May 17th, 2008 | Personal | No comments
I had a pleasant surprised when baby Clarisse managed to call out ‘poh poh’ (grandma) today. Too bad, my mom wasn’t here when it happened. I told her about it and she hopes to hear it soon.
Lately, baby Clarisse is more and more willing to call papa and mama. Everyone in the family is trying their best to persuade baby Clarisse to call them. Unfortunately, none of them managed to do so. Maybe they are trying to hard and also baby Clarisse is shy.
Baby Clarisse gave me the most wonderful Mother’s day present last week. I said to her upclose “I’d be happy if you could just call me Mama’ and I got my wish. The clearest and most accurate sounding ‘Mama’ I’ve heard her call so far.
May 13th, 2008 | Personal | No comments
On the topic of buying houses, I’d like to bring up what happened to my cousin to highlight the old adage of cutting your clothes according to the cloth. It was 3 years ago, when he got married and in less than 2 months, he and his wife threw most of their savings into a double storey link house in one of the most popular and expensive real estate in Malaysia, the Tropicana. The amount they pay for a simple double storey link house is quite obscene, personally. Unfortunately, fate dealt a bad card to them as his wife was diagnosed with cancer of the nose. The following months of cancer treatment were financially devastating. My cousin were financially exhausted and their house were months behind mortgage, on the brink of foreclosure. Family members chipped in to help with their financial problems.
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May 13th, 2008 | Personal | No comments
My husband and I took a drive along one of new and upcoming residential areas a few kilometres from town center today. We’ve been looking out to invest in a new house for quite some time now but never found one that suits our fancy. My husband is especially picky when it comes to location. He always insists on getting a home as near town as possible but the prices are beyond our reach. We have a friend who works in real estate development, occasionally in contact with mortgage lenders, and he’s really up-to-date with housing properties. He certainly thinks that with our limited budget, we can’t really get much to choose from. I hope he can change his mind.
May 13th, 2008 | Personal | No comments
While changing baby Clarisse’s diaper last night, I felt she’s running a bit of temperature. The thermometer confirms she’s indeed having a mild fever so I gave her a dose of baby panadol. Good thing she’s as feisty and active as ever even when she’s having a mild fever. But I’m uncomfortable with the fact that the fever did not come from an existing ailment like sorethroat or flu.
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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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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 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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