2014

*gasp* it's 2014!

What will be in store? What do I want to achieve in this year? 

Whatever it may be, I know I will be living life fully. It'll be another great year making memories with my kids, my family and my friends. I know.

Wishing my loved ones the same too. 

Happy New year, folks!

Open house warming.

Before chap goh meh marks the end of the festive season 2012, we had some friends over for an open house cum house warming consecutively for 2 days. I think that was a feat that I shouldn't attempt a second time!

It was so much work! But of course, it was very warm and joyous as well.

Earlier the week, I had my good friend from HK who stayed for a night before flying off home at the very ungodly hours of the morning. JM were here too and we had a pleasant evening chatting, 3 of us, we did come a long way, didn't we? Thanks, MY for dropping by, it's just great having you over.

Then, the next day we had a lunch with my yoga friends after our workout in the morning. Everyone brought something over. It was very short though as I needed to pick the kids home then. Nevertheless, we all had a good time.

On Saturday, my high school friends came by to say hi.

I had this crazy will to cook sole-handedly for all 11 friends of mine, who came with their spouses and children. Some offered to bring along something and I really appreciated that! I didn't want to have too much leftover food as well so you can imagine almost everything was wiped clean. I believe the old folks would disapprove immensely of that cause guests ought to be fed well till there are abundance of food left!

We had spiral pasta (which the kids absolutely LOVED), fried meehoon, chicken rice, grilled chicken wings, charsiu, fried wanton. And the brought over food, egg tarts, cheese pies, macaroni cheese, and some others that I forgot. We still have food left, like the chicken rice, which we ate for lunch next day.

Then, it was my hubs' turn, his colleagues. I had not much energy to cook a feast hence I made steamboat for them. Easy job but not quite a good idea when there were more than 10 adults in the list, since not everybody can squeeze into the table at one time. As such, the kids, elderly and women get the privilege to go first. The good stuffs like raw fishballs were finished by the time the men sat down for their turn. And boy, there were still too many food left after they were done.

After dinner, we had a lou-sang again. Much of it was spew around the table, luckily hubs had the foresight to put newspaper beneath it. But it wasn't finished off as everyone was pretty full, and I felt that was such a waste of money. Someone said that Jusco's version of lou-sang was the best, but I myself was too full to eat.

Many left about 10+ while 2 of them stayed on to play black jack with my dad and hubs right over midnight. The boys wanted to have a go at the table as well, so hubs let them play with his money. After which didi wanted to use his OWN money to play! He took RM1 from his piggybank and I asked him if he was sure. He said yes, he wanted to "make" some money.

I wasn't there together joining in the fun, as I was busy cleaning up the whole place. Boy! Exhaustive, man! 2 nights in a row sweeping and mopping up the floor like that. Holding parties without any helpers really is not much fun.

When I was done, I was on the way to my bathroom when I saw didi crying his eyeballs out. Right away I knew he must have lost his 1 buck then. There he goes, his first bittersweet experience in losing money over gambling.

I comforted him, telling him he must be prepared to lose the money when he plays. This is gambling. Making money should be from work and not through gambling. Yada Yada Yada on and on lecturing about how some people gamble till they lost everything and throw themselves out from the top of buildings. Yawnnnnn.....

Later, my hubs told me he made money wud.. What?? He said he lost his capital then and held his tears back strongly so the other nice chap offered to lend him 1 buck to play on. From then on, he won, and when he made 4, he quickly decided to cabut with his hard earned money, returned the 1 buck (without interest, of course!) and went to bed.

Jeez!! Imagine him borrowing money from Ahlong next time to gamble?

That was the weekend of parties over at our home. Though I had said it was hard work, now I wanna have another one soon coz it was just too fun!

Disney on Ice on April Fools day

It was their first "Disney on Ice" experience, but not mine or my hub's. We took korkor to watch it when we were in Brunei, he was about 3yo then, I think.

I didn't plan to watch it with them initially. A few days before the show, a friend sms-ed me to ask if I was interested to take up 4 tickets for the show for half its value. Apparently, her friend won them through a contest and couldn't make it as the tickets were for Friday night and they stay in Ipoh. I said ok, and she couriered them over and there we were!

Coincidentally, korkor had tuition class that night and since he's too big for these kiddo shows and the fact he went to one before, though he couldn't remember that, we went without him. The two of them were fascinated and I have to say, disney productions are always so impressive, at least to me. The performers skate too well, I so wished I could skate like that. But I couldn't even stand on those thin sharp blades!

The performance was really superb, with the songs, costumes, stage props, I was mesmerized and get misty eyes. I swear I'm not going to another Disney on Ice shows anymore!

It was getting too late for meimei and she was almost dozing off at its last part. Poor her! Sure exhausted la, after her gym training for 2 hours at school just as well! We went home and slept dreaming disney dreams.

CNY happening at KL

Last Saturday, we had a full day. Hub went off for a meeting with a visitor from B'desh with his colleagues, whilst I took the kids later for their classes. At 5pm, we dropped by at one of my old friend's home when I realized the rest of the gang already left. yikes!

After a short while, we headed straight to hub's colleague's home where they were having a community dinner with Ong Tee Keat as guest of honour. It was partly potluck and catered. We had more than enough food on our table. That followed by firecrackers and fireworks litting up the beautiful cool crispy night.

The kids had a wild time playing with fireworks and I don't know what else, coz the adults were busy at the 21 cards' table, drinking and talking cock away. It was so so fun! I won half a hundred away when later I lost it all again. But the happiness of getting a few black jacks was enough for me. So easy for me to be satisfied! We left at 1.30am. That was a new record for us all!

Christmas around the corner

Not something great to shout about, but I do love these pictures. Looking at them, they are all so grown up now. Must continue to snap more pics of them, with them, anything to do about them.


I'm so lucky to have these pretty and charming kids. *ahem*

Hari ini dalam sejarah.

11 years ago on this day...

I was starting my new life as someone's daughter-in-law, obediently helping out in cleaning up the mess in the kitchen and the whole house after the ceremony was over. It definitely did feel funny and weird to be in a home which doesn't seem like home to me yet, and my position in a different role. The weirdest thing is when I have to call her as "lai lai" instead of "auntie" jor.. I only called her the 2nd time when we were about to go back to KL.

When back to KL, life was resumed back to its normal state, nothing else much changed. And I was so looking forward to our honeymoon, a long long flight to LA. Those were "those" days.

So, in celebrating our 11th anniversary, we went for a nice buffet dinner, complemented with a bottle of wine and a moist, yummy carrot cake. Life's been treating me well so far.

Trick or treat? treat la, of coz, come, stimbot...

We had a "trick or treat" party here at my home on Saturday. "Trick or treat" as in "halloween", as in "shucks! I don't even celebrate Halloween"

What am I crapping here?

The little party we had was planned much earlier, without even knowing it's Halloween season around. I was just thinking of a chit-chat sessi with my girlfriends while steaming over a steaming-boat. That would be so "hot".

Some boys came in trying to scare me and make me piss in my pants...

Of course, they look so darn funny and cute, I was controlling my laughter and trying to "act" scared shit.

We bought all those stuffs and get the soup cooked after breakfast, after hubby came home from his business trip for a week. Boy! It seemed so long he was away.


The guests arrived one by one and we "started fire" around 7.30. I guess everyone ate a hearty dinner that night, we had clams, crabs, thinly sliced pork, among the other usual stuffs. The women just enjoyed yak and yak and yak..

I won't mind doing this another time, it's nice, I love it. But, can someone take the kids away and engage them in some games, leaving us to make the noise ourselves? Kids! They are soooo noisy. *hugs them all*

Year end concert again wor...

Grandmother's stories series tergendala sebentar for some important news update..

which are...

1. I finally went to Jogoya for a very satisfying time stuffing myself silly, after yearning for it for a few weeks. Perhaps I kept praying for it a lot, my wish came true as one of the thousands credit cards merchants my hub has, gave a half price off for just 2 days last week. *burp*

2. the children's graduation concert over liao. Suddenly it hits me that my baobei no.2 is no longer a kiddo, he's *sob* going to *sob* primary 1 *sob*... which means I will have an even hard time getting him up even earlier in the mornings soon! *wails*

Receiving my "Best Mom of the Year" award on stage.. (I can say what I want on my blog!)

Giving his "thank you" speech... which starts off with "First of all, I would like to thank my mommy for giving birth to me... bla bla bla.."

*gasp* I bet she wouldn't want to be reminded of this years later...

Moonwalking.... almost!
Dancing to the song "Thriller".. can recognize this step moe?
Very useful when you want to "release gas"...

OK, enough of making fun of them. They put up a good show indeed, and I'm sooo proud of them. It's time to reward them to Genting, for that's what I promised didi if he cooperate with the teacher and not play the fool during practices and rehearsal. Everything went rather well, except before the show started, their papa had to piss me off (again!) and I had my sweet revenge during the show. All I need to do was just to show him the aromatic coffee I prepared in a little bottle before we went out and I finished it off without a drop for him.. padan muka dia.

Home visit and birthday party

Last weekend, we had some visitors from the the kids kindy teachers. For better relations, this year, they started on this home visits so called to get to know their students home environment. I think it's a fantastic idea, although I would need to work extra hours to clear the mess in the house. But that needed to be done sooner or later anyway.

I had wanted to make some snacks for them initially, but my hub wanted to go yumcha in the morning and ordered me to forget that, just buy la, so I just went along. Not my fault, really.

Hence, we bought some charkor for afternoon teatime to serve our guests. It was apparent the kids were thrilled to have them here and show them around our home. Korkor can't wait to show off our Wii games and the other two their baby pictures.

We chatted for about 2 hours, and surprisingly to didi's teacher, she said his behaviour that day was totally different from his usual. Wonder why. She was rather shocked that he was very well mannered and good. Why? Hmm...

Pretty teachers the school hires. I guess the kids would be more eager to go to school then.

The next day, we went to his classmate's birthday party at McD. It was his first invitation to one.
I was hoping he would enjoy himself.

Check out that expression! Funny, isn't it?

After served with food (snacks of nuggets and french fries and 1 piece of fried chicken for the parents each), he was happily playing with his toy dinosaur from the Ice Age 2 promotion. Much later, musical chair was to begin, and when he was out after 2-3 rounds, he weeped! oh dear... malunya.. then again, later I found out, almost 50% of them also like that.. so, that's ok.

And to show his disagreement, he refused to play the next game and just sat there watching. Yau yeng doe sei, sitting like that. The 3rd game, I pushed him out to play, but he still remained cool aje..he stood like a statue while others moved around to find things asked by the games facilitator.

And through observation, I find that most parents are just so eager to get their kids to win something. Instead of the child going round to hunt for the item being asked for, the parent would just shove it into his/her face and pushed them to the facilitator. Perhaps they feel it's an encouragement to them by coming out a winner, but isn't that defeats all purpose of participating in a game? Well.. different parenting ways, different opinions.

Then, the cake cutting ceremony. All those cupcakes looked so "tantalizing". I didn't get to taste it as there were so many people in there. But the main cake was delicious too. My favorite moment in a birthday celebration indeed.

And the moral of the story is... I don't want to order a birthday party at McD for them. (When do I need a moral to a story anyway?)

Go! Go! Green Fun Family Day..

.. is organized by didi and meimei's preschool. It was supposed to be held on the Sunday right when the school holidays started in end of May, but was postponed to today. I feel glad about the postponement as we would have missed it for our Spore trip if it hadn't. And it turned out to be a fun and enjoyable Sunday morning for me and the kids. Too bad papa wasn't here as well.

The venue is Bukit Jalil Recreational Park, and it was our first time at that park. Surprisingly, the park looks very nice. The weather was very favorable as well, and it was quite a crowd on a Sunday morning there. There were people jogging, running, bicycling, taichi-ing, badminton-ing, fighting, lovemaking, kiting, camwhoring...

It was a long walk to the preschool gathering place, apparently, there are 2 carparks there, and I had chose the wrong one!

The preschool put much effort to turn this into a fun event for old and young alike, with a warm-up of zumba dancing from the teachers' lead. Quite just nice as there's a higher "platform", serving like a stage.
The teachers are all very young, energetic, pretty and "sock", of course, they are caring and love children too. Can see from their smiley faces everyday when dropping them off in the mornings and picking them up after school hours.

We had some games, which include both parents and children's participation. Very nicely coordinated.



Each family brought picnic mats and food along. With the cooperative weather and the shade from the trees around, it was very enjoyable and pleasant.


In between the various games and treasure hunt, children burnt their extra energy running around, parents lazing on the mats, chatting up with each other, most likely bragging about their kids' results (I'm one of them, blek!), and teachers playing with their students, and snacking on the food.

The treasure hunt was very entertaining and fun, with koko helping me out to find the answers to the questions. It's his first treasure hunt, and he admitted it was very fun, though hot and exhaustive in the end. I had so much fun myself, I'm thinking right now to get together some friends with their families and play it as well. Furthermore, the place is a good place to take pictures indeed, and I didn't had the time to take some for my kids. I can't wait to go back to that park again.

It was noon when we finally get going, I didn't even realize time flew by. It sure does when you are having fun! We went home, have a shower and went out again to have lunch with their paternal grandma and her whole entourage of gang to accompany someone on her first day in UM. Then we came back and totally knocked out!

MIllionaire Mind Intensive

Heard of it before? It's a 3 long days "training" by this bestselling author of a book called "Secrets of a Millionaire Mind", T. Harv Eker.

My hub just loves to go to these kind of seminars. For me, I would have anytime preferred Jowera Chio concerts. Haven't heard of her before? Me neither. That shows how much I dislike whatever mind-opener secrets of the successful minds seminars, except of course, if they would be willing to spill some gossips or affairs for us to bitch about. I don't think so.



Anyway, back to this MMI. I finally relented to see for once, at least, if it's any interesting or stimulating the mind. Hub had taken leave to take care of the kids while I am allowed to "roam free". It was held in MINES exhibition hall at 9am on a Friday, expected to be on for the full day till 11pm. The next day would also be the same while Sunday would be till 8pm.

The whole hall was filled with about 3000 pax. That's quite a good show of people, if you ask me. I arrived a tad 10 mins early before the opening. An angmoh lady in baju kurung came up on stage and told everyone to "STAND UP" and started clapping. Everyone followed suit and with a widest grin on her face, she danced around the stage, boogeying like she had just won the jackpot. I thought, it was pretty weird to be "high" at 9am in the morning, no?

So...The speaker came onboard, after being introduced by the person who brought these kind of seminars here, and being given a very "warm" welcome by the cheers and claps of the whoel audience.

Sadly, the speaker I was expecting to be seeing wasn't him and I believe he's "training" someone else to take over or maybe handle part of these MMI seminars in future. He wasn't particularly lengjai or have any exceptional charisma though. I really do not like the "declarations" that all of us have to stand up to make with hands over the chest, more so, everytime it has to be ended with a hi5 to the person next to you and say in his/her eyes "YOU HAVE A MILLIONAIRE MIND!!!"...Harlo? Shouting it out and that's it meh?

Anyhow, I keep telling myself, "do not be cynical, keep an open mind". OK, so I stayed on... till 6pm and I had to come home. I do not want to be going home alone in the middle of the night. At least, I stayed away from the temptation to sneak off to the cinemas in the afternoon. I really tried, I really did.

The next day, I hate it more when I was left out for the family breakfasts and meal times, and I would be so thinking of the kids. Even though my body is there, my heart and mind were totally not there. Why bother, right? BECAUSE I WANT TO SEE THAT HARV EKER, DAMMIT! By noon time, he was still nowhere to be seen. I am going to make a scene if his face is not up there on the projector screen, I thought.

Sensing my displeasure (I think!), he showed up after lunch. OK ler.. considered quite lengjai geh.. eh, that's not what my mission is, right? So, I hang on listening to his sometimes whisper, sometimes YELLING OUT LOUD LIKE WAKING ME UP FROM SLUMBER talk and decided "that's it! quite enough for me!" I quit at 6pm again and didn't bother to show up the next day.

Anyway, there was really 1 thing I do learned from him. He was saying "take what the universe is giving to you, else the universe is NOT going to give you more", citing an example of a field trip he went on a mission trip. I forgot what the mission is about, but he was saying he was alone, at night, whole night, under a tree. It started to pour and pour heavily it did, but he was saved from being wet as there was a protective layer of canvas over his head. Don't ask me why there would be a canvas there, I admit earlier I wasn't quite listening attentively, didn't I?

So, he thought he was pretty lucky that night. The next morning, he got up early, and went out of his canvas. And right on stepping out, he fell into this pool of water where all of it was "diverted" from the canvas. And blink! He got this idea..if you don't take what the universe is giving you, it goes to wherever, whoever else who WANTS IT! Ada sense tak?

So...for example...

We should be taking compliments happily and say just a THANK YOU when being complimented on. NEVER offer some other compliments back as there's just so insincere and totally veto the meaning of the earlier compliment away.

When your spouse say "I love you", just say "Thank you". Even when your spouse is waiting... "SO?? You don't love me anymore?" "YESSS, but not now! Haha.. We all laughed at his act, it was pretty funny, but it does make sense, no?

And it does feel good that when you really really is sincerely complimenting someone about how nice they look, and they feel happy all over it with just a sincere thanks, it makes the giver of the compliment happy too. Try it!

Yeah.. that's about the only thing I learned from this seminar. He failed or me failed? yala, yala, I failed la.

Glitterrrrring borrrrrring night

Last Friday night, we were invited by a couple to an event at Mandarin Oriental. What kind of event it was, we had no idea. We were just told that there would be some "light snacks", auction of jewellery and glittering things girls would die for. Of course, my banker, upon hearing "got makan", he lalalum pestered me to think of a way, somehow or another. Me? Surely it was the latter which pushed me to get out from the comfort of my home.



Hence, I stumbled around looking for a babysitter. The unofficial babysitter (JM) quota for the week was used up just the day before, so have to think of another way. :D

In the end, we dumped took them to a friend's house to play with their children for the few hours.


We were told that the dress attire is strictly formal. Men need to wear coats or tux while women ... think of "red carpet"..

I fumbled around my closet, and took out all the gowns I used to wear when I still had a swelte figure (as if I really did!). And there I was, trying them all, holding my breath while zipping up those damn zippers! Those damn clothes, they shrunk!

When we arrived, we were asked to take a picture in a group with the gala backdrop. WoW! Really like special guests, I tell ya! Felt like some VIPs smiling for the photographers and paparazzi (actually there was only 1)

Quite frankly, I hate these kind of events. Not only I feel out-of-place and do not know a single person there, I do not know how to hold a conversation if someone comes and approach me. In any case, I hang very closely to my hub and my friend, and whipped out my out-of-place camera to snap away. It's really the only thing to do, apart from ogling at sexy women walking around. They commented I looked more like a reporter there. Well, I didn't care.

After hanging around in the first "room", we were shown to another "room" and listened to someone giving a short speech. I really have no idea what the speech was about, for he was really not very handsome, to begin with.


And yet, another "room" emerged from the black curtain partitioning and quite a crowd was already hanging around. In there, there were some displays of these XO's in glass chambers. So precious meh?

Apart from that, there were 2 counters, one showcasing their glitters and jewels while the other, high class watches. We went over to have a look and were told that set of jewelleries costs 1.3 mil. Hearing 1.3mil, of course, our reaction is to pretend it so-darn-cheap, not quite matching our lifestyle standard. The watch was even cheaper, only 1.2mil. Wahh.. hub wanted to try it on, I reminded him he dropped it or scratched it, there goes his ass.

After that, there really wasn't much to do. No food was served, only teeny weeny little bits of unrecognizable food is whisked around by some waiters. It was really getting to be v-e-r-y boring.


Ahh.. then suddenly the event only starts and after an opening speech by yet another mediocre looking man, a woman entertained us with a few songs. OK ler.. her voice. Boleh tahan. But that didn't kill the boredom.

Models started strutting out, showing the jewelleries on them. I went near one of them later to see clearer of every inch of her body. It amazes me somehow. My eyes were like molesting her all over, and I wonder if she enjoys being "molested" by so many pairs of eyes? Anyway, I think as professional models, they should be used to it.

Saw a familiar face there. Recognize him or not?

You looking at the pendant or the cleavage? Need to ask meh, hoh?

Ok woh, quite "sock", hoh?
Ish! I had said for the umpteenth time, focus...

No moles ka. (Goolypop, you cannot apply for this job, unless you get rid of all the moles in your bordee sinn)

And the men, hang around, smoking cigars, drinking XOs, while my friend and I? Kept pestering our hubs to go home!

By the time we were in our car, it was way past 11, and I was hurrying back to my friend's home. After all, I do feel mm-hou-yee-si to trouble them till so late. The kids were ok, meimei was the first one to run to me and asked me why I came so late. And later I was told, didi was boycotted while koko joined the whole gang to call him by a nickname they gave him that night. I felt awful going to bed that night.

Cheap thrills and entertainment

Sunday being family day, it would usually be breakfast outside and some cheap thrills and enjoyment for the children. That is, if papa does not need to go for meetings. Today it's their luck, and what I had in mind is BA donuts Buy6free3 promotion. yum yum.

We slept in till about 10, after going to bed only at 1am the night before watching Changeling. Lucky the kids do not kacau when they get up, they just straight go out to watch TV without any fuss. Such a contrast compared to the time when they were smaller. When they would usually have you up and about to attend and fuss over them once they open their eyes in the morning.

As such, we had a late breakfast, almost like brunch. Then we hopped over to the mall and went for some cheap thrills. Bought 3 tokens for the kiddies ride and play, each one is given 1 token only nia. How pathetic!

There's an exhibition of Dinosaurs around, and I told papa to pay for the tickets laa.. how often we pong-chan them. RM12 for adults and RM8 for child. Not cheap too, huh?



Fancy a robotic baby dino? It moves and blinks and wags its tail. And it can get sick, learn new tricks and need to be fed and played with. A toy/pet which would be so weird to have. If not for the high price tag, I would have take my purse out, pay and take home. The salesperson said 1699, papa asked if it's 16.99 or one thousand six hundred and ninety nine. Duh! Isn't that rather a situpeed question?
Not that I pin-sum and didn't like to take koko's pictures, but that young man really hates the idea of camwhoring. I gave up, no good to force people, right? min keong moe hang fook.

We then spent quite a long time doing sand art. It was such a crowd, but the children persevere and enjoyed themselves so much.


Can you believe it? Though sand art had been around for quite sometime already, and we had seen it many times, this is actually the first time my 3 kids tried their hands in it. They were absolutely clueless what to do at first, and after showing them, they were just so hooked. I hope they won't cry for it when we pass through a sand art booth the next time we go gaigai.

As we reached BA shop, they were giving some free donuts out, and papa, needless to say, kiasu and went to grab a few. I still went ahead to use up the voucher and brought 9 donuts home for teatime. After that, we went for a dip in the pool and out for dinner. What a day. I should be in bed now, btw.