Archive for March, 2010

hawker centre

Melbourne food and wine festival

“Food is heaven to a peasant” is a famous Chinese saying I have heard a few times and I agree totally with my wallet and my belly. 

The Melbourne Food and Wine Festival is starting today 12-March to 23-March.  Visit this website for more information.

During this special time in Victoria, visitors More >

tatty teddy friends always

I am sorry friend

K Rudd the Australian prime minister apologised for the stolen generation. G Brown the UK prime minister apologised for their role in the children migration scandal.

Look likes it’s OK to say sorry now.  I might as well say sorry too.

My friend Ken’s dog has to be put to sleep yesterday More >

wii-guns

Deadly Wii accident

Cracked television plasma or LCD?  Kids got whacked by swinging controllers?  Damaged ceiling? I am afraid it is none of the above.

On the news today, a 3 year-old girl has been killed accidentally in the US after picking a real gun, triggering it and shooting herself in the abdomen.  She More >

flooder office

Flooded office

Remember the freak storm a few days ago here in Melbourne. Not only was my rumpus room affected, my office was also flooded, big time! Check out the following picture. It was taken by one of the shift worker on Saturday.

Amazing waterfall feature in the office.

The site facility’s manager, More >

adsl cable

Internet dropouts

We are connected to the internet via ADSL2+. Lately the connection has been dropping out frequently and intermittently. How frustrating!

This issue started happening 3 weeks ago. When it first started, the modem would lose connections frequently, every few minutes at really bad times. VOIP and internet connections were up and More >

sad face

Life is too short!

Can we expect to live till 70+ if we are healthy? Maybe not!

Recent events such as the Haiti and Chile earthquakes have claimed thousand of lives. Families and friends are affected in a big way, however we always bounce back and it never cease to amaze me – human perseverance More >

What are you doing COACH?!

Another week of basketball games have passed… Another week of controversy!

Last night, we went to Ringwood to watch Justin played. He ran a lot and did a few unselfish passes. The game was fun and entertaining to watch. The coach was encouraging, not yelling and screaming… We are so happy More >

wooden cash register

Learn with wooden toys

Jadon, my youngest son has always been interested in pretend play toys since he started walking. He is a tidy, creative and meticulous boy and I am totally the opposite. When I was young, all we have were sticks and rocks. That explains why I am who I am. Not good More >

Me To You Bears

T.O.Y

I was browsing on the internet and happened to come across a blog called T.O.Y “Thinking of You”.

What a good and meaningful acronym!

I can use T.O.Y on the missus after work today. She sure will be surprised and love my thoughtfulness, hehehe. On the other hand, she might also be More >

Stop playing PS3

Do NOT play your PS3!

That’s what I normally tell my kids when they have been on the PS3 for too long.

However this is what Sony is advising PS3 owners. Do not play for a while until they fix a bug/problem with the clock in the system.

All PS3 consoles other than the slim model are More >