回归吉隆坡

老土也要说一句，快乐的时光总是过得特别快，两个星期的假期就这样飘过了。
今天，我带着大姑给的一大包食物、重重的旅行袋、还有几粒青春痘回到了吉隆坡。
哇塞，休息了那么久，终于要开工了，真是十万个不愿意啊！

这一次回乡，感觉真的很棒、很开心。
或许因为感觉到家里的温暖吧？
跟爸、妈没有很亲密，却奇妙的感觉到大家的感情比以前好多了。
跟妹妹也相亲相爱的，觉得她越来越可爱了！
还有跟婆婆、大姑、叔叔、婶婶、堂妹现在变得无说不谈，一见面就“鸡啄唔短”。
哇，那种感觉好爽哦！

当然，回家的饮食习惯就真的变“习惯”了。
还好我自认比以前懂得控制多了，一滴酒也没碰过、那些糖份高的饮料和饼干都少吃了。
唯一的“破坏”是吃了很多米饭、很多油腻的东西，搞到我青春痘长满脸！
明早一定要去健身房，立即恢复我的减肥大战！

回来之前，我去了找算命师算命，他是太平很出名的算命师哦！
我只能说，他还蛮风趣的，而且很多还蛮准的，不过他帮我算出来的大致上都不是很好啰！
当然，他叫我避免的我会尽量做到，但我不会因为他说我哪里会不好而不开心。
虽然我相信命运，但我更相信只要积极、努力，人类一定能改变命运的。
所以我还是会努力的去尝试，让自己的生命更有趣、更精彩！
是不是觉得我好像看开了很多？
原因请锁定我下一个post！大日子过后最期待的“菜尾”or广东话称为“菜脚”。
回来之前帮忙妈妈做的烧卖，其实真的很容易做，而且很好吃！
回来之前的那个晚餐有很美味的蒸虾，单看就知道很棒了啦！人家是星球大战，我的是“痘痘大战”！

Valentine's Day @ Ayer Tawar

My two-week-long CNY break is coming to an end soon. So for the sake of not wasting my holiday, I got my dad to bring the whole family to Ayer Tawar. Now, for your information, I have relatives there at Ayer Tawar. My late grandfather’s late sister’s family are there. So I thought it’s so near Taiping, why not we just have a day trip to Ayer Tawar to visit them?
It took us about 1 and a half hour to reach there and we first visited our uncle or we call 'go tiao gong' in Hokkien(my late grandfather’s late sister’s husband). That was the first time I met him after probably 8-10 years time. So it was really nice to see him again although he doesn’t recognize me anymore. He is 90 this year, so give him a break. He can still ride on a motorbike to the market everyday! Anywayz, it was just a short visit at the old house, which you may find it really interesting.

The special decoration at my go tiao gong's house!

Also, the very special toilet...Many of you who spent the whole life in KL may not have a chance to see these photos in some kampung hosues.Ahhh... I love these olden days radio and fan!They are soooo cute!Chit-chatting session going on...My 90 year-old go tiao gong, striking a pose with a can of 100 Plus... A pic with go tiao gong before leaving... Eh, Mi, how come you include your figer in the photo ar?
And then… Ta da… The lunch that I was soooo looking forward to! The Hock Chew lunch that is a must! Though I can’t really remember much of the taste of the food the last time I had them, the dishes are still very special. Let me introduce them to you… The Hock Chew-Style Loh Mee.The Hock Chew-style Sweet & Sour Fish Fillet.The Hock Chew-Style Sweet & Sour Bak Kut! I really like this!The Hock Chew-style HOT Tofu Soup! Yummy!The one that I've missed for so many years! The very yummy Sweet & Sour Fish Maw & Sea Cucumber Soup! Whoa!

Look yummy? Haha, I can’t help ya, they are all in my stomach now! Hehehe…
Of course, another must in Ayer Tawar is surely the ‘Kong Piang’. It’s a kinda biscuit a.k.a bread that is made in a hot pot like how people make naan at the mamak restaurant. They have both empty ones and also with pork. I always love them! It’s yummy yummy…

Whenever you see this by the road side of Ayer Tawar, you know you gotta stop!
And… The day trip was done on a Valentine’s Day! There went my 2008 Valentine’s Day!
To all of you, Happy Valentine’s Day!!!

2008 Chinese New Year

The 2008 Chinese New Year is meant to be a very special CNY to me. It’s my second CNY at home after returning from Perth, and it is also the rat year, my own Chinese horoscope year, which means I’m already bloody 24 years old!!! Okay, 24 is okay to me, but damn I’m so not looking forward for the next rat year!!!
Anywayz, as usual I have to be back in Taiping for the CNY. And I gotta say this year is pretty boring because of the lack of visitors and the lack of me visiting people. I even skipped my old classmates’ gathering. And of course the ang pows also getting lesser and lesser…Arrrrhhhh...

Balik Kampung...Woh.. Balik Kampung...Me & Ducum, on the way home.
So here are some highlights…
Reunion Dinner… Which I always have a double, one at my dad’s side and one at my mom’s side. Although the dishes are always quite the same, but still they are very precious to me, who had been eating ‘outside food’ and ‘mi maggi, senang dimasak, sedap dimakan’ for the past few months. The double-reunion dinners I had!!!
The mom’s red wine soup… My mom cooks and serves that every Cho Yat morning and I love it, love it, love it!!! Red Wine chicken soup with mee sua... Best breakfast ever!!!

The non-stop photo-taking session with my cousins... You know I love taking pictures, and CNY is the best time as we have our new clothes on and we have the opportunities to take pictures with our cousins whom some of them we really see them only once a year! At my dad’s side, we are all grown up kids so we can pose like crazy, and at my mom’s side we have some cute babies we would only pose for you when they are in their mood… A proper version of the 'family photo' of the cousins...

The crazy version of the 'family photo' of the cousins!Leng luis of the Tan family!

My cousin brother's son, the new member of the family, Shan Zhi, oh no... Adam, I gave him the name! Hehehe...

Carina:What are you looking at? Biao Chi?
A candy for a picture with Carina!
Cute, cute, cute little Carina, my cousin sister with the make-up I put!
Me, Eu Jin and Jan Yi, my cousins!
This is my other cousin sister, Tessa, say hi!

One of me, with my CNY dress that looks more like a clubbing dress!

The 2 Karaoke sessions… I’m not kidding, I went to Karaoke on both the Cho Yee and Cho Sam nights. I think we started the Karaoke thingy last year with my mom’s side went for a crazy one and that made them ‘gatal’ and demanded to have another one this year. So on Cho Yee night we went and had a crazy night of oldies as well as some new songs by us, the kids. Imagine, all my aunts and uncle dancing like crazy! Oh, and there was this kid who loves singing oldies, by the way. My cousin bro, Eu Jin who looks like an old-time Chinese patriotic people when singing again, his favourite singer 黄清元’s song... 我们的过去，我们的过去...... Hahaha… That was really funny! And after we sang Pussy Cat Dolls’ Don’t Cha, they actually asked us :"Eh, what do you mean by ‘Don’t Cha’?” In the end of the night, my uncle who was obviously half drunk started a peanuts shell war. Pity those girls who had to come in and clean up the room for the next costumers coming in… Haha… Well, you’re charging a lot you know? So do your work! Family Karaoke session had just started!Oh yeah! We are definitely in a mood to dance!
Yes, the Karaoke people are really earning a lot during the CNY I can assure you. The price is really scary, yet the business is so bloody good!
And yes, it didn’t stop me from going for a second time on Cho Sam, this time with my dad’s side. But this one was solely for the kids and one aunt who can be as crazy as us. It was a good one too since we know most of the songs. Oh yea, we didn’t know the song that my cousin Ah Kia sang. He is another version of Eu Jin, only Eu Jin probably has a better voice than him. Ah Kia has a weird choice of songs too, but he sang out of tune almost the entire song and we kinda you know… Enjoyed the fun of listening to him! Hehehe… With my cousin sisters Sin Fei and Ju Lin around, we had lots of Lee Hom’s songs, and with my sister and me around, we had a good number of Jay Chou’s too! The 3 hours wasn’t enough, although it was already 12am! Second CNY Karaoke session!!! Yoo~Hoo~!I'm pretty sure we were getting real high singing 恋爱-ing!

Ah Kia, Ah Kia with his own rendition of Tong Hua.......

Rock on! Ducum and me love Karaoke!!!

Old schoolmates gathering… It’s like a compulsory gathering for ‘the gang’ every Cho Sam. Except for Ah Fa whom I always meet in KL, this is the only time of the year for me to meet the rest of ‘the gang’. One thing I really appreciate is the fact that although we only see each other once a year, we are never short of topics to talk about! We can just chit-chat non-stop and luckily the café we went this year was quiet enough, although Eng Keat definitely missed his food at Panorama, the hotel which we went for out CNY gathering every year! And of course, we are still the gang who love taking pictures, so there were tons of photos taken and I have to take my time to send them out to each of them!
Anywayz, I gave the 5sc6 class gathering a miss this year because of the Karaoke session. So sorry guys, hope to see you guys other days!

Haha... If you don't know, I can tell ya we love taking pictures together since we were in school!Big happy family of 'the gang', love you guys!

Stephanie Sun!!! No, it's just YY, who is yes residing in Singapore.

And not to forget, the non-stop food…Besides the reunion dinners I had, of course we have food every day, every hour, every minute and every second. I’m freaking serious! Probably because of the beliefs that during CNY you shouldn’t have empty rice container, we never had empty rice container, empty whatever! My granma cooked everyday that I feel bad for her. It’s pretty tiring you know! My aunt also had her steamboat for us on the third day, which I love a lot although I didn’t have much time to enjoy it. I mean, it’s my favourite steamboat! And what about those snacks we had? The CNY cookies, the bak gua, the fattening soft drinks and beer (which, fortunately I really take less this year), etc? Anywayz, I must admit, the dinner we had on the second day of CNY at the restaurant was lousy as compared to the price. The extra bit is I went to a temple near my house to pray. You know I never know how to do all these stuffs, I just followed my mom around and followed all the steps she did. I also went求签,you know the routine that you always see in the HK drama? The one that you hold a cylinder and shake until one of the sticks inside drop out? Ah, that’s the one! I went and asked about my career and about getting a job outside Malaysia. And guess what? I got a good one! I really wish that’s true! And erm… I just figured I forgot to wish everyone of you Happy Chinese New Year! So since it is still CNY, I wish all of you a very Happy Chinese New Year!!!

恭喜发财啊！龙马精神啊！身体健康啊！

新年新希望？？？

农历新年的到来不禁让我自我检讨了起来。
或许跟我过去几天和朋友聊天时聊起有关系。
也可能是因为回家了自然会和亲戚们聊起自己有关系。

过去的一年，我到底做过了什么？
打着一份自己不享受的工作、一份严重毁灭自己自信心的工作。
生活在一个每一秒都要提心吊胆的混乱城市里。
交际更糟，朋友感觉越来越少，感情一片空白。
平时当然没问题，可是到了一些特别的节日就感觉特别寂寞。
回到了家里，我已经没有什么好炫耀了，自然变得更安静。

其实我不是没有别的选择的。
只是我一直在说，都没行动。

我一直很怀念澳洲的生活、一直很想回去。
在那边或许不会做回本行，可是薪水一定更好、生活一定过得更开心。
那边朋友多、地方小，要和朋友见面只要一通电话就行了。
还有那边的各国美食、那边的治安、那边的天气。
哇，真的好想现在就飞回去！

我也一直说想到台湾去发展，一直一直那么说。
虽然没有明确的想过在那边我可以做些什么，可是一直觉得自己有一些小优点。
那边的文化、治安、美食、娱乐都令我不止想去旅行就算了那么简单。
即使没有很高的薪水，可是我还是很愿意到那儿去闯。
我一直在说，台湾，你等等我吧！

可是，我一直都没认真地行动过……

这几天我才开始发现我真的得做些东西了。
我真的有被朋友打动到，想说趁我现在有2个礼拜的假期可以到澳洲一趟。
去看看那边的情况、看看有什么工作机会。
只是没钱，实在不敢说去就去了。

我今年已经24岁了，感觉好像什么都还没成就过。
还真的是真正的“人又无，钱又无”。
什么计划也没有，没有想好要怎么存钱、要怎么变更有钱、要怎样好好报答爸妈、要怎么过以后的生活…….
哇，很糟的人生啊！
我以前一直幻想的生活好像不是这样的啊！

所以，我已经开始把自己的履历表重新整理，也打了一份中文版的。
包包，新的一年，是时候重新出发了！

A series of OMG!!!

OMG!!! Here's a look of my hair that I‘ve angrily pulled out from my own head! The very 'final product' by the stylist in Taiping who did the rebonding for me about a month ago.OMG!!! I just saw myself in the magazine! Couldn't believe they put that picture of me dancing during the stage play on! Next time, can they pick something that I look not so FAT???
OMG!!! I was very surprised when one of the friends that I chatted on Xiao Ma's forum told me that I'm the top three in the list of 'most posts' of the day! Here's a look on how crazy am I addicted to Xiao Ma's forum... I'm very sure my boss will be VERY DA HAPPY if I pay that much of effort on my work! :)