Yes I know. I have been neglecting my blogging. Well, it's not like I have many avid readers though...

Anyway, pretty busy with work. I have lots of photos to blog about, but I'll skip it for another time I guess.

Just received news today that a good friend of ours just lost his father. So a bunch of us will be paying our last respects tomorrow night (Friday). Sigh...

And also, just read another friend's blog that her mum was recently diagnosed with cancer. Be strong, Fishie! (not linking her in case she minds)

So, in respect, no photos and rantings in this post. My condolences to Kok Kean and his family for their loss, and my encouragement to Fishie and her family. It's all God's will.

Take care friends!

I backlogged this entry from the week before last (tipu the date a bit lah).

Friday night. Took mum to Marche's. Had orange juice (yummy!), sauteed mushrooms, lamb chops, pizza, rosti, dan bermacam-macam lagi.



Since mum is aware of my photo and blogging crazy activities, she obliged in many of the first photoshoots (camwhoring la in other words).



Then it's Melissa and my turn pulak!



Anyway, on the 7th July 2007 (Oh wait! Lemme wish Abe a HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!!) - We (as in my family) had to go to Kepong to give "oxygen" to the ol' Iswara. On ventilator liao. Air con from cold to hot. And our regular workshop fella said have to change the ENTIRE compressor?!?!? Like gonna cost us about RM1k ler... Eat grass la this month. So mum asked to call my Uncle Kamal to ask him about it and he asked to go over to his regular guy to get a second opinion. Dem! Missed a chance to join Jessica and her family to Cameron Highlands.

Anyways, was at the workshop look and see (like I know what is happening lah hor). I know how to take photos only la... So you see for yourself and figure out what's happening lor...



After fixing the aircon, went back to Aunty Nab's house at Kampung Melayu Kepong. Mum was there since we reached (so meaning she din follow us to the workshop ler)... Aunty Nab cooked a simple makan of fried bihun and iced drinks. Then - jeng! jeng! jeng! - Uncle Kamal opened a few DURIANS! Ehem... not a few ler... quite a lot lor... Melissa was jumping with joy. She memang mengidam since dunno when... Hahaha!

Let's see what we were up to there that bright and sunny day!


In case we were to city-groomed that we did not know how a durian looks like, here's mummy showing one to us.


Uncle Kamal our official durian opener for the day!


The husks. All the yummy fruit in our tummies.


Here's mummy and Aunty Nab in front of the enchanted tree.


What's that we see growing on the trees? OMG! It's cempedaks lah!!!


A closer look at the magical tree!


So I kow-down to the tree. Must respect mer!


Melissa kow-up! Oh the greatness!


This is Aunty Nab trying to chase away monsters. Haha!


Nolar, she was just plucking some rambutans for us to eat. Oh yummy!

OK. After all the durians and cempedaks and mangosteens and rambutans - we went home lor... with happy tummys... yums!

And then what did we do ler? Sent mummy to work... then Mel and I went home to zzzzz..... Hehehe...

Hmmm... the that night. What did we do hor? Oh - then we went makan and then stayed home... Nice and quiet.

Sunday. Mel and I initially planned to go watch Surf's Up at TGV Sunway Pyramid but because of the queue, aiyoh the thoughts was abandoned almost immediately. So we went shopping instead. Guess what I splurged on ar?

Sigh...

This-lor!

The doll house.



The Japanese set.


This came together with the doll house.

(Will put up my photos when I have taken them. These 4 photos was 'borrowed' from other resources, temporarily. So please dun sue me ar...)

My pocket got huge lubang liao now.


Then I saw this! Arghhh!!!


I want! I want! I want!

Demmit! Kenot step into World of Cartoons liao! Can get so broke!

After that, I saw this also at Parkson pulak!


Aiyoh!
I like! I like! I like!

First ar, you choose your doll! Or bear! Or monkey!


Then you fill em' up with cotton or whatever filling you want and is available (forgot to take photo of the cotton-filling machine).

Then hor (wahhhhh so cute ler!!! - kenot tahan) you can choose the clothes and shoes (arghhh it is dem cute lah!!!)...


TA-DA! Your softy toy is then born! (psst! got birth certificate also ler)



The many variants...


Adding on to my wishlist! Hehehe...

After all the cute stuff, it was time to balik la. Pokai liao lor! On the way back, stopped by at Jessica's place to get some stuffs from her. She and her family just got home from Cameron Highlands. How nice...

This is what she bought for us. THANK YOU SO MUCH!


Enough rantings. Time's up!

It's a Friday and technically, brain no function on Fridays... true or not?

Anyways, I just got a Krusell leather case for my Baby Dopody for RM100. Duno if I kena charged too much but quite an emergency, as my Baby Dopody already has a some scratches at the back (sob-sob).

But I still want a Covertec or Piel Frama case... I heard Covertec no more selling. How far it's true I duno ler...

So I'm gonna put this in my wishlist (hehehe).


Red Covertec for Baby Dopody.

Isn't it nice?

or


Red / Orange Piel Frama for Baby Dopody

That's all in my list for now! Hehehe...

It has been a pretty productive weekend... for me lah at least. Have been pretty 'dead' the previous weekends... Tired brain cells.

Well, weekend started with the Transformers movie, as I had so excitedly and so kiasu-ly posted up almost immediately upon returning home that morning...

Anyways...

Saturday.
As expected, woke up pretty late on Saturday (well, I did sleep at about 4am writing that kiasu piece of blog entry - hehehe). It was almost lunchtime so we decided to cook lunch, instead of the usual tapau. What did we have for lunch that day? Melissa had to go off for some kind of anime event over at Taylor's so we had steam fish and fried egg. Simple and nice.



Here's how the fishy looked like before getting steamed. I forgot to take the "after" picture. Was too hungry to think by then ler...

Then, mum wanted to go do some grocery shopping so we went over to Giant USJ for some buying stuff session.

And we were at the fish section when I saw these fugly things... EUW!!!



EUW!!!
Can you guess?



So dear cousin Taha, this is how your UNAGI looks like ALIVE before it getting cooked by the Japanese people... Euw!!!



Look at the heads! Dem geli you know!



Blueh!!!



ULP!!!

This looks so much better! And normal too! Not to mention familiar...



Fishies in almost frozen state.



Then off to the greens! Kulihat Hijau!



That evening, went over to Kuala Lumpur Performing Arts Center (KLPac) in support of the arts.


Image taken from KLPac's website, therefore - not mine.

Meet Joe (not Black) but Joe Hasham and Mano Maniam (my sifoo).


Photo grabbed from The Star Online, therefore - not mine.

Haha! Actually there was this play where my ex-theater instructor (the sifoo) is in and oh well, even though I did not know like 90% of what is happening (I do get the gist of the whole thing though) - it was pretty amazing and was an experience which I have not been able to do for quite some time.



Will be getting more involved in the artsy stuff after this then, hopefully.



Meet Faiz.

I dragged Faiz with me to the play that night for company and he so nicely obliged. It has been ages since we last hung out (hmmm... should be more than a year ledi) so this was a good time to catch up. Well, it was almost 3am when I reached home, so there was definitely a lot of catching up done. Old gossips and new scandals... Hahaha! Plus mentioning a few times about my Haagen Daaz birthday cake he owed me 3 years ago...

OK. So slept late again that night (or should I say, early that morning) - another 4am bedtime...

Sunday.
Woke up at lunctime (hey, it's a Sunday mah). Decided to cook lunch again. Steam fish again but this time, different style. We call this the Teo Chew steam fish. Got a bit of ham choy, sour plum, chicken meat, shitake mushrooms, ginger, spring onion, tomatoes and tauhu smoothered with the fish and then steamed. So yummy!

This is the fish before steaming.



This is the fish ready to be eaten, but not before posing for a shot first. Hehehe... fish also clever wanna camwhore! Hahaha!



These are the rest of our lunch.



Plain fried kuchai flower vege with garlic.



Pan-fried white tauhu with oyster sauce.



All three dishes for a super late Sunday lunch. It was 3pm when we started eating! Hahaha!

Why am I camwhoring my lunches? Coz I am putting the recipes into THIS!



My very own homecooked cookbook! Who is the chef you ask? My mummy of course! Gonna fill 'em up!

That night, went to The Curve. Thought of getting some soil from IKEA but was too late too go buy after dinner (we left home late ma). Decided to take mum to TGI Friday's for mamam.

Took the 3-course meal. But only camwhored the appetisers and desserts. Main meal was forgotten due to some unpleasant customer service. Sigh...

Mum and the Buffalo Chicken Wings. She taking off the fibers from the celery.


Melissa took the Fried Mac and Cheese.


This is her taunting everyone else.


Skipped camwhoring the main meal and went straight to dessert.


This is the famous Mud Pie. Did not do much justice on the taste anyways that night. I've tried better before.


Melissa and her Mud Pie.


Cookies and Cream - the other dessert choice.

After dinner we went to the new donut joint just around the corner from TGI Friday's.

Welcome to Big Apple Donuts and Coffee!





No, I do not get paid for advertising the donuts here. How I wish.



Well, I am not much of a fancy donut person but this is so much better than Dunkin Donuts. Still cannot beat Krispy Kreame though (Yay! Ezan's getting a dozen for me this week! All the way from Jakarta too! Muaks you!)



This is a dozen I got. Some for tomorrow's breakfast and to take to office for colleagues. Me so nice, no?



Yummy!