My Momma's Birthday...

...was on the 3rd of April (yes Ma, I finally managed to remember that your birthday is on the 3rd, and not 4th of April...and yes Ma, I'm an ungrateful child. But you still love me, riiiiiiiiiiiiiight?) 

Anyways, we had a pleasant Japanese dinner at Sushi Zanmai in 1 Utama.

Cutest looking sushi of the night. Don't ask me what it's called, though.

After dinner, we walked around aimlessly for like...a grand total of 5 minutes, before deciding tht we were bored sick and wanted to go for dessert. In that 5 minutes, I decided to camwhore.

Me.

Then we decided to take a group photo. 

Cute right? 

*Spiderpiiiiiiiiiiiiigggg...spiderpiggggggggggggggggggg....*

 (Sorry, just felt like doing that.) :P

Finally my mom decided to go SS2 for dessert...and have McDonalds ice cream. And I was thinking...Swensens...or A&W at least!

Halfway to SS2, I called my sis..and guess what? The new orders were to go home and eat cake. I no want cake! I want Ice Cream! T.T

But the cake...was ok la. 

Some cheesecake thing. From Isetan or something. 

 Happy birthday to youuuuu, you were born in the zooooooo.... (no wonder Ima piggy!)

My momma....who didn't expect this photo to be on the internet. :P

Anyway, Happy Belated Birthday, Ma. This is my b'day pressie to you. 

And yes, I know I'm cheap too.

Things have been...

...hectic and tiring recently. Over the last 2 weeks my schedule has been absolutely fucked because some of my managers haven't the faintest care in the world about their staffs well being (except when they take MCs, and even then it's only because they're sooooooooooo concerned about how often the staffmember takes a sick day).

On top of that, Nic and I have been working on our relationship issues, which involve lots of screaming, shouting, hurt feelings and bewilderment (on my part, anyway). On the bright side though, things are getting better (I think), and we're preparing to take our first trip together to Penang next week.

After such a hectic period, I want nothing more than to kick back and chill for the 3 days and 2 nights that we'll be there...however I have been otherwise informed that she wants to do stuff like...'tar siu yan' (Hitting little people? That sounds politically incorrect) and visit the Kek Lok Si (stairs! Stairs! STAIRS! *gurgle*). I'm not too opposed to either, because I've never done the former before and it should be entertaining to watch, and I haven't done the latter for several years already. It'll be fun to see the turtles sunning themselves and clambering on top of one another with their s-l-ooooooo-w motion movements, as well as to see what new crap the vendors along the way will be selling. That'll at least make the stairs a little more bearable. However, I have no idea what other tortu-*cough cough*-I mean adventures, Nic will have in store for me.

I do know we'll be going around eating though. I plan on checking out a few interesting looking restaurants I've found on the web. I'm also looking forward to driving in the crazy traffic again.

As part of the preparations for my upcoming trip, I serviced my car yesterday. RM200+! *silently screaming*. Despite the horror of yet more money leaking out of my pocket, it really is much more powerful and more responsive now. I got to utilize some of the power last night, when we went for a family dinner in Corus Hotel, KL. Btw, no photos because I really couldn't be bothered.

My mum had asked me to pass something to an aunt of mine who was visiting from Adelaide, AU. Being me, I was late for dinner and as a consequence, we rushed out of the house, got stuck in insane traffic along Federal Road (re: Highway - my dad likes to call it a road because highways aren't supposed to be jammed!), made a detour to Taman Jaya LRT, hopped on and LRT'ed all the way to town.

(And yes baby, I admit you are correct. It really does take only 2 minutes per station. 4 years of riding trains in my youth and I never figured it out. Whoopee.) :P

So we got to the hotel right as the food was being served (I am the master of perfect timing), and were happily gobbling down dinner when suddenly...

"Oh fuck, where's the package we're supposed to bring to pass to Aunty???"

*Flashback to memory of package happily sitting on dining table at home*

@#$%@#$%@#$%@

So after dinner, we LRT'ed back to Taman Jaya (and my motion sickness increasing exponentially as a result), zoomed back home, picked up the package, zoomed back down to Legend Hotel, where my aunt was booked into for the duration of her stay, dropped off the package, then zoomed back home again.

By the time I got to bed it was 1am. Though my alarm rang at 4.45am, I couldn't even drag my butt outta bed until almost an hour later. Thank god my manager didn't say anything when I walked in a half hour late. (As usual) :P

Legend Hotel KL

Ahem. Many apologies for the lack of updates recently. I haven't had much internet time when I was away from work, and when I was at work I've been addicted to an online comic I discovered.

Anyway, I had a mini-vacay last week in Legend Hotel KL. Stayed there for a glorious 3 days and 2 nites with Nic, my mom, my sis and her boyfriend. Regardless of the fact that the place was only about 20 minutes away from home, I still consider it a vacay solely because we stayed in a hotel, with room service, cable tv and the works. Sadly, I didn't manage to take any pics, mainly because I kept procrastinating, thinking that I had plenty of time. However, I managed to get a collage of photos from the website, which look pretty similar to the room I was in.

The Legend Hotel

There are small differences, however. Do bear in mind that these are professionally taken promotional photos. So even though our room looked similar, there were no flowers, or decorative pots, or even the cloth runner across the bed (or whatever it's called). On a positive note, its rare to find a hotel room which looks so similar to the promo photos on the official website.

So for those wonderful 3 days, all I did was eat, sleep and watch tv. On the first night we were there, an old friend of my mom's took us out for dinner. We went to Modesto's in CapSquare, KL, because his son was one of the outlet's owners. The place is gorgeous, but because I was so spaced out that night I never even thought of taking any photos. Guess my first priority isn't my blog, after all. Lol. But because of the resourceful person I am, I managed to scrounge up some photos that looked relevant...from other blogs. XD

Modesto's CapSquare, KL

The bar area

Fried prawns and squid rings. Delicious!

Spaghetti something or another. I think my sis had this.

The only reason I put it up the photo is because, with the exception of the meat, it looks similar to what Nic and I had. I had a rack of lamb and Nic had steak. The baby potatoes were delicious!

The food was pretty awesome. Then again, so were the prices. We had 2 appetizer platters with fish fingers, fried prawns and squid rings (I think they were fried anyway. Besides, this isn't a food blog!), as well as a few types of bread to be dipped in an olive oil and vinegar mix. Then the main courses arrived. My mom's friend and I had the rack of lamb, 3 miniscule breaded lamb ribs, each that looked vaguely like an Ayamas nugget. Nic had a slab of medium rare steak with a side of black pepper sauce. My mom, sis and sis' bf had pasta. To be honest, I haven't the faintest idea of what they actually ordered with the exception that it was just different types of pasta. After the entrées, we each had desserts of chocolate and vanilla ice cream coated in chocolate covered nuts.

The 2nd night we were there, we pretty much slept the entire day, before going out for dinner at some malay food place nearby. Not much to talk about there because the food was just so-so. Then we went back to the hotel and had some fun soaking in the tub. Together. ^_^

Then came the dreaded 3rd and final day. It was time to go home! :( I wish we could have stayed longer. Just as we were starting to get into the swing of things, we needed to leave. So 'potong stim' (killjoy). While my sis and her bf rushed home for an appointment, Nic, my mom and I decided to hang around The Mall for abit. Though it is far from our choice of shopping malls, it was close by (just below the hotel actually) and I needed to get a last minute birthday pressie for my dad. Since I totally suck at buying gifts, after wasting some time standing around deliberating on what to get him, I finally decided to get him one of the few tried and true 'daddy gifts'. Boxer shorts. I will always cherish the moment where my mom asked my girlfriend which colour shorts would suit my dad better.

Omfg. >.<"

CNY + V-day

 What I did for CNY eve and CNY Day 1/V-day.

CNY Eve
5pm - 7pm: Woke up late (I was on night shift the previous night), sent Nic back to her mom's place, collected the yee sang I ordered from her mom, put petrol, pumped air into my tyres, drove back to my parents' place.
7pm - 7.30pm: Got nagged at by my mom for gaining weight. As usual. Played with my favourite doggie. Waited for my family to get ready to go out for reunion dinner.
7.30pm - 9pm: Went to pick Nic up (as she was done with dinner). Drove back to my parents' place and continued waiting.
9pm - 9.30pm: Gave up on waiting because it was too late to go out for dinner. Decided to order Domino's pizza instead. Yes. We were having pizza for reunion dinner. It was either that, or KFC. My family is not normal.
9.30pm - 10.30pm: Pizza arrived. Had our yee sang to begin the dinner (it was good! The best yee sang I've eaten this year) then continued with the pizza.
10.30pm - 12.30am: After dinner and some weird tasting tea my mom made (some healthy crap. My mom's always into that kinda stuff) then went and watched TV until after midnight. Wished my parents g'night and headed on home.
12.30am - 5am: Went online and played Mafia Wars on Facebook all night.
5am - 6am: Argued with Nic, made up then went to bed.

CNY Day 1/V-day
2.30pm - 3.30pm: Woke up and read a book while Nic was watching 'Fat Actress' (a comedy series starring Kirsty Allen).
3.30pm - 4.30pm: Got hungry, made some Maggi Noodles with a sausage and some crabsticks.
4.30pm - 6.30pm: Watched Reaper with Nic (another comedy series that I like very much).
6.30pm - 7.30pm: Smelled someone frying chicken. Drooled. I had the bright idea to  'tapao' (takeaway) some KFC and have that for our Valentine's Day dinner (yes, I'm cheap! And decidedly unromantic).
7.30pm - 10.30pm: Had our delicious, finger lickin' good KFC Original Recipe dinner plates (I was savouring mine for 2 whole hours...I take slow eating to a whole new level! wahahaha) and continued watched Reaper together.
10.30pm - 10.35pm: Mourned the loss of Reaper because we had finished season 2 and there was no season 3 as the show had been cancelled last year. Nooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo! 
10.35pm - 11pm: Took a nice shower and did the 'pore pack thing' together with Nic. She had a Skinfood one that she wanted me to try.
11pm - 11.20pm: Went online to check my MW character. Then pulled off the pore pack and compared them to see who had cooler whiteheads. She won. We're weird. I know.
11.20pm - 12am: Continued playing MW while deluding myself that I was going to sleep 'early'.
12am: Finally forced myself to go to bed.

And now...I look like a big, fat panda bear in the office...with 10 more hours to go out of my 13 hour shift! *Groan*