80s' Pop Extravaganza

The entertainment review in the paper dampened my mood today. There is a full two-page coverage on the Here and Now Tour 2008 - The Best of 80s Concert which was held at the Arena of Stars, Genting over the weekend.

I was offered 3 free tickets to the show on Saturday. As I was at the material time up to my wotsit with work, and coupled with the fact that it was raining miserably, I politely turned down the offer! Now, looking back, I hate myself! Argh! I want to tear my hair to pieces! How could I possibly have done such a stupid thing.

The concert brought together a line-up of evergreen 'BRITISH' artistes who include the soulful Paul Young, the trademarked duo-toned rambutan hair Limahl of Kajagoogoo, the synthesiser genius Howard Jones, the band Johnny Hates Jazz and the girl trio Bananarama.

I emphasized the word 'BRITISH' because I was brought up in England and was truly a crazy teenybopper during the 80s. I love British music, be it the New Wave, New Romantic or synthpop... I knew Paul through my manager of the Patisserie where I worked in, she was the ex of George Harrison of The Beatles. Proudly to say that I am still in possession of a collection of Paul's autographed records and photos. I used to hang out in Stringfellows with a group of 'arty' weirdos whom be-friended the gorgeous Bananarama. I can vividly remember queuing outside London HMV for an autographed album from Limahl. An enormous wave of nostalgia overcomes me.

20 years on. Will these icons of the 80s show signs of waning? Definitely not. According to the media, the concert turned into a raving ear-shattering party that went on till the wee hours of the morning.

Damn. Damn. Damn. I was left out. Utterly disappointed and morose.

Sodding workload that squandered my opportunity to revive with a repertoire of my favourite British music.

Work sucks.

A Masterpiece of Mobility?

My girl has been pestering me for God knows how long, for a pink notebook. All these while, I just turned a deaf ear. Coz to me, her notebook can be considered 'quite' new and has yet to reach its write-off date.

Lately, she was getting impatient ... as wish not granted

Finally, she resorted to giving her silver-colour notebook a new leaf.

She painstakingly stuck masking tapes all over the notebook and carefully spray painted it in baby pink. A closer look will reveal diamantes forming some sort of artwork and finished with a ribbon.

All these, undoubtedly, were done without MY consent.

Now that my princess is so contented with her haute couture pink lapie, I am speechless.

All I can say is "Well done babe, a truly artistic embellishment!".

She sure has inherited the artistic flair from me.

Easter Temptation

Christians celebrate Easter. To Christians, Easter symbolizes victory over death, for Jesus, arose victorious from the death.

Easter means renewal and revival.

To me, Easter means a variety of colourful Easter Eggs.

This year, my favourite chocolatier, Thorntons, has come out with its sumptuous Easter Collection, which contains a host of chocolate delights to whet your appetite.

The Dark Egg

The Organic Egg

The Mad About White Chocolate Egg

The Mad About Special Toffee Egg

The Milk Egg

The White Egg

Umm ... the purest pleasure

Happy Easter to those who celebrate!

The Return of Margie Tsang

Born in the family of doctors

She was one of the famous Hong Kong actress in the 80's

Dated Tony Leung

Married to a businessman, had a son

Divorced

Now making a come back

She is Margie Tsang

Still as gorgeous and well maintained

(She is same age as me, envy!!)

Recalled clubbing with her at Hippodrome London

during those days ...

Now, can catch her on the latest

Astro-On-Demand series

D. I. E

All the best, Marg

Cool Holiday

Today is a Public Holiday.

Didn't feel like doing much, lazed around.

Kids begged me to make some ice-cream.

But I have run out of non-diary cream.

Thought of an alternative.

I used evaporated milk and coffee mate.

It took quite a while to set.

Looks good, doesn't it?

But, it tasted powdery, not that smooth.

Hmm... wonder the cat next door fancy some ice-cream.

Work Blues

Today is definitely not my day.

Despite having worked through the weekend and burnt midnight oil for two nights in order to get the chronology of the case prepared, all I have got was some harsh treatment from my client.

He literally expected me to ploughed through 3 boxes of documents and submit the claim within one week. After I explained to him in length how I have structured the claim and how I intend to analyse the delay events, blah, blah, blah...... He still insisted to have the submission delivered to him in two days time.

Anyone with a sensible mind would know that it is impossible to prepare such a submission which may be 100 pages long, within less than a week. Writing the submisison is one thing, the crucial part is actually getting the facts right. And I can't possibly get the facts right just by reading the documents, as you know people do write crap. I need to put on Sherlock Holmes' hat and carry out investigation/interrogation of his staff in order to have a clearer picture. Once I have got the facts, I will have to study the programme closely and do a delay analysis. All these are no easy task!!!

After all the firecrackers in the meeting room, I left, non-commitally. I refused to act in line with his agenda.

Sod it.

The last thing I want is for that negativity to paralyse my ability to perform.

So, take a deeeeep breath and stay calm.

Hmm... a nescafe would be nice.

Dumplings Day

I had to work over the weekend and I have brought back 15 lever arch files of documents. I thought of an easy way to take care of my kids' brunch, lunch and dinner on Sunday. Instead of cooking few dishes which inevitably would eat up my previous time, I made a whole loads of dumplings. I needed only to fry them whenever the kids were hungry.

Dumplings is forever my two babies' favourite dish. Whenever we planned to eat out, we always ended up in place like Dragon-I. Without fail, they would gobbled down 5 portions of dumplings between the two of them.

Josh loves prawn, so I used minced prawn and meat as the fillings. This was my first time making dumplings, I was a bit kelam-kabut when frying them. Here's the end product.

Comments from my kids, "Every bite is like a ray of golden sun."

Eat your heart out, Dragon-I.