Wednesday, April 15, 2009

Can we have Platonic Friendships with Members of the Opposite Sex?

Hi everyone. I am inspired to address the above question today because of a certain someone assuming and insinuating that there is a certain something going on between me and a certain someone #2. Confused? hahaha ok Let me put it in simplier English.

Say if you are a gal (ok ok I can hardly qualify as a girl now - that's for the young ones). Say you are a female and you regularly meet up with a male friend on a one-to-one basis to enjoy your favourite beverages (read: alcoholic lah), at night (because that's when both are free) and you know certain details of that person's life (e.g. his travel schedule etc) will it therefore be safe to assume that person and you have (crudely put in Mandarin) "one leg"?? of course, technically, it would even be safer to assume that you and that person have four legs in all, but that's a different story altogether.

I wanna explain to all the very misinformed members of public in my blog today, that I, Sharon Goh, truly believe that plantonic friendships CAN exist between a Man and a Woman in today's age and time. And I AM ONE VERY GOOD EXAMPLE.

I have MANY close male friends - more than female, I think and it is entirely possible that I appreciate their friendship and their company entirely as it is and do not covet their members in private or their private members. Now if Wang Lee-Hom or Daniel Wu was my personal friend, that would be a different argument althogether.. But hey, I am not so fortunate.

So to the very pathetic people out there...DO GET A LIFE and stop hinting at things that are not there. It is certainly very irritating and definitely not healthy for your mental well-being. Seek a shrink and do get off my back!!

Sunday, April 12, 2009

Friday, Saturday , Sunday

Friday 10 April 2009

Due to a last minute decision, Alan and I decided to watch Knowing at The Gardens after my tuition on Friday evening. We bought tickets for the 935pm show and after my class, hurried to the mall.
We settled for the Japanese restaurant as a venue for our dinner. And had sushi, sliced beef soba (and udon) , pot stickers etc for dinner.

Knowing was eerie and interesting but the ending failed to impress. Nicholas cage has slimmed down somewhat and his face looks as long as a horse's. ahaha

Saturday 11 April 2009

I wanted to spend the day out today so we left the house at around 11+am.

First was a teochew porridge lunch at Pudu. I hadn't been there in a long, long while and it was refreshing to have such a simple yet tasty meal. We ordered long beans, minced meat, salted vege, chicken and of cos pig's intestines and shared 3 bowls of porridge between us. Oh yah... we had a bowl of old yellow cucumber soup as well. The damage? Hardly painful RM21.80!

We headed by chance to Pavilion next and decided to catch takeshi in action in K-20. That was the 220pm show and so we walked around before that and looked at very expensive furniture in XZQT and roamed two small art galleries. we have made up our minds to invest in a Coplu painting. I had seen a couple in Singapore once in Raffles City gallery and fallen in love with it and Alan said he would buy me one. The assistant in the gallery has promised me to email me the catalogue by next week. :)

K-20 is a Japanese action movie - something like Zorro, Batman and Spiderman all rolled into one. Rather entertaining but with a relatively predictable plot. Well, Takeshi is worth watching. He hasn't aged at all and looks delectable even in rags. :)~~

After the movie, we hopped on to Sungei Wang to visit Alan's Best Friend's Shop to pick up more of our staples. :) The time flew by and it was 645pm when we headed to Jalan Imbi (ard the corner) for our dinner.

We had our delicious meal at the Shabu Shabu restaurant along Jln Imbi. Inexpensive and interestingly yummy. There was a whole 'buffet' of sauces for us to choose from as our dips. (e.g. tom yam, thai chilli, pickled cabbage, minced beef sauce, sliced red chilli padi etc etc)We ordered many types of balls (prawn/ fish/ sotong/etc), beef slices, pork slices, mutton slices, pigs blood (for Alan), pigs kidney (for Alan), fish maw. I had my soup base to be the pepperish pigs intestines and salted vege soup and Alan chose a healthier pork rib and corn soup base. Because our combined orders were above Rm50, we were entitled to a fish / prawns / crab dish for only Rm1. we chose the pomfret. Our drink was a jug of chilled watercress and waterchestnut and carrot drink. Very delicious but it reminded me of soup. hahaa.

All in all, we spent Rm90 but went home grinning from ear to ear. haahha.

Sunday 12 April 2009

We just sent Coco and Jay Jay for lessons and then brought them to Dog Groomz for their monthly grooming session. The girls working there and who own the shop are a friendly and caring bunch.. Very professional and very concerned about the pets. :) It is a gem we have found whilst roaming kuchai lama maju.

I am at home now - Alan is fighting monsters on PS3 and I will need to commence on my lesson preparation asap. I have MANY classes lined up for the next two weeks and that will take the bulk of my days.

Friday, April 10, 2009

ID Impressions of our Living Room #1 & Dining Room






















Here are some pictures of the mock-up of our new hosue our Interior Designer did. (Doesn't this sentence sound convoluted?) Appreciate any comments !!!

Wednesday, April 8, 2009

Sniffles & A car of Many Hard Knocks

Sad to say, till today, the sniffles have not stopped. Amist my flu-y stupor, I had class with the twins yesterday and they polished off 8 of my Malaccan pineapple tarts (and asked for MORE)!!!!. ahahah. Darn I should have bought MORE! Nevermind, I will ask my fatherinlaw to supply more when I meet up with him in Muar at the end of this month. His are more delicious and fragnant, in my sincere opinion.

Yesterday, Alan met with ANOTHER car accident. He was reversing into the parking lot in his office when a small lil' dunno-what car hit his bumper. The driver then came down and blamed Alan for not looking at where he was driving. Crazy! He was already reversing into the lot! WTH!?

Anyway, as a result, we have concluded that the mighty Volvo is extremely durable and sturdy, like a tank. It is a car of many hard knocks but has escaped almost uninjured, sans scratches. Amazing, but true. I cannot say the same for the lil' car though. Apparently, according to Alan, the front of the car has been crumpled in. :O

Monday, April 6, 2009

Monday moaning

Sad to say I am under the weather & so is the husband. Actually, it was Alan who started sniffling first and now I am hit!

I had only 1 class today and then watched 7 Pounds on DVD. Quite touching, I must say. Will Smith is indeed a good actor. Then Alan fetched me for dinner at around 8pm and we went to the fishing village and ate some horfun, soup and claypot porkribs with yam. I bought my lunch for tomorrow back again.

Sunday, April 5, 2009

Super Saturday & Simple Sunday

Saturday 4 April 2009

We woke up and ate breakfast and then left the house around 11+am and headed towards Malacca. Our mission: to look for an antique chest / cupboard for our living room area. Our distraction : Food of course, what else?

We arrived at around 12+pm in Malacca and the GSP brought us to Heng's Chicken Rice Balls. We ordered 1/2 a white chicken and 8 rice balls and black bean soup. Delicious. The chilli was sour and spicy and really mouth-watering!

We set off on our mission after filling our tummies and entered one antique store after another along Jonker Street (aka Jln Hang Jebat). Finally, after viewing like 6 stores, we settled for a nice little wooden chest which the store owner, Daniel claimed to be around 80 years of age.

When Alan and Daniel went to load the chest into our car for cash and carry, I walked around and bought two t-shirts and a pack of UNO (RM3~!) for the bored husband and I to play. Then we decided that the sweltering weather was about to make us faint so we entered a Korean cafe and ordered fruit juice for RM4.50 each. The ice cubes were huge and the glasses were puny and when we left the cafe, I left even thirstier after my orange juice.

We picked up our fav pineapple tarts at auntie's stall again and then because it was gonna pour, hopped into a cafe. Alan had a mango smoothie whilst I shared with him my chendol. YUMS! After the storm was over, we went in search for the fried carrot cake seller and became his very first customers of the day!

After the delicious black carrot cake that just slid down our throats, we went in search of Fei Lee Restaurant (actually more like a coffee shop) which sold its famous MILK CRABS. Alan and I each polished off one crab. hahaha.

Then, it was a 1.5hours drive back home to our stoned doggies.

Sunday 5 April 2009

We woke up late to the barking of Jay Jay who was getting a sunburn from his proximity to the sliding door that opens up into the balconey. After trying to fall back to sleep, I got up and then prepared breakfast for hubby and I. we had a delicious big pork pao each which we brought back from Malacca. It was just super delicious and the novelty of eating pork paus (you can't find them in KL) was superb! hahaha.

After that we proceeded to play our Wii and then Alan went back to bed as he is suffering from a bad flu / cough. :(

At 6pm, after hours of sleep (I joined Alan in the end), we settled dinner at Robson's. 1 steamed fish, 1 plate of pai gu wang and 1 big bowl of spinnach and ikan bilis soup coming right up!
The picture below is to illustrate to you how my Westie poos:



After doing his BIG business, he will sit on the floor and use his front paws to drag his ass across the floor to 'wipe' his ass clean. ;P Thus, many little "shitlets" will be left (as seen above). Amazing, but true. Jay Jay has learnt his bad habit already. :P