The last thing..

...you don't want to happen when you are settling in a new country is your mobile phone went kaput.

There goes my contact lists, my WhatsApp conversations and some photos. Now I am using my husband's FlintStone-age mobile phone. I cant access most of photos in my Dropbox, meaning I cant use them in my blog entries.

I will KIV my old drafts and proceed with the HLP with minimal photos.

Unpublished DRAFTS

I have about 80 draft entries in my folder right now.

I am going to auto publish everything. Some of the drafts dated back in 2011. haha.

I usually waited to transfer the photos or edit the photos or get the photos from someone else. But now, I will just blog about whatever photo I have in my hand phone without editing it in Photoshop. I just use whatever filter available in the phone. 

Come on! SIX more!

It is going to be 70k after I published this entry.

(EDITED)

NOT EVEN ONE MINUTES.

Visitors from Namibia!

Today, my blog received visitors from Namibia.

It could be Lavinia or Maxine or Nekuta or anyone from the Namibian delegation I worked with last week. HELLO!!

I am pretty occupied nowadays and updating my blog is usually the last thing I would put on my to-do list. I used to get 200 hits per day by updating my blog regularly. 

Since I have new readers on the other part of the world (and since I owned a new smartphone), I will try my best to update my blog more often.

I am... we are...expanding

Yes, my family is expanding.

So does my blog.

I know this kind of entry will definitely drives you crazy. Sorry. Just watch out for :

garlicandbutter + lifestyle
garlicandbutter + foodstop

in 2013.

Total hits

Since Blogger.com had experienced a technical problem that reset statistics for all blogspots this morning and left me speechless looking at my page hits (from 39,480 views to only 29 views!), I decided to save the snapshot of my current blog statistics here. Saja-saja.

15,000th visitor on 6 June 2012

YAY!

I was so shocked to be the 15,000th person to visit my blog this morning.

I told my husband that I targeted 8 June 2012 to reach 15,000. But I have achieved that 2 days earlier. Thanks to all.

Not bad for a not-so-famous blog. Oh, I forgot to mentioned that GARLICANDBUTTER is officially 4 YEARS OLD this JUNE! YAY! I need to celebrate. Perhaps I could order special garlicandbutter cake from my best buddy CEPOI of PassionBite?

LATTE!!

I have trouble changing the link colour (which was suddenly changed from yellow to dark blue) for this blog. After a few attempts, I decided to go for Latte background instead to compliment the dark blue. I HOPE I LIKE IT (trying...trying...)

In the mean time, I will try to change the background back to dark grey because some highlighted font would be hard to read on Latte.

Keep on reading.

To sustain or not to sustain?

I am a member of The Designers Accord. An good organisation that gathers do gooders / good doers from all over the world :o)
I want to share some simple and witty (yet very TRUE) responses from TDA's online survey. Of course there are other great [and technical] ideas but these are the one that grabbed my attention :
WHAT 'S YOUR GREATEST SUSTAINABILITY CHALLENGE?
- Removing plastic from my life.
- Cost.
- Food packaging. In the supermarket, everything I eat is packed at least twice.
- Not using the latest material just because it is sustainable. Just use less.
- Getting middle America to actually get it!
- Depression over how much there is to do — I’m tired!
- Quoting Daniel Hebert-Moto: “it’s complicated stuff”
- Eco-friendly materials are too expensive!
- Affording it. Sustainable solutions needs to be the most economical in order to be adopted (and should be eventually).
- Training people to design and make furniture while questioning whether the world really needs any more furniture.
- Convincing people that we have spent the past 50 years making a mess, and should now spend 50 years cleaning it up.

Speaking of which, I would like to present the latest addition to toil's family - GO GWEEN!!