A Green Dinner

One of my resolution for this semester is to stay healthy and eat more health benefit food. So for today's dinner, these are my ingredients. 

1 green capsicum

Benefits of capsicum 

1. good for the eyesight and smooth skin
2. helps the body ward off infections
3. has antioxidant properties 
4. reduce cholesterol - prevent strokes and heart attacks
5. improves stomach digestion
6. help to speed up metabolism and help burn more calories - good for losing weight (i don't need this. I need to gain weight and add more body fats because i think curves are sexeyyyy)

18-20 lady fingers

Benefits of lady fingers (aka Okra)

1. superior fiber found in Okra helps to stabilize blood sugar
2. helps prevent and improve constipation
3. help to feed the good bacteria (probiotics) - similar to yoghurt
4. good for summer heat treatment - for those feeling weak, exhausted and suffering from depression
5. help to heal ulcer and keep joints limber
6. ideal vegetable for weight loss (again, i don't need this benefit :P)

I add in some garlic, an egg and oyster sauce. Stir friend it and below is the end results. This is my dish for tonight that i ate together with white rice (which is also home cook!)

I just feel so healthy!

coming soon

'nuf said.

Love Breakfast

Cooking an ideal healthy breakfast meal for myself

I just love pancakes!

Early Birthday Presents

They say as we grow older, we began to hate birthdays because birthday means we are growing a year older. When I was in my teen years, I can't wait to get out of school, grow up and be young adults. And now that I am one, I am starting to feel the dreadful fear of aging. IF only I could turn back time, I would love to go back to those childhood days - the most carefree, worry-less and fun-ness stage in my life. 

Unfortunately, I couldn't turn back the hands of the clock of life so this year, in a few more days, I am officially turning 2 dozen old (ok.. i just reveal my age). I am beginning to feel the fun of birthday celebration fading away BUT i still LURVEEEEE birthdays! Especially when I get to receive presents :D

And this year, I receive early birthdays presents from a few friends of mine and I would love to take this opportunity to thank them on my blog :D

- click on the images to see the tags -

Thank you Calyn and Henrick for the beautiful scarf. 

Thank you WeeKeat and HuiChin for the Liverpool DVD. 

Thank you Bonnie and ShinYi for the lovely butterfly necklace. 

Thank you Dann for the CB card.

And that's not all yet. This year I have special presents delivered all the way from UK!! 

I was so surprise when I saw the card that came all the way from Sheffield. 

(Stella, u send this card from Sheffield right?) *hoping I am not wrong* hehe

Thank you Stella.

and lastly, the FCUK t-shirt from Pau which was delivered personally by her all the way from UK to me at Cyberjaya last night. :D

Thank you Pau.

and Pau, thank you also for the delicious Belgium chocolate truffles!

And there's 2 more presents I know I will be getting. One from mummy & daddy which I will not get until September (which I will definitely update here), and another one from myself which I am still unsure of what to get. Yes, i get myself own birthday presents every year for the past 3 years. It is one way of me rewarding myself and it is also an excuse to lavish the money I earn from my part time job I had over the July holidays. hehe How great is that?

Stay tune :D

Do I have a twin sister?

Earlier, I was having dinner with my friends, happily chatting away when suddenly the waitress approach me and below is the short and rough conversation i had with her.

Waitress: Mana kawan laki? (Where is your boyfriend?)

Me: huh? *looking at her cluelessly*

Waitress: Laki yang selalu datang sama-sama (the guy that's always come here with you)

Me: ... *still looking at her cluelessly and trying to figure out if my understanding of the indonesian language is wrong anot. I look over to my friend to seek for help*

Then my friend told her that she might have gotten the wrong person but she insist that she's right and that I always go to that restaurant with a thin, tall guy who has almost shoulder length hair. 

Maybe I have an identical twin sister out there whom I do not know off, or maybe there's this imaginary boy beside me all the time and only the waitress sees it.... (ok, i should stop talking nonsense. I am scaring myself and i think I should go off to bed now)

Good night!

National Chingay Competition 2009

My first time photographing Chingay competition. Most of the pictures were taken from the back because the position of the stage the organisers prepared for photographers are not really that strategic. :P 
Nonetheless, I am grateful I was given the "photographer" tag once again to capture the colours of Penang.
*click on the image to enlarge*


the team from Perak







the champions celebrating



the crowd at the event

My RED converse

Have you seen me in my red?

St Anne 2009

It is an annual event thingy for both my parents and I. We will make the trip to St Anne Church at Bukit Mertajam every year. As for this year, I manage to capture a few good pictures compare to last year because of the nice hot weather. Unfortunately, the sky was not as blue and the clouds are not as white as cotton as I wish they were. 

Here are some of my snapshots: 

the interior of the new church

a sculpture of Jesus on the cross

my favourite shot of the day: "I die on the cross" 

"My body is put in a tomb"

the way up to the highest cross ...

For more pictures, check our my flickr