Time for Repairs

Well, even before we moved into the flat properly, I already had to spend money for repairs. The water heater at main bathroom needed fixing and the electrician came over this morning. Diagnosis - heating element needed replacing.

He'll be coming back next Monday morning and hopefully everything would be sorted out that day. The furniture would follow suit a few days later. So, it looked like we would be spending more time at the flat by the end of the month.

In the meantime, I would be staying there during on calls mainly.

Packing next ...

Finally done with the clinic and looking forward for the weekend trip. Flight would be early tomorrow morning, leaving the house by 7.30. Or at least that was the plan.

Last year, when the iPad 2 was announced, I was on my way to Myanmar, and learning the fact of the device on the TV screen at KL Sentral. It looked like it was going to be the same again. All the details on iPad 3 or HD or whatever they were going to call it at KL Sentral again.

So, I would be off home soon. Anita had already started with the packing. My job would be to get all the electronics and cameras sorted out as they would be travelling by road. Hmmm! It looks gloomy outside though ....

Beta testing

I spent the whole morning beta testing. Beta testing for what you might ask? It was for the new iteration of my website engine, SquareSpace version 6. The version 5 has been up and running for a good 4 years, well before I started using the platform in March 2009. So far, small improvements were added into the system, but nothing major like the upcoming version.

Fired up, I singed in and did the needful. The template looked amazing, but since it was still in beta, it lacked flexibility. I think much work were put in for stability hence not much tweaking were able to be done. I ended up using an animation-rich setup, although the colour scheme needed looking into.

The gallery page took ages to load, mainly due to local flash-like execution. My SmugMug gallery tended to load up much faster, so I might be sticking to that.

Another issue was the width of the site. It was pretty limited, and the site ended up feeling like a tumblr project. Nice, but not really for serious blogging ….

I am sure many more improvement would be made, and I will be writing my feedback to SquareSpace from time to time. But now, it is time for exploration ……

Give the site a twirl here.

No Kino?

Puan Anita asked me to follow her shopping this evening and I duly obliged. Destination was Suria as she had to buy some stuff for the upcoming trip to Kelantan. As you know, ladies took their time while shopping and I was practically left to my own devices for almost a couple of hours. So, I spent some time at Kinokuniya.

The place was not like it used to be where one was free to browse the books. I loved looking at travel and architecture books. But all of them were covered in plastic films. Yes, you could ask the salesperson to unwrap them for you, but you'd end up with a dirty look and after a couple of unwraps, you'd soon get enough.

I finally had it after half an hour or so, and decided to look at the magazines instead. I do realise that the place was not exactly a library, but the fact that the books were all wrapped just put me off from getting interested.

Maybe I was just getting old .....

To Sport, Or Not

Puan Anita has been worrying all night last night. Idlan was due for School Sports Day today, and she was worried that Idlan won't be able to cope. The event would be held at UIA, and Anita was worried that he would be wandering around looking for toilets etc.

She was asking if we could just not let him go. To be honest, I couldn't really blame her being concerned with the news of a 5-year old abducted in Johore yesterday. So, at last check, Idlan went to UIA. But I wouldn't be surprised if Anita followed suit.