Be grateful

I'm struggling to keep my eyes opened, so I'll just do a quick post.

This morning, we just heard the news that my cousins' grandma fell this morning when she woke up. She got up from bed and stood up, but fell down. She tried again, and she fell again. She was then rushed to the hospital. The doctor said she had brain haemorrhage and then did a CT Scan, turned out that she actually has a brain tumor that is pushing her motoric nerve and cause it to bleed. They suggest to have it removed via surgery. The thing is, she is old, the surgery is risky and they're afraid she can't handle it. In the other hand, well, she can't live with brain tumor either.

I can only pray for her to be better soon, however, this makes me think that all my friendship issues do not really matter. It makes me think that I shouldn't worry of all those trivial things. Friends, future, ambitions, holidays, etc, do not really matter. We shouldn't care about all things we want, or things we've lost. At least, we're still alive and are living well. Isn't it? And be glad just because we're all healthy now. One day, we might not.

Good night all.

Long time no see :P

Hellooooooooo ^^

It's been a while isn't it? When did I last update this blog :/ DECEMBER???? Oh god... okay... January was a tough month for me, and I didn't want my mood to affect my writing, so I didn't write.... February.. my parents came and stayed until last weekend, so I pretty much had to fight for PC with my sisters since my dad used my laptop and my other PC well you can say was counting its day to die :p Plus I can't really write with people watching behind me :S

Anywayyyy will try to write more often :) I haven't even put the full credit of those 13 gifts, so basi eh? :P But I will still do it (Hope I still have all the links hehehe...)

Got an hour extra sleep last night yayy :P now I have a headache -_-

Happy Daylight Saving everyone!!!!!

13 Days of Surprises Project - Full Credit =P

Just want to say thank you to everyone involved in 13 Days of Surprises project and to give credit to the websites that gave me the idea for the gifts :)

So, big big thank you to my 2 sisters, Fei and Han for their effort, hard work, and sleepless nights when helping me with this project. *hugssss and kissesss*. Fei for her effort and Han for her effort as well plus her googling experience :) Most of the images used were found by her on Google.

Thank you to my cousin too who came all the way from Manly to help with Final day gift :) I know you love me very much :P

And here are the full credit for all those days :)

Day 1: The bouquet was my idea :P I did google how to make the flowers, but none actually right to my liking, so I ended up just did it myself. The note background was found on Internet using google. Didn't keep the actual source, but it has Cyworld on it.

Day 2: I think I got the idea from 100 homemade gift idea, but the exact place is here. I modified it though, I used the spare mirror from my broken compact powder and bought the tin box at Lincraft. Shoebox is way too big :p The piggy balloon photo came from here.

Day 3: To be honest, I can't remember where I saw those turkeys the first time :/ I think I was just googling for gift ideas for this project and somehow came across it. I think this was what I ended up using as a guide. I quickly googled the image just before my lunch break, so I didn't keep the url :(

Day 4: I really thought I saw the recipe for the first time from Kevin and Amanda's newsletter.. but when I checked again, the date was December 29, 2010 :/ Oh, I think I found it when looking through some blogs and got redirected to Babbling Brooke's blog. Here's the recipe :) And here's the image :) Thank's to Riot for the scrapbook paper I used to make the cone (My sister bought it there).

Day 5: This voucher has been my catch phrase for so long lol :P Everytime someone asks me what I'd give them for their birthday, I would say "Voucher for hugs and kisses!!" lol :P FINALLY I got the chance to do it hahahahhahaha ^^ soo happy hahahhaha ^^ The box, ribbon and giftbag were really from Tiffany & Co. (In fact, I've still got like about 15 of them at home due to the vouchers I needed to pick up for my work ;P). The images I used for the voucher were from Google image. FYI, it wasn't already made up as a voucher. I combined them myself. Didn't keep the link though :( Sorry :(

Day 6: Got the idea from Craftbits.com. I modified the poem a bit though ehhehe.... my bestfriend couldn't really say if the poem was written by me or off the internet :p The cookie mix was from Coles Bondi Junction, special thanks for my sister to buy it for me :D

Day 7: The idea is from here :) I found it so sweet, so I decided to make it part of my project. The concept of band aid mending your heart is just so sweet and warm (to me ;P). We googled the quotes and most of them came from Disney, Confucius and Hellen Keller. We also used some quotes from book of homilies featured in Can't Buy Me Love (TVB Drama). The images were from google. The box was recycled from heat plaster box :P The instruction at the back was written by me, though i might copy the way it was written from the koyo box :P but everything was straight from my mind (I put all my heart writing it :P).

Day 8: My idea. Ok confession, I was kinda running out of ideas, this was the back up plan. But since I couldn't find anything better than this, than it was used :p So again, my original idea!!! ;p

Day 9: My idea again, triggered by my best friend's comment "Mirror mirror on the wall... just like sleeping beauty" lol :P The facts were from different places. Mostly wikipedia I think. I believe the envelope was from Sunhat Hut :p and the paper from Lincraft (I paid for it ;p When i bought it, I had bad stomachache -_-" I had to run all the way to Myer foodcourt bcoz of it -_-)

Day 10: My idea again, but it's just cookies. So, ordinary idea. It was 1 of my original plan (before it went out of hand and became a big project rather than really really little surprise everyday :p). The recipe came from Better Homes and Gardens that I saw longggggggggg time ago. I found it again on Better Homes and Gardens website. I like the concept of old time chinese wine jar, so I wrapped the paper on the lid, looks nice huh? The paper came from..... Japan City recycled wrapping paper :P The tag was from here with text removed.

Day 11: It was movie ticket, so really no special idea there, but it was my sisters who suggested it. The envelope was actually the real event cinema gift card/voucher's envelope.

Day 12: As I said in previous post, this came from a dare. I couldn't knit, so I had to ask my friend Pipit to teach me how to knit. I was a very bad student -_- knitting was hard for me to get used to, it just didn't make sense to me :p AND, I bought the wrong type of yarn for a beginner :P The button was a spare button from one of my clothes (See how nice I am?? Sacrificing my own clothes? :P) The box was actually ferrero rocher box. MY idea :P Looks nice huh? :))

Finally, Day 13: The original plan was just to give a small cake, and I mean small, like 7x7 cm. I ended up baking a whole cake :S Recipe came from here. Ingredients from Coles :P and the big box was bought from Hot Dollar from across my apartment :p And again, thanks to my sisters and cousin who helped me baking it :) We started in the afternoon and finished at around 8 or 9 PM :p

So that's all!!! I think blogspot will date this post as at when it started to be written, but today is actually 9 Apr 2011 3:16 AM. It did take a long time to finish this post lol :p

Now, bed time.

Good night all :)

Praise for Gmarket :)

Remember back in October I bought a lot of stuffs from GMarket? One of them was this pair of pink shoes. I actually wanted the beige colour, but as I can't read Korean, so I ended buying the pink one which is okay since it was my fault. So I wasn't complaining. However, these shoes started to fall apart since I wore it on Day 1!!!!!

See photos below for the shoes condition after I wore them on the 2nd day:

You know what I mean right?

Seriously, after Day 2, I don't have any courage anymore to wear them to work. I might end up going home barefoot! -_-"

So, on 8 Nov 2010 I sent an email to the seller demanding an exchange or refund. And then I went on for holiday to GC :P

Surprise surprise!! My email was bounced back -_- ughhhhhhhh -_-" So, the day after my Bday (22 Nov),
I sent an email again, but this time to Gmarket customer service: global@corp.market.co.kr.
Again, bounce back -_-" So I sent it again to help_overseas@gmarket.co.kr. This time it went through, yayyyy ^^

I got a respond from GMarket the day after, asking for the transaction number. Pretty fast huh? Then I replied, and I got another response 2 hours after. This time, they apologized and asked for everything: "To verify your defective items, we need a photo including items you received and paper label which shows transaction number, item name, quantity and your name as evidence.
Please take a photo and leave the link of the picture here or send the photo to global@corp.gmarket.co.kr ."

The annoying bit was, my first email to them had those photos attached!! I didn't put all details, but I attached photos and the seller link. Can't they trace through my order history? :/ Okay that might be too much effort, but stilllll I attached all those photos! I couldn't take the photo of the label since I threw out all the shoe boxes.

So I sent the emails and explained about it and got another response on the same day:

"Dear Customer,

Thank you for the email.

Regarding your inquiry, we have sent an urgent message to the seller to get the resolution quickly. We will give you an answer as soon as we have a reply from the seller.
However, if you don't hear back from us within 5 days, please contact us again.

We apologize for the inconvenience.

Sincerely,"

However, on 24(the day after) I received another email from Gmarket:

"Dear customer,
Thank you for contacting us.
Regarding this matter,we 've been waiting the seller's answer.
We'd like to ask you what kind of compensation you want.
In case of the international shipping, it seems to be hard for the seller to send it, so how about getting a refund for one item?
Actually, we didn't get answer from the seller yet,but we'd like to know your opinion in advace so that we can inform the seller of your opinion in case that the seller accept the mistake.
Please reply us.
Thanks,"

I commend GMarket for this email, for thinking ahead and asked what I wanted in the first place rather than wait till the seller answered and going back and forth again to me which ofcourse will waste more time. Good job GMarket :)

And then, I can't remember exact day, but a day or 2 after that final email, my sister got a call from GMarket in Korea @_@ Telling her that we would be refunded for the shoes and we can keep the shoes. It was pretty impressive for calling us personally via telephone! ^^ I got the cash refunded to my Paypal on 29 Nov. So, it was a very quick job done by GMarket. Well done!

I'm happy with how they handled this issue. They responded quickly and politely. I couldn't see any hesitation in helping me solving this issue, and they thought ahead if exchange is possible since it's international shipping. Some other online website won't care and you'll have to send the item back for an exchange, which end up costing you more in postage. So, I like GMarket even more ^^ No harm done at all with this issue. The only harm is, I might not buy from this seller again hehe... not that I say their product is bad, but looking at my shoes, seems like they are old stocks, so when I wore them after years storage, they broke apart (It's just my opinion though).

So, again, excellent work Gmarket!!!! *hugssssssssss kissesssss* :))

Thumbs up! :)