Funny Scene At The Market

1/06/2008 04:51:00 AM

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Since my dad was having a seminar today, so i had the very 'early in the morning' task of accompanying my mother to the market to get supplies for the week.


So off we went to Imbi market, which as the name indicates is somewhere around Imbi. Bought the usual vege and tofu and some bananas. The final stop was at the butcher's area which was located somewhere at the back area of the market. And this my friends, was where the funny scene happened.


My mom told Mr. butcher (duno what his name is), that she would like some minced meat with preferrably less fats on it. For the benefit of those who's abit lost at this point, normallyminced meat is done with a mixture of fat and lean meat. However, if you request for less fat minced meat, they'll normally cut the part that you want from the big big piece of meat and mince it up on the spot for you. Interesting process really.


Well, this butcher did something that was rather out of the norm and in my opinion rather funny. After getting my mom's order, he raised up his arm (with the big cleaver knife in hand) and marched down to the other end of the stall which was about 7 feet away cleaver high up above all the way. Okay, it did shock me and probably some of the other customers in that crowded area with that marching off to war expression of his. He cut the meat and marched back to us cleaver high up for the whole distance of 7 feet away. But i suppose he meant well, because by putting the cleaver high up like that (and having a firm hold on it of course), he can be very sure he won't accidentally injure or slice an unsuspecting customer along the way.


Phew, that was one scary butcher march.

AUDREY

New Year's Day

1/05/2008 01:36:00 AM

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Didn't really do much New Year celebration. Guess it's almost the same routine for me every year. Go for mass with my whole family and then come back home to chit chat till 12 am... Wish each other "Happy New Year". Watch some fireworks from the balcony or the 31st floor garden. And subsequently jump into bed to drift off to slumberland.



But somehow, this year, I came to cherish the time we actually spent together as a family. Going to church together and praying together in some invisible manner, it bonds the family together. It's also probably due to the fact that I haven't been back home for the past 6 months and I got kinda homesick without really realising it.


Sitting down together sipping chilled grape juice and eating my mom's home baked carrot cake and some other tidbits, I was really grateful that I was home, with my family to welcome in the new year.





Happy 2008!!!

AUDREY

A Day At The Mall With My Cousins

1/03/2008 05:00:00 PM

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Finally, the long awaited outing with my cousins. Been talking and talking about going out together for like ages but somehow never managed to make it happen. But anyway, we finally made a finalised plan on Christmas Day to meet on the 28th of December at Mid Valley Megamall.



However, we (as in me, my sis, cousin sis Kim and cousin bro John) had to make a slight detour trip to Bank Pertanian Malaysia near central market. Kesian Kim, had to make a second trip back to the bank with 3 escorts because of a name error on the bank book.


The funniest part about this detour trip was the part where we had to wait for our turn. The number which we go at that time was number 30. And the number which was currently being called at that point of time was amazingly number "SIXXX". We were all like, "okay, that's gona be a long long long wait...."


But lucky for us. after reaching number 13, lots of people, who's numbers were called weren't there. And because there wasn't anyone standing up consecutively, from number 13 till number 18, the four of us started to fall into the chant of "press the button, press the button" in hopes that the lady will continue pressing the button to change the numbers fast. Seems that we were in luck that day as she stopped at number 27 and soon enough.... it was our turn..


So after that, it was back into the car and off towards Mid Valley Megamall. We arrived roughly around 10.30 at Mid Valley, so basically we had to kill time till our other cousin bro Bryan arrived. We had this deal that whoever arrived later than 11.45 will haf to buy the rest of the gang lunch... nyeh nyeh nyeh.... And since we were there first, the four of us bought the tickets to our movie 'Alvin and the Chipmunks' and proceeded on to kill some time by walking around the mall or 'trudging' around the mall as Kim put it.



Since the four of us didn't have time for breakfast, our stomachs were practically growling with hunger as we walked on and on and on. Finally, our cousin brother arrived around 12pm and all of us decided to have lunch at Manhattan Fish Market. Kim said she was very super hungry till she could start eating the coasters and munching off the table. :-P





Well, I could agree with her on the super hungry part but as for munching the coasters, erm, don't think I was that desperate yet.



Anyway, before we proceed any further, let me first introduce my cousins who were present that day.


meet Bryan koko, who looks like our big boss
(who was suppose to buy lunch that day but managed to worm his way out of it)...



Here's the big boss and my other cousin bro (John)



finally, there's me here with Kim and my sister Adrina.



Now, let's have a look at what we had for lunch that day. As u can gather, we were eating at the Manhattan Fish Market. So obviously basically everything has something to do with fish. Except the drinks of course. Below are pictures of some of the yummy yummies we had ..


Here we have the regular fish and chips



This is some sort of grilled or fried fish with cheese rice which was a super filler for my cousin bro.



We also noticed some rather interesting deco on the wall. couldn't resist asking my cousin bro to snap some pictures.









After lunch, we killed some time first before going for our movie. It was a really funny and enjoyable movie. Loved watching the chipmunks doing funny acts and the singing part was fantastic. For those of you who enjoy comedies, this movie is a must watch.


Well there were several other funny moments during the outing which had us laughing our head off. One of them was looking out for a leng chai working in one of the shops. I think Kim made a real fun description of the situation in her blog which can be accessed by the following link. http://kimuberri.blogspot.com/ . And then of course there was the part when we asked my sis about her methods of choosing a book to read and the subsequent question of knowing what is in the contents of the book she bought that day.

This was how Kim put it in her blog.

"in the car, my cousin sis asked her sis whether she know what the book she bought was about and that she didn't buy it just for the looks of the front cover... we quoted this famous but cliched (the 'e' is supposed to have a thing on top but I'm lazy to look for it) phrase: never judge the book by its cover) and her sister replied that she was reading the synopsis (the back of the book now)... lol... then, i asked her that whether she knew that those 'such' books have certain scenes (it's a romance novel, you do the guessing) and she said, "yeah, eventually..."

how we laughed in the car... lol... what an answer, and to think that she's only form 2 next year.. "


Yeap, we definitely laughed in the car.



In a nutshell, am really glad I went out with you guys that day. With Kim going off for National Service for almost 3 months. And Bryan koko going overseas soon in about 2 weeks time. It seems to be such a long time before all of us can gather together again. Thanks once more guys. Gona miss all of you.


AUDREY