Google Home Page

My Google Home Page is back and all is well again! I simply love Google! I'm actually feeling elated about this. Now, isn't that a scary thought?

Funny thing, prior to Friday's 'access denial', I'd recently read in the papers that more and more companies were letting Google host their company emails because Google nearly never ever has email hosting problems!
Wah, so jiak lak! Very parn tarng (teochew for .....jinx?) is it? Mention it and then disaster strikes!

Some time back, I came across an article of someone who had been locked out of his Google email account by Google. He'd received a nice, polite email from Google saying he could no longer access his Gmail account. That meant, he also couldn't access his blog and all the photos posted in Picasa. Why? Because he had used the same Gmail account to sign up for and access all these other accounts. Tongue-in-cheek, he asked himself if Google had taken over his life and what if 'they' decided to take it all away one day!

Hmmmm, don't say you haven't been warned.

Google and their 'We're sorry' page

Many of us get so hung up living with technology in our daily lives that we get withdrawal symptoms when we're suddenly deprived of our little fairy assistants, a.k.a. mobile phones, pdas, blackberries, computers, email access.....!!!

I don't know about you but today at the office, I've been faced with Google's 'We're sorry but'.....basically, Google is defining my computer or office network as as pest, sending automated queries to them, so they are blocking us out until we fix the glitch.

After wasting much time and brain cells today running my spyware / malware removal programmes through my gazillion PC files, wondering what went wrong and still not being able to access Google, I called my daughter back home and what do you know, she's getting the cold apology from Google too!

So there. I feel alot better now. Should have called her alot earlier but then, she's probably just back from school anyway.

Maybe the issue is with the local IP servers connecting to Google. Whatever it is, I had to use Yahoo and after using Google, it's really not my favourite search engine.

I can't access my personal emails over at Gmail! I feel weird. But that's about it. Weird. My life didn't really collapse. So what if I can't access my email for a day.

Does technology really maketh a person today? How much less a person is the PC illiterate uncle and aunty next door? How much better are you as a human, knowing soooooo much about computers etc.

I'm not usually a fan of Mandarin serials but I have to say, I'm addicted to Mediacorp's current run of "Love is All Around" (Hey, these Malaysian actors are good!). Sigh. OK, TV is still technology. I just can't escape it, can I? After dinner and the TV show, I might maybe rush down to GV to catch a movie with my family. Technology again? Wow....

Hello again!

Hello everyone!

Mike and I have been so quiet over at this blog as we've been battling the flu bug! A heavy battle, I might add!

We can dream of doing many things and we have all these fancy plans but when illness strikes, it makes us realise that we are so very human and fallible after all.

I've tried very hard not to fall sick in the past year and I've been irritating my kids (and probably hubby) by stuffing them with their daily dose of vitamins. My persistence did work in a sense. It managed to ward off the flu for me for about a year and that's really good by my standard if you actully look at my history of succumbing to the flu bug! I could pass off as a walking antibiotic!

Of late though, I've been trying very hard to find healthier and more natural alternatives to the antibiotic monster. I don't necessarily buy what every man in the street is buying. I prefer trial and error. What works for me, may not work for you. Likewise, what works for you, may not work for me. I learnt that from an early stage when combating my pimples as a teenager (I'm one of the few lucky adults who still get pimples, sigh). Expensive 'branded' skin care? Fancy cleaning regimes? Hmmmph! Been there done that. Turns out, a very economical face wash which I can buy off the shelf suits me best! If you're battling pimples yourself and want to know what worked for me, let me know. May not suit you but since it's not expensive, worth a try anyway.

Since the onset of my flu bout (and my subsequent completion of the doctor issued antibiotics), I've stocked up on some bottles of supplements. If they work, I'll let you know! Already, I see an improvement to my complexion and ahem, bowel movements! Aiyah, not a funny thing leh, it's no joke you know. While some people take their daily 'purging' for granted, I don't! It's been an uphill battle for me! Poot!