The Urge To Write

It's been a while now since I last wrote something for myself to drive some motivation to continue to blog. My current condition prevents me anywhere near blogger or coming up short with stories or news that interests me to blog. My handy camera has been with me all the while, with so many pictures taken... and yet there's no blog entry being posted. Excuses made here and there, yet all this are practically rubbish and totally useless when I know there are times when I do have the time to write, I just can't find the mood to do so.

Unlike those active bloggers, they can write up to one blog a day to 5 blogs a week. They can turn an aluminium can into gold for god's sake. My dear can even go dig blogs that introduce crappy cosmetics and with the way those people are writing, it can make a crappy 10 dollar nose powder turned to a million dollar one. It's funny to see how people can write it with so much enthusiam, so much spirit and lifelike. As for me, I don't really know how to do it with the crappy lifestyle that I sometimes have. No words can describe the mind of my own.

Trust me, blogging sometimes can be fun and it sometimes can be tough. You need to think. Blogging people always think. Coming up short for the right things to write is something and writing something that is crappy, why bother? I ain't getting any feedback from crappy articles right? I need to put my thinking cap on and start to write my life story before it just blew past by. I need to find the groove again to write my blog or else, I might lose more than just my fellow readers... perhaps my sanity. Frusfration looms as I look back there's just so many left unposted. Time for me to write and catch up again.

Dad's 54th Birthday

This post was intended a week back as Dad celebrated his 54th Birthday on 11th October (Sunday) at the Penang Chinese Recreational Club (CRC) chinese restaurant. He requested his birthday to be done in Chinese style rather than Western. I guess he has grown tired of eating food outside his style for quite a while, so we granted his birthday wish.

A sneak peek into the birthday cake while awaiting for the dishes to arrive.

For those who can't read chinese, this may not help much to understand what's being served for dinner. Only my dear and Cindy could read this for that night.

A little pose from mom and dad.

Now this little poser tries his new camera...

Only turns out that he's more of a colour wolf. Haha!

The very first dish, the chinese peach-liked-buns filled with custard.

Well... it's rather hot okay?

Second dish served will be the sharks fin mixed with scallops.

Little Marcus enjoys his meals too... He calls it the "I Want More Sharks Fin!!!" look.

The third dish will be abalone served with sea cucumber and fish maw.

That's the birthday boy carving up his abalone...

That's my sister (Beatrice) and my brother-in-law (Yu Wei) making conversation with Cindy and my dear.

Little Marcus was throwing his usual temper as he has been a naughty boy throughout the night. Mom yelled at him and he quickly turned sour, with a facial expression with an attitude. I managed to grabbed a quick shot and let everyone in the family to take a look. Dad was impressed and he mentions that this "Marcus will let this photo haunt him when he grows up." I guess it will be... thanks to his little cheeky uncle.

The fourth dish will be roasted suckling pig.

Now this is what you need to really enjoy a suckling pig... a plain dumpling, a little spring onion and of course sucking pig skin dashed with oyster sauce.

What was left of the suckling pig were then chopped to little pieces and then deep fried.

The fifth dish will be the Mantis Prawns cooked in salt and spices.

Noodles were the last of the dishes served for the night before moving to the desserts.

Dad receives his birthday present from little Marcus before the cake cutting ceremony...

... and of course from my little brother and myself!

My picture was taken by Wendy as I prepped up the cake for the birthday boy.

The birthday cake are ready and lit up for the birthday boy.

Seems like the birthday boy really enjoyed his birthday as everyone sings the joyful birthday song.

And of course, he huffs, and he puffs and he blew all the candles out...

Dad wants mom to have a fair share of his joy so he pulled her in to cut the cake together with him.

A family photo for the night for the occassion. From left standing; Alan, Joey, Wendy, Yu Wei, Marcus, Beatrice, Cindy, Eunice and myself. With dad and mom seated in front.

Birthday boy receives a massage from my little brother while he awaits for his slice of birthday cake to be served.

Dad slowly devours the presents that was given.

The last of meal for the night, a slice of the birthday cake and some chinese dumplings filled with black sesame in ginger soup.

Cindy enjoys her desserts.

And to top it off, the couple pictures for the night.

Before the night ends, Marcus gave a very huge birthday kiss for dad to congratulate him for his 54th Birthday. Happy Birthday 54th Birthday dad! Hope you had an enjoyable dinner with us. May you be blessed with many years of return.

Our 2nd Anniversary

It's me and my dear's 2nd year anniversary. I ponder and wonder how much we've been through for the past years and for us to be together all this time its truly a blessing. Honestly, its a challenge that keeps coming at us to face daily, with so much pressures from family, friends and work. Throughout the years, we faced the challenges of having arguments with each other, trying to tolerate with each other's misbehaviour and of course trying to have a good long conversations to solve all the tensions that has strained the relationship... and it seemed to have paid off as the relationship matures through all the rough moments of life.

To come up with a perfect annivesary celebration has never been easy. Some says take it easy... a simple dinner and a movie will do the trick. Some says to make it grand, an expensive dinner and of course to shower her with lots of presents on that day. In the end, I've taken up a decision to do half of each.

I've opted to get a card and of course a couple rings to commemerate our 2nd Anniversary.

What I did was to ask her to go to bed without me first as I need to do some work as a preparation for work tomorrow. So she eventually dozed off without hesitation. I sprung the surprise and as she wake up that morning, she was taken by surprise instead that there's a ring and a card awaiting for her. Her expression was totally priceless. :-)

And as I get off from work that evening, I stopped over a flower shop to get a bouquet of flowers for her.

That bouquet of pink roses made her all smiles and happy.

We had a low profile dinner at the Little Cottage restaurant that was located along Burmah Road in the town area. You don't have to call in to make any table reservations as there's plenty of tables to go around most of the time.

Little Cottage Café

96-A , Jalan Burmah,10050

Georgetown,Penang.

Tel:604-2286218 Fax:604-2274452

Now this place doesn't really need a lot of explanation as the theme of this place to give you a feel of how a cottage life would eventually feel. However, this restaurant do need a little bit of spring cleaning. Minor cobwebs as well as dusts are around its decoration.

I've ordered the Deep Fried Chicken in Mushroom Sauce.

My dear ordered Hawaiian Chicken... a little spicy, not too much to her liking though.

The sets came with a soup and a bun as starters.

And of course, there's dessert with coffee or tea after the meal.

A glass of fruit punch to share. Looks rather colouful...

I've ordered an extra slice of Tiramisu for desserts to share and it tastes quite good to be honest. The cake texture has to be right as a perfect Tiramisu must not be too moist and not too dry, and this one has what to brand itself as a good slice of Tiramisu. This place doesn't cost us that much... with the meals we've ordered, it costs a round figure of RM70. Worth a try for those who are braving for something new.

A little memory of the couple rings that I've bought. It fits perfectly through to her little fingers...

A picture of myself...

And her as well for the night as she did put on an extra effort for the makeup.

You don't have to do much to impress someone. All you got to do is to do the right things at the right time. And I hope that my dear did have a good time with me that night. Perhaps next year's anniversary will be much better? Who knows???