Surviving Another Night

He he.

A good friend of mine once asked me how to create a blog and eventually, blogging about her kids. I kept procrastinating (well, that’s me) in putting up a post on that for her. Well now that I’m quite free and RAJIN, my dear friend, you know who you are, this one is for you.
Lets start with the most essential. You will need to have:

No. 1
A PC. I use a laptop, since new laptops are built-in with many, many useful jacks and slots which later is very important in putting a ‘flair’ in your precious’ blog. If you use a PC, make sure it has USB ports so later you can insert a card reader or Bluetooth dongle. Ooops, moving too fast? Sowwy.

No. 2
Internet connection. Dial-up/Broadband doesn’t matter. I used to blog with dial-up, but it needed a lot of patience. Lambat cam kekura by my standards.

No. 3
A blogging account. The are many free blog providers today, but the most popular are Blogger.com and WordPress.com. I have used both provider in the past. WordPress is great for it’s many pretty themes (remember, themes are just the dressing for your blog), while Blogger can store up to 1024MB of photos to display in your blog. WordPress can only store 50MB. Another WordPress’ advantage is that you can lock your posts with password, without locking your entire blog like Blogger. It’s your choice. Don’t forget to register to any of these providers and you’re good to go.

These are the optionals, where you will add photos and videos of your kids in your blog. You will need:

No. 4

A good quality cameraphone. I use this Sony Ericsson K550i Cybershot (thanks Abang!) coz it’s affordable and produce viewable photos and videos.

Sony Ericsson K550i, RM580, sans memory card

You can use a digital camera if you want. But for me it’s not practical carrying a digicam around all the time, like while in bed with your baby, during his bath time, on the way to the clinic or even in the mall. But a handphone goes wherever, right? Did you know some shops prohibit cameras inside their premises? This is where a handphone comes in handy. Just stand there like you’re making a call, but the fact is - you are snapping photos!!! By good quality cameraphone I mean it must have the means to transfer the photos and videos you’ve taken to your PC. So, it must have either Bluetooth or a memory card.

No. 5

Memory card for your phone.

M2 card for Sony Ericsson, RM100.

No. 6

Memory card slot of my laptop

Memory car adapter goes here

No. 7
If your phone has Bluetooth, but doesn’t have memorycard, use a Bluetooth dongle. I use a dongle too, coz it’s very handy if you are uploading a single photo/video - since you don’t need to pry open the back cover of your phone, take out the memory card just to upload one photo. Use a dongle! It comes with a software to manage the file transfer.

A generic bluetooth dongle, RM28

Dongle goes in the USB port

Now that you know all the tools needed to create a blog, you can start blogging by doing the basics; writing!(or is it typing?). Blogger.com does guide you when you start an account with them, so don’t be afraid - just go with the flow and you’ll get the hang of it very soon. Remember, blogging should be fun and meant for you and your family’s memory - so it’s up to you what you wanna put in your blog!

If you’re stuck, you know where I live.

Happy blogging, my dear friend.

**I really sound like a teacher, don’t I? I miss teaching soooo much. Yea rite!!

Woh.

I and Ammar were having diaper issue today. 4 romper changes and countless diapers in one morning. I don’t understand how they could leak at the waistband so does all the other brands he ever worn before. He did not get enough sleep coz half an hour after fixing a new diaper he’s all wet at the back of his romper again.

Will look for another brand. Again.

Did u guys watched The 80th Oscar earlier this week? It was soooo amazing lah… What I like about it? Jon Stewart the host, Javier Bardem’s acceptance speech and Amy Adams.

Even Ammar loves Amy Adams.

Semalam, abah belikan Ammar buaian letrik.

Mamanya yang jadi seronok sangat sebab ________ (sila isi tempat kosong). Seronok tengok dia tidur cepat dan lena sebab irama membuai yang constant, tak macam buai tangan, sekejap laju sekejap perlahan. Ammar pun kurang cranky (sebab susah nak tidur) sejak ada buaian ni.

Since dah ada buaian letrik, ada ja idea aku.

Lepas tidurkan dia around 4pm gitu aku mintak izin nak drive solo ke IKEA. Nak beli quilts dan covernya sekali. Sebab lepas ni aku plan nak tidur proper, kat masterbedroom. Sekarang ni mcm tak proper tidur kat ruang tamu. Orang datang visit pun aku jadi segan dengan tilam dan segala harta karun duk kat ruang tamu. Sebenarnya tak da visitor pun. He he. So time siang lepak kat bawah pakai quilts aja la. Tak nampak serabut kan…

Dah lama betul tak drive solo. Dulu masa aku ’single’, sangat lah sukanya merambu. Lepas kerja aje pegi la memana mall yang berhampiran. Yelah, selagi suami izinkan - dan kat rumah pun takde komitmen besar. Tgh drive tu, terasa laju pulak kereta hubby ni since dia taruk bullet (whatever that is) kat ekzos hari tu. Aku pun tekan 130kmph. Lantok.

Orang kat IKEA macam gila-gila. Termasuk aku. Macam esok ada perang (perang poster kot?) dan semua barang keperluan rumah kena beli hari ni. Parking space sangat susah nak dapat. Dalam IKEA ada gazillion manusia, macam SOGO time nak raya. Nyesal aku pegi. Nasib baik aku tak bawa Ammar, kalau tak sure crankymanky punya.

Dapat la 2 quilts dan covernya sekali. Pemalas nak hantar dobi, aku plan nak basuh cover aje. Unless ada budak tomei wee wee atas quilts.

Balik rumah 6.30pm.

Ini pulak pengakuan keji dari seorang isteri dan ibu.

Aku masak mee goreng for the first time in many, many years. Ada la 5 tahun kot. Keji kan? Tak sangka aku senang rupanya nak buat mee goreng ni.

Tadaaa!

Weekend ni tak de buat apa2 sangat. Lepak2 rumah. Jalan2 sikit. Letih la nak jalan banyak2. Kesian kat Ammar jugak. Kalau ikut hati dan perasaan aku, hari2 nak bawak dia jalan. Aku suka lepak kedai buku. Tapi tak sesuai rasanya nak bawak dia. Takkan aku nak expect dia tido dalam stroller manjang kan. Ha… time ni la aku rasa nak dia depat besar. Boleh lepak kedai buku sama-sama.

Ni gambar jejalan kat MV, hari Sabtu.

Baby nangis - mama sibuk posing pulak

Ingat nak makan kat TR’s or PHoP, sekali tengok dalam menu ada bacon dan depa jual liquor sekali kat situ. Tapi apesal ramai muslim makan jugak kat situ yek? Busan, busan. Akhirnya makan kat LS aje.

Tengok TV besar. Cantik color Bravia ni.

Dan ini video budak kena cium bayak2 kali. Lebam pipi. Hehe.

Dia gelak sipi-sipi semalam.

Sila abaikan background sound. Itu Abahnya sedang sengar ceramah politik di YouTube.