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..

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.

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!!!

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.

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!!

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!!!

you know how life can be the same when you don't have dramas to watch?

i was down with no dramas( i mean new ones) to watch ever since 18th January....

and i dont see myself having extra free time.

interested to know why or not?

i dont care if you seems not to care but i'm gonna tell you this :p

someone offered the steps to yoga video to my manager and so i copied them to my desktop.

so almost every other night i practise yoga for at least 1 hour after dinner.

you think? with this you think i have the time to watch drama or not?

anyway...i'm running out of time cus i have to go now.

I have a CNY dinner to attend

A celebration before the bomb comes tomorrow.

Imagine sitting down here with nothing to do

And what you can do is to wait tick tick tick (not rain) but for the clock to touch 5PM.

Owh…not exactly 5PM to be frank. I came in at 8.45AM this morning.

Basically I did nothing much since 9AM this morning…believe it or not please do.

Sometimes I feel like a vase….come in everyday waiting to go home. What’s the point?

Worst thing I don’t feel like a useful resource here…what a wasted resource. You think what 15years of education just to sit here and wait for the sun to set everyday? So so so wasted with my experiences and knowledge. I can still proceed further.

Should have gone somewhere else to feel appreciated.

Yes....Waiting for March to come!! Better be soon!!

the streamyx is up and running but the phone line is down....

basically i still can't connect to the internet until today.

1 Week without internet and it does kill me...

killing me softly

but i'm quite happy currently because i'm going to Bangkok!!

Departing Penang 24th Feb

Departing Bangkok 3rd March

yay!!!....

Then i shall tender my resignation letter in March!!

hibernation

my apologies for being MIA for the past 10days or so..

a lot has taken place in my life

like what you must be wondering...

like...someone knocked my car, no streamyx connection etc.

hopefully the streamyx will be back in action soon

been waiting so patiently to go online because i have to start applying for jobs you see..

urgghh...

2 more posts.

1. KL Trip
2. Jane's Birthday

Christmas Lunch cum Stella's Birthday Celebration

Need to update desperately..i have too many post waiting for me to publishhh...

the enviro at Hardwicke House

At the Waiting Area

Wine Cellar

Still hungry me posing for a picture

Sin Huei just got back from Taiwan, so she gave us each of this with Omochi and Pineapple Biscuits flew all the way from Taipei.


The kickstart....I gobbled 2 pieces of this because i was starving...... *thumbs up from Sau Chi*


Our Salada came...and what an arty fartsy longy name :s

Smoked Salmon Confit Cherry Tomatoes Romaine Leaf with Caesar Dressing

Brocolli Soup with Herb Croutons

Traditional Roasted turkey Breast with Sauteed Vegetables; Mashed Potatoes with Red Wine Glaze

Grilled Lamb Shoulder with Sauteed Vegetables; Mashed Potatoes with Black Pepper Sauce

Our Side Order: Seafood Spaghetti

Trying to imitate girls out there who likes to pose with the hand signal Peace we went with Scissors, Paper and Stone combination.

Busy posing for the Group Picture when the soup came. Until the waiter offered himself to take a group picture of us. tada...

That was a Candid Shot....

I wont recommend you to go for their Christmas Set Meals. Because the turkey was a too dry and hard. The spaghetti has a very weird sourly taste. Try a'la carte because i've been there once and it was really really good...

Last But Not Least an Amazing Presentation of Stella's Cake...

at least she was very Happy indeed.

i should be better by now...but i'm feeling very sleepy cus i didn't have a good night sleep

the worst thing that can happen is i

could not believe i'm still thinking of the possible hint.

it is such a bad timing and god knows why was i not paying attention and why did i not answer back...

urgghhh...i am so silly

i'm feeling very weak now

not able to focus on my work

having this stupid damn it menstrual pain

that i have to go through every month!! urgghhhhh!!

the worst thing is whenever this happens i need a bed to lie on...

it's really really torturing noww.....

i feel dizzy and i can't look at the screen properly...i'm forcing my eyes to open

and i'm feeling strengthless miaa...

:'(

it's currently 2.22pm i have 2.5 hours to kill before i can pack my bag.

SPA Anyone?

I have a few post that i wish to update here such as the

1. GCP Christmas Dinner
2. Christmas Lunch cum Stella's Birthday


but nothing is more important than this.....

A Gift Voucher worth MYR200!!

A moment ago i realised it's a Balinese Massage...And of course i don't know what makes a SPA Balinese Style.

What is a Balinese massage?

A Balinese massage uses a combination of gentle stretches, acupressure and aromatherapy oils to stimulate the flow of blood, oxygen and 'qi' (energy) around your body, and bring deep relaxation and wellness.

What is a Balinese massage good for?

A Balinese massage works deeply to soothe damaged tissue, and relieve strained muscles and joint pain. The boost to your circulation will help reduce stress and rebalance your body.

quoted from goodspaguide.co.uk

By reading through the lines, i feel relaxed already....

What makes things worst/better (depends on how you judge it) is a whopping 4 Course Lunch Treat after the SPA.

humans these days are so pampered...

I'm a little scared though...who is that person who's gonna touch me....where are they going to touch? :S and do i need to rip my clothes off ah?

I think it's for me to find out and for you to know. Obviously not before i go. Basically means i have to go before the voucher expires.

*on a unrelated note* i was talking to my friend 2 days ago and came to talk about seeing the dentist. My last visit to the dentist was like 3 yrs ago. I think i need to go and get a dental check up soon.

yadda yadda....bling tends to procrastinate these days...just bear with me and i'm sorry

Happy New Year!!

My New Year Resolution = > Get Married!!

Don't be shock to be shock cus you have the right to be shock cus i'm pulling your legs. Muahahaha

anyway...

It is to Get a New Job. (obviously that didn't turn into reality last year, this is carried forward)

also

To Go Travel!!

and a few more not worth mentioning here. Hehe

I received a letter from the bank last week...It reads this

Dear Ms Lim,

We are pleased to inform you that your new Credit Card Limit is MYR5,500

What the heck? MYR3,000 is enough for me lor. Keep on increasing and what is it for? So that i'll overspent and you'll earn more interest from me? urrghhh....