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Tuesday, February 26, 2013

Shoes Mania

Just now when I was flipping through the photos saved in my phone (I was deleting some photos actually), I realised I took some photos during one of my shopping trips. It was during last year December, sister , mom, dad and me, together with Bb-G went to Sunway Pyramid. Sister wanted to buy shoes for herself. While sister was searching for her suitable pairs, our little girl here was also busy trying many many types of shoes ....

So "chor loh"




















Mummy, nice?



















Mummy, this one ok?



















Mummy, this one can or not?



















Mummy, I like this one , becos walk will kok kok kok !




















Monday, February 25, 2013

Food Celebration

Chinese New Year came and went. Time really flies.....

For memory sake, I want to pen down what had I done during this year CNY.

Papa-M, Bb-G and me went back to Papa-M's hometown a day before the new year eve.  We reached home roughly 2pm.  After taking a quick rest, we went out to have our late lunch. Papa-M drove us , including mother-in-law to a restaurant , famous for its curry fish.

The curry was nice, very different taste from the normal curry fish I ate in KL. The gravy was creamy but yet "tak jelak". Fish was very fresh too. While we were waiting for our dishes, a man walked into the restaurant and bought back several packs of frozen curry gravy from the lady boss. I was very interested to get some back to KL too, hence we bought 2 packets home too....














Fried prawn mantis. We ordered the salted egg version, but kamheong style came instead...anyway the taste was good

The chicken tofu dish was for Bb-G



After the heavy late lunch, we went back home. I helped MIL to spring clean the house and did some minor decoration. Slept early that night too.

On the eve day, we had an early reunion dinner at 5pm. Some closer relatives were invited to join us for the dinner. MIL had prepared these for us.

The must have Hokkien dish - jiu hu char, and it is my all time favourite too.


A pot of fish cooked in yam broth














Sambal curry prawns


Soy sauce pork stew with bamboo shoots

Fried fish, to be eaten with MIL's own concoction sweet, sour spicy sauce



Kerabu chicken feet. I made this, and was glad that those who ate liked the taste so much. The mixture of salt, honey, lemon juice was "BALANCE"



After the dinner, we went to Papa-M's youngest aunty's house to eat AGAIN . I ate some dishes , and also tried the varieties of CNY cookies (ya, even before CNY!) Stayed at her place, chit chatting, and by 11.30pm, we drove back to in-law's house.

At 12am, I called my parents back in the south and wished them GONG XI FA CAI!!

Spent CNY 1st and 2nd day in in-law's place. Had a good gathering with the relatives.
On the 3rd day, at 5am, we started our journey back to KL. Very very smooth journey in the morning, and we reached our home sweet home at 10am..

My parents came over to my place on the 3rd day too. We had a Lou Sang cum steamboat cum barbeque dinner at my brother's house.
The Lou Sang












It was all about food when parents were here in KL.

On the 4th day, we visited brother's future inlaws. Besides visiting, parents' purposes was  to talk and discuss about bro's wedding preparation this coming Sept. After their "pre-wedding meeting", we had a sumptuous seafood dinner with bro's inlaws too. The dishes ordered was SUPER MARVELLOUS. We ate at one of their relatives' restaurant, thus the quality  of the dishes was highly assured. Because it involved other relatives from bro's inlaw's side, I "paiseh" to take the food photos.

On the 5th day, which was the Valentine's Day, mom and me cooked lunch at home, we used whatever we had in the fridge to make a simple lunch for the family. We made steam fresh scallop, with ginger and minced garlic. I suggested to bake the some portion of the scallops. I used the double pan and baked them with some mayonnaise. The family members prefered the steam version, bake scallops were slightly drier.













































We also made a steam dish with some pork bacon, chinese cabbage, mushroom and dried scallops too. Lay the scallops and mushrooms at the bottom of a bowl, then, arranged the  pork bacon and chinese cabbage. Steamed for one hour.
































At night, mom prepare fried mihun and a plate of greens for our dinner.













On the 6th day, we went for shopping. Bro and me belanja my parents Vietnamese food for lunch.

On the 7th day, parents went back to the south...

On the 8th day, Papa-M took me and Bb-G to a newly opened Italian restaurant at our neighbourhood  for a good  lunch. The ambience was peaceful. Food was good too.  The chef was an angmoh, I think (cos can see his pictures from the wall)

Bb-G advertising for the restaurant, ha ha ha....




















We were served the house bread. I like to dip the soft saltish bread with the olive oil+balsamic vinegar.


A plate of roast pumpkin salad with peanut sauce as our starter. Peanut sauce was very appetizing.
















Mushroom soup for Bb-G















I shared this plate of carbonara bacon spaghetti with Bb-G. Tasted heavenly.
















Papa-M ordered this for himself. Pork chop with honey mustard sauce. The pork chop was very well marinated, and very juicy too.
















I must order this whenever I have meal in an Italian restaurant. Tiramisu.
SUPERB  is the word I described for this dessert.
















On the 9th day at 12am, we pray to the God of Heaven. Our offerings














On the 10th day onwards, back to WORK!






Tuesday, February 05, 2013

SMS

One Saturday I cooked lunch for Bb-G and myself. I placed our food on the dining table, but, before I could eat, my handphone rang, there was a message.

While I was checking my message,  I saw her doing this...































Me:  eh, why are you playing with the handphone, can you eat your lunch now?
Bb-G:  (ignore me)
Me: mummy talking to you ar...eat your food now, can or not....

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OH MY..........WHAT THE HECK!!


Holiday ??

This is what happen almost EVERYDAY when I need to wake Bb-G up

Me: Good morning bb.....it's time to wake up, time to go to school...
Bb-G: (turn to the left, turn to the right on the bed, with eyes close shut)
Me: Wake up....wake up...
Bb-G: aiiirrk.....errrk.....
Me: Eh, wake up, don waste time, go to brush teeth
Bb-G: good morning mummy.... today HOLIDAY or not? Need to go to school ar?
Me: eh no holiday ok, cannot everyday also holiday !!

Too many public holidays since January - 1/1(Tues) ; 24/1(Thurs) ; 28/1 (Mon) plus she was hospitalised for 5 days ......

Conclusion - TOO MANY HOLIDAYS may not be good to school going kids!

Bb-G, 3years, 5months, 5days old






Gong Xi Fa Cai !

Tomorrow will be my last day working before I start the CNY holiday. Papa-M, Bb-G and me will be travelling to the north this coming Thursday.

We break the journey to Papa-M's hometown into 2 parts. 1st destination - Ipoh. Shall stay in Ipoh on Thursday. Take this chance to makan angin in Ipoh, savour some good Ipoh food and get some pleasure from one night stay in our favourite "Bungalow Hotel"

Then, we shall travel upnorth to Kedah on the next Friday morning. I hope the traffic is smooth ALL THE WAY....

This year my parents will be coming to celebrate CNY in KL. Hence I won't be going back to my hometown.

To all my hometown girlfriends - Sorry, can't meet you guys this year to chit chat and makan makan.
I  wish all of you 新年快乐 , 万事如意, 心想事成, 恭喜发财 !!



**(by the way, purple is the lucky colour for 2013)

Monday, February 04, 2013

Alice In The Wonderland

Last Saturday 2/2/13 was my company annual dinner. This year the theme was "The Mad Hatters @ Alice in the Wonderland". We had the dinner at Sunway Convention Centre.

I basically liked the hall deco for this year. Lots of balloons hanging around the chairs, and the stage show was an enjoyable too. Besides the singings and dancings from the characters in the Alice ITW, the organizer had invited the loud and full of ultra-sexual joker, Joanne Kam Poh Poh, to create lots of funs and laughters to the us.

The Mat Hatters Menu


And this was the REAL food menu...

Food was normal only though.....


And that's me, with my Mad Hatter theme dress and the pink mini hat on my new hair image. Yup, I've had got my hair permed - it was a Korean perm and  dyed into red brown colour to usher 2013 ULAR YEAR !

Three of us from the same department I am looking forward to the Chinese New Year now ^_*
So, want to know what happen to my pink hat now? Sudahpun dimiliki oleh perempuan ini....