acer aspire

my dad bought an acer aspire laptop today at the pc show. i think it looks cool. and i'm looking at hours of teaching him windows messenger, internet explorer and emailing. :(

then again, i ought to be more encouraging of his efforts to be IT-literate and stay connected at his age, right?

let's hope he'll be persistent and not let the laptop be a white elephant. ;) hehe...

lunch @ vienna

yup, we're having lunch again at the vienna international seafood and teppanyaki buffet restaurant at united square. no points for guessing that it's an early celebration of fathers' day since my dad likes the food there.

well, i thought it'll be another ho-hum lunch since we've been there so many times and truth be told, i would rather try some other place because the menu have largely remained the same over the years. but it was not meant to be...

estee after coming back from the restroom started to feel unwell and break out in cold sweat. my mum had to bring out her shawl for her and we let her rest at her seat while we continue to stuff ourselves with food.

then she started to feel nauseous and we had to scramble for a plastic carrier for her to umm... deposit her lunch. and she went on to put up a rather prolonged act of regurgitation.

although i couldn't smell anything, the sight of swirling brown fluids in the bag made me lose all my appetite. we ended our lunch abruptly since she doesn't seem to be feeling better.

you can see what i had gorged on earlier here.

ivar: completed

it took the collective effort of my mum & dad, my sis and myself to finish assembling the entire unit at 1:00 am in the morning. a miracle considering there weren’t any unintended incidents like bruised fingers or injured toes. :) haha…

my sis had on her own fixed up the other cabinet and 2 drawers before we chipped in to help. she had a bit of trouble with a drawer because 1 of the boards was not aligned properly. had to get my dad to drill a new hole so that the screw doesn’t protrude out of the board.

fixing the 2 cabinets onto the frame took quite a bit of effort from the 4 of us, lifting and aligning. surprising, the shelves were a stroll in the park. no screws were needed. the designers are geniuses!

moral of the story?
$30+ is peanuts to pay for the assembly, especially if you have cabinets and drawers.