The World @ My Fingertips

So many people are find it hard to make ends meet these day. Well, thanks to the ever increasing price of crude oil. It’s at an all-time high if $144.23 a barrel even as i type now. If it continues to go up, i bet many of my friends may have to close down their business. I’m glad we dont have much overhead nor spend much. The other day, i wanted to buy a new pair of earrings and went to the jeweler’s to check them out. Gold price have gone up so much over the years. A tiny pair of gold earring costs almost 200 bucks these day. Nah…. i’m not going to buy. But silver price is still affordable. I may get a pair of silver earrings this time. Precious metals always make good investment. If i have idle cash, i will buy some precious metal as an investment. Monex is the place to go to for that. Well, you may want to check Monex out if you want to invest in precious metals.

Gordon only started to talk less than six months ago. As the days progress, he gets better and better. He can reason quite well too and can also express his wants and dislikes much better compared to half a year ago. He can now connect things together to let me know what he wants.

He loves egg mayo sandwich very much and he can now tell me, “Mama, egg, sandwich”. And when he wants a drink, he’ll say, “Mama, yellow, water”. As for the yellow, he means the yellow tumbler on my table. slowly, word by word, he begins to string them into a sentence. I’m sure by end of this year, he will be able to speak to me in a proper sentence. *hopefully*

Looks like the recent fuel price hike didnt affect many people. My sister-in-law’s father is renovating his house now. Adding more living space to his huge bungalow. My sister-in-law told me her brother is moving back from the States with his wife and kid. They wanted to buy a house at first, but decided to stay with his parents instead. Ahhhh, sounds just like us. Living with my hubby’s folks. Let’s just hope they can stand it, lol. It may sound rosy at first, but i’m sure in time to come, there’s bound to be squabbles. mark my words.

My sister-in-law told me her brother’s been living in Boston for a long time. I wonder how much stuff they will be bringing back from Boston. They’ve engaged the services of some Boston Movers to handle everything for them. It’s better this way as professional movers will know how to pack and move things around safely. When we moved back from KL last time, we had to throw and give many of our things away due to lack of space. Well, no problem. When we get our own place next time, we can furnish our new place with lots and lots of new furniture.

I asked the computer shop the other day as to why i am not able to play any graphics intensive games on it. Well, i’m not very familiar with pc jargons, but i suspect, i dont have sufficient computer memory to run them. They told me i have more than enough computer memory. Just that i need to upgrade my graphics card. I wont bother with that. I just bought the Wii. Might as well go play outside a the living hall. The pc is best left for work and watching TVB drama series online, lol.

Do you know that it’s important to have good lighting when you watch TV. I’m sure many of you have a home theater system installed at home. They are so affordable now these days compared to just a couple of years back. I told hubby when we buy our house next time, i want to have a proper tv room complete the best home theater system that we can afford. I’m also going to decorate it with lots of theater rope lighting, especially wall sconces. If you want to buy some nice lighting for your tv room, i suggest you check out the link i left here in this post.

Malcolm loves toy cars very much and it’s always been my wish to buy him a rug that has tracks on it for him to play his cars on. My friend has one and i saw how happy her twins were rolling their cars all over the rug. After picking Gordon up from school yesterday, i took him to Eastern Decorator and found this Winnie the Pooh rug with car tracks. Isnt it beautiful? Costs rm69.90 only. It’s not a huge rug. Maybe 5 x 3 feet, i didnt measure. Roughly that, okay. And i was so glad i bought this Winnie the Pooh rug.

Malcolm is a smart boy. I only showed him once how to move his cars along those tracks and he got it. The thing now is i only found two of his toy cars in the bedroom and the rest have all disappeared. Dont tell me he did the trashbin trick again!! I’ll look around and see if i can find them or not after sending the both of them to school. If not, gotta buy him another batch. Do you like Malcolm, Winnie the Pooh rug with car tracks?

Many of my friends have advised me to move out of my in-law’s place since i dont really like it here. Not that i cannot get along with them. I just dont feel at home until i have a place to call my own. Life really sucks when you have to live under someone else’s roof. I have plans to move out, k. But plans take time to execute and i have no choice but to be patient. Hopefully by next year. If i cant stand it here, i can always go take a break and stay at some nice condo hotel. My work gives me ultimate freedom to go where i want. As for the kids, they’ll go where i go.

The only thing dont like about my in-law’s house is that it faces west. It can get very hot in the evening. There have been times when i wanted to give the garden a small makeover, but each time i think of what my SIL said to me sometime back, i dropped the idea. The one thing i hate about staying here is that pesky sister-in-laws drop by unannounced all the time. Sometimes, they bring their kids over and make one helluva noise. As i work from home, i get distracted a lot by all the noise and i admit i do tell them off once in awhile. Oh, they will simply retort that this is not my house and they can do what they like here.

Summer is just round the corner and my hubby asked me if i want to organize some outdoor entertaining activities or not. He suggested organizing a barbeque party one evening and also told me if barbeque is not my cup of tea, there are lots more Outdoor Entertaining Ideas at celebrations dot com. I do agree it’s been a long time since i organize anything here. A barbeque party in the evening would be fine by me if we can get someone to do the cleaning up after that, lol. I hate cleaning up as i develop a bad rash on my right hand each time after using chemical-based cleaners.

The micro sd card that came with my Nokia N82 is only 2gb. My phone takes 5mp pictures and those files can be quite large. Another thing is the Nokia N82 takes tv-quality videos too and i’ve been taking a lot video of my kids. Now, i’m only left with about 200mb of memory on my card. What’s the point of having such a cool gadget when i dont have a large micro sd card for all my pics and videos, eh. Time to upgrade to a larger card. I’ll get withdrawal symptoms if i find that i dont have enough memory on my phone.