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July 25th, 2008 by shoppingmum

Suddenly, I’m overloaded with cari makan posts until I can’t think straight. I gao tim all of them already, and now I can be more relax. Can die wan, long time never blog like this! Luckily my boss is hubby, who can “tolerate” with my blogging needs. :P

I think I’ve blogged so much, my brain is a bit ku ku right now. So I better get back to my work instead of crapping writing so much online. LOL!

February 3rd, 2008 by shoppingmum

Have you ever had a hernia repair? If you have, please ensure that you are not using the Davol Hernia Mesh Patch. The patches were linked to some serious injuries such as bowel perforation, bowel obstruction and other infection, and thus if you think you have the Davol Hernia Mesh Patch, you can just contact Mark & Associates, P.C., the firm which is in-charged of Hernia mesh lawsuit, for a free consultation. They will be able to give you legal advice on how to exercise your rights.

Frankly, I wonder what is the success rate of those medical cases in our country?

November 23rd, 2007 by shoppingmum

My kids play outside of the house a lot. If it’s raining and they cannot go out and play, they will complain about it. It’s already an habit to them to have some fun playing outside in the evening. I’m still keeping an eye on them, but when they are older enough, I hope that I can just sit and knit as I’m watching over them. We have a set of table and chairs outside so it’s nice to sit there while enjoying the cool evening breeze.

But if only the chairs are padded with cushions, then I think they will be more comfortable for sitting. Since we bought the chairs without any cushion, we have to custom make the Garden Furniture Cushions. If you are interested, you can get them done by CustomCushion.net. Just choose your cushion type and the style of your preference. Then select the dimension and fabric of your choice and you are done! The cushions are on the way to your home once you have completed the transaction.

The cushions are made with Sunbrella fabrics, so they are highly durable and versatile. I found one of the colors that I like, but I’m not getting the cushions now. I don’t have a chance to sit and watch my kids playing yet, let’s wait until they are much older first.

This post is brought to you by http://www.customcushions.net/chair.aspx.

November 14th, 2007 by shoppingmum

For the time being, I haven’t thought of returning to work. I am not sure about my next maid, if this current one decides to go back and will not continue her contract. I better stay back at home and take care of my kids until they are much older. Thus, I don’t have plans to look for job.

But if you are looking for risk management jobs, you might want to take a look at those offers listed at the job directory of A.E. Feldman Associates, Inc. They specialize in providing top quality candidates to leading financial companies ranging from executive levels to top management teams like managing directors.

If you are interested in changing your job, you might want to take a peep at those offers.

November 13th, 2007 by shoppingmum

I have just bought a lot of nutritional supplements from my friend who’s running some direct selling business. I think the stock I have is going to last for another 6 months! Both hubby and I buy a lot of health supplement stuffs for ourselves. I’m more into being healthy while hubby likes those muscle gain products like Muscle Milk. He likes to have more muscles so that he can play better golf as well as keeping in good shape. For most body builders, they will take nutritional drinks like the muscle milk.

But for most ladies, we will try to avoid all those products. Personally, the most I will go is only the protein bar. I always take something light before my yoga and pilates class as I will feel dizzy exercising on a empty stomach. But since it’s not good to have a heavy meal before the class, something light like a protein bar is great enough to provide the energy I need.

So, if you are interested in body building, or if you are looking for nutritional supplements, you may want to check out those products offered by Stronger Nutrition. You can also get other products related to skin care, sleeping aids or staying fit from there website. If you are interested, just hop over to the links provided.

This post is brought to you by http://www.strongernutrition.com.

November 11th, 2007 by shoppingmum

If you have a web store or internet business, do you send email newsletters to your valued customers or members? I constantly receive a few from some web stores that I used to shop with previously. Even if I stopped buying baby products from them, I still get informed about the latest arrival and promotions. Who knows? I might want to buy something next time.

So, if you are a web store owner, do you have email marketing to attract and retain your customers? These email newsletters will keep your customers updated about your site and they won’t forget about it easily. Furthermore, if you are away and if someone leaves you an email, the autoresponder will reply a simple email on your behalf. You can just give the iContact Email Marketing software a try as it’s free for the first 15 days. After the free trial, you can decide if you want to purchase it starting at $9.95 per month.

Thus, it’s still affordable for small business owners. If you are interested, check out the product, ok?

November 11th, 2007 by shoppingmum

My brother is a successful insurance agents who makes a lot of money from his insurance biz. He is one of the members of the Million Dollar Round Table too, so he works really hard to be known in his line, and it’s not about luck alone. He has his network of friends who are helping him now, but most of the time, he is out meeting up with potential customers who are willing to see him.

In his line, it’s all about meeting the right people. Without the proper connection, it’s hard to be successful in insurance field. But maybe he should learn more about Insurance Marketing. This service will help him to get the potential leads that he needs in his business. There are a lot of companies that provide insurance marketing services such as the Quotes Auction. This company can provide a lot of real time internet insurance leads since they have top positions in most search engines. If my brother is hoping to get more customers, he can buy the customers leads and get more potential deals by working online. There are thousands of internet users looking for insurance quotes everyday, and why not make full use of this route as another way of expanding his insurance biz?

So, if you are an insurance agent as well, give it a thought. It might be easier than walking from door to door.

This post is brought to you by http://www.quotesauction.com/content/insurance-marketing.htm.

November 9th, 2007 by shoppingmum

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I know, she’s not my baby. I will never have a baby who looks like that as I’m married to a Chinese man. But when I was looking at that cute baby sleeping on her mother’s shoulder and I looked at my kids who are much older, I had a slight urge of having another baby. Of course, I got back to reality shortly after as I know it’s not easy to handle 3 young kids with such a close age gap.

However, getting pregnant and expecting a baby is one of the happiest moment for most mothers. But if you ever need to find out more about parenting, pregnancy, baby care and other topics related to motherhood, you can find out more about these from Baby Chaos. There is a forum where you can share your happiness and anxieties with other mothers besides getting to know more mothers who might turn out to be your friends later. I used to join a breastfeeding forum too, and I learned a lot about breastfeeding from there. If it’s not because of forums where we can get real life experiences, most of the time, it’s not easy to get the real insight of parenting.

BTW, fathers are welcome to check out the site too. One of the site owner, David, is a father who will join in the forum as well. Check it out mommies and daddies!

This post is brought to you by http://www.baby-chaos.co.uk/.

November 9th, 2007 by shoppingmum

I don’t like to remember a lot of passwords, but it’s too risky to use the same passwords for all. I wrote some of the passwords down just in case I can’t remember them one day. However, it’s not hard to retrieve the passwords if they are lost.

But if your company is running on UNIX or Linux, you might want to get the Password Vault by Symark to better protect your accounts. It protects your accounts from both internal and external threat by enabling the IT personnel to deploy, modify as well as delete other user’s account if necessary. At the same time, this company offers computing security and technical support too, if your company ever needs their services.

Thus, password security is more important if lots of private and confidential details are involved, especially those owned by companies. I wonder if hubby will find this useful too?

November 2nd, 2007 by shoppingmum

When I started breastfeeding my kids, I was trying hard to find some nursing tops which are more convenient for public breastfeeding. There are a lot web stores that offer nice nursing clothes, but I only get them from some regular stores that I shopped at. Some stores provide discount codes for the next purchase, so I was looking forward for another purchase.

If you are running a web store, you may consider working out with webloyalty to keep your regular customers from returning to your stores as this company will provide discount codes, credit card fraud protection as well as other valued added services to your customers. At the same time, your website will also earn some money from each of the transaction done.

So, think about a redemption program which works well for your store. Most of the customers will return to a store that appreciate their purchases.