Month: January 2005

We went to the small town of Port Dover on the north shore of Lake Erie on Sunday afternoon because I wanted to see the beach in winter (after seeing the Jim Carrey and Kate Winslett characters in “Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind” going to a beach in winter). We didn’t expect to find…… Continue reading Port Dover in Winter

If anyone tried to post a comment or email me in the last 12 hours or so and failed, that was because I ran out of space on my hosting account. See, I shared a 200MB hosting account with the boy. He got 125MB and I got 75MB (surprisingly, he has all that much more…… Continue reading Out of Space

We just got back from seeing Un long dimanche de fiançailles a.k.a. A Very Long Engagement. Watching the movie, you just can’t help comparing it with Amélie since it’s from the same director and it also has Audrey Tautou and some other actors from Amélie in it. The humours in both movies are quite similar,…… Continue reading A Movie Review? Nah!

(Fortune Cookies, originally uploaded by firda.) We bought a jar of fortune cookies the last time we did our grocery shopping, just for the fun of it. I just had one today and the cookie contained two fortunes instead of one. I’ve been told that you’re supposed to add the phrase “in bed” to your…… Continue reading 2-in-1 Fortune

The Bloggies™ site is back up now and turns out that I’ve not only been nominated for the Best Asian Weblog but also for Lifetime Achievement! Yikes! I don’t think I’d be able to compete with big names like Tom Coates, Ernie Hsiung, Meg Hourihan and Derek Powazek, but thanks anyway for your nominations. Like…… Continue reading The Bloggies™, Again!

I don’t usually do survey memes, but since this one is passed on to me by the boy, I just have to be a good girlfriend and comply. 🙂 1. What’s the total size of music files on your computer? Well, my computer is back in my room in Indonesia so I have no way…… Continue reading Music Meme

(Mmmm, Cream Collon!, originally uploaded by firda.) The boy and I went to the Asian food market in Kitchener yesterday (but not before having a nice lunch in a Vietnamese restaurant) for our weekly Asian food shopping and we picked up a bunch of fun Asian snacks. Our favourite acquisitions are pictured above. I finished…… Continue reading Mmmm, Cream Collon!

Apparently, you guys have done a marvellous job pimping up my weblog that it’s once again become one of the Bloggies™ finalists. Thank you! I’m flattered, as always. Unfortunately, the Bloggies™ site is currently down (the dreaded “Bandwidth Limit Exceeded”) and I wouldn’t have known in which category my weblog has become a finalist hadn’t…… Continue reading The 2005 Bloggies™ Finalists

(Dining Table, originally uploaded by firda.) We finally got ourselves a dining table set a couple of days ago after the boy finally got tired of not having enough space to put things on when we are cooking. It’s now sitting pretty in the corner of our tiny little kitchen, right by the window where…… Continue reading A Dining Table, Finally!

Here’s another quiz from the PBS show “Do You Speak American” that American readers might be interested in taking: the regional dialect quiz. Match the dialect in a sound sample with a U.S. region. The boy and I did it together and we only got 4 out of 12 right (it was mostly just guesswork,…… Continue reading Where is the Speaker From?