Floor and Sneezes

We have a floor! Okay, we've always had a floor here, but we have visible floor now! Sadly we also have the sneezes because of the dust we've kicked up in our cleaning frenzy today. All that's left of the cleaning is a good vacuum, sweep, mop of all the floors in our house and still more folding of clothes. There is a definite need for more shelving although I have no idea where it can go. I still haven't broached the subject with Gene yet although I think his only objection will be the lack of a good place to put a shelf. Our bedroom's looking like a good option unless we actually bite the bullet and get rid of our crappy old couch. Hmm...

I really don't think I like the way you end up with your picture staring back at you while you're posting. Seems rather narcissitic to me. I'm thinking I'll need to find a picture that's more of a representation if I'm going to keep blogging like this.

My spare time is abundant so this weekend I'm going to look into some web page editing software because I'm too darn lazy to write the code from scratch. My website is long overdue for renovations. I'm amazed that I'm still getting people signing my guestbook to be honest. Still, I'm a little sad that I have less pictures to post. I suppose I could probably aim to rectify that situation this weekend too!

I love pictures. That whole 1000 words thing works for me. It's odd though that I don't seem to take many pictures any more. After all I have a digital camera. I should be snap happy! I guess it's probably the lack of leaving the house that's holding me back right now. I'm looking forward to working on that soon. I was thinking of taking photos of Melbourne because I honestly don't have many of those.

The other thing I'm really looking forward to getting ready for my website is all the stuff I collated from my Yeh-Yeh (grandpa) about his experience of WWII in Malaysia. I've still got all the scanned pictures somewhere as well as the transcripts from our conversations almost 10 years ago. It's something that I'd really like to preserve and I've been meaning to write it up properly (my year 7 writing skills were rather lacking, thankfully my subject material made up for it a bit). I'd also like to contact the Australian War Memorial and look at showing them some of the material because I'm really proud of the fact that Yeh-Yeh went and took pictures during the war as a civilian because he thought it might be important. From what I remember there are pictures of the POW camp that was near his village. I also remember the fliers which were printed with one side money and the other side the message to let the people know the war was over. Both my grandparents speak mainly Cantonese and with each passing year I'm getting rustier. I think it's time I started writing this all down while I can still ask questions.

It's funny how I used to hate all this family stuff when I was little. Or at least I didn't really understand the cultural things. It used to just get in the way of my rather non-existant social life as far as I was concerned. I guess the older you get the "cooler" it is to have strange cultural rituals/beliefs/celebrations. It's probably the urge to belong as well as the need to have something to celebrate. Life can be pretty bleak so why not create a bit of a diversion and remember where you came from?