May 8th, 2008 | Personal | No comments
It cracks me up when I see common road cars being subjected to the DIY ‘Ah Beng’ facelift treatment. You know, when Kenaris, Sagas, Myvis and such cars undergoes a complete makeover on the surface. 13 inch Kancil rims being fitted with 18 inch ’sports’ rim along with matching low-profile ‘racing’ tires. Replacing the exhaust pipe with one so big you could put a football in and so loud when the pedal is floored but the car barely accelerates. Sticking things like rear spoilers and skirting so overbearingly humongous it might actually slows the car down. Local cars with front grill replaced by Cadillac grills. Myvi owners, in particular, are very fond of changing the look of their vehicle’s front grill. As for me, I like my cars in stock and original condition. Not even a sticker on the exterior. Or interior for that matter.
May 8th, 2008 | Personal | No comments
I’ve been offered a used 1GB DDR1 PC2700 RAM for half the price a new stick currently fetches in the market. My ThinkPad currently uses 1 x 512MB and 1×256MB. If I were to buy it, I’d have to replace the 256MB stick with the 1GB which makes it 1.5GB RAM in total.
The difference between running Windows XP on 768MB vs 1.5GB is staggering. The operating system loads faster, windows open faster, programs stay on memory longer so when you re-open it, it’s a lot faster. I might just take up the offer for the used 1GB notebook RAM.
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May 8th, 2008 | Personal | No comments
Yesterday, I spoke to my insurance agent that I would like to cancel one of my two policies, the endowment one. I’ve been considering putting more into my hospitalisation and medical insurance policy for quite some time. So yesterday I got around to make it so. Things have happened during the past few years that made me realise how much hospital and medical cover is a lifesaver. Medical expenses, especially private hospital services are so expensive these days. Without insurance, you won’t even be entertained. And when surgeries are involved, brace yourself for five figure sums in hospital bills no less. So I’m pretty certain if there’s one insurance you can’t live without, it’s medical insurance.
May 2nd, 2008 | Personal | No comments
Apart from a sniff here and there, baby Clarisse has almost recovered from the flu she caught since Saturday. The worst days for her was Sunday and Monday where she sneezed her lungs out. There were slight traces of blood in the mucus, my god. We’re glad the fever she had from Sunday till Tuesday were fairly mild, not higher than 39C. And also her coughing did not get worst. But the antibiotics did cause some loose stools for the past few days.
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May 1st, 2008 | Uncategorized | No comments
If there’s one advise for those who are buying a new notebook PC and expect to use it for many years to come, don’t skimp when it comes to adding RAM. Add as much RAM as possible along with your purchase. If the limit is 4GB, get 4GB of memory for a start.
My faithful IBM R50e has 768MB of type DDR1 RAM which was phased out about a year or two ago. DDR2 is commonplace now and gives the best value for money. DDR1 on the other hand, if you can find them on the market now are many times more expensive than DDR2. I regret not upgrading the memory in my notebook earlier when DDR1 is still going strong and cheap.
April 30th, 2008 | Personal | No comments
We took baby Clarisse to the paedatrician on Monday and took home bottles of runny nose, phelgm and fever suppressants. These are on top of a five-day course of antibiotics, Augmentin. It really saddens me to see baby Clarisse needing to take so much medicine.
Apart from the compulsory antibiotics, the other medicines are to be taken when needed only. Fortunately, her fever went down after Monday, so I gave her only runny nose and phelgm medicines on Tuesday.
Baby Clarisse has improved very much today so she’s only taking her antibiotics now which shall continue until Friday. Augmentin, her antibiotics syrup, tastes really nice and I’m glad she take it willingly without shoving and pushing. Her runny nose seems to have dried up a lot. And she’s not coughing much today.
April 29th, 2008 | Uncategorized | No comments
One of my former colleaque came visiting yesterday evening. I wasn’t expecting the visit, it was so out of the blue. Luckily, baby Clarisse has recovered much from fever and runny nose since Saturday. Or else, she’d be whiny and cranky, needing my attention all the time.
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April 27th, 2008 | Personal | No comments
After a day of running nose, baby Clarisse came down with fever this morning. We would’ve taken her to the doctor if it wasn’t a Sunday.
Last night, baby Clarisse had trouble sleeping well. There were lots of mucus in her nose and it was bothering her breathing. She turned and tossed a lot. Got up a couple of times, sneezed them mucus out which is good thing and cried to be nursed back to sleep. I can’t blame her for being fussy and cranky the entire night and morning eventhough my husband and I woke up many times because of her wakefulness.
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April 26th, 2008 | Babies, Children, Parenting, Personal | 2 Comments
Due to my baby Clarisse’s constant demand for breastmilk, I have never left her to be cared by someone else throughout her first 10 months. Even during the day, baby Clarisse needs to be nursed to sleep. I bring her along wherever I go.
Now that she’ll be turning one next month, I’m glad to be able to devote all my time and energy to care for her throughout her entire first year but this has to stop somehow. I have decided it’s time for me to get a job and return to the workforce.
Before seriously looking for jobs, there are a few things I need to take care of. First, I have to wean baby Clarisse from breastfeeding. Secondly, my mother has agreed to take care of baby Clarisse and we have to make sure baby Clarisse get used to spending long hours at her grandma’s house gradually.
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April 26th, 2008 | Personal | 1 Comment
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