Moving to a new blog page

I have enough of Friendster blog. Now, it allows me to log in and post, but the page takes some time to load. I’m just too tired and sick of all the waiting. I also am afraid of losing all my previous posts, so I decided to move my blog.

The new blog is here. Anyway, I can’t find any program that allows me to be able to move the whole of my Friendster blog to blogger, inclusing the comments. So, I have to do this move manually. It is a very tedious process, so my new blog is still a work-in-progress. Also, since I wanted to keep all the dates and times to be the same as the original postings, including the comments, you can see that I even posted the comments left by my friends in the main posting body page. Can’t be helped. When my new blog is all moved, anyone can leave feel free to leave their comments through the comments link.

Since my new blog site is not fully completed, I will still keep using Friendster blog and when I’ve finished moving, I will post all my postings on both blogs. I will do it as long as Friendster blog allows me to. As I’ve said before, not every time that I log into Friendster blog, it allows me to.

I have lots to say about my Chinese New Year but I want to get back to my moving of blogs. Some other time, maybe.

Fed up with Friendster blog!

I really had enough of this Friendster blog. Ever since they changed to this new layout and format, I had trouble logging in to update my blog. I can go to the Friendster homepage but when I try to go to the blog page, it will always show me the ‘Website not available / there’s an internet connection problem’ page. So fed up with it! I can’t even use the url to access my blog. I don’t know if anyone tried to access my blog to read, but I can’t read my blog!

That’s why, I have been thinking of moving my blog to another host. I actually have another blog page with blogger. But I don’t want to lose all my previous entries here at Friendster. The earlier ones contain my experiences in USA and are my memories. I also have all these comments from friends and they are precious to me too.

I have tried to google online on how to export from Friendster blog to other blog pages. But the instructions all come with lots of computer jargon or steps that I get stuck at certain points. This makes me very frustrated. I hope to get the new blog page up and running so I can blog whenever I feel like it. With this Friendster blog, I can’t log in to blog when I have inspiration. Only reason why I can log in now is because I’m blogging in the middle of the night.

So frustrating! I want to move my blog but being tied by my previous entries. Someone help me!!

You know you’re an Au Pair in the USA when…

Recently joined this group in Facebook. The points below are so appropriate and applicable. To let you know more about the lives of au pairs in the USA, I decided to post this in my blog. Of course, not all the situations are true for all au pairs. This depends very much upon the kind of host family you have and the family situation they are in. I would say that about 60-70% of the points stated are true for me. The point about napping…oh, so true! Ha!

You know you’re an Au Pair in the USA when…
…you always introduce yourself with : ‘Hi! my name is (your name), I’m from (country) and I have (number of children you are taking care of) children!!’
…everybody is greeting you with a ‘Hi.How are you?’
and you can’t respond fast enough, so you say it first!
…the worst thing is, when the dad is working from home
…you know what a S’MORE is
…you spent all your money at the MALL and you still have nothing to wear
…you hate Dora, The Wiggles and Thomas
…you say silly instead of stupid
…you go to PLAYDATES
…you’ve seen more movies in one month than in your whole life at home
…you drive over 30 minutes to a friend and you think it’s not far
…you only have other Au Pairs as your friends
…you can make bacon
…you say ‘like’ and ‘totally’ every three words
…someone has asked you stupid questions like:
- ‘do you have cars in your country?’ - ‘You don’t have Valentine’s day?’ - ‘Where is your country?’
…you don’t think it’s wrong to have cake AND ice cream
…you park as close to the store as possible so you don’t have to walk even one yard too far
…you cherish moments of silence more than ever before
…you notice yourself saying ‘GOOD JOB’ a hundred times a day
…you wonder why you slept the whole night long so uncomfortable and you notice the next morning, you slept on a barbie, a lollypop, sandtoys etc
.…you need to be creative to find new punishments because a time-out doesn’t work anymore ;)
…you have to admit to mistakes you never did or put the blame on you day for day
…you’re sure you don’t want own kids within the next 100 years
…you know now exactly how difficult it was for your parents to have little kids and you feel like saying thanks for all you’ve done to your mum and dad every day
…you’re ready to drink anytime of the day
…you start to love disney movies again and can copy every passage of them
…you’ve learned what it means to be patient
…you know what a LCC is
…you know that you should never SHAKE A BABY !!!
…you take a nap after you drop off the kids at school(even though you just woke up 2hrs ago :D)
…you are DRIVING to the busstop to pick up your kids, which is only 200 meters from your house.
…the kids call you mum cause you spend too much time with them…
…you think $160 every weekend just for shopping and coffee are not that much
…one cup of coffee doesn`t make you awake anymore, it just makes you alive
…you or your friends are KELLERKINDER!!!!
…you miss the good ol’ days when you were able to go to the bakery and get real bread w/ real butter (not that American shit called bread..haha)
…you don’t walk into the bank, you use the drive in to get your money
…you use Purell instead of washing your hands
…instead of singing songs from the radio, you’re singing childrens’ songs