it's DAD's day

Happy Father's day to my dad, my father in law in KK and all the other fathers, grand father & great grand father out there. Me & my brother were planning to go out for lunch but then, the celebration has to be canceled. But juz like wat my bro say, we still can go out makan.... which is quite true. Let's see how today goes by...

Oh, I have put up a special banner for this day if you haven't noticed it yet *he he he*. Got too addicted of making banners for blog *wink*

端午节 aka Dragon Boat Festival

It's 五月初五 which means, the Dragon Boat festival or as I call it Chung Chit in cantonese. Here I wish my dear dear, my family & everyone a Happy Duan Wu Festival.

(credits & details here , view the ecard here)

PS: Dun eat too much of the chung and do share some with me.....

my very own CAMEL

Was supposed to post this up after the HOT post but there's always some other things to post ... hence, the delayed in showing my very own camel.....

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Sometimes back, I asked Gerald for a very unique and local souvenier from Doha. I never expect that I will have my vy own camel (figurine made out of REAL camel skin) and it does really look like the camel photo that was shown in the previous post.

These unique gifts (camel & aladin lamp) are my Christmas presents of 2007 which is yet to be displayed in the house.

Easter in Kota Kinabalu

I had a real long break from scrapping & blogging, hence, more backdated post. Since Gerald is back for his home leave from 19th March - 2th April, my daily actvities has been packed from morning till evening ( work + going out after work) except during our 5 days trip back to Kota Kinabalu. During these 5 days (22nd - 26th March), I slept the most (morning, noon, evening, night, you give me any chance of sitting still, I can sleep *LOL*, so I am mostly pigging out in KK).

It so happened that on the 2nd day in KK, it is the Easter Sunday. Nothing special but it's my first time celebrate Easter in Inanam Basel Church and the service is mostly in Hakka *not a language that I can understand well*, so, it's truely eye opening ... coz they sang mostly from the hymns and they got this big choir and practically everyone know his family.

They even have this special service after the main service, whereby the church members with the childrens will go out to housing area to spread the news of Jesus resurrection by giving out Easter Egg. I didn't join coz I need to go to the Gaya Street in town to get some pearls for my colik but my darling niece, Ashley and my MIL took part in the Easter Egg.

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Night time, we have pot luck dinner with Gerald's fren and we (actually MIL) cook oven baked chicken wing, which is delicious... I did took some photos, but no time to process it yet :p, will upload in the future if I got time lar.....

PS: Gerald's fren house is soooooo big... if u ask me to use a floor mops to mop the floor, I think I will pengsan or maybe it will take me 1 whole day just to mop the whole bungalow.

a GIRLY brunch

Backdated post

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More backdated post thanks to my laziness but hopefully, I can really back on track soon. I had a yearly reunion kind of thing with one of my BBGS gang plus a college fren juz before CNY. Since it's so hard to gather everyone, really a big thanks to Chew Ping to take the initiaves to get us together this time for dim sum brunch at Imbi Palace. As usual, when a bunch of girls meet up, there's alot of talk...... & we really can talk and eat at the same time *GIRLS mah :p *

Here's some of the food we ordered :

After the brunch, Ee Laine wanted to have a boost of coffee & so we cramped into Laine's car & head to Pavilion (cost savvy here coz parking is soooo expensive there).

A Chinese Valentine Dinner

*Chor 15*

I know CNY is over for almost 1 month but being the 'busy' me, I only managed to scrap the Chor 15 LO today. Hence, the lateness of my CNY blog *pai seh*

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Since it is the last day of CNY, we had another reunion dinner. This time, everyone managed to attend (only 6 people including my bro's gf & not forgetting lil Cheng Cheng). My dad managed to cooked us a delicious dinner even though he's working tat day & Wen Jye managed to buy the Salmon Yee Sang for us.

Since I'm working as well, I didn't do much on that night but to makan & watch movies while my dad, mum & lil bro have their usual 'games' at the new house (yeah, I overnite at the new house coz lazy to drive back to my place & I must say, the traffic is not tat bad in the morning ).

So, this ends the CNY activities except for the CNY decos in shopping malls that I have yet to scrap. I really hope I can finish it by March.

A lunch date with Valentine

*chor 8, Valentine day*

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Since it is Valentine day, me & my colik (Emily) decided to go on a lunch date and asked San to tag along. It's such a special coz we are celebrating 'alone' , we want to have a 'special' lunch. So, instead of hawker centre, we went to this japanese restaurant, Xenri (recommended by Emily) at Old Klang road. It's quite easy to find coz it's just next to the Elken building. I just love the atmosphere in there, vy cozy yet classy. What I loved most is their bento set which is quite cheap & hugh, not ot mentioned vy Yummylicious... really a must to go if you have not been to.

I ordered a Bento set that consist of salmon sashimi, chicken teriyaki, cold soba, salmon salad, chawan mushi, miso soup & fruits. All these for RM 25 (cheap, right...) Showing below is what my colik ordered, which are also RM 25 per set.

Sushi tempura bento set ordered by Emily

Salmon with soft shell crab bento set ordered by San


And here's my lunch date ~ Emily. She is going to be my taman-mate soon *wink*



My other lunch date, San with Emily.

You can see the restaurant is vy nice from the background of the above photos. Too bad my concentration is at the food & forgot to snap some of the resturant photo. They even have a special room that can fit quite a number of people for small function.

Later that evening, I had a date with Jazzmint at Sweet Deli to celebrate her b'day and also Valentine day.

Lunch break = Bai Lin

*Chor 5 lunch break*

Since I didn't take any additional leave for these CNY, I started work on Chor 5 , 15th Feb 08. The office was quite empty with a few MEOW around & my usual gang is still on holiday. Hence, I went to my aunt's place for lunch reunion. Too bad that the area has water cut, I'm a bit dissapointed for not having some really good food cooked by my Yee Ma. Instead, my cousin sis tapau KFC for all the relatives (not my fav. though, so I ate 1 small pc).

The attention of the day of course was the arrival of the youngest great grand daughter , my niece, Cheng Cheng. She's so adorable and everyone just want to get hold of her. I did manage to snap 1 photo of my grandma with my niece before I make a move back to work. That makes them Great Grand relationship -> Great grandma, Great grand daughter ....

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Chinese New Year *Chor 3*

*chor 3 @ our place*

CNY to me always means visiting relatives & Chor 3 is no difference. We open our house (the new one @ Kajang) for our relatives to visit us and to make our house a bit merrier (^-^) during CNY. This also means that we need to prepare some food and my mum had not really prepared the menu *Aik!! Lucky my place is near Jusco Cheras Selatan & we went there on the nite before to stock up for the simple lunch.*

I woke up super early on Chor 3 to see & make sure my mum cook wat we bought last nite & also just to supervised a bit on the vege since it's a new dish to her but ended up preparing for the vege coz my mum dunno wat I want. I dun cook coz my taste bud is a bit blend, so, if I cook, it either end up bland or too salty *LOL*. My big contribution to the lunch was to use the broiler to oven cooked the Vegetarian Pandan Chicken. Here's what we managed to prepare :

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We have pandan chicken, stir fry mix vege (lotus root, celery, carrot & sweet peas) & steam chicken which is my dad's best dish. Not to forget a big pot of Abalone Ginseng Chicken soup that will satisfy everyone stomach.

After the lunch, we have some light entertainment (you know wat I mean lar, those we usually play during CNY *wink*) for the relatives and the session lasted till almost 5pm. As for me, I got bored by 2pm and started to fall asleep *pai seh*... and I did slept for awhile .... yawn....

That ends the event for 3rd day of CNY...

PS: Just incase all of you were wondering why suddenly there's alot of Chinese Word in my scrap --> I found out that my windows can choose the language, so I use the Chinese PRC to type the Han Yu Pin Yin and click on the word that I want. No, I dunno Chinese but I can recognise some vy basic word & used it to the max :p

Reunion lunch on Chor 2

*chor 2 @ popoyi place*

Every year on the 2nd day of Chinese New Year, we will go over to my mum's side to 'bai lin' and usually, it will be at my youngest uncle's place. This is because his place is the largest that can house all 8 siblings' family. My youngest 'kaumo' will cook a simple feast for us to eat while all of us gather to enjoy and chit chat since it's really rare for all of us to get together.

Here's some really memorable photos taken during that day coz it's hard to see all together especially my mum with her sisters as shown below:

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Me and my 2 younger brothers taken on that day and I really look like their little sister since I look so short when standing between those 2 fellas :

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Since I started snapping photos, nearly everyone who's free came up to me to request to be taken with those beautiful decorations. I have too many photos and decided to do a 2 page layout and will definately print it out for them:

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This year is really a fruitful session in view of capturing the event of the day but then, it's quite boring for me after chor 2 coz no place for me to go....

PS: All my dear cousins who saw these LO, do drop me a note if you want to have it on ur blog. I will email you the copy so you can share it as well (^-^)

My fortune of the day

*Thought of posting this later but then, it's fortune of today, hence, it cut the ques of my CNY post*

I am sure alot of people knows about the fortune cookies. I am not sure who invented it but it does really gives you some fun to discover what the little piece of paper that predicts our fortune of the day (or maybe gives us some magic just like Disney movie, Freaky Friday).

I had 1 cookie today (thanks to my colleague) and what it tells me of my fortune?


I am sure everyone will agrees that our home is where we draw happiness from. Oh well, it's not really a predict the future type but it tasted very nice... had fun biting into it (^-^)

FGS Dong Zhen on Chor 1 evening

*Chor 1 evening*

I have heard about this FGS Dong Zhen from alot of people especially those avid photographer. Every year during Chinese New Year, this place will be decorated with lanterns and flowers and it has become a must visit place during CNY. I must say, it really perk ups any KL people's day coz CNY in KL is pretty much the same (which is getting quiet'er' every year).

So, since Chor 1 I got nothing to do, I bring my parents & my lil bro to visit this place. We met up with Jazzmint and hopped into her MPV to go to FGS. Lucky by the time we reached there, there's still sunlight to capture the beautiful scenary (lots of flowers which can't be seen if it's night time) and also to walk to the stalls set up along side the garden.

There's this stall that sells dolls made from coloured dough. It's really rare to find this type of stall coz it's sort of like a forgotten art. You can pay RM2 to have a spin on the wheel to see how lucky you are. If very lucky, can walk away with a big dough doll that cost RM 6 or RM8. If not, dun be despair coz you still get a small fish caught with the rod.

Give a spin and see what you can get from the dough toys stall...

RM 6 dough toys that's so cute...

Below shows some day time spots that I love at FGS. You can see there's a Wishing Tree (just like those TVB series) at the entrance to this place....

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Beautiful walkways decorate with red lanterns

Once the sun has set, the place is transformed into a land that's brightly lit by red lanterns everywhere. It's really a must to see those spectacular lighted up decorations.

Brightly lit red lanterns hanging at the arch entrance

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To see more photos, you can visit Jazzmint's site. I am still trying to find my way to skim down the photos to be uploaded to my webshot (^-^)

Chinese New Year *Chor 1 morning*

*Chor 1 morning*

My 1st day of CNy this year is very different from the year before coz Gerald is not around, I am celebrating it in KL with my family. So, early that morning, I went for Chinese New Year Service at my church. I am all set with my cheungsam (glad that I can fit into it this year but still it's a bit loose at top *sob sob* ) to go 'bai lin' with Jesus this year *LOL*.... Just incase you're wondering why got church on CNY -> It's a custom for my church to have a CNY service coz it's in a kampung whereby lots of people will come back for CNY.... The service is really amazing coz Rev. Lee really relate the talk with RAT year (will share the story later)

Me with Eva in cheongsam. I just love the photo... Dun you think we both look so lovely in cheungsam *perasan liao*

After the service, I went home to chill (before going out in the evening to the FGS Dong Zhen festival with my family & Jazzmint) & open up all my CNY tit-bits.. I really bought alot of food, especially the 'Yuk Gon' coz I bought from Weng Heong & Bee Cheng Hiang... As for the other tit-bits, you can see from the below scrap :

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That's not all the tit-bits coz there's still some I haven't open yet. I really hope I won't put on weight by month end (^-^).

Happy Valentine

Valentine is here and Happy Valentine Day to my dear hubby & all the people out there. You can see that I have changed my banner to a very romantic banner....

This year, I will not be celebrating it with my dear dear physically but we will have cyber dating & candlelight chatting session at night. I found that knewing each other via internet really does help in maintaining our relationship.... (many still awed by this fact*LOL* & how we can chat non stop thtoughout the day & nite).... & our love for each other grew each Home Trip as you can see from the photo below (^-^) which was taken way back in Sept 07 in KK....

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So, wat did I give to Gerald since he's so far away? he he he... I have sent him a SpeCial Card & am I glad that it didn't lost in transporting :p

Besides that, I did a very last minute wallpaper for his laptop last nite..... something cheap but it the thoughts count, right?

Reunion Dinner cum Birthday Celebration

It's Chor 7 but I shall start my CNY post with the Reunion Dinner (^-^)

CNY Eve falls on 6th Feb 08 and it's my mum's birthday. Hence, we have 2 celebration in 1 night but we had a very simple celebration. This year the reunion dinner is just among the 5 of us coz my uncle went back to his wife's side while Gerald is in Doha. hence, just home cook meal which consist of fish, vege, chicken, roast pork & the most expensive chicken soup coz got bird nest :p

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After the dinner, we had a birthday celebration for my mum. Got a cake from Secret recipe (thanks to Tina) but the big head prawn me left the candle at my house..... we gotta make do without the candle with just song & wishes plus lots of photos. Since I look vy messy, I refused to be in the photo which I regrated when I did this LO....

Happy Birthday MUM!!!!

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Happy Chinese New Year

As you can see that my blog is all ready to greet the Chinese New Year with my early CNY banner. Here I (we) wish my(our) family, friends & colleagues a very Prosperous RAT Year. These coming few days will be very busy for me coz visiting relatives and friends while for Gerald, it's business as usual (poor Dear Dear). He got to work in Doha but then again, he is all set for the CNY. He has bought yuk gon & prawn rolls to have it tonight & tomorrow.

GONG XI FA CAI & HONG BAO NA LAI to my Dear Dear (^-^)

Winter Wonderland at the Curve

final Christmas post

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Finally, I have come to the last of my Christmas post.

I went to the Curve on 16th Dec 07 with my parents to get my orchid & some stuff from Ikea. I knew that it will be decorated with Christmas deco, hence, I had my camera all ready *LOL* & had my mum post for the camera. Their theme this year is a Winter Wonderland. I love the little house at the center of the entrance surrounded by snow capped trees & reindeers. You really feel the winter in there.

So, this ends my Christmas adventures in Singapore & Kuala Lumpur. I just love to hunt down the decorations & captured as many beautiful photos to share with my hubby & friends. Now I can't wait for Chinese New Year decorations (^-^)

A Christmas Story unfold at 1 Utama

Christmas post

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This is my 2nd last post of my Christmas adventure (mall hopping for Christmas deco *LOL*) & it's A Toy Soldier Christmas Story unfolded at 1 Utama Shopping Mall. I have no time to go 1U so, this was taken on the day I came back from Singapore (my bus stopped at 1U & by the time I reached, it's close to 11pm).

The feature for this decoration is the 2 story high Toy Soldier tat can move his hand & head *vy cool eh ;) * but I was too tired to post hence, just 1 quick snap of the center piece....

a FAIRY whisper christmas

Christmas post ...

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Every year I am very eager to go to Mid Valley to see their Chirstmas deco. It has never failed to amaze me with wonders & to bring the magic of Christmas to KL. This year their theme is Fairy Whisper & the moment I walked into the mall, I feel like I am walking right into the fairy kingdom (I'm a huge fan of fairies). How I wish I have my own wings then....

It's really amazing that the creative team that Mid Valley hire does the job so well. They even have the themed gifts for shoppers if they purchased a certain amount with Master Card. I managed to collect 2 plates with Fairies design & the best thing is, their gift wraps are also using specially designed gift wrapers of Fairy Whisper....

Photos (clockwise left to right) : Fairy lights (reminds me of the lantern in XXX Holic), Baubles, white & purple butterfly near Jusco area, Fairy hidden in the fairy lights, Giant Mushroom in front of Jusco (feel like Alice in Wonderland), hidden fairy, Christmas holy, Center Court deco, bronze butterflies, close up butterflies, Fairy performance at Center Court

A whiTe cHristmAs at Pavilion

Christmas post

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I was so busy in December until no time to go into Pavilion to snap up the Christmas decos. Finally, on 29th Dec 07 I managed to drag Gerald down to Pavilion to window shop & also to snap the photos. It is indeed vy beautiful & in fact, the deco is better than those in Singapore (indoor decorations).

Pavilion's theme is a White Christmas coz everywhere is white. They have this huge center piece high white Christmas tree that is made of scaffolding & stair way where the choirs 'entwined' the tree to sing the Christmas Carol (didn't manage to see but it was in the news). Everywhere in the mall is decorated with white chandelier that looks like icicles, icy white trees & white christmas trees.... It is really cool to look at *wink* & you feel the winter in Pavilion

I enjoyed myself totally in snapping photos of the tress in different angles, trying to get some artistic angle with my small T10 & here's some photos from Pavilion :

I love the stairs at the center court. I feel like I am somewhere in Europe when sitting at the stairs (saw the place at Lizzie Mcguire movie).... really a good place to lepak with a book in my hand. Here's some of my favourite photos:

This shows the escalator that brings you from lower ground to the top most floor.

The crystal white tree from the bottom view

A view of Pavilion main entrance from top most floor.