Last week, Mel fell in the bathroom and broke her wrist. Luckily I bought her insurance so there was no qualms about which ER to bring her. She had a private hospital care -lucky devil.



When discharged, she followed me down to Port Dickson for the weekend. Initially she had to work over the weekend but coz of her recent clumsiness, I suggested she followed me.This weekend was arranged weeks ago and will not want to cancel it coz it involves another friend. So Mel stayed in the room entertaining herself with computer games and books while me and my friend were out by the pool and greens.

6 weeks in a cast. 1 week gone. 5 more weeks to go!

Countdown to 4th September!

It was an eventful weekend. Uncle Sai Hong and Aunty Jillian made a trip up the highlands and invited mum, sis and me along. Last minute, decided to invite Uncle Sai Yoke too. So the -ahem- room -ahem- became -ahem- more -ahem- crowded lor... Was there 3 days 2 nights.

Asked Ms Lee if she has plans the same weekend and asked her to go up as well with her mum and AJ (which I was so sure will be a sure-go!) - hehehe... So, we met later in the evening for some Gashapon moments, laff moments and Starbucks moment... Read all about it here lah!

Gashapon! My latest weird and expensive once-in-a-while obsession. There were rows of Gashapon machines in the arcade and as usual, whenever I pass by any machines, will just peek through to look see if there's anything interesting I can get. Mind you, it's expensive so try not to go all crazy like I did. Each turn will cost 2 or 3 tokens, depending on the value of the toy, and each token is RM4. The trick is, if you did not get the particular toy you wanted in the first place, you will try and try and try and try again and again and again till you get it (well, me anyway!)...



Well, what was it that I got so mushy about?





It was the Mushroon from the Mario game! You remember the red mushroom which let Mario grow big when eaten? Yups! That was it!



All my bubbly capsules of Gashapon toys.



Sneak peek inside!



Once released from the capsule.

Let me justify myself by showing you what I meant that it was darn cute!



Cute kan? Well, by the time I got the red mushroom, I collected the entire SET! Waheee!

And these cuties double up as a bell charm! Hear it ring when you jiggle it!

Yeah... if you have seen my status, you would know what it was the past 2 days. Ironically, check out the date! Phew!

Today especially, was like a 24 hours 100 meter sprint race the whole day. Phew - got to calm down a bit about 7pm (hence blogging about being bogged)...

Hopefully, if it all the plan works out beautifully, this sprint will result in something AWESOME (Jeff's favourite quote) come next January.

So, will be up with the clouds donating money to GH (no - I don't mean General Hospital) and getting freaked out like in the movie Final Destination 3 - omitting the dying part.



Planning to get the Proton Persona SE in Blue Haze colour but not sure if I can cope with all the other bills I'm footing. Depressed. I heart the car leh...

Plans to give birth to a Cool Bear Workstation toy is well underway. Just surveyed the price of the toy, and clothes, and shoes, and all the extra accessories. I'm probably gonna spend about RM150 or more... And my newborn will have a birth certificate!

So I have chosen the monkey.



And these would probably the clothes (found on website) but my visit to Parkson Sunway Pyramid just now displayed even more. So I will slowly ponder what my newborn will have to wear.

The pink outfit on the bear looks ladylike don't you think?

Anyway peeps - HAPPY WEEKEND AHEAD!

What was the week all about?

Sun, sea, work, friends and family --- all into one.

Hung out with a dear friend a bit. Lotsa catching up to do...



I hope she meant me up there... hehehe...




At the beach with Jess... it was para gliding after that - OMG! Wanna go do again?



Then it was a 12 hour train ride to Singapore - never to be done again unless I somehow go gila and wanna do it again... It was a quick trip down south and back to KL again. Very tired!



Don't be fooled with our jolly faces. This was taken 12 hours before the trip! Hehe!

Dinner was at Shangri-La Hotel Singapore. Here's to the newlyweds!



Congratulations cousin and cousin-in-law!



One for the album!

The next day, before taking the bus back to KL, cam-whored with my cousin's woogies!



Hi Scruffy! Rufus is running down there somewhere... Hihihi...

Now? Back to work la! What you think leh?

Snippets of what went on over the weekend.



Team name, flag design and team cheer - making session.



Team cheer - HELLO YELLOW!!!



Who's Who & Sudoku.



Entrapment.



Task accomplished.

While we were waiting to change game, some of us did some side entertainment...

Ezan & Suzana did this...



Azim did this...



Getting ready for Hari Raya.



That night, karaoke session on the lookout for the next PROTON IDOL.



Then some of us adjourned to Poison Rose after that.



Nice ambiance. But not-so-good selection of music.



Group photo.



My roomie that weekend.

The next day.



More games. And yes, we got wet.



Trying to get ASTRO on.



Building a plane.



HELLO YELLOW team members with our flag and plane.



Making sure the plane flies.




HELLO YELLOW!

Saturday started of good. Lazing around on Saturday morning. Then lazing around some more in the afternoon. Melissa had a housewarming to go to that evening so we set off to Seksyen 2 with every intention to make it a very very short trip.

Bought all the artsee-fartsee stuff I needed for my impromptu project. An abandoned interest since I started working. Wonder why I suddenly had the urge to start doing all these non-profitable stuffs now? (Turned out to be a very expensive outing... sigh...)

I'm not going too much into details of what happened. More of what happened next. All I'm gonna say that I was at the Bulatan Kayangan, wanting to get out to the road heading towards Tesco Shah Alam. To get home to get ready for the night's session with friends, and Mel to attend her housewarming.

Then... the traffic lights IN THE ROUNDABOUT turned green... I moved on slowly, signaled left, inching my way out. I'm almost out when...

WHAM!

What was going through my mind at that time? First. Where the FARK did that blue sedan came from? I did not see it in either my side and rear view mirrors? Was I dreaming? I want to say that I did not but that till now is a blur for me.

Parked my car at the side. The blue sedan went on and stopped in front of another red light IN THE ROUNDABOUT, not far from my car. Till now, I still feel that if I did not get down from my car, they would have driven off? Till I was out of my car, they did not show any signs of getting down themselves?

What happened? The young guy (let me call him Cappy) came down with his passenger (I'll call him Thumbs), went over and looked at the damage of their car. I went and looked at mine. Heart dropped. DEMMIT! Then I went over to him. He was like... "What did you do? You HIT ME! You could not WAIT for a second or two to let ME PASS! Now how?"

I was still in a blur. Huh?

We then decided to get off the roundabout and waited by the side of the road to 'keng sou' lah.

I was trying to tell my side of the story, like... Hello? Where did he come from???

He was like... "You hit me! What do you mean where I came from? You could not have waited for a second or two? Must barge in and hit me?"

Twice I asked him to lower his voice. To me and my mum, who thankfully, was there with me.

At first I was all in to pay for the damages (even though I still feel pretty blur about the whole episode) but then what followed next made me change my mind.

1. Called my insurance agent and told him about the accident. He told me to make a police report.
(I was already in the verge of making up my mind to make a police report, to let the insurance settle everything later on, regardless who is in the wrong.)

2. Called my cousin Thev-aneh and asked if he could come accompany us? Because I was with mum and Mel, plus the other party were both guys, one local and the other foreigner, I was a bit weary. (Thank you Thev-aneh and Jenuka-ka for being there with us the ENTIRE night. Sorry for botching your dinner plans.)

3. Told the guys to let's go make a police report so that the insurance can settle. They were albeit pretty reluctant, Cappy asked me to wait coz the car owner was on his way.

I asked... "Oh, so this is not your car?"

(The answer which followed really pissed me off... and which was the final clincher for me to decide to make a police report instead of settling the whole issue there with them.)

Cappy replied - "No it's not. You're lucky. I drive a FERRARI!" HMPHHH!

Bloody HELL! I couldn't care FARK if you have driven a bloody Ferrari or a bullock cart. The fact is, you were driving a FREAKING BORROWED CAR! The Chinese has this saying ~ If you don't talk, no one will know you're dumb.

That was the "Ding! Ding!" of the jackpot! No matter whatever or whoever says anything, police report it is!

4. Owner came. Let me call him Lappie. Also a foreigner. I knew later they were from Iran. Whatever. He was pretty polite. But pretty ridiculous. I told him to let's go do the police report and get all this done over once and for all. He said the police needs to come to the site to access the accident. the situation etc. Well, I told him no, let's go anyway coz if they are gonna call the police to come, we will be standing there till the New Year. He was still reluctant, trying to get me to settle it there.

5. At this point, guy number 4 arrived. WTF! Reinforcements? I understand later this fella is their insurance guy. Well, OK then. But by now, I was pretty insistent to get to the police station. Hello? What if the entire kampung came? We're 3 ladies by the roadside ler. Safety first. Paranoia evaluation later.

6. We at last started driving to the police station. Seksyen 11 Shah Alam.

(Accident happened at 6.45pm. Police report was logged in at 7.50pm ~ that was how long it took to get to the police station.)

Tup. Tap. Tup. Tap. Everything was over and done with by 10pm. Of course by now I have flied the kite with my night's session with friends, and Mel missed the housewarming.

I noticed Cappy was looking more and more resigned as the night wears off. More and more subdued. When I told Jenuka-ka about the ealier jibe, she couldn't believed, coz he looked so demure? Probably playing the sympathy card with the Sarjan but up to this point, I couldn't care less.

After the police station ordeal was over, we all (except for Cappy, Thumbs and Lappie) at last went for dinner. Thev-aneh said, "Let's celebrate!".

Har-har. Farney.

Well, probably by now many will have the impression of how huge the damage was. Let's have a look, shall we?

My car.



Hey! The head lamp's still intact! OK what!

The other car.



Ouch! Have to change the RIMS leh. Demmit!

It doesn't take a genius to guess who kena saman la. I even knew it myself, and I am no genius. Of course it was me ler. Coz my front hit his back mah.

Well, whatever. I didn't care much. I was expecting it though. Common knowledge that even if you're humane-ly not in the wrong, the rules say back hit front, back is wrong. I just wanted the Cappy to go to the station. Hell, I'm a woman. Never heard to not 'tak-chui' a woman?

Whoever reading this may have different opinions on how I should have handled the situation. Probably some will say I'm dumb for losing my NCB over this small matter. To me, it was not much about losing the NCB. First, I decided to go to the station coz I was concerned about the safety of my family and myself, in any case things should go out of hand. Second, Cappy pissed me off. Third, Cappy raised his voice to me and my mum. How could I be well-assured he did not call the entire army to be there (seeing that one man fella at a time came?), or even start a fist fight with us? I cannot predict any of this things from not happening. Better safe than sorry huh?

So today, will have to go to the police station to buy my copy of the report, plead for a lower saman, pay the saman, call my insurance guy, and I hope all this be settled speedily.

What a start to my New Year. And did I hear someone mention that this is a good year for Goats? Hogwash!

It's that time of the year again, where everyone decks in red and gold to usher in the New Year. What? New Year has passed? No-ler... Chinese New Year la... and this year we are saying bye-bye to piggy and hello to mousey.

So, to start off - On CNY eve, Mum, Mel and I went to the Wat Chetawan temple off Jalan Gasing to pay our respects to papa and grandpa.





Left for Teluk Intan from the temple. Reached in good time, after about 2 hours drive. Very very good time. That evening, went to a Chinese Association temple to pay our respects to "Ah-Kong", Mum's dad.











Dinner photos? Too hungry and busy eating to take any. But, have some photos of us celebrating Isyam's 24th birthday. That cake was driven up all the way from Taipan, Subang by yours truly.







Everyone seems to be in red.

Later that night, went looking to Teluk Intan's super famous Chee Cheong Fun. After some directions from Abang Endi, we (Isyam followed me) manage to find the factory. Imagine! Going to a CCF factory at midnight to buy CCF! And look! We're not the only ones...



This is the queue that first night.



Kinda cool!



This is the queue for the second night. This time, Jenuka-ka followed us coz she wanted to see and know.



Third night queue. Outrageous! We left after about 15 minutes of queuing. Thevindran a-neh just don't have the patience! Hahaha!



This is my nephew, Ari Xuen. He's now almost 2 years old. Look how big his eyes are. Ari is 1/4 Indian and 3/4 Chinese.



We went to Penang on the 3rd day of CNY to be with papa's side of the family. Did not take any nice photos there. Simply too lazy by then. As usual, just HAD to go to the Feringghi pasar malam to buy some dee-vee-dees and also other cutesie stuffs. Loved it so much that we went there 2 nights in a row.

Left Penang on Monday (to avoid the mad rush back) and stopped by Bukit Merah for a while to hang out with Uncle and Aunty Teja. Check out Prince's antics looking for iguanas at the lakefront.



Happy Chinese New Year!