Dear Cabinet

Chicken Pie must have needed a break from his brother this morning, he came to the study to lie on the window sill beside my chair


Unfortunately, CP's colour makes it quite hard to get nice photographs of him. His expressions are not so clear and sometimes his face comes out more like a blur. Here's a closer shot of his window sill lie in:-

What do you think you're doing woman?

Chicken Pie also has an obsession for eating furniture - chairs, tables, drawers.. It can be quite frustrating sometimes because he does get wood he can sink his teeth into but like a naughty child, he only wants what he can't have.



There he is resting his head against the cabinet he has caused least damage to. It's as if he's saying - Dear Cabinet, I will eat you when I wake up please do not run away. I love you much!

If I told you a secret, you won't tell a soul..

The big push

I recently found a game I created back in 2007 for The Big Push (A muscular dystrophy awareness campaign). It's not a game I'm very proud of (First thing I wrote in Flash), but I liked the concept of a wheelchair race where you pressed left to turn right (Left wheel needs to move faster than right wheel you see) and vice versa. And here it is in all its glory:



Please forgive me for it being oh-so-crap. I did my best!

Gaming and Marriage

Before you read this blog post, read this article. Go on, I'll wait: Call of Duty? For an army of forsaken women, it's more like a call for help

Ready? Good. I just wanted to say a couple of things really. One, if you're with someone who doesn't share your interests, and doesn't recognise your need to indulge in your interests once in a while, what the hell are you doing? At the risk of sounding like a smug married person, the wife and I play games together very regularly. Sure, my days of hours spent playing Counterstrike, playing Torment, and other intensive single player hardcore games are probably over. (Although mind you, we had a very satisfying time playing Fable together - I played, she watched mostly). We have found common ground with games like Super Paper Mario and she regularly trounces me at Mario Kart (The only tracks I can beat her on are Wario's Gold Mine and Snowboard Cross - and that only on a good day). I've had to adjust my gaming habits to meet my new position in life, and that's a sacrifice I willingly make. Men, if you're not willing to do that, maybe you should reconsider what you're doing in your relationship.

I do agree with some of the points in the article though. What I find most enticing about games is the fact that they are a window into a completely different world (And this is why I tend to play RPGs), while I am playing them I can forget the stresses of life, the things I have to worry about, etc. But books do the same for me, so maybe I'm lucky that way. I don't know.

I guess in short, what I'm trying to say is as always, compromise is required. Men need to recognise that they need to adapt their habits if they're serious about a relationship. As I just read, Roland of Gilead (from Stephen King's Dark Tower) said, "A man who is unwilling to share his habit is a man who needs to give it up". And women, if you're serious about this gaming man, maybe you should try to understand what he sees in gaming. My wife has done that for me, and I love her all the more for it. And if he's so into gaming that he's abandoned you and refuses to see reason - jump ship if you still can!

Bunny days

Its been a while since we updated about the bunnies no thanks to my inability to transfer pictures from my phone to the computer. This morning I finally figured it out after what was to be at least my 10th try.

Yes, I have tried emailing it to myself. Yes, I have also tried bluetooth. And yes, I've also tried putting in the USB cable thingy. But no, they all didn't work very well until this morning when the USB cable decided to give me a break.

For some reason or other, the boys have an obsession with toilet roll. They also have an obsession with 'good quality' cardboard. Only cardboard from items bought from John Lewis gets their chewing approval. Other cardboard gets maybe the odd chew or a desperate good chew after days of luring.

They sure are some high class bunnies!

So back to the toilet roll. There was a sale on Velvet toilet roll a few weeks ago and I went a little nuts and bought 3 bags of 18's (the husband does do a lot of business in the toilet).

We didn't really know where to stack them so we built a toilet roll tower in the study.



Chicken Pie was rather pleased and went on to claim his crown as Toilet Roll Tower King.

He was standing on top of the tower quite proudly for a few minutes until he felt it was decidedly boring and had no subjects to order.

What he didn't know, was that getting down would be a BIGGG mistake!

Wibble the sex maniac/gay/incestuous/power mad tyrant was on the romp, and unfortunately for Chicken Pie, he was the only bunny around to rape.




I have not managed to get a picture of the 'incident' because it always happens too quickly, but trust me, that was the moment JUST before Wibble got his front paws on Chicken Pie and had his butt moving rather vigorously on Chicken Pie's.

Haha.. the trauma on Chicken Pie's face every time it happens is just indescribable!

Chicken Pie also has a thing for imitating us and our actions.

He observes when Wei Chieh sits on the armchair reading a book and later when there's no one sitting on the armchair, Chicken Pie climbs unto it and sits facing the same way Wei Chieh did earlier. He doesn't do anything, just sits there on alert and stares.

Another thing he's picked up is imitating me working on the study table. We have a rather tall study table and he must have observed me working on the computer. He usually climbs on furniture to reach a certain height where his head would be above the table and he can see what's on it.

He'll then just continue sitting there looking until he gets too curious and actually gets on the table to trample on the keyboard.

Haha..



This is the other favourite past time - pretending to be a book.


And then there's sleeping...



More sleeping near the radiator pipes and a head and face massage courtesy of mummy.



And that's 'Lets sit on mummy's back and let her ferry me around like a horse!'

BeeBeee..

We went over to babysit L & M yesterday evening and boy did we have fun!!!

It is really nice to know that they remember us so well :)

It does take L some time to heat up a bit but when he does he goes into this A-mi rampage where every few minutes he'll come to me and say 'A-mi... bleh bleh bleh bleh bleh (baby talk).'

He's growing up so well!

Yesterday he finally put a name to Wei Chieh and guess what it is?

He calls WC 'BeeBeee' as in 'by' in baby repeated twice!

Haha.. he obviously has trouble trying to pronounce 'Wei Chieh' and he has decide to go with what I call Wei Chieh instead!

It's so cute!! Even his intonation is exactly like how I would say it.

M as well is getting more and more adorable by the day.

It is amazing how different L & M are. M in comparison is so good natured. Always willing to pack away things, always ready to help and smile. She doesn't even kick up a fuss when you take something she shouldn't be playing away from her!

Taking something away from L on the other hand.. is a different matter altogether. Trust me.. you do not want to do it! Haha..

What's even more amazing is how L cares and loves M. M can't walk yet but L can already climb out of his cot. L would always check on his sister first thing when he wakes up from his nap to make sure she's okay, pat her head and tell her she's a good girl!

Haha.. he's so funny!

Sigh..

I know that we are both so young and not ready but everytime we go over and see them it really makes us want to have children of our own, yet we know very well that we can't afford to have a child and we should really just concentrate on building a career for now.

At least we get to see L & M growing up and can love them like we will love our own :)