Apr 30, 2010  •  In NYC, Personal

Would You Contest This Ticket? How About Hiring an Attorney?

This morning, I received my first traffic violation ticket in over a decade.
I was at a busy intersection (corner of W. 42nd and 8th Ave) and attempting to make a left turn onto 8th Ave. The traffic signal with a left arrow turned green, so I slowly started to make the turn, but stopped as there were still pedestrians crossing the street. I waited until all the pedestrians had passed, then finished making the turn.
I was then immediately pulled over and given a ticket for “failure to yield to pedestrians.”

The cops had obviously set up a trap…

Apr 29, 2010  •  In Books, Personal, Touching, Toys

Calvin Grown Up

This made me tear up…

I unfortunately do not have any toys I can pass down to my children. I always preferred books over toys and never developed an attachment to any particular item.
There are, however, many many many books that I’d love to read to my children in hopes that they will love and appreciate them as I did.
Do you have any toys, books, or heirlooms you plan on passing down to your children?
Image via haha.nu.…

Apr 29, 2010  •  In Baby, Personal, Relationships

Starting to Get Excited for Our Girl!

So I’ve had an entire night to sleep on it.
And after thinking about it some more, talking to my mother and some girlfriends about it…
…I’m starting to get excited!
I think one of the reasons I was so shocked at the news is because I had a gut feeling from the beginning of the pregnancy that it was a boy. I was drawn to boy stuff, and really pictured myself raising a firstborn son. (So much for mother’s intuition!)
Now that I’ve accepted the fact that we’re having a girl, I’m starting to think of all the benefits…

Apr 29, 2010  •  In Baby, Personal, Pregnancy

The Gender Reveal

It’s a GIRL!

After the NT scan, I thought that we had a bold and outgoing child on our hands. But this ultrasound certainly made me change my mind — she was a shy one, constantly covering her face with her hands and keeping her legs tightly crossed. It took quite some pokes from the tech, in addition to my downing an entire bottle of fruit juice and coughing repeatedly, until she uncrossed her legs and let us have a peek at the goods.
The ultrasound place we had chosen offers a complimentary follow-up exam if the baby’s gender can…

Apr 27, 2010  •  In Blogging, Personal, Web

Protecting My Domain and Moniker

I recently discovered that a blogger has taken to using the “Geek in Heels” moniker for her own site. (Thank you, Google Alerts, for giving me the heads-up!)
The blog is relatively new and does not seem to have many readers. However, the writer is Asian like myself and our blogging topics are bound to overlap sooner or later.
It is precisely for these reasons that I began to wonder if I should protect the “Geek in Heels” name by grabbing all the popular top-level domains (.com, .net, .org, etc). Currently, I only own geekinheels.com.

I don’t think my site…