8.30am – Reach the counter. Took ticket number 16.

9.30am – Counter ASN open for sales.

9.45am – System not moving.

10.00am – System not moving

10.15am – SOLD OUT!!!

Can you imagine this happened in CIMB Bank? No one get to buy the ASN (Amanah Saham Nasional) share.

Then I go to Maybank and kaypoh a bit. Two customers get to buy. Then kaypoh-kaypoh a bit again. Was told that more than 16 Maybank Priority members get to buy the shares. One of them is my kolig la. How can! What system is this man!

Itu je, sekian berita…..

If only this truck can transform into a robot…

He’s going to be Optimus Prime! But Optimus Prime is blue & red. Or better still, this shall be the mix breed of ironhide! Muahaaahaaa…

Fuhyoh!

Throughout the movie, images of Hoover Dam keep on flashing back. Hubby and me keep on nudging each other,

“Eh, we’ve been here.”

“Eh, we take photos here.”

“Aiyah, too bad we didn’t visit their engine room.”

Like a grown up kids, once again we are overly excited watching Transformers with some filming took in Hoover Dam.

Do you remember the part where the Nokia phone transformed into a bot and drop and roll into the dam and crash?

This is the place la.

Most of the filming footage took in the engine room. Aiseh, next time must go visit Hoover Dam again.

You must be asking why suddenly I digged my Hoover Dam pic. There’s a forum called Asia Travel Forum. Currently, they are running a Photo Contest for Asiayak members only. If you want to participate, you have to register to be a member of their forum. Next, post up some pictures on your vacation and accompany by description of approximately 100 words. To double up your chances of winning, blog about it in your blog.

The Grand prize is an Air Asia air ticket. Should you choose not to accept that, you can opt for the cash prize of US$150; approximately RM517.00. Not bad for just submitting photos and praying for it to win. Other Merit Prize Winners will receive AsiaYak’s Limited Edition T-Shirts (fitted to the size you requested – LUCKLY!).

I’ve posted my entry in the forum. Now, wish me luck. If you want to win some Air Asia air ticket to no-where, hurry! Don’t proscracinate anymore. Register as a member and start submitting your entry before August 15, 2007.

Method:

Soak bird’s nest till soft in filtered water. Discard water and replace with clean water.  Double boiled bird’s nest and sliced American Ginseng in a clay pot for 5 hours.  However, red bird nest took a longer time to cook compared to white bird nest which needs only 3 hours to cook. 10 minutes before done, add in rock sugar to taste.

The fact is, we DON’T eat the bird nest. We ate their puke! Shall we re-named it Bird Puke and not Bird Nest?

p/s:  I cooked 4 pieces of Bird’s Nest at one go.

Lately, there’s too many murder cases reported in the newspaper. What have this world turn into? Mother killed daughter, father killed wife, boyfriend killed girlfriend. This is never ending.

Few weeks back, my residence area make headlines in the chinese newspaper. If you recalled, the case where a 41y/o housewife was raped and murdered in her house. Police then remanded her hubby and her maid as the suspect.

So, me go pat-pat with other neighbours, hair dresser and my daughter’s chauffeur. Is lidis wan….

The housewife suffered from post natal syndrome since dunno when. She is very weak and can’t even carry her own baby. She has an Indonesian maid at home. But this Indonesian maid is very fierce towards her. The maid will scold her and so on. However, the maid is very afraid of the “Sir”. As usual la, the maid will act like an angel whenever the “Sir” is around.

Since the murder case, neighbour suspect that it might be the work of the maid cos one of the neighbour saw the maid helping the intruder to climb on the roof.

As how the rumours go round that the maid and the “Sir” is having an affair, that one I dunno la. Even the neighbours claimed that the relationship between the husband & wife is close.

So, today’s lesson is……

If you have a maid at home, please, please instal a CCTV or spycamera or whatever the gadget at home for safety reason. Dunno which one to buy? Go to Spy Review and choose one that suits your household. What?  No money to buy? Then make your own spy gadget la.

Not only maid will abuse children. Master of the house also she abuse. You see la. What type of people we have now?

It’s been 2 months now since we are without a TeeVee. The projector is still serving us well and gawd knows when the projector bulb is going to fuse! Just another right theme this month as we have been playing shadow game.  This is one of the ‘Kids Game’ that I used to play during my childhood.

Fyi, that is Pocahontas in the backdrop and I think Daughter’s butterfly hand is not supposed to be seen. Ah, well…. another time then.

By the way, can someone teach me how to make dog shadow? Please?

Ramble #1

Yesterday my car was hit from the back. Nothing serious. I’m fine. My car is fine. But my car’s butt is not fine. Went to make a police report last night cos the repair on the other party’s car cost more. Not that her car is seriously damaged but, but,…. SHE IS DRIVING A 2 MONTHS OLD HYUNDAI SONATA GOLD!

Ramble #2

Nowadays, police report is computerised. Back then, when you make a police report, the officer will be there typing out everything in computer or even type writter. Nowadays, after filing for a report and with the report number, all you need to do is “fill in the blanks with your correct answer” in the computer that is provided. No need talk so much lor. But you still need to see the Sargent.

Ramble #3

8.20am – LDP highway leading to Bandar Utama is freaking jam. Why leh? Because today is Jaya Jusco Member’s Day sale lor. Morning, morning already jam. *ish!

Ramble #4

After meeting up with Dr. George and lately the Editor of Ultimate Travel Experience, I need to get my fix of drug. I mean…. Oxygen. errrr…. I mean diving la! Can you imagine this, you met the Editor at some ATM machine and thought both of you can sit down and yam cha. Mana tau, he say,

“I’m rushing la. I’m here to get some cash. My taxi is waiting outside. I’m flying to Bali.”

“Go Bali for holiday ah?”

“Ya, go diving!”

Wah lau eh. Don’t make me jealous la.

Ramble #5

(Wah, you are still here reading my ramble? Thank you very much!)

I’ve bought another new domain. Hop over ya? Tell me if I need any improvement.

I was in my usual blog-hijacking and was reading Oliviasy’s “First Dish Entrance Performance” which reminds me of something that I wanted to share long time ago but has been long forgotten.

Is lidis wan….

This happened in a small town far far away called Kg. Koh or better known as Sitiawan. Although the town is small, when you talk about wedding dinner, it is always held in a school hall to accommodate at least 70 tables. That is equivalent to 700 guests, mind you! This is very normal cos when you invite the husband and wife, surely one or two children is going to tag along. Happens if they don’t have anyone to look after the kids, ding dong, ding dong, 3 or 4 children coming also la. They say “The More The Merrier”. You have to agree with them. No?

“Only big city got this type of presentation. Small town mana ada. They play the tong tong chiang for the bride and groom to enter the hall. After that, not even a announcement, everyone started to pig in. “

The moment they assigned their own table, they (guests) will hide one big bottle of Coca-Cola under the table (*evil grin). And you also see this on the table:

Cleber! Everyone know this is plastic bag hor. (If you can’t tell it’s a plastic bag, go bang your head on the wall.)

Plastic bag for what leh? For tapau food lor. Let say you are seated with some big-fat-guy-that-just-came-out-from-prison, dunno how many months never eat liao, no more food to tapau. Nevermind wor. No food to tapau, you ma tapau the plastic bag lor.

No need to paiseh, paiseh wan. Just tapau la. If plastic bag not enough or not BIG enough, there is always more to come.

Nah! Red-red dei plastic bag. Very auspicious colour somemore!

p/s: pssstt… on your way out, don’t forget that Coca-cola still hiding under the table.

p.p/s: Jaymes called this PPP (pang pui post)

This white belt girl has passed her Grade 8 – Yellow Belt exam. Too bad, she is a bit shy for YATTHAAAAAAAAAA!

After her Taekwondo class on Sunday, Yellow Belt Girl and Daddy is having a little cross word. Out of the sudden,

Yellow Belt Girl: Eh, Dad, I got yellow belt liao.

Daddy: Ya leh. I notice your belt. No need talk so loud. Action only.

Mummy: Get yellow belt liao can talk loud to Daddy. If get black belt can beat Daddy hor.

(Father and daughter just laugh!)

If only Dr. BernardChan willing to buy my blog, I can retired and be a happy SAHM aka Sexy And Hiao Mum.

No lar!!!!

SAHM stand for Stay At Home Mom and FTWM stand for Full Time Working Mom.

7 good reason why I want to be a FTWM:

1. I will go crazy looking after kids 24/7!
2. Expecting to see some figures in my bank account every month end.
3. I have the right to buy anything that I like without getting a consent.
4. We don’t have to play dressing up at home or pretend throwing a tea party with Teddy or Barbie.
5. Going on a holiday anytime cos I have a babysitter to look after kids.  Oh, talking about which….
6. Who wants to join me in J.J. Member’s Day Sale?  No kids please!  Thank you very much.
7. If you disagree with me, please refer to item 1 again.

Come to the tagging…. (*scratching head & butt)

1. Sashablablabla (My answer to your question hor, resign la since your priority is your family.  Plus now, have to travel to Manila again.  Later low kong angry, how?)
2. RamblingMoo
3. Leah’s Cafe

*Please visit the rest for instruction on the chain tagging thingy cos I’m breaking the chain here.*

I know of some people that doesn’t eat ikan kembung (mackerel fish) cos they claimed it’s the fish for cheapo that can’t afford to buy imported Salmon fish. I couldn’t care less about that remark. I grew up eating ikan kembung all my life and my Mom used to get the freshest ikan kembung from Pangkor Island.

The best way to savour the fresh ikan kembung is by steaming them plain without anything. Line your fishes on a steaming plate. Rub some salt on it if you like. But I like them as plain as possible cos you will get the flavour from dippings.

Ingredients for Dippings:

2 bombay onions (slice thinly)
1 cili padi (bird eye chili)
1 teaspoon of cincalok (fermented shrimps)
1/2 teaspoon of sugar
2 limau nipis (lime) juice

Method: Mix all the above in a dipping bowl. Easy right?

Initially, I was using one lime and found the dipping lack of juices. I then went back again to my garden to pluck another lime and saw my peppermint leaves and decided to include them in.

Of course you don’t put the whole peppermint leaves in there. What I am showing you is for presentation sake. After snap-snap pic… chop-chop-chop… it went into the dippings again.

Note: You may substitute mackerel fish with stingray and cincalok with soysauce.