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December 2002
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God Jul!
That's Merry Christmas in Swedish. Last nite we had a nice turkey dinner and we just had leftover turkey sandwiches for lunch.This year i didn't get many presents, a beanie from my brother, a few bars of chocolate, a pen, a couple of CDs, but saving the best for last, i received a 10 GB iPod. Something I have longed for for a long time.... more »
unseasonal greetings
hmm, yesterday i received in my email a greeting card, not just any greeting card but one from my own eCards section of my site. Thing is, the only card i have there is the one i designed for Merdeka Day, so it was doubly amusing. Thanks Stephanie, whoever you are, for the not so subtle hint that i have neglected to put up christmas... more »
Christmas Eve
T'was the day before christmas and nothing was stirring, not even a mouse, well... not yet anyway. I'm sure later this afternoon everybody will be running up and down and rushing for this and that in preparation for our annual christmas dinner at home. A small family do but still involves a lot of work, esp for Mom. Thanks Mom!... more »
4 Days to Christmas
AAAaarghh.. It's happening so fast. Four more days, and i still haven't finished Christmas shopping yet. I went down to KL with my mom on Thursday to do some shopping, but I had some errands to run so half the day was spent, and i didn't buy much in the remainder of the day.We haven't even put up the Christmas tree in our house yet,... more »
Frugal Google
Google is now beta testing a online shopping search engine called Froogle (damn i love that name). It shows your search results with prices from diffrerent retailers, an image, a brief description and a link to the online retailer. How useful it is for us living outside of the United States of America is still yet to be seen. Many online retailers still do not... more »
Free photos
Here's a useful site that I saw mentioned in a magazine. FreeFoto is a site where you can download and use royalty-free photographs for any non-commercial and personal use. Good for students looking for images for their projects but too lazy :) to take their own. They've got photos categorized in many, many categories and is relatively easy to search and preview them b4 downloading... more »
Dazed and confused
Got back from Penang at 2am last night. Phew what an experience. We Left Ipoh around 5pm but got caught at a massive traffic jam at the penang bridge for almost 2 hours. We thought we'd have time for dinner but because of the unexpected delay we only just made it for the show at 8pm. Because we didn't have dinner, my gastric reflux started... more »
Blue no more
Just got back from the hairdresser for a haircut. The last of my blue hair is all gone now.. back to normal boring Jon. :D Going to Penang later this afternoon to catch tonight's performance of Madame Butterfly there.. i probably should take a nap to catch up on last night's lack of sleep.... more »
insomnia
this sucks. i can't sleep. had coffee during supper and here i am posting at 5:30 am. My caffeine tolerance level has really gone to the pits.. i can't even take coca-cola during dinnertime, not to mention brewed coffee at 11pm. I'm having a splitting headache, don't know if it's the effect of the caffeine or the lack of sleep. Maybe both. On the bright(er)... more »
Moving, among other things
Phew! What a day! This morning, correction, YESTERDAY morning, I was busy packing up, not just stuff for a trip, but essentially moving out of my residence in Kelana Jaya to come back to my hometown, Ipoh. Well what's happening is that come of Colin (my brother)'s friends will be moving in January and since i've quit my job so they are going to move... more »
My New Computer
On 27th of November, I bought myself a new PC, comprising of the cool, tiny Shuttle XPC SS51G casing pictured. It's what's called a barebones system, comes with just the aluminium casing, power supply and motherboard. I topped it up with a Pentium 4(A) 1.8 Ghz processor, 256 MB of DDR333 RAM, 80 GB Western Digital (8MB cache) Hard Drive, Lite-On 16X DVD-ROM and... more »
Monday Blues
urk... Mundane Monday... especially worse when it's the monday after a long holiday weekend. Back to work. Back to work.... more »
Blog migration complete
ah... finally transferred all my posts from Blogger to MT. I had already installed MT on my server prior to this for my brother for use on his site, colinpoh.com, so it was not a really big deal. I just followed the instructions on exporting my existing blog into a format readable by MT and imported it in.. easy.... more »
Alive again!
wow... it's been some time since my last posting. Christmas is just around the corner and I've heard of some problems with blogger lately so i'm considering moving this blog onto Movable Type soon. Will keep u updated on the progress of that. Meanwhile if you're a current or ex-EDM student, please check out the EDMers Forum and the discussion on revamping the main site.... more »