http://www.samanthayeap.com Parenting, Relationships, Home & Living Samm's Way Thu, 03 Jul 2008 17:22:17 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en 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 ... http://www.samanthayeap.com/2008/07/04/silver-is-more-affordable-than-gold/ 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 ... http://www.samanthayeap.com/2008/07/02/gordons-speech-progress/ 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 ... http://www.samanthayeap.com/2008/07/01/looking-for-professional-movers/ 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 ... http://www.samanthayeap.com/2008/07/01/fun-with-my-wii/ 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 ... http://www.samanthayeap.com/2008/06/30/lighting-for-your-tv-room/ .flickr-photo { border: solid 2px #000000; } .flickr-yourcomment { } .flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; } .flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; } Malcolm loves toy cars very much and it's always been my wish to buy him a rug that has tracks on it for ... http://www.samanthayeap.com/2008/06/26/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 ... http://www.samanthayeap.com/2008/06/22/taking-it-one-day-at-a-time/ 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, ... http://www.samanthayeap.com/2008/06/19/need-more-outdoor-entertaining-ideas/ 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 ... http://www.samanthayeap.com/2008/06/19/do-you-like-taking-pics-and-videos-of-your-kids/ I havent been talking to my MIL for days. Let's just say we're pissed with each other to be fair, lol. She loves to leave the padlock unlocked. As Gordon now likes to run out of the house whenever possible, i reminded her the moment she got home to not ... http://www.samanthayeap.com/2008/06/19/i-only-want-my-kids-to-be-safe/