Your Asian mom

I have to say that no hard work will just go waste without being noticed or valued.  These two months, I feel so blessed to be given side hustles opportunity that I never expected I would get from acquaintances.  As someone who like to write/blog, post contents social media, even without being asked or paid, I actually benefitted from the works I did. It has become a testimony or "portfolio" for potential clients to engage my services.  Most of the time, people doubt of what I had been doing would bring me to anywhere, they even said it was waste of time. But look at me now, I have the last laugh to the bank.  I also received a gig of hosting an event in trilingual including in Mandarin. I would say that speaking in Mandarin is not really my forte as mine is good to survive daily conversation, but I said yes to that offer. I would give myself a rating of 70/100.  For that job, I landed through my spa operator who I usually frequented to and of course promoted it on my blogosp

  Image by FREEPIK Another 1 month plus, the world will be ushering a new year of 2024. Despite some time away from that, I already started questioning myself whether I have done enough.  Like many, one of the things to look into is always the health or body weight/body fat. My cholesterol level has been at the borderline and exceeded the normal value for the past three years. I always thought that having active exercise lifestyle will help as how it was when I was younger.  But it turned out it did not help much as long as I am not looking after my diet intake. I am not saying exercise doesn't not help at all, probably that is also the reason that my cholesterol level does not spike too much to the extent that jeopardise my health badly.  Right now, my body fat percentage is 30 per cent, which is 1 per cent away from "Unhealthy body fat percentage".  Thus, I am taking slightly "strict" diet control which also includes omitting "obese" and "foodie

  Fake friends We often hang out, chat and keep in touch with others. He knows all the updates about my career and side business development. He is someone in connection with the right people and most importantly those people would definitely require my services.  I tried my luck and did all the proposal papers for him to handover to my potential clients. But, after more than five attempts, there were never responses from them. I thought it could probably that I really had no luck to get any deals from them. That client has so much spare money to be spent.  By coincidences, I found out that one of his connections had been splurging money like Waterfall without considering the return of investments value.  Few months later, the same client is spending another sum for hobby-like activities.  I thought it would be a good chance for me to resend a proposal. To my surprise, that friend bluntly rejected me by giving many lame excuses. Other people get the deal That client is actually not the

  It was a random night at an international airport that I stumbled upon a young man who spontaneously confided in about how his country has destroyed his life.  It piqued my interest on why would someone as young as him would say that he shouldn't be born into the world at all.  He also said despite that he is at the age of getting married, but such a path is equivalent to commit suicide especially when he is having any children.  The man justified that due to high cost of living, having a family is equal to starve them to death.  I thought that it was quite a pessimistic view for someone who is in his few weeks holiday in few countries... Albeit he was solo travelling.  "Yes, I sounded old despite my age. This is the result of 'homicide'. I could only endure the brunt of getting beaten by my own father since young. "If I were born in other country, the law might punish my father for the sins he done.  "But this country has set a" guideline" that c

I know it well that not many people will read this blogpost, thus it will be considered as a space for me to go "incognito".  Life has been hectic but at the same time I am bombarded with the news of many giant organisations had laid off their employees. There are also people who decide or manage to inflict pain.  Both are too much for me to handle and hinder me from being happy and well.  I 

A casual chat with a friend aged 40 and above struck me hard when she said age does play a role in determining a person can still look for new job.  Her recent cases where she no longer has better opportunity or responses like when she was young when trying to enquire for new jobs or pay-per-project. The limiting factor is her age despite having vast experience under her belt.  Probably with more experience, employers are worried or not so keen in paying more for the experience although it could mean that the jobs can be done better and faster. Or probably the younger employees are having better grasp in what experienced workers can do, thanks to the technology that speeds up their learning process.  Where do people aged 40 and above can go then?  With the inflation and longer life span, most of the people are left with no choice but to continue working as long as possible to make ends meet.  For those who are climbing the career leader, many might think that they will continue going u

  After making several posts about gardening and farming, suddenly the app notified that Facebook was reviewing the content as it detected, or someone reported that I had violated the community standards.  Initially, it stated that it would only be less than 24 hours but few hours later, Facebook notified that they would shut down and wipe it out for good. There was no specific explanation on which way had I violated the guideline, there was no warning, no mercy, no appeal opportunity given. No trial given. Just when I thought that this US-based company would be as democratic as the country on freedom of speech and etc, Facebook management acts like communist.  I am still wondering how they make the judgment on just shutting down people's accounts like mine, when there are many more offenders using Facebook doing even worse on spreading hate, cyberbullying, scamming people. It still puzzled me in what way gardening is deemed as harming the community.  Seeing how they took down the

It it suck to suddenly have lactose intolerance symptoms as an adult.  I had vomiting and diarrhea episode last month after I drank two glasses of milk at a time. That time, I thought it could be due to the milk might expire after I opened it for three days.  Two days ago, I consumed the same brand of milk again. One with espresso in the morning and the other one drank it just like that in the evening. Few hours later, I started to feel so bloated and gassy. I just withstood but could not sleep at night.  The torturing night began with diarrhea twice. I thought it was over. But, the stomachache akin to Labour contraction. It did not go away even after I continued for another four diarrhea and twice vomiting.  Those purging left me with rapid heart beats, weak legs, cold sweat and constant stomach cramp.  I couldn't get any medicine at that state nor that I would wake husband up to get it for me. I just lied down and endured the pain until it eased when I fell asleep.  To be honest,