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I’m clearing my room this weekend. Wait, did I say somewhere in the last entry that I want to make cards? Oh well. Anyways, there are few items I’d like to put on ebay. I wonder if ebay Malaysia get much of local attention here. But I’ve sold a pair of shoes there before. How many of you actually buy/sell items on ebay Malaysia? Or do you go somewhere else like Lelong, Oobey, Mudah, Tumpang or other website?

p/s: Do you realize some bloggers are copycats? If you read more than one blog per day you might notice couple of blogs have similar flair of writings or using the same term or tried to do what the other did in the same perfect way. I wonder who copied who. Poor BRAINLESS wannabes.

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It’s already Friday, I’m so done with this week, I’m so done with trainings. But I’m not looking forward for the weekend either. The air-cond in my room is acting up. It blows hot air. I think she’s having split personality. So sometimes she thinks she’s a heater. I don’t mind if there’s no air-conditioning at night, but during the day it gets very hot in my room. And I’m planning to make loads of cards this weekend. Can’t imagine myself doing cards in an oven.

Oh well, just like last week, am gonna start this weekend with some gastronomical pleasure. I’m off to dim sum buffet everyone! Be good!!

Someone I knew from school was once involved in an accident. It was raining, the car next to her suddenly decided to switch lane without checking. Her car spun several times and ended up in the drain. She had narrow escape, with broken ankle, bruises and cuts, but her car was badly damaged.

But her suffering and shock did not end there. When she was making insurance claims, she never knew it was so tedious and took her the longest time. Please bear in mind that she was with crutches and all, and it was hard to get anywhere without a car.

If only I knew about Keypoint Legal Services earlier, I would certainly recommend them to her. Keypoint Legal Services are known with ‘no win – no fee agreement’ tagline. In other words, they will pursue her case seriously so she could get personal coverage for her accident claims.

Apart from road traffic accidents, they also provide services for accidents at work and industrial diseases such as skin infection or deformation and asthma (just to name a few).

As I read their website along, another thing that I would consider next time when I’m planning for a holiday is their legal services for holiday related accidents. Say if you slipped or fell because of someone else’s negligence, you have the right to claim for financial settlement using Keypoint Legal Services.

I received an email asking where did I take the pictures of my cards, whether I took them in a studio. I didn’t go far beyond my parents’ pad though, and it’s only in my own room. I normally have 2 options.

If you can guess, first ’studio’ is the place where I put the thing of where I put my dump out. Another ’studio’ is the place where I put my dump in.

Nope, they are not toilet bowl.

Studio number one is the seat I’m sitting on right now :D. I love this one the best because of the clean white glossy effect.

Studio number two is my wastepaper bin, with 2 pieces of paper

It’s safe to try them at home.

Financial difficulties could happen to anyone if they did not manage their money and assets carefully. Someone once said the best way to get rid of debt is not to make one yourself. But how many of us could buy car and house 100% with cash, especially when you just started working and trying to start a life? Besides, if we still didn’t know how to manage cash and credit card, we might get trapped in credit card debt as well.

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I mentioned before that I found it quite hard to shape a figure out a craft wire. It can be done, but it requires practise. But to save time and avoid wire wastage, I’d like to share the tips I used. No, I still haven’t get myself a WigJig, but I tried this on the heart shape on my gift tag.

The tip is, cookie cutter!! That’s it. Only cookie cutter. Just get the shape you like, and wrap the wire around it. Easy peasy.

p/s: For the heart on gift tag, I inserted gold and red beads.

When I read this article, I decided to share my opinion on dental health because somehow I think it relates to me.

When people mentioned medical bills, many will think it will only cover similar things like heart, lung, bones etc. But in reality, dental health is also important to everyone.

Nowadays, with advancement and research discoveries in dental apparatus and better medications, dental bills have gone up to the point where the patients willing to take secured loans so that they will be able to afford the treatment.

I used to ‘suffer’ overbite and one slightly twisted tooth. I opted for orthodontic braces and still wearing it and I know it’s not cheap just to get straight, even and beautiful teeth. Besides the 4 figures I had to spend when I first had the metal bracket fixed, I still have to pay monthly treatment for the adjustment. And couple hundreds of bucks for cleaning utensils every now and then.

However, treatment does not only cover cosmetic surgery, serious cases like dental implants are the choice for patients who don’t want to resort to dentures.

Dentists also always try to come up with better options for treatment, and tried not to give up hope and extract infected teeth with rotten root. That’s why we frequently heard about root canals, where dentists try to treat the root without having to extract the tooth. And before you know it, you’ll be burden with thousands of bucks and countless dental follow-ups. To make it easy on the bills, and able to get the treatment at the same time, secured loans will help so patients can pay without pain.

I was doing a card when suddenly an idea came for this gift tag. So I started doing the gift tag instead. As a matter of fact, the heart shape inside the window was not meant for this gift tag either. It was for another card. I should stop being random like that eh?

Then, I had no idea what to put as greetings. But I think the heart means a lot already, I don’t need a word to describe it

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I saw a guy at my office eating packed food during lunch break.

I have a thing for guys who packed their lunch to work. Or school. In fact, one of the reason that made me wanted to know about *The Boyfriend* more (before we were an item) was when during online chat he told me he wasn’t going out for lunch break because he packed his mom’s spaghetti to work. I went ‘aaauuwww’ (*^_^*).

I didn’t pack my lunch everyday but most of the time I will. If time permits, I packed my breakfast too. Frankly, it has nothing to do with financial situation, I think it’s just one of the habit I couldn’t kick out because I remember I brought packed food since standard 1 (unfortunately, I didn’t go to kindergarten/pre-school, I pretended to my parents that I was a smart arse for such things hehe).

Besides home cooked food, which is certainly yummy, it helps a lot now since I changed my eating habits. I hardly finished any bought meal with standard portions. Since I snacked a lot during office hour, when the lunch time came I’d be half full. So packing food before work will allow me to estimate the portions which I know I can finish.

Bawak bekal rocks!