Farewell steamboat - episode 1

Saturday night,
Steamboat at adele. Adele, Tat Chi, Christine, raphael and me...The food and company was marvelous especially entertaining Lttle Miss Drama Queen, Renee. She is adorable...

I like take more than six bowl of soups .. which is more than what is allowed under the diet plan. No soup, tomyam is the biggest enemy. But at the end of the day. I'm happy eating....

No picture to show..
but here a picture of little renee taken at my office

Farewell lunch - GO

Third farewell lunch,
Venue Pinang room. 8 people. Menu, Chicken in kunyit sauce, chicken with abalone mushroom, teriyaki fish, mixe vegies and tom yam. Not bad. Kenyang..

Later this afternoon got steamboat at adele's. Tommorow lunch, steamboat at parkroyal. Now I got to complaint that too much food but too little time.
Hopefully planned to go to the View for the last time will materialised, I will eat at least a dozen oysters hehehe baru worth the buffet price paid la.

SOBA - farewell

Second farewell lunch, 19 people. Held at Boon Seng, Batu Maung. Menu was siakap steam teochew style, risply fried mantis prawn,sotong indian style (too much curry [powder), clam in special sauces, fried chicken with chilli sauce, seafood claypot,some sayur and fruits... the bill come to RM150 per table. The food was awesome compared to the eight course chinese dinner kat equatorial time siti norhaliza dinner show tu..

Oh got some picture

Signage at BOON SENG


Food




sotong curried style, mantis prawn and seafood claypot



First salted nuts i've ever tasted after two months of no junk food diet..

mantis prawn


seafood claypot

OG - Orange Giraffe

Amit was hospitalised for four days. Suspected dengue or malaria. Kucmon asked me to buy 100 plus, penat aku bawak two 1.5liter bottles, berat and then he cannot take it as gastrik problemm.. Tensi.

Doctor said liver inflamation. I blamed all the supplements he likes to take..

Anyway the next day Milah and family from KL came. I brought OG to accompany him.. Well don't know if its a giraffe or a horse. Get another one for myself.

Picture of OG and a bit of Amit ...


So when I'm back in KL, both of us can see OG and remember all the happy times together...


Planned to go to SP next Monday, then can go to GURUN to say bye to his mom.

Farewell lunch - USM

First farewell lunch was held at the rumah tetamu, USM.
Lunch comprises of kari siakap, telur dadar, sayur campur, sup bayam, daging merah, and ulam-ulaman. Hosted by Che Wang, Auntie and Intang.

14 guests, unfortunately I had to rush back for the extra class at two thirty. Food was awesome and more farewell will be given, until i am finally off from this island. Kesian diet ku.... hancus.

Growing Pains - The Teenagers Sitter

Well its the time of the year again... Got to babysit the two kids err now they are teenagers shall we call it teenagers sitting... whatever! This time, thanks goodness only for six days. But sending one kid to school in the wee hour is not good for one health.. aiyo I am so sleepy by ten am.

Kids have monster appetite, last night, they had sotong kangkong, kebab and I bought them 1/4 chicken roast each, and they finished everything in one sitting.. BUT they are as slim as stick.. Some people have all the luck.. but cannot say also la, Adik used to be so skinny we call her LIDI, PAPAN.. and many more and see how Thick she has become since the day of lidi.. Ok back to the original story . the kids Today the kids want SUSHI, and they can really eat ...

Funny to see how weird (hahaha) their taste in guys .. I couldn't believe when they described one of the guy as macho.. oh come on, the guy is far from macho (not only by my definition but I am sure the rest of us adult woman... ) I thought to myself, did our taste in man were that weird when we were young..

Once I'm back in KL will try to search for my old school photos and see if my taste in boys are as teruk as these girls taste hehehee Pray hard, its not...

Anyway I will have good reminder as for the next few days whenever we all go out, I'll be hearing a lot of these remarks, cute .. macho .. hensem guys.. And the kids are quite pretty and welcomed attentions from guys.. so I have a handfull to do watching the kids from straying.. Sleep at ten thirty, no calls after ten, no boys, no driving etc.....

Signing off, a dedicated teenagers' minder

GERAM! GERAM! GERAM!! IMMIGRESEN

I am so geram and panas hati of my own "Stupidity", "ignorance" of the whole process renewing one's passport... Passport Malaysia Antarabangsa (PMA) of mine gonna expired in March 22nd. And heck you will not be able to travel if your passport has less than six months to expired. So clever of me .. now that I am a bit free.. why don't I renew it ... Bad mistake..... I renew on the 4th of August, and didn't noticed until today.. That they treat my renewal as new application..i.e. starting date of 5 years is from the date i apply.. I want clarification.. but as Saturday the lazy bums are on holidays... (come on u have to agree with me on this.... imagine banks or companies having the systems of issuing numbers become u can be served.. and they attitudes sucks man!! I can go on and on due to this panas hati!!) i cannot call them to ask ..

One.. panas hati, I thought they will not replaced the old PMA, just renew it just like before.. they required photo, being on impulse, i took the instant photo, sumpah! it look like a mugshot of a gila woman ... I thought, lantakla, they are not going to use that picture.. HOW WRONG I AM..... new PMA, and new mugshot... SAKIT SAKIT HATI KU>......

Two .. money wasted on the passport renewal.. the portion lapsed without being used.. How come? Ok the story ..I noticed that my new PMA expiry date is on 4th August 2011... heck.. shouldn't they renew it the way we renew licence when they should take into account the unexpired portion of my passport... Asked my colleague and they said, this has always been the way.. BODOH OR NOT . they are cheating on us..

If this mathematic is correct..

First passport nearly five yeara ago.. cost us $300 - this exclude the copy writer fees $5 ke or more (Amit insist on having the old chap completed the form for us then when we perfectly able to write ourself.. of course he is short sighted laaa!!), divide that by 5 years, so about $60 per year... hmm half year cannot use.. so that is $30 wasted... (a full tank of gas my my kancil - kalau ikut harga tahun 2000 la hahaha)

SEcond time - 2 days ago - cost $300 - includes the first passport six months of uselessness so that is $30 wasted again kan . ok double counting not count.., still wasted la.. what about the last six months of the second PMA life waster another $30. And me stupidly renew it when my PMA still has 8 months life.. rugila dua bulan lagi ten ringgit...

So if this is correct I lost from $600 paid, $60 from the less than six months cannot use.. plus $10 because I renew it earlier.. total $70 .. heck it is a lot more than 10% rugi...... who untung.. the government laaaaaaaaa .. sapa rugi? aku laaaaaaaaaaaaaaa SAKIT SAKIT.....

HMM has people ever complaint about this unfair practice ?.. where are all the lawyers?? fight for we the humble and helpless citizens .... BENCI BENCI....

Rambling Roses signing off