Today is Father’s Day and we spent our day at Avenue K. In the morning, the girls gave their daddy their own-made cards and drawings. Sherilyn bought a pack of chewing gum for her daddy. We had lunch at our favorite Japanese noodle house, Bankara Ramen at Avenue K. Bankara Ramen is a Tokyo-based noodle…
Alycia who loves reading the newspapers (and just about any reading material, EXCEPT her school books!) found an interesting word search game (Wonderword) from The New Straits Times papers today. In KL I only buy Star newspapers but in Ipoh my parents subscribe to both NST and Star. Alycia then challenged Sherilyn to compete with…
Today, the girls helped my mum in the kitchen. They helped to chop onions for the sardines filling for the sandwiches, mashed the sardines and eggs and buttered the bread before the sandwiches were put into the sandwich maker. Later, they helped granny to make ang koo kuih. As I am typing this post,…
It was an eleventh hour and impromptu decision to bring the kids to visit Kellie’s Castle. I casually asked dad on Tuesday night if he could drive us to Kellie’s Castle on Wednesday morning and my dad obliged without any hesitation. Muacks muacks papa 🙂 After the visit to Kellie’s Castle yesterday, my dad was in…
Upon arrival in Ipoh via ETS from KL yesterday, dad and mum brought us to the famed decades-old Kong Heng coffee shop for some famous Ipoh hawkers’ food. The famous coffee shop was as usually packed to the brim. After a 15-minute wait, we were lucky enough to get a pathetically small-sized table, which obviously…
This is my once clean and dust-free warm abode… Now the walls are hacked and the entire place looks like a post-earth quake shattered unit *sobs* Even with plastic sheets, the darn workers’ rough handling tore down the sheets and my work area and dining area are freaking dusty!!! I asked the old…
Inspired by my friend’s posting of the picture of her mum’s homecooked black sweet vinegar pig’s trotters in Facebook and also aroused by the killer aroma of this dish from the unit above ours (a lady just gave birth and dang it, her Confinement Lady is drowning me with the aroma of her confinement dishes…
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