i wish that i could just stay home today

i am whinging..i wish that i could just stay home today and mind my garden. this training at work is making me so tired. I've consumed most of my leaves and can't take a sickie without presenting a medical certificate.

anyway i probably needed to go to bye byes now as i have no choice- sigh-

other than that- life is good- david cooked some nice bangers (sausage) and we had it with boiled broccoli with cheese sauce and rice. ray is also here - he had his photo ID taken at the university of queensland. he will be attending a business management course to major hopefully in real state and property development.

more photos re. our trip next time... good night and happy valentine.. happy anniversary to my better half too!

26th of January 2008 is Australia Day

It's now 8 years since we took oath as Australian Citizens and we never looked back. Thanks Australia for all the opportunities offered and grabbed by my family. We now call Australia home!

We are in the internet cafe in Changi Airport

and we were just admiring some orchid garden that almost looks like this....

OK they are rushing me now got to go..will catch up with you when i arrive in Baguio..take care!

Messy Christmas Decorating

Feature of the month for PMN Fam Pic Series is MESSY!

Putting up the Christmas tree starts from a clean slate and getting it assembled with a tinsel is fine.


The problem of a big mess ensues when there are 3 people who wants to put up something, no one agreeing on the same thing, coupled with a lot of Christmas baubles and trimmings available after several years of building up to the collection. Of course our former housemates of grown up children who had moved on had also left theirs and are expecting to see them up somewhere- on the tree/wall/doorway -somewhere visible as each has its own history/memory..ahhhhh.
Anyway, we played some christmas carols (even this we have to disagree- I wanted some mambo xmas sounds, the hubby wanted the crooner and the son wants some mantovani classical piano melodies-- mum decides - ok we will play everything starting with the request of the youngest one...Mantovani which actually proved very soothing as we calmly negotiated what to or what not to hang...
These are just samples of the decors we have had since time forgotten...
Too many tinsels but i just love those xmas flowers known as poinsettias which reminds me so much of my hometown- cool Baguio...we had them planted around the house...The bar is the last place the housemates thought of decorating so I just had to put the poinsettias there!
So by the time we are about to hear the crooners on stereo- it's all finished so I can now sit and enjoy Bing Crosby's Hark the herald...., turn on the aircon and hug my fave monkey collection- Whitey! before cleaning up and vacuuming all the mess on the floor (unsightly, didn't even take a photo of it hehehe)Anyway, super moms, wonder moms, bat moms, spider moms, dad moms...A MERRY CHRISTMAS AND A HAPPY NEW YEAR TO ONE AND ALL!

from my family to yours!

Desk Top Free View (answering to Teena's TAG)

More intermission before the main event blog LOL..in response to Teena here is my desktop view at the moment.

Description

My background is a photo taken by Ray while we were inside the Melbourne Jail doing our time hehehe! I thought it's an amazing shot showing the corridor on the 3rd level, each door contains a bust of the dead convict and a description of crime commited and profile of the criminal. At first I wasn't that keen entering this museum but I actually liked it for the eerie feeling, the well documented profile of boarders (people who were jailed there) and even a bust sculpture of each inmate.


Our Icons

The PC is mainly mine but Ray and hubby usually use it as it's the only one connected with the printer. My icons include Mozilla browser, W, Paint, My Documents, My computer IQ Test frog, My Games (Magic Inlay, Collapse), Window Washer, Big W Online Digital Photo, E-tax 2007, Letterhead- mostly applications that I use regularly.


Tag yourselves friends and send me a link.


The Desktop Free View instructions are:

A. Upon receiving this tag, immediately perform a screen capture of your desktop. It is best that no icons be deleted before the screen capture so as to add to the element of FUN.

You can do a screen capture by:

(1) Going to your desktop and pressing the Print Scrn key (located on the right side of the F12 key)

(2) Open a graphics program (like Picture Manager, Paint or Photoshop) and do a paste (CTRL + V)

(3) If you wish, you can "edit" the image before saving it.

B. Post the picture in your blog. Give a short explanation about your desktop screensaver. You can explain why you preferred such look or why is it full of icons. Things like that.

C. Tag your friends and ask them to give you a free view of their desktops as well.