Merdeka update

I. Must. Update. Once. Before. August. Ends.

It's the last day of August already!! LOL.

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The end of August meant the end of my internship. Personal matters went slightly out of control during my last week at work and I was rather emotional then. But thanks to the people who love me so much - parents, especially - I managed to overcome my midlife minor crisis and the outcome of my decisions were: i) extend the deadline of my FYP to end of the year and graduate then; ii) continue working in the company where I did my internship for one more month; and iii) we'll see how it takes off from there.

Well, that's the plan, for now.

It was a very hard decision to make. But having set my mind and goal, the only way is to take the plunge and hope for the best.

“出发啦　不要问那路在哪　迎风向前　是唯一的方法”

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Due to my family's increasing needs of using my the camera and not wanting to be a bad girl who keeps hogging the compact camera, I've finally added another baby to the family. And now, I can safely say that it is my camera. ♥

Took me about 2 weeks to finally come up with the decision and the new baby was brought home on the historical date of 20 August 2011. It could have been earlier, if I wasn't down with food poisoning. LOL.

The very first shot.

Panasonic should serious thank my dad for turning me into a loyal Lumix user. It was thanks to his purchase of the compact DMC-FS15 that had me so impressed with the features it offered.

Just a random test shot.

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I'm currently back in Ipoh for the Raya break; will be back to work after my presentation in Kampar next week. My boss was so kind to excuse me for three days so that I don't have to travel back and forth (but I have to replace the off days - gladly - of course).

On Monday, I went for 5 hours straight of karaoke with Yeang - one of my Ipoh karaoke buddies apart from the twins whom I've never karaoke-d with for a long, long time. Before that, we went for lunch at the quite-newly opened Wok Sifu in Jusco.


Her cheese-baked rice.


My Korean-stone pot rice. Mah mah dei only.

I wonder when we'd have the chance to shout sing to our lungs content again...

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Since all the nice makan places in Ipoh will be packed and jammed like hell (thanks to the surge of homecoming Ipohans), I thought I'd be better off cooking my own meals at home.


Braised yee mee with egg for dinner on Monday.

I cooked rice with dishes for Tuesday. Lazy people like me normally cook for both meals to save gas, water, electricity and energy to make my life easier. Haha.


Stir-fried choy sum.


Fried egg with onions and a bit of leftover minced meat.


Pile it up on some rice together with some leftover meat cooked by mum.

I cooked more rice yesterday so that I can make fried rice today! Woohoo!


Garlic fried rice. I should put more garlic. LOL!
And I personally love this shot very much. ;-)


Mushroom soup to go with the fried rice.
I boiled turnips with chicken bones overnight to make the soup.
The mushrooms were added this morning, resulting in a soup so sweet (清甜)!

And to spice up my dinner, my aunt had actually sent some otak-otak over. Muahahaha my fave!


*burps*

And that's all for today. Wonder when's the next update. O.o *lol*

p/s: Although the post is titled "Merdeka update", the absence of anything related to the independence day of Malaysia is purely intentional. =)

p/p/s: Needless to say, all the photos in this post were taken using my Panasonic Lumix DMC-GF3. Hehe.