Trying to adapt

For those who know me well, I have moved in to my new house. New house, new environment, not only my kids, but we adults are also trying to adapt ourselves.

There's a lot of plus points about the new environment here, greatest one will be good security and prettier environment. My kids can cycle around the housing area with ease, large playgrounds for them and lots of place for them to play ball or fly kite.

The down points will be there aren't as many shops as in my previous house, no Jusco within 5 min drive (but there's a new Giant within 5 min drive), and not many food to our liking until now.

I'm not sure whether it's because of the hassle and tiredness of moving house, or because the back of my house is doing major renovation, all of us keep falling sick. Never before my kids have ulcers and sore-throat, this is the first time.

Tomorrow, we are going to plant grass and trees, hopefully it will 'clean' up the air a bit. This is my current muddy land, going to have to lay some piping under to 'drain' away the water.

Machines Boycott Me :(

Oh gosh, what a day I've been through!

Today's afternoon, I was shocked to find out that my 2 little kids have successfully spoiled my sister laptop! The screen keeps jumping up and down, up and down with all the blurry words which I can't even read the error message. To make it worse, this laptop isn't mine, it's my sister un-used laptop which I "borrow" all this while.

I have no choice but used my husband's ancient atuk laptop. Atuk laptop atuk speed

Then, the printer aka scanner also decided to take a break together with the laptop. OK, nvm, I have a backup printer. Then I realised that the atuk laptop didn't have the backup printer software and it's DVD-ROM already retired long long ago. Haiz~~~

So I went to computer shop, spent RM6.00 just to print 3 sheets of A4 size papers to signed and scanned them back in pdf file. The guy told me print 1 sheet RM1 and scan 1 sheet RM1 *sweating*

Then when I came back home at night, checking my fax machine. I couldn't believe my eyes that it's also stuck! Luckily, this one I managed to kao-tim, but have to asked the sender to re-fax the documents tomorrow.

I hope my sister laptop can be fixed, or else my plan of getting a new camera will be changed to getting a new laptop. What a day struggling with the machines.

I've got at least 10 sheets of paper to be printed tomorrow, and here goes another RM10 again!

Help! Semi-pro Camera

There's lots of experts here, therefore, I wanted to ask for your opinion.

I just know how to operate those digital camera, but I always wanted to get a better camera for snapping my kids' photos.

The lady at the electrical fair introduce me 2 semi-pro camera:

Canon model G12 RM1799, 10MP, 5X zoom, HS system, hybrid IS

Canon model SX30IS RM1599, 14.1MP, 35X zoom, 24mm wide angle

Lense & flash can be added to G12 while SX30IS couldn't. G12 is also much lighter and compact than SX30IS. Personally, I like SX30IS, cause it's all in 1 (I don't think I'll buy extra lense or flash) and it's cheaper.

Help help, do you think it's ok for a newbie like me to get a semi-pro camera and 'play' with it? If you know other models of semi-pro camera which you think it's better, can you recommend it to me?

Thank you so much!

[Xiang 3y7m] My "golden" teeth

Xiang: Look at my upper incisors! Nice?

Xiang till now has poor refleks. Whenever he fell down, his hands seems to be locked to his side. That is why he always got hurt on his forehead, lips and 2 upper incisors teeth. His 2 upper incisors teeth already turned black and they are shaking. Even Xiang already grown intoto habit of using the side incisors and canines teeth to bite and to tear food.

We wanted to bring him to dentist but I can't imagine if the dentist decided to extract both, so we kept on delaying the thought. I was hoping that he will lost his primary teeth sooner, and not to wait till 6 years old.

Reno: Sofa Hunt 1

I'd like to blog down my renovation details, for my future reference.

I've hunt for sofa for quite some time now. Last weekend, we have almost booked a set of sofa from Lorenzo.

Almost ..... because the sales person calculated wrong price, and the actual price was way too expensive for me.

Anyway, until now, brands to my liking are Lorenzo & Gucca. During the Homedeco fair, there's a Future & Hermann booth promoting leather sofa, so another brand added to my list.

I've just came back from Rozel Jalan Ampang. All the sofa sets there are so expensive. The salesman is very helpful though. There's 2 sets much to my liking, the seats & back supports are quite firm & hard, suitable to us who constantly has backache problem.

This is the cheapest set of leather sofa there, I think. 2+3: RM6,290

This is the one I like, very modern looking. 2+3: RM7,290!

Close up on 2 seater:

Well, after posting it here, I'm satisfied. I guess these are for my EYES only, not for my fat bottom to sit on. So my sofa hunting continues this weekend, planning to go Mid-Valley Lorenzo as well as the expo there.

[Qi 2y5m]: 40.1 DegC

22 July 2010

Yeah, my most hateful virus, is attacking Qi again. She has been feverish since 2 days ago. This morning 4.30am her hands & legs were so cold, I could not do anything but put on blanket for her. 1 hour later, her temperature shoot up to 40.1 DegC, gosh!!! She hates us putting wet hanky on her body, rejected putting cool-fever on her forehead and of course hates medicine inserted at her bottom.

X-box or Wii?

Our PS1 is half-way stepping into grave. However, my kids always having a good time with those car-racing, street-fighting and shooting games. That's why we are thinking of getting a new game device for our kids.

At first, I was thinking of buying PS3. The device itself is around RM1200 - that's ok. The game DVD is around RM200 - that's really NOT ok.

Then the sales persons intoduce us X-box, saying the picture quality is almost the same PS3 if we connected using HDMI cable.

Last week, we asked again at another shop, and we found out that X-box has little game titles for kids. Wii on the other hand has a wider titles. Each DVD only cost RM8. The only difficulty will be the controllers, as some games need to have 1 controller in each hand to play.

I'm wondering anyone own X-box or Wii here? Can you please give me your opinion on these 2? Which one is easier for the kids to play?