A looooonnnngggg week

I have not had a chance to get a good night's rest all week! I have been sleeping everyday at midnight and waking up by 7am, at my workdesk by 8.30am! I will be working till late - say 6.30pm then will make dinner, watch a little TV (if only CSI is on) then back to work on my lappie. What have I been doing?? Upgrading/Improving wwww.nelanz.com mostly, improving the features and adding others. Then I have all the weekly releases to put up - used to do it in PDF format to be sent to my wholesalers only but now I can put them up on www.nelanz.com and allow everybody to enjoy them too! It's more work really but I hope it's gonna be worth it. It gives my shop more variety without having to stock up.

Because of all the work that I'm doing and the time I'm putting into my business, I have been seriously neglecting my studies. Able to study only after 10pm.....how much can one cover?? How much information can one absorb by that time after 10 hours of non-stop working??? I wonder.....I guess I'll be taking it a little slower with this module and the one after. Anyway, am not rushing for the July paper anymore so why bother?

Honestly, check out www.nelanz.com - the new and improved version. I'm pretty proud of it really. I asked a friend to quote, giving her a list of items I wish to change/add and the price? RM7.5k!!! WHAT???!!!???? So I decided to DIM (do-it-myself). OK to be fair, I haven't ticked all on my list but hey, it's a great improvement and I have ticked at least 50% *proud*

Tell me what you think of the new website!

Visa application rejected

Hubby's US visa application was rejected this morning. So sad....so
frustrated....damn! It was for the silliest reason (although makes
absolute sense but very unreasonable) I sent in my application for
Green Card Lottery via an agent & hubby is listed as spouse. So for
that the guy who interviewed hubby said that proves he has the
intention to stay in US, so he doesn't qualify for a visa this time.
Weird thing is he mentioned hubby as the primary applicant....but I'm
the primary unless the agent is soooo nice to send one aplication each.

But whatever it is, how can they, base on that and reject a tourist
visa application? Waste of time, energy and money. Mind you the
application fee is $131, non-refundable and we had to be there by 7am
which means we woke up at 5.30am this morning. PLUS this is the 2nd
trip. The first time he was turned back because he missed filling up
one form which by the way was not mentioned anywhere on the website.
This form is applicable to male applicants ONLY. I wonder how many
male applicants have to return for 2nd time.

I wonder for how many more years will he not be allowed to apply for a
visa. He got rejected for an application made in 2008. A person who
wants to tour the States will most likely not be allowed to do so if
he/she has applied for Green Card Lottery.

Moral of the story: DO NOT apply for Green Card Lottery if you do not
yet have any US visa but wish to apply. Apply first!!

Well done, hubby!!

All night mahjong again yesterday. We started with board game at the
Malaysian Trade Commissioner to East Africa's house at 5pm. 4 of us
left for dinner at 7pm and by 9.30pm, 3 of us were back in our house,
seated and all ready to start our game. Trade Commissioner didn't join
us.

Within a short span of 4 hours, Johnny declared "bankrupt" twice!!!! A
record!!!! (we only limit our capital to RM150 each play so when you
lose all of that, you're bankrupt) Johnny is usually the big winner
among us and it's very tough to "kill" him but hubby managed to kill
him 2.5 times!!! Good eh??? Why 0.5? Because Johnny decided to leave
the game with only RM20, so not exactly "dead" yet. And that was
8.30am this morning :)) How many hours did we play? You do the math ;))

I lost too - my nett profit is only RM5 :s but our total nett earnings
from 12hours is RM300!! Not bad huh? That's like a week's expenditure
already! Extremely tiring though especially for an insomniac like me -
I only slept 3 hours!!

I need to study but no electricity - urgh!!!! >:( and I'm running out
of things to write.......

Start of a new month - saying hello to 2010 real soon!!!

Wow it's November already????? Man...time flies!! Now before I forget
let me reflect what this year means to me.....quite a bit really but
the most important thing is I realized that maybe I'm not that suited
to be a mrs or maybe I just got hitched to quickly. Otherwise, life's
been pretty boring and static all year. Significant events:

1) started studying again
2) expanding www.nelanz.com and now we have a couple of dealer/
representatives in East Africa and USA. Hope to be able to continue
expanding :)
3) more quarrels, arguments, fights and divorce being mentioned
4) a great trip back to Malaysia (compared to last Dec, fantastic trip
this time)
5) decided to leave kenya - will leave here latest in April 2010

I'll do a re-cap in Dec IF I remember :)

Hate my life

This post has been removed due to potential hazard to writer :pI so hate my life and myself right now. So so regret not taking the
job in Jordan and plunge myself here to be married. Hate
hate hate!!!!

A divorce looks inevitable, just waiting for when it'll be the last
straw. Mind you, I've even gone to the extend of booking my one way
ticket back for 2nd Nov. I have not mentioned but I'm still deciding.

A new week, a new hope

Just saw my sister's tweet - another death. It's the 3rd death of the
week. That is a lot of deaths around the people around us.

A friend passed away yesterday (Friday) - I don't know him personally
or maybe I do but I don't remember but he's the youngest son of a very
close family friend. He's only 30!! What a waste - he's so young!!!

I don't exactly know how he died except for the fact that he was
stabbed from the back by the accomplice of dome snatch thieves who got
hold of his laptop. I've heard 2 versions thus far but since the 1st
ain't very detail, I think I'm taking the 2nd version as the right one
for now.

This friend, a male, was stabbed (sources said he wad slashed by a
parang at his neck so bad that his neck was almost severed!) when he
tried to chase after the snatch thieves who got his laptop. A second
motorbike came from behind him and slashed his neck. A life snuffed
out just like that!!!! No news about the thieves and no reports in The
Star either!!!! This happened outside McDonald's, Centrepoint in
Bandar Utama. We have no idea who these people are, what race or how
old. I only know that it is extremely sad and I feel for hid family,
especially his parents and his girlfriend. I cannot even imagine how
the thieves feel, what's in their - so sick and perverted bastards!!!
A life!!! A young life!!!

I hope the government will do something about security of the country.
Mind you the incident happened early in the morning, at a time when
people are on their way to work, outside a busy place and yet these
bastards are so daring as to steal and then kill!!! Safety in Malaysia
is getting from bad to worse everyday! How can a country progress if
thugs roam around like that? No wonder we're still a 3rd world country
after so many years.

Waiting for Steo's funeral

Such a long and slow wait. Skynews mentioned they'll be showing
funeral live from GMT 1000 couple of days ago but they have just
changed it to GMT 1200. I guess it's because cameras are not allowed
inside the church.

I have been sitting in front if the tv since GMT 0730 and been
watching updates of the funeral. An hour and a half to go before the
service will start. Boring....nothing good on tv and just occured to
me why didn't I think of making the trip to send him off on his last
journey. Then again, waste of money ain't it?? Hubby will faint if I
decide to do that. But I've been a fan since 1993!!! Sigh...just have
to settle with a "box" seat in front of the tv, in my living room.

Weather today is extremely gloomy. I guess even the heavens are sad
and getting ready to "welcome" Steo into the kingdom of God. Such
weather definitely ain't normal at this time of year in Nairobi. It's
summer for God's sakes. Anyway.....continuing my wait.....

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