Counting Sheep To The New Year

Been a while but December is probably one of the most busiest month of the entire year. Feeling jaded and burned out mentally and physically but if there is a light at the end of the tunnel, you'd will know that when you see that light its going to be worth it. Countless cpu cycle have been loop through, the video that I'd make starting to show some fruitition. Still very much an unpolish work, hopefully will be able to complete in time for the big day.

 

Today the backyard have been further mini renovated with a small and short awning to help prevent rain water from dropping into the wet kitchen area. Wet from cooking is okay but not wet from raindrops :) The process took around 3 hours on 2 separate occasion.

 

Today also mark the day the wardrobe arrives. It was surprising that the installation went without a hitch. 2 hours to install it. Now just waiting for the bed to arrive in first or second week of January.

 

This year Christmas felt it pass us by without much celebration. Ditto with the New Year. I'm just hoping to catch up on my sleeping session as much as possible. Tiredness probably does usually come with the job description. And by job I meant getting hitched.

 

Happy New Year 2012.

Nice Lunch

post Christmas ... actually we always had a nice home cook lunch, dinner everytime regardless of the occasion. Credit has to go to my mum for being such an amazing cook. Hopefully dear can learn a few thing or two from her, a great skill not to be missed.

 

Fruit has always been part of the any meal we had. :) Just have to remember to say Grace before each serving.

 

The grill guy came and installed the grill. Hopefully this will deter anymore Dynamo washing liquid thieving wannabes.

 

 

Just need to add some kind of netting to prevent cats or any other animal from coming inside.

 

And then there still this headache of a wall that keeps leaking rain water but we're unable to pinpoint where is the leakage source.

 

Christmas Shopping

This week we went to made some arrangement for the flower for the arch, pedestal and also the centre piece at orchidwoods. Since our date is quite near to Valentine's day, rose is pretty much out of the question. Had to settle for a Gerbera Daisy instead. In the same week, we also went to check out the greeting cards at banana greetings. Since I visit Toyota service centre quite often, I'd always thougt Banana Greetings(being just opposite across the road) is some kind of eatery. For once we are quite happy with the packaged deal and we added an additional 25% of the card just in case since the hotel only provide 75% quota. One last time, in the same week, we also went to confirm the finalized wedding photo. After the initial review we're quite glad that we were able ask the designer to make the changes that we feel would make the album as close to our preferance as possible.

Got it at 50% each, nowadays we always buys things during sales season only.

30% off the original price, you can say it fit the bill. Wasn't really sure if our bed package actually got come with one but I wasn't about to take chances of coming back again.

Pink Belly

dear's old phone went crazy by doing the I'll-off-myself-when-you-call routine, so some measure need to be taken to address that 'situation'. Been eyeing the TXT for quite some time since it was announce few months ago. What's unique about this phone is it's price point. It is dirt cheap and I'm seriously considering getting two more for both of my parents when their phone spoilt someday. And a qwerty keyboard.... physical type where you actually can feel when you type it. Not really a fan of touch screen, can't even type properly on a huge screen like ipad2.Clumsy me.

 

 

 

 

 

running on propiertary os, no need to update, jailbreak or pay for apps .. as there arent' any :)

 

not a typo on the word 'belly', in case your wondering :)

The Other Day

Got a pleasant surprised by Hui Jan and family with a complimentary macaroni bolognese i think it was. We really enjoy it very much. Thanks :) Which made me think of the Chana Masala recipe that I would like to try out on some free (a bit difficult at this moment to find that free time) weekend.

 

 

I was so busy this past week until I had to catch up on my english drama on my phone. Still got few seasons of dexter to get through.

 

You can redeem this gift if you purchase certain amount of value in a single receipt at the Spring Shopping Mall. No idea what is it, a white koala bear or a polar bear ?

 

My mum brought these back from my aunt's house at Kenyalang Park. She mention to me that the flower look like the shape of a bird. I think it look like a bird or a frog.

 

Until next time, tra la la ~~~

Adorable Visit

Was raining pretty heavily prior to our visit to One Jaya mall. Haven't been visiting Adorable Gift for quite some time now since we've been very busy with personal, work and more personal stuff for the last few months or so, again. Good to see adorable being as busy as the festive season. 

Look! It's a Pororo~~

 

Like the precious moment figurines but wallet is already in an unhealthy state. So window shopping nia lo.

 

Danbo activate....

Essence of Time

Hold your horses, that's not tortoises for breakfast. Just the legendary chinese pastry call Ang Ku Kueh. Okay maybe it's not really that Ang (red) in color. I remember I wanted to eat it but somehow I can manage to be busy with everything else until I totally forgot about it.

 

Occasionally I still got play it but been neglecting this for a few months now. At some point of time I might even consider selling it off to some second hand shop including the fat arse 27 inch crt tv that was specifically bought for the ps2. A once ardent gamer reduce to just a bystander. The commitment, work and things to do is a bit overwhelming at time. Sometime you just want to say, okay stop. If the ps2 have feelings, it probably want to break up the relationship with me long ago. :)

 

Finally got the cup holder for toothbrush replaced with a wall holder instead. It drops occasionally because the sucker behind the holder looks like poor plastic which explains why it is unable to handle the "mighty" weight of 2 toothbrush. The cup holder was replaced because it always get very dirty after a while. Seriously, its just like a dirt magnet!

 

Lastly, I wanted to replace the room door knob since February this year. And it's like fricking December now. Sometime I find it amusing how the hell I get so tied up in relation to time. It feels like I used to type at 50 words per minute 10 years ago and on present day at just 10 words per minute. Until I stop whatever I'm doing right now and give some solitary second for thoughts, I might never know what is eating up all my time. I have feeling it might because I'm starting to feel old or maybe I just need to kick start some mountain climbing activity once again.

 

Hectic Weekend #2

Hectic weekend again. Got the body medical report this week and as expected bad cholesterol level a bit high and good cholesterol was way lower than reference guide. Dear pointed out that it was because of my refusal to eat more fish meat was the cause of lower HDL. As for the high LDL ? Exercise more lo and eat less or none after 8pm. Which means no food after badminton since it run until 9pm. Thinking of trying the Kenyalang Park court someday since it's nearby us.  

 

The church arrangement is only awaiting the church form for formality. Still nervous when talking to both Reverand Lau and especially James Chin. Always froze in front of him. I hope he don't think I'm weird. lol. Started choosing some old photos for the wedding montage, still figuring out how to create it. And sincerely I hope it doesn't suck badly. haha.

 

We went to select the wedding photos again. Finally we settled with the album and should be able to see the finalized version on Dec 24. Which would also be a hectic week for the company. Juggling for free time just got even harder to deal with.

 

Completed a mini wet kitchen a few weeks ago. Still left the grill. Speaking of grill, my mum's dynamo washing liquid was stolen last week from our backyard. Still pretty new and she is kinda upset over it, since she got it pretty cheap from the Everise sales sometime ago. The bottle are still new and unused.

 

A top layer coating from the headlamp came off about a year ago and it got progressively worse. Manage to finally remedied it after seeking advice from Peter. Use Amway polish. The mess up headlamp looks a bit better now so I don't have to replaced it with a new one. I'm quite happy that a lot of my relative offered me their car for the wedding but somehow I quite fond of my own car. :) I just feel that using an expensive car just doesn't reflect me as person. I'm just a normal guy and I intend to stay that way.

 

She cook spagetthi again this weekend. Taste much better than the one we made few weeks ago.

 

Cheers people. Pray hard, work hard and rest well.

Hectic Weekend

Wah December already. Time is moving way too fast for us to savor it. You'd wonder could the earth just spin a little slower a bit ? Like say one day have 30 hours. :P Went for a body checkup at pathlab at Song Thian Chiok there. Irks us a lot that the customer service seem like too eager to push their expensive package at your face. All they took was just the blood and urine.

Once done, we went to Kenyalang Park for breakfast. Met with Monica and her husband at a coffee shop. How long has it been ? Very long indeed. All that memory of striding through Portrade came rushing back, but I turn my attention to Kolo Mee in just 5 second. Hungry bah ... yesterday no eat since 8pm. After that we spend the entire afternoon browsing and choosing through the wedding photo. From 400++ photos cut until 23. I think I might add another 2 later this saturday. Hard to choose when a lot are quite okay.

 

Sunday morning, I went with my parent to a newly opened kopitiam near the 4 1/2 mile, 7th Mile and Batu Kawah junction. I think it was opened for the 4th day if not mistaken. Parking is a bit sparse to say the least. Since the place is rather new, that's where the crowd usually gather. Got new toilet to try.

 

Quite a lot of choice of food. The usual suspect of Kolo Mee, Porridge, Fried Cook, Kam Pua and Eco Rice are present. Didn't see Laksa or Kueh Chap or Bak Kut Teh, but I'm sure it's somewhere around there. Didn't really go walk around the place.

 

 

There is fried vegetarian. Somewhat a rare sighting for me. Seldom go out eat so a bit suan pah lau on food. The kampua guy is my father friend. Because of that we ordered 3 bowl of kam pua that day. Taste okay but I think A1B2 there still much better than most.

 

Kam Pua Mee. Still lose deep deep to Kuching Kolo Mee and West Msia's Wantan Mee. Just my preferance. :D

 

On sunday night we went to the Kuching Association of Churches hall to checkout the Nan Yen Folk Orchestra performance. Dear uncle and friend were few of the performers and since I've never actually seen a chinese orchestra before, why not give it a go. The food are provided by Li Garden and it was just average.

 

The guy with the jean sitting on the left hand side is her uncle lo. Soon to my uncle too.

 

There is the chinese choir which was nice.

 

Cha cha dancing. Husband and wife team.

 

I'm not sure what dancing style is this but it was good entertainment.

 

The guy in the middle is the conductor who hails from KL but originated from Miri. He was a bit angry with the crowd for making way too much noise instead of enjoying the musical performance at one stage.

 

That's not a trophy he was holding btw. A weird kind of multilevel flute saxaphone hybrid. Uncle is standing with the group doing the singing. I think the voice of the group didn't really came out because of the wrong placement of the microphone. Overall the entire performance was good. I really enjoyed the folk musical by the Nan Yen Folk Orchestra. It actually also feel like a rehearsal for our wedding dinner in 2 months time. finger cross people. :)