Archive for February, 2009

A call for celebration

Tuesday, February 24th, 2009


Papa’s Birthday

We went to Wine Arcade to celebrate and Uncle Jimmy cooked us prawn noodle, crabs, kong-bak… A good time to take family pic.

Vday

Couple of days later, brought the folks to Wine Arcade again to chill chill relac relac coz we didn’t go for the bowling competition coz ms thian lost her house keys (which was later found in my pouch)…

After all the anxiety, on hindsight we had great food and drinks and MUSIC. yeah… the night we became backup singers…

bésame mucho…

lalalalala bamba…

moon river… wider than a mile …

hotel california … ana…

PS: when in doubt, just mouth to the singer’s lip movement… or la la la… or *smilez

I enrolled myself in a six-course meal cooking class.

Even in cooking class, i was bullied. People took my eggplant, don’t wanna share measuring cups. When pushed to a corner… i roared… the smarter move was to take other people’s cooked food.
i claimed that the pot of pineapples confit was mine, then they gave me the stares …

Get2gather

It’s been such a long time i saw Ash; i always cite her as my prime example of designer-turned-photographer. She was the one colleague who would “tech-talk” with me first thing in the morning at work. She still remembered that i was the pirate queen with a drawer full of “friendly” softwares.

Michelle came to visit, rather, she came here for a shopping spree. Spent the nite away catching up with her and Eileen; how much we’ve grown… and i broke the news that Cec is getting married… yay!


After testing out my student’s game … another student says “cher… u look like monkey”…

“I have integrity”

A fella kept asking me “so you want me to redo?” at least 4 times … i actually told him i can’t pass him because i can’t close two eyes… coz I HAVE INTEGRITY.

Integrity!?!? … for a pirate queen !?!… i wanted to burst out laughing while trying to keep a straight face…

Spot the difference

Thursday, February 5th, 2009

Sigh! Papa cannot tell the difference.
“Ah pei, getting new car already? Soon? Wa… 2Litre, papa also can drive next time”.
We came back at the same time on the day I collected Subie/Xiaolan 2.0.
“papa, i’m driving mummy in my new car, wanna take a ride?”
“HAR? You gotten your car already? Looks the same.”
-_-

Even when he couldn’t tell the difference, Subie car plate number has won him some money in 4D. I also won some money… hee hee.

But i have been driving on the 2nd lane at 90km/hr, coz must break into this petrol-guzzling engine for the 1st month. Drivers overtake me and i would think to myself ,”just you wait…” Douglas even offered to make me camomile tea to calm me down on the night before i could zoooooommmmmm down the first lane… in the meantime…. just you wait…

CNY 2009

Kinda an OK new year, spent it eating mindlessly while playing Life with Shermaine.

Gambling has NEVER been part of my CNY or funeral tradition. So for the first time, I went on to do what 60% or more of the Chinese population do during CNY - majong, ban luck, you-name-it…

I didn’t quite enjoy it, my poker face - the stressed look.

Then David taught us to play in-between, it looked easy but that was the killer game which took Mike’s and my money away…

Must document this… 3 of us went for dinner, papa taught me how to travel from our house to katong using KPE. Actually i already knew.
Most importantly, i got to treat my parents to dinner … a rare chance in the Low family. 3 of us actually shopped at Katong Mall after dinner, he even showed us where his tailor is.

Tolong…

Jones emailed and asked if anyone wanted to adopt the kitten, *Idea* Ah bui could have a di di or mei mei.
We were shopping and i told my mom that i want to have another cat, she turned, look at me and said 1 word : tolong (lah) … case closed.

Her tolong is rather powerful. each time i said i wanted to pursue my phd, she would also say “tolong (lah)”.