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Let's revive this blog for awhile~ I miss blogging! I miss writing (casually)! I have a new niece!! OK she's already six month old by now, consider throwback lah hah! Chen (my sister and the mother of the new niece) asked my mom to help in her confinement month, to cook, to do laundry and what not. Her MIL helped during her first born but she couldn't make it for this one so my mom is up. Since I was in the middle of correcting my thesis, I promised to go along as assistant when my correction was done. Her expected due was supposed to be on the end of Feb, which was few weeks after CNY. Everyone already planned their things. I too already planned my things. Finished correction in two weeks - go to KL. However, thing took an unexpected turn. On the 19th 7am, Chen messaged on our group chat saying her tummy hurts and she will go to the hospital after drop off her first kid Xuan at nanny. Two weeks early!!! I told Sing (le new bf) about it and that I might have...

Since I wrote about Shirlyn, it's only fair to write about my new niece Zhi Xuan too. Haha maybe I'm the only one to think that LOL! 16th Nov 2015, eeearly morning about 6 something, I woke up, turned on my phone and I saw several WhatsApp messages from our sisters group, At 5.30am Chen said she felt the pain and going to the hospital, then I slept back. Got excited also lah coz OMG OMG OMG the baby is coming!!!!!!!!! Woke up again at 8am and she said she's still waiting for the doctor and to be admitted. Several messages going around like she's been admitted, delivery room still occupied, this and that. I got up, morning bath and getting ready routine, got out of the house, had breakfast and by the time I reached lab at 10.30am, message came in said she's delivered! OMG SO FAST!! I've heard about people go into labor for hours and some even days, I expected the news to come at least on the noon or something, but that was FAST! Quickly demand for p...

Ah-Ma as in ‘grandmother’, Batnar as in a place’s name – where she’s from. Ah-Ma Batnar aka my paternal grandmother passed away on 19 th Aug, Wednesday, aged 95. That day, I was busy preparing for the 8.30am badminton tournament in UUM that I missed my mom’s call at 6.30am.  The boys who are long-time tournament participants advised us to switch off our phone to avoid distraction. I didn’t read any messages until after I finished my miserable first single game.  After losing the first single game, I finally had the time to look at my phone and the first thing that came to my mind after I saw the message dad sent was:”Yikes~ What about the next game?” At that moment, I wasn’t feeling sad or anything, instead, I felt troubled that I might not be able to play on the next game which was on Friday. After settling everything, I went back home that night. I still wasn’t feeling sad or anything even when I saw her in the coffin, but Wee Shirlyn creep the heck ...

...我婆婆/祖母的称呼。 Ah-Ma 就婆婆的意思，Batnar是地方名，她的老家。 我们家（爸爸那side）都是这样，以地方名叫人的 ，因为亲戚都住不同地方。 每当我跟人家说我的祖母是住甘榜里的时候，重点通常都会放在‘祖母’这个称呼上，他们都会说：“你不是在说你的婆婆吗？怎么说起你的Ah-joh （曾祖，婆婆的父母亲）呢？” ... ... ...好多人对亲戚关系称谓都欠佳呀~~ *****     *****     *****     *****     ***** 话说回来，Ama在阳历八月十九日去世，享年95 岁。 那天，我正准备八点半早上的羽毛球赛。一整个早上冲凉吃早餐什么的，看到娘亲六点半的 misscall 有点奇怪可是没时间回电，连信息也没看到。 ( 比赛前他们男生叫我们先把电话关掉以免影响情绪，他们都出赛出习惯了所以我很乖很听话 ) 结束了那场惨不忍睹乱七八糟的单人赛后，我才有时间看电话。 看到信息的那一瞬间，我当下第一个反应是：“啊 ~ 那接下来的比赛怎么办 … ” 算我不孝吧，当下心里除了一丝丝的伤感，有着更大的释怀 – 她终于解脱了。 星期五出殡，接下来的比赛也没得比了，一切事情交代就绪，当晚就回家了。 因为 Ah-Ma 在家去世，照老人家的意思，灵堂摆在家。 感觉真的很不孝很奇怪，看到 Ah-Ma 遗容我也没有太大的感伤，反而是黄智菱的反应倒是让我们吓一跳。

Last weekend, several states in Malaysia were hit by the worst flood in decades, including my hometown Kelantan (Kota Bharu town, to be exact). My house was fortunately spared from the flood but a lot of my relatives' houses and shops were badly damaged. On the first few days, I was very anxious and nervous while reading and looking the FB feeds, every Refresh or F5 came a new update on the water level, new pictures of affected places, even places I(we) never thought the water would go ever. At the same time, it was Christmas and the feeds were very much contradicting to each other as it was a mix between the flood and Christmas celebration. When the flooding went from bad to worse, I asked my sis "is the flood this time worse than the '04?" She said yes, and I shuddered.

Part 1: Hanoi , Part 2: Ha Long Bay , Part 3: Sapa Tour guide: ‘Zo’ Stay: Train + Hotel Fansipan View We were sent to the Hanoi train station by taxi, nearly late because of the road blocks of few roads due to the mid-autumn festival celebration (it’s a very big celebration in Vietnam). The Indochina Queen II Hotel assigned a bellboy to escort us from the hotel all the way to train boarding. Unlike the train ride in Hue, it seems a little more complicated to board the train in Hanoi. We were fortunate to have such a good service from the hotel to send a staff to guide us. The staff helped us to enquire about the tickets, waited with us for the train, and when the gate opened, he led us from the gate all the way to our cabin.

Part 1: Hanoi , Part 2: Ha Long Bay , Part 3: Sapa Tour guide of the day: Minh ‘Mike’ Stay: V’Spirit Classic Cruise Ha Long Bay, aka 下龙湾 , aka the Bay of Descending Dragon -- The new 7 wonders of the world. A van picked us up at the hotel at around 8am and started a 3 hours bumpy road journey along with some 20 tourists to Halong Bay.

Part 1: Hanoi , Part 2: Ha Long Bay , Part 3: Sapa Our first overseas family trip to Hanoi,Vietnam!! Woohoo!! We stayed at Indochina Queen II Hotel, Thuoc Bac Street in Hanot. 1. Hanoi City Tour Places: Ho Chi Minh Complex (Mausoleum, Museum, One Pillar Pagoda) -- Ethnology Museum -- Literature Temple (Quoc Tu Giam) -- Hoan Kime Lake 还剑湖 -- Water puppet show Tour guide of the day:  Benjamin We arrived Hanoi International Airport at about 9am local time, and the tour guide of the day, Benjamin, picked us up.

Went back last year with some unfortunate sucks-big-time bus incident , and decided to go back this year too since mom's birthday was around the corner (6th April). The actual day fell on the 4th of April. On this day, we had a simple praying rituals going on such as serving food to the deceased (of all) and burned paper money for them. The weather has been so hot for the past few weeks, I literally drank the whole bowl of lychees and pineapples cordial once it was removed from the praying table! We went to the paternal side on Friday, along with my aunties, uncles and cousins. The routine was pretty much the same, started at Tanah Merah grandpa's and great grandparents'. To simplify the praying process, the granduncles from 'nearby' were 'invited' to 'join' along with great grandparents during 'food serving' and praying. From 'inviting', it would simply be carrying incense stick, went to their grave, 'asked' them to go o...

Pre CNY: 1) Did a DIY hair dye again this year, using the same Liese Bubble Hair Dye but tried a different shade of color - pinkish range Cassie Berry. Decided to do it two weeks prior to CNY is because by that time, the smell would gone and the color would be more obvious, so the timing is just nice~ Bought the box at The Store for a dirt cheap price, RM26! (Retail price would be RM32++) Then only I realized the manufacturing date was on July 2011, so I leave a note on Liese's FB page for enquiry, and the rep said there is a life span of 3 years for all Liese products. Since my scalp doesn't feel any discomfort yet, let's just touch wood and hope it doesn't comes with any side effects in the future. Anyway, the first wash after dye (and on photo too) showed a very distinct reddish and pinkish shade, but as time goes by, the color started to be blonde/yellowish. I must have not evenly applying the bubbles evenly this time again, the color on the front part (f...

 Balik-ed Kampung last weekend for my godson Loke's birthday*, and some other stuff. *Loke's grandparents and aunties (who I am close with too) were surprised I showed up, so give face~ His mother has been asking me about it two months ago, how can I not give face leh!? As usual, dad came over to accompany back. During our way back, check this out! Look!!!  That poor fella was stuck at the wiper!! I was bored when I noticed something flapping on the windshield, and I took a close look at it - it's a butterfly!!! Since we were on the hilly road, there's no way we gonna stop to release it; at that point I thought it's dead! Oh hell no, it was so much alive when we stopped for fuel refill, I was so scared of releasing it because it flapped its wings! Ewww~ Finally it freed itself and flew away~ Frustrated stuff : If any of you is kind enough to take note of my FB status, you would know that I've been in deep shit frustration about my 3G mo dem + wi ...

这趟回家是为了小宝贝干儿子林沅乐的一岁生日派对。毕竟他娘早在几个月前就跟我说了，还不出席的话真的是找死啊~~~ As usual,咱爹又千里迢迢地去加央陪我驾车回家。我当然可以骗他说我是有伴陪我回酱他就甭山长水远跑来 ，又不是没骗过，可是....算了懒得解释。就当我是Daddy's girl吧~ 回家路上，看到这个！！ 让我尖叫一番!  竟然有只蝴蝶卡在我的wiper中...当我以为它已经被强风憋得毙命，车停下来添油时我尝试‘移动’它，翅膀还动着!!有一轮尖叫...   悲： 回去四五天，我就花了四五天弄我那些天杀的网络咚咚。 Subscribe了个broadband配套，买了个TP Link MR3040 3G Wireless Router。 说来奇妙，那些 咚咚，虽然在加央时操作也不见得很好，可是一回到家，什么都不能用 !!连电话要用家里的无限上网都上不到!!! 那几天，我坐着的那个角落堆积着千斤重的 叹气和怨恨声... 作么会酱咧!? FYI: 终于 在今天(3/11/2012)解决了问题 !!! 其实只是改了个transmission mode的setting ，因为 Noob如我不知道B,G,N是什么东西，选了 BGN mixed ，结果就不了了之了... 喜 一 ： 主角登场！  p/s:我没拍到什么照片，因为大多数是她们的亲戚 ，我不认识，害羞~~~ 生日派对办在星期五他们家。主人准备了好多东西啊!!   话说那粒蛋糕花了父母不少钱呢~~ 一岁的林沅乐 ， 会爬， 已经可以原地站起来，还不敢走路 ，很爱爬楼梯！！ 我这干娘做得实在很敷衍，找不到什么适当的礼物，惟有包个小红包祝他快高长大！ 那戴着手表的手是我滴 ^^ 喜二： 莫过于吾家小女皇黄智菱咯~~~   话说这位小肥虽然只有四个月 要进 五个月大，可是她的体型可不是那回事啊~ 这位小肥已经接近超重边缘了!! 虽然大个子娃娃抱起来比较不怕会折断她的小手小脚，可是也因为她大个子，抱没两下就肌肉酸痛了啊~~~而且她还不会坐，基本上这个大娃娃就只能躺着或翻身一下子...整个小麻烦一个~~ p/s:吾娘也说，现在她比较情愿照顾奶奶，至少可以把奶奶放在家...

Went to KL few weekend ago for some personal business and family gathering, since everyone including the baby was in town too. Shir-B-Lyn went to KL to visit her grandma who is sick and stays with her aunt in Puchong. There's some miscommunication on our side, that resulted me drive from North-South Highway, exit through Kota Damansara, to Danau Kota Setapak through Sprint Highway, then went all the way to Puchong via Duke + Penchala + LDP later. Luckily the heavy traffic didn't cramp my clutch-pressing leg -_- Shir-B-Lyn is still as cute as a button, but she was quite cranky at the time, I bet it tore her grandma's heart apart when she cried so loud towards her grannie. Bad bad girl Dad tried to comfort her After a few while, she's back to the smiley phase, and we played roll over in the bedroom. Rolled! She can roll to the left but has trouble rolling to the right Her aunt treated us dinner at a restaurant in Puchong. Getting ready to go out!! ...

P/S: I (the blog owner) was thinking about writing only one post of my dear little niece, but then it's not fair for those who can't read Mandarin, so here I am, writing about her in English, in first person narrative. P/P/S: I have been soooo lazy. Sorry for the much-delayed post. Hello world!! I think you might know who I am by now from my aunties' FB, and I acknowledge EVERYONE who say how freakingly cute I am (although I know it's the freaking truth!) . I was born in 6th June 2012, so I celebrated my full moon 'party' last Friday. Almost everyone was there, except my 姑姑s and 二姨 The 'Crocodile', but it's fine on my side because I've been grumpy and hard to please most of the times. I am now weighed at 4.6kg, and still has that hairy hair which make everyone screams of jealousy and excitement. I LOVE sleeping with my arms folded and raised beside my ears! So, sometimes my evil ah yi would disturb my sleep like: ^...this... Once in a while, I l...