It is really rare that my blogs were left untouched for days. I have not been away from home but I am really busy at work. Partly because of the testing and troubleshooting of the latest system upgrade site wide. We encountered a few problems but fortunately, we were able to solve most of them ourselves as well as with the help of the IT support here. The latest system upgrade involved some installation of Windows software and apparently, the executables of our upgraded system do not work very well with computers which do not have the latest Windows software or updates. Luckily, all was not as bad as what we had imagined. Surprisingly, I have not had any coffee in the office since a week ago. How amazing?

Mee and I went to Portsmouth last Sunday. The weather was hot and sunny. We visited the BlueReef Aquarium thinking that it might be better than the London Aquarium as the brochure looked very much like an underwater experience. However, we were both disappointed in the end. It was small and nothing much to see. We then went to the car boot sales nearby. It was a huge site and we spent more than an hour there. Mee reckoned that we would be bored if there were no car boot sales that day. I have become darker and darker. I wonder if my skin will become whiter if I stop exposing my skin under the sun.

I have an urge to tidy up our room this weekend. But that will include sacrificing my movie time. I am quite reluctant but it will be really good to tidy up our room. Till then, I need to do some planning on how to sort out our room. Not really sure whether I could squeeze some place out of our room??!!!

Another week passed. For the past four days, I have online for not more than 2 hours in total. I am not sure why but I was just lack of the interest to browse or even blogging. Hopefully, I will be able to recompose myself soon enough. In addition, my web host was in a mess for the last few days, causing both of my blogs to not loading normally.

I have just logged on to my broadband web account and on top of the page, it stated that my home broadband size was still M but the speed was 10MB. I wonder how true it was and I shall be checking it out when I got home. It will be interesting if it is 10MB.

On Sunday, Mee and I went to Mudeford, Christchurch. It is a nice beach and charming fishing village located about 1 hour away from where we live and 10 minutes away from Bournemouth. It was a lovely day and we were glad that we arrived early in the morning, as there were still plenty of parking spaces. Upon arriving there, dozens of people were crab fishing. There was a small island opposite Mudeford Quay called Sandbank and there was a ferry service operating around every 12 minutes, charging £1.20 for adult and 60 pence for children. As it was Sunday, the queue was long with most people bringing their dogs and beach equipment.

It only took 5 minutes to reach Sandbank. Along the Sandbank, there were beach huts available for rent. I did a search on the internet and the beach huts cost from £200 a week and they are without electricity and water inside the hut. The nearer the beach huts to the public toilet, the rental will be more expensive. No doubt Sandbank is a very nice and relaxing place. I told Mee that I can be there for days without computers or games.

Back at the Mudeford Quay, more people arrived and the parking spaces were full. It was bright and sunny and more people were crab fishing. We walked to the other side of Mudeford Quay and there was another beach called Avon beach. It was a stony beach but the beach was crowded with people sun bathing as well as BBQ-ing. Just beside the beach, there were more vacation houses available for rent. Those vacation houses were better equipped and nevertheless, higher rentals.

Overall, it was a nice experience at Mudeford, Christchurch and Mee and I might be going there next weekend again.

Long weekend has gone. Surprisingly, I did not check my email accounts for two days. I did not even update my blog for four days though it was normal for me not to update my blog during weekends. Maybe I was just lazy. Today, my manager is not coming into the office because he is not feeling well. Well, I am already used to it now and I will be able to handle things calmly in his absence.

Last Friday, Mee got her mobile phone back from Three. I am not surprised that they replaced the mobile phone, as they were not able to fix the ‘old’ one. I have tried to re-flash the ‘old’ unit but it just would not charge or boot up properly. Anyway, Mee and I were glad that Three replaced the phone.

On Sunday, Mee and I went to Colindale. Mee had her facial treatment for the first time in months since she came back from Malaysia. Mee was offered a machine-acupuncture-treatment which left a few red and circle marks on her arms and neck. I called them pepperoni. It has been days and the marks are still quite visible. The lady who treated Mee called them ‘stress’ marks. Before Mee had her facial treatment, we went to Wing Yip Colindale to run some errands; buying stuffs where we could not get them from local supermarkets.

On Tuesday, our car was sent into the workshop for the long awaited cambelt kit change. The car was in the workshop for 5 hours but I doubted that the work took 5 hours. Anyway, it was all done and I have one less thing to worry about. I was told about the spark plugs are old and they did not want to change it as they have quoted me with the standard price for only the cambelt kit change. Well, is that how they do their business? I mean they have my mobile phone number and they could have called me up and asked if I would like to change the spark plugs. On the other hand, if they did call me, my answer would be ‘no’ since I will have our car booked in for a full service soon. The funny thing was that our car is dark red and they typed in blue in the invoice. How wrong could they get?