I want to thank everyone for praying for our family. Candice was born healthy weighing at 8.1 pounds. She has 10 fingers and 10 toes. All looks fine. We had to go back to the hospital for the last four days because of the high levels of Jaundice. It is now dropping and I just pray that it doesn’t come back.

Candice is very quite, but smiles when we whisper on her ears. Please meet Candice :)

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Tek Nek Toys Int’l is recalling about 122,000 units of Rock ‘N Ride plush rocker toys which was sold through big distributors including Wal-Markt, Toys “R” Us, Kmart, Target, Atwood and Pamida stores nationwide. Believe or not, I almost purchased one of these at Target for my cusin. I wanted to get the pink pony but it was too small for her.

Looks like kids were getting injured because the rockers were tipping over. There were 35 reports of tipping over which including ten reports of injuries. Ouch! Anyway, if you own or gave it to someone, get your rockers fixed by calling Tek Nek Toys. They will send you a new replacement base which was causing the problem.

Please refer to the pictures below for more information. Contact information is posted on the very bottom.

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I’ve been getting unwanted calls from AACPFD for the last 3 months. I think AACPFD stands for Anne Arundel County Professional Firefighters Department. Again, I’m not sure if this is the same local organization which is called “Anne Arundel County Professional Firefighters” or something else. One thing I know for sure is that they are extremely annoying and keep calling for donations ignoring my multiple requests to be removed from their list. Sometimes they just hangup (seems like their dialing machine drops the call if I answer the phone too fast), but I’ve talked and fought with them for a quite a while. I yelled, I begged to opt out my phone number from their list, but never happened.

Today, they called me at 9:30 PM. Last time, they called me on Sunday morning. Today I yelled and asked for their address. This rep apologized and just hung-up. I couldn’t take it anymore and asking for opt-out obviously didn’t work so far. They are calling me at least twice a week. I’ve been ignoring the calls except when I’m in bed because the phone in my bedroom doesn’t have CID.

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S.U. Wholesale is recalling toy airplanes, cars, and Motorcycles due to violation of lead paint standard. These toys are sold at Dollar Stores nationwide from September 2006 through November 2007.

The recall involves about 5,000 toys including X Force Commander Toy Airplanes, Super Famous Toy Cars, and Motorcycles. Please take a look at the pictures below. These toys were manufactured in China.

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How much are you paying for gas in your area? I’m currently paying anywhere between $3.15 - $3.60 per gallon in my neighborhood. Is it bad? well yeah. Am I going broke because of the rising cost of gas? well absolutely not.

On a radio news channel yesterday people were asked what is the rising cost of gas means to them in their everyday life. One guy literally cursed on radio saying that he can no longer see his parents because he can’t drive down to parents’ place anymore. He used to drive down there at least once a week. Now he can’t even think about going there because the gas price went up to $3 per gallon. How far? 50 miles, each way.

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Dumar International USA is recalling about 64,000 units of Cinderella battery-powered toy cars due to fire and burn hazards. The recall was announced on February 19, 2008. The actual name of the product is Cinderella 12-Volt Electric Ride-On Vehecles which was sold at Wal-Mart stores nationwide from August 2005 through February 2006 for about $200.

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Here is a story how we spent our Valentine’s Day with $10 budget. Romantic dinner’s nice and gourmet chocolates are even better. But we’ve decided to try something radically different this year. Something we’ve never done before. Rather than spending hundreds of dollars outside for dinner and chocolatess, we’ve decided to set our budget at $10 and do whatever we can within the range. I don’t know why how we came up with the idea, but I loved it.

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Sunny and I go to (we canceled our membership on March 27th, 2008) used to go to Lifetime Fitness Center at Columbia for our daily workouts. We pay used to pay about $100 together monthly. We were lucky we got in before they raised the membership fee to something like $80 per person per month.

Anyway, we were paying the full price even though Sunny wasn’t able to go workout because of her pregnancy. I heard horrible stories from other members that the gym was infamous for poor customer service when it comes to freezing an account or closing an account.

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West Music is recalling about 5,500 units of plastic egg-shaped instruments due to choking and aspiration hazards.

So what’s the problem with these toy instruments? Sometimes the end cap can detach from the instrument and allow the small beads to spill out, posing choking/aspiration hazards to your children. No injuries have been reported yet, but if you own one of these egg-shakers, you should immediately contact West Music for a free replacement.

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My old SyncMaster 955DF 19 inch CRT monitor has finally retired today. It served me pretty well for the last 4 years. I was going to replace the monitor last year, but I wasn’t sure if it was worth purchasing the monitor only since my PC was pretty old as well. Because I use dual monitor mode, I will be able to use an extra monitor even if I purchase a new PC in the future.

Anyway, I went to BestBuy and purchased a 22 inch SyncMaster 2232BW from Samsung today. So far, I’m loving it. Colors look correct (finally) and very crisp. It is easy to calibrate the colors. It was extremely hard to calibrate my old CRT monitor, often messing up the color settings. It wasn’t fun to reset and start all over with the color settings.

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