January - A Time I Call My Sanctuary.

2 January 2009

This arvo, 'someone' from HSBC called up, asking for my IC# when I was on my way home from MV with my mum.
'Someone'.

Malcolm's been back in KL for awhile now. And as usual, he was bored. My mum was in a real good mood and kept insisting it was okay to drop me nearby home for drinks with my friend.

Maybe she thought that the guy was a 'potential'. Oh ya, she thinks I'm totally single. Not that I care. It probably gives me more freedom to go out with friends :P At least, I wouldn't need to hear the 'you-shouldn't-go-out-with-a-male-friend-alone-because-you-have-a-bf-and-it-might-create-a-misunderstanding' boring ol' talk. Yeap, she's pretty conservative. Like I'm gonna lose all my friends, just for a guy. He wish!

Just wait til she finds out he's actually married! Hahahaa..
After drinks, I got changed and headed to Istana Budaya with dad to meet up with Meikee to watch Mamma Mia! Musical.
I liked the show, but I think I loved the movie even more! I felt the character of Sophie's mum was abit of a bore.
I still have all the ABBA songs of the musical, running in my head!

3 January 2009

Shu, Michelle & I had actually booked ourselves for an appointment at a Japanese salon today. But Mich called me in the morning to tell me she wanted to shift hers to the following day. I was afraid Shu would kill me (since she booked for today only because we did), so I kinda went and accompany her. Until Kurt arrived at Gardens, that is.

He was enjoying a nice long weekend holidays, so he looked me up and we had a round of drinks at Alexis. When Shu was done with her hair, we went to Dome's for dinner. It's been quite awhile since I had anything here.
Some spicy Olio pasta. Not bad:) Shu and I shared between this and the famous Mushroom Chicken Pie, which didn't taste as great as I last remembered. Maybe it's just the branch at MV. :/
He's lost even more weight. Which makes me feel horrible, since I've gained so much! I can see why, though - he's eating so little, that I even finished parts of his Fish & Chips! Its like..I'm pilling onto myself whatever he is shedding off! :(:(:(

The poor boy must be really stressed out with work. Not that it'll ever work on me. I'll probally binge if I was under stress. Wait, actually I think I binge..whenever.
Shu's new look. The stylist chopped off most of her curls. I think it makes her look younger. And cute too! Okay, I think I'm confident to give this stylist a go now. Even with the slight steep prices..

4 January 2009

I had my hair straightened today! Nice nice nice??? :D
Okay, I know it doesn't look stick straight, but this is how I like it! Natural and manageable :) I hate it when its all flat, wrapping around my chubby cheeks, essentuating them. Anyway, the stylist only rebonded the top half of my head. And as a finishing touch, curled the bottom. He initially suggested perming the bottom of my hair for some waves, but decided against it because the ends are practically fried. Wayyy to damaged for anything to be done :( Sigh.

8 January 2009

After my dentist appointment and lunch with my dad, I met up with Ju Lian for drinks at Dome. Ah, the man has finally made time for me to catch up.
Er, don't ask. Was trying to be funny, but totally 'mission failed'.
Okay, a proper shot.

I've met Juju since...early college years? Lost touch for so many years and only randomly found him thru Friendster last summer - though some Friendster pics that an online buddy was sharing with me haha.

Actually, Michelle once told me he contacted her to look for me a couple of years back, but I never heard from him. Never mind that. It's all good now since we've been in touch every now and then for the past year. Finally meeting up today, felt like we were reliving our college days once again. It's kinda fun, just to talk nonsense with this Jujube :D

9 January 2009

Met up with Yishyene today. I haven't met up with her since NYE. All we did was shopped around while yakking, and then have a late lunch. By the way, today I've just discovered the sardine puffs from Old Chang Kee, is a nice spicy twist to the conventional curry puffs they have! Yum, now I'm craving for more. I liked them so much that I actually texted Yish and Angeline to tell them about it haha.

11 January 2009

I was suppose to follow Angeline to the grand opening ceremony of Rayy's organic restaurant in the morning. Anyway, Queen A. was suffering a hangover and we ended up going to 1u at noon instead. Ken, called up to join us after visiting Rayy. He picked us up, and we had lunch at Curve instead. Mei Kee, soon joined us and so, we accompanied her for a late lunch.
I only managed to take a photo with Mei Kee since she was sitting strategically next to me :p

When we moved on to Starbucks to bum, Mei Kee left again for her shop. After Ken dropped the two of us back at 1u, we walked around til it was time to have dinner with my family. We decided to check out Jack's Place for the very first time.Jellilicious Mango Float.
Appetizer - Stuffed Mushrooms with Lobster and something else. It was just average.
On the other hand, the potato skins were goooood. But so stingy! Only two halves loh. Which equals to ONE potato.
I shared this Mixed Grill with Angeline - which consisted of egg, lamb, chicken, steak, sausage and boiled veggies & potato as sides. You see that potato with heaps of sour cream, chicken (instead of bacon bits) and spring onion? It was really yummy too!

My dad and brother decided to go for fish therapy, which I also tried soon after. Damn ticklish! No, that is not my leg. It's my brother's -_-" Can you see the fishies practically attacking his feet? Maybe it's just psychology, but you feel like your legs are so clean and fresh after they've bitten all your dead skins away.

13 January 2009

The initial plan was to meet Yin Think at 1u, and then visit Mei Kee today. But since she is caught up with moving home, I decided to just go straight to Mei Kee's shop instead. Didn't manage to have lunch with Angeline either.

I was bumming around the shop when Ken decided to 'curi tulang' from work. We had drinks at Starbucks nearby for an hour or so. Angeline got off work early and came to visit me at the shop. She managed to get 3 lovely dresses, which I'm sure she is keen to wear for her clubbing nights. I only managed to find myself some work attires to put on hold.


15 January 2009

Angeline intended to have lunch with me. Since her friend, David was joining us, we wanted to go to our favourite kopitiam in Lucky Garden. I've been dying for my all-time favourite pan mee.
Ju happened to text me while I was getting ready, so naturally, I got him to joins us as well. What a small world - Ju knows David, and the other friend that David invited for lunch! I had the time of my life eating pan mee, sliced raw fish, chicken rice, popiah and meatball soup.

In the evening, Angeline suggested dinner at Jarrod & Rawlins near my place with Darren. Again, Ju was on MSN with me so I told him about my dinner plans. Once again I invited him to come along, which he happily obliged.

Crap happened - there was an event going on at J&R so we headed to the one at Desa Sri Hartamas. I must say it was a fantastic night. Ju actually joined us just to have drinks before joining his other friends to have MORE drinks *cough*alcoholic*cough*

Angeline hasn't met Ju since our early college days. And I think tonight was the first time we all really sat down and talked. I think Darren must have loved him haha. They were both cracking heaps of jokes until I actually lost track of time about going home. Talk about panicking when I realised how late it was!! =.="
I absolutely loved the dynamite sausages! And the mash potato.
Me & Ju.
A camwhore Ju & an anti-camera Darren.

You should have seen how uncomfortable Darren looked when Ju sugested taking a photo with him LOL. Anyway, I also met another friend of Ju's, Marc, which I'm pretty sure I've seen around back in college as well.

Ju initially invited me to some event, which I know I couldn't make it to. I asked him to see if he could bring Angie & Darren with him, since everyone hit it off so well. Great, I found these two a new clubbing member. Die-loh. That clubbing king is gonna kidnap them away from me every weekend already :(

16 January 2009

I spent the entire day at Mei Kee's shop. Out of the few visits I made, I think I was most efficient today :D Besides just guarding the upper floor, I helped out with price-tagging the belts. So many of them, that I think I'm gonna DREAM about them tonight. I finally had a try at the famous Village Park's nasi lemak.

Also, I've finalised what I wanted from her shop, and paid up. A good price, for so many items. Yay!

17 January 2009

I had my first take at Yee Sang for the year during dinner at Overseas Restaurant, Jalan Imbi. Not that great, though. Their dishes weren't bad, but I think their prices are getting abit pricey for average dishes.

18 January 2009

My cousin sis, Ngar Fei was back in KL for holidays with her children. So, my parents wanted to take her out for Dimsum lunch at 1u.

Aunt Vivien and her family invited my family for dinner at Shangri-La.
One of my favourite dishes for dinner.
Uncle Victor got this cool phone, worth RM8000, from Bang & Olufsen. I think he was given this phone when he bought B&O speakers for his new home. Next time I'm gonna get speakers from them when I can afford it :)


19 January 2009

I accompanied mum to Midvalley to buy stuff for CNY. I'm not sure how, but I ended up with 9 bras *shifty eyes* I'm loving them! Janice dropped by just to pass me the Fancl Cleansing Oil I asked her to buy me from Hong Kong. I heard so many raves about it that I decided to give it a try.

In the evening, I discovered a shop in Kota Damansara named Heartbeats. I bought a high-waisted skirt, top, and two dresses from there. Good for work! I loved quite a few of their designs because it was different from other shops (who seem to get most of their stuff from the same local suppliers -_-". Can you spell 'b.o.r.i.n.g.'?) I gotta say that not all of their cuts fit me perfectly though, which is a good thing - save me from spending more!


20 January 2009

I made plans to meet Steph in town today. And Janice managed to join us. When I was waiting for Steph, I went to look at some leggings/stockings. I got a little carried away..and ended up spending rm250 worth of it! My god.. Gotta blame it on Steph for being late -_-"

Janice took us to La Bodega, Pavillion KL, for a light snack, since I've yet to have my lunch anyway. She highly recommended us their small lamb cutlets. The 20mins wait requirement was surely worth it. But they're a tad pricey because it costs RM15 for just one small piece.

Their drinks list are pretty expensive as well. I think my strawberry smoothie costs me RM18, while Michaelangelo's was only RM12 and tasted much yummier. Gotta go back one more time for that drink..Mmmm...

I nearly bought something from Club Monaco but I gave up while waiting in line. I don't understand how they actually need 4 people to serve a customer. If they were still preparing the things the customer wanted, shouldn't they just let me thru and pay for my SINGLE item? Bah.

I saw some nice heels at Nine West & Aldo. Janice bought a pair of deep purple fabulous-looking heels. Really high and flatters the feet - simple and chic. I like!

21 January 2009

I spent the entire day resting at home. And it was close to dinner time when Darren asked me to have a quick bite with him at Subway. I haven't had Subway for ages! What a coincidence, we ordered the exact same thing haha. He's a funny guy, and I don't think he even knows it! It's not so much about his jokes and all, but his response in certain matters LOL.

22 January 2009
Salmon Yee Sang.
Shark's Fin boiled with Chinese/Japanese Pear.Salted Chicken.
Prawn. I loved the crunchy bits that came with it.
The usual - Mussels, Abalone, Veggie, Mushroom etc.
Nin Gou baked w/ Cheese & Tong Yuen in Ginger Tea which was surprisingly quite good.
Not sure why my hair ended up looking like that, at the bottom =.=

23 January 2009

I made a spontaneous appointment for facial in the morning, just to pamper myself. I wasn't sure if June would call to meet up, so I had lunch with Ken at OUG to kill time. I bumped into Melissa at MAC while browsing their products. I think I haven't seen her since I left high school.
She was nice enough to give me discounts on the stuff that I got :)

25 January 2009

It is tradition that my family has steamboat lunch at home every year on the eve of Chinese New Year. Why? Simple and easy to prepare. Even easier to clean up.

And when evening came, we would head out for dinner with the Wong family. This year, it was my dad's turn to shout dinner so we picked The Ming Room at BSC. Food was really good - shark fin's soup, abalone, lamb w/ red wine, steamed fish, claypot rice with waxed meat, and crystal pear with tea for dessert. It SHOULD be good, since it cost about RM2800 for it.

The downside of the night was there was a long break after lobster yee sang (though I couldn't really taste the lobster meat at all), and once the soup was served, everything else came out at once. So, you would feel the need to rush and finish up your dinner. I must say, it was a very fulfilling dinner. But I think The Grand Imperial (BSC) serves better dimsum - I can't say the same for their normal dishes though.

26 January 2009

As usual, I spent the morning of Chor Yat at Dharma House. Once the session has ended, my family headed to Pavillion. Steph couldn't make it to meet me because she had to visit her brother. Two of my aunts came to have simple lunch with my family and then spent the whole noon chatting over drinks.

It was my luck that Ken was free and came to look for me for a couple of drinks after he was done with MahJong. That fella is full of lame jokes, but still a nice companion.
Why on earth does my dress look like some traditional Korean dress here?? O_o

27 January 2009

Mei Kee told me to meet her around 12pm, so that she can buy a couple of things before the rest of our friends came. But she turned up at 1.30pm -_-"
We shared a lunch set at Fung Lye, Gardens. Thank god I shared it with her. Despite feeling hungry, I didn't have much appetite to eat.

When Lok Chin arrived, we all sat at Alexis for drinks.
Lok Chin & I.
Then Stacey finally arrived.Mei Kee. Me. Shu. Ah Lok.

Later on, Steph finally arrived - called me at 1pm, arrive around 4 hours later -_-". Ken was bored, so I told him to come join us when he texted me. Kien and Maeng Yu were the last ones to join us, arriving around 8pm.

Right away, we headed elsewhere for dinner. Again, I was hungry but didn't feel like eating much. They picked this Japanese restaurant that Kurt once took me & Miyake for lunch last year around CNY as well. I can't seem to remember its name now. Me. Kien. Maeng Yu.
Steph. Me. Ken.

28 January 2009

Angeline had to work today. And the poor girl badly wanted to meet us for lunch so Shu & I took her out to Nandos, Bangsar Village. Then, the both of us headed to Lok Chin's open house. I tell you, I haven't been to any chinese new year open house for years so I enjoyed myself thoroughly.

Lunch was served - lunch was good but I had very little because of the horrible appetite I've been having due to my cold and flu. Kudos to Lok Chin's mum for waking up at 5.30am to prepare so much food.

We gambled for about 2 hours before I had to leave. I won a small share. Shu was on a much luckier streak than me - she hit so many 21s! But I'm satisfied with my own winnings :) I had dinner in town with my aunts around 7pm so I couldn't join the rest of them for dinner.
Like old times :)

29 January 2009

I had lunch with mum and Auntie Lilian at JW Marriott Hotel's Shanghainese restaurant.
It may not look appetizing, but braised duck's tongues are the bomb!

After that, I met up with Kurt at Pavillion to return his external hard drive, and his birthday gift.
The original color of the photo turned out odd, that I decided to just turn turn it black and white. Don't you think it reminds you of some horror movie, and we're dead or something? :/

30 January 2009

I booked a k-session at Green Box for four in the noon. Not sure what was I doing, still agreeing to go sing karaoke when I've actually lost half my voice and is coughing most of the time -_-" Kiasu-lah :P Been wanting to go with my KL girls all month but haven't had the chance to do so.

Finally got to meet up with Yin Think too! She's been so busy that this is the first time I saw her since I came back this hols. She's got quite a good voice - esp at renditions of Avril's songs. And Rihanna's Unfaithful & Umbrella. Katy Perry's Hot N' Cold. Gwen Stefani's 4 In The Morning. And that's all just the beginning. Mei Kee was amazed by her voice that she stopped singing at some points just to listen LOL. I wish I was blessed with such a voice :( Sorethroat or not, I sound like I'm croaking when I sing. How sad.

Some people think that I don't like to sing. They're wrong. I LOVE to sing. It's just that I don't sing much because I feel intimidated when people are listening. Esp when they sing really well on the other hand. Plus, I feel bad for them - needing to put up with it and pretend it's actually 'not so bad'.

Anyway, today I've done alot of receiving. Kurt texted to let me know what he got me as a Christmas/birthday present. And that he'll pass it to me tomorrow at Pavillion.

Yin Think gave me about 7 leggings/stockings, 3 bags, 3 mobile pouches and a scarf. Gosh. I was godsmacked when I saw the amount of things she passed to me.

Then, June asked me to meet her shortly to pass me stuff she got from Taiwan. Mostly food, except for this absolutely cute cookie-shaped mirror.
The iron eggs were really yummy!

My bro said I look like a small child opening her Christmas gifts when I was looking through all the stuff from both Yin Think & June. It must be because I had this really 'bahagia' look on my face ^_^ And he pointed out that one of the candies really suited me because it is said to be for 'Xiao Mei Mei' or something haha.

When I told Angeline what Yin Think got me, her response made me laugh.

:[ [εïз] Quεεn ªng℮line ت says:
gila man she thinks you're an octopus.

HAHAHAHA.

31 January 2009

I accompanied my family for lunch with another family we met in the last US trip at Kampachi, Pavillion. After that, I met up with the Inaians - Kien, Vi Min, Daren, Wan Cham, Khai Siang, Shu, Mei Kee & Jess. Ju Lian & Angie came along as well. Lunch was at Dragon i and then proceeded to have drinks at Michaelangelo. It was really good to catch up with them.

Kurt dropped by to pass me the new external HD. Yay, 320gig! Can store heaps of shows and backup next time :D

I had dinner with my family at Cravings, 1 Utama. Haven't had Fried Loh Shee Fun in the longest time. I bought some cosmetics from Etude House. I've bought a couple of their products when I went on the Korea trip in 2006. Now that they've opened here, I can get more.