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Well, it is always difficult for me to blog if I can only blog using the laptop. I used to go weeks without using my laptop. Instead, I used my Palm everyday for studies, surfing for the latest news, reading e-books and even updating my blogs. In fact, I got to know colafish initially because of my trusty Palm Tungsten C, yahoo IM-ing via Mundu. Well, now I'm back on my Tungsten C, and posting using it!

Talking about gadgets and geek toys, today, I just saw a cool phone offer. $19/month of phone, 2 year contract, and I will have a free 3G phone AND a free Nintendo Wii with one free game! I think that is fantastic! Looking online, the Wii is selling for AUD370+. On ebay, the lowest auction price is AUD250+! Guess we will be getting a new toy soon! At the same time, I'll hopefully be saving some money by reducing my month cellphone to AUD19 (+100 free sms).

Colafish, meanwhile, is just waiting for dance dance revolution for it :).

    Before knowing my AMC part 1 result, whenever we go out shopping, i would tell hubby i'd buy this and that if i pass. it is the colafish logic : if i don't have to repeat the exam, i would save us AS$1800, and hence, it is OK to get me some present for passing the exam, and also saving us some dollars. Well, you're right, i'm just making it up for my own silly selfish craves.. i've been dreaming on this..(not the hand)

And also a pair of boots (idea from Shrek), and a microscope (preferably w connection to computer), a pair of golf glove for hubby, more sea weed, etc etc.

    One fateful morning, the Postman finally came. I got my ticket to Shop.
    On the shopping day, it was very very cold. My stomach won over my mind, and swedish meat balls filled our minds. So we ended up in Ikea.
    we got this
the most complicated thing to assemble in this house so far. Took us nearly 1 hour!
and this

cheap and easy to use!
and when hubby was looking at it, i was asking him kindly if he still have space on his desk for it. This shrewd guy did not tell me he's fixing it next to his side of bed!! fine. i have mine too.
how pathetic. i thought this was my shopping spree…

    Life is so unpredictable!

    By the way, all my belongings has arrived safely!

and my precious fish too (sis bought it for me with her 1st ever salary)! though squashed into cute square shape..

    It's so cold in Adelaide now. It's so cold that the oil in the soup will turn into solid fat in few hours, and your pee turn into ice stick before reaching the bottom of the toilet.. no, i was just joking. But it's really cold alright. Almost every night is below 5'C. Our little 'hut' is definitely not made for this kind of weather.

    It was so cold one night that i have to climb into our ' Teppanyaki' bed before bed time (i.e. bed with electric blanket turned up to the max. Sometimes i think if my body lotion is teriyaki flavour, i can be a really nice japanese dish :D). While i was shivering in bed waiting to be ' defroze' , i felt like i was the little match girl in Hans Anderson's 'the Little Match Girl'. So i started telling hubby the story of 'the little match girl'…it's such a sad story (not sure if it's the story line or my excellent story telling skill), i could see tears welling up in his eyes.., then i forced another sad story down his ears - Oscar Wilde's ' Happy prince', then another one ' Ugly duckling', which the ending was modified as the poor duckling ended in the roast duck shop in china town, and ' Thumbelina' who ended up having her thumb amputated when working in a factory in Cambodia, and ' The mermaid'  whose fish tail after swapping was the 'steam fish' dinner for the witch…

    Now, whenever i start to tell a story, hubby will run away so fast or have his fingers in ears..
 
    I forgot how i felt when i read these stories as a child. I just remember that i'm not particularly fond of these stories. i always prefer one with happy ending, and still do now. These stories meant a whole lot different now when one has experianced death, and other sadness in life.. 

    I'm sure these stories did not immunised me from the sadness and the cruelty of the world.

Heh. It's good to be married they say… I'm well-fed, I'm enjoying my time with colafish, there's always some time for fun as well…

But work doesn't seem to pause. Every day, I still feel like I'm fire-fighting, with no time to read the many books JC the Matchmaker has matchmade me with :).

Colafish's off to some Korean acupuncture/alternative med stuff. Meanwhile I went to my hospital instead to collect more data to complete my audit assignment. Bleh. It's just such a nightmare trying to write it up. I don't like writing. Wish I could be there with her learning some alternative medicine too!

On a happier note, we've received all 10 boxes we shipped via sea mail from Malaysia. I think I can vouch for the safety of shipping via sea mail, and hey, it's certainly not the 3 months they scare you with!

Also, I managed to spend some time with a church member and toyed with the innards of little red riding hood (the nickname colafish gave the car). Gave it an oil change, engine oil filter change, filled up the power steering fluids (which was near empty), flushed the engine coolant and replaced it. Pretty cool. Next little thing to do is to install the alarm system and central locking.

More updates in the future… when I'm not struggling to just keep afloat. Maybe then I'll share about my Windows Mobile device (yes, I've got GPS software on it now, and it's sweet!), and Palm device — and how I make the most of them

68 / 575 !!
not bad eh. that's almost the top 10%…
68 on June 18….???????haha.

This is only a test pic…aftermath of CD player thief, several months ago.
Will send boy boy's pic ,next attempt.

    A complete dissapointment :(  Despite the right junkfood this time (sea weed of course). We got SALTY POPCORNS for Pirates of the Carribean 3! Popcorns with just salt and not the yummy caramel?! And according to hubby, it was extra salty that day. I could totally understand how the pirates were feeling when they're out of water/rum.

    Anyway, back to Shrek3. The story line was weak, the jokes were weary, and it was just not as funny as Shrek 1 and 2.
    I totally agree with this guy ….

Finally… after 3 years of living without a car… we've got a car now in Australia!

It's amazing how old cars in Australia get. Having come from countries such as USA and Malaysia, I expected to get a decent car for around AUD$4,000. New cars are actually much cheaper here than in Malaysia. But then… what I managed to get in the end is just a simple Toyota Corolla 1991 (Nov), Auto, 4-door sedan with low mileage. We're very happy with the first car we own together though :).

Life's been good in all other ways too. Money is a bit tight, but we've been rather thrifty. colafish's been cooking and feeding me lots of good food :). Maybe she is thinking of fattening me up so I look like one of those sitting buddhas… Hahaha.

Looks like colafish has been updating the journal quite a bit. I feel too for her friend, and truly wish the best for her and her family.

Ok, more to come soon… bumblebee bumbles away!

    In the midst of doing her PhD in a highly competitive country, breaking her head trying to get some breakthrough in research, having a mother with terminal cancer and complications from treatment who's 200miles away,  down with flu, and told by doctors that her first and only 6-moth-old niece has 50% of brain damage very recently.

    How can one have so much in her plate at one time.

    For the past 1 year, she has been so worn out, trying to travel 200 miles almost every alternate weekend to take care of her mother, taking leaves at times, and work extra hard after that to compensate for her absence. There were many nights when i called her up she was still in her lab..She has stacks of story books that she always wanted to read but have no time to, and so many film festivals missed. she takes it with grace.

    Now, the cute chubby 6 month old niece, who was perfectly well and develop normally before, found lethargic and floppy few days back while under baby sitter's care. Her eyes are no longer focus, and had what i suspected was status epilepticus, which qualified her for ICU. She was told by her sister that the doctor was telling them the MRI showed 50% of brain damage..Her sister and brother in law are broken hearted, worried and lost. So is my bestest and closest friend.

    It was all picture-perfect not long ago. A nice loving young couple, doing well at work, with a new house and the first baby. Then the cancer. Everyone are trying hard to cope, and then this.

    I had a shudder thinking of what will happen to this baby, her prognosis and the impact to the family. I wish the doctor handling this will be kind to them. I wish i was there for them, i wish i can do more. More than just praying for her and her family and the baby.

   She asked me why. I just hope she takes care of herself and hang in there. Be strong. My heart ache for her.
  
    I wish she would open the bible.

    I really love to eat seaweed. It all started when i was about 10, when Jaya Jusco first made its appearance in Melaka. There's a section on Japanese food. I started to like the traditional Japanese seaweed tidbits - they type where the seaweed is cut into a thin 2inches x 4 inches. crispy with some flavouring. It was so yummy that i would always buy a HUGE pack and eat them all by myself.

   When i was in Uni, the korean stone grill seaweed made it into the market. it's more crispy, with sesami seed oir and some salt, i immediately fall in love with it. It was so yummy i thought that was the best a seaweed can be.

   Yesterday, we went to do grocery shopping at  the Chinatown. I saw this Thailand made Tom Yum flavour seaweend snack. We decided to give it a try despite the price is on the high side, AS$2.50 (it's expansive as most of the groceries that we bought will  not cost more than AS$4).
And MAMAMIA! it was so finger-licking-yummy-licious. Even hubby with pseudo-(self proclaimed)-gourmet tongue finds it good and irresistable.

    Hubby was thinking of bringing it to our bible study group tonight, but it just won't last that long when just the 2 of us at home, ie the seaweed and me. Din't even get to take the picture of how the seaweed looks like as my hands were too busy travelling between the packet and my mouth till it was empty.:(