Yin How

Random pics

As promised, these are the photos we took during our dim sum outing.

This was during the first dim sum breakfast Soma, Mun and I had together a few months back. Mun got excited and took too many dim sums and paid the price later...

Went for breakfast again and this time she wisen up a little and controlled herself (but that also was because she just had dim sum for breakfast the day before so she wasn't so excited anymore seeing all the dim sums...). We ordered Jasmine tea, so Jasmine you were there with us. :)




I had dim sum for breakfast with Yin How this morning. Unlike Mun, we made sure we ate moderately and didn't take too many... ;)


More random photos... since I'm in my photo uploading mood.. The dogs which are not allowed on the sofa are sleeping happily on the sofa.


The fishes in the fishpond at our condo which Yin How and I feed before we walk to tesco for grocery shopping. The fish below is my most favourite-est fish, so it gets more food from us. :) I named it Fei Fei.

All our plants died during the 2 weeks recovery period after my surgery, so we got new ones... this time a chilli plant we bought and the other is lemon grass (serai) which we stole from somewhere. ;)
I reckon the plants will die in another 2 weeks time. :P

Okie, going off to cook dinner now. What's on the menu today? Tandoori chicken and sai yong chai soup~

What would you do?

What would you do if you feel unappreciated? Would you continue to do the things you always do even though you feel unappreciated? Or you would you stop caring and stop whatever you do since it's not appreciated?

What would do you if you're not happy about something that a person does or doesn't do? Would you try to change him so that you'll be happy? Or do you accept him as who he is even though you know it won't make you happy?

What would you do if you know you know you have no interest in something? Would you continue doing something you do not like for stability? Or would you put everything to risk to do something you're passionate about?

What would you do?

The top 5

I really have the say that the top 5 this season on American Idol has got to be the most talented top 5 ever. I can't decide who I would want to get eliminated today because they are all just so darn good. I especially love Danny to the point that I'm convinced that if I ever have a son, I would want to name him Danny. Even started practicing by calling my dog Danny instead. "Come here Danny, here Danny boy!~" Yin How doesn't like the name though... :(

I love Kris who has the smoothest voice ever and Matt who reminds me of Justin Timberlake and Allison, the 16 year old who can freaking sing her lungs out. I kind of like Adam as well because his performances just leave me speechless, not knowing what to think...

Oh.... watching the elimination now... and it's really sad to see anyone of them go....


**Update** Matt got eliminated... awwww... :(

My forced leave

I'm so glad that I was forced to take half a day off today. After QF and WY went back to work after having lunch together at Kim Gary, I was alone in QB and since it was JCard day I thought, hmmm... I'd just take a look.

And me just taking a look took me almost 3 hours. :)

The atmosphere in JJ was choatic... and I happily jumped in to all that choas hunting for cheap clothes. There were sales people sceaming on the top of their voices, "HAPPY HOUR, HAPPY HOUR, 80% OFF ON ALL LADIES BAGS... ONE HOUR ONLY... BE CAREFUL... DON'T PUSH... DON'T PUSH.. MORE STOCK IS COMING OUT". It was like a war zone and I made sure I kept my distance away... I didn't want to get killed...

Went up to the 3rd floor and it was just as chaotic with sales people screaming out discounts on the bedsheets. Started to get a headache from all the noise so went down to the 2nd floor to the Gents department to see whether I could get anything for Yin How. It was nice and calm there, no one was screaming, totally different from the ladies department... :)

Anyways, after more than 2 hours of hunting, I got these.

I bought this dress for Rm24.... RM24 for a dress.... can't believe it!~~~



The top is RM40, tube top RM8, shorts RM 23.


And for spending RM103, I received RM10 voucher. I'm soooooo happy!~~~

The is the first time in my life I shopped by myself and I have to say I really enjoyed it, not having to worry about a very bored looking hubby following me around like a lost puppy.

If all forced leaves are like this, I'm looking forward to my next forced leave. :)

Meet Looi

Meet Looi. He is a good-est guy I know.

I remember when I went on the department team building. I'm usually the weakest physically but I felt that Looi always kept an eye on me throughout activities. There was this one incident where it was raining heavily and we were running around Taiping Zoo on some treasure hunt and we had to complete a task which required us to take off our shoelaces. When the task was done, we had to quickly rush to the next station but I had trouble putting back my shoelaces because my fingernails had cracked from being wet in the rain for so long and it hurt. The whole team just stood there waiting for me, but Looi knelt down in the rain and helped me put back my shoelaces while I stood up watching him. I was so touched.

Also, there was a swimming challenge where I had to go off and swim in the sea. When I reached the beach, Looi immediately reached out and pulled me out from the water. As he pulled me out, I collasped again because I was too tired to stand and wasn't able to run off to the next station. Looi made sure there was somebody to stay with me while I recovered since he had to run off to the next station.

So to me, Looi is one of the good-est guys I know. Some guys only do things for you only if they are interested in you. But Looi is the type of guy who will take care of you even though you may not even be a close friend. He is loyal, caring, honest, humble, funny, and kids just absolutely adore him.

I could sing praises but I guess you have to get to know him to know what I'm talking about. I'm sure those who know him will say the same thing. :)

So..... hopefully one day you'll meet Looi. :)


P/S - this is a lousy cartoon of him... I drew it in a rush last night because I wanted to watch NCIS which had already started. The real Looi looks way better. ;)

My sisi wisi, Genny Wenny

Nah... the cartoon I owe you. I've corrected the eyebrows so you don't look so evil anymore.

I'm sensing that my "draw-and-color" phase is ending soon... now I'm starting to get into calorie counting, healthy diets, tummy exercises, skin care, going green, reusable bags, recycling... all after effects of watching Oprah... Googling about it a lot lately... :)

The happy Friday post

I woke up in the middle of last night and for a while, still in the confused state of being half awake and half asleep, I was wondering why my head felt so heavy and I couldn't move when I tried. Took me a while to realize that Russell was sleeping on top of my head across my pillow. The chicken dog was afraid of the thunder so he found it safer to sleep on my head. Dumb dumb dog.

Anyway, it's Friday, it's Friday, it's Friday and I'm doing my "I'm happy it's Friday" chant. Have a good weekend!~~~~ :)

Forced to take....

Which employee has to be forced to take a day off from work because the number accumulated leave is about to reach the maximum limit?

Yours truly, ME (I can hear some people saying “siao wan” and I KNOW WHO YOU ARE hehe).

For the past few weeks, I’ve been getting weekly reminders to take leave and each week I’ve been ignoring it.

Until now… because if I don’t take leave by next week, my leave is going to burn. And even knowing that my leave will burn if I don’t use it, I was still hesitating to apply for leave next week. I’m so STINGY. If I could cash out my leave like what I did before, I would. But can’t exchange leave for money now… so sad… so I’m forced to take leave. I’m weird. I know.

After considering for some time, stingy me finally applied for half day leave next week. But I’m gonna be forced to take 1 day of leave every 3 weeks to prevent it from reaching the max limit again. It’s not that I’m a workaholic who refuses to take a day off. Just that I feel that it’s such a waste to take a day off just to stay at home. And I’m too lazy to plan something else. I’m weird. I know.

Boss of course gleefully suggested that I burn off my leave since I don’t really want to take leave. Well I’m weird… not crazy… would you ask a stingy person to burn money just because that person is too stingy to spend it? No right…. so it’s the same concept. I’m weird. I know.

I think I need to take a long holiday somewhere.

My cartoony hubby

After I started drawing faces, I'm starting to notice and observe the features in a face like the shape of the face, eyes, nose, mouth. So forgive me if you catch me staring at your face a little longer then I should be especially during boring meetings. It just means I'm wondering how I would draw your face. :P

Anyway, my latest little piece, finally managed to draw Yin How's face. The one below is considered ok compared to all the horrible Yin How faces I made last weekend. :)


Then I made it more cartoony and colored it.