Mum's Birthday

.Bro, mum and the horridly dark-skinned me.

"A mother is the truest friend we have, when trials, heavy and sudden, fall upon us; when adversity takes the place of prosperity; when friends who rejoice with us in our sunshine, desert us when troubles thicken around us, still will she cling to us, and endeavor by her kind precepts and counsels to dissipate the clouds of darkness, and cause peace to return to our hearts."

.There is no substitute for her.

No more eating out this year. So i whipped up something that the poo and I discovered by chance one night. Honey Garlic chicken in Beer Sauce! It was one of those eureka moments where we ran out of chicken stock, i opened the fridge door, dozens of Tiger beers sit infront of me, "Why dont we use beer instead?!! "mmMMmm, yeaaa!" It turned out to be insanely delicious. So i thought i could impress my mum tonight. kekeke.

The 1st time the poo and i made it, it was for the both of us. This time i had to cook for 6 person. So i added water. BAD CHOICE. When dinner was served, i looked hard at everyone on the table... waiting for that mMMm to come. I analysed faces... waiting for that wide-eye expression to come.

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Staring at my dad "How is it??? You like it??" "Hmmm, ya not bad" To my mum "It is ok?" "Ya ok, whilst contemplating whether she can finish it all" To my brother who is picking rather painfully at his food.

.Think i failed miserably.

I didnt drown at sea

No i didnt, nor did i get bitten by a shark or anything of the like. The past week has been crazy for me. There were so many things i need to get done yet everyday it seems like i'm carrying forward more unfinished business. I need more hours in a day!

Oh guess what! Remember my regretful lavender purchase in Perth last month? Remember how bummed i was when i saw my pitiful and expensive FAKE lavender when sat next to lovely FRESH lavenders. Hah, i have to eat my words now. Last week, i took some time out to finally arrange them, and when i picked up the then-fresh-lavenders-which-is-now-limpy-and-fugly, i pat myself for making the best decision ever, i.e. to have bought 'em fake lavenders. They look anything but fake now. Cant tell the boys that i toss their lavenders far far away.


Babies.. lots of babies.. got to spend some time with my cheeky godson, Lucas. He's going to save the world with his love for anything with a keyboard now. I found out that he has a thing for fans. He'd stare at any sort of fan; ceiling fan, standing fan, kitchen fan with freakish concentration and would bend at all angles to get a good look. He's starting to mumble or say his first words now and you'll never guess. "Dawg"
"hey babyyyy, whatchu doing there?"
"Dawggg...."
"You like keyboards, dont you hah.."
"dawwwgg... dawwgg... *bang on keyboard* *more banging* (yeahh, kill my laptop baby so i can get a new one!) dawwgg.."

.I love you to pieces.

.Gorgeous babies: My niece Emilka @ 1 mth, Komoko and niece Xuanxuan.

I think i have played with enough babies to last me a few months.

Then it was intense, brain wrecking, flower-glue-scissor-fighting scrapping bootcamp! It took 4 of us 4 serious, creative-juices-blending hours to complete our scrappage for Jenny's bday album.

.Very impressive for 3 other newbies.

And many thanks to Jessie for practically truckloading her workstation over for us to dig through, without which it would have just been pictures stuck on plaincoloured papers.

.Happy Birthday to Jenny and HoonHoon.

I'm back

Things has slowed down a fair bit after all the clicky clackers of Chinese New Year.. down comes the red lanterns, the lion heads stacked back to their dusty shelf, emptied angpows, and back to slogging days. With workload piling up by the day, i've almost forgotten how it feels to be busy, the days of 6 msn windows, surfing and reading blogs are near gone.. Sobs.

Here are some snippets from CNY.

.The rummy fanatics.

.Feeling nostalgic.Cheongsam Night.
.'Yu Sang' (CNY salad) with the sweetest divers.

For some reason, during CNY this year, i actually miss CNY. Everytime i light up a sparkler, i get overwhelmed with emotions, emotions from those days... I miss being a kid, miss the excitement of choosing lanterns, miss sitting behind my mum for hours watching her play mahjong, miss playing cards till sunrise with my brother and cousin, those were the days.

Another wonderful moment for me this year is my birthday. If it was left to me, it would have been a quiet day, but i had an amazing week. Much love to you, my friends.

Scrapaholics, each talented in their own way.

L-R: My favourite colour from Jess, and digital scrap from Tina. Notice in all photos i was fiddling with my camera. Yes, i love my camera.

Besides being busy at work, i've also been "working out" Hehehe. My evenings are spent playing a minimum of 5-10 rounds of bowling.. on the Wii. I swear, my butt cheeks ached for a few days, my arms and shoulder blades are so friggin' sore it's not funny. After a game of boxing, i plopped back on the couch catching my breath like i had just hiked up a hill and sweating a up a storm. It's just madness. So for those of you lazy buggers that cant leave the comfort of your own home, maybe the Wii can trim some love-handle off. And someone is INSANE enough to prove it.

If i could draw up my thoughts right now, this is exactly what i'm dreaming of .

Alisa poo poo's 18th Birthday

Happy Birthday Poo

So Alisa gets to be the topic of my very 1st post! Poo poo is what i call her at home.. For weeks she's had her arms wide open all ready to embrace the 6th of February, the day she turns 18. To her, it's absolutely liberating. I get what you mean poo, i feel you.

Poo: "Yeayyyyy, i can finally get a driving license! I can drive myself around, yeayyy!"
Me (Silent thoughts): Yesssss, no more picking her up in the middle of sleepsville. And she can start chaffeuring me! *grin*

Poo: "My id can finally get me into clubs!!!"
Me (Silent thoughts): No more towering men to sneak her in, *relief*

Poo: "OOooo, i get to have my own credit card!!!"
Me (Silent thoughts): More exerciseee

Poo: "I can watch Never Been Kissed!!, hahaha"
Me (Silent thoughts): = ='

and it goes on and on...

Last friday night, she had some friends over for an advanced celebration. Their 1-10 must-haves for a good party includes the following:

1. Good food

What are we crowding around for? Camembert cheese on shittake mushroom mmmmm

2. Bar-b, drizzles wont hurt

It may have rained on their barbecue, it certainly did not dampened their spirits.

3. X-x-x-xtra cheesy cake

Mango cheesecake from Nicole topped with cheetos crunchy 'candles' that you can eat - dangerously cheesy, insanely cheesy.

4. Shit-stirrers

Zaty took the 1st plunge, though not at her own accord.

5. Do it the fear factor style

Poo did a number on Yvonne on her last birthday, and like they say revenge is sweet. "You must find something hard in this bowl, a bowl filled with gunky, slimy EARTHWORMS!" The poo's greatest nightmare is earthworms, she made Yvonne promised nothing of the 'worm' sort was in the bowl before she dunked her hand in. After all the eeees and the aaaas, the 'something hard' is a small ginger carved "We Love You". :) The black goo is merely grass jelly; it does have the effect of making u shiver in fear.

6. Synchronised giant strides

After several takes, i hope they've realised never to engage in any activities that require synchronisation.

7. Beautiful girls, that can take and throw a punch

*Haiiiiiiii-yaaaaaaaa*

8. Great friends

"Friends are beef bacon bits in the salad bowl of life."

9. Adult Supervision

Yvonne's dad felt compelled to check up on the young ones. We were compelled to keep the *drinks* away from his eyes. :P Us adults were supervising at one corner when Aida came over and said (in the least subtle manner) "it is age or when people grow older, they just dont want to play in the pool (have fun) anymore". >:\ We'll invite you to our next pool party and you judge for yourself k ;)

and last but not least...

10. Be sure not to drive or ensure you have a place to bunk at :)