Agnes awarded me a cool badge. Thank you for this, you don’t have to. I believe all mothers’ blogger should have one of these. As we share our children’s journal, we are building a community of information sharing. It is very helpful to any new mothers on board.

I kind of like the animation that Agnes put on that post. I have more that show my feelings for receiving this reward. The animation noseless bunny is called Tzuki created by Wang Momo.

Lastly with this, I have the power to award a few more bloggers. Hehehehe. I award it to:

Jess – Admire her because she can sew pretty dresses and one day, like to take remote classes from her.
Hui Sia – Delivered a baby boy Elijah all by herself in the hospital, of coz.
Sharine – She can make very nice scrapbooking by hand.

I don’t like to take medicine unless I really need it. Most often I don’t. No panadol as I heard panadol residue will be contain in your liver for some time. No antibiotic. I hate swallowing those weird color capsules. No cough medicine unless I been coughing for over a week or 2, which I seldom do. Trick, drink lots of water, eat lots of vege and fruits. I will let my immune system fight the germs. I do take supplements especially when I am week but not all the time.

Yesterday I was having a fever, I used my children’s thermo scan, it was 38.2. In the morning while I was carrying Emily over to my babysitter, I was feeling my heart beating really fast. At that time, I had no fever.

When I reach the office, I felt shivering all over. I took a cup of hot milo to warm me up. I had to attend a couple of morning meetings. I was feeling tired nearing lunch. I went home to take a short nap, it help a little. At 4pm, the fever developed and my head was drifting. I called my hubby who works upstairs to take me home.

When I reached home, I told my hubby that I was not feeling well, please take care of the children. I went to sleep and didn’t take my dinner. I slept until I heard 2 screaming children outside. Sigh. I went over to cool them down and took Emily to sleep in a separate room with me. Both were happy and I am happy.

I woke up still feeling lethargic, muscles aching but fever went away.

Finally after 3 years, I have moved my blog from version 1.5.2 to 2.2.1. I was so used to the editor in 1.5.2 that I was reluctant to move. The editor is a simple form of text and code input where I can write code on it without any hassle. The new version restricts or mess up my codes.

However as time goes on a lot of new plugins do not work for legacy versions. I had to do something before my blog turn into antic and cannot be upgraded.

The process of upgrading a legacy blog is tedious. First I need to export the entire blog into xml format. The first extraction was 16MB and my host can only take 2MB. :wall: I learn that I had to delete some spam comments from my database. After deletion, it shrinks to 4MB. Not bad eh, still not good enough. I had to split the files into 2MB each.

Second roadblock, after I imported the post over, my PPP post have to be renumbered to match with what I submitted to PPP. I had to twitch the database to do that. Nothing complicated.

Third step, copy the links over using the database export and import.

Last step, the easiest, that is to copy the template by copying the template folder to the new blog.

All in a days work. Sorry for the technical boring post but it is an achievement for me. It feels good to successfully tackle roadblocks. I hope with this new version, you won’t face TCPIP or network error. If you do, sorry it is my host server fault.

Chinnee tag me on this Vain Tag. I took the quiz and I am happy with what I got. Total reflection of what I am. I am slightly vain, only 24% and I thought I didn’t have vain blood in my body.

You Are 24% Vain

Okay, so you’re slightly vain from time to time, but you’re not superficial at all. You are realistic. You know that looks matter. You just try to make them matter less.

Next I am to announce my 7 Vanity Sense which is going to difficult. Hrmmm….

1. I bought a lot of nail polish from US, it is dirt cheap only 99 cents per bottle. They are all sitting in my cupboard collecting dust. I gave 80% away.

2. *check dictionary for the meaning of vain, just double confirm*

3. I like to take the hotel toiletries home when I am traveling. If I am staying in the hotel for 5 days, I will take 5 sets home. They are kept nicely in a box.

4. *peep at other people vanity tag post and see whether I can leverage to finish this tag*

5. I never dye my hair because I hate the smell and the long wait. I did straighten my hair once and vow never to do it again. I hate the smell.

6. I want to gain weight, at least 2 more kg.

7. I bought a COACH handbag, must have COACH written all over.

I am in London now. I am very fortunate and I tell you why. Few weeks before I left for Scotland, I had planned to go to Paris and London. However I don’t know anyone in Paris or London. Oh well, I thought I plan for an ad hoc trip as I didn’t know my project schedule in Scotland. By the way, nothing is cheap here, hotel can cost up to more than 100 pounds. Believe me I did a lot of Google searches.

A few days before I left, my best friend, didn’t see her for like 13 years when I left Australia after my studies. I knew her when we were in secondary school and later she migrated to Sydney where I was in University. Anyway, she sent email to me and her friends updating us of her latest news. I notice his brother was in London. My prayers were answered. Thanks to him and his wife, they offered me a place to stay. Paris didn’t happen. I need to book in advance if I want cheap deals.

3 strikes to my camera trouble. 😥

Strike 1

While I was in Scotland, I visited Glasgow, very beautiful city on one of the Sunday. I will upload the pictures later when I return. While I was snapping away with my digital camera, my 1G card shouted “Memory Full”. What? There was only less than 100 pictures in there, it can’t be. I missed out on some good shots due to memory full. I had to reformat the card after I download my pictures, it returns back to normal.

Strike 2

I did some city tour in Edinburgh also on Sunday and my camera ran out of battery. Sigh.

Strike 3.

Last Monday, while I flew from Edinburgh to London, I saw a nice view up the air and guess what happen to my camera? Sigh, it was no where to be found. I remembered I packed it but it is not there. I am not even sure where I misplaced it. Isn’t it frustrated? London has so many beautiful sceneries that I need to capture. Anyway you cannot believe what I did. Nope, I didn’t get a new digital camera in pounds. No way. I tell ya later if the pictures turn out nice.

Last, I need your help if you have a blog. Please put this banner up to find Madeleine who was abducted. Help the parents to find her. It is just so sad as she is only 4 year old. Lets spread the word around the world and pray that she will be found.

Code here:

<a href="http://www.bringmadeleinehome.com"><img src="http://www.bringmadeleinehome.com/img/maddy450x124Banner.jpg" alt="Banner1" width="450" height="124" border="0" /></a>

More code here: http://www.bringmadeleinehome.com/news/

Zara’s mama gave me a hard tag. I dislike writing about people’s fault. Who has no fault/mistake, cast the first stone? This sounds familiar to some right.

I am sure there are plenty to write as we are not perfect and quiet easily find fault with others. I must say I have many more ways that piss my hubby off than he has, that pisses me off. Most of all, he has more good characters than bad.

To be fair to him, I will write 5 ways that I dislike about him and 5 ways he dislikes about me base on my assumptions.

1. He doesn’t like to argue and keeps silent when I voiced out my unhappiness mostly about him. Sometimes no reaction can mean a deaf ear and cause me to steam up. Maybe because I am channeling the energy and no one receiving it. At least if he comforts me, I feel a little better.

2. He dislikes me voicing out his bad point all the time.

3. When I asked him to help me buy stuff, he always gets the wrong things even though detail instructions were given. Most of the time, he blame the person selling it. Imagine, once I asked him to buy Emily’s diapers and he got the wrong type when Emily has been using it for 2 years. Same go for milk powder.

4. He dislikes me hanging around the shopping mall for too long, especially when it is very late in the evening.

5. He wakes up early in the morning and makes lots of noise. His noise wakes up my son because my son and I are light sleepers. My son starts to makes noise and I cannot sleep.

6. He dislikes me sleeping late and waking up late.

7. He drives me crazy when he takes his sweet time (deli dali) when we are going out. He likes to either water the garden or oil the gate when we are rushing to go out. Talk about timing. Or he likes to get everyone into the car when I am not ready and wait for me in the car with the engine turn on. What a waste of petrol?

8. He dislikes me getting angry with him especially when I am moody.

9. He likes to talk to me when I am watching TV especially when the exciting part is coming on.

10. He dislikes me watching too much TV or blogging. Oooh he is also glue to his photography forum, so I asked him whether he work for the forum? Does it pay you? He spiked me by asking me back, does my blog pays me. I said YES with confident. Hehehe…Daddy 0 Mummy 1. Sorry dear…you still the greatest and I love you. I remember my vows…for better for worse…

Now I shall pass this tag to

GiddyTigers
Jess – She knew I am going to pass it to her even before I wrote this.
My2LovelyRays
ShoppingMum
Julian – Let’s read a guy’s perspective on it.

You can write the original or follow my style to be fair to your spouse. :giggles:

Asam Laksa is one of my favorite food and it is one of the most popular food in Penang. When you think of Asam Laksa, you think of Penang. It is a spicy rice noodle in sour soup. It has rice noodles, onions, mint leaves, pineapple, cucumber, polygonum (daun kesum), chilies and prawn paste (hay ko). The sour soup is made from mackerel fish, water, tamarind juice, ginger slice, polygonum, lemon grass, shallots, tumeric, chilies and dried prawn.

I love it since I was born and that time I was in KL. Now I landed in the Penang where my favorite food is. Thank you God, you know me so well. I love it with lots of vege. I really cannot get enough off. Can I cook it? Yes but it is not as good.

The popular places to get a delicious bowl of asam laksa are Penang Rd and Air Itam. I love the one at Penang Road with lots of fish. Burp…opps sorry, I just had 1 bowl.

Price: RM2.50

I am tagging the following people:

Jess – Your birthday present.
Hui Sia – You loves tag.
Sasha – You owe me for the votes.
Vien – Your birthday present.
Jazzmint

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Let me start a tag around the world since I have been tag so often. I want to see this tag pass around the world to see all kinds of delicious food people enjoy.

**Start Copy**

Proposition: What is your favorite food in your state or country?

Requirements: Find some info about the food and show delicious pictures of it?

Quantity: FIVE PEOPLE.

Tag Mode: You leave their blog and post link and add to the list below.

Mybabybay loves Asam Laksa from Penang, Malaysia

IAmShoppingMum spotted me on the Hall of Fame in PPP. I didn’t realize it. I was very tired because this week I was so busy running around managing 4 projects. My left eye is twitching and feeling dizzy when I get up, it may be due to lack of sleep. Imagine my morning and night slots are all fully booked with meetings. My manager cannot even book an hour to do 1-1 with me

Opps, back to the topic, I thought of reading some blogs for relaxation. However my itchy hand clicked onto PPP. I saw some good priced opps and I took it. Most of it was 100 words, so not really that hard. Suddenly IAmShoppingMum told me I am in the list of top earners for the day. I am like WHAT? I wasn’t sure it was me because you know my name is so common. I asked her how to find out my ID. Anyway I updated my avatar and tada….

This is good for remembrance.

Today I went to do my half yearly follow up with my doctor. I must say every time I see him, I feel refresh. I asked him any tips to gain weight. He jokingly said “Eat Full and go to bed” or “take oil” in hokkien. I looked at him point blank. After that he told me to eat snacks in between meals. He asked me to think positive and as long as I am healthy, no need to gain weight. He said I looked fine. My mum thinks otherwise.

Sigh, I am so tired and having flu. I guess it was partly my fault because I stayed up real late last weekdays. The flu just didn’t come at the right time. Flu plus it is that time of the month. I was really exhausted and I cannot sleep because my nose was congested. I had to stack 3 pillows and sleep on it. It took me a long time before I can snooze.

I am not taking any medicine, pop one multivitamin daily and drink lots of ribena. It helps.

Today I feel much better because I slept almost the whole day. Nose still congested. I hate it when I am sick, I don’t get fever. No fever meaning no MC. Sigh.

Vien tag me and it is such a long tag. Jess always says I cheat with these tags, like always modifying it. I decided to do it in full for Vien & Jess. It is a long one, so please bear with me.

On the Outside
Name: Michelle
Date of birth: 4th June (Coming soon!!)
Current status: Married With 2 Children
Eye colour: Dark Brown
Hair colour: Black
Righty or lefty: Righty

On the Inside
Heritage: Chinese
Fear: Heights
Weakness: Some days I get angry easily.
Your perfect pizza : Any pizza with lots of toppings.

Yesterday, today & tomorrow
Your thoughts first waking up: I want to sleep some more.
Your bedtime: Midnight
Your most missed memory: What? I forgotten…. :think:

Your pick
Pepsi or Coke: Neither
McDees or Burger King : Burger King Whopper Burger
Single or Group Dates : ?? *scratch head*
Adidas or Nike : Nike
Lipton Tea or Nestea : Boh Tea
Chocolate or Vanilla : Both
Cappucino or Coffee : I can’t drink coffee. It makes me nausea.

Do you…
Smoke: NO
Curse: NO

In the past month
Drank alcohol : NO
Gone to the mall : Yes, almost once every week.
Been on stage : For what?
Eaten sushi : Yes, on Tuesday at Tao (Yummy)
Dyed your hair : NO

Have you ever…
Played a stripping game: NO
Changed who you were to fit in: Had to change to become a mummy. Hahahaha.

Marrriage
Age you’re hoping to be married : Done.

In a guy/girl
Best eye colour: Blue
Hair colour: Black
Short or long hair: As long as he/she is presentable.

What were you doing?
1 minute ago: Late Work Meeting.
1 hour ago: Preparing for the Meeting.
4 1/2 hours ago: Having dinner at in-law’s place. My FIL birthday! Happy Birthday Pa!
1 month ago: Read my blog to find out.
1 year ago: Read my blog to find out.

Finish the sentence
I love: sleeping
I feel: sick, having a flu now.
I hate: being hungry
I hide: fat thighs
I miss: my family in KL and lost friends.
I need: to put on weight. Don’t scold me yeah!

I am going to change this tag a bit and will be tagging: (Ignore those not relevant questions)

Ethan – GiddyTigers’ son
Lyon – Jess‘ gal
Zara – Zara’s mama gal
Belle – Vien‘s gal (Tag you back)
Darrius – Angeleyes’ son
Joshua – Huisia’s son