Monthly Archives: August 2008

Love Your Momma

Posted on August 31, 2008 by Holankia| Leave a comment

Been rushing for the past few days to complete another site. So that was pretty much the reason less updates here even if I wanted to. But life goes on, and hope all goes well

Funny thing is that I thought I posted this post already, but dunno why it never got published and the worst part is that I had to retype the whole thing. -_-” Anyway, currently revamping this site. So hopefully will get it done by today

For the past few weeks, Deluxe has been pretty much complaining about her back aches, as well as pain on her wrist as well. Feel sorry for her, because she has to go through all this and only left another 2 more months to go before the baby comes out. So we’re still counting down the time, and hopefully she would go through natural delivery.

After seeing her go through all this pain in real life, I was wondering how my mom actually had to carry me for whole 9 months. Imagine the pain and suffering she has to go through, and not to mention during the actual giving birth session. Oh well. Probably that’s why mom are so attached to their children, which pretty much explains why men will never understand anything what women goes through. Lol..

When we found out that Deluxe was actually pregnant she was very tired and also very cold that time. From what I understand is that, there are some changes in her body. Because she told me she never feel anything like that, which at first I thought she wasn’t feeling that well. But when we went to the doctor and had her check up, the doc said that she was pregnant. Yes the joy and excitement when we found out that we would be starting a family soon.

But it wasn’t easy for Deluxe at the beginning. She tend to vomit most of the time, and also sleep a lot. She could sleep the whole day and when she completed her lunch or dinner she can go back to sleep again. So she felt a bit lousy in the beginning, plus everything suddenly changed where a lot of things needed to be done as well. Can’t really help much for her morning sickness, but a few friends of mine did encourage me to try and get small meals in between. Not to leave her empty stomach which could also contribute to the morning sickness.

After 2 months, Deluxe was back to normal. She wasn’t really showing much only when we arrived the 5th month then we pretty much start noticing that her tummy began to grew. Every month we would head over to the gynecologist, just to check out that the baby was all right. And we managed to find out that we would be getting a girl, but everyone who saw Deluxe’s tummy said we would be getting a boy. But we just went for another scan yesterday and confirm it’s a girl! Lol. Anyway, Deluxe is really having a hard time adjusting now not to mention the her water retention pretty much kept her in pain. And also she finds it difficult to sit very long, and she tends to feel pain especially on her wrist as well. So a lot of “Koyok” and massage does relieve a little bit of pain for her.

She’s now in her 33rd week, and everything is good so far. Apart from the baby which is still in breech position. Hopefully the baby would turn in time, as Deluxe does not like the idea of having cesarean, but rather would like it to have natural birth. So that’s pretty much of our concern as well. Anyway, after seeing her going through all this pain everyday. It really made me wonder how my mom used to carry me around during those 9 months. Yes, 9 months is a very, very long time. Not to mention the labor pain that pretty much stays for like hours. That’s why no matter how bad a person be, their momma would always love them. Lesson for the day? Love your momma, and try not to break her heart.

When Mama Prayed

Daddy never went to church on Sunday
He said that’s one thing I’ll never do
But mama never gave up she said one day
He’ll be sitting here beside of me and you
I can still hear mama softly talking
With her tears falling on her folded hands
So that Easter Sunday Daddy walked in
That’s when I began to understand

When mama prayed, good things happen
When mama prayed, lives were changed
Not much more than five foot tall
But mountains big and small crumbled all away
When mama prayed

Seventeen and wild I hit the bottle
Doing anything I dang well please
Burning down life’s highway at full throttle
While mama burned a candle on her knees
Then one night I came home half sober
I saw mama kneeling in the den
As I listened she and Jesus talked it over
And I knew my restless days were ’bout to end

When mama prayed, good things happen
When mama prayed, lives were changed
Not much more than five foot tall
But mountains big and small crumbled all away
When mama prayed

It isn’t like every one of them got answered
But the times they weren’t it seems to me were rare
You almost felt sorry for the devil
‘Cause heaven knows he didn’t have a prayer
When mama prayed

Not much more than five foot tall
But mountains big and small crumbled all away
When mama prayed
They crumbled all away
When mama pray

Continue reading →

→ Leave a comment

Posted in Coffee Break

The Truth About Plastic Bottles

Posted on August 27, 2008 by Holankia| Leave a comment

Dear Friend,

Did you ever drink from a plastic bottle and see a triangle symbol on the bottom
with a number inside?

Do you know what the number stands for?

Did you guess that it’s just for recycling?
Then you are WRONG!!!!!!

THE NUMBER TELLS YOU THE CHEMICAL MAKE UP OF THE PLASTIC …..

1 Polyethylene terephalate (PET)
2 High density polyethylene (HDPE)
3 Unplasticised polyvinyl chloride (UPVC) or Plasticised polyvinyl chloride (PPVC)
4 Low density polyethylene LDPE
5 Polypropylene (PP)
6 Polystyrene (PS) or Expandable polystyrene (EPS)
7 Other, including nylon and acrylic

What you aren’t told is that many of the plastics used are toxic and the chemicals used to create a plastic can leach out of the plastic and into the food / drink.
Think about it, how many times have you or a friend said “I don’t like this, it taste like the plastic bottle ….. “

THAT’S BECAUSE YOU ARE TASTING THE PLASTIC
The WORST ONES are #s: 3, 6, and 7

Check out this chart that breaks down the plastic, its uses and chemical makeup
(I find #7 a little scary)
http://www.epd.gov.hk/epd/english/environmentinhk/waste/guide_ref/guide_plascod3.html

Reusing plastic bottles by refilling them is NOT a good idea. WATCH THE VIDEO:
http://video.wnbc.com/player/?id=238518

Microwaving plastic containers affects the chemical make up of the plastic, allowing the chemical substances to destabilize and leach out more quickly into the food you are reheating. You can check out this article that ran in the Wall Street Journal:
http://www.mindfully.org/Plastic/Microwave-Health-Problems.htm

EVEN one of my favorite “RUMOR DEBUNKING” websites, URBANLEGENDS.ABOUT.COM

Lists the information as: overblown with a grain of TRUTH
READ the FULL 3 pages of the article!
http://urbanlegends.about.com/library/bl-microwave-dioxin.htm

Try to avoid re-using plastic bottles. Take care of yourself family.
Continue reading →

→ Leave a comment

Posted in Tips & Tricks

Diablo 3 & Starcraft 2

Posted on August 16, 2008 by Holankia| Leave a comment

Great I just upgraded my wordpress to 2.6 now 2.6.1 is available -_-” Man, what’s up with wordpress anyway? lol.

Diablo 3 is coming, was pretty excited about it when I read about the preview. I went to the site and was amazed by the video trailer. Woo hoo! I remember back during the days when Diablo 2 as well as it’s Expansion Pack Lord Of Destruction came out, and practically I completed the game don’t know how many times already. Where I remember completing it with my friends as well as my brothers. I think my eldest brother had the best kick out of them, where I remembered he was back in Miri for a holiday and would wake me up in the middle of the night, just after he came back for drinks with his friends. Then we would continue to hack away where we pretty much finish 1 whole game a night, where we ended up playing more difficult once we’ve completed the game.

Probably my favorite character was the sorceress for her kick @ss powers. But playing her you could either choose to focus on fire, ice or lighting. Because by the end of the game, you won’t be able to reach the high level powers. Unless you hack the characters then you could be one hell of a slayer. Apart from that, you probably be in trouble when the monsters come all over you. Basically you pretty much need back up to pretty much help you to make the game more fun and interesting. Anyway, all in all I guess this would mean endless sleepless nights if I were to get hold of this. But most likely I wouldn’t be playing anymore, and probably the baby would be here by then. So I guess I won’t have a chance to play unless it’s during Chinese New Year, where my brothers would be around so I guess we might have another Diablo Marathon

Another game which I’m pretty much excited about is Starcraft 2, I never really did fancy command and conquer where as I find it a bit difficult to play unlike Starcraft or Warcraft 3 Probably this would be the game where Bong and I would probably get hooked on. Unfortunately he didn’t really fance Diablo like I did, but if it’s Warcraft 3 as well as Starcraft it’s pretty much our game. As I remember we played it through Internet while I was here in Kuching. Along with Francis another Warcraft 3 kaki. Lol. But it was good. That time I was still on dial up, because my area in Kuching haven’t support Streamyx yet. Once I’ve managed to get it installed, both Bong & Francis stopped playing for no apparent reason. They seldom came online at night, so I ended up playing alone. Till one day a friend of mine introduced MMORPG to me, so I pretty much turned my back on both of them and went to play MMORPG, thus ended our strategy game era.

Anyway, it was pretty much back in the old days. But for now, whenever I go back to Miri, we don’t really go back to the Cyber Cafe no more. Whereby Bong, Francis & I would pretty much hang out there an hour or two. I still remember the times, when both of them would just love to go against me in a 2 on 1 handicap for Warcraft 3 But I guess it’s fine now. Hehehe. Never the less, it was fun while it lasted. Though I have a Playstation 2, I pretty much stopped playing because not sure what to play as well. So it’s sitting there doing nothing for dunno how many months liaw. Ok.. I guess I’ll stop here for now You guys have a nice weekend.
Continue reading →

→ Leave a comment

Posted in Coffee Break

Im Getting Old

Posted on August 14, 2008 by Holankia| Leave a comment

Yeap.. From the title you prolly could have guessed that I’m tired. Hahaha.. Either that, I seriously need a break. But from what leh? It’s not as if I’m pretty busy from anything, apart from the sudden pop ups of demand in developing websites, but apart from that it’s ok. Not complaining though, it’s better than sitting around doing nothing. Hehehe..

A friend of mine suggested that I’ve been hanging around too much with youth, that could probably be the reason why I feel the way I feel now. Should have asked me to hang out with those uncle and aunty more, then you pretty much would feel young. Lol.. Either that I’m getting the feel of knowing that I’ll be a daddy soon, which could pretty much cause the trigger. Guess life’s like that

Anyway, been wanting to start blogging again for some particular reason, but apparently I couldn’t really find the time to do it. As I’m slightly caught up with work, and by the time I want to blog I feel tired or lazy already. Not sure what else to write. So you must be wondering what the heck am I doing within 24 hours. So here’s actual daily time table. I normally get up about7am or 8am depending on what time I slept the night before. What I do so early you might ask, well. This is the time which I would call it “My time”, where I would practically either catch up on news or watch TV on AXN which is Numb3rs, followed by Early Edition at 8am. After that, about 9 shower, then start off the day by 10am in opening the shop (provided of course I don’t have an appointment at 9am). I used to go for morning walks, but then considering the fact that I get too tired and I don’t really take much photographs now due to the fact I don’t have the time to edit them . Apparently I lost 2kg few months back, but I won’t be surprised if I’ve gained some as well.. Hehehe..

Anyhow, within this time frame from 10am-7pm a lot of things that I would be doing, whereby I would be making calls, if not scratching my head over CSS & php codes while developing a website. And also not to forget going through eBay to see if I’ve sold off anything, plus have to deal with walk in customers. Which sometimes it’s pretty much a pain, whereby you can actually know who are the real buyers, and those who just come in and try to make life miserable. Lol. No seriously, you can actually tell when someone who really wants to come in and buy something, and some not. But anyway, life’s goes on and it’s all good. So basically that’s pretty much about it.

At nite, we would probably have dinner about 7 something plus, and sometimes I still have to make calls within the time frame from 7-9pm. And the worst part of these calls, is that it could drag sometimes to 11 or 12. And if I don’t have practice on Tuesday nites, then probably I would either be calling if not still figuring out how to actually design a site. So most likely I’ll sleep about maybe around 11pm would be the earliest if I’m lucky. And the life cycle goes on.. Hehehe, sometimes I want to watch TV Deluxe would probably remind me to go early to bed as she pretty much know I get up quite early, and would feel tired if I don’t get enough rest. But it’s all good! I love her for that So why not blog during “My Time”? Well, it’s not that I don’t try, but sometimes you just don’t know what to write about. Anyway, you should be reading this if you are born during 1980s. Thanks to Michelle for forwarding this, and it did pretty much make me smile towards the end. Have a nice day!

If you are Msia’s 80s baby,read through this, we grew up watching Transformers,Thundercats,Woody Woodpecker,Chipmunks, Mickey Mouse, Jem,Mask,Ninja Turtles, Voltron, Baja Hitam,Ultraman n not forgettin POWER RANGERS n BUGS BUNNY!!!and anderra yippa mice?:), McGyver ?

had to brush our teeth during recess at primary school? had to hold plastic cups, line up with your classmates side by side and start brushing our teeth at some open area… or maybe near some drain??

do you still remember that we had ‘dentist’ rooms where we had to have our teeth check?

not to forget our ‘program minum susu’ in primary school.. everybody i ssuppose to buy like cartons of milk that cost 30 cents.. and you would see everyone drinking it everyday…its dUHTmilk..

the teachers who would want to punish us must use yellow rulers to hit us on our palms??1 metre length..

that a bowl of mihun soup or some soup only cost 50 cents at the school canteen…

went to some sundry shop near the school or to the ‘roti’ man waiting outside our schools so that we can buy junk foodlike chickedees, mamee, ding dang withsome toys in it, ‘Ti Kam’, ice-cream and we would play games like monopoly, uno,old maid, and all other card games like that…

another fun time would be during Pendidikan Jasmani. the boys would play football while the girls would play netball… and it would be like we were playing in the world cup…

but of course. the best would be main guli, batu seremban, bottlecaps, ice-cream sticks, ‘Pepsi Cola one-two-three’, Cops and Robbers, main kejar-kejar duduk (cu-lup), getah… and for the not so active, those kind of ‘book games’ where we would use buku latihan to draw and ask our friends to play…

do you remember the ice-cream tubes which are actually ice and colouring that are sold for 10to 20 cents.. the colourful ones.. where you usually bite off the top to glup it down.orange tastes best..(pop-ice)

what about days when we felt like doing naughty things such as folding papers so small to make ‘lastik’ and shoot each other… how about throwing chalks??

back then, micheal jackson was just turning white (this was hilarious, I almost fell off when I read this).. and still had albums coming out..compared to CD’s, we were listening to tapes that sold for RM9.90…

in computer class, we were still using black and white computer monitors..played ‘Atari’… maybe SEGA or NINTENDO..

well, are we all getting older or what?

1)if you understand what you have read and you are smiling…
2) we have friends from school that are already married…
3) we shake our heads every time we see high school students fussing about their hand phones in school..
4) we don’t hang on phone with our friends for hours a day talking about nothing…
5) when we meet back with our friends from time to time, we feel excited and happy talking about old times, the funny ‘adventures’ or stories that we experienced as a kid..
6) last but not least, that when you read this,you would think of all the happy & sad memories that you have experienced when you were still a kid and would think of forwarding this to your old friends that you have known since forever… i’m sure they would have a huge smile on their face after reading this…..

p.s: if u feel u’re one of them who experinced this, repost this to share it wif ur frens…
Continue reading →

→ Leave a comment

Posted in Daily Ramblings

BLack Out IN Sarawak

Posted on August 9, 2008 by Holankia| 1 Comment

Taken from The Star
MIRI: A state-wide power cut in Sarawak on Saturday evening saw the blackout affect more than two million people over a distance of 1,000km from Kuching to Miri.

Cities and towns in the state were plunged into total darkness causing massive chaos as everybody was caught by surprise.

The power failure started in Kuching at about 6.30pm Saturday and rapidly spread northward to Sibu then to Miri by 7.30pm.

I was doing halfway of my work when the whole thing happened. Apparently what happened was that, I could see lights slowly dimming and I quickly save before my laptop went black out.. Yup, my battery doesn’t last long anymore, once the power cut off that goes for my laptop as well…

After we close the shop, we went to Hong Kong Noodles at Padungan to have our dinner.. Apparently they managed to make it into a candle light dinner environment. But there were a lot of people trying to get into the sundry shop to purchase stuff. The owner had to held their torch lights to the customer to make sure they really purchase stuff. While eating halfway, the lights came back on. So after we completed our dinner we went over to Parkson to help Deluxe get her membership card from BaiBoo which actually turned into something else.. Oh well, something is better than nothing..

Then we were thinking of getting waffles from Magic Bite, when the black out strikes again. That was about 8:15pm, then we decided to head back. We were pretty much got stuck in the traffic due to the traffic lights were out. Thus everyone was not giving way to anyone. Oh well, everyone wants to get back home soon I guess.. After dropping both Deluxe and mum in law, I went and park the car. On the way back I was talking to the guy who was selling gambir before the electricity came back on again.. Hopefully it will not die out again. Lol, if not I don’t know how to sleep.. Hahaha.

But it was pretty cool in a way because the whole town was pitch black while I was parking the car. Then something came up, which for a very long time I haven’t seen in ages. Have a nice day.