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It’s a shame to admit that after the banana muffins that I baked from scratch, I’m now resorting back to good old Betty Crocker for our desserts (diet pills alert!).  Other than time and patience, I’m lacking the motivation to learn new cakes or pastries to bake.  I do miss baking from scratch though, that freshly baked cake or a piece of steamy muffin that you can proudly serve and claim you did on your own!  So I guess, I just have to wait for my baking ‘mojo’ to come back.

When we moved apartments and got a new Internet Service Provider (ISP), we didn’t realize that our Linksys router would no longer be usable.  This is because the current ISP has a preferred router and only that brand will work with their connection.  Unfortunately for us, that router we have is relatively new with only a few months of usage and now we paid-off a few extra bucks to get another one.  Sigh.

With the current economic dip now strongly felt in Australia, many companies have put up various marketing gimmicks to sell their products.  Stores in most malls offer discounts, extended warranties and freebies among the many other attention-grabbing tactics that they can advertise to entice buyers.  If not for our current living arrangement now (we’re still renting), where a small TV works for us, we would buy a bigger LCD TV with LCD mount.  That’s always in our to-buy-when-we-become-homeowners list.

I miss having a part-time help around. She used to come by twice or thrice a month when we were still based in Singapore. She does general cleaning and ironing when both the husband and I were too busy to take care of the apartment because of our work schedule. I miss the freshly ironed sheets and all the little things that we just took for granted back then. Not that they’re a great deal now. But it would be nice to be treated like staying in luxury hotel rooms everyday because there’s an available help to pamper and spoil you.