25 random things bout me...

I am writing these coz I got tagged.. but in facebook and I just couldn't really be bothered with putting it up as a note in FB so well, here it goes in this blog then..

The Obligatory Procedure:

Rules: Once you’ve been tagged, you are supposed to write a note with 25 random things, facts, habits, or goals about you. At the end, choose 25 people to be tagged. You have to tag the person who tagged you. If I tagged you, it’s because I want to know more about you!

1# I have not have short hair since F3. (1997)

2# I regretted not continuing my ballet classes after grade 8. I wished I did.

3# I have a chip in my front teeth. The dental nurse pasted something back on and it made me look complete again till I decided to sink my teeth into some frozen chicken. Serves me right for the chip again.. how it happened in the first place? I dived in a baby pool!

4# Best movie for me ever -Ever After. Anyone knows where to get the Ever After DVD? I can't seem to find it anywhere

5# I got my first LV at the age of 24. *woohoo thanks to Hubby* I hope there is more to come tho... *gRin*

6# I bought my own car at the age of 22. Did you?

7# I got married at the age of 24, wedding expenses and planning all done by just the two of us, Hubby and I.

8# I became a mother to a beautiful baby boy, Jaden Simon Yap on Sept 28, 2007 and became a stay-at-home mom since...

9# I had roti telur at 8am and then drove myself and Hubby to the medical clinic to give birth.

10# I love to cook although some of my dishes might turned out too funky for Hubby's liking.

11# I love to travel and discover new places. *sigh* My dream is to go to different holiday destinations overseas each year. A dream which I hope can come true now that I am married. I used to go for holidays once a year at least when I was single... Now I am married to a workaholic! *sigh*

12# I can eat and eat and eat. I eat more than Hubby. Believe?

13# I love my fried egg with sugar sprinkled when beaten.

14# I used to have two dogs named Hannii and Rosie. Both I took back from SPCA.

15# I can't sing for nuts.. but I am not tone-deaf like someone who I used to work together with. I bet you know who Jojie!

16# I can't speak Cantonese without sounding like a Shanghainese and ended up calling my father-in-law "You Old Thing" instead of father in law... *bLek*

17# I missed hanging out at the beach with my Redang gang and Joy.

18# Gwen had to set up the Friendster account for me. This goes to show how noob I am in computing.

19# Some of my friends regard me as Ai-Mei-Li bu yao ming. (I prefer to look pretty and suffer the consequences)

20# I don't know my origins. Couldn't really be bothered with it tho.

21# I missed working in the corporate world. I actually missed interacting with adults and earning my own bucks!

22# I have road rage. My mouth definitely needs a good wash after each trip out on the road.

23# I want to pick up baking one day, if Hubby allows me to go for bakery classes and buys me the oven and stuff...

24# I pray daily that all my family members will stay healthy and happy everyday -Jaden, Mummy, Daddy, Hubby ...

25# I love all places cold, winter and all.. I just love em' cold

Right so now I am done with the 25 random things one should know about me or wants to know about me.. its time to tag some people who might just want to do it out of boredom, nothing to blog about at the moment or just couldn't give an arse about this.. =)

• Corrine Ho
• Jojie Loke
• Wei Ling
• Koko Jelly
• Iyvene
• Suzanna Ainol
• Faith Ashleigh Wong
• Gaiety Blur Ann

CNY @ SueAnn's

Saturday 070209

Hubby gave me some timeout and offered to take care of Jaden while I head over to SueAnn's place for some CNY gambling session. Actually I guess, other than gambling, meeting up and pai nin was also part of the plan la. I just needed some time out alone anyway.

I lost RM4.90 to be exact.. not much luck in gambling or maybe its just the chor tai tee skill all rusty due to me not having any practice for quite some time.. its been what? TWO years since I last picked up cards???

Spent a few hours there.. 2 1/2 hrs was good for me and then I have to head back home to pick Hubby and Jaden up to go buy Hubby's stuff. Luckily home was just 10 minutes away. *wink* That is how near I stay to SueAnn.

Her house is beautiful. It gives a very warm welcoming feeling when you step inside unlike some houses I know which emits a cold unwelcoming feel when you step in. I love her place and I like her father's cooking. MMm... he fed us well with his homecooked chicken porridge.

Tomorrow I am going to hit the buffet steamboat place for my annual Chap Goh Meh's steamboat meal. It will only be the SimonYap clan as Iz is busy with work. Why tomorrow and not Monday right? Well, I have got my reasons. Monday, although a public holiday, Hubby will start to work again, parking his butt in front of the comp and doing whatever he has to do.. so tomorrow is still rather 'free' for me to enjoy the last of the last days of Chinese New Year.

Time really flies. Chinese New Year will soon be over... *sigh*

No one but me

I had half a pot of my tomyam to myself last nite. The whole of yesterday in fact. No one else gave a go and trying out my tomyam.

I am kinda put off cooking for now. Not even a small bowl, a spoonful or a taste to try it out and I woke up and sprang to action immediately getting the tomyam cooked.

Kind of 'hurt'. Emo kan me? but well.. just expressing how I feel. Not going to cook today. Don't feel like it.

My darling Ivene

She is the second 'visit' to the house after Iz and Charlotte to pai nin with Simon and I. Alas the botak was on his way out for meetings so it just leaves Jaden and I at home to entertain her.

Jaden took an instant liking to her. Mostly because she is a girl. Second, a pretty girl (if only most knows about her 38 ways).. aaahh I love this girl of mine as we did have something special together. *wink*

I was horrified to receive her call telling me she is on her way to my place and I have not even bathed and dressed properly but seeing it was just her.. i thought scrap it! This is how I look at home and be it this way. Lets just say I have a bad hair day, a scratched face no thanks to the little rascal, my coca-cola bottle specs, and unkempt hair with a hairband pulling my wild fringe back (not working)... and the thing she said to me once she saw me...



"WAH.... looking at you makes me feel so young!!!!"


I looked something like that when she came.. so well.. its only honest her comment came out the way they did.. =p

Mind you, she is only a year younger than I am. Damnit! But nevermind.. its her! She can say anything to me and it doesn't really matter.. I know how I look and it is an honese comment.

*sigh* but how can I compare myself to this 'celebrity' friend of mine leh hor? I shall just wait when you girlfriends of mine turn mother.. then lets see those comments flowing in.. =) I, by then should be just relaxing..

and why did I call her a celebrity? Thought she looks familiar? Have you been watching Astro 304 Jiayu TV? She is one of the Marys in the Mary-Go-Round magazine show. The Happy Mary.. she should be named the 38 Mary instead I personally think.. =) You know I still love you rite darling?







but all in all, it was great to have her over for a while, chit chat and laugh over our past. I missed her in a way. Sometimes I only get to see her face to face once a year. Isn't that bad? Well.. shes one busy working friend... summore now celebrity status wor.. For me, I only remember her as my roommate, my sister in Beijing... the best ten days spent in Beijing!

Want to know more bout her? She can be found here!

Is he 100% off?

I have been giving Jaden formula milk daily now. Once in the early morning and once before he sleeps off at night. Does that mean I have weaned him off breastmilk completely?

Has my time and his breastfeeding session ends at 16 months?

Somehow I missed it yet I can now heave a sigh of relief.. that I no longer need to really watch what I eat but still, I am refraining from nuts and seafood. I do eat food with dried shrimps here and there but thats bout it just in case the boy still wants to continue the bonding session with me. By end of this month, then only I will decided whether if he is completely 100% weaned..

He is growing up so fast isn't he?

I missed him already. =)

Tom Yam anyone?

I tried cooking Chicken TomYam today. I was rather inspired by all those cooking shows that said it was rather easy to cook tomyam and I thought why not? Since it is one of my fav dish of all time?

So off I went down the aisle in Tesco looking for

• Tomatoes
• Celery
• Carrots
• lemongrass (Serai)
• Chicken Fillet
• Grey Oyster Mushroom
• Chilli Padi (actually the bigger chilli would work better but they are far too expensive and I use more chilli padi at home anyway)
• tomyam paste (I cheated)

I defrosted the chicken early in the morning.. only to wake up later to find it all ready to be sliced into perfect size. Sprinkled a little salt on the chicken while I then go and work on other ingredients.
Wash and then cut the lemongrass off at its tip and the root.
Boil the water in the pot then throw in the lemongrass.
Then put in the paste.. according to taste and the pot size.. then dump in the chicken fillet.
Let it boil for a while.. before dumping in the other veges.. and leave it to boil and bubble..
10 minutes before taking it off the stove, only then throw in the mushrooms.
well.. basically thats about it la the steps to make a simple tomyam chicken soup.

So well.. tomyam anyone?

To Banting we go, To Bkt. Jugra we eat ~

After everybody got up from sleep (excluding me), bathed and got ready, we all headed out to Banting. Don't know where is Banting on the map? Don't even know it existed in Malaysia? Nah, no worries.. I didn't know it existed too before I got to know Iz and Gynnette. So la ignorant me! Nah, heres a little info on Banting I Wikipedia-ed!

It took us about 1 1/2 hour to get there as there was traffic jam on the way into the small town after the KESAS. It was due to many going to the temple in Jenjarom to pray I guess. Hubby said that there is one famous Chinese temple where a lot of people go to pray at.

Once we drove into Iz's carpark and parked, the greetings we received were "Where is Baby?" Nope, not where is Simon nor how are we and all.. just "Where is Baby?" from the kids in Iz's house.

Jaden absolutely loves it there. He was fussed 24/7 by all in the house. He couldn't even care less if his parents were there or not. I don't think he minds staying there if he has to.. there were just too many things and friends to take his mind off US = PARENTS!

Look at me getting so excited getting to go eat at Bukit Jugra's Beggar Chicken's place. Nevermind the chip in my teeth =P

Iz's family took us to Bukit Jugra to eat the Beggar Chicken meal. I have heard of it for quite some time now and was supposed to go when I was pregnant. Now only did it materialized. It was not something to shoutabout but I guess the ambience and the company made it really good. Iz and his family really brings true meaning to what its called the complete family. It just makes me feel happy to be included in their circle. Such an honor. I just kept on eating once food was served on the table so I apologize for no photos to show the food we ate but well, I found some blogs that feature the food pictures so well, you can bloghop here and here to view the pics.. They look exactly the same that is served to us. We had the infamous Beggar chicken, pig's trotters, pig's intestines, glutinous rice, the fish and some green veges. =) We ate till we could not move and after we got home, I stuffed myself with grapes and the birthday cake. It was Iz's grandfather and father's birthday. o.OH =) I love cakes!

Iz took quite alot of pictures of Jaden with his family members.. which sums that I will not have any photos to post up here unless he passes me them. =) I only got one I took with Hubby and well, Jaden with Iz's grandmother who has painstakingly made Jaden a quilted blankie even before I gave birth.

Iz's grandmother with Jaden

Hubby and I

At last I found back the CNY spirit this year... found in Banting. =)