Happy 500th Post!

Dear All,

Sorry for not posting up recently, here goes in no particular order:

(P.s. My phone died on my and I bought the cheapest hopefully long lastingest phone. Nokia xpressmusic cheap phone (the one for RM499) but terrible... I don't know how to load the pictures into my computer.. I've been trying but I can't figure it out.. so you'll have to deal with no pictures~! Sorry!!)

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Kuching Trip - which led to something drastic ...

Everyyear, or so what my client tells me ( she's the MOST fabulous host in the entirest universe) my client will do a corporate exercise that will enable us, her lawyers, to travel to Kuching, purchase those delectable coloured layered cakes, drink the 3 layered teas, and eat the oil laden kolo mee and sarawak laksa (I prefer the kolo mee to the sarawak laksa).

Our wonderful guest, noted to us that as Women, we don't go for the 'normal' entertainment, so she brought us to do what most women love to do... SHOP!
We went fish shopping. There's this one place where with bought the expensive "white bawal" but it's not white bawal but looks like it. It's the high class version of it. Me not know the chinese name of it. This place is really cool as they lay out all the fishes, and seafood for you on ice... in a refridgerator for you to pick. But don't be fooled. If you think that because it ain't swimming, it ain't fresh.. you've got to be joking! I bet these fishes were swimming freely in the seas less than 24 hours ago and taste must better! Yummylicious! We had soem bamboo clams (these weren't that great) and Sarawak Oh Chen. Apparently Sarawakians didn't know they had a 'unique' oh chen. If you dont' know what this Oh Chen is, it's Fried oyster pancake.

Fried Oyster pancake, if you didn't know, is one of my favourite foods to hunt for.

Sarawak Fried Oyster is Fried to a fluffy and crispy goodness. Very little ohchen is actually used. and served like how a pizza is served. in traingular slices. it's quite yummy but terribly oily. and it's I THINK or feel. Similar is nature to the Hakka dish, "pok chang" where we fry "wo wo choi" or that long green almost like spring onion but not into a pancake because!! the Sarawakians drip their oh chen in Soy sauce. Don't ask me why I call it "wo wo choi" but that's it's name okay.. -_- I didn't just make that up because I was a small kid and it was easier to remember it's name if it's cute!

Ahhhh.. Soy Sauce. They sauce of Hakka people. You can tell how Hakka the person is by the soy sauce they use. If they put soy sauce in their porridge before tasting it. He's Hakka. If he puts it in his fried rice of noodles... he's Hakka.. but you know what? I may be overgeneralising things.. but you know that he's really hakka when.. eating "zhong" or "bachang" to the hokkiens, you know that triangular shaped lotus/bamboo leaf wrapped sticky rice with beans and pork and the salted egg init with SOY SAUCE!! hehehe. You just NEED to!

Anyway, please don't confuse Hakka people with the HAKA, i.e. the war cry of the Maori? NewZealanders when they dance. (think the All Black's dance of intimidation)
Hakka people are wanderers, nomads of the Chinese who have no place of origin. It's like the Penan people of Sarawak. Who by the way are starving!

Okay.. now where was I? Sarawak. okay Sarawak is cool. Unfortunately Haze rages on Even on the east. I blame people who is doing open burning. Please people.. it's not the indonesians.. it's the people who "under the guise of the haze... proceed to their own open burnings on their own because no one can see it anyway!" i know this cause my neighbour does it!!! The problem is that when we call the Department of environment.. they are very RED tapey. blah blah blah fill up form, blah give statement.. blah.

Hello!! If we call you. COME OVER and catch them in the ACT lah!!! OBVIOUSLY. why need so much statements for. you see smoke. it's OPEN burning. CATCH them Fine them throw their SORRY asses in jail! or better yet. lock them in a room with few holes and smoke them.

Back to Kuching. I love East Malaysia. I think everyone there is 10 million times nicer. I think KL people are HORRIBLY unfriendly. -_-|||

Oaky anyway besides shopping, and eating my client brought us for a hair wash ( we are women after all and we can't resist a hair wash) So! they blew my hair in BIG curls. IT was simply WONDERFUL. I loved it alot
so the next weekend after i am back in KL. i decided to curl my HAIR.

NOpe. No pictures.

IT"S HORRIBLE!!!

I'm resorting to tying up my hair
until it grows back.

they thinned my hair till if I was to bunch it all up it's thinner than my thumb. that's really thin because my hair used to be the size of my wrist. No joke. My hair is Long, lushcious, and luxurious.
Now it's a mess of Frizzy tangles and Manic stress. Gaswh. I really should have done it. But I know what I should have done Spend 600 bucks at my friend's salon. Her haid is BEAUTIFUL!
Sucks.. SUCK! I really regret.

ANyway so that was my Kuching adventure that led to my perming and damaging my hair beyond saving. it has split ends. I never had split ends. the WORLD is coming to the end... the END i tell you... the END!!


SIGH.. I hate my frizzy hair

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What Else?

Oh! somwhere in July, ChunChieh and I decided to look around for houses that were available. Just looking not looking for anything in particular. It was quite crazy. He was in bangkok and I just came back from... erm. Somewhere. I can't remember where but I remember I was outstation. i think Johor.. anyway! we were skyping online (yes.. modern day couples do that... we skype.. it's FREE.. and we love things that are free!) and i said. Putra heights is on the way back from the airport. Lets go look at it when I pick you up later. that was the day we decided that we wanted to look at houses.

so when I picked him up, we saw the Putra heights. Not too bad.. a Bit pricey and it reminded us of USJ... and was quite far away... so we werne't too hapyp about it. then we drove around sommore. then found Putra Avenue. It was really nice. at least I thought so. he loved the area as well. and saw a house that I thought was really nice. so we had a look see at the "houses under renovation and that were open" hehehe.
It was very pretty... but also pretty pricey! so we decided to make an appointment with the agent the coming saturday to view more houses and the insides ( we only looked from the outsides most of it)

On saturday ( which was I think 3-4 days after our first day) we saw the houses. Not that great until we saw GARNET Type Y. OMG it has a courtyard in the middle of the staircase! Absolutely fantastic! I coudlnt' believe it. It was my almost dream house! it was really pretty and GIGANTUS! but the asking price for that house was RM530k. Out of the budget x2!! Our budget was 300k below. Well with that no go on the house.

So we decided to look elsewhere. I suggested Bukit Jelutong. cause my friend EEvon lived there and the area looked very peaceful and nice (much like Putra Avenue.. just minus the highway)
So we made a trip to Bukit Jelutong some random night. and he loved the area! (I already love the area soo it doesn't matter) so we looked around the area.. and saw massively large teres houses. We called up and asked them what was the asking price. RM490 - Rm580. yikes! EXPENSIVO!

Then we drove to another area.. and saw a smaller type house (we figure it's where the people who start out in BJ stay) so we checked the pricing... it's about RM380k. Not too bad so we decided to go back and cehck online.

Then we came to a site where he specialises in Bukit Jelutong - Vincent Yim - really nice guy.. I'll tell you why in a bit.

So in his website I see this unsold house so I said can I view this house?? he says. that's a crappy house. no one wants it cause it's too expensive. I won't recommend you to buy it. (I won't say which house it is here... later some day the owner finds out) anyway.. he said. BUT! I just got this one house today. to be put up for sale. fully renovated. they just moved out. has everything. move in condition. I was like GREAT! when can I see it? he said. when are you free? I said. WEekend can? he said sure. (mind you this was a wednesday) then he added. it's a really ERALLY good house and I'm sure it'll be taken up the momment I show it to people.
I was sooo temped to see it right terhe and then. I was really tempted to see it! you can as chunchieh! Anyway, because we were both busy.. and so was Vincent, we only managed to see the houses on SAturday. with Jef and San, because they liked to see houses too.

So before we saw the house, we saw tons of other YUCKY houses.
Yucky house number one we called the CHEESY house. the floors. WERE ALL STICKY! and we had to walk barefoot inside. theere was a couple living there. and the house was HORRIBLE. it was sticky and smelly and we felt was full of cheese. It was the CHEESY house. We coudn't imagine how these people could live in a cheesy house on a mattress and the floors were sticky... like so disgusting! after looking at cheesy house we were really grossed out. But we still went to lookat other hosues.

Then we saw the "smaller than airasia toilet house" the MAster bedroom toilet is SO small that when JEF sat on the toilet bowl, his knees touched the floor. his elbows touched the sink and if he were to lift his handsup he could reach the water hose for the water heater.

YES. this is the smallerst master bedroom toilet in the whole world. and you know what the agent said? - some people like small toilets. -_- FAIL!

then we also went to this other hosue where there was a Crack in the wall - agent said "house no ventilation... cracks will appear" and then.. the best "kong ku wah" is "no.. that's not termites.. it's some sort of WOOD eating bug" lol. TERMITE LAH!

so we were quite dejected. by these nonsenseness. We then met up with vincent to see this house (oh I should add that we visited this house 2 times just to see where it was in the middle of the night during the week)

It was REALLY NICE. save for the ugly tiles -_- .. who has pink or yellow (see it's so ugly that we don't know what ugly colour it is) tiles on the living room floor that is rough????

anyway howwwww, it comes with laminated flooring, a full kitchen, with fujioh cooking hob (the wife loved to cook) alarm system, built in cabinets, spiral staircase, extended kitchen and plaster ceilings.

Oaky some stuff needs to be sorted out. but it's really nice already.

so we took the house. that day.

YES. it took us 2 weeks to find a house.

Please note - we were the first person to view the house. and we took it. We were so afraid other people would take it. Yes agent had us around his fingers. but you should have seen Cheesy House and Airport toilet house. and Ventilation House. It was horrid!!

after that, we went to Ara damansara and looked at houses. hehehehhe. Rita Wong. that's the person you have to look if you're looking for great houses in ara damansara. She has the jalan for the best houses. but ara damansara is SUPER expensive. SUPER !! starts at 600k or more I think. the one we saw was 650k. fully furnished. or something liike that. but it was next to an ugly wood house. Yuckers.

So soon we'll have a house in Bukit Jelutong! YEAY! I'll be moving out of the crazi Subang!

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Oh! and Baby Isabel can walk!! YEAY!

okay I think I'm done updating for a bit.

Oh and on my way to kcuhing.. :D I flew FIRST CLASS!

Yeahhh baby.. I never flew first class before! YEAY!

it was certainly an amazing experience. I ate like A PIG. hehehehe

did you know they have proper cutlery (OMG i'm so jakun) and give you GLASSes of water, and although it's not glass plates, it's not in thin plastic/aluminium either.
hahahaha. i loved it! it was fantastic!

then after that returning we st economy. sucks. i was sooo jealous of the people in first class.

STINKERS!!! ooopps. I mean business class.

i want people to be jealous of me! hehehehe call me a stinker in a very jealous slit eye way.. and nose must scringe a bit. and almost scowl. lol.