The birthday it has been.

I'm happy as a lark. Today's my birthday and just as a simple memento, I thought I ought to write down something over here to remember how my turning to 42 day was.

First and foremost, my parents are here with me, what else are more important than the two who brought me to this world? Initially it was just my dad who came with me since GE13, but suddenly my mom came over unexpectedly, giving a pleasant birthday surprise to my dad, whose birthday was just yesterday. He was so happy, he really loves her so much.

We had a cake and a simple ceremony of cake cutting at home, my favorite cake, no doubt.

Came today, everything was as normal as it was, sending kids to school, having my cup of coffee as breakfast at the balcony (which always lifts up my day, ALWAYS!). I went for yoga even though I contemplated of changing my mind at the last minute to go shopping for a charm I really like.

My mind had been on that charm like forever, it is soooo meaningful, it's a trinity charm. Love, Hope and Faith. Isn't that so appropriate to celebrate my birthday right now? What the heck, I went to get it for myself after the class and I was literally hopping while walking!

Then, I got a message from a friend who said she would be dropping a present for me! OMG! How paiseh! I didn't expect anything from my friends, but a simple wish would be enough for me as I know how terribly busy our lives are right now. I felt both elated and embarrassed at the same time, as I think I overdid it by declaring to the whole world on FB that it is my birthday today!

Anyway, I'm sure it's only polite to accept a present graciously, so thank you from the bottom of my heart. She left it at the guardpost for me as I need to be stationed in the school to pick the kids home.

By then, I felt like I wanted to eat sashimi and I called my hubs of my wish. He said "ok lor, go jogoya, check out what promotion there is now" I lalalum checked it out and told him about the current deal. He promised to come back by 2pm, wow!

When I got home from school, I picked my present from the guard post and inside was this lovely self made card which brought tears to my eyes. How sweet the birthday message is. And I believe, for a super helluva busy woman who took time to make a card for me, that meant EVERYTHING! Some more, drove over to drop it over. I feel really honored. I do.

Hubs came back and we went over to Jogoya. It was almost 3pm, and the staff there asked us if we were sure? Haha.. I guess we were exceptionally late for a sumptuous buffet at that kind of price. Hubs said ok and I fed myself like a pig. Loads of sashimi, birds nest soup, chocolate fondue... oh my heavens. It was sooo awesome. I felt that's it. If I die right there right then, there wouldn't be any regrets. Haha! I take back my words, I don't want to die yet.

And that's just not it. When we returned home, meimei excitedly ran over to me and said someone else delivered something to me! I was really surprised this time. Who could that be? A bouquet of flowers and a card that reads " (My name) dearest, Have a very Happy birthday with blessings showered upon your wonderful soul!!! from, your secret admirer XXX"

EEK!!! I don't likey that suspense! Last last time, when I was in spring blossoming season, I would have loved it, but now??? Other than psychos I can't think of anyone who would play that kind of prank to me. My friends won't spend such unnecessary money, I think they would have prefer to belanja me yumcha and I don't think they know my home address too. So it definitely is a psycho. And that's why it even confirms my belief that it's SO risky to be giving our home address when filling up forms or signing up for anything. Oh dear, I'm so freaking out now!

So, that aside, I still feel I'm so so so pampered. My hubs have given to all my whims and requests, so all the heartbreaks he had done, I forgive him. And I could feel his love for me, albeit quietly and un-romantically.

I feel very thrilled too that so many friends had dropped a wish to me on FB timeline, messenger,or via sms, whatsapp and over here on my blog as well. And I had a field day answering each of their messages, like this one here...

My friend:

Chook Lei Sang Yat Fai Look. Lin lin yau kam yat, sui sui yau kam chiew. Happy Birthday. Omedeto gosaimasu.

My reply: 

    thank you (her name), for your fucuk, lin ngau and kung jiu. namo amitabha sinjoi sinjoi

The craziness! I wonder if her reply to my reply was wtf or lol? She liked it though.

And then of course, my dear dear friend since Form 6, he had never failed to remember my birthday every year and drop me a card or a letter, or an email or an sms. He still makes me smile sheepishly like a young teen with a simple birthday wish right on time!

As for that psychopath, I think it's a conspiracy. You all will soon be receiving something like that on your birthday, don't say I don't say.

My lovely present for my birthday this year.

I'm turning 42 this coming Thurs. Jen Mei had earlier bought me a lovely lunch and I had an absolutely wonderful time with her, chatting and catching up on each other's news. I'm so blessed to have her as my good buddy. And, here I am, showing off my birthday pressie from my hubs. Isn't it so awww....? (Psyching myself to forget all the sighs and grunts from him when he paid for that)

I picked this gift myself long before the month of May was here. Korkor kept pestering me to get a new laptop or a new phone but heck, no way, only birthdays I felt justified to get all these useless stuffs at an exorbitant price for myself. I love myself, I just want to pamper myself with all the pretty things I love. Before this, I didn't think of it that way, but lately, I have UBAH! Yes, changed for the better.

After all, I told myself I totally deserved it. And my hubs has it good, it's all Valentine's Day gift, Mother's Day, anniversary, christmas, all lumped into 1, apa lagi dia mahu, kan?

This bracelet is sooooo pretty. I want more charms to go into it. Anyone wants to buy me a birthday gift? Charms is the way to go, I'll LOVE YOU forever!

Mom's day.

We had a great 8 course chinese dinner for mother's day celebration at Ipoh the last week, the night before the blackout day.

The dinner was attended with all the closer aunts and the immediate family of my in-laws, 14 of us altogether, big and small. The evening was filled with laughter and joy, I felt that myself too but most likely because of the excitement of the coming election and the possible chance of a change, a great change.

The food was absolutely great.

And today is the actual Mom's Day. My dad is here with me since last week and we took him to Chillis last night also to celebrate his birthday as well. I could see he was enjoying the food so much, I feel so bad that I couldn't feed him luxuriously more often than not. But he's such a great dad, he doesn't complain and he absolutely not demanding for more. He's growing old now, his movements are getting slower and his hearing is also not as good, but he's always smiling and helping me when I ask him to.

I called my mom to come over, but she's happy to be in Ipoh for now, playing mahjong with my inlaws. I don't like to force her, I prefer she does what she feels like doing.

Today, we slept till late in the morning and had a late breakfast. Then we came back home and did some revision. At 4, we went out to find a barber for the kids. I could cut their hair, but I find it too troublesome to clean up the mess after that. We stumbled into a barber who charges RM6 for children below 12, and for korkor, he didn't quite believe he's still 12 (technically he's still is, as his birthday is not here yet), and the barber asked for RM7. I jumped for it straight away, it was such a steal!

Oh, for mom's day, the kids hugged me (after I asked). It was special since getting a hug from korkor these days is so darn difficult.

Ushering the new year in with a loud bang.

Playing with fireworks during CNY is almost becoming a routine these days.

Hubs would be able to get hold of some pretty cool fireworks which are not normally what we could find off the shelf (or off the roadside). The first time, guess about 3 years ago?, those fireworks seemed so cool. It set the CNY mood even in me, and it made the kids thrilled with excitement.

But then, this also makes me all jumpy and panicky when I see korkor and didi lighting it up with the incense stick. Hubs would never blink an eye, never think it's ever an issue and that I am too much of a worried freak. He just never understood well or deeper why I worry so much. It just takes a very simple mistake or some unexpected turn and in just a moment, eyesight could be lost, limbs would be impaired and even life could be taken away. And nothing, absolutely nothing, we or anyone could do to rewind the clock or undo the damage. 

So, how? To stop them from playing fireworks seemed so mean of me, it's like taking away the only joy of CNY away from them. I always make sure I would be there with them to nag them to run faster, be vigilant, not too adventurous and stop playing already! I'm tired though. Sigh...

The year of the snake 2013..

... and CNY is done. For us anyway.

This year had been the same usual routine, as for the past 13 years after marrying the man in my life. For him,  it had been the same thing for the past 40 years of his life. 

Korkor asked me before why we can't do CNY differently, just like my parents suka-suka jiao go Singapore to spend CNY with my elder brother and his family. I told him sorry,  we just can't. I have resigned to the fact that it's just part of our duties to fulfill our filial piety to be with the folks for this important festive season this once a year affair. 

I have to admit, I don't quite enjoy myself, but I tell myself, just do it for their happiness. And in turn, it teaches my own kids to treat me the same when I'm old and frail in the future. I am not in my 60s yet, I might not know, I might just be desperate to see them this once a year too when I'm there.Selfish thought, I do admit.

Nevertheless, it's always a great feeling to be part of a family who is always warm and chatty. This year, I had a pleasant surprise receiving a gift from my brother inlaw who bought each of us (his sis, his mom and I) a set of Estee Lauder make up kit. The price tag label on the box shows RM250. I was really touched and overwhelmed. 

Thankful for the great technology, the time passed by with less pain during those CNY home visits. After gong xi gong xi and handing out the angpows, I could switch on the 3g and surf the net and facebooking or play scramble. Well, what do you expect me to do anyway when I really do not know so well most of my hubs' relatives? Especially those whom I meet once a year only. 

Other times after fulfilling my duties of helping out the meal preparations and washing up, I could sit back and play several games of mahjong with them. Not too bad, but sometimes I just feel awful guilty and time wasted on such non productive activity and the children were left to play on their own on their laptops, ipad, phone, and whatever else there are. Nevertheless, the 4 cousins have the opportunity to be creative and play together on their own without the adult's aji ajo, it's not such a bad thing after all, eh?

1 week of balik kampung exodus, I'm so relieved to be back in my own home sweet home and looking forward to the school runs and gym workouts again. Though I always say 1 week for the CNY break is just too long and need to be cut short the next year round, I know deep inside, I can't bear to break the old folks' hearts and would be just doing the same thing next year again. Dem!

The day that was his.

Papa turned 42 just last week and there wasn't any celebration except the cake blowing ceremony at home.

And why was I all dolled up while the rest were in their PJs and home clothes? That's because I just came back from a wedding dinner, getting home about 11+ just to sing a birthday song, cut the cake and wallop the whole cake. It was finished in just about 15 mins! This favorite cake of mine from Taman Desa is really the best!

Happy Birthday, dear hubs and Happy Papah's Day too!

Qing Ming this year

Officially, it's Qing Ming tomorrow (Wednesday), I think. But my inlaws had decided that last Sunday, 1st April was the day to visit the ancestors' grave and do the routine, cleaning up, having a picnic or "reunion dinner" with the ancestors.

This year round, I get to skip my presence. *jubilant tone*

No, I didn't use sick as an excuse. Instead, it was meimei who needed to attend a competition representing her school in a rhythmic gymnastics game. And she needed to be chauffeured there at 9 in the morning. Takkan I leave her alone here, kan?

So, I pleaded with hubs to leave us and didi here while he goes back with korkor to run this filial piety duty. Thank goodness it went as planned.

And such, the weekend saw we split into 2 groups and I sent them off to the train station for them to take the train home. They were to follow my brother inlaw's car back to KL the very next day.

Many ideas ran inside my mind, wandering about what I can do with the little "freedom" I get. However, as night comes, as usual, nothing much happened and I was so reluctant to leave the home. Yet again. Sigh. What happened to my "wild" side?

Surely I didn't want to start cooking up dinner again, so we went about to look for dinner and settled on Japanese. Boy, how I indulge myself and the kids with the food we love without hubs around. Tee hee!

We came right home after dinner and went to bed straight. I felt weird somehow to be at home alone with the 2 little ones only though, even though hubs often leave us here when he travels for business trips. Why, oh why.

The next morning, I made breakfast and in the miscalculated of time, I was rushing through to get meimei in time for the van waiting for her at the school. Everything was fine and dandy, no worries at all.

In that few hours of me time with didi alone, there were stuffs I wanted to do with him. I pondered of taking him to go cycling at Publika, then go eat chilli pan mee, then back home for shower and off to the stadium to watch meimei. He wanted to play badminton though. But anyway, I drove straight to Publika to check out the cycling activity.

By the time I got there, it was about 9.30 and there was only half an hour to cycle if I do want to. Well, I thought what the heck, since we were already there and went to park the car in.

Holy shit! It was SO HOT at that hour! What sacrifices moms make for their kids, you tell me!

(While I was all the time complaining how TRULY HOT it is every year at the cemetery having a picnic! Tee hee! My bad, I agree!)

We both had a GREAT time and I would have loved to cycle more rounds if it weren't that blardy hot! I made a point in mind to go as early as 7am the next opportunity.

After the cycle and returning the bikes (which are free on loan! No kidding, where can you get free stuffs these days, huh?), I took didi by his hand and we strolled around B.I.G. supermarket and looked at some rare high class fruits. I bet he learned some new things that day. Me included.

Since we weren't so hungry, as I thought, I was pondering to spend the next few hours to

1. visit a friend and have lunch together?
2. go to BookAxcess and get some books?
3. go home, shower, then eat pan mee?

In the end, we just went home, showered, ran out of time, detour to McD drivethru on the way to stadium and ate our burgers and fries at the venue itself. But, the little guy was so thrilled! He was just too happy to have his chicken burger. Really can't understand why McD burgers are so appealing to children!

Spent the whole of the afternoon watching and waiting for meimei and reached home about 7pm. I was brilliant enough to foresee that and already had porridge cooked in the thermal cooker the day before, all ready for us that night. So we won't be running late for early bedtime for early rise the next morning for school. Mothers are made of these stuff, aren't we? We just know to plan ahead early. Guess hubs couldn't even had guessed that coming.

I asked korkor how his trip was. He said ok, but it would be more fun to have more people around. Too quiet, he said. Just like his papa's words. I wonder if the pups brainwashed him?! hmm...

2012 new year clothes.

~Love~

Gong xi gong xi!

Our CNY for 2012

My! my! What had happened to January? It's so fast into Feb already and I'm here, procrastinating at all the work I need to do. All the bills I need to pay, that is. Shiats! I hope the bank won't be coming over to clamp my padlock.

So, CNY was here and done. Oh wait. There's officially another few days left but unofficially, it's over for most of us. We are slowly moving into our normalcy but with the holidays all over the calendar moon, how are we supposed to do that? A bit tough.

Let me recall our last week spent at our hometown.

We ran into a crazy, unnecessary traffic jam on the highway on our balik kampung frenzy. Both my elder brother with his family and us were together in the jam at almost the same time, knowing through the sms-es sent here and forth. Being in a private car ourselves, we had the privilege of changing our course of direction while they had no choice but to stick to their current mode of transport which was the bus taking them from KLIA to Ipoh direct.

All in all, it was moderately ok for us, taking slightly over 1.5 hours more KL-Ipoh while they were in the bus from 2-9pm that day. Painful!

Anyhow, we stuck to the plan to eat our reunion dinner together at my mom's place on the 29th day of the chinese calendar and plopped into bed over midnight. Life was gonna be crazy from then on.

Basically, every CNY had been the same, and there wasn't any other difference this year too. I helped out more though, having said my mil wasn't feeling very good, but hey! she was always at the mahjong table with no signs of anything wrong! hmm...

This year, I changed my home visits a bit and instead of going to my dad's relatives for "pai-nien", we went to my mom's side. It was truly fun and my 2 other cousin sisters wanted to have another gathering again and we agreed to meet up on the 4th day. It had been good.

Korkor noticed the slight difference and that surprised me. He asked me why we weren't at y-koong's relatives this year and I asked him back why it concerns him. He said there are more angpows from there! Kakaka... I had indirectly shortchanged his angpow value for the year!

Apart from that, we hadn't have any friends' gathering at all. Naturally, I was very disheartened since we had been meeting up almost every year after our separation ways. Somehow, I feel that wasn't a good sign. Just pray for my close sixth form friends that they are well.

With a lou-sang big lunch, that marked the end of the festival for us at home and we set to come back home to our new comfortable home. I missed it so much.

2012 is here already!

Well, wasn't the movie 2012 here already way long ago? It's the actual year itself and we are all looking at another good year ahead, totally brushing off any fear of any sorts.

But I'm still stuck at my old nest, target to move before the new year begins failed! It's gonna be very messy moving home when school starts, and we were to go back to Ipoh a week before the cny eve for a relative's wedding and then another trip back for cny itself. That's really coming very very soon and I'm a nervous wreck thinking about it. Nonetheless, excitedly looking forward to it.

With a brand new awesome white kitchen, my resolution is, of course, to cook more, hold more parties, and elsewhere, to teach my children more, sew more, and pamper myself more. And certainly, to make love more!

It's gonna be good, happy 2012 to alll of you too!

It's time for.....

Holiday!!!!

Somehow, just a short break away from home seems to be appealing and very much looked forward to. Just to get away, I suppose. Never mind the hours of travelling. But nooooo, no no no no, we are not joining the balik kampung rush with the people celebrating Raya or the holiday makers. Don't you think we have learnt our lesson?

Instead, we are going to the place where everyone else flocks away. Just like moving to the center of the hill of ants when a speck of water drop on the peak.

Then after a night sleepover, we would come home and pack our luggage for a roadtrip. Hopefully, on the way, I can find some nice good local durians stalls too! mmm.....

Going high tech

I love this iPad!!!!!

For now, I can use this iPad till the weekend, when I wrap it up in mahjong paper and ribbon to give to my dad as his 70th birthday present.
This makes my heart splitting into half about the coming weekend. On one hand, I'll be having a great time gathered up with my brothers and their families to celebrate our pap's birthday bash, on the other, *sob* I have to say bye bye to this sweetie. *bawl*

I put on my endearing tone of voice which I only use at "special occasions" to ask my hub DIRECTLY, "can I have iPad for my coming birthday, pleaseeeeeee *in the most manja voice that it made my hair stands too*". Guess what he says.

Didi has a valid good reason for us to get this beauty. He said it's so big, I would not need to nag and worry about him playing it close to his eyes and spoiling them anymore! Well said, my son! (but do I need to remind you, it would be MINE alone?)

Ohhhhh, dad, kids and I would be soooooo welcoming you to to KL or see you when we are back in Ipoh! Hope he likes this gift (or do we?? *ashamed*)

Hot day at the graveyard

We went for qing ming at the kids' thai-koong's and thai-poh's (that's great grandparents) graveyard over the weekend.

The qing ming event was rather "painful" as we left our home about 8+ and reached the cemetery around 9. The only 1-way road up to the hill was jammed and the other car of our clan called ours and advised us to just park the car wherever we were and walk up.

Being only us 3 adults and 2 small kids with soooooo many stuffs to carry, I had to take a big gulp and just follow the leader. Soon, the grandma and hub were far far away taking didi along with them, leaving meimei and I to fend for ourselves.

Taking her hand, which was holding a pack of stuffs for burning, and an umbrella, plus 2 packs of stuffs myself AND an umbrella, I had to make sure she didn't get any brush from the very nearby moving cars! *whew* PLUS, I had absolutely no-farking-idea where the rest were and where the graveyard's located among the sea of similar looking graves. You can imagine the stress I felt that time not?

In the end, I felt that it's better walking through the small paths between those graves rather than the road itself, and well, we just walked. Then the hub appeared and did he dare say anything? Surely not!

The whole works took almost 2 hours under the bright burning giant torchlight and nearly toasted us alive even though I wouldn't want to budge an inch away from under the umbrella.

Jeez! Next year, I'm going to fight for a resolution to wake up at 6 and start work at 7, get it over and done with by 9!

Durians from thai-koong's backyard

My hub's grandparents has left an old bungalow to my inlaws, which is surrounded by a huge space of land with scrubs and trees. Unfortunately, it is a very old bungalow and the land around it is not even maintained to be called a little garden. I can't help but feel how pity it is not to rebuild the house and change its landscape. The kids would have abundant of fun just running around.

But, there's a durian tree which bears fruits after more than 20 years, I am told, and during durian season, we can be rest assured there would be durians to eat from that old tree.

The day after we went back to Ipoh for qing ming, grandpa brought home 2 HUGE just-fell-off-from-the-tree durians and everyone had a good time savoring each bite.

Friends gathering at chor 3.

Every year, well, almost every year, I would meet up with my sixth form school friends ever since we knew each other. That time, we would go door to door, wishing all our moms gong xi fa cai and receiving angpows. And then, we would hang out till the cows come home at night. Those were such fun times.

Eventually, the group gets smaller and smaller, but yet, we maintained meeting up, I think I would be there almost every year. From receiving angpows, we are giving out angpows now to the groups' little ones. What a long way we'd been!

Meeting in one of the guy's home, it's like I had almost grown accustomed to his family as well. I know his parents and his sisters like how I know him and they would seemed so happy to see me. It makes me very happy seeing their happy faces.

Every year, I would be there alone leaving the kids with my inlaws with their papa. This year, I brought them all along and it felt great, showing them off. Didi received praises on how charming he is. The kids just clicked almost instantly, playing scrabble and chess. And then out of a sudden, we heard a loud glass breaking sound coming from where my hub was seated and everyone turned instantly to look at what happened. He had broken 2 window panes from the vibrating massage chair he was sitting on! Oh shit!

The CNY week that was.

Technically CNY is still around for another few more days, but unofficially, it's over today. School resumed, work resumed, routine is back. I really like this daily grind more.

We were back in kampung few days early before CNY eve this time, and basically, stuffed ourselves full and did nothing else. Played a few rounds of mahjong over the few days and lost some money. Did yoga once and took the kids to swim once. Went out for lunch date with some girlfriends and that's it!

Somehow, this year's annual festival seemed to be rather quiet. Didn't meet up with many people, relatives and friends included. And I didn't quite have that upbeat cheery mood either. Then again, when did I ever have that for CNY? But yet then again, I guess this year's mood seems to be more apparent down. Maybe it's PMS. Who knows!

My elder brother came home with his family and we spent the time together during CNY chor1 night and chor2. Happy feasting on those fresh juicy delicious prawns and their other dishes in Tg. Tualang again. I think we would be going there pretty often.

My sis-in-law couldn't make it home for the 2nd consecutive year and she was truly heartbroken. Of course, I dared not say "lucky you". Though I felt bored to death staying there for one long week, nevertheless, I so feel happy that the old folks are happy and we can spend another CNY together.

Glad we made it home in 3.5 hours on the last day of holiday which sees not only the Chinese flocking back to the city, but also non Chinese who takes the long weekend off to get away too. And we made it home in 1 piece, I guess it's enough to be grateful that everything went so well.

CNY just a week away??

For some unknown reason *twilight zone mujik in the background*, I don't have any mood for CNY. AT ALL!!! And whaddaya know, it's only about a week away!

What do the chinese folks need to do in preparation for CNY? Let's see...spring cleaning? junk clearing? stock up on food? decor up the home? stock up jars of cookies? make junk food for entertaining guests? sew new year clothes? prepare for reunion dinner and the meals thereafter? and for those who pray, clean up the altar? WOW! That's a LOT of work there! *stress*

For me, since every year the home is left vacant for balik kampung, I don't do junk clearing, spring cleaning or decorating it up for the festive season. After the week off, the whole home would be dusty anyway! And decors for whom to see? The junks in the stores are always making me sick and hub wouldn't want to throw away ANYTHING, probably he would just shift some stuffs from location A to location B, so what's the point?

Food? Oh, there would be abundant of food when we get home, so don't bother. *grin*

Year in, year out, we'll just get some stuffs as gifts when we visit our relatives, and get new angpows and new notes. This year, we still YET to shop for even these minor stuffs! Well, there are some new year clothes, for the kids. I have a couple of them while the hub have NONE! Haha!! poor guy!

The school will be shutting down way too early before the Year30thnight's reunion dinner. And I'm wondering what the fart we go home so early for! I DON'T WANT TO DO ANYTHING FOR PRE-CNY! *bawls*

Every year, I had been able to "sim" after our wedding. The first year had been a pregnant year, then after that, yearly I would be busy taking care of the kiddo, then pregnant again and yet again and even busier running around chasing after them. 10 years I had been excused conveniently to help with WORK! Last few years, the excuse was kids' schooling! What the heck, this year there would be no more excuses! Can someone help me quick?? Think of one for me!

In any case, even though I'm not in the mood, here's wishing you all happy chinese new year and may the year of the rabbit brings you good luck, good cheer and good fortune.

Family reunion

Best day ever. Everyone in the picture, after waiting for few years now. Just that CY has half the face blocked, but that's ok. Heh!

As understandably, my parents were the happiest folks there. When they were home, CY made an enlarged hard copy of our family reunion pic and framed it up. My dad chucked away the one they took with us at the family studio aside. Tsk!

After sweating out under the hot sun at Kellie's castle, we headed straight to Tg Tualang for big headed prawns and seafood and lo sang. It was our very own family reunion meal together-gather. The place was empty and we had the whole place to ourselves. Which was a good thing as normally Ipoh eatery places would be full and crowded with people everywhere.

Kwismas 2009

... and I say "sha la la la la!" (bum bum bum) sha la la.. in the morrrr ning...

Happy... cos, I baited a silent reader out from the dark! ha ha... *waves* hiyaa, mun!

She really wrote an application letter to me, asking for approval leh! Hah ha.. what she doesn't know, my readers base here is so small, I of course, don't even need to see her in bikini also lalalum send her an invite already.

And my friends yang amat tersayang, you are all so lovely, just love seeing the short notes you dropped to be able to come over and read my nonsense here.

Merry Kwismas, Mun Yee, Kiki, Dawn, Jaclyn, Kok Lan, Zheng Mun and Patrick. (Sharks! I just let you know how pathetic my number of readers are!)

Happy New Year tooo... (but wait, that will be another post, see got any more applications coming in or not. Maybe I shall put a deadline for application in that old blog url too!) *stick tongue out*

And tomorrow, wait, I mean, tonight, on Xmas Eve, I'll be somewhere out there with my family dining out and then going to watch Avatar before counting down to Kwismas. That's something simple and nice and pleasant to look forward to, instead of staying at home only, eating my boring dishes and watching WLT Gem Of Life. Love it. Merry Christmas to you!

Family picture in Midvalley

This the picture we took yesterday at Midvalley. I didn't bring along a camera, though I know the decorations around the malls in the city would be fantastic. Lazy? I think so. But I think I don't have that much of xmas mood with me with those huge crowds around. But this picture was taken by someone with Canon. Canon offers to take pictures for anyone and prints out a hard copy for you too, you just need to collect it at their outlet on the 2nd floor. I think that's a very clever idea to have people visiting them.

So we have a family picture of Christmas 2009 in the end. Merry Christmas!