What doesn't kill you will make you stronger

I'm back after about one month... not too bad lah even though there it is dusty in here already. Cough cough...

I have been really busy - I basically have 3 jobs now: TeaRoom, Project Consultant and HK Web Consultant aka copy writer. I am planning to take up the offer from MFG for one of his market research job. I know I am really busy, but I do have some spare time some times when I don't need to write... and it is MFG we are talking about here, if you know what I mean ^^

Next week, I will know if my TeaRoom venue can be confirmed. If all go well, you will be able to have tea with me at TeaRoom in May or June this year. If you are thinking about invitation, I am not having a party. I just want to open shop, start business and get the revenue stabilized. Then we talk party when I have the budget. But please do drop by when it's open :)

Meanwhile, the topic of the world is currently the tsunami disaster in Japan. Even being attacked by such disaster its people still appear to me as the strongest people I have known. In dire moments, they did not go hysterical, they know exactly what to do, they support each other, the even still queue up at the supermarket to get urgent supplies - imagine this in other countries, there would have been robbery cases everywhere already. I really admire them as being the kind of person they are. I truly believe that they will be able to stand back up again very soon, and they will stand taller and stronger than ever. I am not surprised that they may even think of a way to ensure survival of tsunami - if it does happen again. But touch wood that nothing serious will happen to them again. Some might say that it is karma for what they have done centuries ago, and if that is true, good for them because they have paid up hefty sum of debts this time and they should be freed from bad karma very soon. My prayers are with them.

Lucky me, I am currently enjoying a great life. I only need to go to office 2 times a week for 2 half days. I am managing my TeaRoom orders so that I don't have to suffer from last minute order that I had to get ready overnight. Extra income from copy writing. Most importantly, enjoying my free time :)

Free time not for long...

I'm back! For a split second...

Ish ishhhh.... I see cobwebs in here! Didn't even post any CNY greetings in here. Must come back for a belated spring cleaning.

I have loads to story but for now, I need sleep!

Did you know?

I was on FB and I kept seeing links to pictures I took with you, so I clicked into some of them. They reminded me that we used to spend so much time together those days. So many lunch alone with you, and I wished I had that special feelings towards you from day one, at least I would have enjoyed being alone with you in a different and special way more times. Those were the days when you were my lunch "sponsor" including driving me around for lunch all the time. Did you know that actually some of the later lunch became really special for me? I love the way I feel when you bought me pineapple because you knew that it's my favorite fruit.

I used to make you my number one guinea pig. Did you know that some of the items were not "experiments"? Most items were those I knew I can make very well. Did you know how contented I felt whenever I managed to make something you like to eat?

At one point I was making fruit juices for you almost every morning, and I told you I was making for me and sis anyways and will give you the extras. Did you know that it wasn't entirely true? I had purposely made extra for you. I still remember that some nosy people in the office was trying to interrogate you for the source of your supply but since you promised me not to say, you let them think it was someone else. :)

Although I really like the way I feel when I see you everyday for the whole day, I really thought it was best that you left. Did you know when I first learnt that you wanted to leave, I was in such despair I cannot begin to describe? Especially when someone told me you wanted to leave the country.

Looking at one those pictures of ours, it reminded me that what I like most about you is not your achievements, or your personality, or your looks (although I really do love them all) but it was about who I am - how I feel whenever I am with you, how I look when I am beside you... I can see it from the pictures - I can see myself looking so beautiful until I cannot take my eyes off myself.

I miss me - the one with the contented face beside yours.

Be careful what you wish for

I just did a "heart test" and I got cold sweat with a big rock dropped into my stomach kind of feeling!

I told myself that MFG will turn up during our next meet up with his girlfriend. And it was a scary feel I got there. Geezzz... didn't realize that my heart is in such bad condition, it's really hard to believe how difficult it is to convince myself. And my head just told me to leave the heart alone already! Such pointless test!!

It is a night of "think too much" again, which is nothing new. I actually hated that hopeless feel I made my heart go through but I know now that I am still not ready for the news. When I used to like someone before MFG, I once wish for either things to happen or let there be something to "kill" the heart of that feeling. And I did get a piece of terrible (then felt) news that made me totally gave up on the feelings towards that guy in question. However, honestly, I don't remember that my heart felt this bad, I had that same cold sweat, end of hope feeling, but not as scary as now. Maybe I told my heart that "false" piece of news just now when I was alone. The last time I was told of the other mentioned piece of bad news, I had MFG right in front of me.

I looked back and can see "dots" all over the past... I remember being the one who told MFG to get to know more about the girl he was seeing and he found reason for him to stop seriously seeing her. He found reason for me to forget about the guy I used to like so much.

I met him when he was so ready to settle down, I was happy to guess that I wasn't too far from the kind of person he might like. I used to think for the past many years that I want to be single, but I felt otherwise after I get to know my feelings towards MFG. We were (are) both single and had quite a lot in common (or I'd like to think so) but I can't seem to see the line that is supposed to join all the "dots". I am still hoping that the dots are yet to be joined, or joining but requires more dots. I have my best friends and mentor telling me to "give up" and I failed my "heart test" miserably".

I am afraid, SO afraid to make the same wish again. So I am going to be really selfish and make a slightly different wish - I wish for a "replacement block" for the heart before the dent is created, can?

Please...

Happy New Year!

Again, how come end of year is the time to review "KPIs" for the whole year and new year is to set new (recycle) resolutions?

Oh well, here goes... 2010 has been a year of many changes for me. Biggest risk I took was resigning from my full time job to be full time baker. Okay, not exactly for the first few months, but it is now. Income has been really unstable, it is really scary. With lesser courage, I would have jumped back into the rat race already. But for now, I feel that so long as I believe in what I do and have faith, things will work out with God answering our prayers. I do not know what is set forth for me career wise, I don't even know if I am able to get an ideal space to start up TeaRoom anytime soon or not. But it does seem logic, and the only way to have TeaRoom store front set up this year, in 2011. Finger crossed.

Another major change in life is the moving out of sis, BIL and baby from this house. It gave a really "empty" feeling at first. I even cried a lot when I first learnt of this arrangement, that time mainly because of mum who has resulted in this move. But to think of it, this is actually a good arrangement, mum although appeared to be cruel, but she has done a big favour. Sis should really have her own place, a place that belongs to her and her family to do whatever she likes with freedom she couldn't get when she was with me. Besides, there was really not enough space for 3 of them in my house. I was expecting mum to have moved out too last year, but that major change has been reserved for year 2011. I didn't ask her when so I'm not sure myself what's the plan.

With the above two changes alone, my life has changed tremendously from everyday routine to spending, to lifestyle... It's really uncertain but I will have faith :).

As for MFG, he is still my favorite guy. So many people told me to give up, some said hope is there... I don't want to begin to analyse the situation or how I feel or anything like that. The fact is, whether I give up or not is not the issue here... I'll just let MFG be where he is now and wait, wait for the right guy to appear. Or I'll just stay put at where I am. I guess I spent so many years wishing and hanging on to the idea of being single that I might need equally many years to wish OUT of that. Warrrhggg... That would be say another 20 years or so... a long wait indeed! LOL!

"KPI" for 2011? No, nothing... will see how it goes and take things one at a time. Will deal with it when I need to. As for now, right now, there is CNY bake to "look forward" to. What a year - the past and the coming one!

Merry Chrismas!

Happy Boxing Day more like, and it is actually over...

No wonder the statistic told me that I only have 2 average readers daily. I am surprise there are 2, my last post was 8 December!!! Haiyo... have I been that busy?

Actually I had due to Christmas baking. And I originally planned to put up a long post here but don't know what I did, dilly-dally, and now it's midnight. I got to catch some sleep for a good 2 hour gym session early tomorrow morning. Haha...

I will TRY to put up another post tomorrow k :p

Milestone... new year resolutions?!

Christmas is coming soon, I am hoping to prepare some treats to give out as Christmas present. I don't remember giving any last year, I think I was quite busy then? But I have something very decorative but might not be delicious in mind haha... okay, depending whether you like sweet stuff or not lah actually :) - A VERY decorative cookie. Yes, you read right, A COOKIE. ^^

Was suppose to meet another friend to have lunch tomorrow together with MFG, but MFG had to travel, last minute family matter. I actually miss him a lot these few days, perhaps it's the year end mood. Another year is ending, and what are the milestones achieved? Must we do KPI review every year? Haha... I think the biggest move I made this year was resigning to take up full time on cake biz. Things are looking alright, I am not starving to death and I can pay my bills. Hoping for a good month in December so that I can give mum more money as her year end treat/ CNY pocket money. Finger crossed.

And by the way, if you saw my Rolex watch cake recently, it was ordered by my manicure beautician (how do you call them?). Just a casual conversation had turned into a potential business of a thousand ringgit! Yes, she booked another cake for her brother, which I expect to be a fancy one also. So far her single spending on TeaRoom has been more than RM600!

Meanwhile, baby has grown up so much, I always feel very touched and contented that she is growing up so fast, learnt so fast and being such good company to mum. I think mum will be moving out soon, and I hope that she will be happy with her new life staying alone - not that I am such a big company now... but still. Totally alone. That applies to me as well.

No new year resolution for me, won't set any. But I have set a timeline to achieve the next so called milestone for TeaRoom - to make a decision on location and where to go, what to do exactly by end January, before CNY.

Hope is something you give yourself, and dream is what make a person so alive! "jia you" 加油to myself!!