Archive For August, 2007

Cases on exposure to asbestos

By | August 13, 2007

There have been many cases on workers being exposed to asbestos.  Exposure to asbestos is no joke.  Workers mainly in the construction industry use asbestos for insulation, roofing, fireproofing, and sound absorption, some of the things I know they used it for.  One of the few health hazards from the exposure to asbestos is increased risk [...]

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It’s driving me NUTS!!

By | August 12, 2007

I am trying to fix the comment in moderation thing, but it’s not working.  I changed it in Options/Discussions, still all my comments are sitting in that moderation box!  Commenters are wondering if they have actually submitted their comments.  I changed themes, this is the third one, and my comments are still not appearing til [...]

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10 Things that Happened to Me

By | August 11, 2007

I was tagged by Trinity of Rooms of My Heart.  Say, this tag is gonna be a long one.  Can’t just list the 10 things, you know, I have to elaborate on them.  This will take a while won’t it?  Let’s see:- 1. I hate teaching When I was 18 through 20, I gave piano lessons to [...]

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Counting Calories

By | August 10, 2007

Since I dropped the last cigarette butt into the butt pail, five months ago, I have been slowly gaining weight little at a time.  It really sucks big time.  I was told that go for walks or any form of exercise will help your cravings.  Yes, it helped but no matter how much I speed [...]

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Fender-bender

By | August 10, 2007

I got into a fender-bender this afternoon.  Stopped over at Holiday station on Lexington and Diffley in Eagan, filled the Monte up and even remembered to use my Cub Foods Holiday Station coupons for gas.  Pulled out from my pump and was behind a Mazda who was taking his sweet ass time manuevering out of [...]

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I signed up with Bloggerwave

By | August 9, 2007

I am now working on writing paid posts again.  Why not since I have the semester off!  I can make some extra money for my upcoming trip to M’sia.  I signed up with Bloggerwave couple of weeks and I was approved.  I thought why not give it a try.  It’s easy to register and the response [...]

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Hello World….I think I did it

By | August 9, 2007

I hope I got it this time.  Managed to reload WP.org and export the posts, comments and what not to this new blog.  I’m not totally sure I got it.  I was able to upload templates and I am surprised at myself that I didn’t call Support to do this template thing.  I had to [...]

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No more paid posts

By | August 7, 2007

I am done writing paid posts.  I screwed up my blog with the domain I bought.  I think I mess it up big time but I kept thinking I did it right.  Well, I didn’t.  My blog is still under WordPress.com’s platform and guess I will have to forgo all the other posts I wrote for [...]

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Our guest is here

By | August 4, 2007

Justin arrived on Thursday morning.  DB picked him up from MSP airport.  Justin told me he could not recognized his uncle.  “He lost a lot of weight.”  Actually, DB gained some.  He looked better now compared to 2 years ago, the last Justin saw him. I took Friday off thinking that SD, Justin, and I [...]

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Life is so different….

By | August 4, 2007

Since I moved to Minnesota 10+ years ago, I do feel kinda out of reach with family.  My parents are still in Ipoh.  My sister and her family are in Singapore, and there is my brother who is working somewhere in Sabah, Lahad Datu, if I remember correctly.  When I am facing any difficulties in [...]

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Bridge Collasped

By | August 1, 2007

The bridge on 35W and along Washington Ave collasped into the Mississippi River in Minneapolis during rush hour this evening.  I was getting ready to head out to school to pick up my grades and “Breaking News”.  My first thought was terrorism, but then I thought, no, can’t be.  Must be the hot weather.  Last [...]

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