Karma...

Its pretty crazy listening to the stories of death & destruction due
to the hailstorm. & death in terms of objects, not in terms of people.
Although the number of live wires on the ground would be cause for
deaths. That & not being able to see in front of you.

At times like this, I think that karma's in play. What causes someone
else to be in more strife than everyone else? Surely there's a reason
for God favouring one person over the other.

Or is there really?

Every action has an equal an opposite reaction.
Every action has an equal an opposite reaction.
Every action has an equal an opposite reaction.

Maybe it was someone who stole/lied/cheated. Or did lots of bad stuff.

Is I told you so now in order?

Cowexpedition!

Clothes packed? Check!
Camera battery charged? Check!
Memory sticks cleared? Check!
Cow map obtained? Check!
All set and ready to go? Check!

Can't wait! Hubby and I decided at the last minute to go down for the Cow Parade. Yup, the Cow Parade. Some of the comments I've had from work are "Do they walk down the street?" "You're going to see COWS?" "The Cow Parade? Huh?"

Yup, you read that right. The Cow Parade. Wikipedia-it! Or Google-it! Either way, it'll give you enough information for you to go - cool! As cool as cows can get ;)

I can't wait to see this art exhibition - and also get some time away from work to just relax and de-stress. It feels like I've been working heaps and heaps and heaps with no rest so the Cow Parade is a treat for me and hubby to go away for the weekend (and a wee bit) and enjoy some relaxation down south in Margaret River.

I can't wait to check the cows out! And I can't wait to take pictures of them! Will definitely have to upload them when I get back...although if you want GOOD QUALITY Cow Parade pics, Google is the way to go. And I'm also hoping that I can get some MoO Souveniers! How cool would that be? The MoO wearing MoO! hehehe...

Ahhhhh...one more sleep to go before we get the opportunity to go down, relax and just chill...

*blissssss*

Karma...

Its pretty crazy listening to the stories of death & destruction due
to the hailstorm. & death in terms of objects, not in terms of people.
Although the number of live wires on the ground would be cause for
deaths. That & not being able to see in front of you.

At times like this, I think that karma's in play. What causes someone
else to be in more strife than everyone else? Surely there's a reason
for God favouring one person over the other.

Or is there really?

Every action has an equal an opposite reaction.
Every action has an equal an opposite reaction.
Every action has an equal an opposite reaction.

Maybe it was someone who stole/lied/cheated. Or did lots of bad stuff.

Is I told you so now in order?

Raining golf balls...

Sometimes, God throws a hissy fit. & usually when that happens, a
natural disaster occurs.

Yesterday, we had severe floods, rain and hail the size of golf balls,
if not bigger. Its like God got really angry and decided to let her
rip!!!

It was so sudden - one minute there was sunshine and the next, it
started to become pitch black. Then the rain came. Then the hailstorm.
Then the strong winds and floods. I have never been so in awe of
nature in my life!!! Not to mention scared, cold, and exhausted all
rolled in one.

It's estimated that Perth sufferred over $1mil in damages. In a single
night. Thousands of homes without power and who knows how many
vehicles rendered unroadworthy.

If this is what God's like when he's angry...When God gets super duper
pissed off, what hope is there for us of survival???

When I have kids...

I'm sitting on the train, facing a girl who can't be any older than 16
(I'd venture even to say 14!) who's sitting down, playing with what
appears to be an iPhone.

Dang! What did I have, techwise, at 14, that I coul carry around? A
personal CD player. And that was more due to my music classes than
actually getting what I wanted. It's funny, I still remember having a
great need to have Doc Marten boots. They were all the craze back
then, & I still want a pair now!

But anyway, I digress. Society nowadays are equipping kids with stuff
that's pretty techy and pretty expensive. You hear stories of Asian
kids being sent to study with a million bucks in their bank account
for a place and a car. And the one who switches cars every other week
and has personalized number plates.

What are parents really equipping their kids with? What value are they
going to be placing on hard work when money comes so easily to them?
What's going to happen when mummy & daddy leave them & they need to be
able to manage the family business?

You can say that there's probably a minority of kids born with the
silver spoon in their mouth who do end up appreciating money and stuff
and I say kudos to their parents. But we all know that it happens less
than the look-at-all-the-stuff-I-have kid.

& it's not like hubby & I are rolling on moolah (I wish!) but
sometimes I wonder...when we have kids, & if we ever became super rich
(we'll hit that lotto ticket one day!), what would we be like as
parents?

I would think that you would want to give the world to your kid...& then some.

Is ready to hibernate...

Summer is slowly but surely turning into autumn, with the leaves
turning beautiful shades of brown, orange and yellow, and the grass
slowly revivng with the cooler weather.

Absolutely perfect weather!

Except for the fact that it makes me feel so sleepy! Its really
bizarre! It must be because our bodies are built to be slower and
sluggish come colder weather just so we can store energy but its just
the changing of the seasons at the moment.

What's going to happen to me when winter REALLY comes? *yawn* oh well,
we'll wait and see. Right now, let's just take a nap. Zzzzz....

When hubby gets addicted...

TapDefence is basically a tower game. What that means is that you
build towers to keep the baddies away. It's not like Othello where you
build to try and block the baddies out - its more you build towers
with ammo to blow them to smithereens!

So after getting addicted to that, hubby decided to download a tower
game on his 360. Now I'm not a big Xbox fan (I have issues pressing so
many buttons at once - you'd think I'd have better hand eye
coordination considering!) but I think I'm hooked!

So baisically, in Defense Grid - The Awakening, you have to build
towers to protect your power cores. There are aliens trying to steal
them and you need to get to them before they get to your core (or try
and get away with your core).

Now the game starts of relatively uncomplicated - not too much stuff
happening at once, which gives me the time I need to think about which
buttons to press and what should do where.

But then it gets harder, faster, more complicated...& my heart starts
beating faster, my palms start perspiring, I start
hyperventilatig...OMG! I'm actually getting stressed out about a
game!!!

& at this point I went "Here, you go!" and watch hubby pick up the
controls, without any training, and get further on in the game than I
did!!! No thinking about buttons, no "How do I do this?" moments and
no hesitation.

& I just sat there in admiration...

Maybe I need to clock more Xbox hours...;p

You know your hubby is addicted when...

He doesn't make a peep for awhile...
He has this furrow of concentration about him...
He is always asking where your iPhone is...
If you can't find your iPhone, you go straight to hubby...
There are no more high score spots - hubby's done them all...
The iPhone's in the socket charging - coz hubby played with it until it died!
He checks how much gold you made...
He talks about Halos with you and which is a better Tower to pick...
He swears and gets really involved only because you say that you did
it without losing any life...although at the time, you don't know that
you're refering to a different level...
You throw him the iPhone if you want to keep him occupied for a bit...

Damn TapDefence, you must be in cohorts with TapAquarium and TapFarm!!!

You know you're addicted when...

The first thing you do in the morning when you get up is check the iPhone.
The last thing you do at night is check the iPhone.
The only thing you do during the day is check the iPhone.
You hold your iPhone away from your partner so that they can't play any games.
You have a timeout session because you're spending more time with the
iPhone than your partner.
You check your return on investment for you fish and harvest.
You weigh up the consequence of planting artichoke instead of strawberries.
You plan for the selling of your adult fish to ensure sufficient
cashflow throughout the day.
You religiously check that your fish are fed and your tank is clean.
You make sure that you've put the timer on to harvest your crop at the
best time.

Damn you TapFish and TapFarm people!!!

Cuts

Any good cook will tell you that the essential instrument in your
kitchen is a knife. And if you're my hubby, it has to be a good knife.

Now for one of our anniversaries, we were given a set of knives by a
friend. To me, they were find. They did what they were supposed to do
just fine. They handled well too - well balanced, sufficiently heavy
enough to give a nice chopping balance and came in enough sizes.

Now hubby, being the Master Chef that he is, has been wailing and
moaning about our knives for as long as we've had them. And he even
bought a knife that his parents use because of its serrations (the
knife is pretty crap in my opinion. Its too light and serrations are
for people who are too lazy to sharpen their knives).

So after a friend said he was getting a knife block on special, and
having had enough of hubby's moaning & groaning, I went online to so
some knife research (hey, its an expensive purchase that's supposed to
last us a lifetime)!

I found 2 things:
- Japanese knives are highly recommended by chefs and knife websites
- German knives are just as highly recommended by chefs and knife
websites (must be to so with German precision).

So after doing a dollar value and availability search, we ended up
getting a Japanese knife block set, which has a long history of
samurai sword making.

And after slicing the top off my left thumb last night, I have a whole
new respect for my knife set and samurai sword making in general.

Balls!

It's funny that the makers of train carriages don't understand what
men want considering that the likelihood of the designer being a man
is 90%!

Take for example this morning. I get on the train & sit down on the
first seat next to someone who doesn't look like they're going o be
annoying for the train ride into work.

Now the first thing I notice after sitting down is that his leg is
over a quarter of my seat. So of course, I would have to scoot over so
that I'm only occupying half of my seat.

Now why is his leg on my side? Well you see...men have this thing
called balls and they happen to be in a spot which makes sitting with
their legs together really uncomfortable (or so they say). They don't
like squashing the ol' jewels at all!

Now I find this argument to be really peculiar as I've sat next to
other male passengers on the train who have no problems sitting with
ther legs closer together. They haven't sit with their knees together
but have allowed the pair some breathing room while allowing other
passengers to have theirs.

So why can't all men be like that? Probably because we don't say
anything to them about it. I just got up from my seat, and moved to
another seat. I really should have just said...

"Hey mate, how big do you think your balls are? Would you mind putting
them away so that you don't scare away the children? Thanks.
Appreciate the lack of consideration you're demonstrating to
everyone!"

Perth traffic

I'm guessing that the moment someone who's been through Malaysian,
Indonesian, Thai (or any South East Asian nation) will laugh at that
subject. Perth traffic? Really?

As a matter of fact, yes, really. And there's nothing I hate more than
being in a traffic jam. Which is why Naz's comment about driving is
not going to work. That and also that its so not environmentally
friendly.

In Malaysia, they increase the number of lanes. & thankfully, there's
enough space for them to do that. & because labour isn't as expensive
as it is here, the Malaysian Govt can pretty much not worry about road
planning.

In Perth, the freeway going North has only 2 lanes and has no capacity
for growth. On one hand, there's the train station an on the other,
there's housing development.

So what do we really need?

More trains. Lots more trains. We're already leaving to get to the
train station before 7:10 & the trains that we get on are packed like
sardines. You could argue that the LRTs are also packed like sardines
but you don't get winter in Malaysia. Everyone gets on with their
heavy coats/jackets coz it's so freezing cold outside & there's no
ventilation in the train. Perfect fainting conditions.

So what can I do? Whine and moan and tell everyone that they need to
have double story car parks so that more people can catch the
train...which should help produce revenue for train upkeep.

Now all the govt needs to do is buy us some trains first!!!

Cuts

Any good cook will tell you that the essential instrument in your
kitchen is a knife. And if you're my hubby, it has to be a good knife.

Now for one of our anniversaries, we were given a set of knives by a
friend. To me, they were find. They did what they were supposed to do
just fine. They handled well too - well balanced, sufficiently heavy
enough to give a nice chopping balance and came in enough sizes.

Now hubby, being the Master Chef that he is, has been wailing and
moaning about our knives for as long as we've had them. And he even
bought a knife that his parents use because of its serrations (the
knife is pretty crap in my opinion. Its too light and serrations are
for people who are too lazy to sharpen their knives).

So after a friend said he was getting a knife block on special, and
having had enough of hubby's moaning & groaning, I went online to so
some knife research (hey, its an expensive purchase that's supposed to
last us a lifetime)!

I found 2 things:
- Japanese knives are highly recommended by chefs and knife websites
- German knives are just as highly recommended by chefs and knife
websites (must be to so with German precision).

So after doing a dollar value and availability search, we ended up
getting a Japanese knife block set, which has a long history of
samurai sword making.

And after slicing the top off my left thumb last night, I have a whole
new respect for my knife set and samurai sword making in general.

Tired...

I probably did a real stupid thing last night. No smart aleck comments welcome.

I've been hearing so much about earning cash online through doing
surveys for market research companies. It sounded like a good idea so
after doing some work last night, I went searching for these
opportunities.

3 hours later, I'd registered for a whole bunch of sites & been up
answering questions over and over again to gain points. Everyone seems
to want to know the same thing - who do you bank with, who do you do
insurance with, do you have a spouse/car/job/kids/pets?

So at 11:48 last night, I called it quits. My head was spinning
(bedtime was 2 hours ago!) and I felt really sick from being on the
computer that long, answering questionnaires. And at the end of it,
how much money did I make?

-$33.50.

Yup. I'm in the red. How is that possible you ask? By stupid me buying
this pack that is supposed to help you get started with a list of
legitimate sites. And what did I get from the sites?

$1.50. And 8000 points.

Now where's this $50/day they mentioned?!?!???

Balls!

It's funny that the makers of train carriages don't understand what
men want considering that the likelihood of the designer being a man
is 90%!

Take for example this morning. I get on the train & sit down on the
first seat next to someone who doesn't look like they're going o be
annoying for the train ride into work.

Now the first thing I notice after sitting down is that his leg is
over a quarter of my seat. So of course, I would have to scoot over so
that I'm only occupying half of my seat.

Now why is his leg on my side? Well you see...men have this thing
called balls and they happen to be in a spot which makes sitting with
their legs together really uncomfortable (or so they say). They don't
like squashing the ol' jewels at all!

Now I find this argument to be really peculiar as I've sat next to
other male passengers on the train who have no problems sitting with
ther legs closer together. They haven't sit with their knees together
but have allowed the pair some breathing room while allowing other
passengers to have theirs.

So why can't all men be like that? Probably because we don't say
anything to them about it. I just got up from my seat, and moved to
another seat. I really should have just said...

"Hey mate, how big do you think your balls are? Would you mind putting
them away so that you don't scare away the children? Thanks.
Appreciate the lack of consideration you're demonstrating to
everyone!"

A change

I guess it's time to address possible change alternatives.

The big one that everyone's talking about is a baby. Now at this
point, hubby and I have come to terms with having a baby. Yes, it's
something that we would definitely want to do. & yes, we've thrown
away the condoms (geez, some people think we don't know nuts about the
birds & the bees!)

But all the luck & pregnancy wishes haven't done anything. I'm still
waiting to see that blue (or pink or purple) extra line.

If nothing convinces you there's a God, trying to conceive definitely
gives you that reality check (or maybe God check?). It reminds you
that no matter what you do, or what you try, if He doesn't believe you
should have one, you won't.

You lose all control in this area. Everything else, all other
problems, you have control (more or less) on solving it. You can pick
and choose what you want. You have some sway over the outcome.

With this? You have nothing. You can do the deed when you need to, or
do it more if you want, but if God doesn't believe you're ready, then
there's nothing (& by nothing, I mean nothing natural) that you can do
about it.

So a baby would be a welcomed change. The only question is, does He
think we should have one?

The straw that broke the camel's back

This is it. I'm goin to book time in with my boss to have a good long
talk. New boss obviously doesn't understand me like my old boss and
really didn't have to say anything about me working late in front of
everyone.

Does New Boss really believe that I have nothing better to do than
stay at work? Or does New Boss think that we have slave elves hidden
somewhere that come out of the woodwork every night to complete the
necessary work required?

Whatever the case, I've had it. 5 years is the longest I've ever
stayed at 1 company. Maybe it's time to move on.

Strike that.

It's definitely time to move on.

So much for everyday...

Ahhhh...where does the time go?

I seem to be wondering all the time what have I done. It's such a
waste of time! To be wondering how I've spent my time. I consciously
make an effort not to waste my time but end up still not having enough
hours in the day.

How nice it would be to be a tai tai. I know I used to think that I'd
die of boredom having nohing to do but there are so many books to
read! I know tht won't keep me going but at least that's a good part
of the day! (That is, if it's a good book).

The other thing is possibly doing something arty. I've been meaning to
learn the flute for ages. 8 years ago (surely it must have been that
long), I used my 1st ever bonus to buy a flute (and no, this has
nothing to do with band camp & American Pie) & vow to take lessons
every year.

& every year, it gets put back on to the to do list for the year.

*sigh* My poor, lonely, unused flute...