Sha Niu’s Story

At first when my parents told me that we will be celebrating CNY in Australia for 2010, i was so thrown back because I managed to stop that from happening in 2009 but I can’t believe that the idea was still lingering in their minds! While I was too busy plotting of a way to stop that and thinking of ways why i SHOULD NOT celebrate CNY here in Perth, I forgotten the fact that CNY is all about being together as a family.

I like the fact that we’re all together when my mum is whipping up a good ol’ reunion dinner for us. She did told me once that she was very excited as this was the first time she’s cooked reunion dinner for us during CNY because we always patronize the restaurants with the other relatives these past few years and my aunt used to cook in my grandfather’s house last time. I still remember though, my favourite meal was nuggets with rice and soup? AH it’s funny how the simple things like these makes my day so much better back when i was a kid.

Lo and behold! This is what my mum took a few hours to prepare for our Reunion dinner!

Braised Mushrooms with abalone! Got to say I don’t really like abalones because they only have the abalone-ish taste which is abaloneish only wat! I prefer mushrooms still!

Stir-fry Cauliflower with prawns!

Steamed Fish with my favourite bird eye chillies!

This one however hohohoho, we got it from our favourite HK bbq restaurant! I have to take some credit here, because I was the one whom assembled the duck nicely like ones they serve in the nicer restaurants!

I have no freaking idea what you call this in English, but in Malay, it’s sayur kering sup? It’s some dried vegetable we got from the oriental shop and my mummy put lots of dried scallops in it!

Voila! Here’s to a better new year ahead of us! I know, no yee sang this time cause we thought that might as well just stuff ourselves full with the dinner rather than not having any stomach space left for the yummy goodness!

After the super nice dinner, mum surprised us with dessert! It’s snow fungus with dried longans and many many more awesome goodies in it which I don’t know! A sweet ending and that’s just the way I love things to be.

Since it’s the year of the Tiger, I took the excuse to give my nails a little something extra special! I’m out of black nail polish that time so do excuse the purple stripes but I think it turned out quite okay! I used a toothpick so do ignore the fatter stripes.

As I was still on break during the CNY period, I woke up to a house filled with the smell of yam cake! In my head, I knew that it was my mummy preparing for our breakfast in the kitchen. The bliss of having to wake up and having your breakfast served without the trouble of doing anything is absolutely heavenly!

Sometimes I really do wonder, when can I start cooking dishes that taste at least half as tasty as my mummy’s cooking or when can I even start cooking more than ten dishes! I sure do know that I’ve saved down quite a hugee list of recipes from the internet but I never really got the patience to do it whole-heartedly. Sigh the same thing happens to my fashion project in my cupboard. But oh wells, I’m having two weeks break next week and I’ll upload the food my mummy cooked for us on the 2nd day of CNY and I can assure you it’s going to be posted in less than a few days time!

Okay I’ve probably promised some of my friends that I WILL update by last week but I’m sorry that I have to disappoint you girls again as my laptop has been sent for service and it’s been 3 days!!! I called them today and they told me they’re still checking LIKE WHAT THE HECK!

Note : ‘we’re still checking’ phrase means we haven’t got time to check your laptop first so please stop calling!

*fast-forward ten million days*

Okay daddy/mummy called this morning and scolded them big time wahlalalala i was quite scared and let’s say I would be very furious if I was the fella at the other end of the phone cause who likes to be scolded at 8.45am! But it’s a good thing I guess, cause they immediately work on my computer and I got it back the same day itself! dup dup dup so uhm scolding is the solution to everything eh? HAHAHAHAHHA!

Blablablabla I know I’m probably the second last person on Earth to blog about one of the few last things I did in 2009 but wth as long I talk about it. Why second last so odd right? Remember the saying where ppl always used to say that no matter how smart/whatever you are, there’s always someone better than you. So same principle lar this time, no matter how lazy you are, there’s probably someone lazier than you. Backwards ppl backwards teeheeehee!

One of my favourite shopping malls of all time with their beautiful christmas decorations, I swear I could just sit there all day and just look up minus the neck pain lar of course!

When I came back, I put up the christmas tree with my family all by myself just like any other years. Looks a little bare here but somehow I like it better than having the whole tree covered by all the ornaments. I’m getting less complicated and fussy eh.

“Wah now I think back, that’s damn bloody sad. It’s supposed to be a family get-together thing no? Guess everybody just got lazier. HAHAHA SEE SEE THERE’S ALWAYS SOMEONE LAZIER THAN ME!”

That’s my half-eaten Char Siew Pao. I’m not a CSP person and I NEVER eat/order them during dim sum outings but this is one of the MUST MUST CSP to be eaten! It would be a sin not to be eaten! It’s situated at Jalan Ipoh and I think they are only open at night. The pau is oh-so-soft melts in your mouth with their hot hot char siew filling yums!

Hadn’t been eating here for more than 10 years till i was having my CSP craving few weeks ago and I insisted my dad on driving me there or I’ll bug him with the Imma Be song as he hates the song already, and when I sing it errrr..

Since I’ve talked so much without having even reach my main point yet, I’ll just show pictures of my trip to PD + Malacca first!

Started off our journey to PD to stay for the night but I just effing realised I didn’t take any pictures cause I was spying on this guy in the pool with my cousin. Okay la, to make it sound less obsessive, I did play on the longggg rides down into the pool and BAM! I couldn’t hear anything for the following few days cause there’s pressure in my right ear no matter what I do to fix it!

So after the night bili bala in our PD apartment, my dad drove us to Malacca and it’s quite boring lar long roads with chickens and cow aliens around. Decided to take a picture of my dad and all he have was a boring-driving-the-car face. Told him that and he gave me this immediately. I think my dad is funny sometimes.

IMMA BE IMMA BE IMMA BE have my cendol fix in Malacca but sadly the first one was a stupid durian cendol! LIKE HECK SINCE WHEN THERE’S DURIAN CENDOL! Mind my monyetness please but I stooopid dislike durians but I had to force them down my throat cause it’s freaking RM5! Feeling unsatisfied, had the second cendol at a Nyonya restaurant then I told my dad immediately, okay call 999, we must go to Penang for cendol!

The reason I love this photo is because it reminds me so much of the olden days! HELLOO!!! How many shops sells clothes and summore they have that box full of ice-creams anymore???? Wah ice ice baby ling-a-long-a-long!

Keep bisinging my dad to bring me to Jonker Street cause everybody has been talking about it and I hadn’t been there!

Saw this tuktuk sweet and asked the little girl to tuktuk for me so I could buy a packet! But okay la I don’t fancy the sweet and I don’t know where it’s gone now cause nobody ate it. byebye RM1.30

Saw putt chai koh and I bought it no matter how bloated I was cause I so want to try it ever since I’ve seen it in the TVB drama for so many freaking times! Die die also wana lick once at least! Then walk for a few more seconds, spotted this shop selling all sorts of stuffs and I bought my drink just because it’s pink! Yummy jam tarts freshly baked yummy!

While walking back to the car, spotted this tree. Shouted ‘WOHHHHH RED BALLS!’ and pointed at it like i’ve spotted a flying bear!

And that concludes my trip to Malacca + PD!

PS: Look what I’ve done to my iPhone when I found a box of my sticker collection from the past! Call me old fashion but I prefer stickers back then which is just purely 2D instead of those squishy ones they’re selling now hmph

Stay tune for my Penang trip ppl!