March 14th, 2008 | Personal | No comments
Today has been a wet and cold day. It was raining while driving home from my mom’s house. The air-conditioner inside the car felt too cold even at the lowest setting. Baby Clarisse caught the flu again and has been suffering from running nose for 3 days now so I switched the air-conditioner off and wind down the window a bit. It’s times like these that I get very annoyed with my husband’s reluctance to install ventshades above the car windows. He doesn’t want car accessories that would leave a stain or mark on the car surface. Without them, I could barely wind down more than an inch without the rain drops getting through the window gap.
March 14th, 2008 | Personal | No comments
Just came back from Kuala Lumpur today. I’m relieved it was a pleasant and smooth trip as this is the first time I’m travelling outstation without my mother’s help to take care of baby Clarisse. We planned to stay for one night initially but ended up staying for two nights instead. I was expecting baby Clarisse to be a handful without my mother around but as it turned out, she’s been rather well-behaved. I’m glad baby Clarisse had no trouble sleeping in my aunt’s room. So we decided to stay for another night
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March 14th, 2008 | Personal, Toys | 1 Comment
Baby Clarisse got to take back something fun and big yesterday. My husband’s aunty gave her another hand-me-down toy, PlaySkool toy table. It couldn’t have came at a better time as my baby Clarisse has been practising standing up for the past few weeks. I am sure she’ll really enjoy this toy. It’ll be a great encouragement for her to stand up from a sitting position.
It is a battery-operated play bench toy set which has several canisters on top. And inside these canisters there are components that bounces up and down, swirling balls, spinning flaps and make funny sounds. Needless to say, baby Clarisse loves it. Especially the colours and sound it makes. But she doesn’t really know how to work those buttons yet. Instead she would take them canisters apart and knock them around.
March 13th, 2008 | Computing, Personal, Videos | 3 Comments
Sharing photos online with friends and family is easy. You just need an image editor to scale it down, save it to compressed jpeg format and attach it to your email. But when it comes to sharing video files, things are not that straightforward.
Obviously the main problem is the file size. On average, a 2-minute 640×480 uncompressed mpeg video recording from my digital camera is about 130-140MB. You’d be hardpressed to find an email service provider that allows you to attach such a huge file to your emails.
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March 9th, 2008 | Personal | No comments
What a shocking General Election it has been for Malaysians! In a good way that is.
Last night, at 9pm, when my husband and I checked the unofficial results on MalaysiaKini website, news has it that Penang has fallen to the opposition with DAP taking significant number of seats. That was enough to send our adrenaline pumping.
Unfortunately our local TV stations, RTM and TV3 were very slow announcing the tallied results. Even at 11pm, they were only reporting Barisan Nasional’s victories in East Malaysia: Sabah and Sarawak. TV3 was particularly annoying, constantly babbling and citing racial sentiments as the main cause of Barisan Nasional’s losts. Very dangerous to be discussing racial issues on national TV. TV3 is one of Barisan’s mouthpiece so I was not surprised they are stooping so low to incite racial tension right now. Despite that, I am certain that times have changed since the unfortunate riot of May 13 1969. The majority of Malaysian citizens are more educated, well-informed and wiser.
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March 7th, 2008 | Personal | No comments
In less than 12 hours I will be casting my vote in Malaysia’s General Election. There’s no hiding where my sentiment lies for those who know me. My ‘X’ will be marked in any opposition’s box, be it PAS, PKR or DAP.
I hate monopoly. It brings out the worst in anything. I vote in hope to achieve a balance in power.
The last minute indelible ink pull out was a real letdown. Adding to suspicions that the GE won’t be polled fair and square. I won’t be surprised the polling results will be rigged to turn the tides into BN’s favor.
Those who walked the BERSIH demonstration last year is heading the right direction: the need for clean GE’s. If that can’t be achieved, there’s no democracy at all.
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March 6th, 2008 | Personal | No comments
While the latest trend these days is flowing curls, I’ve been curly haired since I was born. And I remember the only time I messed around and gotten my hair straightened was when I was 25. I was young and with too much time on my hands perhaps but the deadpan straight flat hair look was all the rage back then.
As soon as I walked out of the hairdresser, I remember thinking I should probably not tell my boyfriend about it. He was in overseas at that time and knowing him, he never approved of my urge to try getting my hair straightened. Even when I promised to try it just once. Until now, he could never imagine how I look like with straight hair because I’ve never had a picture taken back then.
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March 3rd, 2008 | Personal | 2 Comments
My baby Clarisse has managed to crawl a few steps. It has been weeks since she started to position herself on all fours but somehow reluctant to move forward. She’s now 9 months old so it’s pretty normal for her to be crawling by now.
She’s been quite active lately. Apart from crawling, she’s also trying to stand up. Put her near a sofa and she would reach out her hands and pull herself up to stand. Someone would have to be by her side constantly to catch her when she fails to maintain her balance afterwards. From the looks of it, there’s still a long way to go before she can stand and balance herself without any support.
March 1st, 2008 | Personal | No comments
While out in my garden taking in the fresh morning air, I had a chat with my neighbour seeing her busy packing up for a camping trip with her family. She’s be camping with her family at a tea plantation estate up in the highlands. It will be the first time her youngest son, now 3, experience the joy of camping.
Now this should be the way instead of taking the kids to the city and camping in the country’s latest and biggest shopping centres. We should introduce our kids to opportunities where they could get out, explore, discover and hopefully appreciate the finer things our natural environment has to offer. Much better than raising them in the confines of material and digital entertainment cocoon.
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March 1st, 2008 | Personal | No comments
Global warming is a hot topic these days. We’ve even got politicians making political campaigns out of it. As for me, I find pleasure in reading about the latest developments on environmental issues. Particularly how science and technology is making our life’s more eco-friendly, and ultimately, helping the environment. So much so, that I’ve been pondering quite some time now to start blogging about it. But that’s wishful thinking right now, with me having to take care of baby Clarisse and house chores, where’s the time really.
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