wedding in Kuching...

my sister's wedding was held a couple of days after the food tasting session...

my ride being used as the wedding car...

the stage, with some lighting deco, champagne and cake...

the menu for the night...

sitting at the main table...

typical YUM-SENG routine...

--------suppose to end here, but-----------

John just told me that this entry is way short of pictures... -___-''

oklaa... so here goes the extended version...

everyone got seated at the main table...

the newly wed posing for the cameras...

all my uncles badly wanted to get my dad drunk that night... hahahaha...

all the ladies in the family... little Elizabeth is the cutest...

with cousins...

next up: pre-wedding & wedding in JB...

Pekin Restaurant @ Sutera Utama, JB...

makan-makan @ Stove Kitchen

an outdated post, but what the hell... at least there's some update eh??

went over to have dinner with a bunch of old-time friends at Stove Kitchen, and apparently, one of the owners of the eating place is my college mate - Leonard...

I'll let the pictures do the taking...

steamboat it was... one half was chicken soup, the other was tom yam...

oooo... the meat...

I like this the most - 梅菜扣肉... and best when eaten with one, or two bowl of white rice...

*wipe saliver from mouth*

a good place to hang out with friends, and the price is reasonable...

it's located at Jalan Song, next to Peach Garden Kopitiam... you won't miss it one...

lobster overdose... again... -____-'

another member of the boh-liaw clan - Kari, came back for the weekend, so together with Daniel and I, the three of us went to the Hilton Waterfront Cafe for dinner before heading for some alchohol intoxication session (4th day in a row)... ;)

food was great, but our main focus for the night is the lobsters... yea babeh!!

lobsters + grilled fish...

octopus, sushi, lemon chicken and duck...

and of course... more lobsters... 

I think we took in more lobsters that the last time we were there on Anna's birthday...

goodbye health..... -______-'

Sabah trip [Part 2] - The Climb....

Our travel agent driver - Augustine arrived at the hotel at 7.30am to pick us up to the Kinabalu Park for the climb. of all things that I could forget, stupid me left my climbing stick, which I bought purposely for this trip, in the hotel room, despite Jo twice reminding me to stuff it into my backpack... -_____-'....

by the time I realized that, we were already halfway to Kinabalu Park... so I called the hotel and got the receptionist to safe keep my climbing stick until we check back in the hotel 2 days later... sigh~~~....


Augustine got us registered, and introduced us to our guide - Januarius


and for a fee of RM7 per kilo, we got Januarius to carry our two backpacks, which tipped the scale at a total 14 kgs...


hehehe... still can pose and smile before the climb... wait till you see my half-dead look later on...


we started off at 10.05am at the Timpohon Gate... bought a wooden walking stick for RM3 each... damn... the one that was left inside the hotel room cost like 15 times more wei... argghhh...!!!....


reached the KM1.0 mark in less than an hour... and I still felt pretty okay...


had lunch at the 3KM resting point, and the lady still got time to go feed them squirrels... surprisingly they were not afraid of people... probably because they charm most climbers for food with their cuteness...


my half-dead look at the KM3 pit stop... -____-
my legs were getting tired already... but the lady was still chirpy and stuff... wt...


my pace slowed down from being able to cover less than 1km per hour to a tortoise pace of 1km per 1.5 hour in the final 3km+ of the climb. plus, the fog/mist was getting heavier, and it also started raining, which made our climb even harder, with slippery rocks and muddy terrain... aduhh....


told Jo to go ahead and not wait for me as Januarius would be following my pace instead. she reached Labuan Rata in less than 7 hours, after wasted some time waiting for me at the 4th and 5th pit stops while I reached Labuan Rata at about 6pm, 5 minutes short of 8 freakin' hours... *faint*...


I literally could not feel my legs when I sat my butt down... stayed stationary for a good 30 minutes, enjoying the outside view through the glass panels and kept on drinking water before I proceeded with the buffet dinner...


dusk at Labuan Rata... simply indescribable...


after dinner, we headed towards our cabin in Gunting Lagadan Hut for the night's rest. That wasn't our first choice because there's no heater there... and it's gonna be cold during the night, but Labuan Rata was fully booked...

__to be continued__

new year dinner @ KWS Association

went to the KWS (Kwong Wai Siew) Association for the annual Chinese New Year dinner/gathering thingy yesterday night. it was full of people, and us who are under the KWS Youth were busily taking pictures and entertaining guests.


there were lion dance at the front entrance to welcome all the guests


getting everyone seated before the KWS Chairman went up for his speech on the stage...


guests queuing up to get the food...


after all the food, there were games as well as Ang-Pow giving ceremony, and apparently everyone who attended the dinner went home with at least an Ang-Pow.

Ah Wei's wedding attended...

it seems that there are gonna be a lot of couples getting married this year, starting with my secondary school mate - Ah Wei yesterday. us brothers were told about the date earlier this year, so many of them who are working in other places managed to get back for his big day.


we started drinking beer even before the dinner started. it was also sort of a new year gathering amongst us old friends...

I couldn't make it to the morning routine of accompanying the bridegroom to fetch the bride, so many many apologies there. Missed plenty of drama and hilarious acts before the brothers gang manage to help Ah Wei get to his lady, as I was told during dinner.... -____-'


then came the food... there were more than enough to feed us 8 men + 2 ladies...


a compulsory group photo of us buddies... too bad a few more had to leave early due to other appointments...


and guess what... the car plate number of the Mercedes used for the wedding - which was 8888 actually came out as Magnum4D's consolation prize (RM60) yesterday night, and ironically none of us, including Ah Wei's dad bought the number... -_____-'

Oregano Kuching moved....

Last week, I met up with Hedo and Thongs for a drink at Oregano, and it was then when I was told that Oregano, the one located at Travillion has moved to Central Road, behind Soon Onn Furniture. It wasn't difficult to find, and actually I think the place, despite being a bit secluded, it is pretty much a nice quiet place to hang out, have a drink or a bite compared to the previous location.








On a separate occasion, I attended another wedding dinner last Saturday (15/12), and that was already the THIRD wedding dinner in 2 months time, before that was Bui Siong's and my cousin's weddings. Yesterday (Saturday (22/12) was Thongs's wedding, and that was the FORTH wedding, with another one coming on Christmas eve (24/12) being the FIFTH wedding, and probably the last wedding that I'm attending in 2007.

Phew!!!... now you know why I'm so broke for the past 2 months??

company annual dinner

It's the company's 5th annual dinner, held at the Holiday Inn Ballroom last week, which also means that I've been with the company for 4 years. Quite a long time already considering the fact that I lasted only 1 year in my previous job. It was a great night, as there were good food, plentiful of fun games as well as a hell of a party at Tribes after the dinner.


a gift from all the staffs to the management (our bosses)


a picture of all of us colleagues (photoshopped of course) with the company logo. dunno who suggested this, but it was truly something special and meaningful.


after all the good food, lucky draws and fun events, which I was too lazy to snap pictures of, we proceeded to Tribes for the after dinner party. I didn't stay too long though, but I was sure that everyone had a blast. the whole thing was definitely better than those of previous years.


as for me, I was somewhat lucky being the winner of a 1GD pen-drive during the lucky draw... just what I needed actually as my current pen-drive is only running at a lame 128MB. Our table was the luckiest of all as out of 9 people, 5 of us found ourselves receiving early Christmas gifts on the stage during the lucky draw. The prizes were 1 year newspaper subscription, 2 pen-drives (1GB), 1 portable hardisk (80GB) and a Sony MP3 player.

elder cousin's wedding...

It was about a month ago when both my aunty and uncle dropped by my house to pass the invitation card of their daughter's (my elder cousin) wedding dinner. Luckily, the date was 2 days after my parents got back from Taiwan, else I'd have to attend the wedding myself...

The dinner itself was actually more of a family event, as only close relatives were invited. A total of 4 tables were reserved at the restaurant, and the food served that night was simply awesome. However, I didn't take any pictures of the food as it wasn't polite to take photos after photos of the food in front of them adults, and interrupting them eating...

only this photo of me with the cousins were taken. the guy in the middle is the new cousin in-law. both the ones in front are my elder cousins. The guy is an accountant.. and the sweet lady there - a doctor... still single I think... :)

It was a great night as it was somewhat a wedding dinner @ family gathering, a big one since the passing away of grandma earlier this year. Hope that the family bond will stay together as long, and that there would be many more such family gatherings in the future to come.

a best friend's wedding...

attended one of my best friend's wedding a week ago...


congratulations dude!

I was suppose to be their wedding driver on their big day, but due to my admittance into the hospital, I only got approval from my doctor to leave the hospital to attend their wedding dinner at night for a couple of hours before heading back to the hospital... talk about timing...