Yippie's 9th Birthday @ Home. And yeah...MANU wins.

My youngest brother will turn 9 this 21st and we had an early celebration for him.
It was meant to be a mini-family affair with a simple meal together.
Steamboat was the method of cooking. Hassle-free. Ideal for >10 ppl.
Here am I with the celebrated boy:

Attendees for the night was of course my parents, siblings, grandma, aunt, Jasmine, Ian, Chun Wei, and Calvin, to make the party merrier!

And not to forget, it was a night where 5 MANU supporters gather (and 2 anti-MANU=DAD&BRO).

It was THE much-awaited Manchester derby which determines the fate of both clubs.  

I thought it was a good idea having steamboat as we could wait for the food to get cooked while all of us get glued to the idiot box. I was reluctant to move my ass to fetch food so CW had to do it most of the time :p

A short review of the match: Rooney started the match although he wasn't fully recovered, looked frustrated most of the time, good chances missed, Tevez was not as outstanding as during the Neville-Tevez spat, game was frustrating to watch for there wasn't anything to be celebrated, and why were all the 3 old horses playing the full match.

As good as getting booked for bad tackles most of the time, Scholesy was brilliant in slotting in the only goal of the match 20 seconds from time with a FANTASTIC header! The feeling and atmosphere was so great that for that second, we thought we were at Manchester, screaming our lungs out and high-fiving each other in victory! Yeah!!!!

I particularly like this celebratory pic:

Next we celebrated the victory erm..I mean Jun Yip's birthday with a cake! A home-made jelly cake with the shape of a clown:

[Pic to be uploaded once available from http://www.weinij.wordpress.com/]

And then it was presents time! I personally love opening presents and can't describe how much I enjoy other people revealing their presents..hehe...

But not too easy tho. He was expecting a Nintendo Gameboy and I wasn't going to let him get it so easily...I'm good at setting pranks :p

So here it is the 1st present. Jun Yip was SO confident that he named all 3 guesses as Gameboy. When he opened it....imagine the look on his face...no, it was not as I imagined. He graciously accepted the gift more than anyone would have imagined! What a sport!

So Jasz requested for a kiss in order to grant his wish. And he did...

And wish is granted!

Another kiss got him another gift!

An Adidas watch from Jasz and Ian...

A beautiful family picture as finale:

Oh ya, grandma remembered to take the jelly cakes home >< (how could she not? : D )

Let's Yak Again!

Good morning, good afternoon, good evening...whenever you are reading my first post *ahem* after 'disappearing' for almost 2 good years!
I finally decided to pick up where I left yakking 2 years ago...due to sheer determination (I really need this due to mere laziness, carelessness, and just-don't-feel-like-continuing attitude) :p
Well, I always wanted to do up my own banner and don't look down on me, I've finally made it! Thanks to GIMP! -->I still don't know what's the full name for this but it's Photoshop-like. No, I really don't know coz I'm a Photoshop genre dummy!
So....here I am yakking again...in the middle of the night..still feeling GOOD for being able to post my FACE on the banner!
Thanks to WeiniJ for the lovely capture :D

Till then, let's wait for my next eagerly awaited post! (ahem!)

A Dramatic Turnaround

Waking up in the middle of the night, half awake and struggling to keep my eyelids open, the creation of history was in the making. Seldom do we see people so united in waking up in the middle of the night, but it was a different story when we are talking about champions in action.

Having awaited eagerly for this moment to happen some 2 weeks ago, I couldn't possibly let this opportunity slip even if I had to crawl to work the next morning! It was some time ago since my siblings and I actually watched Tv in the middle of the night, and yet still feeling so energetic!

The duel between these champions started off with a blast! I was so certain that Man Utd would win the trophy as the 1st half was so incredible for them. But as soon as 2 crucial chances were missed, I couldn't help but decided that luck wasn't on their side! And I was right when Lampard scored the equaliser!

Well, we still had 2nd half to go, so still struggling to keep my eyelids open, I placed my trust in the team I supported since I was 14. Was a lil' bit disappointed with Man U's performance as it was mostly dominated by the enemy! A few nerve-wrecking moments almost made me fell of the comfortable sofa I was lying on! Phew! It was damn near...

Had some laughs too as the antics of some of the players were really silly and childish. Into the extra time, I was certain that the penalty shootout was gonna take place. Everybody's legs seemed to cramp, and it looked as though no one's gonna kick the ball properly anymore, it was such a lamer in the extra.

I felt that Lady Luck was not smiling on MU as the PFA Player of the Year missed the spot! At that moment, I can only describe the feeling as numb. Disappointed. But still hopeful. I had always thought that the team which takes the shootout first would eventually win the match. And I thought that I was wrong, until the 5th spot kick taken by Terry. I was wishing, deep down in my heart, that Terry would kick like how Lampard did during the World Cup for England. I could hardly breathe as the kick was taken and.......AAHHhhHHh!!!! I couldn't believe my eyes as I saw Terry slipped and sent the ball wide! It was a miracle, to not finish that off, and to give MU a glimmer of hope. Well, it was still a draw then.

At that very moment, I felt that Lady Luck has definitely been smiling on MU. I was amused at Van der Saar's psychological move, which was a brilliant one indeed when he succeeded in tricking Anelka to send the ball to the way he wanted him to! Sounded like hynotism...

The moment 'Shaggy' (I always thought that Van looks like Shaggy from Scooby Doo ;P) punched the ball away, I was screaming my lungs out, but without noise as my parents were asleep! I was so hysterical, so joyous, and it was damn unbelievable to see history made this way. It was really a moment to savour. My 'teammates' celebratory mood almost moved me to tears, and indeed it was a little shame to see Chelsea lost after putting up such a good fight.

Well done to both teams, but champions are still champions.

Champs of Champs

The true champs of the champs will truly be the Man...I'm referring to Man United, for sure.
Having clinched the Premiership for 2 years in a row is no easy feat, what more with emerging talented player sign-ups by filthy rich teams (you know which I mean) and also the constantly improving teams.

I have to apologize to Scholes & Giggs as at one point of time, I have basically brushed aside their skills which I had linked with age :P Kudos to the oldies! The saviour in needing times!


But a champion is not a champion until he is, internationally. They are gonna prove some critics wrong, whom at one time refer them as 'Jaguh Kampung'. Well, this only usually happens to Malaysians ;p


So make a date this 22nd May, 2a.m, only at ESPN.

Please take your time to read this...

As you are reading this, you will slowly realise that you have always possessed something precious worth searching...

Sometimes, you won't realise that it's there until you really look for it...
Sometimes, you won't realise that it's there until you stumble upon it...
Sometimes, you won't realise that it's there until you are reminded about it...

Let's not waste any more time.

This is especially for you...please look for it yourself! hehe...

Our Vacation, Boring But Fun

Taking a day off to complete a whole stretch of holidays, Chun Wei and I decided to visit Fraser's Hill as my last visit was 17 years ago while he had never been there! After packing everything, Naughty drove us up! Basically, we sort of just follow road signs and would rejoice whenever we see something that would led us to our destination...







And we finally saw something that wrote 'Bukit Fraser'...what a relieve! The journey there was basically mundane, but nevermind as we could never stop chatting and doing all sorts of funny things together :) While Mix FM was always there till we reached.







This is what we saw along the way, basically. Nothing much to blog about. Haha...
Mountains, roads, sea, mountains, roads, sky, mountains, smaller roads, sky...






We finally reached!!! That's the old, trademark clock! Just had to get a quick shot of it! Whoever who comes here definitely has to pose with it!
After all the impromptu clicks, we had to settle down in a hotel first! We had a few quick rounds around the resort, but...all the others looked more like unkempt eerie bungalows/apartments which basically and immediately drove us off at once! Luckily we had earlier booked a room at Shahzan's Inn (which was the best among all).




Here I am outside the hotel! Behind me is a tiny fountain place, which I feel has the nicest view of the hotel (Inn, to be specific). So, looking at the situation, there was nothing much we could do there. Jungle trekking? Too tiring. Bird-watching? Too boring. What else? Nothing. So where did we go? And what did we do? Luckily we brought our Canon Powershot S5 IS to play around with. Quickly, we rented a tendem. That was really my first time riding a tendem and it was SO MUCH FUN!





We spent almost half an hour posing for pics and riding the bike, not realising that it was almost time to return the tendem. Time flies. But it's not when you are in Fraser's :P







Here's CW standing at the Fraser's Hill signpost. So it's all about the nature, after all. SO let's just take pictures.












And here I am posing by the clock tower.








We've actually made this pic a black and white while accentuating the green background. That's what Canon can do :) No, I'm not getting paid for this but, really, it's good.






Time passed really slow here, it was only about 4pm after we returned the tendem. Was hungry already! So we had some fried rice and some KickapOO! YeahOO!







Here's the full map of the resort. Kinda small, although it looks big. This map was actually zoomed in after we were 'trailed' by an annoying dog, presumably he thought that we were gonna invade 'his' territory! So we had to stand from afar to take this shot.




It's dinner time! Such cool place should be accompanied with hot, steamy steamboat! Not buffet style though, but enough to keep us warm. At first, we were only staring at the food, as only these are placed in front of us. What happened to the stove? The soup? It took soooooo long for those two to be ready that it made us look like this:

Dinner wasn't long. Nothing much and nothing special. At that time, we missed Yuen's so much! That's when we decided to leave Fraser's early next morning to head somewhere else!

So we decided on Ipoh. CW wanted to eat the famous Ipoh Taugeh Chicken Rice there, although we have one in Jalan Gasing. Nevertheless, to escape from the boredom, we went straight to Ipoh. It was a 2 hours' drive from Fraser's.

Hungry and tired of driving, and no Ipoh Taugeh Chicken Rice, we just had to settle for the Char Siew, roasted chicken, roasted BBQ pork, and roasted duck. All meat in one plate. Hungry!!!










Snapping pics of places all the way, just like a sicko tourist! But that's the way it is, when you are in places of no interest! haha...Managed to catch Anglo-Chinese School. Oldest school in Ipoh? If I'm not mistaken, yes.









Then I suddenly suggested that we go to San Poh Tong. Something like Three Precious Caves. It's a temple's name, of course. I only vaguely remember the way there when I went to Ipoh almost 7 years ago. I could only remember that we passed by a Peanut roundabout, which kept CW wondering how it looked like. And at last, we reached the Peanut! But still no signs of the temple! And it was raining quite heavily during our rounds in the city. No chance. So had to leave already. Pumped petrol, met local, asked about the place, then rupanya, it was near where we came from!




Regardless whether we found the right place, just take pics la! Posers...in the drizzle...kinda romantic though. Although I'm not the worshipping kind, I made my way into the Kuan Yin temple to pray, for health and for wealth! Hehe....






And then it's my turn posing with the Pig! Me dragging Pig dragging Horse! Hehe...Can you see the Monkey God beside me? He's a poser as well :P








So this was the last photo taken in the temple and in Ipoh. Brought back some pomelo, tidbits, and famous Ipoh snacks. Enjoyed the whole trip very much, although not much activities to be done. Well, having someone you love to be with you is sufficient to make it a sunny day :)

Goodbye Jane...

IN LOVING MEMORY

Name: Jane Hamster
Date of Adoption: 8th March 2008
Left peacefully on 16th March 2008

Although you were here for a brief moment,

you had bring joy and fun to the house.

We will miss you always, Jane.