Ina S' 80th Birthday
Wednesday, March 04, 2009
Standing L-R: Michelle, Aunt Jewel, Mumchee, Astrid, yours truly and Aunt Nancy.
Sitting is our Birthday girl.
Our Beloved Ina S (our grandma's only surviving sister) has reached the auspicious age of 80 years old 
Many happy return to her.
We can only hope to enjoy a long wonderful life as Ina S
A lovely birthday party was organised by Ina S' loved ones at Donggongon's Lib function room last night (I never knew that room can be rented for such an occassion).
Lots of relative whom I've not seen for years came. The simple party was filled with traditional and modern performances by the younger children.
To view the rest of the photos... click here.
We can only hope to enjoy a long wonderful life as Ina S
A lovely birthday party was organised by Ina S' loved ones at Donggongon's Lib function room last night (I never knew that room can be rented for such an occassion).
Lots of relative whom I've not seen for years came. The simple party was filled with traditional and modern performances by the younger children.
To view the rest of the photos... click here.
Labels: family
posted @ 4.3.09,
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Wedding Vow Renewal
Tuesday, January 29, 2008
It’s not everyday a girl get to experience her parent’s wedding all over again. Me and many lucky friends got the unique chance of playing flower-girl and groom’s-men last Saturday.
Our local church, Holy Nativity Church Terawi, organised this memorable occassion which about 30 families took part in.
(see GREEN arrow... mum & dad looking really serious)
For more photos and full coverage, visit my photo journal at flodawn fotopages.
Labels: family
posted @ 29.1.08,
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Home-Coming of KadazanMonk: Seafood Fiesta!
Wednesday, December 05, 2007
One of the many foods Bro. C listed as “a must eat to my heart content” was seafood. So on Monday (3 Dec 2007), birthday girls Estut & Paku treated Bro. C, Aunty F and this blogger to a sumptuous-strictly-seafood dinner at Shuang Tain Restaurant in Asia City Complex (next to Anjapar Restaurant).
Look at how much we ate!
Fish Maw Soup
Soft shell crab (premature crab hehe!)
Steam prawn
Steam fish in Thai Sauce
Steam fish in Soya Sauce
Sabah Vegetables (sayur manis)
Shells aka ‘kolokizu’ (in kadazan)
Whoaaaah! 7 dishes ooo!!
The cook tried in vain to discourage Estut & Aunt F from ordering too much (to avoid wastage), but to no avail.
There were at least three waiters & waitress hovering nearby (probably to smirk at us if we couldn’t finish the foods). But clean up all the dishes we did! Huyoooooh!!
How much did it cost? For 7 courses, with the usual nuts and papaya pickles as appetizer and Chinese tea for drinks… came up to RM311.30.
Verdict: Each dish was tasty! You get your money worth. We were verrrry satisfied customer. But we had to borrow the eatery trolley… to support and push our bulging and HEAVY stomach!
posted @ 5.12.07,
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Home-Coming of KadazanMonk: Arrival...
Sunday, December 02, 2007
KadazanMonk’s--aka Bro. Columba--flight was delayed due to some luggage-transfer matter. His flight finally touched down at KKIA (Kota Kinabalu International Airport) at 00:25 on Saturday. Aunt Fillise (Aunty F) and yours truly arrived in good time to fetch and whisked him off to Aunty F’s casa in Damai.The last time he came back home was 2 years back, so Bro. C was desperate for some local dishes. Aunty F rose to the occasion and prepared cuttlefish soup with ‘takob-akob’ and fried fish in soya sauce. Sounds like verrrry simple dishes to me, but it might as well have been a 7 Stars hotel’s serving to Bro. C.
Simple midnight snack... One VERY satisfied customer! :-)
Next project… the transformation… peel 10 years off him!
Before and After ... his head looked 10 years younger right?
While executing the ‘transformation’, we watched a French movie brought by Bro. C, which he said took France by storm! Errrr can’t remember the title now. It was a great movie. Might blog about it later.
Anyway, Santa came early to us with Bro. C distributing some small tokens from UK. Yay!! Fav part this!
Wei-Wei was thrilled and promptly put on his Halloween Costume (gift from Bro. C). A colourful Rosary. Got a bracelet of colourful-stone rosary and keychains, but I forgot to snap photo in my excitement hehe...
Next thing we know it was approaching 4.30am! With a wedding to catch at 10.00am, we forced ourselves to recline and shut our eyes.
Despite lack of sleep, we woke up at 7.00am and promptly got ready for breakfast at Emperor. We arrived for the wedding at 9.45am in good time, and stayed on through the reception till 3.00pm. We were close to nodding off and kissing the floor. Better make a move.
Aunty F and Bro. C dressed to the nine for the wedding. In colour-coordinated costume, they looked more like a husband&wife than as siblings haha!
At night, close relatives came to my family house to welcome Bro. C home.
Our house was filled with choirs of juicy gossips, incessant chats and uproarious laughter! The party only broke around 2.00am on Sunday … ZzzzZZZzzz…
Tiger prawn soup with takob-akob! Yum-yum! No restaurant can match this specialty dish by SG aka Aunty Viola :-) This was my fav dish that night. I know cholestrol... BUT...
I probably gained 2kg from Saturday eatings alone… *sigggghhh*
Labels: family, food, KadazanMonk
posted @ 2.12.07,
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Romancing grandma…
Tuesday, November 20, 2007
My handsome (looks like Japanese man) grandpa—in our observation—is the hopelessly romantic one in his 50++ over years of marriage with our girl-next-door grandma. And grandma here is still with her “ice-princess” persona, although somewhat melted in the right places hehe…
During cousins Pam and Nenoo’s birthday last Saturday, I requested to the old folks for a romantic pose. Grandpa sportingly placed his hand over grandma’s arm. But as we can see in the photo below… grandma was sort of abashed! Trying to pull away are we?
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So who’s the romantic between you and your other-half? Or if you’re verrry much still available, which do you think you will be… the romantic one or the unromantic partner?
Labels: family
posted @ 20.11.07,
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