The Dragon Fruit Tree Was Blossoming Last Night

Do you know, I was a bit surprised when my sis told me that the dragon fruit tree in the backyard of our house was blossoming last night. The dragon fruit tree was FLOWERING. Oh my god. A pure white gorgeous flower was growing on the tip of the plant. Wow, it’s kind of amazing. I mean, I have never imagined that could appear in our garden and they all managed to snap it in time. Everything was out of blue. Ho-ho…

Anyway, it was really bad I couldn’t see it in person. And therefore, my sis had sent me a few of its photos, just right when it was happening last night, so that I could enjoy the miracle moment of blossoming with them too.

Here is the flower bud. It looks a bit huge.


The petals of the dragon fruit flower was slowly unfurled in the dark night.




Ooh... Look at it. The petals looked so immaculate, so delicate, as though the white feathers of a dove surrounding the pistil and the filaments. My sis told me it was about a size of a big bowl after it had fully spread out.

来，带你一起坐时光机飞入童年的隧道

Can you still remember about your favorite cartoons or toys that you used to watch or play with in your childhood? Or maybe you had even requested your papa and mama to buy them for you when you saw them on the telly, hadn’t you?

So, do you still keep them with you? Or you have chucked them somewhere else, or kept them in your cabinet? No matter where they are, they had accompanied us throughout our sweet and lovely childhood. You know, they are really precious. They were our BEST FRIEND when we were kids. Or may be the hero or heroine to any of us too.

Well, come on. Let’s put the clock back and relive all those characters that we used to be with in our kids’ life…

欢迎光临！欢迎来到MINT, The Museum of Toys。这里可是收藏了来自世界各国的公仔、玩具，还有许许多多你我都熟悉不过的卡通人物英雄哦。来吧。跟我一起进来瞧一瞧吧。


Batman and Robin.
记得小时候我们还曾模仿过蝙蝠侠，用玩具眼镜当眼罩，用冲凉的毛巾当披肩，就这样扮起蝙蝠侠，喃喃着要伸张正义。哈哈～



Beatles.
这可是KC（我的同事兼朋友）的超级偶像哦(I think)。



Betty Boop.
轮到贝蒂性感女神登场啰。



巨型Astro Boy热情地在门口欢迎你。在入口处也摆满了各式各样的玩具纪念品，如果喜欢的话还可以买回家作纪念。





这是口香糖记忆储存体吗？


老妹，你在模仿谁哦？我不懂＂他＂是谁哩。


Astro Boy, the Japanese hero.



地球英雄来了！有Ultraman, Superman, Spiderman, Baja Hitam(Black Rider), Green Hornet, James Bond 007,最后一个我就不认识了。看样子应该也是来自日本的英雄吧。




Disney卡通世界里的经典人物。别告诉我你不认识它们哦。嘻嘻。


来回味一下当年小学生时期最流行的＂跳飞机＂。


你认识它们吗？




单角的熊娃娃你见过吗？我是第一次看到。


这些是大人还是给小孩玩的呢？



逛累了吗？坐下让白绒绒的熊宝宝陪你歇一会儿吧。


经典娃娃人物。


铁制玩具。


马戏团里的小丑世界。



你一定知道这些曾经轰动一时的历史人物是谁。



还有这些。。。



这是爸爸妈妈年代的哦。不是在我年代的，哈哈～


小时候玩过guli，也玩过塑胶式的陀螺。


老爷爷的收音机。


接下来登场的是我小时候最最最最喜欢的超级卡通人物－Popeye！
有机会我一定要把他全套买下收藏。


你也有收藏这些很经典的海报吗？我想它们现在也许都有一定的价值了。


Disney特制的经典首日封。


In front of Ketapang Gallery...

The Next Day Of Our Singapore Trip

Taking our breakfast in the Thai Restaurant in the hotel, before we started our exciting outing today.


We saw many Buddhists worshipping in this Chinese temple but we both had no idea what’s the big day today.



These pigeons have already got used to the pedestrians.


Passing by a Hindu Temple.


Look at this Illuma Building at Bugis, Singapore. It’s such a fabulous amazing architecture design. Wow!


Posing in front of the Anybody's Blonde opening-soon signboard.



Devil Robots store in Illuma, Bugis. Tell you what, there are a bit pricey to spend for.



We both had felt a lurch of scary when moving along on this three-floor height escalator. It’s really frightening when you look down while it is getting higher and higher.


Empire State in Illuma too.


Japanese restaurant in Illuma, Bugis.





In a cosplay shop.


Popping in to this National Library.

National Geographic at VIVO City

We woke up quite early this morning, at about 6am. We quickly cleansed our face, brushed our teeth and took a light meal before we got out from our place. Well, my friend BK Wong offered us a drive to the bus stop nearby on the main road, where there’s always many buses pass by. Yeah, we were taking a public transport going to Singapore. Less than RM5 per trip. It’s the cheapest way that you can think of. We would rather invest most of our money in the shopping stuff later instead. Hee-hee…

It was still early for check in when we both reach Singapore and therefore, we leaped to our feet and hurry off for shopping, full of exhilaration. Haha~ I had got her a new big bag, a pair of new Levi’s shoes on 30% discount and a few nice hanging little things for handset.

Starving Ping chose the Korean set(拌饭) for her dinner...


Hey, look at this huge wooden-made horse. It's an astonishingly amazing piece. Really.


A metallic globe underneath.


Miniature piece of Roman Theater. It's lovely, isn't?


Wandering around in the gallery store...




Touch the world and feel with your heart.


We and the animals in the pictures.





Just some other nice and purely handmade pieces, antiques and fossil in the store.




Photo gallery...


Night view outside the VIVO City...

My Sis is coming down to JB

Well, I headed to Senai Airport straight away after work to pick up my dearest piggy sis. Hee hee… Her flight arrived in Johor at about 6pm, exactly as scheduled. She didn’t bring many things but a light backpack, filled with her clothes and some other stuff, and an almost empty square bag with her. I guess she might want to fill that boxy bag with her shopping stuff later. All in all is less than 5kg. Huh. She even told me smugly that the ground crew was suggesting her that she could hand carry this utterly light luggage by herself, but she didn’t want. What a lazy sister! Ha-ha…

Anyway, the time was still early and we whizzed off to a hair saloon near to my house after that, before we went for our dinner tonight. We both had the idea of having our hair trimmed nicely. We are going to Singapore tomorrow morning for our weekend. And therefore, we both wanted to get ourselves ready and look absolutely nice for the whole trip in Singapore later.

When we popped in to the saloon, we saw the hairdresser was halfway serving a lady. It’s ok. Just a customer in the whole saloon and we thought he would be serving us very soon. The hairdresser’s assistance ushered us each to the high heel chairs. We sat down and he started washing our hair in turn. We picked a magazine each and leafed through the pages casually. In between, we constantly gossiping while waiting for our turn.

Shampooing, massaging over the top of our head and washing the bubbles away. All took nearly 20minutes to complete. It’s certainly longer than I used to have before. I mean, it’s a bit unusual today because the process should takes no more than 10minutes to complete. But now, he was taking two times longer than usual. Ok. It didn’t matter. We didn’t have to be bothered by this. Anyhow, we carried on our chatter blissfully. We talked about my sis’ university life in Curtin, about Ah Chii, Ah Yew, dad and mum, about clothes, about shoes, about my life in Johor, about our exciting trip to Singapore tomorrow and so on.

Then, there was a mid-age woman pushed the class door open and came in with a boy. Like us, the assistance ushered them politely to the seats. Oh, they would be going after us, I thought nonchalantly.

The hairdresser had eventually finished servicing his lady customer. Ho-ho-ho. It’s our turn now. Our turn after being waiting for ages. We got slightly excited now. But to our surprise, the hairdresser moved all his hairdressing tools toward the mid-age woman and her son. Oh god. Hey, come here. It should be our turn! They came behind us. We were prior to them. Somehow, I was pissed off but I didn’t cry out. I need to be polite. After all, I was in a public area. I should control my burst out bad temper. I don’t want people call me as a shrew lady after that. Ok, just be patient to this bloody hairdresser again and asked him for reason afterwards.

Finally, we both end up having our dinner after 9.30pm. You know what. We wasted about 3 hours there just for a simple haircut which suppose to be done within thirty minutes. For God’s sake, he told me that because the mid-age woman had been making the reservation earlier before she came. If it was so, why didn’t he inform us in the beginnng so that we both could go to have our dinner first? He did it deliberately because he afraid he would lose the two potential customers tonight. He is definitely a bloody cow who wasting our precious time in nonsense.

I nearly lost my Violin bow, Phew!

Thanks God. It comes back to me in the end.

Oh well, I was actually left my bow behind unknowingly after the class on last Thursday evening and the thing was, I only realized it on Monday night in the following week. Just when I wanted to take everything out from the violin case for regular practicing at home. Oh my God. I was quite nervous at that moment and trying to bring everything to mind. I tried my best scanning through every piece of my memories discreetly in order to find out where on earth I leaved the bow.

I remembered the last time I used it was during the violin class on last Thursday night. I went for the basketball game with my buddies until very late on Friday evening, so of course I didn’t carry out the practice – I didn’t want to awake my neighbours and get complaints by them. The next day, I had to work until 6pm and then, I went to the string orchestra at Foon Yew High School with my boyfriend until 10pm. Still, it was too late for me to play the violin.

On Sunday, I woke up quite late and merely carried out the reading at StarBucks with my boyfriend for almost the whole afternoon. And, we spent our evening in front of the telly for hours before we turned in. So, all in all, the high possibility was, I could be leaving my bow in the school. I felt better when I thought in this way. I mean, at least I had got an idea where it was. This makes you feel better than you know nothing whereabouts your bow, isn’t?

Once I had an idea about where my bow was, I quickly rang up to the violin school. It was about 9pm the time I made the call. A lady was answering my call. She is one of the teachers there. She helped me to look for the bow in the classroom but she found nothing. Oh, what a bad news! The disappointment crept across my face. But then, “May be somebody has found it and passed it to Miss Yap. Can you ring back again after 9.00am tomorrow and check with her?” she chipped in suddenly. Oh, great. “Ok. Thanks!” This had definitely got me back into the expectation again. I hoped it would not upset me, then.

I rang to the musical school the next day morning and talked to Miss Yap. She said she had never received any lost bow from other people lately. Oh no. Who took my bow? “Jenny, bear with me a minute. I will go upstairs and check for you again. I will call you back.” She offered her help. “Sure. Thanks.” I said blankly.

After a while, she called me back. “Hi Jenny, I’ve found your bow in the classroom,” she said. But the lady teacher who I talked to last night told me that she couldn’t find it. Did she (the lady teacher) lie? Anyway, I wouldn’t mind anymore as long as I could find my bow back.

“Oh, great. Can you keep that for me and I will come and get it tomorrow after work?” I replied merrily.

“Yes. Of course,” she said.

“Thanks a lot. Cheers!”

Afternoon Tea at StarBucks

StarBucks is another place that we have always been hanging out to when we are running out of place to go during weekend.

Oh, it’s a lovely afternoon today with a really nice and windy weather outside. The sky was grey and cloudy and sometimes, it drizzled. But still, it didn’t matter. Because it made the day even better, much more comfortable than the initial hot and breathless atmosphere. Everything seemed to get refreshed after the rain, as well as my blurry mind.

My boyfriend and I were having a little cozy tea break in the StarBucks this afternoon. We ordered our drinks from the counter and were sharing a slice of a black chocolate cake together.

We picked a pair of pink sofas in the middle of the floor to sink in and carried out our reading, then. Sometimes we had some sweet nice chatter chipped in between too. Sharing our laugh, gossips and some wonderful ideas and knowledge read from the books and magazines.

Here are a few snapshots that we took on-and-off throughout our relaxed time in StarBucks…

Daddy, 亲一个！

Papa & Mama, They Are The 'Happy Farmers'

My dad is a typical businessman while my mum is a diligent housewife. Both of them have the same hobby – they like gardening. They practically make use of the spacious space in our courtyard and also the piece of land next to our house which my dad just bought in a few years ago to plant veggie, fruits and flowers and also some herbs. My dad like to do some gardening during weekend or on the day when he doesn’t have to work, while mum like to carry out the gardening in every morning and evening.

Well, it’s basically quite a relaxed job to them, I think. I mean, of course, it’s not easy to taking care so many plants together and they have certainly put plenty of effort on these. Mum and dad have been very careful to their plants. But I’m sure they are really enjoying the process. They are getting excited when they finally receive a plenteous harvest after so much hard work. They deserve it, don’t they?

The crops are not for selling or anything but mainly for our own serving. Sometimes, my parents will give some to our neighbours and friends for free too, if there are any extra.

Ok, let’s don’t wait any longer and look at the pictures that my youngest brother had again sent to me the other day... He was the cameraman for all of them as well.

Here are a few little banana trees... They are mostly "underage".


Look at this. This lovely little papaya tree is so urge to grow up.


Greenery veggie field next to those fruit trees. They are sharing on the same piece of land.
Guess what type of veggie are them?






A horse was enjoying its delicious grasses near to my parents' veggie field. It's quite tame and friendly. I had met it for few times when I back to my hometown before. Well, it's actually belonged to somebody else.


See what my dad was doing there? Hee... hee...


Beautiful flowers again to share with you all. *wink*


Just two very very old trees "standing" strongly like the guardians next to our house. They have been there ever since we move in about ten years ago.


Nice evening scenery... End of the day.

Cheer Up! My Dearest Sis

Life is like a book of story. It has always been up and down and full of unexpectedness. You would never predict or know exactly what would happen next. It’s like picking a colour ball from a black box. You can’t see the balls inside and you have to blindly and randomly pick up one from the box. You would never know which you gonna get. May be red. May be blue one. Or perhaps a white ball. Only the almighty God would know the answer.

Sis, please don’t get defeated so easily by such deflation. Take it as a lesson and you learn from it. Think at the bright side, you are practically undergoing something that ones have to get over before he or she can reach the goal. You are certainly on your way to the glorious.

You always say that I’m clever but in fact, I’m not. I ‘m just know the rule – “No pains, no gains”, and therefore, I constantly put much effort than others do, in order to get a good result. No matter in what fields or what things. Of course, I did face many failures too before I succeed. Sometimes I had even cried in between. Not being so smug about it but I honestly told myself that I was actually lucky than others. Because you know what, I had got the chance to learn something… something which is rather priceless, from those miserably experience. It’s the same principle as you carry out some experimental approaches. You used to fail at the first place and you keep trying and trying by different attempts until you finally get the result you want. You know, it’s sort of inestimable worth.

My dearest sis, do not freak out. Still, it’s not a matter. Once you get the hang of it, you will realize that it’s no longer a big deal. Take it as a dramatically transition that you have to go through it before you succeed. Never give in to the failure but take it as a step for leading you along to your brilliant achievement in future.