Good Bye 2011

This would be one of my last post for 2011. This year has been mentally challenging and physically boring, I carried a lot of weight ( I’m not talking about fat, I am referring to people and events ) in the being I seek to help, eventually reality sinks in and I realize I am not a red cross shelter and I should choose wisely to who I should offer my generosity to. The goal is to make good choices towards everything you surround yourself with. Yes, I mean people, places, events, people, people, people…. You are the product of your culture and environment so from now forward I will continue to be super picky to whom I let in my wonderful life. I am truly a loner when it comes to personal space, privacy, and of course as you all know, it is super important for a creative person like myself who puts her self out there to be surrounded with positive, flavorful people and people who truly understand the meaning of love and practice it in their own special way. Winners to sum it up.

The highlight of this year was when I found new friends who are now a very big part of my daily laughter.  Amazing medicine for my soul.  I am human, like everyone else I do feel insecurity,  I do feel low from time to time,  however it all disappears when I start to be thankful for every little wonderful thing life has given me.  My health, my family, my freedom, 80% of the world is in poverty so I have no reason to complain.

Now that I’m a mother I’m  starting to understanding how crucial love is, and I remember to have had a lot of real love in my life.   My parents really cares about who I will be as a person and they had always done their best to give me what they think I needed.  My mother is a very intuitive woman, self made, and with little education she basically did it all by herself to provide me and my family a very good life. Her intuition was not so far off when she sent me to modeling school, gymnastic classes, sing lessons, piano lessons, a lot of opportunities for me to explore creatively. Today I am what I am partly of her guidance. I think she wants for me what I would like for Haley. I felt a lot of love in my heart when I realize how much my mother loves me, just as much as I love Haley…

Last year about this time we started our first Banh Mi shop. Now we are on our 4th lease. Of course this can’t be accomplished alone. My partners and I are working hard to make everything work although I have to say team work is a heavy effort and if it’s not 100% devotion the team wouldn’t be as strong. Thank god for Christmas they get to sleep in for the day. The whole idea of our business is to create an eatery without having a chef. We franchisee our locations and we are the provider of the product and the franchises runs the shop and assembles the product. We spilt profit 70%-30%.  It is the new “Subway” business model except we are Banh Mi.  That is pretty much all I can spill right now.  Tune in for future developments.

Haute Rooster posted 107 post this year. Not so bad for a “bad” year. The year of the rabbit 2011 was supposed to be a bad year for us roosters according to the chinese zodiac because we are opposites however I believe opposites attract. It was a wonderful learning year for the blog and looking through all the post since 2010 I can see the improvements. I will always make time for Haute Rooster and one day I’ll have a coffee lounge named after it. Haute Rooster will be returning to Asia this winter 2012. We will be doing product development and sampling. It is a long and delicate process and it needs to be done right. Quality control is a big issue when it comes to Vietnam’s production.  The labor is cheap and can only be a trade off to a degree.  So my only solution at the moment is to keep it small with high quality. Since 2007 I have been working this production and i feel I have it figured out. Now that I have expanded my network, We are READY for our ready to wear line.