A New Toy As Christmas Present

Just came back from a Christmas Eve dinner organised by my sis's church, Household Of Faith (HOF). Had to rush from Cheras towards Holiday Villa Subang, picking up Mien Yee at Taman Jaya LRT station on the way. Federal highway was as usual, peanut butter jam! My car was moving slower than a tortoise for most part of Federal Highway, especially from Amcorp Mall onwards.

Anyways, glad that I arrived there just before the dinner started. After the dinner, there was a lucky draw session and I told Mien Yee that one our tickets will surely win. Well, we had to wait till the very last draw of the evening, the grand prize, and my name was called out. I didn't know what was it but it was heavy. Then Andrew, my sis churchmate told me this is what every runner wants after their run. (Apparently, Andrew is a keen runner. Ran more marathons than me and have signed up for the 84km Sundown Ultra in Singapore. I'll be seeing him again in Pacemaker Network Run on New Year's Day.) After dinner, I went into my car, opened up the wrapper and behold.....an Omron FOOT MASSAGER!! Comes in handy!

Well, am going to have my first session in a short while, while enjoying my TV. So anyone wants to come over for foot massage after run, give me a call. The charges are dirt cheap, RM5 for 20 mins! Hehe! Kidding!

Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year to you all!

Weekend Events And Leftovers Dinner on Monday

Me and my gf went to Christmas performance at the Federal Academy of Ballet in Section 14, PJ. It was organised by my cousin's church, Evangel BP Church. It was a wonderful evening of music performed by Calvary BP Church (Singapore) & Evangel BP church (Petaling Jaya) titled the Winter Rose.

Kid's performance

The adults' turn
 

I woke up late Sun morning, but forced myself to run. I just couldn't sleep the night before. Twist and turn in my bed, but I think I only get to sleep at around 3am. So getting up at 6.30am was a tough thing to ask especially  when I have been sleeping late last few nights and getting up early in the morning for work.

I started my run at 8.10am. Luckily, weather was cooling and it was cloudy. During this time, road's pretty quite since most runners would have finished their runs by now. And most of them are taking part in races somewhere, i.e. Singapore Marathon, Macau Marathon and Salomon X-Trail. It was good that I managed to log in 1h15m of run time. Nto sure of the distance but could be around 15-16km.

I went out with Geoff in the afternoon to get his car serviced. Brought him to my regular mechanic In Kepong. Luckily he was there as they are not open on Sun. After the car was serviced, wanted to bring my laptop to my cousin. Trying to install a new HDD I just bought from PC fair. Need to get all my softwares reinstalled too. Since Im pretty much as IT Idiot, might as well get an expert to help out. But unfortunately, he had to go out when I was ready to go meet him. So went to Geoff's cousin's house. His cousin, Ben is actually running the PS3 Blu Ray games/move rentals company, Blackmango. He has 2 Minituare Schnauzer in his home. Am really missing my dog seeing them jumping around trying to get attention. We borrowed some games from him and it seems it really got Geoffery hooked to the game, especially Killzone 2.

That night itself, Bernard organised a house warming party over at his place. He and his gf can really cook.

Yummylicious Food

Geoffery tempting little Haley with Carlsberg

Little Haley Lau with dad, Aaron

The next day, picked up my neighbour Mr. OK Tan at KL Sentral who just got back from Singapore. He did a PB for his marathon. On the way back, we stopped at one of the malay stalls to grab some food. I was going to cook vege and rice but since it was quite late already, we "ta pao" (packed) some food from the stall.  Reaching home, quickly cook the rice and waited for Geoff, Joyce and Ooi Keat to come down for a late dinner. We sure had a lot of food that night as Joyce and Geoff also brought over some food. some of the food were from the leftovers from Bernard's house warming party. Well it still tastes just as good!

Hainanese Chicken Rice Dinner

I had home cooked Hainanese Chicken Rice by a self proclaimed "First Time Cooker". I met Joyce through Geoff recently. How's the food? Not too bad...I was so full that I couldn't walk. Haha...nah, it wasn't that bad, but really, I was full.

Cabbage Soup

Hong Kong Kai Lan

Dory Fish Fillet with Ginger & Spring Onions

Mien Yee enjoying the food.....

Main dish for the evening....

Pizza for Dinner

Followed my cousin, Elvin, out for lunch yesterday. We went to this Chinese cafe, @ Rice which is just a short walk away from Kheng's place. At first he was thinking of driving me to another place further away to eat, then he thought of his friend who is working as a chef at the cafe. We reached there during lunchtime and the place was packed. We managed to find seats, and he went on to order the food. But he came back saying that the chef asked him to sit, as he already made a special dish for him. The chef is from Hong Kong and soon he came with our dishes. Looking at it, WOW!

Rice with Prawns, Squid, Roasted Chicken (I think), Peas

Then we went on to Hawthorn suburb. This is where Swinburne University main campus is located before heading back home.

Today, with cooling weather with temperature of around 16C, I just went for a leisure ride and getting to know my way around. I tried riding back to Hawthorn, hills are terrible. I wasn't using my clip-on shoe this time so had to work hard in pushing the pedals. Even passed Kooyong Lawn Tennis Club. I came to this club in 1998 to watch the Kooyong Classic matches. It's usually held just before the first Grand Slam of the year, The Australian Open. Actually, this is the home of Australian Open before it was moved to Melbourne Park.

I came home and wasn't sure what to cook, so I tried out baking pizza since I got Lebanese Bread which I bought but haven't use it yet. Well, it turned out ok, wasn't great, but it was edible. I used tomato sauce, mozzarella, onions, minced meat, fresh tomato and mushroom for toppings. Anything for a hungry stomach.

Pizza 1

Pizza 2

Brunch and Dinner

My "early" breakfast cum lunch or you called it brunch. Ok, it wasn't early, I woke up late as I was watching the US Open Mens semi-final in wee hour in the morning.

Brunch - Cereal with Banana

Brunch - Pasta with carrot/tuna/pasta sauce

Dinner - Stir fry Chicken with Oyster/Soy Sauce/Onions

Dinner - Brocolli, Cauliflower and Carrots