20.01.2009

God has His own way to make me smile and happy. and some other reasons that make my stomach full of butterflies!
He knows that His creations around me, can cheer me up! =)

the view of Gunung Kinabalu on my way to work..sempat lagi, snap gambar..

My cactus is healthy and having babies..

19.01.2009

my weekdays passed by as usual. Morning: rush to work, evening: come back from work and force myself to do some exercise, night: go for tuition class and after that, do some surfing on the net. and i'm done with my 24-hours-day.

my days during the weekends were great. i went out with ah meng on saturday morning, hoping to get some new clothes for Chinese new year. however, we dont even get to buy one. hmmphh..


then, i went to Church with Bunie and Clare, in the evening. luckily, we managed to join the Novena. ;D After Mass, we went to Fish & Co. for our dinner and had our girls' talk. haha. we talked toooo much until Clare got sore- throat.

fish&chips. one set for each of us.

Can you imagine how long we girls can talk? ;p we've not been seeing clare for almost 4 months (if i'm not mistaken la), that's why we need time to catch up with each other..

on Sunday morning, i tried to make some tarts, referring to a recipe book, which i got on Saturday. it was my first time.

the crust, before going in to the oven

previously, i will always get tarts from Joyce, whenever she baked (how bahagia i was in those days, hehe). She was my supplier for tarts and you must know, her tarts are EXCELLENT! but now, she had moved to Beijing and i have to make my own if i want to eat one. huhu~. ok, back to the tarts i made, they turn out not as expected, because the crust were over-baked. and they looked like chocolate-flavoured crust, where they are actually vanilla crust. Somehow, the taste was not too bad. C advised me, that i have to focus and must do it with open-hearted. Ben gave me 3 marks out of 10..that's only 30%?! if in exams, i've already failed. the reason is, because my filling is desiccated coconut (that's the easiest for a beginner) and he dont like coconut. dont u think, he's bias?? but, will still take his comments for improvement. for people who are not bias, like mom and kakak, they gave me 8 marks out of 10, each. so, in average, i got 63.33%, which is B-, and which is not too bad for a new baker, like me.. anyhow, i believe there's so much i can improve on.. =) and, surely, i will..

L-R: 1st batch and 2nd batch, next to each other. can u see the difference?

then, at night, i tried again to make another batch of tarts without repeating the same mistakes i did earlier on. people say, never say die before you try. so, i must try again =) and ta--daa~. i'm happy with the outcome. of course the 2nd batch are much better than the first one.

15.01.2009

Lord God,
i pray for wisdom to manage the things that are under my responsibilities and live the life that you want me to. I surrender everything unto your hands to guide me through, Lord. May i make use of my life to the fullest that will glorify Your name.
Amen.

12.01.2009

i just got call from bunie at around 12:45pm. She was so happy that i don’t understand what she’s trying to say, until that she has to repeat it for three times. SHE DID IT! She passed her first assessment for her PTD post. i am happy for her, that she has got what she dreamt for. And, every time i got news such as this, i’ll be sad and reflect on what i have in my life. Honestly, i’m happy with what i’m doing now. There are lots to learn and i can see opportunities in front of me. i am happy for i am not suffering with the job i’m doing. But, i’ll be happier if i get to do the job that I want. Somehow, if you ask me, what is my dream job? i don’t think i can give you the exact answer.

The same things happen previously, when bunie told me, nancy has got offer from Air Asia to be part of them. a few days before, while we were SMSing with each other, we did discussed about what are we doing for living. She did tell me about her dream jobs. and one of them is to be stewardess. i told her about mine too, and we promised to pray for each other. now that she has got it, she must be very glad. i thank God for listening to our prayers.

What do i really want in life? Recently, dad is into something which requires one of us to handle. this makes me think, if i should leave what i'm doing now, to help him? i dont know. somehow, eventually decision has to be made. and it's just a matter of time..

Bunie, you sounds extremely happy on the phone just now, and i feel bad that i don’t sound as happy as you did. but, deep down in me, again, i thank God for answering our prayers. and, surely i'll continue to pray for you for all the coming assesments. =) u know me, kan.. hehe.

09.01.2009

time has been passing by, very fast..it's already Friday, and myself keep on thinking that it's still Wednesday...looks like i haven't do enough work for the week. well, not enough work doesn't mean, i don't do my work.
on Tuesday, i've got meeting with boss and then prepare some quotation for chemical analysis which took quite a lot of my time, because i'm still learning. then, on Thursday, i got Lina Chan, our microbiologist from Subang, came in and discussed on some issues especially the SRB media for Petronas project, which i found out there's something wrong with their reports (even thinking about that now, gives me headache!). and, today, we had trainer from Kuching to train us on the AAS machine, and i am still 85% blur! *i have to do more reading on that*

lots of things happened in the office. azman left on monday, lenin will be leaving soon, we got news from the management that this year, there will be no salary increment, because of the current economic crisis, and today, marrion is leaving Chemsain. she got an offer from the government, and she'll be leaving to KL next week. so, we had a small farewell gathering for her this evening, in the lab.

me and iyon

last Christmas, when i baked some Christmas cakes (which i added some rum in) for my colleagues, she intercomed me asking me to bake her another one, without rum because she cannot consumed any type of alcohol. but, i cant because i ran out of mixed fruits and also i was lazy to bake already, at that time. but, since today is her last day in the office, i offered myself to bake her any cake she would like to have. she requested chocolate cake which i never bake before. i have never bake chocolate cake because dad don't like it (that's why i was extremely happy when Bunie gave me two gigantic chocolate cake for Christmas! hehe). so, yesterday was officially my first chocolate cake. and luckily it came out okay. acceptable. presentable. and most important, marrion likes them! =)

the friendship that built in these very short time, i appreciate it very much. i pray that God will lead her in everything she does. and hope that she will be a successful engineer! all the best to you, marrion.

05.01.2009

it's already the 5th day of the first month of the year. i'm sure this year, time will pass by very fast too. somehow, i know it depends on myself to make it a good year or a bad year.

i've been in holiday mood since Christmas, which was 11 days ago. and now, everything has to get back to their place. i'll be busy again with my tuition classes (i must study hard too for the sake of my students, they will be sitting for PMR and SPM), daily job (no more lazy-ing around and must be serious) but not forgetting, to have fun! =)

for the past four days of January, i can say, i've done quite a lot and eat a lot. i'm gonna share with all of you. =)

1. i went to a place where my hair was transformed! ;p i've been planning to change my hairstyle because it has been the same style since my school time. only that the length is different. so, this year, i wanted something new. the one i have is totally different from what i wanted. but, i'm still satisfied with it. furthermore, it's not as expensive as doing rebounding treatment. i think i look chubbier and i look older.


2. we went to tanjung aru. the initial plan was actually to jog, and burn some calories. but we ended up walking and enjoy the breeze, because we think it's weird to jog by the beach. somehow, it was nice! and, we did some cam-whoring. ;p there were lots of people it the 3rd beach, so we decided to go to the second beach and walk towards third beach.

ben, roddy and me

our aim to walk until we see the kayu bakau, near the Tanjung Aru Hotel. we had walked almost 3 km (if i'm not mistaken).


along the way, there were lots of things to see. we got a few dead fish, jellyfish, little crabs, etc.

this is the dead crab, on the kayu bakau. they have their own ecosystem under the kayu bakau.


there are a few different fish living together. that day was low-tide. i think when it's high tide, they will be brought back to the sea.

we were at the playground which we used to go

half way on the way back to car, we stopped by at the stalls to get some drink and guava. i think we add more calories than the amount that we burnt. *sigh*
then, we went to the Prince Phillip Park. it's a place for family outing, where in the evening, you can see lots of children running around and couples walking romantically (erk, how do you walk romantically?) Mom and Dad used to bring us to the park when we were young..more or less 18 years ago. it was long time ago.. and i think it has change a lot. they have more flowers now.

3. i managed to make my own pizza, which i have been postponing since last year. i actually wanted to make it before chia ling flies back to KL, but due to my busy-ness and also a bit of lazy-ness, i am only able to make it last saturday. but, i promised chia ling to make one for her when she comes.


according to a random pizza lover, which is ben (i'm not sure if his statement is reliable), to know if it's a good pizza, you have to see it's crust. it was my first time, and i was worried, just in case the crust turns out not edible. but luckily, everything was fine.

the dough

i made two because the dough was too much. so, i divided it into two. one was chicken pepperoni and the other one was combo pizza- tuna mayo and chicken papperoni. now i know how easy domino pizza do their combo pizza.

chicken pepperoni

mozarella cheese

the first pizza before going in to the oven

for the combo pizza

the combo pizza ready to be served

i could say it was an achievement. =) somehow, mom and roddy got bloated after eating the pizza. i guess it's because of the yeast..or maybe the cheese?

4. tuakoh came from weston and brought 5 kg of fresh prawns. and we had prawn feast on saturday night. i had too much until i got swollen lips..this was also because i was seated next to deche, and he can peel the prawns very fast! (and did it for me). so, i had the chance to eat more and faster. ;p

deche had the most shells

01.01.2009

may this year brings another;
new hope for those who despaired,
happiness for those who were unlucky,
joy for those who were down,
peace for those who were troubled,
and abundance for the insufficient.

may it be a fruitful year.

cheers to every one

A VERY HAPPY NEW YEAR 2009

(peter vella vineyards delicious red california table wine)