Flea Market Experience

I ran a blogshop in case you are a new reader and don't know, my blogshop is call Rêveur Belle. For months it has been a struggle for me to juggle both work, social life and a 'business'. And when my friend approached me one day to asked if I am interested to run a stall with her at a flea market over a weekend, I said yes.

Alot of preparations went into the event, both for my friend and I and when the BIG DAY came, we huffed and puffed to load our goods into my friend's MPV. We arrived early on the first day but it looks like there were already some stall owners who came at 6 am just to get a good location (whatever it may be).

Instead of writing about the entire experience, I just want to summarize that it was a tedious experience, one that my friend and I will not want to return to and she said good riddance to the place when we drove off.

Basically there was nothing good to say, I can tell you all the bad. The place itself is in a carpark and there are no air-conditioning (Hello!!! here's Singapore where nobody shops in non-airconditioned places), the place was not quite known to those who doesn't drive and if you arrived by public transport, you would not have known where we were since there was no publicity at all. And the organizer is a young lady who had this black face throughout the entire 2 days and she did pass by the shop at the end of the 2nd day, not smiling, not caring how you fare and who she can make the next flea a better experience. So if anyone wanted to run a stall there next time, I would simple say FORGET IT!

Since then, I have checked out 2 more locations where there are flea market to see how succesful they are and both of these flea markets are in air-conditioned location and one of the location really surprised me with so much crowd when I was expecting a ghost town since it is in the central business district. So, who knows, we may just turn up in another better location to set up shop again. Will keep you posted.

Crap

I suspected I have used this subject title a few times in this blog but I am just too lazy to go back and search so sue me for lack of originality if you can.

So, yesterday was a super long day for me, started at 6 am (frens who know me well know I am simply not a morning person) just so I can make it to work at 730 am in the morning for a meeting starting at 8 am. So after a longggg day of meetings back to back, I was finally able to get back to my desk to work on a project my boss asked me to work on and which I have to passed it on to another colleague in the US to finish the rest.

So I worked and worked on it until 730pm, that's an astonishingly 12 hours at one, minus that perhaps 45 mins I took for work, it is still more than 11 hours. And I don't know what happened but I have a habit of checking what I attached before I sent and lo and behold, the file was in its original form without my comments...arrghhhhh and by now I was so shagged that I just give up searching for it. So I came home and have a quick dinner before I started searching for the missing file.

Alas all was lost, I might have deleted it while cleaning my desktop and accidentally deleted it as well. So I quickly redo everything and sent it out to my colleague as my boss gave us a deadline of 12 pm which was 12 midnight my time. So, all that said and done, I am just glad the day is over.

See what I mean?

See this? It is a floorplan of a potential house in Australia. It is drawn by none other than yours truly, me!

I don't even know I got it in me, I really can't draw well but thanks to technology, you can practically download a software and get help but of course, you have to provide the inspiration.

So, if I ever get the chance to own a piece of land and have extra cash on hand, I would built the above house, build to measure haha. There's a lot more ideas I have which I am going to design and keep it in case one day, I really do get the chance to build my own house.

If there are any house builders out there who will like to purchase the drawings from me, let me know!!

If only

If only I can turn back time, there will be many things I would have done compared to what I have done.

- I would have stay in Australia after graduating such that immigrating is no longer such a challenge

- I would have went ahead to purchase a house and not be scared of this and that

- I should have go into architecture or designing versus going into business studies

However as the saying goes, history is history, you can never take back what was done but can only look forward and do what you can in the future.

EPL

The EPL season is finally here again, unfortunately my favorite team is not playing until Monday night UK time meaning it will be in the middle of the night on Tuesday for me *sob sob*

Community Shield

Spent a couple of hours sitting in front of the tv watching the FA Community Shield Cup yesterday and YES YES YES, Man Utd won the Cup!!! Hope this is a good omen to having a great campaign in this year's EPL. Way to go my favorite team!

I quite like the idea of having Vidic as the captain and it was good to see Chicha in action for the first time for Man Utd on home territory. He is such a speedy runner and great at chasing balls and most of all he is so so cute. Looking forward to catching the EPL when it starts again in a week's time.

Cleaning Spree

I suppose you heard of shopping spree but have you heard of cleaning spree? Now you do!

Even though there have been a few less busy weekends, instead of going out I have been going on a cleaning spree, just can't get enough of the cleaning. Although it is just my room but let me tell you, I threw out so many paper and magazines as well as killing a few cockcroaches and the results are very satisfying.

After the cleaning, my back hurts so much from the bending over and mopping of the floor over and over again and while my cleaning spirit is high, I just want to go on and on and on. And this weekend, which is a long one, I spent a few hours 2 days in a row at IKEA buying lots of storage and organizing stuff..lots more cleaning to come!