(Too early for) Selamat Hari Raya

Posted under Admin's Logs

Notes to Mummy Tun King ….
Photos need to be edited using PHOTOSHOP -> Save as a copy –> JPEG value 3 compression size.
It’s not the server loading slow…it’s just that they are too flipping huge. 1977kb huge. So poor Tun King cannot see those pics, mainly because they are too big!!

So Daddy Tia reset the MEDIA UPLOADER in the Wordpress to show crop picture sizes to 600×600 pixels for MEDIUM SIZE. Choose that lazy option when you upload your photos. It’s easily done and for those who use wordpress and hate to use the photo editor, it’s in there, normally formatted to -200×200.jpg for the thumbnails etc.

Being next week is Hari Raya Aidul Adha (on 8th, but Mekah wukuf on 7th…so we may just raya before that), I found a pic that you did not finish editing…and I just deem it’s appropriate.

Well, I love you guys…and the CELCOM Modem….Handle with care.

Amd talking about handling with care, I know you pulled a muscle at you back thus the restricted movement, and it’s painful as it is. I know it can be. It’s exceptionally hard to move about with that back of yours. Try to rest..and if needed call tukang urut or something nearby. Miss you and especially Tia.

— DEV NOTES—
SYSTEM REPORTED AS FOLLOWS
/rebuild
/backup .*.tgz

All done.

Pink candy

Posted under All about the pumpkin..

Or rather, pink bike(y).
The photo below was cropped, and it was blurry at best. These were more photos of the said training bike that was given to her as her fourth birthday present. Somebody loves this pumpkin very much, really.
I got her something that she wanted, though I tried to cajole her not to ask me to buy it for her. Wow, that’s a pretty loaded sentence heh. Anyway, I got her something, equally pink, though on a much smaller scale. I gotta take a photo of the thing and put it up here.
What did we do on her birthday? Nothing, actually. She knew it was her birthday because she kept singing the Happy Birthday song (her maktok prompted her to that, actually), and she wanted another smaller bike, the one that would not suit her in a few months time should she get any taller, which she definitely would, so this bike it is, then. Phew, another loaded sentence, that.
As you can see, Tia had already stuffed some of her toys and knick-knacks inside the bucket, had done that while we pushed the chair to the wall to make some way for her to ride her bike at the hall. She had been good at practicing to ride the bike, hopefully she would master it soon. Since she rides the bike inside the house, she had yet to get any scratch etc from it. But I know once she started riding the bike outside, we can see more scratches on her then. Hopefully not too much, since she get bitten a lot, and have marks from all those nasty bites.

I had some photos of her at the store, but I would write about it over at her own journal, most probably, since I had been neglecting it for awhile now. Even more than I had been to this one. Sad, that.

Hopefully this wheel would help her from falling down her bike, no?

Happy Birthday, Princess

Posted under All about the pumpkin.., Celebrations

This is a belated entry, but an entry nonetheless.

The princess is four today. Yes, no more little tot Athira, she is now a big girl.

A big girl who loves everything pink.

Including this very pink training bicycle.

Happy Birthday, Princess. We love you much.

Notes: No pic of the said bike. In other entry, perhaps.

Park Right

Posted under About town..., Admin's Logs, Being a mom...., Ggggrrrrrr, Issues, Meluat, Pondering..., Stupidomundo!

Image taken from Leo Reynolds via flickr

Earlier during the day, I took Tia shopping over at Tesco’s over in Seberang Jaya. They just opened up a new Tesco there, occupying the space of what used to be Makro. I had been to Makro like twice, once in 1995 and another time late last year, or earlier this year. And you can see how much improvement of the space! The same building, the same location, but boy, a lick of paint could really spruce up things. OK, so they did do more than just paint the building, I give them that. It is a nice place to shop, with nice food court, though they don’t have carrot cake over there. Darn it.

OK, so back to Tesco. Since the opening of this new Tesco, I have yet to cross over to the island to or to the ones in Sungai Petani. That saved me some pretty pennies, I tell ya. You gotta save much considering the price of fuel, you know. OK, I’ll stop.

But anyway, whenever I go to Tesco’s, I would try to park over at Parents and Child/Baby/Toddler parking because it would be easier because I am minding a very rowdy child aka Tia on my own. It would be a challenge trying to find a parking over at these designated bays, especially if I were to go there during the weekends, or during late afternoon, because one would presume that those bays would be taken by parents with tots or young kids during those hours.

One thought wrong. Yes, I know, our mom’s had to cope without designated bays for parents when they raised us, and they had no problems whatsoever. That is not my main concern. My main concern is that the bays were used by thoughtless people. Oh, you know those kind.

Few instances like today. While I strapped Tia in her car seat, a man of undetermined age between 30-40, alone, driving a sedan, probably one of those Japanese models, slowly drive in the parking area, waiting for this car to pull out. Of course, he would have to park inside the parents and children parking bay. Was it raining, that he would want to park closer? It was bright and shiny. Did the parents and child/ren parking bays covered? Yes, so does the other 100 parking bays. Was he handicapped? Of course he was not. He was balding, but I doubt that could be considered a handicap, no?

Another instance of this thoughtlessness couple of weeks ago. A car parked right beside us, at the same location in Seberang Jaya. I was helping Tia out from her car seat, and did not pay them no mind. While walking with Tia to the entrance, the people parked beside me walked out from their car, and rushed inside. I was quite surprised, because not only there were no young kids around, they were not even pregnant, to boot. I would think that pregnant mothers would be entitled to these parking bays, since they would be having some difficulties moving around, etc etc. These two females ( I would not call these two ladies) looks to be around my age or younger, and I doubt that they could not understand English, if they did have any problem understanding Bahasa Malaysia, so what is it so hard for them to understand that those were not parking bays for them? They could be handicapped, as well as the guy that I mentioned before. Mentally handicapped, I would believe.

All was due to the fact that those designated parking bays were closer to the entrance than not. Of course nobody would expect Tesco’s management to police the parking bay, but why even bother when all Tom, Dick and Harry (not forgetting Jane!) could just drive in, no tots in sight, and just park right in? Why can’t Tesco Malaysia make do like what Tesco UK is doing-issuing a sticker for parents with young tots? Young kids under eight would be ok, I would believe. Some took their ten year old and park over at the bay, which I feel would be quite preposterous, don’t you think?

Tesco should do what ASDA is doing. ASDA had, starting this year, fining people who had parked over at these parking bays, and those money were channeled to charities, and not going back to ASDA. Though some question the legality, I think that is such an awesome idea. Read the story here .

Does it make me sound like I feel like I deserved special treatment? I don’t think so. But, I do feel that some people, young or old, should use their head before parking at some areas. They wouldn’t, after all, park at disable bay, now would they?

Do I feel that I am entitled to park there? Well, compared to those two instances, yes, I am definitely entitled for the space. And, I believe those spaces were for parents with tots, so heck yeah, I am entitled for it. Me and other parents with young kids, that is.