Saturday, February 23, 2008

Leaning Tower in Malaysia

is located in Teluk Intan, Hilir Perak (previously know as Teluk Anson)
My father was born in TI. We drove back to his hometown on the 2nd day of CNY.


We had Steamboat and Barbeque on both the nights we were there in TI. My cousin prepared this Yee Sang for a prosperous year. The higher the toss goes the more prosperity comes.


The children can't wait to "lou"


Posing before the tossing. Can you spot me? Those in the pic are my aunties and uncles and cousins and nieces and nephews etc. I have so many relatives and this is just 1/9 of them.


There it is.....Don't think it's for us to eat cus it's mainly for tossing :)


Uncle No.3 took us to this place in "Pan Kang" (in mandarin) on the 3rd day of CNY. See the mini crabs. Those are meant to be thrown into the rubbish dump.


Workers dumping all the fishes to the basket from the blue container full with all kind of fishes, prawns, cuttlefish and all various types of seafood.


Then they started to choose and allocate them into baskets of the same category. Do you see the sting rays?


All the fishes in the basket ready to be distributed to the fish markets everywhere around Malaysia.


4th day of CNY. The traffic looks smooth rite? don't judge too early


See!? That's our fast lane!! They conquer our lane. Well, reason was the journey up north was smooth. Only city goers were having a hard time heading south.

I have 2 more posts to go featuring the Yee Sang CNY dinner sponsored by Dell. One @ Sesame+Soy and one @ Jade Blossom.

Stay tuned..

Sunday, February 17, 2008

Happy V Day

Happy V Day to all.... (belated?)

V Day is always the day to express your love to your loved ones and more often than not you wish to spend the particular day with them. Whatever you do whether it's having a simple dinner, catch a movie or spend time talking on the phone for those who is on a LDR. Some may catch a flight back to celebrate this special moment. most impresses the other half by giving them pressies like Flowers, Chocolates and things they could think of.

My V Day was never extraordinary because i had to work and it coincides with the Thin Kong's birthday which falls on the 9th day of the chinese lunar month. So don't get things wrong the flower in the featured picture is a gift to the 'thin kong" :D


Guess something struck my mind. Yesterday i went to catch some movies. We had a movie marathon from 12noon to 7PM.

That's a freaking long not done things in my life. We started off with the show

Kungfu Dunk directed by Jay Chou. I realised the song that i have been listening on My FM with the "tofu""tofu" "kungfu" kungfu" is the soundtrack for this show. gosh man....the first time i heard it i was like what the hell? what kinda stupid song it is? tofu? this show is rather good except the part where the sifus came in to the basketball championship and showed some kungfu that doesnt make much sense. minus tht it's a good show.

then we had lunch at Ajisen Ramen. I obviously don't bother to take a picture of what i ate because i certainly don't have the mood.

Touch 3PM. Dan in Real Life is finally there. This is a Love cum Comedy by Steve Farrell who is a columnist who writes to people who have problems in love. Something like what we usually find on Thursday's Big Brother in The Star. He was visiting a bookshop in his hometown and bumped into a hottie whom he's interested with which he found out on the same day she is his brother's girlfriend. interesting isn't it? Noting to fancy about but i think this could happen.

Touch 5.20PM. Time for some Extra-Terrestrial by Stephen Chow - Cj7. Well you know Stephen Chow's masterpiece. Full with nonsense, humour and just plain laugh.

the movie marathon ended at 7PM.

suddenly i have the crave for Seoul Ria's side dishes. hmmm......tht's when i love rice lots.

a lot of times i feel confused. not knowing what went wrong and what should i be doing. Should i follow the current and let things be after all i'm comfortable with it and why not? But sometimes i kept thinking for a change do something!! I used to be very brave, very pat, very fat, very talkative, very mean and very fierce. Now as times passes by i became less brave, not so pat, not as fat but still fat, less talkative, still very mean and still fierce. what is there to do? i hate myself for being so gutless. did i change for the good or bad after all this years?

It's 2008 and always my hope is for a better year and may if not all some of my dreams do come true. Are my dreams so hard to be fulfilled?

i'm feeling so damn bored now...need to boost my life a bit please.

Wednesday, February 13, 2008

Dinner @ Audee's during CNY

strange aye CNY but western food?? :D
anyway................................
Immediately 2 hours after i stepped my foot on the land of Penang on Sunday(4th day of CNY), i went for a date with my friend(s)

I went to a friend's place to "pai nin" before heading to Audee's for dinner. Those who were there were
clockwise from left: Chee Yin, Myself, Sau Chi, Sin Huei and Wei Li
What we had?

Cod ,Tuna and Salmon with Salad

Beef with Salad

3 Combination Soup: Chicken Soup, Seafood Chowder and Pumpkin Soup


Tiger Prawn Olio

Seafood Carbonara

CodFish Fillet

LambShank with Mint Sauce


and finally There comes our dessert.

German Cheese Cake

Creme Brulee

All the above costs MYR255 for 5 of us.

we went for a drink @ Bed on Belissa Row right after that to chill

great ambience and nice enviro

and cosy sofa's

most importantly
an artsy glass

"Lou Sang" @ EQ

The director who gave us boxes of Mandarin Oranges and Mooncakes has moved on to another role in Dell.

so that means they have a new boss. As a kickstart he came to Penang to meet us and treated us dinner at EQ - Golden Phoenix Restaurant.

I was too busy eating and out of 10 courses i only manage to snap a few pictures of the dishes that was served. my apologiesbecause i didn't bring along my Sony T-2. bear with the blurer shots via Sony Ericsson Z610i.

Firstly the Salmon Yee Sang


Deep Fried Garoupa with Black Pepper Sauce


Kampung Chicken with herbs, abalone and dried scallops


Fried Hor fun with Seafood


Stuffed Cabbage with Dried Scallops

also served was shark's fins, black sesame glutinous rice balls, 4 seasons and etc.

the most important thing he gave each and everyone of us an ANG POW

a whopping MYR50 "hong pau"!!!

happy happy!!!

Thursday, February 07, 2008

Happy CNY!!!

May the year of Rat brings Health, Wealth, Fortune and Success to Everyone.

恭喜!!恭喜!! Welcome to the year of Rat.


As CNY approaches no one will ever forget

Ang Koo ( Red Tortoise??) and Huat Kuih ( Fortune Cake?)


and GOLD!! (Kam in Cantonese and Hokkien, Gan in Mandarin). The rest are like Pomelo, Pineapple(Ong Lai - Fortune Come!!) and the erm i dont know what we call that. You know in ancient drama series they use it as their tumbler? Hahh..yeah tht one!


To top up the ambience, we decorate our house with the ornaments like this

and we put up this

and we eat fattening, heaty but delicious CNY cookies like the Arrowroot Chips, Love Letters, Pineapple Tarts, Peanut Cookies and many many more.


Wednesday, February 06, 2008

to make things short

Jane was back a month ago. We met up and we had

tada....the Ice Cream Fondue from Haagen Daz.


A little group photo...Jane and Loiuse, Myself, Sau Chi and Sin Huei

We met for lunch the next day at Nando's Queensbay

clockwise from left: Bee Bee, Jane, Thean Er, Myself, Sau Chi, Sin Huei, Daphne, Gim Heong and Hui Ming

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Do you still remember i mentioned about my car who got kissed? It really look fugly but it's not serious and yet it costs MYR200 to repair.


I was in KL last December for the NYE. I came to draw a conclusion that traffic jams are caused by traffic lights. But when we don't have traffic lights it is definitely very dangerous because i want to go first and you want to go first too. What a dilemma. Well i think we need Traffic polices!!

Tuesday, February 05, 2008

Finally....

oh man....FINALLLYYY!!!

i have my internet!!!

i have so much blog entries to make as a result of this stupid streamyx connectionless for 3 weeks.

rmb i was saying i was preparing myself for the bomb last week?

there was no bomb...everything is perfectly normal and fine wor...

and i was told to take care...

what am i gonna do now?

take good care of myself definitely

i used to think if i go to bed at 11 and woke up at 7 means i dont have enough sleep. But you know what tht's a whopping 8 full hours. i usually force myself to sleep until 8 and drag myself forcefully to work.

and i was surprised to hear that one can sleep 5 hours a day and look so damn fresh.tht's weird or should i say admirable?

i definitely need at least 7hours.

anyway...let me think how many blog posts to update. if i don't now i'm gonna be frustrated for the next 3 weeks because i have on my hands KL trip, Jane's birthday, Lunch with Jane, christmas dinner, CNY dinner and for the next few days CNY pics to post and Bangkok Trip to boast about.

urgghh....stressnya

and the chatterbox is gone again....aduimak!!!