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All About Me

Welcome to my world. I will talk a bit about my real life in this lens and some online stuffs that I do.

You can actually know a lot about me if you go through my book list and my lensography. Here are more stuffs about me.

My Profile

Present Location: Singapore
Place of Birth: Singapore
Height: 170cm
Weight: 49kg
Blood Type: B
Hair: Black and getting longer.
Chinese Zodiac: Tiger
Horoscope: Pisces
Written Languages: English
Spoken Languages: English, Mandarin, Cantonese, trying to learn Malay now.
Favorite TV show: Amazing Race, Project Runway & the daily news. I hardly watch TV.
Favorite food: MacDonald, Japanese, pasta & My mom's cooking.
Favorite beverage: Hot black tea, ice black tea, almond milk tea with pearl.
Favorite pastime: Reading my books or the newspaper & working on my laptop.
Favorite Music & Artists: Faye Wong, Jay Chou & Madonna.

This is me when I was a baby

I Love Sky Driving

Well, not many people knew that I have the urge to jump off from a plane whenever I take one. The feeling was just great and you will want to do it again and again and again.

My first and only experience was when I was traveling in Queenstown in Southern New Zealand with a friend. We were hesitating if we should do it or not right in front of the shop. We finally went into the shop, paid up and fill up some form just before the shop close. When we were driven in a van to some country side where we are suppose to board an aircraft and jumped right off from it.

We were gave a set of "wind suit" which we have to put them on. They have a bit of problem looking for a hat for me because my head was too small for their adult size. They finally decided to let me wear a bigger kid size hat.

After some instruction from our own instructor, we board the plane and jump off from 12,000 feet above. I wish the weather was good enough for a 15,000 feet jump but it was not.

After the jump, while waiting for our van to arrive, we were both laughing at each other in front of the TV where they feature our jump. It was a fun experience and I think everybody should give it a try.

I might jump again but this time, I want to do it with my son.

I Love Reading

Books I want to read...

I love reading. I go for self-help books, business books, women books, internet and marketing books and more. I enjoy reading mainly non-fiction and once I started on a book, I will not stop reading it until I finish the book.

I Love Books: Here is the lens where I kept a collection of books I have read.
Book Wish List: Here is where you can find a complete list of books that I wanted to read.

These are some of my books in my wish list.

Permission Marketing : Turning Strangers Into Friends And Friends Into Customers

by: Seth Godin

Amazon Price: $17.15 (as of 12/29/2009)

The 4-Hour Workweek: Escape 9-5, Live Anywhere, and Join the New Rich

by: Timothy Ferriss

Amazon Price: $13.57 (as of 12/29/2009)

Raising Boys: Why Boys Are Different - And How to Help Them Become Happy and Well-Balanced Men

by: Steve Biddulph

Amazon Price: (as of 12/29/2009)

The 10 Smartest Decisions a Woman Can Make Before 40

by: Tina B. Tessina, Elizabeth Friar Williams

Amazon Price: $11.65 (as of 12/29/2009)

I was an Architect Assistance

I quit my job before my wedding because I need a break badly. I did not realize that my break was so long. I have been thinking seriously about going back to the rat race in 2010 when the recession will be over (hopefully).

I love my job actually. I love to design houses, schools, apartments and anything that has to do with residential. My boss will throw me a piece of site plan and I will have to work from there, meet the clients and do everything until completion. I was the one who pick up the calls (hate it), design, draft, meet clients, hold meetings, write minutes, get everyone to work, deal with the authorities and everything except washing the toilet and signing the papers.

After quiting for almost 5 years, I will have to attend some courses to brush up my autocad and 3D studio skills and read up some regulations and codes before looking for a job. My mom has been telling me to do some else since I graduate and when I told her about my plans yesterday (24 Feb 2009), she said the same thing.

I Love Arts and Craft

I love to make things. I had made beanbag chairs, a few curtains, a number of bags, dressed up my cabinets and more stuffs. Here are some of my projects.

My Arts & Crafts Lenses

Here are some of my arts & crafts lenses.

How to Make Ang Pow Fish

I have decided to keep all my craft work instruction in Squidoo. I learned how to make them and forgot how to make them 1 year later. Whenever the mood of Chinese New Year arrive, my mom will be bugging me for new ideas and instruction and my mind wi...

I Have Astigmatism

My glasses are wearing out and I am thinking if I should change a pair of glasses or should I go for lasik surgery. I have actually put lasik surgery as one of my 2009 goal, or task to be completed. However, I am still procrastinating about it.

I am a Cat Lover

I Love Cats

I thought I will made 1 lens for my cats when I started with Squidoo. I ended up with 5 cat lenses now. You may want to check out my blog on cat collectibles. http://catscollectibles.blogspot.com

Cats Toilet Training

1) You will save money on kitty litter. 2) No more clearing of litter box. 3) No more unpleasant smell in your house. 4) It will be a very good idea if you intent to have a baby in future. You will be advise not to handle cat feces with your bare...

My Cats Memories

These are the cats that I have owned or babysit. I loved them and they kept me company while I was doing my degree in Australia. I used to have a website with geocities that wrote about my cats while I was in Australia. Even since I have graduate fr...

Cat Humor

We have collected some cat jokes and interesting websites and we think it will be nice if we have a lens just on that. This lens is dedicated 99% to the cats and 1% to other pets or animals. Sometime, we like to joke on the dogs too. You can see som...

Cats Collectibles

Everyone who knows me in person know that I love cats. Some of them know that I have a little collection on cat themed products. One or two of my friends know that I have an entire blog dedicated to my cats collectibles at http://catscollectibles.blo...

My Cats

This lens is dedicated to my 2 cats, Brownie and Mui Mui. It was 4pm on a Sunday afternoon on July 2001. Me and my boyfriend (now husband) was on the way to my mom's place. We went to a wet market near our place because my husband wanted to withdraw...

My Animal Phobias

I am scare of cockroaches, worms, centipedes, millipedes, lizards. I am scare even when they are dead. It is a good thing that I have 2 cats in the house to keep these pest away.

Follow me at Twitter

Read about my mini blog

This is my short and sweet mini blog. Sometime I write rubbish, sometime I dun.

You can also find out who am I following at Twitter at http://www.squidoo.com/twitterfollow.

Dec 26, 2009 @ 4:23 am

Merry Christmas everyone! I am still alive and kicking. Will be back online very soon.
Sep 16, 2009 @ 2:03 am

I just brought a new camera. http://bit.ly/39jCF
Sep 4, 2009 @ 1:24 am

Latest lens, http://www.squidoo.com/All-About-Ties
Sep 4, 2009 @ 1:23 am

created another lens on All About Ties at Zazzle. http://www.squidoo.com/All-About-Ties
Sep 3, 2009 @ 3:55 am

updated Crazy Keds Shoes lens, http://www.squidoo.com/crazy-shoes

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I Look Like A Boy When I Was A Baby

My mom told me that. My baby pictures do look like a baby boy too. However, when I grow a bit older, I look completely like a girl. A lot of people actually commented that my look did not change much since I was 5 year old.

Actually, I have stop getting excited for my birthday a few years ago. The nice thing about my birthday is that my friends will remember and they will ask me what I want to eat for my birthday. Some of my friends still give me presents.

I receive 2 bags holder from my sister, $80 worth of book vouchers from 5 of my best friends and a birthday card from a friend in Australia. My sister and my husband took me out to eat. This is how I celebrate my birthday in 2009.

(My Birthday is March 11, 2010)

I Like My Tea Sweet

Sweet as in add lots of sugar in them.

However, I do not like fruit tea because they are sweet. The sweetness in fruit tea and black tea are different.

I will have to add 3 bags of sugar to my mug of tea, or 2 bags of sugar to a cup of tea.

I tried to limit myself to one mug of tea per day as too much caffeine is not good for the body.

My favorite tea is Lipton.

I Love Travelling

I love vacations

I have been to quite a few places, mainly different parts of Asia. I have been to Hong Kong, Australia, New Zealand, China, Thailand, Malaysia, Korea and Japan. I have not touches on European countries and United States because they are too far and expensive for me. However, I am hoping that I will go to these places before I die.

You can read more about the places I have been and places I want to go in Draik Bucket List

I Love Squidoo

I am a giant squid.

I started creating Squidoo lenses with the intention to promote my online store, Keepsake Arts. However, it did not take me long to get addicted it Squidoo.

I have deleted my very first lens because it was too general and I have got no idea what to write. My second lens was about Cat Toilet Training.

Below are 5 of my squidoo lenses display in this lens randomly. If you want to see all of my lenses, you can either visit my profile or my lensography.

My Squidoo Lenses

If you want to see the list of lenses I have been making on Squidoo, visit Draik's Lensography. You will find all my lenses there.

Draik's Favorite Lenses

This is a lens about all my favorite lenses that are not mine. I mean I have "bookmarked" and keep all the lenses that I like and they were not written by me. The reason why I created a lens to "bookmarked" these wonderful lenses here is because I w...

How to open eps files in GIMP

I have finally figure out how to open eps files in GIMP after so much trying and unsuccessful attempts. I wanted to share with everybody where to download ghostscripts files and make your GIMP open eps files as easy as possible without going round a...

101 Ways To Promote Your Online Store

SEO (Search Engine Optimization) and Human Visitor Optimization are very important for your online store. No human and spider will find your shop if you do not work on your SEO. Below are a list of things you can do to improve your optimization. I wi...

How to Make Ang Pow Fish

I have decided to keep all my craft work instruction in Squidoo. I learned how to make them and forgot how to make them 1 year later. Whenever the mood of Chinese New Year arrive, my mom will be bugging me for new ideas and instruction and my mind wi...

Draik's Bucket List

I have been making goals for the new year every year and most of the things listed have been achieve. I stumble upon a bucket list group in Squidoo and it gave me an idea to make my own bucket list, so here is it. I am determine to complete everythi...

I Skipped One of My Most Important Exams.

I am not good at languages. I can score very well in other subjects such as math and science and do badly for both my English and Chinese languages. Well, English language was considered to be one of the important subjects and I score a D7 on my O Level.

I did get into the course that I wanted in polytechnic. However, if I have score a bit better in my English, I will have more choices and maybe I might be something else today.

My parents wanted me to retake my English O level exams. I registered for the retake but did not go for the exams. My parents were so mad at me at that time.

I Love Yoga

My new hobby

I realize that I love yoga and have been doing yoga once a week since 2009. My main purpose of doing Yoga is that I want to keep myself healthy for as long as possible. I always feel so good after a yoga session that I felt like signing up for another yoga session so that I can stretch my body twice a week. Another option is to buy some yoga VCD and practice it at home. I can stretch my body everyday if I have the time and is not too lazy.

Yoga Chick Tote Bag
Our 100% cotton canvas tote bags have plenty of room to carry everything you need when you are on the go. They include a bottom gusset and extra long handles for easy carrying. Great yoga gift idea and comes with 30 day guarantee!
$14.99
Product Information
* 10 oz heavyweight natural canvas fabric
* Full side and bottom gusset
* 22" reinforced self-fabric handles
* Machine washable
* Measures 15" x 18" x 6"
More Yoga T-Shirts and Gifts @ Cafepress

I sell my unwanted stuffs in Ebay

Selling all my unwanted stuff is part of my mission to uncluttered my life and my house. Unfortunately, I will need to clear most of my books and kept only those that I hate to part. If you are interested in my stuffs and they are listed in ebay.sg. I do sell to international buyers although I have listed my stuffs at ebay.sg. Just let me know what you are interested in and where is your location, I will give you an estimate shipping cost, you bid on my items, win the auction and pay via paypal.
Very Good Find

PS: If you buy something from this page...

... you'll automatically be making a donation to The Acumen Fund, working to solve global poverty.

Doesn't that feel good?

I am a Cafepress Shopkeeper

Keepsake Arts is my first online store

I have started Keepsake Arts on 27 May 2005. I love Cafepress because I get most of my earnings from there. This is my very first online shop and it is getting very very big. I have got more than 6000 designs out there.

I am a Zazzle Shopkeeper

I have a few galleries with Zazzle

I love Zazzle too because their gallery/shop is free. My first Zazzle shop was All About Ties, created on 11 August 2008. I have a few galleries with Zazzle and I am planning to expand and open more shops with Zazzle in 2009. One of my 2009 goal will be to work with Zazzle until it can earn as much as what I earn from Cafepress.

Here are some of my Zazzle shops.

Mad About Mousepads | Blue Baby | For Dad | Skull Tees | Wedding Keepsake

I am a Printfection Shopkeeper

I have 2 shops with Printfection

I have created Wedding Tees on 13 January 2007 before opening Skull Tees. No plans for expanding my shop with Printfection in 2009 unless Zazzle let me down.

My Random Weekday will be...

7:30am - Wake up by my alarm on my mobile phone. Wash myself up, go to the kitchen, fill my son's water bottle with water and take 2 packets of milk from my cupboard. If there is cat's poo on my toilet floor, I will have to clean it up first. Feed my cats and check their water bowl. Check my son's schoolbag to see if there is anything missing.
8:00am - Kiss my son, dress him up for school while he is still sleeping.
8:20am - Help my son to brush his teeth. Feed him with his cough medicine if he is coughing.
8:30am - Leave the house. Bring my son to his preschool and come back home.
8:40am - Go to the kitchen and check what I can eat for breakfast. Switch on my computer. Eat in front of my computer. Check my emails, forums, ebay, Squidoo and more.
Lunch Time - lunch time will be anytime when I feel like fainting from hunger. Force myself to get out of my study room. If my fainting spell is stronger than my hunger, I may take a short nap.
After Lunch - Make myself a mug of tea. Continue to work on my laptop.
5:30pm - Switch off my laptop. Vacuum the floor and pick up all the toys in the house.
6:00pm - Bathe
6:15pm - Pick my son back from his school.
6:30pm - Watch the news on the TV.
6:45pm - Bathe my son. The news on the TV do not last for 15 minutes. I usually do not watch all the news because when my son decide to have a bath, I will have to bathe him quickly before he change his mind. Put some dirty laundry into my washing machine and start it.
7:00pm - My husband will be back and after he bathe, we will all go out for dinner.
9:30pm - Back home. Hang out all my wet clothing. Play with my son.
10:30pm - Change my son into pajamas. Switch off the TV and the light and off to bed.

You can find me at Tagfoot

I have been submitting most of my lenses to Tagfoot and you can find me there.

I Really Want This!

Cupcake Couriers

Cupcake Courier 36-Cupcake Plastic Storage Container, Soft Blue Sky

Amazon Price: $29.99 (as of 12/29/2009)

This will be really useful when I need to transport my home bake cakes or cupcakes to my mom place, or to my sis place. I can quit buying paper cake boxes.

I Want This Too!

KitchenAid Artisan 5-Quart Stand Mixers

KitchenAid KSM150PSWH Artisan Series 5-Quart Mixer, White

Amazon Price: $269.99 (as of 12/29/2009)

I love the empire red one. I dun think I will ever get one because it is so expensive.

Want to Know More About Me?

Well, here are 5 more lenses about myself.

Draik's Son

This is my son KJ. He was around 3 year old at the time when I took these photos. I caught him smiling while he was sleeping in the car. This is one of the rare photo I have taken. I am really bad with captions, you really got to help me with this...

Books I Will Like To Read

These are the books that I will like to read. I have read or hear good reviews on these books and have note all of them down in my notebook. Whenever I goes to the library or the bookstore, I will try to find these books. Someone suggested that since...

Draik's Lensography

Everyone has created their own lensography. So I am working on my very own one too. It is a good idea to gather all my lenses into one page with their very own introduction. This lensography may give me more ideas what my next lens is going to be. By...

Breastfeeding Support

I have no real intention to breastfeeding my baby before he was born. Whenever people asked me if I have the intention to breastfeed, I will said I will try to. I still remember I have a discussion with my husband on which brand of formula milk shoul...

Draik's Bucket List

I have been making goals for the new year every year and most of the things listed have been achieve. I stumble upon a bucket list group in Squidoo and it gave me an idea to make my own bucket list, so here is it. I am determine to complete everythi...

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