No Fast, No Cook

Eversince I broke fast on the 16th, I have not been to the kitchen.. haha.. interest in food also has lessen tremendously somehow, but then weight have been piling up. Time to hit the treadmill again!

I was telling guardian angel, to whom I promised that I will take initiative to cook more often during my fasting period, that I don't feel like cooking anymore. She looked at me and said, "Don't worry, ma'am, when you fast again, you will cook again!"

She is probably right. Because I still have a few more process of fasting to go through.. lols!

Reversal of Roles

Usually, it is the ma'am that teaches the maid to cook.

In my case, it is the either way round. ;p

Have been toying around with cooking. Been cooking for the past few days consecutively. Looking at recipe books and checking out my bestie's recipe blog too. Sorry-la.. some of them just sounds too complicated!!!!!! :-s which means to say... Alina, you better come on over to teach me soon!! ;p

Anyway, I've been having fun. With guardian angel's advise on what she knows (she is a great cook by the way!!), she has been guiding me by just standing aside. Ahem, I even slice the meat and mince all those necessary ingredients by myself. Not bad.. not bad... lols!

Gonna try out some steam recipes soon. And after my fast, I am going to feast!!! muahahahahahahahhaha.... ;D

Hil's Hitch Day

Today is the day, where Hil and Ben will get hitched. They came back last week and have been busy since. Wished they would stay over at my place but they chose to stay over at Elly's place instead. Only managed to catch them the night before I start my rice & water fast.

Hil looked great, so did Ben. Although it was the first time meeting Ben, but I guess with Puzzle as topic with any men, it broke the ice! We didn't manage to talk much. I am not sure if it is because it has been too long, or perhaps life have been just too mundane. But I enjoyed the presence anyway. Too bad Elly and Jo wasn't there. But heard from Hil that they caught up earlier already.

And tonight will be the night. When all of us come together to celebrate the union of Hil and Ben.

Congratulations Hil & Ben!

Patience

I guess when we are patient at times, we allow better opportunities to come along. I was waiting for this quotation which took ages to arrive. Finally when it arrived, I asked for a demonstration. He kept on saying that he is busy, and made me feel as if our community business is not as important. Perhaps because it is a sale to a Resident Association with low profit margins, but this is just my judgment anyway, and I am not happy with him, because I am not happy with my perception of him.

So I waited and waited for his call anyway which never came. And soon, I remembered that one of the street rep emailed me a number. I picked up the phone and called the number immediately. Not only was response fast! The boss was literally explaining to me how the whole system works already, as if I could understand! :/

The point here, besides the education, is that this new guy was very willing to share information with me and give me proper, professional advise on how to get the most benefits of the units which I was about to purchase for the community. Not only that, he even gave me suggestions on how to improve this and that around the neighbourhood. And later I found out, he used to stay in this exact neighbourhood years ago, but now moved to another garden. What is most pleasant to find out is that he is also a Vice President of his Resident Association!! No Wonder!!!! So his roll of advice went on and on... Because he understood the functions that I was playing, he gave me lots of pointers to consider. I was just too grateful and felt very much supported. :)

Well, I am waiting for a quotation, again. And this time, I am crossing fingers that this experience will be different from the previous! ;)

Cameron Highlands with Family

We had dimsum for breakfast before departed. We were actually already quite full. And yet....

We stopped by Bidor for Duck Thigh Noodles. It was impromptu, btw. ;p

Eventhough everyone was complaining prior to ordering that they were still very full from breakfast, yet they still whalloped everything on the table.

 We arrived at about 3pm++.

We were all doing our part, unpacking, to make the apartment as cozy as possible.

Get what I mean?

After unpacking and making the apartment cozy enough for a 3D2N stay, we all laid back to watch Astro.
Yes, there was Astro.

Despite Cameron Highlands being a land known for steamboat, yet one of our family member decided to homecook this thing for our first night home.

The lazy men watching tennis while the ladies prepared dinner. Ahem, myself excluded because I had to be the photograher.

No, we didn't play Risk. We just used its soilders as 'chips' to play Texas Hold'em.

 2nd Day...

This is the DS couple. They were hogging their own DS most of the time.

We decided to throw Don a surprise belated birthday song!!

Family Pic before heading out for tea.

Ya, of all things we did, we got down from the car and had ONE durian, shared by 8 of us, by the roadside.
Btw, we were actually on our way to the BOH plantation but it was just too freakin' jam.

After that, we stopped by SmokeHouse for tea and scones.
ONE durian shared by 8 persons just weren't getting us anywhere!

That night, we played RISK.

 3rd day...

Breakfast was instant noodle in cup, donuts, coffee, water and ciggies.
Unfortunately, we couldn't finish everything before we left.

We all stopped by BOH Plantation for a visit.

Family Pic again.

We had lunch here. I asked 7 why was it they did not sell beef since they are called ngow kei. 7 laughed.

This was one of the fastest meal we had ever eaten. We could not slow down to savour the food because we had to compete with the FLIES!!!! Yups!!! There were plenty of them, I tell you!!

There were lots more activities in between. But you know la.. with the slow loading of the pictures and the extra time and efffort to type in detailly what happened - argh, just too lazy for that now.. haha!

Thank you Don, Jen, 7, Oli, Ali, Dan, hubby and myself for this wonderful trip. And thank you, ciggie, for without you, I would not have gotten myself these beautiful friends.