Shannon’s Journal of Life…

~ The thoughts of a WOMAN…

Posted on January 7, 2009 - Filed Under General
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When I was a student, I used to love school holidays… For OBVIOUS reason -> not having to go to school… Now that I’m a working adult, with the kid not yet attending school, why does it have any effect on me, you ask?

Because it allows me to sleep in a little later and yet get to work a little earlier!!!

Now that school has reopen, since 3 days ago, traffic has been horrendous… I can’t wait for the next school holiday to start!


Posted on January 2, 2009 - Filed Under BayarMu, Family
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I was having a headache thinking of what to buy for someone’s birthday present… I wanted to get her something she’d like or at least something she’ll use… I searched around the internet, for a birthday present for a girl, but suggestions like bags and women’s lingerie, just aren’t doing it for me…

I was going around, asking again and again, what shall I get for her birthday, when the little princess just told me, a BIRTHDAY CAKE! haha… How simple a child’s mind can be… So, come come, any ideas of what to get?? Where did my creatives birthday gift ideas went to? I never had so much problem finding a good gift… URGH!!!


Posted on January 2, 2009 - Filed Under BayarMu, Family
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It was such a torture getting up today morning…
It’s the first day of work in 2009, and it was drizzling lightly… How I wish I could just sleep in and forget about work… I’m still very sleepy and maybe an espresso machines in the office would have helped… Should suggest this to the boss… haha…

It hasn’t been a good end of 2008, too many sad things happened… I hope that 2009 will be much better… Let all the bad luck be gone with 2008, and all the new good ones to come with 2009… First thing first, I hope to be able to sell off our old apartment and settle down in the new house…


Posted on December 31, 2008 - Filed Under BayarMu, Family
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Money is a problem… Money is the ONLY problem…

If only we could sell off the apartment, I swear, the first thing I’ll get myself is a D90!! SELL OFF THE APARTMENT!!!! Well, not thatI’m complaining about the current D80, but when it comes to difficult indoor lightings, D90 does perform better, and that counts a lot to me, since I’m lousy at that…

When, oh, when? Can we sell the apartment off???
The financial situation now isn’t doing us good either, since everyone’s not quite going into buying a property… I’m really questioning and regretting our previous decision of not wanting to allow the first buyer owe us RM6000! It would have been sold off by now if we did that… :(


Posted on December 24, 2008 - Filed Under BayarMu
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When I bought my laptop, I was so sure that it was sufficient for my needs, having 2GB RAM and 400GB HDD… I lived with 512MB and 1GB for so many years, HOW would the current be insufficient, right?

WRONG!

I’m in urgent need to get more laptop memory… BOTH RAM and HDD… How I regret not upgrading it to 4GB when I bought it… As for HDD, I’ve used up my 200GB external space that I’ve gotten myself, and tonnes of dvd as backup… Why is it still insufficient?!


Posted on December 18, 2008 - Filed Under General
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I’ve always said I am bored of routines, but then, recently, I’m trying to come up with a routine that I’d fall back into… Ain’t I just contradicting myself?

I read this about routine today (from Thisistheway), and thought it was interesting…

Routine has its important place in life, but we can easily get stuck in bad habits and unproductive ruts.

If you keep doing what you have always done, you will keep getting what you have always gotten. God expects us to climb out of the unproductive and negative ruts of our life and follow His lead. The apostle Paul wrote that we are not to conform to this world and its ruts (Romans 12:2). Replace a negative rut with a positive spiritual habit.

Read : Don’t fall into unproductive routine!


Posted on December 17, 2008 - Filed Under BayarMu
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Did you grow up wondering where are you going to store all the encyclopedia and stacks and stacks of books you had? Can’t give them away because you might need them in the future, but can’t possibly keep everything you want? Having to go through the hassle trying to find out about something?

Well, I came across this name, Fenterdren, and was wondering what it is… In the old times, I can’t even think of how to find out what it is, except for asking, and chances of getting an answer is so slim… NOW? What else? You google it, which is the only method I could think of…

How internet and technology ease us… Could you live without it?
Well, probably those that was selling encyclopedia in the olden days are cursing, why would I want to buy from them if I have free google? hehehe…


Posted on December 16, 2008 - Filed Under Me, Myself and I
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I’m excited over this… haha…
No matter how ridiculous it may sound…


Print screen featuring www.shannonchong.com

It’s actually a print screen of my Mozilla…
Well, who hasn’t fallen in love, used, and gotten bored of the tab feature right?
But, if you look closely, mine is COLOURED! wahaha…
One colour for every tab, and it alternates…

On top of that, I have also found a add-on where when I open an empty tab, it will show me thumbnails of sites I add in to show, which will refresh periodically! If I’m interested in any of them, I can hold my pointer over it, it will show in larger view for me, and if I decide to view it, I can click and it’ll open another tab (based on preference) loading that page…

It’s weird, but all this makes me wanna surf the net even more…
Hahaha, I know, silly me… ;P


Posted on December 13, 2008 - Filed Under General
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It’s SATURDAY!!!
I’m at work!!!! :(

I should be at home cleaning up the new house, or out shopping for christmas present… But no, I’m sitting here, in front of the monitor, SO CALLED at work… But it was a good morning though… I’ve done the first cooking in the house, YAM RICE! Smells yummie, but I haven’t tasted it, since there’s breakfast provided at work…

Lets see if today will be effective all the way…

p/s: I should have brought my laptop… I SHOULD HAVE!!!


Posted on December 10, 2008 - Filed Under BayarMu
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Reading the landslide story on the news was heart wrenching, but hearing it from the father in law that his friend’s daughter in law was involved, make me feel even sad… There’s a sense of attachment, though I don’t know her directly, but there’s a link to her…

Hearing that she could have been alive if only the emergency helper were willing to help… It’s so sad to know that she’s only 30 and her baby is only 2 months old… TWO MONTHS!! I can’t imagine what’s on her mind at that time, being that it’s only 2 months from her happiness, and not even having enough time to enjoy the child…

All this makes you feel very unsafe doesn’t it? Would it be safer staying in steel buildings instead? Must start to appreciate and stop taking advantage of life…


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