Why can I never get a straight answer from a man? We’re planning a trip to Guernsey (an island) dead early tomorrow morning, so I need to know what time we have to leave so I can set my alarm.
Me: What time do we have to leave home?
Piers: No earlier than an hour before the time we have to be there – which is an hour before we sail (6 am).
Took me 11 minutes of questioning, during which time I got more riddles, before I received the answer: 4 am.
Piers “invented” a really delicious Asian snack combo: Prawn crackers with hoisin sauce! So proud of him!
I also found this awesome lemongrass-flavoured prawn crackers at Tesco. From Netherlands, but makers were Indoneisan settlers. Tastes so great when you dip into hoisin sauce (sparingly)!
Yeah I know my photos are missing from my blog header. Looks very funny, doesn’t it?
Nanny Wen (aka Buggy Wen aka Davienne) says it reminds her of Harry Potter’s moving picture people.
Guess my photos are taking a break. They’ve gone into hiding because it’s been raining a lot in England and the weather forecast says it’s going to hail tomorrow.
IN THE MIDDLE OF SUMMER!
Crazy or not.
I thought I’d be in discomfort for a year because I was finding it impossible to get used to Invisalign in my mouth. But just 11 days into it, I hardly feel it anymore.
Was playing on my iPad before bed last night when I suddenly couldn’t feel plastic in my mouth and for one horrifying moment, thought that I had forgotten to put my aligners back on after dinner, which was ages ago.
Turned out it’s just my mouth has started to adapt.
Quote of the day
Me: I want a pet duckling!
Piers: LOL why!!!
Me: Cos they’re so cute.
Piers: All baby things are cute! Except babies.
A transport provider in the UK just sent me an e-mail asking me to take part in an online survey to help improve services.
So I go there and answer two questions (age and last time I used the service) and they say:
“Thank you for your time. Unfortunately, you do not qualify for the survey as this time around we are looking to survey our more senior customers (over 60) only.”
WTF fail.
Was googling the difference between biscuits and cookies and got linked to a Yahoo! Answers page. This guy’s answer made me LOL.
“The difference between the biscuit and the cookie is the Atlantic.
Plus, American biscuit more like a savory scone
Plus English biscuit is an American cookie.
Plus English or American cookie is in your computer to do stuff that no one really understands.”
Being too ambitious (or greedy). Two heaped bowls of ricotta and spinach tortelloni in bolognese sauce, with six sausages and three baby zucchinis thrown into the mix. A roll of garlic bread and a bottle of wine. Delicious!
Yay I got white tulips! My favouritest flowers. :)
England has the most beautiful flowers. Tulips and roses in white with pale pink. Gerberas in strawberry milk pink. Makes me happy!
Just read in detail about foot binding in ancient China. I always thought they just wrapped up the feet during infancy to stop them from growing.
But, no! They wait till the girl is 4-7 years old, then break her toes and arch bones so that the toes can curl under the sole. Without anaesthesia.
After wrapping the monstrous creation tightly, the girl is then forced to walk on her broken feet so her weight can help crush them into shape. The feet are crushed and rebound daily for like two years! WTF is wrong with people?!
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To Jim:
You semi-bricked your Wii, just like I did. . . .
semi-bricked = “When a wrong firmware is installed that doesn’t correspond the region of Wii then it is said that your Wii is semi-bricked. The games will load as usual but you can’t change any settings.”
Rock Band, is NTSC-U/C and my Wii’s NTSC-J . Meaning, the Wii’s from Japan and it’s not in the same region as the Rock Band game [Hence U.S.A]
When popping in the Rock Band disc, my Wii tried to update its firmware from it. Rock Band’s update is 3.3, sadly my Japanese Wii isn’t, and therefore the game/ update semi-bricked my Wii.
I tried Freeloader [Jpn] it doesn’t work, Rock Band has the update of 3.3. Freeloader doesn’t work with games that have updates with 3.3.
When I popped Rock Band into my Wii, I got a blank screen too.
Since 3.3 is the last update, I’d have to wait until Japan gets a different update. I’ve asked around, people told me to wait about 2 months? >.<;;
has there been a Japanese update to 3.3 for the wii yet can we get rockband to play on it yet ? anyone have a rockband disc that works yet?
/
I think there’s already one. ^_^
Really?!?! WHERE?!?!? >__<;;
Jim: Here’s something: Rock band Testing… – try at your own risk.
well if ppl having problem with their jap wii…i can help call me loh 93397035
well if ppl having problem with their jap wii…i can help call me loh 93397035
from darren
do not trust him ……. u can go google search
93397035 ,you will know wat i mean
According to one forum.
When I download the file it says it can’t open it.
if oyu have a jaanese WII and having problems with it you can contact
Michael Breland in ST. Marys. ohio
he took a half bricked japanese wii and got it to working perfect
thanks a lot for the hardwork. very helpful :)
Argh… do you guys know how to get wii ware? cuz when i got to the shopping channel, it only has virtual console and wii channel thing… there is no wii ware!
HOw can i get wii ware!
(i want wii ware cu z i want fun games and internet)
Hi Shay, Thanks for this help. Nice work.
Hi!! Do you have a translation for Chinese to English?????
Thanks! I can’t read Japanese, and this is seriously helpful… Now I can work out WTF is going on… lol