01 Sep 2010

WW: Windsor Castle

Windsor Castle - it's huge!

A long walk to the King Henry VIII Gate

The Norman Gate

Indonesian gun captured by Sir James Brooke

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Categories: Travel, Wordless Wednesday  |  Tags: London, Windsor Castle

01 Sep 2010

Top Droppers for August 2010

Is it September already? I guess it is. September is a special month as Evan’s 5th birthday is coming up soon. But we won’t throw him a party this time, as this year his birthday falls on a long Eid ul-Fitr holiday so most people won’t be around at that time. Maybe we’ll just buy a cake for him. Hopefully, there will be a cake shop open during the holiday, though I highly doubt it. Got to think some back-up plans later.

Anyway, as always, the first post of the month is to thank my Entrecard top droppers from last month. Here they are according to the stat page at the time I created this post (Tuesday @10 PM my time ).

Dropper	# of drops
Guitarbench.com	31
my kids are my world	31
Urban Art Blog	31
One World Realty	31
Photography by KML	31
Cheapest Discount Bookstore Online	31
My second trial	31
Art Shout!	31
T-Shirt Reviews	31
Slightly Sarcastic	30

Thank you for taking time visiting my little boys’ blog. Also thank you to all my commenters, especially my Top Commentators, I really love reading all your comments . Hope I’ll be seeing you all again this month.

Have a great day!

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Categories: Entrecard  |  Tags: Top Droppers

28 Aug 2010

Getting Ready for Mudik Season

It’s mudik season once again, time to pack up the bags and get ready to travel. “Mudik” means going back to ones’ hometown, it’s an annual tradition here when millions of people from big cities will go back to their hometown to celebrate Eid with relatives. The season usually begins 10 days before Eid and ends 10 days thereafter. However, the preparation for mudik can start long before that.

Though we don’t have plan to go anywhere during this Eid holiday, at least for now, we too have to make some preparations for the season. First I have to find travel agents for our baby sitter/maid’s mudik trip. Then I need to figure out who’s gonna take care the baby while we’re working and no baby sitter or maid. Last year my mom still could look after Evan during the day. Now with additional an eleven months super active baby, I don’t think she can do that anymore.

I have two choices, either ask my live out maid, who doesn’t mudik, to work overtime to take care the baby or find an inval (a baby sitter hired during holiday). An inval usually costs a fortune so paying our maid becomes my first choice. The only problem is my maid also has grandchildren to take care of after she finish with her chores here. This thing needs to be settled soon.

Fish vendor

My mom also been busy taking notes about our regular vendors’ mudik schedule. This is important because she doesn’t want wasting her time waiting to them only to find out that they already mudik. Right now we still have fish and vegetable push carts show up in front of our door every morning, and so does our garbageman. But by next weekend all of them will be traveling to their hometown.

Happy weekend everyone

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Categories: Family  |  Tags: mudik