Glad to be here

We went out for dinner in a Japanese restaurant with 15 minutes taxi ride away - “Zhong Shen Ming Cai”. It is situated on the 5th floor of “Hai An Cheng” which is a major shopping mall selling all the branded goods.

The restaurant setting is beautiful with a huge chandelier on the entrance stairway. It uses lots of crystals and red embellishment, string together with transparent nylon. There were some “cubicle” sort of room but they are in round shape. Then there were this huge tree at the end of the restaurant with lights which changes color from blue, green to red.

We’ve order one noodle soup, one fried rice, one fried squid, one sushi platter, one slice of code fish and it cost us RMB311. I like the noodle and the fried rice. I saw the next table were enjoying their steam boat or hot pot.

Me and Mer

Behind us is the tree full of light bulbs that changes color, it feels like winter when it is blue and autumn when it is red.

Mer were busy digging his fried rice which turn out that he doesn’t really like it. Not even the cod fish!

So the two boys actually didn’t eat much during dinner, so me and hubby had to eat all the food. I went home with a really full stomach last night.

Hubby and Cal

Here, hubby is looking so serious, probably worrying on how to finish off the food later.

When came paying time, then only hubby realized that he forgot to bring his credit card with him, fortunately he got enough cash to pay for the food and still got some left to buy some groceries later. We were than being given some receipts which the government is having some lucky draw to be given away. Unfortunately we didn’t get any price, probably there is only a small percentage with the lucky number anyway.

receipt with lucky draw

After that we went for a walk in the mall and checked the photo printer, the slim Macbook, at the mean time, the boy enjoyed some snapshots of Wall-E on one of the flat screen. Got the boys some tracks for Thomas & Friends from Jusco.To This I think hubby and I are more excited in seeing those tracks rather than our boys. This is more like catching up with things that we couldn’t enjoy while we were kids. Basically Thomas & Friends tracks are for adults to enjoy with those assembling to do. I bet the boys will just love it while it is still “hot”, later they’ll forget all about it till we buy another new track.

Thomas & friends' tracks

After that was groceries time, but it was getting late and we don’t want to miss out 9:30 Chinese series, so me and the boys had some drinks while hubby went off to buy some groceries. The boy had fun or rather arguing over the drinks that they are suppose to share.

Mer and Cal sharing one drink

That’s about it for our night out with the boys for our dinner, if anyone is interesting in loosing weight, do check out this product call Alli which has recently been approved by FDA to sell over the counter, it is a weight-loss drug.

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This will be a photo blog post from the day we depart from KKIA.

The new KKIA, look like little KLIA huh!?:

The boys checking things out in one of the shop:

Those below were taken in HKIA with the Olympic Mascot which derived their names from “Beijing Huan Ying Nie” = Beijng Welcome You.

This is Ni-Ni, the only one that I know its name *grin*:

Can’t imagine how those people inside the costume felt, must be very hot inside but probably with very good pay.

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There are things that happen everyday over here and I’m really fed up with them, one is the boys are still fighting with each other and another one is Mer kept on asking me to read the same book over and over again! As for Cal, he always have this new idea of doing things and explore almost everything in the house, including moving the refill bottle of water which suppose to be very heavy for him!

The other thing that I don’t quite enjoy is cooking. Well, I love food, but I just don’t know to enjoy it now when I’m not familiar with the ingredients over here and where to find them. Another thing is I’m lacking of utensil over here. Oh well, probably this is a good way in loosing weight, since I’m occupied with the boys which I have to keep an eye on them every minute. As for food, mom’s cooking is still the best and I eat more at home, so I don’t think I need diet pills over here to loose weight at all!

I miss home and yet love to be here with my hubby .. 0_o

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I’m officially entering mainland China yesterday with my family. I got a 2 times VISA till November, so maybe I’m going to come back again before November, else will just let it be.

We travel from my sister’s place taking the train then bus over to the custom immigration station entering mainland China, then just walked past the immigration with our passports and took a taxi here. Fortunately there wasn’t a lot of people during noon time. So getting through the immigration was a bliss. The officer even mistaken Mer as Cal *LOL* cos we past up the wrong form for him and he didn’t even ask if that is little Mer or Cal.

We went to Ajisen to have our early dinner at 6pm. It is a must go place for me. I just love their pork ribs soup that is creamy and tasty. Can’t find it in Malaysia. The one in Malaysia is a halal shop, so no pork ribs soup is allow. Half way waiting, we got a sleepy head telling us that he is sleepy, so me and hubby was makign some noice ‘cos we have been telling them to get some sleep before we all went out. However, no matter how we want him to stay awake, he falled asleep in less than 2 minutes! All the way till we got home, then only little Mer woke up.

Yesterday was the closing ceremony of the Olympic game. It wasn’t as grand as the opening ceremony but I can see that all the athelete are carefree now that they’ve done with their race. Well, in another 4 years time, the whole world is going to meet again in London, till then I hope I have the chance to visit London again.

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This was the first time I used the fully open new Kota KInabalu International Airport. It is kind of like a mini KLIA. All facilities are new but the check-in counter number only shown on the TV screen on top of the counter. Toilet is still clean but definitely wet, which I hate! Unlike Hong Kong International Airport, I always see cleaning ladies in the toilet, wiping the floor dry and refilling tissue, even the wash basin also dry! I really salute them.

We had a bumpy ride and has been warned that there might have strong wind in Hong Kong in the afternoon. Thanks to my sinus medicine and pump, I had no headache at all, thus I had a smooth ride on board.

The boys were being goodie-goodie this time, didn’t walk around the aisle, finished off their food, especially little Mer. He finished his fish with potatoes and carrot till his pack is shinning clean!

After that was nap time for all. The plane wasn’t totally full, thus there are still some empty seats that I can let Mer all stretch out when he sleep. So I’ve found him two empty seats to lay him down, without know that I’ve actually did something against the safety rule on board. No on say anything during the nap time, not even the stewardess who passed by Mer several times. When we almost landing, then only the stewardess told me children are not allow to sit there, but he was sleeping! *Grin* So I had to move him back and let him laid beside me, at that point, Cal has already woke up.

Initially I was worried that there will be Typhoon signal 3 in Hong Kong, thank God that we have clear sky with no wind and rain when we touched down. It is hot though.

Last night we had been warned that there might have even stronger wind today and the authority has given out signal 8 warning from 5am this morning. According to the weather broadcast, Typhoon Nuri is visiting Hong Kong or maybe passing by, but it will definitely hit Hong Kong. No shop will be open when signal 8 is up, street should be clear of people and all flights are being cancelled for today.

Hubby is already up to Shenzhen. Don’t think he would be able to come here again tonight with Typhoon Nuri still around.

If anyone would like to do any purchase at the moment, it will just only be online purchasing activity, and maybe authorize.net could come into help. *wink*

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Ya.. tomorrow will be it. I might not be able to load any photo here starting tomorrow till end of the month. Hubby said his notebook got virus and it is not advisable to connect my digicam there. *sign*

I’ll be missing all my scrapbooking and craft. I’ve just read a book about making bags, buoy they are so beautiful and I thought to myself, “hey, I could make some of these…” But then it will just have to be when I’m back here, then only I can start looking for the suitable clothes, or maybe I can start looking while I am over in China, will see.

Like usual, I still haven’t pack. I’ve started, but not fully pack yet. The luggage is fill with stuff like milk formula for the kids, hubby spirulina cereal, some clothes and that’s it. There are still lots to put in, like my must 3-step facial care, my toothbrush, sensodym toothpaste and maybe a scrapbook magazine to cure my boredom.

Adios.. oh well.. not really.. I’m sure I’ll still be online even tomorrow *Grin*.

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“You know what? I thought I saw you the other night in a pub!”

I do believe that I have 6 other almost the same faces around the globe, be it in different age, place or time. But it was a surprise for me when my colleague told me this years ago. He even said that he almost approach “me”!

I’ve also got friends telling me that I look like certain people, some from Chinese TV series!
To me, if a total stranger came up to me and said “You look exactly like my friend.” I will just look at him and smirk, then turn around and probably go to my friends, if that is a guy. If that is a woman, I may answer and start talking to her. But to use that as a pick up line, I would think that it is very lame.

Still later on, I would start thinking if that is something to do with my hair style. I may start to think that I’ll change my hairstyle to victory Hair
There is actually an online site that offer you to Extreme Style by VO5.

This thing doesn’t happen now a days. No one come up to me and chat me up or start with any pick-up line that I can remember, probably to have some fun, I’ll play that Ultimate Flirting Championship later.

But do I really look like someone else? Most of the time, those Chinese TV series player doesn’t a bit look like me! They are more glamorous or sassy. I’m just one simple mom to two boys. I start to think I don’t need to change my hair style just because someone told me I look like someone else. I would change if I feel it would suits me better.

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All of us (me and two sons) will be going off to visit hubby again this Thursday. Yippy yay! Well, and also, “oh no!” because I’ll surely be having headache when taking off and landing. I don’t like that feeling, it is like my head is going to explode anytime. I just hope that the boys will be fine and they’ll stay put in their seat, take their mean onboard and stay quiet along the journey. Little Mer has been very loud lately. When we were over to my in-law’s place, our house is the noisiet! The whole village can hear us!

Mer is the little one, and yet he got the loudest voice. He’ll be grumpy if things that he wants cannot be met, or his big brother is bullying him. I just wish that he can talk softer or just be quiet abit. I don’t remember that he was that loud when he was a baby. He just love being in his cradle that my mom love to put him inside. He used to sleep in there. I actually love to watch him sleep, so peaceful.

I do have crib bedding for him while he slept there at night and he loves to look at those animal prints. I’m still using the crib bedding now a day to prevent him from bumping his head on the bed side.

Well, traveling time is near and I got to prepare things for the boys, their clothes, milk, and overall preparing them for travel. As for China VISA, we can stay up to 15 days when we go in. That is still alright for us as we won’t stay that long. Hoping to do some shopping this time especially getting some clothes for the boys, they have out grown their pants!

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A really crazy weekend for me. I tried to finished off two ruffle skirts! And I did!

I saw this nice ruffle skirt pattern online that I can copy and do a bit of sewing using this old Singer sewing machine that I borrowed from my sister. It is old, but still functioning pretty well. It is being converted into electrical sewing machine by my clever uncle.

First one I did was the exact pattern or size from online. I thought to myself I can make this for my niece, but it turns out that it is too small for her, it can only fit maybe 3 to 4 year old little girl. Luckily I’ve bought some other pattern cotton clothes with 10% from Home & Garden as they are having this closing down sale. They are still expensive though. I didn’t know cotton clothes can be this expensive, the price range from RM32 - RM47 per metre! Never the less, I still bought extra, just love the simple pattern. So I’ve made another 2nd ruffle skirt and this time is really for my niece and I make sure that it fits her. *Grin*

This is the first ruffle skirt I made with lots of err.. mistakes .. and I’m not so good in sewing .. so it is not perfect.

This one is for my niece but discovered that the 2nd tier is just too long, so I’ve altered it and let the white colour pattern stays on top. So it becomes:

So this is the final product. By the time I’m done with it, my sis and family were all gone home, so no chance to let my niece bring it back last night. Oh well, she can always have it when they come to visit again on Sunday.

Mom actually teasing me that I’m making skirt for my unborn daughter like she is going to arrive today *LOL* Once I got started with it, I just couldn’t stop. I just had to finished it and show it to my sister *Grin*.

So there, my not so first project of sewing, ‘cos I’ve done an apron before, even that also with old machine and lousy sewing skill. I’m still thinking if I should get an Epal sewing machine which comes with free classes for a year!

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This post suppose to be out before “5 years ago”. But it has been in my draft folder all the while, so here goes..

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Big Aunt: “What did you do with your hair!?”

Cal: … (with a big grin and mischievious look on his face)

That’s what happened if I let my scissors laying around in the scraproom and that’s what happened if you’ve got a son who do things with guts! He cut his own hair! One big bunch infront. So now there is this one big “hole” on his forehead with really short hair!

Later he explained how he had cut his hair, he was even so proud of it when the teacher asked him this morning. We were teasing him and ask him to cut his own hair without needing to go to the salon, I bet he’ll do it without hesitation if we encouragement him.. adui..

We had a really simple birthday celebration for Cal, black forest cake with candles, that’s it. The cake doesn’t even tasted nice to my taste bud. Will not order the same one again fron ConsFood. But he had fun! The boys love it! I suppose anything with candles on will amazed them.


Did you notice the “white” area in front of his head? Yup, those big bunch!! The scar of his forehead is from a fall on Sunday when we all have tried to stop him from playing on the road down the hill, sentences haven’t finished and yet it happened (This is really Chinese way of saying). The teddy bear is from his grandma (My MIL) and the air-plane is from his teacher, not bad huh.. got gift from teacher some more *grin*  As for mommy and daddy’s gift is actually a bicycle for him from his effort in saving some money for being good boy in finishing his homework and sleep early. I can only get the bike on Saturday, he surely going to love it.

As for my sister who are flying back to Hong Kong today, they all are being strainded in the airport now for Hong Kong is having a bad weather with Signal 8! Typhoon!! But they’ve all checked-in and just have to wait for a clear weather.

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Good to know that they have already safely return to Hong Kong with the mid-night flight on that day and they have been given a free stay in Beverly Hotel while waiting for their flight. It means more shopping for them, but I guess shopping here cannot be compare to Hong Kong.

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