bb chung wei & his new hair-style(much much shorter hair liao)....

my comment: more mature looking/ look more naughty/ not so cute.... hehehe... but hey! he's stil my handsome little nephew...

those were the days...

my hubby & i usually hang out together with the same group of friends(namely the YEOHs, WH, JY, KS & BG)...

during uni/college days and the few years after graduating, where else do we hang out but the fav MAMAK? dunno why we are not into Coffee Bean etc.... maybe becoz we just don't hv the $$$..... hehehe

but these days, or shall i say after the latest addition to our group of bb YEOH JOO YEE, we usually gather at the YEOHs home... u know-lah.... bb not supposed to be out late at nite... got to sleep early(though they don't really sleep on time)....

hmmm.... it was fun meeting up with them again yesterday.. at least i get to see bb joo yee after a couple of months... and wow! she has grown up beautifully.... check this out!

* she loves to chat. she loves to smile. she loves to laugh. she is four months plus old, joo yee *

snacks 2

remember me mentioning the japanese mochi? this is how it looks like after unwrapping the lovely box... the taste: VERY SWEEEETTTT.....

bandar setia alam

yesterday was spent with hubby & in-laws at our newly handover house at bandar setia alam... we got the keys earlier but due to hubby was away to japan, only yesterday do we get to check the house for defects... and this is the view from my master bedroom windows(what view? no mountain.. no sea.... just a row of houses lor... hehehe)

snacks

hubby returned last saturday from japan but not without some japanese snacks for me.....he will surely buy me some japanese snacks each time he returned from there... not much but just enough to make my mouth shut from alwiz complaining "HOW I WISH I CAN VISIT JAPAN"..... hehehe.... among my favourite is mochi & those POCKY like buscuits...

cute cute cute

last friday, i managed to snap a few candid shots of my nephew before my mum-in-law gave him a quick bath...

* i am so cute, rite?*

* do you like my after-bath hair style? *

master chan's b'day

may 24th.. a group of us(my colleagues & i) gave one of our colleague, master chan, a surprise birthday at our office... we planned this the very last minute... just a small cake to celebrate his b'day and i can tell you that the cake is yummy! good choice, steven(the one who chose the cake).....

surprise!!!

yesterday while i was having a late dinner with my parents & lil' sis, my handphone rang(earlier i thought no need to bring along the h/p since i am not expecting any calls especially when hubby is not in m'sia)....

but what a surprise when i see my hubby's name appearing on my h/p screen.. can't be coz hubby had said many times that his h/p can't be used in japan to call me back in m'sia since they are using different phone system there (unless of course u buy the latest nokia N models)....

me: hello dear...
hubby: hello wife... where are u now? must be playing mahjong at your parents home-leh...

me: no-lah... having dinner with them actually... but hey, how come you can call me when
u're still in japan ah?
hubby: i'm now in KLIA, my dear wife...

me: cannot be... u said u onli coming back next wednesday...
hubby: remember yesterday i told you that i am coming back to m'sia today...

me: yes... but i thought you were joking coz you sound so sleepy at that time... plus you
will alwiz call me before you board the plane to come back m'sia and this time you
didn't...
hubby : aiyah... i am really in KLIA, my dear wife....

me: hmmm... true or not? stop jokinglah...
hubby: if i am not in m'sia, how come i can use my h/p to call u now....

me: so, u r really back here huh?(hurray! since i hv miss him so much)
hubby: yes.... don't you believe me?

me: okie okie..... shall wait for u at my parents home ya.... remember to collect all ur
luggage before boarding the taxi...
hubby: yes, my dear wife... see u later....

yup... my hubby is back from japan.... 5 days earlier than expected... so much things to chat with him... what a surprise!

genting trip

may 20th '06, my fellow friends & colleagues went for a 2 days 1 nite trip to one of my fav place, genting....all 6 of us(me, joanne b, willaim c, yvonne, moon & steven) started our trip with "dim sum" breakfast at tmn mayang.....

we reached the tophill at about 11.30am and managed to check-in early to the hotel rooms... when we arrived, the weather was hot + humid.... i mean it supposed to be cool rite? sigh.....

we have earlier bought the mysteria, "believe the impossible" package at RM 111.00 per person which includes accomodation(twin sharing), ticket to watch mysteria, one meal and return genting skyway....

after check-in, we took a short rest before we headed for lunch at Pizza Hut...... the view from our room is simply beautiful.... we get to view the whole outdoor theme park.....
after lunch, we spent a couple of hours at the casino... as usualy, i lost RM 10.00... hehehe... spent on the jackpot machine lor.... william then treated us to coffee bean with his casino winnings where we oso met up with another friend, senn who is there to watch connie francis concert with his parents + bro......

the weather in the evening is cool + misty... we enjoyed our outdoor seating at the coffee bean, resort hotel..... before the mysteria show, we hanged out a while at the pool table.. besides pool, we oso played some games on the slot machines, which tested our eye-sight a lot on two photos which are quite similar.... we need to spot five differences for each photo at the shortest time... it was not easy man.... six pairs of eyes on the machine and yet, we can't even break the record!

and before we rest for the day, we gave a little surprise to steven.... a belated birthday cake(just a slice for him)... hehehe... he was so surprised.....
the following day after having breakfast, me, yvonne, william & steven took two rides at the indoor theme park... the bumper car + the roller coaster........ we woke up quite early while joanne + moon slept till 10am.... it has been a few years since i last took these rides.. hehehe...

after check-out, we had buffet lunch before heading home.... it was a sumptious lunch which all of us enjoyed so much......

looking forward to our next plan trip.... maybe to penang.... the heaven for FOOD....

hubby & bb

wanna post this pic for quite sometime liao... hubby hv been away to japan for more than a week... miss him so muchhhh.........

before he left home, he actually had master the art of carrying his nephew, bb chung wei.... didn't expect that hubby could carry him without any problem... as for me, i only hv the courage to do so this few days....check it out!

* my handsome little prince with his handsome uncle *

full time housewife for a day

took annual leave today... very seldom that i will take leave and go nowhere for a holiday. but this time i did... which means i got a long break, 4days... friday to monday(due to wesak day)...

and yup! i get to wake up late... about 8am.... woken up by a SMS... then a phone call... by the time i woke up, my little nephew, bb chung wei is already up and smiling! he must be surprised to see me still at home at that time...

breakfast: one whole packet of CHEEZELS, all by myself.... hehehe...

then i helped mum-in-law to hang the clothes to dry.... watch TV, read newspaper, surf the net & chat with bb...

lunch: i cook my own lunch today... maggi goreng... but it turned out to be saltish... now i know what to do next time when i fried maggi.... to control the seasoning... no need to put all in...

after lunch, it's nap time! i actually slept for almost 2 hours.... so relax.... hmmm... maybe to stay as a full time housewife ain't a bad idea after all....

hubby supposed to come home for lunch but last minute was informed that he got to stay in office till he get his travelling allowance... sigh... which means i can't spend more time with him before he leave for japan... by the time he reached home, it was 5pm!

actually, while writing this, hubby is on his way to KLIA airport... start to miss him oledi... sob.. sob... can't see him for two weeks until may 31st!

human is like this... they will never appreciate ppl/things around them until they miss it for some time.... i mean now that hubby is away, i wished that me & him could have chat more... wished that me & him can have more mahjong games with my parents, wished that me & him can go for more japanese meals together(my fav food).... so many wishes....

for you guys who are with family/hubby/bf/friends now.... appreciate your time with them...

after staying at home for one day... do i want to be a full time housewife? the answer is : YES but for once a month onli... there's so many way to de-stress at home.... i love the freedom to do as i want... to eat, to sleep, to surf the net, to chat with hubby etc....

ring! ring! i can actually hear my office phones ringing now..... sigh....

mothers' day

it's mothers' day today... my in-laws don't really celebrate it. so, hubby & i celebrated it with my mummy instead. hubby treated us to Restoran Thai Corner, Taipan Subang.... daddy, mummy, hubby & i had so much food namely fried pucuk paku with belacan, fried omelette thai style, deep fried sotong, mango kerabu, pandan leaf chicken & our fav thai dessert, tub-tim grob (water chesnut in coconut milk)- we had it with jackfruit(nangka) as well

and i found the recipe for this delicous dessert... check it out...

http://www.thaitable.com/Thai/recipes/Rubies_in_Coconut_Milk.htm

after the lunch, we played rounds of mahjong till evening... what a leisure day... good food and good mahjong... hehehe

ribena jelly

today i spared some time to make ribena flavoured jelly for hubby before he leave for 2 weeks business trip to japan tomorrow.... going to miss him.... however, the jelly turned out soft... dunno why... must be the type of sugar i used... sigh...

beatrice & chak punn's birthday

MAY is a gathering month. both for birthday and for wedding.... last thursday, our group of "ji mui" celebrated beatrice & chak punn's birthday at ACTUALLY THAI, Sunway Pyramid.. the food is so, so only... and guess what? we have a new addition to our big group... and this special one is bb Joshua, elaine's young bb....

* this haagen-dazs strawberry ice-cream cake was sponsored by stanley(beatrice's other half).... *

* chak punn hv his own way to blow out the candle *

* little joshua & his daddy, william *

may 7th...

at a very last minute, hubby & i went back to my family's home to celebrate my daddy's 52nd birthday... when i said last minute, it's really last minute... almost 9.30pm we reached home to sang him a birthday song followed by the CAKE! yup... it was a delicious cheesecake bought from GOOD TASTE bakery near our home.... all 7 of us enjoyed the cake a lot(me, hubby, daddy, mummy, sis, bro & his fiance')

* it's not always that you can see my daddy smile *

* the delicious birthday cheesecake sponsored by my mummy *

things are differents these days

when i mention "things" now, i mean my working life.... dunno how to put it in words... only a few ppl namely hubby, family & my "ji mui" know what i am talking about...

working life sucks nowadays... how to describe in details? sigh.... i dunno... i dunno... i dunno....

i hv this headache for the past weeks... i actually hv headache everyday from the time i start working till i reach home...

anything wrong with me??? even those "panadols" can't help! i know i shouldn't take unnecessary "pills" but what can i do?

you might say, just don't think about work.. just don't care what will happen next... just don't care what ppl say...

i can assure you that it ain't easy not to think about anything.....

rite now, i just know one thing, i need a BREAK! maybe a long BREAK! or maybe just go away to a far far land.... somewhere which hv no phone access....!

farmland

may 3rd - me and my colleagues joanne, conique, danette, eunive & william went for steamboat porridge... we had this porridge steamboat craving since last month.... and finally we get to eat what we want to eat... hehehe..... in the end, this was how our porridge steamboat pot looks like.... green! green! green!

may 1st... labour day...

i joined my own family for a mahjong session at my 2nd uncle, Tony's house at puchong... long time since i last met all of them...

it was a fun day coz i get to meet my aunties, uncles, cousin bros & cousin sis.... though not everyone was there but it was enough to make my day! even my youngest grandauntie paid us a visit.... she reminds me of my grandma.... i miss my grandma...

and today, may 7th supposedly is my dad's 52nd birthday but we celebrated one week earlier at the SHOGUN, one Utama...... all 7 of us(me, hubby, dad, mum, sis, bro & his fiance) had a very very sumptious japanese buffet there.....

***** my mummy and my daddy***

kafe herbspice

sis-in-law treated us to a nice meal at this cafe.... this place is located at SS15, subang(quite near to the KFC there).... hmmm... my comment on the food there? delicious.... especially the pumpkin soup and this grilled salmon with orange sauce... yummy!

my two month old bb nephew...

finally! my nephew now starts staying overnight at my house(from sundays to fridays) since his mummy is back to work after her two months maternity leave. so, i hv many many chance to snap a photo of him. hehehe...

* auntie peggy, i know i am very cute, but no need to take a photo of me-lah, hehehe, shy only*

* grandma, make sure i get a nice bath ya *

The Classic IQ test

what's your IQ? if you have the time, check out this site. have fun!

my iq test

my IQ result is this:(not that genius after all....hehehe)

Congratulations, Peckyee!Your IQ score is 113

This number is based on a scientific formula that compares how many questions you answered correctly on the Classic IQ Test relative to others. Your Intellectual Type is Precision Processor. This means you're exceptionally good at discovering quick solutions to problems, especially ones that involve math or logic. You're also resourceful and able to think on your feet. And that's just some of what we know about you from your test results.

customer service

there is so many types of customer out there. friendly, fussy, funny & weird! check out this conversation between two customer service executives (CSE I & II) with a lady customer (Ms ABC) on one fine day, late in the evening.

CSE I : Good evening, Customer Service Dept.
Ms ABC : hello. This is Ms ABC calling from XXX Company and i just fax in a toner order form. Did you receive it?
CSE I : Let me check for you Ms ABC. One moment please.

(after checking the fax machine for the order form)

CSE I : Yes, Ms ABC, we have receive your order form.
Ms ABC : Okay. Then, can I speak to Ms Catherine?
CSE I : I'm sorry Ms ABC but we do not have CSE name Catherine here.
Ms ABC : You sure or not? I just spoke to her few minutes ago.
CSE I : Well, we have two executives from the toner department but neither of them is
Catherine.
Ms ABC : Cannot be. Cannot be. I am sure i spoke to her just now.
CSE I : In this case, let me check for you. Hold on, please.

CSE I referred this case to CSE II.

CSE I : Ms ABC, I'll now pass this line to our CSE II. Maybe she can help you.
Ms ABC : Okay.
CSE II : Good evening Ms ABC, this is YYY speaking here. How can I help you?
Ms ABC : I want to speak to Catherine.
CSE II : I'm sorry Ms ABC, but we don't have any staff name Catherine here. Is there
anything I can help you? Is it regarding toner order?
Ms ABC : Aiyah. I only want to talk to Catherine. She's the one who fax me the toner order
quotation just now.
CSE II : Hmm... I have your order form now and I can see that it was prepared by CSE ZZZ.
Ms ABC : You sure or not? I am sure there is a Catherine at your office. She said that she's from
Sales Dept.
CSE II : Yes Ms ABC. I am sure we don't have a CSE name Catherine here. By the way, we
have a CSE name Catherine from our Kuching branch.
Ms ABC : No. No. No. This Catherine I spoke to just now is from your Shah Alam office here.
CSE II : Perhaps I can help you to check your order Ms ABC.
Ms ABC : No need-lah. I only want to speak to Catherine only. But since you said there's no one
name Catherine then never mind-lah(she then slam down the phone)
CSE I & II : ?????

The very next day, Ms ABC refax the same toner order form but with this notes:

" I am cancelling this order after spoken to CSE II that there is no one name Catherine who can handle my order "

mahjong mahjong

yesterday was our weekly mahjong game at my parents' home... one of my winning was this:

i was lucky ain't i??? .... i mean it's not always that you have this beautiful tiles...

44,444

as i was parking my car today, i noticed this inauspicious number on my car mileage counter...so, i just decided to take a pic of it.

nephew nephew

cute little pics of my nephew who came to visit us last sunday...

Mahjong

for the past two weeks, each time after hubby & i had dinner at my family house, we played rounds of mahjong... hubby, me & mummy will usually start playing mahjong around 7.30pm till 9.30pm(when my daddy come back from work)... and then daddy will join us while mummy can only sit beside him....

time really flies when u start playing mahjong... i mean, you won't realised that it's already late at nite... i can now understand why some ppl are so addicted to mahjong...

there is so many ways of winning... and one of it is this:

(proud to say that i was the winner for that round)

though i only learnt about mahjong recently(the first game was during CNY earlier this year), i hv fun playing it...thanks to hubby who hv been guiding me!...hehehehe.... looking forward to go home weekly to my family house for rounds of mahjong..

delicious food...

once a week, hubby & i will hv dinner at my family house... just 15 minutes drive from my in-law place... my mum will normally just cook rice with vege + meat... anyway, one day, she cooked one of my fav dish which is Singapore Fried Chicken... yummy!!! we had it with spaghetti. as you can see from this pic, where is the spaghetti huh???

belated CNY pics...

my "ji mui" senn finally email me the pics for our Y2006 CNY gathering... yup... those pics were taken earlier this year in February at w.chok's home....
we had fun on that day coz we played rounds of BLACK JACK... the fun part is almost every game, we have someone shouting BLACK JACK! or DOUBLE ACE... even for myself, i had rounds of BLACK JACK, DOUBLE ACE and not forgetting to mention 777.... yup! it was once in many many rounds that we encounter such situation!

MELAKA TRIP

april 8th '06, five of us (me, joanne, yvonne, william & steven) went to melaka for a two days one nite trip. at 7.30am, the guys start to pick up yvonne, me then joanne. and at 8.30am, we had "dim sum" breakfast at sri petaling...

about 10.30am, we arrived at the melaka town where we spent about an hour near the a' famosa historical place... i last visited melaka about 5 years ago & everything still looks the same to me... i mean, not much chages at this town actually....



before long at about 11.30am, all five of us were hungry. so, where else did we headed to if not the famous CHUNG WAH chicken rice ball(opposite the OCBC building).... averagely, we had 5 rice balls per person.. the meal cost about RM 25 for five person...

then we stroll along the JONKERS STREET and bought some souvenirs... at about 1.00pm, we were looking for food again! this time, we had "ais kacang" and tarts(portugese, durian cheese & mango cheese flavours)... the tarts are delicious especially the mango one....


after that, we checked in at Century Mahkota Hotel... our two bedrooms apartment are quite comfortable & spacious... we played rounds of cards till evening when our dear friend, Danette(who were back in Malacca for Qing Ming) joined us for dinner...

she brought us to one of the famous "satay celup" restaurants... forgot the name of the place liao... the place was crowded... luckily we were there early at about 6.30pm.... guess what?... all six of us ate a minimum of 20 sticks of satay celup... it was a satisfying meal....






after dinner, we went back to JONKERS WALK for the nite market... so many stalls there and not forgetting to mention the many many delicious food stalls there... sigh.. we were just too full... so, we only shared a plate of fried oysters... william & danette had "ais kacang" as well... me & jo tried the bubble pearl tea too... but it sucks!

we also bought some tarts & local delicacies from the stalls & shops there..... one of the shop, LW Nyonya Pineapple Tarts House was awarded malaysia book of records for baking the biggest pineapple tart in malaysia...


we ended the day afer we went for a drink at GreenWorld cafe... the place where yvonne's bf was working...

woke up at 8.00am the next day... we had buffet breakfast at the hotel.... then william drive us around malacca town before we checked out... but before that, we shopped at Tan Kim Hock to buy some "cencaluk", "dodol", sweets etc....

for lunch, we had nyonya food at the famous Ole' Sayang restaurant... we orders assam fish head, dry chicken curry, fried brinjal, ole's sayang tauhu and "otak-otak".... the food was superb...!

finally, about 1pm, we drove back to KL.... this trip is very memorable to me... coz it was the first time that i ate so much in one day! by the end of the day, i look like three months pregnant! hehehe.... looking forward to the next "eating" trip with them again...

we started the journey with food("dim sum")... we had food all along the way(chicken rice ball. "ais kacang", tarts, satay celup etc...)... and we ended the trip with food(nyonya food)!

Disney On Ice

http://disneyonice.disney.go.com/disneyonice/index.jsp

just found out that i hv won two(2) tickets to watch DISNEY ON ICE this coming week at stadium putra, bukit jalil...almost forgot that i had actually participated in this online contest organized by setiahomes.com....

i am really happy & excited becoz it reminds me of my honeymoon trip to hong kong disneyland, october last year...

guess what? another house buyer cum ex-colleague, Yeo, was in the winner list too... hopefully can arrange to meet up with him there coz last met him many many years ago... only been keeping in touch with him thru phone /email....

well, as for now... i need to wait for the entrance tickets to arrive... sigh... not sure if the tickets will ever reach me on time... keeping my fingers cross since i hv never watch DISNEY ON ICE before...

i finally found someone

i found this website which has the lyrics for the song I Finally Found Someone plus a midi file to listen to(put on the speaker ya)...

http://www.jennifer-too.com/tides/mirrorsong.html

well, why this song huh? coz it was my wedding song played when hubby & i entered our dining hall at oriental pearl restaurant, bukit kiara equesterian club... how time flies... i've been married for 6 months now!

besides that, our short slide presentation song was: I knew I Loved You Before I Met You...
found another link which has the lyrics + a sample of the music...

http://www.geocities.com/Nashville/Ranch/1166/ikilybimy.htm

both of this songs meant so much to me & hubby...

it reminds us of our sweet memory... our wedding day, oct 2nd '05..

full moon for bb chung wei

april 1st '06 - my little nephew celebrated his full moon at his paternal grandparents house at SS18, subang... here are a couple of the pictures taken for your viewing..

* he was still asleep when we first arrived.. pic here with his mum(my sis-in-law) *

* he was smiling when i took this pic. lucky me!... ain't he handsome??? *

jelly jelly jelly....

my dear hubby loves jelly.... especially konnyaku jelly... so, since we got married, i hv been perfecting my skills to make the best jelly in town!... hehehe.... i know it's not a tough task but thinking back to the first time that i actually tried making jelly, it's not an easy one!

coz instead of jelly, it turn out more like a pudding(the watery version of jelly actually)....but anyhow, hubby & my mum-in-law just love it becoz i used SUNKIST as flavour, it was very very SOUR! and just one bite will make your eyes open WIDE! hehehe....

after few months of making jelly, three main conclusions that i have:

i) do not over consume as it is very high in sugar... absolutely a no no for diabetics ppl....

ii) water measuring while making jelly is very important as it is the deciding factor whether your jelly will turn out to be perfect/watery....

iii) my hubby, family , colleagues & friends love it so much that i am thinking of revolutionizing this art of making jelly in the coming future... perhaps to combine jelly with other desserts? also to experiment it with different type of flavours beside the usual SUNKIST & RIBENA flavour..

hmmm... just let us wait & see... i'll definitely update you guys ya!