KB Come Sokmo~

Blogger is taking too slow to upload a FEW pictures....so the post about Redang must wait.

Been going out almost everyday for yum cha/dinner/lunch/badminton with friends. That's one good thing about KB...you can see your friends everyday without feeling 'this is too much', you can plan the next gathering tonight for tomorrow afternoon, one person can be the driver for the other friends to the same gathering =P

Another thing is the food. Last night we were talking about the various types of food that Kelantan offers and I got inspired to blog about them. Maybe some time later I will introduce some of Kelantan's famous food. Not everyone (from other places) can appreciate the food but I think it is still worth trying them out, if you happen to come to KB. Have you tried rice that is red colour, green colour or blue colour? (I didn't put in yellow coz yellow is quite common in other states as well)...

And besides, do you still play kite(s) with your friends when you are 22/23 years old?

We do. (That's also because we don't have cinema here, haha)...and it's a 'normal' surprise to find a kite in your garden.

Book-climbing

Went to the state library yesterday to return our borrowed books...and to get some 'buku untuk pelupusan' =P

There is already a mountain of books there! The library staff is updating the book collection in the library and they are planning to throw the very old books away. And so we did book-climbing...

Choosing books to bring home...and become ours from now on!

假正经？

13 hours in an 8-hour flight

Have been back for a week...time surely flies! My flight from Melbourne-KL was delayed for 4++ hours due to some technical problem...and we ended up 'trapped' in the plane for 13 hours instead of the usual 8, reaching Malaysia at around 11+pm local time instead of 6.40pm...planned to have dinner together with family and we ended up having supper instead =.=

After staying at KL for a few days, we then came back to old KB on the 16th...again our flight was delayed due to the rain =.= Will fly to KL again after Christmas for our family trip, hopefully our flight won't be delayed again.

Must enjoy these few days at home ^_^ and more yum cha to come~

Water gone!

I know it's kinda late to blog this, but the flood has subsided! That was actually a few days ago but I think there're still some parts out on the streets that are flooded. Luckily the water didn't 'go into' my house this year, but it was high enough for us to make precautions. First of all, almost everything downstairs were moved upstairs (except furnitures). I never realise that my house has soooooo many BOOKS! Textbooks, references and latihan etc from my old school days were still around! =.= Kinda 怀旧 to look back at old stuff. Next, the piano.

Notice the bricks under the piano? As my dad was not around and I was not strong enough to lift up the piano with my mom, we asked for a Malay worker's help. He and my mom lifted the piano while I quickly inserted the bricks underneath. Quite troublesome, eh?

Some of the flower pots in my mom's garden.

All up in the swing!

The flood....

How it caused the 'disaster' in the garden area

And this..

It's troublesome when there's flood coz it hinders us from going out. 'The bridge there will be jam like shit coz of the cars those people parked' (Quoted). As you know, there's a bridge that connects the area I'm living in to the main roads, and after the bridge there's some lorong that are low areas and frequently flooded, so the people staying there would usually park their cars ALONG the bridge, both sides of the bridge to the extent that there's only one single lane for moving cars to cross the bridge!! Terrible right?

And that's also the reason I didn't go out with my friends. Terperuk dalam rumah sahaja.

Now that the flood has subsided, everything is back to normal but as it's nearly end of the year, it's time to clean the house....

Christmas Day just passed like that.

I woke up yesterday morning and saw mom walking to my room. I wished her a 'Happy Birthday' and told her to look at my youngest sis who was still sleeping soundly in her bed. So it's Christmas and my mom's birthday as well, haha!

Afternoon my sis, dad and I went out to buy some things needed for the dinner. We planned to do a mini barbecue (using electrical bbq) to cook the mutton, beef and chicken wings together with sparkling juice (yummy!). We already bought a birthday cake from Secret Recipe for mom a day earlier. Guess what cake... I think Siaw Tze will know this, it's the marble cheese cake!

So three of us went to the central market to buy lettuce, potatoes and chicken wings. My dad easily got a parking, and my sis asked, 'Why everytime we go out with you, sure got parking space one... then everytime we go out with mummy, sure very difficult to find parking space...' Dad said, 'Yea, I think I have a guardian angel watching over me... you know that day when I drove back the car tyre poncek while I was still in Gua Musang, but I still managed to get back home like nothing happened.' (Gua Musang is about 3 hours away from my house.) Wow...must be nice to have a guardian angel watching over you eh? =D

After getting our things from the market, we went to The Store to buy coleslow, milk and photo albums. When we got back home it's already about 3.30pm and dad started to marinate the meat while I arranged my photos and put them into the photo album. I began to make mashed potato at 5.30pm, boiling the potatoes to make them soft, then adding milk, butter and salt while mashing them. Finally it's a big yellow nice paste ready to be served. Mom made coleslow and while dad was barbecue-ing, the rest of us wore our Christmas hats and took photos. =P

We celebrated mom's birthday and ate dinner which started at 9pm, enjoying the good food and drinks.. after dinner I played Monopoly with my two sisters.

So Christmas Day ended like that.

r i n g r i n g !

Yesterday while we were finishing our dinner the house phone rang.

Dad and my sisters had already finished theirs and were in the kitchen.

As my youngest sis went to pick up the phone, I simply said, "Everytime the house phone rings, it'll either be 'Hello 请问Rachel有在吗？' or 'Hello 请问燕萍有在吗?' surely don't have 'Hello 请问Jessica有在吗?'... "

As I finished my words and continued eating the chicken, my sis came out and said, "Your phone la!" I turned and asked her, ''Who?" She looked at me and said, "YOU LAH!!!"

I was so surprised!!

Christmas tree!

Anyone who has been to my house surely knows that the christmas tree in my house is there all year long. My mom usually switches on the christmas lights when it's evening, and the living room will become bright and have a lively atmosphere around it. The christmas tree is 6 feet tall and has been with us since I was young and when we were still living at Tanjung Chat. I don't know when my mom bought it, but even it is already more than 10 years old (yes my house has a lot of things which are more than 10 or 20 years due to my mom's housekeeping skills) the christmas tree still looks brand new to me. It's the traditional green colour type like those you see in movies or cartoons.

And why do I want to talk about my christmas tree?

It's because I just re-decorated it few days ago! Mom bought some new ornaments from The Summit and two new sets of christmas chasing lights. After dusting the christmas tree and taking out the old ornaments to wash, she put the chasing lights around the christmas tree while I started to put the ornaments in. My sisters said they wanted to help but one went upstairs to watch tv while the other one doing homework (-.-). So it's me alone who decided where to put the angels, the bears, snowman, reindeers, strawberries, apricorns, apples etc.. When it's finally done, the whole christmas tree looks lively again with the running lights and glittering ornaments. I love it!

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Yesterday my mom forgot to wake my youngest sister up for school. When she woke up it's already about 9am, and she hurriedly went into our bedroom to my sister's bed. She wasn't sure whether my sis's exam was over already or not. Here's the conversation...

Mom: Hey it's 9am already...forgot to wake you up..no need to go to school already la..
Joanne: (blur) har..
Mom: Today got exam or not?
Joanne: (still blur) Got...
Mom: (frightened) What?! Got exam ar? What subject??
Joanne: (very blur) Islam....
Mom: =.="

When my mom told me about it I had a good laugh for a few minutes while I was doing my revision. Well SSABSA finals will start this coming Monday, beginning with ESLS till 15th November which Chemistry is the last subject. After that those who are doing Form 6 will be facing STPM. Guess I won't be able to update my blog during this exam period...

So, GOOD LUCK to all! This sentence simply flashed across my mind... 'Try your best and God will do the rest' (Angelene 2004)

Speaking of Angelene, she's the only one who calls my sister 'Jo', like 'Ah Jo nih?' Jo here Jo there...hahaha..while I prefer to call my sister by her Chinese name =P

God's creation

See the sky?? This pic was taken near the river behind my house when I brought my friends there during their trip to Kelantan last mid-sem break...

See the sky was like divided into half.. it's so-not-natural yet it happened!!

yeah yeah

In the bedroom... lotsa toys!

I like this one =)

In front of one of the temples....

I'm lazy to upload anymore photos here. Guess I'll just upload them in friendster =P

Kelantan trip~

My 4 Sarawakian friends who came to my house to stay went back to Shah Alam today. It's been very very fun spending time with them, going out sight-seeing the temples around Tumpat and Bachok, bowling, writing our names on the sandy beach, eating nice nice food, taking many many photos... it's really a sweet memory for me which I would treasure...ever and always. It's the first time I brought back home friends from so far... from East Malaysia even! And they brought much liveliness, fun and laughter to my house, my mom, grandma and sisters. It's like my mom suddenly has 4 more daughters. Haha..


Never did I realise that my house is such a nice place. 'Cartoon cartoon house' (Christine 2006). The first day they stepped into my house, I brought them upstairs to my bedroom (which I share with my sisters), and to my surprise, what they said was it's like a princess's bedroom which they had been wishing for since they were young... there're lots of soft toys, cute and fluffy.. and nice comfy beds. Well I really never know that the bedroom is any girl's wish to have...


Talking about the food part. I would say that this trip is worthwhile for them as they have tried almost all kinds of the food which Kelantan has. Siamese nasi kerabu (which we call 'kao jum'), nasi dagang, Thai food at Cheng Mai Restaurant (chicken on fire~), Vietnam laksa which my grandma made, cakes from Muhibah, keropok, trifle which I made on my own and my mom's cooking. =P What I remember is eating eating and eating... And what they said is gaining weight and becoming fat. Saying how 'well' my mom fed them... Hahahaha~


Christine kept on saying, 'Fat liao lo, fat liao lo...'
Siew Ting read my Conan comics when there's time
Ling Weng read newspaper and watched television (well as usual, the TV queen)
Siaw Tze kept playing the song Tong Hua on my piano..she's a fast learner =)


Guess what my mom told me about the four pretty gals:
- Christine - has this kinda fashion sense, loves to take photos
- Ling Weng - very fair, nice skin, shy and quiet compared to others (like my sister Rachel)
- Siaw Tze - pretty coz of her cheeks (I suppose), nice body
- Siew Ting - manja type, cute


All in all, they are very nice and have behaved well (gee I sounded like some...some dunno wat)... And what a surprise it was when they bought a marble cheese cake from Secret Recipe to thank my mom today. There's only about two hours left till boarding time (5pm) and we were having our lunch at Xin Kou Wei in Tanjung Chat, when Siaw Tze requested to go to KB Mall a while. 'Just a while,' she said. I wondered what was she going to buy. So my mom drove all 5 of us to KB Mall, and once we got down the car the 4 of my friends were like rushing (walking rapidly)... Curious, I asked Siaw Tze, 'What are you going to buy??' 'Buy something for your mom. Cake.. you eat the Secret Recipe one right?? Go and choose which one you all usually eat one..' I was really really surprised, I tell you. Was so touched....


Thanks to you all girls...love you all... know what, the house is like kinda quiet after you all left.

=P

I think the four friends of mine must have been enjoying themselves a lot in my house. Good food to eat, nice things to see, piano to play etc...haha..

Went to KB Mall to play bowling last night. It was my first time play. Saw Chien there with her brothers. After my first round, Chien messaged me saying that she didn't know that I could play so well. Well?? You're pulling my leg.. Hmm at least I didn't throw the ball till 'drop into the longkang'..haha..After ten rounds of bowling, Siaw Tze got the highest score of 143..dunno whether the computer got something wrong coz there's a few times where there's still a pin left but the computer put a '/' (spare)!! No wonder she could score so high...tipu punya computer..

Anyway she has to belanja us makan since she scored the highest. Hehehe..