Of Gleaming Kitchen & More Cushion Pillows!

Yesterday, when I got home from the vet, decided to clean out the kitchen.  Did just that and cleared out a bagful of expired stuff (time to go shopping!) and reorganized everything.  It kinda disturbing that things are all over the place.  It's personal.  When things are messy, it somehow able to disturb my mental peace.  :p  Now it felt so good to be in the kitchen knowing exactly where EVERYTHING is. :)

And today, it was the big bag of leftover polyester stuffing which I bought to make that blue cushion pillow for mom, disturbed my mental peace. :p  I just can't stand seeing the big bag sitting there day in day out.  So, I sew three white cushion pillow bags and stuffed them full with all the leftover polyester.  Finally, got rid of all those polyester! :)

I thought I would be happy after that.  But hell no!  The newly stuffed pillows without covers soon became an eyesore to me.  And so I decided to make them covers.  Again, with whatever balance fabric I have in my 'fabric box'. ;)

First, I made this.

Then I made this.

After that, this. :) 

 And finally, sticking on these red diamantes one by one. :)

Taa daa!  The workmanship may not be perfect.  But they are good enough for Chinese New Year!  Gong xi, gong xi, gong xi ni! Hehehehe.... :)

p/s: Am I suffering from something?  Lols....

How Much Is The Doggie At The Window? (think twice)

Having furkids are so much work.  Not to mention, costly too.  Bathed Rumba & Sunshine this afternoon with help from the husband blow drying them.  :)  Lucky!  At least half the work is done.  :)   

Brought Sunshine back to the vet after that for another follow up after the ops.  She has more or less healed.  The wound has fully fused leaving no scar at all.  Amazing.  While we were there, the vet did a blood test  before vaccinating her for heart-worm plus her other annual vaccinations (which we had skipped for couple of years :p).  And all that, cost us RM315.  Plus the cost of her ops last month, in total, almost RM1500 *faint*.

Every 3 weeks, we'll need to replenish the 15kg dog kibbles that feeds 4 doggies which cost approximately RM190+.  Not forgetting grooming cost, it would be RM80/dog and for two (only 2 requires grooming), it will cost  RM180/month.  

Plus food and everything else, broke or not, we would have to dish out RM400/month *doubly faint*.  Now you understand why I groom them myself?  It is definitely NOT because I enjoy doing it.  :p  But since I have to do it, I might as well TRY to enjoy it (eg: the 'LOVE' shape).

And the other chores that come with it too like feeding, cleaning out their den, picking up poos & pees... dear me!  And they are just doggies.  Imagine when the real babies comes?!  o.O

I wanna be a billionaire... so freaking BAD...... lalalala....  

Domestication Starts Today - I made dinner, doggie treats & chilled with Ruby!

My 'be more domesticated' resolution for the year already been kick started today!  Not only did I made dinner, I baked two trays of doggies treats too from a recipe Evie shared on her blog. :) Though mine didn't turned out quite as nice as those she made, it was ok (I think) *total satisfaction still*.  Hehehe...

Sometime ago, when Sunshine was sick, I made some mixed vege soup with rice for her and the husband went, "Sigh...sometimes, it is better to be a dog than a husband.  At least the dog gets ABC soup!"  hehehe....

As I was driving home from work this evening, I decided to make dinner tonight.  Afterall, the poor husband caught my virus and was resting at home.  Nothing elaborate (I always have the tendency to overcooked for two), just ABC soup and a simple steamed chicken drumstick with chinese sausage dish drizzled with a little chinese wine.  It was good and he enjoyed it.  :)  No picture though.  Totally forgotten about it. :p  My bad.

When he was almost done with his dinner, I asked... "So, being a husband is not that bad after all huh now that he still gets the soup?"  He just laughed.  Hehehehe...

After dinner, we took a drive out to meet up with Aunty Ruby who is in town for holiday cause her little resort is in monsoon season now.  Yeah, THAT obnoxious Aunty Ruby of Ruby's Resort in Cherating... my favourite resort. :) Big Cow was there too and we had such great time. Though it was just a short meet up, we shared plenty of laughters from plain craps to politics! Hahaha...  

Another Friday ended perfectly and I simply love a day like this. :)



ABC Soup = carrot + potato + tomato + onions + peppercorn + chicken stock

I Bumped Into A Blogfriend!

This is interesting.  I bumped into a blogbuddy today.  What's the odd right?  Bumping into somebody you meet in the www.  Like another friend always say, this is called 'affinity'.  Hehehe... getting deep.

Decided to check out the fabrics in Ikea after the hair colouring thingy (cause I seriously hate those in Kamdar and everywhere else).  As I was walking around checking out some cabinets instead (well, women usually does that.  Go for one purpose but ended up with lots of other purposes!), I thought I felt someone watching me or that someone was looking at something past me. As I continued on checking out the cabinet, I replayed the vision I had prior to the cabinet in my head and the first name that came to my mind was Mun.  Yeah, Mun, my blogbuddy.  Never met in real life.

So I turned around and there she stood, :) smiling at me.  This is amazing or what??!  Hehehe... and so, we introduced ourselves. It felt weird but good kind of weird. Weird cause it felt that I've known her for a long time yet it doesn't quite felt like that. You get what I mean?  In FB's term, it would be 'Complicated'.  Lols...

At least now you guys can rest assured that we really does look exactly like the photos we posted on our blogs!  No photoshop.  Hehehehe...

*A big shoutout to Mun* Nice meeting you (in person that is)!!!


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Mun just updated her version over at her blog.  Go check it out.  It was kinda cool reading her version too! :)

Colour & Go

I've been having some 'downtime' since last weekend.  Practically slept thru Sunday and Monday, day dreamed thru Tuesday and Wednesday, though I was working on Wed, groggily that is.  I think I gotten a cold, but the congestion in my lungs are more significant than those from my nose and nothing seems to be coming out no matter how hard I coughed.  And the coughs are exceptionally bad at night when I tried to sleep.  Sigh...  When I finally fall asleep without another bout of cough frenzy, the new poodle puppy next door would start whining or the darn dog in our porch would start barking at every damn thing that he glimpses.  OMG...  All these are just plain irritating.   

Finally feeling slightly better today and dragged myself out of the house this morning for I just couldn't stand the grey roots of my hair that has grown almost an inch since my last touch up about a month ago.  Yeah, believe it not, I have grey hair issues.  It's genetic.  They just start popping up the moment I hit 30s.  So punctual like they are preset or something.  

What I've been doing all these while was to head down to my regular hair saloon nearby, pay RM165 and waste away my 2 hours (if I am lucky) sitting there doing nothing while the colourist touch up my grey roots follow by a hair treatment.  Honestly, 2 hours is an understatement.  Sometimes it takes as long as 3 hours!!!  I seriously hate going to the saloon.  That's also one of the reason why I decided to keep my hair long again.  At least I don't need to worry about having it trim every 3 weeks or so.  My goodness, I really can't keep up with all these things.  

While going thru some flyers at work yesterday, I came across this 'Colour N Go Salon'.  Same concept with those 'Cut N Go Salon' where they offer no frills hair cut services for RM15 or something?  Their flyer says:

Cover grey hair within 5-10 minutes

Korean product with 6 different colors

Cut & touch up grey hair (in 1 hour) = RM65

Trim & rinse = RM25

Shampoo & blow = RM25

"No itchiness, scalp irritation or smelly chemical like ammonia."  

Interesting isn't it.  Not only does it cost less than half of what I usually paid, it only need 1 hour max and ammonia free!  There is exactly where I went this morning to touch up those horrible grey roots.  :)

End result

It was as good as advertised.  No itchiness, scalp irritation or smelly ammonia.  It actually smells pretty nice.  The colourist told me the colors they used are organic.  All done within 1 hour.  In fact, their work is neater too as compared to the regular salon I used to frequent.  Like they won't accidentally coloured your ears, hairlines and etc.  Though the set up was rather bare; only for practicality, I think I would go back again. If you too share this 'monthly' problem like mine (besides the other monthly problem), and wanna give 'Colour N Go' a try, go check them out here: website.  :)  Save time and money too!

Ho Ho Steamboat Restaurant

I know it is food again.  I simply have to share this. :)  Met up with friends for a steamboat dinner two days ago (the day after Saffron) at this place called 'Ho Ho Steamboat Restaurant' in Sri Petaling.  It was good!  Real good.  

Used to like the other steamboat restaurant called "Bee Ho" over in Subang Jaya.  Unfortunately, since our last visit there about 2 months ago, thought otherwise of it.  Not only were the service sucks, the standard of their food dropped too.   So imagine my delight when I was brought to this new steamboat restaurant that goes with my palate!

They served fresh seafood (not many steamboat restaurant do) and as usual, I couldn't resist to order one or two fresh crabs.  Always love crabs cooked like these.  Simple and not complicated.

Other than the standard platter (which consists of a variety of steamboat food) and crabs, we ordered another side dish of pork strips too.

How you do it is, just dump everything into the hot soup, cover the lid to the pot and wait for it to boil.  Once bubbly, it's time to dig in.  Seriously that easy!  And not forgetting drizzling in some shallots oil.  A steamboat meal would not be complete with shalots oil and yummy chilli sauce.

This Ho Ho Restaurant is pretty clean too (compared to Bee Ho).  Service is good.  I would definitely be back again!  For more info on Ho Ho Steamboat Restaurant, check out their website here.

A Visit To The Giants (Kuala Gandah Elephant Sanctuary)

This is a long overdue post.  With festive season, there are simply too many things to blog/update and just can't squeeze everything in one shot.  :p  

Anyway,  joined buddies from our salsa group to the Kuala Gandah Elephant Sanctuary sometime last month and it was awesome!  Never knew there is such a place so near us till that faithful day.  Approximately 200km away, a 2 hours drive!  Take the (E8) East Coast Expressway (Exit 819), turn left into Lanchang and turn right into Kuala Gandah Elephant Conservation Centre.  Signboards are aplenty after the exit. :)

It was a pretty interesting place.  There is no entrance fees required (donations are welcome though).  What you do is, upon arrival, head down to the main office to register yourself.  You'll then be given a sticker to be sticked on your shirt.  There are two kind of stickers; yellow & red.  The yellow ones only allows you to pat & feed the elephant while the red one allows you to go on elephant rides and bathe in the river with them (if the water is not too deep).  There are limited number of red stickers per day though.  So if you really wanna do all those, go early or call them to check it out.  Not sure if we need to pay for red stickers or not.

For once, we get to see the giants up close and personal.  Picture above shows a baby elephant having it's shower after a field day out playing in the mud before feeding time.  Totally enjoying his/her waterjet spa!  Lols...

The elephant lifting it's hind leg for a good wash... hehehe... adorable isn't it?  During feeding time, baskets of fruits will be provided by the sanctuary.  You don't need to bring own fruits to feed them.  :)  But if you really want to, they love peanuts and sugarcane!  I actually saw a baby elephant spitting out carrots... hahahaha....

Ahhh.....to the right, to the right.... yeah... right there!  Super shiok!

The mahouts brought some of the elephants down to the river for a bath.  The elephants were having so much fun!

All done now... time to go! :)

I know this is disgusting.  It was pointed out to me by the husband.  This is one big pile of shit man!

Love this.

Da dum! Da dum! Here comes the elephant!

Love this shot.  Intense.  Wonder what the elephant was thinking at that very moment.  Those fine lines, creases.... nice.  The skin must be super thick too...hehehehe...

Pat, my instructor, somehow got a red sticker stuck on her butt when she sat on the floor in the mini theatre to watch a documentary at the sanctuary.  And that red sticker got her a ride on the elephants.  She went like... "I knew this big ass is capable of something!"  Hahahahahahaha...

That pretty much concluded our visits to the giants mammoth.  For more info on this place, you can check out their website here and here.