Mum's DIY Project

From the day we moved into our home, we have been using the same set of curtains. Recently, Mum and Dad decides to change the curtains. And... Mum decides to go DIY on the curtains. She started her 'assault' on the 1st floor curtains.

Ladies and gentlemen, presenting the curtains in my room and my brother's room.

Please take note that each curtain is from different windows. Top left is mine. Top right and bottom are from JY's room. You probably notice that the one of the top right is ... shorter than the window. You definitely didnt notice this next fact... the sewn-on curtain rope is so high up the curtains that I have to stand on tiptoe in order to tie up the curtains.

Ah..yes, I do believe this is a failure DIY project.... and there is still the Ground Floor curtains. Oh no....

Preparation Work

Marinated the chicken and the pork. Tomorrow night I will prepare the veggie and then BBQ time!!

I think I put too much sugar btw... I am super sleepy now~

Gotta do something

I was reminded to update my blog more often. I have not been blogging as often as I had been last year. So, here I am.

The wedding fever has died off...for me. Continuous attending four weddings is something new. Apart from being one of the jiemeis, I also attempted an amateurish wedding photography during Joanna and Jong's wedding day.
Although both CI and I didn't think we went overboard with our 'Block and Torture the Groom', the groom seems to hold some grudge towards us for draining him of angpows. :p

Currently in the office. Lunch break. Want to sleep actually. :p

Lazy Sunday

Yesterday, I had a rummy session with J and CI. I was losing so badily at first until... I got this. Total win from this is 21 chips (if I remember correctly).Totally turned the game around. I just kept winning after that. Phew... What a relief after the losing streak at the beginning of the game.

I have been thinking to zhng my masquerade mask. But always procrastinate so this morning, I purposely took out my impulse-shopping crystal bling sheet. Took out the masquerade mask and start sticking the blings on it.
As you can see from the pic, I basically have stick one long line of blings on the mask. That's the end of the zhng session. I dunno what else to do. Haha... No idea how to proceed on.

About the digicam, I was worried that my laptop will not detect the SD card. My laptop has such problem with SD card. They are not on friendly terms. Fortunately, the laptop can detect the pics thru the cable (still not ok with the direct SD card to laptop) so... I dont have to worry about retrieving my pictures from the digicam. Will totally kill my happiness of getting a new digicam if my laptop cant retrieve pics from it. :p

Just had lunch at Lynns. Currently thinking of what to do for the whole afternoon. 7pm is booked for tv time.

As mentioned

My new toy. Finally, after all these years, I bought my own digital camera. happy~

A bit disappointed about the fact that it can only take up to 10 megapixels picture but I convinced myself that it is not a big issue. I dont need any bigger than 10 megapixels. 10 megapixels is just fine.

When I held it in my hands, it felt like it is the one. Hehe...

First event to use this is probably the Masquerade Dinner that I will be attending soon. Looking forward to loads of photo-taking.

New Toy

Very soon, I shall obtain a new toy. Cant wait. Muahaha...

Anyways, attended a seminar today. Tried my best to stay interested and awake.

My entire mind is on that new toy. Can't think of anything else.

I did it...yesterday

After long consideration and waiting for confirmation, I finally did it.

The End

One Fine Sunday

Woke up earlier than intended. I wanted to sleep till noontime so that I can skip breakfast but... my body refused to let me sleep. It was just 730am. Darn~

Nothing to eat at home. More like nothing I want to eat at home so I only drank a cup of coffee. The two giraffe yellow mug is not mine. It belongs to JWei but I am using it because the coffee taste better in it. Haha...

Nothing much to do so Let u guys see the mess on my table, next to the laptop. My mascara, eyebrow powder, nail clipper, watch, etc... convenient for me to grab and use. It is messy though.

I decided to show some pictures from the colleagues' KB's trip. The colleagues...

Isn't Aaron looking quite cute? Haha~~ I am not sure if it can be seen from the picture but my eyelashes are quite long due to the mascara. We were the drivers chauffeurs of the trip. We were even in matching black polo shirt and brown knee length pants.

We ordered a number of stuff including the B$50 party pack of sushi and sashimi.

Very full after all those food. Shopping at Soon Lee and Supasave after that.

Hmm... Finished my coffee. Hunger kicking in again. Need to wait till noontime to go to Lynns' place for popiahs. Going to concentrate on playing Facebook games to endure till then. Btw, I reached Level 32, the max level in Restaurant City. Now, I just need to upgrade my food. Hehe...

Update

I have been doing quite a number of stuff.

One of them is to accompany Jo to her wedding dress fitting. It was interesting to see the process and wonder when will it be my turn. Haha...
And then, I also made another trip to KB and this time, it is with the Lynns. I dont have much Brunei currency and so, I refrained from buying unnecessary stuff which also basically means that I did not buy anything at all. Btw, the carrots at Supasave looks super cute.
And since the aunties and uncles are all gathering in Miri for a cousin's wedding, we also happen to have quite a few eating sessions. Looks like my waistline is just going to continue to increase. Darn!
Bought a dress today. A dress that I never thought that I will buy. It is for someone's wedding and I already know when I can wear it again. Hehe.. I shall wear it during my Perth trip. :p Will post the dress in wgtgfashion soon.

The Ang Ku Kueh Experience

One fine Sunday morning, I went over to Grandaunt's house. I had been enlisted to help Grandaunt aka Yipo out with her making of Ang Ku Kueh. Honestly, I don't know how I can be of any help. Remember that time in July? Totally kitchen disaster for me. They have impeccable cooking skills.

Before I start helping, I reminded Yipo of this small fact - My skill is super amateur. She assured me that there is no problem.

I started by helping her to rub oil on the cut-up banana leaves and pandan leaves. Then I moved on to help with ... making little balls of green bean fillings... arranging freshly stamped Ang Ku Kuehs on the table... Rubbing cooking oil on the hot steaming Ang Ku Kuehs... Cutting the Ang Ku Kuehs' banana leaf base to nice round shapes... Putting Ang Ku Kuehs into the steamer.



Yipo was right. I wasn't a disaster. I actually can help. Hehe...
Yipo not only made Ang Ku Kuehs in the traditional shape but also in the form of baby mandarin oranges. A lot of work is put into these little delightful and mouthful mandarin oranges. So much work and so easy to eat them all. Due to the amount of work involved, Yipo doesn't make these babies often. It is only for super special occasion. So, don't bother to ask her to make them.

Then, we also made the old money-shaped Ang Ku Kuehs. It made in the same way as the normal Ang Ku Kuehs - also using the mold. The baby mandarin oranges is totally molded using hands, not using mold. By the way, all the materials are actually the same for the traditional Ang Ku Kuehs, the old money-style Ang Ku Kuehs and the baby mandarins.

It was a great experience. Aunty Leng said that it will takes 50 years of experience to reach Yipo's level. So... If I want to be as good as Yipo, I think I have a better chance of dying first. Haha... And, I have a new love for Ang Ku Kuehs. Yum yum~

p/s: I only had one piece of the old money-shaped Ang Ku Kueh from this whole experience. The rest I didn't have the chance to taste. :p

Have you seen this girl?

Ah yes. That's the girl who just bought a new pair of fashion fake glasses. Looks like a nerd...a fashionable nerd.

Bad news... The kueh chap stall at WZT will be closing end of this month. The owner is retiring. No more WZT kueh chap. Sad!!

Went to have a bowl this morning. We had the final 3 bowls of the day and it is quite salty. My guess is that these final 3 bowls of soup is from the bottom of the soup pot and the saltiness is quite concentrated.

Feeling kind of emotional today. Most likely because of the horrible PMS. So now, definitely no sad movies cause I will most definitely cry. No violent movies...maybe I will become angry and turn violent. Kidding.

Work is getting annoying. Took a long leave from work and when I got back to work, I find myself facing a super lousy account and I need to complete the whole mess in a short (less than) two weeks time. Darn!!

Going to do a double posting tonight. Just realised that I have something that I have forgotten to post about.

Glamourous

First of all, congratulations to both Davis and Irene! And thank you for inviting me to be one of the bridemaids.

As you can see from the pic attached with this post, I have some serious curls on my head. I went to have my hair tie up by stylist and... when i took off all 34 hair pins, I had this curls (and impossible-to-untangle tangles).

Hmm... Actually, I am feeling hungry at the moment. Woke up at 5am. Not idea why I cant get back to sleep. Maybe I just go lie back down again.. Hehe...

Anticipation to drive

Have been sitting in front of the laptop for almost one hour since I woke up. My life is reducing to the Facebook and One Manga-addicted life. Every day the same thing.

On Facebook, just realised a fact about Restaurant City from Lynnwei that I need to have it running all the time in order to level up. alamak~! I have been saving and quitting. No wonder it is so hard for me to level up.

On One Manga, I am reaching a slump again. Nothing else to read. Nothing interesting. Oh no~!

Last night I slept earlier than my usual sleeping time... 10pm instead of 12 midnight. Cause... I finally got too tired to stay up till midnight. Woke up earlier than usual as well. Before my alarm clock rings. And woke up to the roaring winds and... no, dun see any rain. A bit worried because I dislike driving in the rain and I still have to go out to pump petrol before heading to Brunei. I can choose to pump petrol when the others are here and we go together. But.. somehow, I want to do it alone. Don't know what type of mentality is this.

Just came back from outside. Bought and ate breakfast, pumped petrol and bought a big bottle of water.

Big bottle of water - Since Mumsie went to Myanmar for her meditation session, I have been living without any drinking water supply at home. Reason being that my house water filter is not maintained anymore so Mumsie forbade me from drinking water from that filter and started to transport filtered water from Brunei. And since she is not around and I am running out of filtered water supply (she transports a lot of bottles for me at one time), I have start buying mineral water... Kind of sad. Must try to work out a budget to change the water filter.

Then this morning, I realised that there is this Chanel envelope in the mailbox. Weird... I am not a Chanel buyer. Open mail. Ala... It is a promotional mail for Chanel new product and it comes with a free personalised pampering session and flash makeover session. Should I use this for the event on the 9th? Still wondering.

Alright...to tell you the truth, this blog post still in progress since this morning. And... I am back from Brunei.

And so... I finally get to drive to Brunei. Well, just Kuala Belait. It wasnt too bad. I have confidence to drive all the way to Bandar now. So, now is just the question of when will I do it. Haha...

On Leave Again

Ah... yes, I am on leave again. For more than one week this time.

Going to attempt driving to KB tomorrow. A bit nervous, really. I have never driven that far before. I am always the passenger so hopefully everything will go well.

A fishy affair

Ten days ago, I managed to get my hands on some free fishes. Thanks to Jacqueline for this opportunity. So exciting to see such big fishes and to be able to hold it in my hands. Hehe... Dad cut up all the fishes.
Few nights ago, Lee Sia, Chee Ai and I went to try out the korean restaurant opposite Chung Hua. The restaurant only had us three as the customers the whole time we were there. So quiet. But it was good because we can laugha nd talk as loud as we want without feeling embarrrased for disturbing others. Eating all those korean food make me miss Korea. I want to go travel in Korea again if I ever get the chance to.
Ah~ it is a long weekend due to National Day that falls on Monday and also because this is the start of non-working Saturday. I am clueless of what to do for this weekend.

I guess I have been quite busy

See... there was this outing at Taman Selera with the kids. We went crazy on the group seesaw thingie. You can watch a video of the crazy-ness in one of our facebook.
Then... there is this StCo concert. Brought these three ladies in mask with matching baby tee to watch it together. I almost screamed when I heard "O Jung Ban Hap" playing on the speakers and the performers start dancing to the music. Hehe... Guess I am still a fan.
Even though I do have September Challenge, I think it is futile. Cause of all the food I have been consuming... Laksa by aunt Cecelia... Wide range of ingredients. Drool~
Then... finally, I am on a shoes hunting mission recently. So... Irene, dear, which one is it? If these three is not... come. we shop together. I want you to be happy. Hehe...
My blogging block is almost gone, I think. In the mood tonight....Hehe

Not so fast

Have been on leave for the whole week. A bit weird. Stay in bed for almost an hour every morning after the alarm clock went off. Playing facebook for almost the whole day.

The pics from KK trip will need to wait. Didnt manage to get it from my friend so I have to wait for the photos to be burnt into DVD and mail to me...

Big decision...big action coming up soon.

Sleepy now~

I am back in Miri

Back from KK trip. Went to the sea (island) and up to the mountain (the foot of the mountain).

I have yet to get the photos from my travel partner who has a DSLR so I can only show some photos from my handphone.

Without any pictures, it seems hard for me to recap on the trip. I will try when I have the pictures.

Long time no update

I know. It has been another long absence. Blogger's block. After two days of being in the draft format, I finally have the ... inspiration to write. I hope that it is not short-term inspiration. Hehe...

And so, on the day before Nanotay's birthday, we cousins went out to Bintang Megamall for some picture taking for Group C, eating and talking nonsense. I finally tried Secret Recipe's Tom Yam and it isnt too bad. Nanotay treated us donuts...which I eventually brought home the remaining two as my breakfast...

My dad is in love with a new eating place... Dinner place. It is a place in Krokop 5. The fish is really fresh and cheap... But then, the veggie....not much to say. Eat fish can lah. btw, that is a bowl of bitter gourd soup.
Beware~!
Dont be alarmed. Just me and HLing preparing for office's carpet changing event. We have been warned by the other department of the strong glue odour and the dustiness during carpet changing so all of us had prepared mouth mask.

During my 4-year there, I have never reach such emptiness on my table. This is amazing. Pardon me for that patch of dust. I wiped my table before I removed my computer. So...
Anyways, turned out that the mask is useless because...number one. We can still smell the glue but managed to escape the dustiness. Number two. HLing and I were ordered to clean Boss's Office so we escaped most of the carpet changing mess.

Going to fly off tomorrow to KK... my luggage is halfway packed. Hehe... No mood to pack liaw. Hehe...I am so into Facebook nowadays that I am scared of myself. What will i be without internet? without Facebook?

Busy

Today has been busy for me. Loads of eating. From the early Dian Bian Hu to 10am Dim Sum to 12 noon lunch to 2pm fried dumpling to 3pm mango pies.

Aunty Leng wanted to make the fried dumpling and asked me to experiment it with her. I didnt realise how rusty and amateurish is my cooking skill. So, anyways, I went over to Yi Po's house after parting with Jac and Cafe 2020 Dim Sums...an hour earlier than my intended arrival time. And, I found myself looking at Yi Po working in the kitchen to prepare lunch and the materials for the fried dumplings. From the pics above, I guessed it looks like we were successful. But the truth is that... we failed miserably. First of all, these are China fried dumplings and so it is different than Taiwanese fried dumplings. Second of all, when Aunty Leng said experiment, it was really experimenting. No one knows how to do it. :p I am not sure that we will attempt this any time soon.

Due to the miserable failure, Aunty Leng made a comeback with her fabulous Mango Pie (I think it is more like Mango Popias. oh wait~! Mango Pie maybe right if you think of it in term of McD).

Different way to enjoy mango. Yummy~

After that non-stop eating, I finally stopped eating. Helped Yi Po to water some of her plants and... you will not believe this. I helped to harvest the tapiocas...

Finally... I have some skills. My cooking skills are so amateur-ish compared to Yi Po and Aunty Leng. Who am I kidding? How to compare myself to these two cooking pros?! Thank goodness, I have gardening skills. Wipe sweats. Yi Po was beginning to think that I am a total failure as a woman. Hehe...

At one point - after pulling out the second tapioca tree, I was so dizzy that I think I was about to pass out. But I didnt. Phew~

Got to find a time to ask Yi Po to give me cooking lesson and baking lesson. Need to train my cooking skills. Too amateur and rusty already.

Didnt happen

I chicken-ed out. I didn't get a fringe. Cant do it. Instead, I just had a hair trim. The other day, after hair straightening, went to try the Beef Burger at Delifrance. Yummy~

On Thursday, went to Brunei for fun. Erm..actually, it was Wednesday night. Ermm... Didnt do much stuff.

In such a monotonous mode now. I dunno why. In fact, I feel like sleeping actually.

Zzz...

It is finally out

I have been suffering for two days... I think it is getting to the stage where it starts to become inflammed. A piece of food got stuck between my wisdom tooth and the tooth in front of it. I couldnt get it out... It was there for two days. I finally got it out just now... It is a chili seed.

Ever seen RM1,500 in coins?

Now, you have. I helped a friend to transport these bags of coins. It looks unbelievably little, to tell you the truth.

Gonna straighten my hair tomorrow. Fringe... I am becoming undecided on that. So.. straighten first lah...

When One is Sick

One can be so blur.

I went to pump petrol after I went to consult doctor about my flu. When the pump meter almost reaching RM50, it stopped. I was like 'what the heck is wrong with this pump?' At that moment...

Pump Attendant : Miss, sudah penuh o.
Me : Apa? Har... Macam mana? Oh no~
Pump Attendant : Tak apa. Saya cuba.

Thanks goodness for the existence of the pump detector (for detecting that my car tank is almost full) and for the existence of pump attendant (for helping me to pump in RM50 worth of fuel). I didnt realise that my fuel tank still has one bracket left. Usually I pump RM50 when the tank is almost empty. Blur...

Another thing - Usually the car fuel tank meter goes up slow and steady after I pump petrol. That day... it went up in less than a second. Haha...

I finally reached my goal of 1000 messages. The proof.

It now has more than that...

Ah~ Usually CMF's birthday is celebrated in a rush manner... We dont have time to celebrate in a leisurely manner because it is the busiest time. This time... we went to makan lor. Gossip-ing. I would be lying if I said we weren't gossip-ing. it is women's natural to gossip. :p

Dad brought Mum and I to this place at Krokop 5 to eat dinner... on the day I took my sick leave. Mum made the order...and she ordered the unusual combination of veggie. Unusual because we dont usually order those. I have no idea how to say it. But... the food is nice and cheap. Main point. CHEAP and NICE.

On the 1st... our office had a really long electricity blackout. From about 3pm to 5pm, I think. I went upstairs to hang out. Hehe... What to do when you have nothing to do? We took pictures. Just two pictures la.... Seriously only two pictures.

I resized the above picture to a smaller than my usual size because... I am in my aunt hairstyle and Lolabunny's hair is a bit messy. Dont want you guys to zoom in to see.... Hehe..

I am ridiculous. I know.

I am contemplating between having my hair straighten or curled... Please advise...Somehow, I have a feeling I might go for straight look again...with fringe.

Sick Leave

Last month, in the midst of all the busy-ness, my colleagues and I went online to order a bunch of stuff... and it came today....

Just finished sorting it out. Something is missing. Ah~ Have to sort it out tomorrow because the updated list is in the office.

Went to see doctor in the afternoon. Normal flu...Still have a bit of fever, according to the doctor.

Since there is nothing to eat at home, I bought some veggie and instant porridge.

You might also noticed that I have a pack of spaghetti in the plastic bags. I have unconsciouly bought it. Must be craving for some pasta... Actually, I wanted to buy some sardine, bread and cucumber...but I was worried that I will spread the flu virus to my colleagues so.. cancelled thought.

Ah~ My abalone-flavoured porridge with...siaw bai cai. Hehe

Going to take out what I bought to take pic for wgtgfashion.com

Fear Not

I am not having H1N1... Just that the stress and dehydration has finally caught up with me. With the lack of adrenaline rush for the June tax submission, my body finally gave in and I am now suffering of flu...even ran a bit of fever in the morning.

Still have a mountain of things to do in the office... I shall do my best.

Time to sleep. Till nex time.