Darn. I missed two days. How am I going to make up for that. Well, frankly nothing has been happenign the last 2 days. Still coughing. My baby's OK save for a slight fever. His front teeteh are already showing. My wife recently emaile me the pics she took of our son. They look great.

Oh, and I got this mystery call from Citibank this morning. My mom answered the phone since I was still snoring the time. They asked my mom a bunch of questions. Having had a short stint in a lending company, I was familiar with the questions. They were conducting a credit investigation. What's strange is that I haven't applied for a Citibank credit recently. I applied for one March of last year and got denied. I submitted another application by August. They didn't bother sending me an "application denied" letter the second time. Just as well. I've resolved not to use any product of being offered by Citigroup anymore.

Not since I found out they were part of a loan scheme in the Bahamas that charged exorbitant lending rates to an oil-producing nation (?) I can't recall the exact details. Time magazine reported it. Too bad Time magazine's archives are no longer accessible to non-subscribers. You'd have to pay to get most of the good articles. Anyway, that's just one of the many banking scandals Citibank has been involved in. There are other issues, as can be gathered in this Time article.

I'm not about to start patronizing a products of a company that makes its money through such dishonest means. The public should hold big corporations responsible for their actions. We should start by refraining from using their products. We start with that, then maybe they'll listen.