Ah, so this lazy little procrastinator is back at last. I’m not going to repeat the same excuses again, as I’m sure you all know what they are. No podcast reviews today, just brief updates on what’s going on my life. I might throw in a couple of reviews of other kinds though.

I received a couple of good news this week. A distant cousin is getting married next month. We’ve lost touch over the years, but I’m happy to hear the good news. One of my best girl-friends is expecting her 2nd baby. Her hubby (also my good friend) proudly announced it on his MSN status.

The highlight of my week, had to be receiving news that my dear god-brother is getting married in November. After years of searching, he has finally found his Miss Right. I caught a glimpse of her photo on Facebook. Pretty, pretty, pretty!

I watched Wall-E with the bf this Tuesday. It was his birthday, so we both took a day off from work to spend some quality time together. The movie was FANTASTIC! Pixar has not failed to live up to expectations. I was a little worried at first, as I heard some negative reviews of Wall-E from a colleague who watched it with her kids over the weekend. She told me it was boring, and that the only conversations in the film was “Waaalll-Eee” and “Eeeeevah“. She said her husband and her almost dozed off in the cinema, but her kids enjoyed the film thoroughly though. Although it is true that the wasn’t much human conversation in the movie, there was still plenty of interaction between the robot characters in the form of clicks, engine purrs, and other sounds that robots make. I also liked the little cockroach friend which Wall-E made in the midst of cleaning up Earth. It’s probably the only time I actually found a cockroach to be cute.

This week also marks the beta launch of Google’s web browser, Chrome. I’ve downloaded it on both the office and home machines. As promised, Chrome is fast and light. But it lacks some of the plugins and extensions that I’m so used to with Firefox. However, I can see much potential with Chrome, so I’ll continue to try it out. In fact, it’s my default browser on my home laptop, since it’s lighter and significantly faster than Firefox when loading my social media sites. The major gripe I have with Chrome is that there seems to be some problems with downloading files, and that I can’t scroll up the page using my touch-pad. Hopefully, all these issues will be ironed out when Chrome is finally out of beta.

Well, that’s all for now. Until next time, take care and God bless!

Tags: life, movies, musings, Reviews, technology

Yes, I’ve just begun my 30-dom. Now I have to write my age beginning with a “3″. I’m not sure if I’m ready for this yet, but I’ll just have to accept whatever God throws in my way.

Looking back, I realized there are tons and tons of things which I wish I had accomplished by now but have not, either due to my own procrastination, or other “unforeseen circumstances”. However, there are other things that I’m thankful of having at my age:

• I have a job that I love (although I can’t really say the same about my pay). Even though most of ex-classmates have moved up the corporate ladder, I still honestly prefer development to management. Like I always say, I’m a follower, not a leader.
• I have a loving boyfriend who bears with all my craziness. Although he has not popped the big question after more than 3 years of dating (Why? I’ll never know), he dotes on me and assures me that “he has plans”. He’s also the only guy I know who understands and tolerates that I NEED to spend more time with 68-year old widowed mother more than with him. For that, I’m extremely grateful.
• I’ve finally officially completed my degree course before I turned 30 (although the convocation is in end August). I just received the results of my final-year project.. “Higher Distinction” (w00t!)
• My dear dear “twin” brother, a.k.a my god-brother. We’re not genetically-related in anyway, but we share the same birthday (same year, same month, same day). How cool is THAT! He dotes on me like a baby sister, and I adore him as my elder brother. As an only child, he was a very welcomed sibling to have. We used to try and trick our friends to believing that we were really twins, since we did look alike, and our Chinese names sounded similar. Our different family names gave the trick away, of course. My “twin” brother just broke the news to me this morning that the lady he was courting was no longer his girlfriend, but is now his fiancee! (double w00t)

Those of you following my Twitter/Plurk/Facebook activities probably know that I’ve taken leave from work to celebrate with the bf. We met up for breakfast at a cafe in town, and then we went to watch the latest Batman movie, The Dark Knight. Great action and fantastic performance from a stellar cast, which included the late Heath Ledger as The Joker. My favorite character however is Lucius Fox, played by Morgan Freeman. Freeman is SUCH a charming actor that he ALWAYS steals the show from the leads.

After the movies, we had lunch at Spageddies. We both ordered Crayfish Parmagiarri. That was followed by Tiramisu. Yummy!

We loitered around town for a while more and then headed to a nearby Gloria Jeans for coffee and to rest our feet. That was followed by a visit to an Apple store for the bf to check out the iPod Touch, so that he could use it as a reference of what to expect of the iPhone 3G that he’s eying to get at the end of the year. Finally, we headed home together after getting dinner for my mom.

I realized as I’m typing this entry, it has already past midnight, meaning I’m now in Day 2 of my 30-dom. Well, I guess that also means I should get some beauty sleep now. Meanwhile, checkout my birthday photo album on Facebook!

Until next time, take care and God bless!

Tags: food, life, movies, musings, Reviews