Friday, 29 Jan 10, 7.50am at home
Dear my little diary,
Today is my first day writing diary in the year 2010. Today is January 29th. I know, it's almost end of January and here I am writing my first post of this year now. I am not sure whether I am not in the mood of writing or I have nothing to talk about or I don't want to reveal my personal life now, I just don't feel like writing anymore, at least, recently. Today, I wanna force myself to write.
As you know, I have been working at home since December 2009. It's officially more than 1 month since I quit my office work. I spend most of my time on managing my online shop. Hey, have I told you about my online shop? Yes, I sell fashion and anything pretty and cute on facebook and on website. If you have spare time, you can have a look at my cute shops; www.facebook.com/ayachan.store and www.aya-chan.net. I started selling on facebook since July last year. Since the number of transactions are getting more and more, I couldn't manage it manually. So, I created this www.aya-chan.net website!
Well, the purpose of this website was actually to automatize the ordering process. I wanted to encourage my buyers on facebook to go to my website to put the items on the shopping cart themselves so I can just process the orders accordingly. However, my products are getting more and more too, I can't update the products on facebook and on website at the same time. So, stupid me is doing double works now! When there is order from facebook, I update the product on the website first, then create a user from my admin system, then buy it online from the website myself using that new user account, then I can process the order. *Wow, so busy!* Yea yea.. but hey, the website is now getting more traffic now since I advertise it on some online forums. Ok then, I admit, the real purpose is to help me managing the post-ordering since I can check and change the order status one by one from the admin page; who has paid, who has not paid, item is delivered, item is not delivered, etc. Otherwise, I will be so confused if suddenly somebody is asking me the status of her order. Yes, I am selling to Indonesia market and this is how it turns out. They like to be served like kings, suddenly they appear and ask me if the goods have been shipped without mentioning any order number. And I can't ask them 'Who are you?' or 'What did you order?' since it doesn't sound so professional. Aya-chan is my first project. Now I am trying to work on another project. I really hope it can take off soon.
About my feeling of working at home? Errr.. honestly, sometimes I need a break to go out and see another God's creatures, I mean, I need friends/colleagues to talk to. My home is my office now, so every time I go back home, I feel like going to office. People are usually tired of working, they really miss home and their beds so much. But for me, if I am tired of working at home, I really wanna get out of my home, even if I just go out to minimarket near my home to buy eggs or tofu for 10mins, I will feel fresher when I am back.
Diary, tomorrow is my husband's birthday. I don't know what I should prepare for him. This will be his 7th birthday with me, we have gone through so many ups and downs. I really wanna do something for him. Do you have any suggestion, diary?
-Abbie-
p.s I don't know what title I should put for this post. The contents are so random. Hmm.. Ok, I got it!
