All you need is LOVE

Awesome awesome day! NO getting back to WORK at all for 2 days... praise the lord! I really do need this break so bad… so much work back to back, I have not been resting properly. The stress has made my blood pressure shoot up from 80/120 to 125 to 130 already... I don wanna die young le... so many things I hav yet to achieve... sigh... chamomile tea here I come, it's said to calm people down.

Back to happy stuff, I had Madam Tang's (near Petanak) Beef Laksa RM6.80. Major YUM! I loved those beef tendon & tummy. Satisfied!

hehehhehehe... What else but Food Shopping at Ta Kiong? Got the usual milk, juice, fruits, chips, UNAGI of coz! & not forgetting all the junk essential stuff. Hubby Q'ing to pay parking fee. Look at the trolley, RM180 worth of groceries... man I enjoy shopping for FOOD! and grabbing good deals.

Our microwave oven finally died after bein sick for almost half a year oledi, where I can still use the oven once a day only. And since we r heading to the electrical shop, might as well complaint to hubby that our rice cooker is too BIG, need to buy a mini one as so much rice wasted, all stick to the big pot... so people if u only cook for 2 person buy the smallest available one. We always go back to the same shop for all our electrical appliances... Kok Siong Electrical at BDC. The tau-ke PR veli good & offered us good price. We got NEW microwave oven & a cute little rice cooker!

To those burger enthusiast, I wanna recommend Ramly Burger... it's bigger in size compare to other brand & it taste good... BIG MAC ala Burger Queen Faith style... hehehe with extra egg summore. The only thing missing are those lettuce & pickles... must remember buy those next shopping trip.
As I've missed my facial last week due to work, I quickly grab the chance & went for pampering session... ah... I feel so refresh & my skin felt so clean. I missed those massages on the shoulder & especially the face. I feel the pimple scars on my face are getting better too... will be buying another Facial Treatment package to continue on as I really like her style.

At night I prepared another of my favorite Japanese dish, SOBA Noodle. It's quite simple to prepare. Let me show you... Get a packet of those green tea soba noodle (I got mine from S'pore)Boiled some water & put in the noodle. Once the water boiled, turn down the heat to medium & let it simmer for ~4 minutes (depending on ur noodle portion). Then drained the water & rinse the noodle under the pipe water... until the water is clear.
Place some ice on the plate then put the soba noodle on top...

Cut some seaweed & put on top of the noodle & sprinkle some sesame seed on top if you wish. The soba soup base can get from supermarket. Just pour some into a small bowl & dilute with water or else it will be too salty. Remember to dip the noodle in the soup and eat immediately, don't soak the noodle in the soup or the flavoring will be too strong.

I prepared some Ebi Tempura to go with the Cold Soba Noodle. The tempura "failed" badly, can any1 teach me how to get perfect tempura???That's all. Quite simple to prepare le. My way of cutting cost, by DIY & learning new ways to prepare food at home.

9 years 9 months 9 days

Baby, I just cannot believe that we have been together for almost a decade already. It felt just like yesterday that we started to date.
The games that we play, even though sometimes childish, still generates laughter from us...
The hide then scare the shit out of you games...
The fart game that u play & thinks it's so funny...
Telling me how much you loved me before admitting u forgot to do something...
Saying sorry with those kesian eye when u don want revenge from me ... like during WAR of Tickle
The language that only we understand, sometimes even when we don't say anything at all

9 years 9 months 9 days of togetherness and we still have a SPLASH! And I hope for many many more splashes te-heee

I read somewhere about the 12 actions for a happy relationship & here I wish to share with you all...

Ask
Listen
Accept
Respect
Risk
Encourage
Adjust
Forgive
Give
Love
Laugh
Comfort

My wish for you all is to have as much love in your relationship as I have in mine!

Momoyama Japanese Restaurant

Dinner at Momoyama, a Japanese restaurant located behind Wisma Phoenix, Jln Song Thian Cheok (the closed down Upwell). It's my 1st time checking out this place, courtesy of Gigaphoton vendors who are here all the way from Japan.I wanna steal this ceramic lamp at the entrance... so pretty... the Chinese character means family.

The comfy flats that I got for myself, got 1 for my mum too... This caught my eyes... I tried Fried Shishamo before but not broiled, so I ordered this. And it was a BAD choice. It was too fishy.

The complimentary side dishes, even got kim che. hmmm.... why this looks familiar ar, like a Korean Restaurant? Then I saw the Tau Ke Nio at the counter, the same from Koreana. No wonder there was 3 pages of Korean food in the menu!Sashimi! love love love... The Chicken Teriyaki was awesome too! The Tako, yum yum and it was the 1st time i eat frozen baby squid... really, it was cold with bits of ice.

Ebi tempura, that came with vegetables & sweet potatoes too. The prawn batter was a bit too bland, me no likey.

The shabu-shabu that I ordered! Look like a flower le?? The Japanese vendor was telling me that shabu-shabu means drugs (?!) Dadah! hm... ya lor, hubby reminded that we also got 1 type of drugs called "Shabu". I think we copycat again lar, as usual.

The pot of steaming hot soup where we put in the onions, mushroom, tou-fu & chinese cabbage 1st. 2 type of sauce was served.The beef was awesome. Just put a slice of meat in the boiling broth, then gently swish the meat back & forth. As soon as the beef turns color, it's ready. Hubby was singing "shabu-shabu" while swishing & those Japanese vendor laugh their head off. Hubby was havin fun practising conversing in Jap. He can hav a decent conversation in Japanese with them. Everytime hubby asnwered them in ni-hon, they seem so happy & impressed that they even quized him hahahah...

Business was slow as I noticed that we were the only customer that whole night. The food was not too bad, but the price was on the high side. I might come back to try their bento sets, more value for money.

Dim Sum Buffet & DONUTS

I fell sick ~ 2 weeks ago... I skip dinner bcoz I cannot stop puking & even my lunch was down the drain... or more appropriately down toilet bowl lar... I just slept away my pain & hunger, and was glad I woke up the next morning feeling ok.

Quickly woke up hubby and told him that I want to compensate yesterday lunch & dinner together with today's breakfast. I seriously need to EAT! So hungry le.

Hubby learned fast that anything involving food with me is a serious matter. He took me to a DIM SUM BUFFET. So clever.

At the Banquet... we were served with a pot of tea immediately & the waitress passed a pencil to me & a piece of paper with the dishes available that can be ordered without limit except for Har-kau that limit only 1 order/person.I ticked all the steamed dim-sum that was available & some side dishes. As you can see, the variety of dishes was very LIMITED, although stated 24 dishes but actually congee, noodle & bee-hoon all are included in it...

Teng teng teng : The 1st round!

I really liked the carrot cake. The rest was so so nia.Then there was 2nd round of Roasted Chicken with Hot Sesame Sauce & also Fish Fillet with Thai Sauce. It was nice but actually our tummy was so full, we took a looooong time savoring it. There was absolutely no SPACE anymore in our tummy for congee or noodle. We manage to only consumed those with blue tick as shown below.Lastly, we ordered desserts, Mango Pudding & Tou-fu Jelly (I mistaken that it was Tou-fu hua). Mango Pudding WINS without a fight!The place was so spacious I like! And bright & clean. We had the big round table to our self. As we sat there taking our time enjoying the dim sum, quite a crowd has formed outside, waiting patiently for their turn. This promotion has only been running for 1 month, so u know lar Kuching lang si si must try 1.

After the buffet, hubby went and bought some Big Apple Donuts for me. Got my old time favorite Chocoholic, Chococinno, Whitnut (filled with peanut butter), Mango Tango, California Almonds & Iceberg (filled with Vanilla Cream).

Then with a heavy heart, I went to work. I was glad the morning started with a BANG! Bursting with energy to get the work done.

What's in the mail??

2 packages arrived, sometime weeks ago... heheh backdate blogging.

Hubby was smiling from ear to ear.
His gift for himself...

He said it's like Christmas, but better because he's getting exactly what he want! Dreamz do come true!

On the right is hubby's new Nikon lens 17-55 f/2.8 DX Nikkor & on the left is the SB900 (according to hubby it's the mother of all speed light).Had been debating whether to get Nikon or Tamron lens. Is the extra money $$$$ spent in getting Nikon really worth it?? The answer is YES!! This lens came in time for a wedding shoot and the photos all turned out so clear & crisp... no editing need to be done! I'm so impressed.

I was surprise that SB900 size is so much larger than his younger brother SB800. man... adding another 415g to the already overweight camera.
Now that hubby has these professional grade lens, he want to buy another D300 or upgrade ;) So he's letting go of his D70 with kit lens & also the AF-S Nikkor 18-200mm VR lens that spent most of the time in the dry cabinet. Anybody wanna buy it? Good deal oooooo. Message me if interested.

PAY DAY!

What a wonderful day!

It's a happy happy day... getting salary is veli the "song"
This is my face $______$

I felt great, although I was tired working my ass off. Felt like celebrating something, anything.

Off we went to My Restaurant.

I had Char-grilled Lamb Chop (RM32) yum yum yummy yum... but the sauce was slightly sour...nevertheless... GREAT!Hubby had Slow Roast Pork RM30, the sauce was great. Beneath the meat are yummy mashed potatoes. It was a huge portion, 5 big slices of meat le. He had a hard time getting up to go when we finished hehehehah... my tummy happy = me happy!

still alive

Hav not been updating blog for a loooooong time oledi... yea, 2 weeks is super long for me bcoz I like to update stuff, insignificant stuff.
BZ... mad crazy bz since embarking on this NEW project with a crazy time line that the company need to achieve.
Everything is URGENT, NOW, NOW, NOW!!!!

Goin back home late, continuously working for 3 weeks straight... what weekend?! cannot even claim the off day yet bcoz of this crazy crazy project. sienzzzzzzzz... it will be a painful 6 looooooong months. Hopefully this do pay off in the end bcoz so much effort has been poured into it... and I cannot rest after getting back home bcoz I got another PERSONAL project that I'm working on that require a lot of time. Picking up new skills. Getting tutorial... am enjoying the journey... just that the timing just seem a bit off... like I need to do so many thing at the same time.Good night... hahah... actually it's good morning liaw without me realizing. Need MORE time!
I'm now having like 3 to 4 cups of these a day... Small little things that keep me goin... charging my batteries.HAVE a GREAT WEEK AHEAD!

Mummy's Day Dinner #4

Dinner was at "Chef Delicious" aka "Tien Chu", 3rd Mile (near Timberland Medical Centre) courtesy of hubby's Aunt (mother's side). The dinner was held at a private room where we even got priority parking in front of the restaurant... sweeeeet.

The food there boleh tahan saja. Nothing memorable. But I remember this "Sweet & Sour Pai Kut" bcoz it was deliciously sweeeeet with a hint of samboi... yumsss!It was a FUN FUN night as the room was equip with karaoke set. The Uncles & Aunts were havin fun singing all those old old old song. The 2 most popular songs, where almost all was singing along was the Hokkien Kua "Ai Pia Cha Ae Yia" & "Ha Si Wa Wu Chi Pak Bang". Even hubby was singing. He even went solo singing "Siaw Wei" hehehhe... Esther being the biggest fan!

The night end with this dessert, a plater of fresh fruit that was nicely presented.That ends the series of Mummy's Day Celebration!

Mummy's Day Dinner #3

After a satisfying breakfast, we went to this place again... heheh... the car is getting more "maintenance" than me. We were there quite early, only 1 car in front of ours, so the car completed washing & vacuuming even before we finished our drinks.

Esther, hubby's niece who is back from S'pore for a short break was with us the whole day. Her antics just cracked us up. We watched Madagascar Escape to Africa together. She really like the show & enjoyed saying out loud the animal's name.

MIL gave us 2 beef pies & that was for our coffee break in the afternoon.

Esther loved it so much she kept telling me that 2-chek "mai liaw" means that hubby don wan anymore... so that she can hav the pie all to herself. The pies taste really good le. Her vocab has increase increadibly. When we say something in Hokkien, sometimes she repeat it back in English. Sometimes she mix 2 languages together to make a sentence and it's very funny. Ah... we gonna miss her when she goes back to S'pore in 2 days time. We went for a walk at Friendship Park before dinner, at Hubby's Aunt's (father's side) house. After the delicious dinner, another Mother's Day cake was cut... Every1 was eyeing the cake!

This cake, Chocolate Indulgent is from Secret Recipe! It was overloaded with everything CHOCOLATE. I LIKE. Creamy & smooth.From Esther's face, you will know that the cake was super ultra yummmmmmmmy!

Mummy's Day celebration is not over yet. Stay tuned for more!

Mummy's Day Dinner #2

I received the dreaded call last night. The BOSS delivered the worst news: WORK on SATURDAY! sigh... cannot claim OT but at least I can take an off day next week.

Start the day making my tummy happy!

I went in for work at 9 am. By 10 am, tool time was given for EVALUATION to be carried out. By 11 am I started to measure LINEs & SPACEs that took a ridiculous 5 hours straight, which I don't mind so that I can go back when the sun is still up... but then 2 extra measurement was needed for supporting data so I only managed to finish everything by 5pm... glad it was all over so that I can finally go home!

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Tonight another family gathering at grandma's house. I was assigned to prepare Fruit Punch. Again anything worth doin, is worth OVER doin it... hehehe... I bought 2 big bag of canned fruit. 3 BIG canned Peaches, 3 canned longan, 3 canned lychee, 3 big canned tropical fruits, 3 canned Nata de Coco & 5 canned Evaporated Milk... make up the HUGE POT of FRUIT Punch shown below worth ~RM85. well... it's a HUGE family gathering.

The only thing missing was ICE so I walked to a nearby food stall to buy some ice. While waiting for the ice, this caught my eye... hhehehehhe... TIT BITs... so farnie.

I really like family gatherings... so many food around! Always got something new 2 eat, like this cute Kiwi with Nuts & Chocolate Tarts. It was a fun night with all the jokes & laughter.

Highlight of the night.... Chocolate Blackforrest Cake with fresh cream. From here you cannot guess how BIG the cake is... hahahah... again the family motto in practice... Anything worth doin, is worth OVER doin!

After dinner, we all sang "Ze Shang Zhe Yu Ma Ma Hau" aka "in this world, only mother good" for our grandma... then my Aunts cut the cake together!

Happy Mummy's Day!!!

Mummy's Day Dinner

The celebration was held at Hoi Tin Lau Restaurant (behind Simpang Tiga 20sen Supermarket). The place was packed to the brim! That's what happen in Kuching 1, new makan place sure a lot of people.

wah! RM10 per gram. Super expensive fish... I like steam fish... especially Teo Chew Style....Here they spelled it correctly, Spinach Noodle & not Spanish Noodle like somewhere else... The noodle was awesome!Filipin Tu Ka... amazing!I never tot I would 1 say this, but the green vege was yummylicious... The spinach was finely chopped & fried i think, as it was crunchy & taste so good with the deep fried dried scallops... yum yum yumThe cold dish was below par... the only saving grace was the crunchy bread with seaweed & stuff. The rest of the other dishes was just ok.

My all time favorite dessert, Honey Dew with Sago in Coconut Milk... yummy. This make me miss the Holiday Inn version.... mostest yummy!

The place is clean & bright. You can even see the kitchen as the wall partition is made of glass. A nice new place for dinner.

Happy Mummy Day!!!

Causeway Bay let down

Esther is BACK... for 1 week of holiday... that's full of Ko-lo Mee.

Brought the family to Causeway Bay Restaurant, Crown Towers for dinner. The last I was there, the service were slow & the food took 87124556789 years to be prepared. But that was breakfast, so hopefully dinner would not disappoint.

Esther had cough & the flu was brewing... so she drank Honey Ginger (RM3.40) to fight it off.Hubby ordered Fried Rice with Sliced Beef (RM6.90), which was good.
This time I waited for 15 minutes after every1 had already finished eating their meal including BIL's "Baked Rice with Sliced Beef in Twin Sauce" (RM10.90) & MIL's "Fried Mee Hoon in HK Style" (RM6.90).

I ordered Sirloin Steak Hot Plate Set Meal (RM19.80), that comes with Ice Lemon Tea + Mushroom Soup. The corn was nice. The end. Sad... bcoz I can't that to anything else on the hot plate.Since the set came with mushroom soup, I ordered Garlic Bread (RM5.50)... the worst decision of the night. It tasted like stale bread. It was tough. No nicey garlic buttery taste at all. Totally FAILED! And the soup... YAKS! Worst soup evar.

I'm so unlucky lor... why everything I ordered sucks?! The total bill come ~RM65. What a waste! It will be a long time before I forget about this incident.

Boon Khai Delights

Passed weekend, headed to Boon Khai, 101 Premier again for a refreshing afternoon tea breaks.

White Lady, a sweet concoction of sort with orange syrup... awesome drink on a hot afternoon...I liked this Lai Chi Kang (consisting of a variety of dried preserved fruits & white wood ear) as it felt so refreshing...

A variety of fried lok-lok. I had a hard time choosing at the counter, luckily not many customer at that time.

Long time tak makan Buntut Ayam oledi... I pray it will really make my face smooth smooth...I like the sweet yam (cover with white thingy)...Cash in wallet reduce by RM16.

Treasures at PERKATA sale

I sneak out when the body painting business was slow to look for treasures at other nearby stalls.

I got this doggie basket for only RM4 le & the pretty card for RM1.

The wooden spoon adding to my collection of wooden utensils...

Then I stumble upon this cute little bag with cute cats... how to resist?

Then I got a cute little coin purse... with a cute little cat

Adding to my Sara Paretsky mystery novel collections.

These Lilian Jackson Braun's books of "The Cat Who ...... " looked really intriguing so I got 3 for a taste 1st.I picked the book on the left bcoz of the word Ha Ha Ha on the cover.And the book on the right was picked bcoz of the book's cover drawing.

Thanks Louis, AngWie and JamesBong for givin me the PERKATA coupons to spent. You guys can have the books if you want, but let me read it 1st lar. I only bought 2 RM10 ticket this year, economy not very good ba... hopefully I can be lucky enough to win the lucky draw.

PERKATA Charity Sales 09

This year I volunteered to be a body painter at the PERKATA Charity Sales again. Has been looking forward to this day. Woke up at 6.50am :( on a Sunday. But what to do? I need to eat breakfast 1st before reaching the school hopefully by 7.30am my tummy has always & will always be the no.1 priority or I don hav energy to paint.

I headed straight to the school after a satisfying Cha Seow Duck Noodle. There were already people mountain people sea when I reach the school. As usual, my company X is selling the popular X Fried Chicken. A total of 450 chicken lost their wings.

In addition to that, a group of smart & pretty girls, engineers le don play play, of my company donate these CUTE CUPCAKES for sale too... It's too cute to be eaten! My 1st customer of the day, that requested for the trade mark pretty pink flower with a smiley face.

Painters in action! This cute pair of twins were here last year too... I drew Strawberry last year, an apple this year. The kids must loved fruits a lot. The crayons that we used...

I loved this cute dog, eh... I mean the boy's face paint. It was not done by me though.

Drawing a butterfly on the face of a nurse...

This SNAIL is my proudest masterpiece, evar. It look so cute le?

My pink flower of the day again. I think I drew a total of 5 flowers today. Actually it's the easiest & the only 1 that I can decently draw hehehhe

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I was havin the damn headache and it got slightly better after I popped 2 ponstan... the greatest invention to stop pain, at least for me. I left around 12 noon as it was getting too hot & my head was starting to pound harder.

In order to eat more painkiller, I makan Hainan Chicken Rice so that I don get gastric. I was happy to jump straight onto my comfy bed once I reach home. After sleeping off the pain, I rewarded myself with a cup of hot chocolate with whipped cream & marshmallow.

Will continue with the treassures I found at the PERKATA Sales.

Perfect Weekend - almost

Again I had to wake up at 8am, an ungodly hour on a weekend. All because hubby need to go for his annual health check-up at Normah Specialist Centre. We were there by 8.30am but there were some even more kia-su people that were way earlier than us. Wasted 45 minutes of my precious weekend golden hour there.

I had my favourite laksa for breakfast!
Went searching for treasures at 100% discount store.
Failed at getting my shopping done within 15 minutes so that I don hav to pay parking fee RM2 at tHe Spring.
Starbucks still don hav Roasted Espresso Coffee Bean.

We forgot that there was another Starbucks branch at Jln Song. Blain getting rusty liaw...

ah... ROASTED COFFEE BEANS!

We got hold of the LAST packet there. It was not even dislayed on the cabinet. Luckily the barista was helpful & korek this packet from their counter after I asked him nicely.The paper bag that was used for my purchase...Finally... I hav found you!

Time to bake more of the bisquick...

As Cappuccino break is coming rite up! Gonna sleep real early tonight, like rite now as my headache is getting worst by the minute. Mayb the heat from baking those bisquick was too much. Hopefully I can sleep the pain away.

Looking forward to tomorrow as I would be doin something FUN!

Beef Balls Spaghetti

YAY!!! HOLIDAY!!! NO WORK!! Can sleep late.... NOT

Hubby woke me up at 8am so that we can have the famous Batu Kawa Old Township"Bak-Yi-Mee" (Meat Ball Noodle) before it ran out. It was a nice long drive getting there. The petrol used cost more than the noodle I think hahahah.

ooo... b4 I forgot, here is my home cooked meal last night... I loved the slick new plates from Ikea, brought back all the way from S'pore le.

A balance meal consisting of carb, protein & vitamin. ok ok... half home cook as I ta-pau'ed the finger licking good KFC. And the mashed potatoes only need less than 2 minutes to prepare, and best of all, it contained zero cholesterol.

Really, it's very very easy to prepare the mashed potatoes. Just get a packet of this:

And mixed with 85ml of boiling water (the cup was provided). I really like the mashed potatoes, thick and creamy. The Butter & Herb flavoring is an added bonus.

Today, I prepared Beef Balls Spaghetti for dinner.

As usual, I consulted Uncle Google for tips. I cannot believe it's so easy although it's my 1st time cooking this Italian dish. Chop some onion & garlic, fry it until golden brown. Pour in the spaghetti sauce. Drop in the beef balls & mushroom. Let it simmer for 20 minutes... Serve over spaghetti and voila...Me beli happy as hubby kept complemeting that it taste really good & even got a few thumbs up. Try it, it is a really simple dish.