Ji Mui Gathering at Doreen's

Many apologies for my long absense. I have not found the time to update my blog. I'm now back in Penang, so I hope that I can update my blog much more frequently. :)

Earlier in January we had a BBQ gathering at Doreen's home in Seremban. It was really GREAT to catch up with all my Ji Muis. A picture speaks a thousand words, so head down and see the story for yourself from the photos below. :P

Steamboat! The Story of Pey Shen's 2008 Birthday Gathering

Venue: Pey Shen's House
Style: Steamboat

The "ji muis" met for a special early celebration of Pey Shen's birthday. All except Ms. Ng Siew Kheng lor. Yet proven again that it is so difficult to get a date that everyone can agree on. It was nevertheless very fun because we haven't met up with the whole bunch of us for some time. I am hoping that we will have more of this kind of gatherings. Maybe next time we'll have barbeque. :P

Look at our "leng lui" birthday girl!


















We all met up earlier at Giant near Kinrara for ingredient shopping. We ended up buying a lot of stuff, including lala, prawns, all kinds of balls, veggies... etc. Dinner started approximately at 7pm. We had to split into two sessions because apparently we overbought the ingredients. So we ate first, then rest and chat for about an hour and then resumed.

It was a fun and fulfilling gathering. One which is a definitely must once in a while. It was so great to catch up with everyone! In case if you are wondering how come there's no photos of us eating. Well, you'll have to wait for the photos from Doreen's camera. I forgot why I didn't take any photos of people eating. Must be caused I'm too busy eating. *grin*

Check out the photos:




























Cheshire's special fried onions!














We managed to capture a nice sunset. Doesn't it look as though there's a castle in front? :P














I think we took too much time posing that by the time this photo was taken, the sunset was nearly gone. (Note the unusually bright light behind.)

FHM 100 Most Wanted Female

We had the opportunity to join this party because Pacmee was one of the sponsors. We were grooving a the VIP section. We in this case was Reese, Doreen, Ow and me. Didn't really like the beer they were serving, Carlsberg. I think I prefer Heinekken or Tuborg. :) They were also serving some finger food, some pretzie thingy with smoked salmon, rissotto rice scoops, sandwiches and pizza.

There were a lot of known local entertainers around the VIP area, among others were Adam C, Serena C, Rudy, well basically Astro , 8TV and Hitz FM entertainers. Serena C was the mc and I was so shocked at her "fierceness". Ha ha ha! Then again I never did liked her before. :

  

After we hanged around a bit, we went for really late dinner. We didn't manage to get any earlier on. So we decided we'd try out the new place called Leo's at SS2. I wanted the Claypot Teriyaki Chicken thingy but it was all out so I tried the Thai Seafood Fried Rice. It was alright, nothing really special but also not entirely tasteless.

Oh, look at the beautifully drawn flower on top of my Cafe Latte. :)

Gathering for Siew Kheng's B-Day

Busy busy busy! Many apologies for not posting anything for while. :)

Let me start off with Siew Kheng's birthday dinner gathering. It's a bit delayed thought I lost the photos but apparently because I not. *Whew* Nowadays, seems pretty rare to have a gathering with all 5 of us (me and my 4 close buddies from uni). Normally, one person will be unable to make it. This time around, Cheshire and bo-boy couldn't make it. So it was just me, Doreen, Pey Shen and hubby, Siew Kheng and hubby.

We decided to go for Kajang Satay at Damansara Uptown. Here are some photos of us spending some quality time together. We gotta do this more often. Especially our dear Do-do will be leaving next year. *sigh* Doreen, why do you have to go so far away??

I must say that the satay is still as tasty as ever and mmmm the peanut sauce. Yum yum yum! Take a look at these scrumptious looking beauties.

Check out the photos below. :)

Daughtry in One Utama!

Last Saturday, thanks to Doreen, we managed to catch the "Traffic Jam: Street Party" organized by Sony Ericsson in One Utama Cental Park Avenue. It was really awesome to see Daughtry "live". The performance is superbly outstanding. They even brought along their own sound engineers. Too bad I had no photos to show you because they didn't allow any cameras (except camera phones) so I had to register and put away my camera during the whole show.

There were other performers there as well. Daughtry was the main act and they saved the best to the last. It started with some percussive performers called the Aseana Percussion Unit (APU). Their repertoire was rather entertaining with many different styles and a lot of infusion of chinese, indian and ethnic sounds.

Daniel Lee also came to sing three songs. To me the best song performed was Mimpi. It was really good, greatly expressed and I can feel his confidence in this song. The other two songs was alright, but I think the music was a tad too loud because I couldn't really hear what he was singing.

There were also other local acts and a DJ session. I felt that the sessions before Daughtry were a bit too long. So long that by the time Daughtry came my enthusiam were a bit drowned out. But despite that I have no regrets for attending this concert. Daughtry is SO GOOD! Really awesome, man! I mean they can still sound like how they do in their CD recording. Amazing huh? I am really, really impressed! Not many performers can actually perform well "live". Some even needing to use auto-tuning in their performance to maintain their pitching. They played a lot of songs and even had some acoustic solo performances by Chris Daughtry himself. The crowd seems to be enjoying themselves a lot. They sang along to those familiar songs like It's Not Over, Over You, Feels Like Tonight, What I Want and many more.

Like I've mentioned earlier, I have no photos but I can share with you a few clips.

Sex and the City

I managed to catch up with Siew Kheng and Boon Han yesterday. We were gathered together to watch the free preview screening of Sex and the City. It was a pretty last minute decision, because I only got to know about the extra ticket for me during lunch time and only got the other 2 tickets for Siew Kheng and Boon Han towards the end of the day. I thought were so lucky and were so excited for this chance to go watch together, it seems like ages since the bunch of us actually got together.

So all of us met directly at Midvalley. Doreen ate dinner with he colleagues, while I waited for Siew Kheng and Boon Han. Guess where we went to eat? Carl's Jr! Definitely one of the best burgers around. You've just got to try it if you haven't.


























The movie was at 9:00pm so we went to the entrance of the cinema and then discovered that our tickets was for two different cinemas, halls #3 and #13. So we figured, never mind lor maybe we'll see each other after the show and went our separate ways.

So in we went to watch the show. It was quite a long show, more than 2 hours long and was pretty funny. The dialogue was very witty and interesting. I don't really fancy Sarah Jessica Parker which is one of the reasons I have not watched Sex and the City. But nevertheless I have to admit that this show was really interesting, in fact more impressive than I thought it would be. The show was really colorful, and it's so interesting to see all the fancy dresses and outfits. Friendship is the key focus and it really reminded me how important friendship means to me. To all my dear friends, thank you for sharing my ups and downs. I realised that many a times, without them I think life would be unbearable. Life is naturally complicated and everyone needs someone there by your side once in a while, not necessarily to do anything but most of the time to just listen to us whine, complain and to cry and laugh together.

By the time the show ended, Doreen and I were exhausted. We went straight home, bathe and headed onto bed.

The next morning, we found out that Siew Kheng and Boon Han did not watch the show? WHY? The tickets were for the cinema in Pavilion KL. OMG!! Why didn't any of us realised that? No wonder we had different cinemas halls? And we were thinking at that time how come so many halls allocated for the movie preview. What a lesson to be learn, man. Next time we have to make sure to check through all the details in the ticket!

Havana Bar

Ever been to a bar called Havana? A nice cozy bar located inside Tropicana Club. The crowd seems to be more matured and the music is suitable for casual hangouts with friends. There's a live band performing there as well if you're into live performances, called Downbeat. They're music tends to sound a bit old (even the keyboard sounds like from the 80s) but the song selections are not bad. Not the best but not the worst either. If you love to join in for Latin dances, you could stop by every Thursday, there's a Merengue session with a free dance workshop. The songs they play, whether live or from the cd, are really nice danceable pieces that you can show off your latin dance moves to.

I dropped by last night with Reese and Doreen to check out this bar. The atmosphere was very lively and friendly. Doreen and I also went and tried out the Merengue workshop and it was very fun to learn twirling here and there. There weren't enough guys who joined in, some girls needed to be the "guy" and Doreen was my "guy" yesterday. We even went twirling around exchanging partners until we finally danced back together. Really cool!

Check out some photos of us enjoying exquisite wine:

Party time!

Last weekend I went with Doreen to a Muay Thai after party at Zouk. Here's a photo of us with some new friends we made, Jane and Alison.
I still have no clue in knowing what is so fun about going clubbing. Perhaps I am getting old? Or maybe just not my cup of tea. I generally don't fancy going to clubs because it is so smoky (I myself don't smoke) and sometimes a bit sweaty if the club is hot. I dread having to wash my hair for god knows how many times just to get rid of the tobacco smell. I also don't really enjoy drinking alcohol, namely hard liquor. The only ones that I prefer to drink are red wine, Martini and Bacardi Limon.I do however enjoy going to Jazz clubs, the ones that offer live performances. My current favourites are Bangkok Jazz and Alexis. Those are really nice! The ambience is more suitable for hanging out casually and at least you can talk without having to shout. :P

Here's another photo of muas truly in party mode!



















After the Zouk party, we were starving so we dropped by for some supper at good ol' McDonalds. Does Doreen look sober yet? :P

Pasar Malam at Sri Petaling

Last Tuesday I managed to go to the Sri Petaling pasar malam. It has been quite some time since my last visit there. Brings back so much old memories. It is by far my favourite pasar malam in Selangor/KL. :P

As usual, I purchased some yummy "chow tao foo" and it still as good as ever. Check out these deep fried beauties.

Thanks Doreen for driving us all the way down. Surprisingly the traffic flow was not as jammed as I thought it would be. Here's a photo of Doreen with her "Lam Yu" fried chicken wing. Viva la Chicken Wings!!

Hi I'm Back!

It has been awhile and it may seem like I have abandoned my blog. I can you assure that THAT is not the case. :) I will try to write as often as possible, so please continue to read my blog if you would like to find out more about me and my thoughts on all things under the sun.

My past weekend was really fulfilling. I had the privilege of being invited to stay over at my *jie mei*'s home in Seremban. It has been like around 4 years since my last visit there. As usual, the hospitality is extremely good and the steam fish is scrumptiously delicious. Thank you so much auntie! I willingly accept the fish head anytime. :P

Today when I came to work, my brain was kinda dead cause we had to wake up at 6 something in the morning. We travelled all the way from Seremban to work. Luckily my brain sort of restored, so now it is functioning normally again. :P

Back to work now! Will write again soon. :)