We celebrated my Father-In-Law's Birthday last Saturday at a Chinese Restaurant in Seri Kembangan.
Was rather nostalgic celebrating his birthday there because it was the exact same private room & exact same table we had his birthday celebration I think 4 / 5 years ago. At that time I think it was the first time I attended his Birthday dinner as the "official girlfriend" of his son.
I liked that venue because the private room was decorated quite elegantly with traditional Chinese furniture & decorations. It also has a small area away from the dining table where you can lounge around the carved rose-wood sofa/bench & sing the Karaoke. The chandelier is not OTT & it's elegantly draped down right in the middle of the dining table. Last but not least - the dining table itself is a HUGE / Humongous table that can easily fit 20 pax in 1 seating without needing to squeeze / sit on stools (there's even space for a baby chair to be added).
The food was fantastic. It was so good that I wished I had suggested this place for Sean's wedding reception. We had the usual Four Season, "Phun Choi" (a dish where you have all type of meats in 1 pot), Buddha jump over the wall, Sharks fin soup, abalone & brocoli, suckling pig, Steam & stir-fry black pepper fish, salted-egg fried lobster, mix vegetable, fried rice, fried noodle, dessert & birthday cake! Not sure if I got all the menu in or not cos' after the 5th / 6th dish, I lost count what I've eaten & what was to come! How we managed to gobble all this down, I have no idea.
Am happy though that we made the celebration bigger - after all, how many of us can claim that they have touched 85! Long live "Lou Yea"! :-p
Tuesday 31 March 2009
Sean's Wedding Dinner in Malaysia
21st Mar'09 was the tea ceremony & wedding dinner of Sean & Lyndall. They held it at the Sunway Resort Chinese restaurant.
I brought along my crudely made - home-made Guest Book. Unfortunately as usual I forgot to take a pix of it again.... (surprise... surprise...) so I can't show how it looks like here. Anyway, to describe it :
Front Cover : I use a design card that I bought in MPH. It has the traditional Chinese red paper-cut motive with lots of common symbols in weddings - a pair of Peking love ducks & the word "Hei" which means something like Celebration / Happy Occasion. I also bought some thick red ribbons with embossed "Hei" Chinese character which became the border & not make the cover look so plain.
Back Cover : I used a plain pink card paper & again bordered with the red ribbon as per the front cover. In the middle, I got hubby to write the Chinese character for Love (i.e. "Ai") in Gold marker pen.
Content : Plain multi-coloured paper stuck together by cellophane tape (see wht I mean by crude... :-p)
** Funny thing is, I found the card - although it's called greeting card thickness... It's still rather thin, so I took some old mousepads that we no longer use & wrapped the mousepad with the different paper type / designs described above. That became the "thick & cushiony" front & back cover for the Guest Book!
The food was ok enough, but because my menses is coming, I had stomach discomfort & bloated feeling. So my symptoms came to look as if I was pregnant.... Well, sorry to disappoint... It's not...
The air-cond though was really-really bad.... I was sweating like nobody's business there. And tht hotel is supposed to be a 6-Star Hotel! I don't get it.
Oh... Forgot to mention... We assembled an impromptu performance! Boey Peng Lim & Family Choir Troop - singing "Yue Liang Dai Piao Wo De Xing" (The Moon Represents My Heart). Kinda embarrassing, but what the heck! Everyone enjoyed it & sang along with us (although they get to sit comfortably & we had to stand in front of the crowd!)... At the end of the performance, everyone said tht it's like the Sound of Music where the Von Trap family sang... err.... but I think we sounded more like pigs being slaughtered rather than a proper melodious choir!
The dinner was a good re-union too. Have not seen most of my cousins for years! Some have grown so tall & big that I didn't recognize them anymore. Made me feel rather old actually... Cos' most of them are either still studying / just starting work; while I'm already like 30 & rather jaded by now. OMG.... If I feel like tht at 30... How will I feel when I'm say 40 / 50!? (if I live tht long tht is)...
Anyways, was happy to meet everyone (albeit a few snobbish ones tht I gave a taste of their own medicine! Ignored them... :-p I'm the Devil really....)
I brought along my crudely made - home-made Guest Book. Unfortunately as usual I forgot to take a pix of it again.... (surprise... surprise...) so I can't show how it looks like here. Anyway, to describe it :
Front Cover : I use a design card that I bought in MPH. It has the traditional Chinese red paper-cut motive with lots of common symbols in weddings - a pair of Peking love ducks & the word "Hei" which means something like Celebration / Happy Occasion. I also bought some thick red ribbons with embossed "Hei" Chinese character which became the border & not make the cover look so plain.
Back Cover : I used a plain pink card paper & again bordered with the red ribbon as per the front cover. In the middle, I got hubby to write the Chinese character for Love (i.e. "Ai") in Gold marker pen.
Content : Plain multi-coloured paper stuck together by cellophane tape (see wht I mean by crude... :-p)
** Funny thing is, I found the card - although it's called greeting card thickness... It's still rather thin, so I took some old mousepads that we no longer use & wrapped the mousepad with the different paper type / designs described above. That became the "thick & cushiony" front & back cover for the Guest Book!
The food was ok enough, but because my menses is coming, I had stomach discomfort & bloated feeling. So my symptoms came to look as if I was pregnant.... Well, sorry to disappoint... It's not...
The air-cond though was really-really bad.... I was sweating like nobody's business there. And tht hotel is supposed to be a 6-Star Hotel! I don't get it.
Oh... Forgot to mention... We assembled an impromptu performance! Boey Peng Lim & Family Choir Troop - singing "Yue Liang Dai Piao Wo De Xing" (The Moon Represents My Heart). Kinda embarrassing, but what the heck! Everyone enjoyed it & sang along with us (although they get to sit comfortably & we had to stand in front of the crowd!)... At the end of the performance, everyone said tht it's like the Sound of Music where the Von Trap family sang... err.... but I think we sounded more like pigs being slaughtered rather than a proper melodious choir!
The dinner was a good re-union too. Have not seen most of my cousins for years! Some have grown so tall & big that I didn't recognize them anymore. Made me feel rather old actually... Cos' most of them are either still studying / just starting work; while I'm already like 30 & rather jaded by now. OMG.... If I feel like tht at 30... How will I feel when I'm say 40 / 50!? (if I live tht long tht is)...
Anyways, was happy to meet everyone (albeit a few snobbish ones tht I gave a taste of their own medicine! Ignored them... :-p I'm the Devil really....)
Shen My Bro is 25!!
20th March was my bro - Shen's B'day. But we celebrated on 22nd Mar for reasons:
1. 20th Mar is a Friday
2. Ming is having his exam on 21st Mar morning, so the Melaka "contingent" can't come to KL until evening
3. It's Sean's "Chinese" Wedding dinner on 21st Mar, so can't celebrate on tht night
And it was a lunch celebration cos' daddy & mummy is driving back to Penang after tht, so dinner would have made it too late for them to travel back.
Anyways, the birthday celebration was finally done on 22nd Mar (Sunday) - lunch time. Ming & Mei Ling said that this bro sure want Western food, cos' he can't get any nice ones in Melaka. So several venue came into mind:
1. Tony Roma's (but baby bro's b'day last year was already done here)
2. Jake's Charbroil in Damansara (but not sure if they're open on Sunday since their crowd I think are mostly office staff)
3. Victoria Station (nothing fantastic there - compared to the ribs in Tony Roma's & TGIF)
4. TGIF (yea! & get him to stand on the chair while the rest sing Hepi B'Day!!!)
but finally we decided on San Francisco Steakhouse in MidValley.
The food was ok, the service is superb, the price was a bomb! But all in all we quite enjoy the lunch. Oh & we also bought a cake & ate it all up as dessert - how we managed that I have no idea!
As usual we forgot our camera. Hope Mei Ling can share with us the pix took in her camera soon. Then I can upload them here.
1. 20th Mar is a Friday
2. Ming is having his exam on 21st Mar morning, so the Melaka "contingent" can't come to KL until evening
3. It's Sean's "Chinese" Wedding dinner on 21st Mar, so can't celebrate on tht night
And it was a lunch celebration cos' daddy & mummy is driving back to Penang after tht, so dinner would have made it too late for them to travel back.
Anyways, the birthday celebration was finally done on 22nd Mar (Sunday) - lunch time. Ming & Mei Ling said that this bro sure want Western food, cos' he can't get any nice ones in Melaka. So several venue came into mind:
1. Tony Roma's (but baby bro's b'day last year was already done here)
2. Jake's Charbroil in Damansara (but not sure if they're open on Sunday since their crowd I think are mostly office staff)
3. Victoria Station (nothing fantastic there - compared to the ribs in Tony Roma's & TGIF)
4. TGIF (yea! & get him to stand on the chair while the rest sing Hepi B'Day!!!)
but finally we decided on San Francisco Steakhouse in MidValley.
The food was ok, the service is superb, the price was a bomb! But all in all we quite enjoy the lunch. Oh & we also bought a cake & ate it all up as dessert - how we managed that I have no idea!
As usual we forgot our camera. Hope Mei Ling can share with us the pix took in her camera soon. Then I can upload them here.
Monday 16 March 2009
Shopping Frenzy - Craft Craze
Dunno what's wrong wif me lately....
First I went on "hair make-over" craze
Then I followed Storm on a shopping craze (thank goodness it was limited to the very short time left after our long "Whine & Dine" dinner session)
Then I went on Kevin Kern kraze....
& recently I pick up my old craze for scrap-booking, origami & personally-crafted-cards again, & as a result went on a shopping spree last weekend buying stencils, paint brushes, card papers, water colours, craft glue, ribbons & metalic markers (was shocked when they all totaled to abt RM140). I'm looking at getting more stencils & some rubber stamps next (if I can get a nice enough designs tht can be recycled in many different cards / scrapbook projects).
My current projects are:
1. A guest book for my cousin's wedding reception in KL this coming Saturday
2. My niece's 21st Birthday the Saturday after
Hope I can get them ready in time... (along with the sushi tht I need to prepare for my niece's b'day - I'm shocked tht anyone other than my hubby would wanna eat my cooking for the 2nd time! hehe... Oh well...)
First I went on "hair make-over" craze
Then I followed Storm on a shopping craze (thank goodness it was limited to the very short time left after our long "Whine & Dine" dinner session)
Then I went on Kevin Kern kraze....
& recently I pick up my old craze for scrap-booking, origami & personally-crafted-cards again, & as a result went on a shopping spree last weekend buying stencils, paint brushes, card papers, water colours, craft glue, ribbons & metalic markers (was shocked when they all totaled to abt RM140). I'm looking at getting more stencils & some rubber stamps next (if I can get a nice enough designs tht can be recycled in many different cards / scrapbook projects).
My current projects are:
1. A guest book for my cousin's wedding reception in KL this coming Saturday
2. My niece's 21st Birthday the Saturday after
Hope I can get them ready in time... (along with the sushi tht I need to prepare for my niece's b'day - I'm shocked tht anyone other than my hubby would wanna eat my cooking for the 2nd time! hehe... Oh well...)
Friday 13 March 2009
New Home Office Finally Set-Up
Ahhh...... Finally I get to work comfortably at home. Rather than sitting on a dining chair with my laptop at a small available corner of a table already half filled with a desktop & monitor. That gave me very bad neck ache which later develop to back aches from working too long at the wrong chair height. Towards the end, I resorted to sitting on the floor with a cushion and my laptop on a low stool just to stop torturing my back, but tht means I had to use the in-built scrolling pad instead of a mouse - which I can live with.
It's the 2nd day I use the new table & new office chair that's ergonomically designed. More comfortable than the desk & chair at my office!
I'm happy...
It's the 2nd day I use the new table & new office chair that's ergonomically designed. More comfortable than the desk & chair at my office!
I'm happy...
Book Review: Class by Jane Beaton
Storm recently lent me a book title simply "Class" by Jane Beaton. It is about life in an all-girl boarding school (a private one too where all the girls there are from super rich families - except for scholarship students); which covers not only the students, but also the teacher - mainly centers on the new English teacher (a Scottish lady from Glasgow who, against all odd, move down south where the northerners deem as snobbish society) & the old headteacher with a past.
The book started ok - it kept my attention, but was not too impressed by it. But as the characters developed & interesting events happened - some comical, some very catty students, a bit of romance & some teenage rebellion, golly... it was really a good read! (hehe... not to mention tht I'm just a sucker for British upper-crust lifestyle & boarding school story).
However, the same as Malory Towers & St. Claire's, it's just too good to be a REAL boarding school. No doubt, there's the customary; lights-off, prep classes, dorms, dining hall, no valuable items allowed & restrictions to leaving the school compounds; but did you read about the food they served? Goodness! It just sounds heavenly compared to our local boarding school fare of - Nasi kawah, horrible tasting vege (tasted like bitter unwashed pesticides... if you're lucky, you may find a bonus poached worm / two), "ikan kayu" curry (as the name suggests, rough & tough as "kayu") etc... etc... But then again.... what to expect when we're paying only RM1/day (i.e. USD0.30) for 6 "meals"!
Am sure my boarding school friends can fondly recall the meals that we had in the ol' school:
Breakfast:
Can be fried noodle / bihun / bread with butter & jam... Not very sure cos' I always skip breakfast.... :-p
Morning recess:
2 types of kuih Again.... there may be variation day-on-day but I wouldn't know cos' I skip this as well / go to the other canteen where we had to ay for our own food
Lunch:
Mon-Fri has fixed meal plan. I remember on days when we have fish, the line at the dining hall will be extremely short & everyone adjourn to either the canteen / eat maggie mee in the dorm. On days when it's chicken / kerang! (cockles), the line will be so long tht if we're late there'll be none left!
Tea Break:
2 types of kuih. I remember dreading days when they have the fried sesame seed covered mochi with red bean paste /grounded kacang. The mochi was so tough & hard that chewing it can be quite a workout & the jaw will feel so achy after tht.
Dinner:
Same like lunch, we know exactly wht we'll be getting for dinner - so we'll know which day to avoid the dining hall like the plague!
Supper:
Usually a hot drink & some "cream" crackers (biskut kering) that are not creamy at all. However on special occasions sponsored by PIBG / whenever KFC sponsor us for some special festive season, we get to have a box of KFC snack plate each! yummy! (although admittedly it was a bit soggy fr the condensation, as a result of being crammed in plastic bags while it was still hot & transported over to the school - still it was a major treat!)
Those were the days.....
The book started ok - it kept my attention, but was not too impressed by it. But as the characters developed & interesting events happened - some comical, some very catty students, a bit of romance & some teenage rebellion, golly... it was really a good read! (hehe... not to mention tht I'm just a sucker for British upper-crust lifestyle & boarding school story).
However, the same as Malory Towers & St. Claire's, it's just too good to be a REAL boarding school. No doubt, there's the customary; lights-off, prep classes, dorms, dining hall, no valuable items allowed & restrictions to leaving the school compounds; but did you read about the food they served? Goodness! It just sounds heavenly compared to our local boarding school fare of - Nasi kawah, horrible tasting vege (tasted like bitter unwashed pesticides... if you're lucky, you may find a bonus poached worm / two), "ikan kayu" curry (as the name suggests, rough & tough as "kayu") etc... etc... But then again.... what to expect when we're paying only RM1/day (i.e. USD0.30) for 6 "meals"!
Am sure my boarding school friends can fondly recall the meals that we had in the ol' school:
Breakfast:
Can be fried noodle / bihun / bread with butter & jam... Not very sure cos' I always skip breakfast.... :-p
Morning recess:
2 types of kuih Again.... there may be variation day-on-day but I wouldn't know cos' I skip this as well / go to the other canteen where we had to ay for our own food
Lunch:
Mon-Fri has fixed meal plan. I remember on days when we have fish, the line at the dining hall will be extremely short & everyone adjourn to either the canteen / eat maggie mee in the dorm. On days when it's chicken / kerang! (cockles), the line will be so long tht if we're late there'll be none left!
Tea Break:
2 types of kuih. I remember dreading days when they have the fried sesame seed covered mochi with red bean paste /grounded kacang. The mochi was so tough & hard that chewing it can be quite a workout & the jaw will feel so achy after tht.
Dinner:
Same like lunch, we know exactly wht we'll be getting for dinner - so we'll know which day to avoid the dining hall like the plague!
Supper:
Usually a hot drink & some "cream" crackers (biskut kering) that are not creamy at all. However on special occasions sponsored by PIBG / whenever KFC sponsor us for some special festive season, we get to have a box of KFC snack plate each! yummy! (although admittedly it was a bit soggy fr the condensation, as a result of being crammed in plastic bags while it was still hot & transported over to the school - still it was a major treat!)
Those were the days.....
Thursday 5 March 2009
Kevin Kern craze
A very nice, Single-&-Available, sweet guy friend / colleague (hint* hint* to my single gal friends out there!) forwarded me a Kevin Kern piano rendition titled "From The Day Forward". It's so soothing tht is just ebbs away my stresses. I even turned it on when I was in office & everyone around me was wondering if the company has started to play music over the PA system. Someone commented it is like hotel lobby music, but I love it anyway....
Am thinking of going out to get his album. Anyone knows if his album is any good / it's just a 1 song favourite & the rest are.... errr.... passable? Do tell if you know.
Dun mind if you have any other album to suggest too cos' now tht I drive, would be good to have some good music on for the ride to office & home. (Cos' if hubby drives, it'll alwiz be his choice of music 90% of the time :-p )
Am thinking of going out to get his album. Anyone knows if his album is any good / it's just a 1 song favourite & the rest are.... errr.... passable? Do tell if you know.
Dun mind if you have any other album to suggest too cos' now tht I drive, would be good to have some good music on for the ride to office & home. (Cos' if hubby drives, it'll alwiz be his choice of music 90% of the time :-p )
Wednesday 4 March 2009
Hurray!!! I finally got my Parking Lot!!!
Hari Ini Dalam Sejarah....
After much waiting, I finally got access to the staff parking lot at the Basement of the building! Although it's the basement, but I'm not complaining!
Anywhere is better than:
1) Paying RM30+/day for taxi (to & from office)
2) Paying RM30+/day for hourly parking + fuel costs + toll + wear & tear (basically I'll be working just to pay the government - income tax, the toll operators, parking management, oil company & my mechanic!)
But the number of snatch thief / break screen & rob / knife-point robbery when parking around my Taman (Taynton View) in Cheras is scaring me. Sometimes I don't understand what's the point of putting a police station just a block away from where I'm staying, if the thieves / robbers are just not detered! Recently, my immediate neighbour got robbed as she was getting out of her car to open the gate to park. My father-in-law came out to "scare" the robber away, but they stared back at my father-in-law in defiance & showed him their parang!
Sigh....
Take taxi, scared taxi driver rob / drive off somewhere else....
Drive own car, scared get robbed (or worse! lose your life! cos' they dun bother to ask now... they juzz slash with parang & take)
Anyhow, having my own transport definitely is more convenient & I can move around more freely.
After much waiting, I finally got access to the staff parking lot at the Basement of the building! Although it's the basement, but I'm not complaining!
Anywhere is better than:
1) Paying RM30+/day for taxi (to & from office)
2) Paying RM30+/day for hourly parking + fuel costs + toll + wear & tear (basically I'll be working just to pay the government - income tax, the toll operators, parking management, oil company & my mechanic!)
But the number of snatch thief / break screen & rob / knife-point robbery when parking around my Taman (Taynton View) in Cheras is scaring me. Sometimes I don't understand what's the point of putting a police station just a block away from where I'm staying, if the thieves / robbers are just not detered! Recently, my immediate neighbour got robbed as she was getting out of her car to open the gate to park. My father-in-law came out to "scare" the robber away, but they stared back at my father-in-law in defiance & showed him their parang!
Sigh....
Take taxi, scared taxi driver rob / drive off somewhere else....
Drive own car, scared get robbed (or worse! lose your life! cos' they dun bother to ask now... they juzz slash with parang & take)
Anyhow, having my own transport definitely is more convenient & I can move around more freely.
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