taking care of your eyes and your pocket

March 30, 2010 Leave a Comment

I’ve been bothered by recurring headaches lately. At first I thought it is because of stress and the changing weather but I realized that it is because of my eyes. Looks like I need a new eyeglass prescription. I think I need a new pair of eyeglasses again. The contact lenses I bought for 204 Euro can be thrown away too. My gosh! It’s really expensive to have a pair of bad eyes.

Good thing though, Zenni Optical offers really cheap BUT quality eyeglasses. You could buy a pair for 8$. Yes, 8$! The glasses I am wearing now cost me around 370 Euro and because I paid that much, I continuously use the frame even if I am not really contented with it anymore. Whenever I get new a prescription, I just get the glasses changed to fit my new prescription.

With the price and the quality of the eyeglasses they offer at Zenni Optical, I am not surprise that there are a lot of satisfied customers. An honest review on Zenni Optical published in TheExaminer.com details one happy customer’s experience with Zenni Optical. Of course, the review also points out not just the pros of buying a pair of glasses at Zenni Optical but also the cons so if you’re thinking of buying a pair of glasses at Zenni’s, this article might be interesting for you.

If you care about your eyes and your pocket, Zenni Optical is the place for you.

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search love online

March 20, 2010 Leave a Comment

If you ever came across my Bizarre Marriage blog, you know that it is about my personal experiences and insights on intercultural marriage. Although I did not meet my husband online, online dating is something I was already open to (that’s when I was still single, ok) . When I met my girlfriend Ruthi (online), I felt an instant connection with her not only because she’s likable but also because she’s in an intercultural marriage herself. I invited her to contribute some articles for my intercultural marriage blog and she not only shared about her thoughts on intercultural marriages but she also gave a thorough account of her experience with meeting the love of her life online.

A lot of people still prefer the traditional way of meeting new people but a growing number of singles all over the world are opening up to online dating. Online dating is easy especially if you are the shy type because you get to postpone face to face encounter. Online dating enables you to get to know a person through talking first (this way, you avoid the pressure of physical intimacy) then when you are good and ready to meet each other personally, you can simply agree on the time and date.

There are a lot of available resources on the net about online dating so if you are thinking of trying out this new way of searching a partner, it wouldn’t hurt to read a few articles about it. Doing so will give you information on how to succeed with online dating. You’ll also be warned about what to avoid and what to do when things don’t turn out well.

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thanks to google cache

March 18, 2010 Leave a Comment

Something happened to my blogs again!

I don’t know why the things most bloggers would consider nightmares happen so often to me!?! I don’t have a birthmark on any of my butt cheeks but still, these ill-omened things find their way to me.

Back to the “thing”. Did you know that my blogs (we are talking about blogs, ok?  NOT just ONE blog) lost their entries for March? For some reason, the entries were not displaying. I immediately suspect that it has something to do with my webhost and I was right!

Some days ago, my webhost experienced a downtime. My blogs didn’t load for a day. I contacted support and I was told said that the blogs will load again in a few hours and they did BUT the posts and the corresponding comments for March were missing. So I contacted support again and I was told to wait 4-7 hours because their servers are updating. That’s a long time to wait so I went to bed and slept.

Next morning, I checked my sites again to see if the posts were back but they weren’t. I contacted support again and I was told to wait yet another 4-6 hours because their servers are still updating. I already felt fooled but ok, I didn’t have the time to argue so I went about my day.

After coming home from work, I checked my blogs again and was not surprised that the posts were still not there. So I contacted support AGAIN and complained. This time, I was not merely asking about what’s wrong with my blogs, I was also complaining hard. I was really angry especially because I was getting all these copy-paste answers. It was really annoying. Towards the end, the support agent admitted that the backup they used to update their servers didn’t include March. How stupid! I wonder how many blogs hosted by them lost their entries. And what’s the point of lying to me and making me wait for hours because “their servers are still updating?!?!!” Stupid, I tell you.

It was totally infuriating specially because I have sponsored posts in there!

And support has no means and can’t even suggest means to retrieve these posts. I am not mean but some times people can really be brainless.

I gave up on the support because I was getting more irked by the responses  they give me.

I needed to find a way by myself. It didn’t take me long before I thought of checking google’s cache because unfortunately, my backups don’t cover March. So I googled my posts and I am glad google caches often. I was able to retrieve most of my entries.

So that’s the story.

I should really think of moving to another webhost soon.

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my cousin’s wedding

March 18, 2010 Leave a Comment

The main thing I am thankful for about the internet is the face that it offers me means to get in touch with my family back home. I would go home often if I could but that is not simply possible so needless to say, I have to be content with communicating with them over the net. At the beginning, we emailed each other and used messenger software to chat. If they want to show pictures to me, they have to send the pictures to me via email. Now there’s Facebook, of which most of my family and friends are members. It is way cooler because we can chat, message each other, share videos and photos.

I was invited to attend my cousin’s wedding but I was not able to attend. Over chatting, I told her I was sorry and that I wish I was there. She said she’ll upload some of her wedding photos so I can have a glimpse of what it was like. After a few minutes, the photos were live and I was viewing them. It was a lovely wedding. The motif and the wedding accessories used were really pretty and unique. We chatted more about her wedding and after the chat, I felt like I was there and that I didn’t miss a thing.

FB is cool. I am always updated with what’s new back home and this is something I consider really important.

Filed Under: Home and Family, Internet and Blogging, Occasions Tagged With: , , ,

well and working again

March 15, 2010 Leave a Comment

I met my head teacher for a cup of coffee a few days ago to talk about some things concerning my employment and some matters about my job. She told me that she’s quite pleased with me and that she’s been getting a lot of positive feedback from the parents of my pupils (pat my back…wink*). I love my job but last week, it took its toll on me. I got sick and when I was sick, I realized a few things and I think that my head teacher realized some things too.

When the doctor told me to stay at home for three days, I missed nine classes. That might not sound a lot but for a small private learning center that means, we lost a lot of money that week. There were no available teachers to take over my classes so they were all canceled. The parents, understandably, don’t have to pay for the canceled classes. I realized my worth in the learning center and the bad side of me immediately thought of asking a pay raise but the good side of me (and also because I am not an opportunist) told me not to do that. I have a fair salary and I although a better salary will do me good now, I think I can wait until I am offered or until I feel that I really deserve a pay raise.

I can see that my head teacher has so many things in mind. She badly needs a new teacher and an office assistant. She told me, there are so many things she has to do herself like getting her business cards and our learning center’s print ads printed. I told her to get them done online instead because there is definitely an online printing company available already. She doesn’t have to leave her office table to do that.

I want to help her with some of the office work but I think I can only manage to handle my 15 classes per week now because I really don’t want to get sick again.

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wiener philharmoniker

March 7, 2010 Leave a Comment

The “Wiener Philharmoniker” is a well known Austrian coin. We got one as a gift from my husband’s grand aunt on our wedding day. At first, I thought it was just a commemorative coin but later, I learned that it is also made of 24 karats gold.

People buy such coins to invest their money on gold. Gold prices fluctuate constantly but that’s the good thing about it. When the financial crisis happened last year, the value of gold went down but many says that it was the best time to buy gold coins because when the economy picks up, the value of gold will also do so.

The value of gold moves alongside the value of Euro. It means that when the Euro is doing well against the US Dollar, which is the case for several weeks now, gold value will definitely climb up.

I wonder what’s the value of our Wiener Philharmoniker now? I don’t like to sell it (ever) but I am curious because if it’s really a very good investment, we might consider buying some of these coins.

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tabo shower

March 7, 2010 Leave a Comment

It was nice of the plumber to come to us even if it is a non-working day. He knows that we are in a bit of a rush now with the bathroom because it’s been days since our last proper shower. Today he mounted the bath tub and the shower plate. Good. But we can’t have proper shower yet because the bathroom is not yet tiled. The tile guy will just come on Monday and also, that doesn’t mean we can use it right away   (after laying the tiles) because the tile glue will need at least 24 hours to dry. So it looks like we can just have a “proper shower” on Tuesday evening. Yesterday, that though really annoyed me but right now, I am okay that the “proper shower” will just be on Tuesday evening because we can make the “tabo shower”.

That means, I could fill some pails with water, sit on the bath tub, and use a “tabo”  (“dipper” in English) to pour water on me. I could of course just fill the tub with water and have a bath but the state of the bathroom right now does not make me want to stay there for more than 15 minutes. So I think, a quick tabo shower is the most convenient. I’m cool with that because for me, it will just be like the old times in my grandparents’ house. In those times, there was no way to take a shower other than to take a tabo shower. It worked perfectly then so I think it will still work now.

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weddings and baby showers

March 6, 2010 Leave a Comment

It’s like it’s the time of the year again when it seems that there’s something special happening in everybody’s life. Two of my girlfriends are expecting ababy and two others are getting married soon. I am so happy and excited for them.  The babies will come later but the weddings will be happening next month. I would like to come celebrate it with them but I am too far away so I can just look at these save the date postcards they sent me and wish that I could be there.

For the friends who are having the babies, maybe there’s a chance that I can attend their baby showers because girlfriend number 1 is just in Italy (around 6 hours train ride from here) and girlfriend number 2 will move to Austria soon because she wants to have to baby here.

This got me thinking, who will come to my future baby shower when all myfriends are so far away?

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