More Speaking Record

There are still some words that 小J is unable to pronounce properly. There are also words that he says with some funny accent that we don't know where it comes from:

To-mor-yo - Tomorrow
Stor-ee - Story
Sub維 - Subway
Tail-yo - Tail
Nail-yo - Nail

These cute little words are 買少見少 these days as 小J gets more and more fluent in speech.

Breaking Bad

Since #2 has arrived, I have been spending a lot of time confined in a sitting position lately. I have been reading books and watching movies. The list of movie that I would like to watch quickly depleted and I got tired off searching for movies to watch so I have decided to watch Breaking Bad.

Picked this series cos one of the kid at church really liked it and there were all these hypes back when the series was about to end.

Unfortunately, I really didn't like it. It's one of those shows that everyone on it is jerk.

Problem is, I was too deep into it before I realized that everyone is a jerk, at which point, I had to finish the series. To be fair, each character also has his/her good qualities but it doesn't offset the dark side enough for me to like them.

Hated the wife, hated the sister, hated the main character, pretty much hated everyone there.

Hated hated it when the main character starts lying cos he's so bad at it and it was obvious that he was lying. I know it's on purpose but it was driving me insane.

The only character that amuses me is the lawyer. He's pretty much loud and proud of the fact that he works for the money. He helps whoever that can pay the price. Not that he's a good person but at least he's honest and open about it instead of lie after lie after lie.

One interesting idea is that everyone, the big bad guys (the big player, not the little 小混混 around the street corner) were all professional and they all hide in plain site, have a normal life, normal business as cover.

Another thing is that they always show these beautiful skies as transition scenes. The show is supposed to be about these ppl in New Mexico. Is New Mexico really that beautiful?

Citrics Problem

No luck with citrics the whole summer.  No matter what I buy – oranges, tangerines, clementines, they are all super dry.

I normally don’t mind a little dry oranges but those are so dry that it’s not even edible. And there is no flavor at all. Let’s say an orange. Normally, when it’s dry, it’s only one side. The other side is usually still okay. So in the spirit of not wasting food, I would bite off the non-dry side, trying to eat as much as possible. But this time, the whole thing is so dry and the flavor is just non-existent that I gave up trying. Had to toss them out.

I even tried and buy from fancy Longos.  Not as bad but similar problem. They are barely edible but still don’t taste good at all.

Don’t know what’s wrong with the citrics this year. It’s not a particularly dry year, I don’t think. I normally like oranges/clementines as one of my regular fruits but after multiple failures, I am wary about buying any more citrics. Is it just my bad luck or is it happening to everyone??

My Phones

My phone’s on/off button has been broken for a while. So I can’t turn the phone on if the screen is off and I can’t use it. The way to turn it back on is to plug/unplug it to the charger. Another way is to wait for ppl to call me then the screen activates so that I can answer the phone. Needless to say, this is not very useful at all.
Luckily, 詹占 had the exact same phone as mine and has moved on to a new one pretty much when mine fell apart so I could inherit a ‘new old’ phone.
Everything’s ok until the phone went for a swim in the toilet a few months ago. Since then, the USB isn’t quite working – I can’t transfer files between the phone and computer anymore. But other than that, the phone is basically functioning.
但係，好境不常，phone #2 suddenly can’t be charged anymore. Guess the USB plug finally had it.
So basically, I have

1. Phone #1, can be charged but the on/off button is broken. So if I leave the phone on, then it just drains my battery.
2. Phone #2, can be used but can’t be charged.

Because of that, I have to bring two phones and two batteries with me most of the time. One for using. One for charging. I also had to switch the batteries between the phones all the time, too. So stupid.
My 3-yr phone contract is finally up today. And I could get a new phone with a 2-yr contract but I am kinda waiting for the Nexus 6 to come out. 詹占 has moved on to Nexus 5 but discovered some issue with the sound capture when recording video.  Apparently, it’s a hardware issue so I don’t want Nexus 5.  But then there isn’t any announcement on the release date of Nexus 6 yet.  And it might never come. I have been trying to follow all the rumors on some tech/gadget websites but so far, everything’s just rumors.  So, I’m holding up, still using the two semi-broken phones in the meantime until either a new Google phone comes out or my semi-broken phones turn into completely broken phones.

Soon

Less than 3 weeks to go.

Mom is arriving in less than 2 weeks. Still not sure about her flight schedule yet. Haha… Will be ok. I’ll go pick her up somehow.

House is still a mess. Still sleeping in the basement. The reno is mostly done, only a couple little things to wrap up. And then it’s the big clean up and moving things back upstairs (will mostly done by  詹占. Hor hor… one nice thing abt having a big belly!).

Ordered a bunk and one mattress for 小J from WM. Also a little kid sized dresser from IKEA. We decided to go cheap on these purchase due to the super low cash flow at the moment. Hopefully it will last him for a little while. Buying good quality stuff for him may not be the best idea anyway since he may wreck things too quickly at this age. Dresser is lying around on main floor in various boxes, waiting to be assembled. Don’t know when the bunk and mattress will arrive yet. Hopefully not too soon cos we don’t have any space to put them until we get upstairs more or less organized. Garage is already filled to the top. (clearing even just the 2nd floor only made us realized the amount of CRAP we own… Better not moving house any time soon…)

Still have to pack the GO-bag. But everything is kinda hidden in various places right now that I’m leaving the packing till after we move things back in place, hopefully soon.

Still haven’t got names picked out yet.

The one big step that I have done to get ready was that I bought a size N package of diaper (wow… so much work!).

We’ve also retrieved the bassinet that we’ve lent/given out after 小Ｊwas done with it.

Not sure where the baby car seat is. We won’t be allowed to leave the hospital without one.

Haven’t dug out all the little clothes yet. They are stashed somewhere in boxes in the basement. The boxes are labeled so it should be relatively easy to find. It’s just a matter of getting all the stuff out of the way and actually go look for them. Ideally, we should wash these clothes that have been put away for a while. But practically, it may not get done…

Lots of work in the office waiting for me to wrap up. 4 projects in line. I believe I can finish 3 of them and 1 is a lost cause. Unfortunately, my manager is the one who’s the bottleneck and holding everything up. Someone really need to whip her ass a bit to get her to move faster. I know she’s trying her best and she’s really overloaded. But if she doesn’t do her part so that I can finish off these projects, guess who’s going to suffer when I leave things hanging?

It could be next week for all I know. 3 weeks is just an estimate.  小Ｊwas early by 2 weeks. Better not come out until my mom’s here cos no one’s going to look after 小Ｊotherwise.

Toilet Paper

Hate it when public washrooms provide those super ultra thin toilet paper in big huge rolls like below:

First of all, the toilet paper is so thin that one needs to extract lots so that it can be stacked to a reasonable thickness in order not to have whatever went thru the hands.  So if the thinness is for the sake of saving paper, it’s not working cos user will just pull out tons anyway.

Second, due to the ultra thin nature, there’s no strength associated with these toilet paper. Together with the fact that the rolls are so big and heavy, when user pulls on the end, it simply breaks into tiny little pieces and the huge roll is not rolling to let out some more. The end results are:

1. Some ppl somehow throws these little pieces all on the ground and therefore making the toilet stall very untidy, with an impression of being dirty, even tho it might not actually be that dirty.
2. These little pieces are not usable and mostly ended up being thrown into the toilet without being use and user have to pull out some more.  Again, counter-productive if trying to save cost.
3. Major annoyance to the user.

Even if I try to use these little pieces that break off, it’s very difficult and I have to pull out a million little pieces.

Why can’t the provider:

1. Use normal thickness toilet paper.
2. If they really want to use these ultra thin paper, could they put them into smaller rolls so that ppl can actually pull out the toilet paper?

I have to agree, some ppl pull out tons regardless of thickness anyway. Therefore, I don’t mean that the provider needs to provide the best quality of toilet paper out there cos there will be too much waste by those ppl. However, I think normal thickness isn’t too much to ask for.

House of Cards

Have always wanted to watch this series but was worried that once I started, I’ll always be 心思思狂追。

Finally started. Watched one episode so far. Not much happened but it was only episode 1 so it’s mostly just an intro. Still quite enjoyed it.

Always like to watch Kelvin Spacey. Even when he’s playing the evil/bad guy, he somehow has his way to making the audience root for him.

Watching it with 詹占. It’s a bit tricky cos then it means that I will have to wait till both of us are free to continue. But it’s also a good thing cos it means that I can’t just 狂煲，helps to keep me on track.

Can hardly wait to watch some more!