It's up!!!

The brand new Jenny + Me blog is UP and RUNNING! Jenny has spent about a week going through all the codes and endless bug fixing. All I can take credit for is putting a bunch of things together in Word and Illustrator, and pointing at them and saying 'Can you do this?' and 'Can you make it look like that?', and sometimes she would say 'Yes', while other times she would gesture casually with her hands and say 'Oh that's very easy.'

Awesome!

At first I thought, since Jenny hasn't built sites in a long time, and she essentially taught herself how to do it, that we would have to do with a very boring, unflexible, difficult-to-navigate site. But it turned out all shiny and pretty and does everything we need it to (thank you, Wordpress, but more so, Jenny)!

So, so thrilled.

HERE IS THE LINK. Now go. Go in peace.

Just so you know!

The Jenny + me group blog is NEARING COMPLETION!!!

Rest in Peace.

Paul Newman

Malalai Kakar 

One was a legendary actor, race car driver and philaothropist who raised over USD180 million for children's charities. One was the highest-profile female member of the Pakistani police force, mother of six and known for her bravery. Both passed away this weekend. Both led blessed lives filled with achievements impossible to match.

About the DNA bill

Noble causes the DNA bill could have been useful for:

• Criminal investigations
  
• Tracking down missing persons
  
• Medical history records
  

Why we are against it, despite all that:

It came about after charges against Anwar, who allegedly committed... er... sodomy. Why his personal life is any of our business is something only the most superficial of gossipmongers would fail to question. If Anwar had agreed to the DNA test, and the DNA sample got tainted, it would have been binding and inescapable evidence. In this light, passing the bill would be tantamount to granting the ruling party infinite power to manipulate anyone’s judicial fate unquestionably, as genetics are supposedly unquestionable.

Sign the petition to reject the DNA Identification Bill here.

Predicaments!

I had to work over the weekend, and to work I needed the internetz, but for some sick reason the internetz in our house had been down for two entire weeks (predicament #1)!

My little sister Yen, who doesn’t really know how this works: Hello, we have no internetz.
Our Service Provider, who are full of FAIL: That is because we CUT YOU OFF as a PRECAUTION.
Yen: A precaution against what?
SP: against VIRUSES, that’s what. Now go rid your systems of them.
Yen: Oh. Okay. (calls Dad) Daddy, the internetz does not work, because we have viruses.
Daddy: That doesn’t make sense! But WTF you have viruses??!! I will be fixing that. (Proceeds to drive over to kill our viruses)
Me: What are you doing, Daddy?
Daddy: You have VIRUSES. I am killing them.
Me: Er, why would you choose to do that now at 11pm?
Daddy: Because your internetz were cut off because you have viruses. Apparently.
Me: But that doesn’t make sense.
Daddy: Correct.
Me: Are the viruses dead now?
Daddy: Oh yes.
*Mom calls the service provider)
Mom: Hello, we have no internetz.
SP: That is because we CUT YOU OFF as a PRECAUTION.
Mom: Against viruses?
SP: YES.
Mom: The viruses are gone now.
SP: To make double-certain, you must re-format all your computers.
Mom calls me to check: Yi Ling, the service provider said we need to reformat our computers.
Me, who is known for her RAGE: Please tell those unbelievable idiots that I say we don’t need to reformat our computers and in fact we didn’t even need to run a full devirusing with help of software; they should not be affected either way, and if they carry on with this rubbish, they will be hearing from ME.
Mom: okey dokey.
*half an hour later*
Me: Hi Mom. Do we have internetz now?
Mom: Oh yes.

Sometimes when I have to up and abandon my family, I would rather not. Firstly, because this would mean leaving them to fend for themselves, and secondly, because it involves work. While our internetz were still down, I had the responsibility of waiting on my gmail all weekend, in order to send some emails back and forth, as well as to make some calls. 

Not relishing the idea of hanging around the cyber cafes for hours and hours (which would be boring and expensive, plus the cyber café near my place is really dank and filled with scary people, and I don't mean that in a cool way at all), and Starbucks not being a safe place to leave my laptop lying around during bathroom breaks (predicament #2: I was holding it in desperately Saturday morning at a Starbucks, and while I already type pretty fast under normal conditions, that morning I was typing for the Olympics), I decided to pull a solid from Jenny and camp at her internet-equipped home. I would be comfortable, connected, and get to see Hayden: WIN.

Work typically ended as late as 11pm each day, and Jenny isn’t used to those bedtimes (the baby wakes her at dawn), but as sweet as she is she managed to stay up late with me the first night. Then on Sunday night she couldn’t do it anymore, so she turned in early and put her little sister in charge of seeing me off.

When I finally finished up, Jenny’s sister saw me off, locked the doors, and went to hang out in the living room. Meanwhile, I realized I’d left my car keys on the coffee table. Jenny and the baby were asleep, so ringing the doorbell and calling the landline were not good options. But Jenny’s sister had left her phone upstairs, and their parents were watching TV in another room. She lives in a terrace house, so any yelling had to be carefully projected to travel past the driveway and front door, but not all the way to the baby's room.

That, was predicament #3*.

On the other hand, my mother had a most excellent birthday (even with me constantly zipping in and out of it, stupid work).

So how was everyone’s weekend?

*Eventually they heard me calling Jenny’s sister’s name and came to my rescue.

From the J to the E, to being utterly uninspired.

"I really want to blog!"
"Then blog!"
"Do you want to do a group blog like we had last time?"

So now Jenny and I want to start a web site together. This is the absolute most awesome idea ever. Jenny is one of very, very few people I can spend hours and hours and hours with and still miss her the very next day, and our arguments, however heated, are always good-natured. When you find someone like that, you're a lucky, lucky shit.

Not only do we get along, we're so incredibly different and yet oddly similar. The sweet corporate mom and the sardonic serial-dating creative. We're both young, chatty, gorgeous, hopeful, and always on the goooooo. Our lives head in drastically different directions, and yet we make more time for each other than anyone else in our lives (family doesn't count!).

Why the hell haven't we started a web site together yet?

(Time constraints time constraints time constraints)

Anyway. This time we're trying to do it 'properly'. We're getting a domain name, and designing our own site layout. There are already a million ideas on the board as to how this blog would work, but there are a few problems:

1. I can't build web sites. And she hasn't done it in ages (which she thinks renders her obsolete).
   
2. We have no idea which site publishing platform is the best.
3. We have no idea what to call the site. Right now we're trying to get something with a J and an E (Jenny: e.g. Just-Everything.net, Elaine: but it won't have just-everything, so would you all hate us if that turned out to be misleading? Jenny: We could call it something without our initials, Elaine: but we have to totally light up with joy when we hear it!)

If you can help in any way, either by recommending a hosting service/domain name ideas/content ideas/offering to work for us FOR ABSOLUTELY FREE, please send in an email or something, and Jenny and I will beam giant rays of sheer gratitude in your direction. That, plus you get the satisfaction of knowing that you contributed towards the making of a great, great thing.

To drive the point home, this is us:

As is painfully obvious, Sheer Awesomeness constantly wafts out of our pores.

For those of you who have never read tintedlens or superficiality.net, you have seriously missed out, because Jenny is hilarious, often more so than me. But why would you still read me, you ask, once Jenny gets around to publishing her delightful tales?

Simply because I provide plenty of this. 

tkd99girl at gmail.

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