randomness in the holidays

life is kinda aimless at the moment.
there is nothing much to do since coming back from hanoi and i have been sort of rotting at home.
wake up at 10, breakfast, newspaper, facebook, play my games and laze around till the day turns dark and it is time to sleep. keke....what a life. there is some sort of reading done in the free time as well. a novel or two and recently, mills and boons. hahaha...guilty pleasures.

anyway, it wasn't all gloom and doom at home. i did make a few visits to kl and we did have visitors dropping by.

first to drop by, two kids from bidor who wanted to go to education fair being held in kl convetion centre on 14 and 15 december. so i told them to take the bus down from bidor, and i picked them up at the bus station here. then they stayed two nights in tg malim and i drove them down to klcc two days in a row. am i good or what?

well, i also took the opportunity to catch up on movies just released. hehehe....that was more like my main reason of going down. i managed to watch hobbit 2 and captain phillips. i prefer captain phillips more although i was sitting on the 4th row and the screen was like super big. it was a nail-biting movie from the beginning till the end. there was not a boring moment at all. which just means that there were some boring moments in hobbit 2 and i felt that the silly addition of an elf who had good feelings for a dwarf was totally unnecessary. can't wait for hobbit 3 to get to the ending and i am sure it will be the most exciting of all.

christmas spirit and decorations are everywhere you go in kl malls.
this big christmas tree is outside klcc near the water fountain area.

bringing the two kids to kl, i also took the opportunity to bring them to eateries i frequent. they of course liked them a lot.

our pasta meal at ben's.

after lunch, it was business in the education fair. browsing all the stalls and asking all related questions.

man, education is an expensive journey.
want to be a doctor and get your degree through private colleges? please prepare about half a million just for the tuition fees ya. want to join an engineering course and get your degree? it will be about rm150,000 not including living expenses. these were the two courses we asked because these were the kids' interests.

then they went to listen to their talk, and i went to watch my movie.

this was lunch on day 2 of education fair trip. brought them to madam kwan's and we all had the same nasi bojari. yummy. i was eating in a rush, rushing to make it to the cinema. didn't even finish fried chicken and rice. well, not to worry. it did not go to waste. the boys finished them.

dinner was all in tg malim. one night i brought them to leong kei for fried noodles. and their favourite was the friend kuey teow with egg.
the second night, i brought them to eat satay....the one located next to old town coffee in tg malim.  they loved the satay and the sauce. good recommendation according to them.

there was no more beef, so we ordered all chicken.

i had mee rebus that night. it was all right. i had eaten better.

after the two boys left, i was quite free already. in fact, i had nothing to do loh haha.

well then, we also had some unexpected visitors. gosh, i was in my pajamas when they came at 10p.m. the pair of shorts with pink sheep. hehehe.

the visitors were from germany and also local. family friends.

the next day, we went out for lunch. chicken chop at e&l restaurant.

our hainanese chicken chop. nothing was left on the plate by the time everyone finished.

then yesterday, also made a trip to kl to see relative....and had a feast again. muahahaha...
i had to fill my tummy to the fullest of course since there was no one to cook at home. hahaha. noo need to eat dinner after that. save one meal.

steam fish with bean sauce, marmite pork ribs, stir fried vege with prawns, and wat tan yin yang.

but the best dish at the restaurant was this one.....beef noodles. yummy!! really good. can't remember the name of the restaurant in kepong already. reminded myself to take a photo of the front of the shop, but when we finished eating....we just walked out and i forgot.

a new shirt to add to my wardrobe. finally a lacoste polo. been wanting to get one for ages...but the price was too expensive. and when i went to isetan the other day during the education fair weekend, they were having clearance sale. haha...i got this shirt at 60% discount. woohoo....totally worth it.

sammi cheng love is love....her latest album. my first time buying an album on itunes since i got my macbook. saw a friend posting on facebook that he got it.....and i quickly went and get mine although i have also pre-ordered at yesasia.com. i downloaded the album in the morning of 20 dec.....but later when i checked again at night, the album was not available on itunes anymore.

previously, sammi had updated her facebook saying that the release of this album would be delayed to 23. so i was kinda surprised that it was available on itunes on 20. haha...maybe they forgot to inform itunes people to take it down due to the delay. anyway, lucky me.....who got to listen to the whole album earlier than most fans. i even facetime with a friend and played the whole album for her to listen since she did not get to buy the album.

yesasia will only ship out the album on 26 now according to the latest email i received. well, in the meantime, let me learn one song first ya. i have got a kid to translate all the chinese words into pinyin for me. hahaha......that is my favourite song from the whole album.....chase, a song which is sort of like a sequel to leslie cheung's chase and is about depression. they have taken down the official music video. i had the chance to watch it before that and it was sort of like an homage to leslie cheung as the final screen showed mandarin oriental hotel, the one which leslie cheung leapt from.




so what do you think of the song? good?

i am starting my countdown to christmas now. not that i have anything special on that day. the only thing is that once christmas is over, everyone will be coming back from australia hahahaha.....

i have also finished my work of analysing the exam result which was released recently. so my job is done for the year.

the chinese will be celebrating winter solstice festival tomorrow where everyone will be eating glutinuous rice balls. well, there won't be any prayer or celebration for me since i am still supposed to be in the mourning period for my grandpa's death. but aunt's friend has brought her some frozen pre-packed ones. hmmh....not my cup of tea at all. so i will skip it.

happy winter's solstice everyone!