Friday, March 5, 2010

幸福是什么?

我曾经在旧的blog里写了这样的一篇东西。

幸福是什么?

幸福是当我跟妈妈说我的床头灯坏了,隔天我就看到一个新的在我房间里。
 
幸福是当我说我想喝番茄汤,晚上姑婆就会准备给我喝。
 
幸福是当我上车时,看到他手握着一瓶我喜欢喝的苹果汁,因为担心我没喝水,所以买给我喝。
 
这些点点滴滴,琐琐碎碎的事情都代表了他们的记忆里有我。
所以我一直都觉得自己很幸福,也相信我的未来会更幸福。
希望我身边的人也能够幸福,因为我的幸福是来自你们。

这样的一篇文章是在几年前的24th October写的。几年之后的今天,人已经大了点,记忆也累积多了一点,当然心情也不会跟当时一样了。
现在的我和妈妈都有自己的生活,自己的习惯。工作了,少见面是难免的。本来跟妈妈就不是感情特别好。
现在的姑婆已经搬家了。虽然距离不是说非常远,但也不是想到就能马上到的地方。想尝到姑婆的菜肴也只能等到周末了。
现在的他差不多天天都在我身边。但感觉已经不同了。各自都有要烦的事情。大家也很累了。
这样的说法不是代表我不幸福了。所有我关心的人依然在我身边。只是有很多东西都在改变着。
我常告诉自己,我不是不幸福,我只是暂时不开心而已。我依然希望我身边的人能够幸福,因为我的幸福是来自你们。

Monday, March 1, 2010

The 'Lou Sang' Journey of CNY 2010

I know I'm lazy (...always...). But I just can't get myself together to do the typing and photo editing for my own blog, cause of all these stupid festive seasons (Christmas, CNY, blah, blah, blah.....). Lots and lots of holidays, make you lazy and wish to do absolutely nothing, but spend all your money.....

My CNY for this year is quite normal, ordinary, usual......or should I say boring? Nah, is not that boring actually. Just that the more I grow up, the more I can't feel the joy and happening of the festival. I still remember when I was small, I'll be watching tv at home, waiting for reunion dinner on the eve of CNY, sometimes help out in the kitchen (just sometimes), while my aunt busy preparing the dinner from noon onwards. During CNY, we'll visit relatives house in Gopeng, I'll ask some friends to go along for house hoping (mainly to take more ang pow of course) and we usually stay up till very late for the first 2 nights of CNY, helping my aunt do the praying. Everything is just so fun and lively when it comes to CNY.

Well, I don't really feel that much for this year. In fact, the feeling of excitement for CNY become less and less during these few years. I guess things really change a lot when we grow up.

But still, I had some fun too. As my title, I think 'lou' quite a lot of 'sang' this year. Not that many really, but most of my CNY events come with 'lou sang'. (that's a must for CNY.....)

The first CNY-like dinner that I had this year was my sort of  收工酒 at 1+1 steamboat, treated by ling ling, our boss for the brand department.....(ling ling 万嵗!!!???). No 'lou sang' for this 1 (yet....), but make it so CNY was the post dinner activity.....posing and photographing at 1Utama, with all the Meows~

Loveeeeee those cute and fat meows all over 1Utama. Makes everyone wanna hug them...(including me....)

Eve was the busiest day for my, had to rush for 2 reunion dinner(?) at 1 day, morning at dar-dar's place, night at aunt's place. Last year use to be 3, but this year my mom join my aunt side (thankfully!), so that save my stomach a bit.

Nothing much for day 1 & 2 of CNY, no relatives, no activity, nothing special for day 1. And day 2 was a little special, co I get to have a post valentine's dinner and watched Percy Jackson on that day. Is like a out-of-prison day for me, coz I was damn boring on day 1. Family dinner again on day 3, blah, blah, blah......and my 'lou sang' thingy starts on day 4.......when we're celebrating the '1/4 working + 3/4 new year~ing' mood with my beloved colleagues at neway, 1Utama.



 

Fun sing k session, quite a nice way to celebrate CNY. Had another gathering with secondary school's ji muiz on that night. Feels great, coz it's been a really long while since I last appear in a gathering.

The second 'lou sang' was with my family on the 7th day of CNY (the real day that you suppose to 'lou sang'). Cute little Hou Hou ( 5 years old cousin of mine) almost throw his chopstick in the air during the 'lou sang'.

And finally, the 'wait for so long' gathering with those animation ffk kaki.

 
I know 'lou sang' suppose to be fun, but they're just way too excited during the 'lou sang' session (my hands T.T .....)
Love to see them as well. It's been a long time since we all gather, and we still spend some crazy time like we use to during the college time.

That, more or less conclude my CNY 2010. Still have to work on week days, still wondering what to do in life, what's really new other than the year?

I know is already too late, but still I wanna wish whoever that read this Happy Chinese New Year 2010 (or 2011 in really advance better?)
 
Meows~

Thursday, December 31, 2009

My 2009.....

Looking at Jaemy's blog makes me think back on what I did throughout the whole 2009.
And let's see.....

January...
February.....
March..........

Is really nothing much bout this 3 months...Just normal working, shopping, Chinese New Year, Valentine's Day, bla, bla, bla.....

And here come the...

April...

There was this news from Sean (my office's copy writer) said that JAL had a promotion for their flight from KL to Japan.....
Under his strongly recommendation....we booked our trip to JAPAN! (my dream place to travel...)

May...


Waiting and planning for our free and easy trip to Tokyo...(extremely excited)

June!!!

The best month throughout this whole 2009....coz I went to Tokyo!!!


We had an awesomely great time there of course......

July...
August...


Besides spending our working time like a zombie (post Tokyo trip reaction),there were these crazy interns in our office, and we had some crazy time together.....



Tiring but fun Sing K session at 1 Utama.



The Jogoya Promotion...



The crazy trip to Port Dickson & Malacca.....


September.....


Is my Birthday month!!! But too bad, nothing beats June after the Tokyo trip.....



Went to Pangkor as a Birthday trip....First time did some beach side activities....nice experience....


October...


Eleana's (my office's producer) Big day.....


Everyone's trying to look good on that day.....

November...

Spend another zombie month while planing for the Christmas trip.....(I love Christmas)

December.....

Here comes my favorite month....Christmas Month!!!
Spending Christmas at KL would be nice, but since I never meet Singapore for 2 years, of course should pay a visit there....so....we went on a Christmas trip to Singapore.....



Well, this trip more or less conclude my 2009.
Problems still there, issues stay unsolved... But what's new, right?
Thanks to all these trips, I can say I still enjoy my 2009 :)

And now, should start and fight for my happily 2010!!!

Happy 2010 Everyone!!!
 

 

Saturday, December 12, 2009

Japin Restaurant @ Sg. Wang Plaza



It was a fine late afternoon when I walked around Sungei Wang Plaza, searching for my brunch (Yes! It was 2:35pm and I haven't eaten anything yet!). And I found this in the concourse floor near Giant (place that use to be Parkson). Presenting the Japin Restaurant.....

How it attract me? First,it is a JAPANESE ramen house (I'm quite obsess with japanese stuff.) Second, the shop is mainly in Pink! Well, I think these 2 reason is more than enough for me to go in (haha).

Their choices of ramen are quite a lot (defnitely more than 10 type to choose) and all come in set too (included tea and salad). Since my dar dar already ate something, so we only ordered 1 set of ramen and 1 side order.



The Green Tea that comes with the set.
I found that their quite nice to give us an extra cup of cold water when they found out we only ordered 1 drink (cause most of the restaurant wouldn't do the same thing).



Salad that comes with the ramen set too.
A small plate of salad with some cabbages, carrots and corns in it. Love the sweet taste of the mayonnaise. I think they put some ebiko in it too, cause I saw some red dots in the mayonnaise.


Syoyu Ramen (RM 14.60 - set price)
The most basic ramen in the restaurant.Comes with 2 pieces of japanese char siu and 1 half boiled egg. Like any other Syoyu Ramen, the soup is clear and sweet. The ramen here are thinner than those that I used to eat, looks more like wantan mee to me. Anyway, my favorite in this bowl was.....


The Half Boiled Egg!!!

It looks like it was fully cooked from outside, but when I bite it, the liquid from the yolk starting to dripped out.....loved the taste of the egg. Wanted to order the egg for extra side order, but felt that is quite expensive if you order the egg alone.....(RM 1.80/ egg)


Last, but not least.....the Gyoza!(RM 6.80/ 6 pieces)
I love to eat gyoza, no matter is the chinese or japanese version.
The wat they cook their gyoza here is a bit different from outside. I ordered gyoza in so many restaurant before and most of them will fried to burn the skin a bit or some even deep fried the whole gyoza (poor gyoza). From what I read from book, gyoza should only fried 1 side, with some flour and water as base on the pan (hope you know what I'm talking about.....cause I don't really understand my own word either...haha). Erm, what I'm trying to say is, I think they use the right matter to cook the gyoza in this restaurant.

The skin is crunchy, and the filling is definitely more than those that I tried before. Nice!

Other than ramen, they serve other japanese rice sets and dessert too. I think I'll visit this restaurant again to try out other stuff (or maybe just for the sake of the EGG!!!)





Thursday, December 10, 2009

Kath's Wonderlab: Pineapple Tart

Just wanna share bout what happen in my kitchen ( & living room...) when I was free.....

Plenty of experiments happen in here.....And 1 of it was about.....The Pineapple Tart!



Title
Pineapple Tart (original recipe from http://zuzu88.blog.sohu.com/110691549.html)

Purpose
Produce some homemade Pineapple Tarts that taste like the Taiwanese version and not so sweet according to my liking.

Materials


Filling:
1 whole Pineapple
1 whole Winter melon (S size)
Castor Sugar + Brown Sugar
Maltose (麦芽糖)

Pastry (Sable Dough):
Flour
Icing Sugar
Butter
Egg

Procedure



1. Remove skin and seeds and cut pineapple and winter melon into small piece.


2. Blend it.



3. Combine the blended fruits in a sauce pan/pot, and cook in medium heat. (Be careful while heating the filling, cause when it's boiling, it might spit out)




4. When the liquid of the filling reduce to half, put in the sugar (for the sweet taste, so I just put the amount that I think is enough). The original recipe only use castor sugar, but since I have some brown sugar, might as well give it a try.....




5. When the filling cooked till almost dried out, put in the maltose (also for the sweet taste, so put as much as u like.....). Keep stir the filling once a while to prevent it from burn.




6. And finally (not so final), I've got my homemade pineapple paste!




7. Prepare the pastry. First, cream the butter. Then, mix in the dry ingredients. Finally, mix in the egg and refrigerate for more than 2 hours before use.




8. Roll the pineapple paste to form some balls. ( I use around 3/4 tbs of the paste to form 1 ball)




9. Do the same to the dough. (make sure is big enough to cover the paste ball) If the dough is too soft and sticky, cover with some plain flour, by using this way, it is easier to roll.




10. Finally, make some pineapple dumplings out of this 2 things, and send into the oven with 170 degree preheat (20 minutes).

Result



Quite a success for a first time try. (^_^)


Conclusions

1. Be extra careful while boiling the filling, cause it spit out and hurt my hand...

2. Brown sugar don't give much fragrant to the paste, so just stick to the original castor sugar.

3. Some says the paste should not be so smooth, should have some fruit to chew. So maybe next time, I should not blend all the fruits. Should left some, and cut it into smaller piece, then cook together with the rest.

Saturday, October 24, 2009

Kath's Wonder Food: Marche Movenpick Restaurant

(It pronounce as Mar-shay, means french market.....)




This is a bit late to be posted cause this is actually my dar dar's* birthday event. But who cares, as long as I can have good food and share it, right?

Whenever I shop at The Curve, this is the place I'll look at when I pass by, and still, not dare to go in. Reason? It look expensive, so I'll save it for some special event. And here comes the special event (chance for some good food)!!!

A step away from the entrance, I realized it is not a normal restaurant.....it is a restaurant which I need to hold a ticket for all time and beg for a stamp whenever I ordered food! (not really that surprising, huh....)
Overall, it makes me I'm either in a slightly high class food court or a all-you-can-eat buffet that I have to pay for it during my exit (sad). But is fun though, cause the interior makes me feels like I'm a western market place (that's the whole concept of this restaurant.....)



Not much of choice like a food court, what they have is a counter each from beverages to desserts, but again, is fun walking around choosing what you wanna eat, really like a buffet, just that you have to pay for each things you ordered.




Roasted 1/4 chicken with black pepper sauce ( RM 16.50 )
Nicely roasted chicken with the choice of  2 sauce, black pepper / mushroom.



Side order - Mashed Potato with mushroom sauce ( RM 1.50 )
My favorite mashed potato (anything that's made from potato sure is nice), also with 2 choice of sauce, black pepper and mushroom. Love the creamy texture of the mashed potato and the flavorful mushroom sauce.( I realized that they're quite generous when comes to sauce...) Wish to order 1 more, but need to save room for other food....is sad that I'm not a big appetite person : ( .....




Large Honey Dew Juice ( RM 8.60 )
I saw the bar tender pressed 3 - 4 slices of honey dew down the juicer, so this is sure not water + little juice thingy like we have in mamak. Although it called 'Large', but for me is not that large though, maybe because I have a liquid-drainer beside me (my dar dar). But since the price for the small and large size are just differ by RM 1.00, so might just as well take the large 1.



Small Salads( RM3.50 )
The salads there are counted by the size of the bowl, so next time you go, you can practice the pizza hut's salads taking skill there (hope you know what I mean ^_^ ).


 

Sweet Crepe with Mix Fruit ( RM 6.50 ) + Nestle Ice- Cream ( RM2.50 )
We already had our main course, beverage and a salad as starter, of cause we can't miss out the dessert!
At first, I wanted to have a caramel pudding, but is too late when I reach the dessert bar, cause all the pudding's gone : ( ..... So instead, I take this crispy crepe with choice of 2 filling, hazelnut chocolate / cream cheese ( I take the hazelnut choco, coz not in the mood for cream cheese after a full meal ) and also 2 choice of fruit, mix fruits / bananas. What else can be added to complete this crepe? Of cause is a scoop of creamy vanilla ice-cream! But then I found out that the ice-cream has to pay separately, and is nestle some more.... a bit disappointed..... But overall, is a nice crepe.....



The tickets that were given to us at the entrance and the one who holding it ( you know who ).
Please, please don't drop or throw away or flush the ticket down the toilet, cause is you do, you'll need to pay a high price for that missing ticket ( RM 200 if I not mistaken....). So, hold it tide.

(* p/s: Why dar dar? Coz someone addressed my boyfriend as my dar dar in fb yesterday, so for my convenient, I'll just call him the same name here....hehe....)

Sunday, October 18, 2009

Blog Renovation.....

Erm....I just wanna announce that this blog is currently under renovation. So don't bother to look at the layout...that's all. (nobody will read this anyway...haha)