Bike to work week

Its bike to work week this week, from my place to work is about half an hour drive through the highway.

Day 1 - Nicole got a ride with Gord
Day 2 - Nicole biked to work with Sam - 1hr 20 mins (19Km)
Day 3 - Nicole was home sick because of extra extra hot Nandos she had for dinner last night.
Day 4 - Nicole drove to Shane's house and bike to work with Shane and Ada - 45 mins (8Km)
Day 5 - Nicole gonna drive in herself, coz Gordon is biking to work.

Nicole is sore and tired, esp her butt!!

lucky doggies!

Which cake would you like on your birthday?

for the housewife

For pizza lover - or general food lover

for the game boys

for the girls

For the campers

For the gamblers

for the workaholic

There has been alot of family dinners lately, which is good for me! i dont have to cook and get to eat good food, yesterday we went to our favorite Taiwanese restaurant.

Occasion - Uncle Rick n his wife visiting from Australia, they bought us yummy chocolate and this yogurt treats for the doggies!

lucky lucky boys n girl!!

Look! it comes with a doggie bone cute box

Awwww

Pooky waiting...........

they seriously smell soo goood!

Look at them enjoy!

Whats cooking in Nicole's kitchen?

THATS RIGHT BABY! Prawn mee aka Har min!

I finally found some imported prawns from thailand with the prawns head on!

Yummy finished product! taste very similar to the prawn mee behind my sentosa house!

Last night we went to Irish time to celebrate Pez's 27th birthday party! Happy birthday Pez!

Irish time is known for their irish beers, all different kind, from light to dark....(Harp, Kilkenny, Smithwick, guiness stout) - and i got a taste of everything !

Rasberry martini

There were list of 1912 Titanic meals for the cost of $19.12

This is one of them- I dunno what is call, belfast or something

There's homemade turkey pot pie.

This grilled halibut burger, isnt that good according to Bonnie

And I had cod fish and chips - the fist is incredibly fresh! but the batter just sucks! wat a waste for such good fish to be handled that poorly

Big ass nachos - perfect to go with ur irish beers!

Everybody digged in!
Last but not least, Pez's burger, I dunno whats in there coz he was too far away, i had to zoom in to take this picture.

Daniel refused to share his dessert with Harun

Big guys arm wrestling

Lastly I wanna apologise to darling about my behaviour last night, so sorry and thanks for your understanding...love you

squatters' right

Do you guys know anything about squatters’ right?

I heard about this very interesting news on the radio this morning - a 71 years old man has been living or camped in this park which owns by the government for the past god-knows-how-many years. And because of the squatters right, he now owns the land worth 4 millions , but I bet this man doesn’t want the money or anything, I mean he’s 71 years old, he just want a place where he can “squat”.

And someone called reported there is this similar case in BC, his friend’s parent own 2 acres of land, and didn’t realized that there are few street bumps been camping there for the past 3 years, and when the land owner intended to make use of those land and apparently they cant get rid of those peoples, because of squatters’ right!! As long as they been there for more than 2 years they have the right to stay on….

Isn’t this crazy? Even though the land belong to somebody else, im talking about private owned?!? If this law is being enforced in some countries with nice weather, I will go “squat” for couple of years and then own the land, (oh by the way in BC you can only own the land if it is a government land.) and I’d be rich!!! Is too cold here to do so, and the crappy weather during winter…wind storm, *GASP*

Oh well.

As I was driving to work yesterday morning on the highway, I saw this car pulled over on the fast lane, and then I saw this dog rushed out from his car and bolted across the street! I mean is a highway and all the cars came flying down, a van nearly knock him down, then the van driver pulled over to help getting the dog, but that small car just drove off ?!?!
I wonder if he is the dog owner or what or maybe I mistaken, that dog didn’t came out from his car, he was also just dodging the dog and pulled over to the fast lane, it was too late for me to do anything because I was way up there and seeing everything else from the rear mirror.

Poor puppy, I hope he/ she will be ok…

Random post

Is almost 10am in the office, and I came in early this morning to check on my test which has been running throughout the weekend, not very good results though – However, I had set up another test and is running right now. Basically that’s gonna be my whole week if nobody hand me anymore work, I will be running this test over and over again at different speed and depends on the speed, the fastest require at least couple of hours to run, and set up only take 5mins if no other issues come up during the setting.

That means, in between those time I am very free! Which I completely dislike, when im at work I need to be working in a certain pace, I love when tasks kept coming on my way, doesn’t matter what it is. Guess im just gonna bump around to see if anybody needs anymore help.

Something funny happened yesterday – I woke up pretty late and went downtown to shop for anniversary gift, and I bought a photo album and card – made this album for darling. Which contain the pictures of us at different seasons and of coz our babies. Then I went down to the store sweating coz I had also been running around town looking for this phil colin concert dvd that darling love! But of coz couldn’t get my hands on any! My final stop was the store, darling looked tired and beat, well of coz we partied till 3 in the morning the night b4, well not really party but we went over to jim to watch a movie on his dad’s projector, this machine is so cool and I want one!! Is like watching movie in the theater! Up till now I still haven’t tell the funny story – geez I am really naggy.

Anyway, I was at the store and darling went out for a walk, this couple came in and picked up an opium pipe and asked “ is this some kinda smoking device?”

In my heard , I was like “smoking device? Geez do you have to be so politically correct?”
I laughed and answered “yes that’s an opium pipe made out of buffalo bone, and I ve never heard anyone call it that b4”

Geeez smoking device!? Haha sound so technical. But of coz she didn’t buy it. We do carry a lot of unique goods that peoples will find interesting, but just wont buy coz is unnecessarily or they sometime cost too much? Sighhhh we went to a new Thai restaurant last week and it was super busy , which increased our temptation of operating a Malaysian restaurant – say if we do, what kinda menu do you think we should have? Any suggestions ? definitely not asam laksa coz it wont sell here! Come on you floggers, gimme some ideas! Low cost, popular by different nations, and easy to make! After wedding we will plan more about it.

By the way mom had received her ring, pheeeeeeeeeeew! I can sleep well now, and she was sooooooo happy and she loved it! Im so glad 

our 9th anniversary - TreeGo Obstacle course

Today is our 9th year anniversary - zeng soh wai cheong cheong kao kao :)

Happy Anniversary darling!

Thats right, 9 years baby!

To celebrate that, I thought of giving him a surprise by bringing him to this obstacle course in south Nanaimo, I know anniversary is a two peoples thing, but if you gonna go on this obstacle course, what fun is it if t was just the two of us? so i recruited 12 of us! Drove up north in 3 cars!

x

as the cute instructor helped me to strap on my harnest, I smelled booze, so i said out loud :"*gasp* you had beers didnt you!"

and he looked panic :

" well it was last night but you cant tell my boss or else im fired!"

me:"*ting!* well i dunno, it depends.....*evil grin*"

him:"well how much do you want?"

he was actually serious!!! ahha

me:" well just make sure you return us all alive, and i smell some tequilla in that backpack, r u gonna share some?"

"laugh"

Gearing up and listening to safety instructions

Then we tried out a little demo course for kids just to get the hang of it

Me on the go, i think we started from 10feet and gradually increased up to 60feet!!!!

There are tonnes of challenging swing bridge and zip line was super fun!



This is another challenging one, you swing across like spider man and hop on to the net!
(see video below)

Some quiters taking pictures of us from the ground, look how high up we were!




Is kinda blurry here, but if you enlarge it, is actually picture of wei slipped and fell, he was then sitting on the swing and gasped for a while b4 he climbed up again! this was the most challenging and scariest part to me, my hands and legs were actually shaking after i gone through this
there were 12 of us and only 7 completed the full course, some stopped way early coz of high issue, some stopped right at the end coz their hands really sore.

Then we chilled out by the bungy jump place to catch some action and had lunch!

will you do bungy jump? i kept asking myself then, if there were two of us maybe I will..

I packed some simple snack for everybody, we were starving!

Some of the crew from left "wei, Darryl, Shane, Ken, Trunk, Kenny"

There was Jim, Daniel, Candyce, Me, weiwei, Pei yu missing from the picture

i ve been having problem putting video here through You tube, anyone came across the same issue too?

KK VS GC

You know many of us - when talked about vacation, we wanna go US, Europe, Japan, Korea or ....even Singapore!

How many of us will actually consider East Malaysia - Sabah or Sarawak as one of their destinations?

Lets look at one of the seven wonders of the world - Grand Canyon

Beautiful isnt it? with the sun set n everything....

Look again, isnt that wonderful? except the picture ur looking below is Kota Kinabalu

The only difference I can think of - ermm off the top of my head, is Grand Canyon will cost you 5k? but KK 1K and you will have some extra pocket money for shopping...

Of coz another practical one is - u actually have to hike up to KK with all the mountain climbing or hiking equipments. Thats gonna cost you another big buck :)

Seriously! look again.....

This is Grand Canyon

And this is KK

I personally think they are equally beautiful....so why dont we support our local tourism?

Cuti-cuti Malaysia! I know blabbing about this in my blog arent gonna help contribute in the Malaysia's tourism coz i only have like average 5 readers a day.

Originally, our honeymoon destination is Pulau Sipadan in Sabah and i heard is not cheap but is gooooooooorgeous! but now since honeymoon is gonna be a gift to us. We gonna make full use of it....Tahiti maybe? or Fiji......wahh!!! hahaha see lah..

anyway back to my main point, so yea....support Malaysia tourism ok? next time you westies think of a holiday, think east malaysia, i will think the Iban and Kadazan culture will be quite different...according to my mom, she seen and learned alot during her visit in Sarawak.

If I havent got tight down by my job and family, i really wish I could take two months off each year to travel around, see the world, learn new culture, and meet new peoples. Just think of all the different weather, different currency, different language, different road sign.......

Just all the different things that you are about to explore? how much would you actually learned? I ve gotten comment like :"nicole, you obviously havent travel enough" when I freaked out about my travelling partner bringing a man to our room and threw the condom around.

Being well traveled doesnt mean you are well slept around. agree? But to some degree, I havent seen the world enough, the place I really want to go is Egypt, Rome and Greece. To learn their history. Sigh.......one day, one day.......

Lazy part time housewives' solution!

Monday, Ma and Pa made san tong sui kao, this is their ancestor's secret recipe - we all loved it!

Everything made from scratch n nicely wrapped

you can boil or pan fry them
Everybody helped out in the kitchen

Finished products! yummm~ darling fried those sui kao, he's very patient in cooking and the things he fried usually looks very good!

Yesterday we went grocery shopping at Costco (kinda like Macro) and bought almost 300$ worth of food!! Pa mentioned something in the car, this is like 900rm!!!

Gosh I didnt realize that but after you convert it, that is really too much to be spending just on food, and we didnt buy any lebih stuff, just all very essential and basic necessities like meats, ham, cheese, rice etc...


Thanks to his lazy wife that hasnt been cooking much.... so darling came up with this idea to solve lazy wives' problem - how thoughtful? he suggested that we got whole bunch of meats and cooked them all then freeze them so we can use whenever we want. In that case - we always have food ready to go, just fry some vege or some other small side dish if I AM not too lazy.

So I split this mission into two days work, coz after 2 hours of grocery shopping, i got really tired on day 1 - but i still made whole bunch of masala chicken (I know i made this way too often but is everybody's favourite and our choice too!)

So now our freezer look like this - 3 big tubs of masala and some other uncooked meat.

Day 2- I made oyster sauce chicken with mushrooms n carrots just so we got some vege too.

and got whole bunch of cheap shanghai yu choy from china town.

Yea this is our normal portion for each meal, we do eat alot!

Lex was in this position for half an hour, he does enjoy his little sight seeing -
seem like a very sentimental dog =), him enjoying his deep thoughts....