Something new, something old, something borrowed...

1) Here's my sister's lecturer's cat, Rita...


Well, cats in general, in my opinion, are arrogant and stubborn! They don't listen to you and yet they demand a lot and all they do is asking you to comb her fur, feed them and they sleep a lot (in my case, yes).

If you hate me for stating that, my thousand apologies but yes, this is my blog.


2) Tried Western Food at the Ampang Lookout Point


... this time we brought my sisters and I remembered to bring the camera :)

We got a pretty nice shot of the fantastic view. Oh, I love the view of city lights.


We haven't been taking a lot of photos together since we grew older and go on to different paths in life. But, we make it a point to come together whenever we can. Especially Leeli, who is always far away from us. We miss you terribly.


So, do you think we all look alike or different from one another?


Here's a picture of me and Beanie...


As usual, we tried doing something creative when we saw Beanie's huge-ass straw in his giant cup of orange juice.



The cup was actually in front of me and I tried aiming the camera to make as if she was drinking from the straw. :P
HAHA



Foooooood nom nom nom nom nom...



3) Some Thai restaurant in Ampang

Before we set off to a restaurant in Ampang, we took more pictures together :)


Another one with our host-sister, Tabeah... we tried to be funny but LOOK AT THEM!!! -___-

Always pointing at me ... ish ish ish

Another good shot of us below :)


Here's the supposedly Thai restaurant in Ampang. Don't ask me the name because I forgot to ask my dad and maybe it doesn't have a name so don't ask me.


My mom and I :)

Leeli and my mommy


The big guy was doing his thing ordering food... my dad obviously...


These, below, lo and behold are my younger and youngest siblings. . .


Here's what we ordered for that night...


My mom asked me why did I take a photo of food that has been eaten before. She said I should have took a shot when the food was served hot. But you know when you're hungry, you don't think a lot but just food. :P

4) It was quite a funny scene when we saw a whole group of people with a DSLR camera each, focusing on the food in front of them instead of eating them.


Before I took this shot, they were all focusing CLOSELY with their ever techy camera lenses... even the Japanese beside our table was staring at them.

5) .... ok nothing but just a big congratulations to Xie Xue....she got engaged!!! No matter if you like her or not, I find her a very unique and special person. Some of you may disagree with a lot of things that she write on her blog or how she lead her life. But I think it's her life and everybody has a right to lead the life they want. So, if you hate her for what she write, why follow her blog?

Whatever it is... I think Xia Xue and Mike are both meant to be. He accepts her for who she is and it is most important in a relationship. You accept the person's flaws for being a unique human being which you chose to appreciate. I have great respect for people like that because it is not easy doing it.

Anyway, congrats to Xie Xue & Mike! :D




XOXO,
theRascal

Presents

This time of the year, to most people, are full of joy and celebrations. I don't know about you but I have about seven people celebrating their birthdays in December. Then, we have all the school-going children enjoying the school holidays. Families go on vacations this time of the year. Our country enjoying the increase of numbers in the country's tourism sector with the Minister of Tourism smiling in his office.

Then, the year comes to a close with a big bang of celebrations from Thanksgiving to Christmas, Boxing Day and then New Year's!

Oh, in some offices they hate the end of the year. Especially accountants!

But in my house, we were celebrating quite a few things.




Yes, my dad FINALLY bought a new fridge for our condo from Harvey Norman. Look at how huge the new fridge looks like compared to the previous one, eh?

Now, I can shop for ice-creams, more fruits + vege and they won't turn yellow! :D




Everytime Bambina visits KL and when we meet, she'll give me a gift. How sweet of her... I feel so ashamed now because I didn't give her anything yet. I should when we meet next time, OK Bambz?

Picture below shows the beautiful watch Bambina gave me for Christmas :)


This next one is a surprised I was suppose to shower my Beanie. But he somehow found out about this secret project I am doing. Okay Okay... I told him myself :P



Do you like it?


It is my first time sewing/knitting something for someone. I have never done this before. Feels so good once you finish a project. I think I'll start one soon, this time for my sister... we'll see when my bank allows me to get more thread. I'm very particular about the quality of the thread because my sister needs more warmth as she's always exposed to countries with cold/temperate temperatures.


I learn this knitting skills from Miss Khoo at my old work place (oh so weird to say that). And after I got tired of making mistakes and having to wait to go to work and get her to correct my mistakes, I tried YouTube and it was such an amazing friend.

It ended up that 90% of the scarf was done by just using tutorials on YouTube! Including the frills!

I was so hyper-excited I decided to wrap it up nice for Beanie's early Christmas present.



I went to this nice place called (correct me if I'm wrong) Paper at Midvalley Megamall. He takes gift wrapping very seriously. The mixture of colours, texture of paper used as well as the decorations. Both Beanie and I love 'em. But we've never been to the shop together. :)




Tadaa!!!




It looks much shinier in real :)

And when I showed it to Beanie.........................................





LOOK AT HIM!!!!!!



I have nothing to say.






XOXO,
theRascal

Wendy's Birthday Bash

It was indeed hard trying to accommodate "buffet + seaside + outstation" into one dining venue for her birthday.

So, I tried asking her for other options and she just made me come out with a few options for her to choose. I did!

Oh, I did it efficiently by sending her five options in a power point presentation. Every slide contains pictures, specialty, budget & theme of the restaurant. She was so surprised to see the array of restaurant I have picked out that she called me immediately to say that she didn't know which to choose. Again!

I asked her to think about it and reply by the end of the week.

Anyway, in the end, Wendy decided to have her birthday dinner at Cafe WIP in Bangsar Shopping Centre. Yes, the place where Canny Ong was last seen. :S

I made a phone reservation and booked for 12 people.

Both Darling and I were a little late for the dinner due to some domestic issues we had to tend to at home.

I fell in love with the restaurant immediately! But Darling said we cannot dine here a lot of time because the budget was on the high side. :P


I was seated next to Beekuan aka MayJune...ain't she gorgeous as always?



Here's both of us :)



Everyone was already starving so DamDam and I hurried through the array of food they serve in the menu(s).

After chatting for a while, our food was served. They didn't take a long time, which is good because JC kept whining that she was very hungry. *hungry people are grumpy people*

Josh ordered the sandwich

Catherine ordered the Chicken Cordon Bleu

DamDam ordered the pizza

I ordered the Chicken Espetada (for 2 person)

Platter to accompany chicken

Picture time!!!!!



Everybody was busy looking at pictures while I slipped to the back of the counter to whisper a surprise birthday dessert for the birthday girl.



Oh, we all fell in love with YiTeng's Fujifilem InStax




The birthday girl and I took a pictures :)

Isn't it cool to have all your pictures printed out almost immediately?!?!?!?!

Then, DamDam told me that the birthday thingy is ready while pointing to the waiter behind our table.



Look at how he stand and you'll see he was trying very hard to hide the birthday cake from being seen by the birthday girl.


Somehow......................


He appeared behind Wendy! Giving her a little bit of surprise. Actually, it's nothing new so I guess she had seen this coming.


She looks happy :)



A picture of only us girls, as always :)



The birthday cake was a little tad too rich.


The waiter came with a camera to capture our group pictures. But Josh was so nice, he went towards him, thinking it was one of our cameras, told the waiter that "it's okay, we'll handle it ourselves".... but the camera wasn't ours!!!!!!

After a while, the same waiter came back with a printed picture framed up sponsored by Moet.




Wendy surely went back with a lot of moments to remember. I hope it is yet another special day for her.

I love throwing the best little parties for people. No matter if it's going to be a bash or not, we always remember moments in our lives.

Quoting from my late grandfather... life is all about remembering moments, so do it right.




XOXO,
theRascal

Makan Makan

My mom and sisters decided to go over to my uncle's place in Shah Alam for a visit.

As usual, if you're near Klang, you just have to go for a bak kut teh session. This time around, my uncle brought us for a different session.

He promised that it would be something different. Well, different in terms of the soup!

The dry version

The soup version

My mama

The other day, Darling and I decided to go for tea at one of the little stalls in One Utama.



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Anyway, here's what we ordered. Pretty good stuff :)


Last Monday, I went to meet Bambina! Yes, she was back for school holiday.

Bambz wanted to change her wardrobe so I tried to give her a helping hand by bringing her to Jalan Telawi :P

But firstly, we had to fill our stomachs!

I suggested La Bodega because I heard from Darling that they serve quite good food.



I love the ambience of the restaurant. Seem like they do not have the lunch hour crowd, eh?



I love the lighting :)

Bambz and me!

And so, I ordered the chicken mushroom pie, which tasted SO GOOD. Trust me!

Bambz ordered the roasted chicken and she couldn't finish it. Too large, eh?


I was waiting for her in the toilet and right after I took this shot, a man appeared from the male toilet behind me and I quickly kept the camera :P




XOXO,
theRascal

My Ringgit

I have been catching up a lot with friends! OK, not A LOT but I did .... :)

Here's Lindsay!

I think we knew each other since we were 16 years old through BRATs. But we lost touch in between, and then thanks to Facebook & MSN, we catch up with each other again and finally met few weeks ago when she took spent some time in KL.

I miss her a lot!

We catch up over tea break at Dome in KLCC at a very little corner table. It was very cozy. We talked about everything in the world. From life, work, boyfriends, colleagues to the crazy economy.

Lindsay has been working in London for some time now. And after comparing Pound and Malaysian Ringgit dollar to dollar, both of us find that the standard of living in Malaysia itself is getting higher each year.

Lindsay and some of my friends in UK nodded their heads when I asked them if they could shop for groceries with 10 pounds. That is buying chicken, vege, sauces...etc.

Comparing dollar to dollar, that is RM10. I guess we couldn't even buy a good set of McValue Meal. wtf.

But anyway, lifestyles in different countries do differ in many ways.



I am SO LOOKING FORWARD to this lifestyle coming real sooooon.


I am going to join my Beanie and his family :)

I love traveling with families.




XOXO,
theRascal