Archive for July, 2007

The mooncake battle has begun. I saw it with my own eyes. It started about 2 weeks ago. A little early since Mooncake Festival 2007 or the Mid Autumn Festival isn’t until 25 September 2007 this year.

However, the battle cry has begun. Everyone is joining the battle too. From specialty mooncake makers, to bakeries, hotels, restaurants, ice-cream shops and florists too. May the best packaging win!

At 50sen a bite and more, its certainly a battle worth fighting. Afterall its only once a year. Still, going into battle 2 months before the war seems just a little too early for me. I think I’ll wait a month before tasting my first mooncake. It doesn’t come cheap and its not extremely healthy to consume in large quantities. Lol!

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Cars. All men love them. Well, we women love them too but not quite as much as the men. Cars are definitely the big boys’ toys. Men love to read up Motoring News and catch up on the latest news about cars. They love to admire and look at them. Now they can do so at home with Supercar Wallpapers like the one above.

Guys, forget about boring fish swimming across your screen. These sleek, sexy Supercar Wallpapers and Screensavers is a must have. Take your pick. You have a choice of 10 Superquality Supercars to choose from. You can select the Ferrari Enzo or the McLarren F1 or the Lamborghini Murcielago etc to grace your computer screens. I like the Mercedes SLR. These Supercar Wallpapers are free to download and they’re off very good quality.

Supercars like these might not be affordable to most but we can still admire them daily. Imagine one of these on your laptop. It’ll look so cool. Then while you’re busy admiring, dreaming and fantasizing about these Supercars, you can check out Used Cars for cars that you can actually afford.

You can find these Supercar Wallpapers and Screensavers, Motoring News and Used Cars listings all at Vcars, the site to find approved UK Cars and Dealers.

Image is from DonnaBellas.com 

I am a Daddy’s Girl. After my mum passed away when I was 10, I think that left me to dote upon. The others were 14, 15, 17 and 18, well pass the doting age. So yes, I’m Daddy’s Girl. I remember daddy used to buy my favourite foods for me for supper. He was a policeman you see and he worked late quite often. I would wait patiently for him to come home with some special treat for me. I find that Daddies often show their love to their kids with food. Hahaha.

Before I had kids, those I know who had kids told me that opposites attract. You’ll find that boys are closer to mums and girls are closer to dads. “You’ll see” they said knowingly.

Well now that I have a boy and a girl, I find it quite true. My girl is close to her dad and my boy is close to me. Somehow my girl has a special bond with her dad. We put it down to the fact that because she was the firstborn he spent a lot of time helping me out with her like walking and rocking her to sleep when she cried etc.

Having said this, I would however like to add that both my kids are close to me, girl as well as boy. Closer to me than they are to their dads. “Thats because you have the advantage of time.” hubby tells me jealously. Hahaha. He’s probably right. The more time you spend with them, the more they bond with you. I’ve often said that that is the reason why people should not let their kids spend so much time with their maids.

I’m really curious. Do opposites really attract? Are you a mummy’s boy or a daddy’s girl? And what about your kids? Is it the same way too?

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It would seem that we pop more and more pills as we grow older. My dad has to take his blood pressure medication and medication to control his colestrol. Recently he was prescribed a memory pill to improve his memory. This caused him to have insomnia and when we told the doctor about it the doctor said he should take sleeping pills to help him sleep. I think its getting out of control.

I have to take pills too. Twice a day so that hopefully I don’t get another seizure. Its really hard to remember to take my medicine. The best way of course is to keep them in a pill box and take them right after a meal. The best way is to have a routine and to take them at the same time everyday.

Even then I forget occassionally especially when there is a break in my routine. So to everyone out there who has to make sure their elderly parent remembers to take their pills, please be patient with them. Its really not easy to remember.

I can’t remember so what more when it comes to an elderly person who has a poorer memory. Be patient and don’t be frustrated.