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2010-02-24T13:46:00.004+08:00

I am here.

sumukeyes.blogspot.com will no longer be operating. No new comments shall be approved anymore.

Come and say hello! :D

SUMUKEYES BLOG PERMANENT CLOSURE

2010-02-18T18:46:00.007+08:00

DEAR FRIENDS, READERS AND FELLOW BLOGGERS,

FOR A REASON WHICH IS VERY PERSONAL, SUMUKEYES.BLOGSPOT.COM SHALL BE CLOSED DOWN PERMANENTLY. ME AND MY HUSBAND SHALL CEASE TO BE KNOWN AS SUMUK AND BABAI, NOT JUST IN BLOGGING WORLD, BUT ALSO IN REAL LIFE.

WE THANK YOU FOR YOUR SUPPORT AND INTEREST ALL THESE WHILE WITH YOUR RETURN. BECAUSE OF THAT, SUMUKEYES.BLOGSPOT.COM WILL BE MOVING TO A NEW BLOG ADDRESS, AND WE WILL BE KNOWN WITH DIFFERENT BLOG PSEUDONYM AND IDENTITY, OF WHICH WILL BE ADVICED IN DUE COURSE ONCE THE NEW BLOG IS SETUP.

THANK YOU AND HOPE TO SEE YOU AGAIN IN MY NEW BLOG.

LOVE
~~SUMUK~~

Spending Quality Time...

2010-02-16T10:39:00.003+08:00

Enjoying my time in Pasir Gudang with relatives. Had one hell of seafood dinner last night. This evening will go for a traditional massage to check on my nagging back pain again.

Hopefully can drop by Singapore tomorrow, maybe make a visit to Sentosa Island :D

Enjoy It While We Can

2010-02-13T00:14:00.004+08:00

I'll be having 1 week long holiday due to force holiday, and this year I lost the energy to fight for my right as I know it's a loosing battle. What to do then, I'm still living on my paycheque.

Babai decided to go to Elite track to try out on his cub tomorrow, as I'll be finishing the last 2 orders of Strawberry Layer cake I received previously. On Sunday, we'll be making our way to JB to visit relatives, and will be back by Tuesday, if we decided not to make a day trip to Singapore. Other than that, am not sure how am I going to finish off my holiday as we did not planned a trip elsewhere. From what I heard from the managers, all the hotels are fully book, and taking a flight out from KL to everywhere else are all outrageous. That would means, we would choose someplace where it is convinient to drive and not as far from KL.

Anyway, I am very sure that all of us will sighing by the end of the week realizing how it all end too soon. Enjoy it while we can ya!

Cancelling Credit Cards

2010-02-10T12:01:00.009+08:00

As we all know, government will soon going to implement the service tax on credit cards. Initially, I was not into favor of this move, as if we were not burdened enough with the other new taxes being imposed on us. However, when I read the fine prints of the fyler being handed out by my credit cards company, I started to understand why it is a very good thing to do.

The RM50 service tax is actually being imposed on each credit card that we owned. Meaning let say for example, sometimes we have 2 or 3 types of credit card from the same bank, we will be tax RM150 in total by the anniversary day of the cards. This also shall include virtual cards, and the cards we received but never activates.

Initially I was panic because I owned 3 active cards, 1 virtual card and 2 cards that were never activated, including a platinum card given by CIMB about 2 weeks ago. Fuh, that would amount to RM300 tax. What a waste. Thankfully, CIMB bank has taken the initiative to call me to ask whether I wanted to activate the platinum card or not (which I don't wish to), and I took the chances to cancel a Mastercard that I've never used, and a virtual card that they de-activate themselves but still running because I had a positive balance.

I'm keeping their Visa card which I seldom use but for emergency cases, and one Petronas credit card from other bank that I normally use for my petrol and bigger retail purchases. For smaller purchases, I normally use my debit card. I still have an IKEA credit card which I never activate. I was informed by the bank that it will expire by itself after 6 months, but now I'm a bit worried because I remember receiving their zero balance bank statement after a year of receiving the card. Hmm. I wish I can remember where did I keep it.

Anyway, I advise you that it's better to take the trouble to cancel your card now especially if you don't use it. It's money worth saving.

It Keeps Getting Better

2010-02-02T10:16:00.008+08:00

I tried making another Layer cake sample 2 weeks ago. I could not find any Haw Flakes Layer Cake recipe that I trusted online, so I went back to Rabiah Amit's recipe book and modify her fruit layer cake to become Haw Flakes. It works :D

Hot from the oven! The moist not yet truly come out, but it was still soft and fluffy instead of dry :)

This recipe use less sugar than usual because the Haw Flakes would give the sweet and sour taste to the cake, plus I did not want to overwhelm the Haw Flakes anyway.

See, it moisten just right after being kept in the fridge for a day. The melted Haw Flakes before has penetrated into the cake layer, it's taste getting better.

Another Babai's colleague like it very much she ordered 5 nos of 8"x4" for her CNY celebration in Sabah. Due to her special request (diabetes I heard), I have reduced further the sugar and condensed milk content. I hope they'll still like it. I have baked 4 so far, and 1 more to go until delivery day this Friday.

This weekend, I will continue baking for Babai's friend 4 different flavors of layer cake, and up to yesterday, I have received another 3 orders for Strawberry flavor layer cakes from Chris' colleagues, which I also have to deliver just before New Year. I feel happy that people trusted me enough and do actually likes to eat my homemade layer cake. I could not ask for more, considering I am just a beginner, and never bake any cake on my own in the past 30 years of my life! Oppss.. now you know how old I am haha!

Next project, I am considering heavily on trying my hands on fondant making. I have good idea on what I wanted to do with it :)

Home Purchase-Sarawakian `Bumi' Status Questioned

2010-01-31T09:18:00.004+08:00

No, that's not some headline written in the newspaper somewhere. This is our own unfortunate experience and the experience of many others when buying properties in Peninsular Malaysia.

No matter how much our Sarawakian 'bumi' status were protected by the Constitution which was drafted more than 50 years ago, when it comes to being in the land of 'Malaya', it is more or less meaningless. It is an open secret that we are still being regarded as 'foreigner' eventhough we are under one country, even by those who are the executioner of the law.

We have read in the news that some children of Sarawakian mixed parentage were denied their rights of going into public university, specifically UiTM, not allowed to have ASB account, not allowed to buy 'Bumi' quota stocks and many others. And that even happened to those whose parents were both Sarawakian 'Bumi' of which has been living in their land long before this country has been formed and the Constitution has been written.

I have never bothered myself with these issues as so far I have been quite lucky. I managed to get into UiTM eventhough by circumstances and not by choice, I was offered government position which I still believe was due to my own merit, not just because of me being a 'Bumi', I owned an ASB account including all my family members, and I can get a 'Bumi' discount on new home purchase, to name among other things that I was privilaged to. Maybe to an extend that I did not really appreciate having one, because I thought I could always live with or without it. I'm a survivor, that's what I have always believed in.

Somehow, I could not help being emotionally affected when our recent second hand home purchase was put on hold because of this issue. As readers may recalled, we bought a leasehold single storey house, from a Malay couple. The husband actually happened to be a lawyer.

Even before getting into the house during our first visit, I have asked them whether the house was bought under 'Bumi' discount, in which it will automatically fall under Bumi lot. I have foreseen that if it was, we might be having problem getting buyers in the future if we decided to sell it off due to reduce 'target' market. They assured us it was not. We were all aware that the house require Consent to Transfer from the local Land Office. Eventhough it was troublesome and the husband gently warned us that in our 'case'-meaning Sarawakian bumiputera buyers, there might be some hiccup during the application. They explained that first rejection was normal, and most of the time the first appeal is accepted. That will means the buying process will be slightly longer, but we all agree to give it a try, because we honestly do love the house.

From the very beginning when the application was first submitted, we already faced some difficulties. If you read back here, you will understand why. Application for Consent to Transfer is not a Memorandum Of Transfer, yet the first TWO applications were not accepted just because we used pen other than BLACK FOUNTAIN PEN. I felt it was a nuisance and done on purpose on the Land Office side as it was never mentioned anywhere in the form (which by law, we did not commit any mistake), but our lawyer asked us to oblige and we did.

Resubmitting the applications was a hassle, but luckily our lawyer was helpful and efficient and it made the process less painful. We attached whatever supporting document to prove that we are 'Bumiputera', although I did not understand why we had to since the house is not even a Bumi lot!

A month after the third submission, the wife called us and informed that the application was officially rejected, and they have quickly submitted an appeal letter. I was short of suggesting that we could attach the Article 153 of the Federal Constitution of Malaysia copy along with the application, but that would just adding flame to the fire right?

Another month passed, and we heard that the first appeal was also rejected, without stating any reason. Without wasting time, our seller's husband the lawyer immediately submitting the second appeal, and this time we attached our birth certificates. They planned to meet up with the land officer to back-up their appeal.

Babai is still hopeful, but me being me, starting to falter emotionally. Intuitively, I became pessimistic not just because we were buying from Malays, but the name of the housing area itself sounds convincingly like a Malay reserve. I have read somewhere that there were certain places which was off-limit to the non-Malays, but those were normally places with Malay majority or outside the sub-urban area.

By law, there shouldn't be any issue to transfer the title to us. This make me believed that it all come back to human perception, including race and religion sentiment. Added with the current issue of 'Allah' (God have mercy on us...) usage, the timing was just bad. If you don't think so, what else could it be? Tell me, I'll be all ears.

The options for our seller was that, if the second appeal will be rejected, they may make the third appeal, or bring the case to the court. For us though, we will not be bother to do so. Prolonging the process or bringing the case to court will further add to our anguish. We did not just lost our pride, but also time and opportunity as we could have buy other property.

I hope that this post will be a strong reminder to any Sarawakian or Sabahan who were considering to buy properties in Peninsular, especially second hand leasehold property just like us. If you still decided to go ahead, be prepared mentally, physically, and financially. Discrimination is real, and it can happened to you even if you thought you are safe.

The Blardy 2 Weeks Wait

2010-01-26T15:15:00.002+08:00

Waiting in anticipation....

*nervous*

Why January feels so slowww......

Ala Latuk

2010-01-25T16:08:00.002+08:00

Geez!!

I've been cruising the PLUS highway at 120 up to 150kmh at times, being late almost everyday since Christmas break last year. Only realizing this morning that my driving licence already expired about a month ago oopsss...

Need to be careful there, hopefully I don't need to sing traffic offenders song anytime soon:

"Ala lala latuk, ala lala latuk, tuk jangan saman!"

Honeymoon Day 2

2010-01-22T09:36:00.014+08:00

continuation from day 1...

Day 2

We have planned to catch the sunrise, but me being not an early riser, of course we missed it in the end :p

We went for buffet breakfast without having a shower, cos we already planned to follow some of the activities which was conducted by the resort. The breakfast was fine, and as any other Malaysian, I stuffed myself with too much food and felt bloated in the end.

We registered ourselves at the Activity Desk at 9am for half-day Lake fishing trip, and it cost RM35 per head. We are not avid fan of fishing, although both of us do have experience fishing in those days when we were still playing with mud or play 'sentry'.

As we were told to wait at the jetty at 9.30am, we had a strolled around the resort first.

This is the swimming pool side at the back of the resort main hall. Mostly foreigners sunbathing here, the locals knows better not to do that.

View of longhouse resort.

At 9.30am on the dot, we were already waiting for our small boat. We were brought to a place which was a bit far from the resort.

On our way to our spot. I covered everything else except my leg. My knees burnt and look like a grilled prawn by the time we finished.

Babai from the back.

Our tekong caught 1 tilapia and 1 kaloi. After half an hour, Babai still hadn't catch anything. Of course, they were talking to each other loudly like an old friends. After 45 minutes passed, the tekong suggest another spot. We had a better luck, but not Babai hehe..

My first, and the last fish I caught. A 'mini' tilapia smaller than my palm. At the back is our 'tekong' helping me to unhook my fish (i forgotten on how to do it).

Our time was up at 11.00, but I think the tekong was enjoying his chat with Babai a lot, he did not remind us and suggest for another spot. We went up further to another location. This time Babai's luck changed for the better.

"Omg omg! I can feel it!"

"Where.....takda pun?"

"Oh, it's a 'Baong'! Yessssirrr!....."

Babai further caught another kaloi and tilapia, and declared it was time to go back. We were way passed the allocated time, but I don't think anybody bother much as the environment here were so relaxing, not as many guest and all the staffs were genuinely nice.. they were not that calculative.

On our way back. The air that I breathed here was so so clean... wish I can do this forever...

Reached the resort at 12.55pm. We went to the resort kitchen and asked them to cook the fishes that we caught ourselves, except my 'mini tilapia'. For the service, rice for 2, including drink, cost us RM15. We went back to our room to have a shower. Within 20 minutes, the resort called us to inform our lunch was ready, and we headed back to the dining hall.

Our fishes cooked in 'assam curry' style. Yummy!!!! The fishes did not have mud smell and tasted so sweet! Fresh gitu!

I want more!!!

We went back to our room to rest. I was engrossed with a book that I borrow from the Reception Hall as Babai watched a crook movie on the telly. Afternoon was very hot, we did not planned to do any other activites provided as they were mostly outdoors and I already start to feel the pain from the sunburn on my knees. So stupid of me not putting on any sunscreen.

At 5pm, we wanted to hiking to the hill, but it was drizzled and we stopped walking up after 10 minutes. We went back to the reception hall, sitting at the big couch at the lobby with book in my hands, and Babai with his head on the couch snoring within 15 minutes. So embarrasing lerr hehe.. But nobody was around, the place was peaceful and quiet except radio sound played at the dining hall adjoining the reception hall.

Dinner was ala-carte, we ordered umai and fried rice. But it was slightly dissappointing this time. We finished our dinner and sipped our half-bottle wine slowly. The friendly bartender came to us to have a chat. Nice young fella. After 10pm, not knowing what else to do, we went nearby the jetty, sat in the dark at the steps and had our own little chat, mostly about the wedding which was still fresh in our mind. By midnight, we strolled slowly around the resort and retired for the night with the sounds of the jungle surrounding us.

to be continue for Day 3..

Honeymoon Day 1

2010-01-18T16:24:00.017+08:00

Baking update:
Hehe.. I got a bigger order last night, from Babai's friends. The couple order 4 cakes of different flavors after tasting my fresh-from-the-oven samples while they were having BBQ at our place. It will be a gift for his MIL, and the order need to be given latest by 12th Feb for the CNY celebration. *Sweating* If I don't upgrade my oven and adding mould anytime soon, I might have to turn down orders. The couple were also considering seriously to bring some cakes when they return to oversea after CNY, becos they want to introduce it over there. Hehe... it might sound a bit too far fetch and overwhelming for me for the time being. I could do with the extra they might order later on, but not so sure about the shipping if there is any demand. So I told the wife I do not mind teaching her to do it if necessary, provided she can find the key ingredient over there.

I was browsing the airlines website this morning looking for cheap flight when I remember I haven't talked about our honeymoon previously. I was inspired after reading Mr Desmond Jerukan's posting on Pesta Batang Ai's dam and the longhouse resort/dam aeriel view sometimes ago. I purposely choose Batang Ai's Longhouse resort as our honeymoon destination because I know we would gonna be very tired after the wedding, and long distance travel is a no-no. I'm not into favor of beaches, and Batang Ai's being not too close to Kuching to be disturbed by anybody. Plus it is beautiful and serene. I too remember that I have been away from home so long (except from the occasional balik kampung) that I wanted to treasure my 'backyard' this time around. Oversea vacation can wait.

We left for Lubok Antu at 8.00am using Hilton's Kuching shuttle van, which cost us return trip RM145 per head. It's expensive, but I think Babai was still recuperating and the 5 hours self-driving was not in his list. We stopover for 1/2 hour at Lachau, a small 'cowboy' town and we had our brunch at an Iban shop selling mee kolok, which was surprisingly quite nice. One should try mee-kolok-guring-rangkai (mee kolok goreng kering) it tasted something like char kuey teow but with mee kolok. When I pass by the kitchen on my way to toilet, the Iban lady chef was cooking non-stop, as the business was very brisk.

Mee kolok guring rangkai

We reached Batang Ai Dam at 1.15pm, and took the ferry (included in the shuttle package) to make a cross to the resort jetty. The dam was wonderful, the water was deep green and the weather was sunny. The check-in was very quick, and we made our way to our longhouse hostel.

Waiting to board..

Approaching Hilton's Batang Ai Longhouse Resort jetty.

The room was very clean and cosy, full of intricate carvings and details. You can judge from the photos below;

The entrance;

The door leading to the bathroom/walk-in wardrobe. The tv. Not lcd, of course. Who needs tv here btw?

The bed. Bedlinen was superb!

Bathroom and toilet. Too bad no bathtub...

Walk-in wardrobe.

As we were pretty exhausted not just from the long drive but the wedding itself, we were flat out on the bed within 15 minutes and woke up only at 6pm. Gahh. But it was very refreshing, and if not because we were hungry, I would love to continue my sleep.

Taking pictures while waiting for dinner.

Breathtaking!!

I was starving though, and we did not think of buying some food at Lachau town. There was only one small souvenir shop which sells cigaratte and overpriced potato chips. We closed one eye at and just bought it. So for anybody who plan to stay here next time, don't forget to stock up with extra food ya. We chose to have buffet dinner at 7.30pm. Selection was limited, but the spread was delicious. There were fresh BBQ too, which was favorite among the guests.

The ambience at the dining hall.

Pastries and cakes. Sooo yummyyy!

Our wine selection.. One for being where we are now..cheers!

continue Day 2..

Full of Hope

2010-01-14T12:07:00.005+08:00

Last night I finished baking the last cake from Babai's colleague order, and I received my first ever payment of my layer cake from Chris's colleague. There is another repeat order from her for 1 cake by the end of this month, and Chris already warned me that there might be few orders coming in for Chinese New Year, and even as far as Hari Raya! Pheww.. eventhough not confirm, I am getting prepared myself physically and mentally.

I haven't had the time to actually made new samples except for 1 Green Tea flavor last Sunday. I made a mistake in estimating the amount of green tea powder to be put in, and the taste was overwhelming and bitter. Also trying some mint and almond flavor in some of other samples, but it did not turned out as I expected. Since it did not pass my expection, I did not bother asking Babai to taste it, not even letting it go to be sampled by others. So for my prospective customers out there, you should realized by now how high is my expection for my cakes!

With each cakes that I bake, there are always something that I observed and learned along the way, things that are never mentioned in any cookbooks. It's true what they say, with layer cake, or any other things for that matter, never stop at the first try, continue doing it and you'll get better.

If anybody feel interested to try, let me know. You can start with one flavor first. Of course my recommendation is my Coffee Layer Cake. Introductory price as below;

Dimension : 8"x4"
Cheese/Green Tea Flavor Layer Cake : RM35
Coffee/Chocolate/Strawberry etc : RM29
Shipping cost: tba (by Poslaju/express courier only)
Note : Layer cake can last for 2-3 months if kept in the freezer.
No preservative is added.

Since I have limitation on my oven, this is the only size I'm offering at the moment. I will consider buying a gas oven in the future when my financial permit in order to cater for 8"x8" cake.

By the way, I already received enquiry regarding cupcakes and muffin. I did consider this before, so let's see if I can come up with something soon :D

My First Order Yuhoo!

2010-01-09T18:41:00.012+08:00

Yeay! I got my first 2 orders for my layer cake! One is from Chris's colleague, another is from Babai's colleague.

My fourth sample was a Coffee layer cake, and Babai kept bugging me to have a slice even before I finished baking the last layer. True enough, it was a hit when Chris brought the samples to her office.

I got one order from her friend, but I'm not worried cos if I maintained the quality, I'm sure I'll be able to get more order in the future just from their words of mouth.

My fifth sample was a Cheese layer cake which I made at 10.30pm just after I reached home from Ipoh last Thursday. It didn't taste that great cos I tried using cheese of different brand that I intended to use. But looks like Babai's colleague likes it enough to order it, plus another Coffee layer cake.

*beaming*

Collections so far:

My Cake MisAdventure

2010-01-04T01:50:00.012+08:00

Hehe.. this is how I've been spending my 3 days holiday over the weekend. Trying my hands on Sarawak Layer Cake making.

I was so inspired by Babai's cousin's success with Layer Cake business in JB, that I thought, hey, it couldn't be that difficult ain't it? What I heard about layer cake making is that, it does not so much depend on the skill, but more on resilient and patience. Skill I don't have, but resilient I certainly do.

Now that the wedding is over and I felt good knowing there's no wedding gift in the form of electrical equipment, (except an Elba electrical oven, which I already have :(., now I dare to buy other electrical stuffs which I deemed as not a necessity before. Anyway, that would be good to, maybe if I can get small order for the Chinese New Year (ehem.. jumping the gun a bit..) then the extra oven can be put to good use. So off to Jusco I went and spend almost RM400 investing in a good mixer with stand, other cake making tools and ingredients. I already spent almost RM200 buying Layer Cake books when I was in Kuching. Even if in the end my newfound interest died off, at least I know I have tried and able to understand and master the knowledge, so I won't feel guilty splurging on those items.

My first cake was from a book published by Variasi. I halved the ingredient just in case it failed. True enough, everythings seems to be wrong. The method, my skill and organization or the lack of it, and funny ingredients produce a funny looking and smelling cake.

The next day, I bought a different brand of flour, follow a different book and half all the ingredient as what I did the first time. I started to understand the purpose of the ingredients involved when I see the result of the second cake. The cake was tough, eventhough it was still edible and tasted right. Even the layering was getting better.

Since I got lots of egg yolk from the leftover of the second cake, I decided to try the 3rd cake from a different recipe, but this time I change the ratio of the ingredient, modified it with alternative ingredient for which I did not have, and played with oven temperature and timing. When it was finally baked and cooled enough to be cut, it was such a relief to see a beautiful soft layer cake. It may be not as creamy as how layer cake normally is, but I prefer it that way actually.

Cake 1- Failed big time..

Cake 2-Tough as nail. Improvement there. The layer is getting better.

Cake 3-Tasted good and nice to look at :D

Come next weekend, hopefully I'll be able to try a more difficult recipe and bring it to office for my colleagues to taste.

Post-Holiday Syndrome

2009-12-29T10:07:00.007+08:00

Out of many, I have recurring post-holiday sickness such as having a flu, body ache and ~~bloating stomach~~ sometimes gastric. Just got back from 2-weeks holiday from Kuching last night, and I already started to notice the tell tale sign since yesterday morning. That calls for an MC today. At least I can still avoid going to work for another day huhu...

Sigh. How fast times flies. Everything seems to be pass by in a breeze, and my memory from the events seems to be hazy. Things started to go back to square one, as Babai said when approaching the junction to our home, "Welcome back to crazy life..."

.. and that's the last thing I want to hear by the way.

It's Not Enough

2009-12-21T00:27:00.004+08:00

On behalf of me and my husband, I would like to say thank you to everyone who were part of the wedding, even though we know 'thank you' will never be enough.

First and foremost, to the families who have made the wedding celebration a beautiful memory for us. I know there were many shortcomings especially at the last moment, but we have worked together and did not let the imperfection to hamper the planning. Instead, we had overcome it. Eventhough I wish that we can go back to the moments and will do some things differently, I am so glad that everything went ahead and I will remember all the beautiful parts of it.

To the relatives who were part of the wedding preparation, thanks for all the help extended to us. Without you all, we could never imagine doing all of it by ourselves.

To the guest who have come, thank you for being there for us. We were so honoured to have you there. Thanks for the gift and token, we appreciate them a lot. If there were any inconvenience and imperfection, we apologize deeply, it is our fault. Hope you have enjoyed yourself, if you did not, sorry again.

To my friends who were such a sport that night, thanks *wink* love you all muah!!

We will be going off for our local honeymoon tomorrow. It would be only two of us to enjoy quiet time and recuperate from the 'chaos' :D

I will not post any of the pre-wedding and wedding photo here (err, well maybe 1 or two), but I'll put up in Facebook for close friends to see. So please do check my Facebook after Christmas ya!

4 more days...

2009-12-13T18:04:00.003+08:00

Have never seen and deal with so much ribbons and flowers in my life..

My 'dough' getting less and less now.. it scares me to see how it flows so easily..

4 days to go. Neverending list of things to do, stuffs to buy, services to pay, people to see and things to confirm. waaaa..........

Flying Soul

2009-12-10T14:58:00.003+08:00

It's 3pm.

Aiyah.. 2 1/2 hour to go....
can't wait to go back, no mood to do work.

suddenly feel very happy. no need to think about work for 2 weeks yeay!

...................................

Finished giving out email invitation to my colleagues, and the cards to the managers. Purposely I gave the card last minute cos I know they could not make it, and I want to avoid being given ang pow. But, some still manage to catch me :) .. bought them a cake from Secret Recipe, that's the least I could do to replace the wedding cake. Thank God everybody was happy :D

Not Right

2009-12-07T09:57:00.004+08:00

I cannot think straight.

I couldn't concentrate.

I feel like running away from it all.

I feel like doing crazy things.

Maybe I am getting crazy.

DIY Wedding Ring Pillow

2009-12-04T13:12:00.005+08:00

I am not known for my art or creative skills. I don't even consider to be under 'ladylike' category (at least that's what Babai said). Yesterday I was browsing for some stuff for the weddings online, and I found it very hard to buy simple but elegant Wedding Ring Pillow. I found one that makes my 'heart beats faster', but too bad the item came from US, and the shipping cost more than the pillow itself, and the total price should be about RM 189 (USD55.90). So sayang. I found one in local ebay, looks very simple and the price was cheap, so I bought it. It should reached me by next week.

Meanwhile, I was so geram cos I again and again realized how important is sewing skill to me. I know what I can do, if only I have the skill. Anyway, last night, since Babai was so stressed thinking about his presentation for Friday, I decided not to switch on the TV but do something else. So I came up with this..

Style 1

Style 2

Nice or not?

The material are all 'barangan terpakai', whatever I could find in the store last night. The only sewing I need is to create the plump part in the center. I thought it looks decent. But the pillow case was actually seen thru hardship, and looks worn out. If I use this for the wedding ceremony, will anyone notice? Hehe..

Egg Tart Bribery

2009-12-04T10:30:00.003+08:00

One of the boses upstairs has been bribing us with yummy egg tarts.

It's corny and cheap trick..

...but it works.

Hmm..

That's It.

2009-12-01T19:03:00.005+08:00

-my hair and face is oily and badly
-my teeth broke all over the place from grinding at night
-my weight increase, eventhough missing my meal
-my energy level drop
-am always late
-sometime agitated
-lost my concentration and focus
-my memory decrease
-i'm crying at work (damn!)

The sign is there. The decision has been made. It's time. Now counting the day before dropping the bomb. Hope I still have some strength left in me til the day I can harvest my sow.

Enough is enough.

December is Coming Soon..

2009-11-29T12:34:00.010+08:00

The wedding is barely in 2 weeks time, and yet I am getting more and more busier with every things else, but not the wedding. There's a lot of thing I haven't bought, I have not finished sending out the invitation cards yet. I honestly thought that having my friends list is much easier than doing my kampung folks list, but it was not really so. I just started to realize that I have more friends than I had actually thought. I wish that I could just invite everyone, not for my sake only but to see them happy meeting each others after been missing for so many years.

In less than 48 hours, we will going to have the last month of the year, and Christmas is already in the air. This will be the first time me and Babai having a Christmas as a family of two. As I am coming from a family who were not cradle Christian, we don't really have any Christmas family tradition. Me and Babai would like to start our own tradition, and we are now on the lookout for our first and perfect size Christmas tree that fit our little house. Not just any but a good one where it can withstand years of storage and maybe a bit of abuse from growing little hands hihi :)

Anyhow, we would be celebrating our first Chritmas Day with families in Kuching. Christmas Day will also be the day for us to remember the late Uncle Reynold. Sadness mixed with merriment altogether.. It's going to be the first anniversary.

Babai will be home soon. I haven't had my shower yet, the cats are sleeping soundly, and the second batch of laundry is ready to be aired. 2 more batch to go, and tonnes of ironing to do. I just couldn't believe how two person can wear so much clothes in just a week...

Cis

2009-11-26T09:24:00.003+08:00

Gerammnya. Kalau aku on leave, tiket dah beli, masih suruh aku cancel. Kalau perempuan tu minta cuti, ada deadline pun masih approve. siap suruh balik awal lagi takut nanti penat tak enjoy cuti.

mana aku letak cv ni? ihh.

Apala nak Jadi

2009-11-24T17:02:00.006+08:00

Na...! I just broke my molar teeth. I spent a fucking RM550 for the root canal, now it broke into two just a week before the permanent filling.

And now, I had to extract out the other half. I lost a teeth and my one month food and gas allowance......

Apala nasib ku.....

Update at 8pm:
Met the doc (Dr. John) who did my first root canal. He believed that it can still be save (Alleluia...!) by putting on temporary filling, and they will have to expedite my 3rd stage treatment to this coming Sunday. There's a silver lining indeed..

What Should I Eat to Keep The Dentist Away?

2009-11-24T00:49:00.009+08:00

You might be tired about hearing the same thing coming from me. I don't know, how many people had actually gone through a root canal treatment, let alone two different teeth within 2 weeks apart. Yea... I don't know how it happen. From the day that I went to repair the filling that broke on my molar right teeth, everything seems to go downhill.

Last Wednesday after the second stage for my first root canal, I told the dentist to check on the nagging toothache I had on my upper premolar. There was a stinging pain that feel sensitive to heat. The dentist asked me to make another appointment to look into that one, but because of their busy schedule, they could not fit me in and listed me in their very long waiting list. The day after, the pain was almost unbearable and I had to visit the dentist near my house to see what they can do about it. The clinic was about to close in 1 hour time, and I was their last customer. There was a replacement dentist on duty, and I really don't like her workmanship and service. The way she talked reminds me of government clinics too. Full of air and seems stucked up instead of being confident and curteous. Such a stark contrast to the clinics that I frequented for my root canal near my office. Her re-filling was shody, and the next day the pain became worse and I had a hell weekend. The supposedly strong painkiller I took did not make much difference too.

Unable to move, feels like killing myself to end the pain. On Sunday I decided to finally went to clinic at Old Klang Road which I went few times before when I stayed there 2 years ago. Too bad, they were about to close too and I only managed to get additional painkiller and some antibiotics. By yesterday morning, the pain was still there, I can't do any office work at all as my head was pounding badly. Called the clinics and begged them for a walk-in. Luckily I had to wait only 1 hour by the time my turn came.

When I met the doctor (different docs, not the one doing my first root canal), after checking the tooth, he took the time to give me a proper explanation on why I am supposed to come for the third visit for the first teeth, and what are the options I could take for the second teeth as obviously I need another root canal treatment. I had expected it all along, and there is no way I can endure the pain for another day. Decided to let him treat the second teeth as I know it will not be easy for me to get another session, what with the timing too near to my wedding date. The second root canal was slightly cheaper, RM450 for a pre-molar. Not cheap for me but I would be willing to pay any figure that time just to be free of the pain.

I Need RM10,000

2009-11-19T12:54:00.001+08:00

I wish RM10,000 fall from the sky onto my lap right now. Not much, not less. I can do so many things with it :p

Is Pre-Marriage Course An Unnecessary Burden?

2009-11-14T09:54:00.011+08:00

I have once came across a forum while researching for some info regarding Catholic Pre-Marriage course. There was an old discussion regarding the issue of the government plan on making a Pre-marriage Course (PMC) a compulsory for all prior to marriage registration, as one of the proposal on how to reduce divorce rate in the country.

I left a comment on some info regarding Catholic PMC, and in a matter of few minutes bumping the thread, there were lots of response came in in the form of opinion whether PMC is really necessary and not an additional burden, whether it really works and beneficial to the couple and whether it can be proven to reduce divorce rate, which was the the government utmost objective.

There were few very opinionated forummers having a heated discussion to the extend that some were being character assassinated. Having my motto of "Arguing in the internet is like participating in a Special Olympic. You won the race, but you still a retard" (no offence intended to the less fortunate), I backed off, sat back and watched.

For those who were against the motion, they were saying that government obejctive to reduce divorce rate is wrong in the first place. Divorce by itself is not wrong, and normally it is the last resort taken when the path has reached the end. In a way, what it means is that it is better to go separate ways than living an unhappy marriage. What government should do is to reduce the people's burden by providing a better quality of life in terms of financial, economics etc as one of the major cause of marriage failure is over financial issue. Some were saying that the government has no right to tell people how to lead a marriage, as there is no perfect marriage anyway. Another point is that, PMC is an added burden to the already stressed engaged couple, and can indirectly failed a marriage before it even started.

Yet, there were almost an equally numbers of people who were strongly recommend the government proposal. Their main point is that, apart from financial issue, there were a lot more other equally importants aspect in marriage life that can lead to a divorce. What PMC is all about, is that it will be an avenue for the engaged couple to face and discussed these issues beforehand. There is no example of right or wrong decision and answers being given, but what need to be achieved as much as possible is a mutual understanding between couple. It is also to gain more understanding of each other eventhough their opinion were conflicting, especially for 2 people with opposite characters. The PMC also provokes some prevailing issue that lots of couple does not bother to attend to before their wedding, because most of them rather wait for certain particular issue to surface later on and deal with it only when the times come. If those important subjects can be ironed out, and couples has better understanding of one another, there would be less arguments, couples can enjoy harmony in their married life, and this shall help to save their marriage, at the same time reduce divorce rate.

There are those who were skeptical, but as they do not know what to expect, they do not mind to give it a try. Their only concern is that PMC should be optional.

Coming back to the main point of this post, do you think that Pre-Marriage Course is really beneficial? Do you think that it is a burden? For the married couple, does it help in your married life? Assuming that divorce is unavoidable/allowed, do you think that PMC can help in reducing divorce rate?

What is your say?

Just Another Day

2009-11-12T09:42:00.008+08:00

My right eyes keep on producing deposits, maybe I got infection from somewhere. I came back to hotel late from meeting on Tuesday night with our counter part in Singapore. Washed up, and noticed my eyes looks like vampire's.

My mouth was sore due to the root canal treatment I did on the Monday night, which was postponed from last week. Gosh. I was so tempted to just extract my teeth since the day I made the appointment and be done with it forever. But thinking about my age and the numbers of teeth I have left, I am willing to part with RM550 just to see it there for the next 50 years, hopefully. Aduh.. berlubang lagi poket bulan ni......... plus with the pain I had to endure. I stopped counting after the 5th injection, and by the time I was ready for the drilling without winching my face, I was already shaking like mad right till the end. I guess I was traumatized more from the number of injections and extra long needles rather than the prodding and the digging itself.

The next day, I took midday flight to Singapore, and immediately being chauffered to the meeting room. I almost had to extend my stay until Friday due to adhoc meetings with the clients and the consultants. Wishing very hard that I don't have to go, not that I don't want to go for the meeting for my attendance would be important for our team, but I just feel so exhausted having been travelling every week now. My body freezes and my mind seems slow in analysing things. I'm thinking very heavily of changing to other jobs once we start our family, but for the time being, I'll just do what i gotta do.

Immediately after came back from Singapore yesterday, Babai went straight from his office to pick me up at 6.30pm, and we made our way to Jalan Ipoh to collect our prewedding photo. It took us more than one hour to wade through the jam in the city, and the shop was going to close in less than 10 minutes time. Luckily we made it, browsed through quickly because I just don't have enerygy to argue when I saw some imperfection on the album.

Overall, I'm ok with the finishing cos I think I am not that difficult to please, but I think other people who look at it might have something else to say. However, as usual I don't think anybody will say it out loud. I know how it feel cos I myself never have the heart to comment anything bad about other people's wedding photo eventhough obviously some where not to my liking. Then again, everybody have to remember that we can't please everyone, and I rather see people are happy to hear good comments rather than giving them bad memories about some part of their wedding day.

Rules of Survival

2009-11-09T13:51:00.003+08:00

William have given birth to 7 little kitten, yet only 3 survived as of the time I wrote this post. The last one born was premature. The last 2 were too weak, and died in less than 12 hours. Another 2 were deformed, 1 of it died this morning because it couldn't feed itself by unable to instinctively looking for it's mother's nipple. I tried to revive it by buying kitten's milk and feed it with plastic syringe, but maybe it was a bit too late by then. Everytime the kitten died, William would look at me and meowed sadly as she put her paws softly on the dead body. I couldn't bring myself to dispose the dead kitten. I have to thanks Babai for that.

I am praying that the other 3 will be able to push through until the 5th day, hopefully they'll be out of danger zone by then.

Feel sad.

Sorry for Not Being There For You

2009-11-07T10:29:00.006+08:00

Just a quick update. Last Thursday we drove down to Kulim, Kedah to have a presentation meeting. Less than 24 hours later (yesterday) we were on the way down to Johor Bahru to conduct a factory audit, and will be back today. I felt slightly dizzy due to lack of sleeps.

By the way, William has given birth at about 10pm last night. I feel bad that I was not around to see it happened, but Babai is being very sweet by checking her progress every hours, up to 4am this morning. By that time, she had given birth to 7 cute little kittens. I couldn't wait to see them this evening... :D

Waking Up on The Wrong Side of the Bed

2009-11-02T13:34:00.002+08:00

I must have been waking up on the wrong side of bed this morning. Everything seems to be wrong. The moment I opened my eyes, Babai just couldn’t wait to deliver the bad news and pinched my arm. What was that all about?

It turned out that William, who has become a permanent resident in our house, left a wake-up present in the form of smelly and half-juicy poo in her food container that I bought for her last week, plus with some spill over because of miss-shoot. And the container was still full of her tidbits. Euww!! Disgusting la William! And because of the smell, she herself couldn’t stand it and slept on the dining table….. such a naughty pregnant bitch!

I left the house with unlocked gate because I couldn’t clip the padlock. Gave Babai an emergency call while driving behind a slow-moving excavator, and he called me ‘short-sighted’ just because I didn’t try locking it using the key. If only one can hear the phone being slammed when you cut-short a handphone-call in anger, he might be half-deaf by now..grr..

Then on KESAS highway, the jam was soo bad. Why the oil-tanker has to hit the lorry today? I went off from home early in the hope that today I’ll have a better attendance record to show to my management, but this! I don’t need this! Not today!! Arrghh! I could feel some sharp glance somewhere stabbing behind my back on the way to my room.

Thinking about work in the office which has been piling up, and yet I don’t have the mood at all to do any of them. Plus thinking about some of ‘funny character’ somewhere up there, makes me wish that I am somewhere else doing my own thing. I even have the urge to update my CV.. I felt that lately my burden is unbearable. I don’t know why I feel this way.

In my quest to overcome my allergy to coffee by starting to take Oldtown Coffee, now I'm suffering from giddiness and dizziness. My fingers twitching like mad, and my heart beats like I'm nervous of something. Tonight, Im having an appointment at the dentist to do a root canal treatment. I'm scared shit right now thinking about it.

I started to feel like the whole world is against me and wondering whether I am at the brink of a depression or a pure fatigue, recalling back all the bad moments I had for the past October. It’s was such a tiring month. I have been working all Saturdays including the day I went to CMPC, and few local and outstation travellings during weekdays.. By Sunday, I just lay slumped on the couch and could barely lifted my finger to do any houseworks.

I just couldn’t wait till December. I need to rest my mind badly….

Catholic Marriage Preparation Course - Content

2009-10-29T15:09:00.002+08:00

As promised, here's the course content for the Catholic Marriage Preparation course. Comment in red is my additional wording, the rest are taken from the working sheet.

1. Encounter with ‘Me’
I know myself by honestly acknowledging and accepting the unique qualities, both positive and negative, that I bring into our marriage. This self-acceptance and love of myself is necessary in order to truly love others and to recoqnize the deep love that God has for me

2. Encounter with ‘We’
Married life involves a continuous cycle if ups and downs referred to as romance, disillusionment and true joy. In this recurring cycle, love is not dependent upon feelings but upon a decision to love which moves us beyond disillusionment and leads to true joy.

3. Openness in Communication
Openness in communication is a process of talking and listening that involves element of risk, trust and acceptance. In marriage we are challenged to take a risk, to share openly with our spouse and to trust our spouse’s acceptance of our thoughts, ideas and feelings. To experience the deepest sense of love, we need to become vulnerable and trusting.

4. Signs of A ‘Closed’ Relationship
Sharing individual expectation and attitudes about marriage is vital to a growing relationship. When we choose to ignore our differences or begin to think we can change our spouse, we start to close ourselves off from one another. The willingness to communicate and explore our expectations as a couple allows us the freedom to be ourselves, to grow and to change. Marriage is more than just living together. It is a lifelong commitment to become totally involved with one another.

5. Marriage Vocation – Called to Be One
Marriage is a vocation, a sacred call from God to love each other uniquely, totally and unconditionally. Striving for unity, not happiness is the primary goal of Christian Marriage

6. Marriage Morality
Moral : To be life giving .. to call ourselves and others to a fuller life .. to be open and honest and bear witness to the value Jesus taught
Immoral : To be selfish, indifferent, unwilling to be responsible for the effect of my life on others

7. Decision in Marriage
-Prayer
-Discernment a) gather facts
b) consult others for advice
c) mutual discussion
-Mutual agreement
-Mutual Responsibility
-Re-evaluation

8. Sexuality in Marriage
Human sexuality – for all of us – is the way of being in, and relating to, the world as male and female. Sexuality involves one’s view of self .. thoughts, feelings, actions which are unique to each of us male and female. Sexuality is one of God’s gifts that calls human into communication and communion with each other. This is the profound experience (mystery) of a full sexual union between husband and wife.

9. Becoming A Family of Love and Life
It is important to realize that our family begins on the day we become married. Being open to each other’s past family values and traditions is an important aspect to forming our family. Likewise it is important to recoqnize that God has a life-giving plan for our family. Forming a family involves the blending of two people’s past to form one family’s future.

10. Wedding – The Beginning of Our Sacrament
In a Catholic faith, marriage is a sacrament. A sacrament is God’s presence and love for us is revealed in a visible action or relationship. When we see a married couple’s love, we believe that God is present there. The couples become ministers of the sacrament to each other and mirror God’s love through daily acts of loving, serving and forgiving.

11. Family Planning
12. Forgiveness in Marriage
13. Betrothal

14. Plan of Life
An exercise where each person evaluate priorities in life based on the questionnaires, and later on discussed on a combined worksheet to reach a mutual priorities.

Comfort Food - Pork Soup with peanuts

2009-10-22T18:47:00.003+08:00

Arghh.. i just lovvveeee this simple pork soup with peanut and salted vege... Especially when the day is wet and cold :D

What about you?

October Birthday

2009-10-21T10:32:00.005+08:00

One is having a birthday tomorrow.

The other one is going to give birth anytime soon.

Nevertheless, HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO MY DARLING and MY FUTURE LITTLE DARLINGS!!!

Hope you all like your presents! *wink*

Rules of Engagement

2009-10-19T09:55:00.005+08:00

The purpose of Catholic Marriage Preparation Course (CMPC) is to prepare engaged couple with issues regarding married life. Although this course does not give exact solution to most of the problem, it gave guidance and lots of coursework that revolve around real life and even provoking issues that require active participation and communication between couples in order for it to be effective.

As part of compulsory steps towards taking the Sacrament of Matrimony, we initially felt that this requirement was a bit troublesome. Nevertheless, we took it positively and came with an open mind. We did not expect to have a blissful and perfect marriage when we finished this course, but at least we gave it a try and and try to pick up the good things from it.

There are two type of CMPC being offered. One is 1-2 hours CMPC that is conducted weekly for the duration of 6-7 weeks on the weekend, and one is the live-in weekend (3 days) CMPC that is designed for couples who have difficulty attending the longer duration. Couples are mostly advised to take the longer duration if possible, due to the reason that there are lots of subject to be covered, and it can be quite overwhelming and tiring. However, due to my uncertain schedules, we have no choice but to go for the 3 days course.

I would like to advise couples that the moment they have already decided on getting married or getting engaged, they should go to their nearest parish to fill up the form and being interview by the parish priest in order to attend the course. It is important to go for the correct parish since they will only be responsible for registration under their own jurisdiction. The question were almost similar to the Pre-Nuptial Inquiry if you register your CMPC under different parish. That was the case for us because our wedding will be in Kuching, but we have to go for available courses in KL.

The parish priest will subsequently gave the recommendation/consent etc, and they will give the info regarding the regarding the courses and the organizer. The weekend live-in CMPC was conducted in Church of St Anthony, Archdiocese of Kuala Lumpur, which was located next to Puduraya. Weekend CMPC is only conducted 3 times a year, which is in March, July and October. So it is important to get parish advise regarding this matter as soon as possible as the seats are very limited, and you might have to book half a year in advance.

This course cost RM250 per couple. There are basic dormitories provided in St Anthony, and couples will live in a separate male and female dorms. Simple but sufficient food are provided throughout the day (breakfast, morning tea, lunch, evening tea, dinner and supper). Registration started at 3pm on Friday, and finished by noon on Sunday. During this course, couples are discouraged to socialise with other couples as they intention is to let each couple fully concentrate on their own partner.

The course was organized and conducted by a group of volunteers who are consists of Catholics couples and they are not professional speakers, nor marriage counselors by all means. They however share their own examples on everyday issues in marriage life based on the course content. Subsequently, after each content, couples will be given list of questions to be answered separately, and couples were to discuss with their own partners regarding each other's answer. That is why couples were advised to come with an open mind, be supportive and cooperative when doing the exercises in order for it to work, as it all depends on themselves.

I will share with you on the Course Content in later post. Hope it will be useful to other couples who are planning to get married.

Updated : Pls see Catholic Marriage Preparation Course - Content

Chatty Airline Seatmate

2009-10-14T18:23:00.005+08:00

Arghh!! I hate chatty seat mate!!!

I've actually beg Babai the other day to fill up my Ipod with Michael Buble and Il Divo songs, but I totally forgotten about it. I had wanted to use the 2 1/2 hour flight to catch up with my sleep after I finished my breakfast and newspaper reading. Plan failed big time.. I made the big mistake of making eye contact with my fellow pregnant neighbor. The moment she found me smiling at her, she start telling me stories, note: she didn't asked, but tell. I didn't want to appear rude by just listening and not giving my fair share of ideas, but when I keep trying on getting back to my newspaper, this lady just couldn't get the glaring hint and keep on telling her story. If only I have my Ipod with me........

Luckily she seems to be quite intelligent despite her young age, otherwise I would have get very irritated on trying to make a boring conversation just to entertain her. I declined her kind offer to bring me around town as I have lots of thing need to be taken care off, and I don't want to be a burden to her. Hopefully my trip back tomorrow I'll have the whole row to myself.

I am staying at Heritage Hotel which was situated at the heart of Tawau town. I am taking a promotional standard room rate of RM92++, but the room I got must be the biggest standard room I've ever seen in my life! And it was very nice, worth every single cent. Too bad no breakfast included, but all amenities and food outlet are just a walk away. Tawau is a laidback town with genuinely nice people. Everybody from the airport toilet cleaner to our client speak to us nicely with a smiling face.

I finish my site tour within two hour, and answering some of our client's request for advise. Tomorrow morning there'll be more discussion regarding the schedule and payment. Since my flight back shall be at 6pm, I'm not sure how to fill up my time as the site is nearer to the airport and I don't feel like driving back to town to get to the seaside.

Anyway, I'll be off for a dinner with our client in 15mins time. Seafood! Seafood! Seafood! Yeay!

Along

2009-10-14T08:35:00.001+08:00

By the time this post is published, I'm already on my way to Tawau for a 2day 1 night trip. I have to brave this mission alone, which is to see the site progress, and also to get payments for our stuffs. I don't feel good about it, but at least I have done this before and I know better on how to deal with the unfavorable situation. Hopefully the outcome is good.

I will be on leave on 16th. I'll be away through the whole weekend as we are going to attend the CPMC (Catholic Pre-Marriage Course) which is compulsory for a Catholic couple.

Salesman Talk

2009-10-13T14:25:00.001+08:00

I just couldn't stand salesman who can't smell their own breath!

Please lah...

Smart Cat

2009-10-07T12:56:00.004+08:00

A cat which knows what's the purpose of a door knob, is a one hell of a smart cat..

How Did You End Up In Here?

2009-10-03T16:22:00.003+08:00

The most common keyword from the unique visitors that reached to my blogs were;

It's A Dog's Life : cute puppies for adoption
Hunter's Food From The Hut-Sarawak Ethnic Cuisine : cara-cara membuat tempoyak

Funny. See how hard it is to try making a good post, but end up the things being searched are the most simplest things in our life.. :D

It looks like the more post I have in my Food blog, the more the content was picked up by search engine. I think it won't be too long before it even surpasses the unique daily visits to my personal blogs. I'm so happy for it. Only that I wish there's more revenue from the Food Blog. Well.. maybe I cannot give up just yet and continue to put up more unique recipes and posts in it.

Cooking Faux Pas

2009-09-29T00:48:00.007+08:00

As like the majority of us mortal, I really hate going to the dentist. Yea.. I'm the type who only go whenever there's a big emergency to the hardy stone inside my mouth. Damn. I came out from the clinic with not just a bleeding mouth, but a bleeding heart too from loosing RM140 *winch*. To top it all, I got another jab to my body barely two weeks from my Hep B+Rubella previously.

Well, as much as I hate seeing the dentist, I hate to loose my teeth either.

As a reward, *ada reward juak*, I cooked something special last night. It's my second try, and with a very limited ingredient, my Ikan Patin Masak Tempoyak this time is much better. I couldn't get my hands on turmeric's leaves, had wanted to ask from my neighbor but felt so shy haha. I had just planted the turmeric that my mother brought along, and I make do with Daun Pegaga Wangi which barely producing new shoot. Nyam nyam.. eaten with porridge I couldn't resist a second, wait.. third helping muahaha.. Babai is not a fan of freshwater fish, but even he gave me a thumbs-up :D

Cooking cooking.. hmm...

Yummmmmyyy!!!!

ok. maybe a bit too much turmeric powder. I don't have fresh turmeric, and I accidently, I repeat.. I accidently pour too much. Cooking faux pas!

P/s : My marmite pork tak jadi. Forget about putting it up here. Sad..

Dry

2009-09-28T00:14:00.002+08:00

Urgh.. the holiday is over.. my parents has gone back to Kuching last Friday. It was really a fruitful trip this time around. I had fulfilled my wish to bring them over to visit my auntie in Segamat, and it was the more meaningful for my auntie as it was the first day of Raya.

Having friends over lepaking at our place. I think I had munched too much peanut, I broke a full piece of filling on my inner teeth, and exposing my root canal. Ouch. That call for an emergency trip to the dentist first thing tomorrow morning. Hmm.. Good thing it's payday tomorrow. My pocket is leaking all over.....

Poke Me, Jab Me

2009-09-17T10:08:00.003+08:00

ouchh... my arms is sore.. well.. i finally have the guts to go for my jabs that I've been delaying for months now..

I don't feel well this morning. It must be something that I've taken last night that doesn't agree with my stomach. Nope. I didn't manage to do my Marmite Pork last night. I bought all the necessary ingredient but forgot to buy the one item that is the reason for my cooking, the Marmite in the bottle!

This morning I decided to go to the clinic and took an MC for my stomach. Since I hardly have any time off, I thought why not I took my Rubella and Hepatitis B injection too? Kill two bird with one stone eh. I brought along my medical report, and the doc confirmed I'm negative of Rubella and Hepatitis immunisation. Now I'm poorer by RM85, RM40 for the Hep B jab, and RM 45 for Rubella jab. In one month and 6 months time, I need to come again for the second and third Hep B injection. After I got my jab, then only I remember about the combined Hep A+B injection. Shit! I should have asked for the Hep A+B together, at least I don't have to be poke with needle too many times.

Oink Oink!

2009-09-16T13:11:00.004+08:00

Hehe!!!

I will try to make it a point today to leave at 5.37pm (I was 7mins late this morning, so have to compensate :p). I was supposed to go to Kulim for a site visit today, but there were change of plan yesterday evening, and I was not selected to go in the end. I am fine with that. Lately my lower back have some stinging sensation again, and I don't feel like spending 8 hours sitting uncomfortably in the car.

I'm planning to try cooking something new tonight. We likes to order this dish outside, and it's about time I must learn how to cook it, which won't be too difficult I think. I found the Marmite Fish Fillet recipe from Suzette's Cooks blog, but instead of fish, I'll use lean Pork Meat instead as how we normally order it. Huhu I can't wait for the day to finish and do my shopping at Jusco Equine. I'm so glad that Jusco Equine has Non-Halal section, cos I can't get to buy it anywhere else nearby. I would have to go to the old section of Seri Kembangan, which can be a nightmare (for me at least), or to Bandar Puteri's market, which only open in the morning. Hope it'll be a success..

Let Me Be Home...

2009-09-15T10:59:00.003+08:00

Seeing my Muslim friends in FB are gearing up for the coming Raya celebration, I couldn't help but feel joyous myself, but looking forward more for the long.. nah.. short break next week. I also took the change to bring my parents over. They'll be coming on Saturday, and we planned to drive to Segamat the very next day to celebrate First Day Raya with my aunt and stay for the night.

Anyway, I couldn't possibly take additional leave as I will be on standby, in case my juniours need me for testing and commissioning work for a project in Tawau, Sabah. By end of this week, if they face lots of trouble, I'll be joining them in Tawau starting next week Thursday, all the way until end of the month. Which means, I might have to leave my parents behind in KL. Praying that it won't happen...

One of A Kind

2009-09-10T17:46:00.006+08:00

Waiting for the time to leave for a Buka Puasa session with our vendor at Kota Kemuning Golf Club. I don't feel like it, I prefer go home and do some stuff which I had intended to do.

I had brought some tapioca and 'cekuk manis' stump imported all the way from my mom's orchard to be planted around our house. These are the special once, can hardly be found in KL area. Hehe.. I'm still hoping that my gardening skills is so much better than my farming skill in Farmville.

So how's life have treated you by the way?

Having Fun at Photoshoot!

2009-09-06T09:51:00.005+08:00

I'm already here in Kuching at my in-laws place. Just had breakfast, of course the compulsory Kolok Mee and Laksa Sarawak. By afternoon, we'll make a move to my kampung and stay for a night.

Last Thursday after work at 7.30pm, I had frantically went to The Summit to do my nails as my DIY mani/pedi was pretty ugly. They were about to close in 15mins, and I was practically beg them to do mine. I finally opted for nail coloring only as it was so much faster, as strong and lasting as the complete mani/pedi. After that, I drove all the way to Jusco Equine to buy the white heels that I planned to buy the previous day. A couple and another friend were coming over to see Babai while I had to excuse myself, have my shower and started on my hydrating facial mask. By the way, for a bride to be, facial mask (I used Neutrogena Hydrating Mask) is really recommended. I used it for 2 days, and it helps so much to lighten my dark spot and firm my skin. This mask will also helps your make-up foundation blend well and last longer.

By 12am when the guests and Babai still very much into conversation, I had to sheepishly announced to them that we had to call it a night, thanking them for coming and hoping that they will come again to continue some other time lol! I didn't mean to be cruel, but I was so worried that we were going to look puffy with eye bags, and we'll get tired easily if we don't have enough rest. Sorry peeps :D End up that Babai slept straight away the moment he hit the pillow, while I was blinking trying to sleep listening to his snoring and kept thinking about the photoshoot.

8.30am went out to have our breakfast, then went back to have our shower and do our last minute packing. Our appointment was 11am, and it was raining madly in KL city. The moment we reached the bridal shop, I was immediately being ushered to the changing room to do final fitting (I lost 2.5 kg phewww!!), putting on the magic bra *wink*, and did my make-up. The make-up artist discussed what outlook that I wanted to achieve, and styles that were big no-no for me. She also willing to listen to me on my jewellery and accessories selection. All the staffs were very helpful and tried their very best to keep a cheerful atmosphere, and it really help us to be in a good and smiling mood that day. Since it was raining, we had indoor shoot for the first wedding dress. Thank God when I changed to the second gown, it had stopped raining and the land started to dry up. Finished up indoor, we quickly change to another dress, changed the image and off to Lake Garden.

The weather was perfect, it is sunny enough for a good lighting effect, and the previous rain leaves the environment to be dewy and it turned out to be a perfect combination! We didn't sweat too eventhough we had walked quite far in the garden. I love Lake Garden for the fact that it has more flowers and greens, and it produce beautiful photos against our white attires.

We were initially a bit intimidated by the photographer because of our different communication style, but eventually we started to warm up with each other by trying to make conversation and keep discussing with him about our ideas and asking for his ideas. We depended a lot on him to tell us how to pose, and he let us decide the location that we wanted. I myself was pretty familiar with Lake Garden and knows good location as background. What can I say, they all turned so well and we can't help to feel so happy just thinking about it. Undeniably, the photographer was good and he managed to capture what we have in mind. Bravo to him!

When we were there, eventhough wedding couples taking photos there were very common, we still managed to attract some attraction. There were one Arabian couple who were kind of stalking us, following us around and when we finally make a break and change our venue, the wife approached me and practically grab me from getting away and asked to take photo with us. Also, when we were at another location, one white guy with an equally professional looking cameras and equipment, took our photos quitely while our photographer was busy changing his lenses. Of course I was happily posing for him haha!!

We spent our 3 hours there, tired, hungry but happy. We went back to the bridal shop to continue with another 4 dresses, and finally left the shop by 8.15pm. So hungry but happy we were that we treated ourselves with a delicious session of bakuteh in Setapak!

Yesterday, we went again to the bridal shop at 1pm to have selection on our photos. The photographer had screen out the photos and left us with 145 nos, to select 40 nos. It was a very hard thing to do, but I came with an objective, to cut as much as possible! But in the end Babai gave in and top-up another 10 photos. And we believed it's worth it.

As a conclusion, it was a tiring but all of us really had fun and given another chance I don't mind to do it again. Babai wasn't all excited in the beginning but when the photographer let him see the captured photo on his viewscreen, he started to enjoy it too.

I'm gonna put up some tips in my next post, and hope it gonna be useful for all brides to be :D

Hoping for Bright and Sunny Day

2009-09-03T12:09:00.003+08:00

I can't wait for today to end..
tomorrow is the photoshoot and I haven't buy my white shoes.
my DIY manicure and pedicure gone wrong.. looks so ugly. ish!

tonight gonna iron 3 sets of Babai's shirt. 1 white, 1 grey and 1 stripes..
i'm gonna bring the pua kumbu, my dowry during my engagement as part of the features.. it'll be part of the background for our rings photo.

too bad we don't have any traditional custome to go with it, neither Bidayuh nor Iban..

Pray tomorrow will be bright and sunny day..
If not, hopefully it won't be raining, at least the photo can turn up dewy :)

ah... tick tock...

This Isn't A Holiday

2009-08-29T09:26:00.004+08:00

List of things to do for 29-31st Aug 2009.

1. Hair treatment.
2. Facial.
3. Scaling.
4. Manicure/pedicure.
5. Buy white shoes.
6. Buy 'detoxer'.
7. Buy masker.
8. Go to Lake Garden to find good spot.
9. Go Jusco Equine to sign up for 50% promotion package for second decoder.
10. Look for my father's coat, tie and probably a new shoes.
11. Start packing. Going back to Kuching on the 5th.
12. Update my Farmville once a day.
13. Rest as much as I can.

Oops.. it not the 'Big' day yet. It's just a photoshoot this Friday, the next day is immediately the photo selection, and direct to KLIA for our flight to Kuching the following day.

By the way, for those of you who we have verbally invited (since the card is not out yet), there is a change of date for the reception. If I have miss you in our email circulation and sms, let us know so we can tell you the new date. I don't put up details here as yet. Sorry for the inconvinience caused.

Missing You...

2009-08-28T15:18:00.002+08:00

"Boboy" we miss you...

You'll always be in our heart...

He's Gone

2009-08-23T12:01:00.006+08:00

I went to the backlane on Thursday evening straight from work. While checking the fence for any sign of escape by Jake, I heard the Indonesian maid from the house backfacing us in their kitchen. I called her out, and asked her whether she knows anything.

Yes, in fact she saw everything, but I had a very strong feeling that she did not tell me the whole truth. The thing she told was exactly what happened to the puppies on the previous occasion. 5 Indian men wearing red/maroon color uniform shirt. However, what puzzled me the most was that our backyard door was locked, and how the hell did the people managed to catch him? She said, Jake came out by himself when those people came, and that was how they managed to catch him!

This was where it made me quiten, and I knew she was lying. How on earth Jake would be able to take of the steel leash from his own collar without breaking it? And if Jake had went down under the fence, there would be a sign because eventhough Jake is thin, by all means he was not small. He should have made a very big dent struggling to go out, as how he did every other time. And Jake was very fussy with strangers, he would barked endlessly.

The very reason why she was lying was because they were the one who waited their chance while we were gone, and called the council to pick up Jake!

It give me tears whenever I imagined what had happened to him, and how he had felt during the last hour. How could this happened? We were so looking forward to move him to our current house, waiting for the Consent of Transfer to go through so that we can brick-up our backyard and buy him a proper cage, that way our neighbor can tolerate him, and he can be kept clean all the time. There were so many stray dogs on the street out there, why the council so daring, stealing our dog from our very own backyard!?

My baby boy Jake is gone forever, I knew in my heart that he has been put down to sleep. My only hope is that he did not suffer any kind of pain in those people hands.

I had started this blog by talking about Jake. Eventhough it was not intended solely about him, suddenly now that he is gone, I don't feel the reason to keep this blog anymore.

Jake, if I had done you any wrong, please forgive me. I didn't do my best, I know, and if I had the chance to make things better, I would. I am glad that whenever I had the chance, I always quietly stroke you on your ear, or your neck just to show you my affection, eventhough being an eccentric dog, you could never stood still for more than 10 seconds! If I didn't show you enough love, forgive me too but you must know that I love you with all my heart, no matter what.

Rest in peace Jake, we'll catch up with you up there someday.

Jake & Me

2009-08-20T10:11:00.006+08:00

Jake is missing!

Gosh! I feel like a failed parent.

Two days ago, Babai was so tired he did not go and feed Jake. He promised to feed him yesterday morning on the way to work. But when I woke up, I still saw that the ice-cream container that we used to keep his food were still on the sink. So last night we heat up extra rice and liver for him to compensate for what we did. When we were there, normally before we opened the kitchen door, he would already barked in excitement, or banged on the steel door to show his dissatisfaction whenever we were slightly late in feeding him. But last night it was unusually quite, and he did not respond at all when we called his name from inside the house. True enough, the backyard was empty, no Jake!

Actually, there were few incidents that he managed to escape through the flimsy backyard fence, and when he grown bigger, we put up some planks over the fence. When he grown stronger, he even can escaped that until we had to leash him up. All my life I never lease any of my dogs back home, but I had no choice I had to do it for his own good. We were really worried that the same thing happened to the puppies last year will happen to him again.

Normally, when he escaped, it means that his leash loosen or broke-up. However, he would just play around the neighborhood, and by the time we got back, he would hang around the front gate waiting for his feeding time. While waiting for us to come home, he would sometimes chased whoever was on the street, and his behaviour really made us concerned that the neighbors might complaint. That was the reason why that we had to keep him on the leash.

But last night, there seems to be no sign of the lease broken, or the fence being dug up at all. No sign of him escaping. When we found it out, I felt sick at the pit of my stomach and quickly went out from the house and head to the backlane. I screened the street, but the neighborhood also was unusually quite, there was no stray dogs too. We drove around the neighbohood twice, and Babai went to check-up the back lane once more, before we locked up and headed to our own place.

Thinking about the possibility of what might happened, we seriously hope that Babai's distant cousin (the cousin's sister) might have brought Jake to her own place. But this morning we found out that she only came to feed the fishes for his brother. Now other possibility that we thought of was that the guy from the council might have sedate him, went over the fence and took him out. Another possibility is that some Vietnamese workers from the construction nearby had taken him to be... I rather not say it!

Let me explained why I feel like I'm a bad person over this matter and why I feel like I'm a failure as a parent. I think whoever have rare animals, or even having kids must have feel at one point that it took up so much energy and effort to have one. Think of Marley & Me movie, where the couple did admit that some point or another they do feel that it was overwhelming to have kids and sometimes regret their decision choosing kids over their career in the first place, but it was a decision that they have made and they must do the best they can. It does make them feel bad by thinking that way. On the other hand, given a choice, they would not ever trade their kids for anything else in the world.

And to admit that I myself do feel that way with Jake sometimes is such a big feat, and I feel ashamed by it. Is God unhappy with me by taking Jake away from us?

Food Review - Top1 Western Foods Cafe, Seri Kembangan

2009-08-19T11:41:00.012+08:00

Last night we went to the opening of Top1 Western Foods Cafe, which was co-owned by one of Babai's biker friend, Thomas. I'm gonna make a quick review, and for those of you who are in the vicinity, you might want to check this outlet someday..

Top1 Western Foods Cafe is located at the newly completed shophouses opposite Plaza Bazaar Rakyat in Bandar Putra Permai (or better known as Taman Equine). From the traffic light leading to Cyberjaya, you'll be able to see a Servitekar shop, and Top1 Western Foods is just next to it.

Top1 Cafe (I'll use this shotform) is the original idea of Thomas, who have about 20 years experience as a Chef in New Zealand and specialized in western food. I was informed that he choosed not to serve pork and alcohol in the menu because originally he had wanted the cafe to become a meeting place for his biker's friends, and he wanted to cater for the Muslims too.

I don't know why they choose Top1 Western Food Cafe name simply because there is another food outlet which is called Station1 Cafe, and their concept is also has not much different. Ok, to me, Station1 food sucks, but that's another story. What puzzled me also is that, the menu are not 100% Western, as they still provide Asian food, which comprises to almost 50% of their menu!

The second page of the menu was Abalone/Scallop cooking, and they cost maximum RM188 per serving. But, don't fret, the rest of the menu are reasonably priced.

This is my choice of drink, Strawberry Milkshake (est RM6-7). It's yummy, but I don't think there's any strawberry in it, it's just flavored. Ice-blended was their specialty, but none of us tried it. One of our friend ordered Cappucino, but he commented that it tasted like instant cappucino. I'm not sure about that, we'll find out someday.

After more than 45 minutes waiting, our first order came. Since Babai is using his Chicken & Chip free voucher, I ordered non-Western and chose Char Kuey Teow. Chicken fillet was used generously, but it was no replacement for pork bits found on the original Kuey Teow. The chicken also slightly on the salty side, but overall I like this Kuey Teow.

We ordered Chicken Wing (6pcs for RM8.00), which is reasonable, and fried nicely. The coating is a bit too sweet compared to Chillies Buffallo Chicken Wing, but by able to even associate them to Chillies is good enough for me.

Ngieng ordered fish fillet for her daughter and chicken chop for himself, which tasted acceptable, although I found that the mushroom sauce is also sweet, but the sauce thickness was right.

Babai's Chicken & Chip came with special chilli sauce, and again it was a bit too sweet. The Chicken fillet tasted like, I don't know why but it reminds me of cardboard! It was breaded and fried just nicely, only that I don't find it so special.

After we had finished our meal, only then the last dish for our friend Cham, came. If for any other shop, we would have stormed out and never came to the shop anymore due to slow service, and we saw a lot of sour faces around us who kept looking at the kitchen direction hoping that the next meal served is theirs. But since it's the first day of operation and they were still trying to find their tempo, we kept our impatience at bay.

Here's Cham special order, Sizzling Chicken Chop. The wait was worth it, because I believe it was the best order that night. Again, the mushroom sauce is a bit sweet, but it was creamy, thick and one can really tasted the mushroom flavor in it. The chicken was tender and tasted right, albeit the slightly sweet sauce.

Ngieng and her baby daugther.

Overall, my personal and humble opinions are:
1. The foods are acceptable, so much better than Station1 cafe of course.
2. The ambience was nice and very cosy, ~~although I could foresee that they can do much better if there is free Wifi in place~~.
3. The service was good, lots of smiling waiters hovering around trying very hard to please everyone, but they should improve by using English language more, and better organized by everyone not running around at the same time because it looks chaotic.
4. Top1 also should improved on food serving time, the drink station should work faster, to provide coaster and enough tissue for customers.
5. I don't like it when the kitchen skip orders. It's not amusing when you are hungry and watch other table who came later than you having been served food first.
6. Audio-visual was fine, but can be improved further by providing the correct background music.
7. Price is ok, comparable to other similar outlets.
8. Cleanliness is observed and all staffs wore proper attire and head covering.
9. Too bad the airconditioned area was a little bit too small compared to the non-airconditioned area. I think they also have an open air area on the first floor, but last night it was raining so we didn't bother to check upstairs.
10. Food presentation was overall ok, but I just wish that all the menu have photos because visual effect is more effective than trying to imagine how certain menu might look like.
10. VIP cards are given to bikers, and they can enjoy 15% discount of the menu.

And that's about it. I don't mind to come again in the future, but I do expect some further improvement from them. Good luck and best wishes to Thomas and Top1 Western Foods Cafe!

Degenerative Brain Cell Loss Disease aka Babo

2009-08-18T11:18:00.007+08:00

*Scratching my head*

I don't know what to talk about la.

It's just that my boss and manager will be away from office until this Thursday. They already left us some tasks to be done while they are away, which I think can be settled without so much a problem.

By the way, last Saturday and Sunday I had totally forgotten that IKEA was having their last 2 days big sale. Sigh.. Eventhough they do have some mini-sale for the upcoming raya, I don't think it can match the sales they were having since the past 1-month. We haven't done with our shopping for our home furnishing yet, as our master bedroom is still empty, and I need to buy some new and proper kitchenware. Aiyo.. so forgetful..

I also notice that I had become more and more forgetful. Last night, I left the keys to the house dangling on main door and went to sleep. This morning, I left the house key dangling on the gate padlock and went off for work. Nowadays, I also found that I am having problem having a complete conversation. I always forget at least a word in every sentence I'm making, especially if its a slightly or more difficult word. Does anyone else about my age is having this problem?

Food for the Poor?

2009-08-13T12:25:00.005+08:00

Feel bored. I got many things to do, but I don't feel up to it. Tomorrow I'll be going to Singapore for a 9am meeting with my bos. Thinking about the ungodly hours I have to go to airport just make me feel sick. The only consolation I can give to myself is that I'll be having 2-days off day, which we'll be another hectic weekend I guess.

We are supposed to go back to Kuching today, and be back on Sunday for our continuation or Cuti-Cuti Malaysia, but it has to be cancelled because of Babai's induction, and I have to go for the meeting tomorrow. My boss was not happy that I'm making another trip back, and we were very cheeky to book flight well in advance, and forced the company to allow us taking leave. Then again, I told him that it doesn't matter whether I apply leave in advance or 2 days before, there's always something comes up at the very last minute, as it is the nature of our job. My wedding was well planned to be on December, and yet I had so many times declined vehemently to be sent for oversea assignments. For example, 2 days ago he had wanted to send me to Morocco to our current site this Sunday, and back to Malaysia end of December! Thanks but no thanks. Not now anyway.

Babai will be coming back today, but I'm not too sure at what time. I've been going over to the previous house to feed Jake for the past three days, and I'm more than glad to handover the duty back to Babai cos I've been going home late almost everyday, and it's a very tiring process. Even the process of opening and closing so many locks tires me. Why couldn't we live like how the kampung people live, where they leave their doors wide open in broad daylight? Sometimes I feel like living in prison, it's so suffocating but there's no choice since I valued my life more than anything else.

For the past 3 days also I've been feeding on things that I don't normally consumed when Babai was around, which is belacan. It's bad for his gout, and I had to refrain myself from cooking or preparing food that contain belacan. Some people say that belacan or ikan masin is the food for the poor. Yep, I'm poor. No doubt haha. Sigh, I miss my mom and her cooking so much.

Soft Launching

2009-08-11T15:29:00.004+08:00

I'm all alone at home. Babai is away somewhere in Malacca for 4 days for his induction course. Well, at least since he's not at home, I can leave the dishes unwashed and sleep anywhere I want hahaha!!

Last weekend was very hectic. Finished working, I left at 1pm on the dot. I got someone ready to take the fridge. I had washed the fridge until it sparkled like new, and almost changed my mind about selling it. There was nothing wrong with the fridge at all eventhough it's already more than 15 years in service.

After that, one by one friends and relatives start calling up about coming over. At first I had estimated about 10 person and did my food shopping based on that. While I was still preparing the food, Babai told me there'll be more coming, and I told him to buy chicken wing that has already been marinated because the 2kg that I did was insufficient. I was nervous when Babai started to invite the others because it felt not right to invite some and left the others. I was concerned not just because maybe the food is not enough for everyone, but our utensils was limited too haha. On top of that, the house has not been blessed yet and I would prefer if we can make a proper get-together during the 'official' housewarming.

Somehow, we managed just fine, and the last guest left at 3am in the morning. In fact, I even managed to sell my TV to one of the guest too :D

On Sunday, both of us were so tired, I slept most of the day. Babai took his time trying to finish up some of the stuff e.g installing extra curtain and the spotlights. I did not do any cooking as it turned out that some of our guests had brought food and there was enough leftover to see us through the whole Sunday. I washed the dishes stage by stage, and we would keep it in mind to use environment-friendly disposable utensils the next time around to save time and energy.

Used Sony 19" Flat Screen For Sale

2009-08-07T15:47:00.004+08:00

I originally posted in Mudah for the whole package of TV, DVD+speakers and Amplifier+Speakers for RM450, but now the DVD and the amplifier sets has been sold at RM150. Anybody interested to buy? It's only 4+ years old, still look new except slight dust. Protective plastic on the sharp edging never taken off, remote control still as new, I just change the battery 2 weeks ago.

Item : Sony 19" Flat Screen TV (Trinitron)
Year Bought : Early 2005
Condition : Used, very good (as seen from photo0
Price : RM350 (nego)
Terms : Cash and carry. Delivery to Klang Valley additional RM50.
Special Gift : TV Rack
Reason for Selling : Upgraded to lcd.

Kindly contact me at sumukeyes{a}gmail.com to arrange for viewing.

Buying Additional Unit of ASB Thru Maybank2u

2009-08-06T15:19:00.002+08:00

Oh gosh! i'm so yesterday! 2 weeks ago while depositing some money, the girl at the counter told me now I can do that through Maybank2u. I was skeptical, but just now I tried and my transaction went through without a hitch!

With exception to my car loan which I'm unable to register the RHB loan number into my Maybank2u account, now with a fee of RM1 I don't need to fight the lunch-hour crowd to do my ASB transaction and other monthly banking anymore.

Compromise

2009-08-05T09:46:00.004+08:00

I'm so in love!

Yep, I fall in love again after more than 3 years meeting Babai. Now that he bought the house, I fall in love with it so badly huhu..

From the day that we moved in, we had subtracting and adding in furnishes bit by bit. Selling out the old one, and bringing in new stuff. Before I met Babai, I already have things such TV and DVD sets, fridge, washing machine and some other simple furnitures. It was so hard for me to let go as all these stuffs had a sentimental value to me. I had bought them with cold cash, and it was a symbol for my independency and hard work when I first started my job. I had a mixed feeling looking on the new stuffs that we bought, because it means I had to either giving out or sell my own things that mean so much to me. I could not be selfish either because our house is tiny, and we needed whatever space left, because we will be occasionally having our families and guest over.

On Saturday morning after we moved in, Babai still took the time to go for a ride. His families were putting up in Cititel Midvalley, and I was supposed to pick them up at 12pm and bring them over. The plan was to have our first lunch at the house, and we would proceed to IKEA in Damansara afterwards. Too bad, when I reached Old Klang Road, I was stuck in the bumper to bumper jam for 2 hours. I had no idea why, and there is nowhere to turn to. Luckily I'm driving manual no more, otherwise my leg would have been cramped from balancing the clutch for that whole period. The moment I reached the Midvalley ring road at 2pm, the road was so deserted, which was extremely unusual. When my in laws mentioned about the street demo, only then I understood the situation. I do understand what the government meant by loss of opportunity for business for that day alone.

On our way back, we were stuck for another one hour. I was so hungry as I didn't have my breakfast yet, and Babai's sis tapau some fried popiah for me. Reached home almost 4pm, and we did not dare to go out to IKEA, as I could foresee that LDP highway which was connected to Federal Highway would be just as bad.

On Sunday after sending Babai's sis to airport, we headed to IKEA. My FIL went to MPH The Curve, whereas the 3 of us went immediately to IKEA to hunt for our stuffs. We came out triumpahantly with 2 sets 2 seater sofa, throw rug TV Bench, coffee tables, curtain rod, shelfs, mirror for my dressing table and a lot more tiny stuffs. We decided not to buy the couch we originally wanted, but settled for simple sofas which also cost only half of the other couch. It fitted into our living room perfectly. We made ourselves busy the whole assembling all the stuff, and it was a backbreaking but satisfying job.

These 2 days, we had also start to get other things to fill up the space such as new tv and a home theather. I know it was his dream to own one, and he had been waiting for this moment for a very long time. I couldn't help but notice his shining and starry eyes looking at the whole thing when he finally finished assembling it. Finally also, we had registered to subscribe with Astro, and next but not so urgent, is Streamyx.

Looking back at it, going through the whole process was quite overwhelming. It was actually the very first time we had to compromise on what we buy. We have to agree with each other on lots of thing, including what channel to subscribe to. It was quite challenging in a way, but the result was worth it.

Laksa Sarawak in Seri Kembangan

2009-08-03T13:44:00.006+08:00

Sarawak Laksa and Mee Kolok is now in Seri Kembangan!

The location : Tar Chong Restaurant and also Meng Hao Restaurant (formerly known as Ming Choo), both opposite Jusco Equine.

The guy who owned the new stall at Tar Chong Restaurant is the same guy who operate the Kolok Mee stall in Ampang Indah and Taman Sri Sentosa, an original Kuchingnite.

Above was the laksa that I tried. Since I went at 4pm, I think the gravy was not as nice as in the morning anymore. For RM5, the portion is very generous. I slowed down chewing when I reached the half-bowl, and it took me more than half an hour to finish all. After finish, the stall owner sheepishly came to me and asked for my comment.

Overall, okla I guess. Very acceptable, but as a local Sarawakian, definitely this guy cannot cheat us.

Be warned though that his Kolok Mee is not the original Sarawak Kolok Mee. Tastewise, it tasted correct, but not the noodle. He had to sell the one he had because the original Sarawak Kolok Mee 'tak laku', he said only Sarawakian would order. So now we've been campaigning to other friends who went there to pressure him to sell the original. If the other guy in Puchong can sell his very well, I'm sure this guy can also do the same.

For The First Time..

2009-07-31T14:54:00.005+08:00

For the sake of updating my blog, just to let you all know that we have already moving in our stuff to the new 'home' :D However, both of us could not sleep over yet as we were asked to only physically, as in 'bodily' moved after midnight tonight by my mother in law. Err.. don't ask me why.. something to do with the moon I heard..

We have already start to seriously looking up the cost for the home furnishes, and our very first brand new purchases was a simple wooden dining table for 6. Gone are the days of us sharing a tiny plastic table with plastic stools hehe.. Oh ya.. this one was sponsored *wink*

Next on the list were paints, airconditioning, water heater and filter, curtain, light fixture, sofa, TV sets, bedroom sets etc. Not necessarily to be bought immediately, but we were keeping an open eye for sales and good bargain. It so happened IKEA couch that I've been eyeing for ages, is on RM300 discounts, but due to space constraint, we are holding back to see if we can find a better option and solution.

When In Doubt, Use Black Pen

2009-07-22T10:36:00.006+08:00

It looks like my post has been reduced to once a week lately. One of the factor is because we have cut-off our home internet connection line to get ready to move in to our new house. Secondly, I am so occupied with work and travelling. I could not find the time to sit down and write some 'rubbish of the day' to be published using office line :p

Talking about moving to our new house, the good news is that, we are allowed to move-in beginning next Monday yippie! I had been containing my excitement for weeks, and we dropped by to the house once a week, as if worried that we won't be seeing it again the next time haha! Of course we are on temporary renting basis for a start, and it will end when the bank disburse the final payment to our seller.

We had a good start when we were initially finalizing the agreement for the purchase. However, there were some hiccups that we went through along the way. For example, we only knew before handing over the 3% booking payment that we were not able to submit our EPF withdrawal until the Consent To Transfer is received from the Land Office. The reason is because the house is under Leasehold title. We scratched our head on how to come up with the balance 7% of the downpayment since the seller insisted on having it within 2 weeks time, and the Consent To Transfer might even take 3 months! Thank God we managed to pull through by gathering our meager resources at the nick of time.

Besides that, in our excitement having found the perfect house, we forgot to ask bank evaluation on the property, as we thought they will be conservative and will follow the market price. Instead, all the bank evaluate the house much lower than the actual market value by using a very standard benchmark for a single storey house, without even visiting the place, looking at the property, and knowing how much one is willing to pay the for that particular house. Also for them, the worst the economic trend, the lower evaluation they will be willing to give (instead of offering lower margin). All the while, we assumed that the market value means the indicative price stated and the price others paid, or will pay for the other available units. Sadly, that was not the case. It was really a big lesson for us in the future.

The latest one was that, our first application for the Consent To Transfer was rejected, out of all things, because we had used blue pen instead of black. Nowhere in the form saying that it has to be in black *roll eyes*! Can anybody tells me what is the reason for this fuss anyway? If one signed their marriage certificate using blue pen, does that make the marriage invalid?

Satay Celup in Malacca

2009-07-19T16:19:00.005+08:00

Too bad I didn't bring any camera, and we were so busy savouring the food that none of my colleagues took any photo too. Otherwise, some of my readers here surely will be salivating mercilessly in front of their pcs haha!

On our way back to KL from Muar last Thursday, my colleagues have been influencing me to stop by in Malacca to have Satay Celup. Their first description of this satay celup scared me. The sounds of having to share my satay dipping with the whole people on the table almost killed my appetite. But then I was informed that actually the satay which is like lok-lok style, in raw form, is cooked in the hot satay dipping, taken out and consumed immediately.

I was kinda tired and anxious to reach KL before dark and intend to stop by only at R&R, but they all looked so frustrated, I changed my mind reluctantly. I don't want to be labelled 'not sporting', and since 3 of them are my juniors and I would like to also have bonding time with them, hence the detour.

Capitol Satay Celup is located at Bandar Hilir, just a block or two away from Jonker Street. Before we reached there, my colleagues already remind me that there might be long queue. They kept on talking excitedly about the food, and I tried my best to keep an open mind without any preconceived judgement. True enough, we had to wait for another 3 tables to be available before getting ours.

I much prefer the Satay Kajang crushed Kuah Kacang, but to be fair, satay celup is a new experience to me. The central attraction of the satay celup depended mostly on its gravy. The outlet guarded their recipe very fiercely that no take-away is allowed. Let me try describe satay kacang in words without the photo. Its full of herbs and spices, almost similar to Sarawak Laksa spices, added with chillies and lots of fine peanut. Ermm.. I think that's about it. For me, it was still so-so, until I ate the fresh prawn. I was so surprised by its freshness and it's taste against the gravy that I ate ever so slowly with my eyes slightly close. My colleagues had to ask me whether I'm ok with the food. I couldn't answer but just gave them a satisfied smile hehe..

Overall, it was a thumbs-up, the satay celup by Capitol Satay Celup Restaurant in particular is a must have if you intend to visit Malacca someday. It open from 5.30pm to midnight I think, and it cost RM0.70 per stick. This shop is also heavily patronized by tourists and locals alike.

Top In Muar

2009-07-14T20:50:00.002+08:00

Haha.. that's the statement we heard about certain food in Muar. But been here for few days, I haven't tasted anything that I can brag about. My colleague said I should try the Mee Bandung Muar, but haven't had the chance to do so.

Having a meeting at the hotel lobby, and we haven't finished from 7pm yet. Luckily there's a free Wi-Fi to entertain myself while waiting for my portion of work.

Me and Babai is supposed to go to Singapore this Friday, but due to financial consideration and with quite high exchange rate compared to few weeks before, we decided to abort the idea. The apartment which was provided for the Singapore staffs so happened to be fully occupied last month, and SDG59x2nights at a backpacker hostel is not considered easy for our pocket. We could use the money from accomodation and transportation there for a nice 2 nights local stay with extras for food too!

I'll still be going there for Friday meeting. I've been travelling heavily this past 2 months, and my personal monthly budget is getting haywired... haaih..really looking forward for the year to finish.

Mai Ke Penang 2

2009-07-07T15:38:00.008+08:00

Continuation from Mai Ke Penang Day 1

We woke up at about 10am. Our lower body part ached due to the long, i mean very long walk we had the night before. Imagine walking from Gurney Drive to Georgetown. It's like walking from Pudu to Old Klang Road, or further, i think.

After shower, we left our room 12pm on the dot, and feel sorry for leaving the air-conditioned room. We made our way to Komtar, planned to have Nasi Kandar at Kayu nearby, but it was closed. So we went to Georgetown White Coffee, which looks like Oldtown White Coffee, but recipe were not the same at all. I didn't want to have our lunch there, but I think Babai was so hungry and miss restaurant food he dragged me there instead of looking for some hawker stalls around.

My opinion on this Georgetown White Coffee food?

Very dissappointing.

This nutmeg drink was quite nice but tooo sweet, I had to ask for extra ice.

This Hong Kong Mee was so diluted and not nice at all!

And this prawn meehon was the biggest disappointment of all. Don't be deceived by it's good looks.

I'll never set foot here anymore.

Later on, we headed to the Bus Station under the Komtar building and took a U204 Rapid Bus to go to Bukit Bendera (Penang Hill). It cost RM1.50 per person.

Reached there at about 2.45pm, and our trip up was scheduled at 4pm. The ticket is RM8/pax/2 way.

Scenery upon reaching the highest station..

On top of Bukit Bendera, a temple...

A rest house.. or what it used to be..

Choo chooo..

Hey, you need my help to carry that?

We checked the taxi fare from Bukit Bendera to Queensbay Mall, which is nearer to the airport, and it'll cost RM35, eventhough in the end he offered RM30. I was very unhappy, so we decided to take a walk down to the main road to look for other taxi or bus. On the way, we found this Asia Cafe. Of course, we have another Asia Cafe in Subang, but the Penang Asia Cafe's is not as big. The stall operator are mostly locals too.

Inside of Asia Cafe. Very nice..

We had apom. It tasted just like Love Letter, crispy but soft at the center. Tasted just nice, not too sweet and not overloaded with santan. Very delightful!

We had Char Kuey Teow and Char Hor Fun... this one was nice!

In the end, at 7.30pm we decided to take the bus back to Komtar, and from there we took another cab to the airport, which still cost us RM30 (after bargain).

Our flight was slightly delayed, and we reached KL close to midnight. I'm glad that we enjoyed ourselves very much. It was so nice to have companion along for a trip, especially if 'sama palak' :D

We look forward to come again to Penang in the future!

Mai Ke Penang Day 1

2009-07-03T11:52:00.013+08:00

Saturday, 27th June 09.

Our flight was 6.55pm, we had to make a move by 4.30am. I was still tired over my trip the previous day from Singapore, now I had to wake up so early in the morning again.

I forbade Babai from having breakfast at LCCT, forgadesake we were going to Penang, the land of food, food, and food! While on board though, our flight was delayed almost 40 mins, and I felt sorry for not having breakfast earlier :p

Penang International Airport. This is my first trip to Penang by air. The flight was about 40 mins, and we touched down at about 8am.

We stayed at Cititel Penang which was located at Georgetown. My original idea was to look for a hotel where we can walk to Gurney Drive. Yeah right, little did I know that I had miscalculated the scale of the map!

Our taxi ride from the Airport to Georgetown is RM38. We didn't know there's a Rapid Bus that cost RM2 per person which stopped exactly in front of Departure Hall on the First Floor. For those who travel light, you can take 401E bus which have 1 hour interval I think. The other 401 bus which is more frequent can be taken from across the road to the airport, about 10mins walk. This bus will take you to Komtar, which is a walking distance to most hotel around Georgetown. I did check-out the rate for a rented car. The cheapest is an old Iswara, cost about RM80 per day. Most of them will say they were out of Kancil.

Cititel Penang rate for a standard room was RM129 without breakfast. I purposely took without one as we want to have Penang authentic food to stomach ourselves. That's our main purpose anyway ;) Since check-in is at 2pm, we decided to look around for breakfast and have a walk around town.

Our first Penang Char Kuey Teow of the day. This coffeeshop is a mere 1 min walk from Cititel. Char Kuey Teow in Penang can't never go wrong!

Mee Bandung. Tasted ok..

Lok lok soup.. I'm never good at anything that I have to choose for myself. I always over-estimated. We were so full by the time we finished that we decided to skip lunch..

Here were the places we dropped by just to snap photos. Didn't bother to go in cos there's so many places to see. We used map that we collected from the airport as our only guide.

Pub just in front of Cititel.

Komtar building seen from Cititel Hotel.

Parkson Komtar.

Odean. Haha.. they still have this old fashion cinema..

Peking Hotel nearby.

Mansion turned into museum.

Mansion entrance.

Ku Din Mansion.

It was so hot at 12pm, and we dropped by Mr Pot, a kopitiam ala Oldtown White Kopitiam which I believe is yet to be in KL. Babai ordered Shandy, and I ordered this;

Fu Chuk Yee Mai. It's Barley with soy skin, and tasted so much better than those I ever had before. I love it, they have a lot of healthy juice selection too! I think I like Mr Pot already!

While lepaking and reading quietly, I was so sleepy and did not realized that I fall asleep on the chair with my mouth gapped open. The noise from the main road did not do anything to deter me from falling asleep, and Babai quickly slapped my arms softly to avoid me from embarrassing myself hehe. We ordered another round of drink, and this time Babai ordered cappucino ice, and I ordered Honey Ice Lemon tea, which was also very nice compared to others. Nearing 2pm, we left and check into our hotel which was only about 5 mins walk.

On our way to hotel. Uptown Bistro near Momo.

The Chocolate Boutique.

I forgot to take pictures of our hotel and the room, but compare to Cititel Midvalley, of course it was not as good. We had 2 single beds, and the room had bathtub yeay!! I didn't mind the single bed because I know how much I needed a sleep at that time, I don't want any disturbance huhu..

Woke up at 6pm. Had to wait for Babai watching MotoGP race on the telly. Had my shower, and off we go to Gurney Drive. Taxi ride cost RM15, but the actual meter shown only RM5.90 grrrr!!!! Penang taxi drive really lazy, they prefer to take the easy way by sitting all day and expect money to come by overcharging their customer mercilessly!

We dropped off at G Hotel, which was very modern and with cosy ambiance. We went out at the back where it's adjoining the Gurney Plaza. Gurney Plaza is a megamall similar to Midvalley, but I didn't bother to go in to see.

Gurney Place, the walkway in between G Hotel and Gurney Plaza.

We walked to Gurney Drive and headed towards the Food Court. It's easy to spot the place as the road heading to the Food Court is always jammed packed with cars and humans alike.

We didn't waste much time and ordered this;

Penang Assam Laksa. What can I say... it's really kaw!

Rojak pasembor. Again, I over-estimated my selection, it was too much for the 2 of us.

Crispy Chicken skin. It was very crunchy and tasty, but the image of eating chicken skin in my mouth was not so appealing. We didn't finish it by the way.

Scenery at Gurney Drive..

We had a walked along the Gurney Drive. I was being challenged if we could make it to our hotel on foot. We followed the trail marked on the map, and ended up walking for almost an hour! Pfft!! Almost dropped dead.. We reached Georgetown at almost 11pm, and the midnight life in that town had just started. There's a row of pubs and disco along the Momo's Walk, and we sat outside just to see people passing by. We went off for a night cap at Mr Pot again, and went back to our hotel to conclude the night..

Coming soon.. Mai Ke Penang Day 2..

No More Belon...

2009-06-29T11:08:00.004+08:00

...for this week at least.

Flying is definitely convenient, but doing it almost every day can almost kill me. I cannot imagine how the cabin crew and the pilot did it, especially for a long haul flight. So much for wanting to become a stewardess huh? I even thought I was in a plane, when I fall asleep in the car on the way back from LCCT from our Penang trip last night.

On the other hand, Babai will be going back to Kuching for a friend's wedding this Friday. Luckily I decided not to go when we bought the flight ticket. There'll be a second leg of our Cuti-cuti Malaysia trip in 2 weeks from now. Ironically it's not Malaysia, it's Singapore! Argghh.. Now I am hesitating whether to go, but Babai adamant to go, with or without me. The reason, he wanted to check out bikes accessories and spare parts! *roll eyes*

I'll update on the Penang trip soon. Nothing much to hype about, but it is just for my own records. Will be back soon..

My Sole

2009-06-26T07:29:00.005+08:00

Guess where I am now?

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I'm getting allergic of Singapore already.

At 6pm yesterday while waiting for my turn to have a discussion with my boss, I heard him on the phone about sending me for a today meeting at 9am in Singapore. D*mn it! I still haven't recovered from fatigue from the travellings I've done for the past few weeks.

Had to wake up at 4am this morning to buy 6.25am flight on the spot to Singapore. As I have experience many times walking almost a kilometer (it seems) painfully in high heels around the LCCT from the boarding gate to the plane, I decided to start using sneakers. As luck would have it, the moment I went through the Immigration, the sole of my left sneakers flapped half-way! There was no way to turn back and let Babai sending me the Crocs I kept in my car.

I don't know when the air crew will find out the treasure I hid under the seat, but I believe the sole I pulled off from my sneakers might have travelled around the world before I do. Lucky b*st*rd!

Mai Ke Penang!

2009-06-25T10:33:00.005+08:00

Yesterday woke up at 5am (arrgghh!!!) to catch the 7.45am flight to Singapore. Almost miss the flight due to Babai's miscalculation. It was already 7.05am and the queue at the common check-in counters were long since there were mostly first flights in the morning. Luckily there were many others who were not early risers like me, and Airasia willing to open another counter dedicated to Singapore's flight due to the number of passangers yet to check-in.

My flight back to KL was delayed from 9.15pm to 9.55pm due to weather. Touched down in Sepang on 11.00pm, and only reached home at 12.15am midnight. I was so tired I decided I will go late to office by half an hour this morning eventhough our 'punch card' is monitored.

Supposedly today I am very busy, but my brain still couldn't fuction properly. Furthermore, this laptop mouse pointer has giving me a very hard time by jumping all over the place whenever I write something. I just need sleep at this moment, I can't even hardly muster the strength to talk to anyone.

Looking forward for the weekend to start our first leg of Cuti-Cuti Malaysia. Crossing my finger that my leave will be approved, as I have already booked our hotel.

Penang, here we come!

Not My Father's Company

2009-06-22T13:04:00.006+08:00

Curi curi blogging from our office in Singapore. Only been home spending the weekend yesterday, and now physically, but not spiritually more than 500km from home. At this point, as Jenjen pointed out, I started to hate travelling already, as I spent more time either in the airport or in a taxi/car more than on the land itself.

I am lucky in that Babai have always been understanding, knowing I was very tired and tried my very best to still performed at least some of the household chores. I do feel guilty walking about in the house and having black soles and underfeet :. Now we even consider getting a maid to help out if I couldn't cope anymore once we start our own little family. Hopefully I can still manage since we are going to move into our own little house soon, and the new house is more manageable than the current house.

I would love to talk about the new house, and what are the things that we already planned to do. Besides kitchen cabinet, we'll try our best not to put any permanent structure and fittings as the house definitely gonna be (God willing) our first house, and temporary fittings are preferable. Since we will only move in by end of July, I can only become imaginative and resist the urge to buy things, just in case it doesnt fit :D

My flight back is 7.10pm this evening. In the morning upon arrival, I was informed that the meeting which was supposed to start at 2pm has been delayed to 4.30pm, which left me only 1 hour to join in the meeting haha.. Apparently too, there'll be a presentation on the project this Wednesday, and our presence is still required, so I'm expecting to go fly down again.....

Who am I to complain kan? Not my father's company..

Strut Bar

2009-06-19T23:51:00.005+08:00

He still looks young and cute alright!

Makes me so nervous and uptight when he addressed me, gosh I thought I was going to faint then and there hehe..

Anyway, today my face was half swollen due to the wisdom teeth problem I'm having. I was not in a great mood and in the right mind, and I forgotten whatever things that I was planning to say. I don't feel great leaving at the end of the meetings, mostly because of miscommunication from the very beginning, many things were not resolved such as budget was not approved and our own role were not defined. On top of that, it was Friday and the meeting was late in the evening, most of the attendees were from KL and everybody was eager to hit the road.

It was very tiring day, driving alone for almost 7 hours and not getting the results I wanted.

Oh. What with the strut bar? It's actually for my car. Why do I need it?

Well, try eating Zinger with one hand while wiping the mayonnaise from the steering, at the same time negotiating the steering with your elbow, and singing along with the song played on the VCD at the top of your voice, all this while driving at 140km/hr? At that speed, the car kinda wobbled and I was thinking, a strut bar might able to resolve the problem hehehehehe....

Hehe.. Did I?

2009-06-15T19:38:00.005+08:00

Or did I not?

Sorry to dissappoint you people, but I am much more disappointed than you at the moment. Did not manage to see my ex-'idol':( It turned out that because the agenda of the meeting was very vague, lots of the key people did not turn up because they expect that we could have managed the session by ourselves. Whereas in fact, it was more towards contractual matters, which was out of our hand as we were not officially in the picture yet.

And today is officially the first day I ever made an actual presentation, (I hate public speaking!). I actually did not expect to do one as my boss has already present the same slides almost 2 years ago. Luckily I managed to use the 5 mins before the start of the meeting to browse the presentation slide that my boss purposely copied for me for my reference. Thus the impromptu speech! Luckily it is not a sale pitch, it is more towards technical presentation, otherwise I think I would have lost a deal haha..

When it comes to meeting new customer, I would honestly say here that I have very low confidence. I even admitted so to my boss. My boss pulled out last minute because he was instructed to go oversea on short notice. Now he literally kicked my butt just to push me to go by myself. He said, "J*****, sooner or later you still have to do it. You have no choice." Ermm... kind of his word of wisdom of the day la..

Luckily my manager was able to go with me, as long as I still have to present if I need to, but she would be there to help me answering more difficult technical question.

Turned out it was fine, the fact that Azh*r was not there might have help a lot haha!!

Anyway, since the main decision makers were not there, the meeting will be adjourned to this Friday. I'll be preparing myself better this time, even though still hoping that we do not have to go. Keeping my finger cross just in case Azh*r might decided to turn up hehe..

Star Struck

2009-06-13T13:27:00.002+08:00

I'll be going for a meeting this coming Monday in JB.

Will be meeting one of my biggest crush when I was a teenager...

Uhhh..huuhh.. Azh*r Sul*im*n, here I come!!!

P/S: Anybody wants his handphone no? I can sell for RM100. Hahaha!!

Indefinite Block

2009-06-11T14:16:00.003+08:00

Since the day we were asked to sign the indemnity form for licensed software, I noticed more and more online sites and chats has been blocked by our system admin. It won't be long before blogspot and facebook will be blocked too.

Sigh.

Back to work.

Wishing This Can Go On

2009-06-07T21:17:00.009+08:00

On Friday after work, we went to Alamanda Putrajaya to watch Terminator. Compare to watching Angels & Demons last week where we have to crane our neck seating on the first row, this time we at least made it to the second row..

I was actually pretty excited and looking forward for the weekend as Babai suggested we should go to Malacca 'jalan-jalan cari makan'. Came Saturday, he still had a slight fever, and we woke up pretty late as the movie finished on midnight. Malacca canceled, and Babai gave another suggestion, either we drive up to Genting, or we go to Kuala Klawang to look for bamboo. He even mentioned Cameron Highland! What gets into him I wonder.

As we were deciding where to go, we went to have chicken rice nearby. It was quite disappointing, does not worth to mention here. In the end, we decided to go to Kuala Klawang as I still feel tired over my travelling and not wished to overnight anywhere else.

You may wonder what's up with the bamboo right? Hehe.. Babai has been talking many times about making 'pansoh', Sarawak or more specifically Iban style of cooking meat in bamboo. Why not, since Gawai last for one month and the Gawai Eve barbeque we had at a friends' place last Sunday left me feeling unsatisfied.

Klawang is located in between Hulu Langat, Selangor and Jelebu, Negeri Sembilan. All this while when I asked Babai to describe the scenery during his weekly riding, he would always say it's a country road and there is nothing to see. Obviously he was lying!

Beautiful isn't it??.. Just to prove to you I was there.

Hehe..

The roadside bamboo where we got some of our bamboo. Had war with leech in there euuwww.. I was pretty sensitive so I managed to ward it off before it bite me, while Babai was a bit unlucky he had two on his feet yuck!!

On the way back we bought some durians and mangosteen by the roadside. 2 of that durian cost me a whooping RM28. Despite feeling cheated because it has more biji than it was suppose to, it tasted great.

Called few friends over to share our food that night. We just love to share great food together with friends :D

Halal version of pansuh..

And the non-halal version :D

Life is great!

New Convert?

2009-06-04T14:08:00.012+08:00

I was a big fan of Vincci shoes.

Yesterday I went to Vivocity with the ultimate objectives of checking out Aldo and Charles & Keith (C&K) shoes. These two brand alone, even with a higher exchange rate of SGD with RM, I found the discounted prices to be cheaper than in Malaysia.

A bag and a 3" (or was it 4"?) killer high heel. That heel cost me only RM53.00 worr. C&K wor.. cheap right??!! These will be the first two piece of C&K product I bought. But I don't think I'll fully worshipping C&K product though, except they have more bags choices than Vincci.

And jibbitz for Babai's Crocs...

Did you smell injustice?

Muahaha!!

Down Under

2009-06-02T21:04:00.007+08:00

Again, I am blogging from our office in Singapore. *Tired*

My trip this time is exactly the same timing as last week's trip, minus my travelling 'partner'. At least nobody will wait around for me and I can take as much time as I want going around.

Reached Changi Airport half an hour later than expected due to unknown delay. The weather today is good. The hotel I'm staying is a budget hotel located at Harbourfront, in Kampung Bahru vicinity. Quite a contrast from the previous business hotel that we stayed in. The moment I went in, I smelled the old wharf of the carpet. I'm not so fussy anyway, for SDG88, I just bear with it.

Will be back to KL on Thursday night. Hopefully I can drop by to Vivocity, one of the nearest mall to the hotel I'm staying, just in case I can find something really irresistable hehe..

Eating My Heart Out

2009-05-29T13:57:00.005+08:00

Yea.. really eating it seeing all my readers and blogger friends disappearing and getting themselves busy of preparing for the oncoming Hari Gawai. I have no choice, I had to repeatedly explain to my family of my absence this year. My leave is very limited and I need to accumulate it for the oncoming occasion this year end.

Since Babai is here with me, at least I don't feel left out. Compare to missing Christmas celebration with my family, I don't really feel as bad since there is no Gawai celebration in West Malaysia. Plus, I would be working half-day this coming Saturday, and the rest of the week ahead will be quite a busy one for me. Most likely, it would be just like another normal week for me.

This Sunday would be the last part of our RCIA class, where we would be send-off formally, and it also co-incide with Pentecost. Wow. It has been one year really. I felt overwhelmed when I first saw the schedule during my registration last year, but thank God I managed to finish it off. Now onwards my weekend will be more flexible, and we can start to execute our planned getaway which involves short weekend escapade to Penang, Singapore, Labuan and Kuching from June until October this year! Looking forward to the trips very much :D

To all my friends, readers and bloggers, Selamat Gawai Dayak! Mak driba mokuok nuok!

Home Is Where The Heart Is

2009-05-27T22:20:00.003+08:00

Singapore is such a nice and clean place to be in, but nevertheless home is where the heart is... am starting to miss someone terribly...

I'm in Singapore and I'm broke

2009-05-26T22:39:00.016+08:00

I am at Ibis Hotel in Singapore right now for working trip until this Thursday. The Great Singapore Sales start immediately on Friday the next day!!!! Ya Tuhan apalah nasibku..

My flight to Singapore was in the afternoon, and so happened today it rained after about a week without a drop of rainwater. The ride was very bumpy prior to landing, and it was the very first time in my life almost vomitting inside a plane. The plane was having a hard time trying to find it's way in the dark cloud. All the telltale sign of me about to vomit was already there. If it was another 10 minutes in the air, all my pre-digested McFillet lunch would have gone to waste.

Dragging my feet behind my boss, I was in no mood to browse around the stuff in Changi Airport. On my previous trips, Changi Airport is normally packed with people, it looks like Midvalley during the weekend. Surprisingly, this time the airport seems like.. KLIA airport on it's 'normal' day. The economic crisis is that bad I think..

The hotel that I am staying at the moment is a pretty new hotel under Ibis Hotel chain originated from France. Haha.. tak dapat pergi France, duduk hotel dari France pun cukupler.. Anyway, our team for the France project left for Paris last Sunday, and I bade them goodbye with such a heavy hearted :(

Back to my story. This Ibis hotel concept is almost like Tune Hotel, the interior is very modern just like Tune Hotel, and they also bore the same Chinese 'Kong Hei' color! The rate for standard room is SGD138, quite steep as there are many other hotels around here which I believe is far cheaper, but who cares right? I'm not the one paying huhu..

Tomorrow will be full with discussions, meeting, site visits and more makan time. I don't foresee that I will have enough time to window shopping since there might be another impromptu meeting on Thursday morning. Anyway, I only have SGD40 in my pocket, just enough for my own meal and small emergency cases. Credit card.. uh no.. the exchange rate at cethi yesterday is 1SGD=RM2.44, which is not really good.

I'm gonna have my shower soon and hope to have a good rest to prepare for a long day tomorrow..see ya..

Hehe.. my boss just replaced my laptop with his (another hands-me-down blehhh...), and I just found out the Webcam function..kihkih..

I know.. macam sakai..

Tips for Gown Selection Day

2009-05-25T09:53:00.008+08:00

I did my gown selection at the bridal shop 2 weeks ago. My advice for those who are going for gown selection and fitting:

1) Identify gown design that you want and you don't want, ahead of time. Sketch it or make a scrap book if you have the time.
2) Brief your SA, FH, and friend if you bring any, of the dress you'll be looking for. This will shorten the time, you'll be less tired, everybody can concentrate and can make better judgment. Normal time required for 6 dress selections is around 2-4 hours.
3) Bring simple food and bottle drinks cos it gonna take longgg time babe.. it keeps the audience from being grumpy. Duh.
4) Bring high heels with same height as your AD shoes. BS might have the platform, but you may need it when you want to test walking esp in a tight gown.
5) Listen to your SA if u trust them. They have more experience because they have seen so many body type and can see which gowns looks good and with type of skin color.
6) SA will advise u to choose opposing design for PS eg. 1 Simple. 1 elaborate. Or 1 halter neck, 1 tube or heart shape, so your album will not look boring. For AD, it's up to you.
7) If ur breast cup A, maybe need to bring stick on bra. B cup and above, not necessary, just commando. You may bring temporary padding if it looks too empty for certain dress, or silicon bra if you are that shy. For big size, you can wear ur corset/girdle for actual day look.
8) Skin tight legging is recommended, unless you don't mind down to bikini-level nakedness in front of your SA.
9) Threathen your SA, if u cannot find the dress u want by that day, you'll come again for second selection. This might make them to do their best to look for the nicest dress that fit ur requirement. Hehe..
10) When choosing the dress, be systematic. Sort the dress into OK and DEFINITELY NOT category after u tried.
11) From the selection of OK, choose ur final selection by grouping it further into different design. Choose the best among this category. Tried as many as possible and don't immediately reject the one recommended by SA.
12) Make sure, if you feel uncomfortable and have doubt with the selection esp AD gown even after everybody said it's the best, dont be scare to voice it out. This is the most important one. You don't want to go home and have a sleepless night feeling sorry for your choice, or rather other people's choice. I believe it is ok to say " I don't really want this, I am very tired now and I dont want to choose anymore. I need to come again." Stay on your ground and insist if u must, SA have no right to force you to make a decision if you are not happy. Or just say, "hey, i need to go already cos I have other appointment". Definitely SA have no choice one haha.. Otherwise, be prepared to fork out extra money for your 'mistake'.
13) Don't trust the mirror totally. Trust your friends/FH more. If they say your stomach jut out, you better believe it LOL!!
14) Above all, enjoy your gown selection session!

Acronym:
BS=Bridal Shop
FH=Future Husband
SA=Sales Assistant
PS=Photoshoot
AD=Actual Day

Busuk Hati

2009-05-22T09:40:00.004+08:00

Keji kan? Kalau aku jumpa, memang aku terajang orang ni, like how the Orang Gaji Melampau tu buat.

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The Perfect Nest

2009-05-20T17:12:00.009+08:00

Finally, we found it! YES!!! The deal just went through! Sing (Aaaaalleluia!!)

I feel so happy that we finally be able to find one that we both can agreed on, without the other having a second thought. It might be tiny and not exactly our ultimate dream home (a wooden resort-style home next to a stream.. aiyo.. dream dream dream..), but it's perfect enough for our first house together :D

May You Rot In Hell

2009-05-16T08:34:00.004+08:00

Dear Car Scratcher,

What did I do that is so evil to you, it makes you come and get to my car?

Did I cut you on the road? I don't remember any near accident since I could remember. My car is only 1 year old, and there is no way I would jeopardized my car to any deformity or destruction. If I don't love other drivers, at least I love my car and I love my life enough to be careful on the road.

Did I park too near to you? if I can come out with the door wide open, that means you can too.

Have I hurt you in any way? Did I say bad thing to you? I am not an angel, so if you think I am wrong, come and say it to me. I am not saying what you do is cowardly, but it shows that you are much nastier and evil than me, in thoughts and in action. Is that what you are trying to convey to me?

You came to my car and scratched it with vengeance. You were that angry huh? How do you feel afterwards? Were you smiling? Were you smirking? Really, I am trying to imagine the expression on your face when you feel triumphant while admiring your work of art. Did you feel a happiness and walk away and on the other hand trying to imagine the expression on my face, when I finally stumble upon the 'discovery of the year'?

I keep asking myself what did I do to deserve this? Is it really my fault? I kept searching for my wrongdoing over this few weeks, but I could not think of any that actually can trigger such a grave act of 'sorrow'.

If any of this does not apply, let me guess, you did it just for fun? I think you are one sick animal, and you should be sent to Pulau Ketam instead of those stray dogs. Those dogs deserved better than you.

Whatever the reason, try read the title back.

Did you get my message?

Good. Because I mean it.

How To Compare Bridal Packages

2009-05-15T11:38:00.006+08:00

As promised, for the benefit of those who are planning to scout around for bridal houses, here's how to compare the main items.

Photo
1. Main Album Size, Type and Texture
2. Small Album Size, Type and Texture
3. Main photo Size, Frame
4. Small photo (gift for mother and mother-in-law)
5. Giftaway photo size and quantity

Photoshoot
1. Qty and class of Wedding Gown (WG)
2. Qty and class of Evening Gown (EG)
3. Qty of Costume Gown
4. Qty of Groom Coat
5. No. of images (set of make-up, hairdo)
6. Inclusion of ampoules and eye lashes
7. Bouquet (fresh/fake)
8. Indoor/Outdoor/Indoor+Outdoor

Actual Day
1. Qty and class of Wedding Gown (WG)
2. Qty and class of Evening Gown (EG)
3. Qty of Groom Coat
4. Bouquet (fresh/fake)
5. Bridal Car Deco and accompanying car deco
6. Corsage Qty
7. Morning/Evening Make-up and Hairdo

Check and compare each packages as some bridal houses offer packages that others don't.

Happy scouting!

From Paris with Love. Not!

2009-05-12T23:16:00.004+08:00

Why all out of sudden am I talking about Paris here? Well, this is the very reason. Because I somehow know deep down I will not be going.

We have been anticipating and very much involved in this project since last December just before I left for Christmas holiday. 5 months later, the project has not been finalised as there were tonnes of technical document that needed to be submitted to client. Now that the part is over, our management now is going through the other parts of documentation such as visa, work permit, lodging etc etc. The LOI supposed to be finalised today and the study team shall be leaving for Paris by next week (yea,, i heard that before. huh.)

I was one of the highly recommended candidates (I'm not trying to show off believe me) to go for the design engineering study, but I've been having a mixed feeling about going. It would be for at least 3 months, and I was so worried whether I would survive without rice the whole time (duhhhh... haha). Not just that, there were so many things to do prior to the wedding, and I had already made myself clear that I need to be in Malaysia no matter what from September till December.

However, we were having another major consultancy job in Singapore which had been going on since end of 2007, and started to hibernate since July 2008 due to delay in the overall schedule. Last month however, the project kick-off again, and I was one of the very few key people (actually me and my boss) who knows the overall picture of the scope of work. Since the tender exercise shall be commencing from now until January next year, my boss does not have any choice except to keep me behind. Most of the info is either in my laptop, or in my brain, and he would go bonkers if I am not around *scratching my head*

I am actualy already 'mentally' prepared to go to Paris since 2 weeks ago. I was not so excited to go, not even until now. Surprisingly though, I was kind of sad when I heard that I will not be going this morning. Not just because I will not be able to see Eiffel Tower, which is listed among the few things I wanted to do before I die. But its because of the chance of exposure to this kind of project which does not come by easily. Not forgetting the 5 figure allowance that I will be able to get by the end of the 3 months on top of my monthly pay. Oh ya. Since it would be difficult for me to find rice and we would be spending most of time at work, I guess I can loose weight easily prior to our bridal photoshoot :D

Anyway, in the interest of the company, I don't see any point in sulking as I always believe God has better plan for me. Of course I have missed so many chances handling oversea job except Singapore, but I guess the opportunity will come again soon. I'll just say good luck to my juniors who were equally dissappointed that I will not be joining them. Hope they'll make our company proud and return with more knowledge to be shared with us. Eventhough they say I still can enjoy going to Singapore, I don't see any fun tagging along behind my boss :(

Tender Moment

2009-05-11T09:34:00.002+08:00

I don't know why I keep thinking about home this few weeks. It was only less than 2 months since the last time I went back. In fact, I have been back 3 times since last January. Maybe because those times when I went home, it was full of missions to be completed, and I did not have the time to really sit down quietly and catch up with my parents, and just enjoying our home sweet home.

I keep thinking about my parents and how they seems to be shrinking in size, and my mother's eyes become shrunken deeper and deeper. That was not how I use to remember my mom. In my mind, she always has been larger in life, acted like a commandant barking orders at her grandchildrens, full of energy and always have something to do working out with her hands. At the age of 66 and trying to catch up with surrounding, she now knows the meaning of Mother's Day. Had wanted to call her (yes, she has her own hands-me-down handphone since last year), but I couldn't. My big guess is that she would be somewhere in the farm doing whatever she needed to do together with my father. Our advice of asking them to stop going to the farm fell on deaf ears. Always giving the same excuse.. "We have nothing else to do"..

I wish that I can be near them. That I can go back anytime I want whenever I miss them. Then again people say, distance make the heart grow fonder...

I wish them long life and health, because I still want to see them again, and let them witnessed how their daughter trying very hard never to let them down, and become a person who they always have intended me to be.

Ashamed Being Called Dayak!

2009-05-10T12:01:00.011+08:00

*puzzled*

Did anybody else feel offended being called a Dayak?

Because I don't. Never been.

As long as nobody changed my village or town name to become Medan Tun Razak or Sg Pinang, I'm fine.

See the related reports here.

p/s: For the Dayaks, if anybody question your bumiputera status, especially for those who staying in Peninsular Malaysia, mighthy please, put your head up high, stand your ground and fight for yourself! We are a dayak warrior descendents, for godsake.. hehe...

Two Way

2009-05-08T16:55:00.004+08:00

It's so hot around here, I could not stand walking under the sun for a minute without feeling like baking in the oven. Two days ago after a bout of dizzines for two days in a row, I went to the clinic to check what was going on. I did not dare telling Babai because I know exactly what he would say to me, plus some drilling. It turned out that the doc said exactly the same thing as what Babai would too. Not enough water! Duh.

Anyway, it was 2 years ago that I last made a medical check-up, and the last time I remember, my cholestrol level was slightly below the warning sign. I noticed that I get the same effect of dizziness after I eat certain rich food, not food for the rich because obviously I am not, but food that rich in 'all thing sinful'. So I decided to ask the doc to do a routine checking, just to check on the update of my cholestrol level. I was to return the next day (yesterday) and fast beforehand.

I felt slightly better when I went back to clinic yesterday. At the same time, since they are going to take my blood sample, I asked them to do Rubella test too, to verify whether I have already been vaccinated or not. I got a shock when receiving the bill, RM110 for GC200 test, and RM80 for Rubella test. Gosh. Complaining to Babai was of no use since he said it is considered cheap, and it's worth it to spend money for this kind of stuff. Fhhh.. getting sick is not cheap, getting healthy does not come cheap either.

By the way, happy Weekend and happy Wesak. Take care of yourself ya!

Un-Gunned

2009-05-06T16:13:00.004+08:00

*mischievous grin*

We were asked to sign an indemnity form releasing the company from the responsibility of softwares contained in our pcs'. Then again, they were hesitant to buy for us the original software which we needed badly to carry out our daily work, due to insufficient budget.

How can this be?

It's like asking us to go to a war with an unloaded gun.

P/s: I'm shaking leg, not enough software to do my work at the moment. :D

Food For The Soul

2009-05-04T16:09:00.006+08:00

I am in no way near perfect being a Christian, and I have so many things that I still need to learn.

I have however notice some strange practice done by parishioners (not all) who rushed out to go home immediately after receiving The Eucharist. This prompted me to probe further, as I need to verify what I felt was kinda not right. This is one of my findings that I want to share with you.

"Thanksgiving after Communion is a spiritual practice among Christians who believe in the Real Presence of Jesus Christ in the Eucharist they receive during Holy Communion, maintaining themselves in prayer for some time to thank God for what they believe to be the great gift of receiving God Himself in person."

Q. What should we do after Holy Communion?
A. After Holy Communion we should spend some time in adoring Our Lord, in thanking Him for the grace we have received, and in asking Him for the blessings we need.

This is an example given by St Philip Neri:

"Once Saint Philip Neri noticed that a parishioner usually left the church immediately after receiving Holy Communion. To correct him, he told two acolytes to accompany the man with lighted candles as he walked home. The people in the streets stared in surprise. When the man returned to St. Philip to ask why, St. Philip replied, "We have to pay proper respect to Our Lord, Whom you are carrying away with you. Since you neglect to adore Him, I sent two acolytes to take your place." Realizing his fault, the man knelt and made proper thanksgiving after Holy Communion."

Source : The Answers.com.
If you can spend few minutes of your busy time, click the link to find out more.

Another point is that, some people immediately leave the church after the thanksgiving, or before the priest/celebrant even reach the exit. It's a bit weird if you visit somebody's house, and you left the house without waiting for the host to finish what they were saying right? Even in normal life we waited for the VIP to leave before we make our own exit..

Just some food for the soul..

Condolence to Sarawak

2009-04-29T17:18:00.004+08:00

This might be the most unexpected news in Sarawak at the moment.

Condolence to YAB Pehin Sri Dr Abdul Taib Mahmud and his family, and also for the whole Sarawak state for the passing of his wife, the late Datuk Amar Puan Sri Laila.

At the time of this posting, the official announcement has yet to be made.

May God bless her soul.

Another Bridezilla

2009-04-27T12:14:00.005+08:00

There was a Pre-Wedding Show in Midvalley yesterday, and finally we decided to sign up with Touch Wedding in Jln Ipoh branch as our bridal house. Total bridal houses that I have spoken to so far was only 3, which was Hollywood Design and Pearl Bridal in Kuching, and Touch Wedding in KL here. Honestly speaking, it was really an overwhelming experience to go to each one comparing packages, quality and service wise.

We have gone for a KL bridal house over Kuching eventhough Kuching in my opinion is comparatively cheaper, because we have taken into consideration the time factor and the overall cost e.g flight and extra leave taken for the fitting, photo-shooting and selection of the photos. The whole processes is time-consuming, and I don't really want to get stress over it. I am very sure that my boss would not be really happy with the time I spend away from office.

I have heard so many horror stories about bridal houses, but so far Touch Wedding does not have a very bad review from online community. Now I just need to be worried about the dresses and time planning.

I will provide a list of what to look out for when hunting for a bridal house, as the initial search sometimes can be quite confusing.

I just announced to my office colleagues that I won't be joining them for lunch starting from today, and most probably our dinner also will be mostly consists of fruits and veges. I will try to squeeze some time to go for an exercise after work. Hopefully, for real this time, I can loose the extra 5kg that I have been carrying around with me :D

Before Boredom Set In

2009-04-23T09:55:00.005+08:00

It's funny that since the last two weeks ago, I was so busy until I thought I'm reaching my breaking points, and yet now that I have clear many things (until new assignment come), my hands and mind are so eager to have something to do to keep me away from boredom. Can anybody teach me just how to sit back quietly?

Vaccinations Before Pregnancy

2009-04-21T23:39:00.004+08:00

Now for those who have been married or already having children, you might have known this. But for those who are planning to get married, there are some things that you need to do.

I really forgotten about it until Babai's mom mentioned it to. Some of you girls might remember taking free Rubella vaccination when you were in secondary school. Too bad, there were no those visit from government hospital during the 5 years I was in my school. Rubella, or German measles are mild rashes that can badly affecting your feotus if you caught it during the earlier stage of your pregnancy.

Another important vaccinations are against Hepatitis A and B. This is more towards liver infection, which can also being passed to your feotus. I remember during one of my medical checkup prior to my employment with my ex-company 2 years ago, the doctor recommended me to go for this vaccination, but I totally forgotten about it.

I have checked from a private clinics just now, Hepatitis A+B cost RM130 per trip, and you need to take 3 jabs in 6 months duration, total cost is RM390. For one time Rubella injection, it'll cost RM45. I'm not sure whether goverment clinics provide free vaccination though. Not everybody is required to take Rubella injection, but this can be determine through a blood test.

Please bear in mind that you can't get pregnant before completing your 6-mths Hepatitis injection course, and 1 month after your Rubella injection. So you can start going for this injection even if you are not planning to get married soon. Who knows, you might bump into your Mr Right Guy tomorrow! :D

Basic Instinct

2009-04-21T17:39:00.003+08:00

Did you guys hear about a motherly instinct where a mother can sleep through a storm, and yet they immediately wake up to their baby's crying from across a closed-door room?

Babai was laughing at me, that I can slept through a Fast and Furious movie, and yet woke up with a jolt just by a droplet of rainwater at 4am in the morning. Of course, that's a survival instinct, nobody want to sleep in the rain right?

Mundane Day

2009-04-19T23:13:00.005+08:00

Let me recap my activites in point form.

Saturday
-finished work at 4am. Reached home 4.40am. Slept at 5am.
-woke up at 8am. Damn it. I needed more sleep.
-went to Bdr Tun Razak at 10am to submit the tender. Finally.
-Weather so hot. I lost 1kg within 3 days due to dehydration. Made appointment with a beauty centre. Felt so exhausted.
-Dropped by Chris house intended to see Baby Amoi, and tried to get some sleep there.
-Couldn't sleep. Love to layan Amoi.
-Went to have 'siu yuk' rice for lunch.
-Went to have spa and facial at 1.45pm. Feeling much much better.
-Immediately went to hair saloon at 5pm. Don't understand why shampoo girls thought we love them scrapping our head with their fingernails. My scalp must have been bleeding.
-Went home.
-Went out again with Babai at 6pm. Decided to have dinner at Sushi King at Jusco Equine.
-Bought some DVDs. The International, Marley and Me, Twilight.
-Slept on the couch after watching Twilight while Babai having a drink outside with Watt.
-Dreamt about Edward Cullen. What a nice dream..

Sunday
-Babai woke me up at 8.30am to go to Restoren Woo Pin to have a Fish Head Noodle. Sorry babe, I pass this time. I just want some slept.
-Woke up at 10am after the intense heat. Showered.
-Babai gone to send my car to carwash. Love you honey!
-Clean up the house. Do laundry.
-Decided to cook. My first after 3 weeks :D
-Had our lunch at 3pm. Starving!
-Watched Marley & Me. Nice watch on lazy Sunday.
-Went out at 8pm crashgating Ngieng's place again.
-Went out for dinner at Puteri Mart's, Puchong with the Ngieng's family.
-Felt sleepy and went home immediately.
-Now watching The International.
-Afterwards need to read some material for the weeks ahead work.
-All this, while wishing I can just stay at home being a housewife!

Mommy..

2009-04-17T16:56:00.004+08:00

Having to take care 4 grown up babies are such huge load. I think I am going to reach my breaking point very very soon. This small tender is sucking so much energy from me. I could not count the amount of time I need to explain and re-explain the same thing over and over again!!! How can one mistake a '+' for 'x', and 5 to become 15? What were you guys doing in your university? Playing truant only?

The last time I felt this stress was about 4 years ago, and now this is much worst!

Official Murderer

2009-04-16T23:27:00.003+08:00

I am officially a murderer.

I hope God will forgive me.
I hope the poor bird's soul rest in peace....
:(