July 11th, 2008 | Personal | No comments
Have you tried Windows Vista? Out of curiosity, my husband installed Vista on my laptop this morning to find out how it fares. My Celeron-based IBM ThinkPad was nearly choked to death running Vista in all its eye-candy glory. Since day one Windows Vista has received mixed reviews from the public. I think I can relate to the fuss because while my laptop runs Windows XP smoothly, Vista slowed it down to a crawl. My laptop memory usage went up by more than 50% compared to XP. Well, I grant you Vista does look slick and fancy but apart from that, I see no reason why I would migrate from XP even if I buy a top-of-the-range laptop today.
July 11th, 2008 | Personal | No comments
Baby Clarisse received a stash of hand-me-down children's clothes today from her aunt. More than two dozen pieces of children t-shirts, shorts, pants, skirts and dresses. And the best thing is all of them look like new. There’s this one dress so new the price tag has yet to be removed.
Baby Clarisse’s rather tiny wardrobe is filled to the brim so the cloths has to be put in a plastic container for now. I’m going to sort them out later and see which ones could fit. I think they look rather large for a one year old. Baby Clarisse is rather small built for her age so I guess half of those clothes won’t fit yet.
July 11th, 2008 | Personal | No comments
I first felt a lump formed in my left breast 3 weeks ago. Upon consulting a physician, I was adviced to persist on weaning baby Clarisse from breastfeeding so that I could have the lump removed for further inspection. I was told it is likely Fibrocystic and assured it is harmless. This is one of the main reason I hasten to wean baby Clarisse as soon as possible.
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July 11th, 2008 | Personal | No comments
Bad news! It was drizzling this morning and my husband left the desktop PC running. The wireless router too was switched on to keep the internet connected while downloading some stuff. No prize for guessing what happened next.
Yes you’re right. Some equipment were fried by a freak lightning strike. His desktop CPU and our Linksys wireless router modem is down. The LCD monitor survived and perhaps some components within the desktop CPU is salvageable. He’ll give it a thorough testing tomorrow to find out about it.
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July 6th, 2008 | Computing, Personal | No comments
My husband did a complete re-imaging of my IBM R50e notebook today while I was away at my mom’s place. My notebook runs Windows XP and it runs very smoothly. Runs like new in fact.
He has also switched anti-virus. We were running Avast! anti-virus but as of now, my resident anti-virus is NOD32 which claims to be one of the fastest. As a start, it does use much less ram than Avast!.
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July 6th, 2008 | Personal | No comments
Baby Clarisse slept at 9pm tonight. I’m glad she didn’t put up much of a struggle tonight as I wanted to tune in to the men’s tennis Wimbledon finals between Federer and Nadal. Although I don’t play much these days, I still love to watch tennis matches especially big matches and it doesn’t get any bigger than Wimbledon finals. Unfortunately the match is delayed. Hence I’m killing time blogging now and hope the match will start soon.
Like always my husband and I will be rooting for Roger Federer. Tonight’s match is a big one for Federer as victory will go down as a record of six consecutive Wimbledon champion title. However, if I were to place a bet on today’s match, I will put my money on Nadal and here’s why.
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July 5th, 2008 | Personal | No comments
We spent the entire afternoon watching movies today at a friend’s place. It’s no ordinary TV room but a specially built home theater with extraordinary pieces of HiFi audio visual equipment housed in a cozy sound-proofed room with matching home theater furniture to boot. It’s also my first time watching a movie in Blue-ray DVD format. I was stunned at how clear the picture is on a 40′ high definition LCD screen. And the sound coming from the set of speakers were booming. These are definitely toys for the rich as the entire setup cost roughly RM25k and that’s considered mediocre according to my friend. But gosh it’s movie experience at an entirely different level if one can afford it.
July 4th, 2008 | Breast Feeding, Personal | No comments
It’s been a dreadful past one week. A little bit better than the first few days I started to wean baby Clarisse from breastfeeding, but still I’m having a tough time making her sleep.
It’s 9pm now. Baby Clarisse hit the sack at 8pm sharp. She started to cry incessantly after 5 minutes, roll all over the bed and just refused to sleep. It took more than 45 minutes of crying and struggling until she’s too exhausted to do anything but to close her eyes and sleep. If I were to give nurse her, it would probably take no more than 15 minutes for her to doze off completely.
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July 4th, 2008 | Personal | No comments
Have you guys experience the Nintendo Wii? My husband and I were out window shopping today. We walked past the video games shop. Normally, we would’ve walked right pass it without batting an eyelid but today the shop has setup a promotional booth for the Nintendo Wii. The star product of the moment is the new Wii Fit, a balance board thingy apparatus for Nintendo Wii. This is our first time seeing the Wii in action and I like it very much.
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June 28th, 2008 | Breast Feeding, Personal | No comments
The past 2 weeks has been very exhausting. Why? Weaning my baby Clarisse from breast-feeding. She would get up once or twice nightly crying to be fed but will not consume anything else except breast milk. Forcing her to drink formula has been fruitless. It made her resent the very sight of a bottle even more. In fact, the moment baby Clarisse sees me with a tin of milk powder, she’d start to pout and make noises.
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