an oversized wall clock. In fact, I think I need an oversized calander, organiser and a computer with large fonts amongst other things. Yes, that is life after 40. My eyesight is getting worse.

I thought that it would only hard be seeing things from near but the strange thing is I also have trouble seeing things from afar. I can’t seem to read my wall clock. I can’t see the TV and the computer is sometimes blur to me.

The worse part is when I eat. My food gets blurred! It is blur from afar but the nearer it gets to my mouth, the more blur my food becomes. It is a very strange sensation indeed. With so many things going on with my family at the moment, my eyesight is the last thing on my mind right now but I will have to get it checked soon.

At the moment I am wearing my regular glasses on a chain (like an old lady) because I keep on having to take it on and off as my eyesight gets blurred and cleared alternatingly when I look far and near. I definitely need bifocals now than maybe I won’t need that oversized wall clock after all.