I find it amazing that today marks the second anniversary of my blog. Two years! Wow… Two years of daily musings (except for Wednesdays) and constant blogs when I travel. I never knew I had so much to talk about.
What started out as simply my wanting to share about my children’s antics has evolved somewhat to what it is now. I would to thank my followers and readers for keeping up with me to reach this milestone.
Looking forward to many more!
For the first time I noticed an inconsistency in Candy Crush Soda! It is Level 375 and the challenge requirement is different on the iPad compared to it in Facebook on the laptop. Can you believe it?
There are four scenarios to pass. On the iPad, you have to save 40 bears. And you need to save 6, 12, 30 and 40 in this order to pass the scenarios to complete this level. On Tuesday night, for the first time, I realized that the same game at the same level, on the laptop in Facebook, only 36 bears are needed to be saved! Not 40 but 36.
And the sequence is 4, 10, 28 and finally 36. Hrmph… No wonder I have been stuck here for so long because I play on the iPad all the time!
King.com… You need to fix this!
So the minute I came home from office on Wednesday evening, I went straight to my laptop and attempted Level 375. And guess what? I made it pass Level 375! Finally. Yay.
40 bears for the iPad
36 bears in FB on the laptop
I remember when I was very young, my Dad used to bring me and my older sibling out for breakfast on Sundays. Somehow Mom never came along because she doesn’t like Indian food. We were doing the ‘Ghee Thosai/Roti Canai’ breakfast.
The shop was just opposite Dad’s office, crowded, stuffy and dirty. The one thing I remember significantly of the place was the little drain around the perimeter of the corner lot coffee shop; it was all clogged up and rather disgusting in sight and smell. And every time before entering the premise, I never dare looked down at the drain when crossing over it for fear that it would make me lose my appetite.
But the lure of my favorite ‘Ghee Thosai’ was irresistible and no dirty drain was going to stop me.
Dad insisted that we have to eat Indian food like the Indians, that is with our hands. So we ate our ‘Ghee Thosai’ with our hands. After the meal each time, I remember I always placed my ‘Dhal’-laced fingers near my nostrils to savor the aroma during the car ride home. Call it a bad habit or whatever but those ‘Dhal’-laced fingers smelled really wonderful even after washing!
Although I don’t use my hands to eat nowadays whenever I go for a ‘Ghee Thosai/Roti Canai’ breakfast with the hubby and M2, I would recall fondly of those memories and the drain!
My all time fave!
My last entry on my three games had me stuck but perseverance and determination saw me finally made it pass Level 951 for Candy Crush and Level 748 for Farm Heroes. But Level 375 of Candy Crush Soda has been problematic. Why?
Surely I can overcome. After all, many a time when I hit a snag in any of the three, it takes strategy and patience. But this time… Ugh. Patience has turned to annoyance.
Spring term is ending for M1 soon. How time flies. It seemed like just yesterday when we sent her off at the airport. By the end of next week, she would have officially completed a term at university. But she will not be coming home. It’s too soon as she just left for the Spring term. She will have summer classes instead.
When I went off to university, I started in the Fall semester and by the time summer came around, I came home for a good 16 weeks. However, by my second summer, I took one summer class. Yes, just one – an oil painting class. It was fun. I worked at the bookstore as the in-house designer while also tending to the Counter selling art equipment and supplies, attended classes to paint daily and once a week, went off to the bar with my American ex-room mate for margaritas and buffalo wings. That was my summer.
Well, M1 will not have it so easy like me because she definitely has more classes than I did! But she will be fine and will do okay.
A postcard came from M1. She mailed it on the day of her whale watching excursion. Hubby was taken with her idea of all the activities that she listed especially ‘crabbing’ and gave us the urge.
Well, put it this way, our version of ‘crabbing’ certainly is different from what she has in mind.
Crabs with salted eggs
M1 went whale watching several weeks back! How exciting. When she first saw this weekend activity listed and told us about it, I insisted that she must go. It is a very good experience.
I must say whale watching is on my bucket list of things to see/do. And actually, I have gone whale watching before only that the whale didn’t look like a whale and I didn’t have a whale of a time, pun intended.
It was donkey years back and I was in New Zealand, traveling with a girlfriend from my high school days. For this trip, we did only the South Island and one of the highlights was to Kaikoura. It was touted as THE destination for whale watching. We both decided to go for this experience.
I remember the quaint coastal town was typical of many coastal towns, full of tourist attractions, restaurants and souvenir shops. We had lunch at a seafood restaurant and I had something light while my friend had clam chowder.
After lunch and a stroll along the shops, it was time to head out to see the whales. So exciting! But when we got there, we were told that the waters were too choppy and it was not safe to go out on the boat, furthermore we may not spot any whales. Instead we were given the option to fly in the tiny Fokker 9-seater plane. At an additional cost! Did we have a choice at that point? To come so far and this?
So we climbed into the plane. The pilot was friendly. I remember he climbed up to 150 feet above sea level and doing big circles in the air, trying to spot a giant below. The minute he spotted one, he did an abrupt sharp turn and tried to dip slightly lower so that we could all have a decent view of the whale. But he said we should not go any lower as the engine sound will scare it off and it would go under, rendering his efforts unfruitful then.
It was rather nauseating. Every time, he maneuvered the plane in dizzying little circles, my tummy churned. When I finally did see the whale, it looked more like a four-inch squid than an actual whale!
I was disappointed and semi-nauseous. My friend was disappointed and totally nauseous. With the whale watching experience ending like this, I decided not to strike it off my bucket list yet until I can see the real thing, closer perhaps and at a less nauseating pace.
There’s something wrong with the latest Candy Crush update for the iPad Mini. It is not stable on the device (but okay in Facebook on the laptop). Over the weekend whenever I launch the app on my device, the game appears right at the beginning at Candy Town, Level 1! This has never occurred before.
It is mildly annoying because I have to scroll to get to where I am. And at Level 942, that’s a lot of scrolling to do. What’s even more annoying is when I click on lives sent by friends to use, after my five rounds, it goes back to Candy Town and I have to scroll all over again! Aargh.
King.com had better fix this glitch soon. But luckily, I have completed the episode, Minty Meadow, so I don’t have to deal with this until the next update. I shall play Cookie Crossing on the laptop. Am now at Level 951.
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