Bedroom Deco

Last post of deco design was here.

These bedroom deco pics were taken from fwd mail. I like deco #6 and deco#9. Which one is your favourite uh?

lapik

The 五斗柜 , 梳妆台 & 抽屉桌 used to collect one layer of dust VERY often no matter how frequent you clean them. You know everytime cleaning got to move this and that so many things. If the cloth was too wet also not suitable since the furniture is wooden type. Pooh hui nia mah. Luckily I found this 懒人法. After I used this 'lapik' 遮掩法, I found that the underneath of this 'lapik' hardly collect any dust . You will say "Of coz lah the dust sticking on the surface of the lapik already mah". Ya lah, somemore this lapik material is not 'cloth' type, more like synthetic-don't-know-what type lah, therefore its surface also very easy to clean. Lap chit pai nia. Mae mae kuai kuai settle liao! If you take the whole piece and clean under tap water or rinse with detergent etc, also very fai fai chui, put under the sun to 'bake' for ~10 min then kao tim also! :)

1 meter RM12.75. What do you call this thing by the way?

TYL

I really hate listening to stories about ppl hutang TYL and ended up going to borrow money from relatives. First time, second time, third time...etc etc... I witnessed the progress of this fellow and now came another fellow. A man who is lazy, does not work, refuse to work, keep on lying to people and borrowing from one TYL to return to another TYL.If you lend them once, second time they come again, it's ENDLESS. You thought your money is 'rescuing' them?! No! You are destroying them. How does a man who does not work going to return the money to his relatives, let alone HIS TYL. The debt will keep on piling up. No eye see!

Jumping from one well to another

"So how's the new one?"
"Same lah, jumping from one 'well' to another 'well' loh."
"Aiyoh, say like that, really boh?"
"True what!"
"Haha...like that then how ah?"
"Well, if you want then you got to grab the rope hanging outside of the well one loh."
"So chim one...so you want to grab or not?"
"You don't bother so much lah. Busybody!" ;)

The Sushi Tradition

You like eating Sushi but did you know the manners of eating Sushi? :)

View this Tha Sushi Tradition

(a lot of them are very hui ngai leh , typical jap :))

move

Done!
From now onwards .....
Any 'flaming hot and spicy' stories will be posted at.....
somewhere else .....
I have created a new room for that......
hehehehehe.......

St Anne's Festival (II)

Climbing up the staircase at the back of the church and you will see this at the top of the hill.



Looking down from the staircase.
St. Anne's water

Coming down to the church at the side.

The big compound in front of the church gathered lots of people.

One last shot before we went back.

p/s : Thanks to our 'tour' guide, J for his hospitality and also the bak kut teh (oops, forgot to snap photos tim!).

We proceeded to E-gate Old Town Kopitiam to meet Yy.
Old town butter kaya toast......... *wharp*

St Anne's Festival (I)

The Festival of St Anne. held at St. Anne's Church, Jalan Kulim, Bukit Mertajam.

The road leading to the church was blocked for vehicles' entrance. Night market stalls were alongside the road.

Who took this pic one?! 'chicken' hand uh.... shaky.....

Night of Candle Light Procession.

Candlelight procession by thousands of devotees on the church grounds.






See?! 'man mountain man sea' oh!

Coming out from the church.

捱到病!

Ngai tou paeng ! In movies I watched a lot lah, but never did I imagine that could actually happen in real life. I was hospitalized for 5 days 4 nights. (It sounded like I was on holiday uh?!) . I was given drips on Avelox™ infusion solution other than the pills and nasal spray.

I kena buta cucuk (poke) 3x (left hand) during my first night when the nurse (apparently she is a pretty new nurse) was trying to put me on drip. She kept on saying," sorry sorry sorry....". 2x cucuk for blood test. At last she was able to insert the needle properly into my right hand under the assistance of another more experienced nurse. So it went on fine for the rest 3 days. On the 4th day, oh no.....the drip was not working after some time and the surrouding was swollen. According to the 'officer', "sayang lah to take if off and put you on pills, it's such a waster leh, left so much more wor, we've better finished it off lah, somemore it's not cheap you know". Of course I agreed. So.....I ended up kena lagi 1x cucuk on my left hand (using an infant needle).

(From the website I found out that this AVELOX is a sterile intravenous antibiotic used in adults for the treatment of serious infections of the lung, airway and sinuses.

AVELOX contains the active ingredient called moxifloxacin, which is an antibiotic belonging to a group of medicines called quinolones. These antibiotics work by killing the bacteria that are causing your infection.

AVELOX is available by prescription only, and is used in a hospital environment only.

The usual adult dose is 400mg once a day for 7-14 days. )

For me, all the meals are OK but the 'neighbours' everyday complained about their food leh, saying tak bubuh garam lah, tak enak lah and etc lah.

There were some people who became my spokewomen and spokemen while I was hospitalized but in actual they knew nothing in the background. They just saw the surface, assumed and concluded by their own. The typical ke po chi who likes to cho gao gao one lah!

Nasal spray

3rd visit to clinic. Nasal spray was given. Now only that Dr knew that his previous medicine did not work on me at all. Now only I heard him saying, " hmm....very very blocked...hmm......very very .... very blocked...." and ended up spending ~20 mins to 'clear'. Finally he wanted to give me pills that will cause slightly sleepy one liao. Finally MC 1 day. The Dr somemore scared that my 'ultimate motive' was to wake up in the midnight for world up final leh. Wah piang! I told him I never watch lah during midnights!

Very sick lah

I've been sick from 30th Jun till now. This time is very chia lat.During day time it's worse , with blocked nose everyday, covering with face mask plus another piece of N95. During night time I couldn't breathe and couldn't sleep. I went for another clinic on Thu night and proceeded to work the following day, which was actually a holiday. Boh huat tor, I got to work since the schedule was so damn packed. Replacement later date lah.

So, going into the room everyday with swollen eyes, blocked nose, sneezings and coughings and somemore wrapped with that pao-kar-bat-bat wear - Argh! it's very suffocating leh. Anyhow, yesterday I have finally kao tim the recipe which was workable and presentable. At least we got some kao tai *I sao tong immediately with rocket's pace*

Crazy by Gnarls Barkley

"Crazy" by Gnarls Barkley

It's an awesome track!
It makes me dance whenever I heard it.
I can't stop listening to it.
I am sooo hooked on this song!


While I was back in Milpitas, I simply tuned to a radio channel and heard this song for the first time. The next day I heard it again and from then onwards I stay tuned to this channel as I noticed that the songs were played repeatedly. I waited everyday to listen to this song. I heard it either while driving to work at Hillview or driving back from office to Staybridge/McCarthy. The track sounded so damn great especially when I was driving alone in a foreign country yoh! You know, got that kind of 'I am so damn free' feeling! I could not stop 'dancing' while driving! Nobody knows me there, so I don't care lah! :)

While flying back from SFO-HK using Cathay Pacific, I heard it again! This song was listed in one of its radio channels. Cool!

My USA trip

I have finished posting up all my pics there at
Cariso at Milpitas, CA, USA .

When you go into Cariso at Milpitas, CA, USA , please click on the "Previous Posts" at the sidebar there to read the individual post. I purposely split it up since some of you face difficulties in viewing the pics before this.

Dale - it's really nice to have the opportunity to visit your 'corals' at Hayward, CA.

Lettie - I wish I could have planned up my trip properly. I missed the trip to Texas argh!

Link to my US trip

I'll post the photos of my US trip up gradually day by day. Please be patient ya. Do come and visit here often for the update OK?!

Here you go!

Cariso at Milpitas, CA, USA

Greetings from Milpitas, CA.

Hello.

I have been here for two weeks already. All in all, the first week is SUPER busy and blur like sotong. I was like a sponge trying to absorb as much as possible. The second week was getting more OK, relieved a bit already and I could start to access internet mails and type more " ;) ". Next week gonna be my last week here already oh. Hmm.....RUSH here RUSH there RUSH everywhere but I really made full use of my time here, mind you *wink wink* :) I'll have a write up on this trip once I am back to Penang.

This is the personal notebook that my colleague over here lent to me. *wink* jealous boh?! I use it both at work and also at hotel room.

June 9 2006 9:00pm. (CA time)

Dream Deco Design

Last post on deco design was here: dream bedrooms. These house deco designs were again taken from fwd mails. Which one is your favourite design hmm?! I like the colour matching of Deco#7 - dark purple round sofa.

Big head blocking Da Vinci

One day one movie. Syiok! Poseidon, The Da Vinci Code. For the latter, I thought I would not have possibly made it before I fly(?) but I did!

I think I agreed with Susan Orlean, "You give up some of the imaginary quality of reading, and trade it for the visuals and the publicness of seeing the movie.

The film version deviated kinda lot from the book. " The most ??? in my mind was when Robert Langdon told Sophie Neveu that she is the last living descendent of Jesus Christ. Wah piang! *ngor yao mou taeng chor ah?!*

I will have to watch again this movie (either in cinema or DVD) because sitting in front of me was a very inconsiderate chao ta por. After the movie has started ~ 15 mins, I asked him politely if he could lean a bit lah but he (and his gf) just ignored, sat straight still, choy lei tou sor! You may think that may be there was someone blocking in front of him uh?! Not even one leh. My friend and I looked around the whole cinema, for the whole 5-6 rows in front of him, his head was the tallest one. His shoulder was like 3 inches above the seat height. So can you imagine how tall his whole head was 'standing' in front of me?! His whole head was blocking 1/3 of the subtitles! When the movie started speaking french, I could see the left and right portions of the sentence only. Mind you, not only this, I managed to watch 2/3 (horizontally) of the screen only throughout the whole show due to his bloody big head.

Tell me what should I do if I were to meet this kind of people next time?!

Green green grass

Those plants were there either because of capable of bearing fruits or got medicinal properties. Don't ask me why no landscaping etc etc. Ideally it should be as vacant as possible, with just the mowed green land only.

《剧院魅影》Think of Me

I like to read 沈星 blog partly because of this background song. This is a song which you must have archived somewhere in your brain after watching "The Phantom of the Opera".

《剧院魅影》

The Phantom of the Opera Soundtrack Lyrics

Song : Think of Me Lyrics

[CHRISTINE]

Think of me

Think of me fondly when we've said goodbye

Remember me once in a while

Please promise me you'll try

When you find that once again
You long to take your heart back and be free

If you ever find a moment

Spare a thought for me.

We never said our love was evergreen

Or as unchanging as the sea

But if you can still remember

Stop and think of me . . .

Think of all the things

We've shared and seen

Don't think about the ways things might have been . . .

Think of me

Think of me waking, silent and resigned….

Imagine me
Trying too hard

To put you from my mind

Recall those days

Look back on all those times

Think of the things we'll never do

There will never be a day
When I won't think of you . . .

[RAOUL]

Can it be?

Can it be Christine?

Bravo!

Long ago
It seems so long ago
How young and innocent we were...

She may not remember me
But I remember her...

[CHRISTINE]

Flowers fade
The fruits of summer fade
They have their season so do we ...
But please promise me that sometimes
You will think (opera singing)
of ~~~~~~~~~ ^^^^^^ me!

The soundtrack that I last mentioned before in this blog was ("I'd Be Surprisingly Good For You" from Evita).

I have got all the winamp -> m3u file ready for my 'NatKingCole', plus the html coding ready for mediaplayer add-on but the problem is I do not have the webspace to store the playlist and mp3 files coz am using blogspot server mah. So how am I gonna add it leh? Please teach me if you know ok.

A little push to leave the nest

It's been ages since I last entered cinema. The last movie I watched was back in December, Perhaps Love .

Some sum sui movies in mind ...

Failure to Launch - starring Sarah Jessica Parker & Matthew McConaughey.

It says "To leave the nest, some men just need a little push".

I guess this can be interpreted the same way when referring to job. :) *Yes, I already khi siao, every single phrase that I read now can be easily linked to job* *psychopathic from resentment?!* :)

The Da Vinci Code - starring Tom Hanks & Audrey Tautou. Very very looking forward to this one oh!

困守安袁

I was electrified when I 'heard' this from yesterday's episode of 意难忘.

困守安袁

家道丰腴自胞温 也须肚里立乾坤
财多害己君当省 福不胚胎祸临门

Mind you, this 'chiam' sounded too familiar to me. I got it last Wed. Last week was the week of 心神不宁 to me. I unconsciously went past a red traffic light whilst driving. I underestimated the distance and minorly scratched the underneath of my car too.

stand to live

When we talk about life partner, people say this," I am not looking for someone that I can stand to live with for a while. I am looking for someone that I can not stand to live without for the rest of my life!"

You can therefore rephrase the above in order to reflect job. "I am not looking for one that I must stand to live with for a while. I am looking for one that I do not have to stand to live for the rest of my life."

I shall remember today's date. 16.4.06.

Let your hand fool your leg

Today is the April Fool Day.

[Fwd Mail]

How Smart Is Your Right Foot?

Try this now!

This is so funny that it will boggle your mind. You will keep trying it at least 50 more times to see if you can outsmart your foot. But apparently you can't ! Ha!

What you should do:
1. While sitting at your desk, lift your right foot off the floor and make clockwise circles with it.
2. Now, while doing this, draw the number "6" in the air with your right hand.

What will happen :
Your foot will change direction!
Surprisingly there is nothing you can do about it. Believe it or not?!

(I raised white flag. I can't outsmart it. Anyone who can resist the direction change one please tell me).

Buy Tao Hoon

"Do you have tao hoon?"
"This one, Enerflex."
(Look at the packaging macam those slimming products leh)
"Got any other normal one boh? or perhaps Taiwan brand one boh? Those tin one ah, ka ki pao eh.(自己泡的)"
(I remember those 'organic' shops like got sell one leh. Where liao ah?! Nam Hwa Ee?! Than Tsiang?! Megamall chinatown?!)
"Eh, no leh, we only got this. Or perhaps this one?! Can less somemore leh."
(She passed to me another box - same brand but with the wordings of "slimming product" sort of..)
"Aiyoh, this one better don't lah, tak mau slimming one lah."
(Gaining weight also kang kor liao, somemore wanna slimming meh?!)
"No liao wor. only these two nia wor".
(Looked at it - 15 sachets)
"Grr....cincai lah."
(Handed over RM50, cashier returned the balance of 50 cents)
(Haiyoh, chiak kim loh. Aiyah, teng chyuu tong sin lah (顶住档先啦)! Later got time then only go buy the Taiwan 统一 brand or normal one).

You guys got any recommendation boh?!

Owing the bank cari jalan mati

It's very sad to know that when one's house got to be auctioned off. We introduced so many people to the house owner for the past 5 years but he insisted to sell for higher- than- market- price. We have also seen so many potential buyers coming and leaving through house brokers but in vain. We assumed that he was wishing to settle the house loan plus debt (outside one) in one go and therefore no need to pay any extra money. We advised him to let go when the demand was there coz owing the bank's money was no joke one man. He chose to wait for higher selling price. From the conversation we had with him, he seemed to be naive enough to not knowing that as time went on, the interest got accumulated daily would be very very hiong and at the end the debt would be a double or triple jump leh. Somemore the money you owed outside one leh?! We have seen now and then people coming to chase for money. We also knew that his family members have helped him clearing the outside debt for many times. One flat sold to pour into this debt 'hole' and yet it was still very 'thirsty'. So on and so forth............until this evening we finally witnessed the bank's person- in- charged came and put the 'notis lelong'. *Liao lian, mian kong liao *

Little Lamps

Lamp? Tiny little lamp? Hiak hiak, see all my different little tiny lamps that I got over here. Free? Free one?! Yes, see some of the items I got them free here.

Remember the gift from VMag that I mentioned before ?! Yup, got it today.

Traveller's directory

Yup! I have finally done with my Traveller's directory. A total of 216 entries as of today. Here's some of them.

Hold me tight, put me down, leave me alone

Today I went and trimmed my hair at a saloon nearby the market. Mind you, I did not prepare anything on 'myself' before CNY.

As usual, I browsed through the HK magazines and read about this article back in 2004 talking about him (颜伟福- 白花油王子). There was one phrase he quoted from a book he once read that - during a kid's growth, you can summarize it as "Hold me tight, put me down, leave me alone" and elaboration blah blah blah. He said this could also apply on a relationship development and so on and so forth blah blah blah. Both also true heh?! To all the mothers and lovelorn ones, you agree boh?! *wink*

FYI,a little bit of 8 kuar here if you don't know who this fellow is ah. Did you ever come across one MTV which you doubted whether it is an advertisement leh or a MTV leh?! The MTV showed one botak guy singing with the song's lyrics shown at the bottom but then on and off the screen shows you the scenes that they apply the ointment or something like that. Har lah! He is this 'singer' loh. He used to self-subsidize his own albums one. Un liao boey?!

初四星巴克

Che 4 初四- we three (Lena, Lilian and I) met up with Erlin at E-闸星巴克 (E-gate Starbucks lah). Going out in four is yeah! if you look like the S&C gang. If not then you'll become the DH, ha! We managed to 'jom' the sofa set of four but then later on I found out that this might not be a good choice coz my neck turned 'sour' leh due to the space in between the two opposite sofas was far and thus we got to sit slantingly towards the front in order to listen to what others talked. Well, you can avoid doing so by talking really really LOUD and covers the voice volumn of the surrounding lah. :)

After that we dropped by Lena's house. This one was 'kum' from her house one. The Japanese kue ka pek. Nice packaging and nice BOX too hehe.....

p/s: S&C - Sex & The City, DH - Desperate Housewives

初三聚会

Che 3 gathering at my house. This gang is usually about 10 persons or less. This has been carried out for several years already, easily 5 to 6 years?! Each year the time was getting later and later and the group was getting smaller and smaller too. Initially was 7.30p.m, then as years passed by, it became like until 8.00p.m. still small cat two three pieces. Plus some could not attend somemore one leh due to personal affairs.

The Yi mai fu zhuk is a must since YC always said that she only ate this once in a year and it was at my house during CNY. Other than that, the gang will HAVE TO sponsor some food or titbits loh. I did not take the photos of those tit bits liao coz we were busy 'transferring data' once we sat down :)

Attendees : YC, Lena, WM, EP, MC, Lilian, LK and lastly CC and BZ dropped by after 12 midnight.

The gathering dismissed at 1.30a.m.

粤翠轩 (Yue Cui Xuan) or 翡翠阁 (Fei Cui Ge) ?!

These were the wet wipes I kept since Jan 20th. The packaging was so damn nice leh, 我不舍得用啦! :) It got lucky numbers at the back also oh.

There was a lunch treat by vendor at Jade Blossom (粤翠轩), Krystal Point. They ordered the CNY set of 8 courses one oh. If it was a 收工宴 or our own funtions then of course the pictures of those dishes would have already been posted here long long time ago. :) However, it was not leh and I really could not be that thick skinned sitting in front of them taking the photos whenever the course was being served. I believe if I were to do so, they would definitely thought that I am either iao lur , 吃痴 or siao one! Anyhow, the courses were nice indeed.Yummylicous~~~~~~~~!

There was a little joke on the name of the restaurant before we went there. Actually this was not our 1st time there. We have in fact been treated several times previously at this restaurant too. The name of the restaurant is 粤翠轩 (Yue Cui Xuan), but then don't know why, could it be the name was too difficult to pronounce, or some people did not even know how to pronounce either the 1st or the 3rd word or both that....

somebody asked me," At 翡翠阁 (Fei Cui Ge) hor? The one at Krystal Point?!" "Who said 翡翠阁 (Fei Cui Ge)?! Got new restaurant opened there after 粤翠轩 (Yue Cui Xuan) meh?! "
"Neh, just now I mentioned and one of them said that restaurant's name that we went last time is 翡翠阁 (Fei Cui Ge)?!"
"Har? Kum tou tak ah? How can 粤翠轩 (Yue Cui Xuan) become 翡翠阁 (Fei Cui Ge) one?"

Haha! The only similiarity is the middle word. See?! Luckily there is only one chinese restaurant there, if there got another one so coincidentally called 翡翠阁 (Fei Cui Ge) which is more 'user-friendly' to remember or pronounce then you mah drive your customers to nextdoor loh?! Why not this restaurant put han yu pin yin (汉语拼音) wordings at the bottom or somewhere near the big jiao pai huh?!

My free traveller dictionary

Hmm...I decided to let my 'traveller' stays in one big ring file alone for ease of reading instead of binding them up in separate copies. Ya, it is the collection I mentioned before here.

Yes, I used to put the self-adhesive transparent reinforcement rings on every page before filing them up in ring files. I know the capacity of this new ring file is definitely not enough but ai...no choice lah.

Silk road .....wahahaha!

The directory also got to be updated leh but a lot woh! Later lah..... :)

Vmag gifts!

Ha! Won again! This time it is this V MAG -August /- Loreal Professional Absolut Repair worth of RM209.00. Hmm...I can still recall this issue was actually free one *wink*

I have won the items below so far from participating those promo contests in V MAG.

2003- Bobbi Brown.

The first (and huge too) gift that I won from V Mag was the Bobbi Brown Promotion 1st Prize hamper for worth of RM1500. This item was sent < 2 months after participation therefore I could remember well that this contest required a chinese slogan one!

That time I was not given any notice letters prior to their delivery therefore I received it in BIG surprise! I could still remember when I came down after bathing and saw the hamper in the living room, I asked " Wah, whose one?! For us one ah?!" "Yours one". "Who send one?! When send here one?" "Neh, JUST only, nah that lorry still outside."

From Bobbi Brown onwards, the gifts below kai chuk loi :) :

Loreal Invincible product RM80.00
LOTR coin box, very ‘milo-tin’ but ‘priceless’.
Parkson Voucher RM50.00
Fudge Dynamite RM49.00
Loreal Curl Mist & Liss Extreme Shine Perfecting Serum RM100.00

Also from other free magazines and newspapers :
Guerlain gift set RM150.00
Clearasil 3-in-1 set RM20.00
I-Green Resurge 3-in-1 set RM60.00

The V MAG notice/letter was always sent many months later after the participation date. Therefore for most of them I couldn't recall what slogans I have written, if there was any such requirements. What I know is I participated mostly chinese version one nia lah.

Penang Hill Hike

I joined for a hike up to Penang Hill on Saturday morning. The only thing staying fresh in my memory now is that killing tar road hike from No.84 to No.168.

"Argh! Don't mention that please!" :)

Go here for the exclusive penang-hill-hike's blog.

Paintball Sport

I joined my previous mountainbiking group for this paintball game this evening. Why I said 'previous'? because I have already 'taken leave' for 1 year (Oops!).

Er...this is my first try on paintball sport. For me, I'll rather put it as paintball game than the actual name 'paintball sport' lah, ha! :)

It's SYIOK ! but aiyoyoh...when kena the paintballs betul-betul ah, painful + bruises loh.

Go here for the photos lah!

(update: bruise diameter has grown up to as big as 3 1/2", yak!).

Magic Tree

Aiyah! Very sorry lah I missed out the '0 hour' leh.

OK, it is actually a dry plain 'cardboard' (trunk) with the purple/pink-coloured tips at the 'branches'. You fix the trunk in the X-cross position so that it stands still there. Then you pour the special liquid into the plastic container. The trunk will absorb the liquid and the branches will then blossom.

I first came across such type of magic tree back in year ~1998/99. I was at IMR (Institute of Medical Research), KL that time doing my industrial training. One of our labs' pakcik sold them and I bought a few pax from him. I bought the big garden style, single tree style and etc. He was rather secretive when I asked him from where he got such kind of funny stuffs. I just got to know "from Taiwan". I tried to hunt for these thingy after all those which I 'planted' finish withering. But....chuey boh leh!

Oh ya, if you do not protect them well enough from being accidentally shaken or touched by people, the 'flowers' will drop easily like snow.

I've never seen the similiar thing again until the last Xmas season when I was at Gurney Plz. I bought them immediately when I saw them - for Heng's Xmas makan festival.

Heng brought this to office today finally so that I can show her the 'how-to'. Don't worry, she still has another two at house to try on her own, hiak hiak!

Many of my colleagues have never seen such thingy before. The tree was placed at my hanging cabinet during 'monitoring' period and thus the cabinet was being opened many times by people including myself to check on the 'blossoming status'. Ha!