sweets n savouries

something new
for me, cny preparations has not really started until the cookies starts baking :) .. well this year i'm feeling a little lazy so decided to cut down the baking. the first n new stuff we (mom n i) made this year were the seaweed crunchies. happy to say it turned out great! even our adopted cats loved it!! (however bronte seems to be ignoring it ....). the cost was about rm6 a jar (the normal cny cookies plastic jar). in the market it's going for like rm18 per jar n the jar is smaller! imagine the $$ they earn!

same old favourites
next is mom's famous pineapple jam tart. mom hurt few of her fingers while scrapping the pineapples for the jam part. well making pineapple tarts is not only a lot of work but hazardous too. heehee. well u can buy the ready made pineapple jam (as we have done past 2 yrs) but it doesnt taste that nice. n too much sugar were added too!
mom made kueh bunga/ros the next day and it was a disaster. she blamed me for the recipe. luckily the next day it turn out good n yummy :)
then feeling up to the mood, i managed to make our signature choco butter cookies. decided not to make the more mundane butter cookies. it turn out ok although mom n i had some disagreement along the way. haha. typical.

tradition revived
mom will be preparing the stuff to make kuih bangkit today. so hopefully i will get to taste the melt in the mouth traditional cookie. i still remember mom n granny making it in kelantan long2 ago. i think more than 20 yrs i've not eaten our own homebaked kuih bangkit. wish us luck!

petaling street

[Sat 14 Jan 2006]
silly home branch
in this age of infomation, our country's beloved bank is still so rigid. after waiting for like 15 mins then i was informed that i had to go back to the branch i issued the FD to uplift it. this system is so silly!
cny is around the corner ....
mom n myself decided to make our annual cny shopping trip to petaling st. aka chee cheong kay. we cant seems to find the shop that we bought the cny deco last year... and it was a little let down as there werent as many shops selling those decos... either that or we were lost again :). we never seem to find our way around the shopping maze.
however i did find the "loong pheng" but it didnt tastes like the previous year's.
i guess we were a little early as there's not much cny stuff put on display. either that or the celebrations and sales toned down? due to financial issue?
food glorious food
aaa ... it's lunch time. so many choices but of course we end up in our fave shop which is opposite the hong leong wisma. both of us ate the super yummy pork noodles. it's my fave pork noodles stall :)

monday blues ..

blue blue my life is blue
it's monday - the hardest day of the week. probably sunday was before it?
anyway, today's monday is different. hee hee. no new tickets, and awaiting some approval meaning no work -yea!

philipines planning
yea!yea! finally i managed to finish my high level itineraries for my philippines 2006 trip. a little worried about the banaue trip. most ppl plan for mnl-banaue-mnl but i was hoping to save some $$ and time by doing a mnl-banaue-angeles. this makes sense as i'll departing from philippines via crk/clark.
a high level of my itineraries :
day1 : arrive in crk. transfer to mnl. check out all the tours i've booked. walk around. spend a nite here
day2 : early morning flight to bohol. hopefully can check in early to hotel. 3d2n here. do a bohol country side tour.
day3 : do snorkelling/swimming/lazing @ pangloa island ...
day4 : depart bohol to cebu via ferry. tour cebu city. shopping? 2d1n
day5 : more shopping. take afternoon flight back to manila. walk around mnl.
day6 : depart early to los banos for 3d2n. day trip to pagsanjan - shoot the rapid thingy.
day7 : day trip to hiddenvalley @ alaminos until evening.
day8 : depart early to lake taal or tagaytay. awaiting confirmation for transportation?? 2d1n there.
day9 : depart for mnl. leisure @ mnl. take nite (10pm) bus to banaue. which is a 9 hours journey.
day10: reach banaue early morning. 3d2n. as i am still awaiting some info from various tours. not sure on this arrangements .. which is a little worrying ...
day11 : banaue
day12 : depart banaue for angeles (if there is a bus going there). reach angeles evening. rest.
day13 : day trip to either subic or mt pinatubo??
day14 : lepak in angeles? actually i got one day buffer just in case ... not sure i really want to spend so much time in angeles as it seems to be a girly place. maybe i will spend another 2 days in mnl after the banaue trip to enjoy the local culture?
day15 : depart for crk either from angeles or mnl. depart for home :)

pretty confusing. not sure whether is too demanding. a little worried cos going with mom. for me i can just either push myself or forgo something n lepak. i think it would be the latter...

changes...

what a start

reached later than my usual @ work n no more parking! it's just 0905! luckily sor-poh, my car-parking saviour was around. everything in office seems like normal n support area had a nice 90% attendance. not much tickets... either company losing business or application ok. prefer d latter cos now iko is 80% business n 20% performance. which i think is not a bad idea considering d teams poor performance. anyway will not make much diff with my measley pay. or should i?
n hurrah! boss not in. i'm a free mouse today!!

phui - my "hang-fuk" great friend

it's confirmed. phui at last is free from her job. SHE QUIT HER JOB. for good that is. such a lucky chabo. i really can't imagine. phui of all ppl quiting her high-flyer career for her baby n family. if you told me like 5 years ago i will laugh my guts out. this friend of mine - a real gem n full of little delightful surprises. a small girl she is. she likes to think great things come in small packages. i really agree with you there phui. (...er your boobs too. such small entity can swell n gosh the amount of milk gushing out ... one could have mistaken you as a cow. ok ok i will mentioned this. yea. they were the first big changes i noticed in you - physically. hee hee. another joy of being a new mom). small she might be but a dynamite person she is. she is one of my friends that accepts me for what i am (or did. no i haven't murder anyone but contemplating rape - biological clock ticking... joking ya (hmm?). i did mentioned one of those friends, rite, so buddies you all 2 if you guys are reading this. thanks for loving me.

Great changes in her life too. known her since form2. a small gal sitting quietly infront of me. curi makan kuih kodok from faridah. where is she? always refraining from reporting to teacher that i didnt hand in my homework :). then turning into a carefree(in a good way) and independent gal. then morphing into a ceiling-breaking career lady. is now a dotting mom and loving wife. well you certainly achieve a lot in 30 years ... ok only 29 years and 6 days.

luxury liner to sampan to pelampung? as long as keep floating :)

when i was in hk visiting phui, mark n ellie, take opportunity to do hk. no i didnt go to disney. u guys should know me better. i not really into that unless whole gang there. visited this temple - sik sik wong tai sin. had my fortune told. seems like i had missed my luxuriues liner ... duh?!! she is the second fortuneteller telling me that i had a bf @ 24 n should get married @ 28!! like what!!?? i missed all that - dang! well she so persistently insisted me to move to north or west to meet my jodoh. guess i will be missing the next sampan as my prague (north n west) job deal fell apart again... don't worry ppl. me taking this lightly as i'm more interested in my career n ka-ching fortune at the moment (well got nothing else to worry about...) but the fortune teller was more interested in my love life - i wonder why? single or double or triple or whatever. as long as happy - life's great :)

2006 already...

2006 greetings
happy 2006!! hurrah ... hurrah?? another year to plough thru. 2nd day of 2006. nothing much changed except extra baggages, debts n yea! cleaner fridge n fans (hee hee mop them real clean) i started my 2006 by cleaning d house. not bad actually :) at least i did something other than watching happy n sappy korean drama (n stuffing myself with those chips). a real start actually! i just weighed n i lost like 2KG!! er ... i think, i hope. weighing machine sometimes er ... like to tease me :) decided not too make any resolution so i wont break any of them :)
korean drama n latest crush
i am so into this korean drama n d ost. hee hee found a site tat i can dl d whole album w/0 using p2p. back 2d k drama. following these :
- wonderful life which is light hearted but giggles inducing series
and
- my 19 yr old sis-in-law which is more serious, sometimes sappy (u know me - i sob @ every oppoturnity in movie. now u know how tissue companies survived).
g8t thing is both dramas star my current fave k actor - kim jae won.
i know i'm 2 old to get swoony over some cute hunk which is so much younger but hey! this is one of those ways to stay young @ heart :) at least now i have something to look forward. 2 hours date with kjw ... er w/d tv i mean :)