Good Friday

We are blessed with early morning rain on Good Friday. The weather is not as hot after the rain. It's a state public holiday here allowing us to attend mass in church.

We practice no meat on Good Friday.  We even skipped lunch today.     

We had homecooked kolo mee in the late morning..cooked by my better half.

Ingredients for dinner..

Mushrooms macaroni at our girls' request and I added on boiled carrots.

Tomatoes sardine and mushrooms fried egg

Meatless meals except fish for the day

Holy Thursday Lunch

It is Holy Thursday today.  It is the day to commemorate the Last Supper of Jesus Christ. I had simple lunch in the office (like most of the days). To our own free wills, we refrain from taking heavy meals during this Holy Week.

A couple of my office mates has gone on leave getting ready to attend church masses tonite. 

Fined on a fine Sunday

We went to 1Borneo last Sunday.  We have got a nice parking a few steps away from the entrance.  Settled ourselves in an eatery on ground floor.  Our food came but left my better half's nasi lemak which has no sign of coming, upon checking, the kitchen said they had run out of chicken.  My hungry better half has turned angry, he was very unhappy for such a service, he paid for our food and went to other shop to find his comfort food..

my little girl's breakfast set

I chose fish meehoon soup, the taste is nice

normal fried mee, taste nice too

we also tried the cheapest beef noodle soup at one of the Vietnamese restaurant, RM2.10 (inc. GST)..the serving is very small, this bowl is just about a spoonful of a Chinese soup spoon..I will need to have 10 bowls of it to satisfy my eating capacity.

my girls spotted something different in the mall, the Korean ice cream.  The ice cream is filled at both ends of the cone.  RM10.00 per piece which is overpriced. 

By the time we leave the mall, we found our car has been locked, there's a summon on the car wind screen saying that a male driver has parked on a ladies parking bay, thus have to pay RM50.00 fine.

It has been captured on the CCTV, what is there to argue, it is the ignorant on our part to ignore the notice posted on the parking bays.  We also noticed several cars have been locked under this circumstance...I considered it as buang sial lah to pay the RM50.00 fine.

Gathering with school mates

After graduated from secondary school I hardly meet up with my school mates..We had a great 30th years anniversary gathering on the 3rd day of Chinese New Year 2016 in May Flower Restaurant, the owner is also one of the alumni..School mates from various parts of the world came back for the gathering, it was a very successful and meaningful event...we also managed to raise up to RM80K of cash and building materials sponsorship for our beloved school from among our classmates.

That aside, recently a classmate came back from Canada with her lovely children, her daughter is a talented ice skater in Canada.  We had another small class gathering in school mate's home, we talked about yesteryears and have so much laughter. Children educations and upbringing, our health problems have become the famous topics among us which we had never touched on while we were in school. 

Lunch...but in different locations

Like most siblings, we communicate and share daily happenings through family group whatsapp.  These was one of those many things we shared through whatsapp yesterday, our "Lunch", what we had for lunch at different locations at almost the same time. 

Younger brother at Tawau, the West Coast of Sabah

Century egg dumpling

while I was having my humble lunch at the office desk, roti kosong with a cup of Nescafe Zero  

My youngest brother at Guangxi, China yesterday, posted a photo of his lunch there.

He also shared some photos of Guangxi where we haven't been yet.

My sister is in the USA, the time there is midnight, supper time for her not lunch..haaaa...though it's over midnight, she responded with emoticons.  Whatsapp is the way we stay connected.

Ayam Corek / Grilled Chicken

We did not defrost anything ready to cook for dinner on Monday so buying ready dishes would be our choice, my better half thought of the ayam golek that he saw at Penampang Baru, a place not far from our house. 

We intended to buy 1/2 a chicken but ended up buying the whole chicken for RM27.00 because that would be our main dish for the night with just green vegetable (sawi) & organic cherry tomatoes as second dish.  

The chili dip that came with the Ayam Golek is super duper hot, we couldn't take it.  I dip the chicken with tomato sauce instead.  We could not finish this chicken in one meal, we had the leftover the next day.  

Wholesale fruits market

last weekend, I followed my better half to this wholesale fruit market to buy some fruits.  Buying stuff from wholesale places are usually cheaper.  They do sell their fruits to individual with a slightly higher price than to the traders who buy in higher quantities.

Fruits are perishable goods, they have to sell fast, frequent buyers will be able to get good price from the wholesalers.

We can only find local fruits in this wholesale market.

Soursop, RM6.00 per kg.  Other place sellling RM8-9 per kg.

we bought some honeydew, there are sweet.  I took some to my classmate reunion in the evening.

Pisang Sabah, famously used for banana fritter

Will come back here for local fruits again.

Digital Dictionary 电腦詞典

We are seriously considering buying a digital dictionary for our little girl whom is in Primary 5 now.  Her Chinese subject results have been always at the boarder line.  When our eldest going for UPSR last year, we thought of buying one for her but she said she can cope with the manual dictionary.  

We are very grateful that our grand nephew whom has done his UPSR last year borrowed his Besta digital dictionary to his little aunty (my girl is younger but she is one generation older)  to try out & to explore the features available in this gadget to ensure that it is helpful before buying one.   

The price is becoming more expensive nowadays.  There will be a promotion in the school on this product next month. Decision on buying one has yet to be made.

Are your kid(s) using this type of gadget ?  Does it help to improve their school academic results ?

Dragonfly came visit

While my girl was busy doing her revision for her 1st term exam last week, a dragonfly came inside the house and hopped on her finger and remained staying there for me to take photo.  My girls recalled a song "红青蜓" that they learned from school and started to sing. I am happy to hear them sing Chinese song which they hardly do..

They were fascinated with it,  It flew away to it's freedom not long after that.

Weekend home cook meal 周末爱心晚餐

My better half silently spares the kitchen for me during weekends.  He has been preparing meals for us on weekdays, he got to rest on weekends.

I am not a good cook, just try the best I can to prepare meal for my loved ones on weekends. 

fried eggs is their all time favourite, they complained my fried egg was tasteless, that's my cooking : less salt, no MSG.

the leftover pumpkin from the pumpkin cake, now sauteed with lean pork, my people in the house do not like it at all :(

black fungus with lean pork, carrot and button mushroom, my kids only picked on the lean pork and button mushrooms..What's for next weekend ? yet to figure out.

Desert Roses are blooming 灿烂富贵花开

In the hot and dry weather that we are experiencing here in KK now, our desert rose start to bloom, Desert Rose also called Adenium.  The desert rose plants love the sun..

photos taken under the shade

under the sun

Pumpkin cake

Pumpkin is among the cheapest vegetable fruit that we can find in the market, this whole fruit cost less than RM4.00.  My girls love pumpkin cake especially the one that baked by their aunty.

Since they like it so much, I try to bake some for them following a recipe from youtube

the ingredients are 2 cups of pumpkin, 7 eggs, 90g coconut milk and some sugar

mashed the pumpkin after it is steamed

put all ingredients into the blender, mix well

into the oven and bake till cooked.  It took about an hour.

Slice and serve.