Pre-CNY dinner

Well, we are hosting a pre-CNY dinner on Feb 9, for a group of 6 (including us).

I haven't had a clue what to make as meal....

Can you see I don't sound enthusiastically?? Not that I don't like to host, but the initiative is not by us... one of the friend lah, she wanted so much of this dinner, but she is sharing the apartment with her housemate, so she can't host it, and ask us.

How to say no leh? If our apartment is a BIG HOUSE, with long table, fire place, big kitchen, I really don't mind... but our apartment is so small... But I am the type that not good at saying NO... bad for me I know...

OK, let's get the positive energy together, can you tell me what should I make for a group of 6, with CNY symbols? :)

I am definitely making the shuijiao. Made 2 plates last weekend (counted, it was 46 pcs), and happy with the result. Yummy... I had minced meat, 韭菜 (hate cutting it small small piece though), mushroom, prawns, a bit of 酱油, 盐, that's it. For the source I have 麻油，醋，酱油. Bui loves the source made by me. I love it too. hahaa... If he made the source, the taste is very awkwardly different but he has all the ingredients right. Really don't know why... We ate 1 plate, and froze the other plate for next consumption. :p

I want to attempt making the 芋头糕, although this has nothing to do with CNY, just something I saw online (recipe) and want to try making again. I made one in 2010, BIG FAILURE that time. But the recipe this time is a bit different... so... Must try again this weekend. hahaha...

Picture later eh?;)

Please give me some ideas what you guys eating at CNY... I can't remember what we ate differently but sometimes my mom will cook 海参 (which I don't know to cook......:(( sigh), duck, prawns (this I can make, learnt 奶油虾 from my mom this trip, but need to find curry leaves?), fish, and a soup (I can make 咸菜鱼片汤？). But sound so plain hor if I make like this.... ideas?

95.5!!!!!

WHOLLY MAMA!!!!!!!

Exam mark is out!!!!!!!!! I have 95.5 for final exam, and 92.5 for overall final course mark!

WAaaaaaaa...........................

I thought I would score marginally like 70+ for final because that final exam is really very difficult... it's a make or break situation... I never expect something like 95.5!!!!!!

Unbelievable!

When I login to see my score just now, I half close my eyes.... dare not open both eyes to see... so silly. hehehehhe:)

My new buddy :D

I finally decided to dump that stupid Ikea new alarm clock, and get a Sony one (after taking advice from Jennifer. Yah, what's wrong with waking up to radio?).

http://www.amazon.com/Sony-ICF-C218-Automatic-Clock-Radio/dp/B000MXWSWI

OK, it's a big box (compared to my old buddy), but the snooze button is so much easier to reach and so much bigger that you can't miss even with your 5% stage of mind presence, and the clock is is auto-timed after you plug in the electricity and choose the time zone! So geng. It does not even come with an instruction sheet because it is so common sense.

The Snoooze, can even choose 10 min, 20 min, up to 60 min. Hahaha... But I do hope it has a 5-min option, then I can snooze more times. hehe...

Bui said the radio is too loud, even though I turned it very very very low. The first time when it goes on, I don't even realize... I was sleeping like a pig.

I am such not a morning person!!

Aiyoh, next time eat faster lah!

Bui love to cook one dish, it is a dish of all time favorite of both of us. Celery fried with fishball.

I love fishball!

Last night, Bui make this dish again. And he also make steam chicken wing with mushroom, my another favorite dish. So, I was enjoying the chicken wing, and haven't got time to eat the celery fishball dish.

When I finally realized I "forgot" about the fishball, and I went to the dish to scoop up the fishball, they were all gone!!!!!!

>.< Totally gone!!!!!!!! Only celery were left behind. There were like 8 fishball just 5 min ago.

I asked with shocking voice, "Where are the fishballs????"

Bui, "Huh?..." He some more use his spoon to search for me.

Then he replied with a tak apa-apa look, "Aiyoh, next time eat faster lah!"

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无言 >..<

Alarm Clock

After enduring my choh-loh usage, my dear alarm clock has been certified dead.

Sigh...

This alarm clock has served me from Shanghai of 5 years to the first two years in Vancouver. I bought it from Ikea at Shanghai. It looks like this: http://olioboard.com/items/5312-ikea-ticka-alarm-clock-white

Sweet right?

This alarm clock has character. Like if you want it snoozed, you just have to place your hand lightly on it. And it stopped ringing and snoozed for 5 min. I am not sure if it is just my unit, or every unit is like that. Because it doesn't function in this way when I first bought it.

But, sometimes it will give you surprises. You snooze it for like 5 or 6 7 times, it will stop bothering you. And when you become conscious again, you feel like killing it, throwing it down the window and smash it to the smallest pieces you can because by then you are freaking scarily late at that moment!!

So, this has been a love-hate relationship... for quite a number years. Until it stopped ticking last month... I first thought it is battery issue. I changed battery, it ticked for a few hours, and it stopped again.

So... there goes my buddy:(

I shopped at Ikea here, they do not sell this anymore. Yes, I am such a boring person. I want the same alarm clock. I was sad, frustrated, and I have been relying on my iPhone for waking me up for the last many many many days. I hate it. It's not supposed to be an alarm clock of course....

I shopped at local stores here. The alarm clock is either very HUGE like a box (because there's radio function in most of them), or it is very very very sibeh boring like those you can find from pasar malam when you are a kid (I say this because I haven't stepped foot in pasar malam for the last 10 years I think). So, I am so out of option here..:(((

I got a simple alarm clock from Ikea at the end. It looks like this: http://www.ikea.com/ca/en/catalog/products/70154065/

And I wanted to return it. The button for snooze and stop is too near to each other, at the back of the clock and the design makes you confused which is which especially when you are only 5% awake... and the alarm clock sound is too boring, too loud, and too hard. Not mellow. Like when you hear it, it makes you feel gun cheong, blood pressure rise especially when you have to make yourself awake enough to figure out which button is snooze, and which button is stop.

ARRRRrrrrrghhhhhhhh....

I will never find 'my' alarm clock :(

What kind of alarm clock you guys using??? Give me some idea please... I am so sick of shopping for alarm clock :(((

What a devastating experience. And why all alarm clocks are either functionally too complicated with radio, iPhone plug, dual alarm functions, big in size, or too boring like those 20 years ago alarm clock type??  And why when we purchase alarm clock, we cannot test sound the alarm sound?? To all alarm clock manufacturer out there, can you please don't make your alarm sound so harsh and so blood pumping and so loud? :(((

I miss my old buddy:(((((

Samba-Samba

A very great great friend of ours, insisted to give us snacks and coffee and wants to make our luggage full.

The snack he and his wife bought for us, is same series as tam-tam. It's called samba-samba.

IT TASTE SO FREAKING GREAT!!!!!!!!!!

So tasty I tell u. Spicy... crispy.... I don't know how to tell u, after I tasted this, I don't even want to eat tam-tam. Tam-tam is lousy.

I so wanted to show you its packaging, but stupid blogspot/google now disallow me to upload photo from my computer drive, unless I update it to picasa or google drive or something else... @#$%! what the...

Anyway, look for it, samba-samba snack, it's under the brand 'snek ku'!

Bui and I finished them in our first week back to Vancouver... It is that good!

Thank you Eric & Mei Yen!!!! :D

On a separate note, Bui still can't remember our apartment buzzer number, after we have moved in for more than 6 months and after I have told him the number in like 10 different times... arrghhhhhhhhhh...How is it that my 火爆性格 can match his "tak apa apa" 性格？We are really from opposite poles! >..<

First post in 2013, and I am ranting again...

So over ate at Malaysia. 3 wedding dinners... many gathering meals, and many many local foods. Burp~~~

How I miss panmee, dailookmeen, crabbies, daichao, roti prata, nasi lemak, meesiam again....

Now back to this lousy place. Sigh... to top it off, here's what tick me off today:

Boss has a $300 home insurance payment to make. They accept credit card and cheque. The insurance company is a very well-known company, not those ABC mamak style company. He asked me if he can use my credit card to pay for this, and he will write me a cheque back.

Reason? His credit card has a $50,000 limit. He does not want people to misuse.

I said my lowest credit card is also $2,000 (I mean if people misuse mine, $2000 is a lot to me!). He replied, "your $2000 is nothing compared to my $50,000".

I hate him so much!!!!!!!!!!!

Of course I am not using my credit card to pay for his home insurance. What the hell??? Your card is a card, my card is not a card lah.

If let me have it all in one day, I will want to slap him left and right, and right to left again!!

Are all rich people so hak yan zhang?????