Monthly Archives: December 2009

Dec 29 2009

It Was A FoodFul Christmas

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MERRY CHRISTMAS!!!! I hope you guys had a wonderful Christmas this year. This year, I celebrated Christmas with my family. My in-laws had plans of their own so… yippie for ME and yippie for Nancy who joined us!

Mom and Uncle Yan put up a real-life tree this year. Yup, it came with thorns but it’s all well taken cared by Uncle Richard. Our first living Christmas Tree.

We had Uncle Yan, the professional photographer over… he’s into food profiles too…

Before we dug into the glorious food that mom had cooked up, Father Andrew said the blessing of the food.


…btw it took only 20 seconds


Elaine, the salad mixer

BEHOLD THE ALMIGHTY FOOD


The magnificient TURKEY


Rustic bread amongst the garlic toasts


Mix vegetables with mushrooms fungus


Vegetable Pie


Lasagne at the front while the back are carrot and celery sticks


Roasted Pumpkin


Leg of Lamb


Prawn + Fruit Salad


Momma’s famous Brownies for dessert

And so……… here comes the hungry wolves


Don’t know what’s tickling them funny but they sure look like they’re having fun scooping those food


Elena : DIE DIE DIE! KILL KILL KILL! MUAHAHA!


Ed is happy with his loot


Hubby rationing amongst the kids


Garlic bread QUEEN!


Elaine


Josephine
(thanks for the Teddy and picture frame)


And while we dined, mom distributed PORT WINE to young and old


We’re all still kids when it comes to Christmas


Nancy & Javier


After the voluptuous meal, everyone settled down in front of the TV watching ‘Home Alone’


While Elaine sat there pondering, don’t know about what….
most probably thinking whether to bring the sundress or the bohemian one.. HMM

But, anyway after Sis had opened all her butterfly-themed presents, she left in a taxi to continue her Christmas celebrations. Sobs!
Sis said I made her cry before she left but she made me cry too.
Crying is in fact quite contagious. Oh well.. I’ll keep your wardrobe company while you’re gone!

After the much crowd have left, it was crack the presents time.. for the kids at least.. we got for the kids….



Even Uncle Yan was excited for the kids


LEGO Mania (390 pcs)



She got herself a cash register. Complete with microphone and tag reader. Beep! Beep! MONEY MONEY


Check out the mighty grin he’s got…


…. sums up the mighty grin! He got the GOD of WAR for PS3..
I know! ‘Lucky chap’


And they couldn’t wait to play it either

Dec 22 2009

Happy Tang Yuen Day

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Happy ‘Tang Yuen’ Day, guys. Did you feel the cool air today? It was quite a gloomy day hence, during the past, folks believe that it is the arrival of winter, ‘Dong Zhi’. Since granny isn’t in KL this time around, mom made ‘tang yuen’ for us to eat in the morning! We had the yummy balls before we went to work which was great for breakfast. Something different! ALAS!

‘Tang yuen’ comes in different sizes and colors but the most common ones are white + pink.
How do you normally have your ‘tang yuen’ eaten?

Does your ‘tang yuen’ comes with chopped peanuts and sugar?

At ‘The Kwok’s Residence’, we skinny dip our glutinous rice balls into the yummylicious peanut mixture. Hmmmmmm YUM! After that, we gulped the remaining ‘tong sui’ @ sugar water.

And… Hubby never goes to work without filling himself up with eggs. 3 soft boil eggs to be exact.

There you go.. a simple ‘Tang Yuen’ day for us. Chinese beliefs that today is also the day we grow a year older. Oooo….

Dec 14 2009

Martell VSOP

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So sorry you guys for not updating my blog. Had a rough week. Had migraines for the past week and a half. But no worries, all is well between me and my head!

So… Cc was one of the finalist of the MARTELL VSOP Rising Personalities Awards 2009. She got nominated out of so many rising personalities out there. The final event was held in Studio 99, Bangsar 2 weeks ago. Hubby, ME and Nancy went along to support Cc after work. When we arrived, there were cameras flashing, celebs posing, girls gossiping and guys worshiping them especially those sexy ones.

Sad to say, I’m not one of them haha and I’ll never be because a place like Bangsar will never like me nor would I say I’m fond of. I prefer the cafe at the corner at the end of lot or probably the bookshop that I’m happy to browse through the whole day.


Nancy, ME and Cc


Nancy the ever so bubbly;
ME the ‘why so posh’ today (must be the haircut)’
and Cc the starlet, the party-goer :p


Cc and Nancy at our Table C


Our romantic table setting..
so tight we could shoulder each other and play footsie,
and yes I’m talking about you, Nancy

ME and Hubby


The beautiful Marion Caunter as our host@emcee


A Few of Martell’s Rising Personalities


Will Quah, currently ‘The Man’ on ntv7


Cecilia Yong @ Malaysia’s Sexy Dancer


Chin Yew, the visual artist


DJ GanjaGuru but known in Malaysia as DJ Guru-Guru spinning some head banging music


Douglas Lim who entertained us with his self-made parody titled, ‘YELLOW’.
I think you’ve made my Friday!


Chelsia Ng who really didn’t make a good impression sang Carrie Underwood’s ‘Before He Cheats’


The sexy DJ Nikki whom later spun some music


The jewellery designer – Sze Yoong


Sze Yong, DJ Nikki, Teresa Thian and Cc posing for photographers

Cecilia’s Performance with Billy

… all I can say is that her performance blew the crowd away.. the crowd at the front, the crowd at the back plus.. the crowd upstairs.. everyone got up to watch.. everyone screamed for excitement.. I guess she just shooked Studio 99.

Judges


Dato’ Lewre Lew, Founder & Design Director of Lewré International


Gillian Hung, President of the Malaysian Official Designers’

And of course the proud winner was Will Quah.. I’ve predicted.. you’ve predicted and even my father in law predicted.


Congrats William… you won a cash prize of RM20,000, an all expense paid trip to Cognac, France to visit the Martell facilities, and 10 bottles of Martell VSOP.

I don’t know if you’re seeing this but, Demsi says ‘HI!’

Dec 7 2009

The Mission @ Penang

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I call this The Penang Mission because we were really on a mission. Haha but there was some fun in it too. Ok this was last minute. Probably the most last minute luggage packing I’ve ever done. I was stressing over the luggage department. We brought Nancy to Batu Ferringhi, Penang for her ballroom dance competition. We left on Friday the 27th which was also Elaine’s Birthday which was also Hari Raya Haji. Nancy stayed at Bayview Hotel as she had booked months is advance whereas we had to settle at Holiday Inn because all the other hotels like Hard Rock Cafe, ParkRoyal were fully booked.


Poor lonely cloud


Hello… IPOH


Finally, we reached Penang

The kids going crazy over the hotel room

I had to wake up early the next day because I’m Nancy’s photographer. Admission is at RM50 per person so, the kids and hub remained in the hotel while I spent half a day at Bayview surrounded by giants draped in sparkly colorful textiles.

Sunrise


Nancy in her beautiful costume…


Yup… we need some help in this area… I do too :p


Getting ready.. GET GET getting ready


TADA!


Nancy & her dancing partner


She’s having butterflies in her tummy

So… besides snapping pictures of Nancy, I took some pictures of other dancers too.. I adore some of their costumes and some… NOT!


And.. Nancy sashays away!




Someone is GLAD with their performance

2 awkward costumes…


Waltz with fur


Even worse.. waltz with fur-balls

While we waited for results, Nancy and I chilled.. hanging around till there’s nothing else to do no more. Results came later in the day. Nancy got 3rd place in Novice. What a great dancer she is. She only took 1½ months of ballroom lessons and I guess she’ll go far if she keeps it up.




Uncomfy shoes removed… YAY!


With fellow dancer friend who ate bananas all the way


Tired but never camera shy


Bad bad shoes gave Nancy super deep blisters


I did not do anything.. and btw, she isn’t crying.. she’s just fooling around but the feet does hurt.


Alas all the hard nights’ work and the lost weekends… ended in a day

Besides the dancing, the lights and the blisters, the kids had their share of fun too. They went for a swim… they walked at the beach.. they even had room service too!

Para-sailing


Horse Riding

Guess who got a BUBU?

……awww

And guess who got a new haircut?

-ME-