Isetan Kuala Lumpur Birthday Run

Thank you very much to Auntie Lina for letting us know about this run. Managed to register very fast. First 200 Kids dash Slot free. Yesterday was the runb

While I was in school, Papa and Mamarazzi went to KLCC helped me pick up my Race Kit.

Wah....am a newbie leh....so surprised that they put so many goodies in the Race Kit.

 In the website, they said 6.30am have to be there. Registration for participants. HUH? Register what leh> Arrived there...hmm...no registration booth pun...or maybe we didn't see la coz there were many people there.

Wah...they have set up many props for people to camwhore...Mamarazzi dislike that word. Sound so rude. Let's use selfie or wefie instead okay...

Nice words...Dream, Hope and Future.

I hope.....

 For a finisher medal....LOL....yea yea...have race yet already dreaming ya.... no worries...I think I can...

 Many people snap photo at the stage... Mamarazzi also kaypoh asked me go up and she snapped my photo la.

 They are going to have Birthday Cake Cutting ceremony wor...so many muffins/cupcakes.. 

 While waiting for the race to start...I left my print there...I like green. 

 

Sure ah? Tarak bluff me ah? I can splat my dirty hand on this wall ah? wokay.... !

 

 Soon the DJ asked us to assemble near the stage. The Big Boss of Isetan gave a short speech welcoming all the runners. 

 Then a LengZhai Kor Kor led us with warm up session, follow by the DJ announcing it's time for the Men and Women run.

BAM! there they went. My category was Kids Dash. The last to start.

While waiting, we play first lo

 So much fun there leh....

 Met my "childhood" cartoon character...You know who? 

 Soon it was time to run lo...but before that...Wefie first ya. 

 And blast off......

 I did not come in 1st...nor 2nd nor 3rd...nor.....oh well...

 At least I ran to the finish line. 

There was some other programme there...go Cake Cutting Ceremony...Got Lucky draw and there was even a 2nd time Kids Dash. But we didn't stay for that. Gotta "run" . Second event is calling...off we went to Jaya One for the Charity Sale. 

 

Bello! Me Minion....

As promised by the organiser...got Medal and BANANA! Yummy!

Once again, thank you very much to Auntie Lina and the Organiser of Isetan Kuala Lumpur Birthday Run. We had loads of fun yesterday

A Chinese Wedding & Dinner at The Golden Sun Restaurant in Kuchai Lama

Have you received any "red bombs" lately? Usually when comes year end, there will be a lot of "red bombs" dropped. You know what is "red bombs" right? It's actually a good thingy...a.k.a. Wedding Invitation.

Yup last month we received a "Red Bomb" I got to see how a  traditional Chinese Wedding is done. Not really traditional la but it incorporated most of the Chinese wedding elements la. If truly wanna follow the traditional way...adui.... will be a lot lo.

We were invited by the Groom side. When we arrived, the Groom and his buddies had already gone out to fetch the bride.

 

Before the Groom and the Bride arrive, the parents of the groom got ready some prayer items with the help from a staff of a one-stop wedding centre.

Manyak terrer leh. Mamarazzi didn't know have such thing leh. This One-stop Centre caters for everything....from morning buffet for the morning session, photographers and videographers, prayer items, tea ceremony items and even "Dai Kum Jie" for hire!

"Dai Kum Jie" (大妗姐), is something like Chaperon for the Bride. In the old days, Dai Kum Jie have to be some one that is happily married with loads of children. Dai Kum Jie during the whole ceremony will have to speak auspicious words and help to guide the Groom and Bride through the ceremony.

When the wedding car arrived, with guidance from the Dai Kum Jie ; a male child from the Groom side gave some mandarin oranges to the new couple through the window. Not very sure what it means but maybe mandarin orange is called "Kum" in Chinese...maybe means "Gold". Could be symbolise bringing gold to the family.

The new Couples then gave him and Angpau (red packet) and he opens the car doors for the new Couple.

All these while the Dai Kum Jie non-stop saying auspicious words and they proceed to pray for blessing.

Then comes the Tea Ceremony. Not going to post up photo of the Tea Ceremony as it was kinda private . Basically the Groom and Bride gave tea to their elders and their elders gave them gifts or Angpau in return. Guess, you have seen many Tea  Ceremony in television drama to know how it went lah.

Next was the family photography session .

Next comes the fun part.....Breaking the "Potty" . My first time seeing. Everyone went into the Groom and Bride bedroom.

They had this "potty" wrapped with red paper. The male child have to break the red paper and retrieve fruit from the potty. Of course the potty is a brand new one lah.

The Dai Kum Jie was saying something about having child early and etc .

Then both the Groom and Bride rolled the fruit on the bed. Also something about having children early lah.

Followed by a male and female child were asked to roll on the bed pulak.  It sure looks fun. 

All the rolling here and there...i see i also feel tired liao lor. . Whole morning with all the ceremony and stuffs like that. Sure looks a lot of work getting married and that is only the first half. 

Jughead must replenish energy liao.. Lucky, the buffet serve got loads of yummy food. Main thing...got "noodles"! Okay la...not noodles la but got bihun also can la.

They even have Cendol leh! Fuiyoh...best lah.

Rested for awhile. The come the second half pulak. Wah...I see the Bride and Groom no rest at all. They had to fast fast eat some lunch then the Make-up artist and hairdresser came already to get them ready for the evening reception.

Me...easy la... just a quick shower and a change of cloth... sprayed some "toilet water" .
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Ah.....must not miss my "ketiak". Gonna be running here and there in the restaurant and be the "usher". Yeah.,...Mamarazzi got roped in to be one of the receptionist for the dinner.

Stationed by the door, Mamarazzi collect angpau money let Guests know their table assignment. When they know their table number, I took them to their table. Errr....that was my assignment la from Mamarazzi. That is till I found out that there is free flow of soft drink that night.

When I got to know about it...I "guai-guai" went to our table and sat down. I kept pestering the waitress for orange juice...according to Mamarazzi's friends who were at the same table lah.

 

Receptionist job over liao. And time to MAKAN!!!

First dish......four season....yummy according to Mamarazzi. By then I was hyper with sugar rush liao la. And too much water liao....kept going to toilet to relief myself and also find excuses to kaypoh here and there.

Next dish was special. Double boiled Chicken soup with dried scallop and codycep. We don't usually get this at wedding. Sure  is something fresh.

Again....went to washroom....to wash hands.

Usually at weddings, there will be leftover when comes to chicken dish but this time....habis makan all. I love the crispy chicken skin.

Again run to the washroom to....errr....forgotten the reason liao..

 

When I came back the waitress cleared my plate liao.

Grrrr!!! Mamarazzi why you never stop them leh...I haven't finish leh. But by that time, Mamarazzi was turning red as a lobster liao due to the wine served.

 

 One of Mamarazzi wacky friend "Selfie-ing" or snapping photo of a "lobster"..  Muhahahaha..

The Steamed Tiger Grouper was also very popular. I know some of you are scared of the "tiger" mouth so  hide it lo.

Not interested on fish....run to kacau Mamarazzi's friend's son. 

Tiger Prawns. Surprisingly there was some leftover wor. It was fresh but guess people are more health concious nowadays. Worried about cholesterol. Mamarazzi sapu the rest la. Peel some for me  leh.

 

 As usual...there was a break for "YUM SING". It's toasting session where everyone yelled shout at the top of their voice.. YUMMMMMMMMMM SINGGGGGGGGG!

I yelled so loud till my voice was hoarse the next day . It was fun. **LOL**

I like the mushroom and broccoli dish. Oppss..i mean i like the broccoli. 

Again went and "kaypoh" with one of Mamarazzi's Lenglui friend. But too bad she is already married  with sons...no daughters..yet.

Then new couple with their parents came to our table for another toastiung session...YUMMMMMM SINNNNNGGGGGGG SINNNNG SIIIIIIIINNNNNGGGGG!

With all the yum sing-ing around and the lovely dishes earlier on, everyone were too full to finish all of the Glutinous Rice liao. Even Papa who love Glutionious rice had to surrender liao.

 

Last two dishes...refreshing sweet Thong Sui, Mochi and crispy pancakes. 

Yikes! Last dish already ah? I barely ate anything leh ..too busy running here and there kaypoh-ing. .....wait up!!!Don't clear yet.....I wanna eat some  more leh....

 

A Green Day

It have been raining here in the evening for the past week. Good news is haze seems to have gone away. Yeah..shoo shoo....don;t come back again.

Another good news is the garden is flourishing. Plants sprouting leaves wild here and there. Only down side is that the weeds had the same idea too.

Mamarazzi spent the whole morning weeding and pruning the plants in the garden . Can sing "Baa baa black sheep have you any weeds, Yes Sir Yes Sir three bags full".

 Let see......Mamarazzi's Taiwan Watercress vegetable is growing well. They seems to like the wet weather. Hopefully can harvest soon to make soup.

The mint enjoying themselves too. All standing up to try and get some sunshine. Harvested some the other day to fry with eggs. The more you harvest , they happier they grow.

Mamarazzi decided to change the crops. Stopped planting Kangkung (water spinach). Planted Sweet Potatoes leaves instead. Very good harvest. Every 2-3 weeks can harvest once. Not bad. Harvested some for dinner. 

We have abundance of the round leaves Pegaga (centella and gotu kola). It's said to be good for high blood pressure and a few other ailments.

Harvested some. Given a lot the old lady next door and she was so happy. Yup...Pegaga is for juicing or if lazy, just pour hot water over it and drink . Cheap cheap...no need to buy expensive juices . 

Have too much of daun misai kucing and lemon basil. Mamarazzi is drying them to make tea. Trimmed the mulberries tree and drying the leaves for tea too. Papa said drinking mulberry leave tea helps him to sleep better. 

Mamarazzi also experimenting on Roselle. A gardening friend suggested to dry the Roselle for tea instead of making jam. 

 

 While clearing up the clarden....my pet showed that he is not please with what Mamarazzi is doing. destroying his hiding place. He tried to scared Mamarazzi away but too bad.....Guai guai ah...keep on catching all the bad mozzie and insects for us , okay. 

Apart from the edible garden......the flowers are blooming too. Spotted two pretty yellow roses. Hmmm....getting the hang of planting roses. They don't like too hot weather and doesn't like too much water. Still no idea how to propagate it successfully yet. 

Last month Kaw Kaw came back for a visit and they went to nurseries to look see look see. Guess who was the one who ended up with pots of plants? 

You guessed right. Yup....Bargain corner at Lot 61 is a "killer" for bargain hunter. Mamarazzi got 8 pots of plants for just RM10. 

Top Left : Two naughty boy and one unidentified plant. 

Top Right : Two Geranium

Bottom left : Two Gloxinia

Bottom right : Two roses

  

Jeng jeng! Got lovely blue flowers liao that unidentified plant. But...still doesn't know the name. 

One of the Gloxinia bloom...it's a lovely deep velvet red. So lovely. The color of the other pot is still a mystery.

 Hmm....enough about garden...what's new about me? errr....nothing much. Just discovered a new play ground which I will be "bodek-ing" Papa to bring me every weekend.

Mamarazzi also discovered the guard who jaga the toilet there also have an interest in gardening. Probably will be visiting the toilet more there. Crazy gardener.

I know la.. Gardening topic is "boring-ing" you all ....Mamarazzi saja feel like "bragging" about the  "hardwork"  that she had done this morning..hence "hijacked' my blog and post up lo

Halloween Sun Day Out at The School & Kuala Lumpur Engineering Science Fair (KLESF) @ MIECC

 Good morning! How was your weekend? Last Sunday, I managed to "bodek" Papa to bring me to Jaya One for "scootering".

They were having Halloween galore. So many lovely decorations and kids in Halloween costume. There was also a Witch walking around giving out candies ****Hansel & Gretel witch's??****

 There was a BIG bat hovering around

 ARGH!!!!! Runnnnnn!!!!

Found a new "girlfriend" to protect me . Beautiful or not my girlfriend?So tall with very slim waist. 

Gosh...The School at Jaya One sure a happening place. Every week, there will be event.

Speaking of event...how many of you have truly read and understand the post  about "Imparting Entrepreneurial Skills to the Underprivileged Children" dated 22nd October 2015? 

Okay la...just in case you were speed reading like Mamarazzi likes to do or maybe missed out on that post, it is actually about this group called Living Hope. They are organising  Children’s Day Charity Bazaar on 8 Nov (11am – 5pm) on the G Floor of The School, Jaya One. Stalls will be manned by under privileged children. This is to teach them some entrepreneur skill.

No actual money will be use during the sale but you can buy things sold there by using coupon. Coupon booklets can be bought from the Info Counter at The School from now till 8th November 2015. It's RM50 per booklet and all proceeds will go to Living Hope to aid the under privileged children in Malaysia.

Really hope to see you there this Sunday.

 After scooting in Jaya One, off we went to the  Kuala Lumpur Engineering Science Fair at MIECC pulak. We arrived around 4pm . By 4.30pm some of the stalls started to pack up already as closing time was 5pm.

Aiks...why close so early leh on weekend. Open la till 7pm or 8pm.

Didn't get to see much. Managed to catch DIGI with their innovative presentation about Cyber Bullying. Some of us may not be aware nasty remark left in social media can also be terms as cyber bullying.

There was also a presentation about how social media is used to "viral" certain situation which may or may not be good .  There are a few more presentation and games but we didn't not linger long. Not enough time

 Off we went to see other exhibitions. This one captured Mamarazzi's eye coz last week she saw this "Kinetic Sand" being sold in a shopping complex for RM200 - RM300 a small bag but it comes with all the moulds la.

Mak oi....so pricey leh.... looks like here we can make our own kinetic sand. Hmm...maybe if I make and sell for 1kg RM50 got people wanna buy or not ah?

 There were some that joined the science fair too.One school in particular used recycled items to make toys and games.

Here two kor kor helped me to "grow taller"

Wooohoo...looks like am getting the hang of it.

Haiz....only got to "see" these. The rest closed shop liao even before 5pm.

Hmm.....if next year they going to have this fair again, gottab arrive here sharp 9am and leave before 5pm coz we got stuck INSIDE the car park for 2hours!! Darn it...lucky tarak urgent wanna pangsai  else die kau kau. Wondering where the heck was all the traffic police and RELA. During BBWS they were there leh.

Later in the evening, Auntie Lina said maybe the horrible traffic due to the flooding in front of the Serdang KTM. Adui..looks like some things never change eventhough a decade had passed.

Big Bad Wolf Books Sale 4th-14th December 2015

Guess  those of you who is a long time fan readers of this blog will know December is the month where Mamarazzi and me will go CRAZY. Yup…totally crazy coz it is the month where the LARGEST book sale with REAL discounts will be held in Kuala Lumpur. 

We have been anticipating and looking forward to this sale since last year’s BBW ended. Yea…that’s how CRAZY we are about BBW.

Then suddenly mid last month BBW "announce" that there will be no more super low price and various perks. Being a long time fan of BBW, we suspected that it was a prank. But some doesn't feel it that way. There were some rather unpleasant remarks made. Glad everything turns out fine after that. 

With the current economic situation…Toll price increased, no more RM100 ‘"donation” to poor student like me, RM against USD rate getting to be alarming and many more…Big Bad Wolf Books Sale is certainly a welcomed event.

This is the only sale where Mamarazzi can borong as many books as she wanted without breaking my piggy bank. Thank you very much to the BBW for bringing in books at an affordable price. 

Over the last two years, Mamarazzi can see others bookstore are also conducting sale similar to BBW's. Guess this is due to the influence of BBW  who wanted to get more Malaysian to read. It's not that we don't read, but the price of books sometimes is just too pricey. This makes Mamarazzi wonder ...would they ever going to lower their price in not because of BBW?

Some says lowering books price is bad for the market and affects the earning of the authors. But think again. The books that is sold in BBW are  remainder books  If the books not bought by BBW and sold to us, it would go to waste also. By selling these book at such a low price, readers like Mamarazzi gets to try out books from various authors . It's a good exposure for authors too. If readers love the works of the author, they might go and buy their new release at full price. 

Same as previous year, this year BBW will be held at MIECC, The Mines. Yup! The sale will start at 7a.m. sharp on 4^th December and only close at 14^th December 2015. But Mamarazzi is guessing the crowd will demand for the sale to be extended for a few more days. 10 days sale is definitely not enough.  Many will come from all over Malaysia for this sale.

 

Mamarazzi have been eyeing their facebook for updates on this year's choice of books and making a list on what to grab at the coming Big Bad Wolf Sale. This is one of the thing that she wants to grab

You should follow them in facebook and stand a chance to win a Preview Pass. This preview pass let’s you get into the sale a day early. Less crowds and you can browse leisurely. 100% worth it I tell you.

How to get the Preview Pass? Okay la…Mamarazzi won’t be kedekut with the experience la. Most important is SHARE SHARE SHARE! Share whatever announcement or updates that BBW shared in  their Facebook. Make sure the setting of your Facebook status is set at PUBLIC ya. The more you SHARE out…the higher chance you will catch The WOLF’s eye and get a preview pass. That was how we got our Preview Pass for this coming 2015 BBWS. Mamarazzi have been sharing BBW status like mad in her Facebook.

Yay! We are so looking forward to 3^rd December Preview Day. So looking forward to my BBW gang. Hopefully can meet up with everyone there. Kor Kor Jon …I hope you won’t have to naik sampan come to BBW this year. So sad that you gotta miss the sale in 2013 due to FLOOD. Bad FLOOD. Every year end causes trouble. Shoo shoo! Go away FLOOD! Don’t come and kacau us on 3^rd of December to 14^th of December 2015. Come El Nino! Blow away the heavy rain that causes Flood. .

Oh ya….This year theme is the 60s. …Hmmm…..i wonder if we dress up to the 60s style….whole The Wolf give us Preview Pass for year 2016 BBW or not….hehehehe….***super hint hint and wink wink….***