Seafood Horfun

Since Dh is still suffering from ulcer on his toungue, i shall cook more non-spicy food for him. So i whipped up Seafood Horfun for lunch. This is one of the kids favourite hawker food and but i seldom ordered this for them. Because if they were eating on their own like usual, the food will get everywhere...on their clothes, all over their mouths, on their laps....it just messy!To make it work, I have to feed them or monitor them like an eagle..lol..

Dh and the kids think my seafood horfun is nice but i still think it's not the best ....but that's me...always expect the best out of myself when comes to cooking but still i won't beat myself over it...

8th Wedding aniversary

On the 21/12/10, it was our 8th wedding anniversary. Hubby told me days before ...that he had booked a table for us and the kids at Grand Hyatt's Straits Kitchen for dinner buffet....my jaws dropped when i heard that. It's been in my "wish list" for so many years now and finally i got to try it. He also surprised me BIG TIME when he gave me $100 Sephora vouchers...he said that this time i can really shop in Sephora store instead just walking around and walked out empty handed everytime.

I felt really bad that i didn't buy anything for him. I didn't even buy a new dress/outfit to look nice for our dinner that time because i had spent most of my money on necessities for KL trip. Just dressed plainly because i was a bit under the weather ..or maybe just tired from the trip. I will remember to put more effort and thought for his gift this May as a compensation(kindda had an idea already)

Ok, back to the interesting topic which is the FOOD! Well, what can i say....it was luxuriously buffet spread of local food like Malay, Chinese, Indian and Nyonya food. I was hoping to see cheesecake and sushi.....but Nope....they really strict and abide on the local concept rule.

In the Chinese section, the Black Pepper Crab is a must try...the crabs were fairly big and loaded with juicy tender meat enveloped with thick black pepper gravy. I also loved the Popiah (fresh spring roll)...and i think it was the best i've ever tried actually....also loved the briyani rice which not greasy at all but flavourful, also tried Ayam buah keluak for the first time and it was good..to sum it all (before my saliva dropped on my keyboard), i would like to say that most of the food were super nice and i wished i came with a bigger tummytank to try all of them.

We did not take a lot of pictures of the food because the lighthing were dim and we just wanted to enjoy the moment without worry about too much stuff...anyway we had a wonderful day and will keep on going to find ways to make the happiness in our marriage last. It can get a little difficult sometimes...that's why it needs love, patience, communication, compromise, sacrifice and doa.

Celebrating mil's 57th birthday.

Dh and i kindda forced net(brother in law) and yana who was already tucked into bed to go out with us again after 1/2 hr returning from Petaling st. The excuse we gave was to accompany us to watch football games (Man U vs Chelsea)...well we really wanted to watch the game actually. We also left the twins in MIL's care and i think it would be a breeze to take care of them because Dh left his iphone for them to play games...and believe me that they can suck into games for hours especially Aniq. Maybe due to my strictness that i don't' give them the freedom to play iphone games everyday...well it's bad for their eyes and their language development.

Went everywhere till we found a coffee shop with lots of mat saleh in it so we assume it must had got something to do with football so we asked the kopi boy whether they will show the game. Then he said with enthusiasm plus hand sign saying No Game (cross his hands repeatedly) because of heavy snow (his hand turned into claw and scratched in the air representing the snow kept pouring)...lol...do we look like we don't understand simple English...lol

I was glad that the game was cancelled because i prefer to watch it at home, the most comfortable place for me. So Dh asked his brother whether he knew about MIL's birthday which is that day (well it was midnight so technically it's already the 20th). He said he knew but he had no plan about it but Dh had one. Initially he wanted to get a birthday cake at Berjaya times square at Cafe earlier on but my MIL was always there with him so no chance of sneaking around to do it. So all four of us were on a hunt to get the "nicest cake" they had on 24hr convenience store...sadly we only got 2 chocolate swiss roll that we combine together and stuck some colourful candles on it ...on the picture it looked like Christmas log cake actually, hehehe.

We got back to the hotel and went to my room to grab my videocam. We lit the candles just outside MIL's room and knocked on the door and my sweet Aniq opened the door. As soon as we dimmed the room's light, we sang the birthday song. And she was caught by surprise, still able to remain calm and smiling and quickly asked yana to hand her cekak rambut. Aniq and Aliah helped her to blow the candles at the end of the song...kepoh kids!

Dh gave her some money (as money can become the best/practical gift for some) for her to get a handbag that she always wanted to get. And she ended up of getting two bags the next day..and she looked happy...Misson accomplished!...a happy person on a special day!

Day 2 in KL

Breakfast buffet..the food is so mediocre ..nothing special really! A little disappointing i must say because we felt that their standard has gone down. We stayed in this hotel many many years ago and many many times and we loved their breakfast buffet. We also disappointed in their service...the remote control in our room was not working and Dh need to call 2-3 times for them to replace it and they gave us ironing board but the iron was not found in the room so we need to call again and the ridiculous part is that they don't provide toothbrush and toothpaste!! Angsana hotel and spa is 4 star hotel, mind you!! Even the 3 1/2 star hotel in Bangkok gave us all the necessities. Guess Dh and i need to try other hotel the next time to explore...oopps ..did i complain too much...ok ok let's move on.....

Posed infront of Berjaya times square...

The kids were having so much fun at the Indoor Theme Park. We spent 3-4 hours in there. Dh didn't took part in any rides because he felt he will get dizzy very fast and i quite agreed with him. I accompanied Yana my sis in law to ride the DNA Mixer (the most scary ride i ever rode) and the roller coaster...and i already seeing stars after that..i even vomitted because i took 1 hot mocha drink minutes before that. My younger bro in law didn't buy ticket so he didn't enter because he don't want to thus no one accompany yana to have fun. Despite being a teenager, luckily yana didn't want to ride anything else after that or else MATI GUE!! hahaha

My mother, brother and uncle in law joined us for late lunch after that. Actually Aniq wanted to go back into the theme park which we still can but i know that mil anxiously wanted to go Petaling st so bad in the evening. It's hard to get taxi with meter during that time so we decided to take train to go and it was our first time! It was exciting to explore their monorail...though it was a disaster but it was fun nonetheless...

After struugling to get into the monorail, we took KTM (i think... i mean the bigger train) but we need to wait for my 2 bro in law because they didn't able to get in the first time...need to try harder to get into the next one! So we posed for some pictures to kill time...

I didn't buy anything from Petaling st but we accompanied Bro in law to buy his shoes and shirt.

Went back to hotel around 11pm and rest but later in the midnight we had some surprise for MIL. (later in another post)