Drip Drip Drip

Posted on April 26, 2007 by The Giddy Tigress

A few days ago, the air-conditioner in our room suddenly went bonkers, and started dripping water.  We’re not sure if it’s because of the position of the pipe carrying the water that has gone haywire or what, but about 20-30 minutes after we switch it on, water will start dripping.  Hubbs has promised that he will try to rectify the problem himself, before calling the air-conditioner guy to have it serviced.  So while waiting for him to do that, we just switch on the air-cond for a short while every night, enough to make the room cool, then when we hear the dripdripdrip of the water, we turn the air-cond off.  Of course, we leave the fan on la.  That’s the advantage of having both a fan and an air-cond in the room.  Thank goodness it has been rather cool these past few nights 🙂

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67% Un-telligent

Posted on April 25, 2007 by The Giddy Tigress

Some years ago, my ex-coworker and I took a few fun tests from this website.  I recently googled for it again and today, I finally took one of the tests.  It’s the Un-telligence Test, but despite its similarity in name to the word Intelligence, Un-telligence is not a measure of one’s intelligence.  Instead it is a measure of one’s ability to reason in tough situations.  Check it out here and also my level of un-telligence below:

The results are in! You are…

67% Untelligent!

Your score is close to the current worldwide average of 63%.

Your score is unique, however, so keep reading.

Score Breakdown…

Intelligence 
Sense of Humor 
Violent Tendencies 
Bravery 
Observational Skills 
Morality 
Self-Confidence 

Here is the custom report of your personality than led our team of geeks to conclude (with confidence) that you are a moderate but excitingly differentgraph.xcf woman:

“ The subject shows an astounding level of intelligence, and her sense of observation is one of her best qualities. Considering this, she shows a lot of potential, but that’s only part of the equation.

Also, as much as we hate violence, an occasional mauling is one way to solve day-to-day problems like unpleasant coworkers or pesky door-to-door salesmen. She just isn’t tough enough, sir, and avoids any situation that involves violence.

Finally, the subject displayed a pathetic and useless (seriously bad) sense of humor, a nearly satanic lack of morality, and a complete lack of self-confidence. The balance of these three traits is important; high levels of confidence, medium levels of morality, and a good level of humor make for the strongest individuals. “

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Get Smart with Smorty

Posted on April 25, 2007 by The Giddy Tigress

SIGH…It is really getting boring in the paid posts arena.  There is a serious lack of quality paid posts to select from.  All we get these days are posts on mortgages, insurance and credit cards.  Boring boring boring.  So I was relieved that there is now a new site that is also on the bandwagon to connect advertisers with bloggers, where bloggers get paid for blogging about products, reviews, and just about everything under the sun.  At Smorty, signing up is a breeze and after your blog is approved (typically it will take up to 72 hours, but mine got approved in less than 12 hours!), you will be given the opportunity accept tasks which have been assigned to you.  The price you get for each paid post depends on your blog ranking.  I’m not getting many good posts right now mainly due to my low Google PR (Boohoo…), but I am hoping and praying that the upcoming Google reranking will change that.  Anyway, when your blog gets approved in Smorty, you will get to see how many offers there are still available for that particular opportunity, should you choose to accept it.  Payment is made via PayPal and is done on a weekly basis, so that’s good. 🙂  So go check it out today – who knows, you might like it!

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Vaccine against Cervical Cancer

Posted on April 24, 2007 by The Giddy Tigress

I just went for my annual gynaecological checkup a couple of weeks back and was informed by my ob-gyn that a new vaccine which offers a 90-over percentage prevention against cervical cancer is now available. My first question was “How much?” My gynae says it will cost about RM1,500 for a series of 3 jabs. Well, at first glance that would seem steep but if you compare that with an average of RM16,000 for a hysterectomy in the event of cervical cancer, it all makes perfect sense.

I still haven’t decided if I want to go for this vaccine yet. This vaccine is called the Quadrivalent Human Papillomavirus Recombinant Vaccine and combats the virus which causes cervical cancer, i.e. the human papillomavirus (HPV). Well actually the vaccine is not 100% preventative and protects against 4 strains of the virus, but these are the 4 most prevalent strains. Hence this explains why the vaccine is only 90-over % effective, and not 100%.

With the advent of this vaccine, this is good news for all women. The fact that lives can be spared just by vaccinating oneself is definitely news which is welcomed. However, some people claim that the introduction of this vaccine, especially for young girls as young as 11-12 years, will encourage promiscuous activity, since the HPV is a virus which is spread through sexual activities. I beg to differ. If young girls are vaccinated against the HPV, that does not give them the license to go ahead and indulge in rampant sex, but if they do, I strongly feel it is the upbringing that causes it. So the parents should be the ones who are responsible in inculcating responsible actions among their kids, and not blame it on some vaccine.

So have I decided to take this vaccine? I dunno yet. I’m still undecided. I fervently hope my insurance can cover for it, or better yet, that my company will foot the bill for the vaccination. Then I’ll take it in a heartbeat.

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Blinded

Posted on April 24, 2007 by The Giddy Tigress

How often do you wash your curtains?  I am contemplating sending my curtains over to the dry cleaners to get it washed, ironed and spanking clean.  For one, I do not have the space in my apartment to hang out my curtains to dry and I have no idea how to iron them.  Despite the hassle of getting these curtains washed, I wouldn’t change a thing about the choice of window decorations we chose. 

When we were decorating our apartment some 2 years back, we put a lot of thought into adorning our windows and sliding doors.  Initially we had wanted to go with vertical blinds, being exposed to its classiness when my hubby had them in his apartment in the States.  However in the end we settled on a combination of curtains with linings, as well as venetian blinds, for that sophisticated feel.  At that time, we noticed a lot of our friends had roman blinds in their homes, and being one to not follow the norm, we chose otherwise.  Our choices were based on how the curtains and blinds would blend in with our home decor and color of our walls. We had our curtains and blinds custom-made, although we could have chosen the easy way out and have them ready-made.

In any case, my hubby and I had a LOT of fun decorating our house, and would certainly look forward to that experience all over again when we eventually get a landed property.  Hopefully soon…

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