More to come…

More to come…

Made dinner tonight for me and Hoang. Made (or should I say reheated) some pancit, sinigang, lumpia and some rice. As we ate, we watched a few shows on PBS. Gotta love PBS…

First was Nature with a show about Lemurs. It was quite fascinating, informative and also sad. I actually watched this before, but it was good to see it again. This crew followed a season with this pack of mother lemurs and how they cared for their babies. The crew personalized (is that the word?) some babies and key players of the pack.

One baby was a rambunctious male who was called Daredevil. This one was a wild one. Always playing and hyper. He was the strongest and most energetic of the babies. Unfortunately, this was his weakness as he fell from a branch while playing and paralyzed himself. It was sad to see his mom as she was confused why he wouldn’t move.

Another baby was an albino named (damn I forgot). He was a cute one too and although it stood out from all the others, he was accepted. As he grew he became sickly. His stomach was distended and he was lethargic. He often was left behind. One day his mom found him, no longer moving. She, being confused why he wasn’t responding, stayed with him for a long period of time, herself sometimes being left behind. At one point, one of the males came up to her and her baby and consoled them.

There were twins who both survived the season. They were noticeably smaller than the other babies, but at the end, they both grew to maturity. In the wild it is rare for two baby lemurs to both grow to maturity.

After that show, another Nature played. This time it was about creatures in your garden. I think the title was “The Secret Garden”. So we learned about butterflies, wasps, hedgehogs, snails, ants, water bugs, plants and a maraud of other creatures.

Third show was “In The Life,” show about gays and lesbians. One segment I really liked was gay couples who had babies. How they dealt with home life in general, people around them and the process of adoption or insemination. Quite informative. Seeing the children, they grew up like any normal child. Many of them actually had a life similar to gay individual even though they were straight. They had to deal with other kids making fun of them, not understanding and hiding some aspects of family life. All in all the kids were very mature and were strong individuals. Kinda disproves the concerns that some people think that the kids will turn out gay too.

Gotta love Ikea…

Me and Hoang went to Ikea and returned some things. I returned a devue that I bought last week. I liked it in the showroom, but didn’t like it on my bed. We also looked at more stuff and I bought a $4.95 unfinished wooden plant tray/pedestal thingy, which I’m using as a stool for my walk-in closet. I also got two 3 packs of these nice white, gray and charcoal 2″ or so terra cotta pots. I wanted to get more, but don’t really have the funds right now… Gotta wait after payday… I guess I’ll be visiting Ikea again.

I kinda getting into this journal thang. Off and on, I’ve had a written journal, but I would eventually forget to write in some entries and all together forget it. I must have 4 or 5 unfinished journals somewhere here in my apartment.

I’ve always wanted to do it on the computer, but didn’t find an easy way of doing it. Once I had a word document, but that ment that I had to be at home on my computer to do it. What I like about this LiveJournal thing is that I can type in a journal entry from my computer. So I can be at home or spend the night at Howie’s or at my parents or at a internet cafe.

I just spent more than a hour editing digital photos that I uploaded on shutterfly.com. Gonna make prints of them (41 in total) and it’s cool how you can crop it, fix it, add a white border or a fancy border theme. I got some picture of some friends and I thought I would give them these photos as gifts.

If you don’t have a photo printer and have digital pics you want prints of, try shutterfly. They have specials every once in a while and you can share albums, edit yer photos, plus the bonus for me is a special browser plug-in you can download which make uploading your digital photos as easy as just dragging and dropping it to the site.

I saw earlier today that Apple release a new product for OS X called iPhoto that – from what it looks like – downloads from your camera, catalogs, can make thumbnails, publish for web, etc. etc… I gotta download it and try it out. Unfortunately my camera is not on the supported list, but I can get a SmartMedia Reader which it’s compatible with.

Some I’m thinking of buying a SanDisk SmartMedia USB Reader, ‘cuz it’ll make downloading the photos much faster than using the Olympus program and hooking up the camera.

Speaking of photo’s, I have to post some to my photo diary on my web page. I can’t remember when I last did that… It was a while back. It’s kinda like a journal, but in pictures.

More to come…