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I'm in Japan!After a boring 7 hour flight, QJ and I finally reach Haneda International Airport. We were starving! At 11.30pm, only a handful of shops remain open but damn that bowl of miso soup with pork and tofu was so damned good, and that bowl of katsudon was very very yummy as well. If airport food taste that good, I just can't wait to try what the rest of Japan has to offer. :DConsidering we

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It's already middle of May and it has also been 5 months since I last blogged. Life has been BUSY but a lot of fun! So much has changed in the past half year and yet it seem like such a short time since I joined my new company. For those who may not have known, I'm currently working in a cafe on Jonker's St, Melaka. Maybe most of you exMMU-ians would have heard of the name of the place:

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2011 has been a year of many new things for me, and most (that I can think of) are good, if not great. The year started with my restarting my routine of running. Since I stayed near Gurney Drive, I had my own personal stretch of 'gym' (when it doesn't rain) with natural sea breeze (when the wind DOES blow. Definitely not pleasant when its low tide tho..haha!). It was quite pleasant and the

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Those closer to me would notice that I've taken up baking a lil more seriously as of late. Attempted and experimented with few new cakes. Have also started small scale business for cookies/cakes (my customers being my colleagues. Hehe). It's a great boost to confidence as well as to experience and skills now that I've been baking far more often than I used to. Starting a proper business may not

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I have the tendency to somehow, one way or another start baking/cooking around midnight. Be it cuz I had a nap right after work, or that I got too distracted with some shows I've been watching on my PC. Yesterday was no exception. Thankfully, scones are really easy to make and it took less than 15 mins before it was ready to be popped onto the oven for baking. 15 mins in the oven later

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Aunt and my 2 elf-assistants. Cake was not disastrous eventho they kept bugging us to 'help' us. I've been on a cake making spree lately. Spent last weekend making Black Forest and Moist Chocolate Cake. Both turned out pretty well, especially the moist choco cake considering it was the first time I attempted this recipe taken from a magazine probably older than I am. Hee! Mini-black

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Here's a cutie pie. Born to the family on Father's Day. Quite the bundle of joy to spend time with, my niece.

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I would fork out RM10 for the damned bitch but would think once/twice/trice when splurging on some nice lunch at werk, cuz she knows how to steal my heart. Can't wait to see her tonight.

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So Blogger's finally got their own iPhone Blogger app...which is great. But I really wish they let me type with the horizontal keyboard instead of the tiny vertical one only. Urgh. Well, it's not like I blog much these days anyway haha!! We'll see if this'll make me blog more often. :P Here's a pic we took from Tokyo Street, Pavillion, last weekend during my epicly long vacation with QJ

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I rely on public transportation, mainly the bus, rather heavily. Sometimes it's out of convenience, sometimes out of financial reasons, sometimes out of necessity. I rely on the local bus to get home from work. Fortunately for me, I live in Penang...and there's Rapid Penang. I can't praise them enough for their awesomeness and efficiency. There might be a lil minus points here and there...but

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(This post is a month and a half late. Haha! I've been busy with my toys) Where I work, we have this little unspoken tradition of organizing something special whenever one of us is turning a year older. Be it some surprise party, dinner at somewhere special, or outing 'overseas'(via ferry...lol) to the mainland for some good food. Sometimes we'd just buy a delicious cake, or pool money to buy a

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The bloody damn thing may cost about the same as my new i5 PC but hell...I can almost do everything I can do on it, and maybe more. It opens up a whole load of possibility and makes every bloody thing so much more convenient. Thanks to that, I'm able to blog from my bed at this ungodly hour when I can't sleep. I don't even have to go down to use the PC. Hehe mum did comment that I didn't wanna

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Real Love is all about......how you've suddenly found your meaning of existance.It was just another evening in my life, I was relaxing in front of my computer after a long day at work as I stumbled across my significant other's blog, when suddenly, WHAM.These... thoughts hit me, and refused to budge, the emotions it provoked so overwhelming that I had to put it down in words.Even then, I

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:P

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Of pot of 'plum blossoms', and hanging red cloth. We only moved into the new office after CNY last year. So this will be the first year the new office is celebrating CNY. Boss decided to go get the office some plum blossom arrangements. Went to local florist and got it done and delivered (bloody expensive IMO. Could definitely done it for far cheaper :s ) Kinda makes it a lil more lively,

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Chinese New Year is barely a week away! Got all your new clothes yet? :P  This year's CNY preparation's rather calm for me. For one, the annual family gathering isn't at our house (thank heavens) so we didn't have to fuss too much about the (usual) awful mess here and there. Not that its not gonna get cleared anyway but its a lil less tensed. About 2 weeks back, aunt made kueh bangkek (

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I'd sit down and write up an entry reminiscing 2010, but I'd miss my bus if I do that. Haha! Suffice to say, 2010 was a great year. Well it could have been better, more explosive, but...it was a good year. I look back and think of everything that's 2010, and I'm all smiles. There's only a few more hours left of 2010, and I'll probably miss it. But with the new year hopefully comes a new chapter

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Christmas this year, had been a great one. Nothing extravagant. No hard partying. But warm, full of laughter, and full of love. And dogs. And (annoying) kids.  But it was lovely nonetheless :) QJ and I took our time picking up present for everyone and proud to say we finished all our Christmas shopping for everyone by the beginning of the month :P (and not last minute 25th December style..

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As 2010 draws to an end, I reckon...I better post all these pictures up before the calendar goes to 2011 :P Decided to cooked dinner western-style dinner this year instead of BBQing. Planned a long list of dishes I'm familiar with, cut it down, and came down with these: Salad with popcorn chicken dressed in mayo+balsamic+mustard dressing. Boeuf Bourguignon - Beef stew, recipe by Julia Child Ikea

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When I was a kid, there were many of those Christmas shows on TV. There was also a lot of books that features Christmas theme...and most, if not all of those pictures in them, had snow. White cottony snow. Beautiful layer of white blanket covering the ground, the roofs, the trees... And I thought that one day, it would snow in Malaysia. And that I just had to wait a few years or something.

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Talk about first impression. This is the view that will greet you upon getting to Straits Quay. My jaw dropped when I saw this. It was BEAUTIFUL! I had heard that there was a new hangout spot in Penang. Decided to check it out since it was quite near my place (and bro was equally 'kaypoh' too :P) The whole place had a 'colonial' feel to it. It is afterall, E&O's project. First 2 floors are

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Last weekend, my nieces and aunt was down in Penang. Since I wasn't working that Saturday, I decided to grab the chance and bring my aunt out to eat the 'misua koh' that I have been raving to her about non stop.   I was pleasantly surprised that Prangin Mall management had bothered to put up a rather nice decoration. Heck, even the brand new 1st Avenue didn't bother much (at least not

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A lil bit of effort from Gurney, which is...well...not bad I suppose. Lil toy soldiers at the side. I need a wide angle camera. View of the lights hanging from the top. They...could definitely have done a much better job than this. Sad to say, Prangin Mall probably had better decoration than this. Up next.

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+This one's at BB Bazaar, Bukit Beruang, Melaka. Pics courtesy of Mr QJ Wong ;) So many years I was there, they never bothered la. The moment I left,  they decided to put up this fancy looking tree. Apparently this poor tree's been thru a lot during the freak rain season. Few days after it was up, some of the wires snapped and it was damaged. Poor tree! Really nice to see the management

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Sunway Piramid - Old Wing. Dome castles, lil birdies, and a snow globe. Apparently you can go in there! (but damn it wasn't even snowing when we were there :< ) Last year's decoration at Sunway Piramid was pretty nifty. This year's was not bad either. There WAS some very  nice LED lit wireframe decoration outside the mall but we didn't have time to go take a look (as I had to run off to

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