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thank goodness..

2009-08-18T06:49:00.000-07:00

while i msn my younger brother last night, i suddenly remembered my mum has a brand new small fridge in her utility room.. its a free gift from buying her huge fridge.. LOL.. buy fridge free fridge?? whatever..
so i called up mum and asked if the fridge is still around and if i could use it.. she said ok and asked me to send someone to pick the fridge up.. tadah... the fridge is now in my kitchen.. although the height of the fridge is shorter then me and its so much smaller then my faulty one but im sooooo glad that i dont have to fork out a lump sum to buy a new fridge..

thank you sooooo much mummy!!

suay daooooo....

2009-08-18T06:42:00.000-07:00

been wanting to buy a new sofa by the end of this month.. who knows my fridge broke down yesterday.. the bottom part not cold at all... and also air con waiting to be serviced.. worse of all.. while i was cooking halfway, no gas... arghhh... anything else???

my big 3-0 day!!

2009-07-08T08:34:00.000-07:00

it's been a month since my big 30 day.. held a mini celebration at home..
met peiling and raymond at AMK hub to get our sushi ingredients.. after getting our ingredients we head back to my house and start preparing.. suling ordered ebi sushi and gave me a mission to make sure the prawns doesnt curl.. well i can say i did it quite well with the help of satay sticks.. LOL...
the ingredients we prepared for our sushi feast were : prawns, crabmeat, inari, bah teng, enoki mushrooms, ebikko, japanese cucumber.......
besides preparing the ingredients for sushi i decided to make fried dumplings. i tried my best to make it look like gyoza.. haha.. and it was a hit.. the fried dumplings were finished in no time..
the fun came when we had to wrap our own sushi.. we intended to wrap the sushi into maki form but after few tries i felt it was best to wrap it like a handroll and everyone copied my idea.. hahahaha... jason filled his sushi with lots n lots of ingredients and the whole thing looked like a bah chang.. he managed to gobble the whole thing within 1minute.. scary...
after the feast we head to ktv...

thank you jason, suling, peiling, raymond, linjie and suxiang for spending the day with me.. not forgetting the very special card n gift...
thank you everyone who sent their warm wishes via sms..

my 1st time playing Wii..

2009-05-02T08:29:00.000-07:00

Last night we hang out at Jay's room again.. this time round Suling brought along her Wii.. it was my 1st time playing it.. we had alot of fun but the most joyous n hilarious moment was watching Peiling playing it.. she was so engrossed into the game and played vigourously.. she screamed and shouted excitedly with every moments she made..

Poor Suxiang who was trying to catch some sleep on the bed was woken up a few times due to the earthquake Peiling made while playing.. LOL...

Suling, Jay and me laugh until we felt very asthmatic..

Overall it was a very fun and crazy night..

my babies birthdays..

2009-02-14T10:19:00.000-08:00

my girl has turned 9..
although i can bake a simple chocolate cake but i knew she would prefer 1 with pictures of characters that she like..
i ordered a cake for her without her knowing.. then on that day itself i told her i didn't order cake, i told her we can just go to the cake shop and pick out 1 at the counter.. after dinner we headed straight to the cake shop .. i asked her which 1 she likes.. then she asked got anymore choices because those available are really nothing special.. she looked kind of disappointed.. LOL.. just then i took out the receipt and pass it to the lady.. Ta Dah... the lady brought out the carebear cake which i had ordered.. when my girl saw the cake she WOW.. hahaha.. im glad that she loves it.. we brought the cake home and waited for daddy to come back for our mini celebration...

my boy has turned 6...
he is in K2 now and that means its the last chance for him to have a celebration in school..
ordered a tazmania cake for him which he choose it himself and also prepared party bags for his little classmates.. that day came.. so daddy and me brought the stuff we had prepared to his school for the celebration.. the kids came forward to sing him birthday song and he cut his cake happily..
in the evening we went to my sister in law's house... met her at hougang mall because she wanted to buy kfc for my boy.. when we reached there we saw that the cake shop had a porcupine cake.. it looked so cute.. and i felt we had to get it.. LOL.. my greedy boy ate 2 drumsticks.. after dinner the kids went to the room to play and us adults had our 3rd mahjong session since cny.. .

unexpected x'mas gift!!

2008-12-23T09:16:00.000-08:00

today was a busy day!!
my cousin benson wanted me to help him baked a brownie and an apple crumble for his x'mas party tomorrow.. so i went to get all the ingredients in the afternoon and headed home to start baking.. by the time he arrived my house, i have almost finished everything except waiting for the apple crumble to turn brown..
when everything was done i made him sampled the two dishes before allowing him to bring them back for his party.. LOL.. he was one of the guinea pigs when i 1st started baking these two desserts.. this time round, comments on the taste was even better then the 1st time he tried.. heehee.. practice really makes perfect!!
he bought me a bottle of 'Ralph Lauren Romance' perfume as x'mas gift.. i don't know the actual price but i think its defnitely not cheap..
it was really sweet of him because last weekend when we were out i mentioned wanting to buy perfume.. he says he known of a place near his house whereby he can get it at better prices, so i asked him to help me check out the price.. it is the 1st time he bought me a gift wor.. haha.. i really didnt expect it.. thanks bro!!

dOn't teLL mI iT's a giFt fRom uR hUsband iF u eXpEct mI tO pAy u bAck..

2008-12-11T20:56:00.000-08:00

last week i was about to blog on my early arrived x'mas gift, a Coach wallet from uncle victor all the way from usa. he is someone who really dotes on me since i was young.. it has been quite sometime since he last bought me gifts.. something like that doesn't happen very often especially after i was married and with 2 kids.. i started using my new wallet happily until 2 nights ago something unpleasant happened...

2 nights ago, as usual i was on msn.. i chatted with my uncle vic's wife.. she asked whether had i started using the wallet.. i told her yes.. then out of nothing she told mi it's my husband's job to buy gifts for me.. how can i expect my uncle to buy it for me.. she say she definitely don't expect her uncle to buy gifts for her especially after married and with 2 kids.. she even gave me examples that she asked my aunty to help her buy things although my aunty say don't need to pay her back but she insist on paying.. even say its in me i should have the initiative to pay up.. if she wants me to pay her back then what for tell me it's a gift?? i would prefer her to tell me my uncle help me to buy.. if thats the case i will definitely pay back willingly..
the most angry part is when she gave it to me, my other aunties were around so they crowded in to see what is it.. she even brag that my uncle bought for me all the way from usa which she doesn't even have.. but my uncle bought her a couple of it on his previous trips already..

who in the world says married people cannot receive gifts from uncle??

who in the world says we have to pay for gifts meant for us??

told my mum about it.. she was pissed off too.. she said i should let her know that me and my uncle are connected by blood, this fact can never ever change.. she is only connected to my uncle by a piece of paper, and that can change at any time.. i am his niece and i can receive gifts from him as long as he wants to buy me..

things that has been happening..

2008-11-22T19:35:00.000-08:00

school holidays are finally here.. time to relax and unwind.. my girl has finished her exams with pretty good results.. we just received a letter telling her she was awarded with the edusave merit bursary.. she got it too last year.. hope she will keep up the good work!!

celebrated peiling's birthday 2 weeks ago.. we went to ktv in the afternoon because she has to work the next day.. after a round of singing we brought out the Carebears cake which we bought for her.. she was surprised and happy because she like Carebears.. as for her present.. she wanted a pair of roller blades.. something which we enjoyed 10years ago.. i wonder how come she only like it now.. LOL.. she gave us a treat at Sakura.. thanks pal.. after dinner they proceed to suling's house to hang out while i head to my aunty's house to fetch my kids..

totally devastated!!

2008-10-05T11:05:00.000-07:00

got a call from aunty eileen today.. she told me that my aunty vina was admitted to the hospital.. she was detected with ovarian cancer.. some other parts like bowel or intestines could be affected too.. i was really sad upon answering that call..
she is such a nice person loving everybody with all her heart... how could something like that happen to her..
i went to visit her in the evening.. she looked so weak and sad.. kept sobbing when she thought of it or when someone talk to her asking her to be strong..
she say that she will die....
she will be having an operation in a few days time i really hope that she can get well soon..
may god bless you!!

the rich n the poor

2008-09-30T02:29:00.000-07:00

feeling kind of lousy tonight..
why can't the rich people understand or spare a thought on how the poor people or not so well-off people feel???
here we are trying to be nice and lending a helping hand to those in need but on the other hand we were blamed for helping out because the rich people say we cant even save ourselves so what right do we have to help other people.. we were asked how much can we fork out to help..

yes we are not well to do.. we have to do our best to make ends meet..
but to me what we want to do is try to help in whatever ways we can.. although we may no be able to offer the best solutions but...
we SINCERELY want to help..

are these friends?

2008-09-15T11:56:00.000-07:00

well went to hubby's friend's wedding last night.. met most of his friends and their wives there..

9 years ago when i married hubby, they were the best buddies helping out, they came up very often for dinner and mahjong sessions..
slowly as time passes by with most of them attached such visits cut down..

3 years ago when hubby had his own business, many of them came over to congrats him.. few months later when the business wasnt doing well due to location and lack of customers, hubby began to build up debts.. when they knew about it, surprisingly these so called friends couldnt be seen anywhere.. of course i understand that when it comes to money everyone feels sensitive and they are not obliged to lend a helping hand..
but as a true friend, shouldnt you help if you can without any considerations? of course im not trying to blame them for not helping but at least shouldnt they show some concern instead of shunning us like as if we are toxic??
after closing up the business, hubby got a job and thank god its indeed more stable now.. but his friendship with that bunch of people really fluctuate faster then those stocks at wall street.. nowadays we only meet up when there are weddings or maybe CNY.. even til these day people just come up and talk to us because they have to put up a show.. and men are really so different from women.. even there is nothing much for them to chat or talk about at least they still hang around to smoke and drink.. well as for the other wives only brigitta stood by me because she knows and understand what has been happening.. the rest just treat me as transparent.. funny right im so big size yet they cant see me.. brigitta, me and our kids went into the taitais room, they were chatting so we sat at another corner while they were all sitting on the bed.. after about 10mins with our kids playing and running around in the room, 1 of them can even turn around looking at brigitta saying oh i didnt know that you came.. then brigitta who also doesnt really like them said: oh you guys were so engrossed in chatting of course you wouldnt know that we came.. LOL.. thanks for helping brigitta..anyway i also cant be bothered.. and i wouldnt be so thick skinned to go forward and talk to them.. so the entire event i didnt speak to them..
after brigitta's family left my hubby told me my girl's godpa will send us back then i told him we can also go back ourselves, the only thing is whether can we get a cab at that hour and at that place.. (the wedding was held at changi chalet..) my kids were thirsty so i brought them into the chalet to get a drink and i overheard my girl's godpa asking another 2 guys: so how who is going to send 'my family' home.. but i didnt wait for their reply and i walked out of the chalet and told my hubby let's go home ourselves.. he said ok so we told the groom and he walked us out to the gate.. so we walked out to the main road to get a cab.. luckily for us we didnt had to wait long for the cab..

the purpose of this post is not to complain about anyone.. just to share how strong friendships can be when it comes to $$..

baking is fUn!!

2008-08-28T02:07:00.000-07:00

I'm sooooo into baking nowadays..

a big thank you to Raymond, Jason, Suling, Peiling, Linjie and Suxiang..

thank you so much for giving me the oven and baking utensils as my birthday presents..

i really had fun baking.. from searching for recipes to preparing ingredients, from beginning to follow the steps in the recipes to sending it into the oven, from waiting patiently to see the outcome to watching the faces of my "guinea pigs" enjoying themselves eating.. LOL.. it really gives me a sense of satisfaction..

will definitely be trying out more recipes..

thanks jay for teaching me how to bake.. i hope I'm not a bad student.. haha..

happy bird day xiang..

2008-08-22T10:11:00.000-07:00

we celebrated suxiang's birthday on national day eve..

this time round there were no surprises for her because she is the one who go and get her own present then she come and claim from us.. lol.. at 1st we thought maybe she will tell us what she wants then we will proceed to either get it for her or get her the voucher from the shop..

suling commented that it was the 1st time she heard people go and get their own present then claimed the money.. haha.. well actually since its what she wants and she doesn't mind then why not.. the most funniest thing is she even choose her own cake telling us which cake she wants.. its a cake topped with a lot of fruit from bengawan solo.. peiling asked me to go and get the birthday card because she is busy working.. i went to hougang mall's singpost to have a look because i remembered seeing some cards there so i just went to try my luck.. after looking around i finally chose one which has a function that can record a voice message for 6secs..

guess what did we record in the card.. haha.. raymond, suling, wuguang and me went to the carpark to record the message because xiang was already there.. after discussing, the four of us said:" TUA KA CHING, HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!" xiang's bum has indeed grown a lot compared to school days.. LOL..

she gave us a treat at causeway point's soup restaurant.. let me recall what did we eat..

we had chicken ginseng soup(taste was strong), the restaurant's signature dish chicken with ginger sauce(was really yummy), stir fry slice fish(tasted OK), prawns in chilli crab sauce(yummy too), sambal kangkong(xiang's favourite as always) and finally ended with white fungus with red dates and longan as dessert.. wuguang and suling said that they were still hungry and said wanted to order more teasing xiang.. the bill came up $200+ i think..

after that we went to ktv as usual.. but so sad because the one at civic centre closes at 1am.. so early.. everyone started to attack xiang saying why did she choose woodlands(because its near her house), if its in town we could have stayed longer or could have easily thought of what other programs we can have.. so after we really cannot think of anywhere to go since we were at woodlands we headed back home..

Celebrity Collage by MyHeritage

2008-08-06T11:57:00.001-07:00

MyHeritage: Celebrity Collage - Blank family tree - Family name origins

can u believe it...

2008-08-01T11:04:00.000-07:00

hmm... i didn't catch a wink for at least 32hrs.. wonder woman?? i doubt so.. actually wanted to catch some sleep last night.. but before i log off, Peiling log into msn.. it was so rare to see her in msn.. Raymond and me started to chat with her and discuss about the upcoming programs we have.. and guess what.. we ended up chatting till 6am.. lol.. and i was suppose to meet my aunt for her doctor's review at SGH at 9am.. so end up i didn't manage to sleep because while i was still tossing and turning in bed, the alarm rang and it was time to prepare my boy for school..

met my aunt at Outram Park and saw her face as white as a piece of blank paper.. she told me she received a call from one of her colleagues. this colleague(lai) is the same age as me.. (lai)was crying on the phone when she called.. she told my aunt half of her body suddenly cannot move.. my aunt was so worried but she was already in the train on the way to meet me so she don't know what to do.. end up she manage to get another colleague to rush down and see what's happening and also to bring (lai) to the doctor..
after my aunty's appointment we received a sms from the colleague saying she had sent (lai) to Tan Tock Seng Hospital.. so we went down to meet up and also to find out what's wrong.. we suspect could it be a stroke?? but she is so young and skinny and bubbly.. the day before, she was still flying around her work place.. hmm... so can you imagine someone as young as 29 facing such an ordeal out of a sudden.. she's a Malaysian and had no relatives in Singapore.. my aunt was the 1st one she called for help.. her room mates had left for work and she had no one to turn to.. the moment she saw my aunt she started crying even more bitterly.. i guess i can really feel what's her feelings at that moment but i might not be right of course... it's like she is feeling so helpless and finally she saw someone she can count on and someone whom she knows really cares for her that makes her burst out crying harder.. it's like a child crying for mummy's help when they had fallen..
although i don't really know her but i really feel so sad that such a thing happen to her.. when she was transferred to the ward she told us that the doctor said she had a blood clot in her brain.. i think that's what causing the problem.. before we left, she was feeling much better already. her mum and brother also rushed out from Malacca to see her.. I'm glad that they came over to look after her so that she wont feel that she is all alone here.. tomorrow my aunt is going to visit her again.. i really hope she will recover fast.. Jiayou (lai)!!

aTtenDiNg 2 biRthDays oN the sAme dAy...

2008-07-25T12:00:00.000-07:00

sorry... i know my camera's flashlights are too strong for your newly lasik eyes..
the "old man" who really loves chocolate cakes.. licking the plastic frame which protects the cake..
peiling, finally had her wish come true..
jason with the 3 "xiao jies" .. suling, peiling and suxiang..
linjie, raymond and me.. taking photo with Monkey God.. 'Sun Wukong'...

part1..

Happy Birthday Winnie...

last Saturday was a busy day for me.. woke up early to bake buffalo wings(1st attempt) for my cousin Winnie's birthday party.. i prepared 2kg of chicken wings.. after all the baking and washing up, me and my kids went to my jiuyi's(fourth aunty) house.. jiuyi and my small uncle tried the wings and said that it was nice... woohoo... soooo happy... after lunch i went to collect the Care Bears birthday cake which i had ordered in advance from prima deli.. it was a surprise for Nini.. i wonder how did she feel when she saw the cake because i had already left in advance to attend Jason's birthday celebration... oh by the way... thank you Benson(ah seng didi) for sending my 2 monkeys home..

part2..

Happy Birthday Jason...

this old man treat us to a sumptuous dinner at Cathay restaurant... the food was nice.. we had shark's fins, vegetables with prawns, fish, chicken... etc... and peiling commented that she felt as if she was attending a wedding dinner.. LOL...

after dinner we head to Ben & Jerry's for ice cream.. it was my 1st time trying.. yes i'm not exaggerating.. i have always wanted to try but it was sooo expensive that i always ended up not buying.. finally the day came when i felt that i should pamper myself once in awhile... LOL.. excuses... it was really yummy...

after that we went to amk kbox for a round of super solid crazy fun.. when midnight came the kbox staff brought in the cake we prepared.. but really stupid.. because before that i went to check with the staff whether can she arrange for the birthday song to be played when she bring in the cake but she say CANNOT.. she even told me that i can select the song in my room.. of course i know i can do that... but it won't be fun and surprise as in the cake and song cannot come at the same time.. hmm.. but the thing is.. it's not the 1st time we went to kbox to celebrate birthdays.. in the past the staff who brought in the cake automatically will play the song... anyway enough about that.. after the singing of birthday song was the cake cutting ceremony.. haha.. but this 30yrs old "old man"... despite being a great cook and someone who can bake really well... the cake ended up looking like a pile of.. mashed potato?? whatever.. besides the looks of the cake the taste was yummy.. thanks mag for recommending..

after some photo taking, came the marathon singing for the birthday boy.. 6 of us chose 2 songs each for him and he had to sing all of them one after another... lol.. in the middle of his singing.. peiling who chose the song "superwoman" walked towards the screen, began dancing and seducing Jason .. she did many hilarious movements which made all of us really laugh till we dropped... thanks guys for a wonderful night!!

cAtcHiNg uP wiF aNotHeR cLoSe fRen..

2008-07-18T10:55:00.000-07:00

hehe.. went out with xiaoping yesterday.. she is one of my very close friend.. knew her since secondary school days... everyone who doesn't really know her felt that she is a very quiet and "dao" person.. lol.. she is actually a very crazy person..
we haven't met for about 1.5 yrs but we always keep in touch via sms... we had subway sandwiches for our dinner at junction8.. the meeting went so smoothly right from the start.. although it has been quite some time since we last met but the chemistry is still there... we've got tons of topics to talk about... it was really fun and enjoyable.. really makes me want to squeeze out more time to meet up with her again... we ended the session around 11pm with the both of us taking mrt but towards different directions... so sad..
i'm very glad that we are just as close as before.. never once did we stop to think of what should we say next..

cAtcHiNg uP wiF oLd fReNs..

2008-07-16T20:19:00.001-07:00

yesterday met up with huiying (1 of my close fren)at her house.. it's been around 2years since i last met her(although we still update with sms).. so fast she's a mother of 1 already..(i know im faster).. 1st meeting with lovely Riona.. she's sweet.. looks like her daddy.. but on my visit there she was like sleeping most of the time..lol... she simply loves the rocking of her rocking bed cum swing.. huiying ordered sushi so we had a great time chatting and eating at the same time.. the catching up part was really nice.. just the good old times we used to spent during school days... when i was about to leave her hubby came back and after the introduction it was like hello and bye..lol..
went home to put down my prezzies.. after that went to my sis-in-law house because it's her son's b'day.. had crab for dinner.. but the b'day cake reallli sux... oops.. sorry.. but i really don't like the taste.. its said to be chocolate lemon cake but all i taste was like a slice of sweet cream in "funny" taste.. doesn't taste like chocolate and doesn't taste like lemon... hmm... 1st time getting this kind of feelings eating cakes... reach home around 11pm...
while preparing my kids to get to bed received a call from peiling n raymond asking wanna come out for coffee?.. so after sending my kids to bed i went for a shower before meeting them.. had some dim sum which doesn't taste good too.. haiz... but we ended the session with "magnum" ice cream.. woo.. love the dark chocolate... after that the 3 of us head home and agree to meet in MSN..what a fruitful and sinful day.. too much eating... hahahaha..

m i lUcky oR wat!!

2008-07-11T10:01:00.000-07:00

unbelievable!! i've got my own blog.. with the help from my sweetie cousin jOyjOy.. thks!!
hmm.. there's always ups n downs in our lifes... no matter what happens just stay positive n move on..
woohoo.. got a new SE C902 handphone from my dear as our anniversary gift.. simply love it.. he seldom showers me with gifts because he is the only one working hard to support our rOyAl fAmiLy which consist of : king(dear), queen(me)go ahead and vomit.. lol.., princess(my girl) and lastly prince(my boy)... felt sweet that he actually did it on the sly to give me a surprise.. so rare.. haha.. n guess what.. we actually received a letter saying we won a motorola V9 in the lucky draw... damn lucky... he say he wanted to use it as i already have my new hp.. we went all the way to jurong just to collect the hp.. no choice.. it's free what more do you expect.. after playing with the hp when we got home i told him.. im sure you wont like it.. he said.. who says so.. so i just leave him alone to play with it.. about 15mins later.. he told me.. hmm.. im really not use to it.. lol.. see... i was right..
so we thought maybe can give the hp to my 'jiuyi' who has been showering her love to my 2 darlings.. my mummy upon knowing that i have won the hp said.. bring over and show them.. well.. im bringing it over to show them this coming Sunday.. i guess its the battle between mummy n 'jiuyi'.. told my cousin Benson about it and he said.. your mummy sure win.. hahaha..