Quite often, people get frustrated with me because I don’t seem to answer their phone calls or text messages. Hey, folks, I’m really sorry, I swear I’m not avoiding your calls. I would answer if only I could just find my phone or remember to switch it on .

My first cellphone was the one my company made us carry. So like it or not, I had to lug that huge, fugly thing with me and keep it on 24 hours a day even though my job description didn’t include being night watchman watchwoman. So me and cellphones never actually got off on the right foot, know what I mean?

Then there’s my perpetual problem of never being able to get to my cell phone quickly enough to answer it before it goes dead. It’s worse if I’m driving. I tried wearing a Bluetooth headset which made me feel like an alien from planet Pluto, so out it went!

By the time I left my job, cell phones had gotten considerably smaller, sexier and even harder to find in my big bottomless tote bag. With 3 school kids to juggle, my mentality has always been: don’t call me, I’ll call you unless there’s an emergency in which case just text me and I’ll get back to you within the next 30 days or after all my kids are married, whichever comes first, thanks .

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These hot days we’re having reminded me of the Lekue Combination Ice Cube Trays that I bought for my kids years ago when they were little. They’re made of flexible rubber and can be used for making ice cubes or gelatin.

They make very pretty ice cubes for kiddy parties. I’ve used them at my kids’ birthday parties and loaned the trays out to friends for their kids’ parties as well . These ice cubes never fail to elicit excited oohs from the kids.

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The guys will be headed to the PC Fair at KLCC this weekend. Of course!  They always have something to buy and if they don’t, they’ll find something to buy anyways .

We’ll probably tag along just for the heck of it but we’ll ditch the guys and go shopping and eating on our own. That’s what we usually do rather than drag ourselves through the crazy crowds.

I got my nails done, woo-hoo and just in time for the long weekend too! Like ‘em? Wicked, huh?

No, I didn’t spend hours having my nails painted on at the nail salon. Neither are they press-ons. Guess what? A laser printer did this for me !

As you can see, I have a different floral design on each finger. I’m wierd that way, always the rebel. It’s pretty cool actually, I picked a different .jpg file for each finger and the laser printer did the rest.

You would’ve thought my hand was a freaking sheet of paper being fed into the printer. The printing itself only took a few minutes and voila! I absolutely love this crazy idea !

If you want to have yours done, find out where you can go. Offer is only on this weekend.

Saturday morning, DH was off at 5:00am to line up for the Playstation 3. Even getting there that early, he was number 70+ in line. Some of the early birds had been camping there for days, wth!

I was happy to be fast asleep in a cozy bed rather than sitting out in the darkness on the cold, hard floor outside 1 Utama. Seems DH is the only one who’s excited about the Playstation 3. My three teens think “it’s lame and overrated”, in their words.

But the least we could do was to bring the man his long-awaited breakfast from McD. We didn’t hang around there very long. The place was smoky and there was nothing happening. I don’t have much patience for geeky events, I’d rather be shopping .

I can’t believe they make people pay the full price for something that’s two years old. That tiny discount is nothing after you factor in all the proprietary stuff the Playstation 3 needs in order to work.

I expect the man will play with it for two weeks tops, then it’ll end up in the storeroom with all the other white elephants *sigh*.

Steev does practically all of his college assignments online. Oftentimes, group projects are also done online though I don’t understand how it is possible to have a ‘real’ discussion without meeting up face-to-face. But I’d best keep those doubts to myself lest I be labelled a dinosaur .

After each person in the project team is done, they’ll pass along their portion of the paper to someone to compile. Steev doesn’t like being that person. It’s not that he hates doing the work, his biggest concern is whether his friends’ files are infected.

Apparently there’s a high incidence of viruses being passed backwards and forwards between students working on common files and documents.

I wonder if the college has any data protection solutions since they’re likely to be hit since the students access the college computers so often. I’m pretty sure their IT department would’ve taken care of that. Still Steev is very careful with what he loads into his laptop.

We’re still waiting for Skye to say, yes, I want my own handphone. But she hasn’t said it yet . She says she doesn’t need one and it’s a hassle to have to take care of it so it doesn’t get lost.

My 3 teens had a shared handphone up until this year when Steev started college and only because he needs to communicate with us about daily transport arrangements.

Before that, we had one handphone for the 3 of them. Whoever was going out somewhere (school activities, friend’s house) would take the phone.

When Steev got his own phone, the girls started sharing the other phone. They still are now. But recently I got my new handphone (see, pretty cool, eh?)…

… so we’ve got a hand-me-down phone for the girls now. My old handphone is also a pocket PC phone so we thought Raine, being older, should get that while Skye takes over the shared handphone.

Skye is 12 and next year, she’ll have more activities and running around to do when she goes to secondary school. I would feel much better if she’s just a call away.

Many of her friends at school have had their own handphones since they were, what, 8 years old?? A handphone at that age is excessive, if you ask me. What do you think? When’s the right time for a kid to get their own handphone?

I have a girl friend who is a doctor and she’s always joking about how she’s the most technologically challenged person I ever met. Of course I know better than that.

I mean she owns a Blackberry and is known to tap away into an online drug guide when we unfairly fire off questions at her about what she would recommend for this and that.

I know doctors hate people to do that especially when they’re in a social setting . It makes them feel like people are trying to freeload medical advice off them when they’re trying to have a good time like everyone else, ya know.

But she knows us, and she’s quite happy to dish out free advice since as she says, free medical software is easily and freely available online these days.

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