A good friend of mine used to joke that "only boring women keep clean houses," and being anything but boring myself, I have always vowed to pay someone to do my cleaning if I could ever afford to do so. But I got a rude awakening when I triumphantly posted in my Livejournal that I'm paying my new maid 500 ringgit a month for eight hours a week of ( Read more... )

I am sporting my new Barbie muscle shirt from the 70% off sale at Mango! And I don't care how little girl-ish it sounds, but I feel so punkified in this shirt. It's like, don't mess with me. I've got a timeless beauty and the muscles to make my point!


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Your result for Name That Tune - 90's Edition Test...

Child Of The 90's!


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We ate at a revolving restaurant on the 18th floor of The Federal Hotel on Bukit Bintang. The food was really good, waitstaff friendly, and entertainment (pianist and jazz singer) were good and at a good volume. I had told Jack not to give me a present because we spent so much on Christmas, but he gave me a new pink camera, which is a Cannon ixus ( Read more... )

Would you like to read about my experience at the fiction writer;s forum that I finally went to at Silverfish Books today? I wrote it up for the Fringe Magazine blog at this addy ( Read more... )

Okay, I am confused. A lot of my friends have posted entries that say LJ might be going bankrupt, but I checked the news group and didn't see anything about that, with the lastest entry Dec. 18. I just paid for another year's account so it better not disappear. Can anyone fill me in on this?

Here's a link to Alternet, which I read regularly and sometimes write comments on the articles. For this artilce on hospital malpractice, I wrote a comment that was quoted in a follow-up article about the responses. They quote me on page 2 as ladypracle, which is my Alternet screen name as well as here on LJ ( Read more... )

Christmas in our condo!

The tree is up high so the cats can't play with it.


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http://thenounthatverbsyourworld.blogspot.com/search/label/Christmas

Link to my new Fringe Magazine blog