Craving for Cake

I have been thinking of having cake from Secret Recipe since couple weeks ago and finally I had a piece of White Chocolate Macadamia, one of my favourite cakes in Secret Recipe. To my surprise, I'm not that into it anymore... doesn't taste as good as usual or perhaps I have not been feeling well and my taste buds are not that great. Hmm...

.:White Chocolate Macadamia:.

Uncivilized

We're talking about NO PLASTIC BAG campaign and I am even taking eco-bag with me everywhere I go like a psychotic shopper and... this is an eye sore for me to see such an incident while driving to work! 

.:QCA5548... really disappointing me by throwing the plastic bag from the rear window:.

REX Cinema

.:Rex Cinema in the 50's:.

.:My dad's stall with Uncle Dean, Zack, my mum and Suzie Che's dad:.

My childhood memoir revolves around a cinema because my parents used to run a movie snack stall next to the cinema. Until now, I can still remember bits and pieces of the sweet and bitter things that happened over the years. The cinema was officially shut down when I was in primary 4 '10 years old' and I remember watching the last movie shown that night. It was devastating and being so young, I sense sadness in the eyes of everyone. I'm going to list down what I can recall before I forget them.

The People
1. Ah Moi Ee - The ticket counter (i remember she bought me a bracelette)
2. Another untie who are slimmer and more fierce. I was afraid of her
3. Ah Lau - The ticket collector who also sleeps in the lobby of the cinema. I used to see him every morning when we walk to the breakfast place.
4. The Fat drink stall tauke at the food court behind the cinema. (This was where Ellen told me story about the most work in a company is office boy but usually he is first to go if economy is bad).
5. The Rex Cucur tauke - My aunt used to work for him and then she opens her own stall
6. Michael - The boy i played with and his mum can make 'Kueh Sepit' aka 'Love Letter' and he is staying behind the cinema next tot he super smelly toilet. I went to their house alot too.
7. The chines girl - I remember her mum opens hawker stall at the food court but i have no idea what her name is until now.
8. The sugarcanne family - his son was my classmate in kindergarden and form 4 and 5.
9. Ah Hia - owner of another hawker stall opposite the sugarcanne family.
10. The stall operator inside the cinema premise - I can't remember him much coz my dad prevent us to play inside the cinema premise much.
11. Ah Kheng - Her family lives somewhere next to Dr Chan clinic and they moved to KMC flat after they got the placement from MBKS.

The Sweet & Bitter Memories
1. Self made singing competition - It was with my cousin Diana and the chinese girl. We will win a drawing painted by the chinese girl. We used the side entrance of the cinema where there's staircase that made it looks like a stage.
2. The Reservoir Park stroll - I have always been going to the park with my cousin and his brother. It's without my dad's permission. We just kinda found our way there and I get to call these 2 old couple at the corner of the demolished role of shop in front of the demolished prison opposite Borneo Hotel and they will give me 10 cent. :D
3. Watching Free movies - Sometimes Ah Lau made me sing a song first.
4. Playing with the daughter of the tailor shop owner 'American Tailor'. I can't recall what we usually do but I remember I've always gone to their shop.
5. Playing with Ah Kheng - We do meet sometimes in the shopping mall as she works as a promoter now and happily married.
6. I stepped on a lot of dead caterpillar that caused me walking like handicap for at least 2 months. I got it when I was washing my leg at the side of the drain opposite dad's stall. I have to blame my dad for throwing the caterpillars there after he had killed them. He should throw right into the drain and not leaving it on the road!
7. Broke a horlick bottle on the way back after buying it with my brother at Ting & Ting Supermarket. My late 3rd aunt was furious...
8. Spitting activities with some boys and my cousins. We were scolding each other and spitting on each other. To think about it, that's when I start learning how to roll my eyes when meeting people that I don't like.
9. My eldest brother told me that the crystal like sugar is used by the Japanese to make bombs. His attention was so that i do not disturb the sugar bottle.. I felt like an idiot after i asked my dad couple years back.
10. I saw a sanitary pad with blood in the toilet thinking that the toilet is haunted coz I thought I saw a bloody flesh in the toilet bowl.
11. Believed that there's an old man died in the cinema stuck on the gate because of heart attack. (Untill now, I'm not sure if it's real)

and many more which I can't think of now....

Egret

The first time I've seen an egret in the drain was about 10 years ago. That time, my family was staying in Jalan Stampin. I still remember being so fascinated to see it as it reminds me of my aunt, 'Ongako' whom's chinese name is related to the egret and I kept teasing her everytime I see egrets since.

The sad truth is that seeing egret in the drain or in the street is not a good sign. It shows that the bird that is suppose to live with the nature has now moved to the urban city and there must be reasons for it. I've been seeing plenty of egrets in the street these days on my way to work. Hopefully, their population is not going extinct.

.:Spotted in front of general hospital before I turn into Bampfylde Road:.

Thai Food Crave

.:Pork Rinds in a Container:.

Since my last Thailand trip in October 2011, I've always wanted to make my own Thai style pork rinds 'Kaeb Moo' as comparing to the ones I had here which is so hard it might break my tooth. The pork rinds in Kuching are made as one of the ingredient for soup and the one in Thailand is made as snacks. It has a the super crunchy texture and at the same time it's not too oily after being deep fried and drained properly.

I made some research through youtube.com and found out that it's also a popular snack in the Philipines. They are called with different names. The video shown below is basically what I did but i added in some 5 spices powder, salt, pepper and chilli powder to add a twist of spiciness to it.

I am quite happy with the result and everyone who ate it were also happy coz Pork is the happiest meat of all. Everytime anyone mentioning Pork, the rest will put a big smile on their face with their eyes glowing. Perhaps this is a muslim country customary where they are eating places that do not sell pork and even work places that do not allow their staffs to bring Pork into the premises in respect to the muslims.

It's an evident of a natural human behaviour. The more you control them in something, the more they are excited to do it. Who knows... we might not love Pork that much and treat it equal to other meat if Pork is everywhere in everyshop. We'll never know...

2012’s New Year Resolution

OK this is the time of the year I will be jotting down my resolutions for next year. Looking at my existing resolutions there’s at least a few of the resolutions accomplished. Good enough to do a little celebration for myself.

Let’s look at last year’s resolutions…

MY 2011'S RESOLUTION!

1) Get a MAC Book... Need to start brushing up my illustrator and photoshop skills. (Not accomplished but currently using a notebook with photoshop)

2) Get a Brand New Car. (Accomplished!)

3) Enroll to a Tailoring Class.. who knows you'll be hearing designer brand in 5 years! LOL (This is going to be scrapped OFF as my travelling and working schedule doesn't seem to make this resolution realistic)

4) To reach and maintain below 55Kgs (YES & NO… trying to maintain)

5) To pay all my bills on time... (I've always procastinate!) (YES & NO… trying to maintain)

Anyway, here's what I posted last year... http://aliciaks.blogspot.com/2010/11/december-is-coming.html

SO AS FOR 2012, it will be more relaxed like...

1) Continue to maintain below 55Kg.

2) To continue to pay my bills ON TIME.

3) To cope up with sufficient and consistent savings every month. I am bad in controling my expenditure... It's hard to be a smart shopper when you try to own everything at 1 time. hehehe

4) Over the weekends or free time, always do something that cheer myself up such as a pampering good massage, hairdo,  facial, weekend cookings/bakings, road trip, beaching, planting the greens etc.

I guess, as year passed by my resolutions are getting lesser and lesser. Hmm.. it's not a bad or good thing. Just reminding myself I am pretty satisfied with many things in life.

Is this the end or the beginning?

I can't believe I finally have the courage to end this once and for all. It took me months to decide and lotsa effort to prevent it from happening. I guess it all didn't work well and doesn't seem to be worthwhile to keep dragging. 

So now I'm EMOing...

Complaints

These days, my mind have been complaining alot to me... In everything I do, every place i go, everyone i meet.. No good No good... my mind is now very confused  and have been complaining too much. So I have told my mind this 'Sorry the complain department is closed so please come back tomorrow and drop your complaints into the suggestion box which is the garbage can next to the entrance of the department'.

Why am I worrying so much and being so negative these days... must have been the Chi attracting the unnesessaries (Oh yes I am superstitious about this). Time to read up Lilian Too's bad english Feng Shui book and get a proper compass. I lost the old one. Can't find it really coz I didn't need it for a long time now...

Breakup

Someone mentioned BREAKUP 2days ago and someone-else ended up in Timberland Specialist Centre last night. It is very serious and of course it's not me. My time of believing that there's true love has ended several years ago because the heart was broken, shattered and too ridiculous to be mended. But of course I didn't end up in a hospital last time... 

I just don't get it that some people still believe in that stupid little thing call LOVE. The bitchiest thing of all is that I AM afraid to be hurt again and so, I denied that I fell and should standup and walk again with pride. I'm not stupid but I'm just still very angry and hold grudge till now. Maybe it's time to let loose and dance like nobody is watching...

I'm feeling fat

Oh my god.. I am putting on weight seriously coz I can't think of anything besides eating... OK from tomorrow onwards, I have to start a very strict diet again...

As one of my colleague said... You shouldn't worry what you eat between Thanksgiving and Christmas but instead you should worry about what you eat Between Christmas and Thanksgiving! It's quite true though.. hahaha and so I didn't worry that much and ended up like this..... DAMN...

And now I am start worrying coz Xmas is over..

Well at least wait till the next PARTY with some of my relatives,  besties and close friends!

The Brand New Car - 2011

.:Peugeot 207 Sedan:.

I've always love Peugeot and with the new Peugeot 207 sedan which is Malaysia assembled, the price is slightly lower than some of the over-priced and over-popular car in the country...  I have always never been the 'follow the crowd' type of person and this car is not as overloaded in the street as Malaysian Made car or some of the IN Japanese brand on the road. But people are concerning about the spare parts and maintenance cost... For me, it's all about LUCK when you buy anything at all even when it come to house, computer, hand phone etc...

Oh well, it's just a plan to look ahead to accomplish my next year's resolution No.2 which is To get a Brand New Car. Looking at beginning of April... but it doesn't mean that I won't change my mind coz I am a woman after all! he he he

Check out more about the car from a car blogger .:Here:.

December is coming....

Well it's another December soon and Xmas is coming again. As far as I know... my this year's resolution has not been achieved much.. Let's look at it again.. picked from 2009 :-

1) To start going to Yoga class again (TOOK UP AEROBIC CLASSES INSTEAD)

2) Dance.. at least once a week (FAILED... I FEEL LIKE I'VE BEEN DANCING INSIDE ME ONLY.. LOL)

3) Lamination floor for the studio & Installing AC (NOT DONE... RENTED OUT INSTEAD)

4) Must buy a surf board in Bali this trip (NOT DONE... CHANGED OF MINE BUT GOING AGAIN IN 2011... LOL)

5) Get a new lap top by middle of the year (DONE)

6) Get a new camera (CONSIDER IT DONE... GETTING IT IN DECEMBER)

7) Despite all the above, to save enough money for 2011's holiday trip to.... (DONE... BANGKOK & KOH PANGANG IN OCT 2011)

8) & Finally to do better in what I am doing now. (DONE.... There will be a big change of life on 10th January 2011)

Looking at it.... it's quite reasonable. I will make my next year's resolution early coz everyone should plan early and get over with it instead of waiting for the last day of the year!

MY 2011'S RESOLUTION!

1) Get a MAC Book.. Need to start brushing up my illustrator and photoshop skills

2) Get a Brand New Car

3) Enroll to a Tailoring Class.. who knows you'll be hearing designer brand in 5 years! LOL

4) To reach and maintain below 55Kgs

5) To pay all my bills on time... (I've always procastinate!)

5 resolutions are enough for next year!

So... what have you achieved this year and what's your plan next?

Can I write?

Someone recently asked me if I like writing. 

That is a good question indeed. 

In fact, I think I have phobia about writing but slowly overcoming it and enjoy doing it and sometimes it does come naturally plus with the great help of 'SHIFT + F7' it made the thesaurus more handy. 

All these is because of my personal lack of confidence when I first joined PR Department in the previous company. Before I joined, I've always seen PR as something difficult and it was a challenge that I decided to transfer from a Secretary to Director of Finance to a Public Relations Assistant. Socializing, communication with people in a right manner, how to be diplomatic, how to tackle story angles that you want to be featured by the media, invitations, standards of collateral and drafting press releases was especially hard for me that time as I had  zero knowledge of what's right and what's wrong, what kind of style had to be used and what not...

Throughout my employment, there was even one particular person that actually said I can't write and that writing should starts from young age and a natural passion, I made a lot of grammatical error in my blog (blog is not even serious for me... )  bla bla bla bla bla bla. At that time, I was 120% demotivated to write because there's no proper guide or training but critics instead. She made me believe that I had not much hope in my PR career.

More than 1 year ago, I took the courage to go for an interview. I mentioned clearly during the interview that particularly in writing, I had a lot to improve (and yes, this was how inconfident I was). However, the interviewer told me something that sounded like, 'Well, that's just technical. I am sure we can work around it.' and that actually brighten up my life. I really cherish the opportunity given to me that time and thanks to him, I overcame my fear and gained confidence in a lot of things.

Someone from the media also once told me... There's nobody that can't write if they are properly trained and besides, practice made better!

Back to the question... my answer would be: I DIDN'T DARE TO LIKE IT but now YES!

I lost weight!

I finally got back to my shape in 2006 before I went to Bali for the first time. I feel good at 60kg :) In total from April, I lost a total of 8kgs.. surprise surprise!

Only thing is i would like to loose another 5kgs to reach 55kgs... very tough eh...  but I will try...

For now, it's a relax week coz I'm down with sore throat and cough like nobody's business... I can't sleep at night! :( I must remind myself to drink a lot of water everyday...

Social Anxiety

I recently met a nice man but he sometimes has social anxiety towards certain things which are not even important or serious stuff for me... for example, simple things like meeting my friends up for dinner...  I think he will faint if it's to meet Mr Ng one day... I just wonder if the nervous breakdown is necessary sometimes.

Other than that he is a really nice person who treats me well (not like a princess though :P) and did a lot for me. Well, there's nobody perfect in this world. Just people that you feel comfortable with and let me just keep reminding myself...

Step 1 - Bank Account

After all these year, I finally open a Maybank Account today and proud of it. 

This is my first step for the 5 year's plan to a Luxurious Life!

.:My New ATM / Debit Card:.

Career Plan

My plan is simple.. to stop doing what I am doing by the time I am 32 to re-start off with the things that I love to do with a bigger and better scale...

It's a plan though and plan doesn't always work accordingly but at least that's my vision for now until 2015 and I am on a mission.. my mission is simple... which is To Work On My Vision!

Something for me to look forward to... All I have to do is to cut down on unessaccery spending and start my own *Huge Piggy Bank*

Why? Because I LOVE LUXURIOUS LIFE and it felt better if I create the luxury for myself. :D

He is...

He is...
in love
simple
naive
humble
nice
funny
cute
truthful
thoughtful
serious

hmmm... I like…

It's a new chapter in the book. ;)

A Woman's Thought

I've seen this whole girl thingy in many blogs and emails and its been so true and accurate so far.. Which is why I am posting it too... :)

When a GIRL is quiet ... millions of things are running in her mind.

When a GIRL is not arguing ... she is thinking deeply.

When a GIRL looks at u with eyes full of questions ... she is wondering how long you will be around .

When a GIRL answers ' I'm fine ' after a few seconds ... she is not at all fine.


When a GIRL stares at you she is wondering why you are lying.


When a GIRL lays on your chest .. she is wishing for you to be hers forever.


When a GIRL wants to see you everyday... she wants to be pampered.


When a GIRL says ' I love you ' .. she means it.


When a GIRL says ' I miss you ' .... no one in this world can miss you more than that.Life only comes around once make sure u spend it with the right person ....


Find a guy ..

Who calls you beautiful instead of hot.

Who calls you back when you hang up on him.

Who will stay awake just to watch you sleep.

Wait for the guy ..

Who kisses your forehead.

Who wants to show you off to the world when you are in your sweats.

Who holds your hand in front of his friends.

Who is constantly reminding you of how much he cares about you and how lucky he is to have you.

Who turns to his friends and says, ' That's her!!

Thinking too much...

I’m in doubt.
This is too fairy tale like.
I just keep thinking that something is not right.
Since ‘Trust’ is out of the question, I think this is just normal.
I’m not dumb but sometimes a little blonde by nature.

Oh well, we will see...