44 posts from 2007

 

Merry Christmas!!

 

From our home.... to yours!

 

 

Henry, Lami, Jethro and Cheenee

Hi teachers (of Jethro),

I guess these pics look familiar to you guys. Just a few days ago, i sent them out as Christmas gifts.

 

They are made from the finest flour, healthiest organic eggs and 100% pure LOVE...

from our kitchen to your tummies...   for being good educators to our precious boy :) Thank you!

 please PM me if you know how i can get hold of this Thai-novela.

Please translate the song title as well :)

 

i am lili's first group member! :) 

 

finally, a VOX group where MMu addicts can gather together and discuss mineral makeup and what-have-yous

 

Show us something that's ridiculously cute.

 

 

I have never followed a single telenovela all my life: Filipino, Mexican, Korean, English nor Chinese, ask anyone but me if you want to know the characters of any telenovela.

As we all know, when Meteor Garden reached the islands, it was adored by practically everyone in the country... probably everyone but this writer. It's not that I voluntarily decided to become a hermit and locked myself from civilization nor did i spend a few good years in a hole. It's simply because: I don't watch much TV, and secondly, I don't have the tenacity to follow in "installment" any boob-tube show of sort. Telenovela wasn't just my thing... or so i thought..

I mentioned earlier that I stayed in Malaysia for almost a month. I don't know if it was plain boredom. But honestly, this is the first time I genuinely followed a particular telenovela avidly! How i got sooo addicted to HANA KIMI. (ANd i watched the complete episodes on youtube. Hooray for English subs! hehe. But you know what, since I watch it every night on youtube and i usually use an earphone, husband told me that observing me from afar, i look like a crazy girl with laughing outbursts ;p The telenovela is really funny!)

 

To give you the synopsis

Hanazakarino Kimitachihe, adapted from a well-known Japanese manga.

The story is mainly about a girl, Lu Ruixi, who flew all the way from the USA to Taiwan, to enrol into the same school as her crush, Zuo Yi Quan, a high jumper. The reason for her admiration is that one day on TV, after seeing his determination in high jump events, it also led to her determination to strive and lose weight. So her goal in returning to Taiwan was to watch him high jump live in action.

But the main problem is that Quan is enrolled in an all-boys school, thus Ruixi is forced to hide her female identity, and dress up as a boy. As luck would have it, Ruixi ended up being Quan's new roommate.

With such a perfect arrangement, Ruixi goes all out to befriend Quan, only to be rebuffed by him, and to her dismay, she discovered that he has given up high jumping.

Quan discovered Ruixi was a girl from the very first episode, when he
accidentally touched her chest, while trying to help her when she fainted. She was also unable to hide her female identity from the school doctor Mei Tian. He could sense she was a female as he is gay!

Both Quan and the school doctor decided to help Ruixi keep her secret, though Ruixi is unaware that Quan also knows her secret. Due to this, Quan also came to her aid on several occasions when Ruixi's identity was almost exposed. Through all this, Quan and Ruixi became closer friends, and it was also due to Ruixi's encouragement that Quan decided to return to high jumping.

There were also several funny moments involving Xiu Yi, one of Ruixi's best friends in school, when he thought he was becoming gay as he was attracted to Ruixi, whom he thought was a boy!

 

I sooo hope that Hanazakarino Kimitachihe  花樣少年少女  will be shown in the country soon. When i watched it in Malaysia, it was spoken in Mandarin and subtitled in Bahasa. Learning a few Bahasa during my stay in Malaysia didn't help much especially when you're watching a one-hour worth of fast-paced Mandarin/Bahasa telenovela everyday. 

Well anyways, I don't care if they will do the dubbing in Filipino or English, I just want to watch  HANA KIMI the soonest :)

To ghelp you start the Hana Kimi addiction, watch the first episode with ENGLISH subs here. For the succeeding episodes (can't find episode 2 though), you can click here. I tell you.. it's really good and one of those cutesy-feel-good-funny-comical telenovela you will ever watch!

By the way, Wu Zun, Jiro Wang and Ella Cheng are such sweethearts. Not to mention that Jiro portrayed the funny character really well.

And ohh i'm a huge Fahrenheit (esp Wu Zun and Jiro Wang ) fan now

:)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

I was in Malaysia for a month. It's a relatively a loong stay that I started acting and talking  like one of the locals. "This is the way to the monorail station, lah" ;p

What can i say? In a nutshell, Malaysia, undeniably is truly Asia! It is inhabited by people of diverse cultures, predominantly by the Chinese, Indians, and of course the Malays. Having said that, the mix culture contributed to the uniqueness that is Malaysia :)

I have learned a myriad of nice things during my one month stay in Kuala Lumpur. But why the long stay you say? Let's just say it's work-related. Honestly, I wouldn't have the heart at this point to leave an eight-month old baby behind. My husband was telling me how his mom repeats over and over "Di madali yung ginawa ni Lami, malaking sakripisyo yon, may (napakagandang) baby pa dito sa Pilipinas na naiwan"  And right she is. And we all know that kids grow the fastest during their first three years of life. Cheenee was just learning how to crawl and string consonants at that time... I was crying a river on the way to the airport as i leave our little girl behind...(that's another melodramatic story i will tell next time)

Alright, going back to my truly asia experience,  I have discovered a gastronomicuan (i

coined this word) of things in Kuala Lumpur during my stay. I have learned that:

• Freshly fried fish cracker is the Filipino equivalent of fishballs (and KL fish crackers i must say are delish!) 
• It's okay to gobble roti tisu for snack.. at least for me (hehehe), although the locals dip it in dhal or lentil curry soup, i eat it alone.  For me roti tisu, is very much like the local fried turon without the banana. I can't imagine eating my turon dipped in sinigang! hehe
• Thai curry is different from Malaysian, Thai and Indian curries (and Thai cuisine has red, green and yellow curry). But the spices often  used are basically the same.
• Most groceries (ok, supermarket) sell sushi and sashimi by piece!
• Red chili is a meal staple (flakes, fresh, dried, whole.. whichever form you may wish to eat it! hehe)
• Not all street foods are junk. Malaysian hawkers sell fruits-on-sticks. They have a dipping "sauce" for the fruits (basically our equivalent of "alamang" or shrimp paste) and cherry powder.
• Nuts, chocolates, and chicken are somewhat cheap in Malaysia.
• Jacob's cracker is from Malaysia and therefore if you buy it there, it's cheap :)
• Our sugarcane juice and mangoes are waaay sweeter than their Malaysian counterparts.

 

Other than nourishing my gut, i have learned other more important and not-so-important things:

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  assorted sushi
  it's not that hot in Kuala Lumpur, in fact, i walked the stretch of Bukit Bintang to Jalan Sultan Ismail noontime and didn't even feel the heat of the sun.
• I got used to the different aromas, herbs, spices, Chinese, Malay, Thai and Indian culinary contributions thus, my tolerance to strong (foul) body odour increased (well, i will have to welcome that positively!)
• Nothing beats free wi-fi in a coffee shop while killing time.
• When in Malaysia and trying to haggle, remember this: mahal and mura have the same meaning in Bahasa! In fact, there are lots of Filipino words which have the same (more or less) meaning as Bahasa.. so be wary using you Filipino/ Tagalog in Malaysia. (lelaki, teksi, sakit, sadap, mahal, mura, etc) 
• The best electronics bargain can be found in Malaysia. In fact, my husband bought a laptop for half the actual price the same unit (same model, same specs) is selling in Manila.
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  CBTL free wi-fi
  Taxi drivers in Malaysia are no different from our taxi drivers (go figure)
• shu uemura is cheaper in Malaysia.
• Diesel is cheapest in Malaysia!
• Genting Highlands is overrated.
• Shopping in Manila malls is way better than shopping in KL. Our malls are still the best!