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How Wide is 44 Inches Really?

2008-08-19T06:33:34+08:00

I am now 44 inches wide. That is the same width as a high end LCD TV.

But how WIDE is 44 inches really??

My aunt and I do a comparison...

It's all in the perspective really.....

No Olympics for me...

2008-08-12T19:32:51+08:00

No Olympics for me.... and not because of any political reasons. I actually REALLY want to cheer the home team on.....

http://www.macworld.com/article/134935/2008/08/olympics.html

I hate AT&T and Microsoft. I hope they get sued for being a monopoly again.

Scheduled C Sections for 080808

2008-08-09T11:03:16+08:00

China

I am amazed what people fuss over when they are expecting a baby. As if there wasn't enough to do....

Chinese couples hoping for lucky birth on 08/08/08 - News and Features, Olympics - The Independent

Source: www.independent.co.uk

In Beijing's main maternity hospital, there is an even more expectant air than usual. All of the 200 beds in the wards are full, and of the scores of soon-to-be mothers, most have scheduled a Caesarean section to ensure that most auspicious and treasured of babies – an Olympic baby.

11 People For Baby..plus some green points.

2008-08-06T05:30:20+08:00

Mummyhood.

Today must be one of the busiest days we have had in a long time in regards to home. At 7:30 am four painters arrived, at 7:45 am the floor person, with his daughter in tow, followed by the contractor who took away the old wood frames from our salvage doors and wood. Followed by our cleaning lady who brought a her friend because she wanted to get out early, then the electrician. People are coming going and the house looks increasingly different by the minute.

First the dowdy ex-bedroom suddenly looks bright and clean with all the cracks and holes patched up, then the floor is placed in, looking as if the room is close to finish. The bathroom is now transforming from a strange form of brown and yellow into a mint green. And of course the kitchen looks sparkling. Within a few days the air con will be running and we will have lights in the new room as well as some outside. The closet is reorganized to take account of baby things. The stroller/pram is put together, and once the house is painted and we have moved the old bedroom into the new bedroom then the baby furniture can go into the study.

I finally settled on cotton balls for all three rooms. It was quite distressing to realize that I didn't like devonshire cream for the living room AFTER the painters arrived, and we were still trying to figure what's best after five colors tries.

And with all the construction, one of the nicest things is we have tried and made the house a bit more green. (To be cont)

Freedom in China: Two Views

2008-08-05T16:08:26+08:00

China

http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/thereporters/jamesreynolds/2008/08/freedom_in_china.html

Angry Youths, Hidden China, The resentful Dragon.

2008-08-04T16:41:50+08:00

China

http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2008/07/28/080728fa_fact_osnos

http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2008/aug/03/china.olympicgames2008

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1040791/The-resentful-dragon-Beneath-smiles-China-remembers-humiliations-suffered-Western-hands.html

It's True, I am using Cloth Diapers..

2008-08-04T16:28:27+08:00

Mummyhood

People think I am nuts but I decided on cloth diapers with a diaper service. I love the fact they feel good, are nice to the environment, cheaper and most of all come to the door step every week and I don't have to do diaper runs to supermarkets I don't go to.

http://www.mothering.com/articles/new_baby/diapers/joy-of-cloth.html

Olympics, Tianamen Square Massacre and Yahoo

2008-08-04T16:24:35+08:00

China

http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2008/aug/04/yahoo.olympicgames2008

Japanese Tasting Friend Chicken Steak

2008-07-29T10:36:12+08:00

Eat

I had some chicken and ginger ale left over, so I thought I would try this and see if it would work...

Marinate Chicken breasts in Soy Sauce and some sort of soft drink (7 up, I used ginger ale this time), garlic and ginger.

Put over night or a few hours...Take out of marinade and cover with corn starch on a plate.

Put a few table spoons of olive oil and make it hot (!!)

Fry until golden brown, and then flip,

Turn heat down, and make sure it's cooked all the way through.

Yummi....

(Happy it worked)

Up Again

2008-07-18T18:00:28+08:00

Just a grrl

Up again. This is something that happens during pregnancy. When one is calm and relaxed, the baby moves a lot. While one is busy with the day, the baby is lulled into sleep as mummy is rocking him or her. I should have known this will happen as today I hardly felt the baby move, which means baby will be awake longer in the middle of the might. To think I feel worried earlier. Pieter laughs as everyday I feel the baby is moving less and I feel worried. But I do know baby has moved less than before. No more wild kicks and turns. I read this is because he or she is getting larger and there is not a lot of space to play in.

I am tired. I would really like to sleep. Tonight is extra tiring as I did not nap. Sometimes I nap. But I was busy with paper work, and so I stayed up through the afternoon. Now I feel slightly hungry, so I might have to make something to eat. Pieter says that I have a whole different second life. He goes to bed and I stay up, I write to my friends, I talk to my mum on skype, I am on the phone to New Zealand, Dubai, Oman, Australia and Messenger friends in HK. I play on the internet, I read, I do things around the house. All the while he sleeps and has no idea. I baked shortbread once early in the pregnancy. He woke up with little biscuits sitting on a cooing rack. He laughed so hard. He found me asleep on the couch as well, as sometimes sleeping somewhere else helps. I had a week or two of great sleep in the bed. Maybe it's time to move to the studio downstairs and sleep on the fold out mattress because it suddenly feels comfortable. Sometimes a hard bed is better, sometimes the soft one is.

Pregnancy makes one's needs and wants skew to whatever it is, it's a little like food cravings except I call it "life style cravings." One day I decided i didn't like body gel anymore, I wanted soap. But I wanted something that was really foamy, but had no scent. I walked around silver lake for a few hours looking for soap. I was shopping, but I kept looking for the "right" soap, until i came across a tomato one. It worked well. I was happy and ever since then I have used soap. Don't ask. It makes no sense, but Pieter and I are so used to strange needs and wants that make no sense we don't even give it a second thought. Sometimes I want oranges, others mellon and chocolate milk, sometimes I am happy and sometimes I am sad. One day I feel like everything is under control, the next, I do not. In fact, let me take that back. Sometimes I feel all those things within hours of…