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This woman deserves him. This man deserves her. And both of them deserves the success they now enjoy. Blessed is their family for they have come a long way.

Here’s what I learnt: For the husband, appreciate your wife and family. For the wife, be supportive of your husband’s endeavours if they’re for the good of the family’s future. Treasure and be there for one another always.

All the best to Khoon Yen, Douglas and their lovely boys, Donovan, Dominic and Donahue. (Hey! the guys’ names all start with ‘D’)

Did you learn anything after reading their story?

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Dearest dear,

Our son turns 6 months old today.

What a wonderful 6 months it has been. Thank you my love.

You are such a blessing in my life.

I love you.

For all you women out there …

A store that sells husbands has just opened where a woman may go to choose a husband from among many men. The store is comprised of 6 floors, and the men increase in positive attributes as the shopper ascends the flights.

There is, however, a catch. As you open the door to any floor you may choose a man from that floor, but if you go up a floor, you cannot go back down except to exit the building.

So a woman enters the store to find a husband. On the first floor the sign on the door reads:

Floor 1 - These men have jobs.

The woman reads the sign and says to herself, “Well, that’s better than my last boyfriend, but I wonder what’s further up?”

So up she goes.

The second floor sign reads:

Floor 2 - These men have jobs and love kids.

The woman remarks to herself, “That’s great, but I wonder what’s further up?” And up she goes again.

The third floor sign reads:

Floor 3 - These men have jobs, love kids and are extremely good looking.

“Hmmm, better” she says. “But I wonder what’s upstairs?”

The fourth floor sign reads:

Floor 4 - These men have jobs, love kids, are extremely good looking and help with the housework.

“Wow!” exclaims the woman, “very tempting. BUT, there must be more further up!” And again she heads up another flight.

The fifth floor sign reads:

Floor 5 - These men have jobs, love kids, are extremely good looking, help with the housework and have a strong romantic streak.

“Oh, mercy me! But just think. What must be awaiting me further on?”

So up to the sixth floor she goes.

The sixth floor sign reads:

Floor 6 - You are visitor 3,456,789,012 to this floor.

There are no men on this floor. This floor exists solely as proof that women are impossible to please. Thank you for shopping Husband Mart and have a nice day!

When we make purchases, we often shop around, compare prices, and get the best deal. Nothing wrong with that.

Some large items, like air-conditioning system and fridge, may come extended warranty offered by the retailer usually covered by an insurance company.

While extended warranty is an additional expense, we took them up for the air-con and fridge, just in case. So we’re covered for 5 years instead of 1.

After 13 months into using our new air-con, we had our 1st repair that cost $246.75. Thanks to our extended warranty, we paid $0.

Should more repairs be required in the remaining 47 months covered by the extended warranty, we’ll would have saved a bundle.

We paid $154 for our air-con’s extended warranty, and this 1st repair already made it a worthwhile expense, with a savings of $92.75 ($246.75 minus $154).

As new parents, $92.75 savings means 3 more tins of infant milk powder for our darling son

We paid $45 for our new fridge’s 5-years extended warranty. I hope we don’t need to use it, but should anything happens, I know we’re covered.

The bottomline: Get extended warranty, just in case.

Since I’m using the terms ‘oldspaper’ and ‘olds’ in my blog, I better provide their definitions:

Oldspaper: Outdated unread newspaper, accumulated due to lack of time to read, which will eventually be read.

Olds: News found in oldspapers.

I don’t read newspapers everyday. In fact, I often read newspapers which are weeks and months old.

With so many interesting blogs to read and so little time, I find myself reading more oldspapers than newspapers.

Instead of buying newspapers and piling them up to become oldspapers, perhaps I should just help a nice neighbour collect his unwanted newspapers for ‘recycling’.

If you see some guy fervently reading his papers at a cafe and you spotted a familar front page you read months back, don’t worry, you did not travel back in time; You just found someone reading oldspaper.

And that guy could turn out to be me

As a new dad with a growing belly, the words “fats” and “babies” in the article definitely caught my attention. In summary:

Enough of the EFA/AA/LA/ALA/DHA alphabet soup.

The bottom line is this: If you want smarter children …

So, if your children do grow up to be smarter because you read this post, please name your 1st grandkid after me

Read the original article here.

Wouldn’t everyone who calls him be a happy bunch?

“Yahoo! Go do your homework!”
“Yahoo! Go pack your room!”
“Yahoo! I love you!”

I was inspired by this Swedish couple who named their son ‘Google‘.

Somehow, I think my dear won’t be too pleased with my inspiration.

Thus, the search for a Christian name for my son continues …

I was reading my AWSJ “old”spaper (can’t call it “new”spaper when its dated 26sep05 when I’m reading it in oct05, can you?) and it carried an article which reported Sony’s FY2004 profit/loss.

Know what I saw? …

FY2004 operating profit/loss:

8.8 billion yen : Music
43.3 billion yen : Game
55.5 billion yen : Financial services
63.9 billion yen : Pictures
-34.3 billion yen : Electronics

I grew up with “Sony = Walkman”. Didn’t know that Sony has been diversifying over the years.

CEO Howard Stringer wants to cut 10,000 jobs (7% of Sony’s workforce) and drop unprofitable product lines. Looks like the days of “Sony = Electronics” days might be numbered.

What is Sony to you?

Wise words. Especially the last “Don’t”:

Five “don’ts” when you sleep:

DON’T SLEEP WITH WATCH
Watches can emit a certain level of radioactivity. Though small, but if you wear your watch to bed for a long time, it might have adverse effects on your health.

DON’T SLEEP WITH BRA
Scientists in America have discovered those that wear bras for more than 12 hours have a higher risk of getting breast cancer. So go to bed without it.

DON’T SLEEP WITH PHONE
Putting the phone beside your bed or anywhere near you is not encouraged. Though some of us will use phones as alarm clocks, but please put the phone as far as possible. Scientists have proved that electrical items including mobile phone and television sets emit magnetic waves when used. These waves can cause disruptions to our nervous system. Therefore if you need to put your mobile phone near you, switch it off first.

DON’T SLEEP WITH MAKE UP
People who sleep with make up might have skin problems in the long run. Sleeping with make up will cause the skin to have difficulty in breathing and problem in perspiring. You will also need a much longer time to go into deep sleep.

DON’T SLEEP WITH OTHERS’ WIFE
You may never wake up again!!

As new parents, my dear and I know how important sleep can be to us, and it is never enough. So when I saw this, I have to blog it:

I’ve been talking to people for a long time about the fact that you can get by on 6 or even 4.5 hours of sleep per day without question. The secret is NOT the amount of sleep, but rather the number itself; a multiple of 90 minutes will change your life.

Leonardo Da Vinci, Thomas Jefferson, and Buckminster Fuller used this *exact* technique. Other great minds likewise used naps to their advantage including Nikola Tesla, Thomas Edison, Napoleon, and Winston Churchhill.

This dude, Glen Rhodes, might just have the answer for many parents.

Who’s this dude? According to his blog, he is a musician and music producer, a Flash game developer with dozens of games for top clients to his name, an author, with over ten books and several magazine articles to his name.

Please let me know if his technique works for you