This picture is dedicated to Mr Lam, whom birthday is today...
Thought of getting a piece of cake & take a photo of it... Here's a fake cake, yeah.. Obviously a towel cake. *Actually it's a Christmas gift from my sweet friend Deb*
A photo of a 'cake' for you, birthday boy. HAPPY BIRTHDAY~ Till we meet again, ya~ Probably i'll give you a cake treat by then, if you insist. :）
The weather has been cloudy or rainy for the past few days, it's enjoying to see clear blue sky. Even though it means rather hot weather... :)
*and you can hear thunder outside now...*
As most horror movie freaks will know, Paranormal Activity is showing soon on cinemas! *Well, yeah i know it's already been showed LONG TIME ago overseas*
Anyway, thanks to NUFFNANG & GSC, I got the chance to watch it earlier today at Tropicana! Decided to watch it with Sam (he later reminded me the last time we've watched preview together was Lord of The Ring 1~ omg... So LONG ago~ Haha)
When I collected the tickets, I was kinda amused by the size of the paper... SO SMALL~!! but it looks VERY CUTE! and the girls gave me a Lemongrass Mint Doublemint (Is it a new product? I'm not sure as I seldom eat chewing gum *but this tastes ain't bad*) and the badge with it...
You see what I mean by small? Haha.. *My sis later said: this is to save paper & environment mah~*
Ok... Let's go into the movie:
The movie started without any trailers beforehand. Just started out of the sudden, quietly...
When the paranormal started in the beginning, you might think "ok.. So that's it? What's next?"... You may consider the couple as paranoid. Kinda starts to bore me a little...
But THEN, when the strange activity gets more agressive, the tension starts to build up *and I actually starts to have headache, I think maybe my blood pressure went up :P*
And the near ending, you really can kinda feel the creep a little, and get a slight shock... and it ENDED~ With no credits, no theme song... Just like that!
It's a simple and low-budget (I suppose) movie with only ONE scene set which is the house & only FOUR person throughout the movie!
And guess what? The "creepy thing" never showed~
Haha... If you're VERY weak-hearted, it might not be suitable for you. If you're extremely cynical person, just DON'T walk into this movie, might break the fun of others that watch with you. But then if you just like some little rush of adrenaline + you have patience for documentary-style of movie shooting + you can tahan mild headaches after movie, then maybe it's ain't that bad at all...
Till then. Night!
Reached quite early about dinner time at Tropicana.
Walked past this Korean reataurant with the name “Kimchi” and it made me crave for good kimchi so I went in and gave it a try.
Ordered a sizzling beef meal... Quite nice, tender beef... the kimchi provided is seriously nice~
After a pampering month of 4 working days a week, TODAY is the brand new day for working adults, and brand new school semester for school kids~!! No more public holidays till CNY...
♭♪♩ This is the day that the God has made, we will rejoice and be glad in it...♩♪♩ * Ok, don't hit me~! *
Sister has officially started her new job as a teacher as in today, while kiddy officially starts his kindergarten. Kiddo starts his standard 3 as well~ Everyone’s back to school!
Me, as the usual, stayed at home and spent my day reading through Time Traveler's Wife. Been lagging for some time so I just think it's about time to continue with it and starts with a new book after this.
Nothing much happening... Then when aunt came home with a car full of baking ingredients, and I realise it's time for New Year COOKIE baking~ Anyone interested to place some orders? *Price list & photos will be up soon*
Day 4 of 365project:
A masquerade mask aunt brought back for the kids to play... I guess it's from New Year party..
今天是二堂哥的大日子，人家娶新娘啦！ 他是我们萧家同辈中第一个结婚的，所以也是全家必出席的大日子啊~ Today is my cousin's BIG day. It's kinda big day for our whole Sew family because he's the first of our generation to get marry~
新人上个星期已经公证了，今天是娶新娘过门、拜祖先、敬茶等华人传统仪式。They've officially registered last week so today is the Chinese wedding & tea ceremony thingy where they serve tea to the elders of the family.
我爸爸身为二叔，当然也是座上嘉宾咯。My dad as the uncle, was being served tea…
至于我们这一些未婚小辈呢，就是向新人们讨红包的那一些（这一环节我今天才知道，而且我还以为我们得敬茶给新人，结果都不用）。不过这样就有一个利是入袋了，也是好事一桩（而且还是在新年的开始耶）！ 哈哈，开始欣赏这繁琐的传统敬茶仪式咯~ As for us, younger cousins (consider “siblings”), will get ang pao from the newly weds instead. Haha... Starting to love this tea ceremony thingy.
总而言之，恭喜啦！Congratulations, my cousin~
Photo of the day:
Tea set used for the tea ceremony.
饭后我们到Bukit Tinggi AEON逛逛，因为小孩子们要开学了，要买一些文具，我们就去大众书局。
结果让我看到满架子的弯弯公仔！！还有十二星座的木质明信片！！*两者相较之下我比较钟情于明信片*
我这种那么喜爱收集美美东西的性格... 结果当然就是受不了木质明信片的诱惑，买了一个自己的星座来收藏！
除此之外，还看到了一个好有趣的造型的零钱包：
“Mail to the future”,如果真的可以寄信给未来的自己（可能就像小叮当那样），你会想对未来的自己说什么呢？
2010的第一天，跟小姨一家人到了Perlama的某个河边餐馆吃午餐...此时是退潮的时候，可以看到riverbed...
远看还挺有feel的一张照片，可是近看的话...可发觉对岸的河床都是垃圾...
泥泞中的娃娃鱼和螃蟹，看见了吗？ 突然觉得这些鱼和螃蟹可怜，可是也不免佩服他们的生命力，这样的环境仍然可以生存！
不知道他在看什么... 连这样的风景也可以看得那么入神... 未来的孩子还有美景可以看吗？
在等待食物之余，我们泡了小姨从台湾带回来的阿里山高山茶。闻起来味道有点像铁观音...
皮蛋鱼粥上来啦~ 好好吃呗！ 看小孩子都吃得很享受咧~
Photo of the day:
这是我在这全新一年的第一个post... 却会是很糗的一篇。
话说昨晚当大部分的人都在跟朋友庆祝倒数的时候，我在阿嫲家看着“刘伯温”。心里很想看电视直播的台北倒数，很想看歌手们的表演，可是偏偏阿嫲家的Astro并没有签购那一些当红频道。我家？没有Astro，所以不用多说了...
接近十一点半的时候，我突然想到：咦，PPS会有直播吗？然后就上网了，看到旁边的列表中有“2009台北新年城跨年晚会”，然后就点击看啦~ 一点击，就看到主持人介绍倒数嘉宾——五月天~ woohoo~ 然后心情很兴奋地没有错过帅帅的阿信！
看了倒数（然后看看电脑显示11:45），我还没察觉其中的破绽，当下还很开心地听着五月天的表演，跟着哼...
过了没多久，才听到外头天空传来烟火的响声...
跟佳佳聊说看着五月天好开心，然后她说：对啊，她也是看着台北市的跨年直播啊，可是... 表演的是王力宏！
咦咦咦~~~ 看来看去... 然后我才发觉... 我看的竟然是去年的跨年表演~！！！ 囧 算了，至少看得很开心...
好吧，大家： 新年快乐！！！ 希望今年大家都能真正的很快乐吧~！！
对了，你们有没有新年新愿望的习惯？我自己是很少列新希望的，因为很多年前就觉悟了我通常都不会完成它们，甚至完全遗忘... 不过呢~ 今年还是不免俗列一下下好了！
想来想去... 其实也就不过那几项多年来都没认真实践的目标：
