The day started off badly with a blackout this morning around 6.30 am. Tried to call Tenaga but all lines were busy. It wasn’t too widespread though as there was power in other parts of SJ. I always dread power cuts as my son’s daily activites rely heavily on electricity — TV, video, VCD player [...]
Archive for February, 2006
Blackout
Posted in Home on February 27, 2006 | 1 Comment »
Dear Mr Postman
Posted in Thoughts on February 24, 2006 | 3 Comments »
Dear Mr Postman,
Are you dyslexic? I am wondering why you cannot seem to differentiate your Alphabets and persist in delivering letters meant for Road C to Road B — I would think there is a world of difference between them, most evident when the address is printed. You have made this same *&%#* mistake FOUR [...]
Japanese Arakawa wins women’s gold
Posted in Entertainment on February 24, 2006 | Leave a Comment »
Japan’s Shizuka Arakawa glided into the history books when she captured Japan’s first-ever Winter Olympics figure skating gold medal. She gave an awesome performance skating to Puccini’s “Violin Fantasy of Turandot”, and landed 11 jumps in all. Sasha Cohen and Irina Slutskaya went out of contention for the top prize after they both tumbled to [...]
I-N-S-O-M-N-I-A
Posted in Personal on February 24, 2006 | Leave a Comment »
Actually I’m not suffering from insomnia but my son is, although in his case it should be spelt W-I-G-G-L-E-S! It’s one of his favourite shows on the Playhouse Disney Channel and used to be shown at 8 am. However they suddenly decided to rearrange their programme schedule this month and show it at the ungodly [...]
Figure Skating: Ladies
Posted in Entertainment on February 22, 2006 | Leave a Comment »
Sasha Cohen took the lead after the Ladies’ Short Programme with only 0.03 points over Irina Slutskaya. The American girls did their country proud by taking 1st, 5th and 7th position while the Japanese girls took 3rd, 4th and 8th place. In 6th place was Elene Gedevanishvili from Georgia, the youngest competitor there. Unfortunately [...]
Ice Dancing
Posted in Entertainment on February 21, 2006 | Leave a Comment »
Russians Tatiana Navka and Roman Kostomarov made it 3-in-a-row for the Russians when they won the gold medal in the Ice Dancing competition which was shown this afternoon. The contest was closely fought with silver going to the Americans Tanith Belbin and Benjamin Agosto, and bronze to the Ukrainians Elena Grushina and Ruslan Goncharov. Ice [...]
Toilet MP3
Posted in Inventions on February 21, 2006 | Leave a Comment »
You’ve got to hand it to the Japanese – they are very innovative and come up with wonderfully weird ideas, even when it come to toilets. Toto has come up with a Toilet MP3 that has an MP3 player with an SD slot. Have a look at the video on how to use the toilet. [...]
Top ten reasons Geeks make good fathers
Posted in Lists on February 19, 2006 | Leave a Comment »
Might pacify your wife/gf/baby-mother if she complains of being a “computer widow”.
After my previous post on Ten Reasons Why You Should Date a Geek, Maryam followed up with The Do’s and Dont’s of Dating Geeks. They inspired Helen to write some Geek blogs as well: Ten reasons it isn’t always easy being married to a [...]
Dry Taps and Wet Roads
Posted in Home on February 18, 2006 | Leave a Comment »
Today was a pretty eventful day for me. Had a bad start to the day when I woke up to dry taps this morning. Even though it was a scheduled water cut, I somehow missed the announcement on the Syabas website so it came as a not-so-nice surprise to me. That put paid to my [...]
Figure Skating: Men
Posted in Entertainment on February 17, 2006 | Leave a Comment »
I enjoyed the Men’s Free Skate this morning – thankfully the transmission held up despite the overcast sky. Good thing the repeat was shown in the morning as there was a heavy downpour as usual in the afternoon. Evgeni Plushenko won the gold medal with another awesome performance and finished way ahead of the rest [...]
