Paint the wall

Early in the morn, we went to buy extra brushes as Hubs house only have left over paints, and no brushes. We reached as promised time, 9.30am. Look at the condition of the gate wall.Mr Sun is out but still chatting with Mr Cloud. So excitedly we planned out what to do first. As this is our first time, we left out several equipment. We totally forgot that we need the stuff to removed the oil paint on the wall before we can coat the new one on. Luckily they staff at the center managed to find one for us.

The two colors of the wall. This must be the work of a newer coat of paint on the further left compare to the right side.

There is two side of gate wall. We didn't manage to get volunteer this time. So we resort to work on the smaller piece first.

After scrapping off the older coat, we gave it a coat of paint first. Then let it dry first before coating it seond time. See the difference on the left and right side? Now it looked much better.

By the time we started on the second coating, Mr Sun was excited as well and kept on paying us a visit. The staff there was so nice to serve us ICED Ribena. Oh so cool and refreshing. They sure know how to make us happy. We ran out of paint in the middle of painting. So Hubs drove
out to buy more....and a bigger brush and a roller. While he was away, I tried to get some work done on the inside wall but Mr Sun just would leave me alone. I couldn't stand the heat and felt slight dizzy. I went under the shades to wait for him, while curi tulang...hehehe...

Hubby behind bars.

The hardest part has to be the bars. It's cylindrical and so hand has to go around it. Not to mention it's smooth surface doesn't help.

At last our masterpiece make us proud.
Well, this is not the end yet. This is only one side of the wall, a smaller side. The next mission is to coat the bigger piece, which is almost thrice of this size. Hopefully we will have good volunteers and can complete it within a shorter period. This wall took us 4 hours to beautify it. Our reward from the center was a taste of their lunch spaghetti.

Kocha Taiwanese Restaurant

I've read the review on The Star but on that time I wasn't sure where it is located. So I totally forgot about it until Hubs move to his new office. Went we were at the junction, just about to turn in, I went like, "Oh!!! So here it is!". Hubs was curious on what I saw that made me so excited. When I pointed to the signboard on the outside of the restaurant, he still could not get it. Of course, he also forgot that I had mentioned about this restaurant after I read the article. We decided to try it on day but kept procastinating. It was not until one day, two other friends wanted to go over that I suggested we have dinner there since it was so near.

The interior is so cozy and nice. There was two aquarium filled with beautiful corals and fishes. One of the photos I took which I thought it looked artistic. Never mind the lady at the back... ;p

The plates and utensils used for serving.
A set meal cost roughly Rm15 which consist of fruit, drink, main course and dessert. For that price, I think it's quite a catch.

One of us ordered 3 cup chicken set. It comes with plain rice, green vege, soup appetizer and that black thing on bottom left, it was a cake as dessert.

A good amount of chicken for dinner...just a slight taste of spicy

Mine was noodle with fried pork or something like that. I didn't get the exact name. The mee is smooth and the broth is clear and just nice.

Another big piece of pork.

Hubs and another friend ordered the famous beef noodle but sad to say before I can whip out my lovely digicam, they were slurping away already. Too good to wait, huh?

I couldn't get enough of it in Kocha so I recommended my another group of friends to have birthday dinner there last Tuesday. It was not difficult to make them all agree, just forward the convincing post by KY and StevenGoh. This time I managed to try the paper steamboat. I was not in the mood to take picture that day, so no photo of any dishes we had. But I had to suggest you try out the paper steamboat. It was quite nice, something new for me and the portion is quite big. Next time, I wish to try for the spicy pork steamboat, the one KY had in his blog.

I love chocmud

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Eden Handicap Center

I'm so happy to announce that for the first time, I'm organising a charity work. Hubs and I were firstly introduced to this center about half a year ago. The story started when Hubs received a forwarded email in search of good samaritans. Eden, a center set up by a lovely couple to cater to the needs of special children is dependent solely on donations. It's not like orphanage home, it's more of a center that takes in special children either part time or full time from the low income parents who are not able to take care of their special child. They will be put under the care of home-parents ( a term they used to describe the guardian who stayed in the center to cater to the children). For those who has reach the schooling age, they will be sent to special school, just like what the other normal kids would experience. Every time we go to do donation, the children will surround us, asking us a lot of questions and sometimes even perform dancing or singing for us. They will ask us to join in. It's just so much fun watching them. To be able to connect to them, you can feel their pure heart and innocence.

Once in a while, there will be good samaritan who organize an outing for the children to enjoy like normal kids. Last weekend when we went over to do donation, an idea struck me.What I'm going to do is not like bringing them to outing. I don't have the ability to take them out yet. I suggested to Hubs to give their gate wall a new coat and let it look more lively. I saw that their grass was trimmed and new playground accessories. So a new coat will see that the place is more organized and hopefully it will attract more donors. Oh, I'm so excited to do this. I had asked Hubs to call up the person in charge to get permission and at the same time, we will ask around if anyone is interested to join also. I mean it's not everyday you can bring joy to someone in need. I will update the charity work.....with lotsa pictures after the project is done. That is if we have the permission to do it. Please bless us.

If anyone wish to donate to this center, feel free to drop me a comment and I will get back to you. I will also update the details of the center so you can directly go and take a look.

A dream

Last night I dreamt that I was in a villa with huge swimming pool. I had change into my bikini underwear but top it with a loose t-shirt. I couldn't remember the whole story vividly but one part was very clear. I dived into the pool and after a short swimming to the surface, I emerged and fly like a butterfly just slightly above the water. Then continued to dive again from the flying post. This time however, as much as I swam, I couldn't reach the surface. I know I"m running out of breathe but I just couldn't emerged again. It feels like diving into the sea bottom and it has to take a few minutes to get to the top again. Hard as I kicked, I 'm slowly losing my breathe and feels as if I'm choking to death. With that, I woke up with a heart beating like crazy. Never had I experience this kind of dream before. And I don't know what does it trying to show. Am I drowning silently in real life?

A night without Hubs

Every time Hubs away for some business trip, I'll be going back to Mum's place for the night. So I did not feel the sense of lost every time he was not here. Last Sunday was an exception. As I mentioned in the earlier post, I went out and became a helper till after dinner around 9pm+. I drove all the way back to Air Itam from ParkRoyal Hotel. It took almost half hour to 45 mins. By the time I reached home, I was too tired to pack the stuff and go to Mum's place for a night. I took a good bath, rest awhile watching the HK Award and pop into bed in less than 30 mins. While in bed, I tossed and turned and couldn't find a good spot to sleep on. The bed was too huge for me. This is the first time I slept on our queen size bed ALONE. I could find myself woke up in the middle of the night being turned almost 90deg from the initial position. I was restless for the while night. There's no one for me to snuggle up or steal my blanket while I was sleeping. I know Hubs will be away more often now that he's going into his new job. I just hope my road to freedom will be shorten and we will have more time to together and when he travels, he will take me along too ;)

Joining

Sunday was a memorable day for me particularly. This was the first time I joined in FX1 course as helper. I went there with the intention to take a peep at Hubs and probably a hug as bonus. Never did I imagine I will be dragged in as helper. I started my day with good facial and after that drove all the way to ParkRoyal Hotel to meet up Hubs. Coincidently, it was almost time for lunch so I waited for a few minutes at the lobby. When all the students came out from the room, there he was, my gorgeous Hubs directing them like a traffic police ;p He took me in to their wrap up session ( with fellow trainers and helpers). As I stood there waiting for Hubs to finish the wrap up, Chris, one of the speaker suddenly said, "If she's going to be helper, she need a shirt". I was dumb stroke. I was just merely visiting. But since I have the opportunity, I might as well take it. Indeed it was a good choice.

We participated again in the joining session. Initially, I was reluctant to do it. The last time we did that, I cried and cried like a desperado. The purpose of the session is to let your mind do the flashback or flashforward. Unconsciously you see the things you've long forgotten and memories don't even want to remember. You could see what you have been holding back and it will give you a breakthrough and get you going further without the burden. I was afraid to face it again, for fear that my life is mostly of sadness. However, being instructed to do so, I did that reluctantly. I looked deep into Hubs eye searching for what there is to be searched. I found that I was thinking more of the good thoughts. How Hubs has been working so hard to make it work for him and me, for our future to be a financial independent, and that we'll have little ones and everything nice. I gave tears to all those thoughts. And surprisingly, this was the first time I ever see Hubs shed tears. Rolls and rolls of tears just glided down his gorgoeus face. I could see his invisible frown but I guess my happiness just drown his. Even the speaker who went around giving support could sense my happiness so strong that he saw my face glowed. All I could say is I'm so blessed to have that session again. I know we are on the right track, road to happiness and success. All this I have to thank my lovely Hubs.