甲州重阳日

相片里头蓝衬衫的小男孩手拿着一束白菊花，提起双手、抬起头、吸收早晨的阳光。太阳公公特别疼爱小男孩，用暖暖的光芒轻轻的呵护着他，伴着他玩。小男孩后面的绿色山坡上的石碑是什么？背着小男孩的另一个红裤子男孩在忙些什么呢？
这是马六甲古城的华人义山，在这阳光普照、风和日丽的早晨，大概有数百个穿红衣的男女老少一起集合在这古老的义山上庆祝重阳。
本人当天和友人一起到现场凑热闹，要看更多的照片，请点击这里。

We Heard the Pink Jelly Fish

I once went to seaside in Selangor, strolling by the beach while waiting for golden sunset.
A strange object appeared infront of me and my friend. It was a jelly fish. It seemed like it was breathing and had to wait for another strong wave to get it back to the water.
My friend picked up a stick and push the pink jelly creature back to the sea.
Soon after that, we found another jelly fish not far from the place we spotted the first one.
The second one didn't look good. The body had turned greenish colour and it did not breath.
Poor creature.
Behind us, we heard laughters, some children had caught a tiny jelly fish in a plastic pail. We were surprised that they could play with the creature. Jelly fish will sting if not handled properly.

Picasa New Account - xijialou

用了两年多的Picasa相簿，今天想上载上星期拍摄的安邦南天宫九皇爷接神仪式时竟告满了。
本人只好学多位摄影师傅，启开另一扇窗，名为xijialou即汐佳楼的新户口。

After two years plus, my first Picasa web album is now full. I had created a new account "xijialou", using the pinyin of my blog's title. Now I can upload my new photos taken last week, during the god invitation ceremony of the 9 Emperor God Festival.

Photos of the day are collected here:
http://picasaweb.google.com/xijialou/Ampang9Emperor#

魅力沙滩--Pantai Kelanang

一个连当地人也未必知晓的魅力沙滩--Pantai Kelanang, 位置在Banting附近的马来甘榜区。海水退潮的时候,浅浅的水面上反映天上的蓝天白云,特别迷人。

Super Hot @ PD

It was an unusual day to visit PD last Saturday. Colourful flaglines were almost every corner of the streets in PD. It was a day before election. This was also my first time going to a beach with my sis's 2 little angels. Here are some photos taken at Pantai Cahaya, the place that filled with sweet memories of an enjoyable family trip. Thanks to my brother in law and my sister for organising the wonderful trip. :)

寡言；不沉默的蓝天

最近都比较多听别人说而少讲。
常常静静的分析别人的个性，自己好像渐渐的变透明一样。

不知什么时候开始变成这样。
因为都在忙参与别人而检讨自己的时候便得越来越少了。

时常为了别人工作而自己的事却搁在一旁。
我仿佛变得懒了，不动了，不开口了。

朋友告诉我的事都仿佛是秘密。
因为我都不会说出去。

我的话最近越来越少了。
像被风吹散的声音，逐渐的、听不见了。

站在沙滩上，海风轻轻的吹着、吹着。
看着夕阳照向大海、再缓缓的往后一望。
我看到了自己长长黑黑的倒影，突然察觉自己的存在。

拉开脚步，看着倒影也在移动，我跑了，跑向城里的路。
这漫长假期已结束了。

Arts for Grabs @ Annexe Gallery 26.09.2009

Today helped out my sister at Arts for Grabs exhibition held at Annexe Gallery, Central Market.
It was fun to be surrounded with artists. More to come tomorrow, the arts expo is on from 12 noon to 8pm.

Photos of the event are here. Enjoy!

Kawaii

I enjoyed spending time with my nephew and niece whenever they come over. Last week, they came to visit us and my brother made some strawberry cheese tarts for us to try. The babies looks on with their instant reaction. I could not help to take out my camera and start to catch them in action. The young brother and sister like to pose for camera. Ivan sometimes shows funny face while Reanne likes to appear in her natural expression.
How was the cheese tarts? See from the kids' face.
Yeah, everyone likes it.

Creative Gift Wrapping for Kids

Brian bought a gift for his uni friend's kids birthday. We couldn't find nice gift wrapper outside, so I decided to help him wrap it with my own way. I wrapped the toy with plain paper and drew with crayon. The bottom part is ground with stone and the top part with clouds. Decorated with some green trees and grass, added on some bird and smiley face balloons. Finally, I added in 3 happy chilren and a cute rabbit. It think it turned out just like a fun land!

Brian brought me along to the birthday celebration held in Bentong. It rained when we entered Karak Highway from KL and finally rain stopped when we arrived at his frien's house. We had a nice dinner with his friend's family. Brian helped to take photos for the birthday kids. We could see clearly, the night lights of Genting from Bentong town. It was a peaceful night.

Move, Kancil, Move!

For the first time, my Kancil went 250km in a day, out of the city, from Serdang to Sekinchan & Kuala Selangor. It was unusual for my baby Kancil, for so long it has not been out of town before. It took me two hours plus to arrive Sekinchan. :) My family and I explored the fish village in Sekinchan, we have tried their local delicacies, the shark dishes and other seafood. Fried fish with chilli gravy is yummy!

After Sekinchan, we passed by Kuala Selangor and stopped by one of the many coulourfully decorated fruit stall.

On the way back, we chose to pass by Puncak Alam, a new housing area with scenic view. I could't help to stop aside when I saw this beautiful swamp. Some regular visitors were there to enjoy fishing.

Overall, it was an adventurous trip for my baby Kancil. The fuel consumption was RM35 for the 250km city and suburban mixed journey with aircon turned maximum. Almost a full tank for a return trip.

再会小学同学

好久不见的小学同学，今天约出来的都是娇小玲珑一族，还选了一个可爱的“兔穴”位于大城堡花园的Rabbit Cafe。难得可以出来聚一聚，七点钟从万宜驾驶我可爱的鼠鹿小白、在两端收费站附近还有一点阻塞，没想到我竟然可以准时在约好的七点半到达惠珍所形容的可爱咖啡馆。小白第一次被我带到大城堡P Zone, 今天又有突破哦!

两个店面的可爱咖啡馆,里面阔得像是任兔子奔跳的小花园,我选了个五个人的位子坐下来等美女们到来。今天我点了糙米饭客家擂茶,味道还不错,值得一试!我真的当自己是只兔子,吃草了!

这咖啡馆菜单里有各种中西餐任选,还准备了RM8.90++的套餐,除了主食还送一杯饮料和一碟小吃,是请三五朋友出来聊天的好去处。

莉新,舒薇,淑慧和惠珍,今天很开心见到你们!

Delicious Cakes天琴烘焙小屋

近来我家弟弟又拿起本事，接订单、烘蛋糕来了！
这是昨天的成品，Hello Kitty蛋糕！红白相争、加上新鲜的草莓香，真让人惊艳！

要看更多的sample,请浏览http://lyra-patisserie.blogspot.com/ 。

Sharing Big Files Online

Sending big files online is made possible by various Free ware online.

I have tried "sendspace.com" & "fileai.com" and found that fileai.com is so much more user friendly.
The GUI of fileai.com is very much user friendly than sendspace too.
sendspace.com limits free trial user with file size up to 300MB each transfer.
Where as fileai.com send files more than 300MB, other than that, fileai.com endable speedy upload and download in just seconds!

Thumbs up for fileai.com!

Mac Book is so Cool!

Play with FK's new Mac Book yesterday while waiting for supper session. It was fun!

Crazy Tonight

It's been very long since I wanted to visit Jogoya, ever since a friend told me about Jogoya when they started to operate in Star Hill, KL.
I had the chance today when my 2nd sis asked to join her at Jogoya buy 1 free 1 supper promotion.
Therefore I had to call a partner to join me as well and I had chosen my bf. :) Lucky him.

Traffic in KL was very free around 8pm when we arrived there. 3 sisters were out for supper... what a crazy night.

The supper session started at 9.40pm.
We had fun tasting all kinds of food available in the restaurant. It was like a maze to me when walking around multiple food counters.
Midnight, when we finished, the town looked so much busier than just now. Decorative lights brighten up the shopping heaven in KL. Many tourist were still on the street, they were walking around and doing their shopping. Young kids were practising their street dance at the five foot way.
At 12.30am, we were still driving on Jalan Bukit Bintang. Got amazed that new Steven's Tea Garden was there!

Phew!!! I am full full full!

I am writing this post because I can't sleep. (@.@|||)

猫

前天早上在房里看见窗外的瓦片上，邻人的猫在喵喵叫。

是一只不怎麽可爱的猫。

拿起桌上的照相手机，我拍起猫来了。

黑乌乌的，好像最近看过的泰国恐怖片Body 19里电脑效果造成的黑猫。

还好，他只是外表暗淡了一些，也并不影响我周末早晨的好心情。

长得不可爱，可没有错！

What's your flavour?

我国也有出产的红茶，可以变化成各种不同口味的美味饮品。
其奶茶也已可分为姜奶茶、拉茶、冰奶茶、三色奶茶、生奶茶等。

前天与友人到嘛嘛档，一坐下来就各自点了不同的茶。

一种产品可以多样化的迎合顾客需求来得到99%的销路，其中也要靠顾客与店主之间的了解。
要多了解，需要多观察、多听、多谈。

虽然，你也可以选择只卖一种茶。

Jom Masak!

Introduced by a colleague last month, I signed up for a half day cooking class at Ajinomoto Umami Centre.

Both the celebrity chef, Amy Beh & the mouth watering dishes attracted me to join this free lesson.

It was a good experience after all. I had learn to cook steam fish - teow chew style, fried vegetarian shark fin, fried yam rice and tong shui.

I can say Ajinomoto Malaysia has a very good CSR program as such. Thumbs up!

Freeware for Handphone

I was looking for handphone dictionary software and found these two useful links:
http://www.getjar.com/software/Sony-Ericsson/K610i
http://www.brothersoft.com/mobile/phone/sony-ericsson/sony-ericsson_k610i/

There are many different type of dictionaries and other java applications that I found there.
I can fit the mini Oxford dictionary of English - Japanese in my handset~

Wow, now I can even have google map in my SE K610i!

Thanks for sharing, brothers!

Alternatif Software to Photoshop

Just found and installed 2 alternatif software compareable to Adobe Photoshop.

--> Paint.NET & GIMP 2. GIMP has a cute icon. :)

Maybe good enough to do simple creative artwork.

:) Let me try out first before I write more about them.