Daily Archives: January 12, 2008

Db and I were gossiping about Nadine and her luxury lifestyle.  She and her hubby are world travelers.  I mean they travel all over the country and globe.  DB and her are good friends and he did ask her where in the world she and hubby get the extra cash for their travels, a 450K house, patek phillipe watches for themselves, and a brand spanking new Mercedes.  She told DB ever since she passed her real estate brokerage license last year, she actually sold a few houses before the end of the year came around.  

She told DB her hubby is really the one who is making the dough.  He is a person who loves all luxury items.  He likes all patek philippe brand watches.   However, she says her hubby’s favorite is still the breitling watches.  He likes them because of their high quality, vintage chronograph on the watches. 

She said owning one of those watches does make her feel important, a very high prestige feeling.  I can just imagine how it feels like, on top of the world, a person of affluent stature.   Only the rich and famous, the celebrities and the professional sports folks can afford these types of watches.  These watches are not any ordinary watches.  They are certainly luxury and timeless watches. 

Since my MIL moved to her new home, DB’s brother and him were thinking what to get for their mother.  She has pretty much every thing she wants and needs.  The only thing I could think of for those two brothers to get for their mother and from the DILs, too, (can’t forget the DILs, right?) is to get some new patio furniture for her.  Her patio furniture are very old and are those made of plastic which she said she never likes them.  I asked DB if he thinks getting teak patio furniture for his mom is a good idea.  He loved that idea very much particularly his mom loves to sit out by the porch and smokes her cigarettes and have her beers and cocktails. 

To me teak furniture gives out an aura of high quality and luxury living.  Yeah, that’s me.  I like these kind of outdoor furniture.  Both DB and his brother went online and checkout a few websites and eventually found this site TeakWoodPatioFurniture.com that sells superior teak patio furniture.  Between the four of us we ordered two recliners and a table for her birthday.  She was one happy camper when we heard her voice over the phone when she called.

I have to say that DB really cares for me very much.  When I told him I wanted to go for walks, that was back when I first got to this country, he soughted out self defense products on the internet for my protection.  I told him it was not necessary but he said he would feel safer that I have one on me when I am out on my walks.  Eventually, he got me a 2 oz pepper spray which I carry it in my pocket and I am thankful I do not have to use it. 

I am still waiting for the day I can afford to get a set of living room furniture.  Right not we do have two coffee tables, a love seat and a cheap recliner.  I am looking at a different store for my sofa but DB wants a leather reclining set from a discount furniture store.  I am not really into leather anymore but he sort of insist that it is better than those microfiber or suede material.  Leather is better for us because the dog hair will not get caught in between the fibers of the material.  But whatever type furniture it will be, I am hoping it will be soon. 

The area where the Compensation folks are located is getting a face lift.  Our entire HR area is full of dust from all these moving of boxes, dry walls, and the sawing. Also these banging and drilling really is getting to be a pain for us folks.  The contractors who are responsible for installing the electrical parts left all the bulk cable boxes sitting around with the cable still hanging from the ceiling, walls and wall partitions.  If only these contractors can keep the area a little bit more clean, it is not so bad coming in to work. 

DB and I have gone through  quite a few highspeed internet providers.  I still remember the ancient dial-up connection we had back in 1997, that was so slow.   It is slow and it disengage the phone from receiving any incoming calls, let alone call out.  It was only when we moved to our first  house we purchased a broadband isp provider, DSL internet to be exact. 

SD is still working on which provider she and fiance should subscribe from.  Since they moved to this neck of the woods, they only have a few choices.  If they are living in the UK, they can certainly check out bt.com with their BT Total Broadband.  You can pick which BT Broadband package that is more suitable for your usage.  You have choices of 5GB, 8GB and unlimited downloads or if you want unlimited Wi-Fi usage.   And if DB were to pick one, he would choose BT broadband speed test which will provide extremely fast downloads which comes with the wireless home and phone hubs.  Laptops, PCs and your TV can be hooked up to the home hub.  That is one sweet deal.