With Love.

One more spontaneous night with Muthu.

Right after dinner, he went inside my room for a while and came out to the dining area and..

"Okay, this is what we gonna do tonight. We gonna clean your room!"

"No we're not. Don't be crazy lah. Ain't nobody got time to clean room now lah"

"Yes we are. You don't need rest lah. Everyday also want to rest"

"What you mean clean the room?"

"Everything except the cupboard"

"Errr, okay.." *looking super reluctant*

"I will clean for you and you do whatever I ask you to do, okay?"

"I don't think I have a choice yes?"

*walks into my room and starts throwing everything out*

This is prolly one of the sweetest thing he has ever done in our almost-3-years relationship. He always claims that he's not the romantic type and he doesn't believe in spending money on fine dining etc. What he fails to realize is that all the things he does is very romantic in its own ways already. 

Never in my wildest dream I've ever imagined that I'd be so blessed with someone like Muthu.

He loves cooking, washing dishes, do the laundry and clean the house. The only thing he hates is the ironing, which I love doing! Your perception of 'blessing' may be very different from mine but this? This is just one of the best blessing everrr.

It's a known fact that I'm a lazy person. I HATE DOING HOUSE CHORES. Maybe because I do them quite a lot when I was much younger, I think. Heh. And for him to LOVE doing all that is just superb! No arguments whatsoever of who should do or having roster or something. Heh. 

Last night, when he decided to clean my room, he knew what he was getting himself into. I only clean my room like once a year or something. I also must be like mentally prepared to do it and it's not like a last-minute kind of thing. So this one, I totally not prepared. 

While he takes everything out and wipes every corner, I sat on my bed, going through all the papers and 'treasures' to see if I want to keep them or not.

Then, I found this.

A decade ago, from Koko UY.

I miss you, UY. It's been ten years. 

Let me tell you of how I got my nickname 'Kutu' (It's supposed to be spelled as Khoo2). The person who started it was UY. He thought of it very randomly because I'm the second child in Khoo Family so one day he decided I shall be named Khoo2 then.

As time goes by, people just started spelling it as Kutu. Heh.

Crazy huh how time flies? I didn't even realized that it has been 10 years. It has always been nice to have an older brother, literally. He used to take me/us (sometimes with Judson and Daniel) to lunch after school and I remember having so much fun whenever he's around because he's just so.. so Eu Wye. Miss ya, Koko UY! :)

Anyways, I took quite a while to decide whether to throw some of the things or not and Muthu was very patient with me of course. 

Ohh! He also found a lot of hidden handbags so there goes my attempt trying to get myself another Sometime bag. The 'I don't have any other bags I can use' and 'My bags all spoil d' excuses are now invalid. Haha. Oh wellz.

He bought the lights sometime ago and now it's being put to good use. The photos all falling out. Ahhhh. Susah ni. 

Muthu, thank you for cleaning up my room. That was a lot of trash thrown out. Probably one quarter of the one quarter of my life or something. You even made my dad thanked you for doing it. Hah. You crazy fella. Okay bye.

Okay thanks for reading :)

First Friday of 2015.

He leaves the office at 5:30pm. 

He heads over to Subway and buys two Sub of the day, a piece of chocolate chip cookie, and one drink. 

He drives to my house and waits in the car. 

He didn't mind if my meeting was going to be longer and ends later than 6pm. 

He waits a bit more for me to change into comfortable shorts and a t-shirt even though he knows that he's going to be late for his friendly match with the guys from Finland. 

He smiles at me as I enter his white Ferrari and passes me my surprise dinner. 

He stopped at the place where we are going to have our year three dating time. 

He parks the car. 

He joins his team and he plays with his new sports shoes on. 

My first Friday of the year is great!  

I'm thanking God for every moment. 

Blessed beyond words. 

Highlights of 2014.

This is going to be the usual blog post where I will list down some of moments that have made a difference in my life, one way or another. Good times and bad times, both made me who I am today and who I will be next year, and the many years to come.

This is for me to look back and know that 2014 has been a blessed year. God has blessed me in ways that I never could imagine, be it a happy situation or a heartbreaking one. 

With this, I'm entering 2015 with a bigger heart to love people, especially people who are tough. 

'Love others without expecting them to love you back'

Here goes!

Turning 26 was easy and 'heartache-less'

Company's first ever company trip to Cameron Highlands.

Experienced SNOW for the first time ever.

Visited Seoul.

Sha Lynn turned one.

Started an event company with my sister, called RK Events & Such.

Koay getting his first car.

First time missing out on family's short vacation to East Malaysia.

Painted three quarter of an old church up on the hill of Santisuk, Chiangmai

Sleeping on the floor of KLIA 2.

having to say goodbye to a friend who's moving to the States for good.

Corneal Ulcer happened. Thank you for always keeping Vanessa in your prayers. Will update on her condition when I'm ready to blog about the details.

Visited one of the worse zoo ever in Malacca.

Celebrated our second year of dating.

Found a local designer handbag called Sometime.

Had my first onsen experience and immediately fell in love with it.

visited Osaka.

Went to Universal Studio Japan for the first time WITH EXPRESS PASSES!

Realized that travelling alone is such a fun and addictive thing to do.

Worked with a team for Freedom Fest, celebrating Malaysia.

Finally found a cross necklace that I love and sister got them for my graduation gift.

Mom got admitted into hospital twice. First was too weak and second was dengue.

WhatTwoEatHere was paid to do a blog post for the first time ever.

Penang won CHAMPION in Merdeka Cup's Challenge.

enjoyed Club Med Bali.

Koay went through the water baptism and proclaimed that he's following Jesus. No turning back :)

Camped outdoor for the first time and definitely not going to be last.

Hiked Malaysia's 15th highest mountain with just socks.

Having muscle/ligament tension along my spine for two months straight. First time for sure.

Fast & Prayer up on that hill. So much laughter.

Family vacation to Malacca and found the best place to stay, Guli Residence.

inTUNE with 80 young people for five days straight. 

Attended quite a handful of weddings.

Wrapped up great with a fireBRANDS' New Year's Party and Victor's message.

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I'm ready for you, 2015 :)

Christmas and New Year's Dinner.

Well, hello there everyone!

First of all, MERRY CHRISTMAS to all of you. I know it's four days late but then again, better late than NEVER, right?

I hope you had a memorable Christmas celebration, whether you have them with your family or your friends or even with a big bunch of strangers who happen to be at the same place with you. 

Other than the fact that Christmas was during a weekday, squeezed between Wednesday and Friday and yes both of those days were working days, I still managed to have loads of fun.

The entire week was filled with feasting and feasting and more feasting. I don't remember having rice as any of the main meals last week. It was all meat and ham and more meat. So yummy I can't even.

Because New Year is just six days away after Christmas, most of these dinners are also held to celebrate the ushering in of 2015. Surprisingly, it didn't feel weird wishing people, "Happy New Year!" since twenty-fifth of December. Somehow, the mood is already lingering around.

All the dates for these dinners were booked months ahead so that we don't have any clashing of dates and having to sacrifice one and attend the other one. I never liked choosing between two dinners. ALL DINNERS ARE FUN AND MEMORABLE!

There is one lunch though that was not planned to celebrate Christmas or the New Year. It was Adrian's after-baptism-celebration! He has decided to follow Jesus, no turning back, no turning back :)

The photos are all in random orders because I'm too lazy to have them according to which dinner/party comes first. Heh.

Oh can I also say that one of the most exciting event that I look forward to is the Gift Exchange Time. I love getting gifts that are random and for me to not open them immediately when my hands touch them, that is one temptation that I can't resist. LOVE EXCHANGING GIFTS WITH HUMANS!

Holiday Tours & Travel Penang's Celebration Dinner at G Hotel.

Dinner with Koay's Family :)

The Khoo Clan Dinner Party :)

Koay's Baptism Day. Welcome on board, babe! :)

Christmas/New Year Dinner Party at Josh's Crib :)

fireBRANDS' New Year Party IN THE POOL, literally. Photo taken from Benjamin Yeoh's Twitter :)

With few days left to this year, I thanked God big time for all these people who matters. Please, if you are not in any of the photos, it's not because you're not important, you definitely are. Who ask you to NOT BE THERE when people take photos? Heh. KIDDING.

Love you all lots. 

This is for me to carry forward to 2015: LOVE OTHERS WITHOUT EXPECTING THEM TO LOVE YOU BACK.

Hair Down.

I thought for a very long time how I was going to end this year. 

Knowing me, I need to have like a plan ahead of me so that I can start to picture how it goes and stuff. Everything has to be properly planned out or at least I need to know what kind of food  I will be eating. Food makes me happy.

Anyways, this has been a real struggle believe it or not. When I can't seem to get the plans planned out properly or things like that, I allow it to get at me and it will makes me so annoyed. To the point I just wanna go to a corner and sulk.

So, the fourth quarter of this year I made a decision to work on it. Hah. Like battling with alcoholism or something. 

I kept telling myself to let loose and allow myself to do spontaneous things. Random and out of the blue kind. To for once not plan anything, control the flow and making sure everything goes well.

To let down my hair and do as per the moment. 

It hasn't been easy obviously, but I enjoy myself even more in a very different way. It still gets me on my nerves sometimes but it's been a fun ride.

A roller-coaster is only fun when it goes up and falls down suddenly right? Okay, maybe not so much. Heh.

Blessed Christmas Eve, everyone. 

Half Day Leave.

First day back to work and I'm already applying for half day leave in the afternoon.

Reason being mom got back to hospital in the morning for final check-up to make sure no more traces of dengue in her body and she's clear! Thank You Jesus! However, she's still a bit weak, so I'm just going home to make sure everything is alright.

That and because my whole body itches like no one business. I have never had any kind of food allergy and I somehow don't think this is because of food. If it is, then it must be from something I ate from Satay Hut last night. WHAT COULD IT BE?

As I'm typing this, I'm also scratching my skin off because the itch is making me so restless. Arghhh.

This is going to be my last day 'leave' of the year. 

Few days left to two zero one four.

Gonna end it well and maybe with a 'bang' too? Like my sister? Still thinking about it heh.

Home Sweet Home.

I'm finally back to the island! 

I was away for the whole week but not very far from Penang. Just about an hour's drive.

Wah, I definitely miss updating this space and no need to say also everyone knows that our food-blog is even quiter. Coming soon, I promise!

That great feeling when I step foot into the wooden floor in my house, the smell of my room and hearing mom's and Kelly's voice.

The only reason why I decided to post up a quick post now is because I'm trying to keep myself awake till dinner time.

Mom called earlier and said, "Tonight you have dinner with us okay? We go makan Daorae!"

Mom knows best I tell you.

She knows that everytime when she calls me and tells me what we were going to eat or what kind of food is waiting for me at home, it will immediately made up my day and suddenly my energy is boosted from the Emergency-Last-Minute-Needed-Tank. 

So, after dinner tonight confirm I will be like a dead log on my most comfortable bed!

Yay to korean food tonight. I can't wait. I'm so hungry now I could eat up the entire pig :)

Ohh so I was saying that my whole week was spent with a group of young people, about 80 of us doing the usual things we do in AYC. More on that next time :)

Okay, time for dins dins.

Side note: I am so into temporary tattoos now. Cheap and can always change style. ANOTHER ONLINE SHOPPING TRAP! GREAT.

Rainbow Run 2014.

Months ago, Jack asked us if we wanted to join for Colour Run this year. They had one in KL and it looked fun so we were like, "Why not?"

When we agreed, we obviously didn't know it was going to cost so much. RM50 is A LOT FOR A RUN that gives us only a piece of t-shirt. Not nice some more. Nothing else.

Well, I later found out that this "Color" Run was organized for a charity cause, so okaylah. In the end, we didn't pay anything for it. A friend has blessed us :)

Ohh and I only also found out that the "marathon" was actually called Rainbow Run. It seems like this Run wasn't planned out properly. Everything felt very everywhere. There weren't any confirmed information the day before and like, I don't know lah. 

Let's just say that I won't want to join again next year. Heh sorry.

I cannot be sacrificing my most precious limited sleep for something that only have a few color powder splashes stations. Sorry, it wasn't a run. It was walkathon all the way, which turns out to be a good thing because it's impossible for me to run with my spine-ache.

Which got worse when I got home. 

I should have just restrained from all physical activities when it's still in the recovering process. Now, it's prolly back to square one. Boohoo.

Anyways, we took nice colorful photos and we did have fun doing this with his family and friends! It was a morning well spent. 

Oh! I almost forgot to mention about the "GRAND PRIZE WINNER" for the lucky draw. We stayed back because.. because we paid RM50 for this. Hah. I don't know what's the reason we stayed back really. We just did lah.

Anyways, when they called the number 2049. Koay looked at the pile of numbers on the floor and expressed, "Aiya!" as he pointed to the first number 2009 then again at 2040 and then he pointed at the third number and screamed out really loud! Then, he ran towards the stage and claimed the grand prize. 

I don't know anything about bicycles but according to the emcee, that was the best one given out. Nice color some more.

However, that bicycle belongs to a friend of Jaryn's because that was her number. Good fun though. The screaming and clapping and cheering on as he went on stage. Oh fun times!

First Sunday of the Last Month.

It's December already!

Such a nice feeling to know that I won't be having any kind of blues tomorrow because I'm so focused on the next coming Monday!

NINE DAYS OF NO WORK. SYIOK GILERRR.

Koay also will be off-from-work and he will be in Singapore for his floorball training the entire week. Same same but different. Heh.

We actually made a plan for me to fly to Singapore on the Friday after I come back from camp or the next day but tickets are too pricey and it will be way too tiring for me to fly in and out within the few days. 

In the end, I won't be seeing him play in the SEA CUP. Maybe wait for SEA GAMES lah.

Will be updating on the Rainbow Run soooon. Hopefully by tomorrow! 

Goodnight!

No Time.

OH MY GOODNESS.

I need to come here update more. 

Honestly, I don't even have time to go grocery shopping for things that I really need like my body shampoo.

I'm actually using Kelly's fruit flavored body gel. S, if you happen to smell some fruity scent from me, don't ask, just smile :)

Leaving office now to go for FGA's Leadership Conference. But first, I shall have the world's best lor mee. 

See you tonight, young people. 

AYC Fast & Prayer 2014.

Last year, I didn't manage to get any annual leave to go for the yearly Fast & Prayer so this year, I made sure I reserved some.

There were only 15 of us this year, making our way up to Bethel House of Prayer. The least compared to previous years I think.

However, I do think that this year's was one of the most fun ones that I've ever been to.

I love how we are all closely together at all times. There weren't any time where we were separated into different corners and having our own 'group' sessions. Okay, except prayer time lah.

We were all either at the porch outside sharing our junk food when we break the fast because dinner was only served one hour later, or around the dining table during meal times and laughing at someone (most of the time it was Chrissy a.k.a. Ben!).

Fun times. It was one of the occasions where I laughed so hard in the span of two days. 

Also, we had spontaneous mash ups with worship songs and it went on non-stop for a good 40 minutes which felt like 15 minutes. No worship leaders, no pointers. BEST ONE EVER.

Even when the G-string (on the guitar!) broke, we didn't stop. Heh.

We,

prayed
worshipped
laughed non-stop
played mafia
pranked Sheryl twice
ate a lot of junk food
laughed again
prayed for Lester (he got bitten by a 1-feet-long bright pinkish red centipede on the way up. He's a lot better now and resting. SPEEDY RECOVERY, LESTER!)
'tried' to cook 30 eggs.

TOGETHER :)

Such a needed short getaway :)

Spine Pain.

Blogging from Klinik Huang now. There's 13 more people before its my turn so why not do something productive. Heh. 

I have been having some discomfort/pain on my lower back spine and the pain seemed to have gotten worse day by day. 

How I actually measure that is by carrying Sha Lynn and it gets more painful each passing day. That or she's really gaining more weights now. Hah. 

The last time I had an xray on my spine was 2 years ago and was told that my spine curves very obviously to the left but it won't cause any issues since I was either born with it or grew up with it. 

It cannot be old age since I'm only 26! So young okayy. But if it is, that just means my internal is growing old too fast. This is weird!

I honestly don't know what it could be. 

It couldn't be the pain from Gunung Irau cos that's like weeks ago. I didn't fall down or knock anything. Not that I can remember knocking on anything. 

There are no bruises, cuts or anything bulging out. Fats don't count okay. 

So, we'll just have to see what the doctor says. 

Pray for me please thank you! 

UPDATES: It's most likely muscle and ligament tension. Doc gave me meds to relax my body and back. Yay! No bone issue! ✌️

Sha Lynn, Pattern Queen.

Days when all the things that can go wrong will and did go wrong.

Days when the lover and I are not in good terms, mostly because of really petty things that we will end up laughing at in the end of the day anyways.

Days when I have meetings back to back and it's been a really long day.

Days when I control the things I eat and sometimes that affects my mood really badly because I don't get to eat the food I crave because I want to lose some stomach fats.

Days when eight hours of sleep is not enough and I'm a grumpy girl.

Days when I have too many things to do.

Days when PMS hit me and I'm like a walking tornado.

Days when I need to go out somewhere but feel super lazy to do so.

Days like these, I'm thankful for the pattern queen. She doesn't have to do much to turn my bad days around and make my good days get even better. 

I LOVE YOU SHANINI!