Mothers Day & Catchup

Ahem ahem, i think it's a wee bit late, but anyhow Happy Belated Mother's day ^^ to all mothers out there.

Oh ya, don't think i didn't celebrate it, because i did, celebrated it with my Mom In Law and my Mom one day after the other :) Lots of food and feasting.

Anyhow, thinking back, i think i've had 3 long weekends adding this week to it would be 4, almost every Monday or Friday there would be something going on which i would have to take leave or it is a Public Holiday, this coming Monday is Wesak day, so i'm looking forward to it too, another looong weekend, and another few feasting as we're having another feast at home for my Maternal Granddad's birthday.

Hmm rants now, if you ever go to North Port Klang to eat, do not go to Bagan Hailam Restaurant, FOOD & Service SUX*

*Defination of SUX in this place, we had to take our own utensils, we had to find our own tea cups, the teapot came without the cups, we had to wash our own hammers to use on the crabs, we spent 2 hours there waiting and eating our food, and the food is wayyyy below average.

Why we went there was to bring my uncle who just came back from New Zealand around to have some nice meals. We were actually stopping by the 2nd restaurant there which is air-conditioned (the 1st one which we usually went to has closed down) but one of my uncles said that this stupid Bagan Hailam is better. According to my wife and my other uncle, they have been to the one which we originally wanted to go to, and the food was decent. Ah well, another time maybe.

Anyhow after that silly stupid 1 hour travel to Klang just for some lousy food and another 1 hour travel home, we were too pissed and tired to rant anymore. :P

Ok on my trip back to Melaka(Malacca) fun trip this time, no more stomach aches or food poisoning, maybe because already boycott Oldtown. Bwahahaha!! Went around town the second day, it was hot hot hot, so we went to air cond places, something which i could also get in KL hahaha. Somehow the people in Melaka prefer Tesco to Giant, i went to both on the same day as my Mom in law wanted to get something from Giant after we went to Tesco. And the crowd just wasn't there on a busy Saturday afternoon. Tesco on the other hand is overflowing with people.

We also went to no 81, Jalan Tokong to get the usual pineapple tarts, (YUMMY & Wonderful tarts) Bought back 4 boxes, gave my mom 2 boxes to distribute to my sis and uncle. And took 2 boxes to Office for my colleagues to enjoy. RM11 for a box of 24 tarts. Cheap? But anyhow, it was wonderful, fragrant and very nice tasting. No pics forgot to take :P

Ooo ya next trip back to Melaka 7 & 8 June, any orders? :P, then i'm going to Cameron the weekend after that too ^^ yay, enjoy some more holidays, half a year once is fun, but still trying to save up for a Korea trip in March. I asked my travel agent friend about the tours organized, any English speaking tours, he answered mostly Mandrin and chinese speaking ones.... SIEN de...don't the English speaking ppl go on tours? I duno their language so i dono how to free and easy there. Main aim to go to Korea is to see their Sakura Flowers. Wheeee, never seen them on trees b4, hopefully will have enough money by then to go.

Cheers and until the next time!

Quest for saving more money..Suggestions please...

How do people save money?

Last time when your pay was 500, you managed to save 200

When your pay was 1k you managed to save 150

When your pay was 2k you saved 100?

and now when your pay is 3 to 4k you say not enough of money....

How to save?

Any ideas?

Cook Cook Cook

I've taken into cooking during weekends, first, i get to improve my culinary skills, second i save from eating outside.

Usually wifey and i will go to Midvalley to shop for the fresh stuff on Friday nights so that i can store over the weekend for cooking whatever we fancy. The condiments are getting more and more and more.

Mostly i make meals with chicken breast, since chicken is white meat, and it's better off than pork or beef. Sometimes i cook fish, or prawns with rice.

Tried a few meals over the past 2 weekends, some turned out ok, some didn't turn out so well. Have to tune my recipies a bit more. Hehehehe.

Ah well anyhow this one turned out quite nice, eat liao feel sleepy.

Ehh this is supposed to be red wine chicken. Got this recipe somewhere in the net since i dunno what to cook with the balance chicken. I didn't garnish it. Just me and wife eating nia

Ingredients
2 tablespoon Oil
garlic 2 clovers
chicken
half cup sugar
1 cup red wine (up to you how much u want to put)
pinch of salt
chili powder (i didn't put this as i didn't have it)

How to
-First, heat up the oil
-Put in the garlic and "pao hiong" ehh let it cook a bit for the smell
-Next put in the chicken pieces, depends on how you want to cut it also can
-Cook the chicken until you see no more pink bits, don't over cook as you still have to let it simmer in the red wine for a short while
- Sprinkle in the sugar, and chili powder(i didn't put this, dunno how it will taste if i put it)
- Pour the red wine around the chicken pieces, and slowly baste(use scoop to scoop the wine over the chicken) the chicken.
- Let it simmer together until the sauce thickens a bit, and then you can serve it liao, garnish it with whatever you want
- Warning this dish is a bit sweet, hahaha the sauce turned out like some char siu sauce, but with the red wine inside, :) Yum to me, don't know if anyone will like it ^^

Enjoy

Maple Story Exclusive Watch

Hehehe, i'm still playing Maple Story, after work go home, grind 1 or 2 hours or more if the mood hits me, then i level up and so on and so forth, Just another avenue to unwind from daily work and traffic stresses.

Anyhow, being a supporter of the game, my wife and i buy their cash cards to show them support, these cards can be loaded in game to buy some virtual items which help out in the game.

We collected quite a stack of the cards already, and from time to time, they have events for you to redeem these used cards for gifts. And also other events like last year their birthday event at Cineleisure, (Packed) got some virtual game items which is only available for local market.

This time there was a Hotlink Asiasoft promotion at Sg Wang plaza about a month ago. We went there with our stack of used cards and was thinking of what to get. In the end we got a watch, special edition from Korea and with all the cute stuff in it. "Wife like cute game" i just play with friends inside :P Pics as above

Floored by Food Poisoning

Happened over the weekend, wifey and i were enjoying our meal before going back to Melaka last weekend, we had our meal at Oldtown Kopitiam at Sri Petaling, was pleased with their service, but mana tau, kena food poisoning pulak

We both had the nasi lemak, and she took the white coffee cold, while i had a mocha blend.

I usually can detect if the meal is not fresh, but this time it escaped me, my wife got it worse than me vomitting and diarrhea for the whole of friday midnight till saturday. Then Sunday she got the fever, which is the balance of the toxin going off. I myself got the purging and vomitting on monday although lesser than my wife and then fever too.

On Tuesday it was basically sleep it off day, to rest off the toxins in the body, drink lots of water eat medicine and all. Haih!!!!, boycott liao now. no more Oldtown from now on.

Sien...luckily today feel better liao. Systems at 85% running