2008 What a year!

It hasn't been a very good year for many people - 2008. Sure - there was the brilliant Beijing Olympics. But unfortunately the other events ensuing made it's glory extremely shortlived.

On the large scale: there was the earthquake in Szechuan, the melamine-tainted milk catastrophe, the collapse of Lehman Brothers - leading into the worldwide recession.

On a personal scale: the tip of my son's right middle finger was caught by a sliding door and ripped off together with the entire finger nail. It was the most horrifying experience I've personally had. We rushed to the hospital with the severed bit in a glass of ice. The tip was re-attached. It eventually turned black and fell off - including the nail. It was a nasty sight!

With plenty of prayers & God's amazing grace, the tip & finger nail grew back and now looks ok. The best part is - he took in all of this very well - probably due to all the medical trauma his been through since he was born. (Or even before he was born.)

Not long after this a good friend who had migrated to Perth a few years ago emailed us - his 6 year-old daughter has passed on in a hospital. He was obviously too distraught and did not provide more information in his brief email. We were so shocked by this news - I was in a daze for quite a while. We've visited them 2 years prior and she was such a sweet girl! I was very worried about her older & only 7 year-old sister now left to deal with death at such a young age - I still am.

Then- like in the dramas - my dad was hospitalised for multiple infections. And the stress made my mum very ill too.

After all that - what do you know? A friend from NZ called. Every November, she'd usually drop me a visit enroute to HK to spend the holidays with her daughter. She didn't go this year - her son-in-law is having an affair with a woman in mainland China. She and her husband were very upset and worried about her daughter but there isn't much they could do about it...

Maybe someone would like to write a drama about all this....? Naw...seems like these have already been done before! A case of art imitating life!

All I pray for now is a better year ahead!

Update on $1.50 Paypal incident

It's official. Paypal is not giving me the $1.50 they held - surprise, surprise!. The payer (888goodchi999) is no longer registered on ebay. I think this is what happened:

888goodchi999 sold a set of golf clubs and used the money in his/her paypal account to buy stuff to get feedback. I think the poor golf clubs buyer didn't get the goods/service from 888goodchi999 so he/she claimed from Paypal. Paypal take back all the payment 888goodchi999 made to sellers like me to reduce their loss. We (sellers, underdogs) become the ultimate losers... story of most honest ebay sellers - ya win some, ya lose some!

LOWLIFE!!!

I had to blow off some steam!!!





Someone has been buying cheapo items on ebay just to build up feedback score (that's normal practice). What's so low about this buyer is that he/she buys, pays with paypal (which as stated in my listing is not accepted for local buyers), and asks for immediate feedback. My policy is to only leave feedback after transaction has been closed satisfactorily - again clearly stated in my email to 'jerko'.








When he/she did not get an immediate feedback - he/she files claim from paypal on day 3 and paypal puts the measly $1.50 on hold.





I don't care for the $1.50 but I won't stand for such petty & unprofessional behaviour. This individual has registered for several IDs on ebay and is selling golf clubs. Since I can't put his/her ID on ebay's forum pages I'll list them here:





888goodchi999
(Ha! This member was deregistered on 26/11/08 too!)


kcc-7301
(this id has been deregistered)




Please do not encourage unscrupulous people like them by playing their game or buying from them! I'll continue to update my blog with details of such scums when they turn up.



恥知らずな人々!

Oops! I tried to put one of favourite songs on You Tube here but all I get was a blank blog... that shows how low tech I am. If someone out there reads this and knows how to do it properly - appreciate if you'd let me know. Ü

That song is ♫ Droplets by Colbie Caillat and Jason Reeves - love the guitar, the voices, the words. I've come to know all the words by heart now... almost all.

For some time - I almost became a You Tube junkie - checking in everyday to look for new vids. But I've toned down now - the real world (family, work...) needs more attention! Ö

頑張ります！

Eigyouchuu

http://shop.ebay.com.sg/merchant/eigyouchuu_W0QQ_nkwZQQ_armrsZ1QQ_fromZQQ_mdoZ

Welcome to my blog! Ü

I am a full-time mom (as if there are part-time ones!) who sells things on ebay on the side - mainly because I hate to dispose of things that obviously still have alot of use left in them or those that others might have been looking for. At very competitive prices - I might add! (Just to speed up the clearing of my inventory.)

Please take some time to visit my listings on ebay, the link is right below my new 'logo'. It roughly translates as - open for business - in Japanese.

I'm NOT Japanese. Have studied the language for years but is still not good at it. 8oP

I have a whole load of life's drama yet to be written down in words - will try to blog them down - sometime!

Thank you for visiting!

PS: If you do visit my ebay listings & perchance buy something - do let me know that you saw this blog okay, pleeeeease. Ü