~ S-A-Y-wEn

Meet Olly!

2011-09-14T12:25:00.000-07:00

Everybody meet Olly the maltichon (maltese + bichon frise)!

Olly is the white one

We brought him home last Saturday. We're suppose to have him for a week, then decide if we want to adopt him but we're already so smitten by him, we have decided to keep him for good.

What do we know about him so far:

He's roughly about 4 years old (I'll know for sure when I get all the papers)
A sweet little guy with a spunky side to him
Loves to cuddle and often ask for a belly rub
He's vulgar to other dogs; will go up to them to play and then startled them by screaming in their face LOL (we secretly thinks he's got Tourette syndrome)
He's the dog version of Harry Houdini, the great escapologist. He manages to escape the fence that we set up in the laundry room several times. There's also an extra special hook on his crate to secure the door. Thank god he does not escape from the house
He loves to eat and eats like a glutton. We are training him not to steal our food but otherwise he's very obedient.
He enjoys his walk and loves playing fetch (gotta to remind myself to get him a non-squeaky ball; he enjoys squeaking the ball too much, he forgot to bring the ball back to me sometimes)
He only drinks from his water bowl so I'm trying to teach him to share to make things easier when we travel.

I think that's pretty much what we found out about him in these few days of having him around. Looking forward to create more wonderful memories with this ball of joy.

Kek Batik or Batik Cake Recipe

2011-09-01T12:36:00.000-07:00

Recently when I went on my glamping trip, I brought some homemade Kek Batik for dessert. The cake looks adorable with it's batik pattern and tasted rich & yummy. It was a hit with the kids!

The recipe is really simple & if a noobie baker like me can nail it, you can too. Except there's no baking involved! You'll see why. The recipe calls for more Milo than chocolate but I tweak it since I prefer a more chocolaty cake. Also if you want a hint of coffee flavour (mocha kek batik), you can add a pack of instant coffee into the batter. I made both the chocolate kek batik and the mocha kek batik and I love them both.

Kek Batik Recipe:

Ingredients:

1/2 cup Milo
1/2 cup semi sweet chocolate morsels
1/2 cup boiling water/milk (whichever you prefer)
3/4 cup butter cut into large chunks
1/2 can sweetened condensed milk
1/2 cup white granulated sugar (recipe called for half but I opt to put only 1/4 cup or no sugar at all)
5 eggs; separate the egg whites (I opted for 3 whole eggs & 2 egg whites)
1/2 teaspoon vanilla extract
1 packet of Marie biscuits (250g)

Method:

Roughly break each biscuits into quarters and set aside
Line the base and sides of a loaf tin with parchment papers (lightly grease the tin so the paper sticks to it)
Beat the egg whites separately until fluffy and lightly beat the egg yolks.
Melt chocolate morsels according to the instructions on the packaging.
Mix melted chocolate and Milo in a saucepan and slowly add boiling water/milk into the mixture while stirring until it is smooth.
Add butter, condensed milk, sugar, egg whites, egg yolks and vanilla into the saucepan
Place over moderate heat and cook, stirring all the time until the bottom starts to thicken. Should take about 5-8minutes.
Continue to cook on low heat for about 20 minutes or until the batter forms a thick custard. Remember to stir constantly.
Transfer the batter into a big mixing bowl and add in the biscuits. Mix them together until all the biscuits are coated with the batter.
Pour the batter into the loaf tin and press it down to make sure there are no air pockets.
Knock the tin on the counter a few times to settle the batter then smooth the paper extensions over the top to even out the surface.
Let cool to the touch then cover with cling wrap. Refrigerate for 4 hours or overnight before serving.

Since it's a no bake recipe, you can tweak the ingredients however you want to make it healthier (or less healthy if that's what you want) to suit your eating lifestyle.

Happy Baking & Happy Eating!

The New French

2011-08-12T18:29:00.000-07:00

After watching Lisa Eldridge's video on The New French manicure this morning, I decided to paint me some new french.

I actually used 2 colours but the base one look like my own nail colour in the picture

It was not easy at all to DIY. Took me forever to finish both my hands. Fortunately it only took me one try and though I have not perfected the art yet, I'm quite happy with the result (for a first timer, kira OK la).

Well now I'm too lazy to paint my toe nails so I'll leave the task for tomorrow - hopefully. Now I'm almost ready for the weekend! Hope the rest of you will have a great weekend too :)

p/s: for those of you who are looking to try it out, here's the video

Glamping at Lopez Island

2011-08-09T14:49:00.000-07:00

We had a fantastic weekend at Lopez Island with amazing friends. The weather was sunny and the clear blue sky was perfect for our little getaway.

Our trip was filled with plenty of rest, mouthwatering food, sunbathing, games and football. I even managed to squeeze in my workout in between with a workout buddy. Quite refreshing to have someone there to push me harder.

Only downfall was our trip heading home. We had to wait 5 hours to catch the ferry. What a waste of one whole beautiful day. But overall it was a very lovely weekend. I am blessed with wonderful friends and family!

Chicken Fingers with Mango Pear Avocado Salsa

2011-07-29T14:00:00.000-07:00

In my previous post, I mentioned that I'm taking up a new diet challenge that consist of 6 days of healthy diet & 1 cheat day every single week. Still I refused to sacrifice taste for health. Thus, I've been on a mission hunting for healthy yet mouth watering dishes. A favourite of mine that I found fairly recently is Chicken Fingers and I paired it with Mango Avocado Salsa (turn it into Mango Pear Avocado Salsa) that I found on another blog plus a green salad on the side.

I made a few tweaks to both the recipe to suit my palate and to make up for the ingredients that I don't have on hand. This is a really simple meal to make yet one that is capable to excite your taste bud with its delightful flavours!

Chicken Fingers Recipe:

Ingredients:

2 chicken breast
1 teaspoon curry powder
1 teaspoon cinnamon powder
1/2 teaspoon black pepper
1/2 teaspoon salt
1 whole egg
1 egg white
1/4 cup low fat drinking coconut milk
1/2 lemon juiced
3/4 cup whole wheat bread crumbs (I made my own)
3/4 cup dessicated coconut
Olive oil to oil the baking sheet

Method:

Preheat oven to 350 F
Cut chicken breasts into strips
Combine ingredients 2-5 and rub them all over the chicken strips
Combine ingredients 6-9 in a bowl and mix it well (egg mix)
Combine ingredients 10 & 11 and mix them together (bread crumb mix)
Oil the baking sheet
Dip the chicken strips in the egg mix then coat it with the bread crumb mix and lay it on the baking sheet.
Repeat step 7 for the rest of the chicken strips
Bake the chicken strips in the oven for 30-40minutes or until the chicken strips are golden & crispy

Mango Avocado Salsa Recipe:

Ingredients:

1 large mango peeled and diced
1 avocado diced
1 yellow onion diced
1 big handful cilantro chopped
1/2 pear chopped
1/2 lemon juiced
2 teaspoon honey
1/2 teaspoon black pepper

Method:

Gently toss all the ingredients together and voila it's ready to serve with chicken fingers or any other meat or fish of your choice.

Happy Cooking & Happy Eating!

-| Long Time No See |-

2011-07-28T12:59:00.000-07:00

Harlow! Apa khabar? Lama tak jumpa ye? MY BAD!

This is a poor bloggie. Can't believe it's almost 2 years that I have not showed S-A-Y-wEn any love. Guess it's time for some loving maintenance.

Quick update about me:

Bought a house in fall 2010. Then, I went back to Malaysia alone in the winter time for 1.5 months. When I came back, we moved into the new house (well the husband moved in first) just in time to celebrate Christmas in a new place that has a working fire place (finally right?) and brand new washer and dryer (fuh have been so deprived of that for the past 2 years that I was in Seattle).

[Family Room]

[The Pendant Chandelier is my Pride & Joy]

Now that we have a place of our own, we have a small vegetable garden on our deck. Other than our deck, I have to say our backyard is a nightmare! Weeding still in progress LOL.

[Lemon Thyme]

[Valencia "Orange" Pepper]

[Early Girl Tomato]

Some of you might remember that 2 years ago back in 2009, I had a fitness goal but I never really kept up with it. Gone are the days because I made it a point this year to view fitness as a lifestyle. I make sure that I workout at least 3 times a week (I usually try to hit 5) and eat healthy 6 days a week with one cheat day (this I have to try like REALLY REALLY hard). I usually abandon my fitness goals in a matter of weeks but this time I've manage to keep it up for nearly 4 months now and still going strong. WHY? Because I see real results.

For the first time in my life, I'm able to do regular push ups not just one but a number of them and I'm moving on to the more challenging variations. Just 2 weeks ago, I was so happy that I am finally able to do my front split AGAIN after losing the flexibility for so many years!!!

Anyway, that should be sufficient for my first post after 2 years of MIA. Till then!

-| My New Goal |-

2009-10-26T03:01:00.000-07:00

Yes, I have a lot of goals but this is one of those that I'm really passionate about. Working on achieving it does not seem like work at all. In fact, I enjoy every minute of it. I've always love playing with it since I was a kid (without my mom's permission for using her stuff of course) but it faded behind school and work. However, it was recently reignited when I started helping out MoofMoof build his/our business. Thus I'm going to work on it while still helping MoofMoof build his business.

So what is this wonderful goal that makes me go all musical and lalala? Makeup! I'm aspiring to become a makeup artist so I've been volunteering to do makeup for friends and people who needs makeup services. Last week was my first time doing makeup for people whom I don't know. It was exciting. The girls were a joy to work with and I had so much fun working with them. I'm very happy and satisfied with the results even though it may not be compared to the works of professionals yet. All in all it was a very rewarding experience. Here's what I did to Becky & Joanne for their homecoming:

Becky

Joanne

Becky & Joanne (aren't they adorable?)

p/s: Constructive feedback and criticism are always welcomed.

-| Project Makeover |-

2009-10-13T19:24:00.000-07:00

Name of project : Threading Mania
Objective : To thin out and shape the eyebrow
Model : Tomo
Result :

Guess which is before and which is after? right or left? It's pretty obvious right? If you can't guess it right, I would suggest for you to get your eyes checked.

p/s: He's a Japanese so it's normal for him to have trimmed eyebrows so no judging/complaining

-| Hey Pumpkins! |-

2009-10-10T23:01:00.000-07:00

We went to the pumpkin patch & the corn maze for the first time today at the Craven Farm. I gotta say I never thought that going to a farm full of pumpkins and corns could be so much fun.

To get our money's worth from the corn maze, we decided to take on the Wild Hare Route (the harder one, obviously) relative to the Bunny Route, thinking it would be a peace of cake. Boy, were we wrong! We were going round and round in the corn maze, from one loop to another. It was crazy! However, we eventually made it out alive after HOURS of being stuck in the maze. Note to self - don't ever underestimate the corn mazes again.

victory shot of MoofMoof at the exit of the maze

We then move on to pumpkin hunting. It felt like playing the Harvest Moon game in real life. How awesome is that, huh? I got to push the wheelbarrow, walked in the patch and marvelled over the farm that is full of adorable pumpkins. Don't ask me why, but I've always thought that pumpkins are adorable, big or small.

I was laughed at for being such a weak sauce

Hah,now look who's talking!

We were having so much fun finding that perfect pumpkin for Halloween until we realized that we dropped our camera, my tiny Canon SD780is. We spent the next 45 minutes walking back and forth in the pumpkin patch looking for that tiny black camera telling myself the whole time that we'll definitely find it. Finally, we asked the lady at the cashier if there was a Lost and Found, and she looked but there was no camera. We went back to the pumpkin patch for another round of searching. No luck. Just when things seemed bleak, we held on to the positive thought more and more, and we went back to the Lost and Found booth again, and surely enough someone had found the camera and had returned it. To the one who found it and to the lady at the booth, we thank you very much and may you and your family always be blessed and we wish you many happy returns. It is delightful to know that in our world of decreasing morals and values, there are still good samaritans out there.

Ahhh...what a day! So much fun and so many wonderful things to be discovered. Thanks to our lovely friends for inviting us.

our harvest of the day and yes the big one had to be safe guarded

-| Golden Time Of The Year |-

2009-10-08T23:40:00.000-07:00

The air is cool and the trees are turning golden yellow caressed by the gentle breeze. The grounds are covered with a sheet of gold. Ahhh...what a pretty sight. Yes, it's the time of the year, yet again. Fall is here, marking the time to shed our leaves and start anew. Which also mean, time to bring in some fresh new additions into the wardrobe. Fall has got to be one of my favourite season. It's not too hot, yet not too cold. It gives you so much flexibility when it comes to fashion. You can either layer it up or thin it down.

I was suppose to shop for a waterproof snow boots as winter was predicted to be colder and more snowy than last year. However, my vanity gets the better of me. I ended up getting these:

my Kelly & Katie suede riding boots

Isn't it cute?

You can always trust me to choose looks over practicality. What can I say, I'm vain like that.

-| Imma Bee... |-

2009-10-08T11:06:00.000-07:00

Imma Bee...Imma Bee...Fan! I'm an official convert of Burt's Bees Beeswax Lip Balm. True that Artistry Lip Conditioner (ALC) works well but it's not as nourishing and long lasting as Burt's Bees Beeswax Lip Balm (BBBLB). And yes, I'm a distributor for Artistry's products and saying that BBBLB is better than ALC may seem like a bad choice but hey I'm a consumer and an individual just like everyone else. Certain stuff works for me and certain stuff don't work quite as well.

Artistry does have a huge range of high quality products but I'm always aware that everyone has their own preferences. Thus I always tell my clients to try, try, try and see if they like it. If it works for them, great! They are happy with their product and I made a profit but if they don't, no harms done and they get their money back. I always thank them for giving me and my products a chance. My clients' satisfaction is my top priority.

Anyway let's get back to BBBLB. For those of you who have been using the regular lip balm and have seen no result, you might wanna give BBBLB a shot. It's 100% natural and most importantly it does not contain petroleum base ingredients. Petroleum base ingredients can actually irritate certain people and make their lips dryer. I've been looking for a lip balm that works for me for my entire life and I've gotta say BBBLB has to be the one. I've been using it for almost 3 days now and my lips has been soft, supple and moist ever since. I'm in love! It contains peppermint oil too. Every time you breath in with your mouth, there's a tingly cool feeling to it :D.

Burt's Bees

Ingredients : beeswax, cocos nucifera (coconut) oil, helianthus annuus (sunflower) seed oil, mentha piperita (peppermint) oil, lanolin, tocopherol, rosmarinus officinalis (rosemary) leaf extract, glycine soja (soybean) oil, canola oil,

I hope this review will come in handy for those of you who are still searching for that perfect balm.

-| Project Runaway 2010 |-

2009-10-03T14:11:00.000-07:00

2 crazy people
+
Roccio
+
some time to kill
+
leftover fleece
+
a bunch of threads
+
occasional outburst of cuss words
=

Christmas already? (by yours truly)

Where's my gift???

Don't I look rugged in this piece of something? (by MoofMoof)

Alright, I'm ready to roll! (I laughed at his work but I gotta admit it looks pretty cool on Roccio)

-| I Have Bed Problem |-

2009-09-30T18:06:00.001-07:00

Have not had any good sleep since I arrived in Seattle a year ago. I'm cursed to sleep like an ancient Chinese peasant. I turn and toss and wake up with backaches whenever I sleep on a soft bed. MoofMoof's bed is what most would call soft and comfortable. However it's not my block of bed. I end up feeling lethargic every day.

To solve that, we both pull out our sleeping bags one night. Slept through the whole night wrapped in warm fleece blankets. Voila, I woke up feeling fresher than ever. Unfortunately, MoofMoof looked like a zombie (one with a terrible backache) the whole day. Obviously, hard and firm is not for him. Thus, we've been sleeping separately for the past 1 week. Me on the floor with my sleeping bag and fleece blanket, him on the bed with our awesome quilt. We are miserable!

Is there a bed out there that is soft on one side and firm on the other? If anyone knows such a bed existed, let me know. Or if you know of any good idea to solve our problem, let me know too.

At least for now, I don't have to wake up feeling like I need to go back to bed in 2 hours.

-| First Try On Stage Makeup |-

2009-09-17T14:19:00.000-07:00

Decided to try my hands on stage makeup. This is my first one so let me know what you think. Any feedback, good or bad is very much appreciated.

Here are the stuff that I use to achieve the look:

Concealer : Artistry Essentials Concealer (medium)
Foundation : Artistry Essentials Mineral Foundation (medium)
Eyebrow : Darkest colour from Artistry Essentials Colour Quad (medium)
Eyeshadow : BH Cosmetics 120 colour palatte (4 colours - shimmering yellow gold, shimmering bright orange, blood red & shimmering white)
Eyeliner : Revlon liquid eyeliner (black)
Mascara : Artistry Total Mascara (black)
Blusher : Esprit pink blusher (can't remember the name) + Maybelline's bronzer in medium
Lip Liner : Artistry Lip Define (nuance)
Lip Colour : Artistry Iconic Elegance Trend Colour Collection - Inspired (dark berry)

-| 22 Husbands???!!! |-

2009-09-16T16:36:00.000-07:00

My friend just sent me this link to a report from CNN of a woman who has 22 husbands and possibly a 23rd if No.22 decides to leave O.o RAWR!!!

http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/asiapcf/09/15/malaysia.old.bride/index.html?iref=hpmostpop

-| Notty Boys! |-

2009-09-10T21:04:00.000-07:00

Went shopping yesterday with my little sister to cheer her up and to exchange a broken necklace. We walked pass a kid whom I assume is about 13-14 years old. Guess he's just weird or his hormone is running wild. He looked at us funny and said "Hi there!". I looked back and give him a 5 second look, MEAN one. He got scared and we continue walking.

Today, as I was walking out of the house with my little sister, again a kid in a passing school bus shouted, "Hey babe. Wassup? Do you like that?". Because he's such a little kid, my little sister started cracking up. I thought it was funny and laughed too but I also flicked at him. Muahahaha...yes, I'm mean like that, especially to perveted little boys. I think they deserve it because don't try to hit on me when your DICK aren't even fully grown yet. Mess with girls your own age RAWR!

-| My First Cosmetic Haul |-

2009-09-08T16:37:00.000-07:00

Finally received the Artistry Essentials Makeup Kit in medium that I redeemed from my Ribbon Choices Gift Card. It came in a brown box, carefully wrapped in multiple air pillow bags. I tried the kit immediately and I've been wearing it for almost the whole day now :D

The box that it came in

An instruction book on basic makeup techniques

A makeup bag to store the makeup kit

Concealer : The smooth texture allows for a smooth application. Does not look flaky even after hours of having it on. This has to be my current absolute favourite concealer. I even use it as my eye primer.

Foundation : This self-adjusting 100% mineral foundation is very fine and light and it creates a sheer, natural finish. Self-adjusting means you can wear it from light to full coverage depending on your application method. I will blog about the 5 different application methods on another post.

Colour quad : The colour quad comes with 3 eye colour (light, medium, dark) and 1 blusher. Gotta love this quad! Texture-wise they are very fine, smooth, glide & blend very well. Thus no excess colour dropping under my eyes (very important!). Eye colours are not shimmery but they have a little shine to them and they complement my skin tone very well. Blusher is a little bit more shiny than the eye colour to give your cheeks that healthy glow. I have to say it's very long lasting. It still looks fresh on my face even after I've been wearing it for the whole day.

Mascara : It's a black mascara and it gives a beautiful even coat for the lashes. However I still prefer my other Artistry Total Mascara (in black) that gives me a smoother application and allows me to customize the length and volume of my lashes (best of all it comes off like a rubber gloves with warm water/eye makeup remover)

Lip gloss : At first glance, I thought the colour is a little too dark but it appears very natural after I put it on. It is very smooth and not overly shimmery. Most importantly it is not scented as I can't stand scented lip gloss because they ruin the flavour of my drinks & food. Similar with any other lip gloss, re-application is necessary from time to time.

Face brush : It is soft but not as soft as my big fluffy face brush by Eco-tools. The bristles feels very similar to a Kabuki brush so it'll be perfect if you want a medium coverage. As for today, I used my big fluffy face brush because I usually go for a light coverage as my everyday look.

Eyeliner brush : The brush is soft but dense enough to provide a smooth & steady application for eyeliner. But for my look today, I used my Sonia Kashuk smudge brush instead (No reason why. Just because I can :p). I will try it out next time and I'll make an update here if I'm not too lazy.

Oooh that's a long haul for a first one. What can I say, I tend to sway to the extreme side. Before I end, here's a before and after picture of me:

Clean, moisturized face

My everyday look using the Artistry Essential Makeup Kit
(if I have the time, I might do a breakdown of this look some time)

Makeup do wonders to a person's look eh?

-| Shake That Booty |-

2009-09-07T23:56:00.000-07:00

Ate Jack In The Box and now I feel guilty and I have a sudden craving for dancing. Other than swimming, running and pilates, I used to dance to maintain my weight. Though I'm no master at dancing, I've been doing it since I was 5 from funny chicken dance to bhangra dance to chacha to chinese fan dance to joget to Grease and to weird hip hop routine that we created ourselves, I had a lot of fun doing it.

After I graduated from university, the only times I dance were in the club. Sometimes I wish I'm back in school dancing away with my girls not having to worry about anything at all. Hmm...this calls for an action. My next goal shall be to take up a dancing class but what dance should I pick though? Latin? HipHop? Jazz? Dang it, I wanna learn it all!

Alright, nuff of blabbering! Time to blast some BEP and shake my booty! Uh woo Uh woo!

-| Things To Expect From A Facial |-

2009-09-01T17:11:00.000-07:00

This post is written for those who has no daily facial regime and is going to have a facial done at a spa or do it at home on their own for the first time. Here are the things you MAY experience from a facial:

Redness
Why? : The exfoliation process removes all dead skin cell revealing new fresh skin.

Sensitivity
Why? : Some skin might be sensitive towards certain contents in the products for example alpha hydroxy acid which is a pretty strong natural agent that your skin might react to. Also some people's skin are sensitive to constant touch and also scrubs which might leave your skin feeling a little sore.

Breakouts
Why? : Improper or inconsistent skin care regime may lead to an increased of clogged pores and even if they remain dormant, excess oil and bacterias are still present. Thus the impurities that are pulled out during the facial might come out in the form of acne. This will continue to happen for a number of following facials until the impurities are completely cleared depending on how badly your pores are clogged.

Those 3 are the major possible post-facial symptoms, so do not panic and do not worry because it is perfectly natural and normal.

Reminder: If you're planning to do a facial to look your best for a big day/night/event/occasion, plan to do your facials 4 or 5 days before the big day to avoid looking like a swollen peach :p

-| Lets Get The Balls Boiling! |-

2009-09-01T02:28:00.000-07:00

To celebrate the Bulan Puasa or the Ramadhan Month (well I don't actually celebrate it because I'm not muslim but any occasions that has good food is my celebration. Muhibah kan?), I've decided to make Onde-Onde or Buah Melaka which is one of my favourite delicacies sold at the Pasar Ramadhan (Ramadhan Market).

Onde-Onde is a soft, chewy green glutinous rice balls coated with coconut shavings and when you pop it in your mouth, a generous amount of melted palm sugar come oozing out of it. Nyum! It's delicious and MoofMoof gobble down most of it.

Don't you just love looking at the green fuzzy balls? Trust me, you'll love it more in your mouth.

So if you're looking for something different to serve during tea time, this may just be what you're looking for:

Ingredients:

250 g Glutinous Rice Flour
200 ml Pandan Juice (screwpine leaves) [substitute: 1 teaspoon of essence of coconut mixed with 1 or 2 drops of green food coloring + 200 ml water]
150 g Gula Melaka (Palm Sugar), finely chopped [substitute: gula jawa]
100 g Grated Coconut [substitute: unsweetened desiccated coconut or dried coconut flakes]
A Pinch Of Sea Salt

Method:

In a large bowl, combine the glutinous rice flour with Pandan juice and knead lightly to form a smooth dough. Cover the dough and set aside for about 15 minutes.
Mix the grated coconut with a pinch of salt and steam for about 2 - 3 minutes and let it cool completely.
Pinch a small piece of dough (about 15 g each) and flatten lightly. Fill the center of the dough with palm sugar. Roll them in your palm to form a smooth ball.
Cook the glutinous rice balls in the boiling water. When the rice balls float to the surface, remove them with a slotted spoon and shake off the excess water.
Coat the rice balls with grated coconut and serve immediately.

Easy eh? Have fun trying it out!

-| Yucks! He stinks! |-

2009-08-30T13:19:00.000-07:00

Yeap, I haven't showered Roccio in 3 weeks and he's a walking stinky poo poo. But he's still very adorable nonetheless.

Does this look like a disgusted face? No? Oh whatever!

You know what's weird? We are so used to his stinky-ness we actually love it! O_o And we sometimes don't shower him on purpose so we can all smokey that lil stinky poo poo. That just goes to show we are one crazy household, particularly me and MoofMoof.

This is what my stinky poo poo would do for his treat

-| I Did it Again! |-

2009-08-27T16:43:00.000-07:00

Yes, I cut my hair short again after it has grown to a shoulder length. My brother and my parents told me not to cut it anymore but nyah I never listen. I'm so used to doing whatever I want and feel like doing to the point that I'll fight for it. Though a haircut doesn't call for that.

This time I've decided to try yet another new salon that I've found through yelp.com. Saely's Salon is run by a really nice Korean lady. I gotta say she did an awesome job for a $25 haircut. This is also the first time I truly love my haircut since I moved to Seattle. At the end, I still think Asian stylist knows how to deal with Asian hair best. And best of all, Saely's Salon is located 5-10minutes away from my house (driving distance).

For those of you who are living near the Seattle area and are looking for a good Asian stylist, I highly recommend Saely's Salon at 15007 Aurora Ave N, Shoreline, WA 98133 or visit http://www.studiojyc.com/ for more information. Appointments can be made through jane@studiojyc.com

Last but not least, TADA!

Front look

Side look

-| Ready For Kissable Polish-Perfect Pout? |-

2009-08-10T17:59:00.000-07:00

Have you ever experienced dry, chap lips and when you slap on your favourite lip colour, your lips end up looking like some crack butt hole? Well I have, all the time actually, and so I dare not wear lip colour until I tried the ultimate Lip Care Kit by Artistry! It comes with a Lip Polish and Lip Conditioner.

Lip Care Kit .34oz each - $20USD
(180 days money back guaranteed)

The Lip Polish gently exfoliates away dry skin cells to instantly reveal soft, smooth lips while the rich creamy Lip Conditioner moisturizes and hydrates to soothe and keep the lips soft and supple. With the benefit of antioxidants, Vitamin A and E, your lips will feel as soft as they look. Together they give you the protection you've always wanted without being heavy or sticky. It's so pouty-licious good that I've decided to become their rep and start selling them.

For the first 4 to order it from me will get a 10% discount off on all purchase (US residents only). To order or if you have any further questions regarding the products, email me at samanthaang.h@gmail.com

-| Dare to Dream |-

2009-08-07T15:05:00.000-07:00

I always believe that having a DREAM is the key to the path of success. Simply because of the saying:

"watch your thoughts, for they become words.
watch your words, for they become actions.
watch your actions, for they become habits.
watch your habits, for they become character.
watch your character, for it becomes your destiny."

MoofMoof and I both have a DREAM. We want to be financially independent and retire by the age of 35. Yes, it sounds difficult but it is not impossible. WHY do we place ourselves with such a difficult challenge? The answer to that is very simple: TIME is GOLD. We don't want to have to spend the rest of our life working our ass off for someone else and missing out on life. Life is not about the expensive and luxury things that the world has to offer but simple things like watching our children grow, sitting down for dinners with friends and family laughing over silly things and being able to take in what the world has to offer and see how beautiful it actually is.

These simple things in life are very dear to us, thus we will do whatever it takes to make our DREAM come true. We are truly grateful to have wonderful friends and family who stand by us and cheer us on while we embark on our journey to reach our DREAM. Thank you people, we love you!

-| Piggies In The Oven |-

2009-07-30T02:23:00.000-07:00

This full week, MoofMoof, Roccio and I will be them piggies in the oven. The sun is out everyday and the temperature is soaring high, way higher than what I've experienced in Malaysia. It was 42C/108F in the afternoon today. According to the people who lived here all their life, this is abnormal and this is the first time it has happened. Did I bring the sunshine all the way here with me? I wonder...Thank god it isn't humid here. Every time the hot air is blown my way, I felt I would suffocate and my heart would stop beating. That's how bad it is (at least to me, it is). As much as I would love a warm day, this is way too much for me to handle.

BUT, the day wasn't all bad. A parcel that arrived at the door today did brighten up my day. It was some skin care and makeup products by Artistry. I tried the samples given to me during Bite Of Seattle (food fair that happens every year in the summer) and I find myself falling in love with them thus I ordered a bunch of them online. Best of all it comes with 180 days money back guarantee even if the product is almost used up.

The Time Defiance Skin Refinishing Lotion has to be one of my favourite skin care product now. It leaves the skin so silky smooth after only the first time applying it, I kid you not. It's amazing!

As for the makeup products, I can't find a reason not to love their Essentials Mineral Foundation and Essentials Concealer. I have very dry skin and numerous brands of foundations and concealers made my face look very cakey and wrinkley after a while of wearing them. However the Essentials ones are so fine and light they make my skin look natural. Even on a hot day like today, they didn't melt and didn't make my face look blotchy and shiny. Ahhh...those are what I call, products well made...

Even though it'll be a HOT WOK for the whole week, I at least won't have to look like a blotchy, shiny roast pig :D

-| Malaysians + Good Malaysian Food = Can Never Go Wrong |-

2009-07-27T14:52:00.000-07:00

Everyone is in the picture except for the photog, Jenn
(picture courtesy of Jennifer Tai)

That day was the first time I saw so many Malaysians since I moved to Seattle. I didn't know most of the people at the party but was told by a friend about the existence of that party and so we joined her. I'm really glad that we decided to go cause it was simply AWESOME! Fun people, finger-licking-good Malaysian food(I couldn't separate myself from the keropok ikan[fish crackers] bowl) and a place buzzing with real Bahasa Malaysia (Malay language) not Bahasa Indonesia. Before I was always excited whenever I hear people around me speaks Bahasa Indonesia cause that's the closest thing to home...HAHAHA

Keropok Ikan
(picture courtesy of Jennifer Tai)

That day I felt at home. I can't wait for the next event! :D

-| Post-Wedding Pictures |-

2009-07-10T13:37:00.000-07:00

Sorry guys, I know I've been gone for too long. Can't help it though, I'm too caught up with summer and too busy helping MoofMoof lay down his business plans. As promised, I pick a couple of my personal favourites from my post-wedding pictures to share with you guys. Enjoy...

I have to thank my friend also photographer Jennifer Tai for her amazing work. It was a very cold windy day but working with her was fun and relaxing. You can always depend on her to come up with brilliant ideas for a picture. To check out her work you can visit http://www.jennifertai.net/ or become her fans on facebook OR follow her on twitter @Jennifertai

-| Time To Paint Those Eyes |-

2009-06-15T17:55:00.000-07:00

After much debating and tons of researching, I finally placed an order for this lovely palette from BH Cosmetics.

As you can see it's packed with so many bright beautiful colours. I definitely can't miss out on something as amazing as this. What more is I've read so many good reviews about this product all over on the internet. It is said to be highly pigmented which is what I've been looking for but I'll have to try for myself.

Surprisingly, the price is super affordable! Only $27.95 and a $7.95 for S&H with insurance included. A must try for those of you who are new to makeup and not wanting to spend a bomb on bigger brand names.

Unfortunately BH Cosmetics only ship their products to the United States and Canada. For those who lives outside of US and Canada and are looking for similar products you can definitely check out CoastalScents (it's a little bit more pricey) or google up 120 palette on eBay (can be cheaper but I did not order from eBay as it sometimes arrive with a few colours cracked due to poor packaging). However it's still not too bad if you're willing to make do.

I'm so excited and can't wait for mine to arrive at my doorstep!

-| Sneak Peek Of My Photoshoot Attire |-

2009-06-09T18:14:00.000-07:00

My super high footylicious pumps by ALDO arrived in the mail today.

for more pics click here

Though it's so high but I got to say they are pretty comfortable for pumps that height (probably 3.5-4inches). I can't wait for my photoshoot to be over so I can start wearing them to go shopping.

Another peeptoe sandals that I recently posted on my twitpic is really comfortable too. I wore them for a 5 hour shopping marathon and only came back with a tired feet not sore/blistered feet. It's about half inch lower than this ALDO one and it's super cheap. $16 if I'm not wrong :D ; got it from Payless ShoeSource.

And oh, I'm already anticipating my next shoe shopping. O-M-geeeeeeeee!!!

-| Soaking Up The Sun |-

2009-06-04T00:39:00.000-07:00

The sun was out the whole day. The day was warm and beautiful. MoofMoof and I refused to let the day pass without doing anything so we geared up on our sunbathing kit and head to the lake by our house with Roccio.

I stop swimming after a couple of laps not because I'm tired but I have to admit that I'm anxious about what lies beneath the water. The water is so dark and cold. Most of all those stupid pirahna, big ass anaconda and monstrous crocodile movies are still haunting me till these days. I'm sure I'll get better after a couple of times. After all, this is my first time swimming in a lake. Still prefer swimming in the sea though. Lakes are too quiet and eerie.

MoofMoof managed to get Roccio to swim for the first time too. MoofMoof just dumped him in the water and amazingly his little head started floating on the water while his tiny legs were paddling violently under the water trying to keep afloat. I guess swimming are dogs second nature. He's so burned out from the swim and he's sleeping like a pig now. Good exercise! We are definitely going to make him swim more! He won't have enough energy left to cause troubles :D

-| Lookey What I Found! |-

2009-05-31T21:36:00.000-07:00

Went dress shopping with my new gal pal today for her prom in David's Bridal.

We both found our dresses at an amazingly bargain price and trust me, they are not cheap looking dresses.

We just got lucky to find those 2 stunning dresses priced below $50 each *gasp*.

No I did not get the red dress since it's not 'wedding photo' appropriate. Just tried it on for fun but still love it very much. *hint, hint*. Well I have no events to attend so no need for a statement dress like that.

-| Let's Go BAREFOOT! |-

2009-05-18T22:06:00.000-07:00

WINE - when it comes to wine, I'm not the type of person who goes after branded, well known, expensive wines. I'm the type who likes to try all different types, brands and price range of wines. To me, brands and price don't really matter. What I care more is if they sit right on my palate. Today I happen to hop into Safeway for a little grocery shopping while my laundries are having a jolly good time in the laundromat and the husband decided to make it up for the lost Sunday that he caused. So we decided to grab some wine to go with our dinner. Lookie, lookie what we found:

BAREFOOT Moscato

For only $4.98. It is amazing! I can smell it's lush, fruity, rosey aroma as I spin the wine glass and ripe apricot lingers in my mouth after I tasted it. It didn't taste as sweet as the other Moscato that we had so it's perfect for me. I like sweet fruity wines that aren't too sweet. However, I still think it might be a little too sweet for some of you out there. Anyway, I think I downed most of the wine since it's too good to be true :D

-| Dress 1, 2 or 3 ? |-

2009-05-13T23:10:00.000-07:00

Since MoofMoof and I decided not to have a wedding ceremony, we thought it might be nice to just have a photoshoot of me in a wedding dress and him in suits or some sort to commemorate our marriage. We've booked our photoshoot with new and rising photog JenniferTai's Photo Artistry (check out her work, she's really talented) for next month. Btw she's from Malaysia too :D .

Since it's only one month away, I have to start hunting down a dress to avoid having to settle down for some last minute drape. I'm looking for something simple, carefree, summer-ry, not too formal and yet elegant. MoofMoof and I found a few that we like and now I need your help, so tell me which you like best. Tq very much.

Dress 1 (BCBGMAXAZRIA Strapless Silk Gown)

Dress 2 (JS Boutique Crisscross Jersey Gown)

Dress 3 (Adrianna Papell Beaded Chiffon Gown)

-| Weekend BBQ |-

2009-05-10T23:41:00.000-07:00

Sunny, windy, chilly, fun, crazy, hot dogs, cheese burgers, chicken wings, salad, beers, delicious, tiring - those are words to summarize our barbeque party in Golden Garden.

Called my mom later in the day to wish her Happy Mother's Day. No celebration or whatsoever here in Seattle. MIL too busy to be bothered. Haven't seen her the whole day. The husband says they never celebrate. End of story.

p/s: Miss my family back home so very much. They are still the best!

-| My Favourite Of All Soup |-

2009-05-10T21:48:00.000-07:00

Kiam Chai Ark (sour mustard duck soup) is one of my favourite soup. I can even eat it with plain white rice. It's a Malaysian Nyonya dish that my grandmother serves every Chinese New Year. The recipe I'm giving today is not the original recipe but one of my variation.

Ingredients (makes 4-5 servings) :

1/2 duck cut into pieces, wash and drain
1 packet sour mustard which you can find in most asian market like Ranch 99. Chop in pieces and rinse once
2 tomatoes cut into sixth each
1 packet of soft tofu cut into 1 inch cube
1 Onion chop into cubes
6 slices of ginger

Directions :

Put 1.5 litres of water in a pot. Add the duck and bring to a boil.
Add the sour mustard, tomatoes, onion and ginger. Simmer for half an hour.
Then add the soft tofu and simmer for another half an hour.
Finally add salt to taste if necessary.

Serving suggestions : Rice and 1 or 2 side dish.

I've not taken any picture to accompany this recipe but I hope you enjoy it nonetheless.

-| My New Toy |-

2009-05-05T14:38:00.000-07:00

By now most of you should know that I'm one of those gadget freaks. Staying true to that nature, I recently bought a new compact camera by Canon, the PowerShot SD780 IS. It's black, it's sleek, it's tiny and it's only 0.7 inches thick. Oh so sexy! It's absolutely the right camera for my everyday use (my DSLR will be reserved for when the time calls for it). I just dumped it in my bag or slip it in my back pocket whenever I head out the door. It's so tiny it can even fit into my skinny jeans' pocket.

yes, it's the size of a credit card

This little beauty may emphasize on compactness but it definitely doesn't ignore the need for a small camera to take great pictures. This baby sports a 2.5 inch LCD, 12.1 megapixel sensor (not that I care cause it really doesn't matter; a mere 5 megapixel would be more than enough for a compact) and 3x zoom lens featuring the latest generation DIGIC IV image processor.

Here are some of the tech features that comes with the SD780 IS:

Smart Auto - design to automatically detect 8 different scene types and adjust the shooting settings appropriately.
Program Auto - there is no manual exposure control option but several scene presets are available.
HD movies & HDMI output - the camera is ready for HDMI output to a HDTV. It features a maximum of 1280x720 (720p), at 30fps for movie recording.
Face Detection - track faces within a frame and give them priority in exposure and focus.
Blink Detection - minimize portrait photos in which the subject is blinking

For more information, go to digitalcamerareview.com

Lastly here's a picture I took with the SD780 IS with no post-editing except for the watermark (you know what I mean :D)

-| How to Strike Out Words In Your Blog Post? |-

2009-04-30T20:21:00.007-07:00

This post is to answer Redbabe's question on how to strike out words in a blog post for blogger.com

Below are two simple steps to do the job right.

Step 1: Follow the html Strike syntax in the illustration to strike out words

(Click on image to enlarge)

Step 2: To check if you've done it right. Click "SAVE NOW" and then refresh the page. If you did it correctly, you'll see the same result as in the illustration below.

(Click on image to enlarge)

There you go, as simple as ABC :D

-| He's all prepped |-

2009-04-27T14:25:00.008-07:00

Flowers are in full bloom and the sun does not shy away as often. The time has come to prep Roccio for all the funs! Roccio is my other mysterious creature. Why? Well he's a male dog and he's weird, so without a doubt he aced his way into the category. Except for being male and he loves me, he shares no other similar traits with my ~~husband~~ other mysterious creature. However, he possesses a fair share amount of bizarreness.

He is typically a well-behaved little furball. He listens to my commands. He perfoms whatever tricks he learned when I ask him to ~~only if there's food~~ and he pottied at the designated area whenever the needs arise. The whole picture transforms into a horror movie as soon as I leave the house. The goodie little furball morphs into Grimy The Devil! I usually comes home to a pile of poop by the door and pee stain somewhere around. That's his way of punishing me for leaving him alone. Rather mean for a small little dog huh?

I don't blame him. I blame myself for having to leave him (of course in the care of my family) to go abroad for work, training and various reasons. Although he was well taken care of, that did not stop the development of separation anxiety in him as I, the pack leader was not around. Thus he feels lost and anxious whenever I am not with him. Currently we are still working together on his recovery. We do obedient exercises especially sit & stay plus crate training. We also go for long walks in the park or on the beach. He comes home tired, happier, calmer and more ready to be by himself if I leave the house. His improvement is very encouraging and I hope he'll soon regain his calm and confident self.

This is the best before picture I can find

After

-| The Mysterious Creatures |-

2009-04-22T13:24:00.006-07:00

Lately my fren Redbabe has been writing a few post about these mysterious creatures; her mysterious creature to be exact. Her latest post is so funny, it has prompt me to write about them creatures too.

These ~~men~~ creatures have invaded many of our lives, mainly women's lives but somehow I'm glad they did. ~~His~~ their bizzare way of doing things certainly does infuriate me ~~all the time~~ from time to time but often times amusing.

My husband tends to forget I'm his wife and started treating me like his buddy, whispering into my ears sharing the storyline of his PSP game. Telling me how intense the game is, who are the main characters, what they do, how sad the story is and yada, yada, yada. All, while I'm writing or watching a movie. It drives me nuts! I ~~am crazily, "burning midnight oil" addicted to~~ like playing games sometimes but that does not make it all the time. However, whenever I look over and am about to smack him on his head, he throws me this cute boyish grin of his with a tint of sparkle in his eyes. That totally blew me away. Instead I'd give him a peck on the cheek. Well at least he cares enough to share :D

I know alot of these mysterious creatures out there makes your (women's) blood boil but I gotta say I'm really lucky to have one adaptable, mysterious creature invaded my life. I can't say enough how much I appreciate him doing the laundry ~~all the time~~ sometimes, helping me with the dishes and he even learn to put down the toilet seat cover everytime before he flushes. He's not perfect but his imperfections is what makes him perfect for me. His beautiful imperfections is what fills my life and make my life whole. I thank him for loving me and giving me the chance to love him back. Like what Redbabe says, I shall no longer try to unravel the bizarre mystery. Instead I shall marvel at the beauty that it brings with.

So I ~~own~~ have a mysterious creature in my life, do you? Share the stories with us :D.

-| Lets Cook Mama! |-

2009-04-20T23:44:00.007-07:00

If you like chicken and if you like vegetables, this is a simple, wholesome recipe that comes in handy when your refrigerator is low on stock. This recipe makes 4 servings to go with rice & one other dish or 2 servings to go with only rice.

All you need is:

1. Quarter chicken breast thinly sliced

2. 3 mini cucumber cut into small chunks

3. 3 cloves of garlic finely chopped (you may opt for 4 slices of ginger if you don't have garlic)

4. 1/2 tablespoon cooking oil

5. 2 tablespoon oyster sauce

6. 1.5 teaspoon sugar

7. 1/2 tablespoon all purpose flour mixed into 1/2 cup of water

Directions:

1. Heat up the oil on high

2. Cook garlic/ginger until lightly brown

3. Then stir in the oyster sauce with the mixture of all purpose flour and water

4. Add sugar and cook till sauce is bubbly

5. Lastly add the chicken and cucumber and stir fry for 2 minutes or until chicken is cook

And voila, your very own simple cucumber chicken in oyster sauce. Hope you have fun trying it out!

-| A Pleasant Greeting |-

2009-04-16T23:59:00.005-07:00

I woke up feeling good and fresh this morning. Put on the music, brushed my teeth, showered and put on a nice warm purple dress with my 3 quarter tights.

As I pull open the curtains, the sun was shining through and I was pleasantly greeted by beautiful, blooming tulips dancing with the wind. What a wonderful morning. I love working on days like these. Inspiration flows through with ease. My hands feels light and fast and they work like magic. A nicer day always equals to a more progressive day.

I love spring

-| Can You Spot The Difference? |-

2009-04-11T22:51:00.004-07:00

Some of you might know and some of you might not, but the first Starbucks was founded in Downtown Seattle at Pike Place Market. It's about a 20 minutes drive from my place so what the heck, lets go check out the first Starbucks to see what it looks like or how special it is. It didn't disappoint me at all. I did enjoy my trip down there as it was warm, sunny and the place was buzzing with life and I had a great lunch in La Panier (french bakery) and an awesome wine tasting session in La Buona Tavola (a small little truffle cafe). Anyway here's a picture that I took in front of Starbucks :

so can you spot the difference?

-| ZOMG WTH! |-

2009-04-01T16:38:00.004-07:00

It's spring time, now why the hell did it snow???!!!

*puzzled*

It's killing some of my tulips :(

Since I won't be getting full tulip bloom from my tulip garden, I'm gonna head to the tulip festival and get some of those tulip thirst quenched.

Next in line : pictures of Skagit Valley Tulip Fest.

-| The RedBull Edition |-

2009-03-27T00:40:00.005-07:00

As promised, here's the weird looking angry cat for Tough Girl 101 also known as Kat. Kat, let me know what you think. If you don't like it, we can start over with the design and make another one.

(Kouton the angry kitty)

Also in this collection is a quirky, curious little ox named Lamboo. Mr. Lamboo is also another custom made order, now proudly owned by DoubleM.

(Lamboo the ox who eats everything but grass)

p/s: For products details and pricing please refer to AmICute (main site for all AmICute Critters)

-| I Love Gadgets! |-

2009-03-24T23:54:00.013-07:00

I can't remember when and how it started but I have a deep running love for gadgets. I love looking and admiring them, I love to study them, I love to toy with them and most of all I love to own them all.

Recently MoofMoof bought me 3 gadgets and I'm very much delighted. Though most people are hyped up about the Iphone, I am not particularly attracted to it. Instead, I chose the Sony Ericsson W980i as I don't really need most of the features on the Iphone and I'm not very fond of the touch screen when it comes to texting people. No offence to the pro-Iphone people out there, it's great an all but I'm just not that into it.

(Sony Ericsson W980i 8gb walkman phone which I named Bakuli 1.0)

(Bakuli 1.0 lives in a baby bootie which is named the MooMooSack)

Second gadget that I got is the m*dded Sony FAT PSP 1001. It's a used PSP but still an awesome buy as m*dded FAT PSP 1001 is hard to come by these days. My current top 3 games would be Patapon 2, and the newly launched Pangya and Audition (both are online PC games made portable).

(the very addictive PSP which I can play day and night if given the luxury)

The last gadget would be my Brothers CS-6000i sewing machine that I love, love, love! More about the CS-6000i would be featured here.

One of the reasons that I've not been updating my blog is my 3 gadgets. I was too busy toying with them. The other reason is that I've been thinking about what to write on this particular post as it's my 100th post. But then again I decided not to do anything special about it since it's just numbers and there'll be the 200th, 300th and more hundreds post to come if I don't stop blogging. So happy blogging and happy blog hopping :D

p/s: To Tough Girl 101 (one of my favourite blogger) : I finally have a weird looking angry cat design that I'm happy about. Will put it into production first thing tomorrow morning. Picture of the finished cat will be posted here and also on my critters blog once it's done. Stay tuned :p

-| 218 Flavours of Gelato |-

2009-03-08T22:18:00.011-07:00

We were up in Vancouver for a one day trip and the highlight of the day has got to be La Casa Gelato. It is the only gelato factory/store in the world that carries 218 flavours on location from the 500+ flavours that they have. 218 flavours! That's an amazingly diverse amount of flavours. It is so diverse that we had a hard time picking out just 1 flavour. They range from standard gelato flavours to very exotic ones like chocolate curry, balsamic vinegar, wasabi and gorgonzola blue cheese (I tried all the above) just to name a few.

The place was practically swamped with customers and normally I would’ve leave as fast as I can (I dislike overly crowded places) but that didn’t stop me from staying longer. The interesting combinations of gelato flavours were so tempting that I had to walk from one end to another to carefully taste and pick my flavour.

(image courtesy of La Casa Gelato)

La Casa Gelato has got to be the best gelato I've tasted thus far. So good that they receive a vast amount of media coverage for example the Chinese Network, Vancouver Sun and Ripley's Believe It Or Not! Even the queen of lifestyle, Martha Stewart herself has been there to get a taste of La Casa’s Gelato.

If any of you ever hit up Vancouver, don’t forget to pay La Casa Gelato a visit. It’s highly recommended and a definite must go.

p/s: I doubt that I’ll ever get much of durian in Seattle, so we ended up picking the durian flavoured gelato. It even had tiny bits of durian flesh in it. I also bought an almond nougat bar, my all time favourite snack. yum yum...

-| Pop 'Em Popcorns |-

2009-03-06T23:51:00.004-08:00

I love popcorns and usually, I can't watch a movie without popcorns. Shopping at Fred Meyer today, seeing rows and rows of self-popping popcorns reminded me of my first popcorn in Seattle.

I would never ever forget about that popcorn incident. It was the first salty popcorn I ever tasted in my life. I bought the popcorn at the movie theatre thinking it's the same irresistible sweet popcorns that I’ve always had in Malaysia and popped it in my mouth. Immediately I turned to MoofMoof with a disgusted look on my face. Here’s how the conversation went:

Me: Honey, I think there’s something seriously wrong with the popcorn.

MoofMoof: What’s the matter?

Me: I think they forgot to put in the caramel. I can only taste the butter.

MoofMoof: *starts laughing and laughing* Honey, that’s how they are suppose to taste like. They are butter popcorns not caramel.

Me: Huh? (getting more puzzled) You guys have butter popcorns? People actually eat salty popcorns??????

MoofMoof: Of course we do! *lalalalalala and a whole bunch of explanation*

I’ll just stop the conversation right there. There’s a long stretch of popcorns debate to it but I won’t bore you further. Since then, I’ve been constantly searching for caramel popcorns where ever I go. So far I’ve only found 2 places that sells caramel popcorns, one in Puyallup Fair and the other one in one of Portland’s (Oregon) mall. The hunt shall go on and I shall not give up!

-| AmICute Critters Home |-

2009-03-06T05:00:00.004-08:00

Now all my critters have a permanent home in the blogosphere. They no longer have to crash here. So for those of you who are interested to follow my 'softies making' life do swing by http://amicutecritters.blogspot.com/

Happy Blogging and Happy BlogHopping!

-| Let It Bloom, Let It Bloom |-

2009-03-04T18:02:00.007-08:00

Spring is still a couple of weeks away and I'm already bright and chirpy. I'm shedding all my winter wear and replacing them with bright, colourful, flowy dresses, skirts, shorts, tops and open toes footwear. Adding to the excitement, I'm starting my own little garden patch too, growing white (Snow Star) and red (Hollandia) tulips. Oh I can't wait for them to bloom and bloom!

-| Chop Chop Chop!!! |-

2009-03-03T18:07:00.006-08:00

It's dry, it looks like a bristle and I'm just tired of managing it so CHOP CHOP CHOP it goes!

Some say it looks like mushroom, some say helmet, another says it's dog bite and others are loving it. No matter what people say, I'm loving it simply because, I only need 10 minutes to style my hair now instead of an hour. AHhhhhh....my head feels so much lighter :D

-| So Not Easy Being a Woman |-

2009-03-02T12:36:00.002-08:00

I was diagnosed with a right ovarian cyst last year during my first ultrasound+pap smear+mammogram checkup. The cyst is a functional cyst (collection of fluid surrounded by a thin wall) and not cancerous.

Any ovarian follicle that is larger than 2 centimeters is termed as ovarian cyst. Functional cysts or simple cyst are part of the normal process of menstruation and harmless. It is not a disease and can be treated. My doctor told me not to worry as cysts usually goes away after a few period cycles. However I’m advised to arrange for regular checkups to make sure it does go away.

A month after my arrival in Seattle, I was hit by a sudden abdominal pain. The pain was horrifying, unbearable, knee weakening and piercing through each and every bone. I couldn’t even walk and was rushed into ER and they sedate me with pain medication. I was put through a bunch of blood tests and ultrasounds which was horrible because it was so cold and I was dizzy from the sedation. They found blood traces in my ovarian cyst from the ultrasound and suspected that it might be the cause of the pain but they advised me to make a follow up appointment with a gynecologist who can tackle my situation more accurately.

Since then I’ve been visiting my gynecologist regularly every 2 months and everything has been looking good until last month. Apart from the existing one has grown in size, they found a new cyst growing on my left ovary and both are filled with fluid and blood. As the cysts have potential to bleed into themselves or twist the ovary, I’m now put on birth control pills treatment. Birth control pill helps to shrink and eradicate existing cysts and prevents the formation of new cysts. I’m scheduled for another check up four months later to see the result of the treatment and thus I’m keeping my fingers crossed.

-| Random Rambling |-

2009-02-27T13:02:00.003-08:00

It's been ages since I last blog. Not having any writers blocked, just that I was too lazy to write and I was too busy designing, sketching and making new softies. I haven't even made softies samples for Tough Girl101. I don't hate cats but I don't mingle with cats too often so I'm having troubles drawing cute angry cats. Made some sketches of cats but still, am not too happy about them. I'm suffering from "perfectionist syndrome". This is bad. Work is progressing slowly as I'm constantly unhappy with the design and the outcome hence the ripping apart of unsatisfactory softies. Currently I have some legs, hands, tiny lil shirts and a head sitting in my storage box. I don't even know what to do with them! I'm absolutely frustrated!

To fend of those frustrations I've decided to sign up for the gym last Tuesday and went for my first work out session last night with MoofMoof. Miraculously it helped! I ran 2miles = 3.2km on the treadmill (I think I can do more than that because I was hardly tired) followed by some triceps, biceps, legs and abs workout.

Work permit is finally approved and I received my travel documents yesterday. That means I have to start cracking my brain and think of what I want to do. I've been entertaining the idea of the possibility as an interpreter. Despite the fact that I'm unsure if I'm cut out for the job, I've decided to do more research and give it a shot. Every day I tell myself to buckle up and work towards my goal. I have to admit that it's a painful struggle as I can be too laid back and I'm easily de-motivated. The stresses pile on when people do not understand how hard I'm trying and instead they throw in unfair criticism and casting judgmental looks my way. Oh well, tomorrow will be a better day.

Enough rambling and I shall get back to work.

-| Ah It Feels so Good! |-

2009-02-04T16:14:00.006-08:00

I made my first sale on http://www.etsy.com right before Chinese New Year. It's really rewarding and it made me feel so good. What a good way to start the new year eh?

My softies blog and shop isn't fully set up yet. Once it's all up, I'll post the links here. Below are the 2 piggies that I sold.

(in the picture is Ms.Oinky and Mr.Oinkster)

(PiggiesInLove is a special set for Valentine's Day)

-| A New Goal |-

2009-02-04T15:22:00.004-08:00

Long break was good! Now that I'm back, I can be more productive and also, I wanna start living a healthier life.

I used to swim and run alot, like everyday but I haven't being doing any of that for 7 years. Can you believe that? 7 FREAKING YEARS! I started running again today. It's anything but easy. I only ran for 1.5km today and was already gasping for air. Back then 1.5km would have been a peanut. Arghh...Nevertheless, it's still fun and fulfilling.

Anyway the reason I was so hyped up about running is that I bought a new running shoe yesterday; 3-D Cushion with Fit Foam Soft Comfort Footbed technology. It's oh so nice and comfy!

-| Taking a Break |-

2009-01-21T15:28:00.003-08:00

I'll be taking a 2 weeks break from my blog starting from tomorrow. This time-off is much needed as I have to straighten out some personal and business issues but I'll definitely be back once everything is A-Oke. It ain't anything serious or heart wrenching so don't worry. My life is good and I'm happy but I just need some time to clear my mind and get back on track with things I've let loose for quite some time.

Set those aside, I'll be taking a road trip down to Oregon to visit my ChinkBro for Chinese New Year. Haven't been on a trip in a long time so I'm really really hyped. Gotta finish all the task on my list before I can go anywhere. Happy Chinese New Year everyone! Peace!

-| I'm A "Socks Hoarder" |-

2009-01-15T02:28:00.006-08:00

Don't ask me why but I love to hoard my old socks even the ones that are ugly, super lose and has already discoloured. It's so habitual that I had to bring them with me when I moved from Malaysia to Seattle. Yes, you can call me siao.

They use to sit comfortably in my drawers until yesterday... I went on a sudden rampage; I pull each and every one of them out and hack them into pieces! Can you believe that? My beloved old socks that I guard with life for the past 10 YEARS!

Nah, just kidding! I didn't hack them into pieces but I did cut them up and stitch them back into something else. I cut up a pair of my old socks and a pair of my new socks and

TADA!

(The big one is named DugaDuga and the small one is named GupGup)

(DugaDuga is made from my old socks)

(GupGup is made from 1 side of my new socks)

Isn't this great? I can still hoard my old socks but they no longer have to sit in my drawer looking ugly and lifeless. I give them new faces, new names and a new purpose in life. This is what I call recycling the fun way. Go Green!

-| I Plan Not To Fail |-

2009-01-14T02:14:00.007-08:00

I never made new year resolutions before because I know by the end of the year, when it's time to reflect on them, nothing would've changed. I'm the kind of person who likes to procastinate things and do it at the very last minute or not do it at all. That being said, I'm not the type who doesn't plan for the future. In fact, I have a long list of things I want for the future; I wanna buy a house, I wanna start my own business, I want a fulfilling life, I wanna travel the world and so on and so forth.

Thus to make things easier for myself, I break them down into smaller goals which I call "My Weekly Goals". I make simple, achievable goals every week that will eventually lead me to my final goals. By the end of the week I'd review my goals and see if I've achieved all of them. If I don't, I'd make sure to try harder the following week. This way I don't feel so much like a sore loser for not being able to achieve anything at all. Besides, it helps me reassess my long term goal from time to time to see if they are still significant.

This week nontheless I've made a list of things that I want to achieve by the end of the week.

1. I want to make at least 4 ugly pals (those ugly softies I've been making these days)

2. I want to help Roccio (my 3 year old silky) overcome his separation anxiety

3. No eating out except for Friday, Saturday & Sunday

4. Start living healthy by sleeping early and waking early

5. Spend more quality time with MoofMoof

6. Call my family back home at least once

7. Get to know my new friends better

Finally, I aimed to achieve at least 5 out of the 7 goals that I set.

-| Blue BunnyPork |-

2009-01-12T05:36:00.011-08:00

Update: Due to a friend's suggestion I now officially change his name to Blue BunnyPork. Name credited to Mr. Ashi.

My second attempt at making a felt softie. This bunny isn't fully my own design. I reinvented a bunny that I saw in a book by fusing in my own essence; weird, ugly but adorable. Hence the piggy nose and the googly eyes.

It looks pretty simple and fairly easy to make but it turned out to be harder than I thought. However, I'm not gonna give up and I plan to make more especially those that are more challenging. So wish me luck people! ^^

Bunny Hop Hop Hop & Away ~

p/s: This is actually the fourth one but it's my second more challenging softie. The one I made before Blue Bunny is Chickdoo ~

-| SWIG? |-

2009-01-08T16:19:00.004-08:00

A new word that I learned from MoofMoof today - Swig = Super Twig. I'm always mesmerized by his ability to mix, match and mesh words into one funky word.

Apparently he says that I should eat more so I don't become a swig or a twig. But he's probably blinded by love because for all I know I've not lost any weight but gained since I got here.

I don't know how anyone can turn into a swig when they don't serve "skinny" food here. They have fat and greasy written all over the menu. I'm not saying I hate them though. In fact I LOVEeeeeeeeeee THEM. Those juicy steak strategically placed in between the bread, topped with fresh lettuce, onion, tomato and cheese with lots of finger-licking-good fries at the side - I mean c'mon, how can anyone resist them?

Plus I always have 2 big tubs of Dreyer's ice cream (Peanut Butter Cup & Nestle Drumstick Sundae Cone - both my favourite) sitting in the refrigerator waiting to be gobbled down by ~~obviously ME~~ us.

"So honey, I don't think you'll ever have to worry about me becoming a SWIG."

I think he has to worry more about me becoming a PIG (not that I'm not already) than a SWIG . muahahahaha

-| My Next Venture |-

2009-01-06T02:41:00.003-08:00

Ahhhhh I can't wait to get started!

This Sunday would be my first sewing class! Yay! My instructor is a local designer in Seattle and I heard she has won several awards and one of her dresses is featured in Seattle Metropolitan. Impressive huh? You might find it funny though cause I'm having her teach me how to make felt softies instead of dresses. Yes, I'm weird and I fancy bizzare objects like ugly but adorable felt softies. What's weirder is I'm having MoofMoof join the class. He's such a loving husband ain't he?

It would be a two hour session at her place. During the two hour session, we'll find out where we sit (beginner, intermediate or advanced) but I'm sure I'll be the noob. I'm told to prepare some sewing tools for the day. For eg: sewing machine (I don't have this but she say I can borrow hers till I get mine), thread, muslin, fabric scissors and other tools that I have. She's such a nice lady because she even gave us a very sweet deal.

I'm so looking forward to this Sunday!

-| My Kick Ass New Year's Eve |-

2009-01-01T15:39:00.014-08:00

YOU CAN'T BELIEVE WHAT JUST HAPPENED TO ME ON NEW YEAR'S EVE! A FREAKING LAUNDRY MISHAP !!!! After putting my washed clothes into the dryer, I left the laundromat to go home for a bite only to come back 30 minutes too late. It's only 3.30pm and I'm 30 minutes late. Place closed for New Year's Eve. Back in Malaysia, I've never seen places close early for New Year's Eve. That's a first for me....sigh...

And so it happens, my closet dysfunction which is just as bad as an erectile dysfunction(not like I'll ever have one :p). Raked all my clothes out of the closet and they are either too OL or too summer-ry for where I'm going. I did manage to piece some stuff up together for the night. Not great but it's better than PJs. That sounds kinda bad huh? Nah, it's actually not too bad. I ended up looking pretty decent.

Then we head to a billiard bar, drank a bunch of different cocktails and shots. Played some billiard, watch the fireworks, toasted, played more billiards and came home for a pack of indo mee goreng before I hit the sack.

Happy Jolly 2009 everyone!

p/s: pictures will be uploaded at a later time as I don't have them with me...

-| She's Got A Facelift! |-

2008-12-28T09:34:00.005-08:00

I've finally found time to personalize my blog's header.

New Look. New Feel.

Yay!!!

Though it's still a working progress...

Feel free to drop me any critics and comments. Good or bad, I shall embrace them with wide open arms...

-| White Christmas? Anyone? |-

2008-12-27T00:08:00.014-08:00

Snowy Christmas is not what I've imagined it to be. Not the beautiful pure white Christmas day that I've always dreamed of. Actually turns out to be the direct opposite.

It's a NIGHTMARE!!!

You're either stuck at home buried under the snow or you're out on dirty, ugly, slushy, snowish ice. Dirty and ugly is not the worst part of all. You car has to slip and slide, slip and slide AND slip and slide. ANDddd the cherry to top it off would be the ~~almost all the time~~ occasional "kraaaaaaaaaaak kreeech kraaaeeeek". Yeap, the sound of the ice scratching the bottom of your car! That's when you know your car is getting owned! Oh that can only happen if you successfully wheel your car out on the road. Before that, would be half an hour (if not more) of working your biceps and triceps in your driveway digging your car out of the snow and ploughing a driveway on the driveway for your car. Ahhhh fun in the snow!

(this is only considered mild dirty slush)

The picture of my beautiful white Christmas is forever tarnished!

Well at least we manage to craft out a huge hot mama BigBoobsSnowWoman out of the snow.

(sculpted by MoofMoof, HaoBaoBao, PPsux, Shrimpy and Me

bikini made by Shrimpy[PinkBlingBling] and Me[OrangeFaFa])

-| Makeover Vol.2 |-

2008-12-24T00:16:00.004-08:00

Few changes here and there does make a difference. All I do is take away one little wood shelve, repaint another shelve, repaint the door, throw in some pretty little goodies AND

(work in progress)

voila you get a brand new bathroom!

(the new look)

-| ChickDoo ~ |-

2008-12-23T23:54:00.005-08:00

A little something something that I designed and make while I was buried at home under the snow

-| Bloody Halloween |-

2008-11-05T12:37:00.003-08:00

31st October, Halloween, everyone is out either in weird funky costumes or just plain everyday clothes, who cares but everyone is out and so were we. It was fun watching people in costumes. Those costumes ranges from really cool Wonder Woman outfit to a brown paper bag from the grocery stores with 2 holes :D ...But I really have to apologize here cause I was too busy "people watching" that I forgot to bust out my bulky camera from my bag to snap some pictures for you. Oh! In case you're wondering if I dress up, yes I did dress up but in a dress and not a costume. I was too lazy to go shop for one and I guess I wasn't particularly feeling adventurous that night.

We hung out at a lounge called Ohana so we can have drinks and music while we "people watch". When we decided to hop to another lounge, we were greeted with part of the road being sealed off by the police outside the bar. Apparently there were some shooting going on right outside the bar on the road. Wow! Ohana must have been really loud and we must've been too busy checking out the costumes that we didn't even hear the gunshots. A woman was shot in the face and a man was shot in the leg near the groin area (Ouch!). Both are listed in critical conditions. http://www.komonews.com/news/33692329.html.
That's not all, a 61 yo man set himself on fire on the same night in UW and another shooting at the same time near Garfield HS. That sure was one hell of a Halloween and good thing I was sitting comfortably in Ohana while the shooting happened and not bar hopping, else I might have been the one shot in the face *shivers*.

-| MakeOver Vol.1 |-

2008-10-29T14:46:00.007-07:00

That's our future room and DIY renovation is in progress. We have been working on it for a month now and hopefully it'll be completed in another 3 weeks time. I can't wait to move in because I love love love to have my own bathroom. The little wooden door in the 1st picture is the door to my own little bathroom. :D. We have another wooden door that leads to the rest of the house and a glass panel sliding door that opens up to the backyard. Cool huh?

Anyway here's the work we've accomplished so far:

1. Scraping off the "Popcorn" ceiling
2. Filling up cracks on the ceiling
3. Painting the ceiling. We chose pale yellow to go with the new wall colors
4. Removing the old wall edging strips/wall trims
5. Replacing the old wall with new ones. As you can see from the 2nd picture, the old wall is the white area in the picture with small little holes texture. We thought it looks kinda weird and painting it would be a toughie
6. Painting the walls. We chose bright orange and dark chocolate for the walls to create a little bright and dark contrast as we didn't want the room to be too bright nor too dark
7. Fixing the new little edging strips from hell!!! Man, taking them out was so easy but putting them back was tough as hell. The toughest part is getting the angles and measurements right. So next time, when your contractor charges you a little more for the edges, don't complain
8. Painted the edging strips from hell white

And that's all for now.

Stay tuned for more info as we progress further in the makeover project.

-| I Did What People Call "Digging Your Own Grave" |-

2008-10-16T14:35:00.006-07:00

11th of Oct 2008 -We are finally pronounced as husband and wife in a beautiful court room on a bright and sunny day :D

It was a joyful day joined by my mother-in-law, father-in-law and 2 little brothers. Though my own family couldn't be with me, I know I have their blessings and love with me.

The Judge who performed our marriage registration ceremony is wonderful. She shared with us some very beautiful poems. It was so touching, it brought tears to my eyes. Our little ceremony was accompanied with bubbles and yummy Hershey's Kisses, all thanks to the Judge.

It was a beautiful day and I have my husband to thank for making it all happen and for bringing me such wonderful joys.

-| A Follow Up After My Raya Celebration |-

2008-10-05T12:58:00.003-07:00

This past few days I've finally learn the lesson to never over indulged...the hard way >< ... and still learning it, the HARD WAY. YES! INDIGESTION, from OVEREATING! WTF right? The day right after my little Raya dinner: Tummy a little bloated but I thought I should be fine. Probably just a little indigestion since I always have the tendency to overeat and suffers a little indigestion. So I eat more and more and more. The result: NOT GOOD...diarrhea, nausea and so much gas I swear I would explode! Took some medicine and applied some ointment then go to bed.

Next day: Wokie dokie, I think I feel a little better today and I'll continue to be better plus I'm a little hungry. There you go, I eat again and again (rice, chips, bread, grapes, lotsa soy milk and many more, I can't remember) and as expected I'M DOOMED!

Till today: No longer overeats but yet still suffering. I even had to cancel my shopping trip in Oregon. That's the worst of all. Shopping -> price to pay for overeating -> definitely not worth it! I learn the lesson alright.

p/s: I can't even write right >< . Please pray that I get better....sobsobsob

-| My Lil Raya Celebration Away From Malaysia |-

2008-10-02T02:54:00.007-07:00

First of all thousands of apologies for my MIA. Reason being, I was too busy preparing to visit Vietnam and move to Seattle and then got too busy trying to get settled down in Seattle. Now still busy with renovating my future room which will be highlighted in my later post. Now I bunk in MoofMoof's old room.

Okay a quick update of me here before I move on to my main topic:

Sept 02 : Flew to Saigon, Vietnam to visit MoofMoof's relatives
Sept 08 : Flew home to Seattle (new home lo)
Currently : Still in Seattle la, abo then >< :D
Oct 11 : Shall be my wedding registration day in King County Court House, 3rd Ave Downtown Seattle

Aite, back to my cerita:

Have been ~~bising-bising~~ hinting to MoofMoof for the past 2 days that Raya is here and I'm not home to go to all my dad's friends rumah terbuka for all those yummy kuih-muih, rendang, lemang and ketupat. So today MoofMoof suddenly messaged me on MSN while he was at work saying "Hey, lets have Malaysian food for dinner". I was obviously trying to hide my overexcited-ness by just saying "Really?" but padahal I was jumping like crazy in my room already. KK fast forward to dinner time.

I was so happy when I saw the menu at Malay Satay Hut (the only Malaysian restaurant in Seattle if I'm not wrong). They have my favourite rendang but no lemang or ketupat though. Neway, we ordered rendang with rice, roti telur (not very original. why? there's red and green pepper in them -.-), tom yam soup, buddhist yam basket, teh ais (for me of course) and lychee drink (for MoofMoof). Food's good but definitely ordered too much and plus you know la the orang putih usually eat very big portion so si kecik like me sure tak abis makan >< . What did I end up doing? Tapau home la! Surprisingly tapau-ing the leftover in US is a norm since everyone has a microwave at home. So wherever I go makan, I tapau back lo since no matter how hard I try to chuck those food in, it never goes all in. Here are some pictures I took from the dinner place:

(Entrance to Malay Satay Hut)

(MoofMoof ala ala promoting the food)

(The so-called Roti Telur)

(Tom Yam Soup)

(Beef Rendang)

(And last but not least my TEH AIS)

p/s: My dog, Roccio is also here with me now :D

-| Never Attempt To Try This At Home |-

2008-07-26T20:23:00.006-07:00

Do not attempt to strike up a conversation on Skype, Live Messenger, Google Talk or any other IM application OR sign on your Facebook to ~~scan through everyone's new pictures~~ just glance at the updates while you're cooking, else you risk eating "Me + IM + Facebook + Cooking Pasta = Soggy UglyTasting Pasta". Urghhhhhhhh, what a BIG ewwwwwwwwww!

It's just toooooooooo ewwwwwwwwwwwwwwww-ey that my camera won't even "chik chak" when I press the snap button. Can you imagine how ugly that marsh looking pasta is? You still want pictures? Tough Nougies! No pictures! Camera won't budge.

Lesson learned.

p/s: It is not the first time this has happened. There was another shrimpy incident (Shrimpy was meant for MoofMoof - he laughed so much he nearly wet his pants).

-| I Hear the Bells |-

2008-07-20T06:58:00.015-07:00

The wedding bells were ringing loud and clear (not mine yet) for Jo and Dave.

I've been to a number of weddings and seen a number of wedding pictures but I've not seen anything like Jo's. They have the sweetest and most adorable ~~wackiest~~ wedding ceremony I've ever seen. Here's why :

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(picture courtesy of Jo - edited by me)
Cheers to the most creative wedding costumes, The Bathrobes! And a matchy matchy pink scrunchie too :D...

Here I sincerely wish the newly wed a wonderful marriage and may they fall in love with each other many many times and always for the rest of their life.

For more of their wedding stories, you may swing by toothbrush42

~ This post is dedicated to my good friend Jo and her hubby Dave ~

-| Just as Crowded - Bon Odori 2008 |-

2008-07-20T06:02:00.010-07:00

Yesterday, 19th of July 2008, Penang celebrated O-Bon (Japanese Buddhist tradition to honor the departed soul of one's ancestor) in Esplanade. Bon Odori (Bon dance) festival, the brain child of the Japanese Expatriate & Immigrant's Society in Malaysia is a yearly event held in both Esplanade, Penang and Matsushita Corp Stadium, Selangor in conjunction with O-Bon.

Bon Odori Fest takes you on a ride of Japanese arts & dance with the plus bonus of yummo Japanese food and drinks (tako yaki being my personal favorite :D *drools*). People were swarming each and every stall (especially tako yaki stall!) heightening the risk of getting separated from ~~M@rs and Yuki at the pizza stall~~ your friends. Aside from buying, eating, and watching performances, youngs and olds are encouraged to join in the Bon Dance. Having the tummy filled and "saturday night fever" ~~"Bon dance fever"~~ quenched, everyone winds down to watch the spectacular fireworks display that marks the end of the Bon Odori Fest.

Here are some less spectacular pictures I took during the festival (starring MC, Yuki, Zeemi, M@rs and last but not least ME! only half my face is in the picture *sob*) :

This might be my last time enjoying the Bon Odori Festival in Malaysia...I wonder if they have it in Seattle...hmmm...

-| My Fetish For ... |-

2008-07-14T10:48:00.011-07:00

Words of him have been spreading far and wide. Every time I walk by, I peer into the glass searching for him. As always and without fail, he sits there looking as hot as ever. He makes my heart flutter, like a teenage girl falling in love. At the sight of him, I'm reduced to a mass of quivering jelly. The more I hear about him, the more I look at him, the more I long for him.

Today I ain't gonna run no more. I'm gonna make him mine and bring him home with me.

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I can't believe it! He's mine now and he's home with me. He's sitting in front of me, warm and ready. His nearness and the sweet-hot scent of him completely weakened my knees. I brought my lips close to him. Slowly parting my lips, bringing my mouth over him. As soon as we touched, my lust for him took over me. Losing self-control and losing all my senses, I grew more and more greedy as I tasted him. He explodes into a burst of sweetness and juiciness as I lick and bite. His crisps alone is overpowering. The world began to spiral around me, and I whirled around it, lost to the present, riding a timeless wave of utter satisfaction. Before long...

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my Bo Lo Baau (Mr. Pineapple Bun)

(image courtesy of Jo Lynn)
Eh hamsap people (translation:perverts) , I was not screwing some random hunk I found in a store okay? I was just talking about me enjoying my favorite food, the Bo Lo Bauu. So shake those perverse thoughts out of your brain! =p

p/s: Wish I can feed on it as often as I want to but sadly it is just as fat as McFatty >.<

In conjunction with "Monika Wants To Know Your Favourite Food"

-| Be Blessed |-

2008-07-14T09:37:00.005-07:00

There are enough goodness to go around for everyone in life. Though most of the time we are too caught up in the buzz of life. Piles and piles of work and trains after trains of traffic engulfed all the goodness in us and around us. Day in and day out we complain, we whine of how pathetic our life is and how life is so unfair, how unfortunate we are and how lonely we are. Getting too preoccupied with our own emotional mumbo jumbo we forget about so many millions out there who are so much more unfortunate. Drowned by modernity and propagation of urban beliefs we lost our way. Gratitude and being blessed becomes an ancient feeling. I don't blame you for not seeing it. We all need to be reminded once in a while of the good things that are around us and of the good things we have in us. Whenever you feel less fortunate, picture the victims of Cyclone in Myanmar, Earthquake in Si Chuan and war infested countries. So many homeless and starving, striving hard to make by and yet feeling thankful each day for they are still alive.

It's time for us to go hand in hand and spread some love and kindness all around the world. You can always drop a kind contribution (it does not always has to be money, it can be in the form of support, skills or kind encouraging words as long as it brings a certain kind of comfort for the people in need) at http://www.tzuchi.org/global/ or any other voluntary foundation you believe in.

LETS LOVE AND BE LOVE!

-| When You Feel Weak |-

2008-07-13T01:56:00.001-07:00

Acknowledge it, embrace it and allow it to stream out steadily. Before you know it, you'll to be strong again. You can't be strong without being weak. Just like a snake, it's strong, agile and vicious but to grow stronger and bigger it has to shed it's skin. When it does, it goes limp, motionless and lifeless for some time. But once it recovers and once new skin comes around it becomes stronger and more powerful than ever before. Same goes to you and I and everyone else around the world.

So don't fret when you fall. See it, feel it and learn from it. Recover you will and better you will be.

-| Wind has Blown Me Home |-

2008-07-12T05:07:00.013-07:00

Heya! I'm home! Miss me ke? Phew I'm brought back home by AirAsia.

Was so afraid they'll leave me in Singapore and separate me from my Mama and I'll go "Wa wa waaaaaaaaa bring me back to my Mama. I want my Mama" *stomping my feet on the ground*...Hehehe I'm just being dramatic. You know me, I get very drama when I'm over excited. Why? Because I went with an empty luggage and came back with an excess baggage =O ...I didn't only buy things I wanted to buy but I bought stuff that I accidentally stumble upon. Here's how it went...

On our way ~~searching our way~~ to Clark Quay
Me : Hey which way should we go?
Gaz : I think we should go...*trails off*
Sue : Hey I know, instead of taking the traffic lights, lets get across through that store and go straight...
All of Us: Wokie!

So there we go, trotting hastily towards the store hoping to get to Clark Quay ASAP BUuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuT

Me : Wait wait wait! *Droools. Staring wide-eyed at the pretty red thing in front of me...Oooh come to mama, baby!*

Our mission to Clark Quay came to a halt! Sue and I began prancing in the store in green, red, pink, blue ~~you name it we tried it~~ shoes. A shoe lover like me can't resist slipping my feet into those gorgeous heels, can I? Orh lovely lovely shoes...I'm sure the store assistants would have chopped us, grind us into small little pieces and throw us into the river of Clark Quay to feed the fishes if we didn't end up buying something from the store. But of course a shoe hoarder can never come out from a shoe store empty handed right? teeheehee. So here's what mi got for miself :looky looky me grinning so happily in my new red peep toes? and YES! I wore it immediately after I purchased it ^^. Ain't it adorable? Matches my dress perfectly :D

and ORH, look at that sexy green thing. Seriously, how can anyone not buy them?Arh the question mark? It's something I got for MoofMoof. He doesn't know what I got him yet so I shall not reveal it here either. Answers might be revealed in a month time, so stay tuned.Alrighty I didn't get the red hot pants (not hot enuff but didn't dare get any shorter pants since my legs *ahem* not that hot la yer) from the same store but I cannot not post it up here when it's such a great buy and oh so cute! too...only cost me SGD10...great buy kan?

I bought tons of other stuffs, mainly clothing. There are just too many of them that one page can hardly fit them all so am not gonna post it all up here ^^...Conclusion = I burn a big hole in my purse once again (erm...more like MoofMoof's pocket ehehehe =p) *wink wink...flashing my innocent kitty smile*

p/s: Thanks baby! (have to show gratitude la kan?)

-| Gone With The Wind |-

2008-07-02T11:38:00.006-07:00

Teehehehe , not exactly gone with the wind but more like gone with AirAsia. I'll be flying down to Singapore day after today to be with my God-Family and to meet my friends. This would be my last visit...well at least the last for the near few years. I can't just hop back and forth from Seattle to Singapore now, can I? While I'm still in Penang, I wanna make good use of the time I have to visit friends and family near and ~~a little~~ far from home.

As this little trip is meant for visiting, I might not be able to pop in here as often to scribble down my nonsensicality. All the same I'll still attempt to creep in once in a while ^^ ... Wish me a great weekend! See ya!

-| Need More Reasons to Blog? |-

2008-06-26T13:55:00.019-07:00

I don't know about you, but the click-clacking sound of me typing furiously on my keyboard, word after word, phrase after phrase and sentence after sentence is kind of sedative and keeps me addicted to blogging. The sheer excitement of receiving comments (good or bad) and replying them just heightens my addiction ecstatically. Most importantly having the freedom to write about my thoughts freely is really what keeps me going. Lately I've found yet another reason that drives me to blog more actively, SocialSpark. The review of SocialSpark on Perky's blog triggers my interest to find out more about it. After some googling and poking around the search engine, I find SocialSpark to be quite amusing and thus decided to get my hands dirty on it and finding myself hooked!

SocialSpark is the creative new baby of IZEA (those of you who has come across PayPerPost, Zookoda, Bloggers Choice Awards and RockStartup might be familiar with the name, IZEA). The craze of social networking is now taken up one notch by SocialSpark with the infusion of the marketing element. Besides allowing bloggers to build networks, it now allows the intuitive interactions between bloggers and advertisers. Bloggers-advertisers relationship brought closer. Isn't this refreshing?

(the marketplace)
(elaborated details on an opportunity)
What appeals to me most is the abundance of opportunities on SocialSpark. It provides me with lots of ideas and materials to write about. Selecting and streamlining opportunities in the marketplace is a breeze. You can tell instantly whether an opportunity is open and if you're qualified to write about it. With a click of mouse, you'll get an elaborated details and guidelines on writing about the opportunity. Besides that, there's a section called Spark which is basically a pool of ideas for bloggers who are drained out of ideas. This comes in handy for me from time to time when I have a major brain-clog.

(detailed demographic of blog's traffic)
Another interesting feature of SocialSpark has to be the detailed demographic of your blog's traffic. It displays the statistic of the traffic to your blog by country, shows the top referrers and top outgoing links and even the breakdown of your readers' gender. Simply amazing huh?

Oh, if you're good at what you do, you get paid additional bonuses each month but of course you got to be one of the BEST. That said, it still does give you more motivation to write better, doesn't it? Just be sure to be true in what you do and go by the SocialSpark Code Of Ethnics:
- 100% Audit-able In-Post Disclosure
- 100% Transparency
- 100% Real Opinions
- 100% Search Engine Friendly

So guys what are you waiting for? Hurry up and click HERE to sign yourself up with SocialSpark.

-| Beautifully Captured |-

2008-06-26T05:47:00.007-07:00

Today I read the most beautifully written post it made me cry. It was written by MoofMoof. It's his first post in his first blog. It definitely isn't a bias opinion. It was written so sincerely it truly reflects his reflections. I'm so touched, I'm utterly speechless...

-| Is it Ever Easy? |-

2008-06-26T02:54:00.006-07:00

Have you ever had someone saying to you, "I don't know how to tell him/her but I really don't think it's gonna work out between me and him/her anymore. Is there a way I can tell him/her without hurting him/her?".

Dear lord, every time someone pops that question, I am so ever tempted to pull my baseball bat out of the secret compartment from my evil head and swing it right at his/her face and scream at his/her face; "What are you dumb or retarded?! What kinda fxckshit question are you asking?". Seriously there is no where in hell that you'll find a way to break up with someone without hurting them. Only way to not hurt them is suck whatever misery you have in the relationship out of your dumb brain and chuck it up your ass and hold his/her hands and pretend everything is peachy perfect. Yes, you're dumb the minute that question pops into your head and you're just about to spill it right out in your bestie's face.

That being said, I do not think all breakups have to be bad or ugly up to the point where you can't even be distant friends. Of course it's gonna hurt no matter how you lay it out but at least bring out some honesty and tell him/her how you really feel. Don't be fake in whatever you do. Try to break it off honestly and maturely so both of you can move on with your life until someone better suited comes along. If he/she has questions, do answer them fairly without engaging in any form of blame-finding game. Oftentimes there are faults in both sides that wrecks the relationship. Just remember to be kind and compassionate. The sooner you do it, the sooner he or she can heal and move on with their life. Good luck to those of you who are plotting a breakup plan. *I'm no professor in the game of love. In all the trips and rides of my life, I took some wrong turns and lost my way. I found my way back but I cannot be certain that I'll never get lost. However, lessons will be learned and life shall move on.*

To those of you jerks out there who are too much of a chicken to do it yourself and hoping silently that he/she will hit the road, and fast. You can now hope out loud. Here's a couple of tips I gather from magazines and websites (well I tweak them a little and I sprinkled some of my dark evil spices into the soon-to-be-breakup potion for more intense flavor) that you might consider useful:

1. When you're taking a crap or a leak, purposely leave the door open and Work It Baby! Do it like you mean it! Make a good show out of it and make sure he/she hears them good.
2. Pee repeatedly on the seat and do not flush - it usually only works if you're a guy
3. Pick your nose on a date and proceed with feeding him/her that prawn you peel specially for.
4. Tell your partner that he/she reminds you of your high school sweetheart. Do not forget to throw in some juicy details that what they both have in common throws you off your chair and turns you on in rocket time.
5. Ask her to get a breast enlargement or ask him to get a dick enlargement.

Those are my top 5 favorites and I kinda think it might actually work if you really wanna try it out but I truly do not recommend it unless you're really out of choices. They are purely just for laughs. Hope you guys enjoy it.

-| Journey of the Little Girl |-

2008-06-24T03:12:00.017-07:00

The little baby girl, dressed in a white sleeveless top, a white little shorts, flashing her bright innocent smile and her tiny little hands reaching out excitedly, sitting in between her proud parents. She's their little angel sent from heaven. She's their pride, their first-born, their hope, who shall realize the dream they never had a chance to make come true. They took care of her with much love and commitment, giving her the best they could provide. Buying her the most expensive dresses they can afford even if it meant no new clothes for them. Always providing her with the best quality healthy food they can find even when it comes to junkies. No chick-a-dees for her, it's bad for her. She must have good quality junkies. She is their precious little girl after all. She loves to snuggle close to her mommy and daddy especially daddy and make them play with her. She loves to sleep between them in the middle of the night. That way she feels safe and away from the scary monsters that in reality only lurks around in nightmare.

But the girl was not strong enough. She's always sick, always down with high fever and stomach flu. That makes mommy and daddy worry all the time. Every time they see their little baby girl lying frailly on her bed, it pains them so much tears well up in their eyes. When the girl was crying with pain, they wish they could take the pain onto themselves and make hers go away. They take turn to stay up at night to make sure little baby girl is fine and gets her medicine on time and pray for her to get better soon. Mommy and daddy always check on her and tug her in her blankie so she doesn't get a cold.

They love her so much they bring her along wherever they go. Although they were not well-off, they try to save up as much as they could of their meager income just so they can bring her out of country on a vacation. Furthest they've gone is to Bangkok. It was a bumpy 12 hours long train ride. Daddy had to sleep on the upper bunk where his head was found bruised the next morning from the endless bumping on the train wall. Nevertheless it was a very happy and memorable trip for the 3 of them.

From all the love and care they gave her, she grows really fast, day after day, years after years. Soon she's grown into a strong active teenage girl. Now she pains them more. Not because she's ill again but because she has transform into a little monster from her little angel form. Now she thinks their love is a prison, their words an awful song, their advices full of bullshits and their everything are just painstakingly annoying. She resent everything they say or do. She goes against everything that they say or warn. She secretly skip school, secretly goes to party and she secretly dates a guy and secretly bring him to her house when they are not around. Secretly had her first kiss with her first boyfriend and secretly break it off without them knowing he ever existed. She threatened them by running away from home. Cause so much pain that her father cried out loud for the first time in fear of losing her daughter forever. That was the first time she made him cried so hard.

Then a few years later, despite all her spitefulness and playfulness she manage to graduate from high school and was accepted into the national University which had her parents brimming with pride every time they tell someone about it. But those grad school years was not smooth sailing. She left a good boy for some jackass whom she thought was an angel at the time. This time around she caused her mommy and daddy to cry real hard for the second time because her stupid decisions nearly caused her life following the worse breakup ever in her life. She refused to eat, to go out, she just stays at home and do nothing all the time. Whenever they look into her eyes, the lights grew dimmer and dimmer. She no longer cry, she no longer speak, she just sits and stare. The sight of her sitting lifelessly staring into blank space brought a tremendous pain and sadness in their heart. They drop everything at hand, rushed over to hug her, to tell her that everything is going to be alright, that no matter what happen they will always be the one who will support her and love her and care for her. Even when everyone has left her, they will not, for her, they will always be around. That little gesture finally brought tears into her eyes again. They were gushing out freely. A sense of warmth and hope embraced her and once again she can feel safe cause no matter what, she knows her family will always be there to back her up. With their support, she managed to go back to school and graduate remarkably.

Now the girl is a grown woman. She has a lot to thank her wonderful parents for. For giving her a wonderful life, for teaching her life lessons she'll never get to learn elsewhere, for teaching her to love, to respect and to care for people all around. Most of all she wants to thank her mommy and daddy for loving her all her life and for not giving up on her when she was clearly a pain in the ass. It is now time for her to move on into a new chapter of her life, to leave home, to travel thousands of miles away to be with her one true love, to start her own family and to someday pass down to her children what her great parents had taught her. Here she sits with tears brimming in her eyes looking into the picture of the little baby girl with her white sleeveless top and white shorts sitting in between her mommy and daddy who were smiling proudly into the camera. She will truly miss them, miss all those wonderful years that they had together. She will miss talking to them, miss them nagging her all the time, miss arguing with them and most of all she simply miss spending time with them. What more can she ask, they were the most wonderful gift that is bestow on her.

"Daddy, mommy, thanks for everything you've given me. Sorry for all the pain I've caused you time after time and thank you for forgiving me each and every time. I love you very much and I will always miss you both."

-| Weekend Shopping Spree |-

2008-06-22T21:53:00.016-07:00

First of all, thousands of apologies for not having updated my bloggie for centuries. Been real busy collecting various documents for my visa application which fortunately and with much reliefs are finally almost done.

Anyway, I was down in Kay-EL last Thursday to collect my final piece of paper. My stay there extended for another 3 days for the sole purpose of blowing a humongous hole in my savings to the point of having to squeeze every last bit of the juices left in my savings. What can I say, I'm an impulse shopper after all. When I don't shop, I don't spend a penny but when I do shop, expect a catastrophic impact to my financial status >.< ... ok, here goes my transactions history by order:
Thursday, 19/06/2008, Butterworth
MYR82 - Gas at Caltex + 1 bottle of 100Plus (100Plus is a must on each and every one of my long distance drive, it keeps me going *ooh I wonder if F&N will pay me for this hehehe*)
MYR100 - Reload my Touch 'n Go
Thursday, 19/06/2008, 1 Utama
MYR29.90 - A white heel from Vincci (more stories to come on this)
MYR.IDK(I Don't Know aka I can't remember) - Boneless chicken in lemon cream sauce in Dave's Deli (ate everything except for the coleslaw and some peas I guess. Had to ask Mangkuk to wallop them all)
MYR199 - A summer trench coat from Forever21 (a tad too expensive though but I didn't regret it cause I've been eyeing it for a week)

Friday, 20/06/2008, Putrajaya (Wisma Putra)
MYR10 - Fee for the Foreign Ministry's stamp on my Letter Of Single Status (Why would I need that? Well I need to prove that I'm single and available to be married to MoofMoof in US)
Friday, 20/06/2008, The Curve
MYR29 - Lunchie at Sakae Sushi
MYR144 - 1 Slim Fit Jeans + 1 Cardigan from MNG aka Mango (HOT HOT HOT, They are real HOT and I do hope I look HOT in them too tehehe)
MYR19.80 - 2 Spaghetti Straps from Nichii (cheap and awesome ~ good buy, good quality and best of all MoofMoof thinks they are sexy!)
MYR.FOC - Pancakes with nuts, honey, strawberry and chocolate honeycomb butter in Paddington House of Pancakes (they were yummylicious, makes me wanna make some *debating whether I should head to Carrefour for some pancakes ingredients later. Pergi ke tak pergi yer?*)
Friday, 20/06/2008, Power Centre Ikano
MYR45 - Another sandal (a very comfortable pair) from Vincci (was wearing the new one I bought the day before and my feet was beginning to peel off >.<)
Friday, 20/06/2008, Back to The Curve
MYR24 - Caeser Salad and Giant Seafood Platter in Manhattan FishMarket (finger licking good but the 4 of us couldn't finish it)
MYR29 - 4 tube tops (3blacks and 1white. The MakCik tells Magpie that "Kite mesti percaya diri. MakCik pun pakai tube tu. Ingat tau, mesti percaya diri" when Magpie was doubting if she could fit into the tube tops. Man the makcik is real cool. She was wearing a baju kurung at that time and I was wondering how would she look in those tube tops o.O. Probably I can spot her in tubes in Laundry Bar later at night)
MYR.IDK - 1 Cosmopolitan in Laundry Bar (1 is never enough. Wish I had more but we had to head home soon since all of us were burned from too much shopping)

Saturday, 21/06/2008, Balakong's JayaJusco
MYR.IDK - HongKong style fried beef spaghetti + Cold honey lemon juice in Food&Tea (I don't even know if I remember the name of the food joint correctly)
MYR70++ - Thai massage in Thai Odyssey (Masseuse: Ok na? Me: No!no!no! not ok, no hard.Gentle,gentle pleaseeee *sweats*)
MYR54.50 - Jacket from PDI (it was on sale for half the price and I bought it just for the sake of going to a movie since I was wearing my spaghetti strap at the time and I don't enjoy freezing to death in the cinema *a very good excuse to shop more eh?*)
Saturday, 21/06/2008, The Mines
MYR.IDK - KungFu Panda in TGV (it was hella hilarious. was laughing throughout the whole movie. Tears even came out from excessive laughing)
MYR.IDK - Dinner Set in Esquire Chicken (Lou Wong Kua soup, Stir Fry French Beans, Fa Kuin aka plain Pou, pork in ginger vinegar soy sauce gravy and another pork dishes with veges. It was unbelievable cause the two of us manage to finish all of it O.o)

Sunday, 22/06/2008, Balakong
MYR30 - Reload Phone credit in 7-11
MYR42 - Gas at Shell + 1 bottle of 100Plus (see, I told you, I need a bottle of 100Plus for each and every one of my long journey drive)
Sunday, 22/06/2008, Restoran Jambatan Sungai Buloh
MYR9 - 1 Zinger value meal (that's my lunch before heading back to Butterworth and I had to eat them in my car cause all my valuables are in my car including my laptop and the stuff that I shopped. Luckily MoofMoof was there to talk to me on the phone so lunch in the car wasn't that bad after all)

ESTIMATED TOTAL EXPENDITURE ~ about MYR1000 = MAN I'M SO SO SO DEAD AND BROKE. KERING SO KERING!!!

By the way it was a great pleasure to meet up with Perky and Bibik Nyonya on Thursday, thanks to BigFatWitch. They are a lot of fun to hang out with.

Looking forward to another awesome weekend! I hear it's gonna be FUEL this round.

-| I'm A Kvetch |-

2008-05-20T05:56:00.007-07:00

You know, I've been trying to write these couple of days. There are so many things I wanna write about, it's not like I couldn't crack anything out of my mind but I just didn't have the heart to do so. So many things have been boggling me, boggling me deep into the core of my brain. So many questions I need answers to and yet none answered. At times I just feel like running away from all of these but rationally and logically I know that running away isn't going to solve anything in the long run and I have to be brave and upfront in facing the reality or whatever it is that is laid down perfectly in front of me with the irresistible life dressing. True enough but yet I couldn't rid off the temptation of running from reality and thus I ended up anesthetizing myself with lots and lots of sleep that I no longer know which is day or which is night.

I don't know if it's anyone's fault anymore or is it just mea culpa. Is life suppose to be like this, I ask myself quite often. One tragic event after another? I'd like to think that I'm scrappy. I used to think I am but now I'm not too sure anymore. I'm beginning to doubt my spirit in life, to doubt everything. Has the life in me slipping slowly away, draining me dry? Yet, at times I feel so alive! Orh darn, LIFE is so complicated! I hate it and yet I love it. Geez I wish I can just melt and dissolve into the ground into nothingness. Vanished from the face of earth, the most brutal battling arena in the whole universe. Period.

-| Shocking Accomplisment of The Day |-

2008-05-16T11:25:00.011-07:00

This post is specially dedicated to Mangkuk because it's Mangkuk's much loved topic of all time. It is bound to surface in each and every conversation you have with her. Big Fat Witch will definitely agree with me. Don't you?

Was writing a post for my blog (the one i posted up before this) when suddenly I heard mom shouting from outside my room:

"OMG! OMG! Roccio is running like mad, fleeing for life! Come look at this! Hurry up everyone come look! This is so unusual! OMG!"

Panicked, afraid that something bad has happened to Roccio, I dropped everything at hand and ran out of my room to see what was all the commotion about.

As soon as I reached the crime scene, guess what I saw?

For those faint-hearted please read no further.

For those who can barely take a second helping of your food at the mere mention of maggots, lizards, roaches and the likes please venture no further.

But for those of you who thinks you're brave enough to challenge your guts, be my guest
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(first thing that came to my mind when I saw this ~ "I need my camera" *ewwwww* Mom said "Drop it will ya, you're one disgusting idiot!" Muahaha I guess I am and a very sick one too)

(2nd thing that came to my mind ~ "Only the thang in the pic isn't gonna prove anything. Hmmm...so maybe a bowl will do" *grabs the nearest bowl I can get and snap snap snap*)

(My lil bro, Dorky says "I think a ruler would be better. At least it's measurable". For the first time in my life, I said "Damn, you're smart after all!" *grabs a ruler, place it there and snaps the picture happily, beaming with pride thinking it's the accomplishment of the day!*)

What a piece of shyt huh? But still I bet it's not long enough to beat someone else's piece of shyt (you know who you are when you see this)

Okay, I admit this post is disgusting but heck that's what you get when a person is jobless and has too much time at hands.

-| Parcel Of Love |-

2008-05-15T23:33:00.013-07:00

15th of May 2008 was a memorable date. It's the 1st Anniversary for MoofMoof and I. However we didn't officially became an item on that day. We chose to celebrate on that day because :-

1. Neither of us can recall when was the very day we finally hooked up (don't ask me why, it's a long long story)
2. It's mom's birthday so it's easier on our scatty brain.

Although he's halfway around the world, that didn't stop us from celebrating the day two souls united in love bonded in destiny.

That very morning, MoofMoof blew my heart and took my breath away. Just when I thought things can't get any sweeter or any more romantic than that, he would just whoop something right up to sweep me off the ground again. Yea, he sent me a parcel of love. Right then I know I'm the luckiest girl to have found the sweetest guy <3.

(The most wonderful parcel I've ever received)

(Isn't this adorable? A handmade necklace and bracelet and 2 of his most loved cutie keychains which he bought from Vietnam. Piggy keychain-->Me and Doggy keychain-->MoofMoof. Oh by the way he has the same exact bracelet except that it reads "I (LOVE) SAMANTHA" and he wears it everyday. *Melts my heart away*)

(A box full of handmade stars)

(I've received lots of handmade stars in the past but none like these ~ stars with hand-drawn pictures, they are uber cute. He sent 3 superheroes to protect me ~ Superman, Spiderman and Batman, can you spot them? Orh girls {you know who you are when it comes to Foster} if you're reading this can you spot a Foster star he sent, specially for all of us? *squeals excitedly*. Did any of you notice the piece of doodoo? I notice lotsa guys love to draw doodoo. Wonder why? Anyone?)

(The words say it all. Makes me cry when I read them. *rolls eyes*. Well don't look at me like that, I can't help it. I tend to have a soft spot for touchy stuffs like that. *rolls eyes again*)

(He was debating whether to give me lotsa kisses or just one kiss. There, he decided to give me a huge ass kiss!)

(MoofMoof's most fav moomoo or so he says. MoofMoof won it from the fair. He's a freaky froggy-like moomoo ~ "Hun, don't debate it cause you know it's freaky, even Ryan says so". But I still think it's super duper cute, just like you, freaky but super duper adorable *Runs for life before I get tickled to death*)

(And last but not least, how can a card not accompany so many loveable goodies. Not 1 but 2 CARDS! And they are handmade too! *Awwwww melts habis-habisan* , translation - fully melted, I think...hmm... *scratching head*)

See, how can I not say I'm the luckiest girl when a guy does so many many uber sweet confections? We spent the rest of the day babbling away ~ <3.

-| Beauty & Da Buggers |-

2008-05-13T03:21:00.007-07:00

Omigosh! I kena usha today, WTF! Now I feel so dirty and depressed and I wanna slit my wrist and die. LOLZ okok I'm just kidding okay? I'm not suicidal and it's not so serious okay? If I am, I won't be sitting here posting this up okay? I'll be six feet under ground oledi! Or maybe still in the hospital waiting for the forensic fella to do a post-mortem.

Anihoo, back to the story ~ it was just 2 bugger on a bike took over me while I was cruising down the freeway in my hot chicka mini Ferrari...yea it's Ferrari okay? Don't pray pray ar! The passenger of the bike usha me lo. How sure am I that he is usha-ing me and not my car? Of course la, cause I'm definitely hotter than my car. According to my dear Big Fat Witch, I'm a Hot MAMA soon to be Hot Auntie. Okay, scrap the last part, I don't like Hot Auntie, Hot MAMA sounds nicer. Anyway the hamsap passenger usha me and tak cukup lagi, he tugged on his buddy's shirt and ask him to usha together-gether. Wah I was farking furious. I honked and honked and gave him the "Apa usha usha har, nak kena korek mate ke" look and he got so scared and peed in his pants. Hmm...Maybe I over exaggerate. Hehe me ain't so evil and fierce like a lioness okay? Although once in a while I can be lo so you better be careful ya. But this time I just gave them a smile before I cut into the right lane and sped off.

Well, I know la I cun and hot and anggun but please la wei, cherish your life okay? If not also, cherish others' life. Fixed your eyes on the road so you don't run your motor kerepot into the poor innocent car in front of you and I would definitely not fancy running over you two poor hamsap bugger either. I don't want to have sleepless nights just cause you both make headlines on the front page like "Nahas Akibat Si Anggun" or "Beauty and 2 Dead Buggers"..wah man that's a heavy guilt to bear okay? Guilty of being a beauty and then I'll have to pay gazillion dollars for a plastic surgery just to make me look ugly...eh but come to think of it, to make myself look ugly is not that hard after all hor? Just place my face on a waffle maker and forever I'll carry a waffle head lo...

Lesson of the day ~ Don't Stare and Drive (I mean focus on the road and drive and not something else okay?)

-| The Roller Coaster Ride |-

2008-05-12T19:35:00.003-07:00

Weekend was one hell of a roller coaster ride. So many things had happen with so much emotion involved. Happy, sad, nervous, fear, worries, you name it I have it. Except for anger I guess.

May 10th 2008, woke up from my nap and as usual the first thing I do when I got up is to switch on my lappy. Login to Facebook and my email, saw nothing on Facebook but something in my mailbox caught my attention. It read “CRIS” which means it’s something from USCIS. Getting all jiggly and nervous I clicked open the email with my trembling hand and there it was sitting on my mailbox reading "On May 9, 2008, we mailed you a notice that we have approved this I129F PETITION FOR FIANCE(E)". I can’t believe what I saw. I had to rub my eyes twice and pinched myself a couple of times before I go ~ “Wuhoo! It’s real, it’s real! It is so so real! It’s finally happening!!!!!!!!!!”. Gotta tell Denny immediately, dialed his number so many times but that baka hubby of mine didn’t pick up his phone, so I had to call the house number. My sleepy Mama picked it up. Felt so sorry for waking her up but I had to get the happy news to Denny. It was the best news of the day. We talked happily about all the exciting things we’re gonna do when I’m there but then as sudden as the happy news came, I broke into tears. Overwhelmed by the sudden gush of sadness for having to leave my family behind I just couldn’t stop crying. It was a good thing that Denny was around assuring me that everything is going to be fine and we will come home to Penang often to visit my family and friends. Denny, thank you for your assuring words, for you love and care.

The following day, I was worried sick. Mom was admitted to the hospital with the docs not knowing what was wrong. They perform and ultrasound scan on mom and said it might be an inflation on her fallopian tube or a cyst or an inflation on her intestine but they couldn’t be sure until they perform a surgery on mom. I had to seek few doctors’ opinions and do so much research in a day to help my mom and dad decide which was the best option for her. I was able to convinced dad to ask the doctor to perform a laparoscopy on mom to inspect the affected area for the real culprit and removing the affected area using the same method and told the doctor to only opt for a more extensive surgery if the problem area is too complicated for laparoscopy. Mom went through the laparoscopy procedure late afternoon yesterday. What they found was a heavy cyst twisting the end of the right fallopian tube. The twisted fallopian tube was the culprit of the massive pain. They removed the cyst and the bad end of the fallopian tube and now mommy is better and recovering. Thank goodness!

-| 2% MILK |-

2008-05-08T23:57:00.004-07:00

As I was chatting with Denny, we stumbled upon what he ate for the day and 2% milk was mentioned. Hmm…was scratching my head, wondering what’s a 2% milk. Is it some kinda new dairy product with some fancy new milk-making technology? Does the milk contain only 2% milk? Then, what would the other 98% be? I’ve never heard of a 2% milk before, never ever in my life until then. It’s either that the term isn’t being used in Malaysia or I’m too ignorance to notice such a thing existed.

Okay to those who are just as lost as I am when it comes to what’s a 2% milk, here’s a little fact about it that I’ve googled up from the web.

The 2% refers to the percentage of fat by weight that the milk contains while normal full cream milk contains about 3.5% fat. 2% milk is often mistaken for low fat milk but in fact it can only be referred to as reduced-fat milk. 1 serving of 2% milk still contains 5g of fat that derives close to 35% of its’ calories from fat but to qualify as low fat milk, its’ total fat content must be 3g or less. So if you’re serious about eating a low fat diet, 2% milk isn’t gonna cut it, you’ll have to opt for 1% or best of all, go for fat free milk.

Well hopefully this tiny piece of information helps make you a smarter milk-shopper and not a dumb milk-shopper that I used to be. Does the milk contain only 2% milk? Duh! What a silly question to ask >.< …I’m such a DORK…

-| Having Good SEX |-

2008-04-23T22:54:00.005-07:00

SEX is the passion of my life. I love SEX, I adore SEX and I crave for SEX. The mere mention of “SEX” sends a thrilling sensation down my spine. SEX not only makes me a happier person but it never failed to bust away all the nerve wrecking stress. SEX embraces my life with love and gives me the ultimate satisfaction in life. SEX injects warmth and comfort in my life, making me feel pampered and nice and makes my life so much more worth living for. OH! SEX is so orgasmic, it makes me feel like I’m high up in the sky, which is why it is so addictive. If I can, I’d love to have SEX all day long especially in the comfort of my room. Though I’ll have to admit that it’s not always carried out in the room.

What would be my best recipe or ingredients in my SEX life? Not too much and not too complicated I would say. Well here goes…all that I need to get me going at SEX are:

1. A firm bed or a mat big enough
2. Chocolates or ice cream
3. Good music.

It’s as simple as that. I’m absolutely sure that everyone loves a good SEX. No? You don’t agree? You’ll be lying if you say no.

By this time your brain must be working overtime thinking that I’m some slutty whore perv. If you’re actually thinking about that, then obviously your brain is darn murky, massively polluted by years of pornography and dirty little jokes that you throw at each other in your little toilet talks. Muahaha…alright it’s time to shed some lights, I’m talking bout SEX not sex. SEX is the abbreviation of Sleep, Eat, Xcercise. Further explanation of what I do for SEX:

1. A firm bed (to sleep) or a mat big enough (for pilates)
2. Chocolates or ice cream (isn’t it obvious?)
3. Good music. (for all, S, E and X)

That’s all I have for now and before I end I just wanna wish everyone, “Have a GOOD SEX!”

-| A Night in Starbucks |-

2008-04-17T05:33:00.008-07:00

After a series of flake off for the past 3weeks or so, I told myself it's time to go hang out again. Sorry guys, I just had a very long downtime and productions just has to be shutdown...phew! luckily no millions were lost. Anyway we all agreed to hang out in Starbucks at the ever so famous AutoCity (btw, that's the only available so called "chic" place in town). Predictably there'll be at least one camera on hand during each outing. We minum kopi setarbak, chitty chatty and last but not least "chiak chiak chiak". What's "chiak chiak chiak"? o.O? It's not makan okay? It's the sound of our cameras trying really hard to do the Fatal Frames and the Zero Shots.

As meaty as I am, I still try my very best to strike my best pose that hides all those extras gained through constant consumption of McFatty. Below is the comment from one of my peeps:

"Eh don't try so hard la. It's a fact ok. No matter how hard you try to hide it, what camera tricks you pull, outcome still the same la"

Well here's the best shot for the night:

Urghhh! FAT!
Andddddddddddd NOW, I'm gonna prove than MiniVin is wrong! By pulling of some genius camera tricks and by trying extra extra SUPER hard with lotsa believe in yourself ~ "I Can Dooooo Ittttttttttttt" then by all means you'll definitely definitely be able to achieve your wanted super slim shot.

TADA!

Everytime I look at this picture I gasp like "OMG, I so look like one of those super models". Look at the high cheekbones! See MiniVin, See! See! See! It fxcking work!

Sorry dude, if the supermodel picture above scare the crap out of you and you shit in your pants, I'm so so sorry. Thousands of apologies. I've watched my series over and over again and I'm bored out of my head so I've decided to do things differently this time. Instead of posting up my ala ala best shots, I've decided to make lawak bodoh of myself by putting up something more repulsive and see how would I feel about it the next day.

-| Bizarre Mom’s Behavior |-

2008-04-17T02:08:00.004-07:00

There’s a little habit of my mom that I found rather bizarre. Below is a conversation between me and my mom that clearly demonstrates the bizarreness of her habit:-

Me : Hello
Mom : Hey dad and I are on our way back home. Do you need me to grab some food for you and Matthew?
Me : No, thanks mom. We are too full from gobbling down McFatty so yea we don’t need any more food.
Mom : Are you sure? You really don’t want anything?
Me : Yes, I’m sure mom. Absolutely and positively sure.
Mom : Okay then, I won’t buy anything. Bye
Me : Bye

Half an hour later…Front door opened. Mom came in happily chirping:

Mom : Hey guys, I bought you some fried chicken!
Me : I thought I told you we don’t need anything.

She just smiled and walked away. Seriously that wasn’t the first time. Not the second nor the third but she freaking does that ALL THE TIME (yes pardon me but I just can’t help emphasizing that). Why the hell should she bother calling and ask when she’s gonna buy them anyway. I truly couldn’t relate to it. I thought my mom is the only one behaving that way but little did I know that moms of my friends carry the same disease too. I guess that’s just a piece of the unconditional motherly love that every mothers has ~ always caring, always giving and always loving. Though she crawls up my nerves at times but I greatly appreciate her for being there for me through thick and thin. I LOVE MI MOM

p/s: I wonder if I’m gonna carry the exact replicate of the disease when my time comes…*ponders*

It’s not that bizarre after all!

-| 清明节/QingMing Jie/Tết Thanh Minh (Clear Bright Festival) |-

2008-04-06T00:45:00.007-07:00

The official name is QingMing Jie but it is also widely known as Clear Bright Festival or Tomb Sweeping Day or All Souls Day by some English paper. It's a day celebrated by the Chinese community on the 15th day from the Spring Equinox to honor past ancestors. The ceremony comprises of cleaning and sweeping the graves, offering of food to deceased and burning of joss-sticks and joss papers.

This year my eldest uncle, dad, mom and I went to perform our duty and pay our respect to Grandpa on the 28th of March. We started of as early as 5am in the morning to avoid the traffic jam and to avoid fussing over parking space. We are gradually phasing out the burning of joss-sticks and joss papers because we are aware of the inflating pollution that is sweeping us throughout the world. We can't discontinue it abruptly as we do not want to distress Granny either. Anyway it's a good thing that we are slowly scrapping off the harmful burning ritual. We started the service early and thus we finished early too. We left the ground at about 8.30am for some "Chou Cha" before heading home

How Un-Malaysian Am I?

2008-04-03T05:01:00.002-07:00

Congratulations Wen, you are 63% not Malaysian.

That means you're as Malaysian as...

Guy Sebastian !

How Un-Malaysian Are You?

I just can't stop laughing when I see the result Muahahaha

-| Masyarakat Penyayang (A Loving Society) |-

2008-04-02T23:18:00.005-07:00

3 of my own experience showed me how caring our masyarakat is.

2005 – On my way to school, a truck ran into my car from the back because the dim-witted driver didn’t bother to pull up his handbrake on a downhill road when he stops for the red light causing my car bumper to droop down. Driver did not stop to apologize or to see if I needed help. What’s worse is none of the onlookers bother to stop either.

January 2008 – On my way to my uncle’s house, traffic light turn green…everyone is moving forward and so am I. A guy whom I doubt has a driving license at all charges his car towards mine when it’s red light for him! Boy ain’t I glad I was quick enough to response, I swerve my car away from his. But still his car manage to harass mine >.< . Anyway, I stop my car by the side of the road to check if everything is fine. Just as expected, driver didn’t stop to apologize and no one bothered to stop, only a friend of mine who happen to pass by, stop to ask if everything’s okay. February 2008 – Another traffic light incident. Did I mess with the traffic light in my past life? Anyway a huge ass truck forces its’ way into my lane and crashed my back bumper. No apology and no one stop either. Was smart enough to take down a picture of the truck with my phone ^^ and I was crazy enough to follow the truck to it’s destination to demand for an apology. Wouldn’t have done that if there weren’t others around. He was shocked that an elfin like me would dare approached him. Tried to blame me and make it seem like it was my fault but am no baby to be pushed around. His nervous eyes betrayed him and in the end his coworkers agreed that he should apologize and compensate the damage. Doesn’t cost that much to fix my car and thus I decided not to ask for it. Called him the next day to tell him that he doesn’t have to pay for the damage and here’s how the conversation went: Me: “pak cik tak yah bayar balik wang repair tu la, sebab tak byk. Saye pun tau cari makan bknnya senang kan, tapi lain kali kalau pak cik terlanggar orang, salah ke tak salah, kene la turun dan tgk kalau kalau org tu perlukan bantuan”

Pak cik: “minta maaf la yer…pak cik tak tahu terlanggar kelmarin. Tapi terime kasih byk byk yer”

He kept repeating “terime kasih byk byk” 3 to 4 times. At least he’s sorry and I am just glad things end well.

Are we living out the saying “Kita Masyarakat Penyayang” or is it just a phrase we carry at the tip of our lips and not our actions? SAY it like you MEAN it…

~SPREAD THE SEEDS OF LOVE~

-| Disastrous Parenting |-

2008-04-02T23:11:00.002-07:00

Parents, BE MORE RESPONSIBLE! 02 Apr 2008, on my way back from work, I saw some kids playing in the middle of the road, kicking a ball, running and jumping around merrily with the parent looking from the side of the road. Is this how some parents educate their children these days? What will they become when they grow up? Scum and punk-asses who think it’s okay to break the law? “Who said so?”, you may ask. “My parents said so”, you may get. Children are the seedlings of our future but what have we done to cultivate them into good seedlings?

Way to go parents! More rempits are on their way! >.<

-| Time Warp |-

2008-03-18T19:22:00.004-07:00

“Tick Tick Tuck Tuck, Tick Tick Tuck Tuck”, the sound of my fingers flying over the keyboard, typing away lines and lines of 4GL codes…Music blaring in my ears. Wasn’t really concentrating on what’s playing. As a song trails off, another came up, one after another…and then something just robs my attention away. All the codes fade off, all I can see and hear now is the song, a song that I’ve not heard for quite some time. My past unfolds as the song progressed. I see my past so vividly as if I’m still trapped in a time warp.

Amazing huh, how certain songs have such intense blow on our emotions and our life? Some songs remind me of certain people and some songs remind me of certain time in my life. It all feels really magical.
Well the song that stunned me earlier is Cupid’s Chokehold by Gym Class Heroes (feat. Patrick Stump). A song that was my ring-tone, a song that I listened to when I shower, a song that I listened to when I was waiting, a song that I listened to when I did a lot of things… a cute catchy sweet song that I really love.

-| A Family trip to Cameron Highland |-

2008-03-13T04:59:00.003-07:00

It was an awesome trip to Cameron Highland with my Dad, Mom, my Fiance and my lil Bro on 01/03/2008

-| Weekend Getaway to Feringghi Beach |-

2008-03-13T04:20:00.005-07:00

Our little weekend getaway to Feringghi Beach. Stayed in Paradise Sandy Beach Resort from 23/02/2008 till 24/02/2008

Tea time at Gurney Drive on Saturday afternoon - cheering for mi laksa

This is where we had our breakfast on Sunday morning

Crazy photos taken on the beach

Shopping time! Lots of great bargains at Little Penang Street Market which is held once every month

-| B.I.T.C.H.? |-

2008-03-13T04:14:00.002-07:00

Have you ever being called a b*tch? Well I have…both friendly and unfriendly...
Friendly b*tch was a just a "you b*tch , you fxcker" joke between me and my dear friend zeemi.

But I was also called a b*tch in a not so friendly way. Someone wrote me a hateful message sometime ago saying "$@#*%$#* You should be ashamed of yourself".

I just wanna point it out that I am not a b*tch, I am not ashamed of myself and there is no need to explain myself. Whatever happened, happens for a reason. It wasn't a sleazy act nor was it gain by treats or tricks.

It was reality, very honest, very factual and true to life.