happening~~!!

i'm at station 1 @ mutiara garden now. this is my first time writing my blog @ a cafe. luckily my hubby brings his laptop along and there's wi-fi service here.

the feeling is totally a different one. with me are daryl, kiat, beng, vee and hubby. 'bear bear', chicken wings and fries... everyone's happpy, talking loudly, laughing like nobody business.

hahaha... they are talking something that happened a few years ago. it is about vee's birthday a few back. she kept on biting people who attended her birthday party @ the rum jungle. it was the 'baddest' birthday celebration that she ever had, i guess. sigh... but everything's over now. she's living happily with us and her future hubby-to-be.

kinda surprised and disappointed that she can't attend my marriage registration. she'll be leaving for singapore to look for a better career enhancement. i truly understand her need to be in singapore and wish her all the best.

today is cassey's marriage registration. we woke up early today and reached maju junction mall @ around 9.15am. thought of completing the registration process in an hour time but ended up @ around 12.00pm. sigh... malaysian time :pp

a simple and nice ceremony. touched and warmth. the moment she said 'yes, i do'... ooh... the moment was so sacred.

after the registration, we went to my brother-in-law's house. big and nice, enough for my sister to put all her things. kekeke... i'd say she is a garbage collector... erm... perhaps a shopaholic. kakaka...

we are still drinking, eating, chit chatting, sharing, laughing all the way... what a happy night... yum yum yum.......... seng~~!! (practise, practise for my big day. kakakakaka...)

an emotional night

tomorrow will be my off day again for cassey's marriage registration. i think she won't be able to sleep tonight. too excited... i feel excited too : )

it feels like i have missed too much for the past fortnight. lesser music, lesser storybooks, lesser tv time, lesser food, lesser rest, lesser sleep, lesser communication with the family, everything seems lesser. so, i plan to sleep later tonight to read two more pages of novel, listen to two more songs, watch 2 more hours of tv, eat two more slices of potato chips, load 2 more photos...

times really flies... minute by minute, hour by hour, day by time, week by week, month by month... i try to recall what i've done for the past 9 months... i feel like i've done very much, so much till i could work out my wedding... but in the end, there's only one thing that i've done the most - work in the office.

i hope i could do more to improve my life. i hope i could find a balance in between work and my life. i have once thought of attending language courses, art classes, learn knitting, learn meditation and lots more. but in the end, i'm at nothing.

i hate the feeling of looking back and regretting. i regret for giving up the time that i could spend with my family. i regret for releasing stress on my hubby. i regret for missing outings with my buddies.

i need to find a way to neutralise all these. i'm still figuring... am i too emotional or am i depressed? oh no... choi choi choi... (believing myself is mentally and physically healthy) hahaha...

a long night ahead...

my tired day

i'm still in the office.

for the first time, i lose appetite to eat. for the first time, i work till i wanna cry. for the first time, i feel demotivated to continue working. for the first time, my phone does not ring for the whole day. for the first time, i feel the 'silence' in office.

for the first time, i miss my hubby this much. but... !@#$%^ he is going out with his friends. luckily not staying with him yet. if not, i also don't know what i'd do. too tired to think of a way to pay revenge :p

suddenly i miss the connaught night market. assam laksa, sugarcane drink, fried char kuey, curry fish ball... sob sob... i only have one hiong piah with me : (

going back home now. i need a high quality, long night sleep. hopefully i'd be better tomorrow.
for sure, i will!!

superb boring

i'm thinking of ipoh again... i'm thinking of nice food again...

i needed to stay back in the office today. have asked my colleague to pack me some snacks for my dinner. maybe i miss ipoh too much, i asked for egg tart and siu mai. eik... why did they look so different from the ones that i had in ipoh? hmm... these food reminded me that i'm a kl mate, this is kl and not ipoh. okay, i'll keep this in mind.

omg!! it's 9.30pm now. needed to go back home. aiya... the siu mai was still there... supper then...
tadaima!! straightaway i ran to the kitchen to heat up the siu mai. i was so hungry... diet to me, at that moment, was not applicable anymore.

wah... the siu mai smelt something like the ipoh's siu mai... (bite) it reminded me once again that i'm a kl mate, this is kl and not ipoh. okay, i promised that i'll keep this in mind : (

too far... tasted just too far...

i noticed that my blog has a follower now. look who's in the house - nee nee... i welcome you to my blog.

it's tuesday night... oops... wednesday morning. looking forward for a brighter wednesday.

ipoh mari... ipoh ipoh mari...

20/09/2008 - 7.00am

ring~~~~~~ 'stupid alarm!! what's the time now?? don't you know today is saturday??'

while getting myself awake, my mind played back to yesterday night, when i was packing my things for the makan-makan trip to ipoh. aah... my god, i was late. ipoh, please wait for me...

oh, s**t!! i needed to collect my medical report from pathlab. ipoh, please wait for me...

grrhh... hungry : (
gotta have my breakfast in imbi market first. ipoh, please wait for me...

10.00am - arrived at office in excitement. straightaway we jumped into cars and off we left for ipoh. we drove, drove, drove and drove... ipoh, please wait for us...

12.30pm - at last we reached ipoh. we gathered at the first mcD outlet after the toll plaza for our ipohan colleague a.k.a. tour guide. after waited for a while, she came with her husband and the assistant tour guide - her brother. eik... sorry, the tour guide was actually the brother and the ipohan colleague was only the assistant. who cared anyway... we came for food :pp

1st ding - egg tart from simee market. tasted a little similar with tong kee egg tart. but this was bigger in size. hmm... the layers were not as crispy as tong kee's. rated 2 out of 5.

2nd ding - yong tau foo. cheap, tasty but a little too oily. variety of choices, even more than kl's. the clear soup was bitter gourd soup - added points. rated 3 out of 5.

3rd ding - sweet peanut porridge and mua ci. recommended by ho chak a little while ago (perhaps, in season 1. the label looked old :pp). 'i want a bowl of black sesame porridge, please'. 'no black sesame porridge wo'. 'haa... sold out ar? it is stated here that you sell this wo... not meh?' 'it's ma zi wo...'. (oopps... i thought zi ma (sesame). oh, it was ma zi (mua ci). cheh...) 'ok lah... peanut sweet porridge-lah then'. slurp... wow wow wow... ding ding ding... marvelous!!! very smooth... so tasty. not too sweet, tasted just nice. yum yum... yummy... : ) rated 3.5 out of 5.

arrived at our rented condo in bercham. this new area was so peaceful and i found it very convenient. a kindergarten at a side, tesco extra nearby, nice garden view and well facilitated with swimming pools and park.

3 rooms, a kitchen, 2 shower rooms, fully furnished and air-conditioned. not bad, huh...?? good... very comfortable. felt like staying at home. zzz... slept for a little while, when people around me busy discussing who and who in which and which room. for me, whatever... so long as i got myself a place to sleep - not in the toilet or kitchen, please... :pp

moving out from the house again to all the caves in ipoh. first, we went to the kek look tong. then to the ling sen tong, nam tin tong and sam poh tong. we reached the sam poh tong a little later - it had closed for visitors. hmmm... never mind. we came for makan-makan, not for the caves. these caves looked more or less the same. not as interesting as the upcoming dish. kekeke...

while waiting for the dinner time, we went shopping for locals at the yee hup biscuits. the shop was just outside the sam poh tong. didn't shop much this time - i'm not interested in biscuits. moreover, my heart had already flew to the...

4th ding - steamed chicken with beansprout and hor fun / rice. we were seated in 2 different tables due to space constraint. 7 pax & 8 pax. our table of 8 pax ordered a whole steamed chicken (half kampung chicken and half pasar chicken), beansprout, special roasted pork with bbq sauce (char siu), meat & fish balls and hor fun / rice. these were originated from ipoh and they were really belong to ipoh. i couldn't taste any in kl which tasted as nice as these in ipoh. really special. tasty tasty tasty.... rated 4 out of 5.

we needed some exercise to digest today's input. we had too much nice food today. the best exercise ever - shopping for locals... AGAIN. well, nothing much we could do... talking about night time entertainment and night spots, ipoh is too faraway from kl. ipoh is much more boring than kl, i'd say.

we had another place to go than shopping for locals. yeah, right... we shopped in ipoh parade this round. haa... gosh... okay okay... go go go!!! (unwillingly... :pp)

after a tiring walkaround - shopping shopping and shopping... we went for the...

5th ding - supper in tong sui street. eik... no tong sui geh... instead, i got myself a can of cola and half plate of fried hor fun. not bad not bad but it was the 'baddest' in the day. rated 1 out of 5. didn't manage to taste the beef noodle. the boss was too bossy to serve the noodle at another stall. cheh...!! i skip you, beef noodle!! don't be so c**ky, okay... no big deal not to eat you!!

back to condo, got myself ready to bed, energizing myself for tomorrow eating outs.
zzz~~~


21/09/2008 - 7.00am

'good morning everyone~~' got myself ready in minutes, superb faster than ever. cos... it was dim sum time!!!

6th ding - dim sum at foh san biscuits. hmm... sounded weird, a bakery selling dim sum. who cared, who cared, who cared... tie kuan yin - yeah~~~ a must!! char siu bao - yeah! siu mai - yeah! yu mai - yeah! fried choon guen - yeah! wow... eat eat eat eat and eat...

when i was about to slurp the stuffed tau fu - hmm... it smelt so... good. smelt like tau fu... yeah, i know... which kinda tau fu that doesn't smell like tau fu?? but this was different. the smell was so strong, even i could taste the tau fu before it got into my mouth. at the moment i put that piece of tau fu into my mouth... gosh... ding ding ding ding ding... marvelous, bravo, superb, ho chak, hou sik, hao chi dao... i was so amazed, how could this taste so nice... the feeling was right from the heart. it made me melt, man... : ) rated for this particular stuffed tau fu - 5 out of 5 - excellent, 100% pure tau fu, smelt and tasted nice.

ha gao - not cooked yet. wait a while-lah. ha gao pls - hold on, let me see if there is any left. ha gao - sold out, now cooking. (hands up) ha gao - no more already. now cooking. wait a while-lah. (standing up) ha gao - cooking. (waiting at the stall) ha gao - no more wo. haa... no more? don't bluff-lah. how could this be? waited for the whole morning for ha gao and the waitress said there was nothing left. so disappointed... : (

wait... the 'no more' was for takeaway. ha gao was still available for eating in... more to go... and immediately, there was a plate of ha gao on the table. it was so approaching - 'come-lah, eat me-lah, i taste as good as the tau fu...'

chiap... yum yum yum... wow... it really tasted as good as the tau fu. no ha goa in kl tasted as good as this, not even from the best dim sum restaurant in kl. the crystalite prawns were so fresh and... and... and... wah, song-lah!! syiok-nya... the feeling was like - yes-lah!!! rated 5 out of 5.

7th ding - sweet beancurd at funny mountain. there was only 1 phrase to describe this dessert - melt in the mouth. wooh... another song, syiok, yes, whatsoever... i have lost of words... didn't know how to describe further. tasted so nice... although we had to eat in the car (no more seats in the shop), we were still happy - got what we wanted to eat, for sure no regrets, no matter what. i was... so hang fook... so lerm... mmm... so nice : )

we headed back to kl after the dessert. i was so full with satisfaction and my stomach almost burst with nice, tasty food. what a wonderful and fruitful trip... for sure, i will miss ipoh very much...

slow slow slow...

everything seemed so slow yesterday. wanted to upload photos to picasa web album - slow. wanted to log in to my blog - slow. wanted to log in to facebook - slow. wanted to switch on astro - slow. wanted to listen to ipod - low battery. 'yoh... why everything so like that?'

i need to answer to the question that i posted the day before yesterday. my day after my day off - not only overloaded but a disaster!!! 9.30pm again... sigh sigh sigh...

eik... today is okay, so so... manage to finish my work on time (not 5.15pm but 7.30pm). better than 9.30pm still...

sent and replied e-mails with jen leong the whole day. talked about everything in the world. from her plan to come back to kl, teluk intan, holiday during chinese new year to photo uploading to her daughter. talking about her daughter, really can't resist her smile and cute face. assuming having her in my life, really 'the chiak beh liao'. no one believes me till they saw her photos. let me ask mummy jen leong if i can post some of her photos to picasa web album. more people will believe me...

now my soul and mind is flying home and packing things for the makan-makan trip to ipoh tomorrow. waited for so long... at last it comes. yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah~~~ food food, here i come...

everyone - see you guys tomorrow. enjoy~~~!!

my day off almost gone...

it's 10.00pm now. a few hours to go to say bye bye to wednesday, to say bye bye to my annual leave. need to back to work again tomorrow...

today is a very good day for me. had done what i've planned - manicure and facial, all done!!

read on newspaper today that john yuan has left the line of honourable judges for million dollar star, after phil. what a lost to the show. i'm sure the show won't be as famous and entertaining as before. personally, i think he handled his part very well and in a professional way. just can't understand what most of the blog commentators and contestants' supporters have in their mind. my best wishes to john - gambate~~!!

hmm... let's see how my day tomorrow - blessed or overloaded??

yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah~~~~

at last... tuesday nearly comes to the end. i am longing for my one day off tomorrow. i am so tired now. huhuhu :~ and yet, i am excited :>

received e-mails from jennifer this afternoon, sending regards and hello. she saw my photos posted up on my facebook and commented me as a lamp post. what a description!!! the photos posted were before my pre-wedding photo. at that period of time, i was on diet but still i do not find myself as skinny as she decribed me. 'old ladies like chubby girls'. hehehe...

going back home from office now. need to plan for tomorrow's outing - simply to show how much i appreciate my annual leave. hehehe...

yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah~~~ holiday holiday!!!

kiat - happy holidays!! remember to buy souvenirs-ar...

mad mad mad...

just got home from work. extremely tired today. perhaps, a bringforward effect from yesterday's 'yuet guong wui'... hehehe...

yeah yeah yeah... excuse excuse and excuse... i'm still here instead of going bed straightaway. i know i know i know that... but i don't want my day to be wasted like this!!!

argh... i just can't get rid of what had happened last weekend, when my bf and i were asking his parents about the food tasting. OMG OMG OMG... they didn't actually plan to have it with my parents. instead, they wanted to go with their 'lou yau'.

what is this man?? weren't my parents more important than their 'lou yau' at this point of time, in this occassion? i was so ashamed to tell my parents about this. i couldn't predict how they'd react.

no matter how unwilling i was to tell them, i gotta do this - rather than letting them wait for something that won't happen for them.

'mum, his parents are going for the food tasting by themselves. they are going with their friends, instead. i also feel bad about this but... i'm sorry...'

'it's ok. let them settle this since they pay for the food. no worries...'

i think my mum did not realise the disappointment she showed on her face. i never see this expression in the whole 27 years i spent with her. this made me more heartache. for the first time, i felt my heart bled.

i'm so grateful that my parents are so tolerant and patient. i always thank god for sending me to my parents. they are the best parents of all.

well, for me, this is a matter of respect. they're my family members and their future in-law. argh... this is frustrating and sickening me everytime i think of it.

i need to zzzzzzzzz to forget all this. sigh...

happy mooncake festival

today is the moon cake festival.

mum is busy cooking, dad is busy with the mahjong game and i'm busy blogging and watching tv : )

i'm looking forward for tonight's dinner - steamed chicken, braised mushroom with fried chicken feet, steamed fish, stir fried vege and deep fried prawn... yum yum :)

tonight will be going to kiat's place for 'yuet guong wui'. it has been a norm for the past few years - chit-chating, minum-minum and playing with candles at the nearby badminton court.

at last, dinner time comes. with jun nie and her dad on the same table, really adds rhythm to my little harmony family. laughter are all over the living room. for sure, i'm gonna miss this very much since this will be the last year i celebrate it with them...

fuh... what a wonder'full' dinner :pp

leaving for kiat's house at around 9.30pm. this year, we're not able to have the celebration at the badminton court. it's raining... : ( instead, we have it at the garage area.

maybe i'm getting older... these small little lanterns and candles are enough to make me amazed on how beautiful they could be. i'm like seeing something new.

i get to know someone new too. someone who is more matured, more tolerant, more this and that than ever. same old buddy but a new her and a new friend to me. i'm happy to know her 'all over again'...

backdating my posts to...

proposal - 26 July 2008

it was my bf's birthday. by right, i should be the one to arrange a birthday dinner for him. instead, he made the initiative to plan for the birthday dinner. i smelt something 'fishy' and guessed there must be something that he wanted to do. hmm....

i kept on asking him where we were heading to. the driving journey was quite long. the signboards look very unfamiliar to me. heading to kajang, cyberjaya, putrajaya...

haa~~!! i remembered we once discussed to have a dinner on the cruise tasek. my guess was correct!! we were going there...

boarding on a cruise was a new experience to me. i only have been into ferries and boats before this. the cruise was a nice one with approximately 40 over seats. 16 at the sides and a long table in the middle. classics filled the deck and there was a captain doing an introduction on the safety and emergency. as the cruise moved around the lake, he introduced the putrajaya.

dinner began with an appetizer and soup of the day and entered into the main course. we later went up to the upper deck for a look. it was totally a different view from the lower and the upper. the putrajaya looks more beautiful now. the sight seeing was amazing with the wonderful lighting. the cyberjaya also looked more lively at night than in the day time.

not knowing when my bf had a hand bouquet and proposal ring with him, he was down on his knees and... 'will you marry me?' surprise~~

everything was there and what else could i say but yes?

never had seen him so serious. the sincerity was like during the courtship - pure white and clean... :~


photoshooting - 23 Aug 2008

it was a happy and wondering morning. after having breakfast, both of us headed to the bridal house for our photoshooting session.

the makeup session started a little while after we arrived. the artist was an auntie and it made me think of the 'yu fa' in shaolin soccer - if u remembered, in that movie, she was the 'image consultant' for ah mei (zhao wei). i was like... omg... :~ how would i look like after the makeup and in the photos. no eyes see... sigh...

the photographer was the person who approached me when i signed up in a bridal fair somewhere beginning of the year. he was a funny guy and he really made our day. at least, there was someone that could still make us laughed.

it was a really a tiring day. had spent almost a day in the bridal house and outdoor-photoshooting locations. the day was so-so. had happy and unhappy moments - considered 'ph neutral'... hahaha~~~


selecting photos - 6 Sept 2008

my heart was jumping - excited and worried. excited and worried for the outcome.

we were to choose 27 poses out of don't know many. we arrived there at 11.30am as scheduled and excuse me... the personnel told us that our appointment was fixed at 3.00pm. the impatient me was like... what the heck did my bf do when he made the appointment?? why didn't he make things clear before confirming it?? as expected, the personnel told a.k.a instructed us to come back at 3.00pm and we had no choice but to obey.

spending half of the day, doing nothing at home and when we were almost to see mr. chow, 3.00pm ding dong rang. hmm... we headed to the bridal house again. very funny... the same personnel told us that our appointment was 11.00am and not 3.00pm. she even blaming on us quoting the wrong reference number and making her acting misleadingly. again, i was like... what the f**k?? weren't u suppose to know your arrangement better than us? sigh... this time my heart was pumping - 'zha dou'~!!

surprisingly, the photos are okay and some of them really look nice, for me. aiya... out of so many, if there weren't any nice photos, i think i will kill the photographer and burn the house down. kekeke... :pp

soon soon lei lei... we selected all the photos in a 'harmony' way... scheduled early october for the final confirmation and early november for pick up.

romantic...

on my way back from office, i was listening to this song. it's so romantic. wished that my bf was there with me, listening to this song together, hand in hand...

or... shall i learn this song for him...?

真的什麼都别说 彩虹正在消失 我们赶快捕捉

以後的以後再说 你安静的眼神 也有一种节奏

Love is a beautiful thing

多美丽 多难得

Love is a wonderful thing

就是那麼爱你 什麼都想为你

爱是一种毒瘾 正在发作
你知道我爱你 会爱到很久

甜蜜不必急著说 慢慢享受

连天使都忌妒的生活

真的什麼都别说 安静也是沟通 几个呼吸就够
说什麼都嫌太多 把现在的画面 留到老的时候

只要看你一秒 那些亿万个心愿 都简化成一句我爱你

天使忌妒的生活 by gary 曹格

my fingers are all broken : (

sigh... the dark knight is here and i'm still in the office. all my fingers are seem broken, for crossing them over and over again :pp

sigh sigh sigh sigh sigh... my mission impossible really can't be accomplished. why tom cruise could do it but i can't? kakaka... just kinda 'fatt lou sou'... :pp

no matter how unlucky i am, there is still a good thing to be happy for. tomorrow will not be a working day for me. yeah yeah yeah~~~

oh yeah, another thing to be more happy for - the makan-makan trip to ipoh, organized by my colleagues, is just around the corner. there are so many types of food listed in the menu. it's gonna beat all the restaurants in kl. i'm so excited when i think of this.

kiat, daryl, nee nee & lay ching - all of you will gonna miss the fun and food. i promise i'll 'da bao' for you - beansprout with steamed chicken, clear soup hor fun, dao fu fa, chicky biscuits... etc... hehe...

a lil' surprise from...

i received an e-mail from dai xiu today. guess what... this crazy fellow sent me a song and santa a wish list.

WOW WOW YEAH YEAH~~
I LOVE YOU MORE THAN I CAN SAY~~

Dear Santa/DJ,
Out of sudden, I wish I could dedicate this song to my wife-to-be please…
Wishing her... to be loved & loved & pampered & pampered forever & ever…
Tomorrow never die~~ keke

Regards,
Cheah Tai Hoe

although it seemed a crazy and silly thing from him, i feel warmth and touched. his e-mail actually enlighten my blue day.

today is another boring and tire day. i've been staying back in the office till 9.30pm since monday. i want my life back. i want to have work-life balance (this is what my boss always emphasizes on but have never accomplished. hahaha...)

i swear... tomorrow i gotta leave office when the day is still bright. i'm crossing my fingers now.

i'm an official blogger now~~~

i welcome myself to the world of blog.

all this while, blogging isn't something that i'm interested in. well, it crossed my mind, i think early this year. it was the time when my bf and i were planning to get married.

knowing well that i won't be as free as when i'm at my own home (after i get married), i was cracking my head, thinking of some weekend activities. shopping - not very week, i guess... tv - not till it explodes, right... housekeeping, car washing - yoh, so tiring :pp

BLOGGING!! it sounds interesting to me sinceafter. and here i am... : )

thanks to my buddies for bringing me to the bagulolo blog, my first ever exposure to blog. learned a lot from there.

well, being a day one blogger isn't too bad. start to loving it.