Grandpa Birthday October 31, 2009
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Today is another milestones for my grandpa as he is celebrating his 79th birthday. Although that might sound old to you, glad that he is doing very well and still going strong and my wish for him is to be even stronger ever.
Anyway, to celebrate his birthday, he invited close relative to have a simple dinner. Myself and Adrian bought him a cake though we knew he don’t really like to eat but somehow it’s an item not to miss especially for such occasion.
Oh well, nothing much actually. After the dinner, we went over to grand aunt Christine’s house. Meanwhile myself and Adrian busy taking photo for Andy of his new renovated house. Hope he don’t mind I posted some of the picture here.
Nice house though … congrate Andy 
OSIM uMist October 29, 2009
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It was just like yesterday Adrian left for Singapore and now he is back again … time flies. Touch down at Penang International Airport at 4:30pm, after collecting his luggages, he had McDonald while waiting for me to fetch him at 5:30pm. Immediately after the time-to-go-off song started to sing, I also started to pack my stuff. I think I was the first to go off in my department today.
We came back home first to wait for Jane for dinner. While we were waiting, Adrian show me all the thing he bought from Singapore. Load of CDs, electronic gadget and also camera stuff. I think he spend quite lots for this trip but probably worth it for him lol. Best of all, he got me an OSIM uMist which I thought he himself wanted one also. Yeah, he want it but it’s not practical for him to use it in Ireland. In the end, he only buy one for me as a gift.
At night, we have our dinner by seaside … Malay’s stall ikan bakar. It’s quite nice and not very expensive. The treat was on me as normally Adrian has been treating me a lot. Kinda paiseh lol haha. After dinner, we spend most of the night playing those CDs and chit chatting.
Adrian Off To Singapore October 22, 2009
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Adrian is going to Singapore again though this time I don’t need to fetch him from Sitiawan to Penang for his flight instead he’s driving down and leave his car at my place. It’s good that my place allows 7 days of overnight registration and happened to be he would be off for seven days as well.
He came down all they way from Sitiawan and reaches my place at 7:10am. As I normally leave for working quite early, so I would be sending him to the airport then only go to work.
At night, since he’s driving his Toyota Estima here, it’s kind of worried me that if his car park at the visitor car park for too many days, something might happened to it. So I decided to let him park at my current parking lot while I move to the top which is my actual rented lot. So for the next 7 days, I would have to drive all the way 6 floors up to my parking lot lol
Street Dance Competition @QBM October 18, 2009
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It’s a sunny Sunday morning and I woke up quite early today. Several item to be done … first need to buy some breakfast for my aunt and her family. Clean up the house since it has been almost 4 days since we last tidy it up and … go swimming with the ever-annoying-kids, my aunt’s youngest son.
When it come to time to go out … I’m running out of idea of where to bring them to. Luckily my aunt suggested QBM because she didn’t really shop yesterday night, probably because my grandparents was around and as usual, as a while they would want to leave. We had our lunch at the food courts and then it’s more or less like free activities for us to go seperately. Too bad for my aunt, after just a while of shopping, this time her son is making noise of wanting to go back. In the end, they left home early instead of evening as planned.
After they left, we just walk around for a while and there’s Street Dance competition held. It’s kinda nice and cool to see those guys jumping around making some nice move though some look idiot with their steps, still better than myself hahaha That’s basically my weekend for this round lol.
Grandparents Visit October 17, 2009
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It has been almost a year I’ve moved to my first house … and luckily it’s not a year yet that finally my grandma able to come and have a look of it. Grandpa has been here the last time with my bro in April but then grandma was not feeling well … so this time to make up with the previous miss trip.
At about 12pm they reached my apartment. Basically they felt the place is very nice … worth buying and they kinda like it too. My grandaunt also have the same opinion. After taking some rest, Jane suggested we have our lunch at Lorong Susu chicken rice (recommended lol) since grandpa love chicken rice. Not quite sure of the exact location, we ended up making extra round just to get to the destination. After lunch, actually I have no idea where to bring them to … so I think Gurney would be just nice for little shopping walk.
After a while of shopping, my aunt came but got herself lost at Crystal Point and Sg. Nibong area. In order to make it simpler for them, I ask them to wait for me at Sg. Nibong bus terminal while we catch up with them there and then. Finally we met up and went back to my place again to enjoy those laksa, cendol and ais kacang we’ve bought from Penang Road.
We went to QBM as last place to visit for my grandparents before leave for Tambun for our dinner. Hmmm, actually it was quite a bored trip I think but great that my grandparents get the chance to see my house
Harvesting Bird Nest October 4, 2009
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Today Adrian will be following his uncle to harvest bird nest from the building which they’ve built specially for swallow birds to produce the valuable stuff. Though there’re a lot of such thing around in Sitiawan but I’ve never experience on how the harvesting take place. I take this opportunity to check out what is it like to harvest bird nest.
Normally the building is seal in dark apart from small entrance point for the bird to move in and out because swallow birds only make their nest in dark and cooling area. Water is the most important element and it’s place everywhere in the building. I not sure if all the building around is built in the same manner but for Adrian’s uncle, the building is build with the top portion is made of woods which claim to be prefered by the swallow bird to make their nest.
During the harvesting process, one need to check if there’s any egg/baby bird in the nest. The checking can be done by going through the nest one by one touching the nest. This method need to make sure the hand is not wet as it would destroy the egg. Another method is through an equipment which made of a long stick with a small mirror attached to the end of the stick. Those with egg/baby bird is not harvest-able.
The harvested bird nest will then need to go through washing process and grading. However for Adrian’s uncle, these harvest bird nest is not for sale purposes, mainly is for own comsumption. I think those bird nest in the picture above can easily fetch up to RM5k … amazing stuff! Anyway not many picture taken because the place is very dark and the flash would disturb and stress the bird, so only limited picture taken.
Playing Badminton October 3, 2009
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Haha, trying to track back when was the last time I played badminton … guess it was somewhere in early this year, February is not mistaken. Anyway since I was back yesterday night, I thought of calling Adrian out for breakfast. Of course he didn’t expect me to be home so early and he promise to bring his younger cousin out for badminton game. I just tag along then. It was funny though, Adrian play badminton like a basketball player from the way he run and jump … but still not bad. Irene and Ah Wei also not bad but I guess I myself is old enough to get myself tired after just few rounds, bad huh.
I did nothing much … watching tv and fetching grandpa out for shopping and etc, in the evening as usual I would wash my City. It has been more than a month since I last wax it so this time I must wash and wax it then. Oh, the new rims is giving me problem as it has many angel angles and curve making it hard to wash and quite tiring too lol. Somehow, still never regret over it as it look really nice on my ride!
Oh night time, it’s Saturday EPL weekend so it’s football time! Anyway Man Utd was crapped crap against Sunderland … they play like schoolboys 
Mooncake October 2, 2009
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Every year since my brother got married, I was assigned with a task … deliver mooncake to his In-Law. It has been so for quite a few years and this year was suppose to be the same until … both of us totally forgot about it.
It wasn’t until the day before the mid autumn festival only I realise that and I gave Andrew a short text message. Since I was still in Penang then, I thought I might just as well get it after office hours from QBM. Fuh, to my surprise that most of the mooncake has been snapped .. totally sold out apart from those pure lotus flavour and that also not much left. For the first time in my life, I never knew mooncake could be sold out. Then I was in trouble, Jane suggest to try our luck in BM instead but for pre-caution, I just grabbed a box in case there isn’t any in BM too.
I was lucky that in BM, there’s still plenty to choose from … if only I knew, I would have not bought any from QBM. Nevertheless, just be grateful that I still can get something here and accomplished my task. Since I was already in BM, I decided to go back to Sitiawan then. It took me 2 hours to reach home … safely
