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Thots of Migration

March 6, 2008

I was trying to put some codes into my wordpress account for some advertisment to appear. However, try as I may, it’s just not successful. Then I came across a reply to an FAQ which state that WordPress does not allow placing of advertisement in their site for free wordpress account. Unless we have our own domain. The feature is only available for those who upgrades to the custom CSS. 

Frustrated, I then tried to see if there’s anyway I could import my WordPress account to Blogger. But all I found was the other way round, there’s a blogger importer to import the posts from blogger to wordpress but not vice versa.

Gosh, if anyone knew how to do it (either placing the ads in a free wordpress account, or to import wordpress to blogger), please let me know. Thanks a bunch. I don’t plan to purchase my own domain as of now, since I’m not a frequent blogger yet.  

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Blog Lag?

December 11, 2007

I have been lagging way behind in my blogging activities lately. And while I’m supposed to blog about new things, I find myself still cracking my head to put in the details for old events. I take extra pains to blog about important events that happen in Sze Yi’s  life even though they were outdated posts because I wanted to keep a record of it. And so I’ve neglected my own blog.   

I was supposed to blog about this at least a month back, but judging from the pace of things, I’m still trying to keep up with backdated posts. I guess I’ll just break the news here – I’m gonna have a 2nd baby soon!

Yes, we both knew it’s time because Sze Yi would need a companion soon. Initially, I’m very happy when I found out about it and wanted to tell the whole world. But I was advised to wait until at least 3 months for it to be considered stable. Indeed, many things happened – this time I wouldn’t want to be bogged down by any pantang larangs,  so I told myself I won’t follow them strictly like what I did during my first one. Well, not too long later, I bleed. So I started to wonder if that’s the consequences of not following the “dont’s”.  Or maybe I have not been putting as much attention on this 2nd one compared to my 1st pregnancy. I still put Sze Yi as my topmost priority. The bleeding experience reminded me that it’s time to switch focus.

Then workload started to pile high, with everyone busily occupied by the tapeout schedule. I even have to work until 2.30am in the morning! My, that was exhausting. Especially when you’re pregnant and need a lot of sleep. We finally taped out, but there’s another project that I have to work on immediately, which means less blogging time. I normally blog at night, after Sze Yi went to sleep. But nowadays, I find that I would rather lie down in bed or read some magazines instead of switching on my laptop.

And recently I fell sick. It was a 2nd one during this pregnancy, the first was when I was only 7 weeks preggy. During the first time, I didn’t take any medications. But for this time, it was so bad that even the medications couldn’t make my fever subside. I was on MC for 4 days last week, and was still coughing and sniffling away now. The flu caused my nose to be blocked, and my throat was so sore that I could feel the pain when swallowing my own saliva. And worst still, every time I coughed, I felt like vomitting (in fact, I’ve vomitted several times) and it’s really a great sufferering. And all these came when I was just planning to have a birthday celebration for Sze Yi. In the end, we cancelled everything, poor girl. I could only hope that when the real day comes, I would at least be well enough to accompany her and won’t spread the virus to her.

So, please bear with me for awhile, you might not see me blogging that often now (not that I did before anyway).  

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A blog of my own

June 27, 2007

I’m a very quiet and reserved person in nature. I don’t normally go all out to tell someone my opinion, or relate my tales to those around me. I consider things that happen around me are personal to me,  it’s not anyone’s business to know, except for those close to me. So, it has not occurred to me that I will be blogging soon, since this is very contradicting to my nature. But hey, here I am. And I’ve been thinking of this for a few months already. I do have a blog dedicated for my baby, but that is written from her perspective. I didn’t get to express my own feelings there. Many of my blogger friends told me that it’s ok to change the style of writing in my baby’s blog, but I just don’t feel comfortable doing so. Especially since that blog was started by my husband for my baby girl.

And the urge of starting my own blog becomes stronger due to a few circumstances that happened recently:

1. Pei Sze, my breastfeeding buddy who is also an active blogger started to tag me – especially on subjects about me rather than my baby.

2. I’ve been reading about how people get paid when they blog about a certain subject (Pay Per Post).  Any extra income would be very tempting. However, since I hardly have time to blog (I’m still struggling to keep my baby’s blog up to date, but it is still way behind), I am not sure if I am ready for this. So, starting my own blog will at least lay the foundation first and when I’m ready for that, I could just start right away.

3. I enjoyed writing – it used to be short stories when I was in secondary school, and have even thought of signing up for a writing course to prepare me to be a writer later. But the thought was abandoned since I still need to focus on my studies then. And now, after all these years, my writing skills is slowly rusting away, especially when I hardly have time to read any reading materials (other than work related, which is very technical and boring). You wouldn’t believe me if I tell you that I didn’t even read the newspaper! Catching up with life is just too exhausting for me, especially when I have to juggle my time in between my super energetic toddler and an R&D career. But luckily my interest for writing has not faded yet.  

4.  As I mentioned, I didn’t get to express my thoughts and feelings when I blog as my baby in her blog. I intend to do that here, so that when she grows up later, she could read all these and know what Mommy has been thinking all these while, also the reason behind many of Mommy’s decicions on her upbringing.

So, finally here I am - cheers to the blogging world out there!