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Luigi’s Revenge Interactive Can anyone tell me how to cross the gutter in level 1? I keep falling into it. :( (categories: flash games) Doom the Boardgame A boardgame based on the computer game. Probably not as thrilling. Not…

Luigi’s Revenge Interactive Can anyone tell me how to cross the gutter in level 1? I keep falling into it. :( (categories: flash games) Doom the Boardgame A boardgame based on the computer game. Probably not as thrilling. Not…

We went to the small town of Port Dover on the north shore of Lake Erie on Sunday afternoon because I wanted to see the beach in winter (after seeing the Jim Carrey and Kate Winslett characters in “Eternal Sunshine…

BBC NEWS | Technology | Voters flock to blog awards site Voting time has been extended to February 3 to make up for the downtime. (categories: blogs weblogs news) Animal-Human Hybrids Spark Controversy Scientists have started producing a hybrid…

BBC NEWS | Technology | Voters flock to blog awards site Voting time has been extended to February 3 to make up for the downtime. (categories: blogs weblogs news) Animal-Human Hybrids Spark Controversy Scientists have started producing a hybrid…

If anyone tried to post a comment or email me in the last 12 hours or so and failed, that was because I ran out of space on my hosting account. See, I shared a 200MB hosting account with the…

UFO RALLY : spikything.com This game reminds me of another game that I can’t remember the title of. I didn’t get to finish all 5 levels until my second try. (categories: flash games) Rocket Bob Bounce Bob from one…

UFO RALLY : spikything.com This game reminds me of another game that I can’t remember the title of. I didn’t get to finish all 5 levels until my second try. (categories: flash games) Rocket Bob Bounce Bob from one…

We just got back from seeing Un long dimanche de fiançailles a.k.a. A Very Long Engagement. Watching the movie, you just can’t help comparing it with Amélie since it’s from the same director and it also has Audrey Tautou and…

OSCAR.com - 77th Annual Academy Awards - Nominees We’re going to see “A Very Long Engagement” tonight. Yayness! (categories: movies lists) buffyology : searchable Buffy cast, crew and episode database Not that I’m a Buffy fan or anything, but…

OSCAR.com - 77th Annual Academy Awards - Nominees We’re going to see “A Very Long Engagement” tonight. Yayness! (categories: movies lists) buffyology : searchable Buffy cast, crew and episode database Not that I’m a Buffy fan or anything, but…

Just in case you didn’t get to see the list of the 2005 Bloggies™ finalists before the site went down (again!) due to the lack of bandwidth, I’m posting the list in the extended entry. But before you do, please…

(Fortune Cookies, originally uploaded by firda.) We bought a jar of fortune cookies the last time we did our grocery shopping, just for the fun of it. I just had one today and the cookie contained two fortunes instead of…

Error Message Generator Create your own error message, Windows-style. (categories: fun generators) poplockin Put together your own breakdance routines. (categories: flash fun dance games) 2000 uses for WD40 Why would anyone want to lubricate stethoscopes with WD40? (categories: tips…

Error Message Generator Create your own error message, Windows-style. (categories: fun generators) poplockin Put together your own breakdance routines. (categories: flash fun dance games) 2000 uses for WD40 Why would anyone want to lubricate stethoscopes with WD40? (categories: tips…

The Bloggies™ site is back up now and turns out that I’ve not only been nominated for the Best Asian Weblog but also for Lifetime Achievement! Yikes! I don’t think I’d be able to compete with big names like Tom…

I don’t usually do survey memes, but since this one is passed on to me by the boy, I just have to be a good girlfriend and comply. :) 1. What’s the total size of music files on your computer?…

Triumph of a Heart Bjork’s new music video, directed by Spike Jonze. (categories: music videos bjork) Intelligence in men and women is a gray and white matter Study finds that men and women use different brain areas to achieve…

Triumph of a Heart Bjork’s new music video, directed by Spike Jonze. (categories: music videos bjork) Intelligence in men and women is a gray and white matter Study finds that men and women use different brain areas to achieve…

(Mmmm, Cream Collon!, originally uploaded by firda.) The boy and I went to the Asian food market in Kitchener yesterday (but not before having a nice lunch in a Vietnamese restaurant) for our weekly Asian food shopping and we picked…

Apparently, you guys have done a marvellous job pimping up my weblog that it’s once again become one of the Bloggies™ finalists. Thank you! I’m flattered, as always. Unfortunately, the Bloggies™ site is currently down (the dreaded “Bandwidth Limit Exceeded”)…

As you can see below, I’m doing what all the cool kids are doing: posting quick links via del.icio.us. I haven’t posted too many links yet, but I’m sure it will grow with time. It’s just so much easier to…

Flickr: Stock Repository Free stock photos for designers (a public Flickr group). (categories: stock photography flickr) Tim Burton’s Corpse Bride The movie to be released on this year’s Hallowe’en. (categories: movies trailers) The Celebrity Ranker Using Google to determine…

Flickr: Stock Repository Free stock photos for designers (a public Flickr group). (categories: stock photography flickr) Tim Burton’s Corpse Bride The movie to be released on this year’s Hallowe’en. (categories: movies trailers) The Celebrity Ranker Using Google to determine…

(Dining Table, originally uploaded by firda.) We finally got ourselves a dining table set a couple of days ago after the boy finally got tired of not having enough space to put things on when we are cooking. It’s…

Here’s another quiz from the PBS show “Do You Speak American” that American readers might be interested in taking: the regional dialect quiz. Match the dialect in a sound sample with a U.S. region. The boy and I did it…

If my weblog had a Frustrating Game of the Day (FGotD) feature, Ripley’s IQ Game would be it for today. The object of the game is to jump the balls over each other like you do in a checkers game…

Take the MailFrontier Phishing IQ Test to find out how good you are at telling whether an email is legitimate or just a phishing fraud. I like to think that I’m pretty good at this but still I only managed…

If my weblog had a Frustrating Game of the Day (FGotD) feature, Shove It would be it for today. I’m stuck at level 4. I’m sure the solution is very, very simple but I just can’t see it. Yet. Maybe…

So I submitted a picture of me to the Face Analyzer and found that I’m actually a very intelligent, low risk, average ambition, very low gay factor, average honor, low politeness, $30,000-$50,000 income, low sociability, low promiscuity, white collar archetyped,…

It’s been a slow blogging day. Well, make it two days. And the sky hasn’t been clear for, like, ever so I’m going to miss seeing Saturn (the planet, not the car) tonight. If the sky is clear where you…

Chuck is a very addictive game. You have fun chucking a dummy around and you score some points! My personal record at the time of posting was 208,608 and the top score was some 2,306,092. I’m not sure how one…

Before we drifted off to sleep last night, the boy and I had a conversation about which webloggers belong to the A-List, the B-List, and straight down to the Z-List. I know that talking about it is so 2001 but…

(Pad Thai, originally uploaded by firda.) Pad Thai is the boy’s favourite Asian food so I thought I’d try to cook us some for supper. My Pad Thai recipe is basically a bastardised version of this recipe. I put chicken…

Today is your last chance to nominate your favourite blogs in the Fifth Annual Weblog Awards a.k.a. the Bloggies. The boy has casted his votes last week and, being a good boyfriend that he is, he nominated me in a…

I’ve never ever played any videogame in my whole life until a couple of weeks ago when I started playing Mario Party 5 with the boy, for a very silly reason. See, last month I told the boy that I…

(Paper Mario Sidekick II, originally uploaded by firda.) This is what you get for having a gaming geek for a boyfriend. You get to be his sidekick character in a video game. But of course you have to be a…

Test Your Vowel Power is part of a PBS show called “Do You Speak American?”. I obviously don’t (speak American) because all my answers/guesses are wrong. I swear that the fifth word was “Troy”. Take the test and let me…

Montage-a-google will search Google for images based on the keyword(s) you enter and display them as a montage. Almost all of the images it came up with when I entered my name or my weblog name seem to come from…

I got my love of music from my mother. I know a lot of oldies songs because of her. She liked to listen mostly to songs from the 60s. I like to think that it was because they brought back…

(Bakwan Sayur, originally uploaded by firda.) I made this for breakfast. The recipe’s inside. Not very well written but oh well. (Also, this is more or less a test post from Flickr so pardon the mess.)…

It’s official. Nikolai, the founder and sole organiser of the Bloggies™ has spoketh. I’m eligible for a nomination in both the Best Asian Weblog and the Best Canadian Weblog categories. Fear my world domination! Or something. Speaking of weblog awards,…

I’m sure there are times that, while browsing the Web, you come across something that someone wrote so eloquently which reflects your thoughts so perfectly that it could’ve been written by you, if only you were that prolific. This “So…

First of all, if I owe you an email, please be patient because I am swamped. I will get back to you. I guess this is what you get for taking a break from replying emails for 2 weeks. My…

The Fifth Annual Weblog Awards, also known as The Bloggies™, is here again. Go nominate your favourite weblogs in as many categories as you see fit! I don’t know if I’m still eligible for a nomination in the Best Asian…

So, it’s 2005 already. The New Year’s Eve highlights include my falling asleep during the viewing of The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou at a local cinema (not that the movie was horrible or anything; I was just sleepy) and…