wow~

Karin and I went to Tiara to move some furniture out the apt. while cleaning the place, we heard something weird..'crack~ crack~crack~~~' oh~oh~ the mover dropped something? nope, look at the floor! what's going on? earthquake? let's check with the tenant downstairs. argh! the tenant is not in. mover says, contractor's bad work. i've seen something worse than this. tiles blasted and flew up to the ceiling! we were like, oh great.. we're only a meter away~!!!! =S

Life in New York :)

Hey,
Life in new York is good :)

Weather has been great.
We seem to bring Sunshine wherever we go, haha!
In Sunnyvale, DC, Boston, and even when we are back here again in NYC. Somehow rain always avoid us :)


No stress, relaxing life...................
We wake up late, take b'fast, and then take a walk to Central Park, or some Sea side parks. Sometimes, we hop on a bus, or subway to somewhere, Financial District, Battery Park, China Town, Flushing etc.
Just sit down and watch people passing.
Take our lunch, and come back for a nap.
Then we may go for a movie, play, or just walk around Time square like many other tourists do.
In the evening, we cook something and enjoy dinner together with Ah Be when he's back in the late evening.


Among many other goodies, I show here 2 of his favourites,
1. Nasi Lemak by mummy: Look at Ah Bee's smile,and look at my portion of rice!

2. My Hokkian Mee, with Roast pork. Looks delicious ya ;p~
Ah Bee had 2 helpings.

Washington is cool. Museums are all free.

Pace is slow, guess it's typical of government servants, hehe.

By 5:00pm, the fields are full of people, playing games, jogging, or just siting in the parks.

Good place for retirement.





Whale watching in Boston was great. First time for mummy and daddy.
This whale comes so near to pose for me. Look at his nostril.
It's just like our's.




Then he dives down and swims away.
Had a good seafood dinner in the Union Oyster House, reputed to be the oldest US restaurant in continuous service since inception, some some 181 years ago. Mummy enjoyed her Boston Lobster so much......It's really yummy. Had lots of roe.
But perhaps she was mad when we delayed her from eating as I took some time to shoot this photo, sorry dear ;p

New Discovery!

Matt was playing with my fan tonight, and I thought he broke it when something came off from the back. Look what he found!

Ahh... a remote for my fan!! Awesome... Now I don't need to get up from my bed to turn the fan on/off. Choonping says I will still have a problem though - that I need to get up from my bed to find the remote! hehehe...

 

1:20:01

This is my official time for the Bay to Breakers this year. It's nice this year that we get a timing chip that starts counting when you cross the start line, unlike previous years where the time starts counting at 8am, and by the time we get to the start line, it's already like 20-30 minutes after they have started the race. Not to mention there is always a long wait at the finish line where people manually collect part of your bibb to give you the time. I am quite happy with the time for the 12K run, which also included a water and bathroom break. hehe. I ran it with Amy, which was nice, since we are about the same height, so we can run at the same pace. We went with couple of ppl that were over 6ft, and of course they pulled away from us. How much advantage does a tall person when running compared to a short person? Matt clocked 1:05-ish, and if we assume a linear relationship for height to the time, then technically, we both clocked the same time. So, is this a fair comparison?

We didn't see as many ppl in costumes and floats this yr. I saw about a total of say 10-20 naked ppl, which is about the same as what I saw last yr. I think my favorite costume this yr are two ppl that has solar cells attached to their caps, and their t-shirts said "powered by renewable energy".

Oh yea, and usually ppl throw tortilla before the start of the race. For some reason, I have an affinity towards these randomly thrown tortilla. I got slapped on the face, got hit on the head, on the butt etc etc... definitely the person that got hit the most among our group of 8 ppl.

Driving in SG

3 yi, Toto and me went to Tampinese shopping this morning. Ah, big deal huh?! Yeah right, I was the driver. Why? Kian Sing and 3 yi tune were not in. That leaves Toto and me behind, who can drive. She said, “喂, 開車很 Stressful 的. 萬一早產怎麼辦? …”(Hey, driving can be kinda stressful. Do you want me to have preterm delivery?) I was like, ahhaahaha….er… okay, but uh hem… you know that I shouldn’t. I’ll definitely get into trouble if… and I don’t wanna be blacklisted here, do I?
After ~15 mins of argument, they convinced me somehow. they said if I was so “lucky”, I would definitely win the $2.8m TOTO the next day. the blacklist wouldn’t matter anymore cuz I could just pack my bag and say bye to all. Hmmm… don’t know why I gave in to the request of a pregnant lady. = -pMy muscles were basically tensed. Thank God the nerve wrecking journey was only about 15 mins. Heeheheehee…小題大作? =D

Daddy cut his finger

Maybe too much for the blog. But daddy cut his finger while washing a glass. But bleeding has stopped now. And he should be ok.

April long weekend

Tuesday, May 1st, is a public holiday. Many people take Monday off so that they can have a long weekend. Gorbie+Karin+Kaiyang came back this weekend. Cousin Kian Sing+wife, Toto, brought their friends, Dave and Polly, to Malacca for the weekend from Singapore. We went to Beizhan for dinner. Good food and they shopped a lot.

有兒萬事足啊!

Hey, I'm trying to pose here. Somehow, aunt has shaky hands. =S

Hmm.. it's time for a hot bath.

Zzzzz... I feel so good after taking a hot bath.

Kian Sing and Toto shopped at Jusco.
Someone commented that she looked like a brinjal (eggplant) in this outfit. Hahahaha...

Looks familiar?

Oh, come on. What are you trying to do to me?

Hmmm.. I wonder how I look now?
Wallace and Gromit? =)

Hahahahaa... can't resist it.. I'm going to swallow them now...

Special thanks to...

Choon Ping and jie (sis)…
Thank you so much for your warm hospitality, yummy food, laughs and cozy house throughout my 5 -wk stay in CA. I really enjoyed myself very much and took home wonderful memories. I’m sad to leave but I know we’ll see each other some time in the near future.

It was nice to meet fantastic people and we had fun...
Wasiuddin Wahid*, Si Man, Jasmine + Marcel + Sophie, P’ng + Judy + Kai Xiang, Lynn + Jack, Betty, Joy, Julie, Ronnie, Robert, Xin, Shwe, Mate, and etc…

Pei-Sze -Many thanks for letting me stay at your place in SF. Especially your comfortable bed. =P I like your awesome home cooking too.

Chin Ping -Nice convertible bug. I had a great time cruising it. 谢谢你!

Josh – I never knew Google lunch was such a big thing and famous until... Thanks for the wonderful lunch and refreshing campus tour.

Wasi - Your magic trick was pretty entertaining. It was as good as your cellular phone! =)

Don – How could I miss your name on my thank you list?? Dance lessons, rock climbing, and go-karting (Opps! A special thanks goes to the organizers, Arif and Tahera). A Big Thank You to Don Lee. I really appreciate your effort and thoughtfulness for making all the arrangements and making this trip truly special. I had a very pleasant time.

Miss everyone a lot. I'm looking forward to my next visits!

With best wishes,
Pei-Yean

Cats and flowers

Just wanna share some of the pictures we took recently.

My visit to the Bay Area

My 5-week visit in the bay area was like a year to me in Malaysia or Singapore. Sounds like I have been sorta "busy" here... =P Lotsa shopping, visiting, and eating out. Hey, I also did a little of cooking, cleaning, gardening and babysitting the two lovely cats, Toro and Winston. Oh yes, go-karting, rock climbing, Swing and Salsa lessons were really interesting and fun. =) Here are some of the pictures. I wish I had taken more.

Dinner at Pei Sze's apt in SF. Home cooking. Yummy~

Si Man's visit to Sunnyvale. It was nice to see her again.

Go-kart race. Phew! It was fun and tiring. I still can't believe my back actually ached for a few days after that. =S

Dinner at P'ng's house. Excellent food! Don's birthday too.

Best dish I've ever ordered. Spicy prawns! yumm...yumm...

Visited the tide pools, Moss beach, Half Moon Bay.

Beach walk -Santa Cruz , Carmel

taking one step further

Amy and I have been running for about 2 years. We have always say we should do a half marathon some day. The other day she told me that the Nike Women's Half Marathon in October is already sold out, but they are opening more slots for a random lottery. So, we both signed up, saying if we get picked, then it's our fate to run the half marathon. Guess what? We both got in to the race! Now we have to train for it! Oh well, I guess it gives me good motivation to push myself further than my regular 3.5 mile run. We probably won't start training until after Bay to Breakers, a pretty fun race where some ppl are in weird costume, and some ppl in their birthday suits!

My New Love

Don't worry, Matt and I are still engaged! :)
We picked up my cute little baby blue beetle convertible today from the previous owner. It's really nice and perfect! It drives really well. One thing that I still need to get used to is that the back window is really small, so it's very difficult to reverse my car. Also, when I need to pass a car, I cannot look out of my side window anymore since it is so small, and the black top sort of covers the view, so I will just have to use the side mirror and the front mirror. It will take some time to get myself fully accustomed to it, but I think I will definitely enjoy cruising in this cute little bug!

I just can't describe how adorable it looks, so I will just post some pictures and videos of it.







Here is my 2nd attempt in lowering the top of my beetle. Let's not ask what happened during the 1st attempt.


And here's how you put the top back on.

Farewell 4YOS500

4YOS500 officially has a new owner today. The buyer did all the paperwork at 1pm, and said he will come back later for the car. I went running in the afternoon, and just when I was about to get back to my place, I saw 4YOS500, this time with the new owner, driving it away... Felt a bit sad, since I have had it for over 7 years, from Florida to California. It's been good to me for most of the parts, except it gets sick sometimes, especially more lately as it's getting older. It was of course good to abi when he was in Iowa-Abi's cash generating machine :)

Here are some pictures of 4YOS500 I took before I sold it.









Oh, and here daddy, the part we tried to fix back in Florida. You can see the rust is starting to resurface.