Happy New Year~!

Working on a cold New Year Eve is not something anyone looks forward to..
There's pro and cons for working this year. Pros is, it's raining this evening and it'll kinda spoil my mood if I were to be standing in a poodle of mud watching Bosco Wong near Queensbay Mall. Yes, Bosco is in Malaysia for NY countdown. Cons is that I can't be watching tv at home with my loved ones. But so lonely working till 11pm.

Due to raining earlier, the office has been extremely cold. Hoping that a hot chocolate caramel from starbuck is in my hand now. Anyway, I think I'll seriously go get one after work on my way back at e-gate. This few days has been busy planning on recipes and dishes to prepare for NY cum mom's birthday dinner tomorrow. I have come out with some dishes, some I haven't try my hands on. Hoping it'll turn out good.. lolxx..
We plan to have dinner at home. Just the 5 of us, without jackie as she couldn't make it back this year due to her final exam coming. As long as Mom is ok, we're also ok. Although kinda hoping she'll be giving us another surprise like my house warming dinner.

Went to order cake from Jenni on Monday. Its a lychee and logan cake. Design is nothing special as we just choose from the standard design.

Let's talk about the dishes that I have come up with.
We're gonna have the choo char type. Plan to have 4 dishes and 1 soup..
Mommy will prepare the soup, while the rest of the dishes will be prepare by the chef@me.. hahha...

I have come out with below dishes, looks simple but ain't sure if really simple to prepare yet: rofl..

1) Butter cereal prawn
2)Stir Fry pork with jack fruit
3)Soy sauce & mushroom/Teo Chew steam fish - haven't decide on this yet.
4)Stir Fry Chai ta - don't know what you call that in english..

Dish no 1 and 2 is going to be my first time. I'll snap the photos on how it turn out.. *finger cross* I just saw the recipe from Crizfood's blog today. Though I have wanted to make another pork ishes, but this one looks exciting to prepare. Something new to play around with fruits.

Have been going around every morning this week to get all the ingredients, except for the fish, as it' undecided on which style to prepare yet. This morning, went to chrowrasta market again for the prawns. Tomorrow will be going to Sunshine market to get the vege and also mom has to go to sunshine sq to redeem her birthday points.

Another hour for me to stay in office. Ya lar, I'm blogging in office again. It's been so long I did this ok... hehehe.. Anyway time for NY wishes..

Happy New Year!!!

It may be a tough year ahead, but have faith and may all of us have a blessing and fruitful 2009.

Looking forward to more surprises and miracles for the many years to come.. hehehhe... Bye Bye 2008.

Winter Solstice and now Merry Christmas~!

Last Sunday chinese celebrated the winter solstice day which is also known as Dong Zhi. Apart from making the tong yuen, we also have to give prayers to the gods that you have at home and also for the deceased. I'm not sure how many people actually do that. But this year it's my first year to follow my aunty to give offering to my grandpa.

Dong Zhi is very important. My mom told me that it's even greater than Chinese New Year. My grandma once told me, you grow one year when you eat tong yuen. So every year my sisters, mom and I will sit together to make the glutinous ball. My mom bought extra ingredients to make tong yuen this year. We had 2 different type; one is the tradisional clear soup and another we had black sesame soup. I love the black sesame one... I insist of making the black sesame one because I had that in Hong Kong awhile back. I fell in love with it and I can't seems to forget the taste... hehehe.. Although this home-made is nothing compare to ones I had in hong kong. My mom choose to let my wish fulfilled by helping to make this one..

Forget to wish everyone a Merry, merry Christmas this year... Don't let the global recession to hinder you from celebrating this festive season with your love ones...

May God bless ya all~!

Team X'mas party... 18th December 2008

We had our regional christmas party on 18th of December, last thursday. It was a fun-filled 3 hours session. We had alot of things to makan coz it's a potluck thingy. Each of us forge out RM 10 for the food and seriously, I didn't know what my team ordered for that party. Our organizer was Bee Lean, I just passed her RM 10 and didn't ask more. lolxx.. On top of that, we have to get a present for gift exchange. That is between RM 5-10. I forget to snap the present, but I do like it personally. It's a christmas bear in a cup.

I saw a lady picked my gift, I hope she likes it too.. As for me, I got a table lamp from IKEA. I believe it worth more than the budget that was alocated. I'm a lucky girl that day... :)
But a few of my colleagues are luckier. Our management sponsors a few hampers for the lucky draw. It's RM 50 each hamper and there's about 16-18 of them.

Please find our group photo with our pressent. This is not a complete team photo as some of the afternoon shift members are not in yet.. :(