Judge Jeanines Words to the Boston bombers' mother

Must watch!
Judge Jeannie's EPIC smackdown on the mother of the Boston Jihadi Bombers:

http://www.therightscoop.com/must-watch-judge-jeanines-epic-smackdown-on-the-mother-of-the-boston-jihadi-bombers/

Texas plant explosion

First it was Boston, and now Texas. The injuries I read just gets more gruesome. Death toll on the rise too.

Whats worrying? Both incidents were not caused by natural disasters..

I watched the video of the explosion and it was massive : http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2310825/West-Texas-fertilizer-plant-explosion-leaves-dead-100-injured.html

Boston's marathon bombing

Reading the news about the bombing in Boston since yesterday makes me feel sad. It gets worse today when I read:

"I started running towards the blast and there were people lying all over the floor."He said, "We started grabbing turniquets and started tying legs. A lot of people amputated. At least 25 to 30 people have at least one missing leg or an ankle missing or two legs missing"

All this happened at Copley Square in Boston. It brings back good memories I had over there. Boston was a very memorable trip for me and I have always told people to visit it when they are in USA. Hopefully they will catch the culprit and the mastermind behind this evil doing.

H&M opening at Lot 10

Were you at the H&M public opening at Lot 10?
Were you part of the tremendously long queue outside?
Were you part of the queue waiting to try on clothes?

Lol... I was not. I was only a passerby and the above scenarios was what I saw. H&M has two floors in Lot 10. I realised they took over Debenhams lot. Debenhams is now located in Star Hill. How many times has Debemhams moved already? Four? Five?

Anyway, I did not get a chance to step into H&M. I have been to the ones in USA, but was never a big fan of their stuff.

Then it had me thinking: with Forever 21 and H&M here, I really wish someome could bring New York and Company to KL. Thats my favourite brand from USA! Dang, brings back memories of being in USA....

Starbucks 50% off

If you haven't already heard, Starbucks is currently having 50% off for their drinks. It is a pretty good deal for people who can't afford Starbucks as it is a luxury to many. I heard the offer was worldwide!

It was my first time patronising the Starbucks in Glasgow. I've been to Starbucks in USA, Malaysia, and now, Glasgow. They are all similar be it the interior or the aromatic smell of coffee surrounding the place once the front door opens.

The Starbucks logo is the same everywhere but with one exception being a Starbucks in Seattle. Seattle has plenty of Starbucks. But, this particular one stands out as it had a different logo and it was always packed with plenty of visitors. If you haven't heard the story, well, its because Starbucks originated from Seattle and that particular store was the first Starbucks ever.

Me in front of the first ever Starbucks in Seattle.
Look at the crowd (lining up till outside) and the different Starbucks logo behind.

I do not drink coffee. So, I'd usually order a hot chocolate or ice blended chocolate and top it up with a biscotti. Starbucks biscottis are the best!

Well, a first visit to a Starbucks in Glasgow is definitely something blogable :)

The Arts stream

So What - Pink

It's been almost a week that I've been waking up at ungodly hours. Waking up so early in the morning for no apparent reason is a pain. Looks like I'm all geared up for uni
when uni only begins in January'09. I do try to stay in bed, but old habits die hard. Once I'm awake, I can never just lie on my bed. *Ungodly hours meaning 4am/5am*

Yesterday was a pretty eventful day. First up, I went to uni to finalize everything. I'm on my way :) Mum and i tried to take a new route home from uni, but ended up getting stuck in traffic. Instead of a twenty minute journey, we took an hour to get home.

Later at home, I was on msn, when there were confessions happening. Bleh.. I'm not good in that area. It made my head ached real bad. It definitely wasn't my cup of tea!


After that head banging moment, I helped mum in the kitchen to prepare dinner.


I cooked the sambal dried prawns from scratch and it tasted good!!!!!!!! HAHA



Then, there was ko-ebi. YUMMY.



And the main dish ---> Curry Laksa :)










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All was good. I actually had fun in the kitchen!








Home-cooked food is definitely the best.


After dinner, mum, Hazel and I did a project. It was a Christmas project.



- 90 bars of soap.
- A number of flowery napkins.
- Three pairs of scissors and a special glue.




It's a soap decorating project.






















A fine Christmas gift indeed!

It was actually a very easy project. But, after decorating 60 something bars of soaps, I was really pooped. We stopped there. Gonna continue today i guess.

And to end my post this time round, heh... GX came home from judo class and was super excited as she can rest her body on her head!



*CLAP! CLAP! CLAP!*


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Hee.. i take back my words about waking up at ungodly hours... Waking up at that hour allows me to chat with my friends from USA ;D

I am currently chatting with WJ and she told me there was a snow storm in Boston! I told her to go outside her house and snap a picture for me.. and she did, wearing slippers and a cotton jacket! LOL.. Thanks, mango :p

Here I am...

buying time in Changi Airport.

The flight was pretty smooth..

My journey started by arriving at Richmond's Airport at 4.00am. My flight was at 6.20am so I was suppose to check-in by 4.20am. BUTTTT when I arrived at the airport, someone told me that the United Airlines counter only opens at 4.45am.

I was like, OMG.... I could have slept longer.


Then something happened...


While waiting for UA counter to open, I was rummaging through my luggage. When I wanted to zip the bag, the zip broke. OMG OMG.. heh.. that was how full my bag was!
It was a good thing I had a needle and thread in my bag.
I started sewing as well as I could while thinking of the bad stuff that could happen if my bag was opened.. like some idiot smuggling drugs inside, or stealing my precious stuff etc...

UA's check-in system was good. It's all computerised, that is, we use the many computers available, get the boarding pass, and the attendent just needed to tag our checked-in luggages and off we go. NO long queues.

Of course, the attendent saw my sewn up bag, and he gave me the UA tape to wrap around my bag.

Going through security checking, something happened again.....

I went through the sensor, and it beeped. I'm like 'malunyaaaa'.
I checked my pockets and took out th ehairclips which I forgotten was inside. FYI, the pants i was wearing had six pockets.

Then when I went through the sensor again, it beeped AGAIN! I'm like, "Whyyyyyyyy?"
To think that I've gone through this checking point numerous times (to Boston and Seattle), and I've always worn the same pants when travelling.

So, the thing that was actually causing the beeping was the packet of Swiss Miss Hot Chocolate I had in my pocket. The packet was aluminium, that's whyyy... It did give the security guards, who are usually fierce looking, a good laugh. HOT CHOCOLATE!


From Richmond, I flew to Dulles Airport in Washington DC. I had four hours to kill. I saw Wendy's, so I ate Wendy's. I fell asleep for awhile and then I had Auntie Anne's almond pretzel.

It was a 14 hour flight from DC to Tokyo. Somehow my ticket was an Economy Plus ticket thus my seats were much more comfy than the regular economy class ones.

Throughout that journey, all I did was eat, sleep and watch tv ;p


I watched 6 movies!!! Amazing! Mama Mia was absolutely hillarious and the songs were nostalgic. Meryl Streep did a good job. She's old already but stilll can jump and dance around. Bravo. A complet contrast from her role in The Devil Wears Prada.


I watched The Journey to the Center of the Earth which ahd Brandon Fraser. Silly movie.


Then Bottle Shock which had Bill Pullman in it. I loved the movie too... It's based on a true story about a famous white wine- Chateau Montellena Chardonnay. After watching Bottle Shock, it did make me feel like getting the wine too ;)


The fourth movie was The Sisterhood of Traveling Pants 2. I prefer this a 100 times more than Twilight.Good stuuf. I think it was better than the first one.


The fifth one was Pineapple Express, which was bleh.. A comedic action movie = a waste of time


And lastly, Transsiberia. LOVED IT! AWESOME! 5 STARS!


Food on the flight was ok. I don't rememeber what I had already.

I didnt get a window seat, but it was ok as the guy next to me was sleeping like a baby during the whole 14 hour journey. But there was one time when I peeked outside the window and saw the sun setting. The sky was orange, reddish and blue. I was really tempted to nudge that guy to wake up so I could get a picture of it. But, I didnt :(


In Tokyo Airport, I had to go through the hand carry security checking. After queing for 15 minutes, the queue was still extremely long and I had only 10 minutes to go find my gate to board. It's a good thing this one guy told me to just go through the first class lane.. And soon after, all the other people who were going to be on the same flight as me followed suit :)


From Tokyo to Singapore, it was a 7 hour journey. his time round I ended up having a conversation with the passenger next to me. He was a French Canadian, working for the military's investigation department. He is only 24 years old, but he has travelled to almost every continent. I had the chance to watch Speed Racer, Wall E and Fred Claus too...

Everything is good thus far. I now have a few more hours before I fly back to Malaysia.

Gonna have the leftover turkey sandwich they served in the plane.

Hopefully nothing happens at Singapore's security bag check... I only have a full load of biscuits and chocolates in my hand carry, if that's what they want *shrug's shoulder* ;p

Lately....

I've been hanging around Short Pump


Eating sushi.......

and shopping in Short Pump Mall


Had a scrumptious meal at Dalat the Vietnamese Restaurant (somewhere near Short Pump).. for ONE last time :(


After vietnamese lunch, Pekky and I went to Roy's absolutely gorgeous house. I taughtt them how to bake cheeseckae :)


Then.... I watched Twilight... HORRIBLE movie....


I feel like I'm too old to watch Twilight... It was lame!!!

Because I shopped till I droptoday

Usually when someone ask me what I want as a present, i'd say, "Anything" or "No need"

But now, all i want are dresses

just to say..

It snowed today!

;)

Seattle Trip (Day 2)

I'm actually writing about Day 2 on Day 3. I thought of trying to blog before the day ends, but Day 2 was a long day and the fact that I am still jet-lagged doesn't help at all. That means, when it is only 9pm in Seattle (12am in Virginia), my brain is dead and I'm terribly sleepy as bedtime in Virginia is 12am for me.

I would say food played an important role on Day 2.

Jet-lag made me wake up at 7am while my sister and friend were still in slumberland till 10am. Thank god for wifi in the room. We left to Chinatown at 10.30am.

We had dim sum at Jade Restaurant. It took a excruciating long time for us to get a place to sit EVENTHOUGH we made reservations! Well, everyone who were there made reservations too! There were humans everywhere standing around, waiting patiently, with ears wide opened, hoping in great anticipation whenever a table leaves, that the hostess will call their reservation name.

Suffice to say, the place was PACKED! We had to squeeze our way through the front door, squeeze our way to the hostess stand, and I had ti squeeze my way even when I wanted to settle the bill.

But, the squeezing was all worth it as the FOOOOOD was AWESOME! Siew mai, and ha kau was the best I've had in USA. The fried yam was good but it was served cold. The two had checheong fan and some pork. I only stuffed myself with radish cake, salad prawn, and the steamed stuff.

The one chinese lady who served us was attentive and quick too! :)

After dim sum, we headed to Umi something supermarket to buy junk.
It was an asian supermarket. we bought yan yan, and Pocky.

There were also some cute buddha banks for sale.

From Chinatown we went back to rhe hotel, parked the car then walked to the monorail five minutes away and headed to Seattle Center where the Space Needle and museums were located.

I think paying USD15 for the Space Needle was a disappointment. The Space needle wasn't high enough and I didn't feel like the view was fantastic from up there.

Then we headed to the Museum of Music Project. Took some pictures around the building but decided not to go in.

Next was the Pacific Science Museum. A pretty interesting museum. Science is always interesting ;) There were kids everywhere playing with all the exhibits.

We spent about three hours in the museum. It was a nice place to visit.

We had dinner at a restaurant called The Crab Pot. It was an early dinner. But again, we had to wait for our turn to be seated. The place was busy too.

In crab pot we had two orders of Alaskan platter, crab bisque, mushroom crab cakes and a mudslide cake to end it.

The Alaskan Platter consists of two types of crabs, oysters, shrimps, mussels, sausages, baked potatoes, and corn. The corn was really sweet and juicy. The whole platter was delicious but I'd go back because of the corn!

Before the platters came, the server placed a huge piece of white paper on the table, gave us Crab Pot's bips, a wooden plate, a hammer, fork, and then poured out the whole platter of seafood onto the table.

We definitely had a feast!

Unfortunately..........

When we got to the hotel, my sister started puking and had diarrhoea. Through the night she puked four times.

Then again today, day 3, she puked once more even after Cory and I bought medication for her to take.

So here I am, on Day 3, lazing around in the hotel room as my sister, the navigator, the driver, is sick :(

The good thing is, it's downtown, and it's walking distance to shopping havens ;p

Oh, I went to Pike's Market this morning again and bought more grapes. The grapes were extremely juicy and sweet!! I bought persimmons, an apple and kiwi too.

Seattle trip (Day 1)

I am finally in Seattle!


I woke up at 4.00am and caught the 6.03am flight from Richmond Airport to Detroit Airport.


Catching the early morning flight and booking the window seats for my flight was the best thing. As the plane took off from the Richmond's runway, the sun was rising, the sky was a gorgeous spread of orange, and the plane was at one point parallel to the orange spread. It was a sight to behold.


It was an hour flight to Detroit's Airport. The airport was amazing. There was a stretch when I had to use the walkalator to get to Gate A and there were lights blinking to the beat of the music playing. It was a pretty cool sight. The walkalator was divided to two-one for standing and the other for walking. I stood and took picture of the lovely sight. There were also a number of fast food shops in the terminal. The washroom was nice too and comparable to Changi's airport.


From Detroit Airport I flew to Seattle's Airport. At one point during the journey, I looked out the window and saw clean white snow on mountains covering the trees. It got me thinking if Seattle was snowing already.


I arrived at Seattle at 11.30am, met up with GL and Cory. It has been awhile since I saw GL and so it was weird calling her 'jie jie'. The weather in Seattle has been marvellous since I arrived. It rained a little but did not rained at all when we were touring around downtown.

We stayed at downtown, Executive Hotel. The hotel was pretty decent. Clean, two queen sized beds, a tv, and nice hot water to shower in ;p


After checking in and settling down, we headed to Pike Market Place. There was a wet market there which sold fresh looking seafood like lobsters, shrimps and huge crabs.
There was also the famous fishmongers who threw fish and sang while manning their stall.


We had lunch at Emmett Watson's Oyster Bar. It's cheap but nothing impressive. I would say Manhattan's Fish Market tasted much better than the bar. We had Captains Basket which consisted of fried seafood like shrimp, oysters, fish and fries. We also had clam chowder, which was pretty good, and cioppino, which I don't recommend as it tasted too fishy and herbal.


After lunch we bought fruits and cheese cake truffles.


In downtown, we shopped at Chef's Kitchen and I bought a couple packs of creative was candles and pancake moulds. Then we went to Sephora, a cosmetics haven! Sephora is the place where we can find Stila, Bobby Brown and other famous brands, all in one building!! It was definitely eye-boggling and we would've bought some stuff but the queue to pay was too long. We'll be back tomorrow:)

We also took pictures at a manmade falls, and went to See's Chocolate shop.

Cory and GL are sleeping now as they had a very early start driving from Vancouver to Seattle.

We'll be having duck in Chinatown for dinner later :) Yum yum

Birthdays!

Today I bought a cake from Cold Stone to celebrate Christopher's and Samantha's birthday. The cake was made of coffee ice cream, almonds, chocolate cake and topped with kit kats.









All of them were in their pyjamas as it was a school night and they were getting ready for bed.













I think it's adorable to see and capture moments when kids are devouring their chocolate cakes :P







And an older sister who bugs the kid with kisses :P:P