A little something for the moms

13 11 2007

Ok moms (and anyone else who doesn’t know how to use “RSS” who wants to know when new things are added to this blog):

  1. Open this post using the Firefox browser (if you don’t have it yet, install it. It’s way better than Internet Explorer or AOL).
  2. Print these steps for later.
  3. On the right side of the screen, find the orange text that says “Feed it!”
  4. Click the little green square & text under it that says “All posts” (that’s an RSS icon — you can follow these instructions anywhere you see that picture, color is irrelevant).
  5. That button should open an “Add Live Bookmark” pop-up box
  6. Click on the “Create in” box and select “Bookmarks” or create a new folder for these types of pages (I have one called “news” where I put links to many pages like this one.)
  7. Pick “Ok”
  8. You’re done! What exactly is it you’ve done?
  9. From the top menu bar, select “Bookmarks” — you should see “The Reyes Report > ” .. if you bring your mouse to the arrow, you’ll see a list of the most recent posts to read! Firefox calls these “Live Bookmarks” because they change and link to different things as new information is published.

Easy breezy and well-done! Next time you’re in the browser, just mouse-over that bookmark and quickly see if there are any posts you haven’t read yet. To read them, just click like you would any normal bookmark.





Bare-handed crunch

13 11 2007

Came home yesterday evening to a 6-leg salute. You know the one. In my yoga class, they call it the dead-bug pose. Well, when I turned on the lights in the kitchen, I can assure you, this bug was most definitely just posing.

I won’t go into details about the obscene size or crunch-factor of this guy, nor my disgust at thinking about where he might have come from and how he got there and where the rest of his family might be. Suffice it to say that I promptly did what any self-assured, independant woman would do … screamed like an idiot, called my husband (who is in the US), covered “it” with a glass that I proudly managed not to shatter in the process, and then called late-night emergency maintenance to come and help. Hey, it was an emergency. I justified my lunacy by reassuring myself that they must see the sheer size of this animal/bug for themselves, otherwise they would not have believed me. What happened next, you may not believe.

At 9:30pm the door rang and I met an adorably plump, short, Chinese man — who showed me he had most of his teeth when he displayed the best smile I’ve seen since I’ve arrived in Singapore. That or maybe I was just so happy he came to rescue me. Though lured on the premise of a broken A/C unit (he quickly put that one to bed and showed me how to turn the fan on “high”), I showed him the pet. No problem. In one flash movement he whipped off the glass, flattened his hand, and BAM. Yep. Squished the giant c****oach with his bare hands. Grossed out? Nope .. wait. He then proceeds to PICK-IT-UP between thumb and forefinger (laughing and talking to me the whole time mind you … while I’m trying not to lose my lunch & offer him Purel and a loofah), says goodnight and TAKES IT WITH HIM. Ugh. Nasty.

Anyway, they’re spraying the apartment today. Hopefully that’s the last I’ll see of that while in S’pore!








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