Today is ‘Tung’ Festival in the Chinese Calendar (Photo)

Today is ‘Tung’ Festival in the Chinese Calendar

Every year ‘Tung’ Festival is celebrated on the same day (three days before Christmas).

(Today is also my cousin and a KL friend’s birthday, so Happy Birthday to both of you).

I heard ‘Tung’ Festival is supposed to be more important than Chinese New Year. It is celebrated to signal the beginning of the Northern winter. Usually as a tradition, Chinese eat glutinous rice ball (tong yuan) on this day.

As usual mum cooked all the delicious food for all of us except my brother in law cooked the frogs. There were too much food and lots of leftovers. I think I should have invited some friends over to join us. Haha

Lunch at Usagi Japanese Restaurant

Gyuniku Shiogayaki

Kodomo Bento Set

After work today, I had lunch at Usagi Japanese Restaurant, Karamunsing Complex with Audrey Kamijan. I haven’t had lunch with her since 7 July this year, which is more than five months.

We sat at the table where we ordered our food online. Kinda cool but we were thinking if we are not computer savvy, we would probably have to sit somewhere else where the waitress would have to take our order.

I ordered Audrey’s Gyuniku Shiogayaki (Beef in Sukiyaki Sauce) Set and our hot Ocha (Japanese Green Tea) first. I was taking my sweet time in ordering my food and one thing I do not like ordering via online was that there is no description of some of the items on the menu, only photos. Well, sometimes pictures do not speak a thousand words!

After clicking for more than five minutes, I ordered a Kodomo Bento Set (came with one yakult drink (which I brought home for Chloe), fried chicken pieces with tartar sauce, sushis, tempura prawns and fruits, the same thing I had the first time I went to this restaurant with Lily Tan, Monica Leong and Sophia Tsen.

The first time I ordered my food, no confirmation of order appeared on the screen. So I clicked again. I confirmed with the waitress whether my order went through and she said it did and that it will appear soon.

Anyway, after Audrey started on her food, to my horror, two waitresses came with the same Set I ordered to our table. They looked at our table and there were only two of us, how could we eat three Sets. Luckily I did not have to eat the second Set nor do I have to pay for two Sets of the same thing. But I pity the person if he or she order the same Set as I did and ended up having to eat a pre-cooked Set.

We enjoyed our lunch very much and as usual there were so much to catch up on. We spent more than two hours there and the waitress kept on refilling our hot Ocha.

We went to Salvation to buy some Christmas gifts before I drove Audrey home.

Christmas Decorations at Karamunsing Complex

Desk at Work

This is my desk. Sometimes I wish I have a bigger desk, especially when I am dealing with AO size Plan.

Today I was the only one working and I do treasure the peace and quiet. Eventhough there was no current from 830 – 1115a.m., I still managed to do some work.

A contractor who did not know that my colleagues were on leave dropped by wanting to see one of them. He told me I should go home since no one else was working. I told him I can still work eventhough there was no current.

Fish Tank at Work

My bosses have a fish tank inside their office.

Sometimes when my bosses are not in the office and in order for me to relief stress, I would look at the fishes. Kinda therapeutic.

Water Tank at Work

My company is located on the First Floor of a two-storey building.

Since beginning of this year, a new water pump was installed so that water can be pumped up from the Ground Floor to our office water tank.

With quite a lot of rain falling during this month, there should be no problem in pumping water up but this is not the case.

There is a big green bucket near the toilet to store water for emergency and this can be exhausted when there is not a single drop coming from the tap.

The last few days when I switched on the water pump, there was no water sound at all. I felt so dejected.

But this morning water was gushing out into the water tank as soon I switched on the water pump. Yeah!

Ice cream at Veda Blu on 20 December 2007

After dinner at Diamond Restaurant, we adjourned to have ice cream at Veda Blue in City Mall.

We had peppermint, chocolate and durian flavours. Yum yum

Gaya Christmas Celebration on 20 December 2007 (Photos)

Gaya Christmas Celebration on 20 December 2007

Chloe Chong and Alistair Ng were singing in the choir for The Cross & The Star event of the night presented by The Combined Anglican Church Children Ministry.

Alistair looked so cute all dressed up in his red shirt with blue pants, makeup on his face and hair gel on his hair. He was the youngest and all the girls singing in the choir were swarming to him like bees to honey. He was singing all through the performance and moving his body to the beat of the music. He looked so cute and adorable on stage.

At one part, Chloe was singing solo and there were so many photographers who went to the front of the stage to take her photo.

Both of them did us proud!

Before we left, Mervis Chong (Chloe’s dad) and I brought Chloe and Alistair to walk around Gaya Street.

The atmosphere was quite nice, with choirs singing and lights everywhere.

We adjourned to have supper at Diamond Restaurant.