I admit I love to play bingo. It is an addiction that grew on me during my student days. At the clubs there are bingo nights that I go without fail. Not that the prizes are always that attractive but the triumph of being able to close the card in the early stage gives me a satisfaction.
Lately, online bingo is catching up fast. You don't have to wait to play it on certain days of the week. The prizes are of course attractive if you would like to play for money but otherwise there are some that do not require you to bet. It can be just a game of fun. If you want to pick from the many selection of Bingo sites, you can try out bingoplayeronline.com because this is the site that features all there is about Bingo sites, tips, reviews and how to choose a bingo site. You can also pick other games like keno or video games which prove to be popular too.
18/05/08
Bingo, Keno and Video Games Online
Holidays Coming
Now that the school holidays are around the corner, I am also looking for activities for the girls. I know they love anything that has to do with art and crafts but I thought I'd like them to do something more outdoor since they are home most of the time. The last holidays, there were activities like tennis clinics and swim clinics at the club but apparently I don't see any starting for this May-June holidays. The school holidays will be for about 3-4 weeks and they start school somewhere in the third week of June.
I think they will like going to theme parks in the east and we probably might arrange for a night out at the chalet and barbeque as usual. I better check the dates and see if they are available. It is really very popular and difficult to get a chalet in the east during this time. Hopefully Rae has met the minimum requirements for height for some rides! She will be so disappointed if she won't be able to sit on the cycle monorail at the top. She had tried to get a ride 3 times and thrice, she didn't meet the minimum requirements!
Rate Different Hosting Sites in One Place
I know many bloggers are using free hosted sites like mine here for the convenience and also because one does not need to pay. However, I do know quite a few have started having their own domains and got it hosted with the many hosting companies in cyberspace. There are so many so choose from. In my other blog which I pay for hosting, I did spend a good many months just surfing for feedbacks and asking around bloggers which hosting companies works best. I get quite many different views, feedbacks and it was not easy to put them together and make comparisons.
Help is on the way if you need to make comparisons. There is an new website that will review all the various hosting sites online and collate the answers from the feedbacks and experience. See how many hosting companies there are in the market and you'll be surprised at the result. This website will also be featuring ratings, price and tutorials to help you with uncertainty. You can put your mind at ease with their friendly service for setups and more. Find out how to get cheap web hosting that suits your budget or get one that may cost you a little more with different benefits. Is there really a lot of difference?
Online Convenience
Last few days, I was at Popular to get a book when I also got an educational CDrom for Lea. It was a Disney's Mickey learning cd about Getting Ready for School. She likes Mickey and Minnie characters and wanted to buy it. Howeever when we brought if back we couldn't seem to get it installed. It couldn't complete the installations for whatever reason I am not sure. I had checked the minimum requirements for installation and there shouldn't be any problem. I don't have any applications running and I had just chosen the standard installation. But when I tried to uninstall the program and reinstall, it didn't happen. It was really frustrating. I had bought many educational CDRoms and I never encountered such problem before.
I tried to install it for almost a day. I gave up and decided to bring it back to Popular. The people at Popular asked me to call the tel no at the back of the CDrom assistance but I thought I rather just get a refund because that meant I have to wait till Monday. All that trouble for a child's cdrom? I asked the lady at Popular to try it on her office PC cos if it was not user friendly, I'd really not buy it. She also tried and found that she had the same problem. So now instead of looking for cdroms for my girls, I am searching online instead. And I found this Yahoo Kids' website which was also cool with games and more.
16/05/08
Win a MacBook Air with Secondbrain's Official Launch
Our brain functions like a library where all the addresses, resources and information are stored into little cells. So when we need some information, we know where to get it once it is in our mind and when we do not, we start searching, asking or do a little research in all the places we think we can get information. With new information, we store it in the brain library and use it when the time arrives. Secondbrain takes a look at basically the same concept, except that it is found online. A personal online library, it collects information and resource from many other sources, organize the content, and even keep track and update when necessary. In this place is where you can find the people that shares same content like a pool of library, and make contact with other users.
A brilliant idea to bring people together and sharing resources. It will be officially launched in end of May and even before the end month, is seeing a steady stream of visitors, registrations, and content building up. This is also the place whereby you handle all your personal bookmarks and web content in one place. No worries if you are on the road or traveled to other countries and need to remember the websites that you had bookmarked at home. This is the place you can manage all your searches, photos, video and information. It is your personal content library.
My Cherished Moments
This is a picture of Rae taken when she was about 3 years old, in our little cafe. She had just gotten back from a role of a little piggy for her nursery concert. How time flies and how I miss her baby years. I cannot bear to think how fast she will grow into an adult and have her own life.
I guess every mom thinks the same. When they are this young, sometimes they get too attached or sticky to us and we try to let them mingle out more. But now when they are wanting to spend their time with their friends, we miss babying them and feel a little lonely.
Perhaps that is the role of the Mother. We have to learn to be strong to teach them to grow and leave the nest? The role of the Mother should not be for one of the mother alone, but even for those who have guardians who have cared and love a child in his or her growing years. I hope you will come to realize that it is the process of 'mothering' the child. Happy Mother's Day to those who have been the guardians of the young. It could be an aunt, granny, or even the single father.
Natural Looking Silk Plants
I love nature, trees and gardens. However, living in a high rise building leaves me very little opportunity to have greens as these need lots of maintenance and proper planters pot. I also have to worry about water that may stay stagnant. The authority from the national environment agency and volunteers comes to check in our homes very frequent like few times a month to make sure we do not have stagnant water in little nooks or areas that can breed mosquitos that cause dengue fever.
However I have found a great idea to have plants in my house for decorative purpose and to create the ambience I want. A home that looks green enough yet without much maintenance. That is to have fake plants in my home. Did you know that artificial trees, plants and flowers are a wonderful and it looks as good as a real plant. I don't have to bother about fertilizer, watering, and dirty soil that may cause bugs or insects to be crawling among the pots too.
One other concern when having real plants would be pollens. Dust and pollens are a pest to my eldest daughter who has a sensitive nose. My youngest daughter recently has been having rashes that has no conclusive result yet. Due to this, I have to monitor her as close as possible with regards to food and things around the house. With these problems in mind, I have to get rid of even my little herb pot in my kitchen. I am now replacing real plants with silk plants in my living hall and balcony. These plants look as good as real. They have been designed with quality in mind and they make outstanding gifts to your friends, business contacts and families. Giving these beautiful plants that lasts will definitely mean you will remembered for as long as the plants survived, and that is for a long, long time. No dropping leaves, the leaves are healthy green all the time!
My Mini Mart
I have lots of food at home. In my kitchen cabinet I have few cupboards dedicated for food, stored with cans of soup, processed food, mushrooms, UHT milk, sauces in bottles and whatever I may have forgotten.
But most of the guests who come into my home gets shocked by this food larder that is in my dining area. It is actually a chiller that I don't turn on since I already have one in the kitchen and a chest freezer. As utility bill comes up close to $200 per month, I thought I better use this as a food larder instead. I used this fridge to chill self service soft drinks in a little cafe i operated years ago.
When my friends see this, they normally joke that I was doing a mini mart business! I have this habit of shopping for grocery and I can't stop buying. I know some succumbed to shopping therapy for clothes, shoes, bags and that stuff. But me, ahem... guess this is shopping therapy to me. I even have a large white opaque box full of kids' titbits and another one to store bottles of soda, coke, ice lemon tea, and ribena in easy packs.
I can't stop shopping. I even bought a carton of instant noodles once because they were on offer. It took a long time to consume them but the expiry date was much later. I have lots of sauces that I use, cake products because I bake twice a week too.
15/05/08
Death Note, Japanese Manga in Movie
Fans of Japanese Manga Series, DeathNote fans would be pleased to know that a movie version by the title Death Note is available. A story about good turns bad from the influence of power is a good education in life. It revolves around a bored high school student, Light Yagami who found a mysterious notebook that had been misplaced by the God of Death, Ryuk. The notebook has a special supernatural power that will wipe out whoever that has his name listed on the notebook. Faced by the intention of killing all evil from earth, Light started to bring justice to his own hands. However, when he realized that he is being monitored suspiciously by the police, his greed and wants of keeping the notebook started him wiping out law enforcement agents.
Like the movie? Well it will be screened in US, nationwide on May 20th and 21st, 2008. Don't miss your chance to watch it during these two days. Check out ifathom.com for a listing of the cinema near you.
I wouldn't mind having supernatural powers, frankly. Something like being able to move at lightning speed. I'm always short of time lately. It would be great to do things zippy with supernatural powers. Perhaps it is just my wishful thinking.
14/05/08
Perverts Under Water
I love to watch commercials. They are short little clips of fun, humour, interesting and edited brilliantly. There are some good ones and some that were banned from the public eye. These could have been those that created racist, biased, too much violence, political suggestions or perhaps illicit for the general public. I found some commercials that had good concepts but didn't reach us due to some reasons we probably didn't know about. Here is one that proved hilarious.
It is also a form of education for ladies to be aware of some perverts lurking out there.
Enjoy this one. This is from Denmark. I wonder why they were banned? Do you think it may be too influential to the public?
13/05/08
Severe Visibility
On September 11, 2001 - a Pentagon disaster occured whereby a commercial 757 jet airliner crashed head-on in the Pentagon in Washington, D.C.
Intrigue, suspense and evidence threw U.S. Army Major Stanley Kruter into a state of shock and devastating truth when he discovered evidence that suggests the contradict information of the Government's official information was nothing but deception.
Severe Visibility is all about acts of foreign terrorists or was it Government deception. Find out the truth in the film by Paul Cross, that was nominated by Best North American Film in the Kuala Lumpur International Film Festival, 2007. To Order DVD or find out more information about the film, you can go to severevisibility.com or just watch the trailer.
12/05/08
Lunch at Suntec City
Yesterday, as usual, Sundays are spent as family day. This weekend is also in conjunction with Singapore's Family Week celebration whereby many places are giving special price for family day outing. We figured there will be big crowds at the usual family-day-out places, like Zoo, Birdpark, Duck tours, Hippo rides and also the new Singapore Flyer that had just been launched. Singapore Flyer is the observation wheel that you can sit on watch breathtaking sights of Singapore and beyond. It is also the largest observation wheel in the world so if you are in Singapore do make it a point to pay this place a visit.
We wanted to have a nice family lunch at a restaurant so we headed to Suntec because it was a place with many restaurant varieties. I am a fan of Tony Romas restaurant, which is famous for it's ribs. I love their beef ribs in there. It was my day to select a restaurant since it was Mother's Day.. (and no Bak Kut Teh, for once.. please!)
Suntec has many food outlets with 5 tower buildings closing in on their Fountain of Wealth, we took some time searching fruitlessly for Tony Romas. In case you are wondering what is this Fountain of Wealth, it is a very large water feature or fountain, known as the largest in the world in the Guinness Book of World Records. It was built with 5 towers shaped like a palm closing in and is claimed as one of the best fengshui features for success. This is the place whereby many would come at 8pm in the evening to walk into the fountain three rounds, clockwise for that blessing of wealth. There are specific openings during the other times of the day for walks too but I've heard that the 8pm walks prove to be the luckiest one so far.
So we were in Tony Romas restaurant when we discovered that they had no regular menu for the day. (It was Mother's Day, how can we forget) I didn't like the menu, really cos I wanted the Beef Ribs so we left the place and decided to go for Sizzlers, instead. Sizzlers was also having their special buffet menu so we decided to give it a try. I didn't take photos on the food cos I felt that it being buffet, was just basically food on the plate. It was ok but the price was about $26++ per person (3 adults, 2 kids for us) plus 2 other ala carte main course. I figured the total bill came up to about $150 including taxes.
The kids had a great time because they helped themselves with helpings of soup, fruits and ice cream and gorged enough of those with extra helpings of chocolate sauce, caramel and toppings... After our lunch, we went to our favourite family entertainment center!
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