See The Sun

Baby Boy

Monday, November 10th, 2008 | Personal, Sites | No Comments

I’m an auntie!!!! A few hours ago (just about 9 to be exact) my sister gave birth to a healthy baby boy! Can’t wait to go & visit them at the hospital after the lunch break!!

And, Fragment of Light is open! I had wanted to make it a subdomain but it just didn’t work out. Maybe WP was messing with it, I don’t know. Enjoy!

Deciding on a name

Friday, November 7th, 2008 | Sites | 5 Comments

I plan on reorganizing some of the features here on seethesun. Probably I’ll leave the blog more or less as it is. But I’ve deleted my Anna Paquin tribute page for now as well as the galleries. I plan on opening a blog/tribute page to movies I like. Nothing on a grand scale but it’ll be the place to put those Jane Eyre screencaps - and from a few other (historical) movies. I am having a hard time deciding on the name for it though. Here my final choices:

* fear of thorns
* sweetest sadness
* fragment of light
* hopeless dream

I love them all - mostly for the context I took them from. But I’m anxious to get feedback from people who’ll see the name without knowing the background for them. Also feedback would hopefully help me to finally decide on one. Thanks!

Kindred Spirits

Wednesday, November 5th, 2008 | Sites, Songs, TV | 2 Comments

My friend from California who’s living here for a few months brought her Anne of Green Gables DVDs with her (the first 2) and I borrowed them from her!! I’m so excited since they’re nowhere available here and have been wanting to see them for a long time. I’ve seen them all now and would have loved to get more of Anne and Gilbert. Seriously, I need to have my dad make copies of the DVDs so I can watch them whenever I feel down. The series are just so charming and feel-good and really entertaining to watch. Maybe I’ll even start rereading the books.

Yay! My Sophia site has been online for 5 years, am really proud to have stuck to it

Copied Sarika’s idea and installed a radio blog. Mostly just for myself to have my current favourite songs all in one place while I’m online.

Shared Resources

Wednesday, October 15th, 2008 | Sites, Songs, TV | 2 Comments

I really wanted to dedicate one full post to the wonderfully exquisite book Villette - but for days I haven’t been able to come up with the words to express how much I love this book. Maybe at a later time. Thanks Kirsty for giving it such praise! I’m sure I read it earlier than I would have without it.

So, this post will be a bit about what’s become the most dreaded expression when it comes to website hosting for me. It’s “shared resources”, and that one - or more specifically one’s website - is using too much of them…. Anyway, that’s happened to me and since I can’t afford to spend more time & money on maintaining some sort of server I moved the media parts of the Marion on Sophia sites to Fan-Sites.org. Also installed WP Super Cache on all of my WP installations. I just hope everything will go smoothly now… Keeping my fingers crossed. Oh, and the new layouts are up, am totally in love with both of them. If anyone knows what’s wrong with the Marion coding on the pages and the media intro page (when viewed in IE6) - any help would greatly be appreciated as I’m completely at a loss….

Oh, and thanks to Sarika I’ve re-discovered a singer who my friend owns a CD of - Elisa.

Depressed

Tuesday, September 30th, 2008 | Personal, Sites, Songs, TV | 2 Comments

Just finished watching part 3 of Tess of the d’Urbervilles. Love everything about it - except that it’s so tragic. Here I am, past midnight, sitting at my desk and crying my eyes out when in fact I’ve been feeling so well in recent weeks. I’ll get over it, sure, but it just blows. There are so many what if’s in that story - reminds me of what if’s in real life…

Seen all of Lost in Austen now. Final part must be my favourite out of the 4. I think the characters are the most real in this one. It did all feel a bit rushed, though.

True Blood - it seriously is addictive. But for heaven’s sake the stuff they put in there. It feels just like they’re doing it for the sake of it, you know, for being on cable and stuff.

Been adapting 2 layouts for Wordpress. Should really have finished the one first instead of trying to do both at the same time. Anyway, I’ve been tearing my hair out over browser incompatibilities. Especially IE of course. Some 25% of visitors still do use IE6 so I think I have to make an effort to at least get the layouts to display approximately the way they should. At home my PC recently upgraded to IE7 however I can’t seem to open it without making the computer to stop working. So I need to test the layouts for IE6 at my workplace. PNG, float, margin and padding - seriously I can’t stand it anymore. Serves me right though for converting a sliced table layout to a div & CSS layout. At least I think I got the basics working and I will not even attempt to validate the layouts. I don’t care! Oh and the best part? 2 row display in Affiliationally appears to have a clear function that makes my floated main column break.

Been listening to Brian Mcfadden a lot lately, mostly while driving. I seriously love his style - both in music and in general. Not to mention he’s always been my favourite Westlife member.

I seem to lose all my earrings - but always just one out of a pair. A while back I lost one of the earstickers my parents gave me when I first got my ears pierced - I was about 3 years old at the time. They really had a sentimental value. Then I lost one of the golden earrings my parents gave me when I finished school. Sentimental and material value this time. And I’ve not been able to find any similar ones since. Now, I’ve lost one of the earstickers my parents gave me when I got my ears pierced for the second time when I was 11. I had let the holes in the earlobes grow back again. Seriously, I have a ton of worthless fashion jewellery and I’ve never once lost one of them. But I’ve lost one piece of every set my parents gave me???!! What is wrong with me!!