"Memories of my life"

Inperfect ME

2012-01-26T17:57:00.000-08:00

The last entry ends with a "but", will blog about it now. I first came back to Kluang 22yrs ago in 1990, incidentally my dad was sick, I started taking care of him. Sad to said he pass away a year latter, so I stay back to be with my mom and my young daughter than. Since mom pass her food stall to me, in all these years whenever my other sibling came back for holiday or festive season all welfare was on me, the food, the comfort, and I have to bear all cost. When during CNY it's about 23paxs for 4 to 5days, I am not complaining, love to have everybody home happy and jolly, cooking for them it's a pleasure when I watched them enjoying the food. But it's always not enough, in the pass 22yrs, every others CNY someone will pick on me to quarrel, I remember the first was(don't remember which year).....mom birthday is on the 13th day of CNY on the lunar calendar, so we normally will either cooked at home or to a restaurant. This particular year my brother wanted to have the dinner at home because our family had quite a few young child so it's kind of inconvenient for children to ran about in the restaurant, as I pass the words around I was pickby my younger sister for insulting her children being naughty, was being scold so badly, we had a quarrel, this was the first. 2years latter, my elder sister scolded me for giving less angpow money to her children and more to the others. Even this I was pick and scolded on a CNY. Another 2years latter, on the 2nd day of CNY my younger sister and her husband came to the house and scolded my brother for some matter about her son, and when my brother explain, my sister and her hubby had no reason to fight him and was embarrass, they pick on me for hearing wrong and calling the wrong person out, you know.. her husband came to the extend of wanted to bash me and that was really really a very very bad one, because I had so many guests in my open house. Another 2years latter nothing happen because I had a heart attack on the 2nd day so no chance to pick on me. I survive 4 seizure Another 2years latter mom's passing on, and off course many happening like sharing mom's assets. And this year my favorite brother scolded me so badly because I scolded his grandson. He was the last person I can think of for picking on me.....so something is wrong with me... I had been thinking and wonder what's wrong with this family????? I felt I was and obstacle of the family never treated as one even though I had sacrifices so much trying so hard to keep the family together always doing the best for them, the comfort of the house never once complain, It's so sad that no one appreciate me. To think of it I must be the problem, if not why always me? So since I am the problem I might as well disappear, then life will be much better and happier for them, so I had decided to leave this house, and retired this year. Year of the Dragon 2012 will be my last year in my parent's house. I had done what I should have, taking care of my dad and mom when they are sick until they pass on, what else do I own them? And what have they done for my parent??? Nobody is perfect, I never consider myself as perfect, but at least I tried my best to be, maybe I tried too hard, or maybe I am really not a good person, too frank, unable to be superficial...... Whatever it is, life will be better for them without me....... Guess another chapter of my life will soon being.

My Year Of The Dragon 2012

2012-01-25T17:50:00.000-08:00

I planed to have a very relaxing Year Of The Dragon. It started off with spring cleaning on CNY eve. Went for facial appointment at 12noon, finished it about 2.45pm came home. Spring cleaning started from wet kitchen to the dry kitchen to the dinning then the sitting room and lastly my bedroom, really.. ah...I never did so much housework in my 57yrs of life, even after the prayer at 12midnight I m still folding clothing and place them into the wardrobe, But it feel so good to see the house in such a good shape hahaha. 1st day of CNY, went for tea with my sisters and at the same time waiting for my brothers to come home for reunion. Both brother arrived the same time one from JB and the other from KL. So we had a 2table reunion dinner in a restaurant. We are Cantonese so the 2nd day of CNY it's very important, we had special prayer and I cooked for the whole family, we had fun eat and chatting, laughing and happying away, but............ will continue in my next entry.....

Starting 2012

2012-01-07T07:47:00.000-08:00

2011 was a happy year for me made many new friends, spent most of my time at the mountain, nothing fantastic happen just simple and doing things that I enjoy therefore it left me very little time for blogging also a very tired year for me. It started off with my missing Million in February which stress me out for 17days,

follow by my missing maid in September, the rest of the month till now is all "one leg kick" to all the work at home and I must said I am so damn lousy in housekeeping....haizzzzzzzzzzzzzz, really wish I can do better.

The year 2012 started off as a quiet count down in front of the TV with my new found little friend Wendy and Million, not that I don't have any invitation, I just want to stay home and enjoy the coziness of my home. I hope this year will brings me, family, daughter and son in law good health, good wealth and lots and lots of happiness, off course the same goes to You and your Family and to all my Friends too.

Hope to blog about the happening in 2011 in my next entry.

5 Days in Hatyai

2011-11-15T01:16:00.000-08:00

I was in Thailand from the 9/11-13/11, nope no flood in Hatyai, flood only in Bangkok.

It was a 5days tour by bus starting on the 9/11 at 10.30pm stopping on the way and reached Hatyai about 1230pm. Our group consist of 21 person majorities woman with 4couple, important part was we knew each other had been to other trips together so... it was really fun.

Nothing to do on the first day only scouting around looking at things that we want to buy and check out the prices. As for me I don't intend to buy much, don't want to spend $$. My intention was to look for good massage and look see, look see, but still.....I must said in Hatyai it's really too tempting, 'shopping paradise'.

Our tour started the next day to the floating market letting out floating lantern for good blessing. It was a good experience I kind of like it with those small sampan selling food at 20butt. The scene was beautiful, not only sell food,there was also small stall selling cute cute things too. Very crowded because 11/11/11 is the festival of the floating lantern it only happen once a year.

The third day was temple visiting, we visited 3 temple, don't know what's the name, it seem all the temple sound the same to me, hahaha. Oh yes...I saw this pretty cat in one of the temple, at first we thought it was a statue the cat was so still stareing at the tree I think there is a bird up there, hahaha...went she move we all had a good laugh. We also went to a honey manufacturer, I didn't buy any, because I notice everywhere I went, here in Malaysia or other country there is always a real honey maker...so .....you know what I mean. Next to a local product shop here I bought some suppose to be very tasty preserve vegetable call "chay poh"from here we went back to the hotel, rest for a while and went for the a massage and our last program for the night was to the disco, we dance and listen to music by some pretty girls singer, when they finish singing they came out topless asking for money.......funny right.....in a disco you know, there are so many way to make money in Thailand.

So...the fourth day is free and easy....shop the whole day walk until the leg want to break, this day I bought some singlets, 2 pair of sandals and walco bra, dinner with red wine and karaok at the hotel......and ...voila....that end our tour because we will be leaving very early tomorrow morning.

Before we get into the bus, this is what they sell, small little dumpling, this is a must buy when you go to Thailand.......

And "GOOD BYE" Hatyai.....I'll be back.....

Surprised and Shocking Visitors.....

2011-11-02T09:28:00.000-07:00

Actually I had so much to write, so many event since my last entry, sad to said I really don't have time to write them....But I'll promise to write them all as soon as possible, at the meantime...I like to show you this visitor that came into my wet kitchen this morning eating the left over bit and pieces. I was surprised when I saw this monitor lizard,and shocking when he/she don't even bother with me while as I was snapping away with my camera.,

And this bird is also flying all over my wet kitchen as though I am not there for quite sometime if I am not mistaken this is the 2nd generation for this bird family , sometime she/he just stood there watching me doing my work.......

Beautiful 'Paya Beach' again.

2011-09-21T02:00:00.000-07:00

This is my second trip to this beautiful Island call 'Paya Beach' in Tioman. You read it herehttp://me-n-my-million-dollar.blogspot.com/search?updated-max=2009-10-24T22%3A35%3A00-07%3A00&max-results=50,

Tioman island is a volcanic island covered in rain forest. Nested in a secluded with room overlooking South China Sea, this magical atmosphere awaits you at 'Paya Beach Resort'.

I was invited to join a friend company trip with a group of 50paxs, mostly family. Island hoping, snorkeling, eating, drinking and yakking, catching up with friends. I love this place.....it's just simply nice....hahaha. The sun was extremely hot, and I end up taking my own shadow....I found it quite nice and creative, me wearing a cap one hand holding on to my Shaw the other hold the camera...

This trip I bought myself a Rm56.00 nice 3piece swim suit, as I said in my last entry that I had lost some weight, so this swim suit came in just nice....and it's cheap. Hope you like this few photo that I took, and I must said it's a enjoyable trip.......With mother nature...

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Now about my Million. This is the first time that Million is alone at home while I go pick up my maid, after all it's only 24hrs, I left her enough food and water, I rather put her in a familiar environment rather than boarding her and put in a cage. So...when I came home, the water and food was not touch, poor Million, I think she is not use to being alone at home.

I had already comfrim a trip to 'Paya Beach' thinking that by then my maid should be back, and complication set in when my maid play me out. And now I'll be leaving for 'Paya Beach' the next day. So as usual I left enough food and water for a 2night/3days of my trip for Million. This time I left the tv on so that she won't feel alone. But.....the least expected when I came home and heard her weak barking, came in could not find her, worried I open all the rooms to look for her, and true enough she was locked inside the maid's room, a big question mark there, because when I left I spoke to her before I closed the main door, and how did this happen???? So....I guess this is what happen....the night before I went into the maid's room to get a cap, and I did not close the door, maybe the door just not fully close, out of curiosity Million when in and the door close by itself, that's how she got lock in. Thanks God it's a 3days/2nights trip can you imagine if I have gone for another 2days....phew......when she came out, she got no time to bark at me, just kept drinking water when she recover, she started to bark and scolded me...hahaha.

************************************************************************************* Well...apart from my short holiday, I was very disappointed when my maid did not turn up in the airport. When I sent her off on the 12/8, she promise to call me as soon as she arrived home, in the end I have to call her instead. 1 week before her due date to come back, I started to call her but none of the call can be connected, is either not in use or out of reach, I suspected that she will not return, but...I still go to the airport in case she could not reach me or she come back for somebody else. I was late, look around when to airasia counter to check whether she board the plane, true enough it show 'No Show' meaning she did not go on board. Such sweet face but so damn unreliable. So.....a new stages of my life just began without maid......anyway....don't intend to take any maid, it's very stressful to teach new maid, but there again also will see how it goes.....Kind of use to without maid for the pass 1 mth.

Tired.........but..... Yummy...

2011-09-08T00:44:00.000-07:00

Not only the house without my super maid it's quiet, I am very tired doing house keeping, and business resumed since last 22/8/11......The first 3days was really very, very tired, but as the days passes by it became easier, now......It's peanut man.....hahaha..... No doubt it's peanut I don't really have time to blog or gyming, because I try to rest as much as possible.

I started my day with most of the time only coffee or horlick, lunch and dinner it's as simple as just grab and eat, but...this morning I decided to have this for breakfast, home made 'cheese pancake', I can't even remember when was the last time I had this for breakfast, and it is really yummy.......I know, I know....It made me fat, but what the hell....I have not been eating well....I already lost 2 kgs in the last 3weeks...

Please do pray hard that my super maid is trustworthy and come back on the 14/9, if not....haiz....I don't even want to think about it......

What To do......

2011-08-18T03:52:00.000-07:00

So much about maid's renewal, so.. she left for home on the 12/8. It's already a week now, and I had not been working since than, kind of wanted to get use to the situation without my super maid. Had been busy since I sent her off at the LCCT. Sweeping, washing, brushing, mopping and throwing all those rubbish that she had been keeping. A friend asked me ' why am I doing all these while my super maid is not around'? My answer: If I tell my the maid that, 'here not clean and there is dusty' can you imagine what will be her reaction? It's not so good right? So what I normally did was, when my maid goes home I'll do a spring cleaning, I mean really "spring cleaning", so when she come back everything will be clean and she just follow up, and mind you...not that my super maid is dirty is just me......self satisfaction......weird right...hahaha. Now that she is not around the house felt extremely quiet and I am kind of not use to it, she is not chatty or noisy, because it's just 2 of us in the house, now that she is not around the house seem quiet lor..even Million is less barky. Anyway..she'll be back in a month's time. Hopefully I can start work on Monday if I can hire someone to help me temporally.....let see how it goes.....

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Oh! by the way...I had a new look.....A daring transformation...hahahaso tired of dyeing my hair every 3weeks, with this new colour, it can last at least 3mths, what you think of my new daring hairdo.......

Maid's Renewal...

2011-08-07T22:59:00.000-07:00

I was at the immigration the other day to renew my super maid work permit. It all started months ago when I was in Johor Bahru for a shopping trip. Since I am here I might as well go to the immigration to get some information how to have the renewal done, example, forms to fill the $$ that I have to paid for levy and so on.... To my surprise the immigration was shifted to Kempas, so I was thinking to myself, it's ok, will get the new address from the website.

Can you believe even up to today the Immigration's website do not have the new address of Johor Bahru Immigration, anyway after much much hassle like calling them and checking every possible ways to get the address I manage to hold of the address. Now I have to depend on my GPS to guild me and what happen.....I don't know why the GPS cannot find the exact address, only can locate the 'Taman'. When I reached the Taman I asked around and I got there save and sound at 9am.

This is how it look when I arrived, rolls and rolls of foreign worker queveing, it was the thumbprint things that causes the congestion, some of them have been there for 72hrs. It's kind of scary though.

Lucky for me because for renewal it's on a differant floor....phew......anyway....it's a breeze for me, took about half hours everything is done.

It's easy actually we can do it ourself, let me tell you how.

1. For the 3rd year extension the maid need fomema(medical).

2. For 4th year onward not need medical(fomema)

3. Bring Maid passport.

4. Paid the levy of Rm445.00 in Bank draft.

5. Take a number and you are on your way......

And bingo, everything is done within half hour.

You can have the extension done 3 months before the expiry date, but at least 1 month before or else they will be a fine.

Well this hassle will last me a year then we'll see if there is any change of rule.....

Gunung Lambak Recreation Sport Night

2011-07-30T23:06:00.000-07:00

This is the first time that I joined the "Gunung Lambak Recreation Sport and Family Night". It was held at the poolside with beautiful decoration.

I felt that this is the real "1Malaysia"(rather than those fake one in the news), with everybody regardless of colour or race get together and enjoy to the fullest, with performances, food, dancing, singing, games, lucky draw and so on.... Look at those happy face. This is our big family every Saturday and Sunday at "Gunung Lambak Eco Resort". The handsome DJ was dancing all night long.

Our 4 pretty volunteer instructor,

giving us free lesson every weekend. My favorite instructor Ani Well...the party ended and the class will be closed 6weeks to celebrate 'Hari Raya"(new year for the Muslim).

Trip for Super Maid

2011-07-21T18:28:00.000-07:00

Remember a few entries away I mention about my super maid going home for a month and be back again. Well, I brought her to Singapore for a day trip to Sentosa Resort and Vivo City we took some nice photos that I like to share it with you.

Is her first time to Singapore

Nice right? Now she had something to show when she goes back home.

I am back...

2011-07-08T08:36:00.000-07:00

It's all about getting old. Lately I found myself tired easy, wanting to sleep early for no reason so I guess it's in the package as we get older. That's the reason why I am blogging lesser, so do bear with me for a while. Anyway because of me getting tired all the time and worried, I visit my cardiologist for a medical check up of blood and stress test. The result to my surprise it's even better then the last....there is not even a red mark and my cholesterol total count is only 3.3.....don't you think I deserve a celebration, Wa..Ha..Ha..

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Therefore to pamper myself I joined a Rm10.00 bus tour to visit the 'Sentosa Resort Casino' together with my younger sister for the first time since it was open almost a year ago not to gamble, just to visit and look see look see, overall the landscape it's beautiful with the outstanding "Merlion". The Universal Studio There are 2 casino in Sentosa Island "The Sand Casino" and "Sentosa Resort Casino". Our tour only to Sentosa Resort, somehow it's kind of arrangement between the travel agency and the casino that we only paid Rm10.00, when we are in the casino Sin$30.00 food voucher was given to us, cheap right..how can we resist, hahaha. Honestly speaking I still prefer Genting Highland, it's much much cooler at the outside of the casino, over here it's bloody hot so it's not much fun. As for inside the casino I prefer it over here in Singapore because it lesser people therefore you can walk at your own pace, in Genting Highland Casino it's always crowded and being push around most of the time.

This Magnum Gold ice cream that I promise myself I must try when I go to Singapore, because I can't find it here in Kluang, and I did or rather we did tried it, so damn expensive at Sin$5.50 each. Verdict: Don't try, it's expensive and too sweet I still prefer the Magnum Classic. The 3 of us had much fun taking photos.... This is my "LAKE" hahaha 'Lake Of Dreams'.

And ....OH!! look at these giant 'M N M' chocolate, delicious right, (thinking of Redbabe she love chocolate.) This is my younger sister...These are all lolippo....And Jelly Bean....

Maids...

2011-06-06T05:59:00.000-07:00

Malaysian was facing a shortage of Indonesian maid because both country cannot come to an agreement. Lately the agreement was signed, according to the news, maids will be arriving in 2weeks time, and it cost very much cheaper, I was shock, that was even cheapest than 3yrs ago. So I did a check with a friend who it in the foreign manpower establishment. Well, it was all not true the Rm4000.00+ was not even enough for the head hunter from Indonesian and what about the agent in Batam and the agent in Malaysia? Conclusion still no maid.....very misleading. Why Indonesian Maid, some might ask? Because, there will be no language problem for us, because we share almost the same language. So...Cambodian Maid is the consolation, they are just as good only communication problem and they learn fast, shortage too at the moment. Why I am saying all these, because I was quite stress about a month ago when my super maid decided that she wanted to go home after 3yrs with me her contract end in October 2011, that mean I have to look for new maid, after a check and so..... it will cost me RM10090.00, for a new maid, can you believe it? Anyway, after a while she decided to stay for another year......phew!! it's a great relief for me, also for her because it's not easy for her to reenter Malaysia due to the incomplete agreement. Hopfully she carry on year after year after year......hahaha....

Cameron Highland...

2011-05-24T23:40:00.000-07:00

I was invited by my cousin Theresa to join the Cameron Highland Trip with her entire family which included my auntie(dad's only sister) and the rest of her siblings. There are 18 of us altogether in 2 MPVs and 2 Saloon Cars. Steamboat, tapanyaki and BBQ was the speciality inside our bungalow, because of the cool weather these food taste extremely yummy.

For those who don't know about Cameron Highland, here is a roughly description. Cameron is a small town cover an area of 712 sq km, it's boundary touches that of Kelantan to the west, part of it's border with Perak(different state of Malaysia), with the temperature below 25degree centigrade in the day, and 12 degree in the night. You can see the lots of agriculture like flowers, vegetable, fruits and so on....

Even though it's a short 2days 1 night trip we had great fun laughter , yakking and eating.... kind of enjoying our self to the fullest.

It's a must to shop for vegetable, fruits and flowers when you go to Cameron Highlandand I bought these , nice right?

By the way, I wonder any of you heard about this traditional medicine call "Tongkat Ali" for man,

it is believe if you soak it in wine and drink it, it made you very healthy doing this.....wah..ha...ha

Lastly...Thank you for the invitation Theresa, and Thanks to all that made it happen.

Mother's Day 2011

2011-05-08T08:17:00.000-07:00

'Mother's Day' 2011 for me was totally different from those in the past years. I was at the mountian on Sunday for aerobic after a long break. The group had grown from less than 20 people to about 50 now,(the pics below was an old one) and because today is 'Mother's Day', the organiser had a small celebration, kind of getting to know each other, and so.....our teacher "Ani", started the ball rolling by putting candle on the cake, and you know.....with candle on the cake , we suppose to sing right? True enough everybody started to sing, and I was wondering what will the song be, can you guess??? Hahaha....I couldn't stop laughing....it was so funny, using the rhythm of the birthday song, and it goes "happy birthday...Mother's day, happy birthday Mother's day, happy birthday Mother's day.....try singing it.......hahaha, anyway.... it was fun though, I had a great time chatting and laughing, sorry no photo because I didn't bring my camera not knowing about the celebration. ***** Had high tea with Tenny at 'secret recipe. Tenny's daughter just started college in Singapore, and my Jewel will be starting on a new job on Monday so no traveling, both of us had our own celebration together eating cheese cake and made our self 'fat'..hahaha (faint). No photo too. ***** I bought some chocolate to go with the " Mother's Day". I remember when my Jewel was little, how I wish that she can wish me on this special day, I can see the spark and shyness in the eye, especially those young Mothers when I gave them the chocolate and wishes. Actually I wanted to take some nice photo here, no...this time I had my camera was planing how I want the photo taken and so on.......and luck was not with me........suddenly.....millions of flying termite appear and I was busy trying put up oily bags to get rid of them, but...really too much of them the best way is to switch off all the lights and throw water on the floor, so you see, my plan spoil.. and only this miserable few shots, guess it's better then nothing right?? ***** A day like this I can't help misses my Mom, where ever you are Mom, I like to wish you a very "HAPPY MOTHER'S DAY"

Easy N Yummy....

2011-04-19T09:00:00.000-07:00

I have been missing right, ....for a reason though.......so busy experimenting a new "Blender" that I bought not long ago.

It's quite expensive in my category. This Blender is so powerful that you can put in a whole apple without cutting, and it blend so well you don't even feel the fibre while drinking, so easy to clean too, it was the easy cleaning that attracted me.....hahaha....just being lazy.....

Since than I just use it for my daily juices, and recently I started to experiment making healthy desert. Honestly, I am not those kind that made desert because it's too much work, but....with this blender everything seem so easy, so far I had tried out a few kind, like soy bean with white sesame, black bean with black sesame, peanut with white sesame, I tell you it's so yummy until a friend ask me to open a desert shop after trying it, hahaha....(blush), not much of the photo right, will snap better one the next time I made those desert. I can even blend a healthy breakfast, of cereal, black sesame, flax seed 2 slice of vegetable, a small banana and milk, very yummy and filling.

I made today, Pumpkin smoothie.....yummy, and it's so easy to made,maybe you can try it too:

1. Pumpkin, cane sugar, sago, coconut milk or fresh milk and maize.

2. Cut pumpkin and scrape the fresh maize and steam it.

3. Boil sago until clear.

4. Put pumpkin, sugar to taste in to the blender and blend till smooth.

5. After blending, add in maize, sago and milk, stir, and that's it.

Done, try it full of goodness...and yummy...

From Socks to Blankets......

2011-03-29T09:12:00.000-07:00

After the "Socks For Japan" I am into "1 Blanket 4 Japan" by 'Rotary Club'. A friend email me to tell me about it and she want me to join her and I did, (a good course mah) because there are still some friends that I had not enough time to contact the last time, so I join in the 'Blanket", this time 80pieces of adult and children blanket from my side, overall we collected 280pieces of blanket the rest was from Khim.

As for Khim she really did a very good job, not only she pass the words around and collected the 200pieces she also got a friends who had some boxes and pack it, thumps up Khim if you are reading this..

I only pass the words around, collect $$ and buy the blankets on behalf of those who had no time to buy,and print some care note with Khim writing the donor's name on it.

Most of the photo above was from Khim, I only took a few before I pass it over to her.

I just simply love the print of the blanket, nice right.......but...only 60pieces left.

It always felt extra nice to give a helping hand to people who needed help.....

Socks For Japan

2011-03-21T08:44:00.000-07:00

It all started over at Redbabe Cozy Corner 's Socks for Japan Drive' and the rest are history. Initially, it was just that I remembered having some brand new socks stacked away in my room which I can have them courier over to Redbabe. Then I remembered a friend mentioned sometime ago that she had a bag of new socks that she wanted to give away. Called her immediately but upon checking, the big bag of socks were no longer there. Instead, she said she going to buy 10 dozens for the Japanese instead! How wonderful! And that, gave me the idea of going around asking if anyone interested to join in. To my surprise, within just 2 days, I collected 30 dozens!!

In a small town like Kluang, I believed when the disaster striked Japan, many people wanted to help but they don't know how to. So it was not really such a tough job for me. They were just too happy that I started the ball rolling. Honestly, I am so glad that I have been given the opportunity to do my bit for the victim of the earthquake and tsunami in Japan.

Now that I have collected a total of 30 dozens + 5 dozens (Redbabe's), I decided to deliver them all personally to Redbabe and 3bittersweetlemon. Before we actually mail it to Japan, we are suppose to put a little sweet note in Japanese on each pair of sock, and Redbabe had it google translate into Japanese. We have to unpack each pack of the 420 pairs of socks, stick on the message sticker and repack them up again. No doubt that 420 pair sounds like a lot of work but we actually enjoyed the whole process and the house was turn into a temporally mini socks factory. Check out the big pile of socks. Coincidentally the label on the socks' packaging have the logo of our Twin Tower, how nice...... Many someone out there will have their feet warm and cozy soon because of all these warm hearted people out here who had chipped one way or another. I would like to specially THANKS friends and so many of you from the hawker center behind Coronation, for making this possible. Go on give yourself a big pat on the back for a good job done! :) THANK YOU

For those who want to send 'socks for Japan' here is the link:

Jason Kelly-Help Japan

Socks For Japan-Facebook

Bitter SweetLemons-Socks For Japan-Let's Do It

What I was told....

2011-03-08T22:02:00.000-08:00

Million have been really quiet and wasn't her usual self since she came home 16 days ago. Must be traumatized. She slept very soundly on the first night. But on the 2nd & 3rd nights, she cried in her sleep few times a night. Must be having nightmares. From what I gathered thru the kidnapper's mother, Million was kept at the back of the house, on the five foot way behind the kitchen which is an open space with fence. As for Million this is the first time in her entire 7 years of life that she have to sleep outside for 17 days, with insects and rats running all over.

In order to sleep peacefully, she have to protect herself from the rats by catching and killing them before they bite her. The kidnapper's mother even told us that Million is a very good rat catcher, how sad.

Another new thing about Million since she came back, a sneeze will sent her running for cover. This is very very unusual as it never happens before. I believed, it must be linked to something that frightens her. Probably the sound of hitting a table with a cane to made a loud noise to kept her quiet and stop her barking, maybe that's the reason why she rarely bark since she came home. Not even when she sees a cat or dog. Extreme unusual.

Also, she is all alert whenever she hears the clinking of keys. Something new to me too .I guess the clinking could means feeding time since she was being kept at the back of the house and it requires keys to open the gate. Not only that, she now takes her time to eat unlike last time where she would gobbles down her food. Probably her food was left there for the rest of the day and she eats whenever she feels like it.

Now, after being back at home for 16 days, she is almost back to her usual self. Beginning to bark at cats and dogs and mailman, oh yes, even the mailman, hahaha... She started to play and eats normally, jumping when I came home too. I am really glad and happy and thankful for having my Million back home once again. I still think it's a MIRACLE.....!

Sometime I wonder what's in her mind? Redbabe came back with hubby and a friend to visit over the weekend and of course to see Million too. To our surprise, Million was so glad and happy to see them. This is somewhat mistifying. In the past, Million always feels intimidated by Redbabe especially when Rumba & Sunshine is back too and she would just stick to me and not go anywhere near Redbabe. But this time round, when she saw her, she just jumped all over around her as if they were old buddies like that. How surprising. We just stared at each other with our jaws dropped.

I just wonder what's going on in Million's head when she was being kidnapped? Was she thinking that she would never be able to see us all ever again? And now, she is finally home , she is so glad to be with us and see Redbabe again? This is a big QUESTION MARK we all have.

HAPPY ENDING

2011-02-27T08:41:00.000-08:00

Getting Million back it's really a MIRACLE. It is like finding a needle in the ocean, can't imagine the agony that I went through during the 17 days when my Million went missing.

We realized Million was missing on Saturday, 5/2/11 (Day 1) at about 4.30pm. It was kind of shock because Million has never went missing before. Without any delay, the 4 of us just automatically went on to different direction calling out her name as well as asking every person that we came across if they have seen a small furry golden silver dog. Unfortunately, no one seems to have seen her and she was no where in sight.

Our next step, at about 5.15pm, was to print flyers. And because it was Chinese New Year, most of the printing shop was closed. We went round the town and finally found one opened and printed 100 dark and ugly flyers. By 6:30pm, we were already sticking them up all lamp post around our neighbourhood, enquiring from door to door at the same time, dropping the flyers into every mailbox we came across.

We called it a day when the sky turned dark. Got home at about 8pm. There's nothing much that can be done except posting up 'Missing Dog' notices in PPy & FB. Oh yeah, we printed an additional 1000 flyers that evening too.

On Day 2 (6/2/11, Sunday), down with a flu, at 7.30am I was out distributing flyers at the market, coffeeshops, hawker center, sundry shops, mini marts, sticking on lamp post and walls and leaving it on car's wind screen. By 10am, we were already on our way to Sin Chew Jit Poh (a local Chinese paper) to put up a "Missing Dog" advertisement for 7/2/11 and 10/2/11. Also, received an sms from the coordinator of a "search and rescue" team wanting to know more about my missing Million.

By Day 3 (7/2/11, Monday), our 'Missing Dog' advertisement was out in the newspaper and the "search and rescue" had also put up many 'Missing Dog' notices in most of the major websites. I prayed very hard that someone will have some kind of information to my missing Million but still, nothing. Wherever I went I'll bring the flyers along, hand it to passerby or shop assistants, anyone that I know or don't know. Believe it or not, there was even a phone call came in that gave me false information and demanded for reward. The caller even sms-ed me his bank account number!!

Day 4 (8/2/11, Tuesday), I was on my own because my daughter and son-in-law has gone back to KL the day before. In the morning, I drove around our neighbourhood with my car window down hopefully Million would recognise the sound of my car and bark. At the same time, I distributed more flyers into mailboxes and sticking them up on more lamp posts.

The rest of the days was kind of routine. Once in the morning, once in the afternoon and once at night. I'll just drive around with the window down.

Day 6 (10/2/11, Thursday), advertisement was out in Sin Chew Jit Poh again. This was my last hope on newspaper advertisements cause it is really expensive. I waited over the weekend, still nothing happen except of one phone call told me to go to a park to see if that's my dog. Off I went, but that dog belongs to someone else who is our for walkies.

My mind was working very hard thinking what's best to do now. I went to enquire at the newspapers distribution center on how much it would cost to insert flyers into their newspaper before being distributed out for sale/delivery. I immediately confirmed the arrangement and embarked on getting the necessary ready (flyers & $$).

On Day 8 (12/2/11, Saturday), found the cheapest printing company and printed 10,000 pieces of flyers. Arranged for 3000 pieces to be inserted in 'China Press' and 7000 pieces in 'Sin Chew Jit Poh'. The printer couldn't print it in time for me, so I took 3000 pieces first to 'China Press' hoping they would be able to distribute them out on Sunday. Unfortunately, they only able to do it for Monday's evening and Tuesday's morning. Since I already ran out of better idea, I just let it goes with the flow.

On Day 12, (16/2/11, Wednesday), 7000 pieces of flyers inserted in "Sin Chew Jit Poh" was out all over town. This actually shakens up the little town I stayed in. Almost everybody now knew about my "Missing Dog". Honestly, this was my last resort as far as money is concern. The outcome was rather quiet too. Only one person called to show me a video of some doggies to see if it was Million and to my disappointment, it was not.

From then onwards I was still doing pretty much the same thing. Distributing and inserting flyers further and further away from my house. Exploring area that I have not. By them encoragement was pouring in from far and wide, especially those friends that posted my missing Million in their blog.

Day 15 (19/2/11, Saturday), someone told me he saw my dog straying at a housing estate further down my house. I was so excited and almost in tears thinking of my poor Million straying out there for 15 days. I went straightaway looking for her and calling out her name. No dogs in sight but lots of cats though because that area are occupied mostly by the Malays (Muslim). If therewere plenty of cats there surely be no dogs. Anyway I still went searching twice a day for 2 and a half days.

By day 17 (21/2/11, Monday), honestly, I was very tired, disappointed and sad already. Plus the nasty flu still lingers on. I was actually at the verge of giving up hope. Went rounding in the morning and mid afternoon around the area that someone saw Million straying. While I was MSN-ing with Redbabe at about 2:45pm, my phone rang. I tell you, for the first time in the last 17 days, before I answer this call, I said a prayer, kept my fingers crossed, hoping this call will provide some leads to my missing Million. And true enough, a kind samaritan told me that Million was around where I lose her. I was tickled but at the same time, hope very much that this is not another prank call. Jotted down all the information provided, told Redbabe that I am going to check it out.

Took a drive to the said house but couldn't see anything because the doors are all closed and there was no dogs n sight. Dare not call out cause I was worried that the kidnapper might relocate her. Got home and called out to Auntie Soh who is staying directly behind my house to ask if she knows that particular family. Unfortunately she was not at home.

And so, I went to another neighbour of mine who is directly back to back to the kidnapper's house. There, we used a ladder to peep into the compound of the said house but didn't manage to see a thing as the wall were simply too high.

Got home again, disappointed and yet excited, updated Redbabe on the outcome. She ask me to remain calm and wait for Auntie Soh and at that very moment, Auntie Soh appeared at the back her house. I was trembling when I told her about the latest information that I've got of Million and if she can help me by going into the house to confirm our suspicion (Auntie Soh knows the family). She immediately agreed.

There I was, sitting there waiting anxiously for her return. The clock doesn't seems to be moving at all. When she finally return, I didn't dare to even breathe, my mind was like... "good news please, please"! True enough, it was good news! Auntie Soh confirmed it was Million in that particular house we suspected.

After some brief exchanged with Auntie Soh, she told me that the old lady in that house said they would only return Million to me when her son (the kidnapper) return home in 3 days time. My mind was spinning like crazy. I couldn't think or decide anymore. To overwhelm by the good news. I was still on MSN with Redbabe . She told me to call a few friends and go get Million straight away before they relocate her. Suddenly I just couldn't think of anyone. My sister was not in town at that time and it felt as if I have got no friends all of a sudden. My sister suggested that I should call a friend of ours, Ching Fang, who is very good in talking and very free most of the time and I did just that.

Ching Fang who stays almost 10km away arrived almost in a flash. Yeah, she was so fast. Together with her, plus another neighbour of mine (a man for just in case they are nasty), we headed over to the said house. When we were at the gate, we just called out for 'Million' and the occupants of the house. An old lady appeared after a good 3 minutes. We told her our purpose there and she said we have to wait for her son to come home first. We asked to see the dog but she refused. Again, we have to wait for her son to return first. Ching Fang lose her cool and told her off. That we just want to know if it is our dog. What's the point of waiting 3 days for the son to come home if it is not our dog? The old lady relented finally and let the dog out. I tell you arr, anyone who seen that very moment could have tell that the dog belongs to me. Million was crying and tried her best to get to me through the still closed gate that separated us.

I kept telling her that I going to take my dog home and the old lady kept telling me that I have to wait for her son. I even told her that my dog is microchipped. Ching Fang told the old lady to call her son there and then and I just told him that by hook or crook, I am taking my Million home and if he have an issue with it, he can call me. The old lady have no choice but to open the gate after that.

Million was so happy. She immediately jumped onto me and licked my tears away. She was finally home again by 3.45pm. It was an amazing 1 hour drama. By the way, I am still having that nasty flu, but it doesn't matter anymore because I found "My Million".

The following day, the son call me asking me "what's the situation now?". I told there is no situation here and that this is my dog, she is home with me, and I'll pay him an angpow for housing her and whether he wants to collect it from me or should I pass to his mother. He hesitated for awhile and told me to hand it to his mother.
And finally, a happy ending for me & my Million.

I found my "Million'

2011-02-21T02:18:00.000-08:00

First of all I would like to take this opportunity to thank all my friends from far and wide for all your prayers and support throughout . And I can't wait to tell you this, we have finally found 'Million'! :) Hip hip hooray!

The 15 days when Million was gone, it was the worst 15 days of my life. Cried every night before I go to bed because Million sleeps in my room on her own bed. Just couldn't bear seeing her empty bed. The house was extreme quiet too whenever I get home from work.

Every morning & evening, without fail, I would go out to look for her before I head out for work. Besides the 'Missing Dog' notice that I've advertised in our local paper for 2 days, I've also distributed 11,000 pieces of flyers through the newspaper distribution centre. I can safely say that almost the whole of Kluang town learned about my missing Million. Yet, each day passes on without a single news of her. No clue, no nothing at all but more and more disappointments.

I was almost giving up hope already when I received a phone call from a guy this afternoon at about 2:45pm. He informed me that he believe Million is kept by someone staying behind my house (not directly behind) and went on describing the house to me. I immediately head over to that particular house but found the door closed and there wasn't any dog in sight in their compound. Didn't want to call our either cause I was afraid that they would take Million away.

When I got home, I quickly called out to our neighbour behind; an old auntie who knows the family where we suspected Million is, to help me verify if Million is really in that house. She did just that, went over to that house and came back 15 minutes later confirming our suspicion. Million is in there! According to the owner of the house (another old lady), apparently her son found Million across the road and took her in. Also, apparently they have tried to call me numerous times but I never answer my call which is absolutely bullshit. But when our old auntie told her to return the dog to me, she told her to wait for 3 days till her son is back. Only then, will they decide.

I was so afraid they'll take Million away to somewhere else. Coincidentally, at that very moment, I was also on MSN with Redbabe. She said that I should go and demand for Million straightaway. I was excited but at the same time, pretty lost too. Not really sure what I should do. With some encouragement from Redbabe, I quickly called up a friend for help. She arrived in a jiffy and together with another neighbour (a man), we head over to that suspected house and demanded for Million.

The old lady was reluctant to let us even see Million but after much persuasion, she lets Million out. One look at her, I was ecstatic! It was indeed MY MILLION! The old lady went on telling us exactly what she told our old neighbour that she have to wait for her son to come home first before making any decision. Thank God I brought my friend along. She just told the lady to call her son there and then. Smart move! So I spoke to the son over the phone, told him that I am taking my doggie home and if he have any issue with it, he should call me when he gets back. And that's how I found my Million finally. Got her home at 3:45pm! I am so happy!

Million came home a little traumatized. She hides under the sofa for quite a long time. Maybe she knows that she had done something very wrong and thought that I would punish her.

Her coat was all tangled and had been trimmed off shorter too. Other than that, she looks ok.

I am glad it was a happy ending for us. I really thought I was going to lose her forever this time. It's going to be a celebration tonight. I want to spend some good time with my Million and Dollar and I going to make sure I will never ever lose her again.

Last but not least, I am very thankful for all the help and support that I've received from you all throughout this hard time of mine and not forgetting all those prayers and howlings too. It works! :) Also not forgetting all of you out there (you know who you are) who have helped me in anyways you can; the positive thinking, spreading of words, sharing Million's picture on FB, listing Million in Pet Finder & Home a Pet, not forgetting the 'Pets Search & Rescue' people (they were total angels) and all my friends too. Please know that I totally appreciate each and everyone of you. Without you, I would not find my Million.

Thank you very much! I can finally have a good night's sleep tonight!

My Missing "MIllion"

2011-02-10T09:42:00.000-08:00

I must said all good things have to come to end. I was enjoying and having a really great time during this season of chinese new year. Like I just said all good things have to come to an end, and it ended with my heart shatter and broken, because my Million was believed being nap by a dog napper right in front of my house at Jalan Koko2/Koko3,Lian Seng Garden, Kluang, when she slip out to play with a stray dog on the 5/2/11 3rd day of chinese new year at about 4.30pm. Put and ads in the paper and distributing flyer anyway I could to try to get her back I really don't know what else I can do, just pray for miracle to happen......All these memories break my heart....

First day home>>>>>>

Her first Nail Cut>>>>>> A Birthday celebration One of her best posted photo>>>>> And the lastest taken before she went missing>>>>>>

Please help me pray that she'll be back......

Flood part 2

2011-01-31T02:58:00.000-08:00

Like I said yesterday if it continue to rain my shop will be affected, so it is......how sad. Well, flooded 1 foot high mud water. Took us almost 3hrs to clear it, and the wooden plank on the drain was also missing. One of the affected shop. The river water is still very high, if it continue to rain we might be hit by another flood, and we will be in our swimsuit instead of all those new clothe we bought to celebrate this year of the Rabbit.....a

Flood again....

2011-01-30T08:12:00.000-08:00

It's flooded again, have been raining cats and dogs since yesterday. I remember the last flood was in December 2006, and our shop was flooded too, and the MBK(town council) gave us 6mths free rental......hahaha, this time round until now my shop is not flooded yet, but if it continue to rain it will. Here are some picture I took this afternoon.

This part suppose to be a vegetable plantation, all the vegetable is gone.Our River MengibolKampong Melayu, is always first to get flooded,and worse affected around Kluang town area.

Satisfaction...

2011-01-24T23:35:00.000-08:00

Like I said in my last posting, busy, busy still very busy, hahaha. I had finished the coat of paint, and I also finished sewing some mattress bag, threw away all the old pillow and mattresses replace them with new one, now the whole house smell new......what should I said to myself.....

Hah!!! Take a Bow....Mission Accomplished with Satisfaction,.... yay!!!

All ready for the Lunar New Year.. WISHING ALL A VERY HAPPY, HEALTHY AND PROPEROUS YEAR OF THE RIBBIT

And now 2011

2011-01-18T09:23:00.000-08:00

My 2011 start off as busy, busy and still very busy. Spring cleaning, a new coat of paint putting up the Chinese New Year decor, still so much more to do, so much just for a Lunar New Year and it only last 15days. Funny right........ it's the same for everybody in different walk of life, different races and different religions, they did just the same for their New Year, example, Depavali for the Indian, Hari Raya Pausa for the Muslim and Christmas for those who celebrate and off course 1st January for the Japanese and many others around the world. Anyway......."Gong Xi Fatt Chay" to all and Happy Holiday too........

My 2010

2011-01-04T23:16:00.000-08:00

Just a blink of the eye....2010 it's gone, I must said this is the most exciting and adventures year for me. It was a Mother and Daughter team through out all the traveling in year of 2010. There was many many laughter and happy memories for me to cherish and it's still linger in my mind, sometime I just laugh to myself when a funny moment appear in my mind.

A quick summary of our tour........

January- A trip to Kota Kinabalu in Sabah

February - Ruby's Resort (Chinese New Year)

March- Kuching, Sarawak

April- Ho Chi Ming, Vietnam

August- Ruby's Resort again

October- Frances Yip The Pink Ribbon Concert

October- Siem Reap ,Angor Wart, Cambodia

November- Beijing, China

November- Cruise on Star Pieces

December- an unforgettable Xmas celebration in Kuala Lumpur

December- 31/12/2010,countdown at Kluang Country Club And now....... good-bye to this exciting and adventures year, welcome the year of 2011, "MAY IT BE A HEALTHY, WEALTHY AND HAPPY YEAR FOR ALL", one thing for sure, won't be traveling as much as 2010...........It's going to be a relaxing year for me....

New Home

2010-12-30T21:15:00.000-08:00

Yes, that my 'Koi' name 'Fishy' which I relocate it to a new home yesterday, being just the only fish left in my tank, it's kind of lonely, so I decided to give it a new home in one of the pond with many 'Koi' in it therefore it won't be lonely, and also I can visit whenever I like hopefully Fishy will lift up it's head and said hello.......lols...

This Fishy's new home, nice right? This place is kind of tourist spot in Kluang, so Fishy will be meeting alot of people pretty soon, hahaha.

Birthday 2010

2010-12-19T08:12:00.000-08:00

I thought I just celebrated my last birthday not long ago, and just a blink of the eye it's my birthday again.....erm.....really getting old real fast, I will be on my way to my 60 pretty soon.....wow!!!!! hahaha....

Didn't did much this birthday, apart from all those lovely wishes from friends and love one in facebook, sms, email and so on, was invited to St. Chaire's house for lunch and had a great time, like I always said it's the company, no matter where or what, the right peoples counts alot. St Chaire order some very nice food delivered to her house, and a birthday cake, because she had a 3weeks old baby girl that hang on her boobs all the time hahaha, so we decided to had the birthday lunch at her place instead, simple, nice and comfy.

Some of you might remember the present that Tenny gave me on my last birthday a ring with yellow precious stone from Cambodia, during my trip back to Cambodia in September 2010, my daughter bought a pair of ear ring as my birthday present to match the ring, hehehe pretty right? Well, Chaire's children personally wrote me some birthday card and a box of yummy chocolate, from St.Chaire a hand made lovely semi precious stone to wear around my neck, Tenny got me some hair tonic, she think my hair is getting thinner, hahaha... well, there will be another belated birthday celebration for me in a few days, talking about marathon birthday celebration.....hmmm....thought I read that somewhere....

Thank you so much for a memorable birthday xoxoxo.........

Another Rainbow Surprise

2010-12-06T22:37:00.000-08:00

It was a happy ending with the beautiful Rainbow as part of the us. We decided to have a brothers sisters meet up this weekend. My Kuala Lumpur brother, and Singapore sister came back to Kluang first before, we all headed to Johor Baru to visit our youngest brother the next day. Finally we all arrived Johor Baru and while in my brother Andy's house we were there chatting happily my brother Chai hinted that they had a birthday cake to celebrate an advance birthday for me, really didn't expect them to remember, it must be May's(sister in law) job, and it is the first time that all my other sibling celebrated my birthday with me, thank to Felicia for buying the cake too.

We all left for the seafood at about 4pm, it's a bit early for dinner but to beat the crowd and get a good table. The restaurant was quite far, at the beach inside a native village. There is many kind of seashell and fishes in the tank for sale. I saw some children earning some extra cash by bringing in pail of shell and sell it to the restaurant. The environment is very pleasant, the air was good, nice I like.... hahaha the food was not bad. we order quite a few dishes, 2 different kind of crab, prawns, shell, fish, vegetable, squid and so on...and they have got this special crab cracker to make it easier to break the shell. I wouldn't said it's very good just normal standard, but we had alot of fun cracking joke while eating, and enjoying the food . Actually our grand nieces and nephews had more fun exploring the shell.

Birthday song was sang and cake cutting and more photo shooting, after all these we decided to leave because some have to go back to Kuala Lumpur, Singapore and Kluang. While walking towards the car park I wanted to take a group picture,have more laughter there. Then........as we were saying goodbye to each other......we saw the Rainbow appearing, it's getting clearer and clearer, and then a double Rainbow. I tell you ar......it was the best Rainbow that I have seen so far.....big, clear and unique, I love rainbow, I always felt good when I see a Rainbow, like l said before it always appear at the right time, and this time....on my birthday celebration, how you like that.... can you imagine what my feeling was.....I really cannot express the surprise feeling, it was like "WOW" the Rainbow came to wish me "Happy Birthday" how you like that....hahaha, all my other sibling was just as excited as me when the rainbow appear because it was a beautiful...........

So we all left the native village, brother and family when back to Kuala Lumpur, I and my younger sister took a drive to send my elder sister and her daughter back to Singapore.

Actually I had reason to go to Singapore this time....to get a Xmas present for someone very special and dear to me, for this I'll get that very special someone to tell you about it.....hahaha, a surprise to that very special someone..... too.

What is it call???

2010-11-28T08:18:00.000-08:00

Before I go any further, I would like to apologizes for the Beijing entry, because I really don't know where to start, overall it was a very interesting and wonderful trip with many nice scenery and good experiences. Actually there is so much to write about but.... I just don't know where to start so...... And I found a way out.... ^-^ why not go to this link ' Redbabe cozy corner' to check out our Beijing trip with beautiful photo and write up. _____________________________________________________________

This morning was the first time that I track the mountain alone, and the mountain looked nice from far. As usual I arrived at about 7.30am because the aerobic start at 7.45am, it is not only aerobic they mix it with an Indonesians step dance call 'Bochoi Bochoi', any of you heard about it before? It goes like....2 step on the right, 2 step on the left than 2 step back, tap front, tap back 3 times, then side way 2 steps to the right and left and back and tap and side, and repeat, very fun, it finish in hour and I carry on walking 3 time up and down the track at the base of the mountain. Today I saw an old man playing a musical instrument(can't remember what's the name of the it). I remember during my school days I use to see other fellow student playing it, but I don't see it anymore nowadays.....think it's going extinct, hahaha.....So I had a chat with that uncle, it seem he use to play that instrument when he was young and love it, only recently that he took it out and started to play again, I must said the music sound so lovely unlike those sang by 'Lady Gaga", but really old Chinese oldies, now we not only have free aerobic and bochoi bochoi, we now have nice music too, hahaha

It's easier say than done.....

2010-11-27T08:16:00.000-08:00

Join 3 of my girlfriend for a drink after work. One of the girls 'Mei' was telling us how her 81yrs old mother drive her crazy, and we were exchanging note about our mother. After hearings all their stories about their mom, thank god... my mom was really an angel. Well... after a few drinks one lead to another we end up talking about grief. Mei was saying, she had done her duty as a daughter, providing the best for her mother and not feeling guilty if she pass on, she'll not grief because she is now learning to "detach". Can we really "detach"? I think is easier say then done. I told myself while I was taking care of my mom that 'I will have no regrets or that guilty conscious' when mom pass on because I took care and gave her the best......in reality..... it's not like that, after mom pass on I have this feeling that if I had done this or that, she'll not fall sick or she'll not die, you know that sort of things, so I believe when the time come Mei will surely feel the same. Talking about grief ting, they think I am very strong and handle the grief very well. Truthfully....it was not easy, I said....some people grief openly, as for me I grief quietly inside and put a very strong front even till today it's hard, because I stayed with mom for 20yrs under the same roof doing everything together for 7300days, and..... everything has a memories. Again....can we really "detach"?

Rainbow on Cruise

2010-11-24T23:03:00.000-08:00

I mention in my last entry that I will be going to Beijing follow with a cruise to nowhere in a group of 30 people which included my 2 sisters. and this entry suppose to be about the Beijing trip, instead, I'll write about the cruise, Beijing will come latter.

It was a 2d/1n tour, sound funny right? Let me explain.......the bus will pick us up from Kluang south of Malaysia at 9pm and the journey will take about 10hrs to Penang north of Malaysia arrived 6.30am, there goes 1night on the bus. A day tour around Penang was conducted by the travel agent basically to most of the tourist attraction which contain mostly temples at the same time the tour guide will also bring us to factory or shop that sell the Penang delicacy, unfortunately I didn't buy anything. The Penang tour ended with eating the famous 'Penang Laksa' and 'Chendol', maybe the guide brought us to the wrong place the food here suck.

We go on board the Star Pieces at 5pm, a quick tour around the ship by the tour guide, Star Pieces is one of the smallest of all Star Cruise , nothing much to see. So we all went to the deck to look at the scenery on board, to my surprise a 'Rainbow' appeared, I love rainbow, I always felt very happy when I see rainbow and it always appeared at the right time.....

A buffer dinner was set for everybody onbroad the ship, and they serve yummy food. there is prawn, crab, mutton, fish and many type of vegetable, tasty though. Up to the deck again to have some fun taking photos and we all went to the casino, I had a few game donate some money and early back to the cabin, really too tired. The cabin was really not too bad, no window but they put a round mirror on the wall that look like a cabin window, very clever of them, hahaha. Chat with my sister and call it a night.

Breakfast was server at 7.30am, just as much and nice food. Nothing much to do after Breakfast because we only due to check out at 10am, since it's still very early, I did some burning by walking up and down 6floor and round the ship 5time, when I went back to the cabin and told my sister about it, they think I am crazy hahaha.

So we check out and said good-bye to the ship and get on the bus. The next stop will be in Serembam for lunch.

Today is also the 21st birthday of my nephew Jason, and the tour guide bought a birthday cake for him and we sang the birthday song in 3languages, (1Malaysia mah), with this our tour ended.

Overall it's was really fun not so much of the ship, it's the group of fun people...........

The Pink Ribbon Concert

2010-11-10T07:58:00.000-08:00

Compliment from my daughter's in law, to watch the 'Pink Ribbon' charity concert by 'Frances Yip'. What is Pink Ribbon? October is the 'Breast Cancer Awareness Month', with some of the known building around the world were light up pink, to show their supports. So this concert was name as "A Pink Charity Evening with Frances Yip". Because she was one of the survivor of breast cancer. I must said she is fantastic, even at 63year old she still has that powerful voice, and a good entertainer too. Thanks to Mr n Mrs Woo, I had a great time enjoying all those oldies that Frances sang. Didn't take any picture with her so just copy and paste from Redbabe. After this concert, we were on our way for a 7days trip to Beijing. With all these tight schedule of my trip I have to write about Beijing soon after I come back from the 'Star Cruise'. Good night everybody.

Siem Reap 2010

2010-11-08T07:41:00.000-08:00

I better get started before I go on the cruise in a few days time. I am back to Cambodia, Siem Reap again, to fulfil a promise that I made on my last trip. This time was with daughter "Redbabe" and an old couple friend. The weather was not as good, it is super hot, unlike the last trip in 2009, it was rainy almost through out the whole trip, which is better if you ask me, I would prefer raining because it's much cooler. When it is super hot, it spoil everything, sticky and sweaty and our Tour Guido suck, thank god we had good company, an Indian mother and daughter happen to joined into our group and we click well, had great fun laughing, joking and comparing notes about that suck Guido(I can't even remember his name) who carry an umbrella any time in the day whether it rain or shine, really funny guy, and very unhelpful Tourist guide

Talking about photo taking....well....since I had been here before and took many picture, on my last trip, I just kind of enjoying the scenery more than photo shooting. Anyway, here is some comparison on the photo from before and now just for fun, hahaha. The reflexion in the pond of Angkor Wart is not so good this trip because of the dry season. The rainbow bridge without the rainbow this time. This part was close the last year.

This 2 headless Buddha is no more in "Angkor Wart", according to the Guido it's already moved to the national museum.

By the way Redbabe took alot of picture but not yet finish editing, she will post in "Redbabe's Cozy Corner" as soon as it's ready.

This time round we went to a few shopping area in the local market, and saw a manicure, pedicure and hair saloon in the middle of the wet market which we'll never see it in Malaysia, over here such business is always located in shop lots.

And this.....guess what they are selling? Snake meat? When I first looked at it, I thought it was snake meat too, hahaha.... NO, NO.......It's dried boneless fish meat, amazing isn't it? Wonder how it taste?

Even though it's sweaty, sticky, dusty and a sucky Guido, we had great fun and laughter, because we are a group of nice and happy bunch, that made it a very memorable trip.

Have a nice day and smile.......

Been Missing Right?

2010-11-06T07:45:00.001-07:00

Yes....I had been missing for quite a while. So much has happen since my last entry. A visit to Cambodia again as I promise on my last visited, when for the "Pink Ribbon"(October Breast Cancer month) concert by "Frances Yip" and then to Beijing, will be going for a short cruise in 3days time, so hectic isn't it? Never mind la, because theses trips will be my last for the year 2010. Anyway, just came back from Beijing, I need sometime, will write about all those trip as soon as I finish editing the photos. Promise and hopefully you don't have to wait too long.

Accident do happen..

2010-10-21T09:03:00.001-07:00

I accidentally had a bad cut, the metal on my chopping board gave way, see this is the chopping board and this is what the doctor did, stitching me up. It look small but it's deep, bloody painful even after 2 days. I took this photo using my mobile phone to entertain myself or else I'll cry, that's what I told the doctor, so he clear the view for me.

The pain must goes off in 4days, because I will be going on a trip what a time to get hurt.

40yrs ago.............

2010-10-17T22:33:00.000-07:00

40 years ago I walked and trekked this path to the mountain top, wonder where am I for the past 39years.(shake head) I will back to mother nature at least once a week from now on. It all started 1 week ago Tenny ask me to join her for the public aerobic at Taman Tasik. To be honest, I normally will not wake up 6.30am just to go for anything unless it's really important, for 'aerobic', definitely NO. I did it because I was somehow put in a situation that I have to said Yes, so..... kind of hard to wake at 6.30am, but...a promise is a promise right? Pick Tenny when to Tasik Park thinking it will be my last. The minute I got off my car the scene that I saw really tickle me, nice, was my first reaction and the air was nice the whole area was nice, it was really "1 Malaysia", people of all races exercising, and suddenly I am alive....hahaha.....since this is the first time I am kind of shy and no camera so nothing much to write and I know I'll be back.

So...we are back again this Sunday with "camera", what we did last Sunday was similar, except today another friend Jackie join us. The aerobic start at 7.30am with blasting music the atmosphere was nice, young, old, middle age man and woman all into action following the sifu(master) of aerobic. It was fun and laugther all through. It lasted for an hour ending with a Malay, Indian and Chinese song as "1 Malaysia", everybody clad to said thank you. We did not end here, like what we did last Sunday, we adjoin to Gunung(mountain) Lambak for more, line dance and mountain tracking....

Gunung Lambak is 510meter above sea level, at the foot of the mountain there is a recreation centre with a sifu teaching line dances and I..... for the first time in 40yrs trek up to the half way point, so proud of myself(take a bow) with the help of my 2 friends Tenny and Jackie who was with me though out making sure I am ok knowing that I am a heart patient and need to be extra careful. Alot of people were trekking too, nice and friendly people saying 'good morning' as we pass each other. Eventhough we are damn sure that we'll be back we still snap some photo for remembering my first after 40yrs.......

Suddnely.... I realise that I just simply love the environment the air, waterfall the trees you know what I mean.......mother nature.... nothing beat it, and it remind me of the movie"Arvata", hahaha.... As we were leaving we saw some gooses and monkey. Nowadays is hard to find or see any gooses around.

A day to remember..........

Flowers......Pretty

2010-10-11T23:20:00.000-07:00

It had been a long time since my little garden look pretty. Long time ago I used to plant nice nice flower took from many part of the world that I travel. They all turn out beautifully even though the climate was different, but....Mom always get tired of looking at them for too long, out of the blue she'll just throw it all away, so much so I gave up planting. Recently I took up the hobby again, and once again the house look pretty with hanging pots of plants, some withwith flowers, mostly are leafy plants, at least it's so much greener, smoothing and nice for the eye, importantly..... the feeling is good.

At Last

2010-10-07T09:42:00.000-07:00

I went to TMnet to complain about my bad Internet line, at the same time upgrade it to 1g, and that was 2weeks ago, after much complain, finally they are here and got it done. From the old 2unit of a modern and a wireless to a single unit of wireless modern pretty neat. The package that I sign up come with a free wireless modern and a wireless telephone it was some kind of promotion due to many other competition I think, like 'P1', 'Mobile broadband and so on. I am trying it now, it looks good so far, at least I can blog and use my new laptop and hopefully the goodness will last hahaha....

My Sewing Project

2010-09-30T08:55:00.000-07:00

I mention in my last post about my sewing project.......well, it was those camera lens carrier. and...ermm.....it turn out nice and acceptable. I am still on the sewing project trying to sew nicer and more comfortable carrier for the lens, lols.

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This is my electric sewing machine, they don't make this kind of sewing machine anymore and I am glad I bought it 30yrs ago, at that time it cost $370sin consider very expensive and I save like hell just to buy it. It never fail me, I had sew countless stuffs, from clothing to doggies clothes, patch work, alteration and many many more I even sew a patch work comforter once. After 30yrs it still good. Like said before I am glad I bought it.

Good and Bad News.

2010-09-09T09:30:00.000-07:00

Let's go for the good news first, remember I mention that I'll be going for medical checkup? Yes, I did and very happy and proud about it, I pass with flying colour again, even my doctor was glad with my medical report because is better than the last, so happy really, three cheers to me, hahaha.

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And now the bad news.......the very next day as I was driving home after work about 11.30pm, my car broke down, the car engine was very hot, panic and called a friend who stay quite near me and he call his mechanic, who came to help. Actually there is nothing much he can do except to drive my car safely home and pick it up the next day for repair. Conclusion, the thermostat spoil, water not going into the engine therefore temperature of the engine shot up. Thank God it didn't happen the day before or else I am in big big trouble, being outstation and the car broke down could be disaster.

Total repairs cost not too bad Rm160.00.

Honestly speaking I have been kind of busy with some sewing project, and worst of all was the Internet connection had been bad hopefully it will better.

Looking good life style....

2010-09-04T09:12:00.000-07:00

After my bad experience of the expired sugar testing strip, I somehow felt that being healthy it's so important. Imagine me...a heart attack patient and add on being a diabetic, just can't stop that negative thoughts flashing in my mind. I took care of my mom for years, and I saw her going through as a diabetic especially towards the end of her life, it's quite sad actually. Nobody can predict the future but being healthy help alot. As a heart patient, I have many rule to follow, proud to said I am quite good at that. I am now enjoying my new life style. Being able to go to the gym at least 5days a week it's really enjoyable for me. It's already 18mths since I joined the gym, looking at myself now and before, I must said I look so much better now, much tone up, no flabby back, smaller tummy, better complexion, no more pigmentation, radian look and lost a kg....not perfect off cause,atleast a good medical report, I am most satisfied and happy whenever I get compliment, not one but many. Even though I am a heart patient, I tried my best to be as healthy as possible, not just excises, my diet has change too, less meat more vegetable and fruit if possible no oil, don't get me wrong I am not an extremist, I do take naughty food sometime, hahaha.....

A friend told me some time ago that "as a heart patient I am not suppose to exercise or over work myself ", "Thank-you" my friend for reminding me,but.... not to worried I love myself just as much as you love me and will not over stress but enjoying every moment of it....hahaha.

Expiry date..

2010-09-01T08:53:00.000-07:00

Because mom is a diabetic, I am always worried that I might inherit it, therefore I'll check my sugar level once in a while, I did that 2 days ago. And it's a shocking experience when the result show 15.7 which is so damn high, at that very moment I just mumble, " mom why you have to love me so much to even pass me your sugar". I couldn't believed it, normal reflex.... to check the expire date, true enough it stated"EXP 02.2010", no doubt it had expired in Feb 2010, I still think my sugar lever must be high in order to achieved 15.7. I call my doctor straight away to made an appointment to see him on Monday, but... today is only Wednesday....... how can I stress myself for another 5days, can't wait till Monday, went to a pharmacy paid Rm2.00 to have my sugar level check, guess what..........6.2 in mid afternoon....that's great, normal and not high at all.....phewwww, what a relive, hahaha. ******* Funny right.... how expired product work......so made sure you check the expiry date on anything before you use it........

3Days/2Night at 'Ruby's Resort'

2010-08-23T23:59:00.000-07:00

We arrived 'Ruby's Resort' at about 2pm just the right time to check in. There were some changes in the rule and regulation of the resort for dog lover that I am not aware of. Guests who bring their fur kids along needs to bring their own bed sheet and towels, after much persuasion kind Ruby willing to loan me some bed sheet, in the end I didn't use it. After checking in, we headed straight to 'Hai Peng' kopitiam for coffee lunch. On the way back to the resort we stop by at one of the supermarket and bought a set of bed cover that come with a comforter and is not too expensive so I bought it use it straight away and kept it for future use.

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'Ruby's Resort' is a paradise, with beautiful beaches, cosy environment and very much at home kind of resort, it's a wonderful breakaway holiday.

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We came here to celebrate 2birthday for Redbabe and Husband, and a 9yrs wedding ceremony for Evie and Dennis. We had BBQ on the 2Nd night as a celebration for the purpose of this trip, this 2 cake was compliment from 'Ruby's Resort'. We sang, eat, drink and watch the beautiful spark from the Bonn fire. Great place, nice bunch of people, met some new friends, we had great fun. Other then all those stuff that we did with our fur kids by the beach, like walking, burying(honestly Sunshine love it) running, swimming with them.

This trip I did so much more than the February trip because they were no game of mahjon so most of the time was spent with the doggies by the beach, woke up early to watch the sunrise, did a little yoga and my favorite stick exercises.

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As usual on the final morning of our trip after our wonderful breakfast,is time to mark our self after paying the bills, hopefully the next time to 'Ruby's' we can stay in the same room, and also hope that whoever stay in, leave this whole pillar for me to mark, hahaha. I'll be back.......

Birthdays

2010-08-16T19:03:00.000-07:00

We will be going to Ruby's Resort again since last February, this time round it's for a wedding anniversary and 2 birthdays celebration.

Since 'Ruby's Resort is doggies friendly, Million and Dollar was invited to join the party. I was in Kuala Lumpur a day earlier to spent sometime with my 2 birthdays child, Redbabe and her husband Harrison. It was a smooth journey until the last toll(Sg.Besi) that I took a wrong exit and I was lost, and this is all because I was so confident that I did not double check the routh and forgotten that the last I drove to her house was in February, the other of the trips was by bus. So...with the help from Redbade though the mobile phone and "Bingo" I arrived safely in 1 hour, with Redbade standing outside her gate shaking her head and laughing her guts out to welcome me, and what did I said in one of my entries.....the age thing.......hahaha! So conclusion was I seriously need a "GPS".

Ok, ok back to the birthdays part, got Redbabe a present and went for dinner in 'Unique Seafood'. We had a great time here laughing and eating especially the foods........so yummy.We order the usual stuff, prawns, our favourite Kai Lan with ikan bilies, bamboo shell and this time round we order 'snow crap', it was my first time to have a taste of this high and mighty snow crap, it's really very different from those local or sri lakan crap. The crap meat is thicker and sweeter, we had it cook with salted egg, thump-up yummy, so is the bill, hahaha. Thanks to my son-in -law.

And that concluded the first day of my arrival in Kuala Lumpur.

One of my Day Off.

2010-07-22T08:51:00.000-07:00

It's all because the town council is coming to washed up the whole area where I worked, so I need to close shop and have a day off. And my day off started as, I woke up at 8am had my breakfast and left for the gym, only intend to stay for half an hour, but, only manage to join the class for 5mins because I had an appointment with Tenny and St.Chaire for asam(sour) laksa(curry), I don't want to meet up sweaty. For the laksa it's all because.......St.Chaire is pregnant, and she has been asking for this asam laksa so both of us had been bringing her to all kinds of curry noodle like, Indonesian curry noodle, Malacca curry noodle and many many local curry noodle until somebody told me about this new shop that sell delicious asam laksa and I promise to bring them to satisfied that pregnant woman, hahaha, it was nice, so delicious but forget to take picture. ***********

St. Chaire will be moving to Kuala Lumput pretty soon for her childrens' education in international school. That's the reason Yvonne had arranged the lunch at Bunnys', kind of farewell for St.Chaire, 'sob,sob'.......not many people, just 4 of us, Yvonne, Gwen, St.Chaire and me as St.Chaire guest. Both of us just couldn't take anything heavy, because the asam laksa still not yet digest. It sure is a good lunch, the resturant is fill with our laughter. One thing for sure, I am going to miss her very much.

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At 2.30pm both me and St. Chaire left for JB together with our gym friends Ivy and Maggi to Nike factory hoping to get some nice gym wear, unfortunately all those stuff they sold there is out dated and mostly for man, do not fool by the name"factory", nothing special and it's not cheap at all. Came back at 6pm. When for steamboat dinner at 7.30pm with super maid. And atlast my eventful day ended here, came home at 9.30pm, and have a relaxing evenning in front of the TV.....

Back to Normal

2010-07-19T23:49:00.000-07:00

It's back to normal for a while since the world cup ended. I must said this world cup had been different for me compare to those before, because, it was the first time that I put in abit of betting, won a little, watch most of the game and sometime with a glass of red wine,and at the same time trying very hard to minimise my excitement when my team score, hahaha.... because some game was passed midnight therefore I have to be very discreet in order not to wake up my neighbors up, and hug Million(pet)instead who is always sitting next to me, staring at me wondering what's that hug for, hahaha.

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There was an occasion that I watched it with my brother and family who came back for a durian party arrange by my elder sister, shouting for our team to score and having red wine at the same time was really fun. Now that it's all over, somehow something is missing in my daily life guess some of you must have felt the same too, the withdrawal symptom, hahaha......But one thing for sure the tiredness set in...... it take weeks to recover even now I am still very tired, and with all those lost sleep which I am still trying to catch up, age has a great part in this, hahaha. Wonder what will it be in the next world cup, probably it takes month to recover......, maybe it will be the game watching me instead of me watching the game.........

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Let me tell you about things that happen during this month. Firstly my sister Irene had arrange a durian party for the family, those were really good one so many different breeds, T9, T12, D24 and so on....it was Delicious, but mind you it's 100% calories and it made you fat hahaha.

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Other then the durian party we have a birthday celebration of my grand niece, Irene's grand-daughter Rhona, a sweet little thing with big round eye. *****

Overall, I had great fun watching the world cup and off course won some extra bucks made it even better.....can't wait for the next world cup in Brazil 2014.

Worldcup 2010

2010-06-30T08:45:00.000-07:00

Sorry guys........is not me being lazy, it's the 'World cup'. Had been watching the game, and sometime the 2.30am's one as well, on top of this I have to wake up early to be at the gym at 9am, and off cause had to work too, so you see.....have to grap the opportunity to catch in between naps, that's the reason, why there is no happening here, it's not my fault at all is the 'World cup'. Hopefully, I'll be able to write something soon. At the meantime, ' Happy World cup season', hahaha

It's Nice!!

2010-06-20T23:09:00.000-07:00

I mention in one of my entry about meeting up with a friends that I have not met for more than 30years. And here is, 'Mimi'.....a big sister to me, I remember when we first met I was less than 10yrs old. At that time we were living in a fruit plantation, where my youngest brother was born in 1964, her late mother was a nanny to my brother and that's how we met. Mimi stayed with us even though her mother was no more taking care of my brother, we were into our teens together, slept, eat, play we even went to the same school, honestly.....there is so much to write about, memories just kept flashing back in my mind, don't think I can write them all. ********* Thanks to Rose (the one in maroon ts')also a good friend who is now staying in France, and she never fail to look me up whenever she is back in Malaysia. This time round she brought Mimi her classmate staying in Johor Baru. I couldn't recognize Mimi when she walk into my shop alone to surprise me, because we have lost touch for more than 30yrs, and 30yrs is a long long time. I was almost in tears when she told me who she is, what should I said.......it's was really nice to meet up, really great, unfortunately mom is no more with us or else she'll be just as happy. ****** We promise to keep in touch, I'll bring my little brother who is now married with 3kids to visited her, next time round it will be a surprise for her..........

Tracking

2010-06-04T22:41:00.000-07:00

I think there is a rat in my house, because Million and Dollar had been so busy tracking it down, see...... Million even track it way up high on top of the cupboard. She insisted it's up there and so persisting about it, therefore I have to put her up there and nope it's not there. There is nothing on top neither is behind the cupboard, but...my instinct told me the rat is still inside the house, so let see how good is Million and Dollar at the job this time.

Well Done!!

2010-06-03T22:45:00.000-07:00

Since I already clear Mom's room sometime ago, I might as well upgrade it into a guest room, or maybe rent it out....hahaha! With the help of my super maid I gave it a new coat of paint, put on new floor mate because the old wood had wore off, rearranged and touch up the furniture, put up some new curtain, and the bed, look so comfy.....and.....wallah... it's done!! What a satisfaction.....Let's see who is my first guest to sleep in this room, any of you want to visit me?

Wesak Day

2010-05-28T09:16:00.000-07:00

I had so much to write, my thoughts, the finishing of Mom's room, met up with 2 old friends which I have not met for more than 20yrs, and today 'Wesak Day'. Will write about what happen today, and that's 'Wesak Day'. For those who do not know what is 'Wesak Day' it is the birthday of 'Buddha', most important day for Buddhism. Most of the temple will be celebrating this holy day with free vegetarian lunch and many big event like 'float'

lion dance

dragon dance, children dancing and so on, got the above 3 photos from the web,( couldn't make it to the parade so no picture)

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I am not the temple type and infact I only visited the temple once a year during Chinese new year for thanks giving. Surprisingly I decided to visited one of the temple to actually see how this day is celebrate, at the same time have a vegetarian lunch, no meat for me today just 1 day, hahaha. The thought of visiting the temple came to my mind while I was driving, so I just pick a temple on my way. And here it is>> I can see the crowd even before I stop my car, a long queue to bath the Buddha, also a long queue to get the food. Wishing candle, These beautiful trays of flower and leave, symbolise the 'Buddha's garden and my plate of lunch.

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From the cook to the sweeper is all voluntary, as I said before I am not the temple type so I really can't tell you much except snapping photos, let's hope the picture can tell the story, hahaha .

Take Five

2010-05-15T22:48:00.000-07:00

The 1st quarter of the year 2010 has been very adventures for me, as you can see in my past entries, Janaury to Sabah, Kota Kinabalu, Febuary Kuantan Cherating, March Sarawak, Kuching and April Vietnam, Ho Chi Ming. And what have I been doing in the 2ND quarter of the year? Nothing much so far, just take it easy for the time being, went to the movie, to the gym, coffee and gossiping with friends, spent more time with my 2 furkids, sudoku and have been working very hard making more money for the next holiday, hahaha... , anyway, that's my life so far........

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BUT......At last, I had gathered enough strength and force myself to clear mom's room. Her pretty clothes, personal belongings and many other little things that she cherished. There were a few family photo albums that she kept next to her bed. Memories kept rewinding as I looked thru those old photos. Photos of her children from childhood, school days, family outings, birthdays, holiday photos and so many others. Quietly by herself, in the privacy of her own bedroom, she must have gone through them thousand of times with her magnifying glass. And from these photos, I noticed that of all her 5 children, I am glad that I spent the most time with her.

Found photos of us holidaying in Perth, Lake Toba, HongKong, China and the last was on a cruise. That time, she was already in a wheelchair after suffering a mild stroke. Other than those mentioned, there were countless other local trips too. I am so glad that I had so many many beautiful memories of my mother and I felt so blessed to be able to stay and take care of her till her last breath.

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Sorry no photo for this entry, I don't know why I can't get the photo uploaded, any of you encounter such problem lately?

Mother's Day Surprise

2010-05-07T09:25:00.000-07:00

It all started with me grumbling about a missing Rm50.00 (will tell you more latter) with this young man patiently waiting to be serve and at the same time listening to what I was saying. When I finished grumbling, I asked him what can I do for you, he told me that he saw in one of the website 'cari.com' introducing my food and he wanted to tried it himself. So I serve him and set down to have a chat with him, to my surprise we chat like old friend and talked about almost everything, hahaha. And.....this is where the surprise started....he told me he had to go and handed me this bag, my reaction was "huh, gadget acer?what's that, got present for me meh?" Then I looked inside, the wrapper with print of "I Love YOU" ar.......then suddenly I realise "opps! that got to be from Gladys right?" And all this while his phone was on while we were talking and Gladys was actually at other end listening to our conversation and laughing her guts out, cute nice guy, and I must said "THANK YOU" Mr. Ng. And with my Po pee's present I should be looking much younger when you all see me next, hahaha.

THANK YOU MY LITTLE PO'S PEE, you always surprise me with beautiful and lovely surprises, I love them all....muaak...k...k

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And here is the story of my missing 50bucks, how it happen I don't know,but really missing right in front of my eye, conclusion was, it just an illusion. Latter that evening I think real hard and tried to recall the whole situation, and I pretty sure was some kind of tricks that he used. I actually saw a 50buck, and it was register in my mind that it was a 50buck that I took from him, but when I was at my counter took out the change I suppose to give him back,I couldn't find the 50bucks, I only saw a Rm5.00 but...it just didn't cross my mind that this Rm5.00 could be the money that he gave me and my mind kept telling me it's a Rm50.00 that I took from him funny right? Looking high and low for it and no where to be found worse of all he insisted that I took a 50buck from him, so how??? I gave him the balance change back, so stupid of me right? Rm50.00 nowhere to be found and yet I gave him back the change accepting the fault I couldn't believe that's me. Liked the chinese saying goes 'small money don't go big money don't come', that's why I received these expensive gift from my po pee's, hahaha.

Bye Bye Saigon.........

2010-04-26T09:05:00.000-07:00

I know, I know...I am kind of slow redbabe already finished blogging about our Saigon Trip and she is already in Macau with her husband. Like I said before (Mun more stamp for you, hahaha) I'll just share the photo, as for the write up redbabe said it all.

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The beautiful Vung Tau beach that we visited on the 4th day of our tour.The beautiful architecture. The War....... it's so sad to looked at all those photo in the museum. The bombs and guns.

GI in action........Mr Tai showing a bullet hole to the new GI. Things that we did and have good laugh over it.

The unusual sight that we saw, especialy her sock....

The sunsilk promoter models. The nice and friendly Malaysian family that we met .

And lastly the birdeye night view of Saigon from our departure plane.

Overall, I like Saigon, if there is a chance I'll be back.

3rd day "MyToh"

2010-04-19T23:17:00.000-07:00

It's was not a very good day right from the minute our not nice and grumpy tour guide who picked us up 15minute earlier and yet complained that we are late. Overall...both daughter and me can't wait to go back to our hotel. For this 3rd day I'll just show you photos as for the write up you can read it here in 'redbabe' blog, she already in the final day of our Ho Chi Ming trip, hahaha.

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Numerous of boat ride from ferry to sampan. Some singing performances. Tasting and trying to sell us honey. Making

of coconut candy, also trying to sell us. Making the rice paper. Pony ride .

It was a bad tour with the tour guide dropped all of us at a unfamiliar destination, latter we walked almost a kilometer to our hotel. We found out from one of the guide the following day that he had no job for a month due to quite a number of complains.

Bye for now, and come back for more photos, made sure you visit 'redbabe' blog for more information or introduction of Vietnam, Saigon.

Cuchi Tunnel

2010-04-16T08:54:00.000-07:00

Our 2nd day here in Saigon. The itinerary was to visit the Cuchi Tunnel, our tour started at 7.45am with the tour guide Mr Bang picked us up in a mini bus, together we picked up a family of 10 Malaysian malay and a German girl. **** Mr Bang is a funny guy with sense of humour making our tour interesting. The whole group of us get along so well and was really fun throughout the tour in Cuchi. Honestly, I still cannot believe how people can live in those rat hole for more than 20yrs.To survived and the safety of their family should be the motivation. We went into one of the tunnel which has been expanded to twice the size for tourist like us to go in and have a look, even it has double the size we still need to bend real low, really thump-up to the guerrilla who lived in there. Redbabe was afraid of darkness so she kept flashing her camera flash light making route easier or else it was a pitch of darkness. Just by looking at these trap made my hair stand, it's terrific. **** A group photo here on the tanker was taken by Mr Bang he had at least 8 camera and kept telling us 'not to worry I have done this a thousand time', just look at my photo it almost lost the top guy, lols. All I can said is Mr Bang really love his job. **** At the entrance of the Cuchi Tunnel there is this tree, I have never seen a 'Jack fruit Tree' that bear so many fruits. After taking the photo of the 'Jack fruit Tree' our 'Cuchi Tunnel' tour ended. **** We joined the Muslim family to have lunch in a Hala restaurant. From here Mr Bang was so nice and took us to 'China Town' without extra charge. I had a very good bargain here in china town bought some hand made sandal, USD30 for 4 pair very pretty right? I bought some tiaras for a friend's daughter birthday party. Well, there are more photo and a better write up at: Redbabe cozy Conner. Bye for now.........

Our Vietnam Trip 2010

2010-04-10T23:00:00.000-07:00

It was our last destination of the Airasia zero fare trips. And here we are in Vietnam Ho Chi Minh City also known as Saigon. As we arrived at the airport, we felt like superstars with hundreds of people welcoming us.

We spotted our pick-up guide, Mr Thai, a very warm and nice fellow who loves his job tremendously.

"Queen Ann" is the hotel we stayed in.

A very nice and pleasant hotel but our room was not ready when we arrived because we were kind of early. So Mr Thai brought us to try the famous beef noodle of Vietnam.Surprisingly tasty and yummy. In Vietnam, all meals come with a plate of fresh vegetables. As for the price... I am not too sure. About RM3.50 per bowl. Here are the various kind of beef noodles we had tried throughout our stay.

Here's our room. Very nice and comfy bed even though it was without windows again (don't know how come).

Our exploring of Saigon started almost immediately. Daughter went to the reception to enquire the locations and the two of us set out on own tour to the 'Cua-Tay Market' (also known as the Ben Than Market) one of the popular tourist attraction. As we were walking toward the market, we couldn't bring ourselves to cross the road. The traffic here do not follow the traffic lights system and there were thousands of motorbikeswhich make it more so impossible to cross the road and extremely scary. Thank God we saw our lucky star, hahaha, a group of westerner with a local guide walking towards the same direction, and quickly we follow them but after a while we lost them. Our nightmare begins... but we manage to arrived at the market somehow with a few missing heart beats, lols. It was very tiring to shop there because the mark-up prices were way up too high making it impossible to bargain or even to buy after a 50% of discount. We ended up window shopping to gauge the prices of things that we intend to buy. Went back to the hotel to freshen up and rested for a while and off we went for dinner at the side walk sitting on low children tables and chairs. Oh yes, by the way, the favourite pastime of the people here is to sit on low table and chairs drinking coffee or tea facing the road watching traffic going by. It's a scene you will see everywhere in the city of Saigon.

It's kind of interesting on the first day for us, will tell you more about 'Cu Chi Tunnel', Mekong River and blah, blah, blah!! Have a nice day!

Away again.

2010-04-08T23:37:00.000-07:00

Opps!! Sorry for disappearing, I was away with daughter to Vietnam, still editing the photos, will try to share them as soon as possible. See you soon........

Ovenly hot.....

2010-03-28T08:42:00.000-07:00

There is still no rain or any improvement from the last entry about dry season.....we did the rain dance, only rain through seeding, hot like an oven, plus fire.....

Finally after 25mins, the fire engine arrived, fire man trying very hard to put off the fire with very low water pressure.

The bird eye's view of the fire.......... At last the fire was put off, but the smoke lasted for 2days.

Water ratio is so low..........If any of you is thinking of visiting me, please bring me water instead of cake.......hahaha

It's HOT and DRY

2010-03-16T23:09:00.000-07:00

My little hometown, Kluang, also known as the 'bat town', smacked right in the middle of Johor, South of Malaysia, has been hit by a dry spell. There were only 3 to 5 minutes long of rain

here since January and our reservoir is at the verge of drying up. The whether is so freaking hot that it is best to go out in our birthday suit, hehehe. The temperature is about 35-40 degree on average. Water level is very very low and the water department had to turn off the tap every alternate day just to save some water, hoping that our reserve can last longer and that the rain will start pouring down soon. We have to store water in these big containers for the house and shop's usage.

It created so much extra work and inconveniences. Just look at these grass. All dried up.

The river that I used to swim when I was young even have grass sprouting out in the middle. Which mean, the river is also drying up. Bush fire was everywhere. This small fire is just next to my house.

The best part is, our state (Johor) have been selling water to Singapore since 1950 something. So you see, maybe it is the Singaporean that have drank up all our water supplies... hahaha......

When I was young, if it rain, I used to sing "rain, rain, go away, come again another day". And now it definitely had to be "rain, rain, come and stay, nothing like a rainy day" erm.....maybe I should be a lyric composer, Wa.....ha.....ha

Kuching-----Cat??

2010-03-16T08:06:00.000-07:00

It has already been more than half a month since the last day of Chinese New Year and yet, my entry for 'Chap Goh Mei' is still on. I have been missing in action and let me tell you of my disappearance. The reason is, I've been lazy. Been waking up late and didn't even goes to the gym for more than a month already. Had put on a hundred kilo, sob... sob... terrible right?

The other reason was, went on a holiday with my daughter 'Redbabe' for a 4d/3n holiday to Kuching, a little town in Sarawak (also known as the exotic Borneo), Malaysia.

I have nothing much to said except it's super clean and the hotel we stayed in was nice, cosy and just 3 months old. It was very new.
As for the sightseeing, you can actually see all in a day, but we split it into 2 days. On the second day after we arrived, we visited 'The Cultural Village'.

Let the photos do the talking.
Cultural dance shows, aborigines straw houses, bamboo bridges, and some real human skull that the head hunter hunted.

On day 3, we visited the 'Orang Utan'.
According to the guide/driver we were very lucky to be able to see the wild 'Orang Utan'. There were times where visitors have to make 3 to 4 trips just to see them. Yes we are one of the lucky people, saw not just 1 but 2 adults and a baby orang utan.

According to the local, waterfront is where all the action will be, but... still nothing much to see except some food stalls with a few tourists.

Temple, oh yes we saw a few temples.

Went to Chinatown had coffee in a very nice cafe specialized in coffee. Entertaining ourselves with photo taking. Trying to be MJ's long lost sister, hahaha. I must said the food here is not as good as those in Kota Kinabalu.

Overall, my 4d/3n trip here is totally unlike all the places that I have been before. There were not many young people there especially young or modern girls. Not even in the malls. It's kind of quiet, and I must said the man there was different too. They would stare at us as if we were aliens... quite scary. Not sure if it is a compliment or there is really no female species in Kuching...hahaha. Nevertheless, it was a good experience. We actually can't wait to go home and almost miss our flight because the hotel airport shuttle didn't turn up in time and we have to go to the airport in a taxi. My daughter had to run to the check-in counters and asked a kind lady to let her check-in first because it was the final call for our flight to check in.

'Chap Goh Mei'

2010-02-28T22:24:00.000-08:00

Today is the 15th day of Chinese New Year, also the final day of the festive season. It ended really well for me because all my siblings got back on this 15th day for a reunion before the new year ends.

Unfortunately I didn't managed to join them for the celebration in the restaurant because by time they confirmed the dinner, it was too late for me to make alternate arrangement to close my stall. Since I didn't join them, I made some black glutinous rice dessert with 'tong yuen' for them to enjoy. It is good to eat 'tong yuen' on this special day according to some old ladies'... hahaha!!

Coincidentally, today is also my nephew Wayne's birthday. We celebrated his birthday at the stall with a lovely birthday cake. It's a pity I did not get to enjoy the whole celebration fully as I was extreme busy. But then again, it's not that 'pity' also la because it's good that business is good. Hahaha!! I had another nephew of mine handled my camera. No choice la... business more important. Nothing much to see actually. I wanted him to take some candid shots of everyone on this memorable occasion. Somehow it turned out to be just this miserable pot of dessert...

...and the cake cutting of course. At least some sweet memories.
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In another part, as promised in my last entry, here are some of the photos taken during my CNY holiday. See this sweet little girl, she is my grand niece. Meaning, my cousin's grand daughter. She is really a cutie pie. She was with us throughout at the dinner hosted by Theresa.

This one here is also very very cutie, cute cute. She is the 'JEWEL' of my heart. I made her posed for me. Haha! It was taken at one of the restaurant in Kuantan called 'Duyong'.

At the popular Hai Peng Kopitiam and that's the founder of the shop. See the poster and the real him standing there in the white pagoda tshirt.

The foods... yummy right, especially the stuffed crabs. Signature dish of Kemaman.

As we entered the stuffed crab restaurant, the urn of the 'goddess of earth' were burning - a sign of prosperity. Mind you, it was very very unusual and the fire died down as soon as we sat down. It looks like the fire light up just for us. Prosperity to all of us in the year of the Tiger! hehehe....

Fun time. I love bubble. So does Christian. He had great fun. He went like... "Auntie Popo... I want to be in the bubble...", so I said "Huh? *scratched head* let me see what l can do ok?"...
The swing was also fun... can't remember when was the last time I sat on one or stand on one hahaha.

We left 'Ruby's Resort' after the swing and headed for some local shopping.

So... bye bye Kuantan for now... I'll be back to 'Ruby's Resort' soon!.

Year of the Tiger

2010-02-21T23:14:00.000-08:00

It has been real busy this Lunar New Year of the Tiger. I was away from home for 10days again. Left home with Million, Dollar and my super maid on the eve(13/2) about 4pm therefore and reached Kl just in time for the reunion dinner with my brother and his family, was too busy catching up and eating I forgot about taking picture and left for Daughter's home at 10pm too tired even to join them at her in law's house for prayer to receive the god of wealth. ****

The Lunar New Year is a 15 day celebration for all Chinese national as well as the Korean, Taiwanese and the Vietnamese think we all came from China only to speak a different lingo.

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The 1st day of CNY I visited my cousin Margaret, and had a big gathering at her house with most of my other cousins, was also surprise to see my aunt(dad's only sister)too, because she is from Johor Baru way down south, my brother Chai , daughter and son in law was also there, we had some game of mahjon here, that's a happy 1st day.

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As for 2nd day I visited my daughter's in law, and latter in the evening Theresa invited me to have dinner with her and family, after dinner we Chile out at her place, that's a memorable 2nd day.

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The 3rd day, daughter have booked and made an arrangement for a 3d/2n holiday with the furkids in Kuantan Cherating at "Ruby Resort", it was very relaxing for us especially the mahjon sessions so near the beach which ended at the early hour of 6am, the place is supered for the furkids

to run free by the beach, sorry to said again I was having so much fun watching Million and Dollar that very little photo was taken, not to worry you can see most of the scenic here at daughter's blog if not we will be going again somewhere in August and I make sure I'll have some very nice photo of my furkids running around or swimming by the beach.

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We departed 'Ruby's Resort" on the 5th day with some local shopping of dried shrimp and ikan bilies suppose to be very fresh and cheap. Arrived Kl almost 6pm, rested for awhile then off we went to the super market to buy some stuff for the gathering at our place on the 6th day which is the next day, phew....

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Well, today is the 6th day of the Lunar New Year and we decided to have the gathering at our place and off cause I am the chef. This is what I cooked simple, simple only, cousins and family, brother and family, Terri and family and Eveylyn and family. After dinner it was mahjon time again, and the last game ended at 6.30am, gosh so, so tired and sleepy but so enjoyable playing with Margaret and Celvin, and this is the final day in KL, I am leaving tomorrow(meaning latter today).

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Today is 7th day, woke up late because of the early morning MJ game, when out for lunch go rounding looking at beautiful scenic of luxurious houses and to the pet shop bought dog food and a traveling Bangalore for my Million and Dollar, and left for Kluang at 4.30pm.

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And..............home sweet home work starting on the very next day......8th day of the Lunar Chinese New Year which is the Eve of the Hokkien Clan New Year, and I have some orders to meet............

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So, guess that's about all for the New Year Of The Tiger, once work started New Year is over even though it end on the 15th day. Some of the photo is not ready yet will post it in my next entry, bye for now, have a wonderful and prosperous Chinese New Year, Happy Holiday too.....

My new look....

2010-02-05T23:28:00.000-08:00

I took all three photos using my mobile phone. The 1st two with flash, and the 3rd one without. Don't know why it look so different.

I took this picture just before I changed my hairstyle to this in April 2009. And now, for 2010, a whole new look!

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I actually tired of looking at my curly wooly look for the last 50 years. Therefore decided on a very short hairstyle without perming. Look good right?? hahaha... I like this new hair style of mine very much.

Precious Moments With My Favourite Cousins

2010-02-01T22:54:00.000-08:00

Yes, I extended my holiday. Coincidentally my cousin from Melbourne was back in Kuala Lumpur. I managed to meet up with her and her two sisters. They are all my favourite cousins. I decided to join them and their family for a 2d/1n trip up Genting Highlands. It was great catching up on each others' life as well as reminiscing the good old time we had a long time ago. It has been 30 years since we last spent time like this. Oh, besides the great company, enjoyed the cool highlands' air too....

We took the cable car instead of driving all the way up. All 13 of us had great fun.The children had great fun enjoying themselves in the themepark... ... while the adults enjoyed all the yummy food, trying their hand at the casino, and the karaoke too. All of us sang till our throat sore, hehe. I'll like to take the opportunity to thank my dear cousin Theresa for the invitation. I enjoyed myself so much and will always remember what a great time we had together!

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See, my cousin Theresa is in the mascot business. When we visited her at her place, my daughter saw this pair of shoe and couldn't resist putting them on (whisper: she have a 'thing' when it come to shoes).That pair of funky blue shoe actually belongs to Genting's "God Of Fortune". My cousin Theresa supplies them their mascots.

Good-bye Kota Kinabalu

2010-01-28T23:14:00.000-08:00

Day 3 Today we will be leaving K.K at 6.30pm flight. Upon checking out at 1pm, Yenny's arrived. She brought us to a very unique lunch. A bowl of clear soup consists of every part of a fish (stomach, liver and so on). It was really yummy. Did a bit of shopping too. We bought some Sabah Tea and Coffee as souvenirs for our friends. Since we still have plenty of time to spare before our departure, Yenny invited us to her house to play play with her dogs.

She own a Miniature Schnauzer named Jade, a Golden Retriever named Ivory and a mongrel named Ruby. From there, off we went to the seafront near the airport to have some satay...
...and fresh coconut.

Overall, it was a very good trip, we both had a great time laughing, eating, shopping, massaging and many more. What I enjoyed most in this trip is the mother daughter bond that we shared.And for the first time in 32 years, I felt like a mother. The attention and cares I received from my dear daughter during the whole trip, that's a new found feeling and I love it. All those years when mom was around I always felt like a daughter because both 'daughter' and 'grand daughter' will take care of mom all time. Attention priority was always given to mom. Don't get me wrong, I am not complaining. I am just enjoying my new found statue, hahaha.

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That, ends our tour in Kota Kinabalu. As usual, we love the place very much (like how we always did with everywhere else we went) and will definately be back again if we ever get the RM0 fare tickets from AirAsia again. Oh yes, my holiday didn't stop here I extended my self given annual leave tell you more in my next entry.

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Lastly THANK-YOU my dear Bo pees for this lovely trip, muack!!

Kota Kinabalu- day 2 to the Mt. K.K

2010-01-24T07:58:00.000-08:00

We went for a day tour to Mt. Kinabalu Park on day 2. A young good looking guide named Sarab picked us up from the hotel lobby at 8.30am. The trip was a good experience. We were very lucky to get a clear view of the peak of the mountain. According to the tourguide, it was usually covered up by clouds. We had lunch at the foot of the mountain before entering the park. Believe me, we were so lucky that day that we even get to see the world's biggest flower in full bloom. The Rafflesia Flower, also known as 'Keithii'. Other than its gigantic size, they are also very rare. The bud takes 9 months to mature and once bloomed, it will only last for a maximum of 7 days. Don't you think we are very lucky?

****** We went for a short hike up the hill to get to the 'canopy walk'. It was amazing. The canopy walk is actually hanging briges erected high up on the trees, connecting from one tree to the other. We were so high up and if you look down, it was kind of scary. You imagine how tall those trees are...

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After that, we went to dip at the hot spring. There, they have two kind of pools. Open public ones which are free or you can book a private room which cost only RM15.00/hour. We took the private ones because I was not prepare for it. Our tour ended here. The tourguide send us back to the hotel after our hot spring bath.

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Back at the hotel, we hurriedly went for another massage session. Later that night, we met up with my daughter's friend, Yenny. She was very entertaining and a very warm host. She brought us to a seafood restaurant nearby. We had lobster, some shellfish, abalone and crabs and it cost RM200++. Quite cheap compared to Kuala Lumpur's standard and yummy too. I don't know how it happen but I don't have any picture on this one, Redbabe got it all. Here we waved good night to our day 2 here.

Kota-kinabalu

2010-01-21T20:17:00.000-08:00

Remember what I said in my last entry? Redbabe and I was going for a short trip. Well... we went to Kota Kinabalu for a 3d/2n holiday from 10/01 till 12/01. I supposed to leave for KL on Friday and from there, will catch a plane to KK on early Sunday morning. But instead, I went to watch 'Avatar' on Friday night. Have heard so much about it. Therefore, it is a must see. Met up with Tenny for steamboat dinner that night and St.Chaire joined us later for the 9.15pm show. We enjoyed it so much. It was really nice to watch something different. We parked our car on the rooftop of the mall. When we went to collect our car later, I took a few pictures of St.Chaire and it turn out like that. Scary and weird.**** I took the 2.30pm deluxe bus on the next day (Saturday) to Kuala Lumpur. It was very comfortable. I got off at the Petronas station just after the Sg. Besi toll and my daughter came to picked me up. We went to a very special sea food restaurant at Klang that evening with Terri and her family. Overall it was nice except for one of the dish; the stingray. It was not fresh. Very not fresh. We rejected it. Cheap though. ***********

Our flight to KK the next day was an early one departing at 9:30am. Therefore, we have to be at the airport latest by 8.30am. Since we did not get to have any breakfast earlier, we went to this 'Buy N Fly' cafe to have our not so nice and expensive breakfast before boarding onto Airasia flight number 5215. We arrived in KK after 2hours 30mins later. We checked into the "Imperial International Hotel" there. Imagine being given a room with no view but facing a hall instead? The feeling was bad so we requested for a change. With RM20.00 extra we get this view.......and this red lazy chair, hehehe. We went out to look around after that. Saw some billiard saloons with lots of people (dare not take picture as they don't look very friendly). We had our late lunches in one of the coffee shop. On our way back to the hotel we collected some flyers of massage services. It was really cheap. Rm55.00 for 1hour of body massage and half hour of foot massage. Both of us went for it and they did a really good job. It was very relaxing. We saw many big umbrellas by the sea front from our room window and decided to check it out after the massage. It was actually a Philippine market selling everything from fresh vegetable to seafood and cooked food too. The barbecue seafood looks so yummy. We couldn't resist it and ordered some squids, prawns and fish (7star grouper). It was so delicious especially the sambal (chilly sauce) and super cheap too. The feed back was, must come back again tomorrow.

Beautiful New Year Party!

2010-01-07T19:48:00.000-08:00

St.Chaire and I went to have our nails done for the night's party at her house.It's going to be a busy week for me starting today. Took a week off, a self given annual leave, hahaha. The party at St Chaire's was great. The host, the food, the guests, the beautiful set up was superb. She always held great parties.

Coincidentally, I met quite a number of my friends from the old school days. Get to catch up with each other. It was great.

That night, at the party, there were many scenes to behold; Father and daughter dancing away to the music... 'overgrown' children playing games and etc. Nice.

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Well, I think I'll just show you some of the pictures instead. Need to catch a bus to Kuala Lumpur and then a plane for a short vacation with my daughter, Redbabe. Will tell you more when I am back. Bye!

New Year's Day

2010-01-02T23:08:00.000-08:00

Wanted to wake up late today, but woke up just about 15mins later than the usual time, biological clock cannot be adjusted. It was bright and shine........it's new year' day so must be happy so everything will be good for the next 12month, just as I was about to make some breakfast for myself, Tenny called, and then St. Chaire call asking me to pick Tenny and go to her house for the first breakfast of 2010, yeah!!! that's means I get all my breakfast free for the rest of the year(just kidding). It was really nice and yummy with the outdoor environment.

Talk, joke and making fun of each other having great time to start off the year 2010.

HAPPY 2010

2009-12-31T10:09:00.001-08:00

Sending all of you a BIG NEW YEAR HUGS......Wish you many special moments and memories........HAPPY NEW YEAR 2010

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Just came home after the count down with some friends at the Kluang Golf Club....... funny thing is I am born and bred here in Kluang, yet this is the first time that I celebrate the arrival of a new year here at the club, practically almost all the people from the whole town came here for the count down, the atmosphere was really really high, I am glad that I decided to join them, I had great fun. Got some pics will upload them another day.

The Month of December

2009-12-28T23:34:00.000-08:00

Of all the twelve months in a year, December is the busiest for most of us especially me. Because in addition to all, my birthday falls on the 14th of December. My birthday celebration this year was a little different from all previous celebrations. More crowd and more happening, hahaha...

After my birthday celebration, come the 'Winter Soltice Festival' which falls on the 22th December. Winter Soltice is a chinese tradition to celebrate the arrival of winter. On this day, we make glutinous rice ball ("tang yuen"). Concealed within it are sweet peanut paste. These round glutinous rice ball symbolises the union of a family.The festival was celebrated rather differently too this year cause it is the first year without mom. But on the other hand, as consolation, my other sibling came home to celebrate it. :) It has been a long time since they last came home for this special festival. It's nice to be with family during festive season.

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Oh yes, before I forget, my medical check-up was due in December too and I passed with flying colours again for the 2nd time in a year! I am so proud of myself for maintaining a clean bill of health. For this I must celebrate, hahaha.

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Then came Christmas. Nothing special this year. Just the same as many years before. Spending Christmas Eve by sending out Christmas wishes to friends and family members and receiving many wishes too at the same time. Let's see what's the celebration like for me on the arrival of 2010......... ;)

It's Christmas Time

2009-12-22T05:07:00.000-08:00

Sending all my friends here the warmest "Hugs of the season And wishing you the "Best Of Time"!.

"MERRY CHRISTMAS"

Yeah! It's my Birthday again.

2009-12-13T06:08:00.000-08:00

It wasn't so long ago that I celebrated my birthday and now it is here again. So fast meh? A year older again. This time round the celebration was at Palm Garden with Gladys, Harrison, Tenny and Chaire and their family.

Honestly....the birthday song was sang so well that it sent butterflies into my stomach. "THANKYOU GUYS", the food was great the company was fantastic. I must say, it was unforgettable and will always keep me smiling for the next 12 months. I mentioned in my entry of the Cambodia trip that I received an early birthday present from Tenny. Well this is what she gave me. Nice right?

And a pair of 'Guess' sunglasses from St. Chaires which I wanted very much. Sexy right?

A bouquet of flowers too from the children... So thoughtful right? And Tenny top it up with a lovely card *muak, muak*. Oh yes, Gladys bought a lovely yummy cake, and I requested for 1 candle. I am sure you all know why....hehehe, very old already the cake got not enough space to put all the candle so 1 lor, clever right?

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Oh yes, by the way, my birthday actually falls on the 14/12. That celebration was 2 days earlier - 12/12. They said it was a lucky number. Hahaha... Today(14/12) Tenny and me had lunch at "Ritch". It's kind of a must go on my birthday since I was always there on all my previous birthdays. The lady boss, Trisca, gave us a beautiful cheese cake fo the occassion on the house. It was so pretty and yummy.

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Once again, thank you. I had an enjoyable time and hope you all had too.

A Fund Raising Bazaar

2009-11-30T08:21:00.000-08:00

Went to a fund raising bazaar recently at St. Louise Church. There arefoods, vegetables, stationaries, crockeries and etc for sale.

The crowd was good. Children were seen enjoying ice sticks and cakes. Look at this overgrown child. We, the adult, were also enjoying the food especially the sambal prawn that come with the nasi lemak. It was really yummy.

St. Louise church is the first church I know way back during my school days and it never change much. The structure and the interior is still the same. Looking at it brings back many many fond memories of the good old school days.

Picture

2009-11-22T22:25:00.000-08:00

I want to share this picture that I snapped few days ago at the gym, nice right? That's Yvonne our trainer on the top and Tenny below, that's the result of going to the gym, strong hand, leg and sexy too.......I lols...........

Relationship

2009-11-14T08:18:00.000-08:00

Well, the 'before' and 'after' holiday syndrome has finally wear off and now, am back to reality to carry on with life. It is time to make money again and start saving for the next trip. Ya...I will do just that, lols...

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I read from one of the blogger MUN, about a beautiful relationship that lasted 18 years and it reminded me of my very own relationship that I decided to call it quit recently after about 19 years. Why, you may asked. Many people asked too. Well, it was just too stressful to carry on and I am glad with the decision I finally made and have no regrets over it and I dont feel sorry about it too.

As for the big question mark, no point questioning about 'him' but instead, 'why I did it and is it because I hated him?'. For my case, it wasn't 'hate'. It was just that the relationship was too suffocating and I really needed some breathing space. Of cause calling it quit just because of wanting to breath better is not really a reasonable reason. Sure there are more other reasons to the decision too. Whatever it is, I hope it is for better.

Nothing much changed since the breaking-up. Apart from being able to breath better, I now have more oxygen to keep me healthy and happy, hahaha. At this moment, I am very focus on living healthy. I eat well, sleep well and not forgetting, exercise well too.

Being healthy, happy and stress free is my current goal now. Life is too short and we never know what is in store for us next. So, just stay healthy and be happy.

Angkor-Wat

2009-10-28T01:04:00.000-07:00

This is the finale temple for us, the 'Angkor Wat'. There was a beautiful coincident here when we arrived. A rainbow appeared over the sky and the rain stopped just in time for us to have our photo taken with the beautiful reflection of 'Angkor Wat' in the pond. Better still, trying to wrap the rainbow, walking on the rainbow bridge with the rainbow on top of us is really great and the feeling so good just as we finish taking photo a heavy down pour and we actually walking some part of the temple with hat(compliment from the guide) under the rain. I must elaborate here... 'Angkor Wat' is the grandest and most sublime of all the Khymer temples. A city by itself with a total area of 200 hectares. The scale of Angkor Wat enabled the Khmer to give full expression to religious symbolism. There were four big basin to stabilise the structure of the Angkor Wat. All was drained off water due to mosquitoes infestation. Most of the statues of Buddha was vandalised/stolen of heads, hands or legs. Well I must said we were all a little disappointment here because we are not allowed to climb to the highest point of 'Angkor Wat' which was closed for renovation purposes. We did have fun though and enjoyed ourselves so much that even being drenched in rain don't seems like much of a problem.

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After Angkor Wat, we went for another session of massage. Self paid. The last itinerary of our day (also our tour) was dinner with Cambodian traditional show. That pretty much wraps up our Siem Reap tour.

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This is a portrait of our tour taken with our tour guide and the driver. To spice up our Cambodia trip a little more, the five of us went on a 'TuTu Trishaw' ride to the discos to have some workout done (compensating for the gym session we missed back home).

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Leaving Siem Reap at 8am the next day and arrived back in Kuala Lumpur safe and sound. Chaires's driver, Aziz, was already waiting for us when we got out of the immigration.

Siem Reap (Day 2) Continued...

2009-10-24T22:35:00.000-07:00

As per my last entry, we continued our tour on Day 2 to the next temple, 'Ta-phorm', a monastery. The movie 'Tomb Raider' was shot here.

The complexity of its layout was made worst by its' partly collapsed state......and the trees that intertwined itself amongst the ruins plus a greater mass of thinner & smoother grey roots which grows into various crevices in between the ruins.

This is where Angelina Jolie jumped down in Tomb Raider... and ended up in Dubai, hahaha...

and we'll end up in Anchor Wat in my next entry.

Siem Reap (Day 2)

2009-10-20T22:17:00.000-07:00

Day 2 started with an early breakfast before our tour to Angkor Thom. Our tourguide, Mr Sip, was already waiting for us in the lobby when we are done with breakfast. To get into Angkor Thom, we need to pass thru some villages on dirt roads. We were then given an entry pass to all the various temples around Angkor Thom each. We arrived at the South gate before long and was greeted by two rows of statues resting on dragons.

One the left, it was the symbol of God with smiling face... And on the right, it was demons with huge popping eyes. Here is the elephant terrace that led us to the 'Bayon Temple'.Inside the temple, most of the towers are carved with four faces which are worshipped by the Hindus & Buddhists. We met 2 young monks and took some photos with them. Before we do that we have to know the rules and that is, there shall not be any kind of body contact.

Here is a photo of me rubbing nose & kissing Buddha's face...Hehehe... It is not what you see it is. Just a camera trick that did it, cute isn't it?

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After Bayon Temple, we were supposed to go on a hot air balloon. But unfortunately, the weather was rather bad that day. We only get to take photos of it instead. So sad... Well, next will be 'Ta-Phorm' temple and 'Angkor-wat'. But it will have to be in the next entry. Tired la.....bye for now, have a nice day.

Cambodia- Siem Reap

2009-10-18T15:50:00.000-07:00

I mentioned in one of my entry that I will be going to Cambodia with a few friends of mine. Remember? Well... I did. Went with four of my friends last last weekend (11-13/10). It was a 3days/2nights holiday from "Airasia Holiday Package" which includes the return air tickets + accommodation. As for the ground arrangement like airport transfers and sight-seeing tours, we booked separately through a Cambodian friend. Our flight for Cambodia (Siem Reap) was due for departure at 7am. Therefore, we need to start our journey from Kluang as early as 2am, barely 2 hours past midnight. We gathered at Chaire's house prior to our departure from Kluang and took advantage of her newly acquired 15-seater celebrity MPV...

Together with her driver, Aziz, we started our journey at 1:15am, from Kluang to the LCCT airport in Sepang.We tried to catch some beauty sleep through the 3+ hours drive.

We touched down in Siem Reap right on schedule. There were no hiccups going thru the imigrations too.

Once out of the airport, we were greeted and welcomed by the hotel staff together with our tour guide, Mr Sip Cham Nan. We checked into our hotel, freshen up a little before our tour of Siem Reap begin!

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Our first destination, a silk farm!

Learnt a lot on how silk is actually produced and why it is so expensive.

Next, is the Jewellery Shop (no photos allow inside). We get to learn more about different kind of gemstones. As we all knew, Cambodia is one of the country that produces many different kind of gemstones. Here, we were taught how to differentiate the real thing from the fake ones, and of course the gems are for sale too. I didnt buy any but got an early birthday present from Tenny, a beautiful yellow gemstone surrounded with sparkling white stone ring. It was a good bargain. From USD200.00 to USD20.00. You'll be surprised at how they actually marked-up the prices. The discounts offered went as much as 80%. So bear this in mind if you are going for Cambodian gemstone. Next on our itinerary was the floating village. There were plenty of boat houses, (look at that little girl on the boat, think she is bearly 5yrs old) ...

...floating schools and churches...

...and even a crocodile farm.

While we were at the crocodile farm, our friend Chaire accidentaly dropped her very expensive sunglasses into the crocodile's enclosure and our tourguide Mr Sip have to fish it out for her. Here, we can actually buy the crocodie and have them cook it for you.

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After the excursion, we went for our 1hr free massage which was included in the ground package. By the time we are done, it was already dinner time. We had crocodie meat, not as nice as we thought it would be.

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We went to the night market after dinner and bought some souvenirs. In Cambodia, USD is their main currency even if a withdrawal is made through an ATM machine. That end the 1st day of our trip to Siem Reap.

Cats

2009-10-08T09:48:00.000-07:00

First of all, I wished to state here that I am not a cat person. But since my friend "Lorenza" has been trying to invite a cat to play with him, and also lately I had some very interesting encounter with cats which I managed to snap some photos of, I thought I might as well just shared it here.

Can you count how many kittens there were that are being nursed by this cat?

Mid Autumn Festival

2009-10-07T08:39:00.000-07:00

It's 'Mid-Autumn Festival' once again. I remembered mom started to get unwell around this time last year. How time flies... Daughter and son-in-law was here and we had a quiet & cosy celebration. We lighted up some candles, sat at the porch, had mooncakes with chinese tea, it was nice. Unfortunately there was no moon because of bad weather. I took some pictures of the mooncakes that come with a beautiful lantern box which my daughter bought. Just take a look at the packaging...

...a simple box that doubled up as a lantern.

And yet, still able to look so beautiful when lighted up.

Oh yes, also this lovely cute looking cheesecake which my daughter bought. It was really nice and yummy.

One of the best I've ever tasted.

A Panic Monday Morning

2009-09-30T14:30:00.000-07:00

Like any other day, as usual, I woke up at 8am and headed for the gym to join their 9am workout class. Just half an hour into the workout routine, my phone rang. It was from my youngest sister. She told me that a brother of our's, who is residing in JB, had a bad accident. It was a hit & run case and he was seriously injured with a broken collar bone and 3 of his ribs. It was such a shocking news for me because we have already lost a nephew and a brother with his wife in two separate car accidents over the years. And now, again? This piece of news brought tears to my eyes. I took a drive down to JB to visit him and see how serious he is and thank god it is not life threatening. After an operation to put in some metal plates and screws, he is ok. And the doctor said he should be able to work in 6 weeks' time.

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To be honest, even though he has not been very good to me, at times, even scolded me with very harsh words or accused me of unpleasant things, he is still my brother and I can't choose my siblings. I just did what my heart tells me to. Some who knows me might not understand this, just that I don't want to regret in time to come. At least I felt good and did my part as a sister.

My Herbal Hair Colour Experience - Henna

2009-09-26T22:28:00.000-07:00

Have been hearing a lot of goodness of 'Henna', a natural herbal hair colour. And since my hair is due for colouring, I made an appointment at this Indian hair saloon called 'Shanthi' to give it a try. Shanthi is a small saloon with only 2 staff. The treatment started off with an oil massage on my scalp which is suppose to promote hair growth and prevent hair loss.

The massage oil smell like coconut oil mixed with something else, which I don't really know what it was. They refused to disclose their secret ingredient. Apparently, it is not for sale too. It is for their saloon use only. It smelled really nice...

After the scalp treatment with their secret ingredient massage oil, they applied this horrible looking stuff call 'Henna', in paste form, on to my hair. When they finished applying, my head resembled a mud ball.

The mud ball of a head of mine was later steamed for 45 minutes. After that, it was left for another half an hour in room temperature to cool before it was washed.

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Even washing off the 'henna' takes quite a while. They first wash out the 'henna paste' with warm water. After that, my hair was shampoo-ed twice, followed by conditioning. After they are satisfied that my hair is really clean, it was then blow dried.

This is me. Overall it is nice. But the colour kind of a little too light on the root. According to the hairstylist, that's my greys (how sad). But then again, it is because of my grey that I needed the colouring right? She said I need to do at least 4 times before the hair colour balanced out. Meaning, need to spend RM200 to get the colour right (RM50 per session) and not forgetting each session will take up at least 4 hours. Dont you think it is a little tiring?

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While I was at Shanti's, I found out that they also offered eyebrow threading service. I was so amused by it because the last time I've seen people doing it was way way back during my childhood when I was only 12 years old. Can you imagine how surprised it was for me to actually see them doing it now.

2009-09-25T09:07:00.000-07:00

I received a phone call from Tenny(a close friend) this morning saying that, the airfare to Cambodia is very cheap and she had booked "go holiday package" for herself and St. Chaire(another good friend) asking me to join them, well, since is so cheap why not, hehehe, I worked hard and I play hard. Lately I have been busy with my normal routine, gym, marketing, met up with friends for breakfast and so on. Somehow time seem to be faster than before, or is it because I am getting old and my rhythm is slower, or maybe I have been trying to catch afternoon nap to rejuvenate, therefore I slept away the time, ya...maybe ^_^. Also business had been busy too, that mean more work so less entries over here, hahahaha...... Anyway, will try to updated more often.

Islands Hopping on Day 2

2009-09-10T14:00:00.000-07:00

Started off day 2 with a wonderful breakfast overlooking the mesmerising sea. Woke up very early because we are meeting up at 9:30am for islands hopping.

After breakfast, I packed some personal stuff, got my life jacket and snorkeling set and off we go, out to the sea.

The condition of the sea was quite choppy for the first 2 hours. I was experiencing sea sickness. Felt lousy and almost puke. We hopped around 4 islands. 3 of it was for snorkelling and 1 just for sightseeing only. The sightseeing one belongs to the "Berjaya Group". It was a very beautiful (and expensive) resort complete with a golf course too. Apparently, from what I was told, they have rooms costing as expensive as RM5000.00 a night (for the rich & famous).

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For the other 3 islands that we went for snorkelling, I must say, as compared, the reefs & fishes here were just as beautiful as those in "The Great Barrier Reefs" of Australia. Colourful coral fishes of every sizes were everywhere in Pulau Tioman and they are so used to human beings. As long as you are holding loaf of breads, they will come to you. We even spotted a big jelly fish!

Unfortunately, my camera cant go underwater... sigh! Only found out much later that they actually sell those 'use & throw' underwater camera in the resort. Otherwise, will surely get one to show you how beautiful Tioman's underwater world is! Anyway, other than snorkelling, we also visited the national fishery information centre.

I tell you... it is not worth visiting this Fishery Infomation thingy. The water quality is terrible, all murky. And the fishes shown there were all just grey in colour. Boring. Not one colourful coral fish at all. Rather disappointing. Fortunately for us, we had a picnic there with our pre-packed lunch. The fun from the lunch alone is enough to overshadow the disappointment earlier. At least some consolation! Oh yes, after the first snorkelling session, I totally forgotten about my sea sickness and also began clicking away at my camera.

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Exploring Pulau Paya is what we did when we finally got back from the islands hopping excursion. Here are some of the photos taken:

Nice picture right? I think they surely are...