Blogging Soon

We are back in Singapore after our 6 day trip to Penang (8-13 November 2014)! :) It has been really fun. It will take me some time to choose and upload the photos on my blog as I took close to 1000 photos for this Penang trip! :P Please bear with me and I will try to upload my photos as soon as I can. Thanks! :) 

Profile Photo

The profile photos on my blog and Facebook are quite dated. I finally changed them to more current photos. :)

Limit's Reached

Oops. I just discovered that I have reached 99% of my 1GB quota for photos. :( I have heard of bloggers who have retired from blogging totally because of this limit. There are two more options available. I can either start paying a monthly fee to purchase additional storage space or I can downsize my photos to a certain size. Guess it is easier to downsize my photos. :) I apologise in advance if the quality is not as good as before. 

Blog or Facebook?

Some of us have both a blog and a Facebook account. If you have both, do you have a preference for one over the other?
Seeing how often I have to send out a whole bunch of Belated Happy Birthday wishes through Facebook because I don't check in often enough, is evident enough which one is my preference lol. :P

New Look?

I have been using this blog design for quite some time now. Seems to be a bit boring and dated. There are some pretty nice blog templates. Thinking of getting a new look... :)

IE9

Ever since I upgraded to Internet Explorer 9, I have been experiencing problem posting my blog posts. :( I could only post on my blog from Firefox. What's happening? :(

Missing Posts

I was surprised when I couldn't see the posts that I published yesterday. Later, I read on Blogger that there was a problem but they were working on rectifying the problem.
Phew, the missing posts are back :) but the time stamps are all screwed up. :(

Got Featured! II

JAVOedge wrote back to inform me that they have my fan photo post up on their store blog and gave me the link http://www.javoedgeblog.com/2010/09/29/fan-photos-a-kindle-ipad-lover-shares-their-javoedge-case-collection/

I clicked on the link and I was pretty tickled to see a snapshot of my JAVOedge Cases blog post and my photos up on another blog haha. :P They wrote nice things too that I am their first international JAVOedge fan that they have shared on Fan Photos! That's really nice of them. :) A good friend thought it was really cool that JAVOedge has featured my photos and my blog post on their store blog, their Facebook and Kindleboards. LOL. :) I am famous hahaha :P

20,000

I have gotten 20,000 views on my blog! I am amazed that my blog would actually be read by other people, other than my family and friends. Thank you to everyone who has visited my blog and took the time to read about my thoughts and my feelings.

A big THANK YOU to all (my family, my friends, my ex-students, my followers, my readers). Love you all. :) Keep coming back to read my blog, ok? Haha. :P

Back in Singapore

Now that I am back in Singapore, I will have more time. I will update my blog for the rest of my Taipei trip as soon as I can.

Denver, Here I Come

Another 6 hours, I will be in the plane departing from Terminal 3, Changi Airport. :)

Denver is 15 hours behind Singapore. I will try to update my blog as regularly as I can so that my girls can see what I do in Denver, what I see in Denver and what I eat in Denver lol.

I should try to sleep soon. I have to leave for the airport at 4:30am. Hope I wake up on time lol. :P

Annoying Ads

For those of you who have blogs, do you sometimes find these annoying adverts appearing in the comments section of your blog posts?

Of late, I have found quite a number of such annoying ads, usually advertising for medicine, for investment companies, for online marketing, etc on my blog, at least once a week. They can appear anywhere, in recent posts to posts as far back as 1 or 2 years ago! It is really annoying as I have go back into the posts to delete the ads. It's really wasting my time. Argh!

1000th Post

I just realised that a few days ago, 8 days ago to be exact, I wrote my 1000th blog post! Hahaha. Never realised that I could write that much or I could maintain a blog for that long. I am amazed at myself lol. :P I shall do my best to write interesting posts for my blog if I can. :)

Happy!

Happy!
Blogger's "Create New Post" is working fine for the second day running. :) I can finally change font colour, add photos and so on. It feels great to be creative again lol. Singnet has finally gotten its act together. FINALLY! :)

Happy!
I managed to buy the last copy of Ponyo on the Cliff by the Sea DVD from That CD shop for the girls. I had promised them that I will get them the Ponyo DVD. Besides, I also enjoyed watching Ponyo. I love its animation, colours and soundtrack in the movie. The Ponyo DVD I bought is a two-disc special edition that came in a tin box. A Studio Ghibli Collection item. :)

Singnet

... is still wonky. :( Last night, I could create a post with photos and adding text colours but now, "Create Post" is without all its buttons again. Have tried various methods which other Singnet users have suggested to get Blogger working but nothing worked. It is damn frustrating! Maybe I should consider changing my ISP...

Problems with Singnet

Bloggers, such as I, who use Singnet as their ISP, have been having problems creating blog posts. On the "New Post" page, the buttons for font size, font colour, add picture, etc are all missing and the alignment of things are all off! It is really frustrating when I am trying to put up posts. Urgh!

There is a help group on Blogger and it is apparent only Singnet users are facing such a problem. I verified with a good friend who is using Starhub as his ISP and he faces no such problem posting his blog posts. I really hope Singnet can do something about it.

Flying Soon

Done with my work. I thought I might as well put up the post for Thursday now. Well, technically it is Thursday, the wee hours of Thursday morning lol.

I will be leaving for the airport in exactly 4.5 hours' time lol. I probably won't be able to blog as I will be in the air for almost 19 hours. I will put up my blog post as soon as I arrive in USA.

Meanwhile, everyone, take care. I will be back on 26 April.

10000 Views

As of today, my blog hits 10000 views! I never expected that because my blog is only a personal blog.

Thanks to everyone who reads my blog - my friends, my colleagues, my former students, my regular readers as well as the readers who found my blog by chance. :)

Comments

For the second day running, my blog has 100+ hits. :P

Today, I also received a number of comments on my blog posts. :) One was an extremely nice and heartfelt comment. I was very touched by the comment. However, I have deleted the comment at the commenter's request. I have posted my reply (in comment section) to the commenter. Thank you very much. :) And to my friend, yes, you are very blessed to have blessed family and friends. So must appreciate us and don't be late anymore for our gatherings! Hahahaha. :P

I also received comments that I have an interesting blog and that I have an interesting life. :) Well, I always thought that my life can be much more interesting lol. But it is interesting to know that people view my life as interesting. Thanks. :)

To my friends, to my blog readers (both accidental and intentional :)), thanks for reading my blog and thanks for leaving your comments. I really appreciate it. :)

My Blog

I was very surprised with the number of hits I had on my blog today. It had 102 hits.

But I think I know why. Quite a number of colleagues were reading my blog post about a certain wonderful colleague of ours leaving. (Sob sob again.) I didn't realise some of my colleagues were actually following my blog and I think some of them must have told others about it lol. I had a colleague telling me that she read my blog and I don't recall ever sending her my blog link. Yikes. My blog is circulating around and I hope it is circulated among friends, haha. :P