- de Tinkerbell - | fashion cache is OPENING today

My online store is opening today. My partner’s mother checked my birth date to get a good day for my store opening. She knows how to read these it seems, and said even though I have a partner but since I’m older than my partner by months, so the reading shall follow mine. She also told me that it is best to start my business this morning from 7AM to 9AM. I woke up early this morning to check out my store online and then rushed to my lecturer’s dental clinic for some thesis team discussion and presentation preparation. I have a bad news and also good news to be shared. Bad news first? I prefer keeping good stuff at the end =)

Some of my supportive friends had added my store’s account in Facebook earlier when they knew I’m doing this. They even suggest my store to their friends. These made it easier for me to start adding people/consumers into my account. Too bad, due to this convenience, I guess I added too many people in just 10 minutes. Facebook admin thought I was spamming by adding unknowns into my account. I must declare. Those people I’ve added as friends this morning are all my university-mates. I do know them. So Facebook made me log into my account again and gave me this notification telling me they’ll block me from adding friends and sending message for 2 days. WTH?! That’s sad right? How can Facebook do this to me. My first Pre-Order session will end in a week time. If they forbid me from adding friends, how can I continue with my business T.T I wonder if Facebook is doing the same thing to other sellers online.

Well, don’t mind about that. I still can get friends to add me up as friends =) Be optimistic. When I’m done with all these mess Facebook is giving me, I received a message, checked my inbox and *taddaaaa* I got my FIRST ORDER! Can you believe it? I just got my store operating for less than an hour and I got an order of 5 items of my product already! This is a good sign isn’t it? I must THANK Joanne for supporting me! – de Tinkerbell – decided to give 5% off if you’re buying above 5 items. Consider this as Christmas SALE and also our OPENING promotion =) So girls, be quick to place your orders from us, - de Tinkerbell – Lil’ ting is waiting for your message XD

I would like to take this opportunity to thank all the supportive friends around me, also far from Malaysia. Believe it or not, before I started operating this store, these Malaysian buddies already added me up as friends and clicked the LIKE button at my page. I’m so proud of you people! I miss you all back there really *hugs*

- de Tinkerbell - | fashion cache

I believe I’m one of the luckiest girls in this world. Many of friends of my age had experienced working. Me? NO! I never worked before unless you say helping out in my parents’ shop once in a while when I’m having semester break is work. Even in my parents’ shop, I don’t help them like my brother did. All I did there was collecting money from customers and give them the change. So where do I get my pocket money if I don’t work at this age?

I’m already 21 and I’m still getting pocket money from my parents like a little girl. Now that I’m not staying with my parents in Malaysia, they’ll transfer money to my account from time to time. Frankly speaking, I felt ashamed asking money from parents. Most of my friends had experienced working. I wanted to get a part time job too but I don’t have time for that. My semester break is always short so nobody would want to hire me. I had told my parents about my plan having an online shop, perhaps like those selling clothes and accessories. You can see a lot of those in Facebook nowadays. My parents are not highly educated. They don’t know computers. You talk to them about internet, they only know MSN because they used that to have video conversation with me =)

After a few months of planning and contacting, and *tadaaa* here I am to announce that – de Tinkerbell – will be opening this Monday (6^th December 2010). I’m excited! I’m worried at the same time. Yes, that’s the name of my online boutique. I have a friend as my partner. I thought having online business is easy BUT right now, I won’t say so. Preparation before I started this took a lot of my time. I’m starting to worry if I can cope up with my studies when I’m doing this. I know once I start with this small business, I can’t stop.

My partner and I had designed a logo for my online boutique together. So whenever you see this logo, you’ll know it belongs to us kay?

LOL. Friends, do support me with this new job of mine =) By just a few clicks, check out about - de Tinkerbell - and let's us be friends in Facebook to support me, also not to forget to LIKE our page in Facebook okay? Love you darlings !!

2 upcoming IMPORTANT days for me

I went to campus today and waited 2 hours just to meet the Head of Department of Dental Radiology. I skipped Physiology class because I was told the Head of Department will be free at 11AM and yes, my class starts at the same time. So, I skipped it and I regretted since I did nothing but sat on the bench obediently observing the patients coming in and going out from the clinics in that one hour which I was supposed to be concentrating in the class. She was supposed to be free at 11AM because Cathrine’s team discussion will start at 10 but she was wearing the wrong attire there. We’re supposed to wear a black skirt with white shirt for a girl but she wore jeans so she was told to go home for a change. That delayed her team discussion. After her team discussion, the lecturers in the department had a short meeting.

The Head of Department looked as if she wasn’t in a mood. I was so scared to talk to her, just like the first time I talked to my lecturer. She asked why I am meeting her. I explained saying I wanted to ask for the date for my team discussion, also my thesis presentation (as my thesis examination). My thesis was corrected. Yes, the lecturer who went honeymoon is back! She’s nice and kind. She helped me a lot in correcting my bad Indonesian grammar. I’ll take the opportunity here to thank her again here, thank you, Drg. Lydia. Drg. Trelia (the Head of Department) then told me to ask the other lecturers in the department if they’re free on the 9^th and 17^th. Too bad, Drg. Lydia is not around on the 17^th. She’ll be going to her husband’s place. So now, the date for my team discussion will be on the 9^th of December and thesis presentation on the 24^th of Demember.

I’m glad I finally get the date already. I don’t feel happy at the same time. I miss home. My friends and I already planned a potluck dinner together in my house when I’m home. We’ll be calling many friends to join the potluck but now it is canceled. Not only that, my 22d birthday party is canceled too. I wonder when will be the next time we all shall gather again. I think this is the first year I am not celebrating my birthday with my best friends. They’ll be there by my side when I blew off the candles every year. I miss their cheers and laughter T.T

BAKSIS PERDANA 2010

I joined another odd job/community service last 14^th November. It is organized by our Dental Student Committee. There were all together 47 dental students who joined the event and a dentist from the Pediatric Dentistry who also followed us to guide us. Among the 47 dental students, 16 of them were co-assistant while the rest of them haven’t got their bachelor. I’m one of the juniors who were present there to learn more about dentistry. I shall say the event organizer didn’t arranged things well because not all 47 students were informed to attend the briefing before the event. I was one of them who didn’t know what will happen until the night before the event. I only received an SMS at around 11.20PM telling me “Gather in faculty before 7.30AM tomorrow morning. Bring your lab coat or co-ass coat if you have one. Bring along the basic equipment you need for a dental check-up.”

So the next morning I went there on time and as usual, these people don’t understand punctuality. Perhaps those irresponsible lecturers had taught them this bad habit. In fact, all my 16 seniors were there already. We waited for those late-comers until 8.30AM. We’ve made calls to wake them up. We took a van to the venue of giving free treatment together. It wasn’t very far from our faculty. We were then divided into groups. Jihan and I were in charged for group 7. It is an Islamic school, not sure if it is an all boys’ school since I only see boy patients.

when we arrived to Al-Fityan School

from left: Li Ting, Joanne, Salman, Liyana

discussing with friend

First, we gave education and taught the kids to brush their teeth correctly. Well, they’re not really kids already. Most of them are teenage. We gave them disclosing solution before letting them brush their teeth. I brought my mirror and let them check their teeth after brushing.

They're using the method we taught them XD

After that, we checked their teeth. Those who needed treatment were brought into the hall where the co-assistants and the dentist were waiting. Others who don’t need treatment went having games. Yes, we prepared games for them too but I didn’t know much about the game sessions because I was helping in the hall at most time. I remember I learned to use the scaler machine the last time I followed the Indonesian seniors to Bukit Lawang. This time, still the same, I didn’t get the chance to experience tooth extraction because the seniors need these patients as their minimum requirements. So in the end, I’ve been taught by Eddy the way to do manual scaling. It is tiring especially when their calculi were so hard. Special case in this trip? Hmm.. I see polyp but the dentist didn’t let us to take any action because we didn’t have the right equipment that time. It is another fun day and I experienced a lot. I better learn to communicate with kids from now on. I really think I couldn’t communicate with them. Do I look fierce or scary? They all look so shy. They just smiled but not uttering any words when I asked them questions.

Quick lesson from Brother Eddy

I wish to have another baksos/baksis or whatever they call it the odd job here =) Really gained a lot from every trip I joined.

spoilt cream caramel flan

I always wanted to prepare myself some dessert for stress relieving though I have not much stress these days. I’ve been enjoying my life a lot lately. I thought of making cream caramel flan since Josephine had done pudding previously. Yesterday was a great day as no one was using the kitchen. One of my housemates was dreaming on her bed, the rest of my housemates went out, so there left me and Josephine again who were free enough to make a mess in the kitchen XD We read the instructions on how to make a flan and there we went boiling sugars with a tablespoon of water until it caramelized. It took quite long and we boiled it longer. I thought the chocolate colour looked good =.= it went blackout again while we were boiling. This is Medan. But we continued with our cooking in the kitchen with an emergency light and torchlight.

Then, I poured the caramelized sugar into the mould. Josephine helped me of course. While pouring it into the mould, we finally understood why we shouldn’t stir while boiling the sugar because it would harden and stick together if we do that. Josephine was smart enough thinking of ways to clean the pot of unused caramel. Next, it’s time to mix the sachet of vanilla flavor powder into the fresh milk. Boil 250ml of fresh milk and then mix the sachet of powder into it. After that, mix the mixture with 750ml of fresh milk. Boil for 1 minute and then pour them into the mould above the caramelized sugar. Let it cool and keep in fridge. Serve later when it’s cold =) There, we’ve done our ‘messing up the kitchen’ last night. Of course, we cleaned the mess after that. Electricity was still off.

I had class till 12pm today, ate bak kut teh with a friend. It’s Friday and it is the day I shall clean my house. It’s arranged that way in my house. One person a day. Josephine checked out the fridge when I’m done with my cleaning. I guessed she wanted to get herself a little relaxed? She is busy with her thesis. Only then, we found out OUR CREAM CARAMEL FLANS ARE SPOILT! *cries* I’m not sure who in the house had rearranged everything in the fridge and placed my flans on top of each other, causing the sugar to drip all over. OMG! Why can’t they find ways to place them nicely? Josephine and I then rearranged everything in the fridge again so that our flans our nicely placed. A big huge sigh. They look so ugly now. Oh by the way, it tasted good! The only thing to complain, caramelized sugar was boiled too long =.= will be paying more attention on the timing the next time I do it XD

Look at how DIRTY my flans are now. Oh btw, how do we rotate photos here? I've got the photo rotated before I upload this but it still look like this T.T

10 DON'Ts

Remember not to do this when you break up

1. Don’t ask why he/she breaks you up because he/she can simply give you a reason.

2. Don’t ask if he/she still love you because it doesn’t matter already.

3. Don’t ask if he/she loved you before because it is past.

4. Don’t ask if he/she still remember his/her promises to you because promise is nothing now.

5. Don’t beg for him/her to come back to you because he/ she already decided to leave you.

6. Don’t hate him/her because hatred makes you suffer more.

7. Don’t throw guesses if he/she is loyal because it is not important anymore.

8. Don’t cry for him/her because he/she doesn’t worth it.

9. Don’t talk bad about him/her because if they’re that bad, why were you with him/her?

10. Don’t forget him/her for he/she had taught you a great lesson of life.