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I tried to make this post seem all technical, and give you the impression that I actually do research on this kind of stuff, but I’ll just be upfront and honest and tell you my RAW experience after upgrading to Firefox 3.5.

The first thing that I notice is how web pages load so quickly. By web pages I mean the two or three sites I randomly surfed to.

Before I upgraded, it’s click, wait, then the page will load.

Now it’s click, wa… and the page is already loaded before I blink.

The next thing I note is the built in support for open video formats. I guess this means no more downloading various video players.

Taking a closer look at the release notes, I’m excited to read that the browser engine has allowed possibilities for new exciting plugins.

Just a short note for today. I’m off to work.

P/S: Don’t burp if you’re wearing a medical mask. The concentrated and confined smell of curry spice, garlic and rice will make you faint

P/S: RIP Michael Jackson. Thanks for the memories, the great songs, and thanks for all the jokes. Sorry the world didn’t care about you any more until you died.

This is a long overdue post about Rachel’s first birthday.

We celebrated her first birthday on May 9th, and invited relatives over to our condo for a small birthday party.

This is her birthday cake. Cost something like RM150. It looks so pretty!

Cooking Mama Poey Chin cooked this plate of fried mihun. She also cooked a plate of maggi goreng.

Grandma made some red eggs.

Daddy got a bucket of KFC.

There was a lot of other food as well. There was roast duck from Uncle John, chicken curry, fried veges and rojak buah!

Another shot of the cake, to show you how the sides were decorated.

The candle blowing session. For weeks I taught Rachel how to ‘blow blow’ but she ended up not knowing what to do.

Looking on are Rachel’s Uncle Eric and Cousin Ethan.

Baby Rachel eating her birthday cake.

There were a lot more photos, but I didn’t post them up because I’m not sure if my family allowed me to post their photos online or not.

On that day I remember looking back through the past one year of her life.

How she has changed everything, and how much joy she brought to us.

There were many difficult moments, but I guess we’ve learned from those experiences.

I love you girl girl. I hope you can read this in the future and see how everyone loves you so much.

In the past few weeks, Rachel has claimed the piano as her new toy (sorry neighbours).

She doesn’t play anything “real”, mostly hitting the keys at random.

At least she can reach the keyboard now.

She’s getting the hang of it… she knows how to make sounds by hitting as hard as she can.

She’s got this look of concentration whenever she plays the piano. Actually she has this look whenever she does something naughty.

Secretly I wish she’s saying, “Don’t disturb me daddy, I’m composing a song for you”

Eb… Eb… Thank you for the music…

From the top she actually looks like she’s playing. Maybe I will use this photo if Poey Chin ever decides to come out with a “Teach Your Baby Piano” training ebook. Available now for my blog readers at a special price of $29.95. FREE autographed baby diaper if you ORDER NOW!

“Baby… play like this. See how mama play?”

“Twinkle twinkle little star, how I wonder what you are”

I’ve started being active on Twitter again, after abandoning it for one year.

Last year there weren’t too many people I knew who were on Twitter, so it seemed kind of weird talking to myself most of the time.

Recently Twitter has been in the news quite a lot, especially with someone being arrested for Twittering and MPs twittering live from parliament or court houses.

This time round, there are so many people to follow. There are more friends, bloggers and family members that are on twitter now.

There are even celebrities who Twitter, e.g. Shaq, Britney Spears and one of the funniest SNL alumni Jimmy Fallon.

You could spend a day searching for celebrity Twitter streams.

I’ve also reinstated the Twitter widget at my sidebar. It’s called Spy on Me for obvious reasons.

It is easier and faster for me to update everyone on Twitter than to spend time writing a blog post.

Honestly some days I don’t even have time to eat lunch. Sometimes I’m so busy I forget to drink water. It’s THAT bad.

My Facebook account is now semi-abandoned, though I’ve setup my account so that my Tweets are updated there too. One thing that really turns me off is the unchecked proliferation of quizzes and application invites.

If you haven’t started a Twitter account, go sign up now. If you already have an account please follow me.

Dear Poey Chin,

Two years ago we started our lifelong journey.

In a state of bliss and happiness we launched into an exciting and unfamiliar world supported by friends and family.

So many things seemed possible, everything was new.

Sometimes it was just the two of us against the world.

Sometimes it was two of us against each other.

But it was mostly the two of us as one.

And then two became three.

Life became twenty two times more complicated. Our bundle of joy came packaged with her share of frustration, worry, heart ache and hard work.

But she’s worth it, isn’t she?

In the past two years you have been there to meet all of my needs.

You never fail to encourage me. Thank you for supporting me.

And tomorrow, two will become three once again, as we begin our third year of marriage. How will this third year of marriage end? Will three become four? *wink*

I love you darling, please don’t stop loving me even if I don’t deserve it.

From,

Lou Kong

(the one who didn’t buy a card and wrote a blog post instead)

P/S: To my dear readers, tomorrow we will be spending our anniversary by going on a date! I hope we will enjoy ourselves better compared to the last time!

Photo By: Asif Akbar

I don’t really know what happened this morning.

One moment I was driving out of the condo, and the next moment I come to my senses and I’m already halfway to work.

What happened to those 10 minutes of my time?

I have four theories:

1. I teleported
2. I have temporary amnesia
3. There’s a glitch in the ‘program’. None of this is real. We are all living in a virtual world created by machines who have enslaved humans to harvest energy from our bodies.
4. I have stumbled across a pocket of electro magnetic energy. “STOP THE DRILLING”. “I’m going to detonate a H-Bomb at the Swan station”. *white flash*

Which of the above happened to me?

A salmon swimming
Writing pages of blog posts
My heart is racing

Submit to PPS
Will anyone be bothered?
I need the page views

Like ants to sugar
How did I get desperate
For few cents a day

Alone in cosmos
How do I reach the big leagues?
Maybe in my dreams

This doesn’t look right
A penguin in Hawaii
I’ve ruined haiku

Digi (my favourite mobile telco) has launched a new Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) program called Love to Save.

What happens is, you visit the LovetoSave website (click on the banner) and Digi will donate RM5 to that non-profit organisation.

I chose SPCA Selangor because animals are always close to my heart (doggies especially).

At the time of writing, Digi has pledged RM3785 to SPCA Selangor.

If you don’t fancy the SPCA, then you can also choose from almost 10 other organisations like MAKNA or the National Kidney Foundation.

This program runs for one month only so don’t wait!

In the past few months, I have been investing a lot of time, energy and money into financial education.

To be specific, I’ve started reading Personal Money, The Edge, and I’ve already finished seven personal finance books:

1. The Millionaire in Me - Azizi Ali
2. Millionaires Are From a Different Planet - Azizi Ali
3. How to be a Property Millionaire - Azizi Ali
4. Growing Your Money - Azizi Ali
5. Why We Want You To Be Rich - Donald Trump and Robert Kiyosaki
6. Your Money and Your Brain - Jason Zweig
7. Secrets of Self Made Millionaires - Adam Khoo

Books 1, 2 and 5 I bought, the rest are from the library. And I’m going to the library this Saturday to borrow even more finance books!

After reading those books, I realize that I’ve made some mistakes, specifically with regards to insurance and financial planning. I just hope it’s not too late for me to recover from those mistakes.

I’ve also made some drastic changes to my financial management.

The thing is, nobody takes me seriously. They think I’m being stingy.

Am I really so money minded?

I don’t know about the others, but I have dreams I want to achieve. I want to have a comfortable home and a middle class lifestyle for my family. I want to provide for my children’s education and to have enough for retirement.

Based on my calculations, I will need millions to achieve those dreams!

I feel nobody takes me seriously.

It feels so lonely. I feel like I’m the only one who sees impending doom while everyone else is partying and laughing at me.

I wonder if there’s a support group I can join.

Photo By: Steve Woods