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November 30, 2006 at 5:16 am · Filed under Daily Living

Wow…I am so efficient today. Actually I am always very efficient on the day right before my every RDO J I guess I just want to get my desk all cleaned before taking off. And next Monday will be a new start of a new week. I don’t hope to be seeing the old unsolved things still sitting there.

But, I will miss out tomorrow’s Hawaiian Shirt Day, though I don’t really keep a Hawaiian style shirt in my wardrobe. I thought Hawaiian Shirts are only for two kinds of people: men wearing straw sun hats holding their beers, and women with big body size. Have you ever seen a slender girl wearing a Hawaiian shirt but still looking alright in your life? I haven’t. Women in that kind of shirt look not very nice, but the women in straw skirts and neck garland do J Anyway, this is an initiative for supporting people undergoing a cancer treatment and raise more funds. This happens very often when working in a community service environment. The whole month till Christmas Day has all been booked up. Disability Festival, Council’s party, HACC’s party and our own dinner party for Xmas….just too much! People have started to talk about dinner cost and menus in Ginger at Parliament House, where would probably a place to go finally.

I have a couple of things need to do tomorrow. To clean the bathroom tiles and do the Christmas tree.

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Want to change the template

November 29, 2006 at 5:30 am · Filed under Tech & Web

I was so in a mood to change my blog template. I am actually looking for a good one to replace the current one, but I am not sure if I could make it. Last time I tried, but ended up using the same thing. Beccary is pretty good, I have to admit. Her design on font, size and all the layout stuff are just perfect and almost irreplaceable. I found very hard to find the equally good stuff as hers. Unfortunately she kind of seems to no longer design a html based blogger template any more as she is currently big into WordPress. I have no idea what the WordPress is, and I even don’t have time to find out that.

I also use Caz’s template in my Moment Musical, which is very good. But except some dark shade ones, I haven’t seen anything simple enough to turn me on. The templates from BlogSkin are always cooooooooool. But for me, they are just too young and too creative. Some of them are too much relationship related as if people using those templates just live in a vacuumed space of human being’s pain, hatred, love and all other emotional stuff. I don’t like that or say I have passed that point to immerse myself into that kind of atmosphere. I need something simple, but at the same time, nice, clean and graceful.

But, please don’t get me wrong, I still love the current one. It’s just human’s natural to seek something new all the time. If I failed to get the appropriate one, I will stick on this for longer J

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Helping to move

November 28, 2006 at 9:15 am · Filed under Family & Friends

We spent this evening helping Lily couple to relocation. The distance between the old and new place is only 2 minutes’ drive. But as we just have a normal sedan, thought it’s a quite big sedan with a huge trunk, most of furniture still couldn’t fit in well. At the end of the day, we only transferred some small-sized boxes and luggage, leaving bed, refrigerator, two tables aside.

To be honest, their home content is quite simple, I could never figure out how they did that. Comparing to their home, I even dare not to look at my place. I don’t know what I am going to manage mine for the next time moving if we have to do that. But more importantly, I don’t know what kind of place I would try to find to house all our stuff. Packing can be hard. Look at those little things like a fragrance oil burner, a pencil sharpener or a case of nail tool. They are very tiny and don’t really occupy a space, but they also very easily get lost. Look at the study desk and entertainment unit, should we undo them when moving? That would kill us in seconds. And, finding a moving company? Getting someone to clean the old place’s carpet? Unpacking in the new place again? Re-arrange the furniture? Oh, can’t think about it. I hope I will never have to do this.

Anyway, we four people ended up having some fruit in our place, including water melon, green grapes, mangos and peaches. The big lawyer looks a bit stressed out. Apparently he had a long long day. I am so glad that we don’t have to go through this now. Moving can always drain people out. After seconds’ excitement of finding a new place and looking forward moving in there as fast as you could, you have to cope with a number of stressful matters that are enough to make you feel like killing yourself immediately.

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Hook & Loop

November 27, 2006 at 5:49 am · Filed under Home Sweet Home

We bought a box of new gadget yesterday in OfficeWork, called Velcro Hook and Loop fastener, and it’s for adhering the stuff on the wall. But I admit that I even didn’t know what we were actually looking for when we were there.

A couple of days ago, my husband was inspired by another girl in his office, and came back with his new idea that could update the useless Blue Tack we’ve been using to stick the posters and paintings on the wall. Apparently that little yellow and yucky chewing gum-ish thing didn’t work very well in the past. My paintings keep falling off from the wall, and I had to pick them up and get them fixed at least three times a week. I’ve gotten sick of that but I can’t find an appropriate substitute as we are not allowed to drill a hole in a renting place, but except a real nailed hook, I can think of nothing.

But now, it seems that we just had a mind revolution and are progressing into the new generation of a gluing era. And I have to say, it’s so smart. Probably people are quite familiar with using fastener on sewing, cloth making and fabric joining, but I had never thought we can actually use the same thing on hanging a painting on the wall. Well, the loop side is the soft side and supposed to be adhering to the back of stuff that you are going to hang on the wall; while the hook side is the sharp and firm side, and should be stick on the wall. Thus, when you hang the stuff on the wall, you just need to make the loop side on the back to kiss the hook side on the wall, and then all done… the huge grip generated by kissing loop and hook makes sure the stuff won’t fall off. What a great invention! And how smart the human being’s brain could be!!!!

Now, I have my beautiful set of Four Season themed water colour paintings securely hanging on the wall. My husband bought them in Zhou Zhuang many years ago. I love the artist Xiao Xue’s style very much, but I have never got a chance to frame them. Now, I am even thinking of getting some wooden frames for them around the Xmas time, because I don’t have to worry them falling off any more. The problem has been solved without punching nails or leaving ugly holes in the wall. Wow, this invention is so adorable!!!!!

My husband is getting a bit funny after he realised the same fact. He started to look for all the possible things at home that could be hung on the wall. How about dishwashing gloves? How about white board? How about apron? How about duster? How about skewer? How about coffee mug? How about speakers? How about microwave oven? How about wash machine? How about refrigerator? How about television? How about…..? Oh, man, your imagination is just getting too much, okay? :-) You gotta stop it.

But, how about our bodies? We can adhere ourselves on the wall when we are sleeping, can we? :-)

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Eating Grass

November 26, 2006 at 5:15 am · Filed under Food & Cusine

My family and people know me probably thought I am a meat lover. I won’t argue on that, but today after I’ve done the food shopping in Fyshwick and tried to pack the things I bought in to the rear trunk of the car, I realised that this might be not a truth any more.

Look at what I have bought? The whole three bags of green grass, one bunch of big bok Choy, 2 bunches of small bok choy, a bunch of English spinach, one kilo cucumbers, 5 Chinese white radishes, half coleslaw, one bag of green beans, one bunch of shallot and one big celery. There is no other colour except green, green and green. What am I doing? Love eating the grass like a sheep or cow? Oh, I am not sure about that yet. But why I buy so large amount of green vegetable all the time? I don’t know. They look so fresh, and they are cheap. They are also something I always have no problem to cook with every day. I might not feel like eating meat on some days, but I need them for every meal of us. Also, my husband is a big vegetable eater.

The situation has changed a lot. Now we eat very limited amount of meat at dinner time, normally just a piece of lamb chop, but we cook 2 to 3 dishes of vegetable. The lunch time in the next day would be only veg and rice but nothing else. I still love meat, but not as much as I craved for them in the past. I think I just have passed the point that I can enjoy the meat no matter what time. Sometimes I feel very resistant to meat; sometimes I feel like to have one kilo of them at one meal. But half hour later, I would start to feel sick and very uncomfortable in the stomach, and then I got regretted for what I did. Does it mean my eating habit just change to a much healthier one? Or, my body is just too old for taking meat?

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Domino Pizza for Dinner

November 25, 2006 at 8:05 am · Filed under Food & Cusine

I’ve been asking for ordering some pizza since this Wednesday, and I finally made it happen yesterday evening after I got back from work. We ordered one Aussie Bob and one El Scorcho. El Scorcho is a bit hot with jalapeno chillies while Aussie Bob is just something I never tried, so I wanted to take it. Queanbeyan has a Donimo’s front shop in the CBD, so we decided to pick up ourselves.

It’s been quite a while we didn’t do that as we both reckon pizza is way too far from a healthy living style. Also I have never pick up a pizza in the shop before, so when I got in, I was very surprised to see so many people in the line waiting and the little LCD screen on the wall showing that my order is still in the oven and will be ready in one minute. I saw a bunch of school aged girls and boys working in front of ovens and sweating a lot. There was no air conditioning and the shop has very big wide glass windows facing the street, which makes it more like a sun room. Almost every staff in there had a flush on the face. Half minute later, a guy took the pizza off the oven, cut them within no more than 2 seconds, and then handed over to me. I guess I was in the right place and at the right time :-) But wow….they are supposed to study in the college or uni, aren’t they? Very hard working kids but why they dropped off the school and chose to do this as a starting point of their careers?

We had pizza at home with some soup and cold dishes I made. We ate them in alternative turns of one piece of Aussie Bob and one piece of El Scorcho. At the end, we transferred the dinner table to the coffee table and watching the Telie. Isn’t this typical way how fat people gain on their weight? Hehe….just one time thing, okay? Don’t be too serious. I ate the last piece of pizza in the box, feeling too full to move my body :-) How many calories? I say more than 2000 :-)

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