Jess Birthday at Fukuharu,TERRACE

This time.. we went to Fukuharu. a place located behind Victoria Station Ampang.


the environment of the place. it's a Bungalow.. and they turned it into a restaurant.. there are few restaurant and bar within this place.. total up.. 9..yes NINE!!!


when we ask for recommendation, here come the Menu of the day!. i ask for today special menu, when i turn my head . and i saw this big Board.. wow...


and it's Fine Dining here. foods are simply awesome! love Fukuharu foods. love their Whiskey Salmon(something like that), and Tempura Unagi(my Fav!). just order those labeled with "popular", just won't go wrong.


Foods we ordered. portion is a bit small. kinda pricey.. but is yummylicious!


and here we go, Happy Birthday Jess.


Thanks to the staff who help in taking this photo :).


a birthday girl challenge.. blow off the candle.. from a distant.


they also have a nice beautiful Poolside Bar at TERRACE.


me me and her her. now exploring around the TERRACE ,


another view from TERRACE 2nd floor. simply awesome...


groups photo... failed.. dark... left my flash at home T_T


Indonesian, another restaurant in Terrace.. another very nice environment restaurant. great environment here..


and the Entrance of Terrace. there are few different restaurant here. total up 9 restaurant and bar


Different kind of experience in at the same place. choose one according to your choice :)


TERRACE is complete with 9 restaurants & bars.

- Berliner Stube German
- 福春 Fukuharu Japanese, Authentic & Unpretentious Japanese Cuisine
- Il Divo Ristorante Italiano, (03) 2145-4108, www.ildivokl.com
- IR1968 Indonesian, (03) 2141-3550, www.ir1968.com
- Nordsee Seafood

- Cafe at TERRACE serving serious illy Coffee
- Cellar at TERRACE
- Cigar Bar at TERRACE
- Single Malt Lounge at TERRACE
- Poolside Bar at TERRACE


Website : terrace.com.my
Location : wikimapia

Annice Birthday Celebration

Birthday Girl Annice with her Epic Shaking Knife, fierce ya?


we're at 劲爆货阔锅 steamboat,some where in cheras


Sampative member mostly here.

Kuala Lumpur Photography Fair 2010 (KLPF)

here i'm am.. KLPF 2010, it's here again.. what i can say.. another crowded event...


higher view of the overall KLPF view.. ok.. that's canon booth.


another side of the KLPF.. here's NIKON and OLYMPUS.. where sony? i'm standing on it XD


schedules and photo sharing event.seminar of photography. if you interested, check the time and come back later.


lots of interesting travel photography sharing moment. grab a chair and enjoy if you want to.


that face look familar... ohhh is KK, the Radio DJ... he's part of the Europe backpacking trip.. sharing his experience and photos.


woot... i guess i found one of the pre-release model of D7000. sealed behind glass.. can't touch it :(


a rare species.. SIGMA dSLR? SD15.. behind glasses.. untouchable... :( . can might you can if you ask.. but i didn't.


wooow.. who's great grand father use this?? EPIC!! antique!!


when traditional meet modern technology. they still do the same thing.. photography.


hmph... weird booth.. just all messy photo hanging around like this.. .


as usual... model shooting.. i bet most people just waiting for this moment..


and some photo's i think is great.. and i steal some of them back :P

Brother #3

smart.  He’s truly brilliant.  Sometimes it’s a little dizzying listening to that mind work!       

Serious.  He’s so dedicated to his goals—not so much for goofing around these days.

Sweet.  The guy would never intentionally hurt anyone’s feelings.

Active in the Gospel of Jesus Christ.  Try to find someone more diligent in serving the Lord.

Attractive.  Uh, yeah.  Just look at him.

Articulate.  He’s always up for a nice, long chat.

Married.  Just recently, in fact.  We really, REALLY like her.

Modest.  He’s a really humble guy.

Metamorphosis.  It’s amazing to see the changes he’s made and continues to make.  Anyone

who knew him when can attest to this fact.  We should all be so malleable.

I love you, Sam!  Ryan loves you.  The kids love you.

 We hope you have a great birthday.  Can’t wait to see you at Thanksgiving!

Comfort

I am a huge  believer in the blankie.  I had one when I was little:

I think it’s so great that they have this one thing that helps them feel better, drift off to dreamland, remind them of home, etc.  We do have a rule that the blankie does not leave the house, unless we are staying the night/napping somewhere else, but other than that blankie is the one object that is never used for discipline and that I will go to the ends of the earth to provide.  I’ve also been known to “plant” a specific blankie in the hopes that it becomes The One.  Itworked for Emma and Faith (cute embroidered silky one made by my friend, Tiffany) but not so much with Gabe and Jane.

Emma’s:

 

(Made by a Young Woman I was working with when I had her.  It was made of thin material and didn’t last long.  We called it Ratty Tatty by the end.)

 

Gabe’s:

(That’s him under the blankie.  Poor second child, it was one of Emma’s girly blankets.  It was white, and very hard to distinguish from hotel sheets and we panicked when we returned from a trip with Ryan’s sister and couldn’t find it.  After a couple rough sleep times, Betsy called to say she had it and I drove 45 minutes to pick it up from her, so we didn’t have to have another night without it.)

Jane’s:

(I remember, distinctly, the naptime where she decided on “The” blankie.  She was 9 months old and I knew she kind of preferred it, but I tried to hand her another of the same material.  She grabbed it, turned it around, saw a different design and threw it out of the crib.  I quickly searched the house for the Real Blankie. 

It’s still around, it all it stringy glory.  She still really likes to have it at bedtime and I don’t care.  I love that she is still “little” enough to need a blankie.)

Seth never had one! He doesn’t even have a comfort object at all.  Maybe with that sunny, happy-go-lucky personality, he never has a need?  Maybe he’s just slept in a siblings bed 90% of his life and that was enough.

Faith’s:

 

(She calls it “Besh-oh” which means Special. She started showing favoritism towards it at about 1 year and so the kids would say to her “You want your Special Blankie?”  and the name quickly got shortened to Besh-oh.   I love love love hearing her walk around the house “Besh-oh, eh are you??”  She is attached, but can sleep without it.  I only worry about the fact that the blankie and the thumb go hand in hand…and we can’t have her sucking her thumb when she’s 7.  How will I separate the two?)

FYI:  take pictures, purposely, of the blankie while they are around.  I have spent a loooong time this morning searching for pictures that had the blankies in them and wished I’d had a really good shot…like the one I just took of Faith. 

So that’s the end of the story of Romney Comfort Objects.  They are kind of a big deal, you know, while your kids are little and I wanted to make sure I had a record.  Hope the Blankies didn’t put you to sleep, like they do my kids…

KINGS & QUEEN OF COMEDY ASIA!

Kings & Queen of Comedy Asia, the biggest Live Stand-Up Comedy in Asia is now in Malaysia.
it will be held in Plenary Hall Kuala Lumpur Convention Center (KLCC).


this show is featured by Douglas Lim from Malaysia,Vir Das from India,Kumar from Singapura,Harith Iskandar from Malaysia,Hung Le from Vietnam.


Poster at Kuala Lumpur Convention Center. Yes, i'm here with some Kanasai group Member's


it's say KING & QUEEN Comedy Asia. ok correct. this is the show i want to attend. :)


Kumar. the Host of the LOL event.. one of the reason why i'm here for the show.


yes.here's the King & queen comedy Asia show. i here for some LOL!


waiting for the show to begins, waiting for the joke to laugh. common.. can't wait to laugh. :P


the show begins.. that's Kumar on the stage. Singapore Comedian.


And i managed to record one of the Doughlas Lim Songs. called "Babi",


Originally from Justin Bieber - Baby

Some of us are Marthas and some of us…

After a long 22 days….

My oven finally got here.  It is gleaming and perfect and the BUTTONS ACTUALLY WORK WHEN YOU PUSH THEM.

While this is a big deal to me (hello!  All that Fall Baking I’ve missed!), I probably wouldn’t add it to the blog, except I strive to constantly embarrass myself in public and feel I must share what happened when the installation guys arrived.  Here goes:

Pre-arrival Ryan reminds me no less than 3 times to clean out from under the stove/oven.  (He’s much neater than I am and remembers little details like that).  They show up about 48 seconds after everyone left for school, but I still manage to sweep as much as I can out of there and then scrub up the gummy sticky stuff from the floor.

(Only Part 1 of the debris…I took a picture to show Ryan how bad it was.  Little did I know.)

They come and I say, “Oh, hey, I just swept under there for you, let me move the broom.” 

Installation guy replies, “Thanks.  It’s pretty bad under ovens.  No one ever cleans under their oven, so don’t worry about it.  Plus yours is the kind that you can’t even move.”  (Not that I’ve ever tried or anything.

They begin to move the oven and, while I am in the room, one exclaims “Oh wow!”  and then exclaims again “EWW!”  and then exclaims again “I have NEVER seen one this bad!  Oh this is awful!” 

Hello!  I’m standing RIGHT HERE, while you rank my housekeeping as Worst Ever!

I was so embarrassed.  I wanted to say, “Um, you realize I’ve had 7 humans living here for the past 4.5 years?  And that I use my oven more than just about anyone I know?  And my kids do a lot of the sweeping because I am trying to teach them how to work and plus I can’t possibly do all the stuff around here?  And (mostly) it’s very rude to express total disgust at someone while they are 2 feet from you!”

I just kept having to tell myself, as my cheeks turned bright red, “I’ll never seen these men again.”

It was a little crazy, I’ll admit.  We found: 1 sippy cup lid, 1 block, 75 cents, 3 marbles, 1 bouncy ball, 3 canning lids, a Christmas picture, glass from a broken bowl, 2 pens and 1 pencil.  (Stocking stuffers?)

I did scrub the heck out of the little area, while they were assembling the new oven, so should you want to view the CLEANEST UNDER-THE-OVEN AREA IN TOWN…come to my house. 

Hey, I’ll even bake you some apple pie (perfectly hygenic, I promise), while you ooh and ahh and wonder “man, is she always this perfect?!” 

(Just ask the Appliance Guy that question, okay?)

How Do You Like Them Pumpkins?

We headed up to the little farming community 20 miles away to take advantage of their fun harvest festivals.  It was a GORGEOUS fall day, we beat the crowds, every one was getting along.  I had $40 in my pocket.

(Life Lesson:  $40 is not enough money to budget for a morning at Greenbluff).

The first farm was super fun—the kids did the cheap straw maze, petted ponies that were scary (to Faith at least), watched the Chunkin Punkin machine (a pumpkin gets hurled by an air gun a million feet, right before your very eyes).  We decided, in the interest of time, to forgo actually picking the pumpkin from the field and headed over to the our favorite farm.

 

(Life Lesson:  if you must buy pumpkins at Greenbluff, pick them out of the field at Knapps, instead of waiting to purchase at Harvest House).

We headed over to the next destination, while visions of pumpkin donuts, haunted bouncy houses and caramel apples bounced in their heads.  We unloaded and the kids headed down to the “pumpkin patch”, while Ryan went to stand in the pumpkin donut line. 

 

Everyone began to find the biggest pumpkin.  I began to worry about how much they would cost.  “Hey guys, It’s really annoying to carve a HUGE pumpkin, you know.  So many seeds, thick walls, etc.  You may want to find a medium sized one”.  Of course no one listened.  I pulled out my next tactic:  “Okay.  You may pick a pumpkin that YOU can transport to the cashier and to the car.  We are not getting a wagon.”  Everyone began rolling, kicking and bouncing their HUMONGOUS gourds over to the cashier.

(Life Lesson:  If you are worried about cost per pumpkin—just TELL THE KIDS THAT.  Don’t assume they can read between the lines and be persuaded to pick a little boring pumpkin over the glorious 20 lb monstrosity.)

We plopped those big babies on the scale and the lady asks for $32 dollars! For 4 pumpkins.  I handed over ALL OF MY MONEY to the lady and said, in complete irritation: “Okay, guess we’re done.  I have no more money.  No play area, no caramel apples, no lunch.  You do, however, have pumpkins larger than baby elephants.”  Ryan returned with donuts to sad, mopey kids and an irritated wife.

(Life Lesson:  Pumpkin donuts can slightly elevate the mood of disappointed kids.  But not much.)

We drove home in silence.  I’m wishing I planned better and that the kids were better at catching my hints.  The kids are wishing their parents were richer and/or nicer and/or explained their options to them better. 

We stopped at McDonalds and buy a bunch of cheap food to take to Jane’s soccer game.  We sat down on the beautiful field and began to peel the Monopoly stickers off of our large fries and Big Macs.  Everyone started to cheer as we won lots of Free Medium Fries.

(Life Lesson:  While horrible for your body, apparently McDonalds and their gimmicks can do a lot to lighten the mood in the 5-11 year old crowd.)

Seth, upon hearing that we were getting Free Medium Fries, ran up to me and said “Hey MOM!  These must be the free medium fries.  See?  They aren’t huge and they aren’t tiny.”

(Life Lesson:  Every mom needs a hilarious 5 year old to make her laugh when she is annoyed that her Big Plans went South.)

We ended up cheering Jane on, hanging out in the sun, admiring the leaves and the mountains and drove home contented.

(Life Lesson:  You do your best to be with your kids and, mostly, it all ends up okay.)