MISERABLE

. as a friend, i think you are wasted here.

you could probably better than many TLs out there.

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my pal and dear friend, thanks for the praises. i take them as compliments.

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they encourage me a lot and have lighten up my day.

but life goes on... faith and fate will guide me through.

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good luck to you too...

WE MADE IT!!!

at last, my hubby makes the confession!!!
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we've bought our home sweet home some months ago but we haven't announced this big news to my in-law. reason being - simple - we don't want interference, we don't want interruption and we don't want extra extra unnecessary arrangements and opinions, which we'd treasure it if it is left unfolded forever...

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well... we've done almost everything, we've completed the 1st phase renovations, engaged with contractors for the 2nd phase, picked the paint colours, bought home appliances... basically just waiting for the time to get all things completed. we're getting real excited to moving into the new house!!!
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we broke the news to them after yesterday's reunion dinner, everybody was so shocked! not when we mentioned we've bought the house but when we said we wanted to move out from the current house. imagine this... we mentioned moving out in october, yeah... real soon... i think this is why they couldn't take it at first.
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Q& A session:
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are you unhappy living with us under the same roof? i'm sad to see you leaving...

aren't you suppose to feel happy that your son has the ability to own a house? moving out not because of unhappiness, we want to live our own lives out there...

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have you pick a date to move in? don't simply pick a date, this must be carefully done...

we haven't picked a date but if you want to pick a date for us, we've no problem, happy if you could help us. but please make it on a saturday in october / november, we want many people to come and share the happiness.

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will you set a prayer alter? a small one outside the house?

a big no-no!!! we don't trust in the God you are trusting, therefore, we don't want to keep something that we can't and don't want to take care of. but if you want to have a prayer ceremony before we move in, we don't mind but this going to be a one-time-off thingy.

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are you going to move everything out from your room?

no no... we're going to bring over the mattress only as we've so used to it. the rest we'll leave them behind as we'll occasionally come back for overnight, especially during CNY and festive eves, which fall on a friday.

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are you going home for dinner? i mean everyday?

of course won't but we'll make it once a week, we promise, just like we go back to my parents' home once a week for dinner. we've to make it fair, you see... don't worry... we'll take care of ourselves.
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i have to give you a set of cookware, most probably a set of wok and pots.

we aren't going to cook like 9 dishes a day, pots and wok basically to us are useless. we just don't want to waste your nice set of pots and wok. you can use them to cook tasty food for everyone.

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(MIL walked to the store room to look for other things that she could give to me) how about this steamer set?

ok ok... we take this, it helps when it comes to steaming mantou. i love mantou, for sure, i'll use this! thanks!

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what else do you need and want?

basically we've got everything. no need to buy anything else. the steamer is enough already...

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for sure i can't sleep tonight... so sad...

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(silence)
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is your home open to us? can we come over, for a night or two?

sure! we have a guest room for all visitors. you can just tell us that you'll be coming over, we'll get things fixed. no worries... you can always come over for the swimming pool, jaz or even BBQ. we really don't mind... we'll be happy if you drop by...

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the conversation moved on to our BB plan, her pregnancy experience and so on... i feel like vomiting when i talk about this, continuously... anyway, there's no more secrets...

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waiting impatiently...

HAPPY MOONCAKE FESTIVAL 2010

beautiful moonlight in the sky

a lighted beautiful traditional paper lantern

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is it necessary to burn down all paper lantern in the end of the day?

both of us seldom take 2-pax photo.

shall we?

happily posing with all sisters

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~HAPPY WEDDING ANNIVERSARY, MY DEAREST DAD & MOM~

阿妈的食谱 - CHICKEN IN SOYA SAUCE

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Ingredients:
1. 1 whole chicken / chicken parts
2. Soya sauce
3. Thick soya sauce
4. Water
5. Sugar
6. Garlic
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Steps:
1. Garlic to chopped and stir-fried - M heat.
2. After it turns brownish, add in soya sauce, thick soya sauce, sugar and a little water - M heat.

3. Wait for the mixture to boil a little - medium heat.
4. Put in chicken - medium heat.
5. Put more water and cook for ½ hr (for chicken parts) - low heat.

*1 whole chicken takes longer time*

I NEED A NEW HOBBY

i was telling my hubby that i am 'de-energized' since i started working in this new company. i just don't know why...

i start work later than before, i can go off way earlier than before, i have lesser work than before, life should have been better!

i am tired when i reach home. i am tired during weekends. i am tired... just too tired to do anything and everything, even things that i once thought they were exciting and interesting.

what the hell happened to me? am i too workaholic, can't live an easy life? sigh...

my hubby told me to look for a new hobby, to venture into something new, which might trigger my interest.

sports - i'm out!

books - i'm sleepy.

music - nothing gets me on lately, what to do than just listening. not that i know how to 'operate' a keyboard or play a guitar.

movies - i'm actually watching. it's my hobby all this while...

recipe - everybody says i can't cook, erm... can't cook well, including my hubby! but it sounds interesting... should i? well, well, well... i need guinea pigs... hahaha...

set @ recipe! i'm gonna start with easy ones... from frying an egg to baking a cake.

if i think i can, i can, right... will you be my guinea pigs???

PORK IN SOYA SAUCE

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Ingredients:
1. Pork (preferably the part near thigh
2. Soya sauce
3. Thick soya sauce
4. Sugar
5. Garlic (Whole piece)
6. Eggs
7. Water
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Steps:
1. Water to boil and put in pork to to remove dirt and smell.
2. Egg to hard boil.
3. Put in soya sauce, thick soya sauce, sugar, garlic and a little water - M heat, wait for the mixture to boil a little.
4. Put in pork - M heat.
5. When gravy gets thicker, put in water and cook until pork is tender - L heat.
6. When this is almost done, put in hard boiled egg - L heat.
7. Continue until pork is tender to your expectation - L heat.

YONG TAU FOO

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Ingredients:
1. Fish paste
2. Eggplant
3. Bitter gourd
4. Chilli
5. Garlic
6. Oyster sauce / White vinegar
7. Sugar
8. Soya sauce
9. Thick soya sauce
10. Water
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Steps:
1. Stuff fish paste into eggplant, bitter gourd and chilli.
2. Garlic to chopped and stir-fried until brownish - M heat.
3. If only do chilli, put in white vinegar, soya sauce, thick soya sauce, sugar and a little water - M heat. Wait for the mixture to boil a little and thick. Remove from pan / wok.
4. If do other than chilli, then replace white vinegar with oyster sauce.
5. Fried eggplant, bitter gourd and chilli - L heat. Remove from pan / wok and dry up Yong Tau Foo from oil.
6. Get the mixture and Yong Tau Foo back into pan / wok and braise for 10 minutes.

PRAWN IN SOYA SAUCE

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Ingredients:
1. Prawns
2. Garlic
3. Soya sauce
4. Sugar
5. Thick soya sauce - Optional
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Steps:
1. Garlic to chopped and stir-fried. After it turns brownish, add in soya sauce, thick soya sauce (for colouring), sugar and a little water. Wait for the mixture to boil a little and thick - M heat. Remove from pan / wok.
2. Prawns to fried - M heat.
3. After the prawns turn reddish, put in the mixture and cook for 2 minutes.

DRUNKEN PRAWN

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Ingredients:
1. Prawns
2. Soya sauce
3. Ginger sauce
4. Ajinomoto
5. Egg white
6. Water
7. Alcohol (preferably hard liquor)
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Steps:
1. Soya sauce, ginger sauce and ajinomoto to mix with a little water.
2. Egg white and cold water – stir for several times, not too much.
3. Steam prawns in pan / wok, together with mixture (1) for about 8-10 minutes until reddish, H heat.
4. Pour in mixture (2) and steam for 2 minutes - L heat.
5. Off heat and pour in alcohol.

BEAUTIFUL SLEEPY MONDAY

full force today, everybody has come back to the reality - school & work!

we planned to leave the house at 0700, a little failure in the end, we left at 0715. traffic was still okay, quite smooth and i reached office at 0745. not bad huh...

really lazy to get back to work although i attended to work last friday. the weekend off is just like the usual ones but today is an extreme lazy work day for me.

still suffering the impact of migraine that stroke last wednesday. it was bad... i seldom take in pain killer but i just couldn't help it, i gave in... the feeling of vomiting is back, from the stomach to the throat. i gotta take better care of myself...

need to pen down all recipes that i got from my parents yesterday when we were having family dinner to celebrate an early moon cake festival. share pictures later... maybe tonight...

我唔係有佐啦！

Pat: 我有D唔舒服，想呕，想呕，咁。。。

Mum-in-Law: (奇怪的眼神。。。)

Pat: 我唔係有佐啦！我去食药先。。。你諗多佐啦。。。

1，2，3 呸！

F.R.I.E.N.D.S

Just had a wonderful lunch with ex-colleagues from PRU at The Nando’s, Pavilion, to celebrate Tammy’s birthday. Everyone is healthy, just a little de-energized and tired. Guess it is an impact from last Raya Holiday. Hold on girls… You always prove yourself, why not this time?!
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Didn’t manage to get everyone out this round. Tem Tem complains she has loads of work, can understand her since Wei Then is not around. Chia Hui too complains she is busy, can understand her since every colleague from her department make the same comment in FB. Ling Nee not able to make it, can understand her since she has an emotional and crazy boss. Hahaha… ~~~
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To my surprise, Ai Sun is here! She has come back from Kampar for 1 Malaysia Holiday, konon… Hehehe… Hopefully she can confirm staying back in KL instead of living her boredom in Kampar. Ai Sun, we always miss you. Please do consider staying back here in KL. For sure, the decision is both yours and hubby; we’ll support you, anyways…
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Predictably, same questions being brought up again:
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1. WHO ELSE has resigned?
2. HOW MANY MORE left in the department?
3. Why L is like that AGAIN?
4. Are you STILL BUSY or BUSIER than usual?
5. When are you getting PREGNANT?
6. How is WEI THEN?
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The relationships between colleagues and between friends are so much different, that even causes the way I speak to them.
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Being a colleague to them, I will always think before I speak, so afraid I would offend them. I couldn’t expect them to understand what I’m trying to say but not put into proper spoken words.
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Being a friend to them, I will, of course, also think before I speak. A friendship developed from a relation of colleagues, would somehow or rather built a mutual understanding among us. Sometimes I need not to speak in proper or have not properly spoken, they have already understood what I am trying to bring up to.
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Friends, I am so glad to have been a colleague to you and now being a friend to you. I am grateful for every invitation that I have been kept in loop although you are not seeing me every day. I am definitely looking into being friend than a forever colleague.
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Friends, thank you for being my friends.
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P/S: Happy Belated Birthday, Tammy.

RESIDENT EVIL: AFTERLIFE

Synopsis

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In a world ravaged by a virus infection, turning its victims into the Undead, Alice continues on her journey to find survivors and lead them to safety. Her deadly battle with the Umbrella Corporation reaches new heights, but Alice gets some unexpected help from an old friend.

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A new lead that promises a safe haven from the Undead leads them to Los Angeles, but when they arrive the city is overrun by thousands of Undead and Alice and her comrades are about to step into a deadly trap.

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Source from TGV.com.my

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I do not fancy this kind of movie, actually. Too unrealistic, too futuristic… I am not imaginative to this level, that some day we could be eaten up and be a mutant!

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Worth a watch in cinema for its special effects, both sound and visual effects. But I still think it is kind of too much of slow motion, could be specially catered for 3D effects. But I was in a normal theatre, so kind of boring…

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I prefer to watch The Matrix 1,2,3 for slow motions, at least, it is the King of Kings of Slow Motion. Nice…

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Milla J (Alice), for sure, one-man-show again, unbeatable, forever living ‘creature’. But Ali K (Claire) is hot, babe~~!! She takes off some Alice’s scenes… someone else to see in the movie.

GROWN UPS

Synopsis

Grown Ups, starring Adam Sandler, Kevin James, Chris Rock, David Spade and Rob Schneider is a hilarious comedy about five men who were best friends when they were young kids and now are getting together for the Fourth of July weekend to meet each others' families for the first time. Picking up where they left off, they discover why growing older doesn't mean growing up.

The film also stars Salma Hayek, Maria Bello and Maya Rudolph.

Source from TGV.com.my
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The combination of its cast is so so so damn bright! They are so meant to be in a team!

This is a 105 minutes comedy, which shows the importance of friendship. Although they always talk nonsense about one another, they still care for each another.

When they talk about things that happened like 30 years ago and laugh them over, the warmth is so real, just like we talk things that happened during our school days like 12 years ago and laugh them over.

They talk about basketball game; we talk about Prefects’ Gathering. They talk about theme park; we talk about our days spent in the Jalan Silang, McD. They talk about their basketball coach; we talk about Mrs. Phoon. They talk nonsense and so do us, non-stop, in fact… Hahaha…

But there is one thing I do not wish to see it happens, I do not want us to meet each another after 30 years. Gosh… I wish we could meet each another one a week or once a month, at least… It is a sad thing that we need to arrange for a month time for a meet up whereas everyone is in KL, the same city!

What have happened to us, nowadays? Busy, distance among the places we are staying at, and/or whatsoever reasons?

Faith brings us together and sometimes, distance brings us nearer. But what is the thing in between that keeps us distanced?

放声大哭

不能怪你。。。
只能怪自己，没办法改变你，是我无能为力。

早知你是这样的一个人，拥有这样的一种性格。
爱你就应该爱你的全部。

是我错了。错在我太天真。以为凭我一个不可理喻的性格能改变你。
我太肤浅了。。。

当然，不在意的你睡着了。
也好，我可以放声大哭。
你不会知道，我不用作任何解释。

大哭一场后，我醒了，不再活在自己的世界里。
独行侠原来不是一种人，它是一中性格，是死性来的。

I AM SO PISSED OFF

had a flat tire, noticed by my MIL on friday morning. luckily it wasn't a working day, if not... sure leceh...

asked my hubby to have a look at it and guess what he told me... he already knew that something was wrong with the tire since the day we arrived KL from Phuket and he was observing the problem. gosh... we were back on 3 sept and friday was already 10 sept. how many days he needed to observe something that he isn't expert in it??!! FYI, my hubby isn't a mechanic / 'tire man'!! should have sent the car for checking and not waiting for the flat tire!

told him to have a look before taking his shower. oosh... he'd nicely taken his shower and changed then only walked out slowly to see the car. what kinda a person he is??! i really don't understand. knowing there was a problem but left it unsolved and thought to solve it last minute. this problem shouldn't have risen, at the first place.

oh gosh... i was so angry!!!

i knew it, i knew it that i'd be emo and most probably i'd scold, scream, yell at him or perhaps slap him on this face for being so extremely dumb! but i just left him with some words, i didn't consider my words were over.

i was so so so pissed off till i didn't wanna talk about it, which i should have comforted him after he had changed the tire! i didn't wanna think of a solution, which i should have done. i didn't wanna do anything, which i should have scolded him. at that point of time, all these are wastes of energy...

i just can't understand why a person could have this kinda thinking. this is so f**king 'special'!!! salute!!!

情永落

失恋的人，别太悲伤。他放弃你，只因为他不懂珍惜你的好。

上帝创造人类的时候是一双一对的，就像 adam & eve。

若出现的人是错的人，这是上帝给你的一个考验。

若对的人还没出现，这是因为时审没到。迟来的春天永远是最美的。

请相信我。。。

HI-TECH CHECKUP

hubby and i went for our medical checkups this morning @ the tropicana medical centre. the very first time i saw all sorts of medical equipments and machines, just like those seen in movies, as bombastic as those seen in the terminator. hahaha...
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we were directed for urine and blood test. the blood test was killing us. the 'so-called registered' nurse was worse than any nurses who handled us before, even worse than those paramedics from pathlab. she was so harsh, like nobody business. she worked on my right hand and couldn't withdraw the amount that she wanted. instead of trying on my left hand, she insisted to do it on my right hand. oh gosh... please-lah... my right hand has run out of blood and she still wanted to work on it. i suggested her to withdraw blood from my left hand, i really 'DON'T' mind. another 10cc gone... now both my hands were injured!!!
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if i'm not mistaken, there were only 4 appointments today and i'd say the service was quite efficient. after a little while, we were directed for x-ray, bone & body structure scanning and ultrasound. the most impressive machine that they used on us was this machine to scan our body structure and composition. we were 'tied' to the machine and pressured, ooh... it heard like so 'SM'. hahaha... the concept is just like measuring the blood pressure. don't get me wrong... : )
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the whole process took about 3 hours. very tiring... gotta sleep earlier tonight... tomorrow back to work... ish ish ish... : (

龙 & Kelly - VISIT MALAYSIA 2011

REDANG ISLAND - LAGUNA RESORT

I'M BACK

arrived at KL this morning @ around 2.00am, took a quick shower and immediately jumped into bed for a good night sleep.

woke up @ 10.10am, the scenery wasn't as the last 4 days. walked to the living hall, then only i realised that the 4D-3N Phuket vacation had ended.

不相信, 还需相信... ringing tones, sound pollution from nearby renovation areas, tv channels and programmes, houses and cars, reminding me that i'm now in KL, i'm back to face the reality...

have taken some photos but i have not downloaded the software to process the photos. please wait for them as i, myself, am not sure when to get it downloaded. hahaha~~~ i'm lazy, whatever...

it's true that i had a wonderful farewell dinner @ my parents' home with JC & his family. mum wasn't too well to cook, thanks to my 表嫂 who helped with the cooking. yummy~~~ we enjoyed the dinner very much.

JC - wish you all the best. 加油! 加油! 加油! awaiting for you to come back to m'sia next year. sorry that i can't make it to taiwan in 2011. we are planning for somewhere else... hehehe...

will be going out for a gathering lunch with beng and vee in pandan indah. kiat can't make it, she's in cameron highlands now. for so long i didn't get a chance to meet beng and vee. miss you, gals...

my eyelids are saying bye to internet. i'm so tired...