Wish my parents were here...

Wish my parents were here…

Posted on March 1st, 2007 by Sacha Chua

My mom would be so fun company while decorating, and my dad would
probably try to buy everything in the shop. I can just imagine it now:
“Papa, I don’t need a television stand. I don’t have a TV!” “We can
fix that too!” “But I don’t watch TV!” “Get one anyway, you never
know.” “Auuggh!” =) Fortunately my mom would have the good sense to
point out things I really do need but might not think of (broom,
etc.)…

Ah, life on the opposite side of the world…

Random Emacs symbol: gnus-cite-minimum-match-count – Variable: Minimum number of identical prefixes before we believe it’s a citation.

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