Someone on my blog list posted this up a LONG LONG time ago – he hasn’t updated his blog in like years!! lol And this was his last post – it’s been so long ago that the site has even moved to another! I was redirected to it.

I remember doing this at THAT time but I can’t remember what I was worth back then, but today…I am worth :

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It’s sort of pathetic really! Just a measely amount….*sigh*

It’s been just 10 days since we got back from our holidays in Malaysia and I feel as if I’ve been home for more than that!! Feel as if it’s been AGES since we last step foot in Malaysia…lol And although I am not really missing the Malaysian sun, I must say that the winter coldness is no friend to my skin. My legs are so dry and so are my hands that my thumb has a tiny split it in from the dryness. Ouchies!! Anyway, I finally got on top of clearing out the bags from our holidays, sorted out the kids clothes due to the change of season from all-day-summer-everyday weather to winter back here in Sydney and suddenly I realise…..

I’ve got to start packing my labour/hospital bag!! *slaps forehead* Although I consider myself a mildly organised person, I am a little paranoid with the hospital bag. I rather pack and get ready early than to rush at the last minute and miss out certain things. Although I am only some 31 weeks now, I think I’ll start packing my bag next week or at least chuck in the things that I won’t be using at the moment like the maternity pads and such. It will keep my mind busy thinking about what I need to pack so I won’t forget.

On an unrelated topic, I actually got a couple of baby shower invitations in the mailbox recently and it made me realise how pitiful I am. No one’s throwing me one and I’ve never even experience one myself! This is an event friends arrange for you and not something you throw yourself so since I’m pretty much ‘alone’ here in Sydney, I won’t ever be getting one. How pitiful right? But that’s ok…it’s a pity but what can you do right? What I do need to do now is figure out what to get for these girls…perhaps I’ll whip something personal up for them say a baby romper or a receiving blanket….what do you think?

It’s been a long time since I had one of those weekends you wished could last for ever. This one happened to be one of those.
Ted had been gone over the weekend for a camp and it was just so good to stay home, indoors and do nothing but just sew amongst other things such as looking after kids and making sure they get fed. Of course I did wash the clothes and dried them out but mainly, I did a lot of sewing too and it made me realise how much I’ve missed it since I started working. During the weekdays, I only touch my machine after the kids have gone to bed and if there’s nothing on telly I want to watch.

And on most weekends, although I am home, we still go out either to church or to my MIL’s place to spend the day and although that itself means that I don’t have to cook or anything like that, the hassle of getting the kids and myself ready to go out and then getting really tired from still having to watch the kids at someone else’s place, still takes its toll on me. I guess people with kids would understand it more than those who don’t.

While I appreciate having not to cook lunch/dinner over the weekend, I appreciate being home and not stepping foot outside my front door more. It’s just my way of resting and enjoying my personal time although it might not sound fun to some. Gosh, I wished that weekend didn’t end so fast.

*You have to watch this. I thought it was just amazing! The vid is at the end after the explaination.*

This video from YouTube shows the winner of Ukraine’s Got Talent, Kseniya Simonova, aged 24, drawing a series of pictures on an illuminated sand table and showing how ordinary people were affected by the German invasion during World War II. Her talent, which admittedly is a rare one, is mesmeric to watch.

The images, projected onto a large screen, moved many in the audience to tears. Kseniya won the top prize in the series, about AUD130,000.

Kseniya begins by creating a scene showing a couple sitting holding hands on a bench under a starry sky, but then warplanes appear and the happy scene is obliterated. It is replaced by a woman’s face crying, but then a baby arrives and the woman smiles again. Once again war returns and Miss Simonova throws the sand into chaos from which a young woman’s face appears. The young woman quickly becomes an old widow, her face wrinkled and sad, before the image turns into a monument to an Unknown Soldier.

This outdoor scene is then framed by a window as if the viewer is looking out on the monument from within a house. In the final scene, a mother and child appear inside and a man stands outside, with his hands pressed against the glass, saying goodbye. The Great Patriotic War, as World War II is called in The Ukraine, resulted in one in four of the population being killed. There were eight to 11 million deaths in the Ukrainian population of 42 million.

Kseniya Simonova says she finds it difficult to create art using paper and pencils or paintbrushes, but using sand and fingers is OK. “The art, especially when the war is used as the subject matter, even brings some audience members to tears. And there’s surely no bigger compliment.”

Do you have a special email set aside for official purposes like job applications or college enrolments? If you do, good on ya! If you don’t, now is the best time to get a proper email with proper username for the said purpose. Why? Simply because – this coming from experience working as an office admin, what email you use will potray how you’d like to be treated. At least this it what it speaks to me.

If I had someone walk in the door for a job interview having an email addy like exotic_gem, spanish_dude69, etc….my first impression would not be a good one. And that is the absolute truth! I just feel that they are not taking things seriously if they can’t be bothered to get a proper email for official use. Hence, I myself have a few emails, an official one using my real name and the other few are for my personal use and blogging. I think this is the best way to go about it. At least, the other person won’t be shaking their head as I was doing when I came across there inappropriate emails.

So Lindsay my dear…since you are in the midst of that San Diego job search, remember what I’ve told you and get a new email address, your Lil_Saint won’t cut it!

I woke up earlier than normal today but the rest of the family was still sound asleep. So what was I to do? I didn’t have any sewing to finish and I didn’t feel like starting something new so I did the next best thing – got onto FB and mucked around abit. While I was there, I decided that I had far too many friends on my list and that some axing was in dire need and began axing people off. I think I’d like things to be closer to home, if you know what I mean.

The first round I got rid of people I actually didn’t like but still added them anyway, but still there were too many. It was like I went from 460 to 420, then 378 and FINALLY, I am at 267 I think. So yes, it was a major axing exercise and as much as I hated to do it. I had too. My intentions when I first joined FB was to hook up with old friends and to catch up. I was never looking for new friends in the first place. And when I was at 460 friends, I actually knew every single one of them and it was VERY tough for me to axe out those I felt that I didn’t connect with or didn’t feel as if it would make a difference if one of us dropped off the list.

In fact, I really do hope none of the axed ones feel any sort of rejection. I mean, I dont think it would be as bad as the one I went through recently. I mean, I did spend a couple of days brooding over it but it wasn’t as if I needed any sleeping pills though. It was just that thought kept coming up over and over again. I mean, I’m sure that rejection in any form would hurt, you know? I didn’t want to message them and let them know. If they notice that they are not on my list and message me to find out, I’ll tell them or maybe I’ll just ignore it. I’m afraid if I try to explain as what happened to be, the person on the other hand may take it wrongly. But I’m not going to worry about that at the moment, I’m just savoring the fact that I actually sucessfully pulled it off although I found it very tough!

Funny how tough it was in the beginning but by the time I was in round 3 trying to decide who stays and who doesn’t it became so easy! Guess I was just pretending that I was firing people. lol Anyway, I do feel a tad relief that no one has complained just yet. Would like to know if anyone even bothered that I axed them off…..