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That's a whole lot of money. It could be yours, you know. But how? &lt;img class="emoticon" src="http://us.i1.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/i/mesg/emoticons7/7.gif" alt="confused" title="confused" height="auto" width="auto" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Well, all you have to do is make a video and send it to the &lt;a href="http://socialspark.com/metrics/click/post?slot_id=82292&amp;amp;url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.GottaSeeThisNow.com" rel="nofollow"&gt;iLASIK Video Contest&lt;/a&gt; organized by Abbot Medical Optics Inc. (AMO). Your video should be related to &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;how better vision could improve or has improved people's lives&lt;/span&gt;. You may submit your video in one of the following categories:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;ul&gt;&lt;li&gt; “My contacts are getting in the way of my good time” &lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;“My favorite sport or activity would be so much cooler with better vision” &lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;“You should see life after the iLASIK® Procedure”&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;Okay, now if the money doesn't lure you, perhaps these fabulous prizes will... a HDTV package valued at $2500 or the Flip UltraHD™ camcorder. Are you getting excited yet?&lt;img class="emoticon" src="http://us.i1.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/i/mesg/emoticons7/41.gif" alt="applause" title="applause" height="auto" width="auto" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Once you've submitted your video, start calling your friends, relatives, ex boyfriends or girlfriends, maybe you could even try to bribe your enemies to vote for your video. Just put on your loveliest smile and befriend everyone and beg them to vote cos their votes could help you win the prize.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Don't forget to tell them that they can vote for their favorite video once per day until December 10. That's still a lot of time so it's still not too late if you haven't submitted your video.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;So get that video recorder and start recording already! And if you're taking part as well, then gimme a buzz cos I will vote for your video. If by any chance you win the $5000 grand prize money, you owe me a cup of coffee! &lt;img class="emoticon" src="http://us.i1.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/i/mesg/emoticons7/57.gif" alt="coffee" title="coffee" height="auto" width="auto" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;map name="map6102"&gt;&lt;area href="http://socialspark.com/metrics/click/disclosure?slot_id=82292&amp;amp;url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.GottaSeeThisNow.com" shape="rect" coords="0,0,206,45" rel="nofollow"&gt;&lt;area href="http://socialspark.com/code_of_ethics" shape="rect" coords="207,0,225,45" rel="nofollow"&gt;&lt;/map&gt;&lt;img alt="Post?slot_id=82292&amp;amp;url=http%3a%2f%2fsocialspark" src="http://socialspark.com/metrics/view/post?slot_id=82292&amp;amp;url=http%3A%2F%2Fsocialspark.com%2Fimages%2Fdisclosure_badges%2Fdisclosure_badge_grey.png" style="border: 0pt none ;" usemap="#map6102" border="0" /&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4605009737094996093-8320182814432165694?l=www.nessa-mumblings.com'/&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/nessa-mumblings/~4/CWlJS-YIs1Q" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/nessa-mumblings/~3/CWlJS-YIs1Q/lights-camera-action.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Nessa)</author><thr:total xmlns:thr="http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0">13</thr:total><feedburner:origLink>http://www.nessa-mumblings.com/2009/11/lights-camera-action.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4605009737094996093.post-5788100776710728663</guid><pubDate>Thu, 05 Nov 2009 11:48:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2009-11-06T09:00:21.183+08:00</atom:updated><title>The Big Red Button</title><description>Please do not press the button! I repeat, do not even think about it! &lt;img class="emoticon" src="http://us.i1.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/i/mesg/emoticons7/68.gif" alt="shameonyou" title="shameonyou" height="auto" width="auto" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.toysforyourblog.com/games/bigred/bigred.swf" height="350" width="350"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.toysforyourblog.com/games/bigred/"&gt;Put The Big Red Button on your site&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;So, did you or did you not press the button?? &lt;img class="emoticon" src="http://us.i1.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/i/mesg/emoticons7/71.gif" alt="heehee" title="heehee" height="auto" width="auto" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Who got to round 2??! You devil you... &lt;img class="emoticon" src="http://us.i1.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/i/mesg/emoticons7/19.gif" alt="devil" title="devil" height="auto" width="auto" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I love this game! Did you??&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4605009737094996093-5788100776710728663?l=www.nessa-mumblings.com'/&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/nessa-mumblings/~4/swPx3YiRewE" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/nessa-mumblings/~3/swPx3YiRewE/big-red-button.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Nessa)</author><thr:total xmlns:thr="http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0">18</thr:total><feedburner:origLink>http://www.nessa-mumblings.com/2009/11/big-red-button.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4605009737094996093.post-3961233617451129954</guid><pubDate>Wed, 04 Nov 2009 14:43:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2009-11-06T10:54:34.355+08:00</atom:updated><title>Great Expectations</title><description>Thanks to everyone who left me comments on my previous post. Your cheery messages are extremely uplifting and I'm happy to have such wonderful and thoughtful friends. I may have never met any of you, except for one or two but you all did make me feel better.&lt;img class="emoticon" src="http://us.i1.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/i/mesg/emoticons7/4.gif" alt="biggrin" title="biggrin" height="auto" width="auto" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;It's no fun being moody. Life sometimes pull you down but you always have to pull yourself together and stop feeling like the world owes you. It's all in the attitude... yadda, yadda, yadda (yeah, puke now if you want... hehehe). I don't like being moody but it can't be helped at times. I'm only human... (sing with me)... born to make mistakes! &lt;img class="emoticon" src="http://us.i1.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/i/mesg/emoticons7/65.gif" alt="whistle" title="whistle" height="auto" width="auto" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;So, while I was out for lunch today I saw this gorgeous woman next to me having her lunch too. She was pregnant, I think she will pop anytime soon cos she was huge (and I couldn't help eavesdropping)... LOL! She was on the phone talking to her mom or maybe her sister about &lt;a href="http://www.appleseedboutique.com/"&gt;maternity clothes &lt;/a&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I noticed most maternity clothes these days are stylish and very up-to-date. Unlike those days, maternity clothes were more like over-sized sleeping gowns, some even resembled baby doll dresses. When you're huge and you're wearing an even bigger and rounder dress, it's not cute. Oh god, I still remember how awful I felt wearing those ruffles on the sleeves but those days (more than a decade ago) you really didn't have much choice when it comes to maternity dresses.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Today they have a variety of maternity dresses that don't even look like maternity dresses. Take this site,  &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;AppleSeedBoutique.com&lt;/span&gt; for example. They have a wide selection of maternity wear for the hip and modern expectant mums, even tops, suits, swimsuits as well as baby clothes, diaper bags, strollers... I could go on and on. If you're expecting or know someone whose expecting, do check it out. I'm sure you'll find something that catches your fancy. &lt;img class="emoticon" src="http://us.i1.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/i/mesg/emoticons7/1.gif" alt="happy" title="happy" height="auto" width="auto" /&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4605009737094996093-3961233617451129954?l=www.nessa-mumblings.com'/&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/nessa-mumblings/~4/JVabXhhEuRg" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/nessa-mumblings/~3/JVabXhhEuRg/great-expectations.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Nessa)</author><thr:total xmlns:thr="http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0">23</thr:total><feedburner:origLink>http://www.nessa-mumblings.com/2009/11/great-expectations.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4605009737094996093.post-8689492441360608654</guid><pubDate>Tue, 03 Nov 2009 01:31:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2009-11-03T09:31:36.635+08:00</atom:updated><title>Moody</title><description>Everything is so depressing lately. The news, the weather, my moods...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Maybe it's November. Maybe I miss my mom. Maybe it's just my hormones... you know, it's that time of the month.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Argghhh... I need a bigger closet so I could hide inside!&lt;img class="emoticon" src="http://us.i1.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/i/mesg/emoticons7/102.gif" alt="atwitshand" title="atwitshand" height="auto" width="auto" /&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4605009737094996093-8689492441360608654?l=www.nessa-mumblings.com'/&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/nessa-mumblings/~4/TbZsGjxDPPI" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/nessa-mumblings/~3/TbZsGjxDPPI/moody.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Nessa)</author><thr:total xmlns:thr="http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0">14</thr:total><feedburner:origLink>http://www.nessa-mumblings.com/2009/11/moody.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4605009737094996093.post-712785264094368980</guid><pubDate>Sun, 01 Nov 2009 06:30:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2009-11-01T14:30:58.581+08:00</atom:updated><title>Entrecard October Hot Droppers</title><description>Hey, hey... it's time to announce the Top 10 EC Droppers for &lt;a href="http://nessa-mumblings.com/"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;Mumblings&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt; in October!&lt;img class="emoticon" src="http://us.i1.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/i/mesg/emoticons7/69.gif" alt="dance" title="dance" height="auto" width="auto" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_6A_dvLUnN08/Su0pGIO09ZI/AAAAAAAADPQ/zIuxRZUIBNI/s1600-h/AnnSnapEdit.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 125px; height: 125px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_6A_dvLUnN08/Su0pGIO09ZI/AAAAAAAADPQ/zIuxRZUIBNI/s200/AnnSnapEdit.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5399016713552721298" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;ol style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="http://annssnapeditscrap.blogspot.com/"&gt;Ann's Snap Edit &amp;amp; Scrap&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.buckrobin.com/"&gt;The Way I See It&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="http://buy-tees.net/"&gt;Buy-Tees.net T-Shirts&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.crimsonsparkle.net/wordpress"&gt;Crimsonsparkle.net&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="http://digivic.blogspot.com/"&gt;DigiVickie's Word Art&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="http://mariucasperfume.com/"&gt;Mariuca's Perfume Gallery&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.naokoscooking.com/"&gt;Cooking Japanese Style&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="http://paulbaines.co.uk/category/blog/"&gt;Art By Paul Baines&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.computer-aid.com.au/blog/"&gt;Computer Aid&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.laaneworld.com/"&gt;Laane on the World&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ol&gt;         ... and guess what?? Everyone's tied with &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;31&lt;/span&gt; drops!! Congratulations to &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;Ann&lt;/span&gt;! I see Marzie's back in the game too, so congrats to you &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;Marzie&lt;/span&gt;.&lt;img class="emoticon" src="http://us.i1.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/i/mesg/emoticons7/41.gif" alt="applause" title="applause" height="auto" width="auto" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I've been rewarding the #1 EC dropper for several months now and seeing everybody has made an effort and time to drop for the whole 31 days, I'd feel bad rewarding just one fella and leave the rest empty handed.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I know you're probably not dropping to be rewarded but I just feel bad. I could ask all 10 of you to wrestle in the mud to determine the winner but then I doubt the ladies would approve... &lt;img class="emoticon" src="http://us.i1.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/i/mesg/emoticons7/71.gif" alt="heehee" title="heehee" height="auto" width="auto" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;So, &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;ALL&lt;/span&gt; 10 of you will receive 500 EC points! Plus the #1 Top Dropper will get an extra 500 EC points. That's 1,000 EC points for &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;Ann's Snap Edit &amp;amp; Scrap&lt;/span&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;To each and everyone of you and also to those who dropped daily but didn't make the list, thank you and much love from Nessa! &lt;img class="emoticon" src="http://us.i1.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/i/mesg/emoticons7/6.gif" alt="bighug" title="bighug" height="auto" width="auto" /&gt;&lt;img class="emoticon" src="http://us.i1.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/i/mesg/emoticons7/8.gif" alt="love" title="love" height="auto" width="auto" /&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4605009737094996093-712785264094368980?l=www.nessa-mumblings.com'/&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/nessa-mumblings/~4/BNdVCVP5vhQ" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/nessa-mumblings/~3/BNdVCVP5vhQ/entrecard-october-hot-droppers.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Nessa)</author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_6A_dvLUnN08/Su0pGIO09ZI/AAAAAAAADPQ/zIuxRZUIBNI/s72-c/AnnSnapEdit.jpg" height="72" width="72" /><thr:total xmlns:thr="http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0">23</thr:total><feedburner:origLink>http://www.nessa-mumblings.com/2009/11/entrecard-october-hot-droppers.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4605009737094996093.post-2440072237804741267</guid><pubDate>Fri, 30 Oct 2009 02:05:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2009-10-30T22:33:53.679+08:00</atom:updated><title>Reminiscence</title><description>One of my favorite websites is &lt;a href="http://flickr.com/"&gt;Flickr&lt;/a&gt;. Lately I've been scouring through its vast photos for inspiration and I seemed to be sucked into a time warp whenever I see pictures of padi fields and  &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;kerbau&lt;/span&gt; (water buffalo)! LOL!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_6A_dvLUnN08/SuUUVtvPEcI/AAAAAAAADOI/9v1Iaf5-WOk/s1600-h/padifield.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 1px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 266px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_6A_dvLUnN08/SuUUVtvPEcI/AAAAAAAADOI/9v1Iaf5-WOk/s400/padifield.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5396742091760931266" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;Image credit &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a style="font-style: italic;" href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/kcbimal/373223071/"&gt;kcbimal&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_6A_dvLUnN08/SuUT2cxhSlI/AAAAAAAADOA/QMX23lcSneE/s1600-h/kerbau.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 1px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_6A_dvLUnN08/SuUT2cxhSlI/AAAAAAAADOA/QMX23lcSneE/s400/kerbau.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5396741554631166546" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;Image credit &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a style="font-style: italic;" href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/30128069@N02/3902880917/"&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration: underline;"&gt;ripple&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Back when I was a young girl, I hated going to the padi fields... in fact I detested it. It's hot, itchy, smelly and it ain't fun slogging under the sun harvesting padi. But looking through these pictures, I'm reminded of how hardworking my parents were, just to put food on the table and send  all five of us to school . It's just unfortunate it didn't cross our minds to snap photos of us 'having fun' at the padi fields.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_6A_dvLUnN08/SuUVnWeHeRI/AAAAAAAADOQ/rEU7yIuUvto/s1600-h/plantingpadi.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 1px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 268px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_6A_dvLUnN08/SuUVnWeHeRI/AAAAAAAADOQ/rEU7yIuUvto/s400/plantingpadi.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5396743494264387858" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;Image credit &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a style="font-style: italic;" href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/nyaminyami/144496987/"&gt;nyaminyami&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_6A_dvLUnN08/SuUTCUxfOcI/AAAAAAAADNQ/MxjAfgivdYo/s1600-h/hempaspadi.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 1px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 264px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_6A_dvLUnN08/SuUTCUxfOcI/AAAAAAAADNQ/MxjAfgivdYo/s400/hempaspadi.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5396740659130350018" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;Image credit &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a style="font-style: italic;" href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/bluetaiyo/442346995/"&gt;bluetaiyo&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;My parents weren't well educated and although we weren't totally dirt poor but there were times when I could sense my parents had financial difficulties. I would often wonder why we live in a wooden house with very basic things when some of our neighbors had a lot of 'beautiful' things we didn't have. Of course I was too young to even understand that back then but being a parent myself now, finally it's all so crystal clear (instantly humming the song &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;I Can See Clearly Now&lt;/span&gt;).&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I could still hear my late mom saying these words as if it was only yesterday... &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;"Di, kalati ko mai songian kivaa tanak nu sondii."&lt;/span&gt; Meaning: &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;Di&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;, you will understand when you have your own children one day.&lt;/span&gt; While I can't recall what really happened that day that made my mom uttered those words, I can't help but feel sad knowing I might have said some harsh words and hurt her feelings. I'm sorry &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;Ina&lt;/span&gt; (mom)...&lt;img class="emoticon" src="http://us.i1.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/i/mesg/emoticons7/2.gif" alt="sad" title="sad" height="auto" width="auto" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Being away from my family really taught me to value and appreciate them even more. Life in the big city has its best and some not-so-great moments but nothing compares to being surrounded by loved ones and seeing familiar sights of your &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;kampung&lt;/span&gt; (village), the very place where where you born and raised.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4605009737094996093-2440072237804741267?l=www.nessa-mumblings.com'/&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/nessa-mumblings/~4/Y79uvGxF_7w" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/nessa-mumblings/~3/Y79uvGxF_7w/reminiscence.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Nessa)</author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_6A_dvLUnN08/SuUUVtvPEcI/AAAAAAAADOI/9v1Iaf5-WOk/s72-c/padifield.jpg" height="72" width="72" /><thr:total xmlns:thr="http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0">36</thr:total><feedburner:origLink>http://www.nessa-mumblings.com/2009/10/reminiscence.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4605009737094996093.post-7719105332886259492</guid><pubDate>Wed, 28 Oct 2009 03:19:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2009-10-28T11:19:58.986+08:00</atom:updated><title>3-Day Super Sale!!!</title><description>All you travel buff out there, you had better listen up cos have I got news for you! &lt;img class="emoticon" src="http://us.i1.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/i/mesg/emoticons7/104.gif" alt="timeout" title="timeout" height="auto" width="auto" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;There's an amazing promotion going on at &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;Accorhotels.com&lt;/span&gt; which you should not miss out. Take note that &lt;a href="http://socialspark.com/metrics/click/post?slot_id=77972&amp;url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.accorhotelsasia.com%2Fsupersale" rel="nofollow"&gt;Accor Hotels 3-Day Super Sale Asia Pacific&lt;/a&gt;  promotion runs from &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;27 October 2009&lt;/span&gt; to &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;30 October 2009&lt;/span&gt; and these bookings are for stays between &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;December 2009&lt;/span&gt; to &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;April 2010&lt;/span&gt;. Just don't get your dates all mixed up ya.&lt;img class="emoticon" src="http://us.i1.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/i/mesg/emoticons7/68.gif" alt="shameonyou" title="shameonyou" height="auto" width="auto" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Take advantage of this offer and be eligible for savings, with the lowest rates at US$30 per night. Do take note that different rates apply for Accor Hotel's various brands (Sofitel, Pullman, Grand Mercure, Mercure, Novotel, All Seasons and Ibis Hotels).&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;There are  over 1 million hotel rooms available for online bookings covering Asia Pacific's major countries which include Thailand, Korea, China, Japan, Hong Kong, Australia, Singapore, Vietnam, Japan, Malaysia, New Zealand, Fiji, Indonesia, Taiwan, India and Bali.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This is a shout out to my sister Mary Ann from the other side of the globe. Who knows you may want to surprise us by coming down for a visit again next year... hehe. For your info sis, there are two hotels you could look into and they are Pullman Putrajaya Lakeside and Novotel in Kuala Lumpur (both are included in the Super Sale promo).&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;If you're interested, just gimme a tweet ya. &lt;img class="emoticon" src="http://us.i1.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/i/mesg/emoticons7/3.gif" alt="wink" title="wink" height="auto" width="auto" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_6A_dvLUnN08/SuezN0DmzjI/AAAAAAAADO4/VLdscJtr3z4/s1600-h/Pullman+Putrajaya.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 1px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 346px; height: 260px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_6A_dvLUnN08/SuezN0DmzjI/AAAAAAAADO4/VLdscJtr3z4/s400/Pullman+Putrajaya.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5397479728320269874" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;Pullman Putrajaya Lakeside&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_6A_dvLUnN08/SuezOAPF3MI/AAAAAAAADPA/jL2ZYDhBEz8/s1600-h/Novotel+KL.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 1px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 346px; height: 260px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_6A_dvLUnN08/SuezOAPF3MI/AAAAAAAADPA/jL2ZYDhBEz8/s400/Novotel+KL.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5397479731589668034" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;Novotel Kuala Lumpur City Centre&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;map name="map5932"&gt;&lt;area href="http://socialspark.com/metrics/click/disclosure?slot_id=77972&amp;url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.accorhotelsasia.com%2Fsupersale" shape="rect" coords="0,0,206,45" rel="nofollow"&gt;&lt;area href="http://socialspark.com/code_of_ethics" shape="rect" coords="207,0,225,45" rel="nofollow"&gt;&lt;/map&gt;&lt;img alt="Post?slot_id=77972&amp;url=http%3a%2f%2fsocialspark" src="http://socialspark.com/metrics/view/post?slot_id=77972&amp;url=http%3A%2F%2Fsocialspark.com%2Fimages%2Fdisclosure_badges%2Fdisclosure_badge_grey.png" style="border: 0pt none ;" usemap="#map5932" border="0" /&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4605009737094996093-7719105332886259492?l=www.nessa-mumblings.com'/&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/nessa-mumblings/~4/JzwBFBtqMII" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/nessa-mumblings/~3/JzwBFBtqMII/3-day-super-sale.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Nessa)</author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_6A_dvLUnN08/SuezN0DmzjI/AAAAAAAADO4/VLdscJtr3z4/s72-c/Pullman+Putrajaya.jpg" height="72" width="72" /><thr:total xmlns:thr="http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0">26</thr:total><feedburner:origLink>http://www.nessa-mumblings.com/2009/10/3-day-super-sale.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4605009737094996093.post-2153674954049723100</guid><pubDate>Tue, 27 Oct 2009 01:01:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2009-10-28T08:27:27.285+08:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">The Amazing Race : Season 15</category><title>The Amazing Race 15 : Comedic Duo</title><description>Flight Time and Big Easy totally crack me up on last night's The Amazing Race episode! These two should be given their own show, they're natural born clowns I tell ya. Every time I look at their faces, they remind me of my favorite comedian  ~ Chris Rock! &lt;img class="emoticon" src="http://us.i1.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/i/mesg/emoticons7/4.gif" alt="biggrin" title="biggrin" height="auto" width="auto" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;My kids and I couldn't stop laughing watching the two of them. From the dinghy episode down to the briefcase, everything these two do just spells disaster. But I was amazed with their Math skill though. That was truly genius of them to borrow a calculator when the rest just didn't think of asking for one.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;For a while I forgot I was even watching a race, it was like watching a funny movie with Flight Time and Big Easy as the lead actors. I'm praying they won't get eliminated next week. I love it whenever they mention their catch phrase 'Do it for the hood, do it for the hood!'&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I feel pity for Mika... she was really terrified. It's sad to see them being eliminated that way but it's a race and that's the way it goes. But I what I don't get is why she even bothered to join when she knows what's in store in a race like this. I suppose $1 million dollars was not enticing enough for her. Poor Canaan... ahhh well...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Can't wait for next week's episode... the Globetrotters sure look like they're having a ball dancing with those costumes on! &lt;img class="emoticon" src="http://us.i1.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/i/mesg/emoticons7/21.gif" alt="laugh" title="laugh" height="auto" width="auto" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;object height="265" width="320"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/-4T7PubPY9s&amp;amp;hl=en&amp;amp;fs=1&amp;amp;"&gt;&lt;param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"&gt;&lt;param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/-4T7PubPY9s&amp;amp;hl=en&amp;amp;fs=1&amp;amp;" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" height="265" width="320"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;object width="320" height="265"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/gp7ax3Cb6gE&amp;amp;hl=en&amp;amp;fs=1&amp;amp;"&gt;&lt;param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"&gt;&lt;param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/gp7ax3Cb6gE&amp;amp;hl=en&amp;amp;fs=1&amp;amp;" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="320" height="265"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;object width="320" height="265"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/9gd64LEjaBQ&amp;amp;hl=en&amp;amp;fs=1&amp;amp;"&gt;&lt;param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"&gt;&lt;param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/9gd64LEjaBQ&amp;amp;hl=en&amp;amp;fs=1&amp;amp;" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="320" height="265"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4605009737094996093-2153674954049723100?l=www.nessa-mumblings.com'/&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/nessa-mumblings/~4/H7hF7sVQdG8" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/nessa-mumblings/~3/H7hF7sVQdG8/amazing-race-15-comedic-duo.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Nessa)</author><thr:total xmlns:thr="http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0">26</thr:total><feedburner:origLink>http://www.nessa-mumblings.com/2009/10/amazing-race-15-comedic-duo.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4605009737094996093.post-8282536544195435228</guid><pubDate>Mon, 26 Oct 2009 00:03:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2009-10-26T08:03:11.377+08:00</atom:updated><title>Clog Be Gone</title><description>Lately I noticed all the shoes and slippers on the shoe-rack kept getting wet whenever it rained. What's mind-boggling is  that the part where we put the shoe rack is under the porch,  completely covered from the rain. &lt;img class="emoticon" src="http://us.i1.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/i/mesg/emoticons7/39.gif" alt="think" title="think" height="auto" width="auto" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;First thing that came to mind was my lil' brat. I interrogated him, left right center... but the boy passed with flying colors. It wasn't him. Who or what could it be?? So I did a little detective work. &lt;img class="emoticon" src="http://us.i1.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/i/mesg/emoticons7/71.gif" alt="heehee" title="heehee" height="auto" width="auto" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;So it happened to rain quite heavily on Saturday and I quickly went out to the porch to check how the shoes gets drenched. The culprit was the gutter right on top of the porch. I went up to the room and saw all kinds of debris (leaves, stones, marbles even twigs) accumulated on the gutter, hence blocking the outlet and causing the rain water to overflow and caused a waterfall to cascade on the porch's wall where the shoe rack is located! A-ha! Gotcha!&lt;img class="emoticon" src="http://us.i1.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/i/mesg/emoticons7/69.gif" alt="dance" title="dance" height="auto" width="auto" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I just wish I had one of those &lt;a href="http://www.starlinggutteringassociates.com/"&gt;Gutter Guard&lt;/a&gt; from  &lt;a href="http://www.starlinggutteringassociates.com/"&gt;Gutters Virginia Beach&lt;/a&gt; then I wouldn't be having a clogged gutter problem. If you haven't heard of LeafGuard gutter system before, well, I heard it's the one and only one-piece seamless debris shedding gutter on the market and it's guaranteed NOT to clog your gutter with leaves, pine needles, or other organic debris for as long as your home is standing! It's so effective even the company is even offering a Lifetime Free-Flow Guarantee... whoaaa! &lt;img class="emoticon" src="http://us.i1.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/i/mesg/emoticons7/77.gif" alt="notworthy" title="notworthy" height="auto" width="auto" /&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4605009737094996093-8282536544195435228?l=www.nessa-mumblings.com'/&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/nessa-mumblings/~4/m9vBARrwExM" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/nessa-mumblings/~3/m9vBARrwExM/clog-be-gone.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Nessa)</author><thr:total xmlns:thr="http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0">8</thr:total><feedburner:origLink>http://www.nessa-mumblings.com/2009/10/clog-be-gone.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4605009737094996093.post-3589539374821769732</guid><pubDate>Sun, 25 Oct 2009 09:27:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2009-10-25T19:52:17.214+08:00</atom:updated><title>I'm So Hungry I Could Eat A Horse!</title><description>&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_6A_dvLUnN08/SuLCTBEk3KI/AAAAAAAADNI/Y3x2Qe2lH3c/s1600-h/stirfriedsnake.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 1px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_6A_dvLUnN08/SuLCTBEk3KI/AAAAAAAADNI/Y3x2Qe2lH3c/s320/stirfriedsnake.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5396088935504207010" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href="http://eatenintranslation.blogspot.com/2007/03/snakes-on-plate-adventures-in-taiwan.html"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;Image credit&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Looks yummy doesn't it? But looks can be deceiving. Unless of course you're the type who eats anything. It's stir fried snake! Yikes! I can't even get myself to look at snakes, let alone eat one. &lt;img class="emoticon" src="http://us.i1.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/i/mesg/emoticons7/42.gif" alt="nailbyte" title="nailbyte" height="auto" width="auto" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I remember eating a turtle some years back. Yeah... but that was without any knowledge that it was a turtle. I think I was 14 or maybe 16 years old, just woke up from sleep and feeling very hungry. My feet automatically brought me to the kitchen and I saw on the stove, this huge wok with steaming curry in it. The smell was magnificent so I took a bowlful and ate to my heart's content.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Minutes later, my mom (or was it my dad...but it could be one of my sisters too) saying  that they didn't know I eat turtles! &lt;span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;"&gt;Haaack... Thuiii!!!&lt;/span&gt; I dashed to the sink and tried with all my might to throw up every trace of the dish from my system. I felt so bad and pukey... I just ate a turtle.&lt;img class="emoticon" src="http://us.i1.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/i/mesg/emoticons7/20.gif" alt="cry" title="cry" height="auto" width="auto" /&gt; How could anyone cook  and eat an innocent creature???&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;When it comes to food, I am definitely not the adventurous type. I'd stick with chicken, fish, seafood (except clams) and oink-oink meat. I've heard someone said rabbit meat tastes like chicken. But how could anyone eat rabbits?? They're such cute animals!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;And to answer &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;Bain&lt;/span&gt; and &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;Emila&lt;/span&gt;, no, I have never  eaten a Kuda (horse) before! &lt;img class="emoticon" src="http://us.i1.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/i/mesg/emoticons7/71.gif" alt="heehee" title="heehee" height="auto" width="auto" /&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4605009737094996093-3589539374821769732?l=www.nessa-mumblings.com'/&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/nessa-mumblings/~4/Z8cmhrnR4HU" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/nessa-mumblings/~3/Z8cmhrnR4HU/im-so-hungry-i-could-eat-horse.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Nessa)</author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_6A_dvLUnN08/SuLCTBEk3KI/AAAAAAAADNI/Y3x2Qe2lH3c/s72-c/stirfriedsnake.jpg" height="72" width="72" /><thr:total xmlns:thr="http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0">35</thr:total><feedburner:origLink>http://www.nessa-mumblings.com/2009/10/im-so-hungry-i-could-eat-horse.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4605009737094996093.post-2430022065413262415</guid><pubDate>Sat, 24 Oct 2009 14:05:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2009-10-24T22:08:05.697+08:00</atom:updated><title>I Have The Power</title><description>How many times have you watch a movie and you never seemed to be able to watch the ending? Somehow,  some sort of cheeky evil spirits are out there to ruin your viewing pleasures.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Sometimes, it's that call of nature (that last five minutes before the movie ends and you just had to go to the loo!). There are also shows being aired way past your bedtime or showing way too early in the morning.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;My youngest boy even have this habit of always asking me all kinds of questions when my mind is so engrossed watching the movie and I get all distracted and next thing you know, poof! You end up not knowing what happened to that crucial 5 seconds of the movie.&lt;img class="emoticon" src="http://us.i1.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/i/mesg/emoticons7/102.gif" alt="atwitshand" title="atwitshand" width="auto" height="auto" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;That's where TV On Demand comes to the rescue. You can  &lt;a href="http://socialspark.com/metrics/click/post?slot_id=76292&amp;amp;url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.charter.net%2Fondemand" rel="nofollow"&gt;learn more at charter.net/ondemand&lt;/a&gt; if you have no inkling on what's it about. You may also &lt;a href="http://socialspark.com/metrics/click/post?slot_id=76292&amp;amp;url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.facebook.com%2Fchartercom" rel="nofollow"&gt;get updates and fun extras on Charter’s Facebook page&lt;/a&gt;, just make sure you have a Facebook account first ya.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt; &lt;img style="width: 172px; height: 172px;" alt="Ondemand" src="http://socialspark.com/uploads/socialspark/public/assets/1122/ONDemand.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="pad5-15"&gt;&lt;p&gt;With  Charter On Demand, I can pause, rewind, fast forward and stop a movie as and when I like it! I don't even have to bother about finding out the TV schedules. Now, I can go to the loo anytime I want without missing any part of a show or movie. My son can even ask me one million questions for all he wants! Mommy's not gonna get annoyed cos she has the power in her hands!&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;map name="map5702"&gt;&lt;area href="http://socialspark.com/metrics/click/disclosure?slot_id=76292&amp;amp;url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.charter.net%2Fondemand" shape="rect" coords="0,0,206,45" rel="nofollow"&gt;&lt;area href="http://socialspark.com/code_of_ethics" shape="rect" coords="207,0,225,45" rel="nofollow"&gt;&lt;/map&gt;&lt;img alt="Post?slot_id=76292&amp;amp;url=http%3a%2f%2fsocialspark" src="http://socialspark.com/metrics/view/post?slot_id=76292&amp;amp;url=http%3A%2F%2Fsocialspark.com%2Fimages%2Fdisclosure_badges%2Fdisclosure_badge_grey.png" style="border: 0pt none ;" usemap="#map5702" border="0" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4605009737094996093-2430022065413262415?l=www.nessa-mumblings.com'/&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/nessa-mumblings/~4/rsnSlVQgyaQ" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/nessa-mumblings/~3/rsnSlVQgyaQ/i-have-power.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Nessa)</author><thr:total xmlns:thr="http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0">2</thr:total><feedburner:origLink>http://www.nessa-mumblings.com/2009/10/i-have-power.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4605009737094996093.post-1954703814650895819</guid><pubDate>Sat, 24 Oct 2009 04:52:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2009-10-24T12:53:16.414+08:00</atom:updated><title>Magic Color</title><description>An incident which transpired just a few minutes ago...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;Son: Mommy, the wall got paint &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;Mommy: Paint? Why did you paint the wall? (with a slightly raised voice)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;Son: Errr... I was drawing and then the paint kena the wall&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;Mommy: (Trying hard to conceal anger) How did that happen? Where were you drawing?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;Son: (long pause) On my table&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;Mommy: How on earth did the paint fly from the table to the wall? Your color got magic is it??!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;Son: Errrr... (face trying hard to come up with an excuse)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;Mommy: Look, if you've done something wrong just admit it. Don't come up with a silly excuse and expect mommy to believe it!!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;Son: (speechless)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I admit when it comes to disciplining my boys, I can be very strict at times. Some have said my face resembles  a dragon ready to swallow its victim whenever I'm in one of my fiery moods. Well,  looks can be deceiving... hehehe&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I must thank my son later. At least I had something to blog about on this boring Saturday! &lt;img class="emoticon" src="http://us.i1.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/i/mesg/emoticons7/71.gif" alt="heehee" title="heehee" height="auto" width="auto" /&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4605009737094996093-1954703814650895819?l=www.nessa-mumblings.com'/&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/nessa-mumblings/~4/iun-OlS-A5Q" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/nessa-mumblings/~3/iun-OlS-A5Q/magic-color.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Nessa)</author><thr:total xmlns:thr="http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0">15</thr:total><feedburner:origLink>http://www.nessa-mumblings.com/2009/10/magic-color.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4605009737094996093.post-7990366009502468395</guid><pubDate>Thu, 22 Oct 2009 15:36:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2009-10-22T23:36:27.566+08:00</atom:updated><title>Tinted Brain</title><description>&lt;span class="verd-11-black"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;       I'm thinking of a topic to write...&lt;img class="emoticon" src="http://us.i1.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/i/mesg/emoticons7/39.gif" alt="think" title="think" height="auto" width="auto" /&gt;&lt;img class="emoticon" src="http://us.i1.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/i/mesg/emoticons7/106.gif" alt="donno" title="donno" height="auto" width="auto" /&gt;&lt;img class="emoticon" src="http://us.i1.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/i/mesg/emoticons7/45.gif" alt="wait" title="wait" height="auto" width="auto" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;But my mind is not cooperating... &lt;img class="emoticon" src="http://us.i1.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/i/mesg/emoticons7/22.gif" alt="straight" title="straight" height="auto" width="auto" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Maybe I should just babble and ramble on whatever comes to mind... hmmmm... the big brown fox jumps over the lazy dog but the lazy dog bit the fox's b*tt and the fox ran away in shame...  &lt;img class="emoticon" src="http://us.i1.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/i/mesg/emoticons7/65.gif" alt="whistle" title="whistle" height="auto" width="auto" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I shouldn't fret cos nobody is even reading this... ahahaha &lt;img class="emoticon" src="http://us.i1.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/i/mesg/emoticons7/10.gif" alt="tongue" title="tongue" height="auto" width="auto" /&gt; And if you are reading this, you must be as insane as I am!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;So, has anyone ever heard of &lt;a href="http://www.campbellfilm.com/"&gt;California Window Film&lt;/a&gt;? What?? You haven't?? Tsk! Tsk! Shame on you. Well, let me just tell you more about them cos who knows, you might need their service in future. They have over 20 years of experience in Window Film Installation. Yeah, 20 years! Not 2 years nor 12 years but 20 years. They specialize in the following services ~&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;       1. Residential               Window Tinting&lt;br /&gt;2. Commercial               Window Tinting&lt;br /&gt;3. Automotive               Window Tinting&lt;br /&gt;4. Boat               &amp;amp; RV Tinting&lt;br /&gt;5. Safety               &amp;amp; Security Window Film&lt;br /&gt;6. Graffiti Abatement               Films&lt;br /&gt;7. Frosted Glass              and View Control Films&lt;br /&gt;8. Skylights&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;If you need any of those services, check their website out and give them a call!&lt;img class="emoticon" src="http://us.i1.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/i/mesg/emoticons7/100.gif" alt="onthephone" title="onthephone" height="auto" width="auto" /&gt; Darn, I still can't think what to post about. Maybe blog hopping might help... Hop hop hoppity hop!!&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4605009737094996093-7990366009502468395?l=www.nessa-mumblings.com'/&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/nessa-mumblings/~4/3RuwlVOfMDw" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/nessa-mumblings/~3/3RuwlVOfMDw/tinted-brain.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Nessa)</author><thr:total xmlns:thr="http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0">21</thr:total><feedburner:origLink>http://www.nessa-mumblings.com/2009/10/tinted-brain.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4605009737094996093.post-2124612249636479681</guid><pubDate>Thu, 22 Oct 2009 02:46:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2009-10-24T16:39:53.722+08:00</atom:updated><title>Seeing Owls</title><description>Yesterday I managed to stick the &lt;a href="http://www.nessa-mumblings.com/2009/06/my-date.html"&gt;Wall Art Decal&lt;/a&gt; I won from Emila's  Top First Commenter contest for April 2009. My son has been pestering me to do it for months but lazy mommy always came up with all kinds of excuses... Tsk! Tsk! Tsk!&lt;img class="emoticon" src="http://us.i1.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/i/mesg/emoticons7/9.gif" alt="blush" title="blush" height="auto" width="auto" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;So, here it is! Tadaaaaa! &lt;img class="emoticon" src="http://us.i1.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/i/mesg/emoticons7/41.gif" alt="applause" title="applause" height="auto" width="auto" /&gt;&lt;img class="emoticon" src="http://us.i1.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/i/mesg/emoticons7/71.gif" alt="heehee" title="heehee" height="auto" width="auto" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_6A_dvLUnN08/St_Gf5pYthI/AAAAAAAADMI/F2qMMzZvcio/s1600-h/Wah,-got-clouds-and-a-little-airplane-some-more.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 1px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_6A_dvLUnN08/St_Gf5pYthI/AAAAAAAADMI/F2qMMzZvcio/s400/Wah,-got-clouds-and-a-little-airplane-some-more.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5395249129965794834" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Result: A very happy boy. Mission accomplished!&lt;img class="emoticon" src="http://us.i1.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/i/mesg/emoticons7/4.gif" alt="biggrin" title="biggrin" height="auto" width="auto" /&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4605009737094996093-2124612249636479681?l=www.nessa-mumblings.com'/&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/nessa-mumblings/~4/RnzMxaxwt5M" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/nessa-mumblings/~3/RnzMxaxwt5M/seeing-owls.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Nessa)</author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_6A_dvLUnN08/St_Gf5pYthI/AAAAAAAADMI/F2qMMzZvcio/s72-c/Wah,-got-clouds-and-a-little-airplane-some-more.jpg" height="72" width="72" /><thr:total xmlns:thr="http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0">24</thr:total><feedburner:origLink>http://www.nessa-mumblings.com/2009/10/seeing-owls.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4605009737094996093.post-2132521600034480129</guid><pubDate>Tue, 20 Oct 2009 16:11:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2009-10-21T00:12:32.389+08:00</atom:updated><title>Desperately Seeking A Kitchen Makeover!</title><description>Hear Ye! Hear Ye! Anyone from Canada reading this better listen up carefully!&lt;img class="emoticon" src="http://us.i1.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/i/mesg/emoticons7/70.gif" alt="bringit" title="bringit" height="auto" width="auto" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Here's your chance to win a &lt;a href="http://socialspark.com/metrics/click/post?slot_id=68802&amp;url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.mapleleaf.com%2Fen%2Fmarket%2Fbutcher%2Fcontests%2F" rel="nofollow"&gt;kitchen makeover&lt;/a&gt;, yes, you read that correctly. A kitchen makeover!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;How I wish I'm in Canada right-this-moment cos  I would love to have a kitchen makeover... in fact I'm dying to have a kitchen makeover! I've always dreamed of having a fairly big kitchen, complete with a kitchen island and high cabinets, all in white color. Right now I do all my chopping and peeling and slicing and cutting on the side of the sink. It's so darn small I tell you! &lt;img class="emoticon" src="http://us.i1.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/i/mesg/emoticons7/62.gif" alt="frustrated" title="frustrated" height="auto" width="auto" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Uncle Lee, you're in Canada so you had better enter this contest. Maple Leaf Foods is giving away a &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;$32,000&lt;/span&gt; Dream Kitchen* and &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;12 Frigidaire® fridges&lt;/span&gt; to celebrate the launch of their new site ~ the Maple Leaf Market Experience!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Go ahead and experience the new 'delectable' site for yourself... meet the Butcher, the Baker and the Pasta Maker! You'll have a great time browsing through their easy-to-make meals and recipes, even getting some cool cooking tips and coupons! Wow, I'm salivating already!&lt;img class="emoticon" src="http://us.i1.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/i/mesg/emoticons7/38.gif" alt="drool" title="drool" height="auto" width="auto" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Come on, don't wait too long, go ahead and check it out and enter the contest right now to win. Imagine all the things you could do to your kitchen if you win this contest. I wish I could enter but alas, I'm not from Canada. I'd be the first to enter if I was though. I really want a kitchen makeover!!!&lt;img class="emoticon" src="http://us.i1.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/i/mesg/emoticons7/63.gif" alt="pray" title="pray" height="auto" width="auto" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p style=""&gt;&lt;map name="map5072"&gt;&lt;area href="http://socialspark.com/metrics/click/disclosure?slot_id=68802&amp;url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.mapleleaf.com%2Fen%2Fmarket%2Fbutcher%2Fcontests%2F" shape="rect" coords="0,0,206,45" rel="nofollow"&gt;&lt;area href="http://socialspark.com/code_of_ethics" shape="rect" coords="207,0,225,45" rel="nofollow"&gt;&lt;/map&gt;&lt;img alt="Post?slot_id=68802&amp;url=http%3a%2f%2fsocialspark" border="0" src="http://socialspark.com/metrics/view/post?slot_id=68802&amp;url=http%3A%2F%2Fsocialspark.com%2Fimages%2Fdisclosure_badges%2Fdisclosure_badge_grey.png" style="border:0" usemap="#map5072" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4605009737094996093-2132521600034480129?l=www.nessa-mumblings.com'/&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/nessa-mumblings/~4/HgsNk4HCCUU" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/nessa-mumblings/~3/HgsNk4HCCUU/desperately-seeking-kitchen-makeover.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Nessa)</author><thr:total xmlns:thr="http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0">29</thr:total><feedburner:origLink>http://www.nessa-mumblings.com/2009/10/desperately-seeking-kitchen-makeover.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4605009737094996093.post-5611336720537976043</guid><pubDate>Tue, 20 Oct 2009 14:51:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2009-10-23T13:49:36.478+08:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">The Amazing Race : Season 15</category><title>The Amazing Race Season 15</title><description>There aren't many Reality shows on TV lately so when the latest season of The Amazing Race (season 15) premiered recently, I've been glued to the TV every Monday from 8.00pm till 9.00pm!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_6A_dvLUnN08/SuEVf9hFiSI/AAAAAAAADM4/XzmksZkj4qw/s1600-h/Herb%26Nate.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 225px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_6A_dvLUnN08/SuEVf9hFiSI/AAAAAAAADM4/XzmksZkj4qw/s400/Herb%26Nate.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5395617467400030498" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;After watching each team's performance throughout the 5 legs, I  really like the two Harlem Globetrotters players, Flight Time and Big Easy cos they're funny! I can't stand bitching and fighting couples... arrgghhh!!  &lt;img class="emoticon" src="http://us.i1.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/i/mesg/emoticons7/76.gif" alt="chatter" title="chatter" height="auto" width="auto" /&gt;&lt;img class="emoticon" src="http://us.i1.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/i/mesg/emoticons7/107.gif" alt="notlisten" title="notlisten" height="auto" width="auto" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;There's another 7 legs to go. I hope those two will stay on longer... and maybe they will be in the final 3 (who knows).&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I'm relieved Lance and Keri are out. Lance is such an impatient guy (there was no need  to throw that water urn to pieces in the desert)!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;So whose your favorites??&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4605009737094996093-5611336720537976043?l=www.nessa-mumblings.com'/&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/nessa-mumblings/~4/ocm9kwyVHQg" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/nessa-mumblings/~3/ocm9kwyVHQg/amazing-race-season-15.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Nessa)</author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_6A_dvLUnN08/SuEVf9hFiSI/AAAAAAAADM4/XzmksZkj4qw/s72-c/Herb%26Nate.jpg" height="72" width="72" /><thr:total xmlns:thr="http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0">6</thr:total><feedburner:origLink>http://www.nessa-mumblings.com/2009/10/amazing-race-season-15.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4605009737094996093.post-8613829534047932653</guid><pubDate>Sat, 17 Oct 2009 13:31:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2009-10-17T21:33:08.735+08:00</atom:updated><title>Oh, The Pain!</title><description>The past week has been rough on me. Sneezing, coughing, feverish, flu, runny nose and my, my... mr. toothache decided to join in the fun. Gimme me a break la!&lt;img class="emoticon" src="http://us.i1.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/i/mesg/emoticons7/20.gif" alt="cry" title="cry" height="auto" width="auto" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Well, I only have myself to blame coz I have been putting up with the toothache for years now (yeah, I have a high tolerance for pain). You see, I have this... urmmm... probably the world's horrible teeth. I have 2 broken teeth, and recently one of the filled tooth came out (I have no idea how that happened). I'm so embarrassed to even see a dentist, he/she would probably laugh at my teeth condition.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The pain has subsided... it comes and goes... phew! I dunno, I just don't believe in spending hundreds of Ringgit on repairing one miserable tooth. I'm not rich so by the time I'm forty I'd probably be toothless already! &lt;img class="emoticon" src="http://us.i1.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/i/mesg/emoticons7/24.gif" alt="rotfl" title="rotfl" height="auto" width="auto" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Anyway, I just thought perhaps I should try and become a &lt;a href="http://www.zoomcoin.com/"&gt;coin dealer&lt;/a&gt; or something. Who knows I might just discover a rare coin that would translate to a few million dollars... yeah right, dream on Nessa! &lt;img class="emoticon" src="http://us.i1.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/i/mesg/emoticons7/105.gif" alt="daydream" title="daydream" height="auto" width="auto" /&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4605009737094996093-8613829534047932653?l=www.nessa-mumblings.com'/&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/nessa-mumblings/~4/9BPlxlOnasw" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/nessa-mumblings/~3/9BPlxlOnasw/oh-pain.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Nessa)</author><thr:total xmlns:thr="http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0">28</thr:total><feedburner:origLink>http://www.nessa-mumblings.com/2009/10/oh-pain.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4605009737094996093.post-1683938295572850564</guid><pubDate>Thu, 15 Oct 2009 02:11:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2009-10-15T10:13:53.746+08:00</atom:updated><title>Flush That Sound</title><description>Imagine this scenario...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;You have a major tummy ache. You've gotta go big time. After searching high and low for a toilet, you find one. Your tummy can't wait any longer... and you  do your 'business' accompanied with all kinds of ghastly noises. You get out and everybody's whispering and stealing glances at you.&lt;img class="emoticon" src="http://us.i1.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/i/mesg/emoticons7/9.gif" alt="blush" title="blush" height="auto" width="auto" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Does the situation seem familiar? Have you ever been in such a situation? Just how do you mask those loud unpleasant gas emissions??&lt;img class="emoticon" src="http://us.i1.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/i/mesg/emoticons7/7.gif" alt="confused" title="confused" height="auto" width="auto" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Well, someone in Japan actually designed one such gadget for that purpose to mask those embarrassing 'noise' and it's called &lt;span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;"&gt;Ecohime Flush Water Sound&lt;/span&gt; and it's also a phone strap!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_6A_dvLUnN08/StXOVWgQUoI/AAAAAAAADLI/f2zdRn3vZKg/s1600-h/elegantrosecharm.jpeg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 229px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_6A_dvLUnN08/StXOVWgQUoI/AAAAAAAADLI/f2zdRn3vZKg/s320/elegantrosecharm.jpeg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5392442995059479170" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;It retails at USD10.99 and is available in four different colors (black, pink, pearl white and pearl pink). Just press the button located on the rose, and it will eliminate that noise for you with some soothing water sound!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Btw, I'd like to thank everyone for their well wishes. I'm on my way to recovery... didn't even have to see the doctor. Ann was right, glad I didn't have to  kick anything... phewww!! &lt;img class="emoticon" src="http://us.i1.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/i/mesg/emoticons7/18.gif" alt="whew" title="whew" height="auto" width="auto" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;Source: &lt;a href="http://www.strapya-world.com/categories/12_65_5150.html"&gt;strapya-world&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4605009737094996093-1683938295572850564?l=www.nessa-mumblings.com'/&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/nessa-mumblings/~4/Qf990xIu0Cs" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/nessa-mumblings/~3/Qf990xIu0Cs/flush-that-sound.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Nessa)</author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_6A_dvLUnN08/StXOVWgQUoI/AAAAAAAADLI/f2zdRn3vZKg/s72-c/elegantrosecharm.jpeg" height="72" width="72" /><thr:total xmlns:thr="http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0">29</thr:total><feedburner:origLink>http://www.nessa-mumblings.com/2009/10/flush-that-sound.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4605009737094996093.post-3607207765641089194</guid><pubDate>Mon, 12 Oct 2009 15:08:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2009-10-12T23:14:49.375+08:00</atom:updated><title>Sneeze Fest</title><description>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_6A_dvLUnN08/StNFriHvb_I/AAAAAAAADK4/s0VEdMsa4ek/s1600-h/babysneeze.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 213px; height: 320px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_6A_dvLUnN08/StNFriHvb_I/AAAAAAAADK4/s0VEdMsa4ek/s320/babysneeze.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5391729793088581618" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;I've been sneezing non-stop today... I think some parts of my lungs exploded already cos my chest feels so painful. &lt;img class="emoticon" src="http://us.i1.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/i/mesg/emoticons7/20.gif" alt="cry" title="cry" height="auto" width="auto" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I hate it when I fall sick, well, who does ya. Thanks to my youngest boy, I now have a sore throat and my nose is running away... ooops!! I meant I have a runny nose. Picture me with snotty nose... eewwww... not a pweety sight.&lt;img class="emoticon" src="http://us.i1.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/i/mesg/emoticons7/71.gif" alt="heehee" title="heehee" height="auto" width="auto" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I hate going to the clinic. But I can't take any chances with swine flu still around... but I'll see how things go tomorrow. If you don't hear from me for days, or  weeks maybe I've kicked the sand... errr... is it pail?? Oh, never mind. Nice knowing you all. Pray for my quick recovery ya.&lt;img class="emoticon" src="http://us.i1.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/i/mesg/emoticons7/63.gif" alt="pray" title="pray" height="auto" width="auto" /&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4605009737094996093-3607207765641089194?l=www.nessa-mumblings.com'/&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/nessa-mumblings/~4/i_mu5JPJFn0" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/nessa-mumblings/~3/i_mu5JPJFn0/sneeze-fest.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Nessa)</author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_6A_dvLUnN08/StNFriHvb_I/AAAAAAAADK4/s0VEdMsa4ek/s72-c/babysneeze.jpg" height="72" width="72" /><thr:total xmlns:thr="http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0">23</thr:total><feedburner:origLink>http://www.nessa-mumblings.com/2009/10/sneeze-fest.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4605009737094996093.post-2949802662661733684</guid><pubDate>Fri, 09 Oct 2009 02:55:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2009-10-09T10:56:29.960+08:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Banned Dried Plums and Prunes</category><title>Deadly Plums!</title><description>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_6A_dvLUnN08/Ss6jqGegJ3I/AAAAAAAADJ4/opMJniIDFzQ/s1600-h/banneddriedplums.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 357px; height: 400px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_6A_dvLUnN08/Ss6jqGegJ3I/AAAAAAAADJ4/opMJniIDFzQ/s400/banneddriedplums.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5390425747697444722" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;Just wanna share with you the list of banned dried plums and prunes. Please do not consume them! &lt;img class="emoticon" src="http://us.i1.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/i/mesg/emoticons7/68.gif" alt="shameonyou" title="shameonyou" height="auto" width="auto" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I  buy these sweet and sour treats whenever I go out... but NO more. I have been eating them since... errrr... for as long as I can remember! Die la... sure got lead in my system. &lt;img class="emoticon" src="http://us.i1.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/i/mesg/emoticons7/42.gif" alt="nailbyte" title="nailbyte" height="auto" width="auto" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;Friday, October 9 KUALA LUMPUR ~ The sale of 18 types of dried plum and prune from China, Taiwan and other Asian countries has been restricted by the Health Ministry after high degrees of lead was detected.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The foodstuff - known as asam or jeruk in Malay and kiam sui tee (salty, sour and sweet) in Hokkien which are immensely popular as tidbits among Malaysians - has been put on Level 5 alert by the ministry’s Food Safety and Quality Division under its Food Information System of Malaysia.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Lead poisoning can cause damage to the nerve connections (especially in young children), damage to the nervous system, blood and brain disorders, damage to or disease of the kidney, increased blood pressure, anaemia, miscarriage and damage to reproductive organs.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Lead is a metal that can be absorbed into the body over time.  &lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4605009737094996093-2949802662661733684?l=www.nessa-mumblings.com'/&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/nessa-mumblings/~4/5PJ5GEFLIH0" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/nessa-mumblings/~3/5PJ5GEFLIH0/deadly-plums.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Nessa)</author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_6A_dvLUnN08/Ss6jqGegJ3I/AAAAAAAADJ4/opMJniIDFzQ/s72-c/banneddriedplums.jpg" height="72" width="72" /><thr:total xmlns:thr="http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0">40</thr:total><feedburner:origLink>http://www.nessa-mumblings.com/2009/10/deadly-plums.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4605009737094996093.post-8673823203164788469</guid><pubDate>Wed, 07 Oct 2009 11:51:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2009-10-07T19:51:35.842+08:00</atom:updated><title>Merci!</title><description>Thanks to all EntreCard advertisers for September '09. &lt;img class="emoticon" src="http://us.i1.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/i/mesg/emoticons7/8.gif" alt="love" title="love" height="auto" width="auto" /&gt; Without you guys I wouldn't be having a sinful amount of EC credits. How I wish I could use them to shop!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;But seriously though, I do appreciate all your ads in my blog and hope you guys would keep on advertising for as long as possible.&lt;img class="emoticon" src="http://us.i1.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/i/mesg/emoticons7/4.gif" alt="biggrin" title="biggrin" height="auto" width="auto" /&gt;&lt;ol style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="http://theadmaster.net/"&gt;The Ad Master&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.mykidsaremyworld.com/"&gt;My Kids Are My World&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="http://sherrysbookwormconfessions.blogspot.com/"&gt;The Bookworm Confessions&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.kavitameanspoetryinhindi.blogspot.com/"&gt;A Little Bit of This, A Little Bit of That&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.mariucasperfume.com/"&gt;Mariuca's Perfume Gallery&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="http://turn-u-off.blogspot.com/"&gt;Turn-U-Off&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.agt.id.au/"&gt;AGT.ID.AU&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="http://dream-themes.blogspot.com/"&gt;Dream Themes&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="http://pacemanspiff.blogspot.com/"&gt;Spiff, The Spaceman&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="http://bikin-panas.blogspot.com/"&gt;Bikin-Panas&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="http://meowdiaries.com/"&gt;Meow Diaries&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="http://online-social-networking.com/"&gt;Online Social Networking&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="http://sewingmom.com/"&gt;The Sewing Mom&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="http://arosebyname2.blogspot.com/"&gt;A Rose By Name Learns&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="http://maitrisnotesquotesandflashingthoughts.blogspot.com/"&gt;Maitri's Notes, Quotes &amp;amp; Flashing Thoughts&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="http://joshuaongys.com/"&gt;JoshuaOngys.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="http://caffeinefix.net/"&gt;Caffeine Fix&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="http://mymariuca.com/"&gt;Wishing On A Falling Star&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="http://seashorebeachcottage.com/"&gt;A Life To Remember&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.ode2adrienne.info/"&gt;Ode To Adrienne&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="http://littlebitsof.info/"&gt;Little Bits Of Info&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="http://emilayusof.com/"&gt;Emila's Illustrated Blog&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.maitrisheart.blogspot.com/"&gt;Maitri's Heart&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.sheaky.com/"&gt;Worth's Road&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="http://ataxiride.info/"&gt;A Taxi Ride&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="http://thecouchpotato.info/"&gt;The Couch Potato&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="http://spirituality-page.blogspot.com/"&gt;Spirituality Page&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="http://freshnmarine.com.sg/blog"&gt;Fresh 'N' Marine Aquarium Blog&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ol&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4605009737094996093-8673823203164788469?l=www.nessa-mumblings.com'/&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/nessa-mumblings/~4/ix1ELdYDZGg" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/nessa-mumblings/~3/ix1ELdYDZGg/merci.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Nessa)</author><thr:total xmlns:thr="http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0">17</thr:total><feedburner:origLink>http://www.nessa-mumblings.com/2009/10/merci.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4605009737094996093.post-3562378606680777005</guid><pubDate>Tue, 06 Oct 2009 02:32:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2009-10-06T12:41:57.860+08:00</atom:updated><title>Apples, Grapes... And Chickens</title><description>I am bored sitting, thinking and typing. Somebody whisk me to New Zealand, my dream country... I've always wanted to  pick apples straight from its tree and eat ripe grapes from the vines and milking cows!&lt;img class="emoticon" src="http://us.i1.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/i/mesg/emoticons7/50.gif" alt="cow" title="cow" height="auto" width="auto" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/alirafeeq/495988011/"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 1px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 300px; height: 400px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_6A_dvLUnN08/Ssqjq3VMrUI/AAAAAAAADJQ/57UtC0ibXdI/s400/pickingapples.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5389299860904914242" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;Image by  &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a style="font-style: italic;" href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/alirafeeq/495988011/"&gt;a.rafeeq&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/bjornie/1311509765/"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 1px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 281px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_6A_dvLUnN08/SsqpntYo3YI/AAAAAAAADJo/WgJYdILcpro/s320/pickinggrapes.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5389306403765149058" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;Image by  &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a style="font-style: italic;" href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/bjornie/1311509765/"&gt;björnik&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I think I'm homesick, I miss home, I miss kampung (village) life. Chasing chickens and planting my own flowers and vegetables... except I don't have any chickens back home. Well, I could always buy from the market and rear one, just one cos two would be a handful. I don't like the thought of having to clean  up chicken poo...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Gotta be patient... next year is only three months away. OMG! 2010 is just three months away???! &lt;img class="emoticon" src="http://us.i1.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/i/mesg/emoticons7/13.gif" alt="surprise" title="surprise" height="auto" width="auto" /&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4605009737094996093-3562378606680777005?l=www.nessa-mumblings.com'/&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/nessa-mumblings/~4/guSDEg9kmZI" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/nessa-mumblings/~3/guSDEg9kmZI/apples-grapes-and-chickens.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Nessa)</author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_6A_dvLUnN08/Ssqjq3VMrUI/AAAAAAAADJQ/57UtC0ibXdI/s72-c/pickingapples.jpg" height="72" width="72" /><thr:total xmlns:thr="http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0">42</thr:total><feedburner:origLink>http://www.nessa-mumblings.com/2009/10/apples-grapes-and-chickens.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4605009737094996093.post-4657626962989424484</guid><pubDate>Mon, 05 Oct 2009 03:33:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2009-10-05T14:58:27.954+08:00</atom:updated><title>Once Bitten, Twice Shy!</title><description>While waiting for my kids to finish their Sunday classes yesterday, I'd normally have my breakfast at one of the nearby coffee-shop.  I'd usually order my regular Wantan mee and a cup of Teh Si (tea with evaporated milk).&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Now, there was this new coffee-shop that recently opened for business on the same row and I thought I'd try something different and give the new shop a chance... you know how sometimes you'd get better food and even better service from a newly opened shop trying to attract as many customers as they can.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Well, I was entirely wrong on that count. Maybe someone should hand out warning &lt;a href="http://www.mavericklabel.com/"&gt;Labels&lt;/a&gt; to warn people to stay away from this place! While their service was pretty quick, I can't say the same for the food and drink. It was horrible! &lt;img class="emoticon" src="http://us.i1.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/i/mesg/emoticons7/47.gif" alt="phbbbt" title="phbbbt" height="auto" width="auto" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;They had quite a bit of items offered on their menu which had me spoilt for choice. Then I noticed the &lt;a href="http://www.mavericklabel.com/"&gt;custom labels&lt;/a&gt; for their specialty, which was Wantan mee (what else... hehehe!). Since I couldn't really decide what I wanted to eat and seeing as how I just love Wantan mee, I decided to try theirs out. I mean, how bad can anyone spoil Wantan mee, right? It is after all a simple dish to make.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Well, after what they dished out, I've learned my lesson about trying out newly opened food shops. The Wantan mee came in the kuey teow styled mee, which was a shock to say the least cos I've NEVER ever eaten Wantan mee using kuey teow as the noodles! And the wantan's proper were also horrible, with more flour than ingredients.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;And that wasn't all, the Teh Si, well Teh Si is another thing that really isn't very difficult to make. The only thing that could happen was it would either be too sweet or tasteless but this one tasted like drain water filtered through a sewage and then mixed with grime (OK, I exaggerated) but it was that awful. It tasted like they poured Soya bean milk in the tea instead of evaporated milk! Yucks! &lt;img class="emoticon" src="http://us.i1.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/i/mesg/emoticons7/47.gif" alt="phbbbt" title="phbbbt" height="auto" width="auto" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Well, suffice to say, I'm NEVER ever going to try out new shops until the place is a few months old or at least more people were eating there too. The lack of crowd in this new shop should have been the first clue as to how horrible the place was. What was I thinking!! &lt;img class="emoticon" src="http://us.i1.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/i/mesg/emoticons7/40.gif" alt="doh" title="doh" height="auto" width="auto" /&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4605009737094996093-4657626962989424484?l=www.nessa-mumblings.com'/&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/nessa-mumblings/~4/xTA6zLpFE3k" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/nessa-mumblings/~3/xTA6zLpFE3k/once-bitten-twice-shy.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Nessa)</author><thr:total xmlns:thr="http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0">34</thr:total><feedburner:origLink>http://www.nessa-mumblings.com/2009/10/once-bitten-twice-shy.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4605009737094996093.post-6112905654747522248</guid><pubDate>Thu, 01 Oct 2009 15:29:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2009-10-02T07:40:08.772+08:00</atom:updated><title>Entrecard September Hot Droppers</title><description>&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;And the 'crown' goes to...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_6A_dvLUnN08/SsTHMHxR-YI/AAAAAAAADI4/Y2_cL2j3hpM/s1600-h/ComputerAid.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 1px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 125px; height: 125px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_6A_dvLUnN08/SsTHMHxR-YI/AAAAAAAADI4/Y2_cL2j3hpM/s200/ComputerAid.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5387650065300060546" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;Congratulations! &lt;img class="emoticon" src="http://us.i1.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/i/mesg/emoticons7/41.gif" alt="applause" title="applause" height="auto" width="auto" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Top 10 EC Droppers (September '09)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;ol style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.computer-aid.com.au/blog/"&gt;Computer Aid&lt;/a&gt; (31)&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="http://julianabitspieces.blogspot.com/"&gt;Juliana's Bits &amp;amp; Pieces&lt;/a&gt; (31)&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="http://buy-tees.net/"&gt;Buy-Tees.net T-Shirts&lt;/a&gt; (30)&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="http://mjgolch.blogspot.com/"&gt;Rambling Stuff&lt;/a&gt; (30)&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="http://paulbaines.co.uk/category/blog/"&gt;Art By Paul Baines&lt;/a&gt; (30)&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.buckrobin.com/"&gt;The Way I See It&lt;/a&gt; (30)&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.naokoscooking.com/"&gt;Cooking Japanese Style&lt;/a&gt; (30)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="http://theadmaster.net/"&gt;The Ad Master&lt;/a&gt; (30)&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.yoonsee.blogspot.com/"&gt;Greener Pastures&lt;/a&gt; (30)&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="http://artshout.net/"&gt;Art Shout&lt;/a&gt; (30)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ol&gt;Thanks to everyone who drops by regularly, takes time to read my mumbles;  left comments and also to YOU for your visit. Sorry I haven't posted anything interesting lately... the mind isn't cooperating and it's kinda empty in the idea department. &lt;img class="emoticon" src="http://us.i1.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/i/mesg/emoticons7/106.gif" alt="donno" title="donno" height="auto" width="auto" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I salute and envy those who write effortlessly. I tend to think too much when I write and it doesn't help when I'm a perfectionist. You should see my closet... it's very neat and even the hangers are all in one color cos I don't like having multi-colored hangers. Oppps, sorry... I'm way off topic here! &lt;img class="emoticon" src="http://us.i1.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/i/mesg/emoticons7/71.gif" alt="heehee" title="heehee" height="auto" width="auto" /&gt;&lt;img class="emoticon" src="http://us.i1.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/i/mesg/emoticons7/9.gif" alt="blush" title="blush" height="auto" width="auto" /&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4605009737094996093-6112905654747522248?l=www.nessa-mumblings.com'/&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/nessa-mumblings/~4/rHSzRrZx6_c" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/nessa-mumblings/~3/rHSzRrZx6_c/entrecard-september-hot-droppers.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Nessa)</author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_6A_dvLUnN08/SsTHMHxR-YI/AAAAAAAADI4/Y2_cL2j3hpM/s72-c/ComputerAid.jpg" height="72" width="72" /><thr:total xmlns:thr="http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0">25</thr:total><feedburner:origLink>http://www.nessa-mumblings.com/2009/10/entrecard-september-hot-droppers.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4605009737094996093.post-388779237812476722</guid><pubDate>Fri, 25 Sep 2009 00:01:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2009-09-25T09:23:59.344+08:00</atom:updated><title>The Clueless Plumber??</title><description>This is a story of a plumber who wanted to repair air conditioning units with heat pumps!! Huh?? Seriously?&lt;img class="emoticon" src="http://us.i1.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/i/mesg/emoticons7/7.gif" alt="confused" title="confused" height="auto" width="auto" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Okay, Okay, I just made that up (sorry)... cos I'm at a loss at how to begin my post. &lt;img class="emoticon" src="http://us.i1.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/i/mesg/emoticons7/9.gif" alt="blush" title="blush" height="auto" width="auto" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Perhaps I should just get straight to the point. This piece of information which I am about to share with you is pretty important because it involves plumbing, air conditioning and heat pumps, all rolled into one. And you're in luck if you happen to reside in Richmond, Virginia. Wanna know why? Well I'll tell you whether you want to listen or not.&lt;img class="emoticon" src="http://us.i1.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/i/mesg/emoticons7/67.gif" alt="victorysign" title="victorysign" height="auto" width="auto" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Ever heard of  &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;American Service Corporation&lt;/span&gt;? I bet you haven't. Neither have I till today, that is. After much research, I found out that they have been in business for more than 18 years. What sort of business you might ask? Well, they offer residential services which include plumbing, heating and cooling, gas piping, water heaters and preventive maintenance.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;On top of all that, they provide personalized services at affordable rates even. With their preventive maintenance service that includes two semi-annual inspections, one in Fall and one in Spring time you'll be sure of having all your cooling, heating and plumbing systems in tip-top condition and also receive a 10% discount on all repairs during the contract year!&lt;img class="emoticon" src="http://us.i1.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/i/mesg/emoticons7/41.gif" alt="applause" title="applause" height="auto" width="auto" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;So, like I mentioned earlier, if you &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;happen&lt;/span&gt; to live in Richmond, Virginia and if you &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;happen&lt;/span&gt; to need services such as&lt;span style="text-decoration: underline;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://americanservicecorp.com/"&gt;plumber Richmond, VA&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://americanservicecorp.com/"&gt;air conditioning Richmond, VA&lt;/a&gt; or even&lt;a href="http://americanservicecorp.com/"&gt; heat pumps Richmond, VA&lt;/a&gt; then all you need to do is call the &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;American Service Corporation&lt;/span&gt; for their services.&lt;img class="emoticon" src="http://us.i1.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/i/mesg/emoticons7/101.gif" alt="callme" title="callme" height="auto" width="auto" /&gt;&lt;img class="emoticon" src="http://us.i1.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/i/mesg/emoticons7/4.gif" alt="biggrin" title="biggrin" height="auto" width="auto" /&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4605009737094996093-388779237812476722?l=www.nessa-mumblings.com'/&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/nessa-mumblings/~4/UucY87l49N0" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/nessa-mumblings/~3/UucY87l49N0/clueless-plumber.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Nessa)</author><thr:total xmlns:thr="http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0">25</thr:total><feedburner:origLink>http://www.nessa-mumblings.com/2009/09/clueless-plumber.html</feedburner:origLink></item></channel></rss>
