100th post

This is my 100th post. Never thought I made it this far in my blog!!

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Crispy Arrowheads

With Chinese New Year just weeks away, I’m having a rather late start this year in preparing stuff to celebrate the Year of the Rat. There’s plan to bake cookies rather than purchase it, there’s also the house to clean, decorations to be put up, groceries to be bought, etc..

Tried my hand at frying arrowheads as I spotted really big ones in Tesco. The method is simple but rather tedious as you need to scrape the skins, then thinly sliced it and fry it over slow fire. No wonder it’s selling so expensive!! However I’m pleased with the result *0*

arrowheads ~ scraped and thinly sliced

arrowheads sizzling away in the hot oil

** the end product **
about 29 arrowheads that only cost me RM11 produces 5 bottles ready to be eaten

Usually salt is sprinkled on it but I prefer mine plain.

Surprise Surprise!!

I received a card from Pos Malaysia stating that there’s a document too big that can’t fit into my company’s mailbox attention to me and am required to collect it personally. First thing that came to mind was who and what is that documents that is “too big” for the mailbox!!

Made arrangements to leave the office earlier today to collect the document. It was a parcel from Nurnberg, Germany. I was like, hhmmm….. who send me this? I do deal with my German colleagues but it’s not like very close dealing or what, just casual work related dealings. So I was rather surprise to receive something from Germany.

Upon reaching home, first thing I did ~ Yes!! open the parcel to see what’s inside Was I surprise to received this….

It’s a can of gingerbread. Yeah, you’ll be thinking it’s New Year already!! this is for Christmas. For unknown reasons I don’t know why Pos Malaysia held on to this parcel as the date stated on the card is 26 Dec 2007. I guess this is the date it arrives but I only receive the card on 7 Jan 2008!!

Anyhow, I’m happy and pleased to receive this from a lady who is the Personal Assistant to one of the ‘big shot’ in our Company’s group. You feel appreciated from that far away although the dealings may be 3 times in a year the most!!

This is really a nice perk-me-up feeling I ever had since the start of this year!

Welcome 2008!!

collection from yummyflashy.blogspot.com

While others are still basking, enjoying and welcoming the new year or sleeping-in after a great countdown the night before, I’m at the clinic visiting the doctor got totally drugged taking the medication and slept the whole day off!! What a great start to a New Year huh…

Anyway this is a brand new year thus a brand new look (header) for my blog. Little did I realised that I’ve been blogging for slightly over a year now. It has been a great way for me to keep my memoirs and I hope this brand new year will bring more happy memories to blog about albeit the first day of 2008 that left me blurred head!!

Happy New Year 2008!! and hope that all wishes comes true for all of us this year and most importantly each and everyone is in the pink-ist of HEALTH!!

Table attraction…

Table centrepiece for Christmas Eve Dinner at my place. Alas, forgot to snap pictures of the foodie prepared
and yes, that’s an actual orange in case you’re wondering :p

Christmas Nostalgia..

It has always been my favourite season of the year ~ Christmas!! The malls are decked in festive Christmas colours, lots of different themes/decorations as they compete year after year and not forgetting those lovely Christmas tunes

Each time I hear any Christmas carols, it always bring a smile on my face as it just lighten me up, making me in a really cheerful and holiday spirit!

Add this on to those lovely decorations and voila, I just wish that everyday it will be this great feeling. No work, no worries

This year, the malls did a great job again in their decorations :

Marching Bands @ 1U, Bandar Utama

Christmas Lodge @ The Curve, Mutiara Damansara

The North Pole Express @ Ikano Power Centre, Mutiara Damansara

Fairy Whisper @ Mid Valley Megamall

I’ll leave you with one of my favourite Christmas carols ~ Chestnuts Roasting On An Open Fire. Hope you have a Berry Good Christmas and Happy Holidays!!

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Merry Christmas Everyone!!

credits : KSC_Charm of Christmas_Foliage Frame Spec & MAD_SSLyo Stocking Special-2007

Happy Winter Solstice!

Today, we celebrated Winter Solstice rather differently. We went to Exotic – a Vietnamese, Thai and Cambodian Cuisine at Sri Hartamas. Initialy, the venue was to be at The Ming Room, Bangsar Shopping Centre but it was changed by my 8th aunt so that we can savour something ‘different’.

‘Different’ it was and a great experience as well (on some of the dishes which is my first try).

Here’s rolling it off what we had :

~ Fresh Prawn Roll (prawns rolled with vegetables. the mint leaves is a bit too heavy for my liking tho..)
~ Spring Roll (this is the fried version, could not make out what’s inside besides veggies!)
~ Vietnamese Crepe (crispy thin crust with fillings of chick peas, chicken and prawns)
~ Mango Salad
~ Cambodian Salad (shreds of cabbage and bits of chicken in it)
~ Steamed Rice Cakes with Prawns (first time I tried this, a tiny plate with a layer of steam rice and bits of crouton, minced prawns and chick peas. Add fish sauce, mix and eat it!)
~ Pineapple Rice
~ Lotus Seed Rice (it came wrapped in lotus leaves)
~ Grilled Squid
~ Thai Tom Yam Fish (steamed)
~ Beef Stew
~ Mixed Vegetables

A total of 14 pax and 1 toddler shared the above menu. For dessert, we had mango and glutinous rice with coconut milk and cambodian fried banana with ice cream. Not to forget the drink I had which was the Lemongrass drink. It has just the right amount of lemongrass, not too heavy nor light in taste!

Happy Winter Solstice everyone!

credits : foodie photos from my 8th aunt camera & photos of restaurant and ‘tong yuen’ from the web and flickr

Happy Birthday Dad!

Today is my dad’s 66th birthday. We celebrated by having a simple family dinner at Seapark.

Today is also the day my dad went for a bone scan. He had been suffering back pain for the past one over month (Spinal Compression Fractures). Been going for therapy every Saturday and numerous scans/tests to find out the exact cause besides osteoporosis. Can say that today’s test is the final fatal test to see and know exactly what’s inside. At 2.23pm today, I received a SMS from him (in his own words) “Jesus has given me a very good birthday gift. No bone cancer.” Yay! Praise God!! What a relief!!

I still remember the days when I was very young say 5 – 6 years old and being naughty, my dad would be chasing me around the house (around chairs actually :p) holding the cane but not beating me but those chairs that I run to one another. It really scared me till I’m older that whenever the cane is being mentioned, I would be behaving very well!! This same scenario happened to my brother as well told by my mum when I was older. You see, the cane that my dad used never touched our flesh. He just uses it to scare us to behave well. It worked well and ONCE was all it took.

60+ years on and the same technique delivered to his grandchildren and does it work? Nope. They made him freaking mad one day and the cane was not spared. A lesson well learned though, for they were afraid the next time round for making their grandad angry after numerous warning. Thus it was ONCE and message delivered!

I’m using this technique on Cavan as I don’t believe in beating (well maybe once, a no-nonsense ONCE). Let’s hope that the “once” does not even need to take place.

Happy Birthday Daddy!!

Surprise Pressie! :)

I received a surprise Christmas pressie from my colleague in Singapore and the Santarina that helped brought my pressie across the South China Sea is my boss!! hehehe….

Looking at the wrapped pressie, my initial thought was a bar of chocolate. However, it felt too hard for a chocolate and there’s groove at the side, so my second guess was a photo frame. When I opened my pressie (yah, couldn’t wait till Christmas Day :p), it never cross my mind that I would receive this……

A “Precious Moments” frame of my name!! It’s kewl and I love it lots!!

Thank you Jackie for the lovely gift.