Gong Xi Fa Cai - 2007 in Penang

We left on Saturday Morning to Penang at 4am. It took us like 4 hours to get from KL to Ipoh. In between there was 2 major accidents. Bus and another bus slammed onto one another and 5 car pile up near Ipoh. We thought leaving so early in the morning would be a great idea but who knew I guess everyone had the same notion as well. Oh well we got there finally in one piece close to lunch time. I dropped Phil off and headed to meet up with my family at my Aunt's house in Minden Heights.

We had our reunion dinner at Forum Chinese Restaurant in Island Plaza thanks to Mandy's father. We managed to get a table there for dinner. The food was scrumptous and very unique. We all enjoyed the food and also the weird curry dal dessert we had (in actually fact is made our of mango but it looks like dal). Here are some of the pics taken that night.

Next Check out the food man.....


Yee Sang
Seafood Herbal Soup
Cod Fish and Prawns
Piggy Hand with Mantao Seacucumber and Ablone
Salmon Roe Fried Rice
Mango Mix Fruit Pudding

Adila Birthday Dinner @ Strawberry Field

Yesterday was Adila's Birthday!! Happy Birthday Girl! Hope you had a blast at your surprise party on Sat and hope you also have fun last nite. War Wei came up wtih this game where she had to guess her birthday present. It was kinda cool, funny and at the same time kind mean.

Adila made her first guess (cake) and it was wrong so she had to chew down on some chili padi. She was hissing so bad as it was burning. Poor girl! Next guess was still wrong, she had to light Suresh a cigarette, then it was my turn and she guess nighty....eeehhhh wrong answer. This time I had her go to the table behind us with 2 guys sitting there and she had to get their phone no. and names. She did it, kudos to her. Next she guess baju, very close. So she was saved from doing the cat walk Thomas suggested. It was actually a t-shirt. I gave her a set of purple candles.

Suresh and the rest sang "Lady in Red" which was so cool and dedicated it to her since she was all dress up in red.

Part 2 Eye of Malaysia

This weekend we stopped by Taman Titiwangsa again. To see the fireworks. I will youtube the fireworks. Damn nice man....more spectacular than the first time I went, this time got laser show as well. It was madness to get there, we had to park really far but am glad we did managed to find parking all the way behind Istana Budaya. If you guys have not seen the Eye of Malaysia yet you should go before it ends on Feb 25.

Chinese New Year - 3 Weeks More!

Hi ya! 3 weeks more to Chinese New Year and I got so much cleaning more to do. Although I got outside help to clean the place still got lots to cover and things to throw. Must get into the habit of clearing stuff. Stress already! All the shops in KL decorations are all up, have not done much at home. The only thing is that I've sent out CNY Cards. So that's a good thing.

Over the weekend, Poay Khim and Kim Lee were down in KL and since she has not been to Italiannies we decided to have dinner there. Ops forgot to take the scrumptious feast :P We had Shrimp Linguine, Calamari Ceasar Salad and Chicken Lagsane. Yummyy!!! I offered my "5-star" accomodation room hehehe as most of the hotels in KL were full. Floral Fest and all....

Decorations at the Curve is also very nicely done. All in pinky peach blossom makes you feel like you're in Japan, with at the "Sakura" trees.

I got nice monkey cup and winnie the pooh bowl from Poah Khim and Kim Lee. Many Thanks. I love it!

Eye of Malaysia

Yesterday we were at Taman Titiwangsa for the Olympus Photography Workshop. Guess what I've been living here in KL for over 30 years and this is my very first time to the park. It's right behind Istana Budaya. This year is "Visit Malaysia Year 2007", we will be turning 50 years old this year. So lots ot activities and events for the year. Will try to catch most of it. Flora fest will start this week.

Well, back to the taman...this year they actually rented a huge ferris wheel like the one in London. We also have an "eye" here. Check it out. We malaysian ah...love to copy copy one.


Also these are some of the pics I took. This is my attempt on being a world famous photographer.

I do however love the shots I took, my first time taking firework shots. I’m actually quite proud of myself. I have to say many thanks to Matt for lending me a superb camera to help me take such nice photos.

Happy New Year!!!

I know its been a while since I last blogged. It's been crazy crazy time...year end and all. Most busiest time for me. I'm really glad we're starting out again in this year. All the "suey things" - bad stuff leave it behind in 2006 and bring forth all the good things "ong stuff" to 2007.

I believe that 2007 will be a good and memorable year to come. Am really looking forward and making all my wishes and dreams come true in 2007. Year of the piggies!!! YEAH!

Makes new resolutions and set new goals and hopefully attain much more than last year.

:) Happy New Year to all and may this year bring you lots of success and happiness.

Christmas in Penang

Penang here we come....PL decided to drive his car up. I was worried if his car would make it there in piece but too out surprise it did. We detour and took the ferry across from Butterworth. It's been quite a while since I sat on a ferry, its was really exciting and fun. Felt abit "jakun" but who cares. It cost more than the bridge too RM7.50 but it was worth it.
Also as soon as we arrive, went straight down to Swatow Lane for Ice Kacang. Famous Ice Kacang, he's even appeared many times on discovery travel and living.

Christmas Time is here....ho ho ho. It was a short and sweet holiday, we had loads of fun back home. Managed to spend quality time with PL and his father. We visited the new Queensbay Mall in Bayan Lepas. This new mall reminds me alot of 1Utama, MidValley and BTS (combination of all 3 malls) Huge huge parking place...main tenant - JUSCO and many other branded stores. Christmas Tree at Queensbay Mall

We had dinner at Johnny's Steamboat the first nite we arrive. Then on Christmas day which coincidently Uncle's birthday, I wanted to take him to TGIF to celebrate. Being Christmas day, the restaurant was super packed and menu was very limited as it was very new too. So we adjourn to Manhattan Fish Market for lunch....I must say we had a scrumptous meal. I bought a mini cake for him and surprised him when we got back. He received lots of goodies and present too.

Also am very proud of myself, I woke up early together with PL and his dad we went for morning walk 2 days in a row at Botannical Garden. This is to prepare for our long awaited holiday to Siem Rep - Angkor Wat. Looking forward to it....can't wait.

Happy Feet

Steamboat Party on behalf of Chinini - Happy Birthday Sis!

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Cameron Highlands Pictures :P

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Cameron Highlands

After 22 years, I finally went back up to Cameron Higlands. This time we drove up with my car on the second day of Raya. The roads were kinda windy and narrow, took us about 5 hours to get up there. We took the road up from Tapah. Left around 10 am, traffic was ok. We did stop by Bidor for lunch, had the famous "ap tui mien" (herbal duck noodle soup).

There are altogether 3 small towns up in Cameron, Ringlet, Tanah Rata and Brinchang. We stayed at Bala's Chalet in Tanah Rata. This place used to be a boarding school in the late 1930's. Now's the have turned it into a B&B. Very nice place and very cosy and serene too. We got a quiet suite up the hill for RM280. Check out the website if any of you want to have a great time in Cameron's should not miss checking out Bala's Chalet. (www.balaschalet.com) After checking in, it started to poured quite heavily. After the rain we adjourned over the the tea room for some tea and scones. Quite pricy but it was worthwhile. The scones were very different and so was the apple pie. Yummy! Dinner time, we head on over to Brinchang for steamboat at You Hoo Restaurant. RM15 pax lots of vege and great weather to eat steamboat. After dinner we decided to talk a slow walk at the "pasar malam" near by. We met my friend Richard who sells Raw and Wild honey at the pasar malam. He has a stall there and we were told that he supplies slabs of honey comb bee wax to hotels in KL. Yummy stuff especially the darker color honey.

We only stayed one night at Bala's (enjoyed watching HBO ). The next day we checked into Century Pines Resort just a few minutes down from Bala's. Typical hotel, very new and big spacious room. Per night RM198++

After checking out from Bala's we head on over to the Boh Tea plantation in Sg. Palas. We were quite lucky to get there early, as later they closed it to visitor to do some cleaning up from last night landslide. It was raining the whole night. Roads leading to the plantation were very narrow, muddy and windy. We got a tour of the plantation and factory, also not forgetting having tea and scones again for breakfast at the cafe there which overlooks the plantation. Next we drove up higher to Gunung Brinchang were there's also a strawberry farm. We got to pluck them and take them home for a small price. Not very sweet as they are still tiny. Bigger ones are much more juicy and sweeter.

Next head back to the hotel to check in and also freshen up. Had lunch at T-Cafe quite yummy food. In the evening, we decided to do some hiking to the waterfalls. The walking path was just next to our hotel, the walked took us like 15 mins. We were quite dissapointed to see the condition of the Parit Waterfalls. There's so much rubbish in the river plus the water is chocolate brown. So muddy and dirty. I'm quite sad that the people here dont really care about perserving the environment and also the touristy places.

Dinner time back to town in Tanah Rata, we ate at HongKong restaurant ordered dishes instead of steamboat. The food here also not too bad. After dinner we went back to the pasar malam again coz Victoria wanted some strawberry juice. We also bought cactus and flowers to bring back. On the way back, Phil was curious to try Marybrown Chicken so we decided to stop by and tapau some back to the room. Not as yummy as KFC.

Last day, woke up early had breakfast at the coffee house. The we decided to check out the Kampung Orang Asli. It was very dissapointing again as it was just like any other kampung. I see alot back in KL especially near my apt. Took us only 5 mins to check out the place.

Next we drove up near Equatorial Hotel to the KEA Farm to buy from vege and fresh strawberries. Got a huge bag of vege for only RM 30 quite a good deal. We also got more cactus plant. Then we also visited the Chinese Temple there. Later we went back to the hotel showered and check out at 12.30. We then drove down the the Cameron Valley Bharrat Tea Plantations for lunch. We had sandwiches, tea and more scones :P On the way down there was another Boh Tea Farm, so we decided to check that out too. We spent quite sometime there. We also hiked up all the way to the top of the hill. The view was magnificient. Also got to checked out the factory and bought more tea. This time rolled palas tea leaf.

Time to head back to KL took us over 3 hours to get down and back into town. Traffic was getting a bit heavier. On the way down, we stop by Lata Iskandar Waterfall. Very nice huge waterfalls much cleaner than the ones up in Cameron.

So that's our short holiday trip. Next year Visit Malaysia Year 2007. Hope to see more parts of our beautiful country.

My Little Sis - Victoria's B'day

We had dinner at Rakuzen. Thanked God we made reservations as it was quite packed. Both Philip and I arrived late but made it on good time. We got her a Pink Collar Piglet Shirt from Giordarno and a "The Wild" DVD. Lyweoi got her a pig torchlight. We order so many types of sushi and food by the end of it we were all stuff. As usual Mom and QL love the wasabi and knock themselves out eating it.

Will post the video once I edit it...on youtube :P

But here are the pictures from the dinner. Enjoy!

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Flower Power

My mom's lotus plant....decided to take some shots of it. Looks great or not?

Mooncake Festival

This year mooncake festival was kinda fun. My family members came over to my place and turn my balcony into a candle fantasy land. We did have some mishaps. Some lanterns were sacrifice and burned to the ground. :P The cleaning up in the morning was a pain...lots of scrapping but washing to do. But got it under control.

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My Birthday 18th September 2006

My hunny got me a really nice pearl necklace :) He said this year I naughty so no present but he lied. Hehehe...me like the necklace. Nice or not?!

We then went to Chilis to eat dinner and embarassed me in front of everyone :P I got free brownie and ice-cream for dessert. Yeah!!!

BBQ B'day Pool Party

Woohooo!!! Party! Party! Party!

How do I begin? Last minute decided to throw a bbq party on my 31st b'day. So made a guestlist and shopping list of stuff to get. Email friends to come for the b'day bash. Mom started to get worried not enough food and also afraid that it may pour down hard. Lately the weather here has been quite eratic...lots of rain in the Klang Valley. So order some tables and chairs.

Started to get the stuff on Fri and Sat. Spent the whole Sunday morning preparing and cooking the food to cater for over40 pax. Got hotdogs, burger (apparently not enough for everyone - didn't know it was so popular), satay, chicken wings, lamb, fried bee hoon, coleslaw, corn, potato jacks, jelly, marshmallows, cake and watermelon. Not too sure if everyone like the food or not. But all the food was gone. No leftovers which is good except for the corn and potatoes.


Mom was so worried they couldn't get the fire to start. Philip was trying and finally managed to get it up with Suresh help. Both we the cooks of the evening. It was hard trying to get the fire up as it was so windy and started to drizzle. But they did...kudos!!! So we started to to get the food rolling. The marshmallows and burgers were a hit! Next time must buy more of those and less meat.Kept praying for it to rain the afternoon around 3.30 which I was very happy. Thought it was done raining but it continue on with baby rain through the whole evening. We placed some dried chili around the area, suppossedly to keep the rain away. It work alright to keep it from pouring heavily but not good enough as it was still drizzling. Next time got to put it earlier around the pool area. You can see from the pic that we didn't have a cover over the top but use umbrellas as shade...innovative right we malaysian.

I got really cool presents too. Got alot of wine from friend (Chan, Francis,Jamie, Ee Ling & Tzu Ming) and got Champagne from Sze wye all think I'm alcoholic :P Pillow cases - Beauty and the Beast (Hisham and Jenny), jewellry (Pearl Necklace from Grace and Angela, Bracelet and Earings from Lee Yen and Rene), book (Life of Pi from Alvin), Purse (Karima), Magic 8 Ball (Suresh and Adila), Vase (Madeliene & Wee Heng), Chocolates (Jin Aun & Wife), musical ball (Ivan) and Scooby mug from (Fiona, Leona and Vicky). Thank you all for the lovely gift. Very very nice and thoughtful of you.

Overall, I had fun. Was great to be able to share this special day with love ones, family and friends. Thank you for not throwing me into the pool in my nice BI dress.