December 21st, 2008 | Personal | No comments
Everynight before I go to bed, I’d boil my baby Clarisse’s porridge in a slow cooker. Ready for the next morning. I will set the cooker to high for the initial one hour or so then right before I hit the sack, it should be set to ‘low’. I woke up this morning to realise I forgot to dial it to ‘low’. The porridge in the slow cooker was burnt. So I had to throw the whole pot of porridge away. Waste 30 minutes of my morning to prepare and cook it again.
I’m supposed to be at my mom’s place by 11am today. I guess I wouldn’t make it on time. To make matters worst, I ran out of chicken meat to be cooked with baby Clarisse’s porridge so I had to ask my mom to prepare the meat instead. I really hate to bother them on a Sunday morning.
I only have myself to blame for the blunder. I was distracted with searching and registering a domain name over a very slow internet connection last night. It got me so frustrated as I had to repeat the process of registration three times. Baby Clarisse too wasn’t helping as she woke up crying for me while I’m at it. One thing led to another, I dozed off baby Clarisse by my side and forgot about the slow cooker completely. Bummer!
December 21st, 2008 | Uncategorized | No comments
It’s been nearly 3 years since I’ve played tennis in the night. My husband and I, together with a couple of our friends booked a 2-hour session from 7pm – 9pm this evening. Talk about bad luck. Half way into the tennis session, one of the flood lights blacked out. I was truely enjoying this evening’s tennis session when it happened. It was 9.15pm then, we had no choice but to keep playing under insufficient lighting. I was already struggling to adapt to the nightime lighting conditions not having played tennis in the night for 3 years. The faulty flood light made it worst. That’s why I prefer to play tennis during the day.
December 21st, 2008 | Uncategorized | No comments
My husband has a new item on his wish list for Christmas this year. He’s been eyeing an espresso machine for quite some time now but I told him seriously, those things are expensive. What’s wrong with the coffee makers we have at home?! We’ve been going back and forth about it for as long as I can remember. He has always been a sucker for expensive toys for whatever hobby he indulges. Take photography or tennis for instance. He has spent thousands of dollars buying camera and lenses before putting the hobby on hold. And I can’t even remember how many tennis racquets he has switched over the past 10 years before I put a stop to it.
December 20th, 2008 | Personal | 1 Comment
The tug-of-war between using English or Bahasa Malaysia to teach Science and Math worries me. As parents, I am praying and hoping that when my baby Clarisse enters our education system, she’ll enjoy learning Science and Math subjects in English rather than Bahasa Malaysia.
There is no debate for right thinking Malaysians the advantages of learning Science in English over Bahasa Malaysia. We can readily find endless resources of learning materials published in English through the internet. Try that with Bahasa Malaysia. English is the language that unites the world of technology and science. On the other hand, Bahasa Malaysia is a hindrance to the ability of young minds to excel in this field.
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December 20th, 2008 | Uncategorized | No comments
The battle with weight gain continues as my scales indicate this morning. Sigh, my weight has barely nudged even after introducing more intensity into my fitness and workout routine. I’ll try to eat less from now on but that would be tough because I’m eating very sensibly these days. If I eat less, I’d be starving and I really hate losing weight like this. I’ll be switching my diet pills to Leptovox next week. According to the reviews, it contains a blend of healthy and natural ingredients. I like the natural stuff so I’m going to try it next.
December 20th, 2008 | Uncategorized | No comments
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December 16th, 2008 | Personal | No comments
Allow me to spare my 0.02 on banning hillside developments in the wake of Bukit Antarabangsa landslide. First and foremost, I’m absolutely sorry to residents of Bukit Antarabangsa to see such fate befall them.
However, I don’t buy the fact that banning hillside developments is nipping the bud of the problem. Take some exotic countries like Monte Carlo or villages along the Swiss mountains for instance, infrastructure built on slopes add to their tourist attraction characteristics. Hong Kong too for instance proves that structures built on slopes isn’t just a Malaysian thing.
I’d be willing to bet that the real culprit to such disasters is the lack of enforcements of the highest standards by local development authorities. It is no secret that money in the form of bribery and corruption in Malaysia has the ability to move mountains. And the lack of faith in our government’s competency by the public is not just a perception but a reality. When we have undertable dealings between the authorities and developers, wheels start turning. The problem is, when the wheels are in motion, no one gives a damn who gets run over.
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December 16th, 2008 | Uncategorized | No comments
My husband took our car over to the workshop today and fitted 2 rod-like thingy called anti-roll bars. One goes to the front under the hood and another mounted inside the boot. These things, according to him, are supposed to make the car handle a LOT better when tackling corners and stuff. I wonder how often he gets the opportunity to corner at full speed in a car labelled “Baby On Board”. If you ask me, I’d rather he spend the money on better tinting, car foaming for better noise and heat prevention, bigger brakes, better suspensions, air-con filter or something instead of these so-called performance parts items. I won’t mind an in-car entertainment system that includes an LCD screen either. But no, he went and blew a couple of hundreds of dollars on two metal rods. Go figure.
December 15th, 2008 | Personal | No comments
Arghhh! I should have waited another day to fill up the petrol tank. I just topped up my car this evening before coming home and read about the 10 cents petrol price cut on the news. The remaining two bars in my Toyota Vios could easily have lasted another day or two of driving around town.
Yea I know the government promised to review petrol prices fortnightly but they’ve seldom reduce punctually. I guess they did it time this round. Well anyway, a further 10 cent cut to RM1.80 per litre is better than nothing. We need all the savings we can muster to go through tough times ahead.
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December 15th, 2008 | Uncategorized | No comments
I’ve started spring cleaning early this year. Chinese New Year is only one and a half months away so I started with the storeroom last Monday. It has always been my choice to start with the crammed storeroom filled with useless stuff from wall-to-wall. If we didn’t sort out the storeroom every year, god knows what species would breed down there. Spring cleaning, to me at least, means getting rid of unwanted stuff. The problem is deciding what to throw and what to keep. I have a rule when it comes to making such a decision, if you can’t give me a straight answer what you’re gonna do with the stuff, bin it.
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