And the Motto of KFC is...

"Finger licking goo". Yummy.

Happy Birthday, Papa!

Chocolate + Vanilla + Ice-cream cake = Yummilicious + Double Yum + Freezing cold that your teeth hurts when you bite into a piece of it. The awesomeness of the taste of these frozen strawberries is just great!

(Cue Heroes by Nickelback) I'm so high, I can feel heaven.

The downside to ice-cream cake: You have to eat it fast. Either you finish the entire cake within an hour. Or you eat as much as you can, then quickly decide that you can't have more, and pack the remaining slices to tupperwares into freezer at lightning speed.


The birthday boy (?? I know it's weird to call my dad that but birthday man doesn't exactly sound right either) cutting his birthday cake. Candle says he's only 10 years old. Haha. Of course that's not right. How old is he? No numbers, just a hint - he can officially retire if he was actually employed.

My mom, my bro and I wished him "Happy Birthday" when it was about 10 minutes past midnight. You know what my dad did? Stopped his work, came out of his study and shook hands with us! LOL! Got to give it to him for his sense of humour.

Well papa, I can never choose another to be my dad. I hope you'll live as long as (if not longer) gong gong (FYI my grandpa passed away at a ripe old age of 96) so that we can enjoy more moments with you and that my children would also get to know this most amazing, kindest and patient man I know.

To end this, I leave you with one of my most favourite picture from my toddler days (the others would be with my mom and with my sis).


Most of you haven't seen my dad as a young man with crown full of black hair right? Hahaha.

Little Vietnam @ Midvalley

Went out with Suet Wan yesterday. To Midvalley coz it's the easiest to get there (the new Putrajaya highway cut out into Seremban Highway and turn out to Federal - straightforward stuff), quickest to ge there(the new route only takes 10 minutes to reach there), no need to pay toll (unlike Timesquare and Sunway Pyramid), and the most convenient.

I don't know why but every time I go out with Suet Wan, we're always eating very the extremely slow. The last time we ate Karl's Jr and it took us like 3 hours. This time we tried Little Vietnam and we spent over 3 hours there!!!

Heh, actually I know why. Coz we chew our food very the slow and we're talking all the time. Mana ada masa untuk makan? Betul kan, betul kan???


Little Vietnam - picture from Midvalley website. God only knows why I didn't think of snapping this picture with my own camera -_-"

We sat upstairs coz the environment was kinda better and had a lot more privacy for chit-chatting. And you won't get people looking at you so oddly because you were snapping pictures of food and restaurant. Haha.


The upstairs part of Little Vietnam. The ambience pretty nice right?
Anyway, this blog entry is not gonna have much substance. We did what we normally do when we hang out - eat and walking around (*cough* shopping *cough*). So a few more pictures to entertain you.


Some decorations before we walked upstairs. The MasterCard thingy seems so out of place there lor.

After we ordered our food, the waiter came and stamped red letterings on the white sheet of paper that was on our table. According to him, this is for good luck. Good luck in eating? LOL.


We ordered their set lunch coz it's the cheapest they have there (around RM22 including tax and everything). It also comes with a bowl of soup and drink (choice of ice lemon tea or their Vietnamese tea).


She had barbequed beef (on the top). And yours truly chose barbequed lamb. Psst psst, the lamb was much nicer than the beef. She said the beef was a little tough to chew.


God it really tastes as good as it looks. Am geting hungry. Feel like going back there for another round but maybe later. I want!

Sleeping Issues

Dear diary,

The time is 3.04AM right now.
And I can't sleep.
My mind won't let me.
My eyes are sleepy.
My shoulders are aching.
My body is zombie-fying.
My mind is exhausted, BUT IT WON'T LET ME SLEEP!
I encounter this sleeping difficulty like few times a week.
Which I know is not good.
And I don't like it either because I know I need my sleep!!
Right now I really need good tips for sleeping well.
Must learn how to shut down my brain before I go to sleep.
God only knows how much I need help.


Sincerely,
Yours not-very-amused-because-she-is-sleep-deprived truly who had a bad day.

Siblings

Don't you sometimes just can't help but hate them?

Especially when they think they're not rude when you think they're rude? I mean, c'mon lah, whether you are rude or not is obviously not determined by you but obviously by others. Wah, if everyone measured themselves, boy aren't we all full of niceness and politeness of the highest royalty of royalties?!!

Especially when you just want to correct them and they suddenly get on the defensive side, rolling their eyes and refusing to take your advice or admit that their behavior was a little lacking.

Some more irritated you and won't leave you alone one wor.

At least when you know my api tengah membara, don't lah come and cari pasal with me. Some more not even apologizing. Of course macam mana aku tak geram???

Leave me alone when I'm pissed off with you. Seriously.

ARGH!!!

Siblings.

Intrusive? Or Not Intrusive?

You're in the shopping mall, just walking and shopping (obviously).
Suddenly a stranger comes up to you and in a friendly manner, complimenting your complexion and then asking you "What do you use on your face ah?".
Would you consider that intrusive? Or not intrusive?

You're at Carrefour done with buying groceries and household necessities for mom.
And you're at the checkout counter, paying for your stuff.
While waiting for response from the credit card machine which happened to be extra slow that day...
Suddenly not one but TWO cashiers ask you "Ah Kak, you ada pakai apa 'kat muka?".
Followed by interrogation of the products I use... my hereditary (No, I repeat I'm not Japanese)...
Isn't that intrusive? Or not intrusive?

You're at the hair saloon getting your hair cut.
Hairdresser chit-chats with you and then...
You get the drift.

It's not that I'm selfish and refuse to share or anything. I know stuff. But it's not like I'm an expert in skincare or something. Neither do I claim to be one. And these are random people whom I don't know coming up to me out of nowhere and asking these questions.

My only reaction was lidah kelu, then politely answer their question and later my mind went completely blank. Didn't really enjoy these particular moments. Maybe it's just that I don't know how to handle this kind of confrontation without appearing too... oh I dunno... Miss Know-it-all? Or Miss Conceited.

BAH, how did people get so aggressive these days??

I feel like my privacy has been invaded. Period. But my friend doesn't seem to find anything wrong with it. She found it hilarious. Oh, tell me I'm just paranoid and overeacting. Argh.

Mind the Engrish

In front of one collectible toy shop in Timesquare, you'll see this right outside the entrance. A job vacancy advertisement.


(1) "Ring customer sales on computer"
I'm curious... How do you ring up a customer via computer?

(2) "Stuff price purchase"
That doesn't sound right, right? I bet you all can figure out what they're actually meaning to say.

(3) "Logging provided for outstation staff"
At this point, I was literally LMAO. Hear ye, hear ye. Logging services for incoming non-local employees! Come work here. The more people work there, the more the logging. Global warming, here we come! Yippee!

Siao. They better had already employ someone with good English command.

On the way home from Timesquare, this interesting shop comes along. I wonder what this shop sell...


... Because I can't seem to make sense of anything from their sign!


P.S. I am so blanked out of ideas at the moment of my blog header design. The previous one was kinda elaborate and dark. I want to go simple. Please God, inspire me!!!