nothing much has happened lately. so here's hoping that a barrage of pics (mainly food lol) a blog post maketh.





dinner/supper with hubby at A-One Porridge (opp Imbi Palace) one evening after my work/his gym - it was a rainy evening so the porridge was puurfect. the steamed chicken was succulent and juicy too. i got greedy and ordered one biji of century egg. the guilt weighing on me (heh) but it was delish! :D came to abt RM25 for the 2 of us.





lunch at nirwana, bangsar with the girls LL & MC. loved the colours, loved the food. loved the tiramisu dessert too (from alexis, one block down =) loved the catching up and the making fun of. don't really love the (at least) four fund solicitors who stopped by our table throughout the session.




i haven't used the sewing machine for gondunkulous years. but like swimming and driving, you don't really lose the skills. :D then again, i made a major boo-boo which had me un-stitching the entire piece. argh. so yeah, it took me like 3 hours to sew one piece of pillow cover. so fail.




the sewing machine, which gave my legs quite a workout (it has a pedal that needs to be .. pedaled to move the needle) and my mind a good walk down memory lane =)




my mom's guzheng, which distracted me even more from my sewing effort. hehehe..i learned that this thing has only the Do, Re, Mi, So & La strings.. (and according to wiki, you could get Fa & Ti.. by doing something.. i don't rber haha) my first session, and probably my last.




a super late lunch in broga, semenyih, one sunday after church. it was a longggg drive o.O we had 2 fish and lamb and vege, all cooked the same style -- wrapped in aluminium foil cooked over charcoal. quite delish, i must say, but definitely not worth the journey. stopped by Kajang on our way back for satay (i don't rber the name, but it is the only Chinese-operated shop around). that, was worth the journey. burrp!

hello, sheryl chong :)

at our fav tongsui place, sweet bean, in sri petaling. prices have gone up since our last visit (2 bowls like this used to cost abt RM3, now it's like RM4++), but their sesame and peanut paste are still the best ones around and quite worth paying for [we've been disappointed enough times, haven't we? =(]

at the balcony of my office -- level 42 of a certain building :) it's a nice view of the hazy city, and more importantly more for a sickly me that Friday when i snapped this - it was warrrm. i usually slip out here to take private calls, or just for the sun when my @$$ is freezing off in the office.



just got this book in the mail this morning! it was my first purchase from bookdepository.co.uk :D cost me  USD12.76 (abt RM40.. which is about the price of a regular book.. this book retails for USD13.99 so technically i got it cheaper online than i would have from a bookstore, if they carried this title =) -- and best of all, delivery is FREE! (well, the same book costs about USD10 from amazon.com but they'd wanted to charge me a delivery fee of USD9 o_O)

yay - one item struck off from wishlist! :D



chicken soup for the body and soul. it's a huge pot -- it makes for about 4-5 big bowls of soup -- but hubby and i being avid soup drinkers -- we could finish this in a sitting or two :D

since my last update, i've only gotten worse. sunday came and went like a dream. and nightmare. got an MC and stayed in and slept my day away. boiled this (chicken soup with corn and carrot and potaytoes) before i was knocked out from first course of cough syrup and flu pill after the visit to the doc's. woke up in the evening, drank some and took my 2nd course of med. still groggy the day after. @_@ argh.)



my mom's stuff (that small rusty box containing drawing chalk must be about my age! that ruler too! and a pair of scissors to cut the cloths..) for my mini project. :D can't describe the euphoria that sweeps me every time i think about/work on it. :D slowwww and steady....

i was supposed to be making this:

garlic and lemon roasted chicken with potatoes


but the chicken ended up being an ingredient in this:

chicken lotus root soup with peanut, red dates and wolfberries

which is still very yummy but for the circumstances about it. cos you see...


/begin rant/


arggghhhh..

i'm all miserable and whiny now. it started with that tiny cough on Tuesday evening just before i met up w FL in bangsar (glad to finally meet up, and again, congrats re. the bun in the oven! :D) -- i knew the moment i coughed that cough that it was not a good sign.

by the time i met up w my parents and bro (who came back for a quick visit) on Wed nite (ate in serdang.. yummy!), the itchiness has flared up..

Thursday night i was a good girl and stayed in, but the cough persisted. i'd begun taking cough syrup (remainder from a previous visit) - it was the non-drowsy type so i was kept awake until i slept from tiredness.

by Fri morn, it was *coughcoughcough* and when i got into the office, i felt feverish. saw the doc, got a half day MC, hung on for a meeting after lunch (thankfully, it ended early) and left for home by 3. hubby said he cld pick me from work but as the weekend coincided with the PC fair, driving to town is insane so i took the train.. got home by 4ish. had lunch/dinner. spoke to chongy for a bit (which reminds me that by now she kinda owes me a story :D) and went to bed by 6.

slept til 3ish when my fever came back and got me really restless. i was going up and down the stairs going to the loo, drinking water, taking panadol (i just finished a whole strip in 24 hours argh) and more cough syrup, re-cooling the ice pak each time it got warm, switching on and off the aircond to adjust to my body temp, and generally waking my hubby up each time i move about. arggghhh...

hubby woke up at 6 to go hiking at bukit gasing -- about the same time i fell back into prolonged sleep.. got up and 11ish, stayed in bed til 4ish. watched the Informant! (matt damon ooh) nose started to get runny and itchy. went for music prac nevertheless (i hope i didn't infect anyone -- i stayed far away from everyone). came home aft prac. drank soup (yums!) and now. in bed. miserable. argh. ARGGH.

i feel like my weekend's been robbed! noooooOOOoOoOoOoo.. why? WHY??

/end rant/

God, i pray that tonight's sleep will restore health to my body. thank you that my body is working hard at combating whatever germs and diseases i've caught.

this awkwardness between us, i wish there wasn't.


today's mood: optimistic


maybe one day. :)