Plumbing 101

What is worse when you're living in Selangor than the water supply? The water is so murky, mosquitoes would have second thoughts trying to lay their eggs in the water.

For my hubby, the pain is whenever he is due with our laundry. He had one time did the laundry three times before getting the load clean. That's how bad it was!!

We decided to install a filtering system for the washing machine; something simple that it won't require us to bypass the main water pipe and that we could dismantle easily if we were to leave the place. It's a rented property, at the end of the day, anyhow.

Went to the hardware store last Saturday, and obtained the filtering device. The shopowner was great enough to even teach me how to do it, and supplied me with everything I need to get the job done. I bought a filtering device, a 6-inch long PVC pipe, a tube of PVC glue and a handful of PVC pieces - from elbows to connectors.

Well, I tried to install the filtering system last weekend, but it didn't turn out well. I had a number of joints leaking out water; bursting more like it. I ran out of the PVC white tape and the glue wasn't exactly the best thing to hold the pipes together (which I thought was a good idea, at first)

It was raining heavily earlier today, and I decided to work from home. I managed to sneak out to the hardware store and obtained more PVC pieces, a couple of tubes of PVC glue and the PVC white tape.

A few tweaks and fixes, and viola!!

From Nuanced and Shaded

From Nuanced and Shaded

From Nuanced and Shaded

My tools and my toolbox.

From Nuanced and Shaded

Yes, I have a toolbox. Hey, I am still a man, okay!? Growl!

I did some DIYs before and I love it.

Oh god, I wish it will come a day when I will be free to build my own canopy on my own yard!!! I am such a straight-man wannabe! Hahaha.

My Favorite New Series

Alright, fine.

I don't watch TV much, but there are series that I would die for. Aside from CSI (all 3 'flavors'), House M.D. and Desperate Housewives, the newest favorite on my list would be Brothers and Sisters. [Note : Added a column of "Our Favorites". Hope this would flush away our cool points amongst our friends.]

I am not sure why, but amidst their craziness, they're really making sense and in a very connected and arguable manner. I just love the way they would indirectly discuss a matter every conceivable aspect, and just make sense.

I watched an episode earlier and I was speechless. Nothing more can be said about it except how true it was. Plain and simple.

"No one's 'bi.' Ever meet a seventy-year-old bisexual? At some point they make a choice. Thus the expression 'Bi now, Gay later'" - Kevin Walker in disagreeing that Chad, his closeted gay lover, could actually be bisexual. Source : http://www.tvloop.com/brothers-and-sisters/show/quotes/all/kevin-walker-1254?pg=6

Note : Please don't ask me how long it took for me to look up the quote. It was certainly not fun, but here it is...

Guantanamera

I have heard of this songs a billion of times, growing up; given that my dad was a fanatic on the oldies. A series of events happened to me over the week, and this stupid song popped up again into my life, like a long, unmissed, unvisited rash.

For those who knew me well enough to know that a song could play in my head for days, obsessing over the lyrics of the song was only due. I searched for Quanto Amero and Cuando Amero, with no luck. Usually, I would refer to my mom (whom by the way, could tell the name of a song, just by having me humming the melody to her), but since she's beyond reach, I talked to my hubby. It was John who suggested my to look up Guantanamera, and viola!!

Thanks hubby. You're my better half, indeed ;-)

Looked up Wikipedia and learned that this song was considered patriotic to the Cubans, and was actually a poem written by Jose Marti.

Lyrics obtained from http://www.arlo.net/resources/lyrics/guantanamera.shtml

GUANTANAMERA

Original music by Jose Fernandez Diaz
Music adaptation by Pete Seeger & Julian Orbon
Lyric adaptation by Julian Orbon, based on a poem by Jose Marti

Yo soy un hombre sincero
De donde crecen las palmas
Yo soy un hombre sincero
De donde crecen las palmas
Y antes de morirme quiero
Echar mis versos del alma

Chorus:
Guantanamera
Guajira Guantanamera
Guantanamera
Guajira Guantanamera

Mi verso es de un verde claro
Y de un carmin encendido
Mi verso es de un verde claro
Y de un carmin encendido
Mi verso es un ciervo herido
Que busca en el monte amparo

Chorus

I am a truthful man from this land of palm trees
Before dying I want to share these poems of my soul
My verses are light green
But they are also flaming red

(the next verse says,)
I cultivate a rose in June and in January
For the sincere friend who gives me his hand
And for the cruel one who would tear out this
heart with which I live
I do not cultivate thistles nor nettles
I cultivate a white rose

Cultivo la rosa blanca
En junio como en enero
Qultivo la rosa blanca
En junio como en enero
Para el amigo sincero
Que me da su mano franca

Chorus

Y para el cruel que me arranca
El corazon con que vivo
Y para el cruel que me arranca
El corazon con que vivo
Cardo ni ortiga cultivo
Cultivo la rosa blanca

Chorus

Con los pobres de la tierra
Quiero yo mi suerte echar
Con los pobres de la tierra
Quiero yo mi suerte echar
El arroyo de la sierra
Me complace mas que el mar

Chorus