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Saturday, July 18, 2009

Streamyx is down

Dear readers and visitors,
My streamyx has been down since Thursday. Telekom told me that they will restore the service by today, which I am skeptical. My neighbour told me that it will take a week! For the meantime, please do come back to check it out often.

Take care
William

Thursday, July 16, 2009

100,000 readers to my blogs

My blog counter just crossed the 100,000 mark last night. To all my valued readers and visitors to this blog, a big thank you.
Please continue to come back and I value your feedback, if any, on how to make my blog more interesting and beneficial.
The highest number of readers was on 16 January 2009 with more than 5000 per day. Anyone remember the occasion?
Thank you again and do come back often! And because of you, if you look for my name on Google, it has "floated" to the top.
May God bless you and may your days be blessed!

Wednesday, July 15, 2009

My two younger sons

Many people thought that these two boys are twin. Actually they are 18 months apart. I also find that raising kids nowadays is a lot more challenging. They seem to know a lot more than we were at their age. They access to the internet, read news, etc. At their age during our time, we play marbles, went fishing, fly kites, went over to neighbours, etc....

Perhaps, this is the nicest shot I got of him smiling so sweetly! I found it a challenge to ask him to relax and smile...
... otherwise, he always seems not to know how to smile in the way we thought would look good!
On the other hand, Jos always seems relax, jump about and everywhere we went, it is like home.

Anyway, we are going home in a little while.... rushing for the airport now. The two boys seem restless! Pestering me to go to the swimming pool or Sunway Pyramic ...
... to buy this. Hahahaha... do you know what is this?

Sun baked apple ... anyone?

I accidently left two apples in the car and under the sun for a day. When I returned in the evening to pick up the car, the apples were soft and hot! Instead of throwing them away, I decided to bring them back!
Timmy and Jos think that they cannot be eaten. But, I have a bite and it actually tasted quite good.... I think they were great. If you wish, do try it and I think you won't regret it!

Tuesday, July 14, 2009

Pictures from Daicon exhibition

This is the last installment of photos from the Daicon exhibition on Japanese Anime, etc.
... costume ...



There are model planes on display. The two boys love them very much...
... plane made to great details ...

... this store KKnM was selling Anime merchandise.... they have a huge queue and everyone was queueing up for their turn to go in.
... the other side of the store...
... Japanese swordman ...
... swordwoman ...
... spray tattoo ... very popular with customers.
... cosplay ..

... one of the lecture/admin block of MMU.
I hope you have enjoyed these pictures as much as I enjoyed recording them.

More on MMU Daicon exhibition (Figurines)

On arrival at the main door of the Great Hall, Ah Jon met his friends....
... what a coincident! He is from Lutong coming to KL for holiday...
... at the exhibition, there were many students dressed in Japanese costumes ...
... asking for marriage in Japanese style? These students are very creative ...
... ok... figurines ...I didn't take pictures for everyone. Just too many of them.
... you can see the interest ...
... every one was made to great details and nicely coloured ...
... shall I call them sexy as well?! ...
... the only problem I found in taking these photos is the label placed at the feet of every figurines. So... I will crop them out. I should have cropped a bit higher up on all these photos...
... but ...never mind lah ...
... just enjoy the pic...

... I have many more to post. Do come back again! Some of these photos were taken by Ah Jon.

Monday, July 13, 2009

First Milestone Review

The morning started with breakfast....
Jos ate a lot of rice....he said they were very tasty... nasi lemak (Coconut milk rice)
...and Ah Jon had his big portion...
... we arrived at 9:00Am, registered and then wait... the doc won't come until his morning round is over, ie, 10:30AM.
... anyway, Timmy had his blood taken first. And when Jos turn came, we tried for more than 30 minutes without success. First he didn't want.... sudden backout. However, he finally agreed ...Ah Jon had his blood taken also...
... so we went for lunch...
We came back and waited some more until his results were finally partially done.... we have the review anyway. Only thing is that his white blood count has improved. So, off he went to the first floor for bone marrow extraction ...
.... behind this curtain...
... when completed, many tubes of samples were taken. He was under sedation ...
... he fell asleep and after 1+ hour, he was given a jab to wake him up. He couldn't remember a thing! He rested for another hour and off we went to Sunway Pyramic for a Japanese dinner with ...
... Clarissa and Vincent of HP...
... this is the mark of bone marrow extraction. No bath tonight and tomorrow, he can remove the plaster.

Navigation by Garmin GPS

This morning we drove from Nikko Hotel to Sime Darby Medical Centre. Ah Jon told me that he will never be brave enough to drive in KL. There are so many cars and they all cut in and out like crazy!
Even with the aid of Garmin GPS, we still make wrong turn. I think it is because Ah Jon is still not used to the system. Also, the GPS software may be faulty, eg, keep left and turn right. This is like cowboy driving! Oh, perhaps it means "keep left and turn right using overhead bridge". Never mind, we shall get used to the instruction.
What ever, we arrived at our destination, some 30 km away with just 2 errors and took 40 minutes. I think we did quite well.
We reached here at about 9:00AM. The doctor will not come in until 10:30AM and true enough, he arrived precisely at 10:30AM. Our turn will be about lunch time. The two little boys are now very restless, bored!

Sunday, July 12, 2009

Visit to MMU (Daicon)

We went to Cyberjaya yesterday to visit Daicon exhibition. I wasn't too sure what was in store for me (except Jon) until I was there. It was quite a journey because, first, my GPS mess up, then I make a wrong turn and ended up taking 1 hour instead of 30 minutes! I realised that Daicon is actually something for Japanese culture, ie, not for adult but for kids and teens. It was all about Anime and games convention! For the first time, I saw so many figurines and all the admirers. It seems that figurines are mostly admired by boys for obvious reason. I took many photos and this is my first installment ... enjoy!
The great hall of MMU.







Do come back again for more pictures ....

Saturday, July 11, 2009

Jon, Timmy and Jos are in KL

After 2 hours of flying, we finally arrived at KLIA. The ever curious small boys asked so many questions.
In the air, they asked, where are we now? Why is the plane shaking? They observed the landing, how the wings spread out, the flap opened to slow down, etc... well, the last time they flew were when Timmy was only 6 and he can't remember a thing!
The first time I stepped on a plane was when I was 16!
We are stuck for a while now as Ah Jon is trying to fix Garmin GPS. The software died on him! So he can't navigate out of this place. Anyway, I am going in a little while to Cyberjaya using paper map and my own memory. It is all part of the fun! He wanted to go to Daicon.