Election day dah dekat

Got it from youtube. Hillarious!

Sums up the sentiment nowadays.

Here's one I made earlier

I've been thinking about how to remember Adi's birth, especially to capture the things that she has when she's small. I meant like foot or hand print that we could look at years later and say that how small you were when you were born but it will only be a print. So in looking high & low, I've came across an imprinting & casting for the lil one hand and feet.

The box - available from Mothercare

The box and the salesperson said that this is an easy to do, safe for the baby and 100% foolproof. Imagine how I felt when I botched up the first attempt (not feeling so clever then). The thing that pisses me off is that I followed all the instructions to the t, plus including my own set of failsafe methods only to botch it up. Grrr....

Luckily, the supplied kit has more than enough material to cover for the failed first attempt. After becoming wiser, I have in fact manages to get 3 castings out of the remaining material with the luxury to choose from in case I screw up again.

The whole process is quite lengthy as the time needed for preparation and letting the plaster set. From experience, I knew that this is one process that cannot be rushed in order to achieve the highest possible quality my skills (and luck) would allow me.

Pointers to those who would like to try this, ensure that the container for the mold would fit the subject nicely, too big then it would be a waste of material and too small you wouldn't get all the details. Also, the imprinting material sets quickly, so better for you to mix a small batch and cast the mold rather than mixing it all in one go.

The mixing of the porcelain plaster is also quite tedious for you to ensure a good result, no air pockets and a smooth finish. Please observe the instruction in doing layers on casting, rather than pouring it all in one go. Point to not is to use a flexible container for the mold as it would facilitate the removal of the mold and ensuring that you did not break any digits off the cast.

The results?




I think I did OK. Well not in the league of professional/amateur artist but I should be able to preserve Adi lil hand & feet in 3D for our memories.

Changes..

Changes are an inevitable part of life. We see changes everyday and adapt to it. But for a certain few things, we would like to see no changes at all. As a creature of habit, we like to create a comfort zone around us and would like to control this comfort zone so that minimal changes affect it. But sometimes, we have to accept the fact that changes have to happen and whether we like it or not, adaption has to made to it.

These adaptation and ways to cope with the changes would be different to everyone. How do you react to changes that affect you directly or indirectly? There's no rules or logic condition to be applied as each changes are unique. A change too fast too soon might have a detrimental effect to a person likewise too slow too long. Anyway, how we react to the changes would affect our lives as well.

Even if we are mentally prepared for the change, but when the time comes, it still going to hit you like more than you were prepared for. So whether we like it or not, there's always a time for a change.

Loteri Halal

We decided to take another stab at the loteri halal again. Hopefully this time brings a better luck to us. Maybe the god of fortune is in a good mood during these festivities to bless on us or maybe he's to busy entertaining other more affluent offerings from those who would want to be in power when Malaysia Decides on Mrach 8. All in all I hope it would work out well.

With the water mains pipe issues and dipping into the lottery pool activity, money has been flowing out like water from my bank account into someone else's, sengkek oi bulan ni....

Feels like listening to this ...

Time to cast your votes

It's official. The election day has been set on the 8th of March 2008. Now we could see those who's contesting promising the moon and the stars, whilst most still fail to keep promises prior to being elected during the last election.

Now we will see the scare tactics, discrediting of nominees and personal attack on the candidates. For me, the whole thing is like a big circus. The build up to it was dramatic, then they will fall flat during the delivery.

Most countries have change government a few times but that is a rarity in this region. Maybe a wind of change is coming. Vote wisely.

Misery Loves Company

I returned home today to a big surprised. My water bill comes to almost RM400. Was thinking, wow, we sure used a lot of water this month since the birth of the girl. But almost RM400?. On the bill was a handwritten note with a phone number by the meter reader. A call to him reveals a method to detect leakage and when done, sure enough the meter was ticking even though no one is using water in the house.

A check with my brother who had similar case before said that he spent close to RM1K to get his pipes repaired. So judging by that I should set aside a similar amount of money to get it repaired. Oh boy, misery sure loves company.

A well deserved break

or so I thought...

During the Chinese new year break I have managed to :

1. Got my hands on the original Transformers More Season 1 DVD, hence giving the boy a chance in understanding the Transformers Series in depth, short of buying the guidebook, as to what it is about rather than the 'movie' which kinda lost me

2. Catch up on a few movies which I had, which turns out to be a blood-bath-fest. Never in my life I feel that the movie industry has really pushed the envelope on 'realistic' blood spatter, where decapitation is the highlight of the movies... urgghh... puts me off blood for a while

3. Made plans to have a mini reunion for the east coast members of my school (there's only 4 of us there) but had to be canceled due to unforeseen circumstances

4. The sleeping pattern of the newborn is still not fully established, which have left me red-eyed and tired during the day. Wonder how I'm gonna cope next week when work is going to be full force.

5. Loads of old wives tip (petua) on the newborn. Some rather dubious, some rather obvious. The thing is that there are so many medically trained elders that you were left wondering what good a MD that your doc has. Also a lot of stuff were sourced for the newborn with money and time spent on it, but when it come to applying it, it was like, "cuba sikit je dulu, kalau tak mujarab cuba benda lain plak". I was like WTF??? Wanna try or not? If don't want to try then why ask to seek in the first place? Should I play Doc and try everything even though it would upset the elders?

6. The work than I brought back hasn't been touched. Sigh... need to do overtime to meet the dateline....

7. On the up note, my time of changing the baby has improved. Now need to challenge the best of the best pit crew. Anyone seen my stopwatch?

Rant over. Catching up some zzzz....

Now Listening ...

Hujan - Pagi yang gelap

Spectacular Family

It means that 3/4 in the family member are wearing vision correction device a.k.a spectacles. Why 3/4? Let's count :

1. Me
2. The mrs
3. The boy?

The boy had been complaining lately that he couldn't see what the teacher wrote and the blackboard and as a results some of his homework is not copied. Which prompted us to go to an ophthalmologist to have his eyesight checked. The results? This is one of the results where a higher number is not preferable, and his is higher than mine!!!! And he's only six going on seven.

Anak Bapak - with his chosen glasses