Spring Cleaning

My achievement for today:

Before (2p.m.).



After (8p.m.).



It took me 6 hours to clear my room. Any better?

Also, not to forget my re-decorated soft board.



Spring cleaning part 2 is tomorrow, to clean up the living hall.

Sigh.

At the same time, I need to say good bye to the toy duck that has been with me for so many years (maybe about 10 years?) because of its serious "injury" on its' head.

I will miss you, duck duck!



R.I.P.

Hope to see you again in your “afterlife”.

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Home Cook Fish Head Noodle

Seet and I went to try this newly opened fish head noodle at Mid Valley tonight (or shall I say last night?). Since I had a not-so-good day, after dealing with my MS Outlook and client, I decided to eat something (although I’m on an extreme diet plan now) to become happier again.

“Arghhhhh…!!!”

Seet ordered Cantonese Style Kuey Teow with Beef（牛肉滑蛋河）and I got myself Fresh Water Prawn Fish Head Noodle（生虾鱼头米粉）that costs me RM16.90.





Although the Cantonese Style Kuey Teow with Beef doesn’t look attractive in the picture, it has its flavour, but but but… it’s kinda salty though. So, the next time if you’re ordering, you may request for less salt and/or oil.

As for my Fresh Water Prawn Fish Head Noodle, there are a medium-sized water prawn and 2 pieces of fish fillets - since I requested for no fish head. It came with some vegetables too! Satisfied but it can be improved.

Our total bill, I think cost us about RM36++. Overall, I would say the food is acceptable, not superb but definitely will consider for a return.

Attached some pictures for your viewing pleasure:

Waiting for my food patiently.



Seet too, waiting for his food.



Food still hasn't arrive, emo!



Food finally arrived, Man (Boy) in Blue preparing to eat.



Greedily eating.



Then emo, refused to eat.



Final result.



One more picture before I'm off for the day:

Girl in slurpee.



Muahahaha! Good night, everyone!

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V-Day at Garden Lifestyle Store and Café

Seet and I spotted this lifestyle store and café – Garden at 1-Utama during our CNY shopping spree. In fact, we noticed them quite a while ago. They’re now offering a Cupid & Prosperity of Wealth Valentine Set Dinner Menu, exclusive for 50 couples only.

The café has been operating for quite some time now. However, I don’t have the chance to try it out yet. I love the place very much simply because they picked white as the theme, with a vast array greens and beautiful flowers as decoration. Very much like the garden wedding that I always dream of.

Unfortunately, the valentine set dinner is not as budgeted. Therefore, I shall go there another day for ala-carte menu – since I’m on a diet plan currently by not eating.





Price: RM399.90 per couple
Dress code: Elegant

Welcome drink Fuzion Passion

Appetizer Triple Goddess of Love
Trio platter of asparagus with salsa, dumpling on wolf berry sauce & smoked salmon roll with caviar

Soup Braised Shredded Claim with Sea Moss
Shredded pacific clam braised with sea moss, turkey ham in coconut

Main course

(for Her)

Golden Baby Lobster on Mushroom Risotto
Creamy oat milk sauce coated on baby lobster serve on mushroom risotto

with

Duck Confit on Polenta Cake
Duck leg cooked to tender on polenta cake with sauté sweet peas

(for Him)

Wagyu Steak with Sundried Tomato
Marinated wagyu sirloin steak with sundried tomato serve on crispy kai lan

with

Sze Chuan Shell Fish in Taro Treasure Cup
Shell fish cooked in slightly spicy Sze Chuan sauce in taro cup with alfalfa

Dessert New Age Bread & Butter Pudding
Bread and butter pudding layered with apples and topped with cinnamon powder served with poached pear in red wine, kiwi sauce

For reservation, call:
03-7728 6441 (1-Utama)
03-7724 2469 (the Curve)
Mondays to Sundays, 11a.m. to 11p.m.

Does it look attractive to you?

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2010 CNY Shopping Spree

There goes another year; CNY is just around the corner. So, Seet and I decided to spend a whole day yesterday to do some CNY shopping at 1-Utama.

We arrived as early as 11-ish, because we reckoned that parking will be stupidly jammed at lunch hour. Lucky enough, no jam and managed to find a nice parking spot.

This is the CNY decoration at 1-Utama, 发财猫。The发财猫is spotted everywhere in the mall.





Our first stop, of course, to hunt for food - Breakfasttttt!

Hence, we decided to go Penang Flavours for some light food. Since I’m on a diet plan now, I had only two hardboiled eggs. Looks disgusting but yummy.



Me waiting for my eggs.



Seet waiting for his breakfast to be served.



Our CNY shopping spree starts up next! Opps, but before that, Seet wants to go to the optical shop to collect his new pairs of glasses (Yes! Pairs, 2 pairs to be exact).

First stop - Pull & Bear. Seet has an idea on what he’s getting for himself, so he was done with selecting pretty quickly. I was browsing around the shop hoping that there will be something that I’m eyeing on. Unfortunately…

I sighed. “Well, it’s ok”, I thought myself.

“There are plenty more shops in 1-Utama.”

To continue shopping, we went to WH, Roxy, Forever 21, Cotton On, Zara, Nichii, some independent boutiques and higher end boutiques. And honestly, I’m quite disappointed, telling myself, in fact to Seet too, “How come I can’t find myself anything?”

Just when I was extremely moody and emotional, I spotted Kitschen. Walked in, picked a few clothes and tried them.

“Whuaaa!”

The queue at the fitting room was super long! Practically, I’m that kind of girl that loves buying without trying, equals to less hassle. But, since I’ve gained so much weight recently, I do not want to take the cannot-fit-in risk.

Picked only 2 out of I-don’t-know-how-many clothes. Not sure if I’m gonna be wearing them for CNY but somehow satisfied because I bought something, FINALLY (Yeahhh!!!!)!

Afterwards, I went to get some CNY cookies for my family. There are a lot of varieties. However, I would say that there are rather pricey though.

As we planned to spend our whole day at 1-Utama, of course, we will not forget to catch a movie. We went for movies instead - The Legion and Tiger WooHoo. I must say Tiger WooHoo is a must watch movie because it is seriously good quality for a local production (Thanks boss for the free movie tickets). *Thumbs up!*



Before movies, I suggested to Seet if we could dinner at Dragon-I. Seet agreed and there we went.

Seet and his 四川酸辣但但面。I'm loving this because it is sour and spicy, very appetizing.



Oh, not forgetting his new pair of specs. What do you think ya?

Me and my 菜肉云吞汤.



I don’t really fancy this dish because the soup tasted like double boiled chicken herbal soup. FYI, I hate Chinese herbs. A close-up of the 云吞汤:



Our appetizer, some chicken shredded salad in Chinese style. Very fresh cucumber!



While dinning at Dragon-I, Seet and I discovered a super annoying guy sitting at the table beside us. We both reckoned that we feel like smacking him because of his LYY look. FYI, LYY means 烂有型 or pretentious.

That was how basically we spent our day, paktor-ing and shopping. Enjoyable! Minus the stupid mall with stupid management! They pulled down their gates, blocked our access to the link bridge that connects old wing and new wing. Make us walked all the way from old wing after movie at about 11p.m., crossed at the main road to new wing just to get our car.

But anyway, mission accomplished! These are my achievements for the day.

CNY cookies,



And my new clothes.



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Home.Work.Meeting.Work.Home.

This is virtually my weekdays’ routine (minus meeting).

Went for a client meeting today, for a proposal presentation that the team and I have been doing since 2 weeks ago – first of my-own-effort proposal with lots of assistance. It went well with positive and negative feedbacks, of course. Not so much to be categorized as a “crisis” yet, still manageable. Phewww…

Upcoming, another proposal presentation on Tuesday *god bless*.

Several things happened this evening:

1. I was “ordered” to back up my documents when I was at a rush to get my work done, leads to frustration. We’re finally, officially swapping from a local network to FH global network, which means time entry. No good!

2. Jess’ panic button was switched on simply for I-don’t-know-how-to-back-up-files. (Across the office) SEET!!!!

3. Pizza for dinner while watching Zombieland in the conference room – syok but movie is quite boring though.

4. Seet and his zombie vs. plant.

5. A not-very-short-phone-call with Ms. Singapore.

We also had a birthday celebration for January birthday babies – to Faz and Bonz, happy belated birthday! Bonz, unfortunately, is on medical leave. But she gets the cake as well.

Attached pictures for your viewing pleasure (Part of the office members):





Faz: Jess, make sure you caption the photo - from left to right ya. Make follow-up calls and ensure the media receive it, so that we can get the news coverage tomorrow.

Jess: Okay, Faz!

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告别2009，欢迎2010

刚过了阳历新年，农历新年转眼间又到了。回头看看自己，好像没有什么成就乜。也不是没有啦，去年的我。。

六月
• 找到了暂时最爱我的人。

七月
• 升级上了当account executive。

八月
• 买了我人生第一辆车。

九月
• 去了香港与澳门。
• 正式大学毕业。

十二月
• 开始我人生N年后的再度运动。

一月
• 收到人生第一次的bonus。偷偷的告诉你吧， 价钱还不赖哦！
• 人生第一次的proposal +presentation 。虽然这好像有种被人器重的感觉，但是这可是不好玩的哦，不要还以为我爽爽滴！我好怕，怕怕哟。因为我根本就没有预料到，就要怕到“ki siao ”了啦！！！！！！希望一切可是顺顺利利的过关啦，不然我九条命都不够死！

To conclude我农历零九年 , 我唯一需要纠正的问题就是 – Jess' 财政预算案！

跨入农历2010年的第七天，我们就要去曼谷旅行了！还真的有点迫不及待呢。。



哦哦，乘我还记得时。。要谢谢Zoe姐姐帮我取了我blog的名字 – 好“卡外以”噢。喜欢！

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忙了一整天。。

终于完成了我的hard work！*开香槟，放烟花庆祝*
Jeng, jeng, jeng... 知道啦 ，没你们的那么美/pro，可是也算是我的baybee嘛！

为什么叫rudolph？很好的一道问题。那就要谢谢他咯！是一位很好，很好，很好的朋友帮我取的。故事发生于2009年的某天某夜，那天的我鼻子生豆豆了（好丑哦！伤心死了。），然后又弄到“昂昂”的。圣诞节刚巧又快到，所以这位有心人就帮我取了个“花名”-- rudolph。应该就是圣诞里的一只“昂昂” 鼻子的鹿吧？

歌仔都有得唱啦：

Rudolph, the red-nosed reindeer
had a very shiny nose.
And if you ever saw him,
you would even say it glows.

All of the other reindeer
used to laugh and call him names.
They never let poor Rudolph
join in any reindeer games.

Then one foggy Christmas Eve
Santa came to say:
"Rudolph with your nose so bright,
won't you guide my sleigh tonight?"

Then all the reindeer loved him
as they shouted out with glee,
Rudolph the red-nosed reindeer,
you'll go down in history!

被称为rudolph也没有什么不好啦，因为rudolph其实是很可爱的。哈哈！好笑的是，我从来就不懂rudolph是长什么样的，直到。。 5分钟之前我好奇心起，google了来看看：



没错吧，rudolph是很可爱的。。

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