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Yesterday, when I was trying to reply to a comment, one moment I could see the comment and the next moment I clicked “Reply”, the whole account was suspended.

I couldn’t get in at all, and no one could see my blog.

I checked with the host, and was informed that this site has compromised the integrity of the hosting server, and was due to unusual spike in traffic. But hor, I checked my statcounter account, nothing unusual wor…

So, the whole evening, my blog was unaccessible.

And to solve that, I have to pay a premium. Split this blog and SuzetteCooks into 2 individual standard account. Fire-fighting to make decisions and to solve this until midnight.

This is back to the original arrangement when these blogs were originally hosted with LcF. Jason laughed at me when I did that, and recommended me to host these 2 blogs within 1 account and switched host. I took his advice, and wasted quite a lot (paid LcF in full already and of course no refund lah!).

Now, I am reverting back to the same arrangement, but more expensive. I know I am paying for better quality of service, but honestly I am worried about funding.

Now that I have stopped all my link-selling businesses, I have no more new ‘blog fund’ coming in. I used to have steady income of USD70-100 per month, without doing anything. I stopped investing time in selling, it reduced to USD30 per month. To protect my blog from penalized by Google (kena once before), I have decided to stop these incomes altogether since few months ago.

So, I have no more income, yet am paying so much to host the sites. I think I cannot spend my PayPal money that carelessly anymore! Used to think they are easy money, bought lots of goods from eBay, and now not much left!!

Either I stop using them and reserve them for my next few year’s hosting expenses, or re-start selling links again. Hmm… struggle…

Last night (Wed night), I went to an evening event, invited by a client. It was their 10-year anniversary year end party. The venue was at Lunar Bar, Pacific Regency Hotel.

A spectacular night. Nice venue, outdoor, with a very closeup view on both KL Tower and Twin Tower – the pool was like sandwiched between the 2 landmarks! I didn’t bring a camera, what a waste!

I went with a colleague, but apart from the person who invited us, we knew no one else. So, I kept searching for familiar faces, hoping to bump into someone in my industry. Not successful, coz it is not an m.r. society but more to media society.

Talking about media… I saw someone so familiar. Upon introduction, he is that Timothy from Nuffnang! I should have known it was him, but not very sure before we spoke. I have never met him in person anyway, right?

Hmm… should not be a surprise, coz it was a media event. But still feel proud to be part of Nuffnang community. LOL!

Yesterday DH sent me a link to the news about the lost of Air France flight AF447. Mystery surrounds Air France Flight, and experts have no clue on what has happened to the flight.

Geez, this is just like the movie Lost. Or worse than that, coz there was no distress call received. The flight has been just ‘no show’, when it was supposed to land.

The experts suspected of lightning strike because the suspected ‘missing zone’ is a zone that is prone to have lighting and have bad weather condition.

This is a link to a news site that shows some video clips with some explanations. Until now, it is still speculation.

According to that, all planes are tested with lightning insulation, but there is still a tiny chance for the lightning to get in, through the radar system. And in that zone, if the pilots don’t switch on the radar, it is very dangerous too as they won’t know where they are heading!

Eee…. this sounds scary. Really scary. Especially when flying across big oceans on long haul. I remember when during those days when I still travel heavily, there were a few trips that we had to drive through rain storms.

There are many search efforts trying to locate the plane. Whether or not to find any survivors, they need to find the black box to understand the cause of this. I guess if they cannot find the plane or the black box, it would be hard to convince everyone that it is safe to fly that route again?

Could they have landed on an island like the movie Lost? I wonder how their family feels, must be very awful. Pray to their family members…

Update: Debris were found. I guess they are not as ‘lucky’ as the series Lost.

This morning, I joined the other mothers at UMMC for Mothering Mothers 2009 project.

We have collected more gifts than we have expected, especially when this year’s preparation started only 10 days ago. Here are the gifts that we had this morning:

We then split ourselves into 2 groups, one went to the pediatric wards, another one went to the maternity wards. I should have followed the second group, coz…

The moment we reached the pediatric ICU, our first stop, just outside of the ICU where we were not allowed to enter, while waiting for the nurses to distribute the gifts, I heard a child cried so piteously…

“Mama… MAMA….!!!”

I couldn’t imagine what procedure was done, but he was obviously scared and/or in pain. The cry kept coming. I tried to distract myself by talking to others, but couldn’t stop myself –> I WAS ALREADY IN TEARS!!

From that point onwards, I tried not to look at the sick children, when we entered the other pediatric wards. I told myself, just focus on the mothers. Give the gifts and cupcakes, wish them happy mothers day, and leave.

For more stories or photos of our visit, you may check out other mothers’ blogs. I don’t know when they will put up, but I’m sure they will do so either today or tomorrow.

Finally! SuzetteCooks – Blogs on easy and simple recipes is now ready to be shared! Thanks to Jason, who helped to prepare the theme in a speedy manner, I finally managed to get this announced today.

It is not fully customized yet, but I guess it is sufficient to be launched. I have been very busy with last minute stuffs to do (ya, as usual, given many months but never did until the last minutes), so I guess I will leave it as it is for a while, until I get my own new laptop (if I do). Was so busy making income tax filing, clearing off my work stuff as my last day draws near, surrendering company properties, packing my office stuff, emailing to inform everyone, etc.

Anyway, this new blog is actually a food blog. At one pont, I realized that I have been turning The Suzette into a food blog, so I stopped doing it and started to consider a separate blog for my food stuff.

Have been cooking a lot since redundancy started, and am quite excited to experience many things, especially baking!

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