Business Registration Renewal

Phewww.... I spent hours making sense of SSM and www.gov.my website. All I'm trying to do was renew my business registration online. I thought it expires yesterday. After like 2 hours and purchasing my own business info, I discovered that my business registration will only expire next year. Sigh! That's what you got when your filing system's in a mess!!!

However, I'm relieved I didn't have to go to the SSM office to find out my business registration only expires next year. Thank God! Just imagine braving through the traffic to KL Sentral, pay exorbitant parking fee only to discover I was making a wasteful trip. I'm glad I don't have to go through that. I don't even mind paying $5 for SSM Subscriber Registration fee and $30 as prepaid for the SSM Search. Still worth it than the wasteful trip and $35 price of a lesson to get my filing done properly.

I moved house months ago and it has been hectic and unpacking some of the documents are going at a slower rate than the snail speed. I finally have some time to breathe today. I planned to have a well deserved rest, go for my long postponed massage session some time this weekend... till I'll be scrambling to complete my assignments again. Soon... coz the assignments deadline just around the corner, but not this weekend :D

Oh and my library books has to be returned too. Has maxed the capacity for online renewal. Sigh! I think I'll just wait for a few days and pay few RM (less than $5) for a restful weekend and peace of mind. Don't want to think of any commitment this weekend. Lots and lots and lots of rest and cleaning house and watching TV and rest again :)

Sweet Nothings :)

It has been a while since I have to go outstation for my training. Most of my training this year have been in KL area except twice in the beginning of the year. Hubby and I can't handle long distance relationship that well. I used to prefer outstation training because most of the time the training will be conducted in the same hotel which means I don't have to go through the morning traffic. Nowadays, I prefer local training... don't mind the morning traffic. I'll be missing hubby too much and nobody is paying for the travelling days :) When you're working for yourself, you'll start to be more calculative of your cash in and out.

Anyway, as I was about to board the plane earlier today, I was all smiles chatting with hubby on YM. This entry is an episode in my life that I want to document and remember. Some of our sweet moments :) Many sweet moments has been undocumented due to the time limitation. Here I am all alone in my hotel room trying to complete some work for other training and preparing for tomorrow but... a few minutes blogging won't hurt.

Me: Dah nak boarding
Me: Luv u abg
Hb: luv u 2.
Hb: already miss u
Me: Dah nak naik ni
Me: I miss u more :)
Hb: Ok... take care.
Hb: I miss u most.
Hb: :)
Me: I miss u mostest hahaha...
Hb: ade ke
Me: Hehehe...
Me: Bye
Hb: bye syg

Can't wait to return home....

Cooking Goddess

Hubby missed my asam pedas today :)

There is nothing more satisfying than when people eat the food I cook. The bonus is when you're complimented on the food. I'm not a fussy eater. I'm not a great cook either. What do you expect? I have been cooking only for myself when I was single and for two after I got married. Due to practical reasons, eating out sometimes makes more sense. I CAN cook and the food is edible MOST of the time. I dare called people for kenduri and cook on a big scale too. At our open house recently, some of my guest asked what's my specialty. I told them no specialty since I only cook on a big scale once or twice a year. How can it be my specialty if I don't practice enough?

Since we moved house, I've cook more often as the market is nearby and there doesn't seem to be many eateries that suits our tastebuds. I'm determined to keep cooking till I can call some of the dishes my specialty. I've had my good days and not so good days. Let's see what's the casualties on my not so good days...

- burnt chocolate cake... hey, the oven was new.
- burnt bun... the bottom part was edible... and I left the oven according to the recipe instruction to perform my prayer. Sigh!
- salty dishes... i have my 'saltless' moments and 'saltfull' moments. Sigh! The former situation is much better than the latter.
- undercooked chicken or fish... thank God for microwave ovens
- experimental recipes... hubby can be non-adventurous when it comes to 'creative' dishes
- kole kacang... it didn't set due to lack of flour. Not just any flour... so I keep it in the fridge and I still has not bought the flour.
- hmmm.... I'm sure there's a few more that I can't recall

I'm not listing down the dishes that turned out well. Trust me, it's enough to make me keep cooking and not throw down the apron yet. Some issue that really matters to me when it comes to cooking ...

- when rice turned out well and not 'mentah' during important occasions... no matter how good your dishes are, it will come to nought with spoiled rice. This is one of those things that people take for granted. Nobody would notice when the rice are fine but they certainly would when it didn't turn out well.
- meals prepared means we don't have to eat out and pay for food that did't meet our expectation.
- when food is budgeted with not much waste.
- creativity and flexibility in the kitchen, and
- either compliments from hubby or he took extra servings.

I'm still not the cooking goddess I want to be... but I'm working towards that. I'm praying for more successful dishes and the determination to keep on cooking. Gungho!

Missed Blogging

MODE ON: Doing my master's class homework.
REALITY: Construction noise from next door. Arrgghhh... the drilling really gets on my nerve.
SOLUTION: De-stress with blogging :)

I missed blogging tremendously. Few nights ago I couldn't sleep since I've taken a long nap in the afternoon. So I read some of my old entries. I blogged more when I was single. Of course I have less responsibilities then, and now I lived more offline than online. Events passes by without much time to blog about it despite the blogging app on my Android. I read about me complaining about the never ending work. Now, I'm still whinning about it mostly due to my master's class. Sigh! Can't wait to finish my course. And yet, I still have not find a topic for my thesis and also a supervisor. Of course, worse comes to worst, I have a lecturer who has offered to be my supervisor provided my topic is similar to his thesis paper. Hmmm... I've tried doing a proposal in one of the assignment he gave us, I almost vomit blood. So not my forte.

Anyway, I didn't intend to whine about my class. I just felt rejuvenated and refreshed after reading some of my earlier entries. It reminds me of what I'm passionate about and what are my dreams. I'm just postponing those dreams for a while till I finished my thesis. I also read about events I have totally forgotten about and people I supposedly have issues with that I don't even remember now. Try as I might thinking whom I was referring to since I don't give real names.... just description, I can't. Shows how some things won't matter after few weeks or few years. It's good to have those events written down anyway since it'll give some lessons to me many years after it has passed. I'll forget many events after I got married due to my sparse blogging sessions. But I'll take comfort in the fact that I experienced those moments and will always be creating new ones :)

The drilling sound still bothers me but I just have to continue doing my assignment. I have a briefing session for the next two days so I'll be tied up with that. Just be GUNGHO about it and block out the noise (wishing I can)...