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Well, I planned to do this for the 1000th post, but I FORGOT!!! How could I forget this?! This blog has passed its 1000th post without realizing or celebrating? What was I doing when it reached 1000th and not realizing?

Traced back, and this is my 1000th post: Not All Stores Care About Environmental.

Now, I remember, I was working in Beijing, and it was just few days after I returned from Jakarta/Bandung. No wonder… traveling can really be too tiring! Can continue to blog is already amazing. :p

Okay, enough excuse. Now, come toast with me! This blog has well passed the 1000th mark, and today we celebrate the 1020th post! Cheers!

Last week, I received this email from a bloggers network site. The email really reads extremely well, really good in buttering any one’s ego.

Hi Suzette,

I am responsible for the featured blogs program at ABC Project, a life-experience sharing community reaching nearly 1.5 million people every month, and discovered your blog through the blogroll of one of our featured blogs. We are always on the lookout for high-quality bloggers to feature to our community, and I thought that your blog would be of interest to our members. I’d like to feature your blog and invite you to join this group of hand-picked high-quality featured bloggers.
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Well, I know my blog isn’t that great. And I know if she wants to feature me, just feature lah, no need to ask me to join the network, bla-bla-bla.

But curiosity kills the cat. I still went over to check it out. It confirms my doubt. It is just trying to fish for more members to join them. It is just trying to expand its network. Tell me, who don’t like to be as succesful as Facebook, Youtube, etc?

First, the site is Free for anyone who has a blog and interested to join. So, any ah-pig ah-dog also can join. Anyone drops by can just join. They don’t need to be hand-picked.

Secondly, they asked new members to provide email account to access the address book, so they can spread the word to all your contacts. Similar to the same tactic Facebook, WAYN, etc. So, again, these contacts aren’t really hand-picked for their quality blog.

So, all in all, they did a good job to create my curiosity, but I know better that they did not really mean it when they said my blog has good quality lah, they hand-picked me lah, etc. Go away, don’t waste my time.

My sister bought a new SandDisk SD card, 4GB. But she couldn’t use it on whatever device she intended (I think is Nintendo DS). She knew I have a 2GB SD card for my Nikon. After testing the 4GB SD card on my Nikon and works well, she generously swap the card with me.

It was a win-win situation, coz I have a bigger SanDisk SD for my camera, and she has a bigger (than her current) but caplang brand SD for her DS.

After using it happily to snap some photos & videos of Ian & Isabel, today I wanted to download and blog about them (hehehe, some are 3 weeks old).

Then… after slotting it into the SD card slot, I heard the sound ‘doo-deed’ (indication that it is detected), but I couldn’t find it in the system. I just cannot find it!

Well, before this I have been a little worried, because even with the 2GB card, I can only use 1 GB. Once it passes 1GB, I can see the file names on my laptop, but cannot view, open or download – the laptop would hang. Those files, however, were not lost. DH’s laptop can access them. So, it is just my old laptop’s problem.

Now, with the 4GB card, I completely can’t see it in the Window Explorer.

This makes me feel more grateful and welcome the new laptop. When can it arrive? I really anxious… hopefully not next year. LOL!

For the time being, I will have to photoshop instead. :p

If you follow my blog, you will know that I had not updated it for a few days since Friday, and I used to do daily update. Well, if I had not prepared more scheduled posts 2 weeks ago, this blog would have no update for about 2 weeks!

The reason is that, my laptop CRASHED!!

Okay, here is what happened. My laptop is 3.5 years old. It is due to be refreshed (the term used to replace with a new one) Jan’09. It has been giving me weird problems in the last 3 months. I just couldn’t connect to the web, not to say remote access our intranet or emails.

Helpdesk have been trying to fix this for 3 months without avail. It has been escalated to 2nd level, who then escalated to this hardware unit 2 weeks ago.

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Early this year after I changed my theme, I requested an update of my thumnail photo at BlogExplosion. I thought this is an automated process which take just a few hous (at most!), but ended up it took them a few months.

As I thought it would never get updated, and already gave up thinking/waiting for it… POP! It just got updated in an instant. Why I’m so surprised?

Okay, I was actually writing up this post about cute kids costumes. The moment I published it I hopped over to BE to check on the last result of my battle of the blogs (which I lost - sob, sob). To my surprise, I saw a new thumbnail:

Hey, that 2 little cute children in that Halloween outfit was there! The time difference was like less than 1 minute! Though I am happy that it finally gets updated, but am I going to get stuck with that outfit in my thumbnail for a long time? :p