Check It Out

I have received lots of emails with stories about how someone was tricked and robbed, or how a certain kind of food is a cure-all for most ailments, or warnings about a new kind of computer virus that would cause irreversible damage to our computer if we click on a certain link, etc, etc.

Sometimes after reading the email I would wonder if a certain story was true or not. There is a website called Snopes.com which has a large collection of urban legends and other stories of questionable origin, which makes it a rather useful resource for checking to see if what we read is true or not (wikipedia).


For example, the email supposedly from Facebook which requests that the Facebook user click on an attachment....REAL VIRUS, do not click on the attachment!


Another example: Fruit must be eaten on an empty stomach in order for the body to absorb it properly....FALSE! Fruits combined with other food in our stomach does not putrefy - food does NOT rot in our stomach!

Check it out...don't believe everything you read.

Done In Slow Motion

I was looking at some videos in YouTube to try to get some ideas for a church presentation for Father's Day when I came across this very funny slow-mo video...

Generation Y

Received this email from my sis-in-law the other day...


What is Generation Y ??

Hmm, I've always wondered this myself... now I know.


- People born before 1946 were called The Silent generation..


- The Baby Boomers, are people born between 1946 and 1959.


- Generation X, people have been born between 1960 and 1979.


- Generation Y, are the people born between 1980 and 2009.



Why do we call the last group Generation Y? I never did know, but recently a cartoonist explained it very eloquently below...

Happy 30th Birthday, Pacman!

Wow, it's Pacman's 30th anniversary! I still remember playing this game for hours and hours on the PC a very long time ago when I was a kid...it was THE game back then.



The Google homepage has this Pacman game...really nice. Couldn't resist playing it, but playing Pacman with a computer mouse isn't as fun as playing it with a joystick. I can just imagine my kids asking, "What's Pacman? What's a joystick?...What?! Green was the only colour for computer graphics back then??" About 20 years ago I would not have imagined that the graphics displayed on the PC monitor could be as colourful and beautiful as it is today. I still remember doing flowcharts for computer programming and playing Lode Runner (one of my favourite games of all times!) until everything I saw had a strange greenish tinge because I had been glued to the PC for hours and hours trying to get to the next level of the game!

Those were the days...kinda feel old even as I type this...

No Sofa

Hubby and I decided to change our sofa set because we thought it's about time for a little home makeover.

We wanted to give the sofas away instead of dumping them, so I called up the Persatuan Amal Seri Sinar, a charity organisation....the one that provides the large metal donation bins in housing areas for people to donate their clothes, toys, recyclables, etc. They will send a truck to collect furniture and large electrical appliances.

They came on Monday and took away my sofa set. The problem is that my new sofa set can only be delivered on Friday, the earliest...which means that we have no sofa to sit on when we watch TV...much to the dismay of our kids.

We only have these 2 little stools we bought from IKEA....it was quite comical to see the kids perched on them...not a very comfortable way to watch TV!

Hmm...it seems like a good way to keep the kids from watching too much TV, though!