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For the first time in so many months after I went full time, I am starting to have doubts within me…. Recently for the past 2 months, my business has been suffering…

I have started to question myself whether my decision has been right in going full time… It seemed so right 2 months ago when I was on a roll!!! Now, things have slowed down and I am starting to feel the financial pinch… All the savings and earnings that I managed to gain in the past few months have started to dry up… Why??? Because I still have bills to pay… No matter whether I am earning or not, I still have to pay for my insurance, petrol, childcare etc etc… And these can come up to a lot of money….

Luckily hubby is covering for the major expenses like our housing loan, utilities and all other household expenses… Otherwise, I will file for bankruptcy already

It just takes 2 bad months to wipe out all the good work… Sigh… and it is very demotivating…

And so… what do I do? First, pray about it… ask for help from a higher force…

Then, now, I need to see what else I can do.. I will probably open up another eBay store in AU site…. AU’s exchange rate is getting stronger against the RM…. but I need $$$ also to open up the store… and now I really need to be prudent…. $$$ is limited… I really need to prioritize…

So pray for me that I am able to pull through this rough patch… hopefully without any permanent damage…

How many countries can you name in 10 minutes?

Recently, I found this and took the quiz… and through selling on eBay to many countries that I have never heard before, I managed to get a score of…. 53/195… which beats or equals 50.1% of test takers (according to the site)… but still way below the average score which is 61….

So, how many can countries can you name?

Another new blog of mine…. but still in construction…. but when it is up and running, this will be the blog where I share more about having a business online, tips and tricks, my experiences and also I will be running courses online and offline…. on buying and selling online!

So head on here at aNGie Consultations to find out more!

Since I have (sort of) decided that I am no longer going back to work full time, I have tried to brainwash Joel into coming home instead of going to the nanny’s everyday after school.

Previously he refused to come home as he is so used to going over to the nanny’s as he has a friend there to play with as opposed to coming home where he is alone…

But since I am starting him off on piano lessons (starting this week), he will already be home once a week…. hmmm… I might be “kiam-siap”… but then I think it makes more sense for him to come home instead of going to the nanny… can save on household expenses some more mah… since I am no longer working and my online business income is quite erractic…. sometimes good, sometimes bad…  so have to save up loh…

So, I started asking him whether he wants to come home for the past month and he has come home for quite a number of occasions and I think he is getting used to the idea… and thus when I ask him… “Jo-ah, next month you come home everyday after school OK? No need to go auntie there already OK?” He was quite open and agreeable!

Hehe… perhaps it is because I bribe him with arts and crafts time at home… he just love messing around with paints and paper and glue… and I found this awesome site one day…. crafty-crafted.com… So I am now using ideas in this site with Joel…. on the days he is home…  good mother son bonding time also…

To tell the truth, I am nervous also with the fact that he will be home… because this means I will have to manage my time better… and not sit around daydreaming…. or maybe I can get him to sit around to daydream together with me… haha….

Just so that I can visualise my time after Joel is home everyday, I even went as far as drawing up a simple time-table to show what he and I are doing…. well, just as a guide for me until I adjusted… Am I too organized???

Hehe… but then I also took the cowards way out… I secretly bincang with the nanny first… that if I am busy (or most likely needed a break.. haha), can I put Joel at her place and I pay her daily instead of monthly? She said OK… so, let’s see how things turn out…

Stay tuned for more anecdotes when Joel starts coming home… I am sure I will have lots to tell….

Welcome to the new home of Snakes & Ladders….

I have finally made the move to shift my blog to blogger…. not because blogger is a superior blogging… but because of a few reasons….

First: I have other blogs… and all of them are on blogspot…. Blogspot has improved a lot since when I started out blogging 3 years ago (I deleted my old blog in blogspot before moving to wordpress).. but then, maybe I did not have much experience then… so maybe that’s why my old blogspot blog looks so darn crappy….

Second: I am thinking maybe it is time to monetize my blogs… meaning put in some ads… and since I am using the free wordpress, I can’t do that… but free blogspot allows it…. Aiyah… I write nonsense… but is nice to think maybe I can be paid for writing nonsense?

Third: The template in Blogger is fully customisable… And there are more free Blogger template in the WWW… that I can use….

Fourth: It loads way faster than WordPress…
And while googling on a painless way to move my blog, I discover that most people are moving from Blogger to WordPress and not the other way round… I am one of the rare ones… haha….

And anyway, I decided to just leave my old worpress blog the way it is… and not delete it… Main reason being the pictures in the duplicated posts(with WordPress) in this new Blogspot Blog is still linked from WordPress and not hosted over here…

But I did spent many hours trying to get a template that I like and also going post by post to make sure that the alignment is OK after the transfer…. Hubby say I “siao”… might as well spend the time on my online business instead of blogging…. but then when the blogging bug bites me, I just had to get it right loh….
So, hopefully this is the right move… but whatever it is, Snakes & Ladders is here to stay… hopefully for a long time….