May 30th, 2008 | Personal | No comments
Great! After just 3 short years of use, my dressing table’s chair fell apart. Furniture these days are really flimsy and non-durable. Unlike the past, the quality of wood and workmanship that goes into making furniture these days leave much to be desired.
Some wooden, teak furniture in my mom’s house goes back a long way. Older than me some of them. And they are still in use until this very day. It goes to show how lasting and durable furnitures are made to be many years ago, even reasonably priced ones as my mom says. This trait unfortunately doesn’t get passed down the generations. If you want quality wood furniture these days, you can’t find them in run-of-the-mill furniture shops. They are found in fancy boutique-styled furniture galleries and be prepared for the damage to your pocket.
May 24th, 2008 | Personal | No comments
Our local Jusco supermarket has given it’s food court a major makeover. The renovation took about 2 weeks if I’m not mistaken and now the food court has an entirely different fresh look to it. The center of the food court now spots a children section. I love it. There are specially designed children tables, with seats and tables just the right height for children. A mini playground with padded floor, slide and swing sets just for kids. Baby Clarisse loves the place and it keeps her attention occupied while we adults get to enjoy our meals.
May 21st, 2008 | Personal | 1 Comment
Streamyx, Malaysia’s lousiest broadband internet provider, is acting up again. It took 5 minutes from the time I login to my site, click “Write Post” and start writing. 5 goddamn minutes just to go through two pages.
It’s been a week of annoyance. Access to international servers especially is very slow. I dare not hope for 1000Mbps broadband internet in Malaysia. I just wish they could provide a smooth and problem-free 1.5Mbps for now. As long as Telekom remain the sole player in the broadband arena, there’s no way we’re going to catch up to Singapore or Korea where 1Gbps are starting to become the norm.
May 21st, 2008 | Personal | 1 Comment
My pal Jon and his wife is moving to their new house soon. For their house-warming party, I’m thinking of getting him a festool carpentry tool as when he’s not busy working, he’ll be camping out in the shed doing wood work. It’s been his main hobby, in fact his only one, for as long as I’ve known him. He’s not into computers like I am, or books, music, cars or sports much. Just carpentry, pretty boring pastime if you ask me but hey who am I to judge, I could barely hammer a nail.
May 20th, 2008 | Personal | No comments
It’s gonna be another busy day today. I’ve got tons of errands to run later - banking, bills, car insurance and meeting with an ex-colleague of mine to discuss over a potential vacancy at a real estate development firm. I’ll be leaving baby Clarisse to my mom earlier today and picking her up probably in the late afternoon. I hope baby Clarisse behaves herself today as she’s been pretty fussy and cranky lately, maybe due to teething.
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May 20th, 2008 | Personal | 1 Comment
My husband and I were window shopping today. We had some time to kill during the afternoon when baby Clarisse was at grandma’s house taking a nap. We stopped at a shop selling sunglasses and decided to fool around with a couple of vintage sunglasses as they are all the rage right now. You know, retro looking shades has made a come back. Unfortunately, not everyone could pull it off. Definitely not us, we look funny with them.
May 20th, 2008 | Personal, Uncategorized | No comments
We went to KL with my parents last friday to attend my cousin sister’s wedding dinner. Baby Clarisse, grandpa and grandma went along on this trip. With my parents, I thought I’d have an easier time with two extra pairs of helping hands to care of baby Clarisse but I was wrong.
On the morning when we depart for KL, baby Clarisse refused to sit beside my mom and dad. You see, eversince about a month ago, she has this weird little problem with family members’ clothings. Especially my mom. Whenever my mom and dad put on something nicer before going out, baby Clarisse would stare at them for a moment and refuse to go near them. She would cry when my mom or dad tries to carry her. Put on those shabby clothes again, everything returns to normal and baby Clarisse won’t get defensive anymore. I just don’t know why this is happening.
May 17th, 2008 | Personal | No comments
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May 17th, 2008 | Personal | No comments
My sister-in-law received a pretty cool gift today - a digital photo frame. I’ve been wanting to get myself one of these for a while but just couldn’t find one that appeals to me aesthetically. The one she got has a matte glass frame with a brushed metal border and it looks very nice indeed.
This is the first time I’ve checked out a digital frame hands on. It is very user-friendly and photos can easily be transferred from memory cards. The feature I like best is randomly rotating photo slides. Brightness and contrast can be easily adjusted to match ambience lighting.
May 17th, 2008 | Personal | No comments
As she gets stronger, I am expecting baby Clarisse to be a handful. I shudder to imagine how grandma and grandpa, their backs especially, can cope with taking care of her while I’m away because she likes to spend time on the floor walking (cruising with support), crawling and making her way slowly up the stairs. Up and down and up again. I have no idea how many times she could repeat going up and down the stairs because I ran out of gas before she does.
Recently, she discovered cupboard doors. As soon as she gets down onto the floor, she’d be heading towards the nearest cabinet to pull at the doors and check out what’s inside. Grandpa is very protective of his stuff so I have make sure baby Clarisse won’t get her hands on stuff inside the cabinets.
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