Monday, November 2, 2009

A little cook out at home

I know I don't cook often, but I cannot deny that I enjoy cooking. Though I am not exactly very GOOD at it, but my cookings aren't all THAT bad. And sure, I don't know how to do any fancy stuff yet, but someday when I have the time I might try out more challenging dishes! Hehe.

I was on a holiday on Monday, so I had a little time on my hand to cook a proper meal:

Fried egg with "lap cheong" and onions

Brinjal with sambal

Chicken curry with potatoes

I will not comment on my cooking, to avoid any bias opinions. Haha.

But they were certainly edible, and none of us got any food poisoning. So, it's all good. Hahaha.

posted by Girl @ 8:24 AM   2 Comments

Thursday, September 17, 2009

Online Shopping

Recently, I have been shopping online. Just bought something from Ebay yesterday.

Wanted to get the Aqty Pack for Pinky since we will be going to Mulu and KK , needed a casing to protect it from our 'rough' usage. We tried to shop for it in Sony stores, website and their call-to-order hotline but to no avail because this item is out of production. Was lucky to find it on sales in Ebay as this is not a popular item. Turned out the price including delivery was even slightly cheaper than the retail price here is Malaysia. Happy for that!

And just last week bought a pre-order dress from http://stitchpreorder.blogspot.com/
The service was good and the dress looks nice, just one comment though definitely the model looks nicer in it. Next time I will need to imagine if I look good in it before buying. Well, that is one of the drawbacks of online shopping. Nothing beats buying from the rack where you can inspect the goods for defects and ensure that it fits well. Nevertheless, the good side is time savings on the road, finding carpark and be stuck in jam, petrol etc..all in the comfort of your own home and time, even pass midnight when all the stores are closed :)

Actually,buying Air Asia tickets is also consider online shopping. Have bought many of those in the past that are really cheap too. The recent good deals for example is RM52 return ticket to KK, that's even cheaper than cab fare to KLIA... In the last two years, I've also bought Penang and Langkawi tickets below RM50-80.

Online shopping is definitely a new way to shop in the future and is here to stay for sure.
I'd received a notice or warning from Ebay though when I purchased the camera pack, that is BEWARE OF ONLINE SHOPPING ADDICTION!

hAppY $h0pp1ng!

posted by @nn3 @ 4:27 PM   0 Comments

Thursday, September 10, 2009

Porto Romano

Once while on one of our food hunts for Wendy's at Mont Kiara, we chanced upon this place which is right next to it.

Decided to give it a try and have been returning ever since!
The record breaking was 3 times in a week for this one time where I took turns to bring my counterparts, friends and family there.

Snippets with Pinky



These paintings of the Meditarranean are actually the masterpieces of the owner's father in law who is an Albanian.


Our starter - Minestrone soup
It is pronouce as mi-ni-stro-ne and I thought it was mine-strone all this while until I found out few mths back when I heard a colleague of mine ordering it


Next up, Porto Romano Salad, great dressing with loads of seafood!

Main course - Lamb Shank, now you see it and now you don't...
Can be served with either spaghetti or salad. Not a meat-lover, I actually beat Jacob to get most of it. This is the best lamb shank I've ever tasted!


The servings are huge therefore order to share with 2 person per dish.
Their genre is more of meditarrean-italian-albanian cuisine, with alot of pastas, pizzas, risotto, paella etc..
Go try it out and judge it for yourselves!

posted by @nn3 @ 10:26 AM   5 Comments

Tuesday, September 8, 2009

My Lovely Niece
















posted by PiStaChIo_cHeRy| @ 2:26 PM   3 Comments

Friday, September 4, 2009

Hong Kong Trip - Part 2


May 16

Even though we sleep everyday before 12am but we have to wake up as early as 8am. Not relaxing at all! lol~ oh well.

Today itinerary will be going to the temple (forgotten the temple name but is one of the famous), shopping, shopping & shopping.

After temple, we decided to have a stroll at the street market around 9 plus! Manatau... all shops are still closed. =.= They normally starts their business after 11am. Aiyoooo..
At 1pm we meet up with my friend's friend and she brought us to buy more clothes at distributor warehouse ( Lai Chi Kok) We shop till mad~ walk till our leg almost broke. We get back to our hotel around 5pm and get ourself clean up and rest for awhile. So tiring! Then during night time we headed out to Expensive shopping malls. Their branded Shops is sooo big!


1) Me with the famous temple 2) Mahjong teritory


3) LV Shop 4) Gucci Shop 5) Coach Shop ( We didnt even step a foot into the shop)


May 17

Last day to walk around Hong Kong. Today we will be visiting The Peak, we took the tram up to the hill. The scenery was nice but the weather not that nice. So hazzy. After that, we went to another part of city area, New Territory, where all the buildings located and Shopping mall too. We actually have leg pain since the day before. We walk like tortoise. hahaha... I even need to buy the pain killer clothes to cure me.



This is the public tram that I didnt get to sit. I'm so confuse with their route map. It only cost HKD2 for each trip.


1) Me at the low peak station. 2) Me with the Tram




1 & 2) The Peak View



1) This is the famous spot where the HK TVB Series appears to have.
2) Me with Bruce Lee at the peak. They have Madame Tussauds Hong Kong but I didnt go in.
3) Me at Lam Kwai Fong at 6pm. Nobody....=.= All the bar is not open and there is no single decent restaurant out there!!! :(
May 18
Happy Birthday to me ~!!! Our flight is in the Morning. This is where we bid farewell to Hong Kong... I will be back when I have more cash. lol~


1) Me with the Mask in the airplane. I look like a sick person than the person to prevent from getting H1N1.
2) My friend and I - Souvenirs and Shopping Clothes in Hong Kong!!! We bought back 1 luggage of new clothes.

My Birthday Cake and Me with my dog (Jasper) Isn't he cute?
Okla! Thats all folks!
Note: This is all I can remember. I have to look back at the photos only can remember.

posted by PiStaChIo_cHeRy| @ 6:45 PM   2 Comments

Walking Wardrobe

It's been a long time since I have updated this blog. Just reminded Lee Lian and Cherry to continuously contribute to "our space" yesterday heheh. Keep it up :) At least there are some new posts now!

Was trying to recollect what had happen recently by looking through old photos and coming up with a good "story" to write..So here goes

Lee Lian intro'ed this fashion blog to me where she bought the two pieces - a blouse and a tunic to test water. It turned out that the quality was good and price was reasonable as well. Not an avid online shopper myself, I'm used to buying clothes off the rack and trying them on to see if it fits all the right places. The owner was nice enough to allow us to her house to try out her collection of clothes since Lee Lian is an acquaintance.

Tried on many,






alas.... just bought a few


Sometimes it is ok to pamper ourselves once in a while if we have some surplus that month. Really thank God for that. In contrast to those days where trying to make ends meet was a struggle. Anyway most of our salary is gone a few days after it is out, paying to the banks on our cars, credit card, study & housing loan etc.

You see, Katherine (the owner of WW) came up with an interesting reward system to reward her customer. For each referal, the referee will receive 5% which will be accumulated and can be used to offset future purchases. A week later, I returned with Jacob's sis and his mum as my first referal since I wanted to change the black dress to another piece.Ended up buying some bangles as accessories too... hehe just couldn't resist those beauties :P

posted by @nn3 @ 6:00 PM   0 Comments

Not FDA approved

I was prescribed a "painkiller" for my wrist. I actually googled it, and found out that despite being approved and sold in over 60 countries, Arcoxia is NOT approved in the States! And the fact that it is banned even in ONE country is questionable enough.

(Don't ask me what got me to "research" on this drug. I guess I was just bored, and curious)


Arcoxia is generally a drug used for arthritis. It can also be used for relief of chronic musculoskeletal pain, which is the condition that I have.

Quotes from an article in USA Today on Arcoxia:

...Arcoxia is the "son of Vioxx," says Steven Nissen, chairman of cardiovascular medicine at the Cleveland Clinic. "If it's approved, I believe people will be hurt."

...60% to 70% higher risk of cardiovascular events in patients on Arcoxia...

...Curt Furberg, a Wake Forest University medical epidemiologist who sits on the FDA's Drug Safety and Risk Management Advisory Committee, says Arcoxia should not only be kept out of the USA, but also should be withdrawn in all 63 countries in which it's sold. "If it's harmful here," he says, "it's harmful elsewhere."

I took ONE cos the pain is really irritating me right now. I guess a one-week prescription of a low dosage can't do that much of a damage! If it was really so dangerous, it wouldn't be sold in over 60 countries, eventhough the FDA thinks otherwise right? =___=!!

On second thought, maybe I will just stick to Ponstan if the pain becomes really unbearable. Otherwise I will just suck it up and tahan only!

posted by Girl @ 4:06 PM   2 Comments