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Tuesday 1 January 2013

Back home in AS for the new year

I celebrated the New Year back in my hometown at Alor Setar this year. The reason is because I had to send my parents back after their 2 month trip to the US visiting my brother's family.
See how elated my parents were when they just got out from the departure gate at Bayan Lepas airport! I missed them loads too! :)

Since my parents were there for two months, hubby decided to order a Google Nexus 7 for my 2013 birthday present. Weee!! I have a new gadget!! Love you dear! :)

Dad bought my favourite fried noodle and fried yingyong (fried flat noodle). Yummms!

As I have nothing better to do at home, just for fun, I snapped some of my childhood memorabilia. On this vest are my huge collection of pins and badges which I had accumulated over the years, mostly from my Interact club days back in high school.

On my bookshelf, here' my childhood softoys collection. Some has been with me for over 20 years!

Some novels and old pictures

Some reference books from my university days and also some souvenirs I bought from my travels.

Lastly, before I returned to Penang today, my favourite thing to do is to "harvest" some of the vegetables from my parent's herb garden. As shown on the picture above, there were some pandan leaves, basil leaves, lemongrass, limes,fiery cili padi and kafir leaves. Soo aromatic, so fresh!! mmmm....time to do some cooking again :)

Have a great new year!!

Goodbye 2012, Hello 2013!

Wow...can't believe the end of 2012 is drawing close and we are going to usher in a brand new year in about an hour's time! Time to reflect back on the year's event.

January 2012
I celebrated the CNY in Debrecen, Hungary. I remembered a colleague and myself took a flight to Warsaw, Poland. We then took a 3 hour train to Krakow, a really beautiful, historic city. The most poignant and memorable event when we were there was our tour to Auswitz, the largest Jewish Concentration camp during the second World War. I remembered I always wanted to visit this place as I have done a research on the Holocaust during my university days history class. It was really a humbling experience learning about the atrocities and the sufferings of people especially the Jewish where many were killed in a horrible manner in an attempt by the Nazis on doing an "ethnic cleansing".

For CNY, I cooked my mom's signature dish, the mixed vegetarian dish.

Mixed Vegetarian dish


Just the two of us, we took this pic at 12 am Malaysian time on CNY 2012!

Feb 2012
Went to Ireland for the weekend. Love the place, as it reminded me so much of UK although it was wet and gloomy! Also visited the Guinness Warehouse!
Beautiful Irish coastlines

March 2012
Final trip with my fellow colleagues to Athens, Greece. Such a beautiful place, fell in love with the Mediterranean sea! Soooo blue! Also visited the famous World Heritage Site, the Acropolis!

Acropolis, Athens, Greece

April 2012
Saying goodbye to my Hungarian workmates and it's time for me to go home! But before that, hubby came over for a 2nd visit, and we're off for a full-fledged 2-weeks tour around Western Europe and parts of the East-side :)..Visited the UK again, and we're lucky to head to Croatia for the 2nd time to the beautiful Dubvronik island! Not to mentioned, it has always my dream to visit Keukenkof, Amsterdam to checkout the tulips and we're there at the right time! :) 
Tower Bridge, London
Dubvronik, Croatia
Beautiful Tulips at Keukenkof

May 2012 -June 2012
Came back to Malaysia. Spent 5 months in a temporary office. The location is great as it takes me a mere 5 minutes to get to work!

July 2012
Became an aunt for the third time with the arrival of my brother's newborn baby boy, Jacob.
Adorable baby Jacob at 4 months old

Aug 2012
4th Anniversary of my blog! :)

Sept 2012
Celebrated my 1st year wedding anniversary with hubby! :)

Oct 2012 - Nov 2012
Moved to new office. Very very busy at work setting up new facility.

At the new facility, check out the rainbow!

Dec 2012
Survived through the doomsday prophecy!!

Fuh, what an eventful year right?

Have a great 2013 peeps!!! :)