Mimi on October 23rd, 2009

It’s been a week since my Philippine trip but I am still in shock over the prices of basic food items over there.
Take refined white sugar, for instance — it costs only RM1.55 per kilogram in Malaysia but P36 to P40 (RM2.58 to RM2.87) in the Philippines.
Cooking oil in Malaysia, which is normally sold in [...]

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Mimi on October 19th, 2009

I’m back from my whirlwind holiday in the Philippines, feeling all bruised and battered from all the weight that I carried with me to and from the Philippines while running around after the twins.
On the one hand, I wished I didn’t bring my MacBook Pro because of its size and weight. But on the other [...]

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Mimi on October 17th, 2009

By the time this post gets published, I’ll be in a small village somewhere in Southern Philippines with the twins, a place so small that everyone knows everyone else and what everyone else is up to, where Ladybug steam cleaners are unheard of, where you can ask the tricycle driver to wait for you while [...]

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Mimi on September 29th, 2009

With Twitter’s increasing popularity, it’s only inevitable for a slew of products and services cropping up to cash in on this latest social networking trend. Twitter Mosaic is one of them.

The moment you get to the main page, all you have to do is enter your Twitter username, then choose between “Show Twitter followers” and [...]

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Mimi on September 23rd, 2009

Sorry for the looong silence but I’m still in holiday mode.
It’s liberating not having to think about emails or deadlines for ten (!) glorious days. It’s a welcome change to wake up each day with nary a care as to what day of the week it is. And nothing — and I mean ABSOLUTELY nothing [...]

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