as I need to clear as much work as possible before I go on a 2-week break. Will be flying to US with my family on 29 May. Will be going to Orlando (Disneyland etc), then to Toronto (visiting my uncle) and to NY for a few days and before coming back to Singapore.

I haven't gone for vacation in 4 years. Hubby called me a workaholic. He's got to be kidding! Given a choice, I rather stayed in bed with a book and my ipod. It's just that I've been handling most of my office's projects and I tend to worry about things that might go wrong when I'm not around. You know how things are... a small problem left unresolved will somehow escalate. Anyway looks like I have to lug my laptop along, just in case. I'm not a workaholic. Call me responsible instead!

I've arranged for Gu to look after our car and have also decided on the pet boarding house for my two cats. So what's left is the packing. The kids are so excited about the trip. I did warn them about the long flight. It's a total of 21 hours with two transits, one at Narita Airport and the other in Minnieapolis. Will bring along some VCDs and games so that they won't get too bored on the planes. So I guess a laptop will be good. Plus I could listen in to darth radio too!

I was at home last Sunday listening to darth radio. I left a message on his blog that I was tuned in and he played Summer of '69 for me. It was quite fun! It's cool how this blog stuff brings people together. I've never met darth and may never will because of the vast (physical) distance between us. But that doesn't stop us from being friends. (right? darth?)

Ok. I better get back to work. Lunch break's over!

I got tagged by darth who was tagged by nat who was tagged by.....

1. Total volume of music files on my computer?
13.1GB (yikes!)

2. The last CD I bought was..
Comme Ci Comme Ca - Janet Seidel

3. Song playing right now..
Cliffs of Dover - Eric Johnson

4. Five songs I listen to a lot or that mean a lot to me..
(this is a tough one.. so many to choose from... hmm..)
These Are The Days - Jamie Cullum
Summer of '69 - Bryan Adams
Bohemian Rhapsody - Queen
Let's Groove - Earth, Wind & Fire
It's Probably Me - Sting

5. Which 5 people are you passing this baton to, and why?
No one in particular to send to. So why don't you just volunteer?

We stay in a housing estate with a public multi-storey carpark... acronymed MSCP. It's a nice neighbourhood but on and off there've been cases of car vandalisms. Not those serious ones like smashing windows, setting cars on fire etc. but scratching cars. It's enough to annoy the hell out of car owners. Even our old Citroen's been scratched. Can't understand why these people do it. Grudge? Envious? Drunks? wtf?

Well. Our new car arrived last Tuesday. My hubby thought it's best to keep the car as low profile as possible. In other word... dirty. That's not too difficult. Just a trip to one of my construction sites and the car would be covered with a layer of mud and dirt. He reckoned that if we appeared not too interested in the looks of our car, those vandals would not find "satisfaction" in scratching our car.

So I'll be driving a dirty new car until we move to our new home in a year's time or until we get our maiden scratch, whichever comes first.

*sigh*

It's back again. All that Star Wars fever and merchandising frenzy. My son, who is 9, loves Star Wars. He has watched Episode I, II, IV to VI countless times and is eagerly waiting for III. Someone mentioned the scenes were quite graphic and may not be suitable for kids. Hmmm... Episode III will be screened on 19 May here instead of the 17 May elsewhere.

Anyway I was surfing and chanced upon this post in TalkingCock.com (a satirical humour website on issues affecting Singapore).

This particular post was titled "Lines from Star Wars that can be Improved by Replacing a Word with 'Pants' ". I'm sure you can see what's coming..

1. I find your lack of pants disturbing.
2. You are unwise to lower your pants.
3. Chewie and me got into a lot of pants more heavily guarded than this.
4. The Force is strong in my pants.
5. I cannot teach him. The boy has no pants.
6. Governer Tarkin. I should have expected to find you holding Vader's pants.
7. I think you just can't bear to let a gorgeous guy like me out of your pants.
8. Your pants, you will not need them.
9. These aren't the pants you're looking for.
10. You came in those pants? You're braver than I thought.
11. Pull up! All pants pull up!
12. I sense the conflict within you. Let go of your pants!
13. Alderaan is peaceful, we have no pants!
14. The pants will be down in moments, sir, you can begin your landing.
15. In his pants you will find a new definition of pain and suffering
16. That blast came from the pants! That thing's operational!
17. Great, Chewie, great. Always thinking with your pants.
18. I've just made a deal that will keep the Empire out of our pants forever.
19. A disturbance in the pants. I have not felt this since near my old master...
20. Lock the door. And hope they don't have pants.
21. Looks like someone's beginning to take an interest in your pants.
22. Jabba, please take these pants as a token of friendship
23. Your pants can deceive you. Don't trust them
24. Obi-Wan never told you what happened to your pants.
25. It's your father's pants. This is the weapon of a Jedi Knight.
26. Look at the size of those pants!
27. You knew my pants?
28. Search your pants, you know it to be true.
29. Yahoo! You're all clear kid. Now let's blow these pants and go home!
30. I've got a bad feeling in my pants about this.

If you are a SW fan, you'll probably recognise who said these (I meant the original version), to whom the lines were spoken to, where and when the lines were said (in the style of my literature tests once upon a time).

1 yr and 4 months to be exact. I've got like 2 PCs, a eMac and a laptop at home but only one PC has access to the internet. I've always wanted to create a wireless network at home so I bought a Netgear ADSL modem + some wireless network cards in Dec 2003. I have no idea where and how to start. In fact I wasn't even sure I bought the correct stuff. So I had a friend to come over to help. No use asking Hubby. He's zero in computers.

Merc came a few weeks later to setup for me but wasn't successful. Said he would make another trip to sort it out. But I knew he was busy preparing for his new house, wedding etc. so didn't really want to bug him too much. Tried it myself but I just couldn't log into the internet. Anyway soon after, I got so busy with family and work, that I had put it aside.

Recently I happened to be chatting with a site engineer and he told me how easy it was. I decided to give it another try. He gave me step-by-step-idiot-proof instructions on the mobile while I fiddled around with the settings. Got a stiff neck after the long period of clamping my mobile between my shoulder and neck. But it was worth it.

Last evening I bought a Airport extreme card, checked the Apple site for instructions, installed the card and within 5 minutes the eMac was setup. It was a breeze with the Mac. Ha! I'm finally wireless!! All computers have access to the internet.

Erm.. now how do I share files?

Dr. Wee Kim Wee, our ex-president, passed away at 5.10am on Monday at the age of 89.

I shook hand with him once, when I was a student in NUS. I couldn't remember which year it was. 1987 I think. But I remember it was during the NUS's Rag & Flag event. It was an annual fund-raising event (part of the freshman's orientation programme) when all the faculties and halls of NUS would decorate floats, fight for the best-decorated float competition and then travel all over the island to raise funds for charities by selling flags.

Dr Wee was our university's guest-of-honour. It was a very hot and humid day and he arrived in the midst of all the chaotic last-minute-adjustments and inter-faculty cheer-fights. Yet he was smiling (a huge contrast to his security guards) and shaking hands with those who were near him. I was one of the lucky few.

Even though I never had the privilege to know him personally, I believe what others had said of him being a kind, unassuming and sincere person. I believe because he had given me that warm and friendly smile, despite me being dirty, sweaty and probably not-too-nice-smelling.

Goodbye Mr. President. We'll miss you.

I did this Peanuts Characters Test at okCupid! And here's my results... I'm a

I like Schroder. But me? a prodigy?

Peanuts is one of my fav. I have some of the comics. But my collection is far from complete. I like all the characters though my fav is Linus.

This test is at The Peanuts Characters Test. I don't think the test is too accurate, but it's fun!