Mama Giveaway!!! For Canadians only...

This is a Sponsored Post written by me on behalf of Dr. Oetker. All opinions are 100% mine.

Good news for Canadians Mamas!!! You could win yourself a Kitchen Makeover. You have to spread these good news to all your friends that wish to have a kitchen makeover! It is a $20,000 Kitchen giveaway from Savoury moments!

First thing that you have to do is register as a member at Savoury moments. You will get a bonus PIN to enter the Make It Like Mama Giveaway! Or you can simply pick up a PIN from specially marked packages of Casa di Mama Pizza. The grand-prize winner will get a kitchen makeover with Dr. Oetker Casa di Mama. You can be the lucky one! You never know if you never try!

There will be eight secondary winners and they all will scoop up one of the following Whirpool appliances such as a fridge and freezer, freestanding electric range, dishwasher or microwave! Everybody knows about Whirpool brand and their products rock! Besides that, there is an additional 2,000 people will instantly win a Casa di Mama Pizza or a pizza cutter.

I hate to tell you this again, this Dr. Oetker Kitchen Makeover Contest is available to Canadians only and it ends at January 4, 2010. If you always have a brilliant idea about your kitchen makeover, then what you need now is a chance to WIN it from this awesome $20,000 kitchen give-away!

It is just too hard to hold secrets!!!

My 4th anniversary is coming soon and I already have purchased something for hubby online. He knew about this but he doesnt know what exactly I got him. I swear, I try to TELL him what it is but I hold back myself so badly NOT TO spoil the surprise!

So, there are still 7 days to go... I guess this time, I can keep my mouth sealed well and won't tell him about the gift... so... Can I tell you all about it here? hahaha~ I guess, better not huh?

Christmas Getaway!!!

This is a Sponsored Post written by me on behalf of Hiltons of Branson. All opinions are 100% mine.

Do you wish to have a Christmas get-away this year? Go somewhere and have a very exciting and different Christmas? Branson is will be the destination because it is truly a remarkable vacation spot. You and your love one can definitely have an amazing Ozark Mountain Christmas this year.

2009 marks the 22nd season for Ozark Mountain Christmas in Branson. There will be many amazing events going on around that time. Branson will transform into a holiday wonderland featuring spectacular lighting displays. This is definitely something that worth seeing!

Branson is an incredible city with many live performance theaters, three pristine lakes, 12 championship golf courses, an international award-winning theme park and wonderful shopping galore. It is really a city that everyone can have fun!

I never been to Missouri but only passed by when I was on the way driving to Milwaukee last year. I din't get to do much there but I definitely want to return to Missouri and visit Branson one day. My top choices of accomodation will be the Hilton Promenade, Hilton Branson Convention Center Hotel or Branson Landing.

There are some attractive holiday packages available now at the Hilton Promenade at Branson Landing and the Hilton Branson Convention Center Hotel. Starting at $329 per night from Nov 15 thru Dec 23, you can experience the ultimate holiday package like It's a wonderful life! Santa himself will even deliver presents, cookies and milk to guest’s rooms with the Santa’s Coming to Town Package and this package is starting at $189 per night.

Christmas is just 5 weeks away and you need to plan for a vacation if you want to have one with your family! Plan a good one in Branson and indulge yourself a true holiday treat!

I miss home badly.

I miss my family badly.

I miss my freind badly.

I miss Malaysia food badly.

I miss working as a pharmacist badly.

I miss hanging out with my brother badly.

I miss being crazy, myself with all my girl friends.

I miss the old me.

Life After Lasik Surgery...

This is a Sponsored Post written by me on behalf of Incendia Health. All opinions are 100% mine.

iLasik surgery is no more new thing nowadays. There are more than 5 people around me have actually undergone this surgery and I already heard so much about how their lives change around after the surgery. But I do have some freinds, mostly female are still afraid of going for this iLasik surgery. I totally can understand why so but seeing the life improvements you get to have after the surgery, I really iLasik is one of the greatest inventions ever!

Abbott Medical Optics Inc. (AMO), is a global leader in laser vision correction. Now, they want to hear and see some feedbacks from those who had already had their iLasik done. They want to know how your lives has been improved with the improved vision. Therefore, AMO has recently launched the “You Gotta See This”iLASIK Video Contest. They invite entrants to make a video to show the impact of improved vision and contestants stand a chance to win cash and prizes.

You can submit videos to show that how much better you can do in boxing and swimming. Or, you can show how your daily lives would improve without contacts and glasses. I think there are more than 5 daily improvements that you can think of right away. Hubby has undergone iLasik 3 months ago and he loves his improved vision more than everything.

Now, let's talk about the the prizes that contestants could win. You can win a $5,000 Grand Prize! For First Prize winner, you could win HDTV package which values $2,500. Second prize winnter, you will win the Flip UltraHD camcorder which is $199.99 value. And the better news is, there more few different categories in this Video Contest.

Once contestants submit a video, their friends can vote on it. Winning are depends on the votes and the votes are one of the key factors in determining which videos win a prize.Contestants and freinds can view and vote on all entries at www.GottaSeeThisNow.com.

YAY!!! Cheaper price for Japanese Magazine

I just found out another better site that is based at the States which sell Japanese knitting books or Magazine online. It totally makes my day!

I used to purchase Japanese knitting magazine from Yesasia.com. Well, they do carry a huge collection of books but with the shipping and handling fees, normally it costs more than 25usd for a book.

I am a big fans of Couture Knit and I only have the copy of Let's knit series 12. I saw the 13, 14 are actually released. I believe the 14th one is the latest book so the price is like 8usd more expensive than the 13th.

After contemplating for about 10 minutes, I decided not to get the 14th this time. Oh ya, I forgot to tell you all about the NEW SITE I talked about, it is www.selectyarn.com! The good news is, shipping is FREE for all the book or magazine! GOOD NEWS no ??? of course, this site carries some wonderful Japanese yarn too. Please feel free to visit to this site and I believe you definitely would see something you like!

So, I only spend 17usd (actually it is John's paypal account! hehe) for a wonderful knitting magazine with free shipping! YAY! I am happy like a bird!

Dirt Devil Holiday Shopping Guide

This is a Sponsored Post written by me on behalf of Hoover and Dirt Devil. All opinions are 100% mine.

Time passes by faster than we know, Christmas is just 5 weeks away! That means it is time to start doing Christmas shopping. Believe me, you don't want to do this at the last minute. It is no fun at all to shop in crowd. But making a shopping list is not a easy task either. I bet many people are scratching their heads try to figure out what the best deals or bargains around so they could spend the least money for the best gifts ever.

Dirt Devil has an awesome holiday shopping guide for everybody this year. It is a 12 pages of guideline that gives you brilliant ideas where and when to shop for Christmas this year. Besides all the wonderful products from Dirt Devil, this shopping guideline actually provides many websites that you should visit to at specific day. There are fantastic online deals for Black Friday, which is the 27th Nov and also the Cyber Monday, 30th November.

Many of us love to shop online but sometimes the shipping fees are just too outrageous. Imagine how fantastic that will be if we could get FREE SHIPPING for online shopping. The second annual Free Shipping Day will be the Thursday, December 17th. There are hundreds of websites offer free shipping on that day with a promise of delivery by Christmas. You can actually find out all these sites through this Dirt Devil Holiday Gift Guide.

From this unbelievable guideline, you can save up good money by shopping at some Deal-A-Day sites.Daily deal web sites usually have one unbelievable deal each day.I just checked out the Jewelry and watches sites, and the really have some good deals.

Of course, you can't leave out the good deals offered by DirtDevil.com. They have ideal gifts for him, gifts for her or for family! John will definitely loves the Gator Hand Vacs. He does need one for his car. For me, I would love to have the Red Broom Vac. Wow, that will be an awesome gift!

With this shopping guideline in hands, I already knew my Christmas shopping will be easier thsi year!

Tulip Grace Hat

I made this hat about two months back for the Urban bazaar street craft fair. I used Berroco Ultra Alpaca for the hat and I love this yarn very very much. They are very nice to knit with. But it is just too sad to know that my local yarn shop is not carrying them at the moment. I really wish they will order this again in the future. Of course, I would like to try Ultra Alpaca light as well.

I have actually decided to write this pattern out a month ago but I wanted to try knitting this hat with lighter weight of yarn. So I picked out a 2-ply yarn from Woolie Ewe and made the same hat. Well, of course the lighter yarn shows more details of the lace stitches but worsted weight Ultra alpaca is very cozy and stretchy.

That is the reason why I include two type of yarn use in this pattern. Basically, they are knitted the same way, using the same needle but I attach as well the pictures of the two hats I knitted with two different yarns.

I released this knitting pattern at Ravelry and also at my ETSY store. Hopefully there are some knitters will love this hat as much as I do! =)

How Tweeters Monetize their Tweets

This is a Sponsored Post written by me on behalf of Sponsored Tweets. All opinions are 100% mine.

We all know that there are many ways to make money online nowadays and honestly, they are not as hard as you think. If you heard about Payperpost or Socialspark before, then you would know about IZEA. IZEA recently has launched a new site called SponsoredTweets.com, it is a new marketplace that is designed to help tweeters monetize their Tweets.

If you are a tweeter or you know many other tweeters who would like to make some money online, then you all should log into http://sponsoredtweets.com/tweeters/ to know more about this new system and start making some money while tweeting!

To believe or not, there are many celebrities are participating in this program such as Kim Kardashian, Bob Vila, Sister Hazel and Leann Rimes! Oh, I heart Kim Kardashian! She is gorgeous! Can you imagine that you are making money with all these celebrities at Tweeter?

It might sound too good to be true but it is real. Please find out more about Sponsoredtweets.com and also their disclosure engine, referral program and API. You will have all the useful guidelines to help you to start your very first step in this program. Start spreading this news around and begin the wonderful journey with IZEA! sign up for sponsored tweets now, everybody!

Milwaukee Trip 2009

We had a weekend trip to Milwaukee from 6th Nov - 9th Nov to attend a wedding. There were 5 of us in this trip, my parents in law, brother in law, John and I. It was a pretty early flight on the Friday. We arrived at Parents in laws about 6am in the morning and we all headed to the airport in one car.

We took a American Eagle to Milwaukee and the trip took about 2 and half hour to get there. Well, the plane is SMALL! That is the smallest plane ever I have taken. More likely it should be called an American Pigeon! The hotel that we stayed is just next to the airport which is very convinient. Also, the wedding banquet was held in the same hotel so we can enjoy ourselves to the max, drink as much as we wish and not worry about any driving.

It was a short and yet wonderful trip. We got to see a lot of relatives and the wedding is overwhelming. I love the mass service in the church. The priest did such a good job and I was touched with many things that he said.

You can't go Milwaukee without visiting to LEON's. So I did have my tripe scoope butter pecan frozen yogurt at LEon's. YUMMY!!! Well, I am definitely looking forward to go back to Milwaukee again next year!

Holiday Market in Fort Worth

Gloria and I will be joining a holiday market in Fort Worth at 21st November. We will have our own booth in a building. I just found out that there will be 75 vendors in this fair and now I am feeling all excited again.

I did not make any new things for this event as I was busy knitting a shrug and completing a design pattern for the past few weeks but I am still trying to make some fingerless gloves as these knitted gloves sold pretty good in the previous fair.

Wish me luck so I could sell some good number of items in this coming fair! =)

October, the PINK month!

When you see the title of this post, you should probably have the idea what I am going to talk about soon. October is the Breast Cancer Awareness Month. You might not know anyone around you that is diagnosed with breast cancer, but you should know breast cancer has the very high rate of survival if you seek for the appropriate treatment at the early stage.

With October being the breast cancer awareness month, I would like to talk about how stem cells from menstrual blood have the potential benefit to treat breast cancer. It might sound quite disgusting to believe what menstrual blood could do for the treatment of breast cancer but it is proven for its great potential benefits.

Cryo-Cell International, Inc is partnering with the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to explore the potential utilization of menstrual stem cells to treat breast cancer. Through this partnership, we all can have a better understanding about C’elle stem cells and their potential benefit to cure breast cancer.

You now can help support the breast cancer research by purchasing programs in Cyro-cell. Cryo-Cell will contribute $50 for each purchase of the "Protect, Baby, Protect Mom"service to the Susan B. Komen Foundation, and $25 for each purchase of the “C’elle Menstrual Stem Cell” service. At the same time, you are planning something important for your family, you are also support the breast cancer research through C'Elle Breast Cancer Donation and Cyro-Cell Breast Cancer Donation.

Victoria's Secret Sweater

Victoria's Secret always have pretty sweaters at Falls and winter season. The catalogue is mailed in today and I actually saw few sweaters that I really like. Those sweaters are totally something we can knit but that would definitely consume a lot of time. I seriously don't think I have time to knit myself any sweater or pullover for this year winter.

Let's have a look at what I spotted from the catalogue and I love the last hoodie! 69usd for a hoodie sweater, not too bad right?!

Amazing Rate Across Asia Pacific

Accor is a major global group and they are the European leader in hotels, as well as the global leader in services to corporate clients and public institutions. They operate in nearly 100 countries with 150,000 employees.

For a limited time, Accorhotels.com is offering amazing hotel rates across the Asia Pacific. This is a Super 3-day Sale from 27th to 29th October. That means, this crazy sale is going on right now. Over one million room nights will be on sale, with rates starting as low as US$30 per night. When I found out about this, I checked on the hotel rates in Malaysia immediately because I will have a vacation at Malaysia at March and this super sale is available for trip or vacation that falls between December 09 to April 10.

The country list of this Super 3-day sale event includes Thailand, Korea, China, Japan, HongKong, Australia, Singapore, Vietnam, Japan, Malaysia, New Zealand, Fiji, Indonesia, Taiwan, India and Bali. If you have planned a vacation to any countries listed above next year before 10th April, you really should check out the hotel rates at Accorhotels.com. There are only two more days left for this amazing sale, check out the Accor Hotels Super 3-day Sale Asia Pacific and grab the GREAT hotel rates ever!

More yarn!!!! MORE!!!

I have to say that I am a very lucky lady! I know this and I appreciate what I have all the time. I am blessed with a hubby that supports my hobby and spoil me with yarns all the time. He knows the fact most knitters are yarn snob that they stock yarn, buy yarn, sniff yarn, photograph yarn. I am one of those knitters and I have to say I am happy to be a knitter!

Someone rang my door bell around noon time today and I had a big smile right then because I know my yarn order is here!!! YAY!!! I have ordered some yarn from WEBS last week and I can't wait to see those good price closeout items.

I opened up the box and I saw two skeins of tweed yarn that are in Brown, orange and green color. Wait a minute, why can't I remember that I have actually ordered these? Very fast that I went through my order list and I was stoned for a minute. Ok, there was no error or problem in the order BUT, did I really order these yarn in THAT color? DID I ???

I don't like that color and I want to RETURN and EXCHANGE but sadly, I found out that closeout and sales items are not returnable nor exchangeable! AAAAAhhhhh!!! Nothing I can do I guess. I just have to think of a scarf or shawl pattern to knit them with! So, the question comes up again... Did I really ORDER that color??? I have memory loss must be!

Anyway, I like other yarns that I got from WEBS. Cascade definitely produce quality and gorgeous yarn. Besides shopping at WEBS, I went to Woolie Ewe twice this week and bought few balls of colorful fiesta yarn! All that are for scarf or shawl knitting. But guess what, I really love the Cascade Pastaza. They are discontinued item and they are only 4.79usd per skein! I am thinking to get 10 skeins so I can knit myself a hoodie or sweater!

If You Don't Have a TV...

Electronic devices play such important role nowaday for every household and I can tell you frankly, I spend more than 8 hours a day using my laptop. Most of the time, the TV is turned on as well while I am surfing. I totally can't imagine how I am going to live without a computer and a TV.

If you are a big TV fans but can't afford a satelite dish or cable tv to watch all the shows you want, you now can turn your computer into your TV. LiveTV4Me has proprietary software technology that plugs you directly into hundreds of worldwide LIVE digital television channels right over the Internet. There are no monthly subscription fees or renewal fees at all, you just have to pay ONE time that is it, you can enjoy over 1000 live television channels from around the world whenever you want, wherever you want all from the convenience of your PC or laptop!

Not only that you can watch popular shows that are aired in the States, you get to watch many other shows that are from foreign countries. Access to all those channels is 100% legal no matter how many channels you choose to watch or for how long. I know it sounds too good to be true but with the price of $39.95, you can enjoy this amazing service anyway you want! Visit to livetv4me.com to find out more it!

Good Customer Service from Knitpicks

I have been using the Knitpicks Option changeable circular needles for a while and I actually love them very much but two weeks ago, the purple cables finally fell off from the connectors while I was knitting the ruffle scarf. Well, not only 1 cable has the problem but 3 out of 4 cables they have in the set.

I know this is a common problem with this Option needles so I emailed Knitpicks customers tried to find out if I can return and get a new pairs of cables. It did not take them long to reply me at all and they already shipped 2 new pair of cables in different length to me. Another thing is, I don't even have to return the defective cables.

Their prompt response really impress me and I surely wish there won't have any problem with the needles anymore.

Warmth Mountain Christmas

Want to have a get-away badly? And wish to have a different Christmas this year? Branson is the answer because it is truly a remarkable vacation destination. You and your love one can have an amazing Ozark Mountain Christmas this year.

Branson is an incredible city with many live performance theaters, three pristine lakes, 12 championship golf courses, an international award-winning theme park and wonderful shopping galore. It is really a city that everyone can have fun!

2009 marks the 22nd season for Ozark Mountain Christmas in Branson. There will be many amazing events going on around that time. Branson will transform into a holiday wonderland featuring spectacular lighting displays. This is definitely something that worth seeing!

I passed by Missouri when I was on the way driving to Milwaukee last year. I din't get to do much there but I definitely want to return to Missouri and visit Branson one day. My top choices of accomodation will be the Hilton Promenade, Hilton Branson Convention Center Hotel or Branson Landing.

There are some attractive holiday packages available now at the Hilton Promenade at Branson Landing and the Hilton Branson Convention Center Hotel. Starting at $329 per night from Nov 15 thru Dec 23, you can experience the ultimate holiday package like It's a wonderful life! Santa himself will even deliver presents, cookies and milk to guest’s rooms with the Santa’s Coming to Town Package and this package is starting at $189 per night.

Christmas is not too far away and it is about time to plan for a vacation if you want to have one with your family! Plan a good one in Branson and indulge yourself a true holiday treat!

I am still in the mood...

To prepare for the Urban Bazaar Street 9 event, I have started knitting scarf since June. I can't remember how many balls of yarn I have bought and am STILL buying, but I really really enjoy knitting scarf.

I sold some scarves last year in Etsy during the Christmas season therefore, I am hoping more scarves can be sold this year. Eventhough the craft fair is over, I am still knitting scarves religiously. I actually want to knit one for myself for the trip to Milwaukee at the beginning of November. I just realize, I haven't knitted anything for myself quite sometimes. A scarf will be something I really need in this coming trip!

I don't think I show all the scarves I have knitted in my blog so I will upload some in this post! I have so many yummy gorgeous yarn laying around on the carpet, I am still waiting for some to be delivered. Til then, I will take picture of those yarn and share with you all!

Charter On Demand

Full-time mom is one of the hardest jobs in the world. 24-hour a day is always not enough for busy moms. I believe most of the moms have to sacrifice their TV time in order to run the family errands, prepare meals and take care of the kids. If you are a Charter digital subscriber, life can be easier. You still can enjoy most of the TV shows and movies you want while you are a busy moms like other.

When you have Charter digital, you have On Demand and it’s free to access. We all know how amazing On Demand is. With more than over 6,000 movies and shows on it, you can watch them anytime you want. You don't have to wait neither to schedule. If you missed your favourite shows like Heroes, 30 Rock, The Office, they are always back on TV the next day they air.

Busy moms can hardly have the chance to enjoy a movie with their husband in the theatre. But if you have Charter digital, you can pick whatever movie you want and watch it with your spouse when you have the free time. Driving a car to the mall to get a DVD is too much hassles, with the free access to On Demand through Charter, you can enjoy your life better! HD is the thing nowadays and you can find more HD shows on Charter now.

Want to find out more about Charter On Demand? You now can learn more at charter.net/ondemand. Also, if you are a Facebook user, you can get updates and fun extras on Charter’s Facebook page.