Tweets for Today

• 07:27 off to shultzy's in a bit #
• 22:05 had fun @ the Bejan's with Bob, Bonne, Blake, Blair, Becket, the husband bruce and apparently, i am now known as Baren LOL #

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Tweets for Today

• 01:03 afl evening at the arrigos' - always fun hanging out with moira :D #
• 14:50 went to an open house and stupid realtor didn't turn up and not answering cell! #
• 15:12 @shih_wei - oh we should have but we're home... maybe when we head out later to watch a movie :D #

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Tweets for Today

• 05:27 finally heading back to bed... #
• 08:34 didn't go back to sleep since 3:30am - watched some tv with bruce, made breakfast and i'm sleepy now... #
• 10:30 got the presents for the nieces sent... hope it makes them happy; at least for awhile... #
• 14:49 finally watched 881 and had yummy abalone for lunch - what a treat :D #
• 20:35 about to watch 'survivor' with no ads #

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Tweets for Today

• 11:28 got presents for my sick nieces who are quarantined and came home to a nice clean apt #
• 19:54 ran errands, picked bruce up and went for some serious spicy dinner bruce was craving for :) #
• 20:41 looking forward to another day of rain tomorrow :D #
• 21:13 relieved that my little niece is home #

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Tweets for Today

• 04:58 wide awake... thinking of her nieces... #
• 09:40 off to get manicure #
• 12:03 home for lunch then off to the movies with ch #
• 18:03 yeh li is here!! we're going to malay satay hut for dinner :) #
• 22:09 home from dinner with li at malay satay hut #

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Tweets for Today

• 09:53 breakfast at shultzy's with bruce & susan while bruce takes inventory... #
• 11:25 Waiting for bruce so we can go start our weekly (probably disappointing) day of house hunting #
• 16:41 after house hunting, dropped by greek festival for gyros and now home... #
• 19:01 why is house hunting sooooo tiring!?! too beat to join julie s. and eric o. for happy hour :s #
• 20:44 @shih_wei - i'm sooo jealous of your mooncake!!! #

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Tweets for Today

• 09:55 getting ready to head out to art show in edmonds #
• 15:44 Had fun hanging out with D.R. at his wife's art show - now at costco getting gas #
• 20:50 going to la carta de oaxaca for dinner #
• 22:09 Didn't want to deal with line - now at 663 in chinatown #
• 23:26 home after a humongous bowl of congee - i'm so full i'm about to burst! #

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Tweets for Today

• 02:15 still up after a few 'cat naps'... arrgh! #
• 02:29 forcing myself to put away the laptop and head back to z-land... #
• 10:52 had julie s. come over for laksa brunch... #
• 14:22 got the car back - time to run some errands and maybe get my nails done #
• 16:39 ran errands and now back from shopping (again) #
• 16:52 trying to decide if i wanna go watch a high school football game (not really lol) or get my nails done... hmmmm... it IS nice outside... #
• 17:11 the lust of perfect overcast weather wins - i'm going to the godson's high school football game :) #
• 18:09 i just want 'us' to win - i don't care how we get there dammit! #
• 20:26 Never mind football - we're at the greek festival lol #
• 23:10 home and ready to call it a night... i'm sleeeeepy! #

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Tweets for Today

• 04:36 wide awake at 4:36am... #
• 04:51 @ccourtneyv - where was the indian food from? #
• 10:50 getting ready to go meet julie s. to view a downtown condo (for fun) #
• 13:53 Having lunch at salina's with julie s. #
• 15:15 back from condo viewing, lunch at salina's and big excursion of the asian hood with julie s. - fun!!! #
• 15:20 perfect weather here in downtown seattle - overcast and 60 degrees (15 degrees celsius) #
• 18:39 getting ready to head over to west seattle for dinner at mashiko #
• 21:47 home from a fun time at mashiko; gonna' watch this morning's 'the view' #

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Tweets for Today

• 06:54 beautiful cloudy morning - happy happy joy joy :D #
• 08:51 off to nordstrom then meet CH to celebrate her bday #
• 11:10 Shopped too much now waiting for CH at seattle u #
• 15:59 home from hanging out with CH today... a ton of laundry to catch up on... #

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Friends Visit

It was the weirdest thing! The sun was out and screaming hell (or heaven, if you like the sun) everyday for at least six days (this is mid September in Seattle for crying out loud - where's the rain?!), we got bad service at EVERY restaurant we went to (it got so bad it became a joke among the three of us), and... I didn't manage to take Ric to get his foot massage in Chinatown the entire time he was here; but only because he expected a hot Asian girl to be massaging hims feet LOL! Imagine his shock if he found a pair of hairy arms on his back and feet - I decided to spare him the ordeal hee hee.

We used to think our friends didn't like us enough to come visit before we moved to Seattle. We had to send tickets to get people to come hang out with us lol! That's how sad it was... people just weren't gonna' spend a small fortune to come to a city with nothing to offer other than good bbq, I guess... but now that we're in a pretty cool city - certainly cooler then the city before - we've had a few friends voluntarily come visit us without much prompt :)

First Winnie came (sorry didn't blog about that - was in that in between entries kind of mood - and is actually tempted to head over here again soon... and then Ric... who's next?!

Tweets for Today

• 05:26 wonder why is it particularly dark this morning... #
• 08:05 another above 80 degree day... sigh #
• 15:35 had lunch at Farestart again then dropped ric off at Seatac... #
• 18:38 cooked dinner for the first time since last tuesday - bruce is gonna' be happy when he wakes up from his nap :) #

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Tweets for Today

• 06:55 oooohhhh ugly ugly market #
• 07:48 81 degrees today?!?!?!? wth! #
• 12:26 staying in from the bloody heat... everything else can wait till tomorrow - unless it's another 80 degree day :) #
• 13:21 At farestart having lunch with the boys - www.farestart.org #
• 16:54 met julie s. at uwajimaya, had froyo and now home #
• 20:09 waiting for the end of monday night football game so we can head over to serious pie for dinner #
• 20:58 off to late dinner... yawn! #
• 22:49 serious pie was yummy and now we're showing ric the stupid but hilarious game show 'hole in the wall' lol #

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Tweets for Today

• 07:55 awake and doing regular morning stuff... doing more house hunting today... #
• 07:56 @kiapkiap - old remedy... mothballs :D of course, it'll also freak your cat our lol #
• 14:26 the boys are trying to figure out aloud who are these people buying multi-million dollar houses in renton... or... seattle! lol #
• 16:15 off to the movies at pacific place #
• 22:50 mid autumn festival my ass - why is it still so bloody hot here!?! #

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Tweets for Today

• 06:49 wish i could sleep some more... ok maybe i can #
• 10:40 off to brunch n' checking out neighborhoods for real estate... #
• 10:56 @jwulff - i love the estately site! so easy to switch from pics to details. no openhouse info? #
• 11:27 At 5 spot for brunch #
• 17:09 Drinking at shultzy's #
• 18:11 Still drinking at shultzy's #
• 19:52 hanging out at home watching usc game and eating ice cream :) #

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Tweets for Today

• 07:35 getting ready to head over to '7' to get my repair haircut #
• 11:23 happy with my repaired hair... now off to get car cleaned then it's off to seatac to pick ric up #
• 16:24 back from lunch at shultzy's... maybe off to the movies soon #
• 22:58 brad pitt's funny in 'burn after reading', dinner at 'daily grill' and now home... leaving ric & bruce to hang out... #

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Tweets for Today

• 05:45 omg another sunny day?! arrgh! #
• 09:36 things to do, people to meet... #
• 14:11 met julie, checked out fresh flours, had lunch at paseo and now at shultzy's - paseo sandwiches for bruce, don and tim #
• 14:50 at home: falling asleep in front of the computer - arrgh! #
• 21:43 dinner @ mashiko was yummy! #

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Tweets for Today

• 04:34 awake... should i go back to sleep? #
• 08:57 getting out of the cleaning lady's way - off to run errands #
• 13:57 @shih_wei - i don't know what got into her but she did my laundry too LOL i'm not complaining, of course! :D #
• 18:01 @brucery - we're not going to tacoma lah LOL it's renton :) half the distance #
• 18:06 home after a looong day out.... now getting ready to head to gigi & deon's for dnner #
• 22:34 gigi cooked us a feast and a half! time to catch up on tv... #

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Tweets for Today

• 05:29 @missloi - yes actually, in seattle, there is :) #
• 05:39 good moooooorning(!!!) seattle... gimme some rain today! #
• 10:08 off to meet amy - shopping, lunch and more shopping... can't say i'm in the mood to shop however. #
• 16:20 BEAT!!! shopped, ate, shopped, went to costco and all i want to do now is SLEEP #

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Tweets for Today

• 06:16 where's the rain?! #
• 07:20 gonna' go prep and make some form of puff... curry puff/sardine puff/tuna curry puff... something... #
• 07:21 @missloi - you're everywhere!! business must be booming :D wanna open a seattle branch and hire bruce LOL #
• 09:08 filling of tuna curry puff done - getting ready to go meet julie s. #
• 13:35 bloody hell why did all my tuna curry puff (no it's not gross!) open sesame arrgh! taste good tho' :d #
• 14:26 done with my tuna curry puffs... now to prep dinner... #
• 15:27 been procrastinating... better make watermelon juice then prep dinner... #
• 16:00 @redfin - you should tweet about the price dropped on properties... ok you might need to hire just one person to do that LOL #
• 19:23 @shih_wei - i've been dreaming of congee... bet you had a good meal at mike's #
• 20:18 horrified the husband thought tonight's delicious dinner were made up leftovers AIYOH #
• 20:23 sometimes my husband can be such a moron LOL but i love him... still can't believe he thought the fresh dinner i made was leftovers... #

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Cooking @ Home (Tuna Curry Puffs)

I've been cooking a lot in the last couple of days after almost a week of being lazy and uninspired. ...but even eating good food out gets a little tiring; and I find myself back in the kitchen but a little more inspired to make new dishes :)

Today, I decided to make use of the four cans of Ayam brand tuna curry that my friend Connie so generously shared with me to make tuna curry puffs. I know, it sounds nasty to some of you - and I was a little apprehensive myself lol!! When I told the king what I was going to make, the man literally ran out of the door lol. Yes, he was going to work too but the thought of tuna curry puff just seemed awful to him.

So I got some fresh hot peppers (chilli), shallots and garlic, grounded then together then fried them in oil to bring out the flavor of all three ingredients. Added the four cans of tuna curry, some Thai chilli paste which also added some sweetness to it (instead of sugar) and a bunch of thinly sliced onions. Voila - below the end product.

I used store-bought puff pastry and and a couple of hours later...

They're pretty tasty... and yes, when the husband got home, he ate six mini tuna curry puffs (not the above sized ones as they are medium sized) with beer with no complaints hee hee.

Tweets for Today

• 12:24 lunch at shultzy's and i'm feeling sleepy now #
• 13:24 LOL overheard insane man yelling into payphone: "in my protest i will dress as darth vadar!!!" LOL #
• 15:00 hanging out online killing time... #
• 19:54 cooked up a storm and now watching office reruns in bed #
• 22:10 i'm going to sleep now... if there is a god (or two) i will wake up un-fat LOL #

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I Love Facebook!

Even though they're making us use the new version of Facebook (fb) without choice very soon; and I don't love it, I still think the concept of fb is simply awesome. I don't know what is it with myspace that didn't stick with me (maybe too many adds and too many sleaze-balls lol) but no complaints from my end!

This past week alone, I've found a classmate who went to school with me when we were just twelve years old. Ok, not just any classmate but we were in the same classroom for that entire year! Yes, she sat towards the back of the class and I, of course, being the diminutive 4'10 3/4" sat right smack in front where I mastered the art of avoiding each teacher's flying saliva. Ewww! I could not remember her at first... then less then 24 hours later, in the shower no doubt, I had a eureka moment and went 'of course!!!'. I not only remembered who she was, I remember what she looked like and I think I even remember her parents, for some odd reason. Now, she's a mother of two, a biologist and hot damn(!), living in Vancouver, Canada! We're planning to meet up when she and her family heads over here in November... how cool is that?! :)

Then the amazing 'people you might know' pointed out a person whose name seemed awfully familiar. I thought for awhile, sent him a note and voila(!), it's my neighbor from when we were barely teenagers! Now, he too, is a father of two and living in Los Angeles :) Funny thing, I just found out from checking out his fb page, that we know a bunch of people in common, not the least, a friend in Seattle too! What a small world :D

I can't imagine who else I'm going to find and vice versa. No crazy psycho ex-boyfriends I hope but I didn't know that many of those other than the stalker I put in jail; so I think I'm pretty safe lol!

Tweets for Today

• 11:25 off to shultzy's for lunch #
• 12:11 Sipping on a southside while waiting for my hot italian burger at shultzy's #
• 15:12 went to paseo to pick up some dinner (yeah a little early) then checked out maruta shoten... #
• 17:07 dropped bruce off at william's football game, went to metropolitan market and now home... #
• 21:17 watching '21' in bed #

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Smile! For Goodness Sakes!

I just 'met' the most unfriendly, unsmiley person I've ever come across since the time I started taking elevators lol. Ok, that might be overstating it a little but... what is wrong with people who don't smile?! I'm not asking you to smile so much people think you're the insane bum at the corner of the street... but for crying out loud, what's so difficult about cracking a friggin' smile?! Even a one reluctant one sided crooked smile when someone, a stranger maybe, smiles at you out of being polite and... nice maybe?! This guy just looked pissed off at the world. At the world, at himself... just not a happy camper.

I couldn't wait to get out of the lift. But of course, it stopped at the 5th floor where a poor couple was trying to get their Ikea shopping into the elevator on a trolley. I smiled at the lady... looked across at the guy. Nothing. So it wasn't just me he didn't want to smile at... The man outside said to himself 'I think we might be able to fit'... nothing from the guy and I hurried a 'yeah come this angle...'. They didn't come at my angle but went towards the angry man lol! Nope - DUH! Next elevator... still nothing from the man. Oh, he's Filipino I think... Asian for sure. Maybe he thought I was also Feelo (that's what the Filipinas in Melbourne call each other), I don't know...

"Ding! Seventeenth floor". I couldn't get out of the bloody elevator fast enough. Gawd I hope I never see that guy again. He lives on the 22nd storey.

Triumph The Insult Dog @ The RNC

I usually don't care much for Triumph the insult dog but this video cracked me up!

Tweets for Today

• 06:38 up and in an extremely good mood for no bloody reason :) #
• 10:22 @shih_wei - fancy seeing you in here :D #
• 10:42 @shih-wei - LOL i know what you mean #
• 11:29 @shih_wei - yes we should totally go hang out :) #
• 15:06 @brucery - come home! it's friday! i'm bored LOL #
• 21:36 'suddenly' my happy friday is not so happy anymore #

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Peace

The View has been so enjoyable and peaceful the last two days without that high pitched screaming blonde (not Babara Walters of course!) insisting she's right about everything and anything; I actually watched the entirety of both shows :)

Tweets for Today

• 09:52 do i dare watch the view today?! if elizabeth is only one of a gazillion people in this country like her... hmmm... #
• 10:43 time to get offline... my vision is blurred! #
• 15:45 Hanging out at imperial foot massage watching chinese tv lol #
• 16:10 @jwulff - love the video LOL #
• 20:18 had a fun dinner at mashiko and now home trying not to fall asleep too early #
• 20:36 LOL!! governor lens crafter LOL #
• 20:37 that foot massage earlier today is doing wonders right now :) #

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Tweets for Today

• 07:39 happy it's wed! #
• 15:15 had so much fun hanging out with connie - as usual :) #
• 16:17 tap structure is broken... wth?! #
• 18:28 oh shit - i'm a moron - the tap was NOT broken HAHAHAHHA DOH! #
• 18:30 having fun swearing at that stupid blonde on the view with bruce #
• 20:38 SO glad i have no plans tomorrow and a clean house to veg in :D - oh and a working tap LOL #

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Hanging Out With Mainlanders

Yes I'm Chinese... and to the mainland Chinese, I'm a foreign Chinese. I speak broken Chinese (not with a beautiful Beijing sing-song accent like most of them do) and I can't seem to complete full sentence without substituting some English words in it. It's sad but true. However, Mandarin is my second language, so cut me some slack already!

Yesterday, for the first time in my life, I hung out with my friend, Amy, who is the owner of the local foot massage place. It was lunch with a couple of our Japanese friends, and then followed by shopping with Amy and Nancy, both from China. I don't think my ears have spent that much time trying to concentrate so hard just to comprehend Mandarin ; I mean, I speak Mandarin to my mom growing up and even though I live far far away from my family, my daily phone conversations with mom doesn't allow me, like some other phony compatriots from Singapore to say 'oh I can no more speak Mandarin'. That's utter nonsense anyway!

But yes, hanging out with a bunch of Mainlanders is quite unlike hanging out my Singaporean friends who speak mainly Chinese. For me, it was more like being in a Chinese musical... no, opera... with them singing their replies and comments to me in words I don't normally come across LOL! Funny - but stressful lol.

These people work so hard... I mean, massaging other people's feet is no joke (hell my husband doesn't even enjoy doing it for me - ok, not exactly a romantic move I'll admit) but to do it on a more-than-twelve-hour-day-job... ouch! But watching them spend money was pretty impressive! I mean, I'm a pretty big spender (at times) but I guess I never expected people who work so hard manually to burn money like... ummmm... me? HAHAHA! ...and these people expect big name brands...! If you think just because a lot of the imitation stuff comes from China and they are the main recipients, you're bloody wrong!! They expect to shop at Saks, Neiman Marcus... they buy kid's clothing at Oilily, Chloe... can you say ka-ching!?! :D

I needed help removing the toothpicks out of my eyes so I could go to sleep last night. Talk about an eye-opener lol.

Tweets for Today

• 10:05 watching the view waiting for their view on palin lol #
• 10:11 ok i cannot watch the view 'coz i wanna slap the blonde!!! #
• 19:14 had lunch with julie, amy and taichi then shopped with amy and nancy - i'm beat!! #
• 20:20 made dinner and now hanging out in bed catching up on emails and hanging out with bruce watching reruns #
• 22:12 had a hilarious convo with winnie #

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Tweets for Today

• 09:27 fell asleep watching gustav then had a nightmare then i was in nola arrgh!! #
• 15:03 sears smells funny... not funny ha ha but funny like yukky! #
• 19:20 making simple dinner... feels like eons since i last made dinner lol - sorry bruce :D #
• 22:13 the red cabinets started shaking out of nowhere... scared the shit out of me! no earthquake please!! #

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FFY Dinner

Yesterday was one of those slow, low energy Sundays and by 8:30pm, we were still on each of our computers without a dinner plan. I was too lazy to cook and we weren't hungry enough to want to get dressed to go out... so we decided on a ffyd night aka fend for yourself dinner night :D

The king had put his frozen pizza and voila(!) dinner. I just wasn't in a pizza mood, much less a frozen one. Instead, I put together one of my quick meals that scared the hell out of the husband and made him want to run far away from me lol. I opened a can of sardines (mmmm, mmmm mmmm saarh-deeeens!), topped it up with fresh chilli in fish sauce (fish sauce drained), rough sliced onions (I LOVE my onions) and a couple slices of toast. I also made toast with a thin layer of butter and marmite... YUM! Fancy ffyd for me :D These were things my dad and I loved eating for breakfast/snacks some days together. Food like that makes me miss my dad... ok, a lot of food makes me miss my dad ;) He's definitely the guy who gives me and my mini-me three year old niece, our appetites lol!

It's Labor Day Monday... no more ffy meals... it's back to the kitchen as a good wife :)