Mother's day Dinner

I had a night mare again last night, and it was one of those you woke up from it, go back to sleep and continue to dream about it....

I dreamt of Im friends with xiaxue and I was her bitch and she basically walked all over me !!!!!??

How could I let her do that to me in my dream? then there's this girl got blew up in an elavator and there's blood and human paste all over the elavator wall that i had to clean... i dunno is weird...


Brrr~~ anyway Mother's day dinner last night was a blast!!!! We went to "A taste of Tokyo"
and tried out the buffet dinner - is pretty expensive $25 per pax compared to $10 in Vancouver, well what can I say is the only Japanese buffet on the Island. And only on Saturday....*rolled eyes*



I dunno how you floggers out there do it, but I was alittle embarassed when I was snapping picture around the counter where everybody trying to get food. So i didnt get to take pictures of everything....

They have......
Sushi (duh!) but very very fresh! fresher than those in the mainland

Tempura and Chicken Kaarange which i believe it means fried chicken?

Fresh steamed king crabs!

Remember sometime ago i blogged about the most tender lamb? this is the most tender steak - exactly how i like, medium rare....

Then we have baked oyster, and mix of seafood in oyster shell with mayo and cheese

This is soooo refreshing, some kinda cold noodle dish




There is also gyoza and Korake (fried mashed potato) where butch used to make for us when he was around...yummm~ but i still cant help but starred at that piece of bloody steak (literally!)

Mom was very happy - happy mother's day

I cant help but wishing happy mother's day to myself too - geez all the good food!!! haha i can say from Pooky and Lex

Happy Mother's Day

Special shout out the all the moms in the world : " Thank you and Happy Mother's day!"


To me, My mom is one helluva special mom - she's cool, she's funny, she's pretty, she's a party animal, she's a head chef at home, she's fierce and spicy...she's everything in my life !!

I love you mom!

You can be "pah tou" sometime, but as your children, we will try our best to comply to everything you wanted....


You are real funny sometime, we laugh and we wrestle - I love it when the house is filled with your laughter.....

You are beautiful and elegant sometime, and your sense of fashion is always different than other moms.

I really hope you get the ring I sent out - Im sorry that I cant spent mother's day with you. But like you said, you'd be happy to receive a little card from us. and Im surprised to hear that you been keeping all the cards we gave you on every occasions since young.

In the card this year, I put a little message : -

" Mother, since young, i always wanted to buy you a diamond ring but cant afford - now i finall could fullfill this dream of mine, in the future I look forward to fullfill many more dreams of mine to make you happy, Happy Mother's day"


And I kept quiet and could totally understand when you said you wanted my wedding banquet to be as grand as possible - after years and years of being looked down (thanks to my lovely father). I saw how hard you worked to raise all of us, you hardly nag us - all you did is talked to us once in a while

"you guys have to work hard and be successful in the future - cant let peoples around looked down at you anymore"

And you said to me on the phone yesterday

" I know I am very "ai bin" (oi min) but I really want send a message to those peoples who used to look down at us "

Again I comply as much as I dont think those are important at all, but if it is to you, if it meant so much to you, you can go right ahead.

But honestly mom, I dont think it matters anymore, we all have to learn to let things go.... maybe I dont understand what you REALLY been through. But holding grudge will hurt nobody but yourself.....I am still yet to find a way to tell you all these.

Then again mom, Whatever makes you happy...... Thanks again for trying your best to be a great mom and a dad at the same time all these years.

Pub Crawling for the kids - How do you like that?

Isnt this weird - you wanna do some good to the kids? go pub crawling and drink more! This is schneider's yearly event, well is not organized by schneider but this guy with such big heart, all the donations will go to the kids. For their summer camps or wat not.

You are partying at the same time doing good deed, WHY NOT!?

We arrived at the first pub half an hour late and realised there wasnt anybody there yet? feel really strange so went wonder around downtown, bought a miki of vodka and cranberry juice - mixed them all up at a back valley (drinking in public is extremely prohibited) but no it only looks like we r drinking cranberry juice right? hahaha went back 15mins later, still no sign of our pub crawl crew, only another bunch of high school pub crawlers. Got a little bumped, went to the mall and have fries half drunk, finally 830pm which is the time we suppose to hit the second pub, then we see them! good rashes they are at the roof top!

So we joined them at the second pub - Hugo's
(darling, me, Ken, Austin, Martin, Amanda, and Jasen)

Me and Andrew, I tot i ll put this picture on its own coz of mr annonymous at the back :)

Austin's drunk face

Darling, me and Jasen were chatting outside of the pub, and Jasen is a big salsa dancer, so i told him to show us some moves - he crossed his hands and offer me to grab them, so i figured ok, im gonnna be his dance partner i guess, he twisted me and turn and flipped me 360 degrees in the air!? I was horrified! at the same time embarassed coz i was wearing a skirt. I promised to get back to him for that one!

When is time to hit the 3rd pub, I was pretty much done, but theres free drink at the 3rd pub, so we went ahead got our beer sat down and im ready to pass out, darling saw that and tot it wouldnt be a good idea to let my co-workers especially my boss to see this behaviour of mine -

So we left without finishing our free beer!!! I collapsed on the bed as soon as i got home.

I dunno what it is im such an eating maniac today! is like nothing can ever fill me up! woke up 10 in the morning extremely starved, so fixed myself some Unagi with some left over rice n miso soup.

YUMMMM~~~

After my breakfast, i lay on the bed watch "Friends" with some left over "cranberry juice" from last night - hahahha gosh im such an alcoholic i mean who drinks at 11 in the morning!?!?!?

Soon I passed out again and woke up 4.30 in the evening and starving again!! Gosh im such a pig and a bum!



What should I eat , what should I eat? looking back at my food pictures collection - I really want this!!! is one of the buffet dinner at the Hotel in Mexico....I would kill now for those grilled chicken, grilled fish and beef!!! hmmmmmmmmmmm MEAT!

k gotto go find myself some real food - pictures aint gonna fill me up, cya bye!

Moxies

Sorry about the images problem we had here before - i ve re-uploaded them =) Here you go!



We made pasta for dinner again and we had KFC for dinner last night -so nothing special about that coz I ve posted the pasta picture just few entries ago....

Anyway - This is my all time restaurant - Moxies! their food is affordable and absolutely delicious!

The Starter Platter - steak and goat cheese salad and Extreme burger (darling's must have everytime he goes)

Tandoori Chicken Pizza without cheese that my sister order sometime ago when she was here, I mean , how can u eat pizza without cheese?!?!?!?

Fettucine carbonara

And this is my must have! mustard roast lamb - the most tender lamb i ve ever tried in my life....sooo goooooood!!
So good that I had to tah pao one home - and by the way, thats the best mashed potato i ve ever had in my life too!!! geeeeez how did they do that ???? I wanna learn to cook like them!


Grilled chicken with hollandaise sauce


Perfectly roasted chicken

Bye Bye Ring................

So I shipped out the mother's day present, and I only paid 7 dollars but with insurance only up to 100, so if the ring got lost *touch wood*, i will only be reimburse for 100$. The next thing up is 50$ and I duwanna be paying that........sighh i know im being cheap but am I being stupid?

Picnic day !

After work yesterday, It was super hot and sunny out there, is like 20degrees!!! So I suggested we go to the beach! and since we need dinner, we can have picnic there!!! We invited Chris too coz is his last day in town, he's going away the whole summer into the woods for tree planting - apparently is quite torturing being in the woods for so long, but you are doing a good thing chris!

When you are really desperate for mayo for your potato salad, you really have to korek

We were so hungry, so we dug in b4 i even remember that Im a flogger now?

so unprofessional hor.

My eye gotten worse

Pooky took a dump and I had to dig a hole to bury it - such a dirty job!

Lovey dovey MTV....(*shrug!!!*)

Aiksss, wha whaa? someking skuck in my keekh..

Doggies having good time!

Good bye Chris!!

(he got his hair cut, unfortunately not long enough to donate)

Pooky and Lex went for their first summer swim, im really surprise Pooky went down coz he hates water! but look how cunning he is? just letting Lex do all t he job n he wants to share the credit

I gasped when collegue mentioned about mother's day gift, completly forgot that is this coming sunday!!!! I havent really gotten my first pay check yet - but i finally fullfilled the dream of my childhood - getting a diamond ring for her on mother's day instead of 916 gold earings.(that also have to chip in with sisters and after long saving)

I hope you like mom, cannot really afford a big one

luck of a Monkey

Yesterday morning - Darling made this new fabolous breakfast!!

he fried the hashbrown and mushed them then fried with eggs, onion, green pepper and swiss cheese on top, gosh YUMMMM!!!

Thank you darling, I love you!

This morning I had this for breakfast, well is 2.30pm i think is brunch

Authentic loh mee

Why did I wake up 2.30 in the afternoon? coz i was at a bon fire going away party for really late - yea after supper, i slept at about 5am.

I was bornt in the year of monkey - and I think this year we monkey have really bad luck.

First a vessel in my eye popped, then I cut my finger while chopping basil, then last night...

Some guy got really drunk and decided to hopped over this 5 feet bon fire, I was at the other end and he freaking head bud me in my left eye!!! Maybe it was the alcohol, I felt dizzy and out of it for a while. Then I went to sleep in the van for two hours and came out to continue the party.

When I got home the bum looks like this

Next morning, my left eye were all sepet and blue black, FUCK! how m i going to work again tomorrow!!!!???? now i gotto find my glasses....
I just created a label "accident" not too long ago, and i been using it very frequently , i wonder if my dreams the past few nights has anything to do with it - I kept dreaming of my ramping the van into a big bus or tree.

It has gotten alot worse hours later, the purple is getting stronger...and surprisingly the eye part doesnt hurt, just the head. now i look like i have a patch of eye shadow

Im intergrating my blog into a food blog. you dig?

Is 8pm and I still havent had dinner, starrrrrving! but lets put it this way - After visiting this entry of Joe's food blog (THERE! joe, i made it up by advertising ur blog here), I ve lost appetite to the home cook dinner I just made like 1o minutes ago.

And yet I got more and more interested about food blogging but just that Im way too poor to keep eating out.

So here they are - Homemade Asparagus fried prawns with garlic.

Minced beef fried oyster sauce (quite oily)

Today is my one week anniversary at work, and Im almost done with my training, is been real slow and I dont feel quite productive - and I guess my team leader or the senior guy sitting across from my room are not quite pleased with me. Maybe he saw me surfing net - checking emails or reading blog during work.

Today he said :" All of us are very busy at this moment so you should really go through the hard way about learning things, like go through the reading materials, coz sometime we really dont have time to show you everythings? I know this sounds mean but thats how we all started as well..."

I smiled and said :" I understand" and rolled my eyes till my iris were lost for quite a while as soon as I turned around. Freaking senior guy who knows everything!

SO the whole week - i ve been playing with this baby who worth $4000

Snap shot of my desk with the 19" widescreen - woot!

ouch !

Darling is very good with western menu, he made the best speghetti, well actually he made the best fettucine carbonara.

Sometime last week, me made Pasta...

Looks yummy right? and it tasted even yummier!!!

And then yesterday he complained that I havent been cooking those rice n dish for quite sometime, so i tot tonight i'd make him his favourite dish - Massala Chicken (extra spicy)

Usually i only grind garlic, onion n ginger - but this time i backside itchy and wanted to add some basil leaves since we bought the whole plant last week.

U know I once used to say that I relief my stree my chopping chickens and I always imagine why if i chop my whole finger off?

While chopping the basil leaves, I guess i was half asleep and I almost chopped the tip of my finger off, well of coz i didnt! big part of my nail came off and it was bleeeeeeeding!! and guess it was the garlic, or wat not - it stings!!!!! gosh my tears started rolling down, hurts so bad!!!

Duwanna show you the gross flashy part - well actually we had to put bandage to stop the bleeding so no time or no mood to snap photo -

hahaha i suddenly picture this scenary -imagine i chopped my finger off and the first thing i yelled while holding up the bloody hand (literally) "BRING MY CAMERA FASTER!" that would ve been hardcore!

coz i cutted my hand pretty badly, i decided to remember what i cooked tonight

Lettuce+ sui choy fried chicken breast with garlic

Masala chicken

There's steam egg too but i couldnt wait to eat already - coz darling plug the wrong power for steamer

It ll be nice to eat with hand with some churtney right? but i didnt, maybe i cooked this with blood, i enjoyed it alot and it tasted extra nice!

Boys working out their abs, triceps, biceps chest after dinner...

I dunno what they were looking at but they drove me nuts 5am this morning barking at something out the window.