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20Feb/111

The case of the missing..

Me.

It has been quite long since you last updated your blog hor?, one loyal reader asked :D

First, it was the long Chinese New Year break.
Then, it was back to long working hours. War has begun again in the office, back to how it was 2 to 3 months ago.

Let's go back to two, three weeks back!
* All photos taken using my new "digicam" a.k.a. iphone4 :-)

Chinese New Year 2011. Awesome reunion lunch at home; shopping at Mid Valley with Miss Lady Boss; jogging and badminton session with Kong cha; visiting my uncles and auntys (mom's siblings), so many new babies and kids this year!

Cycling (2^nd CNY in a row) at Putrajaya. Apparently less tiring than the one we had last year at Shah Alam.

It was also my little brother's birthday on 6^th Feb. Here he is with the necktie and new shoes gifted by his sisters. The boy is 19 this year!

Next, my youngest sister came over to Singapore the week after my Chinese New Year break. I was only able to accompany her on Sunday evening when she arrived. We also had breakfast together before I went to work the following days. Still, I've had *ahem* enough of her noise. Haha.

Later this week, I was so surprised to hear that Pei Yee got invited for an interview with one of the columnist in a local newspaper! Wow, that is something, right? Cannot wait to see the interview on paper :-) For those of you who would like to check out some of her inventions, please click here.

I was bugged with never-ending work last weekend and only got to do some walkabouts this weekend. More photos coming up on the new attraction at Marina Bay Sands, the ArtScience Museum.

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24Dec/100

How to be a good parent?

Guess I am the last person who should be talking about this.
However, as I get to witness it everyday from my landlord and landlady, I come to learn that a good parent is one who is patient enough to spend quality time with his/her kid.

Daddy would unwrap the Batman and Robin models together with his daughter.

On her birthday, Daddy and Mommy would decorate the house with balloons. A beautiful card was stuck on the wall that day and it read, "We are proud to have you as our daughter. Daddy and Mommy love you. Happy Birthday!"

On Christmas eve, they'd sit together and play Guess-The-Word. Daddy shouts, "1 word!! 1 word!! What happened in Europe in 1985?!" (lol, do you know what's the answer to this? The 9-year-old kid does!)

How many parent can do these simple but thoughtful things nowadays? :-)

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10May/100

For My Ma Cha

So, we decided no more surprises after the usual headaches we used to have twice a year (none other than Mother's Day and the Queen's birthday). This time we made her sit down and wait for hours before we served lunch. What's on the dining table?

Main course: Butter pork (no one bought chicken so we had to settle with pork), bak kut teh, canned abalones, sambal kangkung (was there sambal?), omelette with char siew (bbq pork), plain fried rice with onion.
Dessert: Vanilla ice-cream (by keller handmade)

The big chef for the day was *drum roll* Pei Yee. She spent more than 4 hours in the kitchen and came up with all the dishes in the main course list except for the fried rice. I specially requested that I would contribute the fried rice. I insisted this to be on the menu although someone else suggested that I should be assigned to take the Queen out for few hours so that the little chefs could prepare the food. The person who assigned this task to me cited that I could not even fry an egg! That was how the small surprise was being called off.

The bak kut teh tasted so ewww. I hate herbs. The butter pork seemed alright but the pork was too hard. The sambal kangkung tasted like sambal kangkung. The canned abalones were so salty!! The omelette tasted best for me! The ice-cream was not bad at all although the texture can be smoother. The plain fried rice with onion tasted like... plain rice with onion.

Happy Mother's Day, my ma cha!! :-*

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19Feb/100

CNY 2010 – The Extreme (Part 2)

..the journey continues.

And.. *drum roll*
Our main objective for visiting the Agriculture Park was..

Come, come! RM3 per hour! RM1 for every additional hour.

We were so ambitious as we wanted to go cycling for 2 hours. Little did we know that it was so, so tiring.. we did not even finish the exact first hour, we probably did 50 minutes or so hehe.

All of us had to try on various bicycles to find the most suitable one for us. We got so fed up with Ling cha for taking such a long time to test!

Fuiyoh! Bergaya kan? Getting ready to begin our expedition!

Budak kampung at Taman Padi.

Ma cha ber-jiwang at Taman Padi.

No smile? Act cool?

Cycling uphill was a very challenging task. Everyone resorted to pushing their bicycles up :D

Cycling downhill was so fun!

After the bicycle expedition, we stopped by at Uncle Vincent's house at Seri Hartamas to collect angpows!

Bottom, from left: Aunty and Uncle Vincent
Top: On the left is James (Uncle's handsome boy #1) and on the right is Jeremy (Uncle's handsome boy #2)

That was the end of my Chinese New Year holidays.. =(

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19Feb/101

CNY 2010 – The Reunion

The long holidays ended so quickly without me noticing.
Nevertheless, it was a fun one :-)

This year's Chinese New Year was slightly different in that we did not do our usual extended family get-together due to our Aunt's passing. However, we did our usual movie-day on the first day of Chinese New Year (an 11:30PM show) and this time we picked - My Astro 大日子 Woohoo! It's a movie that will not disappoint you when you think of.. local production. We had lots of fun in the cinema. Mom began her laughing marathon as soon as the movie started. Ling cha and I went, errr?, staring at Mom.