Valentine's Day has been well known for lovers to celebrate the special day, and it has been commercialized until the real value of the Valentine's Day has been taken over by the necessary to over spend with special gifts and romantic dinners. Well, the truth of the Valentine's Day is a day where everyone is to celebrate and spend more time with their loved ones...your family, mum, dad, your siblings, your best friends and even your peers. It's a day where you express thanks and love to the ones that you appreciate and love.

So this year, it's my first year to celebrate this special "love day" with my beloved son, Eric Tee and my dear hubby. Unfortunately, my son was sick on that day, all thanks to the hazy weather and air which caused my son to fall sick with terrible cough, block nose and running nose. Anyway, my hubby and I still celebrate the Valentine's Day but this year we decided to have a homemade relaxing Valentine. We would not be joining the crowded restaurants serving only special "lovers meal" and at the same time we can save some cost (since it's economy downturn now)...
I gave my hubby an itech bluetooth headset which he really needed so he was really delighted about it. Hehehe...
And his gift for me is a homecook Valentine's 3 course meal dinner with a western theme The dinner turned out to be great sumptuous dinner with relaxing peaceful Valentine together. I was so touched by his effort on preparing such a nice dinner for us and the food tasted so nice....even better than the food served at restaurant which we have been in our last Valentine. Here are some snapshots of the so called "romantic" dinner.

The mushroom soup as the appetizer and the main course was the roasted chicken with grilled shrimps. The rosated chicken was marinated and roasted with perfection. And the shrimps were very fresh and juicy. And we had sparkling grape juice and ice cream cake for dessert.

It's been ages since I login to my xanga account and update my blog. If you ask why then there will be a long list of excuses for that...therefore, I shall just skip that part.

Just some news update on my side what has been happening....let's see....where shall I start?? Hmmm....
Oh ya I am expecting my 2nd child now....in my 4th month ++ now...and the sex of the baby is still unknown as my gynea was not able to confirm the sex of the fetus yet. It will be my last baby as I am targeting to the most 2 babies of my own My expected due is early of July (probabbly 6-8 July).

My Eric baby now has already turned ONE on the 8th February....yeah!!!! He is learning to walk now and this means I am getting busier with him now...My hubby and I are his watch guards at home to make sure he doesn't knock on things and get himself into any danger situation. But frankly, this time is the happiest and cutest time as I am laughing to myself seeing my son walking like a little ducky with his butt shaking right and left. And he has become more michievious and cheeky with his cute antics which makes you laugh and adore him instead of getting angry with him. Ahahahaha...it's a really beautiful part of parenthood

On the career side, dark gloomy clouds seem to come by with no increment and low bonus this year 2009. Everyone is so demotivated to work but work seems to be piling up with more workload and pushing from boss these days....I don't really like the job environment now as the management is getting more "kiam" and only thinking about themselves...And this means....I have to cut down my spending too and save money for Eric baby and my coming soon 2nd one...Anyway with such economy and politic situation, I don't even want to waste my money on the selfish federal government. Life still goes on with the monthly credit card bill, car loan, mortagage loan and other household expenses....etc..but with more cautious in spending.

On the brighter side, a few of my coursemates have registered and even get married.. Congrats to Hsiou Ling and Huey Ween!!!! May you both have a wonderful marriage life and live happily ever after! We can share our feelings and experience of being a married lady whenever you are free to do so....
Well, happy 2009 to everyone and may this OX year brings everyone good health, good luck and happiness!

Do you know my little Eric Tee does blog too?? He has his own blog and he usually blogs with my laptop when I'm back home. He loves the laptop so much by hitting the buttons, so in the end I suggested to him to open an account so he can blog about himself.

Feel free to check out his blog at http://eric-tee.blogspot.com

 

Enjoy!!!

   The fourth day of my vacation, which is also my last day at Koh Samui. We woke up late that day as there was not much of activity to do for the last day and we decided to just stay in the room to relax until the checkout time.


Picture taken right outside my hotel room...


By 12 noon, we checkout from our hotel and headed to the airport by taxi. We waited a while at the airport and got some souvenirs before boarding on our plane...Firefly to go back to Penang.


Ready to board on the plane...


In the plane..heading back to Penang...bye bye Koh Samui!!!!

It was a nice and enjoyable trip. It was a simple holiday but it means a lot to me as I was rejuvenated after the holiday.

It's the 2nd day of my Samui trip....I woke up very early in the morning...after a good night sleep (without any baby's cries in the middle of the night). I went to take a stroll along the so-called seaside at the hotel to explore how nice the beach is. To my disappointment, there is no sandy beach...it's a rocky beach with all the big rocks along the seaside....which I couldn't swim or dip into the sea...


Rise and shine....the "Rocks"


Here is the so called the rocky beach seaside...

After a short stroll and nothing to see along the beach...the sea was so calm and peaceful..my hubby and I decided to go for our buffet breakfast at the cafe. And here is the the buffet corner...


The food served was pretty good with a variety of selection to choose...



 
Here's my breakfast for the day!!!

It's a sumptuous breakfast and we kickstart our exploration around the island right after breakfast. Off on our bike, we started off to Lamai beach which is the southern part of Samui. Once we reach the beach, we were pretty disappointed to find that Lamai beach was not as beautiful and clean as Chaweng beach. The sand here was rough and pricky, and the sea water was not as crystal clear as at Chaweng's. No wonder there wasn't many people at the beach and it was a little quiet compared to Chaweng beach. Anyway, we took some pictures and had a brief walk along the beach.

Lamai Beach


Happy couple by the beach...

After that, we continued our journey to visit the infamous grandfather and grandmother rocks. In Thai, they are called Hinta and Hinyai. It was one of the spots which was recommended in many Samui's tourist brouchures.


Here we are...

You must be wondering what hinta and hinyai rocks mean, right? Well, i didn't know what they were until I was there. Actually, the rocks bear a resemblance to the private parts of  male and female, and both rocks were right opposite each other...which therefore created many people's attention to them...


This is Hinta rock (grandfather rock). It does look alike to the male's part, right?


And this is Hinyai rock (grandmother rock). It looked like female's part.

After a short stop at Hinta and Hinyai, we took off to Chaweng town. Chaweng town was really happening as there were many shops and things to see. We parked our bike by the roadside and took a long walk along the long-stretch of Chaweng beach road. As we walked we saw a lot of Thai massage centres. We finally picked one of the shops and got our Thai massage too.


This was the shop we went for Thai Massage. For a full 1- hour body massage with oilment, it was only RM35 per person.


Here was the bed area where I had my massage. Those Thai ladies were really good at the massage as it really relaxed my muscles and relieved any stiffness around my shoulder and neck. I highly recommend anyone who go to Thailand to go for the Thai massage.

After an hour of relaxation, i rejuvenated from the exhaustion which i had earlier on. We continued to walk along the Chaweng beach road. We suddenly saw a man in motorbike selling local ice-cream and it's only RM1 (10 Bath). I bought an ice-cream with cone...The ice-cream flavour was vanilla with a little corn in it, and the man put those fillings of longan, atapci, corn or sago in the ice-cream cone before putting the ice-cream on top of the filling. It's really special with the fillings inside the cone. And it tasted so good...you can choose to have the fillings or not when you make the order. Here's the snapshot of the ice-cream man...



While we were walking, we passed by at McDonald's and found that it served Pork in their burgers. Can you imagine having pork in your Big Mag, Cheese burger and Samurai burger? Well, i went to buy a Big Mag with pork in it and it was super delicious...yummy!!!! It was so juicy and tasty... Too bad Malaysia's McD doesn't serve such thing....(disappointed)


Ronald and I outside the McD ~Sawadika~


Can you see the word "Samurai Pork Burger"???

After a light snack, we walked back to our bike and went back to our hotel for a short break. We went to take a dip into the Hotel's infinity pool to relax and have some fun. When it was dinner time, we decided to have a great feast that night. We planned to go to Zico's (Brazillian Bar Restaurant). It's a buffet style with various serving of roasted meat - chicken, lamb, pork ribs, pork chop, steak, beef sirloin, tiger prawns, and fish (salmon, tuna, seabass & cod fish). There was also a salad bar whereby you can get your salad, fruits and appetizers there in buffet style. And the environment of the restaurant was fantastic...with dimmed romantic lights, beautiful settings and light music to dazzle the night. They even had live dance and bottle juggling performances. My hubby and I had a great sumptuous dinner that night.


Welcome to Zico's!


This is the salad bar...pretty cool huh with all the variety of food!!


Me enjoying my dinner and the nice environment


The live dance performance by the ladies dressed in sexy outfits.


The bottle juggling performance...

After dinner, we took a brisk walk along the Chaweng road to burn some fats before we headed back to hotel to call the day off...hehehe...
There we saw many restuarants were opened for dinner...and there were many restaurants serving seafood BBQ. Check out some of the pictures of what I had captured for the night...


Glorious seafood....


The chef was actually roasting a whole pig at the kitchen right in front of the roadside...cool!!!