Baby Care 101

Since there is an increasing number of people I know who are getting/are already married, I thought it would be appropriate to share what are some of the do's and dont's of baby care. All these helpful tips are pretty self-explanatory I believe.

Observe.




Simple enough to follow yeah? For more baby care tips, the whole list can be found here.

Here's to proper child rearing techniques.

Canada, Revisited...

That's the weather I'm facing again. I have nothing to add to that. The numbers do all the talking for me...

Luckily, this time, my trip is considerably shorter and should be less stressful. Everything is up and running and mostly going smoothly. We have to do some modifications but it shouldn't be anything major.

And after I come home (US), I'll be definitely counting down to home (HOME). Unfortunately, that means I'll have a TON of stuff to finish up before I leave for vacation. I foresee 10 hour days in the office again... BUT it will be worth it. WORTH EVERY SINGLE MINUTE.

I'm starting to fill my calender of events for the stay home already. Let's get the stuff rolling peeps!

最后一件事就是想讲日本人。我知道他们能读汉字但是bopian啦。汉字比英文适当吧。我的日本朋友大部分回到日本就如雾一样消失到无影无踪。。。真是气死人。。。想联络也联络不到。靠。不管啦。Dun care liao. Let's rock regardless.

Action!

Hmm, I don't know if I should be ashamed cos I detract so easily or encouraged that I actually tried to live up to the Action! motto I set for myself this year.

I was gonna go home to veg out but I thought I need to bank a cheque my company had given me AND get a hair cut while I was out anyway. So my decision to run errands or just slack at home was based on guilt and the Action! theme. Not surprisingly, guilt won.

Oh well, baby steps. Baby steps.

The year is still young, plenty of chances to break my resolutions later. Haha.

And in a completely unrelated observation, contradiction is the same in both Chinese and Japanese. 日本語の矛盾（むじゅん）and 中文的矛盾(mao dun). Uncanny eh?

Resolutions

So I'm waiting for my car to do its 25,000 mile service and what better time to do my New Years Resolution(s) than now?

I think my keyword this year will be ACTION. That is, take concrete steps towards goals and not put things off. I wonder how long before I start procrastinating this year though, in spite of this decision. Haha.

Anyways, here is the list of things I want to do. And a little bit of how I'm going to do it.

1. Learn about investing. By reading Investing for Dummies (1-2 hours per week, till end of Feb) and then researching online. Via some online brokerage that I've yet to research.

2. Learn about VBA. By reading VBA for Dummies and writing my own code (1-2 hours per week, till forever).

3. Learn how to do barre chords properly and get the Em to Bm transition smoothed out. Then I can play 恋爱 ING better. Learn Fukai Mori by Do As Infinity (have to practice).

4. Improve Japanese by watching 1-2 hours of drama per week. Currently watching Security Police, which is pretty good and reminds me of the Ambler Warning.

5. Sign up for a gym when I come back from vacation in Feb.

Now I just realised that the stupid morons at Lenovo have, by reimaging my hard drive, wiped out my wireless card software. Which I will have to re-download and reinstall. Gods... I will not taint this feel good post with vulgarities but gods!!

Simple Wishes

Happy New Year dear readers, may 2008 be better than 2007 for all of you!

I'll post further introspections later but I have to finish housekeeping first...