Haagen Dasz @ 1Utama

This was my first time having Haagen Dasz ice cream actually. I know many of you already have been there countless times.. but to me, it was my very first bite! We've passed by this stall many times but we were too loyal to Baskin Robbins that we didn't want to try on Haagen Dasz, partly because it's kinda expensive. I still think, despite having all these expensive ice creams, still the Peppermint Paradise from Magnolia which worth RM9.90 tastes better. Honestly, I prefer this ice cream more than BR or HD.. try it, and I think you will agree with me. It doesn't necessary that the more expensive the food, the more tasty/delicious it will be....

We've been eyeing this menu for very very long and they were actually mini scoops only. Paradise ~ Bliss in a heavenly dish of Dark Chocolate Orange, Belgian Chocolate, Tiramisu and Macadamia Nut ice cream, raspberry sorbet and mango sorbet with chocolate and strawberry sauce. (RM29)



Overall, satisfied.... once in a while pamper yourself with this expensive ice cream is good. But, pamper yourself all the time with the magnolia peppermint paradise ice cream and it's really worth the price! Trust me ok!!! =D Don't have to spend so much for BR peppermint also.. magnolia is enough.

The life after ........

Yesterday message in church was really good as our most honored guest speaker spoke on the life after. Recently, I've always mentioned this to some of my friends as if they are not afraid on their after life (after they die).

Few questions that I've always asked them :

1) If some people always gossip and talk bad about another person (as if they are EXTREMELY perfect), aren't they afraid of the fire of death? Aren't they afraid of HELL I can say....

2) If some people have such a BAD, EVIL heart and mouth.... aren't they afraid that they will not go to Heaven? And what is the point they pray everyday then? Pray because they are forced to pray and not from their willing heart? And pray because they afraid that people will check on them? And what are the things that they pray? Since their heart is full of evil and bad deeds...... Are they going to pray or curse that person? A big question mark here.

3) People that always tell lies.... and bring some innocent people to be part of their lies... isn't this so cruel? You save yourself from scolding and tell lies and you actually blame on the innocent people just to cover up yourself... I think this is too selfish....

Well, I can say we are not perfect and most cruel people loves to gossip, loves to see people fall, loves to see people fail and they succeed.. I can say they are so EVIL. Between heaven and hell, of course every sober minded people will choose I want to go to Heaven. But, at the end of the day, did you reflect what you have done throughout the day will lead you to the steps of Heaven?

Let say there are 100 steps to reach the gates of Heaven and you have 100 days to go .... if any of the days you do wrong, you will go one step down (-1) and if any days you do good, you will go one step higher..... It's just like not a single day, you can do any wrong. because you have 100 steps and 100 days. You can't afford to make mistake.

We are humans, of course we make mistakes. But how can a sober minded human make repeatedly mistakes? Unless they are out of their mind.... then they can do the same mistakes forever and ever. I just can't imagine people that gossip another person 24 hours a day! I could say I pity the whole FAMILY!! Never be surprised if your kids follow your footsteps and they gossip about you as their parents every 24 hours.

We only live on this earth temporarily and what will happen to our life after? Choose now before it is too late!!! Don't ever think you are still young and you still have 10-50 years to repent. What if you die tomorrow and you don't have time to say sorry to God and repent? It will be the greatest regret ever and the greatest mistake tat you have made in your life!

When I was small, I remembered how my great grandmother who was a non christian passed away. Few weeks before she passed away, she dreamt that she was in the FIRE, extremely hot fire and she didn't want to enter, but the devils were keep forcing her into the fire. And then she woke up from her dream crying and my grandma knew that her time was near. On the final day whereby she succumbed to her old sickness, she shouted and cried and said "I didn't want to go! I didn't want to go! Let me go!" and then she died with her half eyes closed...

I was still small at that time and I didn't know what is the fire thingy all about until I grew up and now I understand.

Matthew 18:8
If your hand or your foot causes you to sin, cut it off and throw it away. It is better for you to enter life maimed or crippled than to have two hands or two feet and be thrown into eternal fire.

Matthew 19:16-30
16Now a man came up to Jesus and asked, "Teacher, what good thing must I do to get eternal life?" 17"Why do you ask me about what is good?" Jesus replied. "There is only One who is good. If you want to enter life, obey the commandments."
18"Which ones?" the man inquired.
Jesus replied, " 'Do not murder, do not commit adultery, do not steal, do not give false testimony, 19honor your father and mother,' and 'love your neighbor as yourself."
20"All these I have kept," the young man said. "What do I still lack?"
21Jesus answered, "If you want to be perfect, go, sell your possessions and give to the poor, and you will have treasure in heaven. Then come, follow me."
22When the young man heard this, he went away sad, because he had great wealth.
23Then Jesus said to his disciples, "I tell you the truth, it is hard for a rich man to enter the kingdom of heaven. 24Again I tell you, it is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter the kingdom of God."
25When the disciples heard this, they were greatly astonished and asked, "Who then can be saved?"
26Jesus looked at them and said, "With man this is impossible, but with God all things are possible."
27Peter answered him, "We have left everything to follow you! What then will there be for us?"
28Jesus said to them, "I tell you the truth, at the renewal of all things, when the Son of Man sits on his glorious throne, you who have followed me will also sit on twelve thrones, judging the twelve tribes of Israel. 29And everyone who has left houses or brothers or sisters or father or mother[f] or children or fields for my sake will receive a hundred times as much and will inherit eternal life. 30But many who are first will be last, and many who are last will be first.

John 3:16
"For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life."

1 John 3:15
Anyone who hates his brother is a murderer, and you know that no murderer has eternal life in him.

Based on the scriptures above, these are the least that God wants us to do/to be to have an eternal life. Eternal life is so important and do not ever look at it as a next time issue. Every seconds is so precious that you can't afford to make a mistake because you are not certain what will happen in the next second!!

Thus, as we are not perfect, let us not get ourselves into the bad deeds in the world. Do not fill your heart with jealousy. Do not fill your heart and mind with gossiping. Do not fill your heart and mind with hatred. Fill your life and family with love, peace, joy, longsuffering, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness and self-control!

And this is God's promise if you choose to live your life as what God has commanded above!

John 10:28
I give them eternal life, and they shall never perish; no one can snatch them out of my hand!

Such a great assurance from God and truly God wants us to be a better person ..... and let us be one that will please our Father in Heaven! And we shall not worry about tomorrow and the life after death!

Matthew 6:31-34
31So do not worry, saying, 'What shall we eat?' or 'What shall we drink?' or 'What shall we wear?' 32For the pagans run after all these things, and your heavenly Father knows that you need them. 33But seek first his kingdom and his righteousness, and all these things will be given to you as well. 34Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own.

God bless each and everyone of you and let's give the best for our eternal life! Remember and live your life as if you have 100 steps to heaven and 100 days to go which you can't afford to make any mistake! Always pray for your family members that they shall receive such a great reward like dis as well.

Stage 1 - House Reno Completed!

Finally, stage 1 is completed after much hassle, traveling and discussion. It was really tiring especially the discussion on what to do and what not to do and then the calculation of expenses if our savings are enough to cover for the expenses. It was not easy and sometimes I get irritated easily because I just do not like to handle those renovation thingy. But, I have to since it's gonna be our new home. It's a bit selfish if I leave everything for Justin to handle.

Stage 1 Included:
1) Starts off with the hacking for additional power point
2) Plaster ceiling for living room and master bedroom
3) JC hunt for fans at Legend SS2 and Lights at Perfect Lighting Uptown. Got a pretty good deal and they were so much cheaper than Carefour.
4) Lights + Fan Installation
5) JC hunt for paints at Jaya Jusco. Failed to spot any due to no salesman there. Proceed to hardware shop at Centrepoint and bought the Nippon Satin Glo paint.
6) Painting completed.
7) Installation of kitchen hood. Pretty like it because it's properly done.
8) Hacking of the Yard's toilet bowl and convert it to laundry room.
9) Installation of ply wood in the master bedroom.
10) The major renovation done and it will be tomorrow! Few more minor renovation to go.

Pictures below are our soon-to-be new home! It's gonna be awesome and nice... I just can't wait and kept thinking of moving in as soon as possible!

Living room. Combination of Bradford Brown (on feature wall) and Graystone paint. Nice combination and Justin is pretty bold in making this decision! Good job Honey!

KDK ceiling fan with remote control. This is for lazy people like us. Hehe... Metallic silver fan and fits well in our living room and makes it look so cosy!

Room 3 bedroom, which will be converted to home office and Jazzy's Studio!

Pinky Room 2..... I don't dare to step near the window, scary and afraid I might fall.. Haha.

Master Bedroom ~ Combination of Red Purple on feature wall with light purple. Initially I would like to have Rosy pink and light pink, but I think that purple looks more elegant rite. Can't wait to fix our LCD TV on the feature wall. But that will be later as our pockets are leaking pretty fast.

The long stretch of the master bedroom window.... good for fresh air in the morning!

And our 7 speed panasonic fan with remote control! It's gonna be a freezing room.....

I converted the Yard to wet kitchen because I admit, I'm just so lazy to clean the oil everywhere in the kitchen. Thus, if the yard is dirty, I think it's ok. If there is guest, just close the Yard's door. Haha. Anyway, I will just get those aluminium thingy for the yard's wall and I can just throw away when dirty. Can you see the kitchen hood nicely hang on the wall? I like it because it's properly done compare to our previous home!

In order to prepare good food, I need a fan... and this is remote control as well, since the one without remote is almost the same price. Thought of getting a baby fan, but it's too expensive and not worth it. So, wall fan is more than enough, as long as there is fan. At least the condo comes with free kitchen cabinet. Otherwise it will eat up our 10k again.

That's all for the completion of Stage 1 and Stage 2 shall be the next post. I'm just so impatient now!! Very Very Very impatient. Hahaha.... Cheers~

Tony Roma Set Lunch @ MidValley

Goodbye to HP and thanks to the team for this set lunch treat! Didn't notice that Tony Roma is actually having a set lunch... nice food!

Every set comes with a complimentary soup of the day and that day was fettuccine soup. Some even said looks/tastes like ABC soup. LOL.

Chicken Tuscany Pasta (RM19.90) ~ Grilled chicken breast tossed with a light Pomodoro tomato sauce, onions, red and green bell peppers, sun-dried tomato pesto and mushrooms. Served over linguine and topped with Romano cheese and fresh basil. Yen Fen ordered this and the portion is good for 3 actually. Fantastically big portion and yes, in the end she tapao the remainder home.

And guess whose meal was this? Haha... Chicken Mojo (RM19.90) ~ Seasoned chicken breast basted with Tony's exclusive citrus and brown mustard Mojo sauce grilled to moist perfection. Topped with pineapple salsa!

Sirloin Cheddar Grille (RM25.90) ~ Tender sirloin sliced thin and piled high on Texas toast and topped with cheddar cheese, tomato slices, crispy onions and Tony's Original BBQ Sauce.

Cheesy Burger (RM22.90) ~ Loaded with two different cheeses. Cheddar and Swiss.

BBQ 1/4 Chicken (RM19.90) ~ A juicy, half chicken basted in Original barbecue sauce and charbroiled. Served with French Fries and cole slaw. White meat only RM1 extra.

No personal comment on the food because they were all delicious! Especially the Mojo chicken!! Hehe...

Restoran Yi Xin Ge Bak Kut Teh @ Kelana Jaya

If you're really lazy to go all the way to Klang and to satisfy your cravings at the soonest as possible, then Restoran Yi Xin Ge Bak Kut Teh at Kelana Jaya is the best choice. If you can travel further, then Subang will be the next choice.

Hubby's favorite... a must.

Golden mushroom... looks different rite cause usually they will cook together with the soup, but this one in a separate bowl.

Bak Kut Teh with the parsley. Taste a bit different.

I miss my F.A.M.I.L.Y !!

The last trip back to Sitiawan was during Chinese New Year and it was so long long time ago. I would wish if I could go back as often as I can because now only left my parents at home. Go home and bring laughter! Hehe.... This trip, my grandma tagged along too and she made us wonderful food! I like!!!

I asked my mom for bak zhang when I reached home and the next day, ingredients were all ready in the kitchen. Wow!! It's good to be home rite.. haha.

Fried pulut rice, ready to pack in the leave...

The leaves... I don't know what leaves are this. I just called it bak zhang leaves. Haha.

And my grandma, busy wrapping the pulut rice + fried meat and wrapped it nicely into triangle shape. Unfortunately, I can only sit and accompany her, watch her how to do it because I don't know how to wrap. I will try it when I'm free cause I brought home the leaves. Let's hope it turn out successful... hehe.

Nicely wrapped.... super hungry when I see this! And I brought home 15!! Nice! Thanks to you grandma, I know you're tired!

Total, 2kg of pulut rice can wrap up to 50 bak zhangs...

Ready to steam and then ngam ngam ngam............. yummy yummy!

And my grandma remembered that I love her curry paste and she brought this all the way from Butterworth for me! So nice of her and truly, I was really touched! I love my grandma...

And my loving brother, bought this secret recipe cake for my birthday..... Blueberry cheese cake!

And Dark Chocolate cheese cake!! Delicious!! Happy Birthday to me!

My grandma and my mom... .the photocopy!

And my grandma, my mom and me........ the three photocopy faces!! Hahaha..... we really look alike rite. From here, I know how I will look like when I reach that age? LOL......
And lastly, thanks to my mom cause she always prepare lots of fishes + chicken for me to bring home to cook. A big tong until Brilly thought we went for fishing! Hahaha....
It's really nice to be home.... so, go back as often as you can! Be an obedient children and God will bless your family because He says, Obey your father and mother! =)

Phuket | 7-10 May 2010

Every year, there must be at least a beach trip! We just love the relaxing beach, deep blue sea, crystal clear water and sun-tanning! Such a nice trip after a whole year of struggling and get yourself busy with the hectic city life, busy working as if there's no tomorrow and everyday is just like that, Mon-Fri work and work. Weekdays passed by so slow, but weekends - zoooom... and it's Monday again. Thus, I always like to plan my trips on Monday because Mon is always blue... haha.

This year we planned for Phuket since we've not been there before! Last year was Krabi and it was an amazing trip. Lots of good memories and yeah, next year I will be back to Krabi! We arrived at Phuket and I was sort of disappointed with the town and hotel because Phuket is already too commercialized and the hotel even though is 4 star, is not as elegant as the one in Krabi. I set too high hope on Phuket trip and thus, easily get disappointed by little little things. Anyway, 4 more days to go and yeah, enjoy to the fullest!

Day 2 : We booked full day at Phi Phi

This was the greatest mistake that we had done. Initially we thought that by traveling to Phi Phi with a big boat, we have more time for snorkeling and then lesser time spend on island hopping. Example : Hop from Maya bay - monkey beach.. etc. This big cruise only stop at Phi Phi Don and then sent us to Maya Beach for snorkeling. Through this, we assumed we have more time for snorkeling, but we were wrong! Totally wrong.. instead, we spent most of the time sailing on the sea with this big boat a.k.a cruise. Sigh.... We arrived the jetty at 9am, waiting for everyone to arrive and we depart at 10am. Arrived Phi Phi Don at 11.30am and let the tourists who are staying Phi Phi down. Then sent us for snorkeling at 11:45am, and 45 mins to snorkel. 1pm we are actually back at Phi Phi Don to have our lunch and 2.30pm, depart home. Terrible.... thus, remember.... don't ever choose cruise unless you don't want to snorkel. This disappointed day ate up our 650 BHT = RM65. I was totally disappointed and moody!! Anyway, learn from mistakes!

At least... we got to taste the experience on cruise and some shots on this big boat. Perhaps I could say we spent RM65 for the experience... ;P





Our one and only one snorkeling stop for Day 2 at Phuket. And it's only 45 mins... so sad. I don't get enough of the fishes.

Relaxing at the Phi Phi Don beach while waiting for the cruise to depart at 2.30pm.




Oh Yeah... remember that you bring some money when you go for island hopping because some island, you need to pay entrance fees. Before entering Phi Phi Don, you actually need to pay 20 BHT and then only you can enter. The 20BHT will be used as budget to preserve the cleanliness of this beach. Day 2 at Phuket ended just like dat!

Day 3 : We booked full day at Raya Island.

Breakfast at Andaman Beach Hotel and I just loved their pancakes and waffles. Also, strawberry yoghurt with lotsa strawberries!!

Depart by speedboat.... never ever take the cruise again!



@ Raya Island.... 2 snorkeling stops at Raya Island. And yeah, I just love this day!


We rent this for 100BHT for full day..... nice!

Floating in the middle of the sea, but in the end the wave brought him back to the shore again. Justin was enjoying!!!

Along Raya Island after lunch.... free time and relaxing!

We swapped the float to this beach chair and add additional 100BHT for another chair. One pair is about 200BHT.


Sweet dreams.....

Overall, I really enjoyed the 3rd day more than 2nd day because 2nd day, we spent most of the time on the boat but 3rd day, on the beach... Cruise will be the first and the last trip! Never never ever ever book cruise for snorkeling, else you will regret!

I will have another Phuket 2 post on the food and night life! Stay tuned................... =D
Cheers! Where to go next year? Krabi again ? Hehehe......