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Friday, January 2, 2009

BYE BYE 2008 AND HELLO 2009

I WISH EVERYONE A HAPPY, HEALTHY AND PROSPEROUS NEW YEAR 2009!

Year 2008 has been very meaningful to me. It marks the tenth year since hubby recovered from his critical illness. I think he is the only person (maybe, I dunno) still walking around after claiming the life insurance. But the insurance was not enough to settle his enormous medical bills. So when he was fully recovered, we have to work very hard to settle whatever outstanding to the hospitals, take care of the two little boys, getting on with our life and realising our dreams that we have left far far behind. We work 7 days a week and taking a short break whenever we are tired and work even harder for the any loss incurred because of the break we take. We have to keep the pain to ourselves, keep mum about the rumours and misunderstanding around us because if we put too much negative emotion in our action, we may lost focus on our GOAL!

Along the way, we fight, we quarrel, we laugh and we cry....but we know we love each other, we love our children and we love our family. Year 2008 marked the 15th year anniversary of our marriage....i look forward to many many more years to come. Staying together needs lots of wisdom, compromise, understanding and loving. I always believe one need a companion and some money (老伴和老本)when one grows old.

We have achieved a lot for the past ten years. We went to many great holidays, we drive better cars and in year 2008 we moved to a new house. I am happy and satisfied because we see good results from our hard work. But we are not able to stop now, we still have two school going children. Opportunities are still there for us to make money. We should not grudge about our work because when we are able to work means we are healthy, we are wanted, we are useful, we are important and we are able to put food on the dinner table. Set our goal, focus, make it happen.

As the saying goes 'you gain some , you lose some'. I have more wrinkles on my face and more grey hair. I regret of not spending more time with my siblings, my parents. I regret I did not see the latest James Bond movie, I regret I did not attend my friends' gatherings or birthday party. I regret I eat too much and not finding time to do some exercise!! And many many more...........I am going to draw a list.

To all friends and family members, brothers, sisters, aunties and uncles, wherever u are, I always remember and love u. Happy New Year!

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Wednesday, December 31, 2008

December Part 2

I attended three weddings this month.

First one was in KL Tower Banquet Hall. We were given stickers to stick on our clothes so to entitle for free ride up the tower.

The picture of the newly wed is pasted on the drinking bottle.....something different!

The banquet hall has many pillars due to its shape. There was one in front of me and i was not able to see whats going on the stage.

Crispy Fried Chicken is very tasty.

This is dessert : Ice-cream

The halal wedding food served in this KL Tower was surprisingly good and delicious.

Second wedding was in Bankers' Club in Amoda Building, KL.

Blue cup cakes were served at the reception area.

Part of the 8 course wedding meals :

The halal wedding food was equally good and delicious.

The third wedding was in Taiping : Soon Lee Seafood Restaurant , opposite the Champagne Hotel. I am not going the write much about the food as most wedding meals are almost the same.

But how could one not eating at the local hawkers' fare when you are in Taiping. We went to Kedai Kopi Bai Leng, near the Lake Garden.

Fried Kueh Teow, hubby asked for 'kah liu' (add extra prawn/cockles), got wok hei but a bit oily.

Pie Tee, some may find it bland but I think it is very tasty. As I grow older, i tend to avoid food that are to rich ( such as too creamy coconut milk, too spicy etc)

Seafood Noodles, hubby asked for 'kah liu'. I think it is tasty but hubby said not nice. I think because of the 'kansui' from the yellow noodles. Hubby doesn't eat meehoon and I don't really like the yellow mee so we finished the seafood and left the yellow noodles behind.

Dried Wantan Mee, i ordered this becos I saw a lot of people ordered. I like the Char Siew, not the red or orange colored type but a bit dry. The noodles was tasty.

Before we go back to KL, we went to this coffeeshop called Rex Ais Kacang dan Minuman, located behing Mc Donald in Taiping.

I still prefer the original popiah, lots of vegetables and abit wet. I don't like the KL popiah, dry, too much sweet sauce and lots of crunchy stuff.

Actually, the reason we came to this coffeshop is for the Rojak. I like the rojak sauce, not too sweet and belachan bits in the sauce make this rojak very aromatic ( if u like belachan).

The Assam Laksa does not look appetising, but it is very tasty. The soup is the clear type and there are some fish chunk in the soup.

I ordered a bowl and Ching Tang, Clear Soup Noodles. I like the home made fried onion on top, not the usual factory mass produced type of fried onion, have been hearing a lot of scary story about the way they fried the onion ( dropping the plastic bag in the oil to make it crunchy!!).

Taiping is a very nice, quaint little town. The food is still cheap. The noodles are still below RM3 per bowl. I like the old trees along the Taiping Lake, very serene and peaceful.

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December Part 1

I am very busy during school holidays because I have to prepare my children's meals, take them 'jalan-jalan' and spend time with them. Luckily my working hours are flexible. There are some places we go and I would like to highlight a few here.

Outing No 1: Visiting to Sg Klah Hot Spring in Sungkai, Perak. I bring my Mom along together with my two boys. First , must look for food in Sungkai town.......we eat lunch at this Choy Kee Restaurant in Sungkai, famous for its Steamed River Fish and Stew Pork Leg. It is so yummy that my Mom finish the whole porky dish. The price is reasonable.

After lunch, we proceed to the Sg Klah Hot Spring:

The egg boiling section:

There are many section of hot spring ie family spa, foot massage and there is a swimming pool on the other side.

Choy Kee Restaurant is located in Sungkai town (turn right after coming out from toll plaza) and to go Hot Spring, turn left after coming out from toll plaza, then follow the signboard, you won't miss it.

Outing No.2:

We went a few shopping malls and one of them is Midvalley. I like to do my shopping in Midvalley as one can find almost everything there unless u want to buy some high end branded goods. There are Carrfour, Jusco, Metro, MNG, Elle. There are many variety of food, cinema, bowling alley, pet shop, cafe, fastfood, ice-cream etc etc. We go there to see movie ( oops, I forgot what movie we watched) and we eat at the food court.

Christmas Decoration: