Bro in law comes to visit and Adeline ties the knot!

G hop into Spore last Friday and followed us to KL for Adeline's tea ceremony. The bride looked ever radient and we had good fun "torturing" the guys. Phillip was sporting enough to do some of the "challenges" like eating grapes which has already been licked by 8 different guys *eww* (but he refused to eat the wasabi covered crackers -top pix) but have to say he was very "cheapo" - giving the girls only RM20 dollar ang pows :p

(above pix : happy couple, Jin and G playing around with the headbands, us with the bride in traditional chinese "quah")

After the tea ceremony where we got to check out Adeline's new nest, the "pampering" session started. We all booked ourselves for a hair wash and for RM20, we got a 40 minute hair wash along with head and shoulder massage....then we headed to the manicurist where the guys both got pedicures and I went for the full works. Next day before heading home, we managed to squeeze in a one hour aromatherapy massage (RM30)..ahhh,,.the joys of being in KL for the weekend :)

Not forgetting to mention, we ate like piglets..the eating spree started on Friday at marina food court where we had popiah, kung pow chicky claypot rice and curry laksa..then to Xin Wang cafe for a huge ice kacang. In KL, the food spree continued with Ramli burgers, maggi mee goreng, prawn mee, fried keow teow, siew pau, roti canai, tosai and a full 8 course dinner with shark fins. Poor G could not stomach all the "dirty" KL food and his tummy gave way so he missed the 8 course dinner :(.

Thankfully his tummy improved thanks to Mom's po chai pills - back in Spore, I let him try teh tarik ice cream and lin and ren yuh dropped in with portugese egg tarts, tau fu fah and taiwanese pancakes from Geylang. The food fest continued with bak kut teh, spore blk carrot cake which he thot was a dessert ;), satay, crayfish, stingray and bbq chicky wings..poor G - i think he cld not wait to get away from food crazy spore :)

When you have an apple pie craving in the middle of the night...

...what does one do? Thankfully, the good folks from local ice-cream chain "The Island Creamery" thought this out and taa daa - Apple Pie ice cream. Angela and Charmaine brought these tubs along when they came to our house warming last night. I am definitely leaving some for Gordon when he comes all the way from SF this weekend to let him try.. might even hop in and buy a tub of pineapple tarts flavoured ice cream seeing he is quite a fan of pineapple tarts :). Jin's quite addicted to the teh tarik flavour but my personal favourite is Burnt Caramel..one you start, it's wayyy too hard to stop...:p

Last night's gathering went pretty well. Spent the morning grocery shopping at Tiong Bahru mkt..then Jin was kind enough to accommodate me to check out BMW's X3 SUV..my first time driving a Bmer..was a great experience..am totally gunning for this car vs the more luxurious Lexus..total sucker for brands ..occupational hazard? :D

Back to the gathering - we had fried noodles, satay, chap chye, prawn and mushroom dish (by me!), soon kueh, bak chang and no meal's complete without dessert. I spent the afternoon testing out my molten lava cakes with the oven and temperature and my new moulds which I got from Chinatown earlier. Happy to note that the guests seemed rather contented after consuming the cakes with non other than Tillamook's Vanilla Bean ice cream (13.50 a tub but worth every penny!)

I made some for Karen since it was her bday..here's the bday girl with Lin

Now, back to the X3 driving experience. I really like the compactness of the SUV - it's brother the X5 is HUGE. Jin's concern is that it won't fit our golf bags..I disagree, it fits if you put the bags in diagonally la! hehehe. The drive is really smooth and how cool is it that the rear mirrors tilt down when you engage the reverse gear? this ensures you dont hit those nasty curbs or a silly cat! Sigh, if only money grew on trees...I would get a X3 for me and a Lexus for Jin. X3 X3 X3.....

Port Dickson weekend with the KL friends

Have not been on a group trip for so long so took opportunity of the Raya weekend and organised a trip to PD with the usual KL folks. Managed to get a 3 bedroom suite at Ancasa for 9 adults and 2 littles ones. Was a really fun, relaxing trip - we ate really cheap seafood, played volleyball and frisbee, walked the beach, hung out at the pool and at night, played RISK till 1.30am..wow, no wonder I am exhausted - so many things in only ONE day :)

Short but great trip..already planning where to go next year :)..

Mooncake festival with the girls

This year, we decided that the "homeless" msians should get together to celebrate Mid-Autumn Festival. As it was a weekday night and the guys were not free to join , the girls (Karen, Li Mei, Lin and myself) met up at Li Mei's place for this gathering. We had vietnamese paper spring rolls, DIY style..yummy! and I bought mooncakes from Orchard Hotel. The pumpkin snowskin was really good..can't wait for next year to come..we will do a lantern walk next year :)

Jin's 32 :D

Jin turned 32 last Wed. Celebrated the weekend before with dinner at Peach Garden with Jimmy, Gail, Lin and RY. Ordered a carrot cake from Lana..yummy! Yummier than the choc cake.

On his actual birthday, made him a nice cheesecake..and dinner at Bonta. Food was not that great but service was excellent. I still owe him a spa treat..hmm..where should I take him.:p