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The 1st Trimester vs 2nd Trimester

2012-01-27T15:39:00.005+08:00

Its my 2nd post of the day.WOW!Break record liao 'x'

I manage to post a 2nd one because :

(1) I want to post it before I forget all about it

(2) Am still in CNY mood, hence the laziness to start working although I am at the office now..SSSSSHHHH..and since I have no mood work, might as well use my precious time to blog right? I'm kind of being productive here 'x'

OK, lets move on.

FIRST TRIMESTER

I feel the time passes really slowly. I feel tired all the time. I feel like a sloth 'x'. Everyday I feel like puking and I felt COLD. I cover myself up, and some people actually come ask me, ARE YOU THAT COLD? I stole a blankie from a certain China airline, and when I watch TV in the living room, I cover myself with that blankie. I hate SEAFOOD. Hate steamed fish. HATE plain water. The safest food that I like to eat are fruits and veges. I hate BREAD SIDES, when Oink made me sandwiches , I will ask him to cut off the sides. If he forget to cut them off, I will tear it off 'x' I find myself hard to concentrate on work. I mean how can I concentrate and think of codes when all I was trying to do is try hard not to puke while at work. I stock up on plums and candies. But feel so sinful taking in all those candies (sugar) and plums (loaded with sodium)..but what to do?anything to get rid of that awful bitter taste in my throat. And when I feel depressed, I crave for Cola/ sweet orange.

My skin peel around nose and lips. And sometime my colleagues will ask me what happened to my face and I get really annoyed, cos I feel ugly 'x'

At first I thought to myself, may be I'll be lucky enough to be one of those people who won't vomit at all during the first Trimester. Baby, I was soooo wrong!

I first vomitted when I was about 6 wks pregnant. I took a piece of chocolate at work. Felt soo awful after that. Went home and went straight to the loo and vomitted water and chocolate 'x'

And another time was after I ate cheese cake + take fried food. But the record breaking case was after I ate Ding Bian Hu, I think in less than 30 mins, its all out again 'x'

If you think only rich food can make me vomit, think again.

Once, we went to Petanak for porridge. Oink decided to take the short cuts to go there. With all the winding and turning. I was green-faced when I got out from the car. And one look, Oink ask me, You need to Uwek? I can only nod. And we both hurriedly look for the nearest toilet. Once I close the toilet door, I turned and do my business. 'x' The toilet was the squat type. And the thing with public toilet in Malaysia is, the shit hole is damn shitty. 'x'

Let me illustrate with my drawing.You get the idea 'x' And the shitty hole made me vomit even more 'x'

So beside rich food, car sickness, dirty ugly stuff also can make me vomit 'x'

I came out from the toilet as white as paper, Oink claimed. He got so worried, he enveloped me in his arms and touched my forehead and cheeks, and said I felt cold. I was all wobbly and jelly-legged from the vomitting and had to depend on Oink to make it to our table..LOL

Every other day, I would whine to Oink when i feel depressed, why is this happening, why i feel so dreadful?Why time pass soooo slowly?I even told him, may be one baby is enough. I feel so terrible everyday. I feel so unlike my old self.

Towards the end of my first trimester, my skin gets oily, and I get lotsa zits! DARN IT.

I need to wake up to pee at least once every night. CIS!

SECOND TRIMESTER

I still feel nauseous in the beginning. But as time passes, I feel more and more normal. I feel like my old self is coming back to me. Except that my figure has now changed. My belly is much bigger, and my thigh getting fatter 'x' and I need new bras.

Just before CNY, my skin suddenly cleared up and I was damn happy to get my old good skin back, but now its all oily and full of pimples again.. GRRR

I can take some seafood. Still hate crab. I love beef, but don't dare to take too much. I can survive longer without Cola. Am ok with bread sides too. Appetite is getting normal.

I feel hot almost everyday. What blankie? I don't need it 'x' It was washed, folded and tucked into the cupboard 'x' The only time I felt cold was when I went for breakfast at King Centre before going to KKIA. I can sleep without my quilt at night, with the aircon on, while Oink will need to cover himself up with the quilt up to his neck 'x' I get leg cramps now too, always on my right leg. As painful as it is, I am amazed at myself on how I can continue my sleep despite feeling serious pain ^oo^

NO MORE FEELING NAUSEOUS. HALLELUJAH! I can take cheese cakes, chocolates! And occasionally on super hot days, I treat myself ICE CREAM..ohhh~~

Some nights, I don't even need to wake up to pee. SWOON~~~

I drink LOTSA plain water now. Feeling hot everyday now mah! I feel more energetic and like my old self, except for a big belly and fat ass. :D I try to move more, and get enough exercise. I do Kegels when i remember about it.

Hmmm, I wonder how would my 3rd trimester be? Halfway to go :)

Movements

2012-01-27T10:25:00.002+08:00

Some of my friends started to ask me whether I can feel any movements few weeks ago. Frankly speaking, I don't know how to feel for it. But I started to feel more evident movements, with the strongest starting from CNY eve. I can feel the BB kick and push now and then throughout the whole day. Now I can recognise the feeling of BB moving, and I can feel it everyday. When I am hungry, after I eat, before I wake up, when I want to sleep. But everyday between 5.30pm-7pm. My BB for sure will move. Its a magical feeling :)

First visit to KKIA (9 Jan 2012)

2012-01-13T14:25:00.004+08:00

I consider myself very lucky. My best pal is also pregnant, and is 5 wks behind me. And we decide to go visit KKIA (Klinik Kesihatan Ibu Dan Anak) together gether so that we can accompany each other. Kuching has 3 of such clinic, one is Klink Jawa, somewhere near hopoh? KKIA sekama, and KKIA Stapok. The nurse might want to check some docs as proof that you live near the area before you can actually visit the clinic.The one we went is KKIA Sekama (based on our home addresses). For KKIA sekama, only Monday is designated for first time registration.

We were suppose to wake up earlier, so that we can get an earlier queue number. But it was raining, and the weather is sooo nice to sleep in. Anyway, I still woke up at 7.30am la.Got ready and left the house before 8am. Since I am pregnant, I spent less time on making myself look pretty. I think Oink now spend more time making himself look good than I do.

Traffic was jam everywhere. We stop by King Centre to have breakfast. It was really windy, and for the first time, I felt really cold.

We arrived KKIA around 8.30am. Our number was already 20 by then. Jaqq and Jee arrived minutes later and they got no. 23. The clinic was full of ppl since the previous 2 mondays were public holidays. Then the waiting game starts. tik tok tik tok...that's why I said I was lucky to have Jaqq, without her I don't know if i can wait so long or not. The process is taking so long. So Jaqq briefly explains to me how the process goes around in the clinic. I was feeling nervous about the blood samples extraction part. We ask the husband to leave for work, its no point getting them to wait together with us. We will call Oink to pick us up after we're done.

After registration, we are given a container to pee into 'x' And we are to keep it, and bring our pee for the each future visits.

It was already 10 something when I finally get my turn to go into the first examination room. I know this is not the room where the syringes were so I was quite relax. I know I know, I am such a chicken. I didn't know what to expect once I go into the room. The nurse tested my pee with somekind of kertas Litmus. I was kinda worried, cos I drank Cola the night before. But luckily my pee test result was alright :-p. Then she measured my height and weighed me. What do know, I was 3 cm taller that day, it must be from all the calcium I have been taking.LOL!The nurse asked me a few questions. Like is this your first pregnancy? Any miscarriages before? Did you use any method of family planning before?Then went on talking about breastfeeding. She was really taking her sweet time, no wonder I waited so long to come in 'x' Then she instructed me to lie down on the examination bed. She wanted to check my tummy and BB's heartbeat with something shaped like a box. She record down BB's heartbeat rate and told me that my BB is strong. What I didn't expect was her next instruction : SHOW ME YOUR BREASTS. O.o!!! HUH???? I asked for what? she said to check if mine are suitable for breastfeeding and to check for lumps. So after she's done ~~molesting~~ examining me. I asked : so how is it? She said Ok! Suitable.AHAHAH. The we sat down, and she filled in some form, she wrote quite long, don't know what is she writing. And asked me to sign some consent form for the blood test, and to sign in acknowlegdment that she did explain about breastfeeding to me.

And then, its time for room of terror (blood test room) 'x' . I dropped my clinic card into the box in front of the room, and took a number (again). Jaqq is still in the examination room. I waited alone, trying to persuade myself and telling myself I have to be brave. If I can't bear this little pain, how can I bear the actual pain of labour right? When it was my turn, I walk in bravely. But once inside, the chicken in me can't help but telling the lab workers that I m scared.AHAHAH. The lady said Jangan Takut. I turned my face away, the pain felt like i was pinched, and before I know it, the guy said OK, siap! I was like WAH! I didn't feel any pain at all, it was really tolerable. I was happy and proud of myself. :-p

And then I went out, and waited for the last room (dr's room) but I didn't know for this I have to drop my card inside the box again. I only took the queue no. (again!) And when the on duty nurse saw that I didn't drop the card into their box, she gave me a scolding. 'x' Nothing happened much in the Doctor's room. She didn't even bother to scan me when she knew that I also did my checkup at a private clinic. She just copied some info from my private clinic card which I brought together (just in case) -__________- . When all these was done, its already 11.30am! And I was already hungry. :D

Hello, I'm pregnant! 'x'

2012-01-11T12:19:00.003+08:00

Well, I am on my 2nd trimester (5 mths pregs). Been wanting to update this blog since a long long long time ago. But blame it on my laziness, and all these tiredness that came along with my pregnancy.

How we first found out:

We just got back from our China trip. The sceneries were great but I still don't like china food. I remember taking beer cos it was really cold. And had a small glass of hot shao xing wine. I was expecting my period during the last few days of the trip, but it didn't happen. I didn't worry much about it then, as my period is irregular.When we got back to Kuching, I was suppose to continue my yoga. But I was lazy, and still very much in holiday mood. After one week of "resting". I went back to yoga. I can't really remember what was the pose, but I remember we were on all fours, and are suppose to bend our limbs or something. That's when I felt like there's a lump in my belly. I was quite alarmed. And my 6th sense told me I should go home to have a urine test, I didn't expect much, I always get negative result. When I got home, I did a urine test, and bathed while waiting for the result. After bathing, I am surprised, and shocked to see a double line on the result window. It was a first for me. The 2nd line was faint, but its there and visible. I showed it to Oink, and he was puzzled and ask me what does it mean. I told him double mean positive. His jaw dropped. I can see he was pleasantly surprised. I rushed him out of the house to get another test kit from Watson before it closes. I can't wait for hours. I tried 2 hours after that. And the result was negative. And we both dismissed it as false alarm then. We are not pregnant. I continue on waiting for my period to come. After 3 days (30th Sept), still no sign of it, although I do feel breast tenderness, and that is the usual sign that period is coming. Call it woman's instinct, I have a strong urge to try the test again. I tried over lunch break at home. And again its positive. So Oink said we should go check with a gynae. And off we went to KPJ, and I chose to see Dr Wendy Loh. According to Dr Wendy. She did an ultrascan on me and there it is, our little sac. I was surprised. At this stage, I was still determined to go ahead with our Melbourne trip planned for next yr April.

2nd Dr visit at 8wks +:

We went for the 2nd checkup today to see how is my pregnancy progress. I prayed before sleeping last night that everything will be ok. 3 wks ago, all we saw was a round sac. And today we can see some shape and the heart beating. Our dr let us hear the heartbeat for a while. It went dupdupdupdupdup, so fast! It was MAGIC I tell you. At the sound of our bb's heartbeat, I decided then and there, what Melbourne?? It can wait. I don't feel like going anymore. The well being of our BB is much more important.

I am totally not me anymore. Before this, I can't live without water. I always bring a bottle of water with me, if not I will buy a bottle. But now I can't stand them. They tasted EWW. I wonder if I drank 8 cups of water a day or not. On the other hand, I think I m quite addicted to Coke. OMG.Which is not really healthy. Been trying to con my tastebud by mixing manukah honey in plain water. Not bad, but its not Coke. Well, it has to do for now. I am now sluggish, weak-limbed, very forgetful, and my ever good appetite has gone to hiding. SIGH. I hope I will be my old self soon.

3rd Dr Visit (approx 12 wks):

Everytime, before a doctor's visit, I am always nervous and wondering is my baby is ok. Although I feel sick all the time, I took comfort that at least its a good sign that my baby is doing fine. I am surprised at the progress rate of our BB. We can see the little hands, the little legs, the body, the head, the butt butt. And then something happened, BB waved, and was so startlet that I jumped a bit. 'x'AHAHAH. Dr Wendy was very delighted and keep say Wah, you BB keep moving. Active BB. Oink is having a feeling that we are having a girl.

4th Dr Visit (Approv 16 wks)

Suppose to visit Dr Wendy on 20th Dec, but I remembered the date wrongly and went on 21st December instead. :-p and the clinic is not open that night. And we were wondering why there's no patient waiting outside.AHAHA. Anyway, we went back the next morning. Oink didn't want to wait longer. Dr Wendy said if we are lucky today, we can probably find out the gender. But our BB was moving, tossing and turning, and when the Dr scan the bottom, all we can see are the butt and the legs. hmmm..:D..nevermind, there's always next time, and lets see if Oink is correct.

Next Dr visit will be in 8 days :)

Shopping Therapy

2011-08-09T10:44:00.003+08:00

is good for your soul, but not very friendly to you wallet 'x' (totally love the one with the ribbon-shaped buckle)

Bandung + The shopping

2011-07-28T10:53:00.009+08:00

I will blog about the food next time.

I bought aa on sales tix to KL last yr. But I am bored of KL already, also hand itchy, bought another return tix to bandung. We went with Selina. It was a very short trip, 3d2n, and was not a smooth sailing one. I think there's only one flight in from KL to bandung and bandung to KL everyday.

millionaire!

Exchange 2 million rupiah. I didn't exchange much since we are not going to spend alot of time there.

Our flight was delayed. And when we arrived, the traffic is very jam! In indon, its called macet. The taxi asked are we going anywhere tomorow, we said yes, we planned to visit tangkuban perahu, eat at Kampung Daun and do more shopping tomorrow. He offered to drive us around for 400k rupiah. I thought the price was reasonable so we ask him to come at 9am next morning.

Arrived hotel near 7pm.Stayed at New Sany Rosa hotel. They don't have a site. I called to make my booking under Oink's name. And I called a few days before the intended date to confirm. And guess what? When I arrived, they said they didn't have a booking under Oink's name, and all rooms are full except for the family suite which is $$. Spend precious shopping time there insisting that I DID make a booking and even showed him my phone log. After a while, the guy relented, and let us have a room that was under booking, but the guest didn't turn up (7++pm already). We left our luggages in the room, get ready in 10 mins and waste no time and walked to the nearest Factory Outlet (Rumah Mode).

I thought they are open till 10pm, but its actually 9pm only. We finished dinner around 8.30pm. So after 30 mins of shopping, they announce that they are closing. :(( I didn't get anything on the first day.

Next day, we finished breakfast 15 mins before 9am. We waited and waited for the taxi driver to turn up. We waited until 9.15am. NO sign of him. I am feeling quite pissed , I decided then and there that indons are not to be trusted. First, missing hotel booking and now this. Luckily i printed a list of other car rentals. Made some call from the room. 500k rupiah, more expensive, but don't care already. When we walked out to the lobby, and guess what, we saw the taxi driver, waiting for us at the opposite side of the road. :-O! Oink said we should ignore him since he is not punctual, and hence should be not trustworthy also.We didn't wait for more than 10 mins for the car rental to come. I tink the taxi driver didn't have a good eye sight, he didn't even know we boarded another car. More reasons not to hire him 'x'

Went to tangkuban perahu. Nice view, cool temperature, but bad smelling(sulphur) air.

After that, we went to pluck strawberries. We did that at cameron. Selina was more excited here. Bought cheap strawberries ( I think around rm3 per packet, even cheaper than cameron) and some other berries (looks like raspberries, not very sure) and it was really cheap. But sad to say, 90% of the berries didn't make it until we reach kuching. I blended the remaining berries into milkshake. 'x' Don't waste food mah.

After that, we went to Kampung Daun (gorgeous place) for lunch, which I will further elaborate in the next post.

After lunch, its SHOPPING TIME at Jalan Riau and Jalan Dago !

Now to show you my shopping stash. TEEEHEEEHEE

Please take note,2 of the dresses are not for me. If you count the pink one as NO. 1, then no. 1, 3 and 4 are mine. I really love the pink one, the brand on the label is Tommy Hilfiger but not sure is it authentic. And I already pass my mum the long cardigan I bought her. The white knitted cotton thingy is actually a looped scarf.

There's more. 'x'

Cute PJ. cannot resist. Fringed top + heart prints on the pants. LOVE!LOVE! LOVE! after convert to RM, its about rm20+. Bought the cap at Unusual Accessories(that's the name).

Erm, I'm not done yet 'x'

I think come to bandung must buy warm clothings for winter/ autumn (for future trips). If not mistaken, both are Zara Basic's. The cream coloured one has 2 layers. You can take off the thick furry part of the inner layer out and just wear the outer layer like a trenchcoat. Super value for money. After convert, I think its RM152. Please take note of the green trenchcoat, got story later.

And this is all of Oink's shopping stash *crickets chirping* and the striped shirt is for his brother. :-s I caught Oink looking really helpless when I ask him to shop at the men's section. I took some time to help him choose, but he is a picky man. He ended up choosing on his own, the black versace shirt. Shorts and striped shirt were chosen by me.

After all those shopping and eating and etc. I am only left with

'x'!!! Somemore I didn't have enough money to pay for my last day shopping. Oink topped up for me. And I happily announced that I will stop shopping and instead will help Selina choose what to shop. I spoke too soon. We went next door, and I fell for the green trenchcoat. I was scared that Oink will give me "THE LOOK" so I borrowed money from Selina. ROFL! but was caught red handed later when he saw me pay for it at the counter and he gave me -.- look. 'x'

Anyway, we almost miss our KL-Kch flight. At first, we queue at the wrong counter. It was almost our turn at the domestic counter, but some guy annouce for kuching, alor setar, etc need to go etc etc counter. We saw a malay guy, and thought its open, so we quickly place our luggage on the belt, and I put the boarding passed on the counter, to be told that the counter is not open. So we moved to another line. And I think I left our boarding passed there.We wasted so long at the baggage check in counter that when its our turn, the indian guy refuse to check in our baggage, he said counter close already. When he ask for our boarding pass, we cannot find it anywhere! Imagine the panic! We explained and explained, he reprinted our boarding pass and said he cannot guarantee we can still check in our luggage. He was quite rude. We used the emergency baggage drop lane and luckily the guy still let us check in our luggage. Phew. We then SPRINTED to the LAST GATE at LCCT to board our plane home. I was sweating like a pig, and my legs hurt from all the running. But I am glad we still manage to get home. AHHH..HOME SWEET HOME. I hope my next holiday won't have heart attack inducing events!!

P/S : All photos are taken with my new toy, Samsung Galaxy S2 except the photos of shopping, which are taken with my Nikon d40x (+ sb800 nikon flash)

Mango's Language

2011-07-19T10:30:00.002+08:00

This is how we communicate with her. Which is a mix of Hokkien , English & baby language.

(1) MAM MAM - which means FOOD. Her most favourite command. Always answer to this command promptly. We sometime use this to con her to come to us if she doesn't respond to command (2) for a few times.

(2) LAI - which means come. This depends on her mood. If she's in a good mood, she will come after calling LAI once. If not, you have to keep calling LAI LAI LAI...., if she still doesn't want to come, pretend to take food (make noise with plastic bag-works like magic) and say MAM MAM.HAHAHA 'x'

(3) SHEE SHEE - Which means go outside to pee (and poo). She obeys this command most of the time. Loves the opportunity to go outside to bark at people while searching for the potential spots to do her bowel business. We sometime use this to con her to do no (4)

(4) POM POM - Bath time. She hates bath time. If you try to con her to go outside with this command, you will see her trying to sneak away by hiding beside the sofa, going under table, trying to run away. So you see, we have to con her with command (3) then once we are outside, fast fast close the door gril. The con doesn't end here. She is not that stupid you see, if you call out POM POM, she will not move an inch, and stay as close as possible to the door, so you have to walk to the water pipe, and use command (2) to con her to come to you. Sometime she is smart, she knows what you are up to, and refuse to budge. So you have to sweet talk to her, and whistle. eg. *whistle*, LAI mango LAI, LAL good girl *whistle*. Usually works. And when she arrives, I will usually go MUAHAHAHA, POM POM! 'x'

(5) KIA- 1 Kia means Let's go(ride in the car)! 2 kia means lets go for a walk nearby. She responds to both eagerly.

(6) ONG ONG - sleep. If she's tired and sleepy, she will willingly walk herself to her bed. If I see that she's already half asleep, I will carry her and put her in her bed. If she's still awake, she will try to sneak away again, refusing to go to sleep.

(7) STAY - she will stay with her body down, all legs on the floor. She will usually do this without your command if she wants the food you are eating 'x'

(8) SIT - when she is still a puppy, she can do the sit pose. But now her SIT is more of a STAY :-s

Some of the communication between us is also visual. Like if I show her her water bowl, she will drink the water. I show her her harness without saying command(5), she will still jump with joy and gets excited. If I pat her bed, she will know I want her to get in.

Ok, I am ending this post with a cute photo of Mango :)

Simple Sunday Dinner

2011-06-29T15:22:00.003+08:00

I saw this at kimberlycun's blog. And I knew I have to try to make it.

I like it when she blog about cooking, hers are always comprehensive, complete with loads of photos to guide you.

Here is the before photo (I think I put too much oyster sauce :x)

DONE!!! SMELL DAMN NICE.

I stir fried spinach and boiled chicken and turnip soup to go with the chicken rice. Can you spot Oink's pair of leg? He can't wait to eat. Can you spot Mango the glutton too?

This Chicken Rice is so easy to make. Its doesn't take alot of time and its sooo yummy. Love it! All thanks to Kimberlycun.

Canine Anemia

2011-06-07T09:49:00.006+08:00

I never knew a dog can get anemic until it happened to my own pet.

Mango was behaving odd for the last few days. Not much appetite and she seems to be a bit lethargic, she doesn't follow you around that much. Her little energy seem to be only used on barking at neighbours or their dogs.

We brought her to our parents on Sunday night. And at around 7.30pm, my mum called us, sounding panic. Apparently Mango just had somekind of seizure, she hid under the chair, with her head shaking and her eyes are not moving, she was not responsive to my mum's calling. Unfortunately the vet is not open on Sunday night. So I told them to observe her for a while and let's see how it goes from there. I have decided to bring her to see the vet the next day.

So last night, after an early dinner, we brought her to Ting & Lu. The vet didn't even touch her yet, and can already diagnose she is anemic. I asked him how he knows?He said you can tell by looking at the inside of her ears, its not as pink as it should, and true to his words, we notice the colour was paler. He prescribed antibiotics and multi vitamins(liquid) for Mango. If she doesn't get better in 10 days, she will need to go back :(

Anyway, I did some research. And I would like to share some of the info. I got the info from this website.

causes for blood loss:

- parasites such as fleas (its been a long time since we found any fleas on her)
- wounds or traumas (we did notice some blood stain on the floor last weekend and thought she's having her period, which in the end is not)
- toxic or chemical poisoning (this I am not sure, we made sure we don't spray insectide near her/ her stuff, but I remember last week, Oink was on a mission to kill the hordes of ants crawling near the window, I am not sure did she walk near the area after that)

How to detect :

- gums and insides of the eyes are pale/ white
- lethargic and weak
-panting, labored breathing and fast pulse
- if the bleeding is internal, the stool are of darker colour (black)
- if the anemia is serious, may have heart murmur and rapid heartbeat

Our vet has advised us to feed her chicken liver or any tonic that can help promote blood cell production. My dad just sms-ed me to tell he bought some chicken livers. I think I want to go find supplements that has iron in it.

I hope my Mango gets well soon.

Cameron Day 2

2011-05-31T23:32:00.006+08:00

On the second day, we did the touristry stuff. Joined a local tour for a day trip. Booked 'em at our hotel.

Our breakfast at the hotel. I really love eating outside, close to nature, in the cool cool weather. No flies, just nice food, nice view and cool air. AHHH.. and of course with good company too.;-)

The tour van came at 9am for us.

Our first destination : The Tea Plantation

The view is breathtaking. When we were there, there's lots of other tourists too. Our guide told us the tea plants are well over 80 yrs old, older than most of us, and demonstrated by lying on the plants and how the plants supported his weight.

Then Oink decided to try for himself.

90+kg man turn turtle 'x'!! He had to take off the bag to get up. 'x'

Next : Mossy Jungle

This is not tarzan, he's our guide. Its really cool here, I like it so much.

So much, that I am going to put my photo here 'x'

Hi! 'x'

Next : Some tower

The guide told us, people here use this tower to gaze at the sunrise. Unfortunately I am not so much of a sunrise person (can't wake up so early), I am more of a sunset person. They look same to me! 'x' I know... I am not a romantic person.

Next, back to Boh Tea Plantation for some tea. :-)

Trying to sip my tea like an english lady with my pinky raised, but I simply can't do it. The cup is too heavy. Or is it the way I hold the cup wrong?

The correct way after I google is:

"Tea cups with a handle are held by placing one’s fingers to the front and back of the handle with one’s pinkie up again allows balance. Pinkie up does mean straight up in the air, but slightly tilted. It is not an affectation, but a graceful way to avoid spills. Never loop your fingers through the handle, nor grasp the vessel bowl with the palm of your hand."

Ok, maybe the cup is both too heavy AND I hold it wrong :-p

Then we went back to Brichang town for lunch break. Oink claimed he had the best mee goreng mamak ever at Brinchang, After lunch, we were brought to the crysanthenum farm, veggie farms, cactus farm and strawberries farms. So the afternoon for us is like an agro tour. :-p

Wall paper worth eh?

We didn't pluck any of the strawberries, we just buy those packed ones. Really cheap. Rm20 for 3 boxes. We had these desserts at one of the strawberry farms. After all these sour strawberries, I think we've developed a new kind of phobia. Fragariaphobia!

Our tour package includes steambot meal for dinner. Did I mention I bought the sweetest corn ever at Cameron? SO SWEET I TELL YOU, I had it cut up and put into the steambot. YUMS. Notice the strawberries? I didn't want to touch it #fragariaphobia

Oink just chew on two of it, as he thinks its a waste of food if we don't eat them.

It was around 8pm when we finished dinner. We were sent back to our hotel. And that's all for the day.

Cameron Day 1

2011-05-31T16:02:00.005+08:00

The pudu Bus Station was temporarily restationed at Bukit Jalil while we were at West Msia. Which is a total inconvenience, its alot further, and we needed more time to get there. We took a Unititi bus to go up to Cameron. It took about 5 hours to go up, and the higher we went, the colder we felt. I was excited.

We arrived at Tanah Rata around 4+ pm. Tried walking to our hotel (Bus people say its very near), and got lost, after walking round and round, we finally found our hotel.

Our room, with garden view. I love it. Its spacious, clean, and the air is cool. As soon as I finish taking photos of the room,

Oink attacked the bed. We then watched TV and just laze off on the bed, resting after the 5 hours long bus trip.

6+pm, we left our cozy room to hunt for dinner. We walked up and down the streets at Tanah Rata. Looking into restaurants, kopitiams. I told Oink I didn't want anything spicy after the Satay Celup at Melaka.

We settled for Rosette. Saw a couple of ang mohs inside. Couldn't be that bad.

We ordered these.

And almost immediately we miss Melaka's food. Both of us only liked the Asparagus. 'x'

After dinner, we walked around leisurely, with nothing in mind, just a nice walk. Then head back to the room, to rest and watch more TV. We need a good night rest for our activities the next day.

Cuti-cuti malaysia : Melaka

2011-05-01T23:22:00.008+08:00

I cannot deny I was pretty disappointed about not going to Japan. And we don't know what to do with the Kch-KL-Kch tix.

Oink said we can still go and have a cuti-cuti Malaysia. And so we did. Our first destination was Melaka.

We reached KLIA via firefly on the 8th April 11+ am. I thought there's a bus to Melaka from KLIA, bt they moved to LCCT. So we took a bus to LCCT. There, we bought Transnasional bus tickets at Rm21.90 each. The bus will depart at 2.30pm. So we found somewhere to sit while I read my book, and I bought Oink newspapers.

The bus was ride was ok , we arrived around 4 at Melaka Sentral. We didn't leave for our hotel straight away, we wanted to get a ticket back to KL first. It was there we bought Nice Coach ticket at rm22 each.

We then took taxi to our hotel, hotel hallmark at Jalan Kubu, which is quite near to Jonker Street. My first choice was Jonker Boutique Hotel, but it was fully booked. The room was quite cheap, around RM100 with breakfast, although the room is small, it was clean and has LCD TV + DVD player ( I was surprised).

We walked around 5 mins to Jonker Street, and arrived there sweating. I did my research on Melaka's good food by reading KY's blog. He recommended Jonker 88 for the cendol.

I had mango special and Oink had Durian something. There's alot of customers in the shop. I would say that they tasted nice, only a bit too sweet for us.

After that we felt hungry, and wanted to find Hoe Kee Chicken Rice Shop or Chung Wah as recommend by KY speaks. Come to Melaka of course need to eat their Steam Chicken with rice balls right?We found Hoe Kee, but it was closed :-((((. And we couldn't find chung wah :-(((((. At times like this, I wish I have a smart phone to go online and search info with. So, like 2 hungry ghosts we wondered around and walked into the first chicken rice shop we saw. Famosa Chicken Rice Shop and ordered heaps.

And its not yummy :-((((( I would say the best tasting of the whole lot was the roasted pork 'x' Even the normal Chicken Rice at Kuching tasted better. Somemore the staff was a bit rude. We can't finish the all the rice balls.

After the bad dinner, we walked around Jonker Street. The street was filled with stalls selling food, trinklets, hair accessories, toys, clothes, etc. I bought 2 mini egg tarts and we went back to the hotel.

We woke up early the next day and wonder what should we do for the day 'x'. we decided to look at the simple map we took from the airport (if you want to buy a more comprehensive one, you will need to pay rm5..yeah..MALAYSIA BOLEH!!!'x') and just walk to the tourist spots nearby. It was a hot day. And my wedges were killing me. I told oink I MUST buy a flip flop or something that is more comfy.

RM10 purchase that saved my life. I love them so much, I even wore them at KL malls when we were at KL 'x'

We went to Cheng Ho Museum. RM10 per person. Guided tour available in both english and mandarin.

It was there I found out that Laksamana Cheng Ho was a eunuch. 'x'

Famous Red buildings. Alot tourists here. There are stalls selling souvenirs too.

There's alot colourful trishaws here too. Rm40 for an hour. Rm25 for 30 mins. We took the latter just for fun.

Then its time to look for lunch! I wanted to try some baba nyonya food. And we found a shop at Jonker Street that offers Baba Nyonya food.

I ordered Ayam Ponteh out of curiousity. Oink had Pineapple fried rice (What a boring choice 'x', so it I won't post photo of it). And we also ordered shrimp paste brinjal.

And it was delicious. So nice I tell you. Just looking at the photo makes me hungry now. We then walked back to the hotel to rest a while. It was a very hot day.

After that, we walked out and bought tickets for the duck tour. Its a special amphibian vehicle that can be driven on land and also serve as a boat on water. The tour took around one hour. We are brought around the city and a short cruise on the melaka strait.

I never seen people trying to fish like this before.

After the duck tour. We then walked to the nearby Dataran Pahlawan mall for some shopping. The mall is quite big and surprisingly, I bought more stuff here than at KL.

For dinner, we went to Ban Lee Siang Satay Celup at Jalan Ong Kim Wee as recommended by KY Speaks. The place was packed. We were at first in awe on the amount of food all those people can eat. I think a table full of young boys that sat near us ate hundreds of those satay celup. It was then we found out its 60 cents each. WTF so cheap 'x'. Where to find in Kuching??? No wonder those people eat like its free 'x' We left the place contented, full and satisfied. Sorry, there's no photo for the satay celup. We were hungry 'x'.

The next day we woke up a bit later. Laze around, took our sweet time with breakfast. Then we walked again to Jonker Street to buy some souvenirs.

I was really pleased when I see Nice Coach bus arrived at the platform at Melaka Sentral. It was really pretty with purple colour exterior and the seats were all in purple. It was the nicest bus ride I have ever taken. Free drinks were offered. So I enjoyed my book reading while eating chips in the bus. It was really relaxing.

Next post= Cuti- Cuti Malaysia : Cameron Highlands

Betrothal 过大礼/纳彩 (05.11.2007)

2011-04-03T18:06:00.005+08:00

I have run out of stuff to blog. And also lazy 'x'

So I will blog about events from the past. Memories that were meant to be blogged, but was too lazy back then.

Today I am going to talk about one of the Chinese wedding tradition.

I copied the title from wiki.

Now, according to wiki :

Betrothal 过大礼/纳彩 Up to a month and at least three days before the wedding day, the groom and a friend or a matchmaker will deliver the betrothal gifts on the auspicious date chosen.

Western and Chinese wedding cakes and peanut candies, together with two bottles of brandy, at least six tins of canned ham and even number of oranges are included in the wedding gift baskets. Two pairs of dragon and phoenix candles 龙凤烛are also included. Also included is gold jewellery from the groom's parents to the bride, such as the Cantonese Dragon and phoenix bangle 龙凤琢 or the teochew's four items of gold四点金.

Mine happened about a month before my actual wedding day (26.11.2007).

Oink came with his brother in law to my house, with 2 beautiful hand-decorated baskets done by my mother in law.

I don't remember much. But from the photo you can there's red wines, canned goods, oranges, packed teas, and gold.

And there's also a big pork leg. According to my MIL, its a Hakka custom. And I'm a Hakka girl.

And of course the "deposit" for me, the mas kahwin. I don't remember why there's 2 different ang pau packets 'x'. But we got the red packets from 688. So we just use it 'x'. Oink's mum must have told him to use those two.

Now, we were suppose to return half of what we received. The wine, the canned goods, the oranges are easy. The money we also returned almost half back. But the pork leg gave us a headache. Its too big, how do we chop it into half? So in the end, my mum just cut out the meat as a gesture.

So, that's it. Hope its useful information for anyone who is getting married 'x'

It is pure coincidence?

2011-03-15T15:17:00.006+08:00

or is it FATE?

About a month ago, my mother in law ask us whether we wanted to go NZ or not. We were still deciding, and Oink was about 80% sure to join my MIL, when NZ is hit by earthquake.

Although the places we wanted to go is not including Christchurch, but Wellington was issued a warning on the possibility of another earthquake affecting the area. So we just forget the idea.

Then, we considered Korea/ Japan.

Honestly speaking, Japan attracts me more. The idea of visiting filming sites doesn't really attract me much 'x'

So after paying visits and calling up to the various travel agencies, we decided on, lets call it agency A, a new, small agency, just because the Japan tour package has one extra day in it and its ex Kuching, instead of ex KL. But 1 wk later, they called us, to tell us the tour was cancelled because the rest of the group has changed their tour to go KOREA.

So by then, I was quite annoyed already, and insist on staying with the plan. So I made calls here and there. And decided to join agency B, a big company who has a branch at KL. Their itinerary has one less day, and we need to go KL to meet the rest of the group. So after paying deposit and everything, I came back to book tix to KL. 3 hours ago, i saw 0.01 fares on fireflyz. Just 3 hours later, it goes up to 39.90. GRRR.

After that, for 4 days, we prepared the various docs needed for the visa. Went to renew passport even.

The very day we submitted the docs, is the day, Japan got hit by earthquake, tsunami. And now radiation leakage.

Japan, I have no fate with you..OHH~~

I hope Japan will recover soon. Its sad to see such a beautiful country turn into this.

I don't need flowers

2011-02-17T17:02:00.003+08:00

when I can have this!

This is just normal maggie mee, and my lovely husband made it into a culinary art for me as breakfast one day! I was so amazed and in awe, I don't where to start to dig in. Just looking at it makes me all lovey dovey inside and also hungry 'x'

Hmm, I have a feeling I ever post this photo in this blog before. Or not? Can't remember. Never mind. If I did, just show-off again niah lo..WAAKAAKA..

Happy Chap Goh Mei and Chinese Valentine's day!

Blogs

2011-02-11T21:59:00.005+08:00

There's a few blog that I visit everyday cos I know they update everyday.

But today, I found an interesting blog. Becci owns a blog called Kira Kira ♥ Dreams. I think she's a very pretty fashionable ang moh blogger that loves "gyaru" (japanese for gal) style. I just love her style!

My poor tree

2011-02-02T16:03:00.002+08:00

got cut by the grasscutter. Damn sad now. Got 感情 with the tree one you know. And now its gone. :-(((((((((((((((((((((((((

I'm becoming so aunty

2011-01-30T14:24:00.002+08:00

As usual before CNY, Boulevard is packed with humans. Us included. We went there to stock in for CNY.

I was at the vegetables rack when I saw that the oysters mushroom are selling for so cheap. I was picking some of it when an aunty older than my mum appear next to me.

Real aunty: how much is it?

me : 98 cents.

Real aunty : wahhh so cheap. Rm1 cheaper.

me : ya lo.. ya lo....

(continue selecting..)

Real aunty : Why are you selecting?

me : I want to find some fresher ones.

Real aunty : ohhh ..(proceeded to selecting some for herself)

dong dong dong chiang

2011-01-25T16:48:00.005+08:00

I wonder if anyone still reads my blog :-p But still I will pen my entries here from time to time. It will be wonderful to read back what I wrote in the distant future.
The CNY mood seems not as happening compared to previous years. Maybe its too near to christmas?

Anyway, its a very happening CNY for me. I recently bought a 50lt brand new elba oven. And I promised myself that I must put it to good use. So I won't buy any cookies at all this year. I shall bake them! Of course with the help from my mum. :-p I don't have the confidence yet to do it all by myself. Usually every year I will buy 2-3 types of cookies. But this year, I made 3 types of cookies with mum! I feel proud.

They ain't pretty but they are all home made.

We also started to clean the house last weekend. Starting from upstairs. I discovered some pest (don't want to mention here or else you guys will ewww at me) starting to treat one of my drawers as their home. URGH. I have this habit of keeping my old receipts and now it has become their nest! URGH. OFF WITH THE OLD RECEIPTS!OFF WITH THE DAMN PESTS. and I am very happy that the drawer now is clean and pest-free. While I am sorting through the drawers, taking out stuff from containers and boxes and wipe/ vacuum the containers and boxes, wiping surfaces, wash bed sheet and quilt cover, vacuumed the floor, my dear hubby is wiping the windows and the window frames. For 6 hours 'x'. He wants to clean it perfectly. He even uses the free toothbrush you get in hotel rooms to brush the unreachable corners. AHHH, that's my husband, when he's onto something, he wants it to be done perfectly. That's one of the traits you can find in a Virgo.

And this weekend, we shall do downstairs. By just thinking about it makes me tired already. But then, that is what you do before CNY right?

Happy Chinese New Year everybody. May the new year be prosperous and joyous. GONG XI GONG XI!

Farewell my friend

2011-01-22T21:47:00.000+08:00

I lost a special friend today. She was 38. Farewell, Diana.

(T.T)

26.11.2010

2010-12-30T15:09:00.003+08:00

I am in such a good mood now. Thank you PM najib for declaring tomorrow as a PH. I am so happy that I've decided to blog 'x'.

I have been meaning to blog about this since afew weeks ago. But I got lazy, then a string of events happened.

26.11.2010 was our 3rd wedding anniversary. I can't believe we are married for 3 yrs now. 3 yrs of ups and downs, mostly ups :)

Of course to celebrate the important dates, we always do it by "MAKAN". This time I suggested we go to Raintree at Borneo Convention Centre Kuching (BCCK). Jackie raved about this place to me. How great the wait staff was. How great the food was. And since I have never been there, I think why not?

After we pan leng leng, we left for BCCK. Along the way, we got lost a few times (it was a rainy night), but end up oso manage to arrive safely (THANK GOD) 'x'

Hi there! *wink wink wink*

Jackie didn't tell me got live music too! What a surprise. The lady can sing really well. While waiting for our order to arrive, the friendly staff gave us some mini-bun-thingy. There are 2 types, poppy seed and wholemeal.

I chose poppy seeds. Oink took the whole meal one. This little bun looks small but tasted great! but we don't dare to eat too much, afraid that we won't have enough space left for the main course.

Oink's drink. Mocha something. Forgive me for I can't remember. :-p

I remembered mine! Ginger-ale.

I ordered lobster bisque as appetizer. Oink didn't order any.

But the staff are so thoughtful, they divided it into 2 shares.Again, yums!

Ok, this is what Oink had for his main course. Lamb something 'x' Again I can't remember. AHAHAH! Done medium. Tasted OMG-ly yummylicious. Tender! Juicy! Flavourful!

And this is mine. Fillet Mignon. Can only remember own order 'x'. For the first few bites, I think Oink's lamb tasted better. But as I continued eating mine, the meat gets tastier and tastier. YUMMS! Oh! have i told you that their mashed potato was the BEST i ever tasted? Simply creamy! I love how it melts in your mouth.

No dessert after that, too full already 'x'

The total bill came up to RM180+, can't remember exacty how much. But its soo worthed. Great food, great ambience, great service. Waayyy better than Jambu. Will definitely go again.

A friend lost

2010-12-16T17:01:00.002+08:00

Just soon after lunch yesterday, a close friend of mine suddenly message me. She said just now someone claiming to be X's wife called her and told her X has passed away and now X's body is at GH. O.O! I was shocked, I still asked her are you sure? How sure are you??!!She then said she has a briefing to attend and ask me to investigate the matter. I called another friend and she seemed shocked too and asked me not to simply scare her. But because she works in the hospital, she can get info easier than me. After waiting for my hp to make any sound anxiously while hopping the news is untrue, my friend called me back, to confirm the news. Its so sudden! I cannot believe it! I just saw him 2 wks ago! At another friend's wedding! This can't be true! He just got married one year ago! Still so young! Life is soo... fragile :(

Up Mango Up

2010-11-23T17:03:00.000+08:00

Mango willing to do anything for food.Well, almost everything I think.

When you have a piece of food on your hand, you can do this.

When she sees the food, she will automatically be in her "stay" mode. But as you can see in the photo, she can't resist the temptation, eyes on the food already, ready to grab it.

Oink lift up his hand while saying "UP" and Mango trying to balance on her hind feet so that she can reach the Jackfruit.

Bravo to Mango!

Shortest ever in 10 years!

2010-11-19T15:51:00.005+08:00

I think long and hard before I made this decision. The last time I took this step, it was when I was 15 I think. And I really regret it. But recently, I have an urge to do it again.

I wanted to change my hair style! I grew really bored of it. I wanted to do something. I don't want to rebond anymore!But at the same time, I am scared. What if whatever I did, doesn't suit me, and I'm stuck with it for a few mths?HOW?

I google for blogs of where people in Kuching do their hair, and came across this :
Essensuals by Toni & Guy

And I like what they did for the bloggers like Rose & Anna. And the best thing is, its at Jln Song, damn near my house. No need to go far far.

But yet, I still feel like a chicken, so I dragged Oink to go with me.

I always wear my hair long. And this time, I m ready for changes.

I am surprised that my hairstylist talks in a british accent. When I looked up, eh, 'ANG MOH' ! So the others told me he is here as an exchanged stylist kind of thing for 3 mths. And he will go back to UK by the end of Nov. So lucky me i guess? Dave the ang moh hairstylist took a look at my long wavy hair, and gave me two options. One is to keep the length, but he will take the weight away, and the other is to cut it shorter. After thinking for a while, I told him I wanted to try the short one.

When he chopped off my hair, surprisingly I didn't feel anything at all. After he is done. I told them I wanted to try colour my hair. Another first for me. I never coloured my hair whole. I did highlights before and that's it. That's when Jacqueline came in. She is the stylist for hair colour. She suggested that for a first timer like me, I should go for the deep brown colour range.

She looked at my hair and ask me am I sure I never dyed my hair black?To give you an idea how black my hair is, I put a photo here, this is the photo before I cut & colour my hair.

She joked that my hair is the virgin hair. 'x'

Well, because my hair is so black, she suggested that I choose the lightest shade for the range of deep brown I chose.

And the end result is....

Nice?I know its not very short, but it is indeed the shortest in 10 yrs! And the colour don't look much here, but it looks different under the sun.

But overall, I am really happy with my decision. And the best thing?I don't need to rebond it, it looks better wavy and messy.

I'm not a boy

2010-10-20T15:01:00.012+08:00

From time to time, people will ask me how is my Mango.

Then got one time, long time ago, I can't remember how was the actual dialogue, my friend misunderstood that Mango is a HE. O.O! I asked her what made her think so. She said your Mango behaviour not gentle-like, tomboy-ish! Oh My! So it made me think...ya...my Mango indeed not that lady-like.

She is not friendly. Absolutely hate strangers. And she bites! And she can bark non-stop for at least 2 hours if she found there's a stranger in the house. I don't know what happened. she was so friendly when she was a puppy. I think the next door's fierce dog was a bad influence to her.

Go away before I bite you!

But if you open your heart, and slowly try to be friend with her. She will gradually and happily accept you. Once she's familiar with you, she will be happy to see you around. :-)

ONG CHENG HUAT @ PENANG

2010-10-07T16:38:00.005+08:00

We went to Penang & Langkawi in August.

And on a Sunday, my bro who is working at Penang brought us "Jalan-Jalan Cari Makan".

He said there's a place, only the locals know, and served the nicest steamed fish he ever tasted. Before that, we went Kek Lok Si, I've been to Kek Lok Si already, but my poor hubby never been to Penang yet.

This place my bro is raving about is NOT on the island, you have to cross the bridge and go over to mainland. Is it still call Penang there? I am not very sure.AHAHA! How to call myself a Malaysian like this.

The thing is, my bro is not very familiar with the route. So he asked his friend to draw him a map.

The oat building on the map is actually a quaker oat's factory. You can't really see the quaker oat guy by the road, its actually behind a wheat/ flour mill. You will see him once you turn into the junction.

I don't think there's a clear signboard indicating where the restaurant is, but I remember a tiger's beer logo signboard and something something restaurant by the roadside, you just turn there. The restaurant is NOT by the roadside, you still need to drive through ppls' houses.

I remember asking my bro is he sure or not. Looks more like housing area then a place for restaurant ler.

AND BEHOLD! Look at the cars!

We quickly scanned for a table and quickly sit down.

Just look at the crowd! By the way, the ah pek looking guy in green shirt is my bro. :-D!!

We are quickly then served by a waiter. Bro being the one who had eaten there before made the order. I noticed on every tables, they all ordered basically the same thing.

Our beverage came almost immediately after our order. Its home made liang teh in recycled mineral water bottle. 'x'! i hope its clean. But at that moment, I didn't care much. All I see is ICE COLD DRINK in a VERY HOT WEATHER.

Food came very soon after that also. I was very surprised. Its like less than 10 min wait.

The steamed fish my bro kept raving about. They steam it just nice. The meat was soft and tender and juicy and very fresh. The gravy was just enough salty to complement the meat. Yums!

My bro calls this "kappa" I have no idea what's the real name is. I just eat them as long as its not too ugly. Not bad! Chewy and a bit "sweet" tasting. Yums!

Fried Chicks. My bro's gf favourite. But she didn't come with us. My bro's car can't fit all of us (there's 5 of us including my bro).AHAHA. But we saved 2 to "tapao" back for her. Some people over fried this kind of dish, but this one is just nice, still juicy and tender. YUMS!

Fried beehoon. They didn't even wait for me to take a photo of it first! cis! But I have to say, there's nothing special about this fried bee hoon. Almost tasteless to me. I think they only fried it with soy sauce. If you go there, I think you can just give this a pass. No need order 'x'

-no-idea-what-to-put-as-title

2010-10-07T14:07:00.005+08:00

Once a upon a time (actually just last friday), 3 ~~stooges~~ ladies (Selina, My sis-in-law, and I) took a flight to KL for 3d2n short trip. It was a last minute decision, and we wanted to do some shopping & relaxing. I was just happy to get out of work. It was kinda rush, although its a 3 days 2 nights trip, we actually only have a total of 2 days and 2 nights time to spend, which also includes sleeping time, eating, showers, etc, minus all those, we are left with only 20+ hours.

We stayed at Cititel Midvalley, joined the single beds together and shared. We saw a brochure on cititel's Japanese buffet, and was intrigued by the photo used and MAN! HOW WE got CHEATED! Our plan initially was like this, day 1: BB area, day 2:wan utama and ikano, day 3: Midvalley (so that we won't need to rush). BUT! because of this buffet, we had to change our plan to put BB area on the last day. Its not WORTH the RM60 LORRRR! The sashimi was ok. The almost-non-existent sushi was a disaster, dry, and almost tasteless. The tempura was soggy and super oily. Almost all the meat was cooked in the teriyaki sauce. Like this also called Japanese buffet? Was totally disappointed. Did a little shopping at Midvalley, and Bel(my SIL) paid for 2 pairs of earrings I picked as my Birthday present..KEKEKE..damn happy!

The next day, after a heavy breakfast at Cititel. We left for Wan Utama. We arrived at 11am. Then shopped and shopped and had a late lunch around 3pm at Nandos. Just imagine! Shopped till no proper lunch. AAHAHAHHA. Then we left for Ikano at around 6pm. Didn't dinner, and left Ikano at 10pm! ELEVEN HOURS OF WALKING! We were all groaning and whining about how painful our feet were and yet we can still walk and check out shops. :-D!! We had late dinner at Secret Recipe in Midvalley, only to be served by a grumpy waiter.

The last day, was the most hectic! We went to BB and didn't manage to get anything much, I at least got a pair of shoes. Then we had to rush back to get our luggage, and ALMOST didn't make it to the airport on time. Imagine that!

While waiting in the boarding hall, I still manage to grab a pair of heels at Carlo Rino! AHAHA!

So for this trip, I manage to grab 3 dresses for myself, 4 pairs of shoes, 1 hair band, 2 earrings (bday presents from Bel), 3 t-shirts (1 for Oink, 1 for bro in law, 1 for myself), 2 bags ( 1 for mum) , 3 tops ( 1 for MIL, 1 for cousin), a nice top for Oink, and some stuff from Ikea.I think that should be all. 'x'

P/S No photos. None of us brings a camera. :-p Where got time to camwhore?

Oink's surprise

2010-09-06T17:37:00.005+08:00

When I ask my dear husband to choose a smartphone for his birthday. He stubbornly declined the offer. Mentioned the current one he's using is still good.

Then I don't know what to give him!

Then its a coincidence that he is going to Penang for work and might be there for his birthday. I checked the airtix, its so $$, I'd rather use that money to buy something nice for him.

Then he told me, he will be back on the night of his birthday. The idea didn't come to me then.

It was on Merdeka day, when I was taking a shower that the idea of throwing him a surprise hit me. He left for penang that night. I can only start preparation after he leaves.

His birthday is on the 2nd of Sept. I only have 1 and a half day to prepare. I messaged my Sis In Law about the plan. The plan is, I will sms Oink telling him I can't pick him up from airport. Then my father in law will have to go pick him. My bro in law should follow him so that he can use his hp to give us the cue when they are near the house.

I borrowed a birthday banner from Selina. It was done by Oink last year (I think) for her friend's 50th birthday.

I had to do something to cover the "50" so this is what I did.

My patchwork.AHAHAH! I only have one night ok. Oink don't want ppl to know how "old" is he, that's why the 2nd digit is pixelated 'x'

I ordered pizza and chicken wings from Frienz and Family. Picked up the cake from Sharon from Appetit. Cut some kiwis, prepare salad. And after that, I wait for the family members to come. Oink is scheduled to arrive around 8.30 pm. I keep sms-ing the family asking them when are they coming. AHAHAH.

Selina came around 8pm, bringing Nasi Lemak and the condiments and also very nice home cooked chicken curry. She also brought watermelon.

Well, the rest came 1 min after Oink sms me telling me he arrived. Then panic came. SIL keep calling her husband asking where are they now while the rest straining to hear what he says. AHAHAH.

We got a few false alarms, cos SIL keep saying " You guys are here already?!!" and we thought its true, so we keep running up n down from the living room to the kitchen. And we kept peeping through the window. It was nerve wrecking I tell you! I had aircon on, but I keep sweating!

I manage to instruct the people to hide their shoes, in which they just left them under my car.ROFL. I locked the main gate.But , amidst the chaos, I forgot to lock the door's grille (which made Oink very suspicious).AHAHAH. I only got to lock the door only. So when the real cue came, I switched off all the lights,then we all ran into the kitchen, leaving only Oink's brother behind with the camera.

Selina and mom in law quick quick lighted the candles. Then we waited behind the door. I can still remember Isaac's excited face.I whispered to him, asking him later must sing the birthday song loud loud ok? He cheekily smiled and nodded. AHAHHA. I think the little guy is having fun too.

We heard the main gate got un-locked. *heart thumping*

We heard the door got un-locked. *palm sweating*

*Door creaks open*

and then its "HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO YOU!HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO YOU!..."

Oink face was like this :-O!!

then its like this :-D!!!!

and then he said "I KNOW IT! I KNOW SOMETHING IS GOING ON!"

And then we presented him with the cake, well, not really a typical birthday cake, but a mille crepe. A very nice mille crepe.*thumbs up*

And then we MAKAN!

Later that night, when everybody has gone home, we talked about my almost fool-proof plan. He said, he got really suspicious when the bro in law followed my father in law to airport to pick him up. But that time he's not very sure yet. And when he came home, to find the main gate locked, but the door grille's wide open, he got really suspicious. Remember I told him I won't be in? It's impossible to him that I went out and didn't lock the grille. So he is very sure that I am home. And he noticed the lights off. So he thought I must be inside trying to surprise him or something. What he didn't expect was instead of only me, the whole family was there to surprise him. Well, at least there's still some element of surprise.

Little things that cheer you up

2010-08-27T11:51:00.005+08:00

It was just 2 days ago when my mum said chirpily that she saw Bro and I in facebook over dinner. She was commenting the profile photo we used. At that moment, I had no idea she created an account for herself.

Well you see, my parents are not that tech savvy. It was just months ago when dad asked for my blog's address. And when he saw my blog, he said all I see is Mango's photos. AHAHAHHA!

And imagine how delighted I was when I saw an email of a friend request from my mom this morning! :-D!!

And she used the photo I took of her and dad when we went to HCM. AHAHAH! Of course the first thing I wrote on her wall is "hi MA!:-D"

well, I see that now she has only 4 friends, including me and Bro, but never mind, I will recommend her our cousins for her to add, and she haven't add Oink!

Way to go ma! She should teach dad to facebook also!

How's the Weather?

2010-07-09T17:19:00.001+08:00

I keep an umbrella in my car. Almost everday, I will bring it out, just in case it rains. And the security guard will comment " Ah moi! Tak hujan, tak payah bawa payung"

So I started to get lazy. Some days, I don't bring it down with me. And sometime these somedays RAINED!

Like yesterday, I was lazy, i left my umbrella in the car. Thinking I won't be so unlucky kuaaa. And when its time to go home, it rained! Heavily!

So this morning, before i stepped out of the car, I hesistated, taking a moment to think whether should I bring the umbrella down with me. Then I thought won't be so coincidental kuaaa, unlucky for 2 straight days?

And what do you know?AGAIN! It happened to me again.GRRR. Remind me not to play mahjong, may be I won't win!

Some goodbyes are for ever

2010-07-06T17:20:00.003+08:00

July began badly for me.

- 30th June -

My relatives were coming down from Sarikei, to send a daughter off to nursing training. We were supposed to have dinner that night at a restaurant. But by noon, my dad suddenly sms me and say something like this " Change of plan. Don't go to xxx restaurant. Eat at {housing area}. Will tell you later"

The whole SMS sounded so fishy. But I didn't press for WHY? Knowing how stubborn my dad can be. I was hoping he will tell me whatever it is when he is ready. I assume it should be something to do with the Sarikei relatives.

Around 5, dad SMS me again, he said my Grandma is very sick. He will go to Belaga, mum will go up from Sibu (she's having a course there). I was shocked! I quickly packed up and get ready to go home. I sms dad to ask how bad is it while waiting for the green light. He said "They wait time". THOSE THREE words made me stunned.Before I knew it, tears wet my cheeks.

- 1st July -

Boarded a flight to Bintulu at 11.35am. I sms dad asking where is he now, cos he was following Sarikei's relative's car to come up to Bintulu. But he didn't reply. I guess may be there's no reception or what.

Arrived Bintulu around 1pm cos the flight delayed abit.Then's when i got the dreadful SMS, telling me Grandma passed away, at 10.30am. 10.30 am! 10.30 am!
10.30 am! I I cried at the airport. I didn't get to say goodbye! Same goes to my mum! My poor poor mother! She was going up straight to Belaga from Sibu, she took a 5++am ride and scheduled to arrived arnd 8 hours later. She only knew about my Grandma's passing when she reached the Jetty.

Someone from Belaga picked us up from airport around 2, and it took us 4 hours to reach Belaga. Yes, no matter what transport u take, it will take almost a day to reach Belaga. Me and Oink are among those who lived outside Belaga to arrived early. But not early enough to meet my Grandma one last time. (T.T) I thought Grandma will get better, I didn't go thinking I will lose Grandma, I went thinking may be there'll be a miracle. Dad arrived with the Sarikei relatives around midnight. Eldest Uncle arrived around that time, poor Uncle, he also didn't get to say goodbye, I can never forget the scene. I was burning "paper money" (its a custom to do that in a chinese funeral) near Grandma's body, and eldest uncle walked right in, dropped his bag to the floor and cried while walking towards Grandma's body. Its a heart breaking scene, I fought hard to keep myself calm, as I need to keep burning the 'paper money', I was told to keep the fire burning.

Mum told us that she didn't sleep well for 2 nights. The first night, she dreamed Grandma passed away. The 2nd night, she dreamed she helped Grandma apply powder on her face. And true enough, the next day after the 2nd night, she really left us. Mum was told that Grandma asked for her when she was still conscious. :((((( But in the end she can't wait BOOHOOHOO

- 2nd July -

Its the day to prepare Grandma's body and move her into the coffin. Mum was told her zodiac sign clashes with Grandma, so she's forbidden to touch Grandma's body, she was only allowed to look at the process. Its the first time I get to see Grandma after her passing. She looked calm and at peace.

-3rd July -

Funeral day. We followed the lorry carrying Grandma's body on foot. Some of the aunties nearby came to help and each of them supported my mum and her sisters. Mum was crying non-stop. It really breaks my heart to see her that way. She kept calling my Grandma not to go. I followed her closely, ready to help in case she needed me. When I put my arms around her, she held my hand, and said "GRANDMA will never come back anymore" in hokkien and wailed. My heart broken into a million pieces seeing her like that. She must be very very sad to miss the chance to see Grandma one last time. The last time she saw her was Gawai this year, which I really regret cos I didn't follow. I should have followed! But its to late to regret now right? IF ONLY...sigh..

So people! If you are living away from your family, DO come back and see them often.

My grandma was such a giving person, gentle and humble. She liked to chit chat, even though my Hokkien is broken, she beared with me, and just listened to whatever I was talking about even though she might not understand. She liked to sit at the bench after meals and loved her Min Nan Yu Taiwanese soap operas. Oh, I will miss her so so much! *sobs*

Busy Month

2010-06-24T00:01:00.001+08:00

I'll be back after all the madness!

Illness episode

2010-06-03T16:51:00.000+08:00

Its weird & interesting how a simple sore throat was ALWAYS later followed by a string of sickness. Its like they come in a package. A family of sickness.

I always dread April- June as its the hottest here in Kuching. And I have been avoiding 'heaty' food as long as I can. I have done well in that in April. And I try to drink more water. But oh, how can I turn away from Made-In-China-Luncheon-meat? How can I say no to BBQ invites? And finally, my throat protested after I had Ayam Penyet for lunch with my colleagues. The Ayam Penyet was good though. That very night, I started to feel pain even when swallowing my own saliva.

I told Redsponge about this, and she said soon will be followed by cough and phlegm, in which they really came true. *ROAR*

Then Selina said, for her case, its usually followed by flu. WHICH came true also! *ROARS* Gawai holidays, and my nose was so runny, its like water running from water tap 'x' No Kidding!

So now, here I am, coughing, troubled with phlegm and nose is block . HATE!

New Kitchen

2010-05-17T12:16:00.022+08:00

Well, its not that new actually. Been using for more than a month already. My original kitchen was really small, and on the right side of the house. Can hardly cook in it.

Last yr, around Dec ( yes i know, very late already) the extension work started from the study room. And it didn't finalise even until CNY. So after CNY, the workers came to do the final touches.

When everything was done, we looked into the design of the Kitchen. We were intro-ed by a fellow colleague to a contractor who can do the cabinets for us. We told the guy our idea. He told us, he can finish it in less than a month. And so he did. *thumbs up*

JENG JENG..come see..

This is before we "zhng" the place.

After looking around. We manage to get the perfect lighting at a very reasonable pricing @ 3rd mile and also bar stools from my friend @ Beetex.

The wall tiles may look plain white here. But up close, it looks like this.

Nice right? I like it alot.

Cantik! Alot ppl who saw the protruding beam on the roof say it spoiled the view. So I wanted to change this perspective, by adding a nice light, making it one of the centre of attention.

The island.

The hood and the hob. We bought Dragonfly hood after consulting friends of ours who had hood at home. And they all used Dragonfly. For the hob, we picked Zenne KGH201. And the hob is really powerful. You will know why if you read on.

Now our idea for the kitchen didn't just end here. There's a wall near between the windows and the door, which has uneven patches because the painting job was done when the cement is not thoroughly dried. So like the beam, I want to make the ugly duckling into a beautiful swan.

First, I took photo of the wall. Then I did this with photoshop.

I showed it to Oren and RedSponge and of course to Oink. And the comments i got was:

on design no. 1
oink: butterfly so big.
rs : very you.

on design no. 2
oink : the butterfly doesn't blend in with the rose.
rs : can paint my bedroom wall?

on design no. 3
oink : again, the butterflies doesn't seem to blend in.
rs : later at night, if you don't on light, you might be shocked to death, thinking whats that black thing on the wall. (-.-!!!)
rs : see, you even had the ridsect ready for the butterflies (CIS)
Oren : Your flower and butterflies cannot grow in your kitchen cos its hot. (WAT THE!! ROF)

on design no. 4
they all like it. So no. 4 it is.

First, we print the roses out using 2 A0 papers.

Then, oink cuts out the area where the wall will be painted.

Then the whole thing is paper taped to the wall. And Oink sponged on the color I picked on the cutout area. After that, the papers are removed, and Oink used a brush to smooth the edges and refine it.

Master at work 'x'

Master checking my design with the laptop to make sure the lines are correct.
AHAHHA

and TADAA! The real thing!

Closer..looks pretty neat from afar.

BUT, if you move closer..

AHAHAHAH!! WHAT THE!! I asked the Master why the smudges, and the Master who drew it replied "AIYO! you don't understand, this is called art ma..有线条的美。"

WHAT THE..AHHAHAHA

Really happy with the kitchen. I said to Oink,"You know?The kitchen is the nicest part of the entire house" ROF.

And for the first ever dishes I cooked in the new kitchen were...

Burnt spam and belacan kangkong. AHAHAHAHHAHA! I bought the expensive Tulip brand spam and it tasted not even half as good as the one made in China. CIS.

I was not familiar with the cooking hob, and before I knew it, most of my spam slices got burnt 'x' REALLY POWERFUL. 'x'

and of course, from there, I got familiarized with my hob and can cook better dishes.

Some of the many breakfasts.

I invited family members to come for a "kitchen-warming" party on Labour Day. Where I will cook the dishes, and they will be my ~~guinea pigs~~ honored guests.

No.1 : Salted Prawn. By the time all the guests arrived, it has turned soggy and the prawn soaked up a lot of the saltiness from the coarse salt.

no. 2 : Grilled Lamb Shoulders.

no. 3 : Simple Mix Vege

No. 4 : Steamed Fish

No. 5 : Stir- Fry "Q Cai"

no. 6 : Salad

No. 7 : Pork Leg Stew. The most popular dish for the night.

Money Bouquet

2010-05-15T15:09:00.006+08:00

I made Rocher Bouquet for Selina's birthday last month. So for mother's day, I wanted to help Oink do something special for his mum, my mother in law.

So I made a money bouquet.

You will need $ of course. The more the bigger the bouquet. ROFL.

This is how one stalk will look like.

And this is Mango trying to sabotage it.CIS

This is how the final product looks like.

A closer look.What do you think? Good idea eh? Its easier to make this compared to the Rocher Bouquet. You can find out how to make a money bouquet here. A little tips though, try not to use a lot of our RM5 notes. Its more difficult to curl the corners compared to our normal paper notes.

First Ever Handmade Ferrero Rocher Bouquet

2010-04-25T15:09:00.003+08:00

Selina's Birthday is coming up. My SIL and I was discussing one day what to give her.

She suggested why not a Rocher Bouquet?

Now, I have never done ANY bouquet before.

It took me 1 night to think about how to do the "stalk" and "petals" AAHAHA

But finally I manage to complete all the stalks of Rochers in two nights.

This is how 18 stalks looked like before I wrap it. It may look simple, but its not as easy as you think. All the sewing and cutting and cello-taping.

Hmm, not very satisfied with my wrapping (the stalks are too short). But at least its nice and presentable. So here is my first ever hand made Ferrero Rocher bouquet.

Happy Birthday Selina!

There's some SICK bastard(s) out there

2010-04-21T09:02:00.001+08:00

My man was happy that I woke up earlier to make him a nice breakfast. We ate happily，heartily.

It was when he was opening the front gate that I heard him yell "F$$K!!"..followed by "不知道谁这样变态！"

Of course I was curious and ask him what happened from the front door. You see, recently we bought a kitchen hood for our new kitchen (will blog about it soon), and we didn't want to keep the big box that came with it. When we tidied and cleaned our new kitchen last weekend, arranging stuff into our new kitchen cabinet, we threw away some unwanted items which includes plastic containers (we had lots of them), expired goods, biscuits (that I don't want to eat anymore, so..into the box they go 'x'), and when I was making dinner, I threw garlic skins into the box 'x', and a broken light bulb.

SO

There I was standing at the door, asking Oink what happened.I can't really hear clearly of what he said, he was outside. But I heard "Box....don't know who...and left the garbage..." But from where I was standing, I can see the broken light bulb lying on the road. So I thought,may be the garbage truck worker didn't lift the box properly, and the broken light bulb fell out of it or something.

I need to get to work by then, so I turn back to get my bag, my car key, got into the car, started the car, reverse. And that's when I saw the horrible horrible sight! The big box was gone alright. But the content (the rubbish) we put inside, are left strewn on the road! Someone SICK-TMD-ASSHOLE took the box, and left our rubbish right at where we left the box! Oh the rain soaked biscuits!The bottles of expired goods! All there! T-M-D!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! It looked like a mini dump site area! ARGGGHH..

Its April Fool!

2010-04-01T21:08:00.003+08:00

BUT I totally forgot to fool anybody!

I am just too demotivated at work this whole week that all I look forward to was lunch break and the time to go home. :D!!!

Anyway, although I was very demotivated, I managed to finish my targeted workload for the week. Am happy for that. But my most productive moment was when I was photoshopping a butterfly as wall decor for my new kitchen. I was damn excited when doing the editing work. How I wish I can have half the passion for my job. 'x'!

Laksa @ Li Yuan Cafe, Jalan Song

2010-03-21T22:15:00.003+08:00

We first tried this place out of curiosity. Bored of the usual breakfast places. We decided to try this place.

They have only 2 stalls. Laksa & Kolo Mee. For the first visit, we tried the Laksa. It's quite good. Back then, you can count the customers with your fingers. We went back a few times after that. Since its very near to our house. And now, for most of the time we were there, its almost full. Once Oink tried the kolo mee. Nothing special. We don't think its good also.

Sorry, we don't have the photo for the Laksa. AHAHAH. Always realize we forgot to take the photo half way into eating.:-p

Li Yuan Cafe is at one of the small shops behind Precint 88.

If there's a will, there's a way

2010-03-13T11:35:00.001+08:00

I don't brush Mango's teeth. Instead I buy her Pedigree Dental Stix from time to time, which claims to prevent tartar buildup.

Mango loves her Dental Stix. If she sees me going into the store room, she will follow me and hoping I will give her one.

So that weekend, the packet of Dental Stix was in a big plastic bag beside her cage. She manage to catch the scent. And this SNEAKY PUG!She actually manage to get it out of the big plastic bag. There was 3 good stix left it the packet. And the opening was secured with a rubber band. I don't know how she did it, she manage to remove the rubber band and get her prize.

By the time Oink found out, one and a half of the 3 stix were already gone. Needless for me to say that Oink gave her a good scolding after that, topped with some butt slapping. Calling her a thief.

He then close the door to the room to prevent her from doing it again. Now...This happened in the morning.

Later in the afternoon, I actually opened to door to get something, and left the door open. I went to the kitchen and when I came out, this is what I saw (thank god camera was nearby).

WHAT THE!! ROFL! OOPS SHE DID IT AGAIN! All 3 stix gone in a day! Oink was furious, again calling her a thief, slapping Mango's butt butt and you know what? She acted like she didn't give a damn, happily chewing her Stix. But when she finished her Stix, Oink was still yelling at her, and what do you know?She came to me for refuge. Hoping I will protect her from Oink. HAHA! Who says pug is the stupidest breed of canine?! My Mango is so bright OK?! AHAHHA.. I told Oink, Mango was not stealing, the Stix are meant for her anyway. At least she put some effort to get what she wants. RIGHT??

Cheezy Station & Young Su's Ice Cream

2010-03-09T11:38:00.000+08:00

I've heard of this place from Selina before. So we decided to try. If you know where Jln Song's Young Su's Ice Cream is, this shop is behind/ next to Young Su (depends on which direction you come from).

At first we sit inside. Got aircon ma.

While waiting for our order, I studied menu and spotted this typo. HAHA. Soon enough, we can smell the food they are preparing. Its a small place, the kitchen hood doesn't help much. I don't really like the oily smell. So we moved outside.

Our drinks. I ordered Mineral Water (RM1.2) which turns out to be drinking water, and was given a glass with ice and a slice of lemon. Oink had tea (RM2).

Parmesan Chicken. (RM10++). First bite was not bad. The chips were too oily for me. But I didn't really like it after having a few more bites. Its deep fried, heaty and oily.

Calzone Kiev (RM10++). I like this wayyyy more than the Parmesan Chicken. Look at the size of it compared to Oink's big hand.

If I ever visit here again. I might order this again. It tasted just nice.

After stuffing ourselves with all the food. We moved next door to Young Su's Ice Cream.

This is my first time here. I always wonder what kind of Ice Creams they sell here.

Unfortunately I was too too full.

I would love to try the Yoghurt Ice Cream next time.

And its very very affordable!

I flipped through the menu. The most expensive thing i saw was Korean Ginseng Tea pricing at RM6.5.

We ordered Chocolate Ice Cream blended if I'm not mistaken (RM6)to share.

Its not very sweet. But its refreshing enough.I think this is a good place to hang out with friends.

You can see Young Su if you come from Jalan Urat Mata.

If you come from Jalan Song, Young Su is actually behind Precinct 88, if you are not sure what is Precinct 88, look for Starbucks.

Another Mango Bath Story

2010-03-03T11:33:00.002+08:00

Well, I still can't resist. I blog about her bath before. But she's so cute ler..I can't resist to blog about it again. HEEEEEE...

That's her..tired of waiting and decided to sit in the pail.

But once the bucket is full of water, she don't want to sit anymore and stood on her hind legs. LOL!

Read the other Mango Bath story here.

Surprised One Morning

2010-02-28T11:31:00.000+08:00

It was my turn to wake up early and feed Mango that morning.

I woke up groggily and grouchily. I was really reluctant to get out of bed. It was drizzling, its so nice for sleeping in. But I don't want my dear Mango to get starved. So I got up anyway.

She heard my footsteps and was making all the "manja" noises. I let her out. And was heading to the door. As soon as I open the door, my half-closed eyes registered something is not right. What is all those white stuff on the floor?

DAMN CAT! Must be playing with the toilet roll we left outside AGAIN! We have 2 suspects. One is the White Persian cat that belongs to one of the neighbors. And another one is a striped cat that looks like he's wearing white socks. But who's the real culprit? I can't believe it! Our house got mess up by a cat on a CNY morning..Don't know whether should I laugh or be angry..

CNY Thingies

2010-02-24T23:44:00.002+08:00

After nights of watering, putting chicken shits on it once in a few months...

finally!

FINALLY!

It flowers! Just in time for Chinese New Year too! I proudly display it next to the door, so that everyone who enters can have a good look. :-)

I took this photo one afternoon while I was alone in the house, waiting for my friends to come for visiting. Oink was away playing poker with his friends. I like the combination of colors the cakes and fruits made.

Never say never

2010-02-19T15:35:00.004+08:00

Hello there

I hope its not too late to wish you Gong Xi Fatt Chai..if there's anybody still reading :D

I remember when I was a child, primary school age to be exact, I was bullied by a guy. He was really mean. And his surname was SIM. I have forgotten his full name though. And I quickly conclude that all SIM MUST be EVIL. And when I grow up, I WILL NEVER EVER marry a SIM.
And whadda ya know, 10++ years later, I married one *ROFL*

And when I was in my teens. I told people around me, my future Boyfriend MUST NOT be younger than me, not even a day, and cannot be more than 4 yrs older than me. And whadda ya know, a few years later, I married one who is 7 yrs my senior *ROFLLLLL*

SO U KNOW WHAT IS THE LESSON OF THE DAY?

That is never say never

ROFFLLLL~

Nothing

2010-01-20T12:58:00.002+08:00

I got NOTHING to blog about. Except for the few photos in my HP.

But forgot to bring cable. 'x'

Very lazy to work lately, holiday mood already. I wonder...Is it just me?Or got others also holiday mood.

Waisted post

2010-01-08T22:39:00.007+08:00

Alone at home now. So went to look at old photos in my ext hdd. I looked at the photos before I got married.

This is the cheongsam I wore at my Wedding Banquet. Nice? I tried it 2 nights before the wedding to make sure it fits. Was still quite slim back then. That was back in Nov 2007. Then we went to HK, China, Macau in March 2008. HK food was so good, I keep stuffing food into my face. I came back with extra inches to my waist. BIG MISTAKE. After that hor, I keep giving myself excuses such as, AIYAH, married already, no need keep fit liao lah..'x' BIG MISTAKE 2! The hor, I lazy go exercise also. BIG MISTAKE 3!

Then I bought tickets to Krabi for Oink and I (sept 2008). Bought a bikini. Made a promise to slim back so I will look sexy in the bikini. Even told oren & redsponge I will keep fit. BUT LERRRRR, I didn't do anything, didn't watch what I eat, didn't exercise much. And I looked back at my Krabi photos, I looked HORRENDOUS!

Booohooohoo..like an elephant lo.

Krabi is a very beautiful place. I feel like I spoiled the whole picture. :(

After that, I joined Tai Chi. Played Badminton. Got back to Yoga. And I can feel that I slowly starting to lose the extras I gained. It's a very very very very slow process though. But at least its better than nothing. At least in my Taiwan photos, I looked sooooo much better compared to the Krabi ones.

I felt slapped on the face when I was looking at my Krabi photos just now. T.T It gave me more motivation to lose weight.

My motto now is to lose more for the upcoming CNY. MUST.BE.DISCIPLINED.

SOMETHING OLD, SOMETHING NEW

2010-01-01T17:32:00.008+08:00

HAPPY NEW YEAR 2010!

TIME FLIES, almost unbelievable.

Today is the first day of 2010, but I want to post about something happened last year.ROFL. A very belated post. I admit. I was lazy. Almost don't want to blog anymore. But when I thought about the joy I will have in the future years when I read back what I wrote, its what motivated me. :)

The date was 20.12.09. And it was a meaningful day.

We went to help at Cheshire's with Selina and MIL.

They needed a Santa. ROFL. First choice was Jee, but too bad he can't fit the costume.

First, lets have lunch. MIL and Selina helping to distribute lunch to the people at Chesire.

After lunch, its time for entertainment.

The one organizing the event is the nice lady in the middle. If not mistaken, her name is Annie. She was the one that sponsored lunch also.

Everybody enjoying themselves. :)

Then we are off on our mission.

Can't help it. Oink is too cute as a Santa.

Oink the Santa giving away presents.

This guy was watching wrestling on TV when we came. AHAHA.

Its good to see them so happy when they get their presents.

After the event at Chesire. We had a break and off we go to SSPCA.

This is what we manage to collect this year. EH! I mean last year. :-p

Not bad eh? Btw, they need a lot of newspaper everyday. So if you have, can send yours over.

Its the most meaningful Xmas I ever had.

Sign of Aging

2009-12-22T23:45:00.001+08:00

WHITE HAIR.TMD. 'x'

Eyes only

2009-12-18T18:31:00.011+08:00

Someone has been nagging me to quick quick post on this topic.

well..

I got my hands on some stuff lately. All on beautifying my panda eyes.

Some more lately got so many wedding banquets to attend to. So I get to experiment and play with them.

Been reading that some pretty bloggers uses this. Now I get to try it.

The comb looks like this. And it has 2 sides. I am not sure which to use first, so I start with the wider width one (1) . Then refine my lashes with the finer one (2).

Now this is how I look before makeup. ERM, not totally :p without any makeup at all. I had BB cream and drew my brow with an eyebrow pencil and also put on concealer. SIGH..my lashes are short. And someone commented how come my lashes are shorter at the corners. VERY THE CIS!

And this is how I looked after I am done with my eyes. Am not very good at makeup though. 'x' But the mascara really make my lashes look more prominent and longer. I can feel the lashes getting hard when I applied another layer of the mascara, making it easy to curl it and make it stay curled.

Then, on the other night, I experimented on false lashes. I find it quite hard to use my hand to put on the false lashes nicely, but, with the help of a tweezer, I did it in less than 30 secs.

HOW?VERY NICE RIGHT??!

I put on one eye only to show you the difference.

Look quite natural hor?

A close up look.

NICE! Looks like own lashes. I should try these long ago!

So now, for a more glam look, I will put on false lashes, if not, on lazier occasions, I'll just use the Majolica Majorca Mascara. TEEHEEHEE.

You can get them too @3prettygirls.

Its almost xmas!

2009-12-13T23:02:00.002+08:00

and I haven't finish my Christmas shopping!

HEEEELLLLLLLPPPPPPPPPPPP!

6 Weddings

2009-12-09T09:59:00.003+08:00

I've got invited to 6 weddings, can't attend one, cause I'll be at Sibu for another wedding. After 4 fishes, 2 shark fin soups, 2 fish lip soup, COUNTLESS food and expanding waistline that started last Saturday (YES! I have been stuffing myself fat everynight since Saturday!OMG), I still got one more wedding to attend! ONE MORE TOMORROW! After that, it will be diet and detox time. *SIGH* My choice of dress also gets looser and looser by the day.AHAHAH!

26.11.09

2009-11-28T17:51:00.008+08:00

2 years ago. This date. We got married. :)

I got a big surprise in the morning.

Oink got someone sent this to me at the office. Its such a big surprise. So sweet of him. Actually I didn't think its from him at first. Cos you know, after we got married, I never got any flowers from him anymore. :D This is the first after we got married. Such a lovely surprise.

But I can recognize this handwriting anywhere! AHAHA! So we got a date to go Magenta, 7.30pm. Feels like we are back to our dating time. Ahhh, this warm and fuzzy feeling.

Getting ready. My eye makeup. Nah...give you my panda eyes to see. And got some fine lines as bonus. SIGH..getting old already.

Anyway, after doing my hair, which I did lousily still (so no pictures of my hair), it was late. Already after 7.30pm. AHAHAHA.

For starter, we had pumpkin soup. I LOVE PUMPKIN SOUP! But this one not creamy enough. But still good. I just wish it could be creamier. The portion is enough for 2 person.

My nice Oreo Smoothie. SINFUL!

Oink's Mocha Smoothie.

My main course : Wild Mushroom Sirloin. YUMS!

Oink's Main Course : Lamb Shank. Yums too! But most places also got Lamb Shank. 'x'

Our dessert. Creme Brulee. This is the worst Creme Brulee I ever had. Luckily its FOC.

After dinner, we went to the movies. I get to pick.*GRIN*

NEW MOON! I finished reading all the books. I've watched Twilight like a million times. I love it so much lo. Edward is soooo handsome. But don't know why I think he is no longer that dashing in New Moon. Hmm...much paler...Jacob on the other hand..wah..got such a nice bod..:D~~~

Oink keep asking me questions while we are watching the movie, because he didn't watch the first installment. And he there keep saying "why so loso? All talk, no action." AHAHAH..but I am very grateful that he willing to watch this movie with me. He queued up with the many people during lunch hour just to buy us the tickets.

Edward asked Bella "Will you marry me?" at the end of the movie. And I heard a girl at the next row squealed and clapped. AHAHAHA.

I saw this on the bed. HHMM. Since when Oink know how to buy such gift? All these while, most of the gifts I got from him are gadgets.AHAHAH. No photo of what's inside. Nothing naughty. Its something pink and sweet. That's all you needed to know. 'x'

溏水园

2009-11-22T16:17:00.011+08:00

I saw this new shop opened quite long ago and keep telling Oink we should go one day.

Then, one night, we just did.

sorry for the blur photos, the visit was unplanned. The photos ware took with a handphone. :-p

My hot "tong sui". I know got fig, got pear and something else inside. Not bad.

Oink peach mango thingy. Not bad. But nothing to shout about.

AH! I would want to try this on my next visit. No. 14.

eee, who wants dumpings? 'x'

We ordered something to go with our desserts. Chicken fried with LOTS OF BLACK PEPPER. The taste was not bad at all.....for the first few mins. After that our tongue was numb, and I could feel my lips swelling. Natural way to get Angelina Jolie's lips?AHAHA

tang

2009-11-22T16:16:00.001+08:00

GAHHH!

2009-11-08T23:52:00.002+08:00

Its SUNDAY. 11.55pm!! FREAKING 11.55pm.

AND. I . AM. STILL. AT. THE. OFFICE!

GAHHH!!

good news is I can go home soon. >< TIRED!

Mango Honey

2009-10-23T12:00:00.000+08:00

I bought something for my dear love Mango...something that is soo much cheaper there, sooo expensive here.

Come and have a look.

MANGO as a bee, so cute. The costume got wings somemore. Initially I wanted to buy a sheep costume one, but hor, the costume look very small and thick. Mango might feel very hot in it. This bee one not bad also. :) I can't stop laughing when I put this on Mango, she kept squirming.

TOO TOO TOOO CUTEEEE..aaawww

TEEHEEHEEE..

Sign of Old Age

2009-10-22T14:32:00.001+08:00

Don't know whats the matter with me today.

First, I notice my phone is not in the bag when I need it. And thinking I might left it in the car. I go down for it. Hoping no one broke my car window to get it. That was in the morning.

After lunch, I went to the bakery to get some pastry for dinner. I will be having early dinner cos tonight got Yoga class. I DID NOT put in my wallet back into the bag. Instead I held it with my hand and left it on the passenger seat. And again, I forgot to take it up to the office. And again, I go down, praying its there and nobody broke my window to steal it.

And now, both my HP and wallet are safe with me. No window broken. Thank God.

My LOOT from Taipei

2009-10-19T17:42:00.011+08:00

Hi peeps. *GRIN*

I just got back from Taiwan last week. We went Puli, nantou. Taipei. And Hualien.

Alot ppl blogged about taiwan already. And those blogs really helped me with my itinerary. I shall not bore you with it again, the photos of the places are almost the same..AHAHA. But I shall show you the fruit of my ~~labor~~ err..trip.TEE HEE HEE

I had almost 2 days (accumulated) of shopping therapy. One of the days was my birthday. So for my birthday, I wanted to do what I like. Which is erm, shopping! 'x' Please don't label me as a shopaholic. The items I shopped are not branded, anyone can afford it. There's no LV, no Coach, no Burberry, no other mumbo jumbo brando stuff. Each shop, I spent less than half an hour. Its like I came, I saw, I buy. AHAHAHA..

come, I show you what I bought. Well, most of it. The ones that are not shown are either in use/ in laundry basket/ eaten/ given away/ etc.

THE BAJUS

errr, guess how many pc are there in the photo? No prize though. 'x'

THE KASUTS

Let me model the shoes a bit.

This one actually a bit shiny. But its not reflected in this photo. Never mind, its really nice if you see it for yourself. I was lucky they still had the smallest size, the next 2 bigger size after the smallest was all sold out. *HAPPY ME*

I like this pair too. Something different from what I normally would choose. Also smallest size. See how much effort I put into modelling these shoes?AHAHAH. I even put on skirt and panty hose.

I'm keeping this for CNY. Simple and nice. Suitable to wear to work.

Cute. I saw alot Taipei girls wearing something like this. But the ones they wore got wool lining inside. Too hot for Malaysia. So I chose something that is more suitable.

How can I come back without a pair of boots. Too hot to wear on normal days though. I shall wear it at night or when got formal dinners.

SOME OF THE SOUVENIRS

Striped one is to be given to my SIL. The other two cute ones are to be given to my young cousins. :)

MISCELLANEOUS

don't know how to categorize this. In this photo apa-apa pun ada. Makeup, Majorlica majorca mascaras (which is not available in msia), accessories, my beauty diary masks, etc.

LEGGINGS AND BELTS

Leggings are very in there now. But don't know for how long. AHHAHA. Anyway, I bought the more plain looking ones.

Anyway, let me summarize a bit on my taiwan trip.

HOSPITALITY : EXCELLENT! If I can, I will give Taiwan "The most polite chinese populated country in the world" award. The people are so polite. Except for the aunty that is selling crabs at Keelung 'x'. Avoid her. The crabs not nice also. Kuching ones are 100x better and tastier. Hers is super expensive some more.

FOOD : Its a bit disappointing. The ones that are really popular with long queue didn't taste special to us. But we did manage to try on some really good food. Not to mention a really good Beef Noodle which will be mentioned in the future.

ACCESSIBILITY : Its easy to move around from places to places. Got bus, got high speed train, got MRT, got Taxi.Some places got shuttle bus some more. If you have done your homework, I think its easy to move around in Taiwan.

SHOPPING : GOOD. Look at how much I bought. 'x' I mean, its not really cheap. But the sales persons working in the shops/stalls are so polite and friendly, I find it a pleasant experience to shop at their places. Even if you don't buy what they promote, they won't force you or scold you. They still smile politely.

ACCOMODATION : there's plenty of homestays and affordable hotels to choose from. The one we stayed are good. I shall talk more on these in the future. Not now. AHAHHA.

I would love to go back to Taiwan one day.

Next post would be on what I bought for Mango. Stay tuned~~

Hellooo Kuching

2009-10-16T18:21:00.002+08:00

I'm back~~

Just got back from Taiwan..TEEHEEHEE..

updates soon.

I have decided..

2009-09-29T18:42:00.001+08:00

not to colour my hair...

AHAHHA!

which is good right? Save money. Save time.

to Colour or not to Colour

2009-09-21T15:45:00.000+08:00

I have a sudden urge to do something to my hair.

I did short before.
I did curls before.
I did Aaron Kwok before (High School, don't ask)
I did highlights before.
I always got rebond my hair ( at least nowadays to the hair root).

There's one thing I have never done to my hair. OK, two things may be. The other one is becoming bald WHICH I HOPE WILL NEVER EVER HAPPEN TO ME. *touch wood*

Ok, this one thing that I had never done to my hair is to dye it whole. I KNOW...people do it when they are 17/18, as soon as they left high school. But back then, I really love my jet black hair. Somemore my ever so strict dad drop hints at us to never colour our hair. BLA BLA BLA. But when I started to work. I felt ADVENTUROUS. I totally forgot dad's warning and did HIGHLIGHT. But he didn't say anything ler. I guess he FORGOT also?'x' OR may be he couldn't care less, because at home I am the one with the fashion fashion thingy. And I am the stubborn one.

BUT NOW, I feel like dyeing the whole thing. I see what colour did to others. Coloured hair people look younger and more radiant. If I don't like it, I can still always dye it back to black right?

HMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM. Will see how...........

Frienz N Family

2009-09-17T22:28:00.015+08:00

What do people first think of when Jalan Song is mentioned? Yes, its the FOOD. Every night, Jalan Song comes alive. We have almost everything here, spoilt with choices. From street food, to korean, to Pizza Hut and (not long ago) Starbucks.

I think its both lucky and unlucky for us to live in this area. It depends. When I'm lazy to cook, we can always walk for food. But its hard for us to resist the temptation when food is so easily accessible.SIGH, expanding waistline..

Anyway, from time to time, I shall share about what we tried here. The good and the bad. What we love, what we loathe. :)

And for today, its Frienz N Family Semi Fine Dining Restaurant.

The signboard sure caught our attention.

The walls are painted in shades of pink. I think Pink Cotton and Red Sponge will like this place. The dimmed lights made some wall appear red.

Now, we went to this place twice. The first time was like 2 wks ago.

1st visit:

Mushroom soup. VERY TASTY and FLAVORFUL. I forgot the price. I think its about RM5.90. I enjoyed it very much. But don't really like it when I found bay leaves in the soup. In my opinion, I think it should be removed.

I ordered pasta for myself. I forgot the name, I think its Carbonara. Presentation is good, but its not one of the best Pasta I have ever eaten. Its creamy, but the taste is quite bland. I won't order it again. Price should be around Rm12.90.

Oink ordered Lamb Chop for himself. I think the presentation of the dish is very nicely done. The taste? yummy! I definitely like this dish more than my pasta. Price should be between RM13 - Rm14.90.

2nd visit:

Our drinks! Oink had Teh Tarik and I had Watermelon juice (RM4.80)

Oink ordered Lamb Stew. DELICIOUS! RM 16.90.

I ordered JohnDory Grilled Fish. YUMMY! But its a bit cold. May be because of the aircon. RM12.90.

Overall, Frienz N Family is a good place to dine. The price is reasonable. Most of the food I tried is good (except for the pasta). I will definitely go there again. :)

Birthdays

2009-09-02T13:25:00.002+08:00

It was Aden's birthday on the 23rd August. And redsponge and CCW threw him a BIRTHDAY PARTY!

And the proud parents ordered Thomas & Friends cake and cute cupcakes, which Oink and I was given one each *happy*

I was getting ready to the party. I tied up a pony tail. And was thinking it looked a bit dull. So I open my drawer to look for a hair band, and something caught my eye. So I use it.

Its a bra strap.AHAHAHA! I seldom use it anyway. At least it has another use for it.

Last weekend, the in laws decided to celebrate Oink's birthday earlier. I wanted to surprise Oink. With a cake! So I asked Selina's help. I had to lie a few times to Oink, telling him I go out with another friend but in actual fact, I was out shopping for the ingredients with Selina and making the cake.

The blueberry cheesecake.

Now putting all the cream nicely on the cake is x2 more difficult than the baking and mixing and all.

JENG JENG JENG!

The cake done with all decorations and stuff. Although its not very pretty, but I did it with love. In case you are wondering, the letters are made from "agar-agar" ahahaha!

and today, is Oink's Birthday! HAPPY BIRTHDAY DEAREST!

Sore Fingers

2009-08-18T13:22:00.002+08:00

Have you ever had sore fingers before? I did! Yesterday!

I think its the result of me typing codes non-stop. Well, at least I was super productive yesterday. 8-)

OH WAIT!

I think its from 2 days (weekend) straight playing potapon 2 on my PSP. :-p

P/S its still sore now. :(

Lately I feel old..

2009-08-12T16:57:00.005+08:00

You know you are old when the teens and kids selling drinks at Kuching Fest calls you AUNTY . SIGGGHHHHHHHHHH But they call Oink Uncle too, but it does not effect him emotionally much (unlike me), cos memang he is UNCLE level already 'x'

But lately the "old feeling" came back stronger and slapped me on the face.

when..

*starting to get teary eyed*

my younger brother, whom I bullied when he was still a kid, whom cried together with me when our cat died, whom I chatted with till late at night while lying on our beds (we shared room till I finished primary school) announce that he got a GF. I used to make him tell his school stories to me when I cannot sleep. Up until now, I made Oink tell me stories/ sing when I can't sleep. I know! I am such a baby sometimes. :p

I still remember the day when we send him to KL to study. This baby brother of mine, whom never once spent a day without us beside him, is going away to study. We are not a family that shows our affection or any emotion openly. But that day, while looking at my bro go into the departure hall, ours eyes were red. Well, time flies and behold, he finished his engineering course. And I got even more shocked when he brought his girlfriend to stay with us at the hotel when we go KL for his convocation. IMAGINE! MY GEEKY BRO! GOT GF ALREADY! ITS SIMPLY TOO MUCH FOR ME TO DIGEST! AHAHAH

Anyway, the first day there, I saw that my bro is still too shy to hold the gf's hand in front of us, quite funny, I keep want to giggle when walking behind them. But as they walk in front of us, I look at them, I feel both happy and sad at the same time. Happy that my bro finally got people want 'x'!! and sad because that means soon he might start to have his own family. So this is how parents feel when their kids marry off. I think next time when my own kids start their own family elsewhere, I will cry a river laaa..AHAHHA

Come, I intro you guys to my bro..

eyes looking elsewhere, actually he was checking to see the GF come already not.

Aiyo, my dad also look elsewhere..tsk tsk tsk..really like father like son.

Our photo when we were little..I look kinda boyish in this photo. But I look much cuter and ladylike now lo..(muka tembok)

And look how grown he is now...time flies...

And how ironic, the day we were to leave KL for home. The TV at the hotel was showing the cartoon me and my bro used to watch when we were still little during school holidays. We even acted out the plot when we were kids. AHAHAHA. I stood there and watch the cartoon, and sweet memories flooded my mind. Luckily the room was dark, because at that time, that very moment, my eyes was swollen with tears.

*sniff*

By the way, my bro is in Penang working now. Say hi to him for me if you see him.

not-so-new 50 note

2009-07-27T23:12:00.003+08:00

Remember last year ppl paid more than RM50 to buy the new RM50?

Well, I got them last night when I went to take them from the ATM machine. At first I felt weird how come the 50s that came out seem different, then I realized its the ~~new~~ not-so-new 50 notes. NO WONDER the uncle before me stood there for a long time staring at the money in his wallet.

Ok, to the Malaysians working/ studying out there,this is the new look of RM50. As compared to the old one.

Front

Back

Last Week

2009-07-27T09:11:00.001+08:00

Monday - Had trouble waking up in the morning due to the insomnia I had during the weekend which is due to too much day time sleeping 'x'. Had a briefing with some user who are new to my system. Grumbled when I received email on CHANGE REQUESTS to my other system (system C) in the afternoon.

Tuesday - Again having trouble to wake up. Brushed my teeth while thinking what should I do for today. And it was decided to continue with my new system development in the morning and change according to requests for the System C in the afternoon. But once I got to office, I started with System C instead 'x'

Wednesday -AGAIN! Just because of a disturbed sleeping routine in the weekend, it totally affected my week. The usuals at work. Had lunch and found a worm in my vege. Proves that my vege was not chemically treated.'x' Better than finding cockroach/ flies in my lunch. Oink said its extra protein. I told him he can have it if he wants 'x'

Thursday - I had to use all my force in my eye muscle to lift my eye lids open. AHAHAHA. Work was as usual. Had lunch at McDonald's, was sooo full.

Friday - Still having trouble waking up. Work was as usual but did it more "relaxing-ly" .TGIF. Taking it slow and steady. Had Indian lunch with Oink. After lunch, my work progressed even slower. AHAHAH. That was until I got an email routed to me AT 4.30pm!! which required a job done in 3 working days. *GRUMBLE* I don't want to leave it till next week. So I just proceeded with the job. Luckily its an easy one. Feeling really contented that I solved it, and I would have one less thing to worry in the weekend.

Saturday - Overslept! Supposed to go BP Health Centre to do blood test early in the morning. By the time we got up, fed Mango and wait for her to pee and poo, got ready, its almost 10.40 am. 'x' When we were at BP, we had our weight and height measured. I dropped 3 ++ kg. I happily announced it to Oink. In which he replied :" THAT'S BECAUSE YOU HAVEN'T EATEN YET MA.." -.-"'

Sunday - Went to this quite new kopitiam near our house to find the choices is really limited. Baked some potatoes when I got home. And it was amazing-ly delicious. San went to Hong Kong & Macau, and gave me some egg tarts from Macau. SO YUMMMY OK?! I really miss the egg tarts. And it soooo good. I keep repeating its soo yummy while eating the tarts.

TWO WOMEN TALK

2009-07-22T12:36:00.001+08:00

Jackie and I were chatting about the last movie we watched together, in fact it seem like the only movie we ever watched together..I think..

Then we just can't seem to recall the movie we watched that time.

I remember there's Jee and she remembered there's Oink. AHAHA..

I remember the smell of sugarbun's broasted chicken. Jackie was preggie that time, and she and Jee ate the chicken while watching movie, smell damn nice loo... 'x'

She remembered we went to toilet together..

I remembered we got stop by petrol station to buy bottled drinks.

But we just can't seem to remember what movie we watched!O.o

Sigh... I guess forgetfulness is a sign of aging? But then, we can remember the other details!

NO NO NO, we are not old, MUST BE THE MOVIE NOT INTERESTING ENOUGH FOR US TO REMEMBER! YUP! that's it! 'x'

SO LUCKY!

2009-07-20T12:38:00.002+08:00

Yesterday so happy lo

FIRST TIME!

in my mahjong-playing-history,

I won this big..okay...it may not be very big to others, but this is my GREATEST achievement in Mahjong to date ok?

So I took photo of my winning tiles. 'x'

At first, its not a "dui dui" tiles. I keep getting flower tiles, see the many flower tiles on the first row? left 2 hiding uncovered, the rest didn't even manage to get any flower. And finally I manage to "zhi mo" "7 shuo"

WAHAHAH, so damn happy ok! "zhi mo" kok!!

"ZHI MO"! " "DUI DUI"! "OWN FLOWER"! "BAI BAN"!"HUNG ZHONG"! left one big tile then I can make it to "Da 3 yuan"!

But then I am happy enough, since I manage to "zhi mo" a tile myself to win this game.

LUCKY!

Addiction

2009-07-16T15:12:00.002+08:00

I am recently quite addicted to online shopping.

I buy clothes, hair stuff, accessories online. And I am like a step away from buying shoes online but scared that it won't fit me/ look good on me.
Although they look soooo tempting and drop dead gorgeous in the photos. *hands itchy* Its so hard to find a shoe you really like in Kuching. They don't stock up shoes your size alot ( I wear size 4.5) and definitely not alot designs to choose from.Think boring *yawn*. I usually shop for shoes at KL. And if I really really badly truly need a shoe, I will go to Hock Lee's Heatwave, they always have my size.

I don't know why, I think its soo much easier to shop online for clothes once you know your size since all these online boutiques do describe the measurements. And its MUCH cheaper also! Even with the postage. I saw an exact turtle neck I bought online here at one of the shops along Jalan Tun Jugah. And guess what?That shop sell more than RM 10 more expensive than what I pay online (excluding the postage fee)
I saw another exact same piece at another shop at Jalan Tun Jugah selling at RM75 and the tauke neo say cannot less anymore online and guess what?Its selling for less than RM50. What the...!

If you shop online also won't have a sales promoter tagging you like a puppy, complimenting HOW GOOD you look in their clothes even though in reality, it looks so fugly on you. For all these reasons, I am soo into shopping online. There's a risk though, I once bought a dress of a poor quality :(. But now, as I more experienced in online shopping compared to then, I know which online shops I can go, and which not.

Besides, the fashion in online shops is much more IN and have MORE variety. BUT! buying online you have to act FAST. You cannot think long long like when you are in the changing room. The more popular online boutiques always have their GOOD STUFF grabbed up before you can even click to see the enlarged photos. AHHA . I once naively thought that the next day the clothes will still be available,
Let me think on whether to buy not first, only to have the status of that clothes that I finally decided to buy changed to SOLD OUT,or only left stock with colours that people with no colour blind wants.. SIGHHH..AHAHAH

When I get my salary this month, I shall do some more online shopping. AHAHHA

The pearl hair band I recently purchased.

NICE? Had to cover my eyes with my had to protect them from the flash.

Betime Story

2009-07-03T12:00:00.000+08:00

One night when I am unwell, I was soo sleepy. Tired. But then since its still early, I felt like its so sayang to sleep so early.'x' Hope you get what I mean. But then, I need to sleep early cos I am sick, but then feel like chatting with Oink who was surfing the net, reading football news beside me. I told Oink things at office and etc. Then I said "aiyah, you tell me story till I sleep la.."

So he began with " Once upon a time.."

" there's a bird, it caught a worm and flew back to its nest. It then feed the worm to chick no.1, then chick no.2, chick no.3, chick no.4, youngest chick..

then feed chick no.1 again, then chick no.2 again, chick no.3 again, chick no.4 again, youngest chick again.." I can see where this story is leading -.-"'

I interrupted " HOW CAN?!! how can a single worm feed so many chicks, so many time??!"

Oink replied " aiyah, the bird cut the worm to small pieces ma.."

me : O.O!! What the..

Oink : " then a boy came with 'lastik(sling shot)' and the nest is hit and all the birdie died.."

me : O.o!! "HAR...you want to give me nightmare is it?"

Oink : *chuckles* "OK OK, I change the story a bit.. The boy missed and all the birdies live happily ever after..together..~the end~ "

Then I dozed off and slept :)

Hilton High Tea

2009-07-02T09:18:00.003+08:00

Last Saturday, we had high tea at Hilton.

Hilton is having its 21st Anniversary, and is currently having promotion for all its buffet at 21++

However, I believe most of it should have been fully booked.

Because our high tea was PACKED with people, HUNGRY people. People here and there, and the food run out fast. So we had to grab the food fast also.

This is my first plate of food. I am lazy to take any more photos of the food cos I am hungry and since there's a lot of people moving around, it won't be convenient for me to do so too.

And guess who joined us ( there's 12 of us all together)?

Gabbie! She was napping most of the time and woke up when we are almost done chomping on food. Her chubby cheeks so cute laa..

I am sick and tired

2009-06-26T12:02:00.002+08:00

which is true...

because I have been coughing for more than a week now. Why oh why that it seem that my sickness is getting more n more difficult to heal as I grow? I miss a lot of good food you know?

I miss eating spicy chicken wings, i miss mcd's fries, I miss ice cream, I miss nasi lemak...sighhhhhhhhhh

and the last time when I thought I am almost recovered, I went binging on all those forbidden food I cannot have when coughing. And ended up with more coughing!

I would wake up suddenly at nights, and cough like hell! And it feels difficult for me to breathe after I cough, and my tears just flowed n flowed when I cough like that. And on Wednesday night, I coughed till vomited :(

very sad la, when will I get back to normal?

Ho Chin Minh Day 3

2009-06-24T12:00:00.001+08:00

*** WARNING: IF your name is FELICIA THEN, DON'T READ THIS POST, cos I posted up a photo of something you will be terrified off, don't say I didn't warn you..AHAHAH***

Our activity for today is mainly on Mekong river. We had a ride on one of these boats while viewing what little is left of their floating market.

Look at this, they practically live on their boat.

I started to notice there's "eyes" on the boats. Can you see it?

We then stopped somewhere along the river to this little village, where they made some local products.

Here you can see how the rice paper is made. My tour guide is by her side explaining the process.

My guide call this "rice popcorn"..AHHAHA.

It tasted AWESOME when I plucked some of hot ones out from the tray after they erm "stir-fry" it. Its actually just like the "bee pang" we have here back home.

They have these bottles of snake wine lined up. And they are giving away free samples. In which I told my dad of, and "encouraged" him to go and try it out 'x'

This is him, before drinking. Saying "cheers"

This is after. AHHAHAA. The expression is PRICELESS.

In the itinerary, its stated that we will need to ride bicycles to our lunch place. I thought that it will be a piece of cake for me since I can ride very well. Expecting it to be mountain bikes. BOY, how I WAS WRONG! THIS IS VIETNAM! They had these black bicycles, with NON-ADJUSTABLE seats, no gear, I think they are from the war times.No photo of it, cos all the taller peoples have left, even the Caucasian teenager is taller than me! WHY OH WHY am I not taller? I should follow my mum! She left riding on a motorcycle. I was the last one cos I was looking around for a bike that I can climb up to. But they all have the same height! I then resorted to SLAPPING on the seat, hoping to make it go lower. FAILED! My dad is yelling at me, asking me to keep up or I will get lost, so guess what did I do?I jump on the bike, and ride on. We soon reach a bridge that is going upwards, and guess what? I pedaled and pedaled and JUST can't go up. So I need to jump down again, and walk over the bridge. My dad is losing his patience and yelling for me to keep up. I was last to arrive at the restaurant, I had to ride my bike onto the wall to stop 'x', the girl working in the restaurant even CHUCKLED, I bet she can ride that antique without any trouble.HMPH.

This is what they call an elephant fish.

Some veges and herbs, I didn't touch any of the herbs. This is suppose to be wrapped together with the fish and sauce in the rice paper sheets.

my pork and vege lunch. The pork is SOOO nice. It reminded me of satay.

After lunch, we had some free time. So I just lie around on a hammock and look at the photos I took.

We were then brought by our guide further into the village.

where we would have another boat ride.

This is Suani, and we are on the same boat. He is also sitting next to me in the tour bus. He is quite funny, for all those questions in English that I asked, he will just nod and say yes if he don't understand even though its a why or how questions. HAHAHA!

This is our young "Gondolier". AHAHAH. Suani kept flirting with her.

It was a pleasant ride. Relaxing, where we look at the village houses by the river.

That's all. We then went back to the hotel with our bus, and most of us were so tired that we slept through the way back.

Clean Up Day

2009-06-20T14:49:00.002+08:00

Oink and I clean & tidy the house every fortnight. And Mango doesn't like it. Why?

Because its noisy with all the loud sound made by the vacuum. She is a bit afraid of the vacuum, always running away when its near. Sometime she pretends she's cool with it. And runs away, when its 1 cm away from her. AHAHHA. My dog is funny! But I love her so.

That day when we clean up the house, I caught her in this very sad state.

AHAHAHA! this Mango so very the cute. I guess she felt safer there, anything can just jump down to the car porch.

EMO

2009-06-12T17:18:00.000+08:00

This whole week sleepy don't know why. Before you guess I am pregnant, I am NOT.
I am pretty sure cos now having the time of the month 'x'

its been a long time since I've last blog, cos I don't have much interesting to share. I did a lot reading lately though.

Went to pay doctor a visit this morning for my cough.

This week seem to fly pass me, and now its Friday, and I don't really feel happy.'x'

I need some happy stuff to cheer me up!

IF ONLY!!

2009-05-29T18:23:00.006+08:00

if only I am not so eager to get home early..

if only I am more alert..

If only I was not so deeply in thought about tomorrow's plan..

if only I look to the left just before I make that turning..

my wukui won't be like this!!

BOOOOHOOOOHOOOOO! my poor wukui!

When I turn left, I didn't notice there's a bike on my left, just a bit behind me, I turned and BAM! It hit the left side passenger door. I turned my head to the sound, and its like in slow motion, I saw the motorcyclist and his passenger fall to their left before the driver manage to balance with his left foot and hold onto his motorbike.

My first word was SH*T! Never was I in such a situation. What should I DO? My first thought was to call Oink, but I seem to froze, my eyes keep checking on the 2 motorcyclists to see if they are ok. They seem ok, but the rider was a bit angry and yelled something at me. Cars behind me honked. I am paralyzed, numb, but still manage to signal "I AM SORRY" Its a miracle that the guy didn't demand me to come down and demand for some sort of compensation. He signaled for me to go ahead. So I left, still signing "I AM SORRY" with my left hand.

I parked my car in front of the house gate and proceeded to SMS Oink, I didn't know why I didn't call. My heart was still pounding.

and its still pounding now..:(

btw, tomorrow I am going back to Belaga, to visit my grandma.

I left office happy, but now sad and shocked..booohooohooo

*update : Oink is back, and he said my damages seem to be more to the back instead of the front, and he asked me did I put on signal, I remember I did, I always do. He said should be the motorcyclist's fault, which I think back, it could be true.I was halfway into the junction liao when the motorcycle hit my wukui, and I did put on signal, he should have looked also. WTH, I still let him yell at me and I still signaled sorry...I am a bit angry now la. My poor wukui! Anyway, his motorcycle was very old liao. NO wonder he is so "kind" ask me to go without asking me to compensate what-so-ever..GRRR..angry lah! This is my first time in such a situation, never mind, next time I'll know.

zap zap zap..

2009-05-18T13:51:00.000+08:00

I don't know about you, sometimes I wish I could teleport from one place to another.You know kinda like in the guy in the movie "Jumper" but minus the impact of the "jumping"

There's no need to buy a car. Saves money 'x'. No need pay for petrol. Yippee. By the way, there will an increase of petrol price on 1st September,
so i guess alot of people will spend their merdeka day queuing to buy the cheaper petrol 'x'

I can be anywhere I want to be. *zap* Japan *zap* now Paris *zap* *zap* *zap*
There's no need for airplanes and no need susah-susah to try to buy those FREE seats air tickets.

You don't waste time stuck in a f**ck*** jam. Although the jam here is not as bad as KL or even Bangkok, but still a jam is a jam. And I hate the jam.
Especially when driving home from work. How nice if I could do this : 5.30pm. Pack. *ZAP*. Home sweet home, watching 6pm singaporean series. AHHHH, how nice it would be.

You can escape anytime. When terserempak the last person you wished to see on earth *zap* you are away from him/ her.

*zap zap zap* I wish I am in my bed now, so sleepy..zzz..*zap zap zap* still at work..CISSSSSSSSSS

Mango's meal

2009-05-10T17:04:00.004+08:00

We don't let Mango eat simply anything. Most of the time, we make sure what she eats is not oily, not too salty, and definitely no chocolate or candy for her. But sometimes I sneaked her some chips, or nuts when Oink is not looking. :-p We are lucky that Mango is not picky, she eats everything, even bitter gourd (Oink and I don't eat :-p)!

Mango eats 2 meals a day. In the morning, she will have her dog biscuit.On weekdays' evenings, when she is at my parents', Mum usually boil chicken meat, to be mixed with rice for her dinner. And when she's here, I will prepare her dinner. Usually its chicken also. Sometime I include in carrot/ potato, which she love. She can eat raw carrot like a rabbit! Mango also need balanced diet ma, like us human. So that she will always be healthy. A healthy dog, is a happy dog :)

This is what she had yesterday evening..

first, I chopped the carrot into small cubes.

I include in some finely chopped garlic. The reason I include in garlic is because I read online, this can ward off fleas as her blood won't smell sweet anymore. Once I let her eat some pumpkin, and that very day, she was covered with fleas! Mum and I was so shocked! poor mango..its my fault :(, the pumpkin is sweet, maybe that's why the fleas attacked her. I don't want to bath her with some chemical laden flea shampoo, so I researched online and found this effective method. Till now, I found no flea at all on Mango.

Sliced chicken meat. I seasoned them with some soy sauce and some chicken stock powder. That's all.

Mix them all up. Steam for 10 minutes. When its cooked, I let it cool off first. Don't let it get cold, serve it when its still a bit warm.

Ready!

Mango enjoying her dinner, outside..AHAHA..I make her eat outside because she always make a mess on the floor when eating.

3 Pretty Girls

2009-05-06T13:57:00.002+08:00

Come closer...I got good news to tell you.

Ask you a few questions first:
(1) Do you use facial mask?
(2) Do you always go to guardian/ watson to get them?
If you answer YES to both, I got a cheaper solution for you. Go here:

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We sell some of the masks at a much affordable price. Yes, go to the site, if you don't believe me.

Ho Chin Minh - Day 2

2009-04-25T18:23:00.010+08:00

Before I talked about day 2. I want to talk about my dad 'x'

The night before, we went to this western style restaurant for dinner. The area we are staying are the backpackers area. So there's a lot ang mo. And thus got ang mo restaurant. I was famished, so I ordered pasta. Then my dad, of all the choices and selections, ordered MALAYSIAN CHAR KUEH TIAW. =.="

Then hor, don't know what type of meat they put in, my dad woke up the next day with gout pain on his hand.

So he became grumpy 'x'. And I have to carry everything myself. The water, the biscuit in case my dad grew hungry and grumpy 'x'.He gets hungry quite easily. And when he's hungry, he's grumpy.HAHA.

Anyway, we booked a half day tour to Cu Chi tunnel. Its a network of tunnels dug by the vietnamese ppl during war. And is later used in the war with the US Army. And the US army, never get to win any battle in the tunnel area. Its too complicated, the tunnel is also too small for the bigger built ang mo.Should be something like that, I can't really remember.

This is our tour guide of the day, "Mr. Bean" @ Billy. He was a US navy before. Yes, a Vietnamese working for the US Army during the war. He was born in US, or so he claimed. And later move back to Vietnam. Anyway, he was explaining about the tunnels. And there's this documentary showing, filmed during war time. Its in black and white and I find it a bit boring 'x'

Mr Bean told us, in order to track the Viet Cong better, they brought in a lot of dogs. But as the days goes by, they notice the dogs are getting lesser and lesser. They found out the Viet Congs catch them, and eat them 'x'.

either that, or they end up here.

Dead. Poor dogs.

This is the sniper hole. There will a VC hiding inside, when a US soldier pass by, he will just pop up and shoot. Mr Bean told us, the day before, a very big Caucasian lady went down in that hole, but later on cannot seem to come out, she was stuck, so they had to pull and pull. They finally manage to pull her up, without all her clothing below her waistline 'x'.

The Viet Congs dug tunnels to the US Army base to steal their weapons. I think that's very clever of them, using the enemy's weapon to fight back.

There's a few mannequins dressed in military attire here and there. And of course we took photos with them. Thats when I notice the wig, or should I sat the hair. Looks soo much like real hair!

Footwear made from tyre. They claim its very durable. Felt tempted to buy one pair for Oink. His sandals never last long.

We then proceeded to the shooting range area. Here is the place where you can buy bullets and shoot from AK47, and other types of guns, I can only remember AK47. HEHE.
If I am not mistaken, 10 AK47 bullets cost 22,000 VND each. Minimum purchase is 10 bullets. My dad say he would try if his hand was not painful. I was not even interested. I hated the shooting sound. It sounded awful, it sounded like killing, it sounded like death. So I bought a can of cola, look for a seat and relax.

We then moved to the one section of the tunnel which is open for the public. A 40m tunnel. Small and very dark. We didn't even had torch light. Its soo small, I had to bend over and walk, with a big heavy bag on my back. I have to bend my knees also to make sure the stuff in my bag don't get squashed. Didn't manage to take any photo, cos dad keep urging me to go faster, or else we will be separated from the group. Don't know why he's so worried, the tunnel is only one way bah.. every now and then, there's a hole, a "pit stop" for you to get out to get some air. I stopped at every one of them. Its so dark inside, we have to feel with our hands so that we won't bump onto anything. Anyway, I gave up half way and trace my exit based on the holes in the ground. AHHAA..

Mr Bean, explaining how these trap works. DEADLY MAN. I had goosebumps then and there.

Soon the half day tour ends.We got back to the guest house. Mum and dad wanted to nap. So they napped while I watch TV.

They woke up like 2 hours ++ later, and we took taxi to go Saigon Duty Free Shop. Only to find its closed after 5pm!! BAHHHH!!HOW CAN? should open till night ma.

We went to watch water puppet show later that night. Nothing to shout about but quite interesting. If only I could understand the dialogs. Its all in Vietnamese.

ok, this is a random photo. I saw a wedding going on, so I snapped a photo. There's another wedding going on at the hotel next to this one also. I think its a good day to marry in Vietnam on the 6th April, since its their holiday. I saw a lot weddings on the way to Cu Chi at the villages. But back at home here, its "Qing Ming"

Ho Chin Minh - day 1

2009-04-21T21:54:00.007+08:00

A very belated post..hehe

I am truly busy with stuff. There's alot to juggle.Beside the computer I am using now SUCKS. SO SLOW. Feel like buying a new one 'x'

anyway..lets proceed to Ho Chin Minh now shall we?

I got one thing to say about the place.

ITS HOT! SO HOT! I 'tidak tahan'! Alot motorbikes. And a lot noise pollution cos all the cars, bikes keep sounding the horn. I think that's how they communicate 'x'

After we checked into our guesthouse. We changed and proceed with Taxi to the war museum. Only to find it closed and only open at 1.30pm. So we walk around, since I've checked the map, all the major attractions are within walking distance. Then we saw the reunification palace, only to find it closed too..GRRRR, and will only open at 1.30pm also. SO i suggest we walk to the church they say look like Notre Dame in Paris.

not bad, quite pretty the architecture. I like! But then still very hot.

Then we saw a nice building nearby.

We saw a lot of people inside. Thinking its a market, we just go in. And its too hot to stay long outside too. It took me awhile to realize what this building is. Can you guess what it is?

Its a post office! So nice one! Ok, for those who guess it correctly don't get a prize 'x'

Dad immediately grew excited when he found out its a post office. He after all, spent most of his working life in one. And no, my dad was not a postman. 'x'

so we hang out there and soon its 1.30pm. So we walk back to the reunification palace.

Doesn't look very palace-grand-like to me. In case you don't know, you need to go through the scanner-machinery-thingy like in the airport, before you can go into the palace compound. And one of the guard complimentedme, say I am pretty, in CHINESE! WAHAHA, he has good taste..memang I am pretty 'x' *muka tembok*

basically visitors to the palace are shown the various rooms available in the palace. The usuals, the dining rooms, YES ROOMS, got more than one dining room, and they all looked grand, like in hotel 'x', living rooms, meeting rooms, library, bedrooms, the bedrooms seem common to me, nothing fancy, they even have a small cinema.

I want these mahjong tiles. so retro!

We hang out a bit at the palace, cos it started to rain heavily. But then its STILL HOT lo!

After that we proceed to the War Museum.

Once you step into the museum, you will see various types of tanks and jets and such. I am not very interested in such stuff. I hate the war. But my dad always watch these war movies. So he was quite curious in everything.

Look at him..ahaha..look like a kid.

ok, this is one of the prison cells in which they kept the prisoners. THIS IS NOT A REAL HUMAN ok! Whoever made this made it eerily same to the real man who was kept prisoner here for decades. What caught my attention is the scribblings in Chinese characters on the wall.

I briefly translate it here :

*clear throats*

although I am in a prison,
but my spirit is not,
in order to achieve a big goal,
one must have a bigger spirit

ok, I hope what I translated is close to what he scribbled cos my mandarin is really BAD. never get good grade for mandarin during my schooling days.

There are a lot of graphical photos taken during the war. But I shall spare you the agony. Some photos are really heart-wrenching. And my blog is a happy blog. 'x'

there's alot of parks nearby these buildings. And most of them are packed with people.

Just chatting and loitering, doing nothing, under the VERY HOT SUN. How can they tahan??!!

2009-04-06T08:44:00.001+08:00

Greetings from Ho Chin Minh!

I am coming back home today!

can't wait to see Oink and Mango! Can't wait! Can't wait!Can't wait!

didn't get to do much shopping, dad had a gout attack. So we try to minimize the activity. They sleep pretty early. While I watching TV everynight here..AHAHAH.

2009-04-01T17:28:00.004+08:00

From Gaby to Gabbie

Jaqq has given me permission to post up Gabbie's photos.

come!~ lets check out Gabbie

Memang daddy's daughter la her. Looks sooo much like Jee. But the hair luckily thick like mama :->

Look! Gabbie smile at you.. YES! YOU!

P/S: I'll be away on a short Ho Chin Minh trip from Friday to Monday with my parents. MWHEHE...So long didn't have a trip with my parents. Can't wait! So Oink and Mango will stay at home and look after the house 'x' I mean houses.

2009-03-28T16:03:00.004+08:00

What will you be doing for Earth Hour tonight?

I mean beside switching off your lights and stuff.

I haven't really thought of anything to do yet.

hmmm..SLEEP maybe?ROFL! Too early..

But I probably know what mango would do ..

She'll probably do this...

AHAHAHA, look at her "waiting face"!

I wanted to give her a bath last week. I put her in the pail and went into the house to get something. And when I came back and saw this..I can't help but feel my heart melting..SO CUTE LA..so I quick quick grab my camera and SNAP!

Anyway, if I can't find anything exciting to do tonight. There's always my PSP. I love my PSP!:D! Or probably go shopping and waste money 'x' I love shopping too!

2009-03-24T09:28:00.003+08:00

Baby Gaby

My dear friend Jaqq has become a mama last Saturday!
I visited baby Gaby the next day. I somehow forgot to take photo of her with my HP. 'x'!!!
But even if I had the photo, I think I should let the proud parents to show Gaby off to the world first. Right? right?right?

But I wonder though, when will they update their blog with Gaby's photo. (Their last post was a belated xmas post!'x'!!!)

But since I saw Gaby, touched Gaby, saw Gaby smiled (yes! she smiled when her mama touched her little nose, how cuteeeee)I am happy enough,
but pity you guys need to wonder how Gaby looks like. AHHAHAHA!!

Anywayyyy, Gaby's full name will be Gabrielle Tsan. I am not yet informed of her mandarin name. But we call her Gaby for short. Baby Gaby~

2009-03-13T22:53:00.002+08:00

HIGH~HIGH~ UP IN THE SKY~

LOOK!
I flew a kite!
and it flew up high...

AAAAAAAHHHHHHH..

WAHHHHH.....*feeling proud*

but then ..

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!

BAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!GRRRRR!!ROARRRRR

sepandai-pandai tupai melompat, akhirnya jatuh ke tanah juga (AHAHAHA! but then macam not really suitable to use this in this situation)

2009-03-02T22:24:00.002+08:00

Today is my dad's last day of work, and he called me today...

and this is how it goes

dad: Today is my last day of work.

me: har?but your birthday is not today

dad: I finish off my leaves ma..

me: ohhhh...then what do you plan to do at home?

dad: RELAX

me : RELAX niah??i think you will be bored soon.

Something tells me my dad won't be enjoying his relaxation after two months of doing it.

'x'

2009-02-27T22:51:00.002+08:00

Guess What?

I'm going Sushi King for brunch tomorrow 'x'

and guess what?

I am bringing Oink with me(~~he forced me~~ ).

Cos i got TWO vouchers worth rm60!

Sushi, sashimi, tempura..oishii!

2009-02-19T22:31:00.002+08:00

FORGIVE ME..

for since it has been WEEKS since I last blogged. Not sure anyone still reads my blog not.
Recently, I've learnt something new, something addicting, something that need analyzing.
Its called MAHJONG.ROFL!!! Mahjong, badminton, shopping, taichi, watch drama, watch anime, play games..where I got time to blog kok??? AHAHA. But fear not, I will try to blog more after this.

I am always curious about mahjong. My family don't know how to play. And I don't really know anyone who knows how to play them as I grow up. Until, I am married to OINK! I always knew my father in law knows how to play. Its not until recently my father in law bought a new square table, put out his mahjong sets and SUDDENLY I realise all of them knew how to play!! At first I only observed. Then, my 1st time playing, I didn't even get to win even once. Its such a perfect timing that happygolucky gave me an online site where I can play Mahjong online with other players! So I practiced there.

And tonight is the 2nd time I play Mahjong. I won for the first time tonight. So happy I feel like celebrating, although its only a small winning. Then with guide from my master sifu(father in law) I won 3 more times, and even "PIN HE" once! but when he left I started to lose again.ROFL!

But then during the last game, I "PIN HE" all by myself. I feel so proud!AHAHAHAH..

MAHJONG IS INDEED ADDICTIVE. Now I want to go online play kok...HAHA

WANNA PLAY? WE can meet online and play!It'll be FUN!

2009-02-01T23:33:00.005+08:00

Happy 'Niu' Year!

Still not yet chap goh mei, so I can still wish everyone happy cny!:-)

I am dreading the thought of going back to work tomorrow. So fast, one week is gone! Now thinking of working tomorrow makes my head ache.

Anyway, I hope you cny is as good as mine! Although mine is not super happening. But at least this year I DID visit more houses compared to last year. And I did upgrade the gambling bet from 10 sen per game to 20 sen 'x' redsponge and orange say 10 sen is for kids. HMMPH! but sad to say, I lost rm1.20 to "cho dai di" uhuk uhuk uhuk~

Anyway, hope this year is a better year for all. Hope the economy gets better.

These pretty cupcakes are from wgoodthings. They are as yummy as they look. Sweet for the sweet tooth out there! If you don't like sweet stuff or on diet, then just ignore these cupcakes. :D

2009-01-22T14:31:00.000+08:00

新年来罗！

真是岁月不留人啊！一转眼又是新的一年。猪猪和我已经把屋子打扫得7788 了。今年的摆设也比去年来的更有过年的feel.不知道为是么，今年好想多多去拜年。最近经济不景气，我也不敢‘青菜’乱花。虽然我的新衣很多，可是大多数都是我在2008年的时候，走走逛街偶尔买的。有的是上网买的。有的是去玩的时候买的。所以聚少成多。嘻嘻！

我在此祝大家新年快乐！恭喜发财！身体健康！

2009-01-16T14:58:00.005+08:00

THREAT ON THE ROAD

I nearly had an accident. It was oh-so-close. I nearly had a heart attack. I was on my lane, when there's a pajero wanting to cut into my lane. This uncle is polite, he raised up his hand, I let him through and i can read his lips, he was saying Thank You. I proceed ahead, when there's this SILVER SAGA TRYING to cut into my lane and he was FAST! He just stepped on his accelerator, luckily i hit the brake in time you know?SO RUUUDEEE, no signal, no anything, I can't even see the FACE of this *&@^@^#@ driver, the window is very heavily tinted. And he had the gut to just drive pass to the right of my lane after I hit the brake.Ignoring me! And after that, i notice him, cutting back to MY LANE without putting any signal again! Cut just like that! I drive close behind him when I had this idea of snapping a photo of his car. I am sure its a HIM because I can see his head from the back, apparently his back screen is not as heavily tinted as his windows'.

So there! I took this blur photo with my HP. QS 5700, PEOPLE LIKE YOU are the ones that causes unnecessary accidents! But I bet people like you don't go online! So if any of you know the owner of this car, please hor, advise him. *roll eyes* Like what Oink always say,
“这样紧张着么？赶着赶着去投胎吗？”

2009-01-13T22:30:00.002+08:00

Raining spell

it keeps raining and raining since last weekend. And thank god today it got less. It had been a miserable weekend. Didn't get to go out much.Don't really feel like going out even. We stayed in.The day maids came in to clean the house on Saturday. Don't think they did a very good job for the amount we paid. But at least they did most of the dirty jobs. All we need to do now is to beautify it before CNY. :D The long hours of rain made most places flooded and also made people sick because its kinda cold. I myself feel tired more easily now. The good thing is i sleep earlier now. :D

Its two more weeks till CNY! So soon! It felt like we just had christmas! I didn't do much to welcome CNY yet. All I did was put up the the cherry blossom tree. HAHA. But this year I want to do lots and lots of visiting!

2009-01-06T22:40:00.004+08:00

Goodbye 2008, SAY HELLO TO 2009

As the new year came along, I can't help to think how fast time flies.

lets recap what I did in 2008.

I went to HK, Guang zhou, Macau, Shenzhen, Guilin in March.

I climbed KK in June.

I went to Brunei in July.

Krabi in September.

Sg and KL in December.

Got closer to my new family and made new friends. :-)

My plan for 2009 is pretty simple.

Stay at home more. Beautify the house. Learn something new. Be a better cook, be a better wife, be a better person to my families. Be a better friend. Make some more new friends. Find Mango a husband. YES! mango is 'ripe' enough. Any candidate to intro?HAHA

This NYE we kept it simple. Previous years I would want to go out. But this year, somehow i feel like staying at home. We cooked a simple dinner. And after dinner, we snuggled up and watch DVDs. Its kinda feels warm and cosy. :-)

This is a special drink Oink came up with. The bottom layer is honey, the middle part is milk, and on top is the apple banana juice. A bit similar to teh c 3 layer hor? :D See the fruit pieces decorating the glass?Oink made it, he spent quite a long time on this. And did a great job! And it tasted yummy too..