Monday, September 26, 2005
Farewell feasts!
I'm soooo stuffed! Everyone's been trying to force-feed saying that I won't be able to eat this or that when I'm at Essex! Well, truth be told, they really din have to try hard to force me. I surrendered willingly!!!
It all started on Friday nite when I was taken to this Chinese restaurant where they were having this "All-you-can-eat" promotion. Yup, we had all we could eat, and more! ;-P
After that, we adjoured to Al's place for ice cream wif kahlua! Excellent!
The next day, I met up wif me AHF group again! This time, Mr. Yee, a good fren and a father figure organised a big lunch feast just for me at his place!
It all started on Friday nite when I was taken to this Chinese restaurant where they were having this "All-you-can-eat" promotion. Yup, we had all we could eat, and more! ;-P
After that, we adjoured to Al's place for ice cream wif kahlua! Excellent!
The next day, I met up wif me AHF group again! This time, Mr. Yee, a good fren and a father figure organised a big lunch feast just for me at his place!
Me AHF group members at Yee's place
Mrs. Yee's famous roasted chicken wings!
We oso had excellent roast pork, wonderful mashed potatoes, curry chicken and fish, chicken feet.... lots more.
I'll really miss me AHF group. It was an enjoyable lunch and they gave me a VERY generous gift - I was so touched.
After clearing up everything, I actually stayed on and joined the ladies. We sat around wif coffees and teas and chat! :-)
Later that evening, I went over to Weng Soon's apartment to open the place. Me ex-colleagues from UMW Toyata were going there to have steamboat!
I'll really miss me AHF group. It was an enjoyable lunch and they gave me a VERY generous gift - I was so touched.
After clearing up everything, I actually stayed on and joined the ladies. We sat around wif coffees and teas and chat! :-)
Later that evening, I went over to Weng Soon's apartment to open the place. Me ex-colleagues from UMW Toyata were going there to have steamboat!
The hands belong to me ex-manager, Ms Chong who did not allow me to put her pic on me blog. Imagine, a manager preparing food for me!
Weng Soon provided drinks for the nite - I think I had 4 or 5 bottles of this!!!!!
Sunset. Steamboat about to start.
Vanilla scented candles to make the place smell nicer.
After dinner, I had me final "chor tai di" session wif Weng Soon and Mikes - yeah 3 of us only since KC not around!
After that, we basically laze around...
...and just chatted.
The next day, I couldn't eat anything. Me final breakfast after worship wif me usual breakfast-"kakis" was just a glass of teh-tarik. Lunch was a box of nasi lemak and when i got home, I had to eat dinner as me dad made his curry chicken for me one last time! It was good.
Later in the nite, I went out wif Jon and Jee Lee for a midnite feast!
We had this "ying and yang" chicken - roast chicken and steam chicken
...and this "chow siew yoke" - roasted pork which is stir-fried wif garlic! Yummy!
We oso had pork balls in soup, bean-sprouts and claypot curry pork ribs which was excellent!
Jon and Jee Lee seconds before the feast commenced!
Let's see, there's aother supper tonite wif the BSF gang, lunch wif Hoonch and dinner wif family (to celebrate both me dad's and me bro's b'day next month) tomorrow, perhaps a last attempt to try the Bar-B-Q wings 2moro nite, lunch on Thurs wif Jen and Ken, dinner that nite wif me ex-Uni mates... and I still have to meet up wif some others whom I have not fixed a time yet.
So much to eat, so little time...
hehehe. The company is appreciated more than the food, of course!
So much to eat, so little time...
hehehe. The company is appreciated more than the food, of course!
Tuesday, September 20, 2005
In the jungles of Pahang
Captions to come later. Gonna zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz. But then again, why need captions when a picture can paint a thousand words?
Andrew Lai's birthday
Andrew Lai turns 5 years old today. :-)
We celebrated his birthday on Sunday.
The birthday cake. At least this time, they got Barney's colour right!!!!! (see here for a comparison)
His mommie getting the cake ready by lighting up the candles
Getting ready to blow the candles
Even sister Adelyn enjoyed herself!
Pose for the camera!
Cutting Barney's head... I mean, the cake!
Gettin the candles out
First slice goes to yeh-yeh (grandpa)
Second slice goes to mar-mar (grandma)
Adelyn gets her own slice too!
Birthday boy posing wif his birthday gift - a spanking new bike!
Time to unwrap the other prezzies!
Hhmmm.... little girls really shudn't be playing wif guns!
We celebrated his birthday on Sunday.
The birthday cake. At least this time, they got Barney's colour right!!!!! (see here for a comparison)
His mommie getting the cake ready by lighting up the candles
Getting ready to blow the candles
Even sister Adelyn enjoyed herself!
Pose for the camera!
Cutting Barney's head... I mean, the cake!
Gettin the candles out
First slice goes to yeh-yeh (grandpa)
Second slice goes to mar-mar (grandma)
Adelyn gets her own slice too!
Birthday boy posing wif his birthday gift - a spanking new bike!
Time to unwrap the other prezzies!
Hhmmm.... little girls really shudn't be playing wif guns!
Thursday, September 08, 2005
Road-trip (more like food-trip!!!)
Went for a crazy road-trip wif Kit and Jess - turned out to be more of an eating trip!!!!
First stop (besides the quickie breakfast at the Sg. Buloh "Restoran Jejantas") was Ipoh. We had dim sum at Yoke Fook Moon restaurant but unfortunately, I was too hungry to remember to take any pics. The food was good, tho. take my word for it!!!!
Later, we stumbled across this Merrybrown outlet! It caught our eye as it has swings for seats!!!!
So of course, we had to try it out!!!
Thereafter, another stop at Kamunting before heading off to Taiping!!!
We then took our goodies and went to the food court for more ... FOOD!!!!
Sunset while travelling across the Penang Bridge. Couldn't get a clear pic, tho. Too much movement (illegal to stop on the bridge), too little light.
We went to the University Sains Malaysia and picked up 3 wonderful but crazy frens! After checking into our rooms (and lots of laughter and noise), we walked to Gurney Drive for dinner. The food wasn't that great but watever it lacked, the company and fun made up for it! We had an excellent time!
It took us quite a while to finally get up and get out. A quick breakfast of Loh Mee at Lorong Selamat before we headed back to mainland.
We stopped by Pusing for lunch (ask Jes Min how the town got its name!!!). It brought back memories as I brought the RBS students for lunch here in January this year. We ate at the same restaurant.
One of the main buildings in UTP - you can see the library on the right of the pic.
First stop (besides the quickie breakfast at the Sg. Buloh "Restoran Jejantas") was Ipoh. We had dim sum at Yoke Fook Moon restaurant but unfortunately, I was too hungry to remember to take any pics. The food was good, tho. take my word for it!!!!
Later, we stumbled across this Merrybrown outlet! It caught our eye as it has swings for seats!!!!
So of course, we had to try it out!!!
Yeah, talk to the hand!
Thereafter, another stop at Kamunting before heading off to Taiping!!!
The stall which sells inter alia curry puffs and banana fritters. Tried to take a candid shot here but Kit is always ready for the camera!
We then took our goodies and went to the food court for more ... FOOD!!!!
This is the Taping style fried kueh teow (fried rice noodles). It's more like the "korn chow hor fun" you find here in PJ and KL. It was good!
We had the Mee rebus oso! It was pretty good as I could taste it even tho I was having a flu!!!! It was pretty hot too (spicy)!
Some people had to be fed...
We then headed off to Penang.
Sunset while travelling across the Penang Bridge. Couldn't get a clear pic, tho. Too much movement (illegal to stop on the bridge), too little light.
We went to the University Sains Malaysia and picked up 3 wonderful but crazy frens! After checking into our rooms (and lots of laughter and noise), we walked to Gurney Drive for dinner. The food wasn't that great but watever it lacked, the company and fun made up for it! We had an excellent time!
Fried kueh teow as how we know it to be
Wan than mee
Assam laksa! I liked it but had great difficulty eating it. My nose was completely blocked and each time I took a mouthful, I had to take a deep breath first. Then, I had to chew it and swallow it quickly before I could take another breath! Yeah, you could say that my laksa was breath-taking!!!
After dinner, we rushed back cuz sum people were desperate to watch Desperate Housewives!!!
I watched it too - for the first time - and must admit it was entertaining.
Oh, we did fool around and enjoyed each other's company!!! It was fun!
Unfortunately, the students had lots of work to do so we sent them back (thanks again guys for taking yr precious time to be wif us!). And then we were all knocked out!
Unfortunately, the students had lots of work to do so we sent them back (thanks again guys for taking yr precious time to be wif us!). And then we were all knocked out!
It took us quite a while to finally get up and get out. A quick breakfast of Loh Mee at Lorong Selamat before we headed back to mainland.
We stopped by Pusing for lunch (ask Jes Min how the town got its name!!!). It brought back memories as I brought the RBS students for lunch here in January this year. We ate at the same restaurant.
The Mun Sarng Mee was pretty good!
The fried rice was excellent too! We oso had korn chow hor fun and fried prawns! Yummy!
Thereafter, we headed off to Sitiawan and then Lumut.
View from the Lumut Jetty
My "gaya" pic! Nice-eh?
We din eat anything there as we were still stuffed from lunch at Pusing. On the way back, we stopped by University Teknologi Petronas at Tronoh. Jess' fren, Michael, a lecturer there, brought us in and around. It was a pretty cool! The buildings - lecture halls, library, halls etc were all very modern and looked brilliant!
One of the main buildings in UTP - you can see the library on the right of the pic.
Michael then took us to Batu Gajah for dinner. Again, more memories!!!! It was pretty late when we finally arrived back to PJ and me back to Subang!
Great food + good company = brilliant trip!
