Joen Jovan Goh E-Sern was born at 4.25am on 7th August 2008 at Mercy Hospital, Melbourne.

Look at his beautiful angelina jolie lips!!! And of course, the trademark Tey nose ;). Apparently he is thin and long, just like his big bro. Just spoke to Daddy who is doing well, ableit slightly toolan (pissed off) with the hospital. Here’s hoping that Joen continues to grow up big and strong, just like his smelly brother. And no colic this time .

Today is the last day of endless afternoon chatting mania / bitching session with dreybee. I’m definitely gonna miss her.

Wish her luck in her new well deserved high-flying exciting job!

(which means she probably won’t have time to chat with a small potato like me )

…means that across oceans, daily doses of bitching ,complaints, moaning and depressing has led to two separate decisions being made on the same week by two different people.

And it even meant being offered THE SAME alternative choice/direction.:)

YAY for drey! We no longer suck! We so rock now!! WOOO!!

For my dear friend, who is learning how to feed my godson. This is great as a novice cook dish, as it is mainly flavoured by oyster-cannot-go-wrong-sauce. I adapted it from the braised mushrooms with sea cucumber recipie that we usually get in big chinese restaurants. I don’t really like dried shitaake mushroom chinese-styled, preferring fresh mushrooms. If you have some dried scallops to flavour it with, all the better! It would be great as well with butterflied prawns,but I was way too lazy to peel prawns on a weekday night.Please remember that you can subsitute the mushrooms for whatever sort you like, even oyster mushroom ect.

Inggredients
300g shimeji mushroom
150g enoki mushroom
3 big bulbous button mushroom (sliced)
100g sugar snap peas
500g scallops
5 cloves of garlic, keep whole

1) Sautee the garlic until fragant
2) Add in all the mushrooms, as they take time to cook
3) In the meantime, mix 30ml of hot water with a sprinkle of chicken stock and cornflour - this is to thicken the sauce
4) Mix in 1tbp oyster sauce, and the cornflour mixture as well.
5) When boiling, add in scallops and sugar snap peas - they should cook at roughly the same time. I like my peas snappy.

Ta-da!

ps: I was really hungry and tired yesterday, so not really in much mood to properly arrange my food for pictures - they were taken outside in twilight on top of a bag of compost. Please do not try this at home.

After 3 months over seas and oceans…

A box of ‘yee sang’,two packs of lou por png (wife biscuit) and some chinese sugared candy

Thank kee thank kee thank kee! I shall now celebrate my Chinese New Year after my 3 week diet session with a whole big bowl of yee sang all for my loneself.Hope it’ll look like this:

sigh…my last yee sang from years gone by…

To thank you, here you go, a flower planted for you!

love you long time!

I like happy colorful places. I like pretending that I am crafty. SO one saturday afternoon, me and the cat headed towards hotch-potch, which specializes in pottery painting. Not pottery itself, just painting. I used to go to one in Fresno nearly every week and I’ve still kept my plates, soap dishes and the first ever mug I’ve painted.

Painting pottery isn’t cheap. Heck, it’s expensive like hell. My latte mug cost me £15 - I have an exact same shape/size mug at work taht cost me £1.50.

The cat contemplating her design choices.

whilst i started off with a swirly inside

The cat’s fancypants lotus design. I’m just jealous la ok?

because mine is so lame…..see my bee???

yeah, that’s how lame my painting is. I like bright colors. I like big pictures. I like simple lines. I am 2 years old.

….and I should probably taken a picture of our completed product.I still have the cat’s herb pot and bacon’s already putting his sexy latte to use.

Hotch Potch runs parties as well from £10 per person - a tile for you to paint,cookies,drinks and invites are included. This will probably be more of kids, but I LIKE.Great place to while away the afternoon just painting. For more information, please visit their website

mommy of my godson has decided to tag me for 5 things she dont know about me.Why would she wanna do that I dont know, seeing that she is one of my oldest friend; we’ve known each other for 15years!

Rite, here we go:

1) I think I am allergic to seawater.No kidding. Most of the time I’d go on my island trips and come back with really bad allergies all over my legs.It might be sandflies, but no one else gets it except me.
2) I am a real cheapskate. It is very,very rare that I buy something(clothes i mean) that is not discounted.So I didnt have many new clothes when I lived in KL due to the nearly non-existence of proper sales other than the MNG pasar-malam like sales.It’s hard esp since I clubbed every single weekend. However, its very different with people- I dont mind paying at any time for food and drinks.
3) I’ve sunbathed topless (ooops). its extremely exhilirating.
4) I was born into a huge extended family house.It had 9 bedrooms, 3 kitchens and easily 5 families. I loved it and never thought it was strange until i started making friends and realize that normal people don’t live like tenants in a bedsit.
5)I don’t like chilli sauce. Scrap that, I don’t like MAGGI Chilli Sauce.

there. nothing interesting like I said. if you fancy doing this tag, trackback to me:)

Warning: Extremely drunk-looking pictures ahead

No, not a night of KFC. More of a night of crazy boozing with those closest to my hearts.

Hen nights are traditionally held to celebrate the bride’s last night as a single women. Since I had been officially married for 6 months, this was a little strange…but I wanted it anyway. So maidzilla aka dreymer was tasked with the impossible task of comming up with a sneaky hen night plan that will remain in our minds forever.With not much time on our hands, it had to be the eve of the wedding, when all of us will be in Penang. In the UK, more and more brides to be are opting for the easy (and smarter) option of spending time with the girls in a spa or having a really luxurious time shopping or a girly holiday or whatnots. Seeing that half of my closest pals are guys, this option is not available. Besides, I needed a drink..:P

And an ingenious plan was born.

Being in Penang, I decided that the night is going to be spent eating and more eating…therefore stuffing myself silly from 7pm-9pm. Nonstop. Driving around in Eve’s huge Pajero in search of food. So when the call came from dreymer to direct us to the hen night venue, we were so stuffed we really did not want to go…preferring to go back to the hotel for shut-eye.Dreymer’s horrified protests shut me up immediately…and so we rushed back to the hotel to quickly change (not much time for makeup) and rush back to town. In my moment of ingenuity, I neglected to bring any shoes, so was subjected to walk around the clubs in a pretty dress and slippers. How hot.

After much ado and traffic jams, we arrived at SoHo at last…a pub/club combination that seem so popular with Penang.And my first suprise:

An absolutely beautiful veil painstakingly made by lunabliss portion of Sher. Adorned with shells and glitter and pearls, it was more gorgeous than my real veil! Shame it was too short..i would’ve worn it for the wedding day. Sher was given instructions to buy a piece of gauze for the hen night, and we ended up with this!

You think that’s all dreymer has up her sleeves? Nope, I knew it wasn’t it.

They proudly presented me with a box of contraceptive!

I was then threaten that I needed to raise RM60, otherwise I was going to have to pay for drinks. Since I came prepared to pay for drinks anyway….I offered to pay for it there and then.

Ha! Gotcha.

But being the nice person I am, I happily went about like an idiot selling contraceptives.

First customer at RM10 for one.

It’s hard to sell to this chinaman who wants extra value for half the cost…I gave up…he thinks he’s the only customer??cheh! hahaha

That was when he came to my rescue..dangling RM50 if I were to blow three of the contraceptives up. Seeing that he’s paid more than that feeding my alcoholic dreams, this was a bargin.

And of course I obliged.

Balloon animals anyone?

A couple more sales..as it progressed, I started charging higher prices.

I think I should be a condom saleswoman…because by the end of it all…

I raised RM180!

I made dreymer so proud of me…she gave me a treat

We love me…rar rar rar!

Next up: The morning after the night before.

nothing can beat this…

Oh I miss you..

Victor & Brandon

Kelvin the lengjai

Edwin smirking stupidly and Eddie

Taikor and me

Whites in threes

Cancerian tag team

Me and mandy stuffing cotton candy…Zouk’s halloween party with free cotton candy

Rounds shot dead…

Smirking

Hehe…I am Abg Lan..did you not know

I went out clubbing on Friday and Saturday…no matter how killer good the DJs are, nothing can compare to KL. I am so pathetically home sick now….cold and miserable.

I miss my nasi lemak (Marcus & Nadia, dont laugh!),my yumchar sessions,my bed,my prawn mee,my prawns,my fish,my vegetables and most of all…my maid.You try living in a pigsty…which is what the house is after Si threw a party on friday..spilt beer,chips all over the place and beer cans everywhere, even in the toilet.

*sniff*

Maybe it is not meant to be.