The Closest I'll Ever Get...

.... to a corporate box at a stadium! This is Eden Park (where the Rugby World Cup finals were held) in Auckland. Pretty cool, eh?

Had a meeting there the other day (okay, more like a workshop meeting) ... yes yes, the tiny perks that come with the job... lol! But wow - I must say, the view from any corporate box at any stadium is just astounding.

Too bad I'm not a sports nut!

Enjoy the pics!

 View from the balcony of the corporate box

 Phwoar... can you imagine if you were actually watching a game that night? I reckon it would have been pretty awesome.

 What the corporate box has (I've always wondered myself - now I know!). In fact, the black covered cloth is like a mini buffet table

Our meeting table..

My SKY TV job rocks!

Update on Care Package Stock

Mom brought this over the last visit.... thinking it would be too hot for Albertus and I to handle, she only brought 1 packet over.

Hahaha... But oh how we proved her wrong. U can take the Malaysian out of Malaysia, but u can't take the Malaysia out of the Malaysian! Lol

we loveeeeee our food hot and spicy....!

So now we bid our one and only spicy hot crispy shrimps packet goodbye... It has been very much enjoyed with our instant noodles, usual dishes (just to give that extra oomph) and in some cases, soup!



Bye bye!

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Happy Valentine's Day

Nah, we didn't do much this Valentine's day. 

No fancy dinner. No movies whatsoever.

 Just got Albertus his fav cheese cake from The Cheesecake Factory.

 And he got my a bouquet of flowers (What flowers are these? I also dunno.. Lilies?) and a card.

Everyday should be Valentine's Day eh?

Okay, cukup la... now back to life.

Happy Chinese New Year!

Happy Chinese New Year to all our faithful readers! So Year of the Dragon eh.... been told (countless of times) that it's a 'good year' to have babies presumably because the dragon symbol - long associated with emperor, power and intelligence - will also bring wealth and luck.

Seriously?

Did anyone pause to consider the fact that 20-25 years from now, an influx of job seekers would flood the market, all hoping for an 'awesome' job simply because each and every one of these 'dragon babies' think they're 'special'?

Seriously? Did no one think of that?

Gimme a break lah.

You are what you maketh yourself to be - your luck nor fate does not belong to your birth symbol (or horoscope too, for that matter).

It's quite amusing that the news media are always quotoing 'celebrities' who were born in the year of the dragon - e.g. "Jeffrey Archer, Michael Barrymore, Count Basie, Julie Christie, James Coburn, Bing Crosby, Neil Diamond, Matt Dillon, Placido Domingo, Kirk Douglas, Michael Douglas, Marlene Dietrich, Tom Jones, John Lennon, Nick Nolte, Al Pacino, Elaine Paige, Gregory Peck, Cliff Richard, Martin Sheen, Ringo Starr, Shirley Temple"  - just to prove that dragon babies really 'make it big out there'.

But nobody stops to think about this...

How about doing a count on Dragon Year convicts who are now spending their life behind bars for their crime(s)?

Bet you can find equally as many of them in jail ...if not more!

Losing Weight is a Collective Effort

So Albertus finally got new batteries for our digital weighing scale last week and boy oh boy were we both shocked when we weighed ourselves.

Both of us have effectively put on 2 kgs from my Bday-Graduation-Xmas-New Year's binge!!

#SHOCK
#HORROR

So in an effort to reduce our weight (don't be silly - I don't think we can ever get back to our pre-NZ weight....) but we both feel like we have to lose what we've both gained during the holidays!

No, we can't do a detox plan... plus we love our meat too much (spoken like a true foodie!).... but we are going to at least try to cut down on a few things (more realistic approach:-

1. Less sugar
2. Cut down on rice portions (I deliberately bought Basmati par-boiled rice - apparently 80% nutritionally similar to brown rice)
3. More white/lean meat (chicken, fish)
4. Reduce oil usage in cooking (as I'm always quite generous with oil/butter)
5. Cut out coconut milk in curries (also cut down on curry meals)
6. More freshly-prepared veges (fresh salad leaves and DIY dressing, or none at all)

Will we succeed? LOL Well, it took us 3 wks to gain that damn 2kgs... so I reckon it might take us about 2-3 months to lose that 2 kgs  (cmon... be realistic lah... CNY coming soon okay!)! LOL

Wish us luck!