Kolo mee taugeh: Ah moi, lu ai jiak hak mik (Lady, what you wanna eat)?
Me: [Pause and stutter] Taugeh..Err....ho wa no wan (Taukeh, can give me two plates) [pause]...no wa kolo mee (two plates kolo mee). Wa aii mee pok (i want the thin noodle) [pause and stutter]..ga tam pok char siew eh sai boh (add a bit roast pork can)?
Kolo mee taugeh: Eh sai eh sai (can can)...lu cho je jik eh ah (you take a seat first).
Me: Oh~ (Okie~).
Yes, that's my extent and dilema with Hokkien ever since i came back from Perth. Anything beyond that would set my mind in question mark state. Malaysia is a multi-cultural and also a multi-dialect country especially Borneo (Sarawak & Sabah). Surely, you can survive well if you know Chinese, Malay and English but the truth is you can survive even better if you can grab hold of dialects such as TeoChew, Hakka, Hokkien etc. They're no easy if you have no background of them. And i'm one of them. Most-used dialect in Kuching is no FooChow or others but Hokkien. You order kolo mee, you order them better with Hokkien. You answer phones, people start converstion in Hokkien. =__=" Nothing much i can do beside from answering back in Mandarin. I feel i'm the odd one out. I feel out of place here.
How how? They can't possibly have something like Hokkien tuition class here T_T And it's even tougher to learn when there's literally no writings in Hokkien like Japanese or Korean to make my life easier. Sometimes i notice Hokkien is so widely in use when some companies interview employees in Hokkien. This actually add points to the job hunters if they can speak Hokkien.
Sian neh!
there goes my Jade & Ben in action again
king kong barbie girl Coco in action
For the past three weeks, there was this never ending shopping spree that i was engaged in but thank God it had come to an end. I am not saying shopping isn't fun but it can be a dread if you're to walk and continue walking from 10am until 8pm at night roughly. Almost everyday. Nevertheless, let me do a summary of the shopping sprees that i had right here right now.
The busiest airport i've been to, frankly, is Singapore's Changi Airport so far and it's truly an enjoyable shopping experience. I think its airport is more than enough to make Singapore a well established tourism country. We reached Singapore for transit to Perth on the same day. So we spent the whole afternoon roaming in its 2 terminals, which we bought 4 bottles of wine ALREADY. I am from Perth and i would have to admit that Australia's shopping is not comparable to Singapore's. It's just too dull. We stayed in Perth for 3 weeks and there we went back to Singapore again, stopped by to do more shoppings that we missed.
City Beach in Perth, Western Australia
A romantically atmosphered restaurant located right on the beach
On a gloomy yet beautiful day of November 2006
Thank God we stayed in Orchard Hotel located just right along the Orchard Road itself. We couldn't help but to spent our first evening strolling and sight-seeing Christmas decors along the long-winded Orchard street while hunting for big "Sales/Discount/Bargain" signs. Our cab driver told us it was because of Bush's visit to Singapore recently that all Singaporeans tried to show how well lit Singapore is during Christmas season that they put up the decors much earlier this year. Okie. Thanks to Bush then.
Next day, we spent our times in Suntec City which consists of four towers. Suntec is nothing much but just being big. Talking about big, the BIG happening in Singapore is really the recent opening of its Vivo City near Singapore's habour front. Man! Geez! Damn heaps of people. Seemingly like each every residents, human beings in Singapore all moved to live in the shopping mall like that!! People mountain people sea (this is a direct translate and only Chinese who actually speak chinese can understand this). Check this mall out. The new shopping mall is connected to the old Harbour Front shopping centre. And be prepared to be lost in it. Bring your compass if you want.
Regrets in Singapore:
1. Did not spot any Skin Food established in Singapore yet. So sad.
2. Spotted a Missha store in Vivo City but the choices are very limited. Lack of products.
It's been hectic for the past 3 weeks and it's going to end soon mainly because I'm going back to Malaysia on Monday. But will be staying in Singapore for 3 days before that to do some Christmas shoppings then really back to Kuching. I miss my hubby so dearly. Can't wait to see him. Eventhough we're married but the dating sparks are still there. Ho Ho Ho! Which is good!! ^__^
I've been doing a lot of shoppings in the past 3 weeks like never before in my entire life. And there are more shopping sprees to come within the next few days. And off I go now heading to shopping malls again. Adios~
Need me to say more?
Muzz Buzz - A fairly new established franchise coffee hut with the drive-thru-order-take-away system located in Perth so far
If i was to choose, my choice would be Muzz Buzz for some good reasons. Of coz, the coffee's quality would be the first of all the firsts to consider AND interestingly, you have a variety of flavours to choose from just to add a tingling bit of sensation to your taste buds. My choice of coffee is all the time a hazelnut latte (hazelnut flavour of coz!). The shortbread comes together is yum!
Variety sizes to suit your needsJust in case you're wondering the prices of those four coffee size ranging from Short to The Really Big One (RBO), they charge AUD$1.00 extra upgrading it to the next size. Prices start from as cheap as AUD$2.80 (Short) to AUD$5.80 (RBO) and if you're looking back at my coffee pic up there again, it's Grande in size. So far, i haven't got the gut to try out the RBO. Accumulating it still.
And of course, no beverage is complete without food. For your own very convenience, they do serve finger foods to go together with your drinks (at an extra charge obviously) and here is the menu for your choice of food either hot or cold to satisfy your needs.
Muzz Buzz is young and eager for business and it's inviting prospective franchisees to expand the business opportunities domestically throughout Australia as well as internationally in New Zealand. Frankly, I've thought of this opportunity when i just spotted the opening of it but never came out with a definite decision cuz no money=no capital=no opportunity.
So for those out there who have lots of money and no where to throw them in, why not give it a try? Or if your heart is kind enough, please confirm with me your donations towards my business building fund via my email/comment ^_^ Thank you v. much in advance
感觉上好久没有这样一家人的聚集在一起吃饭，谈天说地，笑到眼睛眯成一条线。好不融洽哦！
在一个冷冷的星期五夜晚我们三兄妹组成一个小诗班来合唱圣诞歌。去年，我和妹妹参加过教会的报佳音也因此学会了好几首诗歌。今晚，团员多 了一个弟弟，我们把那几首统统复习过。里面有以马内利恳求降临 (O Come O Come Emmanuel), 齐来崇主信徒 (O Come All Ye Faithful), 天使佳音 (Angels We Have Heard On High), 普世欢腾 (Joy To The World The Lord Is Come), 听啊！天使高声唱 (Hark! The Herald Angels Sing), 这位婴孩是谁 (What Child Is This), 圣诞佳音 (The First Nowell The Angel Did Say), 到山岭上去传扬 (Go, Tell It On The Mountain) 还有人们皆知的圣诞诗歌平安夜 (Silent Night Holy Night). 妹和弟就负责唱女高音 (Soprano) 和男高音 (Tenor) 而我就负责女低音 (Alto) 的分音。越唱就越起劲然后唱到最后因音调错误又笑到翻天。。哈哈哈！总之越唱就越窝心。
我知道虽然这会是一个不一样的圣诞节 (没有我吗！！)但是它会是一个最温馨的圣诞节~祝大家圣诞节快乐~~我爱你们，我的家人！
Hi people, I'm getting old (yes..it's today the 10th Dec & no, i'm not gonna let you know my birth year) and congrats me for that! And this is my 3rd..wait..lemme count...1 2 3 4 5..no no..4th attempt to write a blog due to some stupid reasons (1st one no time to write, 2nd wrote a lot but delete for no reason, 3rd host no good) and please please encourage me to finish the blogging race this time round.
Seriously, I think i'm not gonna choose another host again'cuz it's so troublesome! And i find blogger.com is the most newbie-friendly weblogs host you could ever find. Have a good nite y'all and have a safe Christmas (it's somewhat early to say that but still...Merry Christmas!)
Thanks to mom-in-law for Christmas pudding as my birthday cake ^_^
