Just regular folks.

I got my washed cell phone working again. Evidently, it completely dried up after several months. It sat there for a long time. This time, the charger of other one has problem, so I had to bring this one back to life. It is working fine, so far so good. Until next time, I put it into the washer again 🙂

So today I went to work and also checked out another condo and a Montessori school. We have settled on a 4 bedroom place in this condo complex called the Warren. It is in Chua Chu Kang, about 1 minute from the MRT station. The complex has three pools, one with slides and fountains for kids, a huge one for general lounging, a hot tub and another rectangular one for swimming laps. I also looked at the Modern Montessori Preschool Center at Graceland, which is nearby the Condo.

Mom has very bad allergy. But, yesterday, she was the first one to pick fruits in a nearby farm. I asked her to stay inside but she always likes fresh fruits. What a contradictory picture she was painting herself into. Afterward, I could tell that she enjoyed her fruits very much but not the allergy.

Well, in Washougal, her allergy is okay. Maybe, that is the good place she can stay during the allergy season.

The kids are asleep and I’m trying to convince myself that the house isn’t too much of a disaster area. Oh well. There was a tornado warning in our area today – the morning was hot and sunny and then at about 3:30, the skies went very dark and torrential rain fell for about 15 minutes and then nothing… The picture below is of rain. Can you tell? Hmmm, because of the warning and also because I am a lazy person, we didn’t do anything this afternoon except for baking this pound cake for Jeremy.

Pound cake that Vince made for Jeremy.

It poured today – tornado watch and everything.

Desparately waiting for Steve Jobs’ WWDC Keynote Speech. Apparently the big rumor is that Apple is going to switch over to x86, produced by Intel. Of course, I think that they should go with AMD chips, and AMD should make a big push to grab their mobile market. It would bring some much needed credibility to AMD’s mobile line.

Commuted to work today for the first time. It wasn’t a bad experience tho I did have to get up about 1 hour earlier than normal. Door-to-door, it’s about 1 hour 15 minutes. It involves walking about 10 minutes to the Light Rail stop down the street, changing to hop the Caltrain at Mountain View, and the hopping the Marguerite free Stanford bus to work, and then walking about 5 minutes to the library.

My normal commute is about 45 in traffic which blows. I figure getting a folding bike, might cut down my commute time by about 15 minutes and hopefully, once I get my powerbook, I can do something on the train ride over besides sleep.. whee!

I just bought some accessories of my cell phone using eBay. Total payment is $11.00 and commodities will be shipped to Mom’s place.

When I was in Washington DC, I did a lot of yard work. Really quite refreshing. Good for my heart and better for my health. I needed to rest several times before continuing. Guess the age gets me. But, otherwise, was okay. Too bad, right now, didn’t have enough time to put flowers on the parameters. That bird family was still there beside the chimney. I cut the vine around them several time but yesterday I still saw the nest with birds. A small bird sticked his head up waiting to be fed, I guessed. Our asparagus bed is not too good. Last year it was better. The clematis around the wagon wheel and mail box is doing fine. The magnolia from Austin, Taxes is not too happy, I think. The persimmon (?) is also doing fine plus those oaks. I did not repair cracks on our blacktop that well last year. This year, I may try again.

I just heard that the largest house in our neighborhood was sold to an Iranian couple, both of them are doctor, for 1.25 M. Other than that, nothing changes much in the neighborhood.