A Love That Will Last - Wai Mun & Sharon

Seldom will I care about any local celebrities because well just nope! Never actually care! In fact I do not know who marry who and who is with who in the local scene! Maybe we are too guarded here until if there is anything that spell close to a S-C-A-N-D-#-L we blot it out like that! So I really do not have any interest reading about who being caught and stuff! But off lately I seen this local celebrity who has gained so much publicity on Facebook! I couldn't help but stuck my busybody nose on it! 
Was browsing her site and realize that there are so many people kissing her boobies and singing praises to her name and liking every single post, pictures and things that she post on Facebook! Practically she is like Lady Gaga of Malaysia! Except she gain popularity not through weird clothing and acts BUT through no clothing and compulsion of shopping. I had girlfriends liking her post and sharing her pictures every single day! This is getting really crazy and out of hand! 

Dare to say anything crazy or negative about her or in front of her friends (she said they are all friends and not fans) you will be shot down to nothingness! So for the sake of hypocrisy and for friendship (me girlfriends likey her) she is actually one who live life to the fullest! That is something that I would admire about her! Many of us wished to do things that she did and yet she did it so effortlessly! Guess that having a skinny body with big boobies does help! ;) 

So here we go, I do not want to name that person but as you read on you probably will know if you are a Facebook junky! But if you do not know who is she no point going on at it because I am just rambling along, due to my emotions being low?!? Actually nope just that I am amaze to see such a person existed and I do not know about her until now! Ha! Ha! Somemore we are fellow Malaysian! Eyuks! Take care and have a nice night! While I go lick my wound and wait for Wednesday to come for me to go and claim my goods from the customs! 

Life itself is never easy! The journey consist of tears, blood and sweat! Everything that we have in life is the result of our hard-work! Nothing could make my heart sick more than that difficult first step! Since young things has never been handed over to me in a platter, not born with a silver spoon or a bronze spoon! Ok not even any spoon, we have to fought for our place here in the world! Somehow its been difficult!

Of late I had decided to venture into something out of my own territory - to start my own small business! Well comes to think about it, my blind optimism has led me to believe that this would be easy! Turn out that it was nothing but a waste of time and money! I am writing this with tears in my eyes! All my hopes, excitement and happiness is somehow crushed! My dreams now can go to its grave and I know now how it feels to have done it! One problem has led to another and it all boils down to me wasting my hubby's money AGAIN! I was so enthusiastic to prove that I can handle something like this BUT it was all a dream! Like Carrie Underwood sang with her lungs full of air "THIS IS JUST A DREAM"

To many this is like everyday life, you practically used them everyday BUT to some (namely ME), I had an iPhone for years now BUT somehow I never really get around using the headphone properly! (No wonder I never got upgraded to iPhone 4 or 4s or 5 - Ha! Ha!) Remembering the early days when I first gotten myself an iPhone, I didnt know that there is a silent button by the side of the phone until I went back to the center and told them that my new iPhone is faulty because no matter what I do its always in silent mode! The speaker must have spoil when I dropped it (OMG! You drop your new iPhone?!? - That is not what I am highlighting ok!) Until the center people looked at me like I am some kind of idiot and told me that I should click that button by the side up to turn off silent mode! That person must have thought "She knew how to turn on the silent mode but didn't know how to turn it off?!? (Ok! I am a tech-shupid! (like my son Hamilton would say) how did I turn on the silent mode?!? By accident!)

Now I am here to help people look smart! Coz I just gotten smarter five second ago! How do I discover all this function? I accidentally press it of course! What else? I am not Einstein or nerd! To go and test it out or even read the manual from cover to cover!  So here is what I find out regarding the headphone (discover it while driving and suddenly i know how!)

• The "Plus" button - Turns up the volume
• The "Minus" button - Turns down the volume
• The "Center" button is play button / pause song button / pick up & hand up call button

• "Center Button twice real fast" - Skip song (discover this when I was frantically pressing it to stop!)
• "Center Button twice and hold down - Fast forward
• "Center Button three times" - Replay previous song
• "Center Button three time rapidly and hold" - Rewind
• "Hold down center button 2 second and release when you hear beeps sound" - Decline call
• "Press center button during and call and press again" - put current call on hold to answer incoming call
• "Hold down center button for 2 seconds" - Hang up current call and answer incoming call

I have an extensive collection of little beanies and toys when I was in my teenage years! Accumulating them has created an attachment towards them that I believe most girls would understand! I have more than 50 of them sleeping with me in my bed! Just to add to how much I love all of them, I gave them name and they came to life for me & my sister! They each have characters and naughty attitudes! 

I have left them all behind and to be honest I thought very little of them as my mom packed up my room after my wedding and they were all kept nicely in three big boxes until off lately. My sister started this habit of going into the boxes and randomly digging out one or another that triggered both of our emo-mode! I had one of them here as well. We name him Hasee! He is this fat Pooh with an attitude! He is cute and always have a big appetite! When he is here he always hassle with my son Princeton! Ha! Ha! The both of them will create drama that end up papa silencing them! 

It was really cute until my sis took out Stitch! We name him Stitch Questor and his nickname Stitchy! He is a very cute little boy and one of my personal favorite at that time! He used to make me laugh and my sis will always tease and play with him! When my sis sent a picture of Stitchy with the message "mama - do you still remember me" it really tugged my heart strings! And when I saw the picture and Stitchy still wearing the same old necklace that I made for him 5 years ago! I remember how long it has been! The irony is that we all grow up, we change, we moved on and find other purpose in life BUT Stitchy doesn't, he is still waiting for the day when he will be wanted again. So I know very well that the moment I start looking, Stitchy and the rest will still be there waiting for me ;) 

Its been really a very busy and exciting week! Err nope! I am not pregnant! I am taking "baby steps towards starting my own business" (Gotta write it clearly, as people gets as excited as Justin Bieber with the word "B-A-B-Y" mentioned by every newlywed) I have always love fashion and buying things has been a very bad habit of mine! My mom has been teaching me to stop buying stuff from the time i-don't-know-when! BUT somehow I never overcome that habit! 

After married, my husband don't seems to mind! Actually! He always believed that it is a blessing if he could afford to get me things I wanted! (Praise God for him and bless him for his generosity!) Knowing that I always have the dream to have my own business in fashion, hubby encourage me to proceed with that dream and brave myself to do it! I have very little knowledge about running a business, I have been a low ranking employee all this while! My salary is peanut compare to even my sis'! So what do I know about running a business! So arm with encouragement from my husband (I called him MD as he is the one that gives me advice when I needed them), the weapon called prayer by my mom & sister and a whole load of wisdom and blessing from my Heavenly Father (Happy Father's Day Heavenly Father!) "Glamorously Instyle" my business was born! Like an infant I am taking my baby steps to getting the business set up!

This is really killing two birds with one stone, I can still buy ;) (Woo-hoo) and yet can still sell it! It always easy to look from outside BUT when you are hands on into it, there are many things that I need to learn! Yet I feel encourage to push on when my hubby wrote me a sweet message that says "It is not about the money you earn, it is supporting your dream and the experiences that you will learn from it that makes me proud" I hope to do you proud of course ;) In fact before I make even one sale my husband told his colleagues that his wife runs an online business! Ha! Ha! Cute! (Ok! Actually I already have my first sales "Thanks to my sister - love you for always pushing me forward to achieve this dream - Your words such as "When are you starting!" "Why so long one!" "I am going to buy from other people" had pushed me on! Love you!) 

So here I am doing this small business, selling  Tupperware, bags, wallets, Apple accessories & soon shoes, dress and watches. Well this are the plan forward that I have and I do hope, with God's grace and mercy I will be able to do this with excellent! Do remember me in prayer because that is really one of the most essential step forward! I am indeed excited waiting for the next week when all my items will come in! Even my boxes, bubble wraps and so on! Awww... Happy and excited!  

I have lost touch with the entertainment world now that I am much "older". I used to remember those days when I knew every song by heart and every single person of a band I can name them by name, and before a song even start I already know what is it going to be! Now sadly, every time I heard a song come up the radio or playing while I am shopping, I do not know who sang it, what more what is the title! I would have to remember some words from the chorus and Google it up! To add to the irony my mother is doing better than me these days with the songs and artists! 

I do not care much about who's dating who in the entertainment industry and who got dumped BUT this is the only thing that caught my mind off late and I seriously would like to comment, not because of I take any sides (although I adore Taylor Swift) just that it is a feedback to guys in general.

Taylor Swift wrote a song title "DEAR JOHN" to address her heart-ache over John Mayer who dumped her. Below are the words:-

I never thought I say this "I love cooking!" I still remembered people's reaction when they knew I cooked a little and there are also a friend who went to length to laugh and make fun of me for cooking! She used to called me a liar when I said I could cook good "Sambal Petai with Prawn" but those days are far gone! I had cut off those kind of friends and also I hade learned to cook so much more than that! 

So what am I cooking today! (Nyek! Nyek! Nyek!) - Its "Kam Heong Bamboo Clam". Ever since coming to Johor, seafood dishes has become a premium to eat! Remember those days back home when F4 was 5 minutes drive away and we could get any nice seafood at an affordable price! Here in Johor, seafood is the only eatery that what we called "cut throat" a two person meal of butter prawn, small slice of assam fish and some vegetable can come up to MYR80. It's not worth the money we pay and the taste "so-so"! Therefore it gave me the motivation to learn up and to experiment with recipes in my kitchen! Hence that is what I'm cooking tonight!

Would love to share the recipe with you guys!

• 1 kg of bamboo clams (Don't have to go to pasar! You can get them in Aeon) 
• 3 garlic cloves cut into small cubed 
• 1 1/2 tbsp of curry powder (You can use less or more depending on your spiciness level!)
• Handful of dried shrimp (soak them and then deep fried them)
• Handful of curry leaves (You cant buy them handful, but for MYR0.50 you can get a lot of stalks so my mom taught me this, very useful - wash them clean and put them into a Tupperware and store them in the icebox)
• 3 - 4 bird's eye chili (depending on your level of spiciness as well and if you want less spicy you can remove the seed) 
• 1 tbsp of light soy sauce
• 1 tbsp of dark soy sauce
• 1 tsp of sugar (can use honey - I love using honey as it is very healthy)  
• Half cup of water

1. To remove the soil from the bamboo clam put them in the hot boiling water and rinse it through less than a minute! Tumble dry and once done, heat up your pan with some cooking oil and put in your bamboo clams, stir fry for less than a minute as well as this is to remove the moisture and not to cook it entirely.
2. Clean your pan and heat up the pan again with some cooking oil, once smoking, put in your garlic, fried dried shrimp, curry leaves and bird eye chili. Fry till fragrant. Turn down the heat.
3. Add in curry powder, water and add the clams in and turn up the heat, add in soy sauce, dark soy sauce and sugar/honey, once the clams start to open up you can do a taste test and fine tune the flavor by adding in some soy sauce/salt or sugar/honey. Once it is really up to your taste - YOU ARE DONE! 

Been slacking a little from blogging off late! Well been busy off late! Something exciting is about to start and I will keep you guys informed!

Have you ever watched "The Biggest Loser" on TV? It is a reality program where really-fat-peep challenge one another to lose the most weight! It is really something that is good for them I believe BUT I am not going to talk about these folks or go on promoting the TV series because I have no idea about the actual process of the competition.

What I wanted to write about is that I do not think "fat" people are the biggest losers in any way! In fact some of the bigger size people are among the friendliest and kind hearted ones! (Of course there are also mean ones! The world is a very balanced place) but  the biggest losers in life are those that choose to always BULLDOZE THEIR WAY THROUGH, NEVER ADMITTING MISTAKES & ALWAYS WANT THEIR WAY! I learned in the past weeks that, it is wisdom to keep quiet avoiding conflict then to speak my mind! My auntie taught me that one thing that I come to understand and practice in my life! 

People are going to always put me down but then when it hurts - do not snap back, instead quietly retreat and say a prayer to the Lord! We are no judge of man! Who are we to tell people what to think and what to do? Be quick to forgive as it is for our own good and in that way we will work towards keeping our the relationship between friends and family. I admit that I once was a very hot-headed person and impatient as well, I still am learning each day to keep cool and calm! My husband is the one that I would like to accredit for keeping me calm! I remembered those days where I used to always pick on people's mistake and complaint about every single things! (Example : If a person were to slow, I will criticize that person or maybe if that person walked on the wrong way that crosses my path, I will get very angry and say unkind words!) It was my husband who pointed my bad habit of picking nitty-gritty things about people that gave me a wake up call! Life could do better if we realize our mistake early! Many of us never realize that and hence turn into "THE BIGGEST LOSER" 

I could remember also one day, I was in an anger rage when the Lord turned my attention to the daily devotional booklet "our daily bread" on June 02, 2012 with the title - Fragile Loads and the verse that spoke ever so clearly to me comes from Ephesians 4:32  "Be kind to one another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, even as God in Christ forgave you." Wow! Another wake up call indeed! When we pray for God to teach, mold and make us into His image day by day! He never failed and will indeed teach our hearts! To make the message loud and clear the page ended with the footnote that says :