Loving Life of Basri & Alison

   

This morning I went to office quite early, to give out some Christmas presents for my colleagues. I feel sick this morning, but, I am exciting to look forward today event!!!

This year is my lucky year; I got the 1^st price lucky draw in my department Christmas lunch - a foot massage from Watson! **Alison is dancing happily** I also got few presents from my colleagues, lovely gifts!!!

After the Christmas lunch, I feel so enthusiastic go back home to prepare my rosemary roasted chicken, salmon and salad for tonight Christmas Eve!!! I will take more photo after tonight dinner, this is our first time to prepare roasted chicken. Hahaha… ** finger crossed**

               

Why call aunty gang? Hahaha….. is because 6 of us are married, and besides me, all of them are enjoying parent life, so, that means I’m the youngest girl in the gang. This auntie’s gang gathering organizes every 4 months; this is our 2^nd gathering after August 07. :) This gang of friends all originated from my current company, but, after few years, some of them leaving the company or the team, but, to continue this friendship, we proposed to meet up every 4 – 5 months.

Last time I remembered me and Basri tried the MOF @ Bugis Junction, the food there is very authentic and yummy!!! So, this time I suggested MOF for the gathering venue, surprisingly is Pey Choo also MOF’s fan!!! Others didn’t try before.

The cool thing is everyone of us really make effort to on half day leave to meet up, due to the Christmas season coming, we proposed to have gift exchange section. It really sounds wonderful, gathering, yummy food, gift exchange and chitchat!!!

We have fun from 1:30pm till 4:30pm @ MOF! We like a bird, non-stop talking, and chitchat and laughing, the whole restaurant can hear our sound, but we didn’t care about it. After that, we switch a place and continue chitchat till 6:30pm. Hahaha…. I think when girls get together; they can chat for few hours non-stop. sometime my dad commented that girls’ and chair always has a glue connected them, and they can’t leave once they sit down.

On that day, I received 2 Christmas from Kwai Fun and Janice, these 2 presents are so lovely!!! i totally looking forward the next gathering!!!

 

Since our baby Jamie back from Australia, so, that day morning we baked a cake, almond cranberry loaf. Jamie told her she want to eat crab, so, that night we plan to go change village to eat the seafood!!! At the same time I also invited Allen go along.

We ordered a lot of food, until the waitress looked at us and asked us, “you order 5 dishes already, are you sure you want to continue?!” hahahaha…. Then we only aware, so “pai-sei” but, I really hungry that night!!!!!

We order La-la, sting ray BBQ, pepper crab, chili crab, man-tou, vege kay-lan, rice, and we FINISHED ALL!!! J amazing… but, talked about the food, I still prefer the crab that I have ate in Kuala Lumpur. Yummy…yummy… now I think about it, I wish I can go back home (MALAYSIA) and have the food fiesta again!!! after the dinner, Jamie and Allen followed us back to our house and we continue feeding both of them with our almond cranberry float. hahaha…. i think i am absolutely treating my guest well… hahha…

           

1st Dec, Pek Fui and John coming to Singapore and staying with us for 4 days 3 nights. Sometime I like friends’ visiting, at least we have time to chitchat and catch-up.

2nd Dec, me and Basri woke up very early that morning, about 5:50am to attend the standard charter marathon event. GOSH! This is the 1st time i wake up so early in this year. The last year was on my wedding day in Indonesia, 4:30am!!!!! Until now I still very impressed with myself that I can make it! J

This is the 1^st year Basri participate the Marathon event, so, definitely we are excited with it! He has trained for sometime. (Calculating….not really, only started last month, I think! J) When we reached the starting point, WOW! Can’t imagine, the place was packed with all the participants, I quite impressed with the organizer and I am proud with my husband participate it. This event is for donation purpose and there are a lot of people coming from different country to participate this event.

Since I’m not taking part this year, I went to city hall start buck to have my hot tea, sandwich and accompanied with my story book and the new IPOD TOUCH. I sit there and I saw a lot of people walk here and there, something interesting happened around, I just enjoyed the observation I have and the atmosphere.

After 1 hour 32 mins, I saw a familiar face walking toward, hehehe… ya. Basri success completed his 1^st 10KM marathon. Not bad!!! After that friends are back from marathon, we gathered together, and then Basri went to buy the DONUS FACTORY’S donut for friends to taste it. I think Allen loved the donut, he can finish 4 donuts!!! J from this event, we know some new friends there, and chitchat together. This event is fun and healthy! I think next year I should participate!!!:)

This year my Christmas mood is kick in very early, yesterday we have move our Christmas tree out from the store room. Me and Basri just busy to decorate it, and we are totally love this atmosphere in our house. This Christmas tree has following us 3 years, and moving 3 different houses, and finally we are settled down in this house. J Anyway, slowly we will buy some present and place it nicely at our Christmas tree, how lovely it is! LOL.

   

 every year birthday we will went out for dinner, this year i plan to give Basri some special treat, dinner at home. actually a lot of people asked, "eh! why not eat outside, easy and convenient!" but, for me, i think eat at home is special, and prepare a dinner actually is not that time consuming. I prepare the dinner just in 20 mins, fast!!! and delicious! we opened the Ice-wine that we have bought from Canada last July 07. I wish Looi and Ken are here to share this ice-wine. The ice-wine is so sweet and taste good!!!! Next time i will improve the steak, i want to have a medium-rare cook, but, this time not really medium-rare. Sometime when i doing cooking, it will remind me the UK study life, the flatmate, the cooking time etc.

Side track a bit, recently I quite addicted to FaceBook network (http://www.facebook.com) website! Honestly, I think this website is better than Friendster or Hi5. If you free, try out and checkout my recent news too!!

After back from Canada, a lot of thought inside my mind, good and bad! I don’t have any idea yet. I trying to sort it out as much as I can, after year grow, I can’t just stop in this stage. I am trying to appreciate my current life style, but, I need some improvement, chance will just pass by easily if I don’t grab it. Said is easy, action is difficult. What I can do?

Today I have uploaded all the Canada photos to the internet, viewing the photos, I miss Canada trip, the trip was fun, cool and the most important and valuable in this trip is I met my best friends, attend her wedding, be her witness, hang out with some friends,  and know some new friends etc.

Here are some photo link, hope you enjoy it, I also have posted to facebook website.

Canada – Calgary

1. Calgary (Part II) (Location: Comlubia Iceburg and Lake Louis) [link]

2. Calgary gathering photo [link]

3. Calgary (Part I)  (Location: Canada Calgary - Rocky Moutain) [link]

4. Calgary Stampede (cowbow event) photo [link]

Canada – Toronto

1. Totonto (Part I) (Location: Niagara Falls) [Photo link]

2. Canada Trip July 07′ - Totonto (Part II) [Photo link]

3. Canada Trip July 07′ - Totonto (Part III) (Location: Toronto City) [Photo link]

Canada – Vancouver

1. Canada Trip July 07′ - Vancouver (Part I) Location: Vancouver city, vitoria park [Photo link]

2. Canada Trip July 07′ - Vancouver (Part II) [Photo link]

3. Canada Trip July 07′ - Vancouver (Part III) [Photo link]