My Day Job

I have a day job, as a Senior Development Officer (something like System Analyst) in an IT department of a global bank. I have just switched my role recently, which is production support on a global custody system.

Apart from answering users queries, fixing production problems etc, I was given a mission with this new role. I have to find out ways to minimize our support cost. In another word, I need to streamline the support process, try to work out a support model which needs less effort.

I was given this mission mostly because the poor economy. Our budget was cut this year, 1,100 people were laid off globally. Our business likely prefer cutting the support cost and using the money to add more features to our system.

I am trying to study any improvements on our current support mode, hope I can complete this mission. Otherwise, I may be the next one to be laid off :P

Yeah! Dream Mist Crafts Official Web Site Giveaway

It was a long weekend in Hong Kong (Saturday, Sunday and Monday), but I did nothing on my crafts. No no no, I was not lazy. I was busy on setting up the web site of Dream Mist Crafts.

To celebrate the opening of the web site, we will have opening sale and opening lucky draw. You may check our event calendar for details.

I ordered the Domain with $9.99 / year, and web hosting with $12.95 / month from Pappashop on Saturday morning in Hong Kong. The site was ready with a shopping cart the next day. (yes, very fast).

I spent the whole Sunday on the content of the shop, and then the whole Monday on the template and banner, and updating the link on my community network pages.

Having your own web site is really nice. You can include whatever you like e.g. subcategories, floral layout etc.

Pappa-Pak supports bulk update of inventory. You can also apply discount to products in a category or all products. There is event calendar, gift registry etc with Pappa-Pak. You can see more features on their web site.


Pappashop uses Mal's e-commerence for the shopping cart. It supports setting rules for shipping, coupon codes etc, which allows autmoatic calculation of shipping cost and discount while buyers check out.

The next thing I would do is trying to improve the SEO of the site by making suitable meta keywords, descriptions etc.

OK, you don't have to worry. I still love Etsy. The community there is so nice and cannot be replaced by anything. I am NOT going to leave Etsy and have never thought of this. I will list most of my products on both sites. For those which are very unique, I may list on either site.

Crochet Cell Phone Bags

Last week, I've been working on crochet cell phone bags.
I wanted to make something for fall and winter. The first thing which come into my mind is crochet.
I wanted to crochet cell phone bags a long time ago. However, I didn't have a suitable needle to do so.
Hence, I bought needles at different sizes and started working.
Here are the 3 bags I've made. There will be one more.