Oh... My Simple Valentine's Day

I had a super duper normal valentine's celebration this year!!! =.='

I think I got no faith in celebrating Valentine's day with my love one as I still remembered the Velentine's day of 2009, I need to fly to Bali to attend a wedding party as I customize the wedding gown and evening gown for the bride. Last year, the Valentine's day was crashed with the Chinese New Year celebration so I gotta spend my Valentine's day with my friends and family in Ipoh... and this year... I need to work as pianist for Rendezvous restaurant... ><

Anyway, this is still considered as a meaningful Valentine's day to me as the main purpose of my performance there is to help someone to propose to his girlfriend during the Valentine's dinner... sounds pretty romantic huh... How I wish I'm the lucky girl... ><

Thanks to the owners of Rendezvous restaurant, Rita and her husband! They invited me and Danny to stay back and treated us the Valentine's meal for FREE!!! Hohoho~~~ I will always never say NO to delicious food especially the valentine's meal of that day cost more than RM150... hahaha! Sorry to say that currently I'm kinda stingy... since there's a free meal for me.... of cause I would like to stay and enjoy it...

This fish chop is mine one...

Danny had his lamp chop... I felt so regret to order the fish chop after seeing his lamp chop was served on the table >< looks more delicious than mine...

hmm.... someone got free meal and didn't need to spend money for his girlfriend during Valentine's dinner....

We had free flow wine~~~

Highly recommended the dessert over here... not sweet at all... it's just nice and smooth!!! SUPER DELICIOUS!!!

This restaurant was filled up with love in every single corner on that day... In fact, the owner of this restaurant are a lovely couple, too!!!

My little baby grand piano... It had accompanied me for the whole night...

Ya... It's definitely a super duper normal and simple Valentine's day to me this year! But yet, I still feel happy because I celebrated this special day with someone special...

P/S: The guy proposed successfully to his girlfriend >< I felt so happy for them...

You know when you have found your prince or princess because you not only have a smile on your face but in your heart as well...

Here am I wishing everyone... Happy Valentine's Day~~~

North to South Trip@ "REUNION DINNER"

My family photo

Grandma and me

While every time I look at my dad and my grandma, I'm wondering there's still got how many year that I can spend my time with them together. The more I grow up, the lesser time i spend with them. We can't manage to see each other so that often since I start my new life in Penang after graduated. With my busy and tight schedule of working, guess I only visit them not more than 3 times a year. I feel so sorry to them while I'm writing this blog and it reminds me how I put myself at the most important place instead of them.

I skipped the Chinese New Year Reunion dinner of last year. Meanwhiles, my grandma never see her beloved granddaughter for 2 years. I just realize myself didn't even make her a call to send her my regards neither to let her know how's my life in Penang. I feel shame to myself as I'm such a useless granddaughter to her.

Finally, me and sister visited my grandma and attended the reunion dinner this year.

First thing that my grandma said to us when she saw us is, 'I can't believe you both come and visit me... I feel so happy to see you both again. I miss you both a lots...'

And I was speechless at that moment. Sorry grandma... I'm really sorry about it... I can't even find any excuse for myself to comfort her that why I never do my part well of being a granddaughter and visit her, not even once...

But now I know and understand... I will never let it happened again...

It doesn't need to wait until Chinese New Year then we only can fix our time out to meet our family. Reunion dinner is just a word without meaning to me if you never take your family important in your life. They raise you up since you are a baby who doesn't know to speak or walk. Without them, you are not gonna to have the chance to enjoy your life like now! It's never too late to start showing your caring to your family... and I'm now start planning the next trip back to Ipoh to visit my grandma and my dad! =)

"YOU DON'T CHOOSE YOUR FAMILY. THEY'RE GOD'S GIFT TO YOU." ~ Desmond Tutu

My grandma homemade dishes... well... she is not that good in cooking but I still like her food...

Traditional homemade HAINAN chili sauce

'Lou Sang' is a MUST during CNY

This is my beloved grandpa... he passed away before I born so I don't really know how he looks like...

Recalled the nice memories with my sis in this old house... The history of this house has more than 30 years....

North to South Trip @ "WHILE WE MEET TOGETHER"

It's always fun and great to catch up with my old lovely best friends during Chinese New Year. Eventhough we seldom meet each other or call each other and busy with our own life but there's something so called fate that bring us together and make our friendship last for 9 years.

While we were still young, we used to organise our reunion gathering at club or pub, order few buckets of beer, sing and dance together. We did enjoy, but we didn't really communicate so much as the environment is noisy for us to talk. To me, that's not really called reunion gathering but it's just a party night out.

Thanks god as we grow older and older, those 'too happening' place is no longer become the place we choose to hang out. In fact, we try our best to explore more nicer place in Ipoh to held our gathering but at the end, The Browns Cafe will always become the final destination where we go to have our drinks due to the reason that other places are full of people and out of seats during Chinese New Year.

Anyway, it's not a big deal for us to go back to the same old place every year to have our gathering as long as long as we meet each other. Even there's no expensive wine or delicious meal, there's always full of happiness and laugh in between us.

Time flies really fast but the gathering seems like bringing us back to the secondary school time as we were still wearing the little light blue school uniform. Sitting at the canteen there and bull shit around. We chit chat about life, about love, about sex, about dreams, about anything and everything. No secret hide from each other. Except Sook Yin... hehe... she still don't want to show us who's her boyfriend... and all of us are still having the question mark in our mind right now... hahaha...

It's a bit imperfect that Lee Yee, Lee Yng, Li Yin and Syiao Pey unable to show up tonight. But I believe that there's still a lot of chances to have a gathering like this... as long as we put each other in our heart and mind.
"A good friend is someone we can count on, as well as being so much more. A friend is someone with whom we can relax and just hang out, have fun and share our innermost thoughts, deep dark secrets, lofty and noble goals, or our hopes, joys, and fears. A good friend allows you a safe space to share your deepest thoughts and needs without worry of being judged, criticized or made to feel silly for feeling the way you do. Friends cheer each other on, laugh and cry together, and just plain commiserate and listen to each other. That's why friends are friends.... Friendship is the hardest thing in the world to explain. It's not something you learn in school. But if you haven't learned the meaning of friendship, you really haven't learned anything."

I feel happy seeing all my friends finally stable down in their life. Found someone who really treat them good, doing things that they enjoy doing it. We see changes and improvement in each other while everytime we meet. We share our sadness with tears and happiness with laugh. Giving support and advise to each other towards our dreams. Ain't easy to maintain a friendship, but we feel proud that we made it!
Feeling good to spend my precious time with my friends tonight. Four simple words from me to my dearest old best friends, 'I LOVE YOU ALL...' :)

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By the way, the 2nd day of Chinese New Year, Amberly and Lee Yng finally made it to the gathering.

North to South Trip @ "MY 25TH BIRTHDAY"

Finally, me, my sis and Danny reached Johor~~~ and it's time to celebrate my birthday!!! I would like to dedicate myself a birthday song~~~ hehehe...

Happy birthday to me...

Happy birthday to me...

Happy birthday to myself...

Happy birthday to me... ^^

Me, my sis and my mom

Do, Re, Mi ><

While the day I getting older and older, family has become very very important to me... That's the reason why I insist to go down to Johor from Penang to celebrate my birthday even though it is really such a long distance.

The family. We were a strange little band of characters trudging through life sharing diseases and toothpaste, coveting one another's desserts, hiding shampoo, borrowing money, locking each other out of our rooms, inflicting pain and kissing to heal it in the same instant, loving, laughing, defending, and trying to figure out the common thread that bound us all together. ~Erma Bombeck

And here's my birthday orange cheese cake, ordered by my lovely sis from her friend who had learnt to make cake in Switzerland... My dearest sis, thank you so much ya... ^^

I HAD A SIMPLE BUT WARM AND WONDERFUL

25TH BIRTHDAY CELEBRATION~~~

North to South Trip @ "WORLD HERITAGE CITY"

During the day of my birthday, me, Danny and my sister drove the car down to Johor from Kuala Lumpur. We were trying to reach there before 12am so that I can celebrate my birthday with my beloved mom and grandma.

Danny is still the driver of the whole trip ><

Me and sister 'relak-relak' sit inside the car and do nothing.... hehe...

No plan is always the best plan. Visited to Malacca is not in our schedule of the trip at first. While we on the way went down to Johor, my sis and Danny suggested that why not we just dropped by Malacca for a while as it seems like still got a little bit of time to spend before we straight away reach to Johor and I agreed with their suggestion. It's been ages since the last time I visited to Malacca, if I'm not mistaken, the last trip to Malacca is my primary graduated school trip which is happened 13 years ago. =.='

I had forgotten the beautiful of this world heritage city. But... it's always not too late for us to figure it out. Malacca is a small city but with many attractive modern and old establishments. To me, it is easy to go around to explore the many places that make Malacca unique. I see the rich heritage and history that has shaped the landscape and left a mark on Malaysia's cultural lifestyle.

This little world heritage city is decorated with red lanterns and greeting words in front of the old heritage houses and I started feeling the Chinese New Year spirit with all the lovely decorations~~~

Tried some Durian puff in Malacca and it tastes delicious...

I Love Durian Puff~~~ Anything about Durian, I LOVE!!!

We had a cup of coffee at Geographer cafe, the service is good, and the price of food and drinks here are reasonable and cheap.

Thanks god we finally found a place to cheer before it rains so heavily...

Malacca's trishaw is much more 'colourful' and 'creative' with the decorations compare to Penang's trishaw...

I really need to say thank you to one of my friend, Jimmy here. Without his information, I don't know that Malacca has a place that sells super delicious cake. After Jimmy saw me posted some photos of the Malacca in facebook and then he recommended me to find a place that called Nadeje which is selling delicious cakes. With the additional help of GPS, we finally found this place! ^^

Trust me... You gotta taste it yourself then you will only know how delicious it is. This shop is not only selling cakes but other food and it's famous of the mille crepe cake. To me, original flavor is still the best among the others variety like chocolate, rum, raisins, strawberry, or chess. I got no idea how they can keep the crepe layers soft. It will never be too sweet for those who don't like sweet dessert.

We ordered the original mille cripe and choco favor. Oh my god~~~ I just love the mille cake there, wish that it has another branch in Penang ><>