Thursday, February 14, 2008

Will you Kelly Tan E Li marry me?

I was told yesterday that there is a marriage proposal ad. up by the road that I drive to and fro work EVERYDAY. And the fact is, I was so focused on the road that I totally missed the ad. So here is a picture I took from this blog that I'm gonna show it here.
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Isn't that the most romantic thing to do right before St. Valentines Day?

2/15/2008
Update on this hopelessly romantic marriage proposal.

Wednesday, February 13, 2008

Everything has to come to an end PART III

Totally forgot to mention previously that during the second day of Chinese New Year where all the married daughters came home with their own family. My dad decided to gather EVERYONE to take a family picture. Boy, it was some hard work. My dad came up with this idea due to my bro's semi-professionalism in photography and his nice a** Nikon or errr... Canon camera??? Sorry bro, I know you gonna have a cow with me not remembering it. lol. So anyways, we spent like over 30mins trying to figure out who stands/sits where and how. Finally, everyone got its own place and the picture session begins. What more, the moms and the dads had to get their kids to look at the camera or tell them to sit still OR have to somehow make them smile for the camera and not cry. GOOD JOB moms and pops. I don't have the group photo with me right now, I promise once I have it I will show it to you what a GIGANTIC family I have. AND not everyone is there for the photo session...
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Sixty of us that day. Still it wasn't complete... Coz some left earlier that morning =)

Saturday (Feb 9th), after one great night of partying with Effa and Kimmy. You'd think we'll sleep til the cows come home. No, we didn't because we (as in Kimmy lol) still have shopping to do. HA. So I woke up at 8am after only three hours of sleep, had breakfast, got ready, and on our way to none other than my favorite mall Mid Valley. We were there on the right day, where there was Lion Dance performance. I love lion dance still at this age!!!! Also glad that Kimmy get to enjoy it! She told me she took a good amount of pictures too. =) We stood and waited for half hour for the show to start. It was all well worth. Basically, my sister and I walked everywhere, Kimmy shopped alone, mother and auntie checked out some Chinese tea, Chinese hand crafts, bro and cousin... eh whatever that they were doing. After five hours of shopping, we're tired and exhausted. Again, it was a very good day.

Sunday (Feb 10th), the day has finally come. Kimmy was scheduled to leave at night, flying back to where she calls home, Montana. Days before, I promised her that I'll bring her to Putrajaya (Malaysia's capital) for more photo sessions. But on this day, I just wanna lazy-ing around with my family. What a horrible friend eh? Well, we did go. I drove there not knowing as to where I'm going. I have not been there and only seen road signs of exit to Putrajaya. No worries, I made it there. Putrajaya is a beautiful place. Trees, bridges, buildings, mosque and supposedly there is an istana i.e. palace. Either I missed it OR I saw it without knowing what it was. Hahaha.
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MAGNIFICO!!!

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Just us two.

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See that bridge back there?

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Government offices back there, the brown buildings. Looks like a huge a** mall doesn't it?

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Me and my strong men oh yea!

I love the time spent with Kimmy. She brought a little America to me. *sob sob* Not only that she also brought me Yummy OceanSpray Cranberry (that I've missed so much) and Montana-made granola, a deck of card that was used in actual dealing from one the Vegas casinos, Montana Huckleberry tea and Huckleberry hot cocoa. Thank you so much darling!
It is sad that I can't afford to visit her and her family in the states anytime soon coz we always have so much fun together!!!

Lastly, let me end this "trilogy" with this picture of my sister. =) Have a laugh! Live life!!!
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Waiting at the airport to fly home. Sippin on some Ice Milo. Isn't she cute!!!

Tuesday, February 12, 2008

Everything has to come to an end PART II

Sunday night Kimmy and I chat our hearts out til about 2 in the morning. Coz we just love to talk. LOL.
Monday (Feb 4th), I woke up at 830am thinking the Super Bowl starts at 915am Malaysian time and we were supposed to go over to Mitch's house to watch the game together. BUT, when I turned on my TV at 9am, the game was already half way done. Boy was I mad because I was missed informed by the Astro guide, Mitch called me up during half time to see if I still wanna go over. So we went.
*Mitch, my primary school classmate, is someone that I last saw TEN/ELEVEN years ago.
The game was really good. GIANTS totally kicked PATRIOTS asses!!!!! YEAY!!!! And they say PATRIOTS were un-defeatable. Right... It was a good day that day.

Tuesday (Feb 5th), Kimmy and I woke up extra early just to go to the market near my house. I want her to see how us local people shop for daily necessities like breakfast, poultry, meat, fish, veg, eggs, pajamas, clothes, newspaper, fruits and etc. After our stroll in the market, we went home for breakfast, followed by trip to the park in Bukit Jalil. Kimmy took tons of pictures there. Will post them up when I can get my hands on em. Later that day, I drove Kimmy to Sunway Pyramid to do some shopping and then we did dinner @ Tony Roma's with my primary school classmates to celebrate Mitch's homecoming. LOL. We left around 11 something and managed to get home before twelve. Packed up my things and were ready to go to Alor Setar.

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Just part of our breakfast on the lazy Susan.

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Them peeps and Kimmy and Mitch facing away from the camera, how smart.

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Ah here is a good look at Mitch. Yea and that salad you're looking at was mine. And the on side you see a glass of something, that was my Mojito. What do I think about it? Too little mint, Too little sugar, Too little Bicardi Rum.

Wednesday (Feb 6th), our entire family got up around 5am to get ready for the flight at 745am to Alor Setar, Kedah where my father is from. So we were sitting around waiting on our cabs. They were suppose to show up at 6am but only one did. My dad was furious and more angry coz he couldn't yell at the cab company coz he lost his voice the previous night. LOL. My dad ended up driving my mother and sister to the airport while Kimmy, brother and I took the cab. I seriously thought we ain't gonna make it. But thanks to our speedy driver, we got there on time to check in and everything. Couple of hours later, we landed on the Rice Bowl of Malaysia. Didn't surprised me, the weather is stinkin' HOT, as if there were TEN suns shining down on us. We checked into our crappy, moldy smelling hotel and headed off to my grandma's house.
On the side note, in lunar calender Feb 6th was the last day of the year. Traditionally, you're suppose to clean out your house, throw away old things, pretty much like Spring cleaning. =) Off with the old stuffs and welcome new things into the new year. And dinner time, everyone is suppose to sit down together for dinner. We call it "tuan-yuan fan" literally means reunion rice. Hahaha. Nah it means everyone getting together for the last day of the year. Since we weren't home this year, we can't do the cleaning but was able to have "tuan yuan fan". More on that, if you're married you will go to your in-laws house to have dinner. If you're not married like me, you will just stay put. LOL.
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Mother, grandma, father and sister. Bro was off somewhere taking pics and I was the camera man.

Thursday (Feb 7th), first day of the Chinese New Year. We dressed in our new clothes, new shoes too preferably, put on our best smiles (behavior) and went over to my grandma's. On this day whoever you come across you're suppose to wish them Xin Nian Kuai Le (Happy New Year) and Gong Xi Fa Cai (Wishing you wealth and prosperity). If you're married, you will give out ang pau to kids and singles who are younger in age. If you're not married again like me, you will stick your hands out to collect them. =) Worst than Christmas eh? You can pick and choose who you want to give gifts too. But Chinese New Year, you MUST give ang pau whether you like it or not.

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Just us having dinner the evening of Chu Yi (First day of Chinese New Year).

Friday (Feb 8th), second day of Chinese New Year is when all those married daughters come back to spend time with their own family. So,guess what then, four of my five aunties came back to visit bringing along their children and grand children. The house instantly turned into a mad house where kids are playing running crying. We flew back to KL that night itself. Honestly, I cannot take anymore of the burning hot weather. We touched down around 10 at KLIA got home at 11pm. Effa came to pick Kimmy and I up for a night out. Yup, we're crazy like that. We planned on going to Savahn but there was maybe like two people in the club so we decided to walk down the street to some other clubs. Basically we were club shopping. Finally, we found this place (I forgot its name), music seemed decent (Hip Hop mixed in a lil techno), well at least there was a crowd. We danced our booties off that night. Great fun!!!

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In da club

Monday, February 11, 2008

Everything has to come to an end PART I

This week is finally over. Kimmy's visit is over, Chinese New Year celebration is over. Now everything has gone back to normal, well, at least in my house. It is bitter sweet. Bitter because Kimmy had left last night after one whole week of catching up and revisiting old times. Sweet because it is very nice visiting grandma despite some really brutal hot weather up north.
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Sissy and Kimmy at the back of my grandma's house.
Okay let me rewind a little. My brother is home for 2-3 weeks now. He had recently picked up this new hobby of playing with his pro camera, I call him my semipro-photographer. LOL.
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That's my semipro-photog
Back to the story, so he came home, he brought along Baileys, yummy Macadamia nuts, a pair of shade for my papa, a pair of running shoes for mama, a little Roxy purse for sissy, a deep conditioning conditioner from Aveda for me (thanks for remembering that I love Aveda) AND some movies that I had asked for YEAY!!! It was like Christmas all over again hahaha! Oh and we get to meet his gorgeous gf, Joyce, for the first time too!!! =) Thank you so much bro it was really nice having you home again.

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Oh yea, Baileys with coffee flavored ice cream is heavenly.
The following Wednesday, didi (my brother) and I went into town to KLCC to meet up with Kimmy. She was in town as a part of her tour from Thailand, Malaysia and S'pore. We met up, we gave each other a great bear hug, we chat for a bit, we took pictures of KLCC and we headed to her "hotel" on Petaling Street (Malaysia's Chinatown) to pick up her luggage. Lemme tell you something, Petaling Street is not a place for everyone. It is FILTHY, it is STINKY, it is HOT, it is full of people that you don't wanna associate yourself with. I now know why my mother never brought us there and never wanted us to "shop" there. =) So, we grabbed her bag full of souvenirs and be well on our way to leave that icky place. The reason why she wants to tumpang the bag at our house is coz she doesn't wanna drag it all the way to Singapore and haul it back to KL again. It was great seeing her. We talked about Hawaii and what we did there as if we had never left paradise.
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Photo taken under ground at KLCC LRT station.

On that Sunday (Feb 3rd), Effa picked me up in the evening to do some catching up before picking Kimmy up at KL Sentral. We went to a really nice restaurant in Bangsar named Delicious! I ordered a spinach and pine nut quiche and it was outta this world. Very creamy, very nutty, and a little vege on the side to make you feel better bout yourself LOL.
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Yummy Quiche!!!! They topped the quiche with pine nuts and then baked it. Oh my!!!
After dinner, we picked up Kimmy and decided to head back to Bangsar coz Kimmy is hungry and she wants real food. Effa brought us to Madam Kwan's, food a bit pricey but worthy. For instance, my BIG o' bowl of
cendol. It will costs me RM5.50 to get a cup of Milo ice and RM5.80 for a thing of cendol. Of course I picked cendol duh!! Kimmy ordered Fried Kuey Teow and Effa got herself Frutty Nutty 3 scoops of chocolate ice cream. WOW.
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When I say big I mean it. This bowl of cendol has cendol of course (that's the green looking thing at the bottom), shaved ice doused with coconut milk, sweetened red bean and melted gula Melaka on the side for you to pour it all over your cendol. Kimmy's Fried Kuey Teow and she loved it.

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Effa's dessert right there. Raisins, peanuts, whipped cream on top of her ice cream.

Too much food talk is making me hungry, I must leave now for some sustenance.
TO BE CONTINUED.

Friday, January 25, 2008

My brother is coming back tomorrow!

Phew the wait is finally over. I am so so so excited, cannot wait to catch up with him again. He will be back for about a month before he has to go back to Brisbane for school again. ;) The last time I saw him was back in Feb 2007. Tomorrow around 530am I will be driving my mother and sissy to get my brother from KLIA. A very first time for me to be picking up my brother because usually I'm the one they are picking up. Haha!
This year, all of us including my friend Kimmy will be going to Alor Setar to celebrate Chinese New Year with my paternal grandma. Should be "inneresting" LOL.

Monday, January 21, 2008

Keep that toilet clean missy!

The urge of writing this blog came from the thought of how FILTHY Malaysians' public toilets are!!! AND not understanding why can't people keep the public restrooms/toilets/loos/washroom clean.

I have not been to the mens' room here in Malaysia so the restrooms that I referred to in this blog will only be womens' restrooms.

When I was younger I thought that dirty toilets are part of our lives and that there is nothing we can do to change this and I accepted it. But after living in the states for almost five years, I learned that clean and hygienic public toilets are not impossible. Now, whenever I go out with my family, I would make damn sure I emptied my bladder before I leave the house OR will (rather) suffered from the urges of needing to pee than using the public restrooms. Yes very pathetic.

Come on ladies!!!!
Aren't we females usually the ones that kept our household clean? (I know you men do the cleaning too, sometimes) Don't we like our men clean and well groomed? OK, that's a bit off the point. It is so disturbing to me that some ladies could walk out of the toilet head held high knowing that they didn't even bother to flush it. SHAME ON YOU. Where is our self-respect? Imagine inviting your friends to your filthy house for a movie night, you wouldn't want that? Or would you?
Think about how would the tourists view our country. Oooh Malaysia such an exotic country, friendly people, gorgeous rainforest's, great snorkeling spots,
having one of the most tallest building (once was) and etc. BUT we, the friendly Malaysians, somehow managed to screw up one of the most basic infrastructure ---> Public Restroom. Not a very good impression. It's like saying Truly Asia with Truly Nasty Loos.

People people people... is it really so-very-out of your way to simply just flush after use, turn of the tap water after use and discard your nasty stuff like tissue, toilet paper, sanitary napkins where they are suppose to be??? And please don't get me started with people who squat on the sitting toilet??? Leaving their lovely shoe prints on the sitting cover of the toilet bowl???
Few years back in one of the shopping malls. I saw, get this, the half sitting half squatting toilets!!!! Those were for people that like to squat on sitting toilets OR I guess for those who doesn't like to squat on squatting toilets? AND Few months back an article in our local Chinese newspaper, government was saying how they would allocate some money to assemble "toilet squad"??? Where the "toilet squad" hangs around public restrooms to make sure everyone keeps the toilets clean??? What has my country came to? I was utterly speechless. Do you girls want to continue to be ignorant and selfish?

Oh yea, another reason for others to call us a developing country... Besides our forever late public transportation and our oh-so-wonderful postal system.

Tuesday, January 15, 2008

Urban Dictionary

Dear all!
Some of you might have known this since forever. But I just found out what "skeet" really means. LOL Please pardon my ignorance. You can hear this word being repeated over and over again in one of Lil' Jon & The Eastside Boyz songs. I found the "meaning" of this word from an Urban Dictionary. I forgot what I was looking for on Google and bumped into this site. And I thought sure lemme see what "skeet" is. Wanna know what it means? Click here:
http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=skeet
Blew your mind yet?
I told Erin about my "encounter" and she was like you didn't know. Hahaha! I'm glad I know know so that next time when this word comes up, I wouldn't sing along. LOL.

So next time, when you come across really weird terms that you can't find in your trusty regular dictionary, you can probably find it in urban dictionary @ http://www.urbandictionary.com/
Words that I looked up for fun (meaning I already know what the word means) today:
cholo, boonies, apple bottom, beaners, Huxtable, bust a nut, chink and etc.
I got a kick outta this little fun activity!!! Go check it out now!

PEACE.