Geocities is still alive?

I thought they died. I had a Yahoo! Geocities site before a blogger and the site is still there. I just can't access it anymore: http://www.geocities.ws/lost_wings_lost/.

At least I left it looking simple. I want to remove it because I feel somewhat embarrassed by its contents. I guess I should accept the fact that it'll be there for... ever?

Re-use It: Bread Clips

My mother recently sent me an email on neat ways to reuse some commonly disposed items like egg cartons and small boxes. Bread clips were among the list of disposed items.

If you're living in the Greater Toronto Area and you frequently buy milk and bread by the bag, you may find yourself throwing out one or two bread clips on a weekly basis. Bread clips are the small plastic tags that are used to close milk and bread bags and provide an expiration date. The expiration date would be on one side while the other side is blank.

The email my mother sent me suggested reusing old bread clips as a label for power cords and plugs. After collecting a few bread clips, I tagged power plugs connected power strips around the house. Thanks to the blank side of the bread clip, I could label the tags with the name of the electric device and their corresponding power cord.

So don't throw out your bread tags! They're really helpful.

It is now 2012

Before I go on about how much I'm looking forward to this new year in this coming week, I will list three winter break highlights from last year (which was less than 2 weeks ago).

1. Cleaning my room

I like to clean my room because the stuff I encounter in my room all carry memories. I hide many of my old stuff in boxes and drawers, so I rarely see them. While cleaning dust in my room and making space for a new bookshelf, I found a whole stack of Shonen Jump and Shojo Beat magazines. There was also a small Beyblade and sample PC games CDs. I'm never throwing these things out.


2. Fat pigeon in TTC's Bathurst station

I was in TTC's Bathurst station with a friend and saw a big pigeon. Big pigeon is big.


3. Lego Pokémon

Who's that pokémon?

I know there are Pokémon Lego sets, but I find using normal Lego to make Pokémon much more exciting. My family and I visited the Lego store at Fairview mall on boxing day and bought [literally] a cup of Lego. I got to make a bulbasaur, an ivysaur, and a lapras.

Thanks to the holidays, I found old and new things to do. I plan to finish an old story I've been working on for the past few years and I was introduced to Yugioh star-shipping. I also want to try out this excel-sheet-based landscape pollution modelling activity I found in an old environment workbook, Learning Landscape Ecology.