Rose Sandwich/ Mid-Autumn Festival 2007

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Okie, back to (normal) blogging.

I bet some of you can't wait to know how I make those beautiful Rose sandwiches.
Pretty and delicious, yet very easy to do.
Can always make it to impress people yo!

*Heard loud applauses and "Thank You" everywhere*
YES! YES! You're Welcome~

[Syok Sendiri-ing]

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NOTE: I LEARNED IT FROM THE TAIWAN TV SHOW "GOOD IDEA" 生活智慧王(I know I know, only aunties watch that.. But I love the show! It's so bloody cool!) , I'M NOT THE INVENTOR OF THIS DISH SO DON'T PRAISE ME.

(Shows on Channel 33 every Saturday 8.00pm, repeat on Sunday 9.30am and 3.30pm)

.... But you can thank me for sharing lah. Hahahahaaa. Or vote for me!

Stuffs you need to prepare

- Bread slices (doh....)

- Chicken toast, Beef Salami, Cheese, tomato dices, cucumbers, cheese... Basically what so ever you feel like putting in.

And other stuffs like rolling pin (not necessary actually), oven, cups and.. knife? (Double-Doh...)

As you can see, I'm slicing it on a piece of aluminium foil. That's because the cutting board was occupied by my mum and I was desperate to try making it liao.

Of course, you have to cut all four sides.




Now you know how limited my mum's kitchen is. She doesn't bake so no rolling pin...and even mixer and weight scale. Whenever I feel like baking I have to borrow it from my neighbour.

So I used my glass instead, serves the same function anyway. The bread slice need to be thin and flat, that's it.

(Follow the red line)

Be careful not to slit it fully and make it into half or quarter.
The center of the bread is going to be the base to hold the salamis, that's why it's important that you leave more than enough space for it.



Okay, this is the part I find it hard to explain liao...

Ermm...erm... After cutting the slits, you get 4 parts right?
So all you need to do is put one behind another, forming a flower-like cup...

You get what I mean right?

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(Here, if most of you get lost in this step.. I'll film a short clip to show you guys. Just drop me a message in the comment box)




I can't find any small steel cups thus I used aluminium foils, put it in a small bowl and get the shape printed.

(Some more no need to wash lagi.... I'm damn smart!)

Toast it for 15 minutes using 150 degrees.

Note: We just want the bread slices to get a bit harden and crispy forming a a flower bud.


While waiting for it, it's time to prepare the ingredients for the sandwich.



Make sure the egg is not too thick else it'll be difficult to roll later.

Actually the rose sandwich will look much much more nicer with smoked salmon. But I can't them in KB/Seria! For those who ever eat sashimis will know how pretty the chefs always served them in the wooden plank.

We can do the same too, just arrange two to three slices in order and roll them up.


Anyway, after toasting - put a spoonful of mayonaise on to the base of it.
(The part I say don't cut fully one leh?)



The mayonaise is used to give the sandwich a better taste and support so that it looks more like petals in it.



Then now you can roll the salamis and put them into the "flower bud".


*cough* I made a mistake while editing.. The below picture is suppose to be Step 9 but maybe I was too hungry so I typed 10 instead... Sorry ah.....

[Paiseh]



As you can see, I put in some diced cucumber in it to add some colours to it.
And... it kinda makes the sandwich looks more healthy isn't it?
No?


The above one is egg with beef salami topped with tomato dices.

And the picture below is chicken toast with egg.

The other combinations I tried was cheese with tomatoes, cheese and eggs, cheese and chicken toast, cheese and beef salami... That's why I said basically you can try anything you like as long as it's thin enough to roll.

So pretty right?

Perfect for a gathering to impress your friends, boyfriends, future parents-in-law and your pet cat.

And I just had to post a picture of me with it (and spoil the whole beautiful post with my big nose) because it's my first time trying!




Serious, they're not just posing or acting in the above photo. They really think its cool and delicious! Even though they're my best friends and... I did threaten them with my fist if they say it doesn't taste good.

But you can see how sincere they are with the wide smile telling you it's really good right?

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And us, a bunch young adults (average 25.6 years old) played lanterns and walked around Kelly's neighbourhood with lots of cars passing by and looking at us.



Malu?

Why should we? It's Mid-Autumn festival man.. We only get to celebrate it once a year.
Chinese culture okay~ Must follow.

What's so malu for a 25 years old bride-to-be carrying a Ultra-man lantern and a 25 years old engineer holding a Sakura lantern? No big deal what.

*kekekekkekkeee*


Note to self: Next year buy battery-operated lantern with music one. So no need to keep lighting new candles and lousy friends won't see-low me sure burn the paper lantern.

I didn't burnt my lantern okay. Professional kali ah~

Sukchin's Farewell BBQ

I have so many things to blog lately. My blogginspirations is BACK!!!
Yeeee Haaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa =D
The problem is... I have no idea how long it's going to stay...

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Our dearest SukChin is leaving for her master in UK (not Ulu Kapit okay) this coming Tuesday and so we decided to throw a mini BBQ gathering over at Mable's place, more like an excuse for us just to see each other in a less awkward way than asking out to yum-cha and no one turn up in the end.

It was fun, seeing ex-classmates (whom some times I thought die already) , BBQ-ing, eating and blabbing nonsense. Then there was Mable's dogs and puppies who kept follow behind us hoping we'll feed them some food. Random kids shouting in excitement while playing on the see-saw and some uncles and aunties checking out their kids which I personally think their real motives is to have a clearer look of us and brain-storm who our parents are.

You know lah, elder people (age 40 and above) loves to do this relation-mapping thing trying to see how everyone in connected in the teeny-weeny Seria and they love telling you your family histories straight from your kong-kong and poh-poh (grandpa and grandma). And you'll be shocked that someone actually knows your family background better than you, which can be quite embarrassing at times.

Forgot to mention, we (the youngsters) weren't alone. Mable's folks invited their family friends over and had their little gathering inside the house eating some nice catered food while us sweat like pig, feed mosquitoes and enjoy the total freedom outside the house. I'm not complaining, just describing.



He warned me not to upload any of his pictures in Facebook or Blogspot or anything like that. And if I really want, I have to cover his face up like one of the anime character in "Ghost in Shell". Problem is, I never watch that so I have no idea what kind of mask is it. So I hantam put a funny smiley on his face. Better than pixel or putting a black stripe over his eyes right?

Those in the aluminium foils was prawns, marinated only with red wine. We had very limited resources that night because everyone was lazy to walk in and out the kitchen passing by a bunch of uncles and aunties.

L-R: Stanley, Alex (Yuck... Why I called him that? SL lah....), Kennis (LOL! Feels weird.. Pig-Theen sounds better),
Ah King and Justin.... (Soon Lung)

Seems like everyone loves to feed me huh? I know laaaaa..... I'll be a threat if I lose weight kan? Hahahahaa. Syok-Sendiri.

SL and the pups

I'm just kidding about the caption. Actually he's the only one who bothered to feed the doggies using 2 satay sticks as chopsticks and dig out the bones. That's why the dogs kept following him. Somemore.. he talked a lot to them... o_O

On the Menu

We had chicken wings, lamb chops, beef steaks, sotongs, prawns, sausages, all sort of "balls", seafood tofu and marshmallows! And Mable's dad asked each one of us to eat inside first before we get to eat the BBQ food, curry, fried meehoon, eggs, veggies, lots of chicken cooked in different styles...

So yeah.. I think I gained back the 2kg I lost and added more.

Question:

I'm not sure if it's lemon grass but Chinese called it "Xiang-Mau". Normally people used it as a brush to put oil and honey on top of the meat.

I keh-kiang (pretend to be pandai) took it and dipped it into the oil on the leafy part and got scolded for my stupidity. They said it is the root that is going to transform into a brush because that is the part with all the aroma, and not the leaves.....How would I know? Normally when I kaypo around the grill it was already there. I never took part at the making of it what.

To turn it into a brush, cut the end away and flatten it and wa-la, organic brush!

Love the idea. Environmental friendly and no need to wash it after using, just throw to the bin. Or if you want, just hang in on the door and it can chase evil spirits away. Two-in-One, aromatic and give protection, good leh?

... Okay, I made the last one up.

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FYI, the signature traditional food to be eaten during Mid-Autumn Festival is not only that fattening and tooth decaying moon cakes! We got more than that, the healthier ones... albeit less delicious.

Peanuts, yams, pomelos, and niu-kok (牛角)... the one that looks like the ox-horn.

By the way... a little rant here -

PLEASE! WE'RE NOT CELEBRATING THE FORMATION OF MOONCAKE, WE'RE CELEBRATING MID-AUTUMN! SO DON'T CALL IT MOONCAKE FESTIVAL...IT'S MID-AUTUMN, I REPEAT MID-AUTUMN FESTIVAL!

And my dear fellow Chinese, it's Zhong-Chiu-Jie, not Yue-Bin-Jie okay. Kana teased one if say salah.. Malu to be a Cina.

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And Mable just had to provoke me by taking out her eraser collections to show off to SukChin and I. Must.... win ..... hers! =p


Oh shoot.. I just realized I spelled her name wrongly in the above photo.
She's so going to kill me..


Damn jealous lar... She has so many that I don't have. She's lucky to find them and I was surprised because I went to the same shop but never found any of those!

*sigh*

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And this Stanley.... stick these stickers on his car's windscreen...

Cheh, here got Burger King meh? So li-hai drive to KK lor... Wait, even KK also don't have a drive-thru... I think? Kiasu.

And the woman who's sharing her right eye with a lizard stickers look so freaky, in a cool way.

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After stuffing ourselves to death with food and cleared the place up, we proceed to indoor activities,

Too bad for those who left early because they missed Soon-Lung's amazing voice. There wasn't much guys I know personally who are not tone deaf with good pitching, Soon Lung makes an exception. Must have practice a lot at home liao one this guy...

And SukChin was teasing him that his favorite "Yam" song is "Opps.. I did it again!"

Hahahhahhahahhhaa!!!!

Kudos to the see-saw, it can takes 8 fully grown adults weight after eating several rounds of food! Don't play play.

And.. I wonder what's wrong with my camera.. the pictures are getting blur-er.
Time to get a new one? Or maybe because I dropped it off from James car's roof top while trying to set it on auto-timer.

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By the way, say hi to my new so-very-panjang monitor.

19" Widescreen.

I'm still trying to get used to seeing everything stretched and everyone looks fatter.

And Bobby claimed that he felt like panggang (BBQ) my pink piggie...
(The arm rest I made myself...)

Eh! Pet Abuse ah!

Wedding Preparations is damn mafan....

. . . of course, its not me who's getting married.
Not yet, not yet. Wait ah.... Erm, at least 4~ 5 years more.

You kaypoh people out there really worried that no one wants me hor?
And think the whole world only left Bobby willing to sacrifice, "swallow" me is it?

I don't know why every time when I blogged topics about wedding and marriage, everyone will come to me and said, "You so desperate meh?"

WTH??? Just because I talked about getting married doesn't mean I'm doing it myself lah. Does that mean that if one day I blog about homosexuality you people (especially my thoughtless and stupid friends!) think that I'm becoming a lesbian?

Think with your head lah , if you have one....

Gosh, I sound angry.

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It's my dearest friend. She's getting married next year, which I think a lot of you already heard me mentioning tons of time in my blog.

Because I'm the only child in the family, thus I have no one's wedding to kaypoh around. She's the closest one I can get involved and shamelessly bugged Theen to feed me the latest news and updates for her wedding preparations from time to time.

And I realized my first question to her is always, "How much oh?"

"Bridal shots how much oh?"

"Furnitures (bed, dressing table, sofa..) how much oh?"

"Engagement ring, wedding bands how much oh?"

"Wedding reception one table how much oh?"

"Sliming package how much oh?" Oppsies!

All these "how much" already make me (and Bobby) sweat like hell.

Either the soon-to-wed choose

a) Simple and inexpensive.
b) Simple and expensive.
c) Glamorous and VERY expensive!
d) None of the above. They just register and save the hassle.

.. depending on the time and budget they have.

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First we talk about bridal shots.

I'm not sure for other races but I think every Chinese couples (who I know) sure got wedding photos one. Indoor studio shots and outdoor shots. Couples had to survey so many shops providing these kind of service, go through their portfolio and compare the packages and it took 2~3 hours for each shop. Crazy....

After choosing the right shop, then comes the hard part. Picking the 7~8 different outfits, make-up and hair style, pose and smile for several hours till the face got all stiff and got the bones cracking.

HOW TO ACT ALL HAPPY AND SWEET WITH THE THICK MAKE-UP, 20 HAIR PINS ON HEAD AND WALK ON THE DIRTY BEACH BARE FOOT WITH PEOPLE LOOKING AROUND, LEANING AGAINST THE TREE WITH HUNDRED OF ANTS CRAWLING AND KEEP THAT SMILE AND EYES OPEN WIDE EVEN ITS SCORCHING HOT?

Not to mention, its easy for the guys to choose their suit since its either black, or white. (Blah... so boring lah). But its different for ladies. Suck in as much air as possible to hide that hideous tummy, smile with an angle to get that sharp thin face, wear that killer heels and still need to be all "natural", without falling down of course.

I was sharing my experience with my friends about the couple who went trying their bridal gown and suit, and the groom totally no layan the wife one.

Joseph told me he would do the same because there's no point to comment.

If the guy say, "Not nice".
The girl will ask, "Why leh?"

If the guy say, "Nice."
Then the girl will answer, "Really meh?"

"Say nice cannot, say not nice cannot also.
Girls are hard to please and understand eh... " <- Voice in every guys heart.

Question leading to another question and I bet all guys out there think it's pointless to voice comments on the girl's fashion sense since in the end she won't be listening to the guy also, unless he's a fashion designer or gay feminine fashionable enough to talk about the latest trend.

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That's only bridal shots.

Next I'll talk about Wedding Reception.
Not really a part 2 thing. Just that its getting really long and boring..

*yawn*

(Want to sleep now..... The farewell BBQ party was a blast. Will blog about it in the next post.

Oh wait.. I still owe Choonie a tag reply...)




Stay tune for:-

"Why is wedding so mafan and costly?"

"So that people won't get married for the second time."

... Lame.

C for __________

Teacher walked in the classroom and said,

"Okay class, today we're going to learn the letter "C".
Can anyone name me anything that begins with the letter "C"?"

"Cat!"

"Car!"

"CINA!"

"Sussshhh.... Don't say that. It's not nice."

"But.... Cina does begin with the letter "C"!"

".... Anymore answer?"

"Cher Cher! I know I know! C for Sial! "

-______-"

(Yes! My friend's student really answered her that! Kids nowadays....)

which reminds me of,

Once a cute little boy at the age of 4 answered "K" for 恐龙 KONG-LONG!!!

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So boys and girls, ladies and gentlemen,

Tell Teacher Nonnie C for _________ and K for _____________.
And I'll give you sweets for the correct answer.

On and Off. On and Off.

. . . Bah, Off terus lah!
Resources are precious in our planet Earth.

Of all answers I heard whenever I asked, "Are you dating someone at the moment?" or "You have boyfriend/ girlfriend?", that [points title] is my least favorite.

(Follow by, "You guess lar~" in that idiotic act-cute tone! I'm not asking your Age for God's sake. I'm just being nice starting a conversation, as if I'm really that interested. Doh... )

I'm fine with people at the age of 12 ~ 17 giving me that answer, but for someone who's already in their mid 20s, coming 30.... APA NI?



Tell me exactly how to love/ un-love a person within weeks, days, hours, minutes or even seconds?

On mah On. Off mah Off. What the heck is on/off?
Does that mean:

Awwww.. He bought me flowers [Love button ON].

He FARTED when we're about to kiss!!!!! [Love button OFF]

He said sorry and promised to fart only outside the house [Love button ON]

Damnit! He dug his nose and sticked it on my pink wall this time! [OFF!]

He bought me chocolates and teddy bear. [ON back]

Bloody hell... It's a $1.80 teddy from Happy Star and he unwrapped the chocolate and feed me after scratching his butt. That's it. [OFF for good!]

Few hours later....
He MMS me a picture of him with that Puss-in-boots eyes. And... I'm missing him.
How? On..or Off? On? Off? On? Off?

*Ka-boom* Head exploded.

Eh, before you proceed reading.... the above scenario is simply make up by me and don't simply assume that it happened to Bobby and I before ah.

Plus, farting and nose digging.... *poofffff* nothing to us lah.
=D



I bet most of you had come across this. You logged into your friendster/ facebook account and simply browse your friends' profile and clicked on them whenever they upload new photos.

Then all the captions you saw were,

"My boo"
"My bi"
"I love him so much"
"Me and _______"
"_____ and I"
"I miss him"
"[insert any mushy words that makes you wanna puke]"

All the pictures are the guy and the girl with similar background, just different angles and poses. (Can it get any boring-er?)

Then the following week, the guy/girl updated his/her profile and next thing you saw was:
"Single" or "It's complicated".

Weeks later, they called each other Laokung Laupoh again!

This, makes me laugh!
(Can it get any more dramatic (and stupid) than this?)

Hahhahahahhahaahaa. I know I know, you can call me evil or mean, but...it's funny what?!

I'm only human.... Kelly Lim An anonymous friend loves to share these kind of juicy gossips with me and we enjoyed laughing together. Pretty low of us I know. But my friends always tell me this, "As long as you're happy...", or "Just follow your heart". So my heart asked me to kaypo, I follow lor. =p

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I seriously cannot tahan those people who always act all lovey-dovey in front of people (kissing foreheads , whispering and nibbling, the most teruk is rubbing each other's genitals in public. Get a room please, or at least... get a car.) but at the back, quarrel for the tiniest things. Pretentious couple.



The most classic one I ever heard was,

Girlfriend: Urgh..... I don't wanna go out because I have a pimple on my forehead.

Boyfriend: Perhaps you should use lesser make-up and give your skin a rest.

Girlfriend: I want to break up with you!

Boyfriend: . . . what?

Pretty innocent for the guy huh? No worries, the girl called the next day and they got back together... again ... for the n-th time!

Seems like the girl is a breaking-up addict. And she never fails to surprise me with her latest reason.

(Neh... she's not a friend of mine. I just heard stories about her)

What "Fate brought us together"?
More like "FAKE brought us together" lah!

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Updates:
(If you want to know what am I up to lately)

- Am not practicing guitar this two weeks because I need to keep my nails long.

- Not losing even 1mm of my waistline because I'm still eating.
That is: Fasting plan failed badly.

- Monitor finally kaput. Need to buy a new one after pay day. *money fly fly*

- Thinking whether I should put on make up myself or simply find someone to do it for me.
Note to self: Brush up make-up skill! No more alasan for not doing it.

- I'm so loving Puasa because my students are extra cute and obedient this month!

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Short Note:
I hate September.
Wrong. Correction, WE HATE SEPTEMBER!

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School is opening tomorrow. And I felt like I couldn't get enough of it.

This is what I'd done for my holidays...
Saturday & Sunday - Life Potential Class
Monday - Clean my keyboard
Tuesday - (Damn sad that I don't want to talk about it anymore...)
Wednesday & Thursday - Miri looking for prom dress and accessories. T_T money fly
Friday - BSB, accompanied SL to dental clinic.
Saturday - Baked cheese cake and scalded my hand. o_O. Bad day for Bobby too.
Sunday - Breakfast @ KB and stayed at home whole day.

One word - UNPRODUCTIVE!!!

I was suppose to make a pillow for Kelly (belated birthday present).
I was suppose to tidy up my wardrobe but I didn't.
I was suppose to go for a facial and do something to my hair but I overspent this month.
I was suppose to be a better person but I am already one. =p

*tap tap tap on keyboard*

I don't know what to blog.... Where's my bloginspiration?

(If there's such word. Teeeheee.

Actually I do have lots of things to say, but after several considerations, I thought it'll be better if I can just keep my mouth shut and don't dwell into it. I want an anonymous blog!!! But, what's so fun to blog if I always termed people as A,B and C? Or call myself Miss X? *shake heads*

I wish I have bigger balls... Wait, GUTS is what I meant.)

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Here, the long delayed photos taken last week when we went to BSB to meet up Naz.

When I said I want to lose 5kg, actually I just want to lose the excess fats especially those on my arms, as you can see from the pictures above. Some joked that my arms can feed the entire African tribe. -___-"

My dress can cover up my tummy so that's not a concern for me anymore. But with my super flabby arms, I look like a rugby player in it la.

Imagine, broad shoulder with humongous arms. And somewhat slightly larger than average "assets". *I'm trying to be humble here okay*

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I bet most of you had known this already.

The Bruneian Blogs Award

Spiritual Garden is categorized under "Personal Blog" and the nominating phase starts now!

Blog Category (eligible blogs)	Event Dates	Event
Best Personal Blog September - October 2007	11th - 24th Sept	Public Nominations Phase.
	25th - 4th Oct	Public Voting Phase.
	8th/9th Oct	Best Personal Blog Winner, Runner-up, and Best Nominator announced on Simpur, KRISTALfm & Media.

Nominators can win too! How generous is that?

I wonder if foreigners are allowed to vote or not.
Anyone cares to enlighten me?

Can I please be the winner this time?
I'll post a sexy pic just to win this. LOL! You think I so cheap meh?
*flash puppy/ kitty eyes (whichever cuter for you)*

Shopping = Happy? Well, not for me

Happy Ber-Puasa to all Muslims out there, I'm so going to try it out one day (and see how long I can tahan... Not very long I think. So I really salute you those out there who can do it so well.)

Remember, stomach puasa. Mouth, eyes, ears and heart also need to puasa.


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I went to Miri yesterday after posting the picture up yesterday. As usual - paktoh with Bobby and carried out an important task which is buying all the necessaries for the upcoming Curtin Prom.


And who told me shopping is fun? Retail therapy doesn't exist in my dictionary, especially when its my hard earned money I'm spending. God, spending hundred of dollars and the amount of time wasted in looking for the perfect dress, shoes and accessories is damn tiring lah. I certainly get no fun out of it.

(I know girls out there must have think I'm an alien and guys out there hope their gfs/ wives are more like me. LOL!)

I'm not going to post picture of the dress I bought because I want to keep it as a surprise till the day comes. *winks*

Of course first of all... I need to lose some weights first. Bobby gave me a number, 5kg.
5kg within 2 weeks, is it possible?

(This is Puasa period okay! Gym and sport complexs close early and no one to exercise with. And I really don't want to cut down my meals. How? HOW?!)

Okay.. I'll try lah, but don't have high hope yeah.

Not easy to transfom 3 layers fat to 1 lean meat la.

Bobby and I went to a couple of bridal shop, NOT BECAUSE WE'RE GETTING MARRIED SOON LAH! Bobby wanted to rent a suit for the prom and I noticed something funny while waiting for someone to serve us.

While the bride-to-be was happily changing into various types of gown, discussing with her mother, sister and friends excitedly, the groom-to-be was just busy poking on his PDA phone! Totally no comments at all.

I warned Bobby if he dare to sit down like a log and act like its none of his business when I'm trying out the dresses, JAGA!!!

Tell me, when you're getting married (for married readers out there), did your husband answer you "Anything lah..", and OK-ed to whatever you suggested and mentioned as if it's none of his business?

Scary leh!

By the way, he didn't get anything in the end because all those suit made him look like a rugby player with those super thick sponges on the shoulder. And its hard to find the colour we wanted to match his pant. See, who says girls are troublesome? My case different.

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Anyway, these are some of the stuffs I bought in Miri.
Nothing fancy actually.

I just want to show off my new pencil case and that cool car sign that only can last for another, erm.... 6 years. Then paint off the number 2 and write 3. *sad*

And here, new additions to my erasers collection!
(Click here if you're new to my blog, you'll be impressed by my collections. Muahahahah!)


Cute leh?
RM1.50 each and I bought one animal each.

Okay, I got to go. Comments replied later...
Wait, I said that already. Blog-hopping later too.
Right now I just want to bury myself in my warm blanket, have a nice sleep and go up BSB with SL tomorrow.

Ja-Ne!

*speechless*

I cleaned my keyboard!

Short Note:
Why do I see donuts and cupcakes in almost every blog I visited?
Is that the latest trend now?

. . . I hate mainstream.

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I wanted to post up the photos we took with Naz last weekend but Kelly hadn't appear online at her house and thus I still don't have the pictures with me.

But here, just a teaser.

Man.. I just noticed Naz's eyebrows look like Shinchan's!
So thick la, like caterpillar.

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Right, cleaning my keyboard.
One of the task I gave myself for this holiday.

I remembered that Ness came over to my house and chatted using MSN with my PC. She had a lot of typos and blamed it on my keyboard because the letters had worn off.

(No skill! =p I believed internet addicts will not have a problem in typing even if all the letters are all gone. Too biasa with the keyboard liao mah, kan?)




As you can see, it's just a very cheap Made-in-China keyboard that only cost $10 (if I'm not wrong), dirty with yellowish brown patches here and there. And 10% of the letters on the keys are smudged.



Disgusting hor?
So malu posting these pictures up lah.
Like telling everyone in the whole wide world that I'm lazy and dirty.

*shy away from monitor*

. . . Okay de la, Bobby had long know the fact long ago, accept it and top me!
Kekekkekee =p

So I googled "How to clean computer keyboard" to look for cleaning tips. Hey, please don't think that I'm very 小姐 don't know how to do housework one. I helped my mum to iron 2 big baskets of cloths, cleaned the toilet and my favorite was emptying the dustbin okay. (Note the past tense. I admit I seldom do all this things now because I don't follow my mum to work anymore.) I just want to make sure I won't screw things up.And spend unnecessarily.

(I'm a karit monster. Everybody knows that.
My mum had been bugging me to get myself a new laptop seeing me trying to on/off the monitor everytime it blacks out on me. See.. even my mum can't tahan)

To my surprise, some genius actually took 5 days to wait for his keyboard (and keys) to get all dried up. The method he used, popped it into the DISHWASHER! Read here.

So what I did (using the proper way) was:

Use cotton buds and clean the keys between the gaps.

*Gasp*
My first swab!

The Chinese reads:
Lao Kung (hubby), Jin Wan Jia Liao Oh (Tonight we add dish oh)

Then take a screw driver or what-so-ever thin and hard
to "kiaw" the keys out.

Die for the second timeReally can cook into a pot of soup liao...

If you can't remember the right order of the qwerty keyboard, or lazy to search one by one after clean up, I'll suggest you to arrange them nicely in their respective order. Save a lot of time putting them back.

As for the letters that had worn off,
*ta da*

And I add a little more words, just to make sure my keyboard won't get despised by its own species, or my friends.


If this entry still have not motivate you to clean your keyboard right away, here - this might help.

Rutala's team tested 25 computer keyboards from UNC's Health Care System for bacteria. The researchers also placed bacteria on several laptop computers and tried to remove those bacteria with various disinfectants.

The bottom line: The keyboards were home to several sorts of bacteria, and cleaning helped.

"Our data suggest that microbial contamination of keyboards is prevalent and that keyboards may be successfully decontaminated with disinfectants," the researchers write.

Or, if you're rich enough or a spendthrift. Easy - Just buy new one.


Hmm... Is there any disposable keyboard available?

Oh wait, cancel the idea. I love my planet Earth and I wouldn't want to create more rubbish to burden it.

^_^

My latest interest - GUITAR!

Short Note:

I realized something...
I can only start blogging when the photos are completely uploaded!

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Don't marah baaaaaaa. I know it'd only been one day and I failed my mission already - blog daily. I got my reasons.

And the reason is: I'd been out the whole day. My mum signed me up for a 蔡明霞老师 's Life Potential class (sounds corny I know... but it's real fun and benefiting) without asking me. She just went:

Mum: Hey, this Saturday and Sunday you free?

Me: Why?

Mum: Oh, Tsai Lao-Shi (Teacher Tsai) is coming, you want to go for the class.

Me: No, don't want... Malas. (I just want to rot at home and do nothing for the whole day)

Mum: But I paid already and said you're going...

Me: Okay lor, you li-hai (steady)! Say finish already, I got choice meh?

Normally my mum is not like that, I mean she gives me lots of freedom and set no curfew because she knows I won't do anything stupid and get myself in to troubles.

(See people, don't complain if you think your parents control or give you no freedom at all, I think most probably its because you didn't earn enough "Trust-Points" when you're young by keeping promise and let them worried too much.)

And I went up BSB to find Nazri because he's leaving this coming Monday. Big face lar him. (Will post those stupid photos taken with him in the next post)

Anyway, back to the topic.

YES! I'm going to learn how to play guitar. Wooohooooo!!!!

And don't you go and tell me, "Har? Guitar ah? Why not piano?" because I find that very annoying. I know, girls who can play piano seems so much more attractive and gentle. But it's too expensive for me lar. (I can learn guitar by myself and it's cheaper) Anyway, since Bobby can play piano, so I thought I'll just choose some thing I like. Hey, guitar is cool okay! Just strings and planks of wood then can create beautiful music liao.

Actually I'd been longing to own one myself since college time. Got influenced by Keith and Isra because they just couldn't stop playing, singing and syok-sendiri (self-entertain) whenever we had our group study together. I bugged them to teach me a few chords and never improved. =p

So, 2.5 years after my graduation, I 'tik' up my heart (made up my mind), went to the musical instruments store and get one. Because I had been telling my friends beside me that I wanted to learn how to play guitar. And I don't want to waste my time by talking and not doing anything. After all, I'm not young anymore. If I don't do it now, after I got married and have babies where got chance liao?

(That is what all my married friends told me - Now you single, want to buy what, want to do what, better do right away. Else you only dream about it after kahwin!)

I dragged SL and Theen along in helping me to choose my first guitar.


Of course, I'm just a beginner. Tak kan I buy myself an electric guitar. But they're so handsome and stylish lar. *slurps*

I was totally blur with what I want and thanks for the kind shop attendant for introducing one by one patiently about their difference and performance.

The choices I had were a blue one, a creamy brown one and black. In the end, I get the black one - B$65.00, and a pretty baju (case) for it $17.90.

(Sorry I must cut out my face because I looked bloody swollen in it. Theen sucks in taking photos. Well, she blamed it on me for looking ugly and there is no problem with her photography skill. Bleh)

Handsome leh? He's tan with shapes, okay... maybe he's a little plump at the bottom but that's not the problem. At least he responds well, not like men - girls say what also don't know if they're listening or not.

By the way, yesterday was my first day learning guitar by myself. So far my progress is able to play G, C, D major and Em. Four chords only. My problem is not able to switch my fingers fast enough to play all the chords smoothly in one go without pausing.

Heh, at least now I can play 恰似你的温柔 cacat-ly。 I know its a very old song but it's nice what.

Gambate Nonnie p^_^q

(Don't give up half way and waste that $82.90)



p/s: Any cheap guitar teachers available in Belait district? Just in case I got lazy and need someone to monitor.i

Re-fresh!

Awwwww... you guys/girls are just too sweet. Thanks for all those encouragements and supports. And I noticed somehow there are more anonymous commenters, perhaps my silent readers thought they might do some good by appearing once in awhile. Really, appreciate it loads.

(Just that I still have no idea what to reply for your comments)

Anyway, as you can see - I'd changed my blog skin! How was it? Great? Sucks?
Nevermind, just vote over the poll I set up on the sidebar there. Need the feedbacks.

If I have not link you, or you hope that I'll link you up, leave me a message over the tagboard. And If I do find your blog interesting and find it worth while to read, I'll do it. It's not a link-exchange thing. I'm not really that nice. =p

I'm feeling better, maybe because I'm going to have my one week holiday real soon. I'm thinking to challenge myself by blogging in a daily basis! Hah! Take that!

. . .

Hmmm.. come to think of it, maybe I don't have that much to say/ blog too. Anyway, we'll see.

Okay, let me have a good night sleep and think of what to blog tomorrow.
(I actually make a list of possible things I can blog about... See, I'm taking it seriously!)

Good night.

Some of you didn't know, I wear specs at home.
And it makes me look like a granny.

Keep the comments coming in. =D

I'm begging you...

I'm Pathetic @.@

*I'll try to blog like the usual me. Finger-crossed*

Something that kept me happy for the whole night

Bobby drew me this when we're chatting over MSN. So sweet can die!

p/s: I didn't ask you to judge his drawing skill lar,
negative comments about this drawing will be deleted!

Do you remember...

.... the girl who can blogged every alternate days, having a lot of things to write even its nothing important or interesting?

... the girl who can blogged freely without thinking who her readers are, she just wrote what she felt like it?

I think she's gone.

She's so uninspired, lazy and care too much about who is reading her blog now.

Her life is boring and there's nothing worth to blog about.

She realized she find it hard to fit in the "blogger" categories because:

- She sucks in camwhoring, because her natural assets such as big eyes and fair skin are off the list.

- She finds PINK annoying and overrated. She'll roll her eyes hearing a Japanese doll looking girl shouting "Ahhhh... KAWAII!"

- She finds taking macro shots of food troublesome because she always forgot she should have taken pictures of it (for blogging purpose, making readers feel hungry and eat) before putting them into her mouth.

- She feels insignificant because more and more people blogs and there are copycats everywhere.

- She feels lazy to blog-social by blog-hopping and leaving traces of her existence such as commenting just to get attention and pass message such as, "HEY! I COMMENTED, NOW IT'S YOUR TURN TO RETURN THE FAVOUR!"

- Her friends mocked at her everytime she took out her camera saying, "You very free hor? Like this also want to take picture and blog. So nice to be a teacher... got plenty of time."

- She feels stupid to check if anyone commented in her blog like a desperate woman seeking for love.

But she's not giving up. She just needs some time to find answers and break free again.

In case you all had forgot how she looks like,

that's her on the left, with her best friend on the right.