A day out with Melanie and Co.

Melanie came to Penang and fetched me to places today (Actually, Kent drove). I was still feeling drowsy when she called as I was sleeping after came back from work. As soon as I got into the car, I suddenly became less sleepy.

Kent drove us to a cake shop for drink/ice-cream and had a little chat. I had green tea and I have to thank Kent for the treat. :)

Thank you!!!!

The next agenda was to go to Hard Rock Hotel (yes, it is a tourist spot right now) and snapped some photos. Pastor Richard and Aunty Susan as well as some of their friends joined us at this point of time. We saw the sunset (well, almost) and then headed to Tanjung Tokong Food Court for dinner as the initial plan to go to Macalister Road fell through due to the heavy traffic.

We met up with Charmaine, Noa and Siew Kuan and had dinner together. I ordered roast pork rice but I was brought a plate of chicken rice instead. Never mind, I can forgive the stall since it was busy. Ever since I work in a hotel, my patience level has been going up. Thank God for the Patience Training!

Straits Quay was up next!

I looked at the beautiful yachts and wonder about rich people. Well, I can only watch from afar and not even touch it. I can only afford to own it in my dream. :P

Some beautiful cakes I saw from Sugar.

Angry Birds!


Mommy and I forever ♥


Who moved my cheese?


The classic Charlie Brown and Snoopy!

That's the end of my eve of Triple Pay Day and First Day of Raya!

Once again, Happy Raya Merdeka to everyone!!!!

Night Shift

Yes, I have been lazy in updating again. I don't blame anyone for my laziness but I am living a bat life for five nights. That's because I am working in night shift and I sleep during the day and work during the night. But that doesn't mean I can excuse myself from blogging right? :)

I know.

So what do I think about working nights? I think it is quite interesting because it is way quieter in the night and the work pressure is less felt. I enjoy it. The downside is of course I have to sleep during the day which is not so normal. I am slowly adjusting to the shift and I have another two nights to go before going into afternoon shift.

It's going to be payday again soon! I love my work. :)

Dinner at Claypot Place and the debut of The Car

Elaine took me to a new place for food today. After watching The Loan Shark, we headed to a place with claypots.

The dishes that we ordered or what Alfred ordered for us.

From the top left: Claypot 'Hong Bak' Pork (Nyonya style), Brinjal with minced meat and Thai style tofu.

Each dish snapped individually.


It tasted like the usual Thai style tofu from other places.


This one is special. I had so much potatoes and I thought they put a little too much potatoes. I later found out Alfred and Elaine didn't manage to eat the potatoes. Oops!


My favourite! Quite delicious and it reminded me of Poh San's cooking.

Take a look at this car!

Why are you not orange in colour?????

Sexy black car

The interior.

Will be starting my night shift on Saturday till Wednesday and I am excited! Had a crash course of what I am supposed to do during night shift. I hope I can remember everything. :)

Love is the Only Answer

The trailer of Love is the Only Answer.

There's a little influence from My Sister of Eternal Flower at some point of the movie.

Orange pillow for the butt

I am in love with Orange. I have an orange phone and I recently bought two litres of Orange-fragrant body shampoo and now I am looking at an Orange pillow.

Maybe I should paint my car orange too.

Let's check the pillow out, shall we?


Look at the juicy orange. I wonder if it will be comfortable.

The backs of the orange.

Do you want an orange pillow too?

Careless Whisper - Instrumental

Careless Whisper for mommy dearie!

Barley

I have been so inspiration-less that I have no idea what to blog but I thought that I should blog about BARLEY today.

There are so much goodness about barley. It has been a very long time since I have eaten home-boiled barley drink and I long to drink one now. I have had enough of powdered form barley drinks.

Barley is believed to be a preventive cure for cancer and cardiovascular disease as well as Type 2 Diabetes.


The origin of barley. This is how a barley plant looks like. It's wonderful to know that each grain has a priceless value for deterring deadly diseases.


The grains freshly plucked from the plant. This grains look very different from the regular Ipoh barley grains that I see. Hmm...


Look! These grains look more familiar, don't you think?


Another shot of the grains with a human touch to it.

I always thought barley can only be boiled but there are actually various ways to use barley in recipes.


Barley stew with onions and carrots. This picture makes me go hungry.

For those who are more into baking, you can make barley pies too!

I have never tasted barley pies. I wonder how they actually taste like? Anyone daring enough to take up the challenge to bake it? When you do, remember to leave a comment here so I can rush to where you are to have a bite. :)

After writing this post, I feel like going to a barley plantation. Any recommendation where I can find one?

Happy birthday, Elaine!

Two days ago, I celebrated Elaine's birthday with Alfred and we went to Bar B Q Plaza for dinner. The initial plan was to go to a claypot place but it was unfortunately closed. What a luck the birthday girl had.

But it was a blessing in disguise as Elaine had not been to Bar B Q Plaza before and she finally had a chance on her 21st birthday.


Look at the array of pork and vege on the large plate.

There was a promotion and Elaine got discount for what we ordered. She insisted on paying for the food and said that it was only 21 years once that she will be treating us.

And so we sat there for almost one and a half hours barbecuing away and making delicious soup!

The next agenda was either to watch a movie or to go for a karaoke session. We headed to Red Box and the price was crazily expensive. RM47 per person and to make it all worthwhile, we had to sing till 3 in the morning! Then we asked whether we can sing till 10 and pay at a lower rate and the cashier said no, we still have to pay the same price.

So we thought of finding a movie to watch and because I had wanted to treat her the karaoke session, I pestered her to watch a movie but she said she didn't want to. She suggested that we walked about in the mall and then go home.

We came across this shop that sold Bird Nest Tart at RM18 for 3 and I insisted on going in. As there were three of us, it was the ideal place to stop and rest while enjoying a tart each.

Elaine and I. Notice the many bottles behind us that contained different kinds of bird nests.

Our pao shen tea with the egg tarts. If you look closely, you can see the bird nest on the tarts.

Don't laugh, but this was my first time eating bird nest. Never would I have thought that my first encounter with bird nest will be associated with egg tarts.

I was going to pay for this but Alfred was being insensitive and took my chance. In the end, I paid for the parking ticket that amounted to RM4.50 with Elaine's consent. :P

I am already in my fourth week as a permanent staff! How time flies!

RM6 note

Have you seen the new RM6 note? I thought it was for real at first but when I saw the note, I went Hahahahahahahah!!!!!!!!!!!!!!



Hope you have a great laugh as I did!

A short trip back to Ipoh once again!

I was back in Ipoh for a while to get my certs and I spent some time playing with the Elles. They slept more than play. I let them into the house for almost one and a half hours and they slept like babies.


Dozing off into wonderland.


They sleep nose to nose.

Speaking of dogs, here is a cute video of a dog jumping into the water. SPLASH SPLASH!!!

I had an adventure today. I left my purse together with my bus ticket in it in the car which my sis had driven to college and my dad drove like Batman to get to her college so that I could retrieve it.

Made it in time to the bus station but the bus was not there yet. Then at 4pm, when the bus was about to move, an old lady said she left her luggage and went down to retrieve it but it was actually inside the luggage compartment on top of her seat.

Finally reached home at 8pm and now I am sitting in front of the laptop typing my adventure. There was a bit more to it about how I met a Chinese Indonesian lady who spent 10 days in Penang and how sardine-packed the Rapid was. Good thing I got a seat or else I would be sandwiched by the people.

Tomorrow will be another day of work. I am getting used to it and hope I make less mistakes. Hehehe...

Prangin Mall Outing

Went for a movie today and it was indeed an interesting movie. Funny yet touching at the same time. Bought a popcorn and a bottle of mineral water too and I couldn't finish it. As a matter of fact, I just finished the popcorn just now. It was just too sweet.


My sweet popcorn. RM6.20 set.

Oh did I mention I got free pantyliners given to me as soon as I walked into Prangin Mall? Guess I will be giving them to my sister. Hehe..

My early dinner at 4pm just now before going to church.


Char Koay Teow! RM3.50 only!

The sermon today was by Mr Lee Wee Min, the Regional Director of Focus on the Family. It was very interesting and he can be humourous at times. He also shared with us this poem by Linda Ellis, The Dash.



This video is very inspiring and it makes you think a lot about life.

Perfect Rivals

It's been two weeks since I started working and I got my first pay slip! It's not much but I am still happy to get my very first salary. :)

Tomorrow will be my off day and will most probably go and watch this movie entitled Perfect Rivals. The review seems good.



I am interested in watching this movie because of the familiar faces!

Hope tomorrow will be a good day! Please don't rain! I need to walk!

Frozen Ice-Cream and Flooding Marketplace

I had a strange dream this evening while I was taking a nap. I could have remembered all the details better if I had written it down right after I woke up but I did not so here was a brief version of what actually happened in my dream.

I was in a place where there were a lot of people. Sitting on the floor at a desk, my bro and sis were there and she bought me 4 scoops of strawberry and blueberry (2 scoops of each) frozen ice-cream. I knew it was ridiculous because ice-cream was already frozen and there was no need to repeat the word 'frozen' in its name. But that was what my sister said it was. Then I saw my parents too and my sis said she got to go and it seemed she was going to drive back from Penang to Ipoh.

I got distracted at some point and then I forgot to eat the frozen ice-cream. The curious thing was, no matter how long I left it on the table, it did not melt. Then I tried to call my sister, in my head realizing that she could be driving at this point of time but I went ahead and dialed. I asked her why didn't the ice-cream melt and she said frozen ice-cream was like that. They just don't melt easily. I started eating the ice-cream, savouring it bit by bit and then caught sight of the receipt of the ice-cream. It was RM35 something. Could not remember the cents behind it. I told my sis that it was so thoughtful of her to buy me such expensive ice-cream and she replied frozen ice-cream was expensive.

Then I was walking along the corridor outside where I was sitting enjoying the ice-cream and reached a marketplace. People were busy shredding and cleaning shrimps and in the process of doing so, the liquid from the shrimp started raining on me because too many people were hurling their shrimps in the air while cleaning them. There was another lady who was slicing five red chilies at a time using a queer equipment with 5 holes in it and a knife along it. Brilliant thing invented to slice chilies quicker I should say though I was not sure if it would really work in real life.

Then I exited the market place and then found the floor at the entrance flooded. I went out and then reached one corner by a flight of stairs and saw a police officer clad in white uniform began to fall asleep on my white pair of slippers. I told him to get up and said the slippers might suit his uniform but it did not suit him. His expression was of a mixture of shock and surprise, a little bit of anger too I supposed. Then I told him he should not be sleeping because the marketplace was flooding (which I knew was a lie because only the entrance was flooded actually). He quickly got up and went to the marketplace. On the way there, I saw that my table (where I was eating frozen ice-cream just now) was flooded and the flood consisted of liquid from the shrimps. I went to my table and got my laptop speakers which were on the floor up to the table but the liquid was rising at an incredible rate.

I woke up after that. Weird dream, huh? The best part of it was, I could still remember the taste of the frozen ice-cream till now. Yummy!

Cheat post

First day at work and I feel strange. Everything seems kind of complicated. But I have a good mentor so she makes me feel my day is not too stressful after all.

Gone for a medical check-up after work and I hope all will be well.

Nothing to say for now. See ya! I know this post cheats people. :P

Funny Interpretative Dance

This video makes me laugh! It's not easy to dance the lyrics of a song out.

Careless Whisper with David Armand.

Another chapter of my life. The Working World.

It is time for me to face the fact that I am not a student anymore (although I will still be using my student card to purchase movie tickets as it only expires in 2013). I am slightly scared but mostly excited at the same time because at long last, I will be earning my own money. It's not much but good enough for a first job. :)

Work starts on Monday and the next trip back to Ipoh is still unknown. During the past six months, I have the freedom to claim my public holidays to come back but this is not the case when I am now a permanent staff.

I have had a long break! Time to work hard!

Pig Pig 猪 finally for sale!

If you have watched 花花世界花家姐, you would have known the famous Pig Pig 猪 in the series.


A scene from the drama depicting the pigs.


The whole family for sale at the price of RM125. Each is 20cm in height and the whole set weighs about 0.5kg.

I am only interested in the the purple one.

Cute or not?

For more inquiries, please click here for more info on the Pig Pig 猪!

Elly was being a bully!

Elly can be a little overwhelming at times and I can see that she enjoys bullying Elsa. Sometimes I think Elsa is being threatened when she does not dare to get the toy back from Elly. What was the threat about, I wonder?


See how Elly gets the toy most of the time without Elsa fighting back.

Shades

Went to an optical shop the other day and sis and I went to try on the shades.


Nice?


Eunice likes this shot


Eunice tried on white-framed one too.

Bobby, the newcomer for a night.

Last night, there was a visitor named Bobby. She's actually neighbour's puppy and we puppy-sat for her. It's funny that she has a male name.


Eunice and the pup. She is one mischievous puppy.




Tiny little thing.






She's so tiny that I can carry her like carrying a baby.














The only picture of me and Bobby.

Look at her ghostly eyes.


Getting drowsy.


She is even smaller than the size of my sister's palm.


We tried making her ears stand. She did look a bit like a chihuahua.




Sis enjoying photo-shooting with her.


She soon got tired and went to sleep on the sofa.

There will be many shots of her sleeping after this so there will be no captions on her sleeping photos.


















Pinky paw!




The sofa was not so good. Sleeping on human thigh better!














Aww, such a cute baby!






Hey, Bobby! Meet Elsa!


Communicating in dog language.


She got scared and hid in between my legs.


Elsa wondering what Bobby is doing.






They got along pretty well.




Elsa watching Bobby.




A beautiful picture of Elsa.

I brought Bobby with me to bed last night. My first time having a dog in my room. She didn't want to sleep on the floor so I put the towel on my bed and she slept there. Throughout the night, she nibbled my ears, hands, legs and even the towel. The cutest thing was when she went to a corner and left some 'gold' there. She knew how not to mess up her sleeping place.

Below are some videos of her screaming.

Attention-seeking Bobby!

When she was locked up this morning. She kept crying and crying. Very naughty. There's also one scene when she bit the cage.

Too lazy to do report but still have to. Sigh.