I'm a full-time mummy

Do you know that we can buy things online via our postal website? Prior to this, other than to mail out our letters and parcels, I only know we can buy stamps, postcards and renew our driving licenses and that too, you need to go to the post office to do so. For online transactions, I always thought our postal website is just to allow us to track our parcels, find out the fees and FAQ on shipping and so on.

Just last year, I saw a friend of mine posting up some pictures on her Facebook page. It was a personalised stamps with her daughter's face on it and she got it via the postal services! That was totally a cute idea!

Just like the australia post catalogue, for Malaysians, if you check out our national postal website, you can also find that they do personalised stamps services too!

It is not difficult to do the personalised stamps as everything is automated and the website takes you through the steps with easy to understand instructions. All you need to do is just upload the picture you wanted to be printed on the stamps and made the payment before you get the stamps.

I was contemplating to get it for a close friend of mine who just gave birth to her third child then but due to time constraints meaning I did not have enough time to order it online as I need to get a nice picture of her baby so that I can upload it into the post website, I got her another present instead. But personally, I think it is a very thoughtful and creative idea as a gift to someone.

Do you buy things from your postal services?

Do you like to travel? Or perhaps do you travel often? I think by now you would have heard of the term 'travel insurance'.

For me, the first time I heard of this is when I started working. My ex-company was arranging for their annual company trip and all staff in the company were required to register and sign up for the travel insurance. I was initially thinking 'How can insurance work for me when I'm overseas?' and then I found out that having a travel insurance means I am protected wherever I am, whether I am caught in an accident, injury, illnesses, hey, even hijacking! No kidding!

When I had the chance to travel to Sydney for 10 days back in 2006 with my hubby (then boyfriend), we made sure we bought our aussie travel cover so that our travel will be smooth-free and stress-free too!

Some people would argue that it is a waste of money to purchase travel insurance as it only works during your travel period and once your travel ends, the insurance coverage ends too. Sure, but what if something happens during your trip and you are stuck in a foreign country with nobody to help you out at that time? Or you get into an accident and had to be hospitalised? Or food poisoning?

I mean, why get yourself stressed out then when you can have yourself and your travelling experience protected just by spending a little bit extra to make sure of that? Think about it!

Do you get travel insurance when you travel?

About 2 years ago when my 1st child, Benjamin was about 1 year old, we went to Genting Highlands with hubby's second brother and his family. All in total, my brother in law (Daniel), his wife (Phyllis) and their then 5 years old son (Isaac) and my hubby, myself and my dear boy. We stayed in the same room (it was a 2 day 1 night outing) where the 2 queen beds are pushed together and occupied by the kids and us women while hubby and his brother slept on the spare bed in the living room.

Us mothers and kids retreated to bed earlier while the men continued chatting and watching TV outside. The bedroom area has a sliding door and wooden windows which we closed off to minimise the noise outside. Soon enough both kids (sleeping in the middle of the 2 beds) doze off and after a while, the men slept too.

Suddenly Isaac started screaming and crying. His eyes were close initially and I could see Phyllis hurriedly calmed him down and I too immediately nursed Ben to sleep before he woke up. Phyllis then passed Isaac to his dad and he slept peacefully after that while she continued to sleep on our shared beds.

A few minutes after that, it was Ben's turn to cry and cry and cry. I was feeling uneasy at this point and my first priority was to make sure Ben quiet down and stop crying so that he does not wake the rest up. I just kept nursing Ben back to sleep, praying in my heart and within few minutes, Ben's crying stopped and he continued his sleep.

I was about to rest my mind and all of a sudden I felt a tight grip on my throat. I can't talk or move at all.

At this point, I know there is a ghost in our room and it is the thing that is disturbing the kids and now me...

I immediately prayed in my head and kept thinking and telling myself "Jesus, Jesus, Jesus". I also said in my mind "I am not afraid of you. My God is bigger than you, you should be afraid of us than us of you. In the name of Jesus, I command you to go away and stop disturbing us!"

And I felt the grip on my throat loosened immediately. I remained there on my bed, not moving, trying to remain calm as well and then I heard a sound...

'Urghhh!!!' - a frustrated grunt sound right outside our bedroom area.

I think the ghost was angry that it failed to disturb us.

Well, there you have it, my first supernatural encounter. Hope I didn't bring you chills or anything. Just want to share that ever since I became a Christian and got baptised in 2006, I do not believe in being afraid of supernatural beings. Yes, I think they do exists (more like the devils and evil spirits actually) but they are not able to cause us harm as long as we believe God is protecting us and we are covered in His protection and blessings.