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Ladies and Gentleman! Welcome to our latest edition of "What can possibly be done to save this piece of furniture?" (applause)



I'd like to introduce you to Seth. Here he is holding some beautiful artwork that he colored at his family's dining room table. (oohs! ahhs!)

But folks....wait! We need to let you in on a little secret: He wasn't coloring with Washable Markers (gasp!) He was coloring with permanent markers and it BLED THROUGH the paper onto the table, in multiple locations. (boos!)


His mother rushed to action! She consulted the Internet, googling the phrase "get permanent marker off of furniture." She read about Magic Eraser --"will ruin the finish"-- and nail polish remover --"I don't think so!--. What is our mother to do? (camera pans blog readers with hands over mouths, shaking their heads)


The Internet suggested Antibacterial gel! It had great endorsements. "Won't wreck the finish" and "I am a professional house cleaner. Antibacterial gel gets out every stain."



The oldest daughter (relieved to not be in trouble) suggested Goo Gone! It also had great endorsements: "Remember when I was writing name cards for dinner with a Sharpie and it bled through onto the wood floor and Goo Gone got it off and I was allowed to continue residing in our home?"



Our hero/mother decides to PUT THEM TO THE TEST! (applause!)

Here are the stains before the product is applied. We used Goo Gone on the right and Antibacterial gel on the left.

They were allowed to sit for 5 minutes. Oh wait, 15 minutes, because the Mother had to get her pasta in the oven.

Here are the stains after (oohs!):

We have a winner! (Shouts and applause)

After applying lots of elbow grease...the Mother was able to completely scrub out the stain with Goo Gone(audience nodding and smiling), while the Antibacterial Gel did next to nothing and left a gray residue on the finish that made the mother sick to her stomach with fear (boos!).

She later used Goo Gone on the second stain and it faded a little and restored the finish slightly.

So act fast! DO NOT ALLOW THAT BAD TWO YEAR OLD TO RUIN YOUR HOUSE! Either throw all the permanent markers you have ever owned away:

OR GET GOO GONE!,(camera shows audience throwing their Sharpies into pre-placed wastebaskets, while getting their Albertson's cards out in anticipation of their next shopping purchase.)

Join us next time...cause THERE WILL BE ONE...for "What can possibly be done to save this piece of furniture?" (applause)

Camp of the dead

Llega a tener un pelín mejor el guión y me gustaría más que Los 400 golpes.

Dilemma

Okay, this post is definitely going to fall under the category : "Is she really publishing this for the world to see?" Before blogging, some things were private decisions made quietly between husband and wife and then announced with respectful fanfare. Not anymore, and especially not with me, the Queen of Saying Way Too Much.

No, no I'm not actually pregnant. Just debating. Actually no debate...I'm fairly certain it will be happening again soon. I'm ready and actually allowing the husband a little room to get on board. I really feel like we aren't done (and so does he), we've just had them all close and I'm willing to allow Ryan (a little) time to get really ready for the craziness that is pregnancy and that first year.

The thing is...I am going into this with my eyes open. Like, there is NO pretending I don't know what I'm getting myself into. I've had 4 pregnancies and 4 deliveries and 4 newborns and 4 years of nursing and NEVER getting your head above water. I know how hard it is. (At least for us...that stuff is just difficult and lots of work and I know there are others who just LOVE the new baby phase, but us...not so much). And so last week, as I walk into McDonalds for our weekly playdate, I think, as my kids run ahead, remove their shoes (and socks, I know HOW GROSS!, but I'm not fighting that battle) and I order their two happy meals and calmly fill their drinks and then sit them at a separate table where they eat and leave (and eat and leave and eat and leave) while I chat with my friends without a care in the world, why in the heck am I doing this all over again? Why, next year sometime, do I want to be lugging that obnoxious baby carrier, trying to balance the baby and the drinks or ask someone to watch it, nursing in public, standing and bouncing the fussy baby, loathing the post-baby body all over again??


I think it's because the end is in sight. Like, before I knew I was just slogging my way through...no hope of relief and so I just kept on it. But now, like right before your husband gets home to relieve your crazy homework/dinner/chores/hungry chaos and you think you can't possibly handle it all for 10 more minutes (even though you've been handling it all day), now...it's within my reach and I'm getting ready to leave this all behind.


But not quite. And I guess that's it, right? Not quite ready to have all the other babies in the world be NOT YOURS, not quite ready to have the last first word or step or giggle, not quite ready to give up the only thing you've done for the last 9 years, not quite ready to look at the kids in your house and know that it's complete.

I've never felt like this before...wanting and mustering up the courage all at the same time.

But because I HAVE done this before: I know it will be okay. Way more good than bad, way more joy than stress, way more cute than ugly.

I'll keep you posted.

Go Shogun!,Go Laundry!,Go Home!

SHOGUN SUSHI BUFFET!! never been there.. and got something i really really like!! sushi!!but hor... dunno why... that day i went there..i mostly Bite and Leave... unless really nice food only finished it. whahaha.


forgot is which round already.cheese? OUT! fried? OUT! rice? OUT!!! avoid these, to fill ur stomach with something else Yummy. hhaha.


some photo took while in shogun! sushi! tempura! i plan to go food counter snap some photo's.. but the staff there not allow me to do so... what to do? snap our own plate lor... Shugun? not really statisfy....


Second Round!! Laundry bar... chai yik favourite place to lepak. 3rd time gathering held in laundry bar again. hahaha. check out the Cocktails we ordered. Blue Magarita, 2 Liter of cocktails. some ppl said "Blue Rocket!" (ar?look like rocket?)


and.. we got TWIN TOWER!! Tada.... forgot what this yellow tower called... got lemon slices in it... still cocktails, but still the "blue tower" taste better :P. Kelly said it look like "Teh O Limao Tower".... sweating... =.=""


The Nine Guardian of the Blue Tower... make sure the tower is completely dried


The Blue Tower~The Blue Magarita Tower, the Blue Rocket. the Blue... Wat ever. enough for photo~ start pouring and start drinking.

Our cool Veteran`s Day!!!!!!!! ByEmma R.

Hi! Um, I'm Emma. This is my little pouch that I carried the camera in. Today is Veteran's Day and I am taking pictures and I'm going to write about it. And I'm going to tell you what happened, right now.

Even though it was a holiday, we still had to do our normal jobs.

And if we didn't do our jobs, we'd be punished and go sit on the not-listening chair (which as you can see is the toilet--very boring).

This is AFTER we got finished with our jobs.

Our mom made us a REALLY good breakfast: German Pancakes.

Next, Mom had her long long Family Home Evening thing, which took up a lot of the day. The moms made a Family Home Evening lesson. The older kids that they brought stayed upstairs with me and Gabe and colored the pictures that they were coloring.

These are the kids that the moms brought. Downstairs in the basement they made a lot of racket. Jane was really happy they came.

After everyone had left, Jane and Mom went upstairs to take a nap. So did Seth. Seth and Jane weren't too happy about me and Gabe getting to go downstairs in the basement and watch TV.

After we all woke up, or so I might say, Mom, Jane and Seth...we got our wiggles out and me and Gabe went to piano practice, while Mom, Jane and Seth went to run errands.

On our way home, we got the awesome, exciting, have-been-waiting-for-for-two-days,
"Meet the Robinsons" movie for Family Home Evening.

Here's some pictures of Gabe and Jane doing their jobs quickly so they could eat dinner. And then go down and watch Meet the Robinsons.

At dinner, I might as well tell you this, I hate tomatoes. They are disgusting. And in our dinner, it had tomatoes in it. I didn't realize this, so I took a big bite, with a biiiiig tomatoe. Ewh!

Finally! It was there! The moment we had been waiting for! Meet the Robinsons movie slash Family Home Evening night. It was sooo fun.

I hope you enjoyed our fuuuun day. And a little suggestion, if you have kids, get Meet the Robinsons...it's really fun.

Something Fragile is Broken..

well.. a lot of things happen recently... this is what i never expect to see.. some idiot just break my rear glass. damn it! this is what happen when u entered a non-educated place. they do what ever they like. and include giving some texture on my over plain glass. damn it!


Nice Texture!!! specially bought by non-educated pig's. my rear glass suddenly so attrative! everyone looking at me while i'm on the road. they think plain plain glass doesn't suits my wira.


after i saw this NICE texture being PLACED on my car.. already damn hak zai(bad luck), who know... a while more.... RAINING!!! gosh.... i still need to drive it to some workshop to get it fixed! gave my wallet a big diet again...

Using Invisible Button instead of Enable

Sometimes designers make their best programming.

Problem: In an application I had lots of buttons and forms. If the user pressed the button A, every element of the stage would be disabled cos a flying window will be shown.
The first solution I had was making a function disableStage() so as to disable every forms and buttons on the Stage. The problem was that I had many Forms in different classes (lots of lines of code).

So I designed and invisible button, gave it _alpha=0, visible=true, and useHandCursor=false, adjusted its depth and problem was solved. I put this button just in the layer down button A.

Instead of many lines of code disabling things, my button allowed me to enable or disable Stage with functions enableStage() and disableStage().