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Cheated!

Tue, 21 Oct 2008 13:47:17 GMT

Finally, my package from Sabah arrived! I couldn't wait to hold the backpack I bought from this online shop which sells new and second-hand stuff. Felt like I was shopping in a virtual flea market at that time. Haha.

You know how normal backpacks are all plain coloured? Well, this one is flowery and pink. Oh well, pink is absolutely not my favourite colour, but the butterfly and flower motifs on the bag are lovely!

The zippers of the bag were not done so I pulled to close it. To my horror and dismay and frustration and whatever else I can think of, the zipper teeth wouldn't snap together, meaning the bag can't be closed AT ALL! I was like, what the heck!! Really! I yanked violently and it wouldn't work. I dragged it gently coaxing the teeth to snap together but that didn't work too.

I got really, really mad. I started forming really mean conclusions and assumptions about this girl who sold me this bag plus postage for RM20. Maybe she was trying to get rid of her useless junk by selling them. She didn't even bother to tell about the defect in her site! She should've done so if she knew her ethics.

My calls to her were unanswered. Heh. I used my mother's handphone after fifteen minutes to reach her, but she didn't pick up too. I sent her an email instead, asking her if she knew of the defect. I'll wait for the 'yes' or 'no' answer. If she did know about it when she mailed me the bag, I'd start to tell her how very unethical it was.

This incident made me more careful about buying stuff online. So far, I never had any problem at all with other online boutiques, except for this one. I will never ever buy anything from her anymore. Just beware la. Don't simply buy. Check with seller whether it's still in good condition. I guess that was my mistake.

I'm glad I spoke to Shikin, my former secondary schoolmate and Charlotte of littleaccompaniments about this. They taught me how to approach the situation professionally and calmly. If it weren't for them, I'd be PMSing my way in a rude and nasty email to her and probably end up not getting any reply.

Thanks, babes! :)

Feels so different to blog here again.. like as though I've forgotten how to blog. :s

I'm Still Alive!

Tue, 19 Aug 2008 10:26:28 GMT

After a seemingly long hiatus, I decided to update this space again! I reckon that my previous (emo) post looks really weird there, after sitting for almost three months. I'm plumpily fine now, thank you. I am blessed with a week of holidays.. yay! I am going to use this one week break very very carefully.. not gonna waste it by sleeping it away.

Beads have been keeping me company, since my previous post. I am obsessed with beading now. And I mean making handmade beaded bracelets, necklaces, earrings, handphone charms and more!

It seems that every year I am obsessed with different things. Last year, it was gardening. I loved gardening so much that I kept going to nurseries to buy new plants. Every morning, I checked my orchids to see how they were growing. I even kept a gardening journal which I made myself, out of A4 papers and two boards.

I still love orchids. I think they're very pretty and hardy. They last longer than any other flowers. I think.

Anyway, I have set up another blog called Chatterbeads. It's a place where I sell my beaded creations. Do visit it and shout in my chatterbox! And tell your friends who love accessories to visit it! :D Hehe.. Does it mean that I will abandon this blog? Hmm.. maybe not. I'll still keep this blog, maybe less frequent posts. But I hope I won't abandon it for too long though. Haha. Maintaining two blogs won't be easy. =s

Few links you can check out:

My Picasa, where you can see the photos of my creations
Chatterbeads, my beading blog.

Support meeeeee!! That would be very much appreciated. :D

I need to tell you this really cute dialogue I had with one of my 3-yr-old student. She was the one in the crayon situation too. So, one day, the teacher of my class, Aunty Eunice, was on leave because she had migraine. Little Su Yin noticed that Eunice wasn't around, so she decided to find out why.

SY: Where's Aunty Eunice?
WY: Aunty Eunice is at home. She is not feeling well because her head is painful.
SY: Oh. Where did she knock her head on ah?

Sigh.. she's still so young to understand what a headache and a migraine is. Wait till she's older.

Scream

Sun, 25 May 2008 17:33:06 GMT

i wish i could drive so that i can drive myself out at this hour to wherever i want to be and just cry my heart out and scream out all my frustrations.

maybe it's a good time to learn now, bang a few curbs and cars, give myself an adrenaline rush..

It's a Chic Lit?!

Tue, 13 May 2008 14:16:38 GMT

I've been eyeing on it for a long time. My long time means two weeks. I usually don't get interested in buying novels featured at the entrances of bookshelves or bestsellers, but somehow, this book caught my eye at Popular bookstore. Okay, I admit that I judge books by their covers. It has subtle swirls with flowers and butterflies! XD I got more interested when I read the synopsis. It's about this woman who has a walled garden that mysteriously blooms all year round. She tends to that family garden from which she makes her delicacies - famed and feared for their magical effects. She has everything she thinks she needs until one day a stranger became her next door neighbour and a vine of ivy crept into her garden.

I'm just really curious about what happens in the story. Reminds me of those witchy stories. So I decided to get it, but I wasn't willing to part with my RM32.90. I'm not the type who spends on novels. Then, two days ago, I had a Teacher's Day gift from the kindy: a RM20 MPH gift voucher! Wheee! =D Eugene and I thronged One Utama's MPH just now just to look for the book. I passed by Atonement, and had second thoughts about Garden Spells. Then I decided I shouldn't be fickle and continued looking for the latter.

It was quite difficult finding it - I did not expect it to be labeled under Chic Lit. -_-" So, I'm going to spend my Teacher's Day gift on a chic lit. Uh huh.. I could've bought a nice craft book or orchid book, but I'm currently more interested in craft mags (they're cheaper) and I'm not really in my orchid mood at this point in life. =p

I'll be burying my nose in my new novel for the next few months. Yeah, I'm a really slow reader. And to make the book more worthwhile, I read it very s-l-o-w-l-y, stretching it as many days as I can. I dunno.. That's my idea of making my money paid for the book worth it.. quite weird I know. As a result, I haven't finish many books. Heheh.

Books I Wanna Read:

Atonement by Ian McEwan
The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini
Stardust by Neil Gaiman
The Life of Pi by Yann Martel
many other books which I'll add here

Anyone who has any of these, can pinjam? =D

A Day of Childhood Memories

Thu, 01 May 2008 16:21:41 GMT

Today started out as a sort-of uneventful day, as Mum didn't want to go shopping and I had tuition questions to set anyway. I was on the computer the whole day, typing on Excel and nosing on other people's facebooks.

It was then I saw my childhood friend, Wei Inn, online and I chatted with her until Streamyx decided to cari pasal and screw up my connection.

It was then that I discovered something sweet between my former Form 1 classmate and my friend from college. =) The world is so small! And somehow, I don't feel I'm alone anymore.

It was then I searched for a long-lost friend through facebook whom I used to hang out with when I was seven at our babysitter's house. He was eight then. We used to nap together in the living room every afternoon during school holidays, ate lunch together with the other kids, spent the day playing games, do all sorts of things together. Both of us were the older kids among seven or eight other younger ones.

It was then I tried to find another kid from the same babysitter who is five years my junior who migrated to Perth with her family. I think I found her.. not sure yet, until she replies.

Facebook rocks!

It was also then I tried to find my dad through Facebook. To no avail.. yet.

Can't you just show up?

Chaos Within

Sun, 20 Apr 2008 09:35:52 GMT

You can call this a tag, I guess. But I wasn't tagged by anyone. I saw this in a scrapbooking magazine and some scrappers spilled their handbags, revealed what the bags contained in the form of scrapbook layouts (ie, really using papers, cards, embellishment) and answered the questions posed to them. It's true that the contents of one's bag reveal her personality. I thought it was quite interesting, so I decided to do it here in my blog. I am also planning to create a layout for myself too. That would happen when I really have the luxury of time to sit down and scrap. =p Feel free to do this tag too, if you're not afraid to reveal your personality! Hehe..

Name: Waiyee
Occupation: Kindergarten teacher
Description: Metallic purple shoulder handbag
Contents: Olive green wallet, sunnies, pill box with Panadol Actifast, Milidon and Uphamol for migraine cases, house keys and kindy keys, Mentos and Dentyne, aloe vera gel, a packet of tissue papers, frangipani hairclip for my long fringe, lighter, gel pens, permanent marker for graffiti purposes, sunblock, pocket mirror for vain moments, wooden comb, face powder, BodyShop Born Lippy lipbalm given by Teeliang for Christmas, blotter, Maglite, Creative Zen Stone mp3 player given by Thomas and Jeff for my 23rd birthday which fits into my elephant coin pouch, and 'my' N95.

What do you think your bag and its contents say about you?
My handbag shows that I'm a person who buys somethings because I think it looks cool instead of what would be practical - I love the shiny purple material and the little floral detail at the corner.

I guess the contents show that I am a sundry shop, because I seem to have everything prepared! If I'm stuck waiting for bus or if I'm in the LRT, I have my mp3 player handy. Someone needs to light up candles on a birthday cake? That's what the lighter's for. The Dentyne is useful when I don't have time to brush my teeth. Haha! Nola.. so far it hasn't happened to me.. yet.

The contents also show that I'm a disorganized person who loves bright rainbow hues 'cause they make me happie!

How many handbags do you own?
Roughly about eight.

How many do you use?
I change my bag when the current one I use isn't suitable for the occasion or when I just simply feel like changing!

How often do you clean out your regular handbag?
When I take too long to navigate my house keys amidst the crumpled tissue papers and old receipts.

I wish..

Mon, 31 Mar 2008 09:39:14 GMT

..that life's so perfect that I don't have to wish for anything more, anything less.

And those type of wishes barely come true.

Guilty for not updating

Sun, 09 Mar 2008 10:23:43 GMT

Yes I do feel guilty for disappointing you with old stale posts. It's not because I have nothing to say recently, in fact I do. I always have something to say anyway.

I'm getting used to kindy.. weeks past too fast, seriously. Heavier responsibilities are being passed to me, little by little. Kids are growing taller by the week. Haha.. Not that I noticed (since I see them five days a week they still look the same to me), but one of the teachers who fell sick and stayed at home for a week noticed the increment of height in the little ones.

From seven children in my class to nine, and soon I'll have ten. Four boys, six girls. All of them bring sunshine to the class with their smiles la, seriously. They look so sweet when they smile, like, arggghhh!! But when they become little mischiefs, they make me wanna cekik them, like, arggghhh!!

Here I present to you, Cute Moment #2! Some of you might have heard it already. Haha..

While little Samantha was waiting for her transport home..
Me: Who's picking you up today, Samantha?
Sa: My papa.

Few minutes later..
Me: Your papa's coming soon, okay?
Sa: No, not my papa, my popo..
Me: Eh? I thought you said your papa's gonna pick you up?
Sa: No.. papa go traveling.
Me: Oh.. where did your papa go?
Sa: Office.

Cute riigghhttt?!

Stop and Reflect

Tue, 05 Feb 2008 22:40:22 GMT

Christmas is waaaay past, changed my layout! I like this one. It's made up of rainbow hues (sorta) and it's all so flowery and it's ME!

Although my layout's cheerful, I feel the opposite. Maybe it's because I dread traveling, which I would be doing in few minutes' time. I haven't even got the time to think about CNY. Usually I decorate the house with artificial pink sakura flowers on dried branches and bake cookies, but this year, I haven't the time and the mood.

I lost touch with writing.. sigh. And with photography as well. I'm starting to change. I don't feel as confident as I used to be, and I'm becoming more and more sensitive which is rather irritating to people around me.

I need to stop running and sit and reflect.

Mum's rushing us now.. Happy CNY, have a safe trip if you're traveling! =)

The Return of Aunty Waiyee

Wed, 09 Jan 2008 09:48:59 GMT

I am back at the kindy as a Teaching Assistant! Not exactly Teacher, but someone who assists the Teacher. There are currently seven 3-year-olds in my class, two of them are boys. Today's Day 3 of school.. been running after them quite a bit, and prying crying kids from their mothers in the morning.. but thank God so far nothing worse happened.. yet!

Cute moment #1:
After school hours, little Su Yin was still waiting for her grandfather to come and get her. After letting her do free drawing and Duplo blocks, I really didn't know what else to let her do. So I led her to a counting poster on the wall and pointed at each item and asked, "What is this?" So, part of the conversation went like this:

Me: What is this?
SY: Colour pencils!
Me: No. Crayons. Say 'crayons'.
SY: Caywons.
Me: Crayons.
SY: Paywons.
Me: Crayons.
SY: Yes I know!