I'm back!! =P

So long never blog already. I've been busy with life, mostly working life. Recently OT quite a lot. And when I have time I would watch the Chinese drama called Shen Hua (神话) by Hu Ge (胡歌).

This story is about 2 guys accidentally opened a box from Qing's Dynasty and fell 2000 years back to Qing Dynasty. When I watch this drama I can't help myself from reading the history of Qing Dynasty. lol.. Now I know more about Qin Shi Huang (秦始皇), Xiang Yu (项羽) and Liu Bang (刘邦) already.

I wanted to blog about a lot of things these two weeks, but dun have the time. Like for example the CNY fortune note I got from the monthly meeting saying that I am likely to meet someone I've longed to meet. I'm curious who would that be? Lee Jun Ki? lol...


This month's meeting was picnic at Bukit Jalil park. The picture says I was enjoying massage from Shi Wei. =P

And I wanted to blog about the Putrajaya Night Marathon I went last Saturday. I went for the 7.7km run. Only the first 400 runners will get a medal. I didn't get the medal. Sigh. Run 5 minutes faster then I was chewing on the medal already. What to do, I didn't train at all before the run, what should I expect? The last 2 km was the most hilarious run I had. My running speed was the same with those walking beside me. =.= That was how slow I run during the last 2km. lol...


I finished it in around 1 hour

The next day when I got to know that my neighbour uncle finished the run at 37 minutes (51st) and aunty finished at 51 minutes (96th), I felt so ashamed. Suddenly I felt challenged... Then hor, Sunday met Adam and Yen Jun. When Adam told me that he exercises everyday before and after work, I felt more ashamed. Once upon a time I was quite fit one. Since few months ago when I started to catch cold and diarrhea and etc etc, I stopped all my activities. I had been away from aerobic (cardio) exercises for some time already. I can feel my lung capacity shrinking until nil now lo.. It gets so bad that when I breathe in I can't feel I'm breathing. And now I have flabby arm muscles.. and leg muscles. Sigh.. So unfit lo.. I need to do something already.

And hehe... I bought a pair of new sporty-look swimming goggles. Hehe..



So I'll start with my regular weekly swimming again starting after CNY. Sigh, my company is so far from Pusat Akuatic Darul Ehsan (PADE) now and I dun like 3K swimming pool (too crowdy). I know I keep complaining la. But I miss PADE lo... Miss the big and deep indoor pool. Very good for training, and cheaper if compared with Bukit Jalil swimming pool. And Bukit Jalil swimming pool is not as big and as deep as PADE pool lo... But if I am to go for swimming after work, I would have to squeeze my way through the traffic jam back to Glenmarie and then to Shah Alam for the pool. Not worth it.. Sigh. If I want to swim after work like what I did last time I have to learn to tolerate 3K pool la.. Or I should just swim during the weekend.

Oh by the way, I found that many people were looking for the schedule of Pusat Akuatik Darul Ehsan (PADE) and Bukit Jalil swimming pool. So I thought I should just share the schedule here so that everyone can check both schedules in one page. Easier to plan your time, right? =)

For Pusat Akuatic Darul Ehsan:

Session	Time
1	9.00 am - 11.30 am
2	12.00 pm - 2.30 pm
3	3.00 pm - 5.30 pm
4	6.00 pm - 8.30 pm

Payment
Monday-Friday

Outdoor Pool	Adult Children	RM 2.00 RM 1.50
Indoor Pool	Adult Children	RM 3.00 RM 3.00

Saturday, Sunday, Public Holiday

Outdoor Pool	Adult Children	RM 2.50 RM 2.00
Indoor Pool	Adult Children	RM 3.50 RM 3.50

For National Aquatic Center (Bukit Jalil Pool):

Category	Ticket Price (Monday-Thursday)	Ticket Price (Saturday, Sunday & Public Holiday)
Children under 12 year	Free	Free
Youth (13 - 17 years)	RM 3.00	RM 4.00
Adult (18 - 54 years)	RM 4.00	RM 5.00
Disabled	RM 3.00	RM 4.00
Goverment Servant	RM 3.00	RM 4.00
Senior Citizen (55 years and above)	RM 3.00	RM 4.00

Opening Time

Day	Time
Monday to Thursday	2.00 pm - 4.30 pm
	5.00 pm - 7.30 pm
	8.00 pm - 10.30pm
Friday (Free)	8.00 am - 9.30 am
	10.00 am - 11.30 am
	3.00 pm - 4.30 pm
	5.30 pm - 7.00 pm
Saturday, Sunday & Public Holiday	9.00 am -11.30 am
	12.00 pm - 2.30 pm
	3.00 pm - 5.30 pm
	6.00 pm - 8.30 pm

Mooncake festival mood - 기분이 좋아예요 =)

Yesterday just sat for my Beginner 2 Korean Exam. I got 98% for this exam! Actually I think my speaking part has many grammar mistakes. But maybe because I instantly corrected it Kim Sonsengnim didn't deduct my marks I guess.

Now I finished Beginner 2, next stage will be Elementary 1. But currently need to save money for some maintenance fees for the car. So, I have to stop the Korean class for a while, maybe few months. Sigh.. I scare by that time I will forget every Korean words.

Is there any Korean friend wanna practice Korean with me? I can teach English in return. =P

Anyway, Korean Elementary 1 level will not start so soon. They will have to collect at least 6 applications before opening the next class. Last night, all of us sat there motionlessly in the class after sonsengnim informed us that we can leave the classroom. That Beginner 2 had ended. We are gonna miss her so much!

I broke the silence with 선생님,전화번호가좀주세요 (sonsengnim, chonhoabonhoga chumshuseyo). And then teacher corrected me that it should be 선생님,전화번호가몇번이에요? Alamak, even last sentence also say wrongly. That was learned in Beginner 1. =.="

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I just finished the Korean drama 식객 (Sik gek/食客/The Grand Chef). It's a very nice drama talking about not forgetting the roots and humanity. =) Very inspiring drama.

After watching too many episodes of this drama, the instant noodle I cook also look different. lol...

From this vegetarian herb noodle


I add some real herbs in and made the real herb noodle. It tasted sweet instead of the salty taste I first tried this soup! (I only added half packet of the seasoning powder)


Summore go and arrange the herbs nicely on top. Had too much drama already. lol..

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It's mooncake festival today! Can't wait to go for the gathering at my aunt's house. I miss the talking, tea drinking, mooncake tasting, candles and lanterns lighting, and the laughters. =)


These are the mooncakes made by mum. Sigh. I want more mum's mooncake. =( This year only had one. Not enough...

Annyong! =P

Hola! I'm back!

Cooked steak, french fries and tomato fried egg as my dinner. The steak tasted good but the texture was way too hard to chew. My jaw hurts chewing it. =( French fries was tasty as usual. Tomato fried egg tasted a bit weird. Hehe. Maybe French fries and tomato fried egg cannot eat together. =P

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Last night slept very early coz was too tired from traveling back from hometown. Around 10.30pm. But was awoken by the mossies at around 12.30am. Woke up and tried to kill them with the electric racket. I saw two. But they fled too fast. I killed none. Went back to sleep with the rackets at my bedside. Miraculously no mossies kacau me anymore. Maybe they can recognise the racket. Keke..

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The last movie I watched was in March. And that movie was not even my must-watch movie. Even when Terminator Salvation was on show everyone was all excited about it I wasn't really interested too. Coz I didn't watch the previous Terminators. hehe..

But I'm not gonna miss this movie: Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince!!

It's showing in Mid July!! I feel like booking the seat now. Heehee.. Too much la.

Although I'd finished reading the whole series of Harry Potter and I roughly remember the story (Dumbledore's gonna die in this episode. Sob.. I remember how I cried really hard when I read till that part when he died) I still wanna watch the movie coz the movie have those visual effects which I tried to imagine when I was reading the book. I think every Harry Potter reader agrees with me. =)



Another movie which I also feel like watching is Transformer. I watched the first Transformer and fell in love with Bumblebee - the yellow transformer. Optimus Prime also very yeng la. But Bumblebee cuter. keke.. I remember when I watched the end of first Transformer where the bad transformer was still alive I told myself I'm not gonna miss the second Transformer. =)



I am waiting. lol. =P


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My camera is spoiled! =(

After KK trip I've tried many times to switch on the camera but to no avail. =( I thought the batteries were flat. I charged them and tried to switch on the camera again.

Still nothing.

Sigh. I think the high altitude of the KK mountain killed my camera.

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Tomorrow going to sing K with Ming Jia, Get Pei and Woan Yng! =D So long never sing K already. I hope I still remember the songs. Keke..

Can't wait can't wait. =)

Tae Wang Sa Shin ki

Really addicted to the Tae Wang Sa Shin ki. I like the tomboy girl, Suchini, in the show.

She looks so different in her before life, very pretty. Her before life name was Sayo.



And another character I enjoy watching is the bad guy in the show coz he always links 2-3 sentences together and finish it within one breath. Very funny the way he continuously lowers his voice to finish the long sentence.




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It's 27 March today. I'm supposed to write a new post instead of editing it here. But, the post will look too short if I just add this section to a new post. So I just add here la. Hehe.

I've known my Korean name more than a year ago. Got it by google-ing my Chinese name's character one by one.

So I proudly announce my Korean name here, just for fun! Hehehe...


강영희


It's pronounced as Kang Yeong Hee. Love this name. If pronounced faster it can be yeongee I think. Hehe.. My name is very suitable to be converted to Korean. Very Korean-like. Hehe..

Sigh.. Really hope I can save enough money to learn Korean language.

Took some fresh air in FRIM

Today very bersemangat. Hehe.. Drove all the way to FRIM early morning just for a short hike. 15 mins up the hill and another 5 or 7 mins down the hill and then walked all the way back to WY's house which took us about 50 mins. Actually went there not for training, it's more for the fresh air. I miss jungle air too much already. Can't stand the air quality here near my house. Most people cannot tell the difference but I feel the air here is a bit pungent, uneasy for the throat and nostril.

Although it was a short hike (not even a hike coz it doesn't seem like a hill to me), I got to breathe the fresh air and I was able to sweat quite a lot (I didn't drink much water also... dun understand why can sweat that much). Muscles not much pain but both ankles felt a bit as if it's overworked during the last 50 mins walk. It was just flat ground. I dun really understand why the ankles will feel pain. Hmmm.. But now ok pula. So should be ok la..

The funny thing is. I didn't bring my backpack this time coz I was thinking it was a short hike so backpack is kinda unnecessary. So I brought my handbag which I stuffed my towel and water bottle. When I parked my car, got down the car and jumped onto WY's mum's car only I realized I brought along the handbag.



WY's mum only dropped us off. So I didn't leave my handbag in her car. So, all the way power-walking and hiking up the hill I was carrying this handbag in my hands. I didn't carry it around my arms la. Coz I duwan to look like I'm going shopping in a jungle. But, I think I saw people glancing at my handbag when I was hiking. Argh.. So malu!!


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Yesterday since I have no car to go lepak, I started watching 태왕사신기 Tae wang sa shin ki 太王四神记 casted by Bae Yong Jun.



The first episode was boring and slow. One eye contact can cast for 1-2 minutes one. But the second episode it started to become exciting.

Especially during the tomboy-ish girl scenes, I couldn't stop laughing. And young actor, Yoo SeongHo, who casted as the young version of the Bae Yong Jun's character is really good in acting. He's serious when he needs to be serious and playful when he needs to be. Those facial expression is like those of experienced old actors.

Goodnight Benjamin

Had some light jogging recently. Hope they help.

I came back hometown yesterday. Had a very tiring journey as usual. And as usual, I slept most of the time on the bus. When I woke up once and looked at the 24 hours digital clock in the bus. It showed 13:20. My girl friends would know I dunno how to read digital clock. I was so happy that I have one more hour to go. Coz I thought it was 3pm already. Sigh, mana tau it's actually 1.20pm. Dampened my mood a lot. 

I know. That's why I said I dunno how to read digital clock. haha..

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Just watched The Curious Case of Benjamin Button from my dad's PC. 

At first the movie was boring, talking about only his stories. Then in the end when the story revealed that the daughter of the old lady in the hospital is actually his daughter. I was drawn into the movie completely. Every scene after that made me cry.

This movie talks a lot about death, too. Also, from Benjamin's point of view on life, because he had seen too many deaths, plus he was born an old man and thought that he would die anytime soon, he believes that "There's no time limit. Start whatever you want now", coz you never know when you're dying. I find this movie very inspiring. I found it has many good quotes, too. Every time I heard each one of them I felt like writing down the quotes.

Hope there's more inspiring movies like this in the future. =)

Going to watch Slumdog Millionaire now. Ciao. 

On the Nth day of 2009

On the first day of 2009, I went to Midvalley with Zhuang, Mei and my aunts. Had a healthy spaghetti carbonara without cream at Yogitree and then indulged myself with a very creamy mocha frappuccino at Starbucks afterwards.

On the second day of 2009, I went back to my previous home to do some errands and found that I miss the laughter of those innocent kids in the swimming pool just right outside my room window. And I miss the swimming pool, too.

On the third day of 2009, I watched a very heartwarming movie, Ip Man. About the legend of China's Wing Chun kungfu during the Second Sino-Japanese War. Something inside was feeling relieved when those Japanese were beaten up. Got myself a cardigan, too. Whose shopping genes do I inherited from? I dunno.

On the fourth day of 2009, I'll be celebrating WY's birthday. Another indulging moment again with pasta and all.

On the fifth day of 2009, I'll be broke and start to cook dinner to work towards my new year resolution-- saving money.

Randoms

Just met mum yesterday! =) Brought her to Pavilion and treated her lunch and tea. Only two of us for the first time. I love the time we hang out together. Feel really really warm in my heart. =) Hope I can do the same thing with my dad one day. Hehe.

Oh and yesterday went repair my car because the car was really noisy when I drive up to only 30-40km/hr. It was the gear box. It sounded like a truck! lol. Plus the brake pads were also exhausting due to lousy quality of local vehicles. They had solidified and powdered already. The repair costs me more than a thousand ringgit. I'm officially broke now. Again.

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Was looking for Korean drama. Then I found Iljimae which was filmed in 2007 and released this year. Still looking for place to download. Hopefully can get the drama. The main character in this drama is filmed by Lee Jun Ki who acts as a Robinhood at night but a naughty guy in the day time. I think it is going to be funny and sad in this drama.



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With so many public holidays drawing near. I'm currently under holiday mood. =P I miss those school times when I can have months of holiday. Holiday is a luxury for me now. Sigh. Grown up life is so so so different. How I hope I can go back to childhood time. lol.

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Oh gosh. I keep running to toilet today! It's something I ate yesterday or the day before. I remember I started having stomach cramp and feel like diarrhea since yesterday morning right after I woke up. Add up together with yesterday I ran to toilet for almost 10 times already. Sigh. Need some 保济丸 if you know what it is.

I had a great birthday. Thanks everyone =)

Oops! Sorry I've been slacking from blogging for so long. =P

Because last few days I had been occupied by a Taiwanese Drama called 篮球火 casted by 言承旭, 小猪 and 吴尊.



I've downloaded until episode 11 but only watched until 7th. Hehe. Today is an off day from this addiction.



The way they slam dunk is really cool! Although it's impossible to do that, but the style is damn cool. They are really creative, to put animation and real drama together. =)


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Ok. Back to what I wanted to tell here. I had a special birthday this year because I got to celebrate birthday twice! Once with my girls and another time with my colleagues. I feel so loved!

I celebrated with the girls the day before. It was so sweet of them knowing me always wanted to try Tony Roma's food they had the dinner there. =)




Had a 8 oz steak with BBQ chicken. Side dishes were mashed potato and fresco tomato salad. Steak was tasteless but texture was good. BBQ chicken tasted perfect but texture was too hard.

And being friends for so many years they had started to have this I-bring-you-to-the-mall-and-you-choose-your-own-birthday-present method. Actually I love this idea lo. Coz this ensures the present is really what I like ma. Keke. I love the perfume I chose.




The new release from Dior: Miss Dior Cherie. Audrey told me it was nice. So I tried it and it smelled great on my wrist. =D


Went to have Sundae after the shopping


Took these pictures before we left Pyramid


Love this kind of cap. Maybe one day I will buy myself one. Keke. But I seldom wear also. What's the point of buying then? lol.

And I love my birthday cake!! Oh my god! It's my favourite cake. Remember the chocolate mousse cake I posted up here recently. They had me that cake! Love it!


But this cake a bit too sweet and too moussy already. We couldn't finish it that night =P
[Oh by the way you can just ignore the number of the candle. I'm actually not that old. Am I? lol.. ]







GP kambate in your new road =)


SY jia you and kambate in your coming exam! =)


CP I'll miss you. Sob sob. Wish you all the best and must keep in touch yea!


Olie.. Olie dun read my blog also one. lol.. Nvm. Olie, come back earlier la. I so cham no one to kacau at home. Muakaka..

Eh? Woan Yng, manu lu? In another camera ah? Nevermind. WY, come find us more when we moved to new place yea. We got sofa in the living room there finally. Muahaha..


No worries WY. This photo has everyone. =)

Just realised you all posed so nice. V shape one. Kaka..


On that day itself I had Domino pizza lunch with my colleagues. It was really nice of them. Everyone enjoyed the pizzas (except a student who was vegetarian on that day and we didnt order vegetarian pizza coz we din know). Thanks CY for organizing. =)

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Other than the perfume, I had Skin Food facial masks from Zhuang.

The packeaging looks like ice cream right? One is rose & herbal oil and another one is cocoa & honey. I cant wait to try them! =D

And then from colleagues =D How nice!


Love this card. It's simple but special


Necklace! Hehe. But actually I seldom change necklace one. I always wear the purple crystal my grandma gave me (but necklace from my mum) coz I dunno in what occasion I can change necklace. Will see how. =P


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Lastly, see this cute little hippo?

It's a handphone hanger. I bought it at the 7-11 shop in Genting. Few days after buying it only I found that it can talk! It will say "hehehe.. I love you" when I press it. lol. Actually it amused me when I accidentally pressed it. I know there's such thing la. But I never own any one of those talking soft toys, therefore the amusement. Keke..

Happy Merdeka weekend =)

Am writing this post with my aunt's PC now. Hehe. I stayed at my aunt's place right after giving tuition yesterday.

It's been really long since I stayed over at my aunt's. I had a great time having some girl's talk with Zhuang the whole last night. I remember the last time we talked like this was when we were still in school. Really love the moments we had last night. And it was really sweet when Zhuang didn't want to let me go when I told her that it's late we should sleep. Hehe. It's funny how two persons kept yawning but refuse to stop talking. We had so much to share with each other! I just realized last night how much I had missed her.

Today we spent a lot of time watching Grey's Anatomy and Private Practice Marathon the whole morning and night. And I think I'm starting to like their sense of humor. Especially when it is not that heavy to watch despite being a series about doctors life. I think this series has more gossips than serious stuff. Keke. Can help cheer up the day a bit. Hmm.. Maybe I should start to watch the first season.

My aunt made some white lotus mooncakes today.


Mooncakes just molded, yet to be baked.

Yummy!

I had a hot sizzling mooncake just taken out from oven. The outer layer was crusty and the lotus paste was jelly-like. Yummy! Tomorrow the mooncake outer layer will be softer and the lotus paste harder. Both texture are great. But I think I will prefer the 'incubated' overnight one. Wrong word. Incubate is for bacteria. Haha. But so what, I work in lab. Please allow me to violate this word in daily life. =P

80s TVB drama theme songs

Last night when I was coming back from CP birthday celebration with the girls, I heard the old 80s TVB drama theme song -- 射雕英雄傳之铁血丹心 from My FM.



It brought nostalgic feelings to me. I dun remember this drama, but I still remember the song.

After listening to this song, I suddenly feel like korek back all the songs I like from those old TVB drama in the 80s. It looks like I watched it when I was still a toddle. lol. Nolah. I guess I watched the repeated ones. I think not all people same age as me will know these dramas. lol. Coz it's around 1988 productions.

当代男儿:


一生何求:


These are the ones that I still remember. And I like the tunes too. =)

Pixar Presto short film

Yeay! I've found the Pixar short film shown in theater before Wall-E! Of all the short films I prefer this the most. =) Cant stop laughing when I saw this. Take a look. =)



Oh. By the way, Wall E is a great movie. This movie really shows how Pixar is improving in their technology in presenting their characters. But the storyline is somehow too simple and hence not very logic. For example, if the earth is really that toxic until human could not live on 700 years ago, then how can the humans from outer space come back 700 years later (without the body immune system against the toxins) and not get intoxicated? But it is just an animation for kids. So, I guess storyline as such is more suitable for the kids to absorb I guess.

But if you are curious how robots dating looks like. Then go watch. Hehehe.. Nolah. Wall-E and Eva are very adorable =D They makes me went "Awww.. So cute!" during the movie.

Updates

I was supposed to post about the yamcha and meet up with the girls one. Forgot. Hehe.

Went Pyramid with Aud and Get Pei to watch Batman few days ago. But we watched The Mummy instead. It was a funny movie la. I won't say it's a good movie. Coz Michelle Yeoh speaks English with her own daughter. Very weird. Coz both of them are acting as Chinese in the movie. Aren't they supposed to communicate in their own language?

Then we bumped into Shi Yun and Hin Kian after the movie. So, we went to yamcha at the Mamak in USJ17. =)


Roti tissue. Very very the long. lol. Need 3 plates to serve the roti. The roti is coated with sugar. I can use 4 words to describe this roti. Crunchy, thin, sweet and messy.


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Then Wednesday went to meet Woan Yng at Pyramid coz she had training nearby on that day.

Dunno what happen to me that day. I bought chocolate-coated marshmallows. Just feel like eating something sweet to make myself feel better.




Get Pei took a photo of me posing with the marshmallow.


Very nice Korean Restaurant in Pyramid.


Woan Yng din wanna pose for me. Sob sob.


Get Pei looks matured with her specs.


Oh my goodness. Who is this? Very wat-tat look. Haha. A "fatt hao" pose requested by Woan Yng. Doesn't look like fatt hao at all.


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Met up Maui last Friday. He was trying to console me, but he said so many nice things about Heng until I miss Heng again. Sigh. Dunno how Heng is doing now....

After eating dinner at KimGary, I went to buy bro's birthday present. Got him a cap at Wild Channel. =)


The cap looks so well-designed that I cant take it off from my head. Heehee.


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Yesterday after my tuition, I went to Pyramid wanted to buy the multipurpose cooker to replace the spoiled multipurpose cooker at home. Coz I saw one very cheap Pensonic cooker at RM90 only! Somemore got two compartments, top and bottom. Top part is for steaming bottom for stir-frying and frying. The main purpose of buying a multipurpose cooker is because rice cooker cannot fry eggs.

But I forgot to buy the cooker. I went shopping for bag and slipper instead. Gosh. Sometimes I hate myself.

But considered reasonable la. Coz the bag I always bring to almost everywhere is broken, and the slipper I always wear also broken. So I bought a bag from those chapalang stalls at RM59.90 and a pair of slippers in Vincci at RM20 (RM30% discounted!! =P).

But in the progress of buying bag and slipper, I bought a shorts in Padini at RM44.50 (50% discount) Hmmm.. Blame the MegaSales la. hehehe..

And I bought a 31 x 31 cm box in MiniToons at RM12.90. I always wanted to get a box to put my soft toys so that they no need to lie everywhere on the floor in my room. =)


My total spending on these things: RM137.30!!