Yi Chong cut mooncake on his B-day

It rained almost everyday two weeks ago but lucky us the sky was clear for outdoor activities last Friday. The most important ingredients, chicken wing for BBQ was not prepared until last minute. We planned to get marinated chicken from Tesco but they did not sell any that day. Thian Min and Yi Chong bought a bottle of terriyaki sauce and went back office to marinate the chicken wings on spot.

I fried mee hoon and arrived at VE where some early birds already there starting the fire. Soon everybody's voice filled the BBQ pit area and camera's flash light was everywhere. There were so many photographers on the night, like the moth's lover Teik Li and Her Hau's lover, Tze Yee. I did not bring my camera there and the few photos I posted here are courtesy of Ikbing, Cannas's boyfriend.

It was already a year since our last BBQ. This time we wanted to celebrate Yi Chong's birthday and also at the same time paying a little attention to mid-autumn festival.

Mooncake as birthday cake, it was a special way of celebrating birthday.

We hung lanterns on tree branches at the side. The view was very lovely in a way. Cannas and Cathrane chose all these pretty lanterns with Disney theme.. We had winnie the pooh, minnie mouse, mickey mouse, snow white, cinderella all hanging there accompanying our party till the end. Eng Heng joined us late, but not too late. Glad to see him after his so long time in dungeon.

Our party ended at about 10.30pm and everyone headed back home for a good shower before doozing off in bed.

Do you miss us now Fang Fang?

Wee Cheng's wedding dinner

Today is mid-autumn festival and I am really happy that I am having two lanterns in my possesion. They are minnie& mickey mouses and winnie the pooh & friends 's lanterns.


On the same day, it is the day when attended Wee Cheng's wedding dinner. It was held at Zhonghua chinese restaurant in Cititel hotel. The place was full of wedding atmosphere and at the times when everyone shouted "yam seng", the voices from my table filled the whole hall especially from Julian. The people that shared the same table as me, 29 seemed to be very excited of this wedding. They laughed non stop, not sure if it is the effect of alcohol overdosed on Wee Han, but on Chor Chen, it was misterious. He drank only plain water. He was triggered and giggled histerically to the extend where he threw out the water he sipped to Wee Han's lap at the time when Yong Ming called his name. It was very weird but funny.



We managed to caught a photo with Wee Cheng on the way out from restroom. She had changed her gown from white sweet to elegant apple green.

Group photo of the misterious gang...

The girls from SD and ex-SD :D

I do not have any photo of the food other than this. So here I present, the shrimps!

I feel a bit dizzy because of the beer now. Dozzing off to bed as tomorrow I have to wake up early for work.

Double celebrations for Seapea

First is to conglats Choon Peng for the courage to take the first step to success, and second is for his marriage. We had farewell dinner for him at Deluxcious, and at the same time was to celebrate his wedding.

Dinner was a 5-course set in a very nice environment.

Appetizer : smoke salmon and fruitti salad with wasabi dressing

This is the main course I picked: Marinated lamb with Japanese red miso on fruitti salad

This is the married couple :D with the another main course, pan-seared salmon + grilled potato, stir fried vegetables and mushroom ragout. The name is so longgggg... obviously I copied it from the menu.

Group photo of us bullying chicken little.

Playful day for the princess

She loves the feeling of wind blowing towards her face. She giggled and moved happily around the standing table fan. It was a risk to watch this funny moment because she tried to reach the moving fan whenever we glanced away from her for just a second.

She mischievously picking up broken tiles to play with when everyone worried she is going to hurt herself. I quickly took a broom and swept the tiny pieces away and our hearts calmed down for a while more.

Token of appreciation for hard work

The small gesture from management gratified the people who had worked really hard. Sometimes the gain is satisfying.

We received a flash light which the light is generated mechanically without any battery. The mechanism is cool, the light is apparently bright enough to create day light for a community of ants. There is also a 4G thumb drive, but the size makes it not so likeable by me because when is used with stacking on another occupied USB port on my lappy, it is not able to squeeze itself into the empty slot. I wish the shape is a little more slim.

Cute, yummy babies

Since my little sister in Down Under country is hungry for the photos from my last family trip to my elder sister house, here they are. I present you the series of delicious food to feed your appetite.

Bon Appetite!

I am going to begin your excitment which now you have the drooling saliva down your chin and stomach growling to be fed, with the appetizer. The big baby. My lovely lady.

She loves the camera and drew a big cheeky smile when I suggested for a photo taking session.



So can you imagine how happy she is to play with e-von and me looking at the ear-to-ear smile she craved on her face? It is a boring life for her without the companion of her aunts.

I can't resist not to take another picture even when she was taking a nap in the afternoon. Peaceful and calm.

The main course is coming out after this, be patient.

Deng deng deng deng! Maincourse: The small baby

Sisters doesn't fight. Look at how the big baby gave the small baby the cutest kiss on forehead.

That aunty who bathed the baby has a bad fashion sense. She can't match the right shirt with the matching pants, so forgive her.

When she opened her eyes, face still as red as tomato...

Big baby visited her sister and I paparazzied this piece of evidence.

This is another sleeping photo. Most of my collections are with her eyes closed. Baby doesn't open her eyes that frequent and needs a lot rest because this is only her second day coming out to this world. She struggled to get out the night before. I have to salute my sister for her bravery!

Okay, enough for now. I will end this meal with the dessert of the drinking milk pose with my minnie mouse on her side.


Love love love

Restroom's tale

Many chances when I need to have a leak in office, I'll stumbled across wet patches on toilet seat in the restroom. What I have to do is to pull out a lengthy toilet paper and roll it a few times to thicken the paper in layers. It is not other than the most important step to avoid wetting my bare hands with the yellowish liquid or whatever liquid on the seat. Then, wipe them it off clean and dry. I know it sounds gross and I feel extremely gross doing that. I hate it but I have no choice. I don't want to go out and wait some more for the next available cubicle because at generous times it will still be the same. It happen so often that I think I am cleaning the toilet seat in work place almost everyday. I see posters hanging at the back of the each restroom cubicle's door educating and reminding the uncivilized parts of human to sit properly when peeing and never half-sit too because the aim is never correct. Also, never squat on the toilet seat. I know some people love to stand on the seat and squat there because sometimes I see shoes marks on it. There is always available toilet seat paper cover in restroom and these people never seem to like using it. So what? Just pull one out, direction up and pull it down to release it from the box. Tear out the center part of the paper, layer it on top of the toilet seat and sit on it. As easy as ABC. Some engineers are very uncivilized, considering they are the smarter population in human, this should not ever happen at all. I feel disgusted over their daily practise. The more I think of it, I feel like throwing out.

But restroom is the best place to gather news from various people. Sometimes, I can hear very interesting piece of information about something because people love discussing in the restroom despite the fact that everyone else in the cubicles can listen to their conversation. There is one specific person who if is reading this post will surely fire his M16 machine gun as usual and occupy me with his stinky remarks.

Lucky enough that our restroom cubicle's walls are closely build without any gap. The photo below was taken in US restroom from inside the small cubicle. I can see people viewing their image from the mirror even from there. So you can imagine what people can see from outside. hahaha. It doesn't matter to me since I am not interested at all looking at people doing their business. It absolutely strucked me at first when I first experienced the openness of western culture but luckily I got used to it after the first week.

Wheel-wheelling

We installed the wheel and they began to experience the joy in their life in a cage. In the first place, both ran at opposite directions in the wheel which will never make it spin. They got better in a few hours and are able to exercise in the middle of the night now. .

Marshmallows and cotton candy

I have hamsters as pet but they are not mine because they stayed at weeliem's home. I have not buy the gut to touch them yet because the cost of gut is expensive. I need more time to earn the gut before daring this fear. I am scared of all furry and moving creatures, like cat, rabbit, dog and almost everything else other than human.

The tiny babies looked cute like marshmallows and soft like a pink cotton candy. I named them with two silly names, oreo and jelly. There is no way to differentiate which one is oreo and which one is jelly because both look similar. Chocolate, dark chocolate and black on top and white belly with white one inch long whiskers. Also I am not sure if they are male or female so let's assume they are gay for now.

Oreo and Jelly always hide at one corner and only come to us if there is food. They are so active and agile, never let you hold it for long. Sniffing at your hand and bite with a sting pain when you have food on your palm. I think they are not so affectionate with human.

Both babies are so small, half the size of Microsoft mouse we used in office. The type of the hamsters is Roborovskis which is smallest and fastest among all hamsters. We got them bedding and water bottle today. Hehe.. shopping spree for oreo and jelly. We wanted to get them a wheel too for them to roll in too, maybe next week because the shop we went to is out of stock. Worry that they will bored to death because I am pretty sure I won't be playing with any of them.

Some things ought to be remembered and some to be forgotten

There is always a pot of gold at the end of rainbow. I believe in this. I don't mind to work a little harder so I can live a better life later in the day.

I find it sweet to still having contact with old buddies from hometown school. They are the first batch of people I get to be closed with and introduced me to many new term in never heard before in both hokkien and mandarin. Klang is hokkien spoken place. I met with this uncle selling chee-cheong-fun in morning market few years back. He told me he would not pack my chee-cheong-fun for me if I do not order the food in hokkien. So I vomitted all the air in my empty stomach trying to mumble a full sentence of hokkien using what I remember from the conversation between my mom and dad. The uncle gave me anyway, he was just teasing.



Some sweet faces came visiting two years ago and we had a great time together, also we got to know the boyfriend of a the stripe top girl. I called him "kai men". I miss wearing my small size jeans skirt.

It was a thrilling experience and very very very fun spending salty time with the big group of old friends in Port Dickson. It was my first time playing banana boat where they dark malay kids will turn the boat fast enough to overturn us. The laughed when we all fell in the water and yelling for help. We finished the fishballs, fishcakes, vege, meats, eggs enough for 30 people in steamboat that we brought there and the next morning tuna toast bread.

It was many years ago when I had my vacation in Cameron Highland with my family. Those are the times when my dad will bring us around for holiday around in 150km radius from Klang. I went up there again with a group of fun and lively friend. That was back in 2006. I was happy because I found a group and we clicked. I savour the friendship that grew along.

The adventure never stop. We went to Gua Tempurung cave in Perak, and to Kellie's castle. Those were my first time there too. We got muddy and wet, smiles craving on everybody's face.

After posting the third picture of the same group trips, I realised in all three, they have the same face in the center. Round and chubby. This aunty already went to Singapore now. Remember the times when we buried tm in the sand during Pantai Kerachut trip? and the guys showered together in the cubicle bathrooms.. us too in the next ladies.

Genting Highland is never boring to me because all were different experiences. I went there in three consecutive years since I started my job. It was special and sweet.

I had my Phuket trip in year 2006 and vacation to Krabi in December 2007. The trip produced another few Gigabytes of photos in my hardrive. They are very colourful and sunny. The sea is calm, the water is clear, the people are great. The view is romantic and lovely too.


I have a dear friend that sometimes I dissapointed her because of my lack of attentiveness. I tend to pleasure the rest and abandon her. I realised we have been close for years now. We found our own path and spreaded our wings but we still fly together, to cafetaria for lunch.

Some memories mesmerize me when I tried to recall. I fell into deep thought on what had happened and how it happened. I wish I could turn back time sometimes and stay a little longer in the good times.

Some things ought to be remembered and some to be forgotten.

Life and Decision

Every morning, I see a couple of age around forty-five having their morning walk together. By the time I see them, it is the end of their sweet moment in the park because both are sweating with pink cheeks in their matching t-shirt. The same TAO t-shirt or same colour t-shirt. Everyday. They are so loving, like lemon and tea always taste so good together.

I envy life like this, having the time to go for morning walk, jog in the afternoon after work, and enjoy the breeze in the park. I think I will own all these if I am my manager. Shut down my day dreaming and save it for the night later!

I used to love my job a lot. Kill me for saying this because I know some people hate their job since the first day. I even thrilled to know I can save the free coffee 3-in-1 packet and give it to my mom to feed her addiction everyday just because I will never use it. Coffee is too strong for me. Coke is the substitution so I never regret for not liking coffee .But there is no free Coke in my early days joining this war place. Now we get free cola and coffee in the cafetaria, fair enough. But I think I love it lesser nowadays and I am not allowed to pack a bottle of coffee for my mom just like that. It is considered as stealing the company's asset from today's presentation in business update meeting. I am not sure what will I feel in the next few years. Not liking coke anymore and shift to coffee? Life is hard to predict. Who knows if my future kids are to use the number 04 in their identification card number?

The hardest part of one's life is to make decision. Example the big step for someone in my age is to decide where to settle down, whether to buy a property, whether to lower my requirement to not owning a land of all by myself or to share it with tens or hundreds of people, and to be married and committed to a life-long relationship. Whatever the decision is, it sounds yummy. To no one surprise, things normally would not roll so smooth and forseeing hitches on the way.

The fuel price revising two times a month will not help. Price of everything rose like hulk in incredible hulk, strong and unbeatable. Even if the goverment decided to drop 20 cents in the price of fuel, the flour at the price RM2.80 per kilogramme will not drop 20 cents. The price of fragrant Thai rice doubled up in 3 months of the time I was in The States. Recession is happening but the price of property still shooting up. It is different from ten years ago because there is no one jumping off the building yet. So we know the case is not that severe compared to those times, the absolute case of recession. I am not going to sum up my write-up because I can't summarize what I want to do right now.

My turn to be a kid: Modelling clay

After getting the modelling clay from charity fair in the morning, I decided to play with it later at night. The box said it is for kids 3 years old and above. My initial intention was to give it as a gift to my little niece. But it rang my mind that my niece just turned one this year so I think I will play with the clay to prevent my niece from messing up my sister's house. I played with the modelling clay when I was a kid. As I remember the clay colours always mix with each other and at the end everything looks ugly in the same dark brownish colour.

This one that I got has very, very, very pretty colours. I envy the kids nowadays. WL and me made 15 cute little things from them. Giraffe, elephant, shark, bear, alien, fish, snake, cow, bee, sheep, birthday cake, aeroplane, robot and dinasour. So whatever you see below, those cute ones are made by me. :)

The animals from the jungle with a brown alien from outerspace were celebrating elephant's birtday. The cute little cake, I piped chocolate icing at the side of the cake with yellow and pink cherries on it. Yummy.

Group photos. I love my elephant!

Ba ba white sheep have you any wool.. lalala.. I love this the most.


Pink piggy. The right one is cow.

The fellowship of the ring. The yellow giraffe stood tall among all.

Giraffe and snake are friends though.

Blue blue shark

Family photos

Durian

At my grandma house, my mom was over the moon because she managed to taste the durians from her mom's own durian trees. It was long since we can had the golden opportunity to visit my grandma in time when the durians were picked up. These were the fruits from almost ending durian season so the size was small. They always taste great as I remember. I know the size and texture have nothing to compare with the durians from Balik Pulau but what can you ask for more, own durians which can beat in its' taste.

I remember long time ago when I was in primary school, there was a night when we were still staying at our first house. My dad suddenly told my mom on a night that he wanted to go back to his mom's place for durians. The plan was to stay in the hut in the palm oil farm and wait for the thup sound of the falling of durians. So we packed some stuff with two powerful energized torch light and drove back. My mom and sisters stayed with my grandma while me, another sister and my dad went to the estate. It was really dark at night about 10pm I guess. I was not afraid of anything. I think I was too young to be afraid because I never can anticipate what will happen. A kid can't predict what will happen. Now as I think of it, there might be wild boar or snake wondering around. We sat in the hut quietly only surrounded by trees and the sound of insects and frogs. Everytime there was a thup sound, my dad hurried to the place where the sound came from with a torch light and pick up a durian. We probably stayed untill about 2am and got back home to sleep through the morning.

That was those days. Childhood. My dad.

Bungalow 2

The weekend was a short one but I finished a book in between juggling my time at home to entertain my sisters, clean the house and visit my grandmother. I was addicted to the story so I swallowed everything in two days. I have been reading books by Danielle Steel for years and I still like hers. The way she wrote can really bring the words into life. All the characters in her story are lively defined and I can even imagine them in real, how their physical look is like, their thinking and everything about a person. It dreads me when I can feel the character's emotion, smile, laugh, anger and cry with them. In all her story, there is always love, heartbreak, and a lot of emotions. Same as the one I just got from the bookstore during Friday's lunch break. I read some of her books when my sister used to rent them when she was in college, and when I started working I went to the library and searched for all her books, trying to explore them one by one until none of them left unread. It attracted me right away after I read the synopsis from the back cover the other day and I decided to purchase it.

Tanya is a strong character in the book and had a very blissful life before she stepped into the Hollywood business. She had a son and a pair of twins whom I know each of them really well. I even cried in tears on Saturday when I reached the part where her husband cheated on her with her best friend and they ended up with divorce. Bungalow 2 is another book that hooks me up with the character's life sorrow and happiness. This book somehow gave me a familiar touches because the book mentioned places like spring break in Tahoe, Monterey Bay and Carmel, San Diego parks, San Francisco, Disneyland, LAX and freaked me out when I still remember fortune cookies from the Chinese restaurants. I had the idea of the places because I had been there before but even if I don't, I will still get the point because of how they are being described in the 500+ pages book.

I remember another book of her which I enjoyed reading a lot, Mirror Image about a pair of twins who looks alike. Yes, love and affair and reality.

I like the feeling when I read her books because I can really drift along with the storylines where I will burst into tears, skipping happily like a 3 years old, or grinding teeth in anger. I will get bored with books of hundreds to thousand pages if there are no character like Tanya in Bungalow 2. I never read those long winding stories which can drag to nowhere or makes me puzzle on what they are saying like all the popular books that made into movie.

I think I am going to visit the library sometimes to check if they added new books to their collection.