http://www.adriantai.com it is now the two of us!!! Fri, 02 May 2008 04:19:07 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en There's just so many things to do and so little time... I just wish there's like 48 hours in a day... :) The baby is due end of this month. We still have quite a number of things to do and prepare like (in no particular order): 1. Pack the bags - ... http://www.adriantai.com/so-many-things-to-prepare/ I give up. I don't really have much time to spend on working on this 'simple' template. And the last Wordpress upgrade sort of really screwed things up. Even before the upgrade, the formatting looks a bit weird on Firefox but looks fine on IE. So, anyone wanna volunteer and help me ... http://www.adriantai.com/wordpress-theme-expert-wanted/ The bird died... :( Mrs Tai said it died while her colleague was trying to feed it with the antibiotic the vet had given. It was trying to peck Mrs Tai's colleague and was struggling. Then it just dropped dead... So its Goodbye #1. I also said goodbye to my hamster. That's Goodbye ... http://www.adriantai.com/3-goodbyes-and-a-hello/ This bird has a story to share... Mrs Tai sent me this photo via her mobile phone this afternoon saying that this bird had hit the fan and broke its wing. I thought it was just a minor accident and the wing was just injured a bit. So I didn't call ... http://www.adriantai.com/a-birds-story/ Many of our concerned family and friends have been asking about our baby. I guess some are also worried since this will be our first time being a mum and dad (which one is nicer - dad, daddy, papa, pups, Daddy T, Daddy A, Big T?). We are touched by ... http://www.adriantai.com/baby-updates/ This one was originally published on http://adriantai.blogspot.com back in 2007. Reproducing it here since I think it does make a nice read. :) ************************************** Mrs Tai (that is what I call my wife) asked me to help her do some banking on Saturday morning since she had to be in school (she ... http://www.adriantai.com/my-atm-experience/ I kid you not... Even the people who used to call bloggers names like 'monkeys' are now bloggers. What? Suddenly they (actually, I'm referring to the politicians) all became so free (like what some of our politicians used to say about bloggers -- too much free time on hand)... Or maybe ... http://www.adriantai.com/suddenly-everyones-now-a-blogger/ I had my first experience with the new rounding mechanism last Sunday. The Jimat dan SENang (translated to English, it means SAVE AND EASY - the SEN is used as word play) is the government campaign aimed at introducing the rounding mechanism based on the TOTAL amount of a bill. ... http://www.adriantai.com/jimat-dan-senang/ Last week had been an eventful week for me. The same could also be said for the past few weeks, actually. Many things have happened -- I have had time to reflect on my life, my family, my work, the people around me, etc... I did some thinking, some talking (to ... http://www.adriantai.com/quiet/ If I have a very bad stomach discomfort and know the gas coming out of my rear end will be ‘lethal’, is it OK for me to fart around my fellow colleagues so I get to share the noxious gas with them? If I have just had petai or even durian, ... http://www.adriantai.com/smokers/