http://lmeimei.com living, thinking and writing elsewhere (sometimes just linking...) Sat, 06 Feb 2010 02:14:12 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Many years later, I would still remember in 5 days of my life, I had a family of five. For 5 days, I was a proud mom of 3 beautiful daughters, Fifi, Aiai and Momo. The brief moments we gathered in NICU nursery, we were five. Fifi dictated her father ... http://lmeimei.com/2010/01/15/we-were-five/ Friends sent flowers, lilies, lots of lilies, white, yellow, pink, for the passing of an young and innocent life. I organized the pictures taken from our two cameras. I found many ones with Matti on the third day of her life, when she’s on the last day in consciousness. It’s ... http://lmeimei.com/2010/01/12/fifth-day/ We took Fifi to University Village. We haven't spent time with her recently since the twins were in trouble. It was a very nice day, warm and sunny. My heart hurt when thinking of my little Matti lying alone in a small box at the funeral home. She was brought ... http://lmeimei.com/2010/01/09/third-day/ this is a big, and I have to mark it down-today is the first day I started working before 9am in about 3 months. I've been living like a vampire for long time-sleeping at the sunrise and waking up after sunset (at least close to sunset)- a privilege or curse of ... http://lmeimei.com/2009/09/21/waking-up-in-the-morninghow-rare/ Do you know owls don’t have teeth so they swallow the whole mouse; their digestive juice in stomach will pick out the meat so later they just spit out bones and hairs? Do you know Male Darwin frogs hatch eggs in their stomach and shoot baby frogs belch out of ... http://lmeimei.com/2009/06/21/grossology-at-father%e2%80%99s-day/ I consider myself a pretty smart gal and to some degree tech savvy,  but recently I found that I could not figure out a lot of things without checking manuals or "help and support". The first sign of tech-neuron degeneration showed up, actually,  a couple of years ago-when a friend ... http://lmeimei.com/2009/06/19/talking-about-user-experience/ I can be very cynical about my recent job loss and my last employer, like my good friend Matt said "hey, it's good for you. You should thank them for letting you go", or as I would comment “among all things they did to me, the layoff was the nicest one". ... http://lmeimei.com/2009/06/05/rebirth-of-a-jobless-lady/ I spent two days in Magnuson Park for the huge book sale. It’s indeed huge-it’s so huge that it makes me anxious that I could not compete with hundreds of scavengers with suitcases and board boxes to dig out the valuables from millions (maybe?) of books in the two rooms. ... http://lmeimei.com/2009/04/21/hunting/ she's celebrating with Ethan, her favorite baby buddy in the whole world! she loves ice in her water more than her birthday cake. http://lmeimei.com/2009/03/02/fifi-turns-two/ After 12 days of snow siege, I walked in my snow boots to Bestbuy to get a xbox360.  I've never been a gamer, and the only experience I ever had was playing tennis on Wii and hit some guita buttons on Rockband. For a research project at work,  I was doing some ... http://lmeimei.com/2008/12/27/me-gamer/