Recap of 2009 Resolution

How was your 2009?
How did your RESOLUTION hold up?

This entry will be the final entry in my blog for 2009 --> my attempt at keeping the 2009 New Year Resolution.

To recap, here's my 2009 Resolution:

1. Exercise & keep fit! --> Passed

The new spanking badminton racket is collecting duct in a corner... as I got a Wii now.. hahah.. So I can play ping pong, go kayak, a round of 100 pin bowling, golfing and much more all in the comfort of my own air-con room muahahaha

2. Take better care of my skin --> Passed

hm.... based on friend's comment, my skin condition has improved... so that means I must be doin good lar.

3. Travel to a new place --> Failed

Oh well... with the sudden economy down turn & the sudden increase with my work load during mid year, we hav decided to put on hold all our vacation plan (except celebrating our engagement anniversary in Singapore & my birthday in Damai Puri, both places are not new though)

4. Do or learn something new --> Failed

I was given a chance to try out scuba diving with SexyLips in August but I had to turned it down bcoz of WORK & other issue :~( sigh

5. De clutter my wardrobe room --> Failed

Still a pigsty now.

6. Improve my management skills --> 50% Passed

Everything seems to be related to $$ & I can't seem to get through to my people ** BIG sigh**. But the Project that started in Jun was really FUN but very challenging at the same time as new processes need to be qual & a lot of trouble shooting was required before stabilizing the process of the "super tight schedule" project. Glad was involved, hopefully it will be generating lotsa income for the company next year so that we can hav BONUS!

7. Have more control on my $$ --> 50% pass

We have started to save to pay off our PTPTN (government study loan) which we hav neglected for the past 6 years (the amount of interest charge that accumulated was so SCARY) as the form submitted for auto-deduct from our salary was not implemented & it was hard to find out how to pay the stupid loan from the PTPTN office (a lot of ding ding dong)... I just gave up until I received a warning letter. So now we are trying to pay it off. We hav save & paid like 20K for these 2 years. 70K to go sienzzzzzzz

8. Finish my Ruhi Book 6 --> Failed

Hav been looking for a NEW group to join but WORK has taken so much of my time (i know i know it's an excuse). Will extend this resolution to 2010.

9. Be thankful for what I already have --> Passed

I'm still very happy where I am in my life. I'm glad for all the people in my life that are always there, full of support & love. I thank GOD for blessing my life & for everything.

Summary: Almost 50% of my resolution were more or less considered achieved lar :)
Now to make my 2010 resolution!

Happy Birthday Baby

and also to Samuel who celebrate his 1st birthday today!

Home Cook Soup

As I've been mentioning alot about delicious soup, I've decided to take a step toward really making it HOME COOK!

So I went out to buy a slow cooker, chicken meat & some of these pre-pack Chinese herb

I just throw in the herbs & chicken & 2 cups of water & let it simmer for 2 hours....

And I have my own delicious home cook chicken soup. cool.....

Juz bcoz

It has been aloooooooooong time since we had BBQ party. And it was a "just bcoz we want it" BBQ. I already forgot how FUN it can be. And the FOOD was just GOOD. The COMPANY was GREAT. The garlic bread..YUM. The wings... YUM YUM. The lamb... YUM YUM YUM!!!But with the haze back here... I feel a bit guilty with the open burning la :P

More booksssss

I could not help myself... got 3 more books. I was drawn into Popular Bookstore when I was just gonna go to Everise to get some eggs.2 from Jodi Picoult, Mercy & Vanishing Acts, another 1 is The Bodies Left Behind by Jeffery Deaver.

Food Bazaar, tHe Spring

I was craving for some home cook food, so I headed straight to The Nyonya Stall at the Food Bazaar, tHe Spring. I had Herbal Chicken Soup RM5.80, as I was missing my mum's awesome soup. If you are like me craving for home cook food, you can have your fix here. There were kacangma, curry, rendang, fish head curry & kangkong. The food changes everyday. You only need to add RM1 for the rice. Nothing much special but the price and portion is reasonable. Beef Noodle is another stall that I like to patron, the Homemade Beef Noodle RM5.50 is very nice. The noodle texture very Q.
I find that the food court is still a good place to eat especially after shopping. It's also a good place hanging out with friends.

More parcelssss...

Another parcel... this time from FedEx

It's the wireless sensor bar for my Wii & some other stuff. I hav been complaining about the stupid wire attached to the sensor bar. Yea, I know, I can't complaint my hubby don listen to me.

Home Made Specialties, Ang Cheng Ho

2 weeks ago, I had a really wonderful lunch @ Home Made Specialties, Ang Cheng Ho with hubby's family. Locate at a corner shop opposite The Elephant. They offer steamed dishes, mostly in clay pot. I was apprehensive at 1st as it was open air & HOT le. Hubby's Aunt ordered most of the dishes & we were ushered up to the 2nd floor. I was very surprise to be greeted with this:

And it was air-conditioned le. Very clean & nobody else is around. Yay! While waiting for food to arrive, the monkeys made funny faces...Esther's food, Heng Hua Mee. She like noodles alot. Steamed Minced Pork RM6, it was fully loaded with salted fish, u can taste it with every bit. And the chili padi... power. Very small portion nia.

Herbal Chicken Soup RM6, I loved soup a lot.

Pig's Tripe Soup RM6, full of pepper. It was HOT HOT HOT! The "hu ju pork" or fermented beans pork stew (I made up that name bcoz I forgot what it's called) was very different. The taste is very strong, hubby hate it, good for me as I can eat more la. Others were commenting the kacangma was so-so only as my MIL can do better hahahah.

The price here is a bit more expensive than others but there are a lot of varieties... Despite the price tag, this place has a fair number of customer, who by the way prefer siting at the ground floor "open-air" Kopitiam la.

Good Times

Had breakfast with hubby's Grandpa & Aunt. Supposed to try out a new Chicken Rice outlet @ RH Plaza, BDC but we could not locate the shop... so we went to the BEST chicken rice shop we know,
Hainan Street Restaurant, BDC.

We got 2 types of Chicken, Steamed & Roasted, RM10.80 each. YUM!

Fried Sabah yu-chai RM6.00, the taste a bit weird at 1st bcoz they used fermented bean, but after a few bite, i quite like it.

Toufu with Century Egg RM3.50... with a generous topping of fried garlic! Surprisingly good.

Quite a heavy breakfast le, but as we all know, BREAKFAST is the MOST IMPORTANT meal of the day ma... Total damage: RM39.10

Went for food shopping at Cold Storage. The place very the quiet le... will go bankrupt or not this place??? And they stopped stocking up on the Bulla Ice-cream, so sad. We bought the usual stuff like fruits, non-halal stuff :P, etc. I even got a few cans of this CALORIE FREE Creamy Root Beer from Diet Hansen's. RM2.90 per tin for NO Carbs, No preservatives, No sugar, make u think what u get rite?
Currently, Cold Storage is giving away a coupon for every RM30 spent. wow... now I only need to collect 21 more to redeem the Crystal Wine Glass... If you guys hav it & not gonna use it, donate it to me eh???Then headed for a car pampering session... Wash & Vacuum @ TOC, where we get complimentary lime juice & also a nice comfortable sofa for us to read the newspaper... it's the only time I get to read & laugh about our exciting "local news"

Went to pick up another parcel... from Poslaju, it's opened the whole day on Saturday le.The name card that came with the parcel was very creative... a Focus Test Chart on the opposite side. Something useful for hubby.nah....SexyLips, u always asked which coffee beans to buy for cappuccino, well here is it... Espresso, from Starbucks.It's whole bean coffee but they will grind it for you...Spent the rest of day watching a lot of TV... new season of ANTM, Gossip Girls & House. Couch potato is ME!

Ting Noodle, Ban Hock Road

I had the infamous Taiwan Stew Beef Noodles, ~RM5 @ Ting Noodle, along Ban Hock Road (opposite Continental Hotel) with friends. Side-dish of fried dumplings was awesome. Got Milk Tea with pearl too... ah.... that was good too...

Say it with ME... YUM!

This is not the sweet type like the ones offered at Lam's Place. Some people commented that it taste almost like the Beef Noodles at Taiwan. What a compliment le! I dunno as I've not been to Taiwan. The noodle's texture is nice & the soup taste Ok, but I find that the stew beef are cut into quite big pieces & sometimes it's quite tough la.

When people ask me about Ting Noodle House, I'll tell you that the owner, also the cook is very unique. Once you stepped into that shop, you will not missed him one. He wears a white headband all the time that holds his "REALLY BIG CURLY" hair together.

Esther ROCKs @ Bowling!

We started with Frisbee and taught her the A & B button... the rest was history. This was Esther's 2nd game & she already got 116 marks, playing all by herself... She got 3 spare & 1 Strike!!! I'm so proud. Daddy lose as it was his 1st game.

Even MIL played too & we had a lot of laughter playing Canoeing.... hahhahah...

As I kept complaining about the quality of the Wii projection, hubby finally did something about it and now the image quality is so good... He bought NEW wires, did his magic & I'm so happy the complaining works :) Bcoz I'm begining to think about PS3 for my Guitar Hero World Tour, now no need to waste $$ liau

Comparisons

I found this interesting paragraph while blog-hopping on
Why Comparisons will Kill your Spirit:

“There is no exterior cure for looking in the mirror and not liking what you see there. It all has to do with how you’re feeling on the inside ... comparisons will kill you. That goes for everything. The minute you find out at work that someone makes more money than you, you start to think, I’m doing just as good a job. Why am I not getting that? Or if someone has a better car than you or a better shirt or anything, it will kill you. You really have to look at what you have and be happy with it.”

Selamat Hari Raya

Selamat Hari Raya my Muslim Frenz!

Esther & family is back from S'pore for the Raya Holidays! She's slightly "tan" as she just came back from Langkawi.

Here's Esther totally enjoying her ko-lo-mee... The tiny baju kurung fit Esther well...

Little Elijah is getting more & more CUTE!

ah... the price charming capturing every1 hearts!

Then the Raya Visiting Officially START!

SO SO FULLLLLL! loved the Kueh Lapis tons! The traffic jams towards "opposite river" is totally worth it!

Maxim

Still remember I blast the stewpig sales assistant at Parkson when I went "Pan Shopping" that I decided to just buy some cheap ass frying pan, neh those Superstore selling super cheap China made stuff, where I was so happy bcoz I just save like RM350. Well, that cheap pan BERKARAT aka rusty after like 3 months of used... that's why I dun cook anymore. Now it seems like I just waste RM33 liaw for that stewpig pan.

So little choice when it comes to pan suitable for Induction Hub....with the PARKSON sales goin on, we got no choice but go back & checked out the Maxim pan again. We decided to buy the pan as it was on 20% discount.
I started to cook again... hahaha... yea frying eggs & Taiwan Sausage is called cooking ok.

Breakfast for last weekend: Egg + 2 chix sausage and Coffee + Orange juiceand hubby's fav... Coco Crunch + corn flakes

with milk... MUST be with COLD milk 1...

And some vitamin from Langsat...

So now I'm gonna start to try very hard and see how many meal I can cook before something else goes WRONG again!

just bcoz...

This happen last weekend but was too busy to update anything... actually nothing important or significant happen to me the past weeks... just FULL of WORK WORK WORK!!! This is just me updating just bcoz I got the time now hahahhahah

Breakfast consist of a bad laksa, while for hubby was this nice looking Curry Rice @ Mega Food-court (if I remember correctly at King Centre) RM4.50 from a stall with the big FU. Not really to my liking as it's Chinese Style curry & rice was soaking wet.

Went to pick something up from POSLAJU...

ONLINE Shopping is great!

Could not show you what's in the box *ahem ahem* worth ~RM300 but here's 1 item that I can show lar... Chocolate mask **the pores on my face will be shouting out in unison YUM YUM**

Shopped for food @ Ta Kiong & using up a RM10 voucher I got last week. For card members, every RM1000 u spend they will auto giv you RM10 vouchers. I hav always thought Ta Kiong gave out voucher due to special promotion as this was the 4th voucher I received.

Before leaving tHe SPring, we ta pau'ed BIG Apple Donuts & Cappuccino with our own tumbler, can save RM2 per drink le. Those Starbucks Tumbler is very worth it lor, get it if you r always drinking coffee there. These past few weeks, I had finished reading 4 books by Danielle Steel: Bittersweet, Family Album, Honour Thyself & No Greater Love... overdosed wit family & lovey dovey stuff... I saw the perfect opportunity to reward myself when I spotted 20% discount (card members) for The Associate by John Grisham.

Then the phone rang... saw the dreaded name. DANG IT! HAV TO GO BACK TO WORK! arrggggggghhhhhh! And there my friend was how my day got ruined.

Singapore Chicken Rice

It has been a looooooooong while since I step into SCR at Jln Song... our 1st time having our dinner up here at the 2nd floor... very bright & cheerful little place...

I was drawn into here as there was a BIG banner in front of the store with the wording FREE lychee drink... I thought it would be a good deal le, Lychee le. But then when the drink came I was shock: cis bedebah, it's those syrup drink only dang, like the free drink in our canteen! Hubby ordered Fried Kueh Tiau RM5.80... hubby only complaint that they removed the tasty fried chicken, cut cost kua... Well, my S'pore Chix Rice, SUX, too dry.Those BIG banner really works le... can get "Kiam" people like me to go in and giv them another try...