Organic Birthday!

Today is DG's birthday!

For this week, I planned 2 birthday surprise. One for YF, one for DG. I think I was kinda free after I gone through the assignment hectic month.

So, I think we did a brilliant job on YF's surprise birthday celebration. ^^ (it's not open for judgement, I say good means GOOD. XD)

For DG's, it was kinda difficult as she knows I definitely will remember her birthday. So, I let it flowed like this:

On Wednesday night...

DG: "Hey, tomorrow what time your class ends?" (she knows that my Thursday's class ends quite early)
me: "Oh, about 10am+.... OH YA hor, tomorrow is your birthday. Hmm.... I will have lunch with you then. What time is your lunch?"
DG: "Oh.... my lunch time is at 12pm, but its okay you can come anytime. We go to SS18 Organic Restaurant kay?"
me: (hidden, not visible evil grin) "12pm ah... Hmmm..... (acted to think for a while), okay then. I think I will come and fetch you around 12.15pm.. I have some stuff to do" (ya right)

DG: "okay.. Eh, where is jie jie?" (sis is quite busy throughout the week, so the way she asked I assumed she did not mean she want jie jie to join us but purely asking where sis is)
me: "don't know leh, I seldom see her nowadays..."
DG: "owh... okay..."

Then. BG who was listening to our conversation all the while, chipped in and kecoh says,
BG: "Eeeyerrr~ I also want to join~"
DG: "Join la!"
me: (hurriedly spoke while looking at BG) "Eh I thought you have to rush for your report??"
BG: (antenna connected instantly) "Yalor! Haihhhhhh~~~ So busy with the month end closing..."
me: (looked at DG) See! Who asks you to have birthday at the beginning of the month, should be at the middle of the month mah, see everyone is so busy..." (my usual style of bullying DG)

DG: (showed a quite pity look) "Ehh what~ month end closing so long one meh? until 8th day of the month?"
me: (think: eh quite smart woh you) "Ah I don't know la, she (BG) is always busy"
me: (continue and say) "Eh remember ahh, is I accompany you for lunch, not YOU accompany me lunch~" (just to sound as though not purposely ask her out for lunch)

- close curtain for wednesday -

Thursday afternoon...
me: (on the phone) "Eh DG, I come and fetch you now." (in monotone)
DG: "ok"

Some time later... at DG's office.
DG looked surprised when she saw me AND SIS went to fetch her for lunch! Happy la her, sis purposely postponed her meetings JUST to celebrate her birthday. Heh heh!

We reached organic restaurant around 12.30pm and we found a good parking spot. So ordered food, eat, and chit chat.

Then, mum called, then I asked mum if she wants to talk (wish) to DG. Before I pass DG the phone, I heard DG said: "must be BG la!" I grinned while acted normal and passed the phone to DG.

DG: "Eh what la don't kacau la! Ehh... oh..." (realised is my mum) Then she went on with her normal conversation with my mum. I bet mum must be wondering why DG talked to her in that manner. Haha!


Then... at 1.05pm sharp, BG APPEARED at the restaurant!

Wahahahaha~ another surprise for DG! DG was like "ehh? you came also?"
But her reaction was kinda cool and calm compared to my expectation. I thought she will react in a happier manner. I think this must be her usual *act cool* attitude. Thats why. XD

Wow long story man. Ok, ok. Food now!


Boring people eat boring things.
Sis's favourite orders: Vege sushi (above) and Dumpling soup (below)


Yummehhhhh pleasant soup~


Vege~


A warm dumpling soup served by sis to... who? DG la!


DG's yong tau foo. Something that I won't appreciate. XD


My all times favourite at this organic shop - Seaweed fried rice!
(ya who cares man! I AM a boring person! =P)


Last but not least, the super my-uncle, her-brother lookalike DG! Happy birthday ya! =D

Las Carretas

Yesterday, I had dinner at Las Carretas with bro. I was "forced" to treat him dinner as he helped me to update my resume. Well, more like restructuring my over-simplified resume. It is his first visit to this restaurant. Dinner at 6pm!


Las Carretas @ Taipan, USJ


The F.O.C. nachos. The cold salsa sauce taste just okay with the nachos. Nothing great.


Appetizer - Benji's Skins
- A signatory appetizer from Senór Benjamin's Kitchen. Two pieces of potato skins stuffed with South American Lamb Stew & gratinated with cheese.

This is GOOD!

How to say?
The softness of the lamb is just nice, not too chewy or soft. The cheese topping made it feel even smoother (the texture) and the potato skin matched perfectly with the cheese topped lamb. I felt soooooo satisfied the moment I tried this and I had to eat slowly as the serving was quite small. A very appetizing dish indeed!


Bro's Costilla de Cordero
- Chunky N.Z. Lamb Loin Chops served with Chimmi-Churri Dip, freshly made salad topped with our creamy Italian dressing & baked potato.

According to bro, it was an okay-okay dish only. Well, I tried some of it and I thought it was kinda too smoky and over BBQ-ed kind of taste. Not something that I will like. The potato taste kinda boring when the dressing is finished. Aww~~~ not my problem anyway. =P


Finally! My Quesadillas!
- A folded baked flour tortilla stuffed with Monterey Jack Cheese, onions, bell peppers, Jalapenos & topped with salsa, sour cream & guacamole. (chicken added)

So far, I've tried this for 3 times but this round is not a good try. It just don't taste that great compared to the previous tries. Partly also because the tortilla was kinda "burnt", so some funny taste on the tortilla made it slightly not so nice.

After that, we went to Subang Parade as bro wanted to get a wireless adapter. Seriously, the house connection is getting from bad to worse nowadays. It was really disappointing as all the problem came after we UPGRADED our streamyx package. I wonder what kind of service is this. *sigh*
And to think that we still have to stick to it as it was the fastest among all service provider, it just feel even more pathetic. Why?

We complain.
but still,
we are using it.

Feels like they are monopolising the internet service provider and we can't do anything to avoid it. =.=

Anyway, I benefited from this short visit at Subang Parade, be....be... because I FOUND A SUBSTITUE FOR MY BUBBLE PEARL MILK TEA!!!!!!


"Cool Blog" pearl milk tea! RM2.40!
- it was way cheaper than Little Taiwan's pearl milk tea and it taste almost the same with it! But of course, what matters most is that it is near to my area and I can have it anytime! Midvalley or One U is way too far for me!


Awww.... I love teddy bears... but stopped collecting it since Winnie the Pooh came... XD

PM 2 - Deadlift

Today is my second visit to Pushmore. The Workout of the Day ("WOD") is "Deadlift 5-5-5-5-5".

"Deadlift 5-5-5-5-5"

According to individual's strength etc etc, the weights to be lifted are different. The "5-5-5-5-5" means we have to lift the weights for 5 times (in a go, if possible) for 5 rounds. So in between we will take rest for about 5-10 minutes as breaks. According to the "ah tau" (boss a.k.a. the most geng trainer), 10 minutes should be the maximum resting time as our body will cool down if we rest too long. Well I knew it because sis told me earlier in the afternoon. She was the one who spoilt my lunch mood when I was told to go for workout today! XD

Honestly, I'm not sure how much weight I lifted because it was recorded in... lbs? Ahh, I damn fail in units measurement. I recognise kgs only. XD
But anyway, it was very light only. When you see what weights other people lifted, then you will know why. We were told to lift at least 80% of our weight but I'm sure I didn't. I definitely weight more than what I lifted. HAHAHA!

About the workout... Hmm...
I was put into a group of 3, including sis. Yea la~ she pro edi right. So basically her task was more like assisting another trainer to keep an eye on me and another girl. Basically my posture for the whole day was... WRONG! hahaha!
I had incorrect posture especially on my back, shoulder and knee (hey! that means everything IS WRONG! yea, I know!)

Eh heh heh heh~ Can't help it. I have been walking/sitting/stoning etc etc with bad posture for many many years, especially since the great exposure to UNIVERSITY LIFE! *grudge*

Eh eh. Off topic edi.

*edited*

So, here's the record of WOD for the day, which I stole from their website... *evil grin*

p/s: *touch wood* So far... no pain yet. Hopefully not. Hopefully won't. haha! (what a wish, end up I still wake up with a mile backache... ish ish ish...)



WOD093009
- I'm the only person who ends with 2 digits... hahaha~ did you notice that? =D

I'm back!

*blows away the dust*

Wow! Time flies... I didn't realise that my last update was quite some time ago. Lazy was one of the reason but the main thing is, I was so busy with assignments and tests! The crazy period started somewhere mid Aug until today!

To cut it short, for this whole week, my daily sleeping hours range from 1.5-6 hours. Crazy right! This happened as I had one assignment due on Wednesday and another 2 crazy assignments due today!

Because of that extensive research finance assignment, I slept at 6.30am and woke up at 8am for classes! Surprisingly, I felt alright. Well occasionally I do feel that I reacted slower than usual but I don't really feel sleepy. I survived the morning lecture but I lost focus on my evening lecture.

After classes, I went to Jean's house to have an intensive Japanese catch up lesson as I skipped 2 Jap classes. Yea! I was THAT preoccupied with assignments. Despite that, I still find time to log in to fb everyday. XD

Thats all I guess. I will not have assignments until March 2010! woohoo! And now, my one week mid-sem break has just started. Although I received poor marks for my mid-sem test and foreseeable fail audit assignment. Well, thats just not my style to fuss about the past.

So,

Happy Holidays!!! ^o^

Cry baby Cry

Today is the third day my baby nephew is sent to next door for day care. So, today sis decided to bring him home earlier so that we can spend time with him (alright more like play with him).

So there we go~ We went to pick up nephew around 4.30pm and the aunty next door told us that baby had just bathed and he need to have his milk at 5pm. She told us that she will inform us once she has done feeding the baby.

So alright. Off we went home to do our stuff. Around 5pm++, the aunt came over and told us to bring the baby home.

"YAY!" was my first thought and I hurriedly told sis to get the baby home.

We (sis and I) spend some time joking and playing with the nephew, then my uncle (which is the baby's grandfather) came home. So HOORAY! I thought. I thought so, really. Because he was the one who can really take care of the baby as sis and I are seriously not good in these. We buat kacau pandailah~

So~ there ah pak (my uncle) showed us a ^o^ face and told me that he is leaving the house soon and could not take care of the baby. I thought he was joking but after a while, I realised that I was wrong! He WAS going out again!

I panicked. Because sis was going out too! (Apa La You People!!)
As sis and ah pak went to next door to change, the baby cried! (but a mild one). I immediately called sis to come over to save me! SOS

Sis was here. Yay!

"..............."

........

But the baby didn't cry! BOO~~

Then sis was like: "okay what~ he didn't cry mah~ just let him be la~" I was like NO NO NO and shaked my head furiously. "The baby is a liarrrr~~~ he bully meeeee" Sis showed me a "LOL" face and played with the baby a while, (just a while) and went out. Then here comes the baby "wuuuuuaaa aahhhhhhh" again~~~~!!!!

Gahhhhh~~~~~~~ I'm not frustrated by his cry but I'm just worried what if too much of gas went into his stomach! Then it will be my responsibility!

Then here comes ah pak.

Wee~!!


Mana tau.........

"Eh I'm going out ah. You see~ the baby okay mah (that time baby nephew was busy staring at the pooh bolster and panda bear), you can take care of him one la~ Anything you just call the aunty next door to help you kay? I will go over and tell the aunty"

So off he went out again.

And...

*sob*

*sob sob*


Stared at me with his poor eyes...


*SOBBB*
He saw that I didn't do anything to make him feel better, so he resorted to look at the pooh bolster instead.


"wuaaaa... wuaaaaa"
here starts the slow cry... not to forget his hands and legs were busy/actively moving...


*wuaaa... ognumm... ognumm...*
He realised cry softly no use, so he changed his method to suck his thumb. This is not good right! So I pulled his hand away from his mouth, and...

\
*wwuu.... wuu.... WUAAAAAAHHHHH!!!!!!"

OMG! OMG! OMG!

This time he REALLY CRIES~~~~ Eyes also red liao... Aiyo I don't know what to do to make him stop crying. So poor thing lah see him crying and I couldn't do anything.

I left with no choice but to seek help from the aunty next door, since I really really have no idea how to deal with him.

And now... lets just wait for his mum to bring him home.

That's my encounter with baby alone for less than 20 minutes time.

- end of the story -

Stardom!

lalala~~~~ introducing a new album~~~ *~Stardom~* by Andrew Tan 陈势安!

This is my first ORIGINAL song album, bought by sis.... and.....!!!! It is SIGNED by the CELEB itself!!!! WOAHHHHHHHH~~~~~~~~ !!!!!! *dodging envious, killer stares from his fans*


Wah! Wah! Wahhhhh~~~!!!

There are 6 songs in this album, the song list is:-
01) Love Is...
02) 天后
03) 沿着月光
04) 小幸福
05) 故意
06) 爱不爱

My personal favourite is 天后 (of course la! my sis made me listen to it from his blog - in marathon manner!!). This song is now frequently played on MyFm radio station but so far I only heard once.... =.=

Overall the songs are quite nice! Go support ori!! (walao eh is that ME??? ori? XD)

Ben & Nick's Diner

July 28 @ Ben & Nick's Diner (B&N)

I had 3 hours break today so I went home to have lunch with sis. This time she brought me to a new place --- Ben & Nick's Diner! And I had a bonus --- saw a chinese guy model sat beside our table. I don't know his name although I can recognise his face.


The most not eye-catching restaurant name ever. Hello WHERE is your name?!


The interior of the shop.
- FYI, the shop is this big only. The areas on the left that are not captured in this photo is the cashier counter. Very small restaurant. Small but it was introduced in The Star newspaper, no joke!



We did not sit in the restaurant though. We sat at outside of the restaurant as it is more windy and cosy compared to inside. It is kinda crowded especially there were a big gang celebrating someone's birthday there.


My spaghetti
- Marinara
~ derives from the Italian word for sailor, marinaro. The origins of marinara sauce are that it is the sauce that they made in Naples for the sailors when they returned from the sea. At B&N our sauce are made from chopped Italian tomatoes and slow cooked with parsley, garlic, oregano and garlic for a tangy taste.
- Chicken
~ Topped with skinless Chicken Breast strips

One word. Nice!

Soft, tender chicken breast strips. Very tomato-ish tomatoes. Generous tomatoes given simply made the spaghetti taste even better!


Sis's Chicken Blanket
- Specially house marinade grilled Cajun chicken strips with tomato salsa, Cheddar and Mozarella cheese wrapped in grilled tortilla and served with a generous amount of fresh Romaine Lettuce.

~ This is niceeee too~~~ This is not a heavy taste type of food. Here, you can taste the mild grilled chicken and the mixture of other sauces. It is perfectly matched with the Tortilla (as it is tasteless). It creates satisfaction as you will feel quite full after finishing the whole dish.


So, one week later, I revisited this place on August 3, with sis again.


Cajun chicken
- Boneless thigh meat, pan-fried with butter and Cajun seasoning. Served with mashed potato and Chef's coleslaw.

~ overall an okay dish. Not to say that great or not nice either. The chicken texture is smooth but it gives me a feeling that I'm eating a 'safe dish'. Errr how to put it into words? Erm... the chicken is not fanstastic but you can't say it is not nice either. That sort of feeling. Maybe partly because the cajun seasoning provided was not helping either.

As for the mashed potato, I don't really like it because it was way too dry and it did not stick together. It could actually break into bricks sort of style but of course the texture of it was smooth. Mashed potato okay.


So where are B&N?
Location:
Lot G10,
E-Tiara Service Apartments Persiaran Kemajuan, Subang Jaya (next to Carrefour).

It is at the same street as Haikara Style Cafe & Bakery.

I prefer my first visit. Both the food taste delicious!! =D