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Blogger went hiatus and surprise! I am a grandmother

2012-01-11T14:53:00.000+08:00

Dear world,
Here I am trying to explain myself why on earth I went hiatus.. again. It's another swing mode. I think if I ever going to have more children like our elders in the old days, I think I'll turn into somewhat ... lost in connectivity with my brain. Ha! what a word.

Anyway, I just want to tell you that I just knew I had become a grandmother! *giggle* Indirectly of course since my eldest will only turn 7 this year. The westerner call it great-aunt no? But in our local language here, we call it grandmother as well. Yeah... my big family (dad's side) had this big gathering last christmas and I learnt that the eldest daughter from my eldest cousin (to be short... my niece) married and had a baby. How big is my family? My father have 11 siblings and he's the 7th. My grandmother is still healthy and strong (she only had trouble hearing and we need to shout whenever we talk to her).

Till then dear blogger, this granny needs a nap (^^)

Baby feeding blues with baby number two

2011-06-23T08:48:00.009+08:00

Little Eagle was breastfed until he was one year plus. He was a natural feeder since I had no trouble at all while feeding him. He stopped drastically one day because I fell ill; really ill where I laid down on my bed for two days and barely eat. I think he just knew it that time and he basically drink his formula without any hassle (while before he was very..i mean VERY fussy about it). He even asked for the formula from his dad (dear hubby).

Earlier this year with second baby on the way, I had already decided to follow the path I had been doing with my eldest. Since I had the experience beforehand, I thought it would be more easy and smooth. At the first hour when my second was born, I fed him with breastmilk a.s.a.p. Unlike with my first which I spent the first few hours sleeping and indirectly caused the milk to came out late (poor little eagle). I had no problem at all until he was almost hitting two months old. Despite me trying every possible thing to make sure my journey fully breastfeeding him a smooth one, he was not cooperating.

He was easily distracted and had a bad appetite. My mom said it probably had to do with his tongue. Elders believed baby that loves to stick out their tongue and do the lick motion every now and then is a natural bad eater. *sigh*

At three months, I raised up my white flag and gave him formula. At least I can make him drink his milk by putting the bottle/nipple in his mouth since he barely open his mouth to breastfeed hence whatever method I tried to make him to. A mother of three asked me why I did not pumped my milk. Alas.. didn't we need to be triggered by the baby feeding on us to produce milk? I tried but since baby is not interested with me, no milk produced*big sigh*. A cousin of mine said, baby's lack of appetite probably also somehow influenced by my own bad appetite while having him in my tummy (aka pregnant). Thinking back, I was tremendously had bad appetite until the last moment (delivering him). I ate only not to get hungry since I was carrying a baby.

Now almost hitting five months, baby number two fully feeding on formula along with a pacifier to soothe him now and then. Yup, in this battle... I lost to the formula.

Taboo and Fact of Labour Pain

2011-05-17T23:57:00.002+08:00

Ponder; I wonder if I am in my right mind to write about this!

While watching my endless dramas last night, I can't help but to smirk and smile when scenes on labouring took place.

Years back when all I know about labour was through the television screen, I did wondered how much the pain would be. Watching the woman(s) wailed, moaned and cried out loud gave me that scare feeling. However, I never really asked my mom (or any older lady in my life) how painful it actually will be as if it was a taboo to talk about that matter.

So when I was delivering my first child, I foolishly copycat what I saw from the screen thinking what I saw on TV was the real deal.

Reality check; I was told by the nurses to SHUT UP! *grin*

Moaning, wailing and neither crying will help you throughout the labouring process. Yes, the pain was a killer (it isn't called labour for nothing) BUT isn't it wonderful that God created woman so we can actually withstand such painful and get through it. All those three mentioned acts will actually only drained your energy. But here's a tip given to do-it-right. It's like you're emptying your bowel and you're having it really bad!

I'm not sure how it goes at other places but the labour room in the local hospital here is sure a quite one! Well, almost all the time *wink*. Ah, and you're sure be known throughout the ward if you wail, moan and cry like the actresses in the drama. Yup, reality bites *smirk*

BMI in Students' Report Card

2011-04-17T21:10:00.004+08:00

The Health Ministry announced in the news today that BMI (Body Mass Index) will be stated in student's school report card. It will help parents to know more about their children i.e either their children is overweight, normal or underweight. The minister said that parents should be able to consider if they should talk to a proper nutritionist regarding their child's health. He also said that school will be banned from junk food and all soda drinks.

This, I look forward to! *grin*

A mother of a six year old I know insisted that her child was just slightly overweight when the poor child can't even tuck-in his shirt and from time to time, you can actually see he's having a slight difficulties by just breathing. Having an overweight child is one thing but insisting that your child is NOT is another thing. And for the record, the child is NOT slightly overweight. He is not chubby, he is f*t (I hate to say that out loud). I am not condemning them because he's.. you know. I have thought that probably the mother is in denial and that's why I think having your child's BMI stated in the report card will help a lot.

As for the "grin"... What could be better solution for teenage girls who refuse to eat or on DIEt just because they think they are fat (yes.. no typo here since real diet is a healthy thing).

Another "grin" goes for no soda at school's canteen. Poor kids! *giggle* Oh by the way, I forgot to mention that the ministry also mentioned, no Nasi Lemak (a rice meal cooked in coconut milk thus have high calories.. a Malaysian all time favourite breakfast) should NOT be sold at school canteen everyday.

However, hip-hip hurrah for banning junk foods sold at school canteen. By the way, can I make a suggestion? How about banning selling junk food anywhere within 100 meter radius from school? My inner-self yells, "Crazy! That's just too radical!"

And said no-no to uncle motorcycle who sells keropok, waiting for school children just outside the school gate. Oh hoo!! Poor kids!

My inner-self, "Glad I get to indulge on all those sodas and snacks in the 80-90s".

Cheers now people and have a healthy life.

Idiot Guide for Man Dress Code:How to Dress to Impress other Man in FT Island

2011-04-14T00:27:00.008+08:00

This post I have to credit my brother for giving me the source :P

An ex-housemate during my uni era came to this tiny island and gave me a visit. We chatted while sipping drinks in one of the coffee shop for about one hour plus before I send her back to her hotel. She noticed that there quite numbers of men wearing coverall. She asked if they are all offshore (oil/gas related) workers (we did chat about that before too since the hotels' room in the island were fully booked by them and luckily my friend managed to squeezed-in in a budget hotel. It's better if you arrange early booking maybe one week prior to your coming. This island may be small but we are PACKED! hehehe). So, back to our topic, I answered, "No". This reminded me to something my lil brother used to tell me years back.

In this tiny island, there's a silent adoration on people whose following this dress code. Instead of sleek and clean clothed man, this is how to impress other men (and a double envy if you are a lady dressing like them).

What you need are:

Coverall ~don't mind to clean those oil stains but it would be better if you had it ironed, and the colour is important for people can recognise (or assumed) which company are you attached to
Branded Safety Sunglasses ~ Yup, not just any fancy sunglasses ... and the bigger the better :P (so people can noticed it from afar). pssst! You have to wear this (if not where it should be) on your head like a head ban, or nicely folded in your upfront coverall pocket.
Good Safety Boots ~ sorry sleek shoes

How accurate my tip is? I can guarantee you that you can wear the above and have lunch at our star hotel!

How come? Why? We have quite a numbers of offshore or/and gas/oil related workers in this island and their salary is in capital words as S.A.L.A.R.Y. Do I still have to translate this for you? ahahahhaa.....

But in another perspective, simple working men (e.g mechanic and such; yang pakai coverall lah) can be proud wearing dirty coverall, strolling in the town area. The thing only happened in this tiny isalnd... as I view it :-).

So hey ho!! Welcome offshore workers!

Me and my treasure

2010-11-18T09:36:00.003+08:00

My sister asked me to get back nagging here on the blog. awww... she had been missing my silly writing! *giggle*. Told her that due to my uncertain level of hormone, I better stay away from the blogging world or I just end up rant nonsensely since my brain just not can not think of a way to link a word with another word in order to create a fancy sentences (see how the effect had taken in full swing already?).

However, as I browse around in the storage and extra room this morning, I sigh at myself and accepting the guilt I have on being a potential hoarder. How bad can I be? How many of you can browse your treasure aka junks in two small rooms? I relieved though knowing that half of the stuff were not belong to me (I am staying at my parents house you see). Yeah... I still own the other half! LOL!!!

This is great! My potential hoarding behaviour can be the talk on the blog!

I have problem on throwing my books and stationeries away. Yeah... I admit that. I love keeping them. They made me happy... but they made my mom unhappy. Mom said, "Throw or give away your stuff and books". I told her, "You get rid atleast half of your fabrics collection first (which she kept for years, keep on buying new one like once a month and shove it in the extra storage room)." See? It is in the gene! *chuckle*.

Thank goodness my sister-in-law did threw some of my stuff away earlier this year without me knowing (under the order from my husband of course). I was kinda bit of furious at first BUT then reality came to my sense later when I really never need them in the first place. Now I need strength to get rid of them myself.... "some" of it *sigh*.

Cheesiest week

2010-04-18T15:16:00.003+08:00

Two birthdays was celebrated this week for three wonderful person. I was so full of excitement to bake cakes ( playing... erm, experimenting on new recipes). On Thursday, we did a simple double-birthday celebration for a dear sister, Ika and my BIG cousin, Tom. Both birthdays were passed actually but the date doesn't really matter (a way of making excuse).

So I prepared a blueberry N chocolate cheesecake with special writing on top (their names in Korean writing since both are all-Korean's fan *hahaha*). *Let's hope no Hangul specialist sees this to notice if my word were wrong or not :P*

Blueberry&Chocolate Cheesecake
any dare takers that would like to order cake from me? hahahha...

Then yesterday, me and Little Eagle celebrated my darling husband's birthday. It's supposed to be a surprise (although it's only between the three of us) but son had already spilled the bean by shouting from the door telling his dad (who was still opening the gate) that mommy baked a SURPRISE Pumpkin Cheese Cake *sigh*.

Pumpkin CheeseCake for hubby's birthday

I personally love the pumpkin cake more and I did again... play with the ingredients to make this one out. Wohoo~~~ it's LC's secret recipe. *giggle*. Hubby love this cake the best too and so did son. I wonder if its because of the spices I used or the creamier but not milky taste that the pumpkin gave.

Am thinking of doing a yam version next time... and I really need to work on my decorating skill.

Have a wonderful days ahead everyone :)

Doing and learning something new now and then - Happy Easter -

2010-04-04T19:40:00.008+08:00

The day started like my usual Sundays; woke up and prepared food for a later lunch-together at church after service/mass. I normally finished my cooking around 7am since I usually do the prep the night before just to make sure my Sunday morning more "relaxing" and organised :P.

Today... it's Easter Sunday and it's just my luck to deal with the children this morning (with very much love of course *hehehe*). Before class started, they already started bugging me on the easter's eggs since one of the children's parents brought eggs to boil. Alas... since I was not told beforehand (and we never actually had decorated easter eggs before), I did not prepared for such event. I ended up buying some markers (sadly only available in black and blue) and had the big children wrote messages on the eggs to be passed on later to the congregation. The small children, which I handled however ended up whining cos they did not get to decorate the eggs. Next year children.... *I hope :)*

The end products... hahaha. If too pretty, people might don't want to eat them :P

Some even have spelling error. Wondered if the receiver noticed? hehehe

I actually wondered... "what's with the bunny... the colourful eggs and Easter anyway?". Then hubby told me to make full use of the internet *hands down!!!*. After reading a few sites, I hereby made my own conclusion on the Easter eggs tradition. hahahha... It's nothing religously have anything to do with Easter. NOTHING... It's just an add-up to the festival. But apparently, in the four-season countries, Easter usually falls around spring and spring means a new life/ new start to most living things especially plants (hmm... something that can be relate to Easter because we have new life since Jesus died for us). Eggs is a symbol for new life for most animals while rabbit or bunny is one of the world wide known most fertile animal (you'll have dozens of them in a short time). And the reason to brightly coloured eggs is again related with spring where colourful flowers bloom everywhere. But then... these were all a tell-tale conclusion from me. Better go read and make your own conclusion. hahaha...

As for Easter, Easter or also known as Paskah in bahasa (from the origin word Pesakh in Hebrew) is one of the mentioned celebration in the Bible. Nothing was said about Christmas but Easter is there! However in the current world, people normally think that Christmas is the biggest and must-have celebration, which is not. It's also sad that "some" Christians (not a tell-tale reference) taking this matter lightly and abandoned Easter but made sure Christmas is BIG. Easter is a celebration of the resurrection of Jesus which also during the year of B.C. marked the day of the final plague (as in Exodus 12). Most churches still had it BIG and filled with festive-joyful events. Let's not just remember on the day He came to earth but most important that He died for our sins and then had a victory over death because if He's not, then our days ahead are just meaningless.

When he suggested food to eat (and we never had it before)...

2010-04-04T18:59:00.002+08:00

... (continue from: Signs that he watched too much television)

Son: I want to eat baloney sandwiches

Note: I had to google to check the spelling... learnt that baloney is the American sausage but usually larger and sliced. And we learn something new everyday :P

Son: Can I have pizza with pepperoni on top?

Note: He nailed-on on recognising the pepperoni while my cousin mistaken it with the chinese pork sausage :P

When he started to correct (or making comments) his mom...

2010-04-04T18:33:00.002+08:00

... (continue from: Signs that he watched too much television)

These days son made comments on how I cleaned up the house, how I drive and even how I dressed up. I even sometime think that he gone overboard with his vocabulary (example will be highlighted in purple).

Cute? Well, depends on my mood of course. The after comment scenes were varied on how good my mood was.

Comments from a barely 5 y.o + happy mom = mom laugh cos she thinks he's being cute

Comments from a barely 5 y.o + cranky/tensed-mood mom = mom "told" him to shut up and sit quietly (which usually happened when I got stuck-up with the heavy Friday afternoon traffic and son commented on how slow I drove, told me that I chose the "wrong side of the road", commented me on how I missed the traffic light... and the list just can goes on).

Son once told me that I don't cute like the pink colour as well. He said, "bunny is cute... you're not cute, mommy". Well you might think that I should just let go off what my 5 y.o. little eagle said BUT you still won't feel so good when someone said ,"Mommy, you don't look pretty in that"... and you're wearing your fav pieces. Geesshhh... talk about THE NAKED TRUTH! I'll take white lies anytime... *giggle*

When he talked like one

2010-03-22T15:03:00.003+08:00

... (from: Signs that he watched too much television)

Earlier this year, Little Eagle called my sister to report on his cousin, Abner (my sister's son), "Oww, Mrs. Abner's Mom... Mrs. Abner's Mom... Look at your son."

Ring any bell on that line? It's the way the character in the Higglytown Heroes talked. *sigh*

Signs that he watched too much television

2010-03-22T14:35:00.003+08:00

When he talked like one...

When he started to correct (or making comments) his mom...

When he suggested food to eat (and we never had it before)...

When he knew what comes after "Sorry-Sorry-Sorry-Sorry"...

... (to be continued)

A present that revived my past

2010-03-19T12:51:00.004+08:00

Yesterday, son received a portable video game as a gift from my husband's uncle (great uncle??). Son was so excited about it and played for around two hours straight. I was relieved however to learn that he actually managed to control his excitement when he told me that he's ready for bed. I thought we might encounter some fighting since he's so into it (tsk! I was so wrong).

Well, after son slept... no surprise what I did next. I took the video game and tried it out of curiosity to get to know what kind of games were in it. I smiled ear to ear to see the list of games that I used to play in the old days, played it of course and DIE!!! (kinda remind me how YOUNG I am now *tsk tsk*).

What games were there? Burger Time, Tankman, Ice Man, etc... Yup, all those that require nothing but you are being chased around by cute (and some nasty) villains that made you shrieked when they caught you doing your mission. Thinking back... SERIOUSLY!! How did these games de-stressed us? One can only wonder :P

Eat according to ones blood type

2010-03-10T12:20:00.002+08:00

I found an article that tells about this topic a few days ago. Do not ask me how I end up with it while browsing on the net but I did. The article for me was interesting as I never know that these two things are related to each other. What's more interesting was to know that my blood type was a natural vegetarian. Through research made shown that people with blood type A (like me) do not tolerate animal protein well enough and the meat that we consumed will rot and ferment in our tummy *gosh*.

So do you know your blood type? Check the article here to know what's good for you and what's to avoid. But a loving reminder to my fellow blood type A, do brace yourself to the looooooooong list of food to avoid. Those with type B are the luckiest!

My own definition to "food to avoid": eat at small amount. (a way to give myself an excuse *hugs*)

Was about to relax and smell the flowers but fainted along the way

2010-03-03T15:12:00.005+08:00

I know it's already March but this "new" year had placed me into a super busy mode. Earlier, I basically trying to cope and re-arranged my schedule as my pre-schooler son now are attending kindergarten. Then later, we "had" to move out from our home to a new nest! Forced was very likely. As I was reluctant at the beginning since the idea of to pack and unpack was a SERIOUS business to me, my mom actually blackmailed me *sigh*. At the end, after my husband and I discussed about it (which we actually did not have much choice), we moved. After a month, I'm still in the process of re-arranging things.

I found myself giving new definition of storage room = a place to stuff your UN-necessary items until you get bored with them in the later 5 years and decide to throw them out after you FINALLY REALISED you can actually live WITHOUT THEM! Cleaning and filtering "treasures" aka junks that belongs to a big family was no easy job. I actually threw a pile of "treasures" that can almost fill in a whole rubbish collector truck. No kidding! To be exact, I filled in three trips of a small lorry. My brother laugh at the sight of the things we had/ have. Then I realised that we actually ARE potential hoarder :P. Now I 'm chanting to myself --> Throw- throw-throw. Yup, need to be ruthless now

What drama can drove me into?

2009-10-26T12:16:00.005+08:00

I was re-thinking of getting myself a new hairclip last week. Re-thinking because I was considering of getting a haircut and my favourite hairclip had lost its grip. A new hair-do.. Make it short...perhaps?

But then I saw a "flashy" hairclip (or was it a hairpin?) in a recent drama. Me thinking--> pretty!! Or perhaps, the guy who's holding the hairclip get my attention more? LOL~~

Anyway, I dragged hubby to the shop... supposedly to get only one hairclip but I ended wit another shiny hair band and a simple set of hair pin.

And late nights watching dramas drove me to mid-night snacks.
Was never a fan of PBnJ... but these days I found it's so comforting to munch on these.

How to...

2009-10-19T10:45:00.005+08:00

>Scene<

You're cooking a ... hmm, let see.....
--pumpkin porridge--

It's almost ready... only need to add sugar
You add in the sugar
thought for a while... hmm, perhaps a little bit more
add another heap spoonful
taste... O my! that's too sweet
Add-in more water??

How about adding some cornflour(mixed well with some plain-boiled-lukewarm *never HOT* water) to the cooking. Do not add it in straight away in floury form into the hot porridge/cooking!

Yes... cornflour can decreased the level of sweetness/ saltiness in your cooking
Thus, it'll save your day....

(^^,)

Fans Syndrome --> Fanatic --> Lunatic??

2009-10-17T17:14:00.009+08:00

When we're into a particular thing/hobby/activity etc, I wonder how do ones set the boundary to it? How do ones categorised it into like, love, crazy, fanatic etc. My loves/attractions towards things can come and go. Anyway, the degree of social acceptance probably measured and valued by your age and the society you're living in.

When some ladies found it's unacceptable for a young mom *cough* like me followed manga and anime, I found it more "disturbing" watching Indon's or Spanish sinetrons that lasted for more than a year which usually talk about beautiful women dealing with revenges in the families, pulling each others' hairs and teeth. Though romance is a genre that I would love as well, there's a limit to how much romance that I could handle, as well concluded my k-drama thingy which ended in 16 - 20 episodes. That's also why I usually opted for a romantic comedy and ended reading Shounen manga rather than reading soapy novels. I am not saying dragging-romantic love story is bad but it's just not my cup of tea. A nice story along with swords/blades/kunai-whatever ancient weapons that needed body movement skills... you'll see sparkles in my eyes. LOL~~

If I need to category myself, I would say I am just passing my times *wink*. A professor once told me not to do things half-heartedly (of course not referring to this topic *wink*) so you won't see me tossing the story I've been followed since ten years back. But I'm sane enough not to spend money buying Sharingan eye-contact lenses, nor dressed as Naruto's nor Nie Feng, nor woke up 3 am in the morning to catch a drama I missed. ermm.. wait, I did that with Hong Gil Dong *faint*.

As for now... if you want to discuss about Naruto, One Piece, Nodame Cantabile, the ever so great Pedang Setiawan aka Storm Rider (I am totally reffering to the book.. not the movie) or even the latest You're Beautiful (the list could go on forever...), bring it on! I am all ears. It's better to discuss these matters than involving in a group of people talks/gossips about how much than darn old lady in a particular drama look so much like your lady neighbour.

Now, I am waiting for The Storm Warriors film to be available locally. Hope I won't be disappointed by it just like Storm Riders.

Yay, I know... such a weird combination of post title, content and ending *smirk*. Have a great weekend people.

The Missing Nin

2009-10-16T16:34:00.002+08:00

Life was hectic these days. Trying to work out between house chores, reading and watching. I felt like I'm getting a smirk from some. *smile* NOO~~ I do NOT read soapy novels and watch news, thank you. I read mangas AND some other resourceful books. Bet you can guess what I'm watching on the TV ^^.

I'm getting flu and cough for staying up late every night.

Although I took quite good care of others (read son and hubby) regarding what they should or should not eat if they're singing out the pre-flu/cold symptom, I don't really care what I did or eat if I were in that shoe. Enduring my ithcy throat, I CANNOT resist to the calling of my kimchi. Yup, a hot-spicy-salty-cold food is the best medication to sore throat. heheheh.

Hmmm... did this post just sound nonsense? Maybe because it is. The missing nin had a bad sector in the head for the time being. Owh crap... Lost? Go and read Naruto, then you'll understand what I'm saying about the title.

Little Eagle & Strawbery

2009-10-06T22:45:00.003+08:00

While we were on holiday the other day, we had a quick stop at Kundasang's road-side market. I knew that the crops sold there were actually pricey than the norms but we need our stretch anyway after sitting still inside the car for more than 5 hours. Son then suddenly excitedly pulling me to a stall.

"Strawberries mommy. Owh, I love strawberries"
(son is very good saying things like this... he even good at bribing... *sigh*)

Hubby told son that real strawberries does not taste nice but son insisted to have them. So we bought a packet (cost us RM5 which I think pricey enough consider that they actually farm it nearby).

Later that day, son really excited to eat his strawberries. We checked-in in a hotel in Kota Kinabalu night. Son prepared everything before he consume his strawberries. He washed them, dried them, bring them on the bed, sit properly on the bed .... took one and had a bite. He suddenly changed his look and said...

"Mommy... this fruit is not nice.."

Wish I was the one who said "I told you so.." but hubby did. Yes, strawberries.... for me and hubby, it's a fruit that have a pretty name and pretty look but doesn't fit the taste. Guess what we did with the leftover... we threw them away. *sigh*... wasted the money!!

Sunday's Delight

2009-09-14T17:45:00.005+08:00

I bought a bottle of fruit vinegar last week. Never tried one before. Since there were no other options (the ONLY other type on the market's shelf was an artificial vinegar *no no no*) and I really need a vinegar in my kitchen. So... I grab one.

Quite pricey than my usual rice vinegar.It's sweet and less tangy.

It can be used to make sushi rolls as well (the main reason why I grab it anyway).

and so I did made some kimbap. I haven't made any grocery shopping so am short of ingredients. I ended with a "Yeoneo and gyeran kimbap" (translation= salmon+egg rice rolls).
Since the tangy taste was lesser than my usual rice vinegar, I had to double the quantity (ermm.. or could it be almost triple?? lol~~) of vinegar used but minus the brown sugar.
[my recipe on how to make rice rolls' vinegar]

Later that afternoon, we went to a playground by the beach and let Little Eagle played while hubby and I munched those snacks along with some green tea.

Sunday was great after all

1 Merdeka Wishes

2009-09-14T17:30:00.003+08:00

What will you get from the government by simply being a "Malaysian babies" (born on Malaya's Independence Day-31 Aug)?

a birthday card of 1 Malaysia...

Both my younger sister and her daughter were born on this day and recently, I found this in the mailbox (they moved to KK so basically I'm checking most of their mails). This is the first time she got this kind of greetings (read.. card) -as far as I know-. They should posted a cake along right? hehehhe....

Peace to my heart.. Kimchi Ramen^^

2009-09-11T21:01:00.004+08:00

I'm still stress due to the MIA photos in my PC. Guess I switched off the power too soon last night. Plus, I deleted the photos from the camera as well (thinking that the photos were safe in the PC *sigh*). Got so many photos that supposed to be the source of my future blogging. And it all went down the drain.. urgh.. I mean banished in the PC. I got some great photos about Merdeka celebration at hubby's hometown, durian dalit (durians with red flesh.. so yummy) and some tarap's flesh (Eija.. no photo to show you now.. the fruit is almost out of season at the moment). hmm... now I really understood the meaning of "past tense". gosh...

As for now, let me share with you my favourite instant noodle for the time being. What can be else than Korean Ramen with Kimchi flavour. hehehe... actually this is a favourite of me and son. We don't eat them everyday though. Its my idea of easy and comfort food.. ermm.. snack!

yummy!!

Blended Juice

2009-09-10T19:27:00.000+08:00

I occasionally skip my full course vegetable intake especially if hubby worked extra hour and don't have meal at home. Me and son then have our doses of green/vegetable intakes by taking juice. My juice however doesn't really look like those you'll have at the restaurant/cafe... Probably because I blend everything in and I like to have those fibers along (yess... a way not to toss away the good fiber).

Some relatives found the "look" of my so-called-juice did not arose their appetite and would rather just consume the fruits by eating them. I however found that by having it this way, I'll consume more. Not forgetting that I can say there's time I'll be too lazy to chew the fruit as a reason NOT to have them (esp. oranges... I had hard time with that kind of fruit.. urgh)

For tea-time, I had a combo of
1 star fruit + 1 tomato + 1 orange = 9 to 10 oz of juice + fibre

shared it with son

There's time I blended some slices of watermelon and broccoli. Son had them since he's barely one year old and he's used to the taste of vegetables (lucky me). These juices are great for hot days as well. Just put the fruits in the fridge prior few hours to blending/juicing time.

Vanilla Trees

2009-09-09T13:24:00.005+08:00

This is yet another late-due post. My PC's internet connection broke down so I really don't have the "spirit" to update my blog (along with numerous other reasons *sigh*). Anyway, my PC is now back in action so I hope I'll get moving along well and not be side-tracked by Facebook (I wish!!).

Now... anyone had ever seen a vanilla tree before? Well, I don't until after I saw these few months back.

My in-laws got the vanilla-babies and plant them in hubby's orchard. My in-laws were the one whose responsible to look after his/our (ehem...) small land in Sipitang, Sabah (Malaysia). Since the vanilla did not take much space to grow, they were planted between the rubber tress in our rubber's orchard.

I hope these trees will grow strong and bear healthy vanilla beans in the near future. I can't wait to do some hands on trying to make some vanilla extracts later. Which also means I'll have home-made vanilla extract to be added in my cakes and pastry soon. yay!!! Now, I wonder how long should I wait???

PPSMI done, next scientific calculator

2009-08-20T20:37:00.004+08:00

My aunt came to pick up my cousins at my house last night after coming back from her suddenly-came-up-so-called-meeting between educators + some VIP from the Ministry of Education (MoE) and while my aunt had her late dinner at my home (food nor refreshment were served ~ so kasian the teachers ^^), we had a little chat about the previous PPSMI. Well yes.. this issue is outdated... its stalled already, abolished and all but I also want to say something oh! (seriously not my way of talking ~ hehehe)

Anyway, my aunt shared on how relief she was (along with other teachers) when the ministry announced to abolish the system, which means she do not need to teach Maths in english anymore. I can understand for some teachers like my aunt, teaching in a foreign language that she did not mastered only adding up the stress level. Not forgetting some students who do not really understand the language as well. It created a stressed environment in the class. Yup, I would say kuddos to the MoE for the act.

Now, if only... IF ONLY they want to re-do/ review another system in the education world (like I call it)... I would really like to see the scientific calculator (SC) banished from the world of secondary students! Yes, I know it the IT era, everything must be IT or ICT based however...

Someone once taught me to learn, understand and master (if possible) the basic skill before proceed with with the shortcuts. Shortcut made life easier but basic makes you understand why and when you need them. Students in our country do have to calculate without the help of helpful devices in primary school, but I personally don't think 6 years is enough.

Plus, I always think about the cost of using this SC since they don't came cheap. Ok, there are cheap ones but those usually don't last long enough. My FIL bought one for my SIL (cost around RM30+ ~among the cheapest, no brand one... FIL is a farmer) but it only lasted for a couple of months. Later, hubby bought a better one -read: cost more- for SIL to last. Can we imagine those parents that struggled just to get food on the table paying RM30 ++ for a single SC? (with the hope that it won't break down or need a battery until SPM finished)

If the MoE abolish the using of SC in Secondary School, I know I would stand up and clapping hand in-front of the TV.

Now, to the current secondary schoolers - if you want to argue with saying "Then how can we calculate things that involve tan, kos, sin, power-of etc??" -heard from experience.. bukan di rekacipta nih ^^

Listen and behold.... say hello to "BUKU SIFIR" ^^ and just a plain ordinary calculator and only can be used in Additional Maths paper 2. ~LOL~~~~

extra~~~The advantage of Buku Sifir :
- Cost around RM3 (with no brand like S*** or C**** so no need to show-off)
- Require no battery
- Can use to released your tension by slamming it to the table if you cant solve the maths problem but still be OK

Tarap

2009-08-13T19:20:00.004+08:00

Tarap... it's a fruit. Probably unknown to most peninsular's. I love this fruit so much.

Had these fruits sent by my FIL through hubby's friend. It's almost fruit season back in the main land. Hope we can feast on some during the holiday end of this month.

The Case of the Extra Tiny Dust

2009-08-13T11:02:00.004+08:00

I wondered why my home had more dust than ever. I get pretty tired of the cleaning. Mopping the floor, cleaning the sofas, tables and cabinets with rags... *sigh*. Hubby said it probably caused by earth work project ongoing at the airport nearby. I however sceptical about the idea since the dust that I found clinging on the windows and etc looked like small-micro-pins. Its white in colour instead of grey nor black like normal dust.

Last night I accidentally saw something on my precious cobalt blue + gold thread curtain. My goodness!!! Shocked I found the gold thread had worn out and thus produce tiny segments of white grey dust-liked. My curtain was the culprit after all.

So this morning, I had those curtains down.. changed it to the old curtain, put the precious curtain into a plastic bag and will be threwn later this evening. I was torn between of using the old curtain but health come first. Plus, I'm too tired to clean everyday. Guess now I have excuse to change my house curtain *smile*. But I will definitely take extra pre-caution on selecting the fabrics later. Now, should I stick with blue??? hmmm.......

Stamps Collection

2009-08-09T22:28:00.006+08:00

Sometime around 1986, I stumbled upon an old exercise book which belonged to my uncle. Inside, I found a collection collection of pretty coloured small papers (read ...stamps ^^). I asked my uncle if I could have them and he said yes. I kept it around and that's how my collection started to grow.

Eventually, my dad found out about it and started to bring home some stamps bought during his trip out of town. I also managed to persuade him to register me in the Filateli program by POS MALAYSIA for hmm.. I'm not sure for how many years. Dad was a collector himself but he preffered collecting coins and money.

Up to this day, I'm not sure how much money I "wasted" to buy addition to my collection. I am lucky enough that hubby also understand my love on this thingy and bought me stamps from time to time. Yes, stamps will always be the PERFECT souvenir for me. My collection is growing... but it's not that much ^^. For now, I'll be sharing some collection that are very dear to me.

Above:
The very first collection I had passed from my uncle. I did asked him recently and he totally forgot about them.

Above:
A favourite Malaysian Stamp of mine (bought by hubby). Luckily the image of the Twin Towers can be captured by the scanner.

Above:
Yes.. it's the late Princess Diana and Prince Charles.
A stamp that cost me RM20. However I am glad I had one of this in my collection. I found this stamp hiding behind other things in a bookstore. How lucky I was to get them *smile*

A cousin suggested I frame all the stamps I had. I did.. but I took them out after a month or so. I was not happy to see those stamps framed. They felt distant! I need to "touch" my stamps when I look at them. *sigh* More sharing on stamps next time!

What happened if Little Eagle don't want to listen?

2009-08-09T21:57:00.003+08:00

The photo said it all.

I told son to stop playing with the cloth hanger but he just wouldn't listened. Later, he got himself stuck and called his mommy to released him from the cloth hanger.

Me on the other hand found this event so funny and was amused by it. I actually told son that "mommy is not strong enough to let him free". Well, I did released him after 30 mins or so *giggle*. Now, son don't even want to be near the evil cloth hanger.

Express Snack

2009-08-07T19:03:00.003+08:00

We have moments; craving for foods at some points. There's time I wanted to have steamed bun for snack but Labuan town is not really the place that offers you dining 24 hrs. To satisfy my snacking urge, I opted for express buns (pre-made bought at supermarket). They're cheap, taste good and you can have them anytime of the day. What so great about these products as well was they're also available in so many varieties esp for those who wants something with fibres and not just made out of plain white flour.

For tea-snacking today, I steamed some of the pre-made buns and prepare some chips for son as well. As you can see, the buns contained seeds e.g sunflower's seeds. Had them with a mug of milk tea... Life's good ^^

So.. lets celebrate the innovation of food !

Kimchi Jigae with Crabs

2009-08-07T13:43:00.005+08:00

It's been a while, I know *smile*. I had things to share but the laziness is up to the max. Now, lets share something nice with good thing (what else but food).

I've been craving (means nothing.. just wanna eat) for crabs and asked hubby to buy some. Normally hubby will take me to dine out for crabs but due to health condition of Little Eagle, plus the haze and you know what.. (read H1N1), I rather just prepare it at home. With RM20, we actually had a lot!! We had a couple of servings ; had crabs for last dinner last night and for lunch today. Last night was Steamed Black Pepper Crabs (cooked 1/3 of the bought crabs). Later last night, I marinated 2/3 of the remaining crabs in Lee Kum Kee's light soy sauce and grated ginger, and shoved it in the fridge.

Earlier this morning, I realised that I had one serving of Kimchi left in my fridge. So I cooked some of the marinated crabs into Kimchi Jigae with Crabs. Eating something salty+spicy+soury+sweet is very satisfying on a hot summer day.

The recipe was very simple.
Stir fry 1 cup of kimchi in a pan with dashes of sesame oil.
Add in some crushed garlics.
Add in 3 cups of water (let it boil)
Add in crabs (or any seafood you fancy and vegetables)
Let it simmer under slow heat for about 10 mins
Add in seasonings (optional)
YOU'RE DONE!!!

Stuffing myself with the stew and rice... *lost for word*

And the remaining crabs I steamed with dashes of crushed black pepper.

Lunch was GREAT ^^

Trivia for Fun

2009-07-23T12:35:00.003+08:00

Got these from a Lelen. Something to lighten the days ^^.

Ten Top Trivia Tips about Elcynthia!

Elcynthia was first discovered by Alexander the Great in India, and introduced to Europe on his return.
Research indicates that elcynthia will be attracted to people who have recently eaten bananas.
Elcynthia can't sweat!
Women shoplift four times more frequently than elcynthia!
By tradition, a girl standing under elcynthia cannot refuse to be kissed by anyone who claims the privilege.
Elcynthia is incapable of sleep.
Some hotels in Las Vegas have elcynthia floating in their swimming pools!
Without its lining of elcynthia, your stomach would digest itself.
The patron saint of elcynthia is Saint Eugenie!
If a snake is born with two heads, the heads will fight over who gets elcynthia!

Now, I would like to check the pools in Las Vegas if I ever go there one day. Try to find myself floating in them. ehehe... Why don't you try yours?

Life is about.. Learning ; Deborah & Barach

2009-07-22T10:03:00.002+08:00

Prior last three weeks, I was clueless on who Deborah & Barach are. Heard about Deborah but my knowledge about her whole history as stated in the Bible was almost nil. Barach? The only Barach I knew (literally) and heard of is Barach Obama.

As I prepared for my teaching lesson couple of weeks earlier though, I tortured my own rusty brain to learn, understand and get to know the HISTORY by heart. Yup, it's in our teaching schedule to teach history in Sunday School and the story of Jonah and the whale was stale. Even smaller kids demanded more these days.

After having a tough time learning this-rather-new-history (to self), I thought things would be just fine in class. Lesson was tough dealing when a bunch of super curious kids aged 7-12 and having to make 7 and younger aged kids to understand life in the middle east was no easy task.

However, I am thankful for the experiences. Later, I shared some funny things the kids told me with my husband. Those "innocent" kids did have lots to say and asked about their curosity. I could end up with an ensiklopidea by the end of the year *smile*.

And of course now I knew who Deborah and Barach were. Life.. it's also about learning new things. Won't you agree? ^^

2 Cor 12:9

Away "Meditating"...

2009-07-07T19:06:00.004+08:00

I'll be away from blogging for some time.
Got a few things to be done, plus Little Eagle is having a slight fever *sigh*.
Have a long list of "things to do"

Finish my workpapers, letters & minutes.. (yes, SAHM also have paperworks)
Find school for Little Eagle... (aigoo.. mommy's little eagle is preparing to "fly")
Continue my online class (abandoned it for quite some time)
Read mangaS (muahaha...)
Catching/ finishing up all the dramas and movies that had stayed in my CPU/ shelves for months... (sorry Rin-chan! this time I WILL watch them *tehee*)

Well, I guess that's all. It may looked short but do not let my list fools you. Except for #2, all of the above mentioned needs PLURALS action. Ganbante to myself!!! \(^o^)/

However, I will continue "farming" at FB. hehehe...

later! xoxox

Home-made Burgers

2009-07-02T13:09:00.006+08:00

I am trying recipe(s) from the book I am borrowing from my Mom.

I'm not that keen with burgers but my bro asked to make it for him and so I did (good sister huh? *giggles*). Bought a kilo of minced beef (RM15.90 per kg) and I managed to prepare the patties twice. First attempt, mom & bro had lunch. Second time, I just prepared the patties (while it still fresh-red coloured).

After prepared the meat, asked my dad to stop by at my house to pick up the pre-made patties, I cooked our portion and later... hubby, me and son had ours with rice for dinner.

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Making the patties (the below mixture can make up to 8 patties)
All ingredients in a mixing bowl.
fresh beef should be red in colour (notice mine??)

500 gm minced beef
1 onion (finely minced)
garlics (according to liking)
1/4 cups of sun-dried tomatoes
white pepper (upon liking)
1 tbs turmeric powder
1tbs all purpose flour (or seasoned flour like Kentucky)
1/4 cups of coriander (finely sliced- upon liking... some people don't like the smell)
dashes of light soy sauce
some salt

after mixing it with clean hand
the yellowish colour of the meat is a result of using turmeric powder...
not because the meat gone bad.

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making the salsa

1/2 red capsicum (finely diced)
1/2 yellow capsicum (finely diced)
2 tomatoes (finely diced)
1 tbs Worcestershire Sauce
-mix all together & done-

placing the pre-made meat & salsa into containers for pick-up by dad ^^

tips: Cook yours the way you like them-rare, medium, well done...- BUT make sure the patties' diameter is bigger than it should be before placing them on the grill. Meat tend to shrink and although you can press the down while cooking it (like the burger vendors did)... you'll actually squeezing the juice out as well and you'll end up with DRY PATTIES!! Well.. unless you love them dry.. what ever ^^

cooking our portion for dinner (on my magic cooker).

cooked patties.. smells nice!
To serve as burger, you can add mayo to the salsa and put it on your burger...

had them with steamed brown rice, cooled sliced cucumbers, and KIMCHI... its so... good!!

on the other hand.. I found Capsicums/ Bell Peppers are really expensive these days.
These two cost me RM5!! now... I am thinking to grow my own.. *sigh*

Happy Cooking & Eating!!

Free book

2009-07-01T23:11:00.003+08:00

I love free stuff.

What even better than getting some books (hard-cover).

Well, the cookbook is not for me. I am only "borrowing" it from my mom. hehehe... Dad's company (he work for the company..not like he owned them) distributed books (courtesy of Reader's Digest?? hmmm...).

Little Eagle was so lucky to get the "1001 Science Questions Answered" and Mom said the cooking book is for her.

However.. sadly Mom can't read english, so I am the so-called-holder of the book for the time being. hehehe~~ yup, my sister was quite jealous of me. Still .. the book in my possession now is only on borrowing terms... ~~sad ^^!

Making Sun-Dried Tomato, cheap & quick

2009-07-01T22:35:00.006+08:00

Sun-dried tomatoes can be quite expensive. So why not making them yourself? It's so easy and I did not even dried them under the sun. I had my oven "drying them" up for me.

I cut the tomatoes in wedges, and lined them inside a baking tray.
**option: you can also sprinkle some sea salt on the tomatoes but I preferred mine salt-free
Heat them up for 30 mins at 200 deg.

After 30 mins, let them cool for a while. Take them out, put them inside a bowl and dash on some oil (olive oil if you want the Europe taste or just use any oil in your kitchen -I used sesame oil.. ^^). There you have it.. a home made sun dried tomatoes ready to be used.

Why bother? Sun-dried (hmm.. should I say oven-dried instead>> ??) tomatoes had more sweetness since most of the water content was dried out (personal theory... hehee~~) during the drying process. But I guess you can still just use your fresh tomatoes as it is if you think preparing it is a hassle.

Lost & Found

2009-07-01T10:44:00.004+08:00

I posted about my experience volunteering on the ship before. You can read/ re-read it here. Guess what, doing my so called "spring cleaning" a few days ago... I found these *wink*

"So you shall serve the Lord your God, and He will bless your bread and your water. And I will take sickness away from the midst of you" ...Exodus 23:25

Side-Tracked

2009-06-29T09:42:00.007+08:00

It was a busy weekend and I am so relief its over. Hubby had a friendly non-professional football/soccer match yesterday and I decided to bring along Little Eagle to cheer him. However, since field used for the match was next to a playground and open food court (at Pancur Hitam, Labuan beach)... you can guess what me and son were doing instead*giggle*. By the way, thanks to some advices/infos from a blogger friend, Willie... I decided to play around with my digicam. Let's just say I'm in the mood for it ^^.

By the way, we did went to cheer for Hubby about 10 mins before the game finished *smile*.

Little Eagle cheered for his daddy and at the same time commenting about the tree, the people, why there's no monkey on the tree.. etc...

Enjoy your Monday!!

Giler Tag daripada KadusMama

2009-06-26T16:34:00.007+08:00

Di "cop" oleh si KadusMama. Ini adalah post pertama saya dalam bahasa melayu. sila ambil perhatian bahawa slang negeri turut digunakan dalam penulisan di bawah (ayat skema sungguh).

Tag Yang Pertama

1. Bekas kekasih saya adalah : seorang yang baik tapi tiada jodoh.. hihi...

2. Saya sedang mendengar : Wish You My Love.. lagu korea lah. apalagi!

3. Mungkin saya patut: belajar bahasa mandarin

4. Saya suka : banyak benda... ^^

5. Sahabat-sahabat baik saya : baik-baik belaka (macam tiru dari si KadusMama saja nih ^^)

6. Saya tak paham : kenapa orang boleh tipu di siang hari. Ingat saya bodoh sangat ka?

7. Saya kehilangan : kawan yang sangat baik

8. Ramai yang berkata : masakan saya sedap... (ini namanya "masuk bakul angkat sendiri")

9. Makna nama saya : rasanya pernah diberitahu tapi dah lupa

10. Cinta itu adalah : cinta saja....

11. Di suatu tempat, seseorang sedang : berfikir.. berfikir... dan terus berfikir.... (mau makan apa kan lepas ani?)

12. Saya akan cuba : jadi lebih baik dari hari ini (ahh.. malasnya ^^)

13. Ayat SELAMANYA membawa maksud : selagi saya boleh ingat ... hehe (ini untuk orang pelupa seperti saya)

14. Telefon bimbit saya : berwarna pink dan jenama sony ericsson

15. Bila saya terjaga dari tidur : saya cari telefon bimbit untuk tengok jam berapa

16. Saya paling meluat apabila : mmm... sudah lama saya tidak rasa meluat. dah lupa.

17. Pesta/Parti adalah : sesuatu yang menyeronokkan kalau saya bukan penganjur, dan disertai dengan makanan yang sedap2.

18. Haiwan yang paling comel yang saya pernah temui ialah : anak arnab

19. Peringkat umur yang paling menyeronokkan bagi saya ialah : tak dapat pilih

20. Hari ini : hari yang baik....

21. Malam ini saya akan : tidur

22. Esok pula saya akan : pergi menyanyi dan menari dan mengemas (banyak benda lar..)

23. Saya betul-betul inginkan : anak perempuan (doakan ya... ^^)

24. Ketika anda lihat wajah anda di hadapan cermin pagi ini : belum lihat cermin dari pagi tadi (percaya atau tidak?)

25. Pusat membeli-belah atau arked permainan : tentu sekali pusat membeli belah

26. Makanan Barat atau Jepun : dua-dua pun ok

27. Bilik yang terang atau gelap: bergantung kepada aktiviti

28. Makanan segera adalah : makanan yang boleh dimakan sekali-sekala

29. Ayat terakhir yang anda katakan pada seseorang? Ok boss (merujuk kepada suami saya)

Tag yang kedua

1. Apakah perasaan anda sekarang? tenang dan gembira

2. Saya nak makan? pencuci mulut yang sedap (Joy.. saya rindu dengan Triffle semalam)

3. Saya tak suka? hmmm... makanan yang tidak sedap dan wayang yang melalut

4. Impian saya? pergi melancong ke ... huhuhu...

5. Haiwan yang saya tak suka? yang berbadan panjang seperti tiub. sila bayangkan sendiri

6. Saya harapkan? saya dapat mengendali lebih banyak perkara tanpa stress!!

7. Jika boleh putarkan masa? saya mau menikmati kehidupan yang dulu-dulu sekali lagi. BEST and no regret!! (ai... tercakap english pula)

9. Handphone saya adalah sebuah? pembantu peribadi saya.. hehehe

10. Saya pernah bercinta sebanyak? hmm..cinta monyet pun kira sekali ke?

11. Kawan-kawan saya? pun baik-baik belaka (walaupun kadang-kadang membengongkan)

12. Pernah dikhianati? sudah tentu

13. Apa yang hendak anda lakukan terhadap orang yang mengkhianati anda? apa best ah?

14. Siapa yang anda nak Tag? si Herda, si Mareq, si Adora, si Sastrie dan tentu sekali mangsa kegemaran saya dalam kategori tag-tag.. si Eija

Semoga bergembira menyiapkan tag ini. hehee... Selamat bergembira di hujung minggu.

Bargain Skill? NOT

2009-06-25T12:39:00.002+08:00

How good is your bargaining skill?

Few days ago, I persuaded my sister (whose around for holiday) to go shopping for some shawls with me. I needed fourteen (14) of them and NO, I did not need them for myself. A junior needs those shawls for a dancing presentation so I offered them to buy it since they do not have time to hunt for it downtown.

In front of the shop

Me: Ei... you know how to bargain ka?
Sister: No... I would be happy even if the 'tauke' (shop owner) willing to give me 30 cent discount.
Me: maa~~ me too la. Aiseh... what ever la.

1st Scene of self-humiliation
Enter the shop... chose some shawls with price tag RM4.90 each. Then me and my sister tried to try our bargaining skill... konon.
Me: Mmm.. can we get discount for these?
Shop-girl: How much?
Me: Mm... RM4.50?
Shop-girl: ah?? I give you RM4 lar...

2nd Scene of self-humiliation
Looking at some fabrics with price-tag RM9.90 per meter
Me (semi-whispering to my sister): uuih... do you think I can reduce the price to RM9?
Indian shop-owner suddenly talking at my back: I'll give you RM8 per meter.
*aigo... I should have not tried making a fool of myself attempting something that's really NOT ME. hehehhe....

Now, the so-called rules to bargain (as I read from CLEO) is you should reduce the price as low as you can. But in my case, its the shop owner/ assistant were the one who reduced the price for me. My mom laugh to our story and said that we're terrible. What ever....*smile*

Tenom Coffee

2009-06-24T20:25:00.001+08:00

Tenom, my mom's hometown which is for me, one of the greatest place to be. I can remember vividly the smell of the air, which in the morning filled with the aroma of local coffee. My childhood memories filled with the aroma of these beans. Processing our own beans after harvesting it from the trees around my grandparent's house was somehow my usual routine when I was small. Oh yes... that's include grinding it manually. Now the trees were gone and those left only the ones that still grow at the orchard (which was far from grandpa's house). My young cousins do miss a lot nowadays ^^ since now, we mostly get our product from the stores.

During our last visit to Tenom, hubby insisted on getting some fresh coffee powder from the weekend open market (known as Tamu). Unfortunately we had to go back to Sipitang (to my in-laws) ASAP, so I asked my sister to buy it for me. Sadly, I missed the havoc during the Tamu... We had our 200gm of freshly-coarsely-grind coffee for just RM6 (about US$1.70).. yes it's terribly cheap. If only you can smell the aroma^^.

Tenom's folk love their coffee so much that they'll have coffee even for lunch when its hot (though I am not a "heavy drinker", am more a tea person^^). At any events that take place at mom's home-village, Kg. Baru Jumpa, things would be so wrong without serving this beverage especially to the old folks.

Now... anyone care to join me for a cup of black coffee?

Making Kimchi

2009-06-23T23:02:00.006+08:00

They say, if you did not made it the first time, keep on trying. hehehe....

Finally I actually succeed in making/ fermenting .. korean favourite dish.. KIMCHI.

I tried making it once, but I failed. I am quite lucky with the kitchen goddess and usually ended up with good food even at first attempt but I guess the kitchen's goddess is somehow making some sort of 'boycotting' *giggle*. Clueless on the reason "WHY I failed", I stop making attempt re-doing this dish. Plus, hubby kept saying korean food was tasteless which lead me to think, "does not worth the effort to try making it again". Well until after the latest meet with my sunbae (korean word for senior), Rin-chan, at Grace Point, Sembulan *wink*- the salad and the dumplings were nice (forgot the name though...help me here Rin-chan).

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ah.. thanks Rin-chan, the dumpling was "Kimchi Mandu"
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Hubby managed to persuade me trying making it again. And so I did. Guess what, the red-sauce for fermenting the kimchi tasted just like the "salad-dressing" at Grace Point, Sembulan. You can find lots of Kimchi making recipe, but I found mine here. Of course I adjusted the amount since I was just making a small batch.

After three days inside my fridge...

Even though it stated in most recipe to just put it aside on the counter for three days or so to allow fermentation process (before putting it inside the fridge), the super hot weather in Labuan would spoil it for good. So after mixed the red-sauce & cabbage together and leave it on the counter for 2 hours, I put them straight into my fridge.

Now, as to the answer WHY I FAILED the first time. I guess it must be the salt I used. You should NOT use iodised salt to make them (I used them on my first attempt since I did not find any sea salt and thought... salt is salt.. which is not). Do use SEA SALT. I'm terrible with my chemistry so do not ask me why. Just follow the rules stated ^^.

Tonight, we had kimchi fried rice for dinner along with baby kailan & raw tomato salad as side dishes. It's meat-free-night ^^

The Old Ciku Tree

2009-06-10T18:02:00.002+08:00

During the short visit to my grandparent's house (mom's side) last weekend, I noticed that it's almost fruit season in Tenom. Even the durian tree bears fruit. However, still need to wait for months to enjoy the sweet fruits.

As for the ciku tree that grows next to my grandparent's house, it's been there for a very long time. Mom recalled that the tree had been around since 40 years or more. That means its older than me. But even in its old age, the tree still gives lots of fruit. I don't know how long will the tree last, but I hope it'll still be around in years to come. If only the fruits were ripe during our visit, then Little Eagle can enjoy the natural sweetness from mother earth.

There goes the ciku. I however are not a die hard fan of this ciku fruit from this tree because it's SOOOO... sweet. Seriously sweet, I'm not kidding. hehehe... the rest of the family however love it.

Lundayeh's Wedding Feast

2009-06-08T00:06:00.008+08:00

Attending a Lundayeh's feast at a Lundayeh's village will not be completed if you do not spend some time under the "sedayan" (english translation= tent) which traditionally made from bamboo, some planks of woods and big canvas. However, these days you can also see some used modern 'pasang-siap' tent which you rent from a tent renting companies and even a mix of both (modern & traditional).

The food normally laid out on the table (I wonder why the house-flies normally are not around during feast like this). It's a mix of everything and you can eat all you can. They'll even re-fill the side dishes for you if you ask for it.

To the Muslims guest attending a non-muslim's wedding, please notice that there's a special tent with food specially made just for you (of course prepared by Muslims as well). The specially assigned area normally placed at the front, near/next to the bride & groom's "bersanding" seat. It's important so you won't be shocked with the "normal-feast food" on the other's tables ^^ which usually consist of pork, pork and more pork ^^ (boiled, cooked in dark soya sauce, sweet & sour etc).

Lundayeh's wedding feast rarely served liquor. I actually have NOT been to/heared any of Lundayeh's wedding serving them. Atleast not during the day time. So those whose planning to "hit the spin around channel", you might saved it later okies!! ^^

The above photos were the only photos taken by me during the lunch time.

The rest were taken by a new photographer I assigned^^.

"Luba Tinga" translated as "Wrapped Rice" (the hard version) and a bowl of clear soup. The rice grains used for the wrapped rice was a good one with nice fragance. I forgot the name of its type...aigo~~
more info: some Lundayeh or Lunbawang (especially from Sarawak) might call Luba Tinga as Nuba Tinga. It's the same thing though.
Wrap Rice~ it's not that I can't cook it, but I can not mastered the wrapping skill instead since you have to do it while it's piping HOT! and the elders mentioned that the way your wrap a rice will affect its taste. In other words, bad wrapping skills will end up with bad taste.

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happenings during eating time. Those are my uncles... yup! even the old one ^^

Now, introducing the photographer of the day

a self-portrait of
Little Eagle aka my son

I'll be uploading the rest of the photos taken by son at my FB

~~ENJOY~~
more to come!!

Attending a Lundayeh's wedding

2009-06-07T23:34:00.007+08:00

It's not an excuse I know^^. I was busy doing nothing that I ended up posting nothing in my blog as well. hahaha....

Anyway, was away to the mainland to enjoy a short 5 days holiday. Most of the time spent on the road, searching for places, ended up LOST... will talk about that next time ^^.

6th June, we attended a wedding at our hometown, Kampung Baru Jumpa-Tenom, Sabah. Both; bride and groom are a family members of me. Shocked? The bride is my mom's 3rd cousin (an aunt I just call by name since she's way younger than me) while the groom is my 3rd/4th (cant remember) cousin from my dad's side (with his mother).

It was a good day with tremendously great weather but I only ended with THIS SINGLE PHOTO of the couple due to (are you ready for my reasoning?)... I felt so 'left-out' compared to the others cameramen/women with their 'canggih' camera (I can still hear their camera's shutters went zip-zap zip-zap..)... aigoo~~ and I was so hungry (though I had a heavy breakfast) that I suffered from SHAKING HANDS and the photos I took ended up blurred........ *sigh*

However, I wanted to share a cute/funny moment during the wedding. After the couple made their entrance, this boy (what to call them? If girls we called them "flower-girl", if boy...hmm... I wondered)

started to sit on the steps,

take off his shoe AND his socks...

started scratching both feet....

yawned...

and after a while.

Then "something" came up to add the lengthen of the ceremony which ended with both boys carried off from the front because they were in a deep "wonderland". Even Little Eagle slept too...

Little Eagle in dreamland on his daddy's shoulder.

To the couple, Billy & Emilda
May God bless the future of your new family!!!

**Of course after the wedding ceremony at the church, we went straight to the bride's house to feast on some foods. Will post about it later. Will going to introduce a new photographer as well. hehhehe....stay tune!!!

Something sweet & salty

2009-06-01T10:03:00.005+08:00

I easily lost my appetite during the hot days. However, something salty and sweet and a little bit sourly could do the trick to overcome that. Among my favourite is Sweet and Salty seafood. It's so simple and yet delicious. As today, I'm using some fish. You can actually make other varieties of other seafood e.g. prawn and squid.

Just deep fried the fish/ squid/ prawn for a while. I like my fish barely cooked, with the flesh still soft. Prawn and squid may take shorter time. Then it's time to make the sauce.

Sauce - You'll need:

garlic
chopped tomatoes
some plain water
tamarind paste(asam jawa)
oyster sauce
sugar
salt

Saute the garlic in the pan and add everything else in. Add oyster sauce, sugar & salt to taste. Add in the previously fried fish/ squid/ prawn. Stir and leave for a while till the sauce thickening. Voila!!! you're done.

BBCET Bibimbap

2009-05-21T12:32:00.005+08:00

Its courgette & tomatoes season.

Tomatoes especially are cheap at only RM2.50 per kg. Eating food in season is good since you can get the freshest thing at the best deal. So, I bought quite a handful (2 kg to be exact) and we had almost everything with tomatoes. For hubby and me, we enjoyed our tomatoes eaten raw, but Little Eagle rather had his cooked (if to be eaten with rice). So I ended with making some bibimbap for him. In my house, since hubby is rarely around for lunch and dinner, son and I had bibimbap almost all the time. Of course we had our own version ~ku-ku-ku~. Adding sesame oil (a must in bibimbap) adding more aroma especially on hot rice.

my version; I used baked beans to stir fry some sliced courgettes, eggs, and tomatoes (of course along with seasoning *upon desire*).

adding the stir fried vegies to a bowl of hot steam rice... and dashes of sesame oil

mix it all together... and tada~ BBCET bibimbap hohoho!!! (BBCET: Baked Beans - Courgette - Eggs - Tomatoes) ^^

omo! I just found out that some of my dried herbs had exceed its expire date days ago. Need to get new one soon or the spagetti sauce will taste weird.

A Bouquet for belated Mother's Day

2009-05-21T12:13:00.003+08:00

It was a bleated one, but the mothers at a small church in Labuan did not mind at all.

Yup, we had a belated Mother's Day celebration at the church last week; a week later after the whole world celebrate Mother's Day. But who would mind if the mother's were given a single dinner time off (from cooking till cleaning). The fathers did everything *clap-clap-clap*.

~Though we actually ended with a mount of food later on (thanks to the fathers' lacking sense on estimating how much food they should cook *LOL*). The food taste great too and on Sunday's morning service, the mothers were even surprise with...

a flower bouquet with a cute teddy and three piece of Ferrero Rochet. (unlucky for a someone like me... Little Eagle ate all of them).

hmmmmm... thinking hard what to surprise the fathers pula next month!

Star Trek

2009-05-17T16:15:00.004+08:00

It's been a while and now I am waiting "patiently" for the latest Star Trek (2009 movie) to be available in Labuan's cinema...

ooh!!! When will that be???

o my...
and I thought my addiction towards sci-fi's movie/series will eventually decrease over the years...
mmm... probably the coming years!

source of poster from wikipedia

Mother's Day special: When the MOMMAs chat.. to "Why did I went to school?"

2009-05-11T10:51:00.018+08:00

Loving Remindeer:

If you're slightly offended by any stay-at-home-mom/wife (SAHM/SAHW),
maybe (just maybe) you should stop reading this.
*hugs*

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Ah.. and so it's Mother's day yesterday. No special treatment for me but I am happy though since I was tired due to helping my mom to do the EXTRA cooking and cleaning for the guests who stayed at my parents'.

A few guests (three families) stayed at my mom's house to send their daughters to further their studies at matriculation college in Labuan. One family guest (a mom-T and her daughter-C) was unknown to us but they're a friend of my cousin-S and since all the hotel's room in Labuan were fully booked, my mom accepted them in as well.

After dinner, the ladies had a little chat while 'some' still munching some leftovers on the table (ooh.. that would be just me ^^). As usual when the MOMMAs chat, they'll ~~brag~~ share infos about their children (I just sit there.. stuffing myself with the leftovers... oo.. the pucuk timun [local vegetable] was delicious...LOL).

Then this lady, aunty T asked if I were "educated" (wah... what a question..). My mom answered it and the aunty T then asked "Kerja apa? di mana?" [translation- what job do you have? where?]. I proudly answered, "Oh.. Surirumah" [translation- housewife]. She's shocked and reply with a - what a waste, why bother to study then, why spent money to study far away from home.. bla-bla-bla...

Luckily aunty T didn't met the years-back-before-me. I would have burst with angst and gave 1001 reasons.. LOL.

I smiled, listened to all her advices and her telling of how her daughter made thousands of ringgit paid for working in tourism. hehhee... No, I am not exaggerating. It's true and she really said it *smile*.

>>>>>Why did I wasted my tortured, sleepless night going through my academic and ended being a HOUSEWIFE??

Should I be explaining myself to her? Nah... waste my energy^^ and it could turn to a nasty debate (pulling the hair and every thing <-- my imagination ONLY). I did once have high hopes, big dreams... but I guess I was changed through times. I still have dreams and hopes.. but in a different light.

I am enjoying my SAHM moments *giggle*. I am not offended, nor annoyed, but slightly frustrated. What's wrong being a housewife anyway?? And gets to hear this from another SAHM? Deep down I knew she did not meant anything bad (thanks for your concern and good intention anyway, dear aunty T).

Through experiences, I learned that one can't really chooses the path that one wants to. We do decide what to do, plan everything ahead (or maybe sometime just pushed our ways in), but in the end... it's not really within our control. My dad used to tell me when I was still studying, "even if you're ended being a housewife, be an educated housewife and educate the next generation" (no offend to anyone *i hope*). Guess dad was a good fortune teller afterall (since I really ended as a housewife.. *smile*).

To those working mothers who kept reading this post, I really hope I did not offending you in any ways. You have your rights to do what you want (as I have mine).

To those SAHM/ SAHW like me, proudly say that you're one because you are NOT wasting anything!

but again... maybe its just me ^^

Blessings come from all directions, in different faces, in many ways;
so start counting your blessings and give thanks.
_elcynthia_

Happy Mother's Day!

What fruit is this?

2009-05-08T09:33:00.010+08:00

I've been meaning to do this post sooner but I kept forgetting it. Anyway, anyone knows what is the name of this fruit? My in-law bought the tree from Tenom and planted it at their orchard years back. Now it bore fruits... sweet fruits. My FIL (Father in law) was told by the folks who sold him the tree earlier that the fruit was called "Love You" since they said its sweet like love. But I believe it's just what local called them since I googled "Love You" fruit and I ended up with no result (or did I do it in a wrong way *sigh*).

Bits about the fruit, you actually cut them two and scoop the flesh out with the spoon. Best eaten if you refridgerate it before hand in the fridge (great to be eaten on a hot sunny day). I somehow keep thinking IF its persimmon... but the persimmon I saw in google image result look more orange in colour (the shape is almost the same though).

I don't have more of this fruit so I can't retake the photo.
The spoon next to the fruit is a regular table spoon (*sigh*- I really need to brush up some jargon here). Hope that'll help you to help me identifying this fruit.

By the way, Tenom is known for having non-local/non-everyday fruits/ agriculture products. My mom told me that when she's young, my great aunts used to plant strawberries, asparagus etc but stop doing so since it doesn't market well.

Now, back to help me with the fruit ^^.

thanks in advance

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RECENT UPDATES

After reading the comments and made some searching, I'm guessing that it could possibly be a loquat, since the fruit's skin is very easily bruised indeed and it's all sweet (but I could still be wrong), while a quince is a hard-apple-like fruit (which its not).
Anyway, I'll probably going to check the tree myself later in June (if time permit) and compare it to my findings..

(I'm becoming a tree hunter... LOL)

more on quince
more on loquat

A Movie for Mother's Day

2009-05-04T20:16:00.006+08:00

I know I should ramble about my Asian drama on my other blog but this one is really good stuff ^^. Though its more to human drama, I think the mother's influence in the story really touched my heart so I'm recommending it for Mother's Day. Its none other than ;

Door to Door. (a japanese movie)

to watch via mysoju [here]

I accidentally found this movie at youtube and decided to watch it (due to no reason - seriously *wink*). I found later that the hero was played by Arashi's Kazunari Ninomiya (yup... it's all yours Rin-chan *smile*) - very good acting skill Nino!

It about a special salesman and a lying mother. How special? A mother who lied? Well, you should check it yourself ^^ *tee-hee*.

Some of you might have watched it or maybe watched the other version. The japanese version was a remake from the original American version (released in 2002 if not mistaken). A fiction based on true story. Well, I haven't watched the American version, but you might want to check the storyline [here].

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Bits update on the English version..

The English version was produced for the TNT cable network in year 2002 and was nominated for twelve Emmy Awards, winning six.

Main role was played by William H. Macy. Other actors are Helen Mirren, Kyra Sedgwick, and Kathy Baker.
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The story really worth to watch.

I had tears (T_T) ... Let me share my favourite lines...

son to mother:
You lied to me didn't you?
Saying that father used to say that.
I don't remember anything about father.
But I continuously felt that father was by my side.
Thank you.
Its thanks to you for lying to me, mother.
Thanks to father's words I was also able to be a sales man...
Since mother believed in me.
I am lucky, to be your child.

Happy Mother's Day!!!

A Selfish Sash Owner

2009-04-29T20:28:00.007+08:00

Confess it. We hate selfish people: adj. "thinking only about your own needs or wishes and not about other people's". or am I the only one? ^^

However, at a certain degree, selfish is a must. Well, atleast in my own personal opinion that is.

****The scene; a story told by a very dear person to me (let just call her V).

After enduring her hard life (every students did ^^, I know) in university, V graduated, along with a Dean List's result (award for excellent academic result) and another special award by the university in her other hand (cannot mention, nanti ketahuan ^^). Of course during the convocation, Dean Listers wore a special sash along with their graduation robe which automatically made them looked out stand from the rest of the fellow graduates.

Then later during photo-taking session outside the hall, a course friend of V asked her if she could borrow the sash so she can take her own photo wearing the sash (like she deserved it also *duh*). Hearing this I was SHOCKED. So I asked V what was her response.

-Now, the "V" I knew is/was one with soft heart, which means NO is a rare line. She will gladly sacrifice hours of her own sleeping time, burning the late oil almost everyday just to help another friend finishing a personal project. She even don't mind doing extra tasks on a group project when her friends mentioned that they're busy doing "something else". Yup, a normal V will say "OK". -

I was ready to burst my anger out. But she chuckled a little a said, "Of course I said NO I CAN'T. Hey, I worked hard for that sash". V then told me that her friend said V was being selfish. I laugh... yup, I guess V did knew when she should draw the line.

Seriously, I wouldn't dare to ask such favour. Talk about PRIDE (^^!). As for V, I really glad she thought about herself on that moment. Selfish or not, she have all the rights. Like she said, she worked hard to deserve that sash. If I were V, I might told my friend to get her own! LOL... alas, I didn't had the chance to say that. Even I didn't deserved the sash. hmm.. should I consider pursuing to further my studies and get a sash myself? LOL... nah.. I'm a happy housewife for the time being. I'll worked on my "own sash" later ^^.

Happy Days ^^

Spring in Labuan? Not^^

2009-04-23T10:59:00.006+08:00

Labuan is again having its hottest season and I am enduring with the sweats and heat. I am trying very hard resisting the air-conditioner... (am playing my part to reduce global warming). What can you expect from an island? Yup.. I hoped we had spring season... I'm dreaming of cherry's blossom in the yard, but for now... I am satisfied with my Apple Cherry Tree.

Anyway, I forgot to take photo when the flower blossoming before and the dates on the photo are not the right one ( I messed up with the setting ^^).

Hot season gaves sweet fruits.
That's what I'm thanking for.
Still confused?
Ignore this post *sigh*

~in heat mode~

In Between dine out and Little Eagle-Monkey Ball

2009-04-17T11:16:00.009+08:00

Hubby made it home early yesterday so we went out to check DragonBall Evolution at the ONLY mini cinema in Labuan (kasian kan? hehe...) . It's not so bad but I won't be paying the second time. Though I made peace with the different storyline from the manga, I can't tolerate with some of the "what-the-****" plot. Some of the major turned-off for me was the dragon and lack of wushu-fighting-show off skill [read my full review here]. Luckily we had nice dinner before that and I was satisfied with the food on my plate.

We had dinner at a nearby cafe. We rarely eat at this cafe: "Merry Bites". If not mistaken, last night was the third time we went there.

Appetiser that came late. Cost RM7 plus.
Taste= just plain ok. Son did not like it though.

The cafe was a small one but I like the cosy environment.
Not posh.. just simple and cosy.

While hubby had some 'Nasi Goreng Kampung' (fried rice), I opt for a western dish; Chicken chop. Cost RM13 plus... not bad. Son loved this one and the serving was a big one. I shared it with son and we barely finished it.

Later at home, I asked son what did he think about the movie he just watch (it's his first time in a cinema). I asked if the movie was scary.. he replied with a NO. And he added that Moneky Ball was funny. yeah... my son refers DE to Monkey Ball. hahaha....

Happy Weekend

Sharing my husband with someone

2009-04-13T19:44:00.007+08:00

Very brave and yet confusing statement.

You must be wondering what am I saying? why...? who..? huh...?? This is not recently happened though. I had a hard time earlier while learning and adjusting myself to it. Now, I can peacefully said to hubby, "You may go".

Wow! Okay... maybe I did left important rule to it, "Make sure not too long and try to be back before 10.00pm".

Tonight.. or should I say just now, hubby told me again... "I need to go". I let him go of course and leaving me, cleaning and scrubbing my kitchen's counter after I was done with the dishes before I sit infront of my computer (and doing what I'm doing now) while Little Eagle had his Disney TV untill later... 8.00 pm news.

Who is this someone? He is... (let me repeat).. HE is or was my husband ex-boss. A retired engineer who had been someone close to my husband (despite the age gap) even before I get married to him ^^. He's almost like a second father to my husband. This fellow (what to call him ah?) had partly moved to Tawau to manage his oil palm business there but still come to Labuan ocassionaly. So when he's in town, he'll look for hubby.

Why was I being so sharing-ful? Well, you might do the same thing f you were me. He did not have a family of his own.. yeah, no wife, no child... and since he's been good to hubby for all these years, why not?! Hmm... I going to burn some movie for him later. Hubby mentioned that the fellow was bored and asked if we had good movie to watch. Should I burn my korean movie instead? hahahahaha.....

A Fever Syndrome Relay Week

2009-04-10T12:55:00.003+08:00

Dear regular stoppers, before you start putting that grin on your face, NO... am not talking about my fever on dramas and movies^^.

It had been quite a week for me. On Monday I paid a visit to my usual doctor since I suffered from what I thought was a regular sore-throat-turned-bad pain. I was then however told that I got a pretty bad tonsil infection. *sigh* I wondered if the tip I had been practicing to ease the pain caused that infection? A friend told me, to overcome a sore throat pain fast, one should eat ice cream. So after Sunday's church service ended, hubby brought me and Little Eagle to McDonald in order for me to eat some ice cream and Little Eagle will have his in-door playground enjoyment. I consumed TWO servings of that icy-frozen-cold thingy... which I ended up with an even terrible pain during the night. hmmm... no more nonsense tips. I should have been sticking with my warm plain water instead!

Then on Tuesday... Little Eagle threw up here and there. It looked like he's "salah makan" or something like that. He whine all day, refused to eat, etc. However the whining made me even sicker. I was already a patient here... eating my flu pills did not make anything better. Plus hubby was seriously busy and engaged to his work like so tight! I almost turned into a sick zombie. ALMOST!

When we I thought that I can depend on hubby to help me on certain matters at home (I am still in sick mode), hubby called me from clinic later on Wednesday evening telling me he also caught my tonsil ~~breakdown~~ infection *sigh*. Now let see.... that's strike THREE!!! We're all OUT! ^^

So I spent my leisure moments watching some movies instead of blogging. I can't process much of my words^^.

I am almost there, being fully healthy again I mean. I rarely gets a fever or sore throat, but when it strikes... it's bad ^^. Must be the super heat we had last week in Labuan. It's so hot during the day. I wished it would rain later since during late afternoon, I actually saw dark sky BUT alas.... it's just my wish. Luckily, it rained heavily on Sunday night's... cooled down this heaty islanders ^^. Till then.

From the heaty Islanders >> Happy Easter!

Whose Line Is It Anyway?

2009-04-01T18:35:00.006+08:00

My sister suggested me to watch this clip. This show was used to be my favourite when the show was still free to watch on Astro^^. My stomach and face still hurts so much because of laughing.

City Eagle

2009-03-28T17:45:00.001+08:00

Refused to get into the river. Happy weekend. -mobile blog-

The Fever is in Cronic State

2009-03-25T11:21:00.006+08:00

Dreaming... day and night. Freezing almost every single panel of scene out while watching it online. ~~Talking~~ typing lonnnngggg email's; commenting, reviewing every details of the drama... That's how serious the fever is. And though only two episodes to go (on KBS2), we're so blessed in this country that we still have a little bit more than halfway to go with the drama on our TV while at the same time catching the recent episodes online. Yikes! That also mean I have to tend my fever for a long time more.

In my home.. I was affected by this fever alone (unlike other kdrama). No oppa aka hubby to tease my tears, which left me alone crying or even smiling like crazy infront of the tele, hugging the cushion.. or Little Eagle (if he's wide awake) in the other case. Little Eagle somehow gets infected indirectly by the mommy. He can humming the tunes (which shocked dear oppa as well).. yes people... my 3 plus y-o-son knows the soundtrack well (esp. Paradise tune be it the instrumental version or the full version). hahahaha!!! He's learning a bit of the korean here and there. The other day, he asked me... "what's 'aja' means mommy? What's 'aja'?".

Now... as for the fever, I need to ramble at LOVE&FEVER to ease down the heat. hehehe... Thankfully that the drama is aired only on Mondays and Tuesdays... or else (^^!)

One of my favourite quote from the drama.

“The most unfortunate encounters are like those with fish bones. The longer the encounter, the more the fishy smell sticks with you.

The encounters to be most careful with are with an open bloom, because while it’s open it brings cheers of joy, but as it wilts, it gets thrown away.

The most beautiful encounters are like those with handkerchiefs. They wipe away your sweat when you are tired, and your tears when you are sad.”

Meet My Latest Enemy

2009-03-21T00:19:00.009+08:00

I hate cats!!

There, I said it. So what if I am one of an almost-extreme-nature-lover? (is it ^^???) Okaylah, not all cats though. I love playing with my aunt's cats at her house, or any other place in that matter...just not around my house.

All cats that came to my house will suddenly became my worst enemy. I'll try every harmless possible efforts to get rid of the cats (e.g. cerobong pengasapan, manual water sprinkler.. etc). HOWEVER> No matter what, this particular one female cat kept coming to my house especially during her 'breeding season'. Look, I did not aced my biology and physic so please... do excuse me for my wrong used of terms here okeh!

Meet the most productive female cat around.
She have countless number of descendants around the neighbourhood.
Should give her a trophy or something...

I moved the box near hubby's storage room way back behind our house. The next day, I found her moved back in and nursing her babies inside a pail next to hubby's tool's box. GOSH!!! I really want to get rid of her! Let just say that I can't keep up with the urine smells and everything alike. I can not tolerate with that...

Sometime I can feel like my inner self want to shoot the 'poor' cat away! Hmm.. for the time being, I manage to control my 'un-defined rage' towards this helpless animal... o yeah. Time will tell when my limits explode! Of course I won't choked the cats to death.. I am not that evil. What should I do?? *helpless*

6th Photo tag

2009-03-19T12:18:00.005+08:00

Tag from Mimi

Tag's instruction:

Go to your photos folder in your computer. Go to the 6th folder of photos. Go to the 6th picture in that folder. Put the picture on your blog and a description of it. Invite six friends to join the challenge. Link them in your blog and let them know they have been challenged.

Well, this is suppose to be a single photo tag but I decided to disobey the instruction ^^. I'll explain later.

from "my picture folder."

Spot on.. o yeah! Since this is one of my favourite scene from my favourite K-drama so far (Flowers Before Boys).

However, I somehow felt that not many can relate to the above photo so I checked on another folder from my desktop and followed the same rule.

Meet the U**I descendants... these are only like 10% of the big U**I family. Taken during our Christmas holiday. I was the one who took this photo. We're having lunch at Just Dessert after Sunday Service. Nice food...

Now.. the six friends will be:

Dzu
Laura
Rin-Chan (could it be another korean photo??)
Mareq
Eija (I love you ^^)
MrsGraig/ Ken

Woman

2009-03-19T09:16:00.004+08:00

My sister emailed this to me. I found it funny, and somehow quite familiar ^^. O yeah...

My School Holiday

2009-03-16T07:50:00.005+08:00

It's the school holiday where children look forward to sleep late (till midnight or break dawn for some) and not worry to sleep until afternoon. Well, at least that is what some children do nowadays. I (and my siblings) however can't really do that during our time. And as much as I can recalled it, school holidays are just like any other days (minus going to school).

While other kids had FUN and had it ~~all~~ almost their way; mandi sungai, main bubut-bubut, main masak-masak... we had it our way (thanks to dear daddy *smile*). However, I doubt that any of the children now will look forward to our ways of having the holiday *wink*. Well, at least that what my cousins' response when their mother (my aunt) brought up our siblings way of having our holidays^^. Now, how we did it?

Enjoyed family time traveling (that's including balik kampung and outdoor activities e.g. picnic, swimming...).... only going back home then to be expected to write a full report/ composition (as how we called it) about the journey, our experiences...etc, along with drawings about things that happened.

Had a list of "tajuk-tajuk karangan" prepared by dad to be completed within the holiday time e.g. my house, my family etc.

When children nowadays ~~committing fully~~ enjoying themselves with PS2/ PS3... my dad bought us Nitendo (do they still exist??) ... only to be allowed playing strategic fun critical games SOMETIME and Donkey Kong (A mathematic solving problems games). Oh yeah... happy hour^^.

6.00 pm means to switch off the TV or hand the remote control to daddy (whichever applicable) and went to the kitchen to help with the dinner (regardless the age unless you're 6 years or younger).

By the way, if you think I made this all up, it's not. Yeah... we even brought our ~~paperwork~~ 'homework' balik kampung (my aunt sure remembers that one till now). Ironically, I don't felt being tortured and rather sometimes I found it fun since dad and mom later helped us/me with the drawing and the water paint colouring. Not sure if my youngest siblings remember these though. But I bet they can't forget the endless compositions and Donkey Kong!!!

Anyway... dad don't stay that way^^ when we're all finished high school and went our ways. Will I do the same thing with my child~~ren~~ in the future. Hmm.. time will tell^^.

Little Eagle wants a Super Pet

2009-03-06T07:54:00.007+08:00

We watched BOLT a few days ago at home. Having a nice time lounging at home around together^^. This movie was quite good and I must say I love the hamster so much (it's a great day to die!!!). Guess what? While we're watching BOLT, Little Eagle stood up and ...

Son: Mommy, can I have a pet?
Me: You already have a pet. There... (pointing to the fish tank) your goldfishes
Son: No, no goldfish. I want a super pet. I want super dog!
Me: Super dog? Where got super dog?
Son: (Turning to hubby) Daddy can I get a super dog?

Hmm.. so much for the TV itself. If there's such thing as super dog, I would have to have one too. To fight and save the world^^ (as if I like dog hehehe...). By the way, son do knows how to make excuses these days. I am still looking for the source (which cartoon he watched) that taught him to say this phrase:

"Sorry mommy. No can do. I am kinda busy right now!"

The first time I heard he used that phrase, I was shocked, amused, and awed at the same time. When I asked him, busy doing what? He answered me with, "lots of thing mommy! busy-busy-busy" . *sigh* Kids.... (^^!)

Between H, X and R

2009-03-05T05:43:00.004+08:00

Hubby and me had been discussing for some times about getting a new car. Not a second one but we decided to trade-in the car we used at the moment. Just say that though we manage to save on fuel consumptions, the maintenance cost is a little bit pricey. So we opted for Toyota or Honda. I had my eyes like forever for H but hubby on the other hand wanted X. Then a week ago hubby came back home and we had this conversation

hubby: How about getting R?
me: (fancy...) Why so sudden with R? and can we afford it?
hubby: Well I made calculation. We could
me: Remember dear, it's recession. Can we pay it if you don't have any OT for about three months in a row?
hubby: Ya. But I might cut off your allowance
me: How much?
hubby: Half...
me: What??? Hmm.. (want to save my allowance here) what's wrong with X? I thought you had your eyes on them like since ages?
hubby: Why? You don't like R? I thought you were against X?
me: I like but.. (looking at the brochure) WHAT!!! RM*********** per month? Crazy?
hubby: *laugh*
me: Installment for X is cheaper lah (though I don't really like X *sigh*). You see bah the difference.
hubby: so?? how?
me: (dua-dua hati...) bah, whatever lah. Think about our budget. But then... (silly me saying) X pun okay juga.

**fact--> I prefered R much-much more than X.

Two days ago conversation
hubby: Dear, I ordered X already
me: What? But I thought you said you wanted R?
hubby: Well, you're against it.
me: Yalah... But...
hubby: And you keep nagging bout the price and remember you did said X pun okay juga. Right?
me : But.... (speechless *sigh*)
hubby: What to do. Cannot cancel already. All had been key-in. All payments needed pun sudah kena bayar.
me: (T_T))

Last nite
me: Dear, really cannot change kah?
hubby: Ya... paid already.
me: mmm...
hubby: You want to see the receipt?
me: no lah. What for? You're the one who'll end up driving it (still hubby went to get the files)
hubby:Nah (giving me the R's brochure). Just satisfy yourself with the brochure

me: jahat...
hubby: Here the receipts
me: (malas mau baca but still... then) HUH?
hubby: hahahahaha!!!
me: Yeh!!!! You're playing with me all these time?
hubby: Sapa suruh (laughing)

Ending-- Hubby took R

This was the first time hubby really played a joke that last for days with me. Anyway, am waiting to drive R now. You do the guessing what H, X, R is... ^^. Thinking of buying a car yourself? Check what's in and what's not [here] ^^.

By the way, yeah... you could blame for not expressing my real thoughts as well. Till then! Happy days!

In the mood for pancakes

2009-03-05T00:43:00.004+08:00

Earlier this evening, my oppa came home early than usual.
Yes, early enough to enjoy a late tea-time.
So since I am in the mood of Kkotboda Namja, I decided to make pancakes.
Served with honey - love *wink*
Little eagle enjoyed it very much since I haven't made it for some time.

ahh... and by the way, Lundayeh call this 'TENAPIS'.
Well.. at least that what my grandma called it (missed hers).
Quite western huh?
Will share later with more Lundayeh's delicacies^^

Tag 10 PERKARA from Sastrie

2009-03-03T17:32:00.007+08:00

10 THINGS TAG.
Tagged by Sastrie

Barang siapa yang kena tag, kena tulis 10 sesuatu berkenaan orang yang meng-tag dia.
**notes: haven't meet her for 13 years.. so here goes

1. Tak sama kelas dengan aku mahupun satu dorm dengan aku^^. Dia kelas beta, tak ingat dorm mana...
2. Orangnya hitam manis, pakai spek..
3. Dia pandai main basket ball (dulu-dulu la.. tak tau pula sekarang ni)
4. Kena drive kereta jauh hari-hari untuk pergi kerja
5. Dia ada sorang anak perempuan
6. Dia masuk SBPS time form 4
7. Seorang guru
8. Ada satu suami^^

Sas... it's cheating time ok (please forgive me)
9. Dia kata dia suka menyanyi (tak ingat pula dia menyanyi waktu sekolah dulu)
10. Dia kata dia seorang guru yang garang.. ^^ katanya.... hehehe

Orang yang kena tag kena tulis 10 perkara. about yourself.
*Notes: I think I've done so many thins kind of tag so let me do this in a different way pula...

1. Love God
2. Love to read
3. Love to eat
4. Love my friends and family
5. Love to ramble
6. Love to NAG
7. Love Naruto
8. Love KkotBoda Namja
9. Love my oppa
10. Love Lee Min Ho!! ^^ XOXOX

now... the nominees for this tag are.
*note: since you're nominated only, you are free to do or not la... ^^

1. Tom (who loves God)
2. Lelen (who loves to read and eat *i hope)
3. KadusMama (who love to NAG -like me^^ and loves her familyNfriends
4. Mareq (represent her hubby who loves Naruto)
5. Dzuh (who loves her oppa)
and....
6. Rin-Chan who loves KkotBoda Namja & Lee Min Ho!! ^^

DragonBall Evolution & Cronic SciFi-er ^^

2009-02-28T09:25:00.010+08:00

Okay, I knew I'd mentioned about my new other blog dedicated for my anime-like things but I can't help to post this one here (plus, it's about Hollywood). I know siKadusMama *wink* loves/d Dragon Ball and I wonder if she's interested in DRAGONBALL EVOLUTION! Yeah, you probably heard about it or even watched the trailer on TV. Still, for those who haven't heard about it yet, I am so please to share with you the trailer. Let's go "kame-hame-Ha-ing"

**Video credits to CineOcchioVideo

and if you want to read more of my rambling on this movie, click here. (be prepared though*wink*)

By the way, did you by any chance thinks I'm being overboard? hahaha... sometimes I surprised myself the same. But guess what? I had nothing to blog yesterday and do that survey thingy at blogthings. Guess what I found... ahh and for your info, I did the question TWICE since I don't believed with the outcome result (DUA KALI OKEH).

You Should Be a Science Fiction Writer

Your ideas are very strange, and people often wonder what planet you're from.

And while you may have some problems being "normal," you'll have no problems writing sci-fi.

Whether it's epic films, important novels, or vivid comics...

Your own little universe could leave an important mark on the world!

What Type of Writer Should You Be?

okeh... I need help.
MAJOR ONE!!! hehehe..

Que Sera-Sera

2009-02-25T16:43:00.013+08:00

Today, I have the desire (and ENERGY) to nag/rant/speak/complain (whichever applicable) more!!!! muahaha... gomen (^^!)--

When I was just a little girl
I asked my mother "what will I be?"
Will I be pretty?
Will I be rich?
This what she said to me

Que sera-sera
What ever will be, will be
The future's not us to see
Que sera-sera
What will be, will be

Who else loves this song like me? You can raise your hand if you want *smile*. I have the same thought, however I didn't asked my mom ^^.

Years back, right or wrong was a big issue for me. Am I taking the right course? Will I marry the right man? Am I wronged for not accepting that job offer? bla.. bla.. bla.. the list goes on. Then I learned that we made or even went through bad days, events, things... etc. Life could never be perfect in this imperfect world. Things might turned bad when we choose on one path, but should I run or hide?

My mom used to nag since I don't get a job though I get quite good result (hu hu... perasan) and I used to feel angry when the matter was talked about. I did get some offers but I need to leave for KL which I declined. Yeah.. talked about how much money spent during my study years (since I don't have scholarship back then though I did some works for lecturers and seniors to get part-time income *halal punya ok*). I had talks with my younger sister how mom never understood my position. yeah...younger sister also scolded me sometime. But then I learnt to handle things better (in my case lah). Rather than *'fixing'* things that I think I had done wrong, I now just let thing pass-by. Being a mother myself, I knew mom just doesn't want her children having a hard life and being a woman myself... my mom is just complaining^^ *smile*.

As for me now, right or wrong is something abstract. Sometime I tend to think its a right thing to do when others think not, and there's time when we think it's wrong but things turned out to be right. Just like some paintings... it's not meaningless, they just need time. If wrong matters turned ugly, just cross thy fingers and learn from the mistakes made.

I am not expecting my son (and hope I'll stand on the same ground or better^^ in the future) will NEVER makes the wrong decisions in his future life (though I hope and prayed that he'll do his best), but I hope he'll be responsible in his life.

Mom occasionally still talk about jobless me these days, but now I can smile and say "It's okay bah mommy. At least you have company to have breakfast with.. (and a free errand-girl to help you pay all the bills, do the banking transactions, que at the post office...etc *hehehe*) "

Am I regretting my choice? No... especially when hubby supports me (muahs^^)

A quote says: Learn from other's experiences because we don't have all the time in world to go through them (that's for me).

I am not saying that I am better then anyone else nor experienced better, like I said... I just want/need to NAG (^^,)

More on my 'fever'

2009-02-25T15:35:00.011+08:00

Hahaha... please just ignore this post if you're not a Kdrama fan.

If some friends drooled with Twilight's Edward Cullen (betul kah the spelling ni my dear Twilighter friends?).. I have a big smile on my face seeing this Asian face:

So cute kan the dolls.. Now, let me guess...
Sheep: Jandi
White Tiger: Jihu
(even Junpyo is the hero, I don't think white tiger matched him well..^^)
Tiger: Woobin
Lion: Go Junpyo (ya.. hairy style fits him better ^^)
Bear: YiJung

what do you think???

xoxox

One and Only???

2009-02-25T14:31:00.012+08:00

Now, this post is none other but me talking about my addiction to Korean Drama.

If you watched/read Hana Yori Dango or watched Meteor Garden, you know that there's a love-token (as I call it) given by the hero to the heroin and 'it' supposed to be the ONE AND ONLY coz the hero supposed to be super rich and afford to make special order for his love-of-his-life (konon).

In the recent hot korean version Boys Over Flower (still ongoing), the love-token was a necklace (see photo attached). Which moon refers to Jandi and star refers to Junpyo (Rin-chan, you need to wait for ep 12 *wink*)

I watched Entertainment Weekly on Monday night and to my surprise, some fans/viewers made a really crazy effort (I must say) and found out that the necklace was NOT THE ONE AND ONLY!!! They noticed that some actresses in other dramas wear the same necklace (one of it was Saebyeok in You're My Destiny). I was like... laughing on the sofa! Come on people... it's just a drama!!!

Dear drama producers... please take note that some viewers were so sensitive with things like this. *smile* But if... IF they really come up with a special made necklace, it would be better. For marketing purpose as well... I remember how people (inc. me) was so crazy with the necklace from Winter Sonata. Remember the Polaris Star necklace??? hohoho....

10 facts on The Wedding of the Not Year~~

2009-02-24T13:19:00.010+08:00

I thought it was an update from si Zuru, who knows it ended with a tag! *sweating* Anyway, since she's back from 'hibernating' in her winter-wonderland *lol*, I am happy enough to do the tag (though mine is so-so-so back dated). By the way, it had been years.... so I need to take my time to bring the memories back.

Being the eldest grandchild/ grand-daughter for my grandparents (mom-side), we had our wedding at my mother's hometown - Kg. Baru Jumpa, Tenom, Sabah.
Since both me and hubby came from BIG family, we had BIG numbers of guests. I lost the counts but it was said that the wedding had recorded with the second largest numbers of guest held in the village of all time (my cousin's wedding held two years ago had the biggest numbers of guest). **Notes: Just from my side, I have 16 uncles and aunts... belum campur my cousins, cousins-in-law, nieces, nephews, nieces and nephews-n-law....^^ second cousins, third cousins.....bla-bla..the lists go on
I did half of the flowers arrangements on my wedding. Not that no one wanted to help, but Mom said no one could keep up with my work arrangements excluding my youngest sister. hoho!!!
I lost one of my contact lense on my wedding day and it will be a miracle if I can buy new one in Tenom. I ended up being half-blind all day, smile to every direction and any people - since I CAN'T SEE!
I was super hungry before walking down the aisle. I did regret for skipping my breakfast. Luckily I did NOT faint.
If Zuru was 'kena sound' to stop eating, I however managed to 'habis licin' my plate since I was so..... hungry. No one could stop me! Yeah! Not even the photographer. hohho!! My relatives did talked about it however after the wedding - Me being the most 'rangka' bride in their lifetime! hohoho!!
I didn't wear my first choice wedding gown. Was given a better one! ^^
I only realised who came to the wedding after the photos were developed. I can't see, remember?
The reception in Labuan was kinda a nice one since instead of doing it posh style at a hotel or restaurants, we followed Dad's suggestion and had it at a clubhouse (under Dad's ofcourse). It was a nice small reception. I was happy with it.. so happy.
I stay-up for nights AND draged along some loving people *wink* to add a little touch to the wedding invitation.

With all the experiences I gained going through my wedding, I planned my sister's wedding and in-charged of flowers arrangement for three weddings *free-of-charge for the service*. Sometime I did had a thought of being wedding planner *wink-wink* but better not, it can kill my freedom. I did it for love....^^ . Along with hubby, we got some best deals liao even my parents wondered how we did that! hahahaha...^^.

A tips for bride-to-be, you don't really have to pay more to get a great wedding gown. Make sure your charm works well, don't complain so much and try your best (without looking desperate) to befriend with the bridal shop owner and they might just give you a better deal at a lower price. We paid for a middle range package but I ended up with a new gown (just arrived before I came to pick up my earlier-choice of gown). The new gown also supposed to be only eligible for the more pricey package but the very-very kind owner decided to give it to me instead with no extra-charge! Luckily it didnt need any alteration for me. Yea... I was so blessed!

Bah Zu... that's the end of the tagging. Welcome back to you!!

A New 'Toy' in the Kitchen

2009-02-24T11:31:00.007+08:00

UPDATE!!

Since Adora asked me about this 'gadget', this is the corresponding add I have from the receipt (I should get paid for this! hahaha!!).

Product name: BELVA Multi-Function Magic Cooker
Pusat Gabungan Sinar Sdn Bhd
Lot 10, Tingkat 4, Wisma SESB Jalan Tunku Abdul Rahman, KK
Tel: 088-212381
*Note: If I might get saman from doing this, please inform me so I'll delete this part ASAP!!

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Yes, I have been waiting for days to get my new kitchen gadget! hehehe... It's my new magic cooker! I have been longing for one but the price I saw during the advertisement really knocked me off. Luckily, my cousin's cousin (means not related to me lah) is an agent and recently in Labuan doing promotion and I am so.... happy that I can buy it at almost half price that I don't even care attending their life demo. You might think I acted recklessly.. *smile*.

Anyway, I bought mine, cooked with it last night, and the result was.. I am very satisfied. Even hubby and son was happy with the food. Well, doesn't mean that you can cook delicous food with this. It just cut my time cooking in half (or more than that) and it saves energy. Well you see, normally when I baked my chicken in my oven, I need like 45 min to cook my chicken. However, yesterday, I only need 20 mins ON THE STOVE and wala!!! The chicken's cooked. Sounded like pressure cooker? Maybe... but can pressure cooker baked cakes? Well this one also can (well that's what the CD said... hahhaha). Wa... sounded like I am doing some ad pula... No, am not. Willie mentioned in his latest post on "why you blog?". Me... I blog just for fun^^. Happy days people!!!

Note: Dear sister, see the result. You won't regret.

Look like a sandwich maker right?

I want my chicken and vegies to stay moist so I placed them on an aluminium foil.
Note: I just added some oycter sauce, sesame oil, and soy sauce to the chicken and vegies.

Wraped them nicely and put inside the heated-cooker.
Closed the lid and cooked on the stove for 20 mins with medium-low fire.

voila!!

A 20 mins chicken! That's fast food with health in mind!

While she was sleeping

2009-02-20T16:18:00.005+08:00

We heard about sleepwalking, but have you heard people emailing while asleep? I read this article from here. Apparently a 44-old lady didn't just sleepwalking but logged on to her computer and sent email to her friends, inviting them to a party.

My goodness... I really respect her since she can key-in her password correctly (when sometimes, I had problem logging in due forgetting my password... and I was WIDE AWAKE). Back to the lady, luckily she sent party invitation only, although it was reported contained odd expressions e.g. ...sort this hell hole out... and ....Bring wine and caviar only....

Not sure if the above story is true but I witnessed with my own eyes one serious sleepwalker who took the front door's key, opened the door, went out, took one's pair of shoes, bring it in and locked the door back (you know who you are *smile*). The next day, the person did not remember a thing. hohoho...

So next time if you received a weird email from someone... maybe the mail was sent during sleeping ^^.

School Life; Before and After

2009-02-18T19:28:00.014+08:00

A sunbae, Rin-Chan introduced me to funny manga about a teacher titled Gokusen. I like the story and it bring much memories to me. More memories about my tortured-life school days^^. It's about a compassionate teacher who tried to do anything for the sake of her student even though her family was somehow a famous gangster/ yakuza.

I had a quite long conversation with my cousin who just finished SPM during CNY holiday. He told me how teacher (in his school) doesn't seem to really care about their education and he called them teacher who 'makan gaji buta'. I smiled when I heard that. I then shared with him how my teachers used to be like; asking us to do numerous numbers of correction (not just five times okay!), spanked for not getting the required marks... though none of us (I think) complain about it.

I recalled the times of doing up to a hundred of corrections on my addmaths since I made a numbers of wrong answers. Yes... hundred (not for one question lah)... I WAS so pissed off then. But after doing the same thing again and again, it's like sticking hard in my mind. Paper bought spent on doing corrections. I even get spanked for not getting the required marks for my Biology in F4. My cousin listened silently. Then I asked him, I think that's kind of teacher that you want right? He quickly said NO. hahahaha.... Those from my school, surely you know which teacher(s) I am talking about^^. No, I don't have any grudge held against them. They were my teachers... once^^.

My uncle also mentioned that he sensed the different environment in the educational world today as well (whose child still got punished for not able to 'hafal sifir' these days?). I don't mind having my child punished for the right reason and I think the punishment should be more related like. Hmm.. might not good with words here. What I mean is, if a student gave wrong answer, instead of smacking him/her in the face or asking them to do some 'ketuk-ketampi', how about asking them to do a serious numbers of correction? I gained nothing from the spanking back then^^. My cousin told me that his teacher will only asked them to do silly thing (like crawling under the table) as a punishment in their academic.

I know that these matters are not applied to all teachers. Could it be because of the defending/over protective parents? During doing my part-time as a replacement teacher, I was warned by the senior teachers NOT to scold or EVEN asked for the assigned homework from some named students since I might have to face with their parents the next day. Kesian the cikgu...

However, ironically... mean/ crazy-like teachers were the one that stick to our memories the most (I still remember their name *sigh*). Seriously (at least for me)... btw, what's our nice F5 English-speaking Biology teacher's name again *smile*

Go Mobile

2009-02-17T11:56:00.007+08:00

These few days I have been squeezing my brain up to the maximum limit. What have I been doing? Well, I was sort of trying to installed an application on my mobile phone. I know it's easy on some people but not me since I am not good with gadgets. IT and communication world sure make our lives easier IF ONLY you know how to handle things. Guess I am still learning on these matters.

What application was I interested in? Well, I want to have Bible application in my phone so I tried hard with countless of errors.. hehehe. However, I made it this morning and it really sure make my day. I just learn that I can also install dictionary etc into my mobile (hahaha... so ketinggalan zaman).

Well then, for those who is/are interested in getting the same application as mine, click here for more info. However, you can also search for any application that your interested in i.e. dictionary etc.

Time to sharpen thy "Sword of Truth" ....

V's Day vs me

2009-02-13T16:30:00.009+08:00

Well, tomorrow will be a lovey-dovey day for most people I guess. I just finished read and replying a mail from my sunbae, Rin-Chan; asking my plan for Valentine's plan. Hmm.. a shock to some I guess but am confessing now that I hardly remember what hubby and I did for our Valentine's Day other than going dine out (which also not at some special place like a booked restaurant's seat nor a hotel).

Shame to admit but am not really into lovey-dovey cards, big-fluffy-hugable toys, chocolate (thanks to my migraine) nor bouquet of flowers. At least not during Valentine's Day. I remember scolding hubby years back when a surprise flower delivery came to our door on Valentine's day (which made hubby dare not to send any surprise flowers anymore..hahahaha). Don't get me wrong... it's not that I hate flowers.. not at all. I love flower... a single stem of rose will really make my day on regular days BUT not on Valentine's Day. Why? Just say that the ridiculous price kills my romantic mood okay! hehehe... Sounded crazy already?? *lol*. A wish would do just fine for me... and good food (of course). Going out to dine with hubby this year will be out of the question since there'll be no baby sitter for son (his granny have some matters at Beaufort tomorrow).

Wah... sounded like I am no romantic person no?? hahaha... Don't get fooled! Some nights, hubby and I spent time gazing at the stars too okay. It's just that, NOT paying ridiculous price on some so called V-day doesn't mean we love each other less. At least that's how I think (^^!)

Anyway... still... I want to wish you all a Happy-happy Valentine!! Hope my post didn't kill off your mood yet! hahahahaha...

Lundayeh's version of Saranghae!!!

First Letter Tag

2009-02-12T16:11:00.006+08:00

Was double tagged on this one; Rin-Chan & Kadusmama. By the way, Ty... I made the tag name myslef too... ^^.

Rules:

It's harder than it looks! Copy to your own note, erase my answers, enter yours, and tag 10 people. Use the first letter of your name to answer each of the following questions. They have to be real...nothing made up! If the person before you had the same first initial, you must use different answers. You cannot use any word twice and you can't use your name for the boy/girl name question.

1. What is your name? Elcy

2. A four letter word: Eden

3. A boy's name: Ethan

4. A girl's name: Emma

5. An occupation: Editor

6. A color: Emerald (does Emerald colour exist??)

7. Something you wear: Earing

8. A food: Eels (*_*) die lah...

9. Something found in the bathroom: Eight shampoo bottles (come and check my bathroom ^^)

10. A place: Europe

11. A reason for being late: Ermmm...... *along with clueless face*

12. Something you shout: Eiii!!!!! (^^!)

13. A movie title: Embun

14. Something you drink: Es Batu Campur (Indonesian's word for ABC ^^)

15. A musical group: Estranged

16. A street name: Empat Avenue (a street that will be named soon after I post this somewhere... *dreaming*)

17. A type of car: Electronic Car ?? (^^!) <-- sumimasen.. 18. A song title: Eagle's Wing

19. A verb: Easy.. (by the way, what's verb means again??)

Now, to suffer more people!! Adora, Lelen, Eija, Dzuh, Mareq and Thom, you're tagged!! x0x0x

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Ammendment (^^!)
After reminded by dear LifeJuicer on what verb means.. better redo that no-19. If not really sounded weird pula! hahahaha....

19. A verb: Escort... this one verb bah kan? *lol*

more tags

2009-02-12T10:11:00.003+08:00

RuLes & ReGuLaTioNs.:.

1. Do not copy the answers.
2. The tag questions must be 100% same.
3. Tag people after doing the tag.
4. No tagging back..:.

Elcy is tagging these people:
#1 Eija
#2 Mareq
#3 Wawa
#4 Thom
#5 Ayun
#6 Sastrie
#7 Dzu
#8 Adora
#9 Allevate
#10 Anol

♥
How do you know 1?
~♥ A friend from U
.:.
What would you do if you never met 2?
~♥ Then I would have less friend from high school through U
.:.
What would you do if 3 & 4 dated you?
~♥ er... might just be friend and cousin
.:.
Would 5 & 6 make a good couple?
~♥ Don't think so. One is happily married though
.:.
Do you think 7 is attractive?
~♥ Yes... very much.
.:.
Do you know anything about 8's family?
~♥ Hmmm... No, but I think she have one BIG family.
.:.
Tell me something about 9.
~♥ He have his other side aside from his appearance... good sides that is and I think he sings well too!
.:.
What language does 2 speak?
~♥ Malay, English.. well, that's it I think.
.:.
Who is 3 going out with?
~♥ Haven't met her for years.. so no idea.
.:.
How old is 4?
~♥ under-age! hahahaha!!
.:.
Who is 6's favourite singer?
~♥ Waks... Never knew. I only knew her dream house type. Never knew much about songs myself.. (^^!)
.:.
Would you date 7?
~♥ If I was a guy and we're 13 years back, why not!
.:.
Is 10 single?
~♥ Yes...
.:.
What is 9's last name?
~♥ ermm.... (^^!)
.:.
Would you consider being in a relationship with 1?
~♥ relationship??? more like friendship
.:.
Which school does 2 go to?
~♥ The same place I went from form 1 till finished our degree.
.:.
What do you like about 3?
~♥ Her sunshine smile

I just realise that some had done this tag so its up to you fellow bloggers!!

Goose's Dream and The Ugly Duckling

2009-02-06T10:25:00.009+08:00

I love reading The Ugly Duckling. Why wouldn't I since it was written by my fav Hans Christian Andersen after all. It's such a beautiful-sad story with such a pretty ending. Ah yes, my kind of idea of another romantic story I would say *smile*.

If you read my Full of Sunshine post, you might came across to Goose Dream song. Ah yes.. how I love this song nowadays... The singer wasn't that pretty (the song titled Goose's Dream anyway) but it's a beautiful song and she sang it beautifully as well (Insooni's not that young anymore but like the elder said, dont judge the book by its cover). I can imagine the ugly duck looking, gazing and admiring the beautiful swans without knowing that he was a swan too. ah yes... he had that dream... *dreaming*.

A result of my love on the Ugly Duckling and Beethoven Virus = Goose's Dream.. enjoy *wink*

(credit on waseline21 for the video)

Btw, I will not post the Hangul Lyrics nor the romanize lyrics. But in case you can read Hangul or want to sing to the tune, you can get it at here though.

English Translation taken from soompi forum

A Goose’s Dream / A Swan’s Dream
Translation by x3Yesung of Soompi

I have a dream,
Even if I’m thrown away or ripped to shreds
Deep in my heart
I have a dream as precious as gem

If by chance, without a reason,
Somebody ridicules me behind my back
I should be patient
I would wait just for that day.

As you always worry,
You say that foolish dreams are poisonous.
Just like a book that tells us about the end of the world
There’s the reality that we can’t turn back already

chorus:
Yes I have a dream.
I believe in that dream
Please watch over me
Standing in front of that cold wall called fate
I can firmly face it

One day I will pass over that wall
And be able to fly
As high as the sky
This heavy thing called life can’t tie me down
At the end of my life,
On the other day that I can smile, let’s be together

Full of Sunshine

2009-02-02T12:22:00.008+08:00

This tag is going to be my 100th post pula. heheh...

Tagged by Rin-Chan and since she is my Sunbae's on Korean thingy, I'll just used the songs in my Korean Music's folder for this tag.

RULES:

1. Put your iTunes, Windows Media Player, etc. on shuffle.
2. For each question, press the next button to get your answer
3. You must write that song name down NO MATTER HOW silly it sounds.
4. Put any comments in brackets after the song name.
5. Put this on your journal/blog.

Here goes mine:

1. If someone says, “Is this okay?” … you say?
Perhaps Love
(what can I say... )

2. How would you describe yourself?
Smoke gets in your eyes
("my true love was true..." old song sure gets me!)

3. What do you like in a girl/guy?
If (Taeyeon)
("If only...")

4. How do you feel today?
Flight of the BumbleBee (Maksim)
(semangat!!!)

5.What is your life’s purpose?
Tears
("The goodbyes we always said, Why does it makes me feel so sad today" *sob-sob*
... *giggle* )

6. What is your motto?
If
(again??? hahahaha... blame the shuffle thingy!)

7. What do your friends think of you?
Paradise
(by T.Max)

8. What do you think of your parents?
Fate
(by Park Wan Kyu)

9. What do you think about very often?
Dangshinun Nanun Baboimnida
(by STAY ...- "I can't live without you" *giggle*.)

10. What is 2 + 2?
Lucky
("... lucky in my life ..." by Ashily)

11. What do you think of your best friend?
Reason (by Jong IlYong)
("You mustn’t disappear from my life, Know that you are my light, If you leave, you take away my whole world...")

12. What do you think of the person you like?
Full of Sunshine/ Haessal Gadukhi
("Only for you.. my love.. be with you" *saranghae oppa!!*)

13. What is your life story?
Don't Forget / Itjima
(by Ryu)

14. What do you want to be when you grow up?
Bonael Su Omnun sarang (by Seon)
("...I'm not afraid...")

15. What do you think of when you see the person you like?
Perhaps Love
(hahaha... this shuffle setting just knew the song I love)

16. What will you dance to at your wedding?
Chongugui Giok/ Heavens Memory
("If you would keep my heart, just a little bit of my heart…Even if tears are shed in the lost memories, I will forever love you")

17. What will they play at your funeral?
Goose's Dream/ Gowiye Kkum
(by Insooni. "One day I will pass over that wall and be able to fly as high as the sky
This heavy thing called life can’t tie me down, at the end of my life, on the other day that I can smile, let’s be together")

18.What is your hobby/interest?
Can you hear me?
(by TaeYeon)

19. What is your biggest fear?
Give Me a Little Try
(by Seo Hyeo Jin)

20. What is your biggest secret?
Dangshinun Nanun Baboimnida
(by Stay, "I was a fool, I was a fool, My regrets came late, no way to undo it" ... hahahaha!!)

21. What do you think of your friends?
And I Love you so...
(sung by Lee Dong Gu in My Boyfriend is type B : yes... I love you guys
"And I love you so, the people ask me how, How I live till now, I tell them I don’t know")

22. What will you post this as?
Full of Sunshine/ Haessal Gadukhi
(yay... three songs repeated in this tag. Anyway, I love this song so much.. sung by the adorable Jang Geun Suk in Doremifasolatido (^^,) )

Am not going to tag anyone but feel free to do this if you want. All songs above can be get from youtube(dot)com.

My Name is ... (Knowing the Lundayeh People - Part 2)

2009-02-01T16:41:00.003+08:00

The Lundayeh have their own idea/ ways on names. Yes we have quite-a-unique names though nowadays most parents gave western-modern names to their children (like me! hahaha!). Well, hubby and I did gave a Lundayeh name (along with the western one) to my son and it's stated in his birth certs so I'm excused in this case ok *wink*.

How unique is Lundayeh's name? Let me start with ones with very direct meaning (no transalation needed for bahasa). Here goes...

Singa (english translation : lion)
Kancil (english translation : mousedeer)
Baru (english translation : new)
Agung (english translation : king? majesty? well .. I think i need help here *wink*)

**Those were the ones that cross my mine at this moment

Next, let me share some names that needed a little bit shake on the brain.. oh yeah *wink*.

Selutan (origin--> SULTAN. source: my late grandfather)

Buayeh (sounded like the peninsular people pronounce BUAYA with H added at the end and no!! I'm not mocking, this is fact)

Bua' (BUAH)

**There more but not at this moment.. *sigh* (any Lundayeh/ Lunbawang people are welcome to enlighten me with more names...)

I have one too!! _Allau_It was given by my late-grandfather but never stated in my birth cert which I don't know why. My grandparents are/were the only ones that called me by that name. Strangely enough, I kinda like that name now though I hated it when I was young. But a dear aunty (who shared the same name with me) told me that it's a good and strong name. However I wonder why I am not as strong (physically) enough as that name *sigh*.

My Little Eagle was given a Lundayeh name as well (Kenui) which means.. Eagle! hehehe!! My dad even thought and suggested us if (I repeat IF) we have a baby girl in the future.. The name started with the same alphabet with son's western name, Gituen.. means STAR.

I never wish to push away these traditional names and luckily hubby had the same thought. We knew that one day, our descendant(s) will be proud with the name(s) that we gave.

Yes... one day...*dreaming*

A 'fever' that I had and still have ^^

2009-01-31T07:57:00.020+08:00

It's been some time I had not said anything about my korean thingy addiction . I did mentioned about a fever I had been having in a previous post. Yes Rin-Chan Unni... though you did not mentioned it, I knew you had read my mind. hahaha.... The fever I was talking about was none other than

Boys Before Flowers (BBF)

This drama is still ongoing on KBS2 and since we can't have it through ASTRO, had to watch it online at MySoju ... while wait 'patiently' for it to be aired on KBS. For some who still wonders what the world was am I talking about here... It's a korean version of Hana Yori Dango (japanese) and Meteor Garden (Taiwanese) which was adapated from a manga titled Hana Yori Dango itself. For korean (and Hana Yori Dango) fans, this is a drama that you MUST watch!! For HYD fans, don't get irritated by this korean version since they tried the best to capture important scene from the manga but twisted it a little bit so it blend well in korean lifestyle. If you read the manga, you'll understand what I meant. Yes people!!! I read the manga as well (first half from brother's collection and the rest reading it online).

Now.. if you started to think "What wrong with her anyway?? With that age?? and a mom some more??" Well, you need to read this. It'll help *wink*. Okies... enough talk, let me share with you more about BBF (sort of).

Hana Yori Dango (manga-special one shot edition cover)

*credits to onemanga (read HYD manga online here)

How can one resist such casts???
Personal opinion: I love the Korean casts the most! Don't they resembled the manga version so much? (compare with the above photo) Sorry Rin-Chan ^^!

I had a hard time recognising her from Chilwoo.
I'm almost off-league compare to Rin-Chan about this ^^.

yes ladies... drool over. Lee Min-Ho as being JunPyo-left photo (Domyoji Tsukasa) makes me fall for him at the very moment he appeared in the drama. Though I don't fall for Kim Hyun-Joong-right aka JiHoo instantly (unlike Rui in the manga).. my feeling for him is getting better and better ^^.

Unlike BBF, I hated Domyoji's character earlier in the manga. However, time by time had made me love Domyoji Tsukasa even more (though Hanazawa Rui was not bad at all-he's actually the pity one in the story *sigh*). Other than a lovey dovey stroy, I kinda love the friendship stories between the character. Read the manga and you'll get what I mean.

Domyoji Tsukasa character... evolved in manga

Okay... how bad this addiction will be on me?
Hmm... show me where to buy a collection of HYD manga.. I'll BUY THEM!
The DVD is out? Show them to me!

But if I had to choose between manga and the DVD (reminder to self: it's recession*wink*) I pick the manga (that will sure makes Kamio Yoko happy -the manga writer and the source of all this addiction..yea *wink-wink*). Of course the book version will always win in my case... *wink-wink*.

Helpful links for the fans
watch Boys Before Flower online (english sub)
Rin-Chan's reviews on Boys Before Flowers
My Other Favourite Reviews on Boys Before Flowers

Happy Weekend

Trip to Sabah

2009-01-30T14:20:00.006+08:00

Another part of my 'balik kampung' trip.

It's been raining almost all the time.
The rivers' water level in some part in the rural area rise up.

Flood in Beaufort town. This town had used to it that no one really complaints or bothers about it anyway. For me, they should do something about the drainage system but it's hard to say since the Sungai Padas' water level is over the limit'. Can't "THEY" do anything about this? New buildings were everywhere but how can people operate or do business if this happen almost ALL THE TIME? I'm not an engineer nor a politician so my nag mostly might be useless here...

Morning view from my aunt's house at Cinta Mata, Tenom (small town). We spent a night there and I'm happy to see misty surrounding. Won't be seeing this back in Labuan. (^^)

Remember I mentioned about wanting to eat the Tenom stuffed Tofu in my previous post?? ^#&@!#&#!*!!!! BAD TIMING! In other words... I didn't have my stuffed tofu!! *sigh* However.... after looking here and there around town (second day of CNY), we managed to find a shop sells ChongKien soup. Then later we had a nice CNY special lunch at my cousin house at Cinta Mata. I was still sad about my Tofu that I actually forgot to take photo of the yummy lunch that my aunt and cousin prepared for us. (Dear Angela... the food was great especially the steamed corn-fed-chicken and roasted duck *I love roasted duck*)

ChongKien MeeHun Soup (the spelling might be wrong here... heheheh)
Though it's not as good as the one we used to have... this will do *sigh*.

Reminder to self: Next time, don't expect to have thy favourite stuffed-tofu in Tenom during CNY since most of the restaurants will be closed! *sigh*

Helpful Tips: Check out the food court at the upper level of Tenom Market for yummy Tenom stuffed tofu and ChongKien soup. But make sure you come early (preferable before 7.00 - 7.30 am) or the good stuff might be finished. hehehehe....

Oh.. the best part of the trip was actually meeting up with my roomate-sunbae(s) /seniors from secondary school. After 15 years, nothing really changed... I still can recognised them on the spot! Awet muda... hehehe

Happy Weekend!!!

Trip to Sabah (Balik Kampung)

2009-01-30T13:29:00.005+08:00

Yes... I'm back from the trip to my mom's side hometown in Tenom, Sabah. Been back for days but I got really tired from the trip. This was son-&-me second trip alone without hubby and I don't think I'll manage to go for another trip without hubby AGAIN. I think I'd drained out all energy (mentally and physically) with son and ended up tired and sick. Yes, as mentioned in my older post ... I'm not super-woman. Gets tired quite easily... huhuhu... *sigh*.

Anyway, I post our trip to my mom's-side village first...

Welcome to Kampung Baru Jumpa, Tenom
(translation in English = New Founded Village *I think...heheheh*)

Little Eagle was already tired and very sleepy

Hmmm... my grandparents still have this old fashioned but very effective bird chasser equipment...

and also the bird watch 'control-tower' hehehhe

A view from my grandparents' house.
The village is actually situated in the valleys

Son's just learning, seeing and touching paddy grains.
It's almost harvesting season in the village.

One of the spots that I used to play at when I was small.
The paddy-field's water drainage is getting much narrow than it used to be... *sigh*

Grandparents' bodyguard that both me and Little Eagle were afraid off.
Sorry, i don't really like dogs... (^^!). Don't even expect me to pat a real dog. btw, this dog had made me accidentally KICK a durian in order for me to escape from him. Yes... my toes bled... very painful. Ohh.... It's durian season in Tenom. But I'm not really a hard-fan of durian so... no photo. hehehehe...

Do check the chicken on the left(the one with perm-like feather).
I think I rarely see this kind of chicken. It also have no fetaher on its neck. Very hard to capture a decent photo however. He/She kinda shy... huhuhu...

Wishing you

2009-01-22T06:27:00.003+08:00

Well, I'm off to the main land this morning!! So I'll be away for about a week.

Before that, want to post an early wish to all

Selamat Tahun Baru Cina

May you all have a prosperous year ahead!!!

it's Monday and I'm so excited!!!

2009-01-19T09:22:00.004+08:00

I typed this after posting the below... Just found it's full of nonsense. So I'd warned you right? Indirectly ^^.

Happy days people....

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Is it Monday already??? YES!!! I'd hated Mondays - past tense... ^^. Now am so happy for Mondays!! Please forgive me for those who hate Mondays still ^^.

Anyway... Chinese New Year is just around the corner and I'm so...... looking forward for it.

Am going back to my Mom's hometown in a few days more! Yea!!!! Haven't been there for quite some time! Oooo.... I have the "Tenom-Stuffed-Tofu and Chongkien" all in my mind right now!!! Nyum-nyum... am feeling hungry and salivating pula.. hohohoho!!! Guess after ten (10) years like that... am going to my cousin house at Cinta Mata this year for the CNY open house.. hehehe, can you believe it? We haven't been there for CNY no less than 10 years already??? Yea... Angela, if you're reading this... do make a grand open house one okies!! haahahhaha....

**do excuse me for my terible/lintang-pukang words there.... I'm just so excited ^^

A hungry Robot??

2009-01-18T17:44:00.004+08:00

Well, i guess I hardly had any NAG these days (yeah right *wink-wink*), that's why my blog had been quiet... ^^. However, son had an interesting thing for me yesterday. He had been asking me to cook mee and insisted to have mee for lunch as well. I cooked the mee of course (okay..it's mee hun/bihun *whichever* to be exact). I left him eating on his own for a while (we had our lunch in the living room) and when I'm back... gues what I found....

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A hungry Robot???

Okay now, for those who have bad eyesight (like me) let me help you with the zooming okay!

After I took a snap of the scene, son took his Robot and ran away... laughing. I am sure I will print this photo and stick it in the album to show it to Little Eagle years later^^

Me --> what was he thinking?? Anyway, have a fun weekend!

Where Oh where had I been? ^^

2009-01-15T23:24:00.007+08:00

Ah... my blog had been abandoned for a week.. ^^ . Caught a 'fever' these days *wink-wink*. Will share about it some other time.

Well for the time being, bought these at the market.. I love this long cabbages... It's sweet, crunchy and easy to cook. And how can I neglect my long beans.. it's one of my son's favourite (raw or cooked).

My dad used to tell us (siblings) so called-'theories' on vegetables when we were young just to make us eat our greens (note: We're not that pick however ^^). Now, let me share some of my Dad's theories on foods that just might help your children to change their eating habit^^.

Eat long beans if you want long hair (though daddy cut our hair short every month-primary school)
Eat bitter gourds (peria) if you want the mosquitoes keep away from you - dad said the bitter taste will apparently makes your blood turn bitter too and mosquitoes hate bitter blood^^ *yea right* (this made me ended up swallow my gourd without chewing them first).
Eat lots of spinach so you can be strong like Popeye!! (thanks to Popeye) Ah yes, and I believed daddy ONCE UPON A TIME^^

Well, that's all what I can remember for now ^^. However, these were some of what I had on the table for my express lunch and dinner.

It's not fried rice! I stir fried the prawns and vegies before mixing it with some hot steamed brown rice. Add dashes of sesame oil and sesame seed... ^^ This was my first try of the local brown rice. Will simply add it in my kitchen now since I love the texture. Felt like eating barleys (which I love). Very chewy and soft! Nyum-nyum ...

Craving for some chinese food^^.
Ooo.. how I love shiitake mushrooms with chicken wings..

And things that happened around my humble house...

Remember my pumpkin? Pumpkin is getting bigger!! My first very own pumpkin!!

Son spotted a dragonfly and I'm trying my best to snap a good photo... alas.. not a good one though! I just realised that I haven't seen any ladybird around for a long...... time!

And Litlle Eagle learned a new trick on his bubble-blow-skill -->blow a quite big bubble, control his breathe, and caught it back!
When he asked me to do it, I actually failed *sigh*. The bubble either POP or fly away................... (^^!)

Tag: Handwriting

2009-01-09T15:44:00.002+08:00

Tagged by Rin-Chan and MrsGraig on this one.

The Handwriting Tag.

RULES

Write :-
1. Your name/ identification name / username etc.

2. Write anything using either your left/ right hands

3. Most favorite alphabets

4. Less favorite alphabets.

5. "The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog"

6. Tag 6 more persons/ bloggers

So, here's my handwriting..

Bah, to dear friends yang ada nama tuh... rajin-rajin kanlah diri anda ah! hohoho!!!! ^^

A lazy lunch

2009-01-09T13:26:00.010+08:00

It's almost weekend but unlike others, weekends spell BUSY to me. Ai... what can I say, I'm lazy these days ^^ and it affecting me in the kitchen as well. Like every Fridays, hubby is home for lunch (yes, thanks for the long.... hours of lunch time on Fridays ^^ which also applied to semi-government).

Am thinking from the morning "What's for lunch?".

Luckily Little Eagle made a suggestion, " Rice mommy, fried rice...".

aah... now, that's a suggestion.

But instead of just serving it as it is, I made some effort here (since less effort in cooking ^^) .

It's fried rice with mixed Veggie (frozen one.. yes, I'm super lazy today) , diced courgette (since it's freshness is about to fade), some thinly sliced meat, lots of onion (thinly chopped), anchovies, big chunks of garlics (I like) and lots.. of black sesame seeds for crunch!

With coriander leaves on top, yummy...

And since son had two eggs for breakfast, he only had his with sliced Nori on top. Son ate his Nori first before proceed with the rice. Now, if you think that it's a 'large' serving for son, hubby ate half of it! hohohoho!!!

A week back, we had this for lunch...

Some sliced mackerel (need a meat break after all the dinners we had)

and... vegetables; not sure what it's called. hubby's favourite though, he called it 'sayur licin' or direct translated as "slippery veggies" ???? hahahaha!!! anyone welcome to amend/correct this ^^.

more Brocoli ^^

More steamboat moments

2009-01-03T11:04:00.003+08:00

Our family loves steamboat. My sis suggested a place somewhere around Sunway so we went there. It's a buffet steamboat cost RM19.80 per person. Eat all you want but waste NONE! You might be charged RM5 for every 100gm wasted.

The place was full and we ALMOST get to had our dinner at the roof top.
Almost? Yes, if it's not rain.. we had our dinner outside (pretty surrounding though).

But since it started to rain and a table was just about available, we moved back in..

Everybody helped themselves. I can't take photo of the food choices available since I'm stuck inside (our table was at the corner) and had to depend to others to take the food. However, the choices of food varies so much and the fried rice available was quite tasty too (according to my cousin).

Dessert after stuffing myself. Hubby took this for me. Yellow Jelly, ice cream and Melon. ^^

BBQing at BBQ Plaza, 1 Utama

2009-01-02T13:42:00.008+08:00

This spot was our favourite during the holiday trip since we went there TWICE! Little cousin Irene just can't have enough of the food here.

Food choices were prepared in sets. We took the largest set available!! and we had three sets of them!! Oh.. we have 12 hungry mouths to feed here.. and that's not including Little Eagle!

Looking back at these photos making me hungry! Let the photos do the talking okay!!

Set we ordered includes these two serving plates: photo above and below
(and we had three sets of them=6 plates). One set cost around RM40+ (one set can satisfy 3-4 adult) and if you ordered green tea, you can refill your glass until you pass out ^^.

Son enjoyed the moments as well, helping others to cook. Am surprised that he used the chopstick dy.

You can see that the amounts of vegetables served were quite huge! Surprisingly, my cousin, Irene (who never eat cabbage before) finished 1 adult portion and saying that it was delicious!!

But seriously... I don't think she'll manage to finished that with the help of the dipping sauce they served. The sauce was superb! Very delicious I tell you!!

Lok-Lok Experience

2009-01-02T11:18:00.004+08:00

Look, I don't care if its street food or what. I am into any good food and since highly recommended by mom and sister, we went to SS2 area to hunt for Lok-Lok during our previous trip! Am not sure if the spelling is correct there ^^. However, Lol-Lok is actually a kind of steamboat dish. By the way.. did I said HUNT?? Yes.. we did HUNT for it since the Lok-Lok vendor sells his food on a small truck and he'll move from one place to another.. depending on empty car park.. park his truck and sell his food and from what we heard, he only sells these during the night time.

You get to pick your own food, put it in the hot boiling chicken stock.. wait for it to cook and eat! Of course there's no seat and table, and we bought our canned drinks from a store just across the street!

The dipping sauces that were provided. You can mix and match the dipping sauces.

A baby Octopus on a stick! Actually they were three (3) octopus on that stick. This one was some of cooked items they had, so you can just eat it right away!

Other choices available.. (raw ones)

How much it cost? Well, it depends on you! Looking closely, the vendor actually coloured the end of all the stick (different colours). Different colour means different price (yes..just like in the Sushi King outlets where the price refered to the serving plate's colour). The prices ranged from RM1.50 to RM4.50 (if not mistaken) per stick! The expensive one refers to the Oyster... etc! So..to those who live in that area.. go HUNT for Lok-Lok!

If any knows a place/vendor like this in Kota Kinabalu area, do let me know *wink*.