Month: February 2005

(Close-Up III, originally uploaded by firda.) I finally got around to making my very first snow, um, creature, with a little (a lot of?) help from the boy, in the frontyard of the boy’s parents place last Saturday. We weren’t planning on making a snow T-Rex, but once we put the head up, it just…… Continue reading Snow T-Rex

I don’t know if any of you has ever heard of the song Straight Outta Compton by N.W.A. It’s a rap song. Not being a fan of rap music, I’ve never heard of that song until I came across Nina Gordon’s website. She has her own version of the song, and it’s definitely not rap.…… Continue reading Straight Outta Compton

I’ve been seeing a lot of businesses here with a neon sign saying open when they’re really not. I wonder if it’s a Canadian thing. Either way, it’s slowly becoming one of my pet peeves. And speaking of unisex beauty salons, the boy and I had a haircut together a couple of days ago at…… Continue reading We’re Open, But We’re Not!

I started blogging today 5 years ago. I didn’t have my own domain then. My weblog was hosted at freespeech.org (about the only free host with no ads I could find back then) and was powered by Blogger, which was the only free blogging tool available at that time (but on second thought, there was…… Continue reading The Obligatory 5th Blogiversary Post

Since I know you guys are dying to hear about how my curling-watching night went, here’s the scoop. First of all, I’m sure curling is an exciting sport to play and all, but it’s not really the most exciting thing in the world to watch. The amusing brush-the-ice thing can only keep you entertained for…… Continue reading Curling Thursday

The boy thinks that my weblog readers like me better when I’m blogging from Indonesia because now that I’m blogging from Canada, I get considerably less comments to my weblog posts. I wonder if it’s true. Hrm. Speaking of the boy, I’m going to watch him curl tonight. No, not curl as in curling his…… Continue reading Curling As A Sport

(The Flight of Three Feathers, originally uploaded by firda.) I participated in the Illustration Friday for the first time yesterday. I wasn’t going to blog about it because my entry was really crappy and made with Photoshop to boot, but the boy (whose entry is much more interesting than mine) thought I should, so there…… Continue reading The Flight of Three Feathers

(Happy Valentine’s Day, originally uploaded by firda.) I wasn’t expecting to get anything for Valentine’s Day from the boy because, really, we already say “I love you” and show our love to each other every day, but look what I got! A lot of presents and a really sweet card! I feel so loved. I’m…… Continue reading Heart-shaped Chocolate Day

I had been tinkering with my RSS feeds for, like, ever but I just couldn’t be satisfied with the results. I’ve finally found something that does exactly what I need: FeedBurner. It’s a one-feed-for-all type thing. No more headaches about feed formats and newsreader compatibility. In addition, FeedBurner enables me to keep track of the…… Continue reading Burning Hot Feed

I’ve been getting questions about how I integrated my del.icio.us links into my weblog. It’s really quite simple. I would write down every step here but after having a fever for two days, my brain is kind of wonky and I don’t really feel like writing something that’s already been written somewhere else so I’ll…… Continue reading Del.icio.us to Movable Type