Steamboat lunch @ Elaine's House

During last week long weekend, me and Barb went over the Elaine's house for steamboat. We arranged this gathering on the very last minute. While i was chatting with Barb and Elaine, i said i got nothing on during the long weekend and hubs also not around, i told Elaine i want to go to her house and "disturb" her and ask her to teach me how to do "lor mai kai" so there we set it on the next day. We had steamboat lunch this round whereby last round we had "roast chicken wing" at my place.

I picked up Barb and Ashley from their place at 9.45am (very early lei)!! When we reached at Elaine's house, our first reaction is "WOW"!!!! BIG & HUGE & BEAUTIFUL HOUSE!!

We quickly bring down the "ingredient" then start prepare our stemboat lunch. We wrapped "wanton" and "water dog - sui gou", then all the balls balls. Elaine invite one of her good friend cum neighbour come to join us also. We four ladies are busy in the kitchen and all the kids are "messing" the toy room!!



Danny ( Elaine's hub) was the photographer, i did take a few pictures but not as nice as Danny (he is using DSLR lei), so i will use some of his pictures instead of mine. :)



picture time.......this is from my camera....
L-R: Cruz, Ashley and Fearles



get all the kids together....

L-R : Amber, Cruz, Fearles, Ashley and Sharon








mummy also want to pose at the beautiful fish pond.

By the time we had our steamboat lunch is about 12 noon. We settle the kids on the small table first then we adults start our yummy lunch, we yak and we eat. After our steamboat lunch, we help to clean up the place then Elaine start her lesson with me on how to do "lor mai kai"! After i learn i can bring back the "lor mai kai" and eat!!hahahhahahahhahhahahhahah. While waiting for the "lor mai kai", Elaine bake some orange cupcakes for the kids that morning, i cannot resist myself to have two cupcakes and go with coffee! The cupcakes are yummy, my boys love it a lot, each of them ate two cupcakes !!!


i brought this shabu shabu pork...how can having steamboat without
this lei....


this is part of the food...yee mee, quail egg, fish ball, meat ball,
four different type of vege, egg, crabstick, wanton, "water dog"
& etc........


what a nice view to have steamboat ya..facing the fish pond...


kids are having lunch on this table....


Cruz doing some "monster look"


Ashley also want to do some "monster facial"


Fearles also doing another "monster" :(



ingredient for "lor mai kai"


me learning how to do a "lor mai kai"



see how Cruz and Fearles enjoy their cupcakes...





Before we go back, we packed back some cupcakes and lor mai kai and also some "small fishes" from the pond!!!! My boys are so excited seeing their new pets. While in the car, Cruz insist want to hold the tupperware with small fishes inside. Reached home, i put all the small fishes in the small container, and add some marble into it.



Thanks Elaine for teaching me how to do "lor mai kai" and let us "messing" up her house!!! HAHAAHHAHA We really had a wonderful time to catch up. I call it "chan kar meet up" hahhaha

Seo Gung Korean BBQ

Hubs was away for a week for his yearly cycling trip at Chieng Mai. He left last Tue, and my "makan makan"/eating spree start on Wednesday. hahahhahahhahahha

Wednesday we are having another round "makan feast" in office, same old menu as previous, but minus the lemang this round. :) We start our feast since morning till finish work, my stomach was full with roti jala, nasi lemak and satay. I skipped dinner on that night.

Thursday, i went for dinner at Seo Gung Korean BBQ at SS2 to celebrate one of my ex colleague from previous office. Four of us ( two of us already left and the other two still at the old office), we make it a point, we will celebrate each other birthday, to come out for dinner and also a time to catch up.

This time is PS's birthday (actually i got two long backdated post i didn't post on the other two birthday!!) She would like to have Korean BBQ for birthday dinner, we went to the one at SS2. I didn't bring my boys this round, i want to enjoy my dinner, so i told my friends, we have to go for an early dinner, so i can go home early. We went straight to the restaurant after work . Since i'm finish work at 5pm, i reach there before 6pm.

We start our dinner at 6.15pm (so early ya??). Slowly dig in the food, chatting and yakking at the same time. Too many food till we cannot finish!! Finish dinner, i still can eat two pieces of cake!!! Big eater huh. hahhhahah

Nice to have a girls night out once in a while. I reached home around 9pm, two boys are doing good at home, nothing "heart attack" moment for me. :)



Seo Gung Korean BBQ




we order set menu which include this......


this.......spicy chicken


this - pork belly for BBQ


this.......ginseng chicken soup


this..........squid


this...........rice in the stone pot



spicy tofu soup and korean style pan cake is on side order





steam egg is on the house



our yummy and fattening food!!




wrap the meat with the green, you can add on raw garlic..but i omit that.


Birthday cake for PS...


Me and the birthday girl - PS


Last, a group picture. :)

Calle 13's René Pérez and Miss Universe Denise Quiñones stand up for Jorge Steven López Mercado



An quick update on the brutal murder of 19 year old Jorge Steven López Mercado in Puerto Rico:

After the multiple vigils and rallies in the United States over the weekend demanding that the murder of the young gay man be investigated as a hate crime, and a meeting Tuesday with the Puerto Rican branch of the American Civil Liberties Union, authorities in the island have announced that, for the first time ever in Puerto Rico, a little known 2002 statute will be used to go ahead and investigate the murder as a hate crime.

Myriam Mercado and Jorge López, parents of Jorge Steven, participated in a vigil that took place yesterday in San Juan, along with Jorge Steven's brother, Jorge Gabriel. Ms. Mercado, who has moved the world by releasing a statement professing her love for her gay son and putting out a videotaped message of thanks to all who have expressed their support throughout the world, tearfully addressed the crowd last night once again to express thanks. "You have given us hope at our most difficult moment as a family," she said. 9 year-old Jorge Gabriel led the crowd in chanting "Long-live Steven".

Political leaders were conspicuous in their absence. Two weeks after the horrible crime and the worldwide outrage it has elicited and there is still no word whatsoever from Puerto Rican Governor Luis Fortuño, a conservative darling who is being mentioned as a potential 2012 Republican U.S. presidential candidate.

Amazingly, two well-known and extremely well-loved Puerto Rican showbiz darlings did make an appearance. René Pérez, lead singer for the most successful reggaeton band in the world, Calle 13, and Denise Quiñones, Miss Universe 2001, marched in last night's vigil in support of Jorge Steven's family. After the vigil, they stopped to give my friend Pedro Julio Serrano the following declarations on video:



René: OK, we just left the vigil for Jorge Steven, eh, so, and against hate crimes. Let's hope that the government begins to work and speaks about... ah, speaks about this, which is an evil - which takes place world-wide - but, here, what happened was atrocious. The crime was vicious... vicious... viciously awful, and strong and unjust, and it's also unjust that it hasn't even been spoken about. Speaking of stupid things, they honor Paris Hilton in the Senate, and they cannot speak about this?
Denise: It's so important that all of us give an example, of ourselves, all of society, the politicians, our leaders, they should begin to give an example to break this... this cycle of hate, of inequality, of homophobia, which is... of intolerance... which is completely destroying our unity as Puerto Ricans, as, as human beings, and our dignity. So, I am here as well, with René and with everyone, in solidarity with Steven's family also, next to Steven, and we send him kisses... eh... and I believe... he must be happy to see all the unity this has created and all the conciousness this has created and... this is his symbol [laughs] a very big kiss to all his family and to Jorge Steven..
René: I am "Homo" because I'm "Homo-sapiens", I am "sexual", hence I am 'Homo-sexual" as well.
A week ago or so, on Tweeter, I sent a message out to René hoping he'd give me a statement repudiating the murder. He quickly responded and said "it's among the worst crimes that Puerto Rico has lived through".

That was a surprise since in May, when I was sent a statement on René's commitment to the fight against AIDS in the Latino community, I tried to press his handlers for something that directly addressed HIV transmission risks in the gay community and I was told that such a statement might be going too far.

So tonight, knowing how influential René is among Latino youth, I was frankly shocked and moved by his comments. More than that, at the end of the video, René seems to ad-lib a play on words basically saying everyone is equal, hence everyone is gay. He's not admitting he is gay, but he is calling on everyone to join the protest. He could have left it at that; at a video that might have been seen by a few people. But, later, using his Tweeter account (@Calle13Oficial), he polished the statement a little more: "I am 'homo' because I am 'Homo-sapiens', I'm 'sexual' because I am a sexual human being. Hence I am 'homo-sexual.'"

Simply, wow! Here is the top-selling reaggaton artist in the world publicly saying that the struggle of the LGBT community is the struggle of us all. Just powerful, powerful stuff. As Denise says in the video, Jorge Steven "must be happy to see all the unity this has created and all the consciousness this has created."

Sweetly, with a tinge of sadness for a life lost, the former couple, now close friends, stop for a moment and give the same signal that Jorge Steven used to give to everyone he loved as a way to remember him.

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Premio Kreativ Blogger


Hoy he llegado tardísimo a casa sin saber que me esperaba una bonita sorpresa:

Miss Marble, un blog que expone una delicada selección de cosas hechas con gusto y cariño, me ha otorgado mi primer premio online: el Kreativ Blogger.

;)

Estoy contenta y quería compartirlo con todos vosotros.

Gracias por visitar mi blog, comentar y hacer crecer mis visitas poco a poco. Os prometo que me hace muy feliz.

Si no me equivoco ahora tengo que decidir a qué 5 blogs se lo concedo yo. Lo iré pensando.

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I've arrived home so late tonight unexpecting a nice surprise were waiting for me:

Miss Marble, a blog that shows a delicate selection of handmade items and cute stuff, gave me my first online price: the Kreative Blogger.

;)

I'm so glad I want to share my feeling with you all.

Thanks for visiting my blog, comment and make my counter grow little by little. I can swear it makes me really happy.

If I'm not wrong, now it's my turn: I have to give the same price back to 5 more blogs. I'll keep thinking which ones.

Backdated - Starship Galactica

School holidays start, this mummy also become lazy. Not update my blog for a week...tsk tsk tsk.

This is a backdated post, my mum was here two weeks ago, she transit here for three nights, i took an off day on Monday ( 9/11/09) company her to go shopping. My boys also off on that Monday, since on that previous Saturday, it's my sons kindy concert, so they got an off day on Monday.

We went to One Utama for late lunch, me and my mum went for shopping, while daddy bring the two boys go to Starship Galactica let them "loose" some energy there. (Chin Nee, yes, i was at one utama on that Monday, you didn't see my two boys, because they are with daddy at Starship Galactica). Now it rain every day or evening, hard to bring them to playground, alternate way is paid and let them play at indoor playground. :(



camwhoring while waiting for the food.....
































last but not least, took a picture with "por por".
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