v ' 09

due to a gigantuan hole burnt in his pocket for our '08 christmas eve.

we decided to have some sweet home-cook food for this year's valentine.

reminiscing our celebration for a few years' valentine's day:

'07 he sang love song to me in front of other club members during our club activity, when i was still the chairperson of the club. damn wierd feeling but nevertheless sweet and touching

'08 went melaka, one day trip. it was sweet too.. see how high we soar?

photos here..

'09 valentine's day..

bought some wine .. oooh.. my reason to live in this world.

haha.. see, the mighty butter prepared a 5-course dinner for yaoyao..

he helped a lot in scrubbing those stubborn stains on the wok too!! it was gross, thus my nails were very well protected.

LE MENU DU JOUR

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Grilled salmon marinated with mixed herbs and whiskey

topped with lemon slices and horseradish

Chicken thigh marinara served with

sizzling black pepper sauce

mixed vegetable soup with oriental herbs and anchovies as base

served with small shells

tricolore pasta spirals fucilli in bolognaise sauce

cooked with jalapeno pepper slices and crab filament

french baby potato and cherry tomatoes salad

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the wine that goes with these meals

canada's Icewine.

i had a friend who told me, chilled wine is better than ice wine what?

aiyo~ ice wine is not wine with ice cube la.

Ice wine = (or icewine, as one word, or in German, Eiswein) is a type of dessert wine produced from grapes that have been frozen while still on the vine. The sugars and other dissolved solids do not freeze, but the water does, allowing a more concentrated grape must to be pressed from the frozen grapes, resulting in a smaller amount of more concentrated, very sweet wine. With ice wines, the freezing happens before the fermentation, not afterwards. Unlike the grapes from which other dessert wines, such as Sauternes, Tokaji, or Trockenbeerenauslese (dunno what the heck are these), are made, ice wine grapes should not be affected by Botrytis cinerea, or noble rot. Only healthy grapes keep in good shape until the opportunity arises for an ice wine harvest, which in extreme cases can occur after the New Year, on a northern hemisphere calendar. This gives ice wine its characteristic refreshing sweetness balanced by high acidity. When the grapes are free of Botrytis, they are said to come in "clean". Due to the labour-intense and risky production process resulting in relatively small amounts of wine, ice wines are generally quite expensive.

to recapitulate: these wine are great!!!!!!!

im totally in love with'em.

taste sweet at 1st then gradually ends with a fragrant crispy citrus-y taste, sweet yet stil high in acidity. this wine satiates all the nerve ends in my tongue with distinctive sense of young yet elegant indulgence.. life is great with these around.

apart from these romantic lil things we had. the funniest part is,

we shared the space with another couple, ka fai and dai shou.

so when we dine using the japanese type of table (lower table) and sitting on the floor, they were just adjacent to us, siting in chairs and using a much higher table..

it's so wierd but fun!!!! hahaha..

so we pretend like couples in those high end dining hall, who dint know each another.

as yaoyao just format his pc, we can hardly retrieve back those lists of romantic songs.. out of desperate, he found "unchained melody" and then repeat it over and over again.

suddenly, our dinner became more formal and serious.. hahahaha.

after the temptious meal, we lit up some tea-candles (remained in my drawer..)as well as aromatic candles,

indulged in those remaining wine in my room,

sipping it bit by bit.

chatting about those old days we had together..

those bittersweet memories,

and the crazy things we did..

all by the candle light, albeit the small numbers of em.

not long before my other housemates reaches home and laugh at us.
haha...happy valentine my darl,

though you're not rich nor handsome, not taller nor wiser,

you are the only man i trust with all my heart and soul.

for not wanting or demanding from me.

though im not pretty nor sexy (ahem.), not gentle nor considerate enough,

always careless and emotional,

you take me for who i am, love me and protect me out of no conditions at all.

and i've been learning from you each and everyday.

learning to love myself like how you loved me,

learning to cherish you like how you treasured me.

........ it's been a long while i dint tell you...

.. that i love you..

...... and you're still the one my heart beats for...

CNY lou-sang with buddies

called up close buddies to gather in wangsa house
-------> lou-sang la!!!!

we had some simple food dabao from downstairs' stalls..
some sort of fried mee fried rice ala hokkien and cantonese.
when you have great friends around, doesnt matter what you gorge into your stomach.

still well-soaked in CNY mood.. such ineffable joy we had while we played firecrackers...
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thanks willy for dabao-ed some kfc to satisfy our taste buds.

(looks like he kena molested or what)... yet stil look happy la

lil princess picked the firecrackers gingerly, keeping the furthest distance from her body. adui. david showed no emotions on his face.

now too much

ooh.. kafai's espression here was classic!

love her smile. so natural and sunny~

felt insatiated, we bought some beers..

so, the god father of all alcoholics..

someone damn creative, use tea cups to drink carlsberg. thought sake meh?

another genius. mixed with crysanthanum tea

great bunch of friends, great night ..one of those indelible memories of mine.

GRE

prepared this for so long (o.. oki la.. not so well-prepared. and have been loitering for so long..

no thanks to my heinous, atrocious laziness!!! )

even had countless coffee to reduce my pressure..

this is my enamoured spot to study for this test.

immured myself here to concentrate upon my preparation

for those who are wandering..

GRE stands for .... graduate record examination

it's a kinda computer adaptive test..

for more information or to get a taste what this test is like,

see here, and here.

so.. i sat for the test on 12 feb. it's over now... "phew~"

i scored quite well for my quantitative part, but not my verbal part because of those alien vocabulary

which are beyond my ken.

damn.

luckily i got a feeling that my writing part is gonna be great. (6th sense)

though the results were not out yet for the writing part...

pray la. pray la.

so.. im free now!!!! (pun intended)

im free from the strains of sitting a tough test.

im free from bondage.

im free from guilt

and im free.. (nothing to do now)

im damn free now. at least for a week,

am having my semester break now for the 2nd week.

ladies, shoppin time,

buddies, clubbin time,

gang, partyin time,

wentworth miller, breaking free time (from prison)

mirrors (preening and acting vain time)

cameras (whoring time)

my love, pamper me time!!!

ohh.. i want someone to spoil me rotten.

spread my wings, stretch my wings,

see me soar..

for a few days.

gatherings!!!

some old junks again. could not gloss over the fact that im lazy, and i wouldnt gainsay that im such a profound in procrastinating. never too late to share em with you right?

there you go, U6B2's gathering.
wansia's manifold kindness drives her to call many of us, salute to oc (organizing chairperson)!!!
we met in ss2 Leo's..
no idea why they named this place Leo's.. no sight of a lion or whatsoever..
no nexus that binds the atmosphere/surroundings/decor/etc with the name of the place.
anyway, it was damn fun.
whole bunch of us turned up. some said 70% attendence wo.. no idea, sucks at maths.
see.. we almost conquer the whole place

abit hard to take group photos when you have an enormous group of ppl

sis... remember we used to hide in the tunnel and sing some good'ole songs?

still remember wansia so altruist.. gave a her whole collection of edison's poster/ mag cover etc. i stil have em in my room in subang. and she's the one who always made DIY card for us during our birthdays..

i was asked to sign my will (err..each and everyone of us needs to sign on an autograph la)

my hiong1 lei2... same kampung..

some notstalgic shots by some artistic photographer.

had loads of these..

CNY

parents bought a new sets of sofa after so many years torturing our bum bums.

see our old sofa??that gigantic hole there sucks in a lot of our coins.. when we lifted the sofa on the truck,

we found a great fortune:) those were our missing money ( droped on the sofa, sliped into the hole or cervices or whatsoever while we were sleeping/sitting on it)

so, there it goes.. the old ones thrown away and make way for the new ones.

eve
accompanied mama to the market. the last place i would rather be on earth..

but for mama, it worth la.. cooked reunion dinner with mama for our relatives.. hey we're the host this year:) my guests like my coca-cola chicken so much!!

bought myself 2 new sets of bedsheet+pillow case+ bolster case. i lurvvvvvvv them so much!!!
see how lovely this looks?

just in case you're curious, the other set is printed with hello kitty... ^^



CNY 1

want hair like mine?? haha.. no secret at all------- thanks to my new toy from the land of the rising sun, ms lil white curler:) if you're using one, pls be extra careful you dont wana burn your chin, face, ear, hand etc.. many years ago, while i was using a hair straightener, stupid me accidentally sat on it... left a scar on my thigh.. but use with care, these gadgets are goin to make ur hair rocks:) ps. make sure you set time for your hair treatment after each hair do ya.
on our way to aunt's house in puchong.

dunno who so brilliant to come out with the idea in which back passanger needs to buckle up the seat belts.

imagine a family with many children.. how to balik-kampung le? what is some family have 6 child? all school age?

ya. all the ranting is because my youngest brother have to sit another car. so one less of us. no fun.

this is uncle peter and aunt sabrina's house..

their daughter= my cousin la.
had my 1st lou-sang this CNY. see children also wanna "lou" dunno "lou" what

even other races also lou together with us... yea. this is malaysia, beautiful people sharing a pallete of distinctive culture. apart from the "lou sang" platter, we had KFC and pizzas (for CNY ?)

in the afternoon, we went ama's house ( grandma's)

slept there for a while..
watch the movie "brothers" .. it was so "bloody violent" (pun intended).. dunno why those people aired such
"in-auspicious" movie during chinese new year. what we watch is the actor being chop and chop people.
watch eclipse with my lil brothers using the reflection on a pail of water.. damn nice.

CNY 2

went shoppin @ sunway pyramid. being the nanny of my 2 younger brother.

gotta find a way to satiates their curiosity+ hunger while im indulging in splashing and splurging for my shoppin items. didi said " sien la" ... got mummy many pairs of earrings.. nice nice. she loves em. yaya. im not an altruist la, sure got myself something too!! did mani in a nail shop and bought myself this hair band. bohemian?? went grandma's house again for dinner, my 2nd lou-sang of the yea.

home at night... at last..
reminiscent of our childhood... what is CNY without fireworks, fire crackers..?
at 1st, just 3 of us playing.. then melvin joined, then my mummy, then daddy also came along..
and the whole family went crazy and we were so noisy, we even threw the crackers onto the three.. and make wishes.
lil bro said " 7 As in upsr," i said ( in my heart la of course) " a chance to study abroad" , mummy shouted" sang-yi-heng-long (means prosperous business) bro chris said " daddy mummy no more arguing" then all eyes stared at him.
both of the old ones felt embarrass la. if the neighbours heard what we said, they might think we "kee-xiao"

after those strenous activities. we .......

the the big "god-of-gamble" tutoring the young ones..

the big winner of the night. and the big joker here and some victims CNY 4

went ayi's house near kepong
another yi-zhang invite us to get drunk with him.
so uncles aunties cousins all sat around the dining table..
drank an old age v.s.o.p damn nice.
felt unsatiated, thus went for another bottle of martel.
in the end, when the dinner is ready, most of the adults were half-asleep.

CNY 5

before going out, yao's papa and mama visit my house..
er.. kinda embarrassing .. hehe... but they're both kind and nice people.. chat with my mama for awhile, too bad daddy not at home.they almost brought the whole penang to my house,
nian-bings (CNY cookies) like my favourite tou-sa bia, and caramel/ black sugar bia... haha
and some firecrackers (yesh, that means i have more)

so long never organize any gathering liao.
thus, picked up the phone and managed to get some buddies
gathered with some high school friends.
my bro mel went along to..
chat a while at wong-kok's the curve.

i accidentally deleted the picture of me and dorothy... aiyo~

present: kok wei, yonching, yiheng, cze-yin, shaun and gf-to-be, zi chen, melvin


then 2nd round at sanctuary ..(again?) haha..

present: kok wei, yonching, cze yin? yes! zi chen , joseph and gal. melvin joined to

cant believe my bro is so profound in dancing. he pop, he locked, he steal the night away.
ooh.. i want more party.. claimed a ravenous clubber--moi.

CNY 6 and 7

burried my head in piles of exam scripts.... need to mark my student's exam papers...
aaaaaaarrrrrrrrrrrgggggggggggghhhhhhhhhhhh.. CNY big angpao.