Being foolish for you

I knew i was doing something foolish the moment i decided to give you a little surprise. Started work early just so i can leave early to come see you. Reached your house at 5.30pm but thought you were sleeping so i decided to call you at 6pm instead as i didn't want to disturb you.

I remembered you said you wouldn't be able to hear your phone ringing while sleeping, so when i called twice at 6pm and you did not pick up, i decided to leave and probably come back later that night.

Was near Bukit Serdang and since it was jamming, I decided to try my luck and check my hp to see if you're online on messenger. Luckily enough, you were and i immediately turned back to your house.

You called me just as i reached. As usual, Samsung hp lagging so couldn't answer your call. But in the end i still managed to give you the little surprise! Though i was only able to see you for 10 seconds, the one hour wait was worth it.

It may sound foolish but it's ok, because i was only being foolish for you!

Now that I've met you, will you be the one I've been looking for?

Sometimes it's not easy to meet someone who you'll really like and are looking for
And certainly even harder to have that person to like you back too
Therefore, having 2 people being in love requires more than just fate

In my lifetime,
暗恋过的有几个
喜欢过的有两个
但是真真爱过的只有她一个

Darn Cute~~

This little one of ours is already 6++ months old.
Only one word to describe,
She's Darn Cute!!

Friendships are like parallel lines, they never meet but will stay with each other till the end.

Lovers are like intersecting lines, they meet once and then drifts apart forever. 

Sometimes, I wished we were like parallel lines instead. At least I can stay with you till the end and not lose you forever!

To me, you weren't burdensome at all. Dating you was the best thing in my life!

My long delayed post on Tokyo 2014

After much procrastination did i realized that is has already been a month since i went to Tokyo  =P
It was my second trip there and it came as a surprise for me as i only found out i had to fly to Tokyo 6 days before. Plus, i had to fly on 29 Apr 2014, partly a present for me hahaaa.

Well this time i had to go alone which was rather boring as i had no one to talked during the trip but things was not as bad i've expected. Had the chance to see flowers lining their streets since it was spring in Tokyo and i just miss out on seeing cherry blossom.

Managed to get my hands on my favourite 100yen tuna mayo onigiri and tried a few of their beers.

Was also grateful for Dr Ijima who treated me to a Yakiniku dinner at Gyu-Kaku, a Japanese styled Korean BBQ. Since it was a Eat-All-You-Can dinner, we almost had a heart attack from all meat overload.

Somehow, as i wanted to make things a little more meaningful, i searched high and low trying to recall the location of a street which i took a picture of in 2012. After much walking, i found it. It was actually at Marunouchi, next to Tokyo Station. 

Autumn of 2012

Spring of 2014

As a souvenir for me like it was in 2012, i was awaken by an earthquake at 5.30am, 5 hours before i was to leave Japan. Dr Ijima told me that earthquake this size only happens in Tokyo once every 6 months. Am i really that lucky?? Anyway, thank you Tokyo for the unforgettable experience.

Had quite a productive day today. Didn't know I can do so many things in a day.

Started off with our annual grave cleaning day during Easter. Regret getting there so late as it was really really very hot today. Sun has already reached skin burning level at 10.30am!

Then, went on to Aeon to get supplies to cook my pork burger dinner feast. Once that was done, headed home to start preparing stuffs for my RCC Orange Butter Cake. RCC = Rice Cooker Cake which basically uses conventional rice cooker to cook the cake, unlike the usual way of having to bake the cake using an oven. There are many RCC recipes online but decided to try this since it's one of the easiest. But i did some minor modifications to the recipe to suit the size of my cooker. It's basically the few items below, 15 mins to prepare and an hour to cook. Simple and easy way to save money and eat healthy home-made cake.

100g Self-raising flour
  70g Fine sugar
  60g Non-salted butter
      2 Eggs
      4 Tbsp squeeze orange juice
      1 Tbsp orange peel
      A pinch of salt

After that, had to prepare pork patties with minced pork from scratch, seasoned with soy sauce, sesame oil, pepper and garlic. Grilled on pan with slight seasoning of soy sauce and cooked till golden brown. Served on butter toasted bun with a specific order; Top bun, Mayo, Egg, Lettuce, Ketchup, Patty, Onion, Bottom bun. Gotta blame the grill i used to work at in the US as they insist we got to follow a specific layout for each type of burger. 

Quite alot of things huh??

On a side note, felt so awkward when my mum tried to match-make me with someone. Thank God the actual person wasn't there if not it would have been a 100 times worse!!

Forgiveness

I know it's Good Friday today and since God has forgiven us, we too must forgive others. But after what happened, I find it very hard to forgive him now. I kept telling myself today "Sorry God, i know i must but i just don't know how."

Princess Annabelle, at least that's what I call her

Didn't really had the chance to post her picture since I was busy visiting her every weekend since. Here they are now!!

11 Feb 2014 @ 2.20pm
5.8 pounds.

Our new addition to the family, Annabelle Lim Ka Yan with her "just finish feeding look".

Her Royal Highness would like to sleep now. Please DND!!

Dad bought back a packet of glutinous rice from Cambodia so mum and I decided we should try out and cook Stir-fried Glutinous Rice 生炒糯米飯. Well it wasn't really that bad for a first try but as always, there is always room for improvement when it comes to cooking.

Ang Pau, no matter 大 or 小

One of the must have for CNY is ang pau and here is what I've come out with. The mathematical calculation for "Amount Received" exponentially decreases every year as you get older until which it'll be zero and that's when it starts to be negative, which also mean you start giving la =P

I did something really really paiseh when i think about now but i was dead serious about it that time. Back when i was 10 (i think), I had a hard time remembering who gave which any pau at the end of the day. So i thought out a "brilliant" device to keep track of my ang pau, a PEN! I would simply write the person's name on the ang pau when i get it. A simple no fuss way of having to remember the design on each ang pau to match the giver. I remembered an uncle was stunted when he saw me writing his name after given me the ang pau and he jokingly commented, "Sei lo, luckily i gave you quite a good sum if not malu cause you would know it was me". Then i responded, "Sorry la uncle, no choice i get too many ang pau jor, cannot keep track so have to do this". It's kinda funny now when i think of that ingenious plan of ang pau tracking i once had.

But when you're older, you start to realized that the ang pau no matter 大 or 小, it's the meaning that counts.

Something to laugh about

Something happened today which made me kinda laugh about it.

While entering church this morning, I noticed this small little 4/5 year old girl following behind me. Since i was walking pretty fast, I could feel as if she was trying to catch up to me. I turned to look and thought why would her parents let her run off like that. Aren't they afraid someone would kidnap her?

Anyway, I didn't bother much and carried on walking. But right when i was facing forward again, i felt something grabbed hold of my hand and it was those tiny little fingers of that girl. My initial reaction was to grab her hands back and I said hello. Honestly, i did it unconsciously as i was too blur with what was happening.

But soon after looking at me and realizes i wasn't her dad, she quickly ran back to the car where her 'real' dad was calling her from.

I laughed thinking.

Firstly, what if she still did not realize i wasn't her dad and continued to hold on to me? Will I be accused of kidnapping someone's daughter? =P

And why would she think i was her dad? Do i really have the dad look? But anyway, it wasn't the first time this kinda things happened to me so i was't surprised.

Today, i was somebody's dad for like one second. Something to laugh about..

A little good news for the new year

While most working adults only get their encouragements through monetary means, my colleague and I are glad we have alternative ways to encourage ourselves.

A little good news we heard from our boss last week was that one of our clinical trial patients was diagnosed with stage 4 cancer and apparently given only 3 months to live. But to know that it has been 9 months since patient first received treatment and is responding well till now, it's really comforting. We were overjoyed cause we knew we played a part in treating this patient. Nine months may not mean much to us healthy people but for a cancer patient, every month counts. Moreover, this patient had to care for his wife who's quite ill as well.

Though at times we feel all stressed up and pressured with unreasonable doctor's request, the thought of how this treatment has given new hope to patients always bring a smile back on our face.

I know my role may not be as prominent as the doctors, but knowing that i generated the treatment dose has already given me great encouragements.

Happy New Year 2014!! though it has already been 11 days in =P

At every new year, we always reflect on life or count how long ever since that something happened. For me, I always do the latter and count how long, for example ever since i went to the USA. Little did i know it was a whopping 6.5 years. It honestly felt like 3 years instead.

With that on my mind, I woke up today to a certain something by my bedside. "It" was a bear with really cute eyes given to me as a birthday gift by two sisters because she knew i like bears. This bear meant alot to me because during my loneliness in the US, "it" has reminded me of home. True enough, I realized that be it in the US or Malaysia, "it" has always been with me, every night ever since i had it 7 years ago.