Pop Yeh Yeh night

I was in Putrajaya, KL with famly on 30 May till 2 June. We were there for my husband's company  Sport Carnival . This time, the organizer encouraged spouses to take part in the event. I left with no option, but to join netball and badminton games. This was my first time playing netball in my entire life, and I have forgotten how to hold a badminton racket.

Never mind, forget about the games. My girls were more excited at the Pop Yeh Yeh theme dinner.  I was initially very reluctant to dress them and myself up for the theme, because I knew the organizer (KL headquarter) sure knew better what to wear than any other branches. We sure had no chance to win.

On second thought, we might as well have fun and dress for the theme, than bored ourselves to max throughout the night.

I discussed with Yvonne in the office.  I have to thank her for borrowing me some accessories to mix and match with my girls' outfits.

May was wearing her last year concert dance costume. I found it very colourful though it wasn't really the 60's fashion of Pop Yeh Yeh. 

 I got April a purple sunglasses from Alamanda Shopping Mall on the day before the dinner.  Meaning, I only invested RM9 for the Pop Yeh Yeh theme. Polkadot is the trend of 60s fashion. 

As for myself, little black dress with yellow round earrings, yellow beads necklace, gold belt, turquoise bangles , turquoise leggings. 

Aiyoyo, I should have styled my hair by combing all up and tying it with a red scarf.  My hair style was way to simple for the Pop Yeh Yeh night. 

We registered ourselves at the front desk, but only April appeared to have more confident to win.  I kept reminding her to prepare for the lost. I didn't want her to get too disappointed, just in case she didn't win. 

The dinner was officially started when the live band and singers got up on to  stage to perform all "60an lagu-lagu pop". 

The most anticipating program, children category best dress for Pop Yeh Yeh theme. April was the number 3 winner. She was so happy. 

The adult category best dress winners.  I would say adult category winners were much better than children category winners. As expected, Yan and May lose in contest. T___T 

April got RM150 AEON vouchers. She later spent all on Papa's checker shirt RM70 from Camel,  Mam's pajamas RM30 , May's shirt and pants RM 25 and also her own shirt and pants RM 25.

Though our family didn't contribute any medal , Perak branch still emerged as the overall champion in year 2013 Sport Carnival. Bravo!. 

During this 4D3N stay at Hotel Residence Uniten, I didn't travel out of Putrajaya. I only went shopping at Alamanda once.

Nevertheless, we still enjoyed the sport carnival, the Pop Yeh Yeh dinner, travel around Putrajaya and our stay in the Hotel Residence to its fullest. 

Best friend forever

In case you are wondering why I suddenly MIA from blog sphere, I am busy at work. Too busy until I couldn't get active in blogging. Sorry for not being able to leave my comments in your posts. I will try to catch up on weekends.

There were so many things happened in the past few weeks, and I have so many things to share. I have so little time. When I get online, I don't know whether I should read news, read FB, read blogs or read emails.

Basically, I engage with work in the day and engage with my fitness routine in the evening. Next week, school reopens, I foresee that I will be busier.

My besties Sasa was back in last May. Su In (my another besties from Penang ) decided that we should meet up before Sasa went back to US again.

We met for lunch at Tao (Japanese Buffet Restaurant) Auto City at Juru.

We knew each other from my previous company in Penang. They were my ex colleagues. We click to each other and become best friend since then. If you are following my blog long enough, you should have heard me talking about them many times.

First time, I met Sasa's hubby, Alan. He is such a friendly and nice guy.

Yours truly with the forever young and sweet Su In and her son, Jefferson. 

My two princesses with Jefferson.

Su In, Sasa and me don't meet each other often, but when we meet, we truly love each other, motivate each other, encourage each other, enhance and make each other happy.
We know each other for more than 15 years, we never jealous of each other, at least I never feel a single bit of envious ever exist in us.

A BFF quote: "
Remember, you don’t need a certain number of friends, just a number of friends you can be certain of."
Su In and Sasa are the two I can be very certain of.

After your auntie visit

I am a once or twice a year blood donor. I can't donate my blood as frequent as every 3 months, because I need to adjourn whenever my big auntie visit me on monthly basis.

I went to donate my blood last two week, this was my first time this year.

As usual, I was examined and asked specific questions about my medical history to make sure that donating blood is not hazardous to my health. Then, I proceeded to the counter to have my blood pressure evaluated. After that, my haemoglobin level was tested. When I thought that everything would be alright like previous rounds. I was rejected and was told to go home. Sobs...........

Apparently, my haemoglobin was below the accepted level. I wasn't eligible to donate my blood this time, as the loss of blood may make me anemic. T____T.

Hence, I decide to take more nutrient every month after my big auntie left.

Sunday, I cooked the easy Eight Treasure Soup (八珍汤) with chicken. I have to cook this 8 treasure soup and the 10 whole nourishing soup (十全大补汤) every month to rejuvenate my body after menses. I really hope it helps.

I also cooked brown rice with some shredded sweet potatoes to increase the Fiber intake for the whole family.

By the way, 8 treasure soup  isn't only good for female, it is suitable for all sexes, especially if you are anemic, or suffering from faint spell and poor appetite.

May is 7 today

May is sweet.
May is easy going.
May laughs easily and spontaneously.
May is cheeky.
May loves reading.

Today is her birthday. We celebrated on Last Friday, because her papa was busy on the weekend.

We took her for dinner at Sushi King, then went for an animation movie, Epic.



Back at home, we had her Birthday cake as our supper. She was eyeing on the Swan sunglasses at the mall. I just got it for her as her Birthday present. She said that she can dance Gangnam Style better now.

Her big sister presented her present. She was so delighted opening her present while her jie jie helped her to cut the rest of the cake.

April bought May the Rilakkuma pencil case. She wants to use it in the next semester.

I love May running to me and hugging me from behind. I like when she said that she misses me a lot.

"No matter how old you are, to me you always my little May. Have a brilliant Birthday."

I married him on Wesak Day

I married him on Wesak Day in year 2002.

Since then, I know that I have found the right one.

Because....

he cooks us hearty soups on weekends when he doesn't need to work. His daughters said that their papa's soup tastes even better their grandma's one. I have to agree on them.

whenever I told him that I wanted to lose some weight, he would buy me Fiber drink or other health food without me asking  him to do so. Most the time, these healthy drinks tasted really awful, and I would ask him not to buy again.

in some evenings, when I rested my two legs on couch or lazed on my bed, he would bring me fruits that he had cut into cubes and chilled them earlier in fridge. May be you would say that this is just an easy job. To me, these are the best ever snack on scorching hot days, I  will be delighted like a small girl each time he serves me these.

when my PIL were away for holiday, we came home and saw him had laid these dishes on the dining table.  We savoured everything empty like hungry ghosts. During my PIL's a week holiday, he every day cooked us different food, from  pasta, fried rice to dishes and rice. All tasted fantastic. How not to praise him for being such a caring man?

I have told my daughters umpteen times, benchmarking their papa as their future ideal man. I hope that my daughters will find a guy like their father in future.

To my dear, thanks for everything.

Ironing on weekends

I only do my ironing on weekends. Unless I am out of town on weekends, otherwise I will do ironing once a week only either on Saturday or Sunday.

I need to iron my working uniforms and my girls' school uniforms. Luckily I don't need to iron my husband's working uniforms. He wears company T-Shirt to work. May be he doesn't want me to iron so many clothes, that is why he wearing company T-Shirt everyday. Muacks!

Altogether I need to iron at least 20 pieces at one go.

Last Sunday, I was home alone doing ironing from 8.10pm to 9.30pm. Do I consider fast in my ironing job?

Under this scorching hot weather, I sweat like I have just done my 6km/h jog when I have done with the ironing. I think I burned quite a lot of calories by standing for more than an hour and moving my right arm on the ironing board.

Are you folks also an Iron Man or Iron Lady on weekends?

Smell the roses

Exam was over, school break is started soon. Yippie!

The girls have got back some of their exam papers. They are scoring fairy good, though there are still 1 or 2 papers to be collected back today.

We can temporary stop to smell roses until the next semester starts. Well, I let the girls watch a bit more of TV, play a bit of games and toys, read more books, do more drawings, practise more piano, swim more and train more in table tennis.

The night after their last paper. The girls and their nursery members.

They claim themselves as the nursery teachers. They will read, tell stories and read to the nursery.

These were the four newly added nursery members. Hello Kitty from McD.

School is out this Friday for 2 weeks. We plan to go for a short getaway again. Perhaps, catch one or two animation movies during the school break.